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 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 495 613
Rank change year-on-year -108 +118 -95
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 83 129 243
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.10% 0.33% 0.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.55% 1.02% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 53 67 168
10th Percentile - £38,500 £42,550
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,625 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -11.11% +3.05%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +1.96%

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 15,061 12,658 28,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.31% 32.24% 30.66%
Number of salaries quoted 10,798 8,465 22,961
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -64 41 £75,000 +5.26% 14
South East -27 21 £67,000 +63.41% 14
North of England -31 12 £42,500 -4.49% 5
Yorkshire -38 5 £42,500 -
North West 0 4 £42,500 -4.49% 5
Midlands -32 4 £61,500 +2.50% 3
East of England -20 3 £51,359 +31.69% 3
North East - 3 £42,500 -
East Midlands -22 2 £61,500 -
West Midlands -34 2 - - 3
South West -49 2 - - 3
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 (6.02%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.41%) Apache
3 1 (1.20%) Confluence
3 1 (1.20%) nginx
3 1 (1.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.61%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (10.84%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (6.02%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (21.69%) AWS
2 14 (16.87%) Azure
3 11 (13.25%) Serverless
4 10 (12.05%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (10.84%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (8.43%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (8.43%) GCP
7 5 (6.02%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.61%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.61%) GitHub
8 3 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.41%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 2 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.41%) Google Workspace
9 2 (2.41%) SaaS
10 1 (1.20%) Algolia
10 1 (1.20%) Cloud Functions
10 1 (1.20%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 15 (18.07%) Firewall
2 8 (9.64%) DNS
3 3 (3.61%) Network Security
3 3 (3.61%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.41%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (2.41%) SpaceWire
4 2 (2.41%) SSL
5 1 (1.20%) DHCP
5 1 (1.20%) FTP
5 1 (1.20%) LAN
5 1 (1.20%) MQTT
5 1 (1.20%) NAS
5 1 (1.20%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.20%) SAN
5 1 (1.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (28.92%) SQL Server
2 15 (18.07%) MySQL
3 13 (15.66%) Oracle Database
4 12 (14.46%) Relational Database
5 11 (13.25%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (8.43%) RDBMS
7 5 (6.02%) KDB
8 3 (3.61%) MongoDB
8 3 (3.61%) Oracle Database 11g
8 3 (3.61%) Oracle Database 12c
8 3 (3.61%) Oracle Exadata
9 2 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.41%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.41%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.20%) OLTP
10 1 (1.20%) Oracle9i Database
10 1 (1.20%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 13 (15.66%) Jenkins
2 12 (14.46%) Git
3 8 (9.64%) JMeter
4 7 (8.43%) JUnit
4 7 (8.43%) Mockito
5 5 (6.02%) GitLab
6 4 (4.82%) JIRA
7 3 (3.61%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (2.41%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (2.41%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.20%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.20%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.20%) LabVIEW
9 1 (1.20%) LSMW
9 1 (1.20%) Selenium
9 1 (1.20%) Storybook
9 1 (1.20%) Subversion
General
1 27 (32.53%) Social Skills
2 20 (24.10%) Finance
3 12 (14.46%) Law
4 10 (12.05%) Banking
5 9 (10.84%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.02%) Front Office
6 5 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (6.02%) Retail
7 4 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.82%) Legal
8 2 (2.41%) German Language
9 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (30.12%) DBA
2 19 (22.89%) Administrator
3 16 (19.28%) Senior
4 12 (14.46%) SQL DBA
5 9 (10.84%) IT Support
5 9 (10.84%) Oracle DBA
6 8 (9.64%) Developer
6 8 (9.64%) Senior DBA
6 8 (9.64%) Senior Oracle DBA
7 7 (8.43%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) Support Assistant
9 5 (6.02%) IT Assistant
9 5 (6.02%) IT Support Assistant
9 5 (6.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) Support Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) Java Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) Linux Administrator
11 3 (3.61%) Database Engineer
11 3 (3.61%) Java Developer
11 3 (3.61%) Oracle Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.25%) JSON
2 10 (12.05%) XML
3 9 (10.84%) HTML
4 8 (9.64%) REST
4 8 (9.64%) Spring
5 7 (8.43%) ActiveMQ
5 7 (8.43%) Apache Camel
5 7 (8.43%) Hibernate
5 7 (8.43%) jQuery
5 7 (8.43%) Spring Boot
5 7 (8.43%) WireMock
6 5 (6.02%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (6.02%) FreeMarker
6 5 (6.02%) JSON Schema
6 5 (6.02%) LDAP
6 5 (6.02%) Regular Expression
6 5 (6.02%) RESTful
6 5 (6.02%) Web Services
7 3 (3.61%) 802.1X
8 2 (2.41%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.87%) Replication
2 8 (9.64%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (8.43%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (7.23%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (6.02%) Fixed Income
5 5 (6.02%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.61%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.41%) Clustering
7 2 (2.41%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (2.41%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.41%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (2.41%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.41%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (1.20%) Derivative
8 1 (1.20%) IoT
8 1 (1.20%) Market Risk
8 1 (1.20%) PKI
8 1 (1.20%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 58 (69.88%) Linux
2 22 (26.51%) Unix
3 15 (18.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (13.25%) Windows
5 8 (9.64%) AIX
5 8 (9.64%) Oracle Linux
6 6 (7.23%) Windows Server
7 5 (6.02%) CentOS
7 5 (6.02%) Mac OS
7 5 (6.02%) Ubuntu
8 3 (3.61%) Apple iOS
9 2 (2.41%) Debian
9 2 (2.41%) Solaris
9 2 (2.41%) tvOS
9 2 (2.41%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (34.94%) High Availability
2 23 (27.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 23 (27.71%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (24.10%) CI/CD
4 18 (21.69%) Performance Tuning
5 17 (20.48%) ITIL
6 15 (18.07%) Agile
7 14 (16.87%) Runbook
8 13 (15.66%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (14.46%) Change Management
9 12 (14.46%) DevOps
9 12 (14.46%) Incident Response
9 12 (14.46%) Microservices
10 10 (12.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (12.05%) TDD
11 9 (10.84%) Configuration Management
11 9 (10.84%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (10.84%) SDLC
12 8 (9.64%) Containerisation
12 8 (9.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (46.99%) SQL
2 35 (42.17%) Python
3 22 (26.51%) Bash
4 15 (18.07%) JavaScript
5 14 (16.87%) Java
6 13 (15.66%) Korn
7 12 (14.46%) PL/SQL
8 5 (6.02%) Perl
8 5 (6.02%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.61%) C++
10 2 (2.41%) C
10 2 (2.41%) Groovy
10 2 (2.41%) Rust
11 1 (1.20%) ABAP
11 1 (1.20%) PHP
11 1 (1.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (24.10%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.05%) Degree
2 10 (12.05%) DV Cleared
3 8 (9.64%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.61%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (2.41%) HNC
5 2 (2.41%) HND
5 2 (2.41%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.20%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (1.20%) RHCE
6 1 (1.20%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.82%) QA
2 2 (2.41%) ECSS
2 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.20%) GDPR
3 1 (1.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (24.10%) Docker
2 13 (15.66%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (6.02%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.02%) vSphere
4 2 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.20%) KVM
5 1 (1.20%) Xen
Systems Management
1 18 (21.69%) Kubernetes
2 11 (13.25%) Oracle RMAN
3 10 (12.05%) Ansible
3 10 (12.05%) Data Guard
4 9 (10.84%) Nagios
5 8 (9.64%) Terraform
6 7 (8.43%) Kibana
7 6 (7.23%) Puppet
8 5 (6.02%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (4.82%) Prometheus
10 3 (3.61%) Grafana
10 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (2.41%) Oracle Flashback
11 2 (2.41%) Progress Chef
12 1 (1.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (1.20%) Podman
12 1 (1.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 31 (37.35%) Oracle
2 13 (15.66%) Microsoft
3 9 (10.84%) Splunk
4 8 (9.64%) IBM
5 7 (8.43%) Dynatrace
5 7 (8.43%) VMware
6 6 (7.23%) Red Hat
7 5 (6.02%) Apple
8 4 (4.82%) Sybase
9 3 (3.61%) Google
9 3 (3.61%) SAP
10 2 (2.41%) Adobe
10 2 (2.41%) Cisco
10 2 (2.41%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (2.41%) Juniper
10 2 (2.41%) Meraki
10 2 (2.41%) NVIDIA
10 2 (2.41%) Okta
10 2 (2.41%) SonicWALL
11 1 (1.20%) Delphix