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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 618 517 567
Rank change year-on-year -101 +50 -108
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 155 126 192
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.15% 0.29% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.92% 1.08% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 87 63 106
10th Percentile - - £43,911
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £58,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% -21.36% +5.36%
75th Percentile £76,875 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £81,500 £98,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £58,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% -22.67% +6.27%

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 16,912 11,715 21,127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.38% 27.16% 30.90%
Number of salaries quoted 12,320 7,744 13,185
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,822
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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
North of England -21 53 £42,500 -4.49% 25
London -98 40 £75,000 +7.14% 92
South East -50 29 £65,000 -4.41% 17
North West -11 24 £42,500 -4.49% 15
Yorkshire - 16 £42,500 - 7
Midlands -41 13 £61,500 +6.49% 22
North East - 13 £42,500 - 3
East of England -24 9 £51,359 +31.69% 5
South West -72 9 £66,250 -30.26% 15
East Midlands -29 7 £61,500 +6.49% 5
West Midlands -46 6 - - 17
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 6 (3.87%) Apache
2 5 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.94%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.29%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.65%) JBoss
6 1 (0.65%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.65%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (7.10%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (3.23%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.65%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 63 (40.65%) AWS
2 50 (32.26%) Azure
3 45 (29.03%) GCP
4 30 (19.35%) Cloud Computing
5 17 (10.97%) Serverless
6 13 (8.39%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (7.74%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (4.52%) GitHub
9 7 (4.52%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (3.87%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.23%) Entra ID
11 5 (3.23%) SaaS
12 3 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.94%) Cloud Composer
12 3 (1.94%) dbt
13 2 (1.29%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 2 (1.29%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 30 (19.35%) Internet
2 13 (8.39%) DNS
2 13 (8.39%) Firewall
3 6 (3.87%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.58%) 5G
4 4 (2.58%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (1.94%) 4G
5 3 (1.94%) DHCP
5 3 (1.94%) HTTP
5 3 (1.94%) SSH
6 2 (1.29%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (1.29%) MQTT
6 2 (1.29%) Network Security
6 2 (1.29%) SSL
6 2 (1.29%) X.509
7 1 (0.65%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.65%) LTE
7 1 (0.65%) VPN
7 1 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (27.10%) SQL Server
2 37 (23.87%) MySQL
3 16 (10.32%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (9.03%) Oracle Database
5 13 (8.39%) Relational Database
6 7 (4.52%) RDBMS
7 6 (3.87%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.23%) KDB
9 3 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.94%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.94%) Flink
9 3 (1.94%) Looker
9 3 (1.94%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.94%) Redis
10 2 (1.29%) Big Data
10 2 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.65%) OLTP
11 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database 11g
11 1 (0.65%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 42 (27.10%) Git
2 20 (12.90%) Jenkins
3 10 (6.45%) GitLab
4 8 (5.16%) JMeter
4 8 (5.16%) JUnit
4 8 (5.16%) Mockito
5 4 (2.58%) Selenium
6 3 (1.94%) JIRA
7 2 (1.29%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.65%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.65%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.65%) LSMW
8 1 (0.65%) Maven
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle APEX
General
1 40 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 38 (24.52%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (20.65%) Finance
4 30 (19.35%) Law
5 12 (7.74%) Banking
5 12 (7.74%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.52%) Front Office
6 7 (4.52%) Legal
7 5 (3.23%) Retail
8 3 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.94%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.29%) Automotive
10 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.65%) Avionics
10 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Electronics
10 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (22.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (19.35%) Senior
2 30 (19.35%) Trainee
3 27 (17.42%) DBA
4 20 (12.90%) Administrator
5 19 (12.26%) Database Engineer
6 12 (7.74%) Developer
6 12 (7.74%) IT Support
6 12 (7.74%) SQL DBA
7 11 (7.10%) Linux Engineer
7 11 (7.10%) Oracle DBA
7 11 (7.10%) Senior DBA
8 10 (6.45%) Senior Oracle DBA
9 8 (5.16%) Security Engineer
10 6 (3.87%) Applications Support
10 6 (3.87%) Support Assistant
11 5 (3.23%) Java Developer
11 5 (3.23%) Senior Developer
11 5 (3.23%) Support Team Leader
11 5 (3.23%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (14.84%) Terraform
2 12 (7.74%) HTML
2 12 (7.74%) JSON
2 12 (7.74%) REST
3 10 (6.45%) XML
4 9 (5.81%) ActiveMQ
4 9 (5.81%) Spring
5 8 (5.16%) Apache Camel
5 8 (5.16%) Hibernate
5 8 (5.16%) jQuery
5 8 (5.16%) Spring Boot
5 8 (5.16%) WireMock
6 7 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (4.52%) RESTful
6 7 (4.52%) Web Services
7 6 (3.87%) Kafka
8 5 (3.23%) FastAPI
8 5 (3.23%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (3.23%) FreeMarker
8 5 (3.23%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 38 (24.52%) Linux Command Line
2 32 (20.65%) Replication
3 10 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.81%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.87%) Fixed Income
6 5 (3.23%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.23%) PKI
7 3 (1.94%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.94%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.29%) CUDA
8 2 (1.29%) Derivative
8 2 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.29%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.29%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.29%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 125 (80.65%) Linux
2 29 (18.71%) Unix
3 19 (12.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (10.32%) Windows
5 12 (7.74%) AIX
6 10 (6.45%) Oracle Linux
7 6 (3.87%) CentOS
8 5 (3.23%) Windows Server
9 4 (2.58%) Ubuntu
10 3 (1.94%) Debian
10 3 (1.94%) Mac OS
10 3 (1.94%) Solaris
11 2 (1.29%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (1.29%) OpenWrt
11 2 (1.29%) Rocky
11 2 (1.29%) tvOS
12 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.65%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 52 (33.55%) DevOps
3 50 (32.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (31.61%) High Availability
5 47 (30.32%) Continuous Improvement
5 47 (30.32%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (27.74%) Configuration Management
7 42 (27.10%) Containerisation
8 41 (26.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 38 (24.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 37 (23.87%) Platform Engineering
10 37 (23.87%) SDLC
11 36 (23.23%) Continuous Integration
12 35 (22.58%) Cloud Security
12 35 (22.58%) Mentoring
13 34 (21.94%) DevSecOps
14 33 (21.29%) Continuous Delivery
15 32 (20.65%) Analytical Thinking
15 32 (20.65%) Incident Management
16 31 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
Programming Languages
1 68 (43.87%) SQL
2 57 (36.77%) Python
3 32 (20.65%) Bash
4 23 (14.84%) Java
5 19 (12.26%) JavaScript
6 13 (8.39%) Korn
7 11 (7.10%) PL/SQL
8 8 (5.16%) C
9 6 (3.87%) Rust
10 5 (3.23%) C++
10 5 (3.23%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.58%) Scala
12 3 (1.94%) Fortran
12 3 (1.94%) Perl
13 2 (1.29%) Go
13 2 (1.29%) Groovy
14 1 (0.65%) COBOL
14 1 (0.65%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 1 (0.65%) SystemVerilog
14 1 (0.65%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 23 (14.84%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.39%) Degree
3 9 (5.81%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.87%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.23%) HNC
5 5 (3.23%) HND
6 3 (1.94%) RHCE
6 3 (1.94%) RHCSA
7 2 (1.29%) IBM AIX Certification
8 1 (0.65%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.87%) QA
2 3 (1.94%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.94%) GDPR
3 2 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.65%) DO-254
4 1 (0.65%) JTAG
System Software
1 63 (40.65%) Docker
2 11 (7.10%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (3.87%) vSphere
4 5 (3.23%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.94%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.65%) Ceph
7 1 (0.65%) Firmware
7 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.65%) KVM
7 1 (0.65%) Lustre
7 1 (0.65%) NFS
7 1 (0.65%) QEMU
7 1 (0.65%) Samba
7 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (14.84%) Kubernetes
2 18 (11.61%) Ansible
3 11 (7.10%) Data Guard
3 11 (7.10%) Oracle RMAN
4 10 (6.45%) Nagios
5 9 (5.81%) Puppet
6 8 (5.16%) Kibana
6 8 (5.16%) Prometheus
7 7 (4.52%) Grafana
8 4 (2.58%) Podman
9 3 (1.94%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (1.29%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.65%) Control-M
11 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.65%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.65%) Oracle Flashback
11 1 (0.65%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 39 (25.16%) Microsoft
2 36 (23.23%) Google
2 36 (23.23%) Oracle
3 13 (8.39%) Splunk
4 12 (7.74%) IBM
5 10 (6.45%) Red Hat
6 8 (5.16%) Dynatrace
7 7 (4.52%) VMware
8 4 (2.58%) Apple
8 4 (2.58%) New Relic
9 3 (1.94%) McAfee
9 3 (1.94%) Sybase
10 2 (1.29%) Adobe
10 2 (1.29%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.29%) Cisco
10 2 (1.29%) Juniper
10 2 (1.29%) Meraki
10 2 (1.29%) Okta
10 2 (1.29%) SAP
10 2 (1.29%) SonicWALL