Shell Script Job Trends in England

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Shell Script skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 570 533 538
Rank change year-on-year -37 +5 +18
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 62 128 244
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.10% 0.29% 0.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.55% 0.85% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 34 50 173
10th Percentile £42,780 £43,750 £40,750
25th Percentile £44,406 £55,156 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £74,688 £80,000
90th Percentile £76,375 £86,375 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -

All Programming Languages
England

Shell Script falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,318 15,107 24,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.64% 34.62% 36.26%
Number of salaries quoted 8,371 9,227 20,744
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Shell Script relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Shell Script job vacancy trend in England

Shell Script
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Shell Script.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in England over the 6 months to 21 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Shell Script in England

Shell Script
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Shell Script within the England region over the 6 months to 21 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +20 38 £57,500 -14.81% 19
South East -21 19 £57,500 -9.80% 10
North of England -46 5 £50,000 +8.70% 3
East of England +6 4 £43,085 - 3
North West -15 3 £60,000 +30.43% 2
West Midlands -6 2 - - 3
Midlands -11 2 - - 7
South West -15 2 - - 2
Yorkshire -37 2 £27,500 - 1
Shell Script
UK

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (8.06%) Anypoint
2 3 (4.84%) Confluence
2 3 (4.84%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (8.06%) Shopify
2 3 (4.84%) FLEXCUBE
2 3 (4.84%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 24 (38.71%) AWS
2 15 (24.19%) Azure
3 11 (17.74%) Serverless
4 9 (14.52%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (14.52%) Amazon ECS
4 9 (14.52%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (11.29%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (9.68%) GCP
7 5 (8.06%) Boomi
7 5 (8.06%) iPaaS
7 5 (8.06%) Power Automate
7 5 (8.06%) Workato
8 4 (6.45%) SaaS
9 3 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.84%) GitHub
10 2 (3.23%) Algolia
10 2 (3.23%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (3.23%) Firebase
10 2 (3.23%) Logz.io
10 2 (3.23%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.29%) Firewall
2 5 (8.06%) TCP/IP
3 4 (6.45%) DNS
3 4 (6.45%) SpaceWire
4 2 (3.23%) DHCP
4 2 (3.23%) SSL
4 2 (3.23%) VPN
5 1 (1.61%) LAN
5 1 (1.61%) Network Security
5 1 (1.61%) SSH
5 1 (1.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (24.19%) Relational Database
2 11 (17.74%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (16.13%) RDBMS
4 9 (14.52%) MySQL
4 9 (14.52%) Oracle Database
5 7 (11.29%) SQL Server
6 4 (6.45%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (4.84%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (4.84%) MS Access
7 3 (4.84%) NoSQL
7 3 (4.84%) SAP Data Services
8 2 (3.23%) BigQuery
8 2 (3.23%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.23%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (3.23%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (3.23%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (1.61%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.61%) Power BI
9 1 (1.61%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (1.61%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 13 (20.97%) Git
2 12 (19.35%) Jenkins
3 10 (16.13%) JMeter
4 9 (14.52%) JUnit
4 9 (14.52%) Mockito
5 5 (8.06%) JIRA
6 3 (4.84%) Toad
7 2 (3.23%) Artifactory
7 2 (3.23%) Gradle
7 2 (3.23%) Maven
7 2 (3.23%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (3.23%) Storybook
8 1 (1.61%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (1.61%) GitLab
8 1 (1.61%) LabVIEW
8 1 (1.61%) Selenium
8 1 (1.61%) Subversion
8 1 (1.61%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.35%) Public Sector
3 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.68%) Finance
5 5 (8.06%) Law
5 5 (8.06%) Legal
6 3 (4.84%) Banking
6 3 (4.84%) Local Government
7 2 (3.23%) Front Office
8 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Electronics
8 1 (1.61%) German Language
8 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (27.42%) Support Engineer
2 16 (25.81%) Developer
3 11 (17.74%) Full-Stack Developer
4 10 (16.13%) Java Developer
5 9 (14.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 9 (14.52%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 8 (12.90%) Linux Engineer
6 8 (12.90%) Senior
7 7 (11.29%) Linux Support
7 7 (11.29%) Linux Support Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Applications Support
8 5 (8.06%) DBA
8 5 (8.06%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (6.45%) Administrator
9 4 (6.45%) Development Support Engineer
9 4 (6.45%) Linux Specialist
9 4 (6.45%) Oracle DBA
9 4 (6.45%) Products Support Engineer
9 4 (6.45%) Products Support Specialist
9 4 (6.45%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (27.42%) REST
2 14 (22.58%) JSON
2 14 (22.58%) Web Services
2 14 (22.58%) XML
3 13 (20.97%) HTML
4 9 (14.52%) ActiveMQ
4 9 (14.52%) Apache Camel
4 9 (14.52%) Hibernate
4 9 (14.52%) jQuery
4 9 (14.52%) Spring
4 9 (14.52%) Spring Boot
4 9 (14.52%) WireMock
5 7 (11.29%) RESTful
6 6 (9.68%) SOAP
7 4 (6.45%) CSS
7 4 (6.45%) Qt
8 3 (4.84%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (4.84%) LAMP
8 3 (4.84%) Node.js
9 2 (3.23%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.52%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (9.68%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (8.06%) Low-Code
3 5 (8.06%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (6.45%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.45%) Video on Demand
4 4 (6.45%) Video\Live Streaming
5 3 (4.84%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.84%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (3.23%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.23%) Driving Licence
6 2 (3.23%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.23%) Replication
7 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.61%) Clustering
7 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 41 (66.13%) Linux
2 22 (35.48%) Unix
3 11 (17.74%) CentOS
4 9 (14.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (12.90%) Windows
5 8 (12.90%) Windows Server
6 7 (11.29%) Ubuntu
7 4 (6.45%) AIX
7 4 (6.45%) VxWorks
8 3 (4.84%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (4.84%) Rocky
8 3 (4.84%) Solaris
9 2 (3.23%) Debian
9 2 (3.23%) Windows 10
9 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (43.55%) Agile
2 22 (35.48%) CI/CD
3 18 (29.03%) SDLC
4 15 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (19.35%) Workflow
7 11 (17.74%) Change Management
7 11 (17.74%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (17.74%) Microservices
7 11 (17.74%) Performance Tuning
7 11 (17.74%) TDD
8 9 (14.52%) BDD
8 9 (14.52%) Containerisation
8 9 (14.52%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (14.52%) High Availability
8 9 (14.52%) Problem Management
8 9 (14.52%) Process Management
9 8 (12.90%) Configuration Management
9 8 (12.90%) Migration
9 8 (12.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (56.45%) Python
2 18 (29.03%) Bash
2 18 (29.03%) SQL
3 17 (27.42%) Java
3 17 (27.42%) JavaScript
4 7 (11.29%) C#
4 7 (11.29%) PL/SQL
5 6 (9.68%) C++
5 6 (9.68%) Korn
5 6 (9.68%) Perl
5 6 (9.68%) PowerShell
6 4 (6.45%) C
7 3 (4.84%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.84%) VB
8 2 (3.23%) Go
8 2 (3.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (24.19%) Security Cleared
2 11 (17.74%) Degree
3 3 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.84%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.23%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.23%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) GDPR
1 5 (8.06%) QA
2 4 (6.45%) ECSS
3 2 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.23%) WCAG
4 1 (1.61%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (35.48%) Docker
2 5 (8.06%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.23%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.23%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.23%) KVM
5 1 (1.61%) Xen
Systems Management
1 22 (35.48%) Kubernetes
2 12 (19.35%) Ansible
3 9 (14.52%) Kibana
3 9 (14.52%) Terraform
4 7 (11.29%) Nagios
5 4 (6.45%) Data Guard
5 4 (6.45%) Grafana
5 4 (6.45%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (6.45%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.84%) Argo
6 3 (4.84%) Puppet
7 2 (3.23%) Plesk
7 2 (3.23%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.61%) Oracle Flashback
8 1 (1.61%) Podman
Vendors
1 18 (29.03%) Oracle
2 12 (19.35%) Splunk
3 11 (17.74%) Dynatrace
4 9 (14.52%) SAP
5 8 (12.90%) IBM
6 7 (11.29%) Red Hat
7 6 (9.68%) Software AG
8 5 (8.06%) Dell
8 5 (8.06%) Epicor
8 5 (8.06%) IFS
8 5 (8.06%) Infor
8 5 (8.06%) Informatica
8 5 (8.06%) Jitterbit
8 5 (8.06%) MuleSoft
8 5 (8.06%) SnapLogic
8 5 (8.06%) Talend
8 5 (8.06%) TIBCO
8 5 (8.06%) VMware
8 5 (8.06%) Workday
9 3 (4.84%) NEC