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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 520 558 441
Rank change year-on-year +38 -117 -21
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 130 194 307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.28% 0.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.10% 0.92% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 66 112 218
10th Percentile - £43,911 £42,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £50,000 £51,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.67% +7.14% +20.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £96,875 £106,750 £107,375
UK median annual salary £58,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -22.67% +7.14% +20.69%

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 11,804 21,072 22,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.35% 30.67% 40.83%
Number of salaries quoted 7,778 13,531 18,325
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +1.56%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +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

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +72 90 £70,000 -17.65% 23
South East +47 28 £52,500 +13.54% 18
East of England +6 12 £39,000 -29.09% 6
Midlands +32 11 £57,750 +15.50% 7
North of England +25 9 £44,500 -8.26% 8
North West +16 9 £44,500 - 7
West Midlands +38 7 - - 2
South West +51 5 £95,000 +18.75% 21
East Midlands +23 4 £57,750 +15.50% 5
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 5 (3.85%) Confluence
1 5 (3.85%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (3.08%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.54%) JBoss
3 2 (1.54%) SAS
3 2 (1.54%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.77%) nginx
Applications
1 15 (11.54%) Chatbot
2 4 (3.08%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.77%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (3.08%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 64 (49.23%) AWS
2 34 (26.15%) Amazon EC2
2 34 (26.15%) Serverless
3 33 (25.38%) Amazon ECS
4 29 (22.31%) Amazon EKS
5 25 (19.23%) Azure
6 9 (6.92%) Amazon S3
6 9 (6.92%) OpenShift
7 7 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (5.38%) GitHub
8 6 (4.62%) GCP
8 6 (4.62%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (4.62%) SaaS
9 5 (3.85%) BlazeMeter
10 4 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.08%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (3.08%) AWS KMS
10 4 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (2.31%) Amazon ELB
11 3 (2.31%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.15%) Firewall
2 7 (5.38%) SSL
3 3 (2.31%) AMQP
4 2 (1.54%) DNS
4 2 (1.54%) Network Security
4 2 (1.54%) SAN
4 2 (1.54%) VPN
5 1 (0.77%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (0.77%) DHCP
5 1 (0.77%) HTTP
5 1 (0.77%) RTP
5 1 (0.77%) SSH
5 1 (0.77%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.77%) VLAN
5 1 (0.77%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (30.77%) Relational Database
2 35 (26.92%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (20.77%) RDBMS
4 12 (9.23%) MySQL
5 9 (6.92%) SQL Server
6 7 (5.38%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (5.38%) Oracle Database
7 5 (3.85%) MongoDB
8 4 (3.08%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (3.08%) KDB
8 4 (3.08%) Kdb+
8 4 (3.08%) MS Access
8 4 (3.08%) Redis
8 4 (3.08%) SAP Data Services
9 3 (2.31%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.54%) Big Data
10 2 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.54%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.77%) DB2
Development Applications
1 53 (40.77%) Jenkins
2 32 (24.62%) JUnit
3 29 (22.31%) Mockito
4 27 (20.77%) JMeter
5 22 (16.92%) Git
6 11 (8.46%) JIRA
6 11 (8.46%) Maven
7 8 (6.15%) GitLab
8 4 (3.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (3.08%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (3.08%) Gradle
8 4 (3.08%) Subversion
8 4 (3.08%) Toad
9 3 (2.31%) Artifactory
9 3 (2.31%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (2.31%) Vagrant
10 2 (1.54%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.54%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.54%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.54%) SonarQube
General
1 38 (29.23%) Finance
2 37 (28.46%) Social Skills
3 33 (25.38%) Public Sector
4 19 (14.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (13.08%) Law
6 14 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (8.46%) Marketing
8 7 (5.38%) Banking
9 6 (4.62%) Front Office
9 6 (4.62%) Telecoms
10 5 (3.85%) Legal
10 5 (3.85%) Retail
11 4 (3.08%) Advertising
11 4 (3.08%) Local Government
11 4 (3.08%) Manufacturing
12 3 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.54%) Aviation
13 2 (1.54%) Billing
13 2 (1.54%) Cantonese Language
13 2 (1.54%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 33 (25.38%) Developer
2 28 (21.54%) Java Developer
3 21 (16.15%) Support Engineer
4 19 (14.62%) Senior
5 18 (13.85%) Linux Engineer
5 18 (13.85%) Software Engineer
6 17 (13.08%) Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (12.31%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 16 (12.31%) Lead
8 15 (11.54%) Linux Support
8 15 (11.54%) Linux Support Engineer
9 14 (10.77%) Applications Support
10 9 (6.92%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 8 (6.15%) Database Engineer
11 8 (6.15%) Lead Software Engineer
11 8 (6.15%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (4.62%) Administrator
12 6 (4.62%) Analyst
12 6 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (4.62%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (34.62%) REST
2 34 (26.15%) Spring
3 33 (25.38%) Spring Boot
4 32 (24.62%) HTML
5 30 (23.08%) Hibernate
6 27 (20.77%) ActiveMQ
6 27 (20.77%) Apache Camel
6 27 (20.77%) jQuery
6 27 (20.77%) Web Services
6 27 (20.77%) WireMock
7 26 (20.00%) XML
8 24 (18.46%) JSON
9 9 (6.92%) React
10 8 (6.15%) OAuth
10 8 (6.15%) OpenID
11 5 (3.85%) Middleware
11 5 (3.85%) Pandas
11 5 (3.85%) SOAP
12 4 (3.08%) AngularJS
12 4 (3.08%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 28 (21.54%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (15.38%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (9.23%) Data Structures
4 8 (6.15%) Algorithms
4 8 (6.15%) Private Cloud
4 8 (6.15%) Product Ownership
4 8 (6.15%) Public Cloud
5 7 (5.38%) Replication
6 5 (3.85%) Derivative
7 4 (3.08%) Equities
7 4 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (2.31%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 2 (1.54%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.54%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.54%) Tandem
10 1 (0.77%) Equity Derivative
10 1 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.77%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 65 (50.00%) Linux
2 34 (26.15%) Unix
3 17 (13.08%) Windows
4 15 (11.54%) Mac OS
5 6 (4.62%) Windows Server
6 5 (3.85%) Ubuntu
7 4 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (3.08%) Solaris
7 4 (3.08%) VMS
8 3 (2.31%) AIX
9 2 (1.54%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.77%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (50.77%) Agile
2 53 (40.77%) CI/CD
3 42 (32.31%) TDD
4 40 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (28.46%) Microservices
6 33 (25.38%) Workflow
7 30 (23.08%) DevOps
8 28 (21.54%) SDLC
9 27 (20.77%) BDD
10 25 (19.23%) Process Management
10 25 (19.23%) Software Engineering
11 20 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (14.62%) Full-Stack Development
12 19 (14.62%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (14.62%) Test Automation
13 18 (13.85%) Artificial Intelligence
14 17 (13.08%) Asset Management
14 17 (13.08%) Continuous Integration
14 17 (13.08%) Problem Management
15 16 (12.31%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 78 (60.00%) Python
2 55 (42.31%) Java
3 44 (33.85%) SQL
4 29 (22.31%) JavaScript
5 26 (20.00%) Bash
6 13 (10.00%) PL/SQL
6 13 (10.00%) PowerShell
7 11 (8.46%) Go
8 8 (6.15%) TypeScript
9 6 (4.62%) C++
9 6 (4.62%) Perl
10 5 (3.85%) Groovy
10 5 (3.85%) Korn
11 4 (3.08%) C-shell
11 4 (3.08%) SPARQL
11 4 (3.08%) VB
12 3 (2.31%) Ruby
13 2 (1.54%) C
13 2 (1.54%) C#
14 1 (0.77%) ProC
Qualifications
1 27 (20.77%) Security Cleared
2 17 (13.08%) SC Cleared
3 16 (12.31%) Degree
4 8 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.08%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.31%) PhD
7 2 (1.54%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.77%) OCA
8 1 (0.77%) OCP
8 1 (0.77%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.38%) QA
2 1 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.77%) Dublin Core
2 1 (0.77%) SLA
System Software
1 66 (50.77%) Docker
2 10 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.54%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.54%) vSphere
6 1 (0.77%) Corosync
6 1 (0.77%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.77%) KVM
6 1 (0.77%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 57 (43.85%) Kubernetes
2 31 (23.85%) Ansible
3 29 (22.31%) Kibana
4 20 (15.38%) Terraform
5 17 (13.08%) Grafana
5 17 (13.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (6.92%) Progress Chef
6 9 (6.92%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.85%) Nessus
8 4 (3.08%) Nagios
8 4 (3.08%) Proxmox
9 3 (2.31%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.54%) Argo
10 2 (1.54%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.54%) logstash
10 2 (1.54%) Puppet
10 2 (1.54%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.54%) SCCM
10 2 (1.54%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.77%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 38 (29.23%) Splunk
2 37 (28.46%) Dynatrace
3 30 (23.08%) Oracle
4 17 (13.08%) Microsoft
5 15 (11.54%) Apple
6 12 (9.23%) Google
7 8 (6.15%) SAP
8 6 (4.62%) Red Hat
8 6 (4.62%) VMware
9 4 (3.08%) Juniper
9 4 (3.08%) NEC
9 4 (3.08%) Talend
10 2 (1.54%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.54%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (1.54%) IBM
11 1 (0.77%) Dell
11 1 (0.77%) EMC
11 1 (0.77%) HP
11 1 (0.77%) Informatica
11 1 (0.77%) Software AG