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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 630 508 586
Rank change year-on-year -122 +78 -106
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 106 138 199
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.32% 0.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.65% 1.06% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 75 75 138
10th Percentile - £38,500 £45,548
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,625 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -17.24% +3.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £82,250 £95,000 £110,556
UK median annual salary £56,500 £59,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.24% -15.71% -

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 16,311 13,067 23,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.20% 30.08% 30.01%
Number of salaries quoted 11,881 8,816 17,886
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
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 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -74 45 £75,000 +7.14% 16
North of England -23 26 £42,500 -4.49% 17
South East -34 23 £66,000 +78.38% 12
North West -2 11 £42,500 -4.49% 8
Yorkshire - 8 £42,500 - 6
North East - 7 £42,500 - 3
East of England -21 5 £51,359 +31.69% 1
Midlands -48 4 £61,500 +6.96% 11
South West -65 3 - - 2
West Midlands -29 2 - - 7
East Midlands -36 2 £61,500 +6.49% 4
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 (4.72%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.83%) Apache
3 2 (1.89%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.94%) Confluence
4 1 (0.94%) JBoss
4 1 (0.94%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.83%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (13.21%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (4.72%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.94%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.94%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.94%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (21.70%) AWS
2 17 (16.04%) Azure
3 11 (10.38%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (10.38%) Serverless
4 9 (8.49%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (8.49%) GCP
5 8 (7.55%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (4.72%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.77%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.83%) GitHub
8 3 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.89%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 2 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.89%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.89%) SaaS
10 1 (0.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (17.92%) Firewall
2 11 (10.38%) DNS
3 3 (2.83%) Network Security
3 3 (2.83%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (2.83%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.89%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (1.89%) DHCP
4 2 (1.89%) SSL
5 1 (0.94%) FTP
5 1 (0.94%) MQTT
5 1 (0.94%) NAS
5 1 (0.94%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (30.19%) SQL Server
2 24 (22.64%) MySQL
3 20 (18.87%) Oracle Database
4 12 (11.32%) Relational Database
5 11 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (6.60%) RDBMS
7 5 (4.72%) KDB
8 4 (3.77%) Oracle Database 11g
8 4 (3.77%) Oracle Database 12c
8 4 (3.77%) Oracle Exadata
9 3 (2.83%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.94%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 1 (0.94%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.94%) OLTP
11 1 (0.94%) Oracle9i Database
11 1 (0.94%) SAP Data Services
11 1 (0.94%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 15 (14.15%) Jenkins
2 12 (11.32%) Git
3 8 (7.55%) JMeter
4 7 (6.60%) JUnit
4 7 (6.60%) Mockito
5 5 (4.72%) GitLab
5 5 (4.72%) JIRA
6 4 (3.77%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (2.83%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (1.89%) Selenium
8 2 (1.89%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.94%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.94%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.94%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.94%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.94%) LSMW
9 1 (0.94%) Maven
9 1 (0.94%) Subversion
General
1 39 (36.79%) Social Skills
2 32 (30.19%) Finance
3 21 (19.81%) Law
4 15 (14.15%) Banking
5 9 (8.49%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (6.60%) Front Office
6 7 (6.60%) Legal
7 5 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.72%) Retail
8 2 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.89%) German Language
8 2 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Automotive
9 1 (0.94%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (29.25%) DBA
2 24 (22.64%) Senior
3 20 (18.87%) Administrator
4 15 (14.15%) Oracle DBA
5 14 (13.21%) Senior DBA
6 13 (12.26%) Database Engineer
6 13 (12.26%) Senior Oracle DBA
7 12 (11.32%) IT Support
7 12 (11.32%) SQL DBA
8 8 (7.55%) Developer
9 7 (6.60%) Linux Engineer
10 6 (5.66%) Applications Support
10 6 (5.66%) Support Assistant
11 5 (4.72%) IT Assistant
11 5 (4.72%) IT Support Assistant
11 5 (4.72%) Lead
11 5 (4.72%) Security Engineer
11 5 (4.72%) Support Engineer
11 5 (4.72%) Support Team Leader
11 5 (4.72%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.21%) JSON
2 12 (11.32%) XML
3 8 (7.55%) ActiveMQ
3 8 (7.55%) HTML
3 8 (7.55%) Spring
4 7 (6.60%) Apache Camel
4 7 (6.60%) Hibernate
4 7 (6.60%) jQuery
4 7 (6.60%) JSON Schema
4 7 (6.60%) LDAP
4 7 (6.60%) Regular Expression
4 7 (6.60%) REST
4 7 (6.60%) Spring Boot
4 7 (6.60%) WireMock
5 6 (5.66%) Web Services
6 5 (4.72%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (4.72%) FreeMarker
7 4 (3.77%) RESTful
8 3 (2.83%) 802.1X
8 3 (2.83%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (21.70%) Replication
2 8 (7.55%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (7.55%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.66%) Fixed Income
5 4 (3.77%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.77%) PKI
5 4 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.83%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.89%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.89%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.89%) Derivative
7 2 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.89%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.94%) Clustering
8 1 (0.94%) CUDA
8 1 (0.94%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.94%) Robotics
8 1 (0.94%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 80 (75.47%) Linux
2 29 (27.36%) Unix
3 22 (20.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (14.15%) Windows
5 13 (12.26%) AIX
5 13 (12.26%) Oracle Linux
6 7 (6.60%) Windows Server
7 6 (5.66%) CentOS
8 5 (4.72%) Mac OS
8 5 (4.72%) Ubuntu
9 3 (2.83%) Apple iOS
9 3 (2.83%) Solaris
10 2 (1.89%) Debian
10 2 (1.89%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (42.45%) High Availability
2 37 (34.91%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (33.96%) Continuous Improvement
4 27 (25.47%) Performance Tuning
5 23 (21.70%) ITIL
6 22 (20.75%) Disaster Recovery
7 20 (18.87%) CI/CD
8 19 (17.92%) Runbook
9 18 (16.98%) Incident Response
10 17 (16.04%) Change Management
11 16 (15.09%) DevOps
12 15 (14.15%) Configuration Management
12 15 (14.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 14 (13.21%) Agile
13 14 (13.21%) Capacity Planning
14 11 (10.38%) Computer Science
14 11 (10.38%) Microservices
15 10 (9.43%) Containerisation
15 10 (9.43%) Infrastructure as Code
15 10 (9.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 57 (53.77%) SQL
2 42 (39.62%) Python
3 30 (28.30%) Bash
4 20 (18.87%) Java
5 18 (16.98%) Korn
5 18 (16.98%) PL/SQL
6 14 (13.21%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.72%) Perl
7 5 (4.72%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.77%) C++
9 3 (2.83%) Rust
10 2 (1.89%) C
10 2 (1.89%) Groovy
11 1 (0.94%) ABAP
11 1 (0.94%) C#
11 1 (0.94%) Fortran
11 1 (0.94%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (19.81%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.26%) Degree
3 11 (10.38%) DV Cleared
4 8 (7.55%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.72%) HNC
5 5 (4.72%) HND
6 4 (3.77%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.89%) Linux+ Certification
8 2 (1.89%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.89%) RHCE
8 2 (1.89%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.83%) QA
2 2 (1.89%) GDPR
2 2 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (20.75%) Docker
2 18 (16.98%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (6.60%) Active Directory
3 7 (6.60%) vSphere
4 3 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.89%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.89%) KVM
6 1 (0.94%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.94%) Xen
Systems Management
1 19 (17.92%) Kubernetes
2 17 (16.04%) Oracle RMAN
3 16 (15.09%) Ansible
3 16 (15.09%) Data Guard
4 14 (13.21%) Nagios
5 11 (10.38%) Terraform
6 7 (6.60%) Kibana
6 7 (6.60%) Puppet
7 6 (5.66%) Prometheus
8 5 (4.72%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (3.77%) Grafana
10 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (2.83%) Oracle Flashback
10 3 (2.83%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.94%) Control-M
12 1 (0.94%) Podman
12 1 (0.94%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 42 (39.62%) Oracle
2 13 (12.26%) IBM
3 12 (11.32%) Microsoft
4 10 (9.43%) VMware
5 9 (8.49%) Splunk
6 7 (6.60%) Dynatrace
6 7 (6.60%) Red Hat
7 5 (4.72%) Apple
8 3 (2.83%) Google
8 3 (2.83%) McAfee
8 3 (2.83%) Sybase
9 2 (1.89%) Adobe
9 2 (1.89%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.89%) Cisco
9 2 (1.89%) Juniper
9 2 (1.89%) Meraki
9 2 (1.89%) NVIDIA
9 2 (1.89%) Okta
9 2 (1.89%) SAP
9 2 (1.89%) SonicWALL