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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 621 516 626
Rank change year-on-year -105 +110 -107
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 95 135 223
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.33% 0.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.60% 1.06% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 64 71 158
10th Percentile - - £43,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -14.29% +6.87%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £84,625 £95,000 £103,167
UK median annual salary £61,500 £59,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.24% -12.59% +3.05%

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 15,705 12,744 28,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.41% 31.14% 30.88%
Number of salaries quoted 11,390 8,597 22,772
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,531 £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 29 June 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 29 June 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 -56 43 £75,000 +1.69% 15
South East -33 22 £66,000 +60.98% 9
North of England -53 18 £42,500 -4.49% 11
Yorkshire -23 7 £42,500 - 2
North West -6 6 £42,500 -4.49% 8
East of England -18 5 £51,359 +31.69% 2
North East - 5 £42,500 - 1
Midlands -47 4 £61,500 +6.96% 3
South West -68 3 - - 5
East Midlands -21 2 £61,500 +6.96%
West Midlands -30 2 - - 3
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 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.11%) Apache
3 1 (1.05%) Confluence
3 1 (1.05%) nginx
3 1 (1.05%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.16%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (11.58%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (5.26%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.05%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.05%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.05%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (20.00%) AWS
2 15 (15.79%) Azure
3 10 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (10.53%) Serverless
4 9 (9.47%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (7.37%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (7.37%) GCP
6 5 (5.26%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.16%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.11%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 2 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.11%) GitHub
8 2 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.11%) Google Workspace
8 2 (2.11%) SaaS
9 1 (1.05%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (1.05%) Cloudflare
9 1 (1.05%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 18 (18.95%) Firewall
2 9 (9.47%) DNS
3 3 (3.16%) Network Security
3 3 (3.16%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.11%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (2.11%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (2.11%) SpaceWire
4 2 (2.11%) SSL
5 1 (1.05%) DHCP
5 1 (1.05%) FTP
5 1 (1.05%) LAN
5 1 (1.05%) MQTT
5 1 (1.05%) NAS
5 1 (1.05%) SAN
5 1 (1.05%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (31.58%) SQL Server
2 21 (22.11%) MySQL
3 16 (16.84%) Oracle Database
4 12 (12.63%) Relational Database
5 11 (11.58%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (7.37%) RDBMS
7 5 (5.26%) KDB
8 4 (4.21%) Oracle Database 11g
8 4 (4.21%) Oracle Database 12c
8 4 (4.21%) Oracle Exadata
9 3 (3.16%) MongoDB
10 2 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (2.11%) Sybase ASE
11 1 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (1.05%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 1 (1.05%) DynamoDB
11 1 (1.05%) NoSQL
11 1 (1.05%) SAP HANA
11 1 (1.05%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 14 (14.74%) Jenkins
2 12 (12.63%) Git
3 8 (8.42%) JMeter
4 7 (7.37%) JUnit
4 7 (7.37%) Mockito
5 6 (6.32%) GitLab
6 4 (4.21%) JIRA
6 4 (4.21%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (3.16%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (2.11%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.05%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.05%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.05%) LabVIEW
9 1 (1.05%) LSMW
9 1 (1.05%) Selenium
9 1 (1.05%) Subversion
General
1 30 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 24 (25.26%) Finance
3 18 (18.95%) Law
4 12 (12.63%) Banking
5 9 (9.47%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.32%) Legal
7 5 (5.26%) Front Office
7 5 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (5.26%) Retail
8 4 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.11%) German Language
10 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (28.42%) DBA
2 19 (20.00%) Administrator
2 19 (20.00%) Senior
3 12 (12.63%) SQL DBA
4 11 (11.58%) IT Support
4 11 (11.58%) Oracle DBA
5 10 (10.53%) Database Engineer
5 10 (10.53%) Senior DBA
5 10 (10.53%) Senior Oracle DBA
6 7 (7.37%) Developer
6 7 (7.37%) Linux Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) Support Assistant
8 5 (5.26%) IT Assistant
8 5 (5.26%) IT Support Assistant
8 5 (5.26%) Lead
8 5 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Support Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Application Support Team Leader
9 4 (4.21%) Java Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.63%) JSON
2 11 (11.58%) XML
3 8 (8.42%) HTML
3 8 (8.42%) REST
3 8 (8.42%) Spring
4 7 (7.37%) ActiveMQ
4 7 (7.37%) Apache Camel
4 7 (7.37%) Hibernate
4 7 (7.37%) jQuery
4 7 (7.37%) Spring Boot
4 7 (7.37%) WireMock
5 6 (6.32%) JSON Schema
5 6 (6.32%) LDAP
5 6 (6.32%) Regular Expression
6 5 (5.26%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (5.26%) FreeMarker
6 5 (5.26%) Web Services
7 4 (4.21%) RESTful
8 3 (3.16%) 802.1X
8 3 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.05%) Replication
2 9 (9.47%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (8.42%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (5.26%) Fixed Income
6 4 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (3.16%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.16%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.11%) Clustering
8 2 (2.11%) PKI
8 2 (2.11%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (2.11%) Security Posture
8 2 (2.11%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (1.05%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.05%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.05%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.05%) IoT
9 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 70 (73.68%) Linux
2 25 (26.32%) Unix
3 18 (18.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (12.63%) Windows
5 10 (10.53%) AIX
5 10 (10.53%) Oracle Linux
6 7 (7.37%) Windows Server
7 5 (5.26%) CentOS
7 5 (5.26%) Mac OS
7 5 (5.26%) Ubuntu
8 3 (3.16%) Apple iOS
9 2 (2.11%) Debian
9 2 (2.11%) Solaris
9 2 (2.11%) tvOS
9 2 (2.11%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (38.95%) High Availability
2 32 (33.68%) Continuous Improvement
3 30 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (22.11%) Performance Tuning
5 20 (21.05%) CI/CD
5 20 (21.05%) ITIL
6 16 (16.84%) Runbook
7 15 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
8 14 (14.74%) Agile
8 14 (14.74%) Change Management
8 14 (14.74%) Incident Response
9 12 (12.63%) DevOps
9 12 (12.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 11 (11.58%) Configuration Management
10 11 (11.58%) Microservices
11 10 (10.53%) Capacity Planning
11 10 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (9.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 9 (9.47%) TDD
12 9 (9.47%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 50 (52.63%) SQL
2 37 (38.95%) Python
3 26 (27.37%) Bash
4 17 (17.89%) Java
5 16 (16.84%) Korn
6 15 (15.79%) PL/SQL
7 14 (14.74%) JavaScript
8 5 (5.26%) Perl
8 5 (5.26%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.16%) C++
10 2 (2.11%) C
10 2 (2.11%) Groovy
10 2 (2.11%) Rust
11 1 (1.05%) ABAP
11 1 (1.05%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (23.16%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.58%) Degree
2 11 (11.58%) DV Cleared
3 8 (8.42%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.21%) HNC
4 4 (4.21%) HND
4 4 (4.21%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.11%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.05%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (1.05%) RHCE
6 1 (1.05%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.16%) QA
2 2 (2.11%) ECSS
2 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.05%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (22.11%) Docker
2 15 (15.79%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (6.32%) Active Directory
3 6 (6.32%) vSphere
4 2 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.05%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.05%) KVM
5 1 (1.05%) Xen
Systems Management
1 19 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (14.74%) Oracle RMAN
3 13 (13.68%) Data Guard
4 12 (12.63%) Ansible
5 11 (11.58%) Nagios
6 9 (9.47%) Terraform
7 7 (7.37%) Kibana
7 7 (7.37%) Puppet
8 5 (5.26%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (5.26%) Prometheus
9 4 (4.21%) Grafana
10 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (3.16%) Oracle Flashback
11 2 (2.11%) Progress Chef
12 1 (1.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (1.05%) Podman
12 1 (1.05%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 36 (37.89%) Oracle
2 13 (13.68%) Microsoft
3 10 (10.53%) IBM
4 9 (9.47%) Splunk
5 8 (8.42%) VMware
6 7 (7.37%) Dynatrace
6 7 (7.37%) Red Hat
7 5 (5.26%) Apple
8 4 (4.21%) Sybase
9 3 (3.16%) SAP
10 2 (2.11%) Adobe
10 2 (2.11%) Cisco
10 2 (2.11%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (2.11%) Google
10 2 (2.11%) Juniper
10 2 (2.11%) McAfee
10 2 (2.11%) Meraki
10 2 (2.11%) NVIDIA
10 2 (2.11%) Okta
10 2 (2.11%) SonicWALL