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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 633 515 619
Rank change year-on-year -118 +104 -115
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 98 138 212
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.32% 0.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.61% 1.05% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 69 74 149
10th Percentile - £38,500 £47,034
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,063 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -14.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £84,000 £95,000 £110,556
UK median annual salary £61,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.50% -14.29% +6.87%

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 15,965 13,091 26,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.20% 30.22% 30.68%
Number of salaries quoted 11,668 8,844 20,551
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,750
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 17 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 17 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 42 £75,000 +5.26% 14
South East -27 25 £65,000 +58.54% 7
North of England -20 20 £42,500 -4.49% 12
North West -10 8 £42,500 -4.49% 6
Yorkshire - 7 £42,500 - 4
East of England -16 5 £51,359 +31.69%
North East - 5 £42,500 - 2
Midlands -43 4 £61,500 +6.96% 5
East Midlands -16 2 £61,500 +6.96%
West Midlands -29 2 - - 5
South West -52 2 - - 2
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 (5.10%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.04%) Apache
3 1 (1.02%) Confluence
3 1 (1.02%) nginx
3 1 (1.02%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.06%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (13.27%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (5.10%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (20.41%) AWS
2 15 (15.31%) Azure
3 10 (10.20%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (10.20%) Serverless
4 9 (9.18%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (8.16%) GCP
6 7 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (5.10%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.06%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.04%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 2 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.04%) GitHub
9 2 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.04%) Google Workspace
9 2 (2.04%) SaaS
10 1 (1.02%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (1.02%) Cloudflare
10 1 (1.02%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 19 (19.39%) Firewall
2 11 (11.22%) DNS
3 3 (3.06%) Network Security
3 3 (3.06%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (3.06%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.04%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (2.04%) DHCP
4 2 (2.04%) SpaceWire
4 2 (2.04%) SSL
5 1 (1.02%) FTP
5 1 (1.02%) MQTT
5 1 (1.02%) NAS
5 1 (1.02%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (29.59%) SQL Server
2 20 (20.41%) MySQL
3 18 (18.37%) Oracle Database
4 12 (12.24%) Relational Database
5 11 (11.22%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (7.14%) RDBMS
7 5 (5.10%) KDB
8 4 (4.08%) Oracle Database 11g
8 4 (4.08%) Oracle Database 12c
8 4 (4.08%) Oracle Exadata
9 3 (3.06%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (1.02%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.02%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.02%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.02%) OLTP
10 1 (1.02%) Oracle9i Database
10 1 (1.02%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (1.02%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 13 (13.27%) Jenkins
2 12 (12.24%) Git
3 8 (8.16%) JMeter
4 7 (7.14%) JUnit
4 7 (7.14%) Mockito
5 5 (5.10%) GitLab
6 4 (4.08%) JIRA
6 4 (4.08%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (3.06%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (2.04%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.02%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.02%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.02%) LabVIEW
9 1 (1.02%) LSMW
9 1 (1.02%) Selenium
9 1 (1.02%) Subversion
General
1 34 (34.69%) Social Skills
2 28 (28.57%) Finance
3 18 (18.37%) Law
4 14 (14.29%) Banking
5 9 (9.18%) Public Sector
6 7 (7.14%) Legal
7 6 (6.12%) Front Office
8 5 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (5.10%) Retail
9 4 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.04%) German Language
11 1 (1.02%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (29.59%) DBA
2 23 (23.47%) Senior
3 19 (19.39%) Administrator
4 13 (13.27%) Oracle DBA
4 13 (13.27%) Senior DBA
5 12 (12.24%) IT Support
5 12 (12.24%) Senior Oracle DBA
5 12 (12.24%) SQL DBA
6 10 (10.20%) Database Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Developer
8 6 (6.12%) Support Assistant
9 5 (5.10%) Applications Support
9 5 (5.10%) IT Assistant
9 5 (5.10%) IT Support Assistant
9 5 (5.10%) Lead
9 5 (5.10%) Security Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Support Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Support Team Leader
9 5 (5.10%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.27%) JSON
2 12 (12.24%) XML
3 8 (8.16%) HTML
3 8 (8.16%) Spring
4 7 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
4 7 (7.14%) Apache Camel
4 7 (7.14%) Hibernate
4 7 (7.14%) jQuery
4 7 (7.14%) JSON Schema
4 7 (7.14%) LDAP
4 7 (7.14%) Regular Expression
4 7 (7.14%) REST
4 7 (7.14%) Spring Boot
4 7 (7.14%) WireMock
5 5 (5.10%) FIX Protocol
5 5 (5.10%) FreeMarker
5 5 (5.10%) Web Services
6 4 (4.08%) RESTful
7 3 (3.06%) 802.1X
7 3 (3.06%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.41%) Replication
2 8 (8.16%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (8.16%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.10%) Fixed Income
5 4 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.06%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.06%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (3.06%) PKI
7 2 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.04%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.04%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (1.02%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.02%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.02%) IoT
8 1 (1.02%) Market Risk
8 1 (1.02%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.02%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 72 (73.47%) Linux
2 26 (26.53%) Unix
3 20 (20.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (12.24%) AIX
4 12 (12.24%) Oracle Linux
4 12 (12.24%) Windows
5 7 (7.14%) Windows Server
6 5 (5.10%) CentOS
6 5 (5.10%) Mac OS
6 5 (5.10%) Ubuntu
7 3 (3.06%) Apple iOS
7 3 (3.06%) Solaris
8 2 (2.04%) Debian
8 2 (2.04%) tvOS
8 2 (2.04%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (39.80%) High Availability
2 33 (33.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 30 (30.61%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (25.51%) Performance Tuning
5 22 (22.45%) ITIL
6 20 (20.41%) CI/CD
7 18 (18.37%) Disaster Recovery
8 17 (17.35%) Runbook
9 16 (16.33%) Change Management
9 16 (16.33%) Incident Response
10 14 (14.29%) Configuration Management
10 14 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (13.27%) Agile
11 13 (13.27%) Capacity Planning
11 13 (13.27%) DevOps
12 11 (11.22%) Microservices
13 10 (10.20%) Computer Science
13 10 (10.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 9 (9.18%) Infrastructure as Code
14 9 (9.18%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 52 (53.06%) SQL
2 38 (38.78%) Python
3 28 (28.57%) Bash
4 18 (18.37%) Java
5 17 (17.35%) Korn
5 17 (17.35%) PL/SQL
6 14 (14.29%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.10%) Perl
7 5 (5.10%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.06%) C++
9 2 (2.04%) C
9 2 (2.04%) Groovy
9 2 (2.04%) Rust
10 1 (1.02%) ABAP
10 1 (1.02%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.24%) Degree
3 11 (11.22%) DV Cleared
4 8 (8.16%) SC Cleared
5 5 (5.10%) HNC
5 5 (5.10%) HND
6 4 (4.08%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.04%) Linux+ Certification
7 2 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.04%) RHCE
7 2 (2.04%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.06%) QA
2 2 (2.04%) ECSS
2 2 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.02%) GDPR
System Software
1 20 (20.41%) Docker
2 17 (17.35%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 7 (7.14%) vSphere
4 3 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.04%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.04%) KVM
6 1 (1.02%) Xen
Systems Management
1 19 (19.39%) Kubernetes
2 16 (16.33%) Oracle RMAN
3 15 (15.31%) Data Guard
4 14 (14.29%) Ansible
5 13 (13.27%) Nagios
6 9 (9.18%) Terraform
7 7 (7.14%) Kibana
7 7 (7.14%) Puppet
8 5 (5.10%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (5.10%) Prometheus
9 4 (4.08%) Grafana
10 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (3.06%) Oracle Flashback
10 3 (3.06%) Progress Chef
11 1 (1.02%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (1.02%) Podman
11 1 (1.02%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 39 (39.80%) Oracle
2 12 (12.24%) IBM
2 12 (12.24%) Microsoft
3 10 (10.20%) VMware
4 8 (8.16%) Splunk
5 7 (7.14%) Dynatrace
5 7 (7.14%) Red Hat
6 5 (5.10%) Apple
7 3 (3.06%) Google
7 3 (3.06%) McAfee
7 3 (3.06%) Sybase
8 2 (2.04%) Adobe
8 2 (2.04%) Cisco
8 2 (2.04%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (2.04%) Juniper
8 2 (2.04%) Meraki
8 2 (2.04%) NVIDIA
8 2 (2.04%) Okta
8 2 (2.04%) SAP
8 2 (2.04%) SonicWALL