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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 647 501 561
Rank change year-on-year -146 +60 -92
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 117 137 196
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.32% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.70% 1.15% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 85 73 119
10th Percentile - - £43,911
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £58,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% -22.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £84,500 £95,000 £108,111
UK median annual salary £52,500 £58,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.48% -22.67% +7.14%

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 16,806 11,881 21,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.98% 27.39% 30.17%
Number of salaries quoted 12,315 7,854 14,344
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 7 September 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 7 September 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
North of England -29 40 £42,500 -4.49% 26
London -112 39 £75,000 +7.14% 83
South East -49 24 £65,000 +75.68% 21
North West -8 18 £42,500 -4.49% 14
Yorkshire - 11 £42,500 - 7
North East - 11 £42,500 - 5
East of England -35 8 £51,359 +31.69% 11
Midlands -46 3 £61,500 +6.49% 11
South West -80 3 - - 10
East Midlands -32 2 £61,500 +6.49% 5
West Midlands -39 1 - - 6
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 (4.27%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.56%) Apache
2 3 (2.56%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.71%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.85%) JBoss
4 1 (0.85%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.56%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (9.40%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (4.27%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.85%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (21.37%) AWS
2 18 (15.38%) Azure
3 14 (11.97%) Serverless
4 12 (10.26%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (9.40%) GCP
6 9 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (5.13%) Amazon S3
8 5 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.27%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.42%) GitHub
9 4 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.71%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 2 (1.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.71%) AWS CodeBuild
11 2 (1.71%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.71%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.97%) Firewall
2 13 (11.11%) DNS
3 6 (5.13%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.42%) 5G
5 3 (2.56%) 4G
5 3 (2.56%) HTTP
5 3 (2.56%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (2.56%) SSH
6 2 (1.71%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (1.71%) DHCP
6 2 (1.71%) MQTT
6 2 (1.71%) Network Security
6 2 (1.71%) SSL
6 2 (1.71%) X.509
7 1 (0.85%) FTP
7 1 (0.85%) LTE
7 1 (0.85%) VPN
7 1 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (35.90%) SQL Server
2 36 (30.77%) MySQL
3 14 (11.97%) Oracle Database
3 14 (11.97%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (10.26%) Relational Database
5 6 (5.13%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.13%) RDBMS
6 5 (4.27%) KDB
7 3 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.56%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.56%) Redis
8 2 (1.71%) Big Data
8 2 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.71%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (1.71%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (1.71%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.85%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.85%) Db2
9 1 (0.85%) OLTP
9 1 (0.85%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 18 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 13 (11.11%) Git
3 9 (7.69%) GitLab
4 7 (5.98%) JMeter
4 7 (5.98%) JUnit
4 7 (5.98%) Mockito
5 4 (3.42%) JIRA
5 4 (3.42%) Selenium
6 2 (1.71%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (1.71%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (1.71%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.85%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.85%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.85%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.85%) LSMW
7 1 (0.85%) Maven
General
1 37 (31.62%) Social Skills
2 31 (26.50%) Finance
3 30 (25.64%) Law
4 12 (10.26%) Banking
5 9 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.98%) Front Office
6 7 (5.98%) Legal
7 5 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.27%) Retail
8 3 (2.56%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.71%) Automotive
9 2 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.85%) German Language
10 1 (0.85%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (23.93%) DBA
2 27 (23.08%) Senior
3 20 (17.09%) Administrator
3 20 (17.09%) Database Engineer
4 12 (10.26%) IT Support
4 12 (10.26%) Oracle DBA
4 12 (10.26%) SQL DBA
5 11 (9.40%) Developer
5 11 (9.40%) Linux Engineer
5 11 (9.40%) Senior DBA
6 10 (8.55%) Senior Oracle DBA
7 6 (5.13%) Applications Support
7 6 (5.13%) Support Assistant
8 5 (4.27%) IT Assistant
8 5 (4.27%) IT Support Assistant
8 5 (4.27%) Security Engineer
8 5 (4.27%) Senior Developer
8 5 (4.27%) Support Engineer
8 5 (4.27%) Support Team Leader
8 5 (4.27%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.97%) Terraform
2 12 (10.26%) JSON
3 11 (9.40%) HTML
3 11 (9.40%) REST
4 10 (8.55%) XML
5 8 (6.84%) ActiveMQ
5 8 (6.84%) Spring
6 7 (5.98%) Apache Camel
6 7 (5.98%) Hibernate
6 7 (5.98%) jQuery
6 7 (5.98%) RESTful
6 7 (5.98%) Spring Boot
6 7 (5.98%) WireMock
7 6 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (5.13%) Kafka
7 6 (5.13%) Web Services
8 5 (4.27%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (4.27%) FreeMarker
8 5 (4.27%) LDAP
8 5 (4.27%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 32 (27.35%) Replication
2 9 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.84%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (6.84%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (5.13%) Fixed Income
5 5 (4.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (4.27%) PKI
6 4 (3.42%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.56%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.71%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.71%) CUDA
8 2 (1.71%) Derivative
8 2 (1.71%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.71%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.71%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.71%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.85%) Life Science
9 1 (0.85%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.85%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 93 (79.49%) Linux
2 27 (23.08%) Unix
3 20 (17.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (12.82%) Windows
5 12 (10.26%) AIX
6 10 (8.55%) Oracle Linux
7 6 (5.13%) Windows Server
8 5 (4.27%) CentOS
8 5 (4.27%) Mac OS
9 4 (3.42%) Ubuntu
10 3 (2.56%) Apple iOS
10 3 (2.56%) Solaris
11 2 (1.71%) Debian
11 2 (1.71%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (1.71%) OpenWrt
11 2 (1.71%) Rocky
11 2 (1.71%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (41.88%) High Availability
2 48 (41.03%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
4 25 (21.37%) CI/CD
5 22 (18.80%) Performance Tuning
6 20 (17.09%) DevOps
7 19 (16.24%) Disaster Recovery
8 18 (15.38%) ITIL
9 17 (14.53%) Agile
10 16 (13.68%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (11.97%) Incident Response
11 14 (11.97%) Runbook
12 13 (11.11%) Change Management
12 13 (11.11%) Microservices
13 12 (10.26%) Configuration Management
14 11 (9.40%) Capacity Planning
14 11 (9.40%) Software Engineering
14 11 (9.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 11 (9.40%) Test Automation
15 10 (8.55%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 65 (55.56%) SQL
2 46 (39.32%) Python
3 31 (26.50%) Bash
4 20 (17.09%) Java
5 18 (15.38%) JavaScript
6 15 (12.82%) Korn
7 12 (10.26%) PL/SQL
8 6 (5.13%) C
8 6 (5.13%) Rust
9 5 (4.27%) C++
9 5 (4.27%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.56%) Perl
11 2 (1.71%) Fortran
11 2 (1.71%) Go
11 2 (1.71%) Groovy
12 1 (0.85%) C#
12 1 (0.85%) COBOL
12 1 (0.85%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 1 (0.85%) PHP
12 1 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.11%) Degree
3 11 (9.40%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.98%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.27%) HNC
5 5 (4.27%) HND
6 4 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.56%) RHCE
7 3 (2.56%) RHCSA
8 2 (1.71%) IBM AIX Certification
8 2 (1.71%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.85%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.13%) QA
2 3 (2.56%) GDPR
3 2 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.85%) JTAG
System Software
1 28 (23.93%) Docker
2 13 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (5.98%) vSphere
4 5 (4.27%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.85%) Firmware
6 1 (0.85%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.85%) KVM
6 1 (0.85%) QEMU
6 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (15.38%) Ansible
1 18 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 13 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
3 12 (10.26%) Data Guard
4 10 (8.55%) Nagios
5 8 (6.84%) Puppet
6 7 (5.98%) Kibana
6 7 (5.98%) Prometheus
7 6 (5.13%) Grafana
8 5 (4.27%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (3.42%) Podman
10 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.71%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (1.71%) Oracle Flashback
11 2 (1.71%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.85%) Control-M
Vendors
1 37 (31.62%) Oracle
2 12 (10.26%) IBM
3 11 (9.40%) Microsoft
4 9 (7.69%) Red Hat
5 8 (6.84%) Splunk
5 8 (6.84%) VMware
6 7 (5.98%) Dynatrace
7 5 (4.27%) Apple
8 3 (2.56%) Google
8 3 (2.56%) McAfee
8 3 (2.56%) Sybase
9 2 (1.71%) Adobe
9 2 (1.71%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.71%) Cisco
9 2 (1.71%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (1.71%) Juniper
9 2 (1.71%) Meraki
9 2 (1.71%) Okta
9 2 (1.71%) SAP
9 2 (1.71%) SonicWALL