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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 527 460
Rank change year-on-year +25 -67 +90
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 110 183 230
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.30% 0.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.04% 0.95% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 57 83 175
10th Percentile £38,500 £43,911 £45,000
25th Percentile £42,780 £52,500 £51,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +7.41% +12.50%
75th Percentile £71,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £109,945 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -17.86% - +16.67%

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 10,593 19,354 19,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.14% 31.95% 41.23%
Number of salaries quoted 7,807 11,495 15,869
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 13 November 2025.

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 13 November 2025. 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 +42 72 £62,500 -24.24% 28
South East +26 26 £57,500 +15.00% 15
East of England +9 12 £39,000 -42.22% 4
Midlands +54 8 £57,750 +5.00% 15
North of England +17 6 £27,500 -32.10% 6
South West +22 5 £95,000 +18.75% 4
North West +39 4 £43,500 - 1
West Midlands +37 4 - - 11
East Midlands +21 4 £57,750 +12.14% 4
Yorkshire -2 2 £27,500 -32.10% 5
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 (4.55%) Anypoint
1 5 (4.55%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (3.64%) Confluence
2 4 (3.64%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.82%) JBoss
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.82%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.82%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 8 (7.27%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.91%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (4.55%) Shopify
2 4 (3.64%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 56 (50.91%) AWS
2 30 (27.27%) Azure
3 26 (23.64%) Amazon EC2
4 25 (22.73%) Serverless
5 24 (21.82%) Amazon ECS
6 22 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (7.27%) GCP
7 8 (7.27%) OpenShift
8 7 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (5.45%) SaaS
10 5 (4.55%) Amazon S3
10 5 (4.55%) Boomi
10 5 (4.55%) GitHub
10 5 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (4.55%) iPaaS
10 5 (4.55%) Power Automate
10 5 (4.55%) Workato
11 4 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (2.73%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.27%) Firewall
2 6 (5.45%) DNS
3 5 (4.55%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.64%) VPN
5 3 (2.73%) AMQP
5 3 (2.73%) DHCP
5 3 (2.73%) SSL
6 2 (1.82%) Network Security
6 2 (1.82%) SAN
6 2 (1.82%) SpaceWire
6 2 (1.82%) SSH
7 1 (0.91%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.91%) HTTP
7 1 (0.91%) RTP
7 1 (0.91%) VLAN
7 1 (0.91%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (35.45%) Relational Database
2 27 (24.55%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (19.09%) RDBMS
4 17 (15.45%) MySQL
5 7 (6.36%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.55%) Oracle Database
7 4 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.64%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (3.64%) KDB
7 4 (3.64%) Kdb+
7 4 (3.64%) MS Access
7 4 (3.64%) SAP Data Services
8 3 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.73%) InfluxDB
8 3 (2.73%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.73%) Redis
9 2 (1.82%) Big Data
9 2 (1.82%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.91%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.91%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 38 (34.55%) Jenkins
2 25 (22.73%) JUnit
3 23 (20.91%) Mockito
4 22 (20.00%) JMeter
5 18 (16.36%) Git
6 10 (9.09%) JIRA
7 7 (6.36%) GitLab
7 7 (6.36%) Maven
8 4 (3.64%) Gradle
8 4 (3.64%) Toad
9 3 (2.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (2.73%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (2.73%) Subversion
10 2 (1.82%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.82%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.91%) CMake
11 1 (0.91%) MSBuild
11 1 (0.91%) Postman
11 1 (0.91%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.91%) SonarQube
General
1 27 (24.55%) Finance
1 27 (24.55%) Social Skills
2 25 (22.73%) Public Sector
3 22 (20.00%) Law
4 16 (14.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (10.00%) Marketing
6 9 (8.18%) Legal
7 7 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (4.55%) Banking
9 4 (3.64%) Advertising
9 4 (3.64%) Local Government
9 4 (3.64%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.82%) Aviation
11 2 (1.82%) Cantonese Language
11 2 (1.82%) Front Office
11 2 (1.82%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (1.82%) Retail
12 1 (0.91%) Electronics
12 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 27 (24.55%) Developer
2 26 (23.64%) Support Engineer
3 25 (22.73%) Java Developer
4 19 (17.27%) Full-Stack Developer
5 18 (16.36%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 16 (14.55%) Software Engineer
7 15 (13.64%) Mid-Level Java Developer
7 15 (13.64%) Senior
8 14 (12.73%) Linux Engineer
8 14 (12.73%) Linux Support
8 14 (12.73%) Linux Support Engineer
9 12 (10.91%) Lead
10 9 (8.18%) Applications Support
11 8 (7.27%) Administrator
11 8 (7.27%) Database Engineer
11 8 (7.27%) Lead Software Engineer
12 6 (5.45%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
13 5 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
13 5 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (37.27%) REST
2 27 (24.55%) JSON
2 27 (24.55%) Spring
2 27 (24.55%) Spring Boot
2 27 (24.55%) XML
3 26 (23.64%) Web Services
4 25 (22.73%) HTML
5 23 (20.91%) Hibernate
6 22 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
6 22 (20.00%) Apache Camel
6 22 (20.00%) jQuery
6 22 (20.00%) WireMock
7 9 (8.18%) SOAP
8 8 (7.27%) OAuth
8 8 (7.27%) OpenID
8 8 (7.27%) React
9 7 (6.36%) RESTful
10 5 (4.55%) Middleware
11 4 (3.64%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (3.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (12.73%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (7.27%) Algorithms
3 8 (7.27%) Data Structures
3 8 (7.27%) Private Cloud
3 8 (7.27%) Product Ownership
3 8 (7.27%) Public Cloud
4 7 (6.36%) Replication
5 5 (4.55%) Low-Code
6 4 (3.64%) Derivative
6 4 (3.64%) Equities
6 4 (3.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.73%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.73%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.73%) Video on Demand
7 3 (2.73%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (1.82%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.82%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (52.73%) Linux
2 34 (30.91%) Unix
3 13 (11.82%) Windows
4 8 (7.27%) CentOS
4 8 (7.27%) Mac OS
4 8 (7.27%) Windows Server
5 7 (6.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (5.45%) Ubuntu
7 4 (3.64%) Solaris
8 3 (2.73%) AIX
8 3 (2.73%) Rocky
9 2 (1.82%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (1.82%) VxWorks
9 2 (1.82%) Windows 10
9 2 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.91%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (50.91%) Agile
2 45 (40.91%) CI/CD
3 35 (31.82%) TDD
4 34 (30.91%) SDLC
5 28 (25.45%) Microservices
5 28 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (25.45%) Workflow
6 22 (20.00%) BDD
7 21 (19.09%) DevOps
7 21 (19.09%) Full-Stack Development
8 20 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (18.18%) Process Management
8 20 (18.18%) Software Engineering
8 20 (18.18%) Test Automation
9 15 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
9 15 (13.64%) Problem Management
10 14 (12.73%) Configuration Management
11 12 (10.91%) Containerisation
11 12 (10.91%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 65 (59.09%) Python
2 43 (39.09%) Java
3 30 (27.27%) SQL
4 29 (26.36%) JavaScript
5 23 (20.91%) Bash
6 12 (10.91%) PowerShell
7 9 (8.18%) Go
7 9 (8.18%) TypeScript
8 7 (6.36%) C#
9 6 (5.45%) PL/SQL
10 5 (4.55%) Perl
11 4 (3.64%) VB
12 3 (2.73%) C
12 3 (2.73%) C++
13 2 (1.82%) Korn
14 1 (0.91%) Bourne shell
14 1 (0.91%) C-shell
14 1 (0.91%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 24 (21.82%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.91%) Degree
3 7 (6.36%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.45%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.91%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.91%) OCA
7 1 (0.91%) OCP
7 1 (0.91%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.55%) GDPR
1 5 (4.55%) QA
2 2 (1.82%) ECSS
2 2 (1.82%) SLA
3 1 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 55 (50.00%) Docker
2 7 (6.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.73%) KVM
5 2 (1.82%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.82%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.82%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.82%) vSphere
6 1 (0.91%) Corosync
6 1 (0.91%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.91%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 48 (43.64%) Kubernetes
2 31 (28.18%) Ansible
3 24 (21.82%) Kibana
4 16 (14.55%) Terraform
5 15 (13.64%) Grafana
6 10 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (9.09%) Prometheus
7 7 (6.36%) Progress Chef
8 4 (3.64%) Nagios
9 3 (2.73%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.82%) Argo
10 2 (1.82%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.82%) logstash
10 2 (1.82%) Plesk
10 2 (1.82%) Puppet
10 2 (1.82%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.82%) SCCM
10 2 (1.82%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.91%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.91%) Nessus
Vendors
1 30 (27.27%) Dynatrace
1 30 (27.27%) Splunk
2 24 (21.82%) Oracle
3 13 (11.82%) SAP
4 12 (10.91%) Google
4 12 (10.91%) Microsoft
5 10 (9.09%) VMware
6 8 (7.27%) Apple
6 8 (7.27%) Red Hat
7 7 (6.36%) IBM
8 6 (5.45%) Dell
8 6 (5.45%) Software AG
9 5 (4.55%) Epicor
9 5 (4.55%) Infor
9 5 (4.55%) Informatica
9 5 (4.55%) Jitterbit
9 5 (4.55%) MuleSoft
9 5 (4.55%) SnapLogic
9 5 (4.55%) Talend
9 5 (4.55%) TIBCO