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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 550 475
Rank change year-on-year +32 -75 +51
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 91 173 206
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.30% 0.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.88% 0.91% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 48 78 153
10th Percentile £38,500 £43,863 £42,300
25th Percentile £43,375 £50,625 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £66,563 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,556 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -14.81% - +12.50%

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 10,392 19,051 18,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 21.77% 33.53% 40.97%
Number of salaries quoted 7,784 11,474 15,115
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,972 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £112,500 £108,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 4 December 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 4 December 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 +45 56 £57,500 -20.69% 20
South East +34 26 £53,750 -9.09% 26
Midlands +43 8 £57,750 +5.00% 14
East of England +19 8 £41,042 -48.70% 18
North of England +21 6 £55,000 +27.17% 16
South West +13 5 £95,000 +20.63% 10
West Midlands +41 4 - - 8
North West +36 4 £60,000 +30.43% 8
East Midlands +16 4 £57,750 +12.14% 5
Yorkshire -5 2 £27,500 -29.49% 7
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 (5.49%) Anypoint
1 5 (5.49%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (4.40%) Confluence
3 2 (2.20%) JBoss
3 2 (2.20%) Jupyter
3 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.20%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Shopify
2 4 (4.40%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 51 (56.04%) AWS
2 25 (27.47%) Amazon EC2
3 24 (26.37%) Serverless
4 23 (25.27%) Azure
5 22 (24.18%) Amazon ECS
6 21 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (7.69%) OpenShift
8 5 (5.49%) Amazon S3
8 5 (5.49%) Boomi
8 5 (5.49%) GCP
8 5 (5.49%) iPaaS
8 5 (5.49%) Power Automate
8 5 (5.49%) Workato
9 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (4.40%) SaaS
10 3 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.30%) GitHub
10 3 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.20%) Logz.io
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.79%) Firewall
2 6 (6.59%) DNS
3 5 (5.49%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.40%) VPN
5 3 (3.30%) AMQP
5 3 (3.30%) DHCP
5 3 (3.30%) SSL
6 2 (2.20%) Network Security
6 2 (2.20%) SAN
6 2 (2.20%) SpaceWire
6 2 (2.20%) SSH
7 1 (1.10%) HTTP
7 1 (1.10%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (37.36%) Relational Database
2 24 (26.37%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (21.98%) RDBMS
4 12 (13.19%) MySQL
5 8 (8.79%) SQL Server
6 5 (5.49%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (4.40%) MS Access
7 4 (4.40%) Oracle Database
7 4 (4.40%) SAP Data Services
8 3 (3.30%) InfluxDB
8 3 (3.30%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.20%) KDB
9 2 (2.20%) Kdb+
9 2 (2.20%) SAP HANA
10 1 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (1.10%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (1.10%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (34.07%) Jenkins
2 23 (25.27%) JUnit
3 21 (23.08%) JMeter
3 21 (23.08%) Mockito
4 13 (14.29%) Git
5 8 (8.79%) JIRA
6 6 (6.59%) Maven
7 5 (5.49%) GitLab
8 4 (4.40%) Gradle
8 4 (4.40%) Toad
9 3 (3.30%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (2.20%) Artifactory
10 2 (2.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (2.20%) Subversion
11 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
11 1 (1.10%) CMake
11 1 (1.10%) MSBuild
11 1 (1.10%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (26.37%) Public Sector
2 20 (21.98%) Social Skills
3 15 (16.48%) Finance
4 14 (15.38%) Law
5 8 (8.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (7.69%) Legal
7 5 (5.49%) Marketing
8 4 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (4.40%) Local Government
9 3 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.20%) Advertising
10 2 (2.20%) Aviation
10 2 (2.20%) Banking
10 2 (2.20%) Front Office
11 1 (1.10%) Electronics
11 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (27.47%) Developer
2 24 (26.37%) Java Developer
3 22 (24.18%) Support Engineer
4 18 (19.78%) Full-Stack Developer
4 18 (19.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 15 (16.48%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 11 (12.09%) Linux Engineer
6 11 (12.09%) Linux Support
6 11 (12.09%) Linux Support Engineer
6 11 (12.09%) Senior
7 10 (10.99%) Software Engineer
8 7 (7.69%) Administrator
9 6 (6.59%) Applications Support
9 6 (6.59%) Lead
10 5 (5.49%) DBA
10 5 (5.49%) Integration Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) Linux Specialist
10 5 (5.49%) Site Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (39.56%) REST
2 27 (29.67%) JSON
2 27 (29.67%) XML
3 25 (27.47%) Spring
3 25 (27.47%) Spring Boot
4 24 (26.37%) Web Services
5 23 (25.27%) HTML
6 21 (23.08%) ActiveMQ
6 21 (23.08%) Apache Camel
6 21 (23.08%) Hibernate
6 21 (23.08%) jQuery
6 21 (23.08%) WireMock
7 8 (8.79%) SOAP
8 7 (7.69%) RESTful
9 4 (4.40%) OAuth
9 4 (4.40%) OpenID
9 4 (4.40%) React
9 4 (4.40%) YAML
10 3 (3.30%) Middleware
10 3 (3.30%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.98%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (10.99%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (6.59%) Replication
4 5 (5.49%) Low-Code
5 4 (4.40%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.40%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.40%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.40%) Private Cloud
5 4 (4.40%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.40%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.40%) Video on Demand
5 4 (4.40%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (3.30%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.20%) Derivative
7 2 (2.20%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.20%) Equities
7 2 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 51 (56.04%) Linux
2 26 (28.57%) Unix
3 13 (14.29%) Windows
4 9 (9.89%) CentOS
5 8 (8.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (8.79%) Windows Server
6 6 (6.59%) Ubuntu
7 4 (4.40%) Mac OS
7 4 (4.40%) Solaris
8 3 (3.30%) AIX
8 3 (3.30%) Rocky
9 2 (2.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (2.20%) VxWorks
9 2 (2.20%) Windows 10
9 2 (2.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (1.10%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (53.85%) Agile
2 36 (39.56%) CI/CD
3 27 (29.67%) SDLC
3 27 (29.67%) TDD
3 27 (29.67%) Workflow
4 25 (27.47%) Microservices
5 21 (23.08%) BDD
6 20 (21.98%) Full-Stack Development
7 19 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (20.88%) Process Management
8 18 (19.78%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (18.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (17.58%) DevOps
11 12 (13.19%) Configuration Management
11 12 (13.19%) Containerisation
11 12 (13.19%) Migration
11 12 (13.19%) Problem Management
11 12 (13.19%) Software Engineering
12 11 (12.09%) Test Automation
13 9 (9.89%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 56 (61.54%) Python
2 36 (39.56%) Java
3 27 (29.67%) JavaScript
4 22 (24.18%) SQL
5 20 (21.98%) Bash
6 10 (10.99%) PowerShell
7 7 (7.69%) C#
7 7 (7.69%) Go
8 5 (5.49%) Perl
8 5 (5.49%) TypeScript
9 4 (4.40%) VB
10 3 (3.30%) C
10 3 (3.30%) C++
10 3 (3.30%) PL/SQL
11 2 (2.20%) Korn
12 1 (1.10%) Bourne shell
12 1 (1.10%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 23 (25.27%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.99%) Degree
3 6 (6.59%) DV Cleared
3 6 (6.59%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.10%) OCA
5 1 (1.10%) OCP
5 1 (1.10%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.49%) GDPR
2 4 (4.40%) QA
3 2 (2.20%) ECSS
3 2 (2.20%) SLA
4 1 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 45 (49.45%) Docker
2 7 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.49%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.20%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.20%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.20%) KVM
4 2 (2.20%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.20%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.20%) vSphere
5 1 (1.10%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 41 (45.05%) Kubernetes
2 27 (29.67%) Ansible
3 22 (24.18%) Kibana
4 16 (17.58%) Terraform
5 9 (9.89%) Grafana
6 7 (7.69%) Prometheus
7 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (5.49%) Nagios
9 4 (4.40%) Progress Chef
10 3 (3.30%) Argo
10 3 (3.30%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (2.20%) FortiGate
11 2 (2.20%) Plesk
11 2 (2.20%) Puppet
11 2 (2.20%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (2.20%) SCCM
11 2 (2.20%) ZABBIX
12 1 (1.10%) Data Guard
12 1 (1.10%) logstash
12 1 (1.10%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 24 (26.37%) Dynatrace
1 24 (26.37%) Splunk
2 19 (20.88%) Oracle
3 12 (13.19%) SAP
4 10 (10.99%) VMware
5 8 (8.79%) Microsoft
5 8 (8.79%) Red Hat
6 7 (7.69%) IBM
7 6 (6.59%) Dell
7 6 (6.59%) Google
7 6 (6.59%) Software AG
8 5 (5.49%) Epicor
8 5 (5.49%) IFS
8 5 (5.49%) Infor
8 5 (5.49%) Informatica
8 5 (5.49%) Jitterbit
8 5 (5.49%) MuleSoft
8 5 (5.49%) SnapLogic
8 5 (5.49%) Talend
8 5 (5.49%) Workday