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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 541 520 491
Rank change year-on-year -21 -29 +55
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 65 150 232
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.31% 0.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.62% 0.93% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 37 59 165
10th Percentile £42,780 £43,750 £38,950
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,094 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £66,250 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £107,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +3.45%

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 10,442 16,119 21,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.28% 33.80% 37.74%
Number of salaries quoted 7,835 9,459 17,832
10th Percentile £32,838 £38,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £48,750 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +7.44% -6.92%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -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 21 January 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 21 January 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
London +25 35 £55,000 -22.81% 7
South East +12 21 £57,500 -8.00% 13
North of England -6 6 £55,000 +19.57% 1
East of England +7 5 £43,085 - 9
South West +4 5 £95,000 +18.75% 1
North West +11 4 £60,000 +30.43%
Midlands +9 3 £58,000 +0.87% 5
West Midlands +13 2 - - 5
Yorkshire -24 2 £27,500 -26.67% 1
East Midlands -10 1 £58,000 +12.62%
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 (7.69%) Anypoint
2 4 (6.15%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (4.62%) Confluence
4 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (3.08%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.54%) JBoss
5 1 (1.54%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Shopify
2 4 (6.15%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 32 (49.23%) AWS
2 18 (27.69%) Serverless
3 17 (26.15%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
4 13 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 13 (20.00%) Azure
5 7 (10.77%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (7.69%) Boomi
6 5 (7.69%) GCP
6 5 (7.69%) iPaaS
6 5 (7.69%) Power Automate
6 5 (7.69%) Workato
7 4 (6.15%) Amazon S3
7 4 (6.15%) OpenShift
7 4 (6.15%) SaaS
8 3 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.08%) Cloud Functions
9 2 (3.08%) Firebase
9 2 (3.08%) Logz.io
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.77%) Firewall
2 5 (7.69%) DNS
2 5 (7.69%) TCP/IP
3 4 (6.15%) SpaceWire
4 3 (4.62%) AMQP
4 3 (4.62%) DHCP
4 3 (4.62%) SSL
5 2 (3.08%) VPN
6 1 (1.54%) HTTP
6 1 (1.54%) LAN
6 1 (1.54%) SAN
6 1 (1.54%) SSH
6 1 (1.54%) VLAN
6 1 (1.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (32.31%) Relational Database
2 15 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (16.92%) RDBMS
4 9 (13.85%) MySQL
5 8 (12.31%) SQL Server
6 5 (7.69%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (6.15%) MS Access
7 4 (6.15%) Oracle Database
7 4 (6.15%) SAP Data Services
8 3 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (4.62%) InfluxDB
9 2 (3.08%) BigQuery
9 2 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (3.08%) MongoDB
9 2 (3.08%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (1.54%) Power BI
10 1 (1.54%) SAP HANA
10 1 (1.54%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 19 (29.23%) Jenkins
2 14 (21.54%) JUnit
3 13 (20.00%) JMeter
3 13 (20.00%) Mockito
4 12 (18.46%) Git
5 5 (7.69%) JIRA
6 4 (6.15%) Toad
7 3 (4.62%) Gradle
7 3 (4.62%) Maven
8 2 (3.08%) Artifactory
8 2 (3.08%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (3.08%) Storybook
9 1 (1.54%) GitLab
9 1 (1.54%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (27.69%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.69%) Finance
3 5 (7.69%) Law
3 5 (7.69%) Legal
4 4 (6.15%) Local Government
5 2 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.08%) Front Office
6 1 (1.54%) Advertising
6 1 (1.54%) Electronics
6 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (29.23%) Developer
2 18 (27.69%) Support Engineer
3 15 (23.08%) Java Developer
4 13 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (16.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 11 (16.92%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 8 (12.31%) Linux Engineer
7 7 (10.77%) Linux Support
7 7 (10.77%) Linux Support Engineer
8 6 (9.23%) Applications Support
8 6 (9.23%) Senior
9 5 (7.69%) Integration Engineer
9 5 (7.69%) Linux Specialist
10 4 (6.15%) Applications Engineer
10 4 (6.15%) Development Engineer
10 4 (6.15%) Implementation Engineer
10 4 (6.15%) Implementation Specialist
10 4 (6.15%) Product Specialist
10 4 (6.15%) Senior Applications Engineer
10 4 (6.15%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (33.85%) REST
2 18 (27.69%) JSON
2 18 (27.69%) XML
3 17 (26.15%) HTML
4 16 (24.62%) Web Services
5 14 (21.54%) Spring
5 14 (21.54%) Spring Boot
6 13 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
6 13 (20.00%) Apache Camel
6 13 (20.00%) Hibernate
6 13 (20.00%) jQuery
6 13 (20.00%) WireMock
7 9 (13.85%) RESTful
8 7 (10.77%) SOAP
9 4 (6.15%) CSS
9 4 (6.15%) Qt
10 3 (4.62%) LAMP
10 3 (4.62%) Node.js
10 3 (4.62%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (4.62%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.92%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (12.31%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (7.69%) Low-Code
4 4 (6.15%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.15%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (6.15%) Video on Demand
4 4 (6.15%) Video\Live Streaming
5 3 (4.62%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.62%) Replication
6 2 (3.08%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.08%) Driving Licence
6 2 (3.08%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.08%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.08%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.54%) Clustering
7 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (63.08%) Linux
2 21 (32.31%) Unix
3 10 (15.38%) CentOS
3 10 (15.38%) Windows
4 9 (13.85%) Windows Server
5 7 (10.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (10.77%) Ubuntu
6 4 (6.15%) VxWorks
7 3 (4.62%) Rocky
7 3 (4.62%) Solaris
8 2 (3.08%) Windows 10
8 2 (3.08%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.54%) AIX
9 1 (1.54%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (49.23%) Agile
2 27 (41.54%) CI/CD
3 21 (32.31%) SDLC
4 17 (26.15%) Workflow
5 16 (24.62%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (24.62%) Microservices
6 15 (23.08%) TDD
7 14 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (20.00%) BDD
8 13 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (18.46%) DevOps
9 12 (18.46%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (16.92%) Containerisation
10 11 (16.92%) Process Management
11 9 (13.85%) Migration
11 9 (13.85%) Problem Management
12 8 (12.31%) Configuration Management
13 7 (10.77%) Change Management
13 7 (10.77%) Incident Management
13 7 (10.77%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 39 (60.00%) Python
2 23 (35.38%) Java
3 21 (32.31%) JavaScript
4 17 (26.15%) SQL
5 14 (21.54%) Bash
6 7 (10.77%) C#
6 7 (10.77%) PowerShell
7 5 (7.69%) C++
7 5 (7.69%) Go
8 4 (6.15%) C
8 4 (6.15%) Perl
8 4 (6.15%) VB
9 3 (4.62%) TypeScript
10 2 (3.08%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.54%) Korn
11 1 (1.54%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (29.23%) Security Cleared
2 11 (16.92%) Degree
3 7 (10.77%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (6.15%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.54%) OCA
5 1 (1.54%) OCP
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) GDPR
2 4 (6.15%) ECSS
2 4 (6.15%) QA
3 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.08%) WCAG
4 1 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (43.08%) Docker
2 2 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.08%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.08%) KVM
2 2 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 28 (43.08%) Kubernetes
2 14 (21.54%) Ansible
3 13 (20.00%) Kibana
4 12 (18.46%) Terraform
5 6 (9.23%) Grafana
5 6 (9.23%) Prometheus
6 5 (7.69%) Nagios
7 4 (6.15%) Progress Chef
8 3 (4.62%) Argo
8 3 (4.62%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (4.62%) Puppet
9 2 (3.08%) Plesk
10 1 (1.54%) Data Guard
10 1 (1.54%) Nessus
10 1 (1.54%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (1.54%) Podman
Vendors
1 16 (24.62%) Oracle
2 15 (23.08%) Dynatrace
2 15 (23.08%) Splunk
3 10 (15.38%) SAP
4 7 (10.77%) Red Hat
5 6 (9.23%) Dell
5 6 (9.23%) Software AG
6 5 (7.69%) Epicor
6 5 (7.69%) IBM
6 5 (7.69%) IFS
6 5 (7.69%) Infor
6 5 (7.69%) Informatica
6 5 (7.69%) Jitterbit
6 5 (7.69%) MuleSoft
6 5 (7.69%) SnapLogic
6 5 (7.69%) Talend
6 5 (7.69%) TIBCO
6 5 (7.69%) VMware
6 5 (7.69%) Workday
7 4 (6.15%) NEC