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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 561 524 495
Rank change year-on-year -37 -29 +56
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 59 146 236
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.31% 0.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.56% 0.91% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 33 54 170
10th Percentile £42,780 £43,750 £39,200
25th Percentile £43,375 £55,156 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £66,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.21% +10.42% +3.45%
75th Percentile £66,250 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £102,375 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -

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 10,568 16,005 22,692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.04% 33.90% 37.53%
Number of salaries quoted 7,904 9,365 19,294
10th Percentile £33,250 £38,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,869 £46,250
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 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 28 January 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 28 January 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 +22 34 £57,500 -19.30% 14
South East +11 20 £57,500 -9.80% 19
East of England +15 5 £43,085 - 9
North of England -10 5 £50,000 +8.70% 2
South West -2 4 £92,500 +17.46% 2
North West +7 3 £60,000 +30.43% 1
Yorkshire -31 2 £27,500 -26.67% 1
West Midlands +15 1 - - 6
Midlands -8 1 - - 10
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 (8.47%) Anypoint
2 4 (6.78%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (3.39%) Confluence
3 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (8.47%) Shopify
2 4 (6.78%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.69%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 27 (45.76%) AWS
2 16 (27.12%) Serverless
3 14 (23.73%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (22.03%) Azure
5 12 (20.34%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (20.34%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (11.86%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (8.47%) Boomi
7 5 (8.47%) GCP
7 5 (8.47%) iPaaS
7 5 (8.47%) Power Automate
7 5 (8.47%) Workato
8 4 (6.78%) SaaS
9 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (3.39%) Algolia
10 2 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.39%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (3.39%) Firebase
10 2 (3.39%) Logz.io
10 2 (3.39%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.17%) Firewall
2 5 (8.47%) TCP/IP
3 4 (6.78%) DNS
3 4 (6.78%) SpaceWire
4 2 (3.39%) AMQP
4 2 (3.39%) DHCP
4 2 (3.39%) SSL
4 2 (3.39%) VPN
5 1 (1.69%) LAN
5 1 (1.69%) SSH
5 1 (1.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (32.20%) Relational Database
2 13 (22.03%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (16.95%) RDBMS
4 9 (15.25%) MySQL
5 8 (13.56%) SQL Server
6 5 (8.47%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (6.78%) MS Access
7 4 (6.78%) Oracle Database
7 4 (6.78%) SAP Data Services
8 2 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (3.39%) BigQuery
8 2 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (3.39%) InfluxDB
8 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.69%) Power BI
9 1 (1.69%) SAP HANA
9 1 (1.69%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 15 (25.42%) Jenkins
2 12 (20.34%) JMeter
2 12 (20.34%) JUnit
2 12 (20.34%) Mockito
3 10 (16.95%) Git
4 4 (6.78%) Toad
5 3 (5.08%) JIRA
6 2 (3.39%) Artifactory
6 2 (3.39%) Gradle
6 2 (3.39%) Maven
6 2 (3.39%) Storybook
7 1 (1.69%) GitLab
7 1 (1.69%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (28.81%) Social Skills
2 14 (23.73%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.47%) Law
3 5 (8.47%) Legal
4 4 (6.78%) Finance
4 4 (6.78%) Local Government
5 2 (3.39%) Front Office
6 1 (1.69%) Banking
6 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Electronics
6 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (30.51%) Support Engineer
2 17 (28.81%) Developer
3 13 (22.03%) Java Developer
4 12 (20.34%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (16.95%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 10 (16.95%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 8 (13.56%) Linux Engineer
7 7 (11.86%) Linux Support
7 7 (11.86%) Linux Support Engineer
7 7 (11.86%) Senior
8 6 (10.17%) Applications Support
9 5 (8.47%) Integration Engineer
10 4 (6.78%) Applications Support Engineer
10 4 (6.78%) Development Support Engineer
10 4 (6.78%) Implementation Specialist
10 4 (6.78%) Linux Specialist
10 4 (6.78%) Products Support Engineer
10 4 (6.78%) Products Support Specialist
10 4 (6.78%) Senior Support Engineer
10 4 (6.78%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (33.90%) REST
2 17 (28.81%) JSON
2 17 (28.81%) XML
3 16 (27.12%) HTML
4 15 (25.42%) Web Services
5 12 (20.34%) ActiveMQ
5 12 (20.34%) Apache Camel
5 12 (20.34%) Hibernate
5 12 (20.34%) jQuery
5 12 (20.34%) Spring
5 12 (20.34%) Spring Boot
5 12 (20.34%) WireMock
6 9 (15.25%) RESTful
7 6 (10.17%) SOAP
8 4 (6.78%) CSS
8 4 (6.78%) Qt
9 3 (5.08%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (5.08%) LAMP
9 3 (5.08%) Node.js
10 2 (3.39%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.95%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (11.86%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (8.47%) Low-Code
4 4 (6.78%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.78%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (6.78%) Video on Demand
4 4 (6.78%) Video\Live Streaming
5 3 (5.08%) Data Centre
5 3 (5.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.39%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.39%) Driving Licence
6 2 (3.39%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.39%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.39%) Replication
6 2 (3.39%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.69%) Clustering
7 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (61.02%) Linux
2 18 (30.51%) Unix
3 10 (16.95%) CentOS
4 9 (15.25%) Windows
4 9 (15.25%) Windows Server
5 7 (11.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (10.17%) Ubuntu
7 4 (6.78%) VxWorks
8 3 (5.08%) Rocky
8 3 (5.08%) Solaris
9 2 (3.39%) AIX
9 2 (3.39%) Windows 10
9 2 (3.39%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (1.69%) Debian
10 1 (1.69%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (49.15%) Agile
2 25 (42.37%) CI/CD
3 20 (33.90%) SDLC
4 16 (27.12%) Workflow
5 15 (25.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (23.73%) Microservices
6 14 (23.73%) TDD
7 13 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (20.34%) BDD
8 12 (20.34%) Full-Stack Development
9 11 (18.64%) DevOps
10 10 (16.95%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (16.95%) Process Management
11 9 (15.25%) Containerisation
11 9 (15.25%) Problem Management
12 8 (13.56%) Change Management
12 8 (13.56%) Configuration Management
12 8 (13.56%) Migration
13 7 (11.86%) Incident Management
13 7 (11.86%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 35 (59.32%) Python
2 20 (33.90%) Java
2 20 (33.90%) JavaScript
3 16 (27.12%) SQL
4 14 (23.73%) Bash
5 7 (11.86%) C#
5 7 (11.86%) PowerShell
6 5 (8.47%) C++
7 4 (6.78%) C
7 4 (6.78%) Go
7 4 (6.78%) Perl
7 4 (6.78%) VB
8 3 (5.08%) TypeScript
9 2 (3.39%) Korn
9 2 (3.39%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.95%) Degree
3 5 (8.47%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.39%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) GDPR
2 4 (6.78%) ECSS
2 4 (6.78%) QA
3 2 (3.39%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.39%) WCAG
4 1 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.69%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (42.37%) Docker
2 2 (3.39%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.39%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.39%) KVM
2 2 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 25 (42.37%) Kubernetes
2 12 (20.34%) Ansible
2 12 (20.34%) Kibana
3 10 (16.95%) Terraform
4 5 (8.47%) Grafana
4 5 (8.47%) Nagios
4 5 (8.47%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.08%) Argo
5 3 (5.08%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.39%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (3.39%) Plesk
6 2 (3.39%) Puppet
7 1 (1.69%) Data Guard
7 1 (1.69%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (1.69%) Podman
Vendors
1 14 (23.73%) Dynatrace
1 14 (23.73%) Oracle
1 14 (23.73%) Splunk
2 10 (16.95%) SAP
3 6 (10.17%) IBM
3 6 (10.17%) Red Hat
3 6 (10.17%) Software AG
4 5 (8.47%) Dell
4 5 (8.47%) Epicor
4 5 (8.47%) IFS
4 5 (8.47%) Infor
4 5 (8.47%) Informatica
4 5 (8.47%) Jitterbit
4 5 (8.47%) MuleSoft
4 5 (8.47%) SnapLogic
4 5 (8.47%) Talend
4 5 (8.47%) TIBCO
4 5 (8.47%) Workday
5 4 (6.78%) NEC
5 4 (6.78%) VMware