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

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 529 460
Rank change year-on-year +14 -69 +86
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 108 183 236
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.30% 0.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.01% 0.95% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 56 81 180
10th Percentile £38,500 £43,911 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,780 £52,500 £51,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £72,500 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +6.62% +13.33%
75th Percentile £71,875 £85,000 £85,313
90th Percentile £88,750 £110,556 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £71,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -19.30% +1.79% +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 10,690 19,256 19,739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.06% 31.90% 41.21%
Number of salaries quoted 7,637 11,415 16,238
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,150 £107,500
UK median annual salary £61,750 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.56%

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 10 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 10 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 +46 71 £62,500 -24.24% 22
South East +31 25 £57,500 +21.05% 25
East of England +21 12 £39,000 -42.22% 5
Midlands +42 8 £57,750 +5.00% 15
North of England 0 6 £27,500 -38.21% 7
South West +17 5 £95,000 +18.75% 2
West Midlands +29 4 - - 11
East Midlands +23 4 £57,750 +12.14% 4
North West +12 4 £43,500 - 4
Yorkshire +7 2 £27,500 -38.21% 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 (4.63%) Anypoint
1 5 (4.63%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (3.70%) Confluence
2 4 (3.70%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.85%) JBoss
3 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.85%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 8 (7.41%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.93%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (4.63%) Shopify
2 4 (3.70%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 56 (51.85%) AWS
2 30 (27.78%) Azure
3 26 (24.07%) Amazon EC2
4 25 (23.15%) Serverless
5 24 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
6 22 (20.37%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (7.41%) GCP
7 8 (7.41%) OpenShift
8 7 (6.48%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (4.63%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.63%) Boomi
9 5 (4.63%) GitHub
9 5 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (4.63%) iPaaS
9 5 (4.63%) Power Automate
9 5 (4.63%) SaaS
9 5 (4.63%) Workato
10 4 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.78%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.41%) Firewall
2 6 (5.56%) DNS
3 5 (4.63%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.70%) VPN
5 3 (2.78%) AMQP
5 3 (2.78%) DHCP
5 3 (2.78%) SSL
6 2 (1.85%) Network Security
6 2 (1.85%) SAN
6 2 (1.85%) SpaceWire
6 2 (1.85%) SSH
7 1 (0.93%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.93%) HTTP
7 1 (0.93%) RTP
7 1 (0.93%) VLAN
7 1 (0.93%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (36.11%) Relational Database
2 27 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (19.44%) RDBMS
4 17 (15.74%) MySQL
5 7 (6.48%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.63%) Oracle Database
7 4 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.70%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (3.70%) KDB
7 4 (3.70%) Kdb+
7 4 (3.70%) MS Access
7 4 (3.70%) SAP Data Services
8 3 (2.78%) InfluxDB
8 3 (2.78%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.78%) Redis
9 2 (1.85%) Big Data
9 2 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.85%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.93%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 38 (35.19%) Jenkins
2 25 (23.15%) JUnit
3 23 (21.30%) Mockito
4 22 (20.37%) JMeter
5 18 (16.67%) Git
6 10 (9.26%) JIRA
7 7 (6.48%) GitLab
7 7 (6.48%) Maven
8 4 (3.70%) Gradle
8 4 (3.70%) Toad
9 3 (2.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (2.78%) Subversion
10 2 (1.85%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.85%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.93%) Postman
11 1 (0.93%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.93%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.93%) XCTest
General
1 27 (25.00%) Finance
1 27 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 25 (23.15%) Public Sector
3 22 (20.37%) Law
4 16 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (10.19%) Marketing
6 9 (8.33%) Legal
7 7 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (4.63%) Banking
9 4 (3.70%) Advertising
9 4 (3.70%) Local Government
9 4 (3.70%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.85%) Aviation
11 2 (1.85%) Cantonese Language
11 2 (1.85%) Front Office
11 2 (1.85%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (1.85%) Retail
12 1 (0.93%) Electronics
12 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (24.07%) Developer
2 25 (23.15%) Java Developer
2 25 (23.15%) Support Engineer
3 19 (17.59%) Full-Stack Developer
4 18 (16.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 16 (14.81%) Software Engineer
6 15 (13.89%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 15 (13.89%) Senior
7 13 (12.04%) Linux Engineer
7 13 (12.04%) Linux Support
7 13 (12.04%) Linux Support Engineer
8 12 (11.11%) Lead
9 9 (8.33%) Applications Support
10 8 (7.41%) Administrator
10 8 (7.41%) Database Engineer
10 8 (7.41%) Lead Software Engineer
11 6 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (4.63%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (4.63%) Site Engineer
12 5 (4.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (37.96%) REST
2 27 (25.00%) JSON
2 27 (25.00%) Spring
2 27 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 27 (25.00%) XML
3 26 (24.07%) Web Services
4 25 (23.15%) HTML
5 23 (21.30%) Hibernate
6 22 (20.37%) ActiveMQ
6 22 (20.37%) Apache Camel
6 22 (20.37%) jQuery
6 22 (20.37%) WireMock
7 9 (8.33%) SOAP
8 8 (7.41%) OAuth
8 8 (7.41%) OpenID
8 8 (7.41%) React
9 7 (6.48%) RESTful
10 5 (4.63%) Middleware
11 4 (3.70%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (20.37%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (12.04%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (7.41%) Algorithms
3 8 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 8 (7.41%) Private Cloud
3 8 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 8 (7.41%) Public Cloud
4 7 (6.48%) Replication
5 5 (4.63%) Low-Code
6 4 (3.70%) Derivative
6 4 (3.70%) Equities
6 4 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.78%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.85%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.85%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.85%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.85%) Tandem
8 2 (1.85%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 56 (51.85%) Linux
2 33 (30.56%) Unix
3 13 (12.04%) Windows
4 8 (7.41%) Mac OS
4 8 (7.41%) Windows Server
5 7 (6.48%) CentOS
6 6 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (5.56%) Ubuntu
7 4 (3.70%) Solaris
8 3 (2.78%) AIX
8 3 (2.78%) Rocky
9 2 (1.85%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (1.85%) VxWorks
9 2 (1.85%) Windows 10
9 2 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.93%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (51.85%) Agile
2 45 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 35 (32.41%) TDD
4 34 (31.48%) SDLC
5 28 (25.93%) Microservices
5 28 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (25.93%) Workflow
6 22 (20.37%) BDD
7 21 (19.44%) DevOps
7 21 (19.44%) Full-Stack Development
8 20 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (18.52%) Process Management
8 20 (18.52%) Software Engineering
8 20 (18.52%) Test Automation
9 15 (13.89%) Continuous Integration
9 15 (13.89%) Problem Management
10 14 (12.96%) Configuration Management
11 12 (11.11%) Migration
11 12 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 63 (58.33%) Python
2 43 (39.81%) Java
3 30 (27.78%) SQL
4 29 (26.85%) JavaScript
5 22 (20.37%) Bash
6 12 (11.11%) PowerShell
7 9 (8.33%) Go
7 9 (8.33%) TypeScript
8 7 (6.48%) C#
9 6 (5.56%) PL/SQL
10 4 (3.70%) Perl
10 4 (3.70%) VB
11 3 (2.78%) C
11 3 (2.78%) C++
12 2 (1.85%) Korn
13 1 (0.93%) Bourne shell
13 1 (0.93%) C-shell
13 1 (0.93%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 24 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.11%) Degree
3 7 (6.48%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.93%) OCA
7 1 (0.93%) OCP
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.63%) GDPR
1 5 (4.63%) QA
2 2 (1.85%) ECSS
2 2 (1.85%) SLA
3 1 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 55 (50.93%) Docker
2 7 (6.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.63%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.78%) KVM
5 2 (1.85%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.85%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.85%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.85%) vSphere
6 1 (0.93%) Corosync
6 1 (0.93%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 48 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 31 (28.70%) Ansible
3 24 (22.22%) Kibana
4 16 (14.81%) Terraform
5 15 (13.89%) Grafana
6 10 (9.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (9.26%) Prometheus
7 7 (6.48%) Progress Chef
8 4 (3.70%) Nagios
9 3 (2.78%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.85%) Argo
10 2 (1.85%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.85%) logstash
10 2 (1.85%) Plesk
10 2 (1.85%) Puppet
10 2 (1.85%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.85%) SCCM
10 2 (1.85%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.93%) Podman
11 1 (0.93%) VxRail
Vendors
1 30 (27.78%) Dynatrace
2 29 (26.85%) Splunk
3 24 (22.22%) Oracle
4 13 (12.04%) SAP
5 12 (11.11%) Google
5 12 (11.11%) Microsoft
6 10 (9.26%) VMware
7 8 (7.41%) Apple
7 8 (7.41%) Red Hat
8 7 (6.48%) IBM
9 6 (5.56%) Dell
9 6 (5.56%) Software AG
10 5 (4.63%) Epicor
10 5 (4.63%) Infor
10 5 (4.63%) Informatica
10 5 (4.63%) Jitterbit
10 5 (4.63%) MuleSoft
10 5 (4.63%) SnapLogic
10 5 (4.63%) Talend
10 5 (4.63%) TIBCO