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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 601 493 552
Rank change year-on-year -108 +59 +22
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 57 113 244
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.084% 0.31% 0.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.47% 0.89% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 37 52 181
10th Percentile £43,375 £40,750 £41,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,313 £80,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £91,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -

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 12,217 12,728 25,979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.97% 34.39% 33.94%
Number of salaries quoted 8,843 9,297 22,049
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -7 33 £57,500 -14.81% 20
South East -35 19 £57,500 -8.00% 19
North of England -58 5 £50,000 +12.36% 5
North West -35 3 £60,000 +34.83% 4
West Midlands -12 2 - - 5
Midlands -38 2 - - 6
Yorkshire -45 2 £27,500 - 1
South West -29 1 - - 3
East of England -30 1 £70,000 +3.70% 6
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 (8.77%) Anypoint
2 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.51%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (8.77%) Shopify
2 3 (5.26%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (1.75%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 18 (31.58%) AWS
2 13 (22.81%) Azure
3 9 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (12.28%) Serverless
5 6 (10.53%) GCP
6 5 (8.77%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (8.77%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (8.77%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (8.77%) Boomi
6 5 (8.77%) iPaaS
6 5 (8.77%) Power Automate
6 5 (8.77%) Workato
7 4 (7.02%) SaaS
8 3 (5.26%) GitHub
9 2 (3.51%) Algolia
9 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.51%) Cloud Functions
9 2 (3.51%) Firebase
9 2 (3.51%) Sentry
9 2 (3.51%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.05%) Firewall
2 8 (14.04%) DNS
3 6 (10.53%) TCP/IP
4 4 (7.02%) SpaceWire
5 3 (5.26%) DHCP
6 2 (3.51%) VPN
7 1 (1.75%) LAN
7 1 (1.75%) NAS
7 1 (1.75%) Network Security
7 1 (1.75%) SAN
7 1 (1.75%) SSH
7 1 (1.75%) SSL
7 1 (1.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.05%) Relational Database
2 8 (14.04%) Oracle Database
3 7 (12.28%) MySQL
3 7 (12.28%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (10.53%) RDBMS
5 3 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.26%) Oracle Database 11g
5 3 (5.26%) Oracle Database 12c
5 3 (5.26%) Oracle Exadata
5 3 (5.26%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.51%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.75%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.75%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.75%) Power BI
7 1 (1.75%) SAP HANA
7 1 (1.75%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (1.75%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 14 (24.56%) Git
2 8 (14.04%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.53%) JMeter
4 5 (8.77%) JUnit
4 5 (8.77%) Mockito
5 4 (7.02%) JIRA
6 3 (5.26%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (3.51%) Storybook
8 1 (1.75%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.75%) GitLab
8 1 (1.75%) Gradle
8 1 (1.75%) LabVIEW
8 1 (1.75%) Maven
8 1 (1.75%) Selenium
8 1 (1.75%) Subversion
8 1 (1.75%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (29.82%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.53%) Finance
4 5 (8.77%) Law
4 5 (8.77%) Legal
4 5 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.26%) Banking
6 2 (3.51%) German Language
6 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 15 (26.32%) Support Engineer
2 12 (21.05%) Developer
3 8 (14.04%) Linux Engineer
4 7 (12.28%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (12.28%) Linux Support
4 7 (12.28%) Linux Support Engineer
5 6 (10.53%) DBA
5 6 (10.53%) Java Developer
5 6 (10.53%) Senior
6 5 (8.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 5 (8.77%) Integration Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 5 (8.77%) Oracle DBA
7 4 (7.02%) Administrator
7 4 (7.02%) Development Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) Implementation Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) Product Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) Product Specialist
7 4 (7.02%) Products Support Specialist
7 4 (7.02%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.81%) JSON
1 13 (22.81%) XML
2 12 (21.05%) REST
3 10 (17.54%) Web Services
4 7 (12.28%) HTML
4 7 (12.28%) RESTful
5 5 (8.77%) ActiveMQ
5 5 (8.77%) Apache Camel
5 5 (8.77%) Hibernate
5 5 (8.77%) jQuery
5 5 (8.77%) SOAP
5 5 (8.77%) Spring
5 5 (8.77%) Spring Boot
5 5 (8.77%) WireMock
6 4 (7.02%) Qt
7 3 (5.26%) JSON Schema
7 3 (5.26%) LAMP
7 3 (5.26%) LDAP
7 3 (5.26%) Node.js
7 3 (5.26%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (8.77%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (8.77%) Low-Code
4 4 (7.02%) Onboarding
4 4 (7.02%) Video on Demand
4 4 (7.02%) Video\Live Streaming
5 3 (5.26%) Data Centre
5 3 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.51%) Driving Licence
6 2 (3.51%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (3.51%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.51%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 41 (71.93%) Linux
2 16 (28.07%) Unix
3 12 (21.05%) CentOS
3 12 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (14.04%) Ubuntu
5 6 (10.53%) Windows
5 6 (10.53%) Windows Server
6 4 (7.02%) VxWorks
7 3 (5.26%) AIX
7 3 (5.26%) Oracle Linux
7 3 (5.26%) Rocky
8 2 (3.51%) Apple iOS
8 2 (3.51%) Mac OS
8 2 (3.51%) Windows 10
8 2 (3.51%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.75%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (31.58%) Agile
1 18 (31.58%) CI/CD
2 16 (28.07%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (24.56%) SDLC
4 12 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (19.30%) Performance Tuning
6 10 (17.54%) Change Management
6 10 (17.54%) High Availability
6 10 (17.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (14.04%) Configuration Management
7 8 (14.04%) Containerisation
7 8 (14.04%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (14.04%) ITIL
7 8 (14.04%) Proactive Monitoring
7 8 (14.04%) Runbook
8 7 (12.28%) DevOps
8 7 (12.28%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (12.28%) Incident Response
8 7 (12.28%) Microservices
8 7 (12.28%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (52.63%) Python
2 20 (35.09%) Bash
3 14 (24.56%) Java
4 13 (22.81%) JavaScript
4 13 (22.81%) SQL
5 8 (14.04%) Korn
6 7 (12.28%) PL/SQL
7 6 (10.53%) C++
7 6 (10.53%) Perl
8 5 (8.77%) C#
9 4 (7.02%) C
10 3 (5.26%) PowerShell
10 3 (5.26%) TypeScript
11 2 (3.51%) Rust
12 1 (1.75%) Go
Qualifications
1 16 (28.07%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.04%) Degree
2 8 (14.04%) DV Cleared
3 3 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
3 3 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.51%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.75%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (1.75%) RHCE
5 1 (1.75%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.77%) GDPR
2 4 (7.02%) ECSS
3 3 (5.26%) QA
4 2 (3.51%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.51%) WCAG
5 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (31.58%) Docker
2 7 (12.28%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (8.77%) Active Directory
4 4 (7.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (5.26%) Hyper-V
5 3 (5.26%) KVM
5 3 (5.26%) vSphere
6 1 (1.75%) Xen
Systems Management
1 17 (29.82%) Kubernetes
2 12 (21.05%) Ansible
3 8 (14.04%) Nagios
4 6 (10.53%) Oracle RMAN
4 6 (10.53%) Terraform
5 5 (8.77%) Data Guard
5 5 (8.77%) Kibana
6 4 (7.02%) Prometheus
7 3 (5.26%) Grafana
7 3 (5.26%) Puppet
8 2 (3.51%) Argo
8 2 (3.51%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (3.51%) Oracle Flashback
8 2 (3.51%) Plesk
9 1 (1.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (1.75%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (26.32%) Oracle
2 9 (15.79%) VMware
3 8 (14.04%) IBM
3 8 (14.04%) Splunk
4 6 (10.53%) Dynatrace
4 6 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 6 (10.53%) SAP
5 5 (8.77%) Dell
5 5 (8.77%) Epicor
5 5 (8.77%) IFS
5 5 (8.77%) Infor
5 5 (8.77%) Informatica
5 5 (8.77%) Jitterbit
5 5 (8.77%) MuleSoft
5 5 (8.77%) Red Hat
5 5 (8.77%) SnapLogic
5 5 (8.77%) Software AG
5 5 (8.77%) Talend
5 5 (8.77%) TIBCO
5 5 (8.77%) Workday