Shell Script Jobs in England

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Shell Script skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Shell Script over the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 566 628 504
Rank change year-on-year +62 -124 -127
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 134 248 431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.26% 0.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.90% 0.84% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 71 166 228
10th Percentile - £41,500 £41,047
25th Percentile £38,500 £50,313 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.05% +12.93%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £88,088
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,250
% change year-on-year -7.69% -0.38% +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 14,849 29,636 34,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.16% 30.56% 42.03%
Number of salaries quoted 9,439 23,337 23,298
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Shell Script in England.

Salary trend for Shell Script in England

Shell Script
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in England over the 6 months to 19 June 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 19 June 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 +99 86 £72,500 -9.38% 266
South East +74 28 £41,000 -1.20% 81
Midlands +96 19 £58,750 +17.50% 76
West Midlands +76 15 £60,000 +34.83% 48
North of England +56 13 £44,500 -8.26% 98
North West +30 12 £44,500 -56.59% 61
East of England +22 9 £39,000 -35.00% 57
East Midlands +45 4 £57,500 +9.52% 28
South West +63 2 £60,000 -14.29% 46
Yorkshire +50 1 - - 34
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 4 (2.99%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.24%) Confluence
3 2 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.49%) SAS
4 1 (0.75%) nginx
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.75%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.75%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.75%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (11.19%) Chatbot
2 7 (5.22%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (1.49%) EngageOne
4 1 (0.75%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (4.48%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.99%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 59 (44.03%) AWS
2 27 (20.15%) Amazon ECS
3 26 (19.40%) Azure
4 25 (18.66%) Serverless
5 22 (16.42%) Amazon EC2
6 20 (14.93%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (7.46%) Amazon S3
8 8 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (5.97%) GitHub
8 8 (5.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (5.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 7 (5.22%) AWS KMS
9 7 (5.22%) GCP
9 7 (5.22%) SaaS
10 6 (4.48%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.73%) BlazeMeter
11 5 (3.73%) Datadog
12 4 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (2.99%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.72%) Firewall
1 9 (6.72%) SSL
2 6 (4.48%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.24%) Network Security
4 2 (1.49%) SAN
5 1 (0.75%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (0.75%) DHCP
5 1 (0.75%) DNS
5 1 (0.75%) HTTP
5 1 (0.75%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.75%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.75%) RTP
5 1 (0.75%) VLAN
5 1 (0.75%) VoIP
5 1 (0.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (20.15%) Relational Database
2 26 (19.40%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (14.18%) RDBMS
4 12 (8.96%) MySQL
5 10 (7.46%) Oracle Database
6 8 (5.97%) SQL Server
7 6 (4.48%) Redis
8 5 (3.73%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (3.73%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.73%) Oracle Exadata
9 4 (2.99%) KDB
9 4 (2.99%) Kdb+
10 3 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.49%) Big Data
11 2 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.49%) DB2
11 2 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (1.49%) Pentaho
11 2 (1.49%) SAP HANA
11 2 (1.49%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 48 (35.82%) Jenkins
2 23 (17.16%) Git
3 21 (15.67%) JUnit
4 20 (14.93%) Mockito
5 17 (12.69%) JMeter
6 11 (8.21%) JIRA
7 8 (5.97%) Maven
8 7 (5.22%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (4.48%) GitLab
10 4 (2.99%) Artifactory
10 4 (2.99%) Bitbucket
10 4 (2.99%) SonarQube
11 3 (2.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (2.24%) Postman
11 3 (2.24%) REST Assured
11 3 (2.24%) SoapUI
11 3 (2.24%) Subversion
11 3 (2.24%) Vagrant
11 3 (2.24%) Xcode
11 3 (2.24%) XCTest
General
1 40 (29.85%) Social Skills
2 37 (27.61%) Finance
3 27 (20.15%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (20.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (15.67%) Public Sector
5 17 (12.69%) Law
6 11 (8.21%) Marketing
7 9 (6.72%) Banking
7 9 (6.72%) Retail
8 8 (5.97%) Manufacturing
9 7 (5.22%) Legal
9 7 (5.22%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.99%) Front Office
11 3 (2.24%) Billing
11 3 (2.24%) Cantonese Language
12 2 (1.49%) Advertising
12 2 (1.49%) Mandarin Language
12 2 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.75%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 24 (17.91%) Developer
1 24 (17.91%) Senior
2 20 (14.93%) Linux Engineer
3 19 (14.18%) Linux Support
4 18 (13.43%) Lead
5 17 (12.69%) Support Engineer
6 16 (11.94%) Java Developer
7 15 (11.19%) Linux Support Engineer
7 15 (11.19%) Software Engineer
8 12 (8.96%) Applications Support
9 9 (6.72%) Analyst
9 9 (6.72%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (6.72%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (6.72%) Support Analyst
10 8 (5.97%) Database Engineer
10 8 (5.97%) Lead Software Engineer
11 7 (5.22%) Applications Support Analyst
11 7 (5.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 7 (5.22%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (4.48%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (25.37%) REST
2 23 (17.16%) HTML
3 22 (16.42%) Hibernate
3 22 (16.42%) Spring
4 20 (14.93%) Spring Boot
4 20 (14.93%) Web Services
5 17 (12.69%) ActiveMQ
5 17 (12.69%) Apache Camel
5 17 (12.69%) jQuery
5 17 (12.69%) WireMock
6 16 (11.94%) XML
7 13 (9.70%) JSON
8 10 (7.46%) React
9 9 (6.72%) Middleware
10 8 (5.97%) OAuth
10 8 (5.97%) OpenID
11 6 (4.48%) Pandas
12 5 (3.73%) Oracle Fusion
12 5 (3.73%) Oracle GoldenGate
13 4 (2.99%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.67%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (14.93%) Linux Command Line
3 13 (9.70%) Data Structures
4 9 (6.72%) Algorithms
5 8 (5.97%) Private Cloud
5 8 (5.97%) Product Ownership
5 8 (5.97%) Public Cloud
6 7 (5.22%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 6 (4.48%) Clustering
7 6 (4.48%) Derivative
8 5 (3.73%) Equities
8 5 (3.73%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.49%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.49%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (1.49%) Replication
10 2 (1.49%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.49%) Tandem
11 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 80 (59.70%) Linux
2 40 (29.85%) Unix
3 19 (14.18%) Windows
4 15 (11.19%) Mac OS
5 8 (5.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (5.97%) Ubuntu
6 5 (3.73%) VMS
7 4 (2.99%) Windows Server
8 2 (1.49%) AIX
8 2 (1.49%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.75%) CentOS
9 1 (0.75%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (41.04%) Agile
2 54 (40.30%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (32.09%) CI/CD
4 38 (28.36%) DevOps
5 34 (25.37%) TDD
6 27 (20.15%) Microservices
7 25 (18.66%) Software Engineering
8 22 (16.42%) SDLC
9 19 (14.18%) Artificial Intelligence
9 19 (14.18%) Test Automation
10 18 (13.43%) Computer Science
10 18 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (13.43%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (13.43%) Problem Management
10 18 (13.43%) Workflow
11 17 (12.69%) BDD
11 17 (12.69%) Process Management
12 16 (11.94%) Asset Management
13 15 (11.19%) Collaborative Working
13 15 (11.19%) Conversational UI
Programming Languages
1 77 (57.46%) Python
2 52 (38.81%) SQL
3 44 (32.84%) Java
4 22 (16.42%) Bash
4 22 (16.42%) JavaScript
5 21 (15.67%) PL/SQL
6 12 (8.96%) PowerShell
7 9 (6.72%) Korn
8 8 (5.97%) Perl
8 8 (5.97%) TypeScript
9 7 (5.22%) C-shell
9 7 (5.22%) Go
9 7 (5.22%) Groovy
10 6 (4.48%) C++
11 5 (3.73%) SPARQL
12 3 (2.24%) Gremlin
12 3 (2.24%) Ruby
13 1 (0.75%) ActionScript 2.0
13 1 (0.75%) C
13 1 (0.75%) XPath
Qualifications
1 22 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.69%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.45%) Degree
4 12 (8.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.22%) AWS Certification
5 7 (5.22%) PhD
6 4 (2.99%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.99%) OCA
6 4 (2.99%) OCP
6 4 (2.99%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.49%) CASP
7 2 (1.49%) CISM
7 2 (1.49%) CISSP
7 2 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.97%) QA
2 7 (5.22%) SLA
3 5 (3.73%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.49%) Dublin Core
4 2 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 56 (41.79%) Docker
2 12 (8.96%) Active Directory
2 12 (8.96%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (5.22%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (5.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (4.48%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.75%) Corosync
6 1 (0.75%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.75%) Firmware
6 1 (0.75%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.75%) KVM
6 1 (0.75%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (33.58%) Kubernetes
2 34 (25.37%) Ansible
3 19 (14.18%) Kibana
3 19 (14.18%) Terraform
4 16 (11.94%) Grafana
4 16 (11.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (5.97%) Nessus
5 8 (5.97%) Prometheus
6 7 (5.22%) Proxmox
7 5 (3.73%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (3.73%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.24%) Nagios
8 3 (2.24%) Packer
9 2 (1.49%) logstash
9 2 (1.49%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (1.49%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.75%) Icinga
10 1 (0.75%) Pacemaker
10 1 (0.75%) Puppet
10 1 (0.75%) SCCM
Vendors
1 37 (27.61%) Oracle
2 32 (23.88%) Splunk
3 30 (22.39%) Dynatrace
4 19 (14.18%) Microsoft
5 15 (11.19%) Apple
6 13 (9.70%) Google
7 8 (5.97%) Red Hat
7 8 (5.97%) VMware
8 7 (5.22%) Juniper
9 6 (4.48%) Veritas
10 5 (3.73%) AppDynamics
10 5 (3.73%) Talend
11 4 (2.99%) IBM
11 4 (2.99%) SAP
11 4 (2.99%) Symantec
12 3 (2.24%) CA Agile Central
13 2 (1.49%) Informatica
14 1 (0.75%) Cognos
14 1 (0.75%) Sophos
14 1 (0.75%) Sybase