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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 496 588
Rank change year-on-year -120 +92 -57
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 58 108 232
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.074% 0.29% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.42% 0.85% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 39 64 177
10th Percentile £42,950 £38,500 £41,400
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £73,125 £72,813 £85,000
90th Percentile £80,750 £95,000 £95,500
UK median annual salary £58,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.08% - -

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 13,895 12,673 27,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.73% 33.90% 32.62%
Number of salaries quoted 9,749 9,319 22,524
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,450 £35,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,683 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -47 27 £57,500 -13.21% 16
South East -51 20 £57,500 -8.00% 13
North of England -67 5 £42,500 -4.49% 7
North West -35 3 £50,000 +12.36% 3
West Midlands -27 2 - - 3
Midlands -50 2 - - 5
South West -56 2 - - 2
East of England -39 1 £70,000 +3.70% 1
Yorkshire -63 1 £42,500 - 3
North East - 1 £42,500 - 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 2 (3.45%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.72%) Apache
2 1 (1.72%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (5.17%) FLEXCUBE
2 2 (3.45%) Shopify
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 17 (29.31%) AWS
2 12 (20.69%) Azure
3 8 (13.79%) GCP
4 7 (12.07%) Serverless
5 6 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (8.62%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (8.62%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (6.90%) GitHub
7 4 (6.90%) SaaS
8 3 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (5.17%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.45%) Algolia
9 2 (3.45%) Boomi
9 2 (3.45%) Cloud Functions
9 2 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.45%) iPaaS
9 2 (3.45%) Power Automate
9 2 (3.45%) Sentry
9 2 (3.45%) Stripe
9 2 (3.45%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 13 (22.41%) Firewall
2 7 (12.07%) DNS
3 4 (6.90%) SpaceWire
4 3 (5.17%) Network Security
4 3 (5.17%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.72%) DHCP
5 1 (1.72%) LAN
5 1 (1.72%) NAS
5 1 (1.72%) SAN
5 1 (1.72%) SSL
5 1 (1.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.07%) MySQL
1 7 (12.07%) Oracle Database
1 7 (12.07%) Relational Database
2 6 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (10.34%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.90%) RDBMS
4 3 (5.17%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.17%) Oracle Database 11g
4 3 (5.17%) Oracle Database 12c
4 3 (5.17%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (3.45%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.45%) KDB
6 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.72%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.72%) Power BI
6 1 (1.72%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.72%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (1.72%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 16 (27.59%) Git
2 9 (15.52%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.90%) GitLab
3 4 (6.90%) JIRA
3 4 (6.90%) JMeter
4 3 (5.17%) JUnit
4 3 (5.17%) Mockito
4 3 (5.17%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (3.45%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (3.45%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.45%) Storybook
6 1 (1.72%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.72%) LabVIEW
6 1 (1.72%) Selenium
6 1 (1.72%) Subversion
6 1 (1.72%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (22.41%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.07%) Finance
3 6 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.62%) Law
4 5 (8.62%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.17%) Banking
5 3 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.45%) Front Office
6 2 (3.45%) German Language
6 2 (3.45%) Legal
7 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 11 (18.97%) Support Engineer
2 9 (15.52%) Linux Engineer
3 8 (13.79%) DBA
3 8 (13.79%) Developer
4 7 (12.07%) Administrator
4 7 (12.07%) Senior
5 6 (10.34%) Linux Support
5 6 (10.34%) Linux Support Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Implementation Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Implementation Specialist
6 4 (6.90%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (6.90%) Linux Specialist
6 4 (6.90%) Oracle DBA
6 4 (6.90%) Product Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Product Specialist
6 4 (6.90%) Products Support Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Products Support Specialist
6 4 (6.90%) Support Specialist
7 3 (5.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.24%) JSON
2 9 (15.52%) XML
3 8 (13.79%) REST
4 5 (8.62%) HTML
4 5 (8.62%) Web Services
5 4 (6.90%) JSON Schema
5 4 (6.90%) LDAP
5 4 (6.90%) Qt
5 4 (6.90%) Regular Expression
5 4 (6.90%) RESTful
5 4 (6.90%) Spring
6 3 (5.17%) 802.1X
6 3 (5.17%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (5.17%) AngularJS
6 3 (5.17%) Apache Camel
6 3 (5.17%) Hibernate
6 3 (5.17%) jQuery
6 3 (5.17%) LAMP
6 3 (5.17%) Spring Boot
6 3 (5.17%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.34%) Linux Command Line
1 6 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.90%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.90%) Replication
2 4 (6.90%) Video on Demand
2 4 (6.90%) Video\Live Streaming
3 3 (5.17%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.45%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (3.45%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.45%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.45%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.72%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 43 (74.14%) Linux
2 13 (22.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 13 (22.41%) Unix
3 11 (18.97%) CentOS
4 7 (12.07%) Ubuntu
5 5 (8.62%) Windows
5 5 (8.62%) Windows Server
6 4 (6.90%) VxWorks
7 3 (5.17%) AIX
7 3 (5.17%) Apple iOS
7 3 (5.17%) Mac OS
7 3 (5.17%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (3.45%) Debian
8 2 (3.45%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (31.03%) CI/CD
2 15 (25.86%) High Availability
2 15 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (20.69%) Agile
3 12 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (18.97%) DevOps
4 11 (18.97%) SDLC
5 10 (17.24%) Performance Tuning
6 9 (15.52%) ITIL
6 9 (15.52%) Runbook
6 9 (15.52%) Test Automation
7 8 (13.79%) Containerisation
7 8 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (13.79%) Microservices
8 7 (12.07%) Change Management
8 7 (12.07%) Deployment Automation
8 7 (12.07%) Incident Response
8 7 (12.07%) Security Hardening
8 7 (12.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 29 (50.00%) Python
2 22 (37.93%) Bash
3 14 (24.14%) SQL
4 9 (15.52%) Java
5 8 (13.79%) Korn
5 8 (13.79%) Perl
6 7 (12.07%) JavaScript
6 7 (12.07%) PL/SQL
7 6 (10.34%) C++
8 4 (6.90%) C
9 2 (3.45%) C#
9 2 (3.45%) Groovy
9 2 (3.45%) Rust
9 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.72%) PHP
10 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (25.86%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.52%) DV Cleared
3 7 (12.07%) Degree
4 4 (6.90%) SC Cleared
5 3 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.17%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (3.45%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.72%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (1.72%) RHCE
7 1 (1.72%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) ECSS
1 4 (6.90%) QA
2 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.45%) GDPR
2 2 (3.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (31.03%) Docker
2 7 (12.07%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (6.90%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.90%) vSphere
4 3 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.45%) KVM
6 1 (1.72%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.72%) Xen
Systems Management
1 16 (27.59%) Kubernetes
2 13 (22.41%) Ansible
3 8 (13.79%) Terraform
4 7 (12.07%) Nagios
5 6 (10.34%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (8.62%) Data Guard
6 5 (8.62%) Puppet
7 4 (6.90%) Prometheus
8 3 (5.17%) Grafana
8 3 (5.17%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (5.17%) Kibana
8 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (3.45%) Oracle Flashback
9 2 (3.45%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.72%) Argo
10 1 (1.72%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (1.72%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (22.41%) Oracle
2 7 (12.07%) VMware
3 6 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.34%) Splunk
4 5 (8.62%) IBM
4 5 (8.62%) Red Hat
5 3 (5.17%) Apple
5 3 (5.17%) Dynatrace
5 3 (5.17%) SAP
6 2 (3.45%) Dell
6 2 (3.45%) Epicor
6 2 (3.45%) Google
6 2 (3.45%) IFS
6 2 (3.45%) Informatica
6 2 (3.45%) Jitterbit
6 2 (3.45%) MuleSoft
6 2 (3.45%) SnapLogic
6 2 (3.45%) Software AG
6 2 (3.45%) TIBCO
6 2 (3.45%) Workday