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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 540 491
Rank change year-on-year +34 -49 +41
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 101 181 220
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.29% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.97% 0.91% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 53 82 166
10th Percentile £38,500 £43,766 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,375 £50,625 £51,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% - +14.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -14.81% -3.57% +16.67%

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 10,444 19,959 19,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.61% 32.45% 41.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7,808 12,041 15,742
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 23 November 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 23 November 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 +36 65 £60,000 -20.00% 9
South East +41 26 £53,750 -9.09% 10
East of England +28 10 £39,000 -51.25% 3
Midlands +53 8 £57,750 +5.00% 10
South West +22 5 £95,000 +22.58% 3
North of England +15 5 £50,000 +15.61% 1
West Midlands +51 4 - - 6
East Midlands +28 4 £57,750 +12.14% 4
North West +38 3 £60,000 +30.43% 1
Yorkshire +3 2 £27,500 -29.49%
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 (4.95%) Anypoint
1 5 (4.95%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (3.96%) Confluence
3 3 (2.97%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.98%) JBoss
4 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.98%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.98%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (5.94%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.99%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (4.95%) Shopify
2 4 (3.96%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 53 (52.48%) AWS
2 28 (27.72%) Azure
3 25 (24.75%) Amazon EC2
4 24 (23.76%) Serverless
5 23 (22.77%) Amazon ECS
6 21 (20.79%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (7.92%) OpenShift
8 7 (6.93%) GCP
8 7 (6.93%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (5.94%) SaaS
10 5 (4.95%) Amazon S3
10 5 (4.95%) Boomi
10 5 (4.95%) iPaaS
10 5 (4.95%) Power Automate
10 5 (4.95%) Workato
11 4 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.96%) GitHub
11 4 (3.96%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (1.98%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.92%) Firewall
2 6 (5.94%) DNS
3 5 (4.95%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.96%) VPN
5 3 (2.97%) AMQP
5 3 (2.97%) DHCP
5 3 (2.97%) SSL
6 2 (1.98%) Network Security
6 2 (1.98%) SAN
6 2 (1.98%) SpaceWire
6 2 (1.98%) SSH
7 1 (0.99%) HTTP
7 1 (0.99%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (35.64%) Relational Database
2 26 (25.74%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (19.80%) RDBMS
4 14 (13.86%) MySQL
5 8 (7.92%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.95%) BusinessObjects
6 5 (4.95%) Oracle Database
7 4 (3.96%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.96%) MS Access
7 4 (3.96%) SAP Data Services
8 3 (2.97%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.97%) InfluxDB
8 3 (2.97%) KDB
8 3 (2.97%) Kdb+
8 3 (2.97%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.97%) Redis
9 2 (1.98%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.99%) DB2
10 1 (0.99%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 36 (35.64%) Jenkins
2 24 (23.76%) JUnit
3 22 (21.78%) Mockito
4 21 (20.79%) JMeter
5 16 (15.84%) Git
6 10 (9.90%) JIRA
7 7 (6.93%) GitLab
7 7 (6.93%) Maven
8 4 (3.96%) Gradle
8 4 (3.96%) Toad
9 3 (2.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (2.97%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (2.97%) Subversion
10 2 (1.98%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.98%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.99%) CMake
11 1 (0.99%) Postman
11 1 (0.99%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.99%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.99%) XCTest
General
1 25 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 24 (23.76%) Public Sector
3 21 (20.79%) Finance
4 18 (17.82%) Law
5 12 (11.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (7.92%) Legal
7 7 (6.93%) Marketing
8 6 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (3.96%) Banking
9 4 (3.96%) Local Government
10 3 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.98%) Advertising
11 2 (1.98%) Aviation
11 2 (1.98%) Front Office
12 1 (0.99%) Electronics
12 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (25.74%) Developer
2 24 (23.76%) Java Developer
2 24 (23.76%) Support Engineer
3 19 (18.81%) Full-Stack Developer
4 18 (17.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 15 (14.85%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 13 (12.87%) Linux Engineer
6 13 (12.87%) Linux Support
6 13 (12.87%) Linux Support Engineer
6 13 (12.87%) Senior
6 13 (12.87%) Software Engineer
7 9 (8.91%) Lead
8 8 (7.92%) Applications Support
9 7 (6.93%) Administrator
10 6 (5.94%) Database Engineer
10 6 (5.94%) Lead Software Engineer
11 5 (4.95%) DBA
11 5 (4.95%) Integration Engineer
11 5 (4.95%) Linux Specialist
11 5 (4.95%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (38.61%) REST
2 27 (26.73%) JSON
2 27 (26.73%) XML
3 26 (25.74%) Spring
3 26 (25.74%) Spring Boot
4 25 (24.75%) Web Services
5 24 (23.76%) HTML
6 22 (21.78%) Hibernate
7 21 (20.79%) ActiveMQ
7 21 (20.79%) Apache Camel
7 21 (20.79%) jQuery
7 21 (20.79%) WireMock
8 9 (8.91%) SOAP
9 7 (6.93%) RESTful
10 6 (5.94%) OAuth
10 6 (5.94%) OpenID
10 6 (5.94%) React
11 4 (3.96%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (3.96%) Middleware
11 4 (3.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.79%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (11.88%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (5.94%) Algorithms
3 6 (5.94%) Data Structures
3 6 (5.94%) Private Cloud
3 6 (5.94%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.94%) Public Cloud
3 6 (5.94%) Replication
4 5 (4.95%) Low-Code
5 4 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.96%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.96%) Video on Demand
5 4 (3.96%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (2.97%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.97%) Derivative
6 3 (2.97%) Equities
6 3 (2.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.98%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.98%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 54 (53.47%) Linux
2 31 (30.69%) Unix
3 13 (12.87%) Windows
4 9 (8.91%) CentOS
5 8 (7.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (7.92%) Windows Server
6 6 (5.94%) Mac OS
6 6 (5.94%) Ubuntu
7 4 (3.96%) Solaris
8 3 (2.97%) AIX
8 3 (2.97%) Rocky
9 2 (1.98%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (1.98%) VxWorks
9 2 (1.98%) Windows 10
9 2 (1.98%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.99%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (51.49%) Agile
2 39 (38.61%) CI/CD
3 31 (30.69%) SDLC
3 31 (30.69%) TDD
4 27 (26.73%) Microservices
4 27 (26.73%) Workflow
5 23 (22.77%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (20.79%) BDD
6 21 (20.79%) Full-Stack Development
7 19 (18.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (18.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (18.81%) Process Management
8 18 (17.82%) DevOps
9 16 (15.84%) Software Engineering
9 16 (15.84%) Test Automation
10 14 (13.86%) Problem Management
11 13 (12.87%) Configuration Management
12 12 (11.88%) Containerisation
12 12 (11.88%) Migration
13 11 (10.89%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 60 (59.41%) Python
2 40 (39.60%) Java
3 28 (27.72%) JavaScript
4 27 (26.73%) SQL
5 22 (21.78%) Bash
6 12 (11.88%) PowerShell
7 8 (7.92%) Go
8 7 (6.93%) C#
8 7 (6.93%) TypeScript
9 5 (4.95%) Perl
9 5 (4.95%) PL/SQL
10 4 (3.96%) VB
11 3 (2.97%) C
11 3 (2.97%) C++
12 2 (1.98%) Korn
13 1 (0.99%) Bourne shell
13 1 (0.99%) C-shell
13 1 (0.99%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 23 (22.77%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.90%) Degree
3 6 (5.94%) DV Cleared
3 6 (5.94%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.99%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.99%) OCA
5 1 (0.99%) OCP
5 1 (0.99%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.95%) GDPR
1 5 (4.95%) QA
2 2 (1.98%) ECSS
2 2 (1.98%) SLA
3 1 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 51 (50.50%) Docker
2 7 (6.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.95%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.98%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.98%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.98%) KVM
4 2 (1.98%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.98%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.98%) vSphere
5 1 (0.99%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 44 (43.56%) Kubernetes
2 29 (28.71%) Ansible
3 23 (22.77%) Kibana
4 16 (15.84%) Terraform
5 13 (12.87%) Grafana
6 9 (8.91%) Prometheus
7 8 (7.92%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (5.94%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.96%) Nagios
10 3 (2.97%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (1.98%) Argo
11 2 (1.98%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.98%) logstash
11 2 (1.98%) Plesk
11 2 (1.98%) Puppet
11 2 (1.98%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (1.98%) SCCM
11 2 (1.98%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.99%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.99%) Nessus
Vendors
1 28 (27.72%) Dynatrace
1 28 (27.72%) Splunk
2 22 (21.78%) Oracle
3 12 (11.88%) SAP
4 10 (9.90%) Microsoft
4 10 (9.90%) VMware
5 9 (8.91%) Google
6 8 (7.92%) Red Hat
7 7 (6.93%) IBM
8 6 (5.94%) Apple
8 6 (5.94%) Dell
8 6 (5.94%) Software AG
9 5 (4.95%) Epicor
9 5 (4.95%) IFS
9 5 (4.95%) Infor
9 5 (4.95%) Informatica
9 5 (4.95%) Jitterbit
9 5 (4.95%) MuleSoft
9 5 (4.95%) SnapLogic
9 5 (4.95%) TIBCO