Shell Script Jobs in England

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Shell Script skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Shell Script over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 544 580 521
Rank change year-on-year +36 -59 -166
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 104 251 492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.29% 0.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.74% 0.91% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 61 175 218
10th Percentile £38,500 £41,500 £39,025
25th Percentile £40,750 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £86,250 £82,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,750 £101,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

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 13,968 27,641 40,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.33% 32.44% 43.40%
Number of salaries quoted 10,268 22,520 25,798
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Shell Script as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in England

Shell Script
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Shell Script in England.

Salary trend for Shell Script in England

Shell Script
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in England over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 +97 62 £67,500 -15.63% 78
South East +87 33 £62,500 +13.64% 61
Midlands +79 15 £60,000 +20.00% 42
North of England +74 14 £44,500 -31.54% 55
West Midlands +56 13 £60,000 +34.83% 26
North West +31 12 £44,500 -56.59% 30
Yorkshire +66 2 - - 21
East Midlands +41 2 - - 14
South West +50 1 £60,000 - 32
East of England +30 1 £67,500 +12.50% 36
Shell Script
UK

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.88%) Confluence
3 2 (1.92%) Apache
3 2 (1.92%) SAS
4 1 (0.96%) nginx
4 1 (0.96%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.96%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.96%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.96%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.96%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (6.73%) Chatbot
1 7 (6.73%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (1.92%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 6 (5.77%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (3.85%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 50 (48.08%) AWS
2 27 (25.96%) Serverless
3 26 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 24 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
5 22 (21.15%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (9.62%) Amazon S3
6 10 (9.62%) Azure
7 9 (8.65%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (6.73%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 7 (6.73%) AWS KMS
10 6 (5.77%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (3.85%) GitHub
11 4 (3.85%) Power Platform
12 3 (2.88%) Amazon ELB
12 3 (2.88%) Amazon Glacier
12 3 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.88%) Datadog
12 3 (2.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.65%) SSL
2 8 (7.69%) Firewall
3 6 (5.77%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.92%) Network Security
5 1 (0.96%) DHCP
5 1 (0.96%) DNS
5 1 (0.96%) HTTP
5 1 (0.96%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.96%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.96%) SAN
5 1 (0.96%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (18.27%) RDBMS
2 19 (18.27%) Relational Database
3 10 (9.62%) SQL Server
4 9 (8.65%) Oracle Database
5 5 (4.81%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.81%) Oracle Exadata
6 4 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.85%) Power BI
7 3 (2.88%) MySQL
7 3 (2.88%) Redis
8 2 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.92%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.92%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.92%) OLTP
8 2 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.92%) Pentaho
8 2 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.92%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 39 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 21 (20.19%) JUnit
3 20 (19.23%) Mockito
4 18 (17.31%) JMeter
5 15 (14.42%) Git
6 9 (8.65%) JIRA
7 8 (7.69%) Maven
8 7 (6.73%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (4.81%) Artifactory
10 4 (3.85%) SonarQube
11 3 (2.88%) Subversion
11 3 (2.88%) Vagrant
12 2 (1.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (1.92%) Bitbucket
12 2 (1.92%) Cucumber
12 2 (1.92%) Gradle
12 2 (1.92%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (1.92%) SoapUI
12 2 (1.92%) TeamCity
12 2 (1.92%) Xcode
General
1 28 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 25 (24.04%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (21.15%) Public Sector
4 16 (15.38%) Finance
5 13 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (11.54%) Manufacturing
7 10 (9.62%) Retail
8 4 (3.85%) Banking
8 4 (3.85%) Front Office
8 4 (3.85%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.88%) Billing
9 3 (2.88%) Legal
10 2 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.96%) Automotive
11 1 (0.96%) Back Office
11 1 (0.96%) Cantonese Language
11 1 (0.96%) Electronics
11 1 (0.96%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.96%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (25.00%) Developer
2 19 (18.27%) Java Developer
3 17 (16.35%) Senior
4 12 (11.54%) Linux Engineer
5 11 (10.58%) Analyst
5 11 (10.58%) Linux Support
5 11 (10.58%) Support Analyst
6 9 (8.65%) Applications Support
6 9 (8.65%) Applications Support Analyst
6 9 (8.65%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (7.69%) Data Engineer
7 8 (7.69%) Support Engineer
8 7 (6.73%) Linux Support Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) Lead
10 5 (4.81%) DBA
10 5 (4.81%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.81%) Oracle DBA
10 5 (4.81%) Python Developer
10 5 (4.81%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.81%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (25.96%) REST
2 24 (23.08%) HTML
3 23 (22.12%) Spring
4 22 (21.15%) Hibernate
5 21 (20.19%) Spring Boot
6 20 (19.23%) Web Services
7 18 (17.31%) ActiveMQ
7 18 (17.31%) Apache Camel
7 18 (17.31%) jQuery
7 18 (17.31%) WireMock
8 12 (11.54%) XML
9 10 (9.62%) JSON
10 5 (4.81%) Middleware
10 5 (4.81%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (4.81%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 4 (3.85%) HTML5
12 3 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (2.88%) J2EE
12 3 (2.88%) Mustache
12 3 (2.88%) React
Miscellaneous
1 22 (21.15%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (11.54%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (8.65%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 6 (5.77%) Clustering
5 5 (4.81%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.81%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.88%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.92%) CCTV
7 2 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.92%) Derivative
7 2 (1.92%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (1.92%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.96%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.96%) Equities
8 1 (0.96%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.96%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.96%) IoT
8 1 (0.96%) LIMS
8 1 (0.96%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.96%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 65 (62.50%) Linux
2 31 (29.81%) Unix
3 17 (16.35%) Windows
4 8 (7.69%) Ubuntu
5 7 (6.73%) Mac OS
6 6 (5.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (4.81%) VMS
8 4 (3.85%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.96%) CentOS
9 1 (0.96%) Debian
9 1 (0.96%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (43.27%) Agile
2 41 (39.42%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (33.65%) DevOps
4 30 (28.85%) CI/CD
5 25 (24.04%) Microservices
6 23 (22.12%) TDD
7 19 (18.27%) Workflow
8 18 (17.31%) BDD
8 18 (17.31%) Collaborative Working
8 18 (17.31%) Process Management
8 18 (17.31%) Scrum
9 17 (16.35%) Computer Science
9 17 (16.35%) Validation
10 16 (15.38%) Architectural Design
10 16 (15.38%) Kanban
11 14 (13.46%) SDLC
12 12 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence
12 12 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (10.58%) Patch Management
13 11 (10.58%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 65 (62.50%) Python
2 44 (42.31%) SQL
3 38 (36.54%) Java
4 23 (22.12%) JavaScript
5 17 (16.35%) PL/SQL
6 11 (10.58%) Bash
7 9 (8.65%) C-shell
7 9 (8.65%) Korn
8 8 (7.69%) C++
8 8 (7.69%) Perl
9 7 (6.73%) Groovy
10 5 (4.81%) PowerShell
10 5 (4.81%) SPARQL
11 3 (2.88%) C
11 3 (2.88%) Go
11 3 (2.88%) Gremlin
11 3 (2.88%) Ruby
12 1 (0.96%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (0.96%) PHP
12 1 (0.96%) XPath
Qualifications
1 27 (25.96%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.12%) SC Cleared
3 17 (16.35%) Degree
4 15 (14.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (8.65%) PhD
6 6 (5.77%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (3.85%) OCA
7 4 (3.85%) OCP
7 4 (3.85%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.92%) CASP
8 2 (1.92%) CISM
8 2 (1.92%) CISSP
8 2 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.96%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.73%) QA
1 7 (6.73%) SLA
2 5 (4.81%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.92%) Dublin Core
3 2 (1.92%) GDPR
3 2 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (34.62%) Docker
2 12 (11.54%) Active Directory
3 10 (9.62%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (6.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (5.77%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.96%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.96%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 32 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 20 (19.23%) Ansible
3 18 (17.31%) Kibana
4 16 (15.38%) Terraform
5 8 (7.69%) Nessus
6 7 (6.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (6.73%) Proxmox
7 5 (4.81%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (3.85%) Grafana
8 4 (3.85%) Packer
9 3 (2.88%) Nagios
9 3 (2.88%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.96%) Argo
10 1 (0.96%) CEMLI
10 1 (0.96%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.96%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.96%) MOM
10 1 (0.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (31.73%) Oracle
2 25 (24.04%) Splunk
3 23 (22.12%) Dynatrace
4 10 (9.62%) Microsoft
5 7 (6.73%) Apple
5 7 (6.73%) Juniper
6 6 (5.77%) Red Hat
6 6 (5.77%) Veritas
7 5 (4.81%) Talend
7 5 (4.81%) VMware
8 4 (3.85%) AppDynamics
8 4 (3.85%) Symantec
9 3 (2.88%) IBM
9 3 (2.88%) Informatica
10 2 (1.92%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.92%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.96%) Avaloq
11 1 (0.96%) BigPanda
11 1 (0.96%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.96%) ServiceNow