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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 530 533
Rank change year-on-year -86 +3 -87
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 156 105 210
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.15% 0.24% 0.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.94% 0.93% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 87 52 95
10th Percentile - - £43,911
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £59,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% -15.71% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £86,875
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £53,250 £58,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.19% -17.14% -

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 16,570 11,301 20,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.94% 26.26% 31.56%
Number of salaries quoted 12,018 7,475 12,292
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,987 £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 £84,563 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.79% -3.08%

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 October 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 October 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 -18 53 £42,500 +55.96% 29
London -87 42 £75,000 +7.14% 107
South East -42 27 £65,000 -4.41% 21
North West -2 24 £42,500 +57.41% 14
Yorkshire -28 16 £42,500 +54.55% 11
Midlands -43 13 £61,500 +6.49% 21
North East - 13 £42,500 - 4
South West -67 10 £66,250 -30.26% 11
East of England -45 9 £51,359 +31.69% 6
East Midlands -26 7 £61,500 +6.49% 4
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 7 (4.49%) Apache
2 5 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.21%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.92%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.28%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.64%) JBoss
5 1 (0.64%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (7.05%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (3.21%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.64%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 62 (39.74%) AWS
2 51 (32.69%) Azure
3 47 (30.13%) GCP
4 30 (19.23%) Cloud Computing
5 14 (8.97%) Serverless
6 10 (6.41%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (5.77%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (5.77%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (4.49%) GitHub
8 7 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (3.85%) SaaS
10 5 (3.21%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.56%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.56%) Cloud Composer
11 4 (2.56%) dbt
12 3 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.92%) OpenShift
13 2 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 30 (19.23%) Internet
2 15 (9.62%) Firewall
3 14 (8.97%) DNS
4 6 (3.85%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.56%) 5G
5 4 (2.56%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (1.92%) 4G
6 3 (1.92%) DHCP
6 3 (1.92%) HTTP
6 3 (1.92%) SSH
7 2 (1.28%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (1.28%) MQTT
7 2 (1.28%) Network Security
7 2 (1.28%) SSL
7 2 (1.28%) X.509
8 1 (0.64%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.64%) LTE
8 1 (0.64%) VPN
8 1 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (26.92%) SQL Server
2 37 (23.72%) MySQL
3 15 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (8.97%) Oracle Database
5 12 (7.69%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.85%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.85%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.56%) Big Data
7 4 (2.56%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.56%) Flink
7 4 (2.56%) KDB
7 4 (2.56%) Looker
8 3 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.92%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.92%) Redis
9 2 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.64%) OLTP
10 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database 11g
10 1 (0.64%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 40 (25.64%) Git
2 18 (11.54%) Jenkins
3 10 (6.41%) GitLab
4 7 (4.49%) JMeter
4 7 (4.49%) JUnit
4 7 (4.49%) Mockito
5 4 (2.56%) Selenium
6 2 (1.28%) JIRA
7 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.64%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.64%) LSMW
7 1 (0.64%) Maven
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle APEX
General
1 40 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 38 (24.36%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (21.15%) Finance
4 30 (19.23%) Law
5 12 (7.69%) Banking
6 10 (6.41%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.49%) Legal
8 6 (3.85%) Front Office
9 5 (3.21%) Retail
10 3 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.92%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.28%) Automotive
11 2 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.64%) Avionics
12 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.64%) Electronics
12 1 (0.64%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (22.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (19.87%) Senior
3 30 (19.23%) Trainee
4 27 (17.31%) DBA
5 23 (14.74%) Administrator
6 19 (12.18%) Database Engineer
7 12 (7.69%) IT Support
7 12 (7.69%) SQL DBA
8 11 (7.05%) Developer
8 11 (7.05%) Linux Engineer
8 11 (7.05%) Oracle DBA
8 11 (7.05%) Senior DBA
9 10 (6.41%) Senior Oracle DBA
10 8 (5.13%) Security Engineer
11 7 (4.49%) Linux Administrator
12 6 (3.85%) Applications Support
12 6 (3.85%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 6 (3.85%) Support Assistant
12 6 (3.85%) Systems Administrator
13 5 (3.21%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (15.38%) Terraform
2 11 (7.05%) HTML
3 10 (6.41%) JSON
3 10 (6.41%) REST
4 9 (5.77%) XML
5 8 (5.13%) ActiveMQ
5 8 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (4.49%) Apache Camel
6 7 (4.49%) Hibernate
6 7 (4.49%) jQuery
6 7 (4.49%) RESTful
6 7 (4.49%) Spring
6 7 (4.49%) Spring Boot
6 7 (4.49%) WireMock
7 6 (3.85%) Kafka
7 6 (3.85%) Web Services
8 5 (3.21%) FastAPI
8 5 (3.21%) FreeMarker
8 5 (3.21%) LDAP
9 4 (2.56%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 39 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 32 (20.51%) Replication
3 9 (5.77%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.21%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.21%) Fixed Income
5 5 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.21%) PKI
6 3 (1.92%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.92%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.28%) CUDA
7 2 (1.28%) Derivative
7 2 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.28%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.28%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.28%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.64%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.64%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.64%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 127 (81.41%) Linux
2 30 (19.23%) Unix
3 23 (14.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (11.54%) Windows
5 12 (7.69%) AIX
6 10 (6.41%) Oracle Linux
7 7 (4.49%) CentOS
7 7 (4.49%) Windows Server
8 5 (3.21%) Rocky
9 4 (2.56%) Ubuntu
10 3 (1.92%) Debian
10 3 (1.92%) macOS
10 3 (1.92%) Solaris
11 2 (1.28%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (1.28%) OpenWrt
11 2 (1.28%) tvOS
12 1 (0.64%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (41.03%) CI/CD
2 55 (35.26%) DevOps
3 50 (32.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (31.41%) High Availability
5 48 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (30.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (28.21%) Configuration Management
8 42 (26.92%) Containerisation
9 41 (26.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 40 (25.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 39 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
12 36 (23.08%) SDLC
13 35 (22.44%) Cloud Security
14 34 (21.79%) Continuous Integration
14 34 (21.79%) DevSecOps
14 34 (21.79%) Mentoring
15 33 (21.15%) Continuous Delivery
16 32 (20.51%) Analytical Thinking
16 32 (20.51%) Incident Management
17 31 (19.87%) Cloud Operations
Programming Languages
1 69 (44.23%) SQL
2 56 (35.90%) Python
3 36 (23.08%) Bash
4 22 (14.10%) Java
5 18 (11.54%) JavaScript
6 13 (8.33%) Korn
7 11 (7.05%) PL/SQL
8 8 (5.13%) C
9 6 (3.85%) Rust
10 5 (3.21%) C++
10 5 (3.21%) PowerShell
10 5 (3.21%) Scala
11 3 (1.92%) Fortran
12 2 (1.28%) Go
13 1 (0.64%) ABAP
13 1 (0.64%) C#
13 1 (0.64%) COBOL
13 1 (0.64%) Micro Focus COBOL
13 1 (0.64%) SystemVerilog
13 1 (0.64%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 25 (16.03%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.33%) Degree
3 11 (7.05%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.21%) HNC
4 5 (3.21%) HND
4 5 (3.21%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.92%) RHCE
5 3 (1.92%) RHCSA
6 2 (1.28%) IBM AIX Certification
7 1 (0.64%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.64%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.21%) QA
2 4 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.92%) GDPR
4 2 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.64%) DO-254
5 1 (0.64%) JTAG
System Software
1 62 (39.74%) Docker
2 11 (7.05%) Oracle RAC
3 8 (5.13%) vSphere
4 5 (3.21%) Active Directory
5 4 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.92%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.64%) Ceph
7 1 (0.64%) Firmware
7 1 (0.64%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.64%) KVM
7 1 (0.64%) Lustre
7 1 (0.64%) NFS
7 1 (0.64%) QEMU
7 1 (0.64%) Samba
Systems Management
1 24 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 20 (12.82%) Ansible
3 11 (7.05%) Data Guard
3 11 (7.05%) Oracle RMAN
4 10 (6.41%) Nagios
4 10 (6.41%) Puppet
5 9 (5.77%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.13%) Grafana
7 7 (4.49%) Kibana
8 4 (2.56%) Podman
9 2 (1.28%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.28%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.64%) Control-M
10 1 (0.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.64%) Oracle Flashback
10 1 (0.64%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 38 (24.36%) Microsoft
2 37 (23.72%) Google
3 35 (22.44%) Oracle
4 13 (8.33%) Splunk
5 12 (7.69%) IBM
5 12 (7.69%) Red Hat
6 9 (5.77%) VMware
7 7 (4.49%) Dynatrace
8 5 (3.21%) New Relic
9 3 (1.92%) Apple
9 3 (1.92%) McAfee
9 3 (1.92%) Sybase
10 2 (1.28%) Adobe
10 2 (1.28%) Cisco
10 2 (1.28%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.28%) Juniper
10 2 (1.28%) Meraki
10 2 (1.28%) Okta
10 2 (1.28%) SAP
10 2 (1.28%) SonicWALL