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

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 543 473
Rank change year-on-year +17 -70 +53
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 86 172 209
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 0.31% 0.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.84% 0.92% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 47 78 155
10th Percentile £41,068 £43,863 £41,800
25th Percentile £45,438 £50,625 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £66,875 £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 10,267 18,752 18,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 20.86% 33.68% 41.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7,712 11,339 15,351
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,000 £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 £111,250 £110,000
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 8 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 8 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 +41 52 £57,500 -20.69% 21
South East +34 26 £53,750 -9.09% 39
Midlands +29 8 £57,750 +5.00% 24
East of England +18 7 £43,085 -46.14% 24
North of England +9 6 £55,000 +27.17% 27
South West +18 5 £95,000 +20.63% 16
North West +32 4 £60,000 +30.43% 13
West Midlands +29 4 - - 11
East Midlands +13 4 £57,750 +12.14% 10
Yorkshire -16 2 £27,500 -29.49% 12
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 (5.81%) Anypoint
1 5 (5.81%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (4.65%) Confluence
3 2 (2.33%) JBoss
3 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.33%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.16%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (3.49%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (5.81%) Shopify
2 4 (4.65%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 49 (56.98%) AWS
2 25 (29.07%) Amazon EC2
3 24 (27.91%) Serverless
4 22 (25.58%) Amazon ECS
5 21 (24.42%) Amazon EKS
5 21 (24.42%) Azure
6 7 (8.14%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (8.14%) OpenShift
7 5 (5.81%) Amazon S3
7 5 (5.81%) Boomi
7 5 (5.81%) iPaaS
7 5 (5.81%) Power Automate
7 5 (5.81%) Workato
8 4 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.65%) GCP
8 4 (4.65%) SaaS
9 3 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.33%) Datadog
10 2 (2.33%) GitHub
10 2 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.30%) Firewall
2 6 (6.98%) DNS
3 5 (5.81%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.65%) VPN
5 3 (3.49%) AMQP
5 3 (3.49%) DHCP
5 3 (3.49%) SSL
6 2 (2.33%) Network Security
6 2 (2.33%) SAN
6 2 (2.33%) SpaceWire
6 2 (2.33%) SSH
7 1 (1.16%) HTTP
7 1 (1.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (37.21%) Relational Database
2 24 (27.91%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (23.26%) RDBMS
4 10 (11.63%) MySQL
5 8 (9.30%) SQL Server
6 5 (5.81%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (4.65%) MS Access
7 4 (4.65%) Oracle Database
7 4 (4.65%) SAP Data Services
8 3 (3.49%) InfluxDB
8 3 (3.49%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.33%) SAP HANA
10 1 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (1.16%) Delta Lake
10 1 (1.16%) Kdb+
10 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (1.16%) Parquet
10 1 (1.16%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 31 (36.05%) Jenkins
2 23 (26.74%) JUnit
3 21 (24.42%) JMeter
3 21 (24.42%) Mockito
4 12 (13.95%) Git
5 8 (9.30%) JIRA
6 6 (6.98%) Maven
7 5 (5.81%) GitLab
8 4 (4.65%) Gradle
8 4 (4.65%) Toad
9 3 (3.49%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (2.33%) Artifactory
10 2 (2.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (2.33%) Subversion
11 1 (1.16%) Bitbucket
11 1 (1.16%) CMake
11 1 (1.16%) MSBuild
11 1 (1.16%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (27.91%) Public Sector
2 19 (22.09%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.79%) Finance
4 10 (11.63%) Law
5 6 (6.98%) Legal
6 4 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.65%) Local Government
7 3 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.49%) Marketing
8 2 (2.33%) Advertising
8 2 (2.33%) Aviation
8 2 (2.33%) Front Office
9 1 (1.16%) Banking
9 1 (1.16%) Electronics
9 1 (1.16%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (29.07%) Developer
2 24 (27.91%) Java Developer
3 21 (24.42%) Support Engineer
4 18 (20.93%) Full-Stack Developer
4 18 (20.93%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 15 (17.44%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 10 (11.63%) Linux Engineer
6 10 (11.63%) Linux Support
6 10 (11.63%) Linux Support Engineer
7 9 (10.47%) Senior
8 7 (8.14%) Administrator
8 7 (8.14%) Software Engineer
9 6 (6.98%) Applications Support
10 5 (5.81%) DBA
10 5 (5.81%) Integration Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Linux Specialist
10 5 (5.81%) Site Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Product Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Senior Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (39.53%) REST
2 27 (31.40%) JSON
2 27 (31.40%) XML
3 25 (29.07%) Spring
3 25 (29.07%) Spring Boot
4 24 (27.91%) Web Services
5 23 (26.74%) HTML
6 21 (24.42%) ActiveMQ
6 21 (24.42%) Apache Camel
6 21 (24.42%) Hibernate
6 21 (24.42%) jQuery
6 21 (24.42%) WireMock
7 8 (9.30%) SOAP
8 7 (8.14%) RESTful
9 4 (4.65%) YAML
10 3 (3.49%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (3.49%) LAMP
10 3 (3.49%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (2.33%) AngularJS
11 2 (2.33%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 20 (23.26%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (10.47%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (6.98%) Replication
4 5 (5.81%) Low-Code
5 4 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.65%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.65%) Video on Demand
5 4 (4.65%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (3.49%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.33%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.33%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.33%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.33%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.33%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.33%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.33%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.16%) Clustering
8 1 (1.16%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 50 (58.14%) Linux
2 24 (27.91%) Unix
3 13 (15.12%) Windows
4 9 (10.47%) CentOS
5 8 (9.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (9.30%) Windows Server
6 6 (6.98%) Ubuntu
7 4 (4.65%) Solaris
8 3 (3.49%) AIX
8 3 (3.49%) Mac OS
8 3 (3.49%) Rocky
9 2 (2.33%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (2.33%) VxWorks
9 2 (2.33%) Windows 10
9 2 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (1.16%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (53.49%) Agile
2 35 (40.70%) CI/CD
3 27 (31.40%) Workflow
4 25 (29.07%) Microservices
5 24 (27.91%) SDLC
5 24 (27.91%) TDD
6 21 (24.42%) BDD
7 20 (23.26%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (22.09%) Process Management
9 17 (19.77%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (17.44%) DevOps
12 12 (13.95%) Containerisation
12 12 (13.95%) Migration
13 11 (12.79%) Configuration Management
13 11 (12.79%) Problem Management
14 9 (10.47%) Performance Tuning
15 8 (9.30%) High Availability
15 8 (9.30%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (60.47%) Python
2 35 (40.70%) Java
3 27 (31.40%) JavaScript
4 20 (23.26%) SQL
5 19 (22.09%) Bash
6 10 (11.63%) PowerShell
7 7 (8.14%) C#
8 6 (6.98%) Go
9 5 (5.81%) Perl
10 4 (4.65%) VB
11 3 (3.49%) C
11 3 (3.49%) C++
11 3 (3.49%) PL/SQL
11 3 (3.49%) TypeScript
12 2 (2.33%) Korn
13 1 (1.16%) Bourne shell
13 1 (1.16%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 23 (26.74%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.63%) Degree
3 6 (6.98%) DV Cleared
3 6 (6.98%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.16%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.16%) OCA
5 1 (1.16%) OCP
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.81%) GDPR
2 4 (4.65%) QA
3 2 (2.33%) ECSS
3 2 (2.33%) SLA
4 1 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 42 (48.84%) Docker
2 7 (8.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.81%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.33%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.33%) KVM
4 2 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.33%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.33%) vSphere
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 40 (46.51%) Kubernetes
2 25 (29.07%) Ansible
3 22 (25.58%) Kibana
4 16 (18.60%) Terraform
5 9 (10.47%) Grafana
6 7 (8.14%) Prometheus
7 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (5.81%) Nagios
8 4 (4.65%) Progress Chef
9 3 (3.49%) Argo
9 3 (3.49%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (2.33%) FortiGate
10 2 (2.33%) Plesk
10 2 (2.33%) Puppet
10 2 (2.33%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (2.33%) SCCM
10 2 (2.33%) ZABBIX
11 1 (1.16%) Data Guard
11 1 (1.16%) Nessus
11 1 (1.16%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 24 (27.91%) Dynatrace
1 24 (27.91%) Splunk
2 19 (22.09%) Oracle
3 12 (13.95%) SAP
4 10 (11.63%) VMware
5 8 (9.30%) Red Hat
6 7 (8.14%) IBM
6 7 (8.14%) Microsoft
7 6 (6.98%) Dell
7 6 (6.98%) Software AG
8 5 (5.81%) Epicor
8 5 (5.81%) IFS
8 5 (5.81%) Infor
8 5 (5.81%) Informatica
8 5 (5.81%) Jitterbit
8 5 (5.81%) MuleSoft
8 5 (5.81%) SnapLogic
8 5 (5.81%) Talend
8 5 (5.81%) TIBCO
8 5 (5.81%) Workday