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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 626 512 572
Rank change year-on-year -114 +60 -103
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 117 135 198
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.31% 0.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.70% 1.08% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 87 73 130
10th Percentile - - £43,911
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -25.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £76,875 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £81,500 £95,000 £110,625
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% -20.00% +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 16,727 12,484 21,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.58% 28.55% 29.64%
Number of salaries quoted 12,192 8,340 15,648
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £36,625
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +1.63% -5.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -9 39 £42,500 -4.49% 14
London -100 39 £75,000 +7.14% 24
South East -35 26 £65,000 +58.54% 7
North West -11 17 £42,500 -4.49% 9
Yorkshire - 11 £42,500 - 3
North East - 11 £42,500 - 2
East of England -24 5 £51,359 +31.69% 4
Midlands -37 4 £61,500 +6.96% 4
South West -71 3 - - 6
East Midlands -30 2 £61,500 +6.49%
West Midlands -35 2 - - 4
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
3 2 (1.71%) WebLogic
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 12 (10.26%) 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 13 (11.11%) 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 5 (4.27%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.27%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.42%) GitHub
8 4 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.71%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 2 (1.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.71%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (1.71%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.71%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.38%) Firewall
2 13 (11.11%) DNS
3 4 (3.42%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.56%) DHCP
4 3 (2.56%) Network Security
4 3 (2.56%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (1.71%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (1.71%) MQTT
5 2 (1.71%) SSL
5 2 (1.71%) X.509
6 1 (0.85%) 5G
6 1 (0.85%) FTP
6 1 (0.85%) LTE
6 1 (0.85%) NAS
6 1 (0.85%) SAN
6 1 (0.85%) VPN
6 1 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (35.90%) SQL Server
2 33 (28.21%) MySQL
3 15 (12.82%) Oracle Database
4 12 (10.26%) Relational Database
5 11 (9.40%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (5.13%) RDBMS
7 5 (4.27%) KDB
8 3 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.56%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.71%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (1.71%) Oracle Database 12c
9 2 (1.71%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.85%) Big Data
10 1 (0.85%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.85%) Db2
10 1 (0.85%) OLTP
10 1 (0.85%) Oracle9i Database
10 1 (0.85%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (0.85%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 14 (11.97%) Jenkins
2 11 (9.40%) Git
3 7 (5.98%) JMeter
3 7 (5.98%) JUnit
3 7 (5.98%) Mockito
4 6 (5.13%) GitLab
5 4 (3.42%) JIRA
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
7 1 (0.85%) Selenium
General
1 40 (34.19%) Social Skills
2 32 (27.35%) Finance
3 30 (25.64%) Law
4 13 (11.11%) Banking
5 9 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (5.98%) Front Office
7 7 (5.98%) Legal
8 5 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (4.27%) Retail
9 2 (1.71%) Automotive
9 2 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.85%) German Language
10 1 (0.85%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (24.79%) DBA
2 25 (21.37%) Senior
3 22 (18.80%) Administrator
4 20 (17.09%) Database Engineer
5 13 (11.11%) Oracle DBA
6 12 (10.26%) IT Support
6 12 (10.26%) Senior DBA
6 12 (10.26%) SQL DBA
7 11 (9.40%) Senior Oracle DBA
8 10 (8.55%) Linux Engineer
9 8 (6.84%) Developer
10 6 (5.13%) Applications Support
10 6 (5.13%) Linux Administrator
10 6 (5.13%) Security Engineer
10 6 (5.13%) Support Assistant
11 5 (4.27%) IT Assistant
11 5 (4.27%) IT Support Assistant
11 5 (4.27%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 5 (4.27%) Support Team Leader
11 5 (4.27%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.97%) JSON
1 14 (11.97%) Terraform
2 12 (10.26%) XML
3 8 (6.84%) ActiveMQ
3 8 (6.84%) HTML
3 8 (6.84%) REST
3 8 (6.84%) Spring
4 7 (5.98%) Apache Camel
4 7 (5.98%) Hibernate
4 7 (5.98%) jQuery
4 7 (5.98%) JSON Schema
4 7 (5.98%) LDAP
4 7 (5.98%) Regular Expression
4 7 (5.98%) Spring Boot
4 7 (5.98%) WireMock
5 6 (5.13%) Web Services
6 5 (4.27%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (4.27%) FreeMarker
7 4 (3.42%) RESTful
8 3 (2.56%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 32 (27.35%) Replication
2 9 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.84%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (5.98%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (5.13%) Fixed Income
6 5 (4.27%) PKI
7 4 (3.42%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.56%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.71%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.71%) CUDA
9 2 (1.71%) Derivative
9 2 (1.71%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.71%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.71%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.71%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.71%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.85%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.85%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 94 (80.34%) Linux
2 28 (23.93%) Unix
3 24 (20.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (14.53%) Windows
5 13 (11.11%) AIX
6 11 (9.40%) Oracle Linux
7 8 (6.84%) Windows Server
8 6 (5.13%) CentOS
9 5 (4.27%) Mac OS
9 5 (4.27%) Ubuntu
10 3 (2.56%) Apple iOS
10 3 (2.56%) Debian
10 3 (2.56%) Solaris
11 2 (1.71%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (1.71%) OpenWrt
11 2 (1.71%) Rocky
11 2 (1.71%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (44.44%) High Availability
2 50 (42.74%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (19.66%) CI/CD
5 22 (18.80%) Performance Tuning
6 21 (17.95%) Disaster Recovery
7 20 (17.09%) ITIL
8 18 (15.38%) DevOps
9 17 (14.53%) Runbook
10 16 (13.68%) Incident Response
11 15 (12.82%) Change Management
12 14 (11.97%) Agile
12 14 (11.97%) Configuration Management
13 13 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 12 (10.26%) Capacity Planning
14 12 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
14 12 (10.26%) Microservices
15 11 (9.40%) Containerisation
16 10 (8.55%) Root Cause Analysis
16 10 (8.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 62 (52.99%) SQL
2 43 (36.75%) Python
3 31 (26.50%) Bash
4 19 (16.24%) Java
5 16 (13.68%) Korn
6 15 (12.82%) JavaScript
7 13 (11.11%) 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%) ABAP
12 1 (0.85%) C#
12 1 (0.85%) COBOL
12 1 (0.85%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 1 (0.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.11%) Degree
2 13 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 7 (5.98%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.27%) HNC
4 5 (4.27%) HND
5 4 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.42%) RHCE
5 4 (3.42%) RHCSA
6 2 (1.71%) IBM AIX Certification
6 2 (1.71%) Linux+ Certification
6 2 (1.71%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.56%) GDPR
1 3 (2.56%) QA
2 2 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.85%) JTAG
System Software
1 26 (22.22%) Docker
2 14 (11.97%) Oracle RAC
3 9 (7.69%) vSphere
4 7 (5.98%) Active Directory
5 3 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.71%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.71%) KVM
6 2 (1.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.85%) Firmware
7 1 (0.85%) QEMU
7 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (17.09%) Ansible
2 19 (16.24%) Kubernetes
3 14 (11.97%) Oracle RMAN
4 13 (11.11%) Data Guard
5 12 (10.26%) Nagios
6 10 (8.55%) Puppet
7 7 (5.98%) Kibana
8 5 (4.27%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (4.27%) Prometheus
9 4 (3.42%) Podman
10 3 (2.56%) Grafana
10 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (2.56%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.71%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (1.71%) Oracle Flashback
12 1 (0.85%) Control-M
12 1 (0.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 38 (32.48%) Oracle
2 13 (11.11%) IBM
3 12 (10.26%) Microsoft
4 11 (9.40%) VMware
5 9 (7.69%) Red Hat
6 8 (6.84%) Splunk
7 7 (5.98%) Dynatrace
8 5 (4.27%) Apple
9 3 (2.56%) Google
9 3 (2.56%) McAfee
9 3 (2.56%) Sybase
10 2 (1.71%) Adobe
10 2 (1.71%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.71%) Cisco
10 2 (1.71%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.71%) Juniper
10 2 (1.71%) Meraki
10 2 (1.71%) Okta
10 2 (1.71%) SAP
10 2 (1.71%) SonicWALL