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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 630 505 574
Rank change year-on-year -125 +69 -93
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 115 138 197
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.32% 0.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.69% 1.11% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 86 74 129
10th Percentile - £38,500 £43,911
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,063 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £59,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% -26.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £75,625 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £81,875 £95,000 £110,695
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% -20.00% +7.14%

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 16,771 12,419 21,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.50% 28.39% 29.69%
Number of salaries quoted 12,228 8,297 15,544
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.11% -5.84%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 23 August 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 23 August 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 -20 39 £42,500 -4.49% 17
London -88 38 £75,000 +7.14% 12
South East -28 26 £65,000 +58.54% 8
North West -7 17 £42,500 -4.49% 8
Yorkshire - 11 £42,500 - 5
North East - 11 £42,500 - 4
East of England -27 5 £51,359 +31.69% 2
Midlands -43 3 £61,500 +6.49% 7
South West -72 3 - - 10
East Midlands -32 2 £61,500 +6.49% 3
West Midlands -37 1 - - 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 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.61%) Apache
3 2 (1.74%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.87%) JBoss
4 1 (0.87%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.61%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (9.57%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (4.35%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.87%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.87%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (20.87%) AWS
2 17 (14.78%) Azure
3 13 (11.30%) Serverless
4 12 (10.43%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (8.70%) GCP
6 9 (7.83%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (7.83%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.35%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.48%) GitHub
8 4 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.74%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 2 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.74%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (1.74%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.74%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 17 (14.78%) Firewall
2 13 (11.30%) DNS
3 4 (3.48%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.61%) DHCP
4 3 (2.61%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (1.74%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (1.74%) MQTT
5 2 (1.74%) Network Security
5 2 (1.74%) SSL
5 2 (1.74%) X.509
6 1 (0.87%) 5G
6 1 (0.87%) FTP
6 1 (0.87%) LTE
6 1 (0.87%) NAS
6 1 (0.87%) SAN
6 1 (0.87%) VPN
6 1 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.87%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (36.52%) SQL Server
2 33 (28.70%) MySQL
3 14 (12.17%) Oracle Database
4 12 (10.43%) Relational Database
5 11 (9.57%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (5.22%) RDBMS
7 5 (4.35%) KDB
8 3 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.61%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.74%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (1.74%) Oracle Database 12c
9 2 (1.74%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.87%) Big Data
10 1 (0.87%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.87%) Db2
10 1 (0.87%) OLTP
10 1 (0.87%) Oracle9i Database
10 1 (0.87%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (0.87%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 14 (12.17%) Jenkins
2 11 (9.57%) Git
3 7 (6.09%) JMeter
3 7 (6.09%) JUnit
3 7 (6.09%) Mockito
4 6 (5.22%) GitLab
5 4 (3.48%) JIRA
6 2 (1.74%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (1.74%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (1.74%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.87%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.87%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.87%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.87%) LSMW
7 1 (0.87%) Maven
7 1 (0.87%) Selenium
General
1 39 (33.91%) Social Skills
2 31 (26.96%) Finance
3 30 (26.09%) Law
4 12 (10.43%) Banking
5 9 (7.83%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (6.09%) Front Office
6 7 (6.09%) Legal
7 5 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.35%) Retail
8 2 (1.74%) Automotive
8 2 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.87%) German Language
9 1 (0.87%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (24.35%) DBA
2 24 (20.87%) Senior
3 21 (18.26%) Administrator
4 20 (17.39%) Database Engineer
5 12 (10.43%) IT Support
5 12 (10.43%) Oracle DBA
5 12 (10.43%) SQL DBA
6 11 (9.57%) Senior DBA
7 10 (8.70%) Linux Engineer
7 10 (8.70%) Senior Oracle DBA
8 8 (6.96%) Developer
9 6 (5.22%) Applications Support
9 6 (5.22%) Security Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) Support Assistant
10 5 (4.35%) IT Assistant
10 5 (4.35%) IT Support Assistant
10 5 (4.35%) Linux Administrator
10 5 (4.35%) Support Engineer
10 5 (4.35%) Support Team Leader
10 5 (4.35%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.17%) JSON
2 13 (11.30%) Terraform
3 12 (10.43%) XML
4 8 (6.96%) ActiveMQ
4 8 (6.96%) HTML
4 8 (6.96%) REST
4 8 (6.96%) Spring
5 7 (6.09%) Apache Camel
5 7 (6.09%) Hibernate
5 7 (6.09%) jQuery
5 7 (6.09%) JSON Schema
5 7 (6.09%) LDAP
5 7 (6.09%) Regular Expression
5 7 (6.09%) Spring Boot
5 7 (6.09%) WireMock
6 6 (5.22%) Web Services
7 5 (4.35%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (4.35%) FreeMarker
8 4 (3.48%) RESTful
9 3 (2.61%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 32 (27.83%) Replication
2 9 (7.83%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.96%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (6.09%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (5.22%) Fixed Income
6 5 (4.35%) PKI
7 4 (3.48%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.61%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.74%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.74%) CUDA
9 2 (1.74%) Derivative
9 2 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.74%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.74%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.74%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.87%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.87%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 92 (80.00%) Linux
2 27 (23.48%) Unix
3 23 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (14.78%) Windows
5 12 (10.43%) AIX
6 10 (8.70%) Oracle Linux
7 8 (6.96%) Windows Server
8 5 (4.35%) CentOS
8 5 (4.35%) Mac OS
9 4 (3.48%) Ubuntu
10 3 (2.61%) Apple iOS
10 3 (2.61%) Solaris
11 2 (1.74%) Debian
11 2 (1.74%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (1.74%) OpenWrt
11 2 (1.74%) Rocky
11 2 (1.74%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (43.48%) High Availability
2 49 (42.61%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (39.13%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 21 (18.26%) Performance Tuning
6 19 (16.52%) Disaster Recovery
7 18 (15.65%) DevOps
7 18 (15.65%) ITIL
8 15 (13.04%) Incident Response
8 15 (13.04%) Runbook
9 14 (12.17%) Agile
10 13 (11.30%) Change Management
10 13 (11.30%) Configuration Management
11 12 (10.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (10.43%) Microservices
11 12 (10.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 11 (9.57%) Capacity Planning
13 10 (8.70%) Computer Science
13 10 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
13 10 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 61 (53.04%) SQL
2 43 (37.39%) Python
3 29 (25.22%) Bash
4 19 (16.52%) Java
5 15 (13.04%) JavaScript
5 15 (13.04%) Korn
6 12 (10.43%) PL/SQL
7 6 (5.22%) C
7 6 (5.22%) Rust
8 5 (4.35%) C++
8 5 (4.35%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.61%) Perl
10 2 (1.74%) Fortran
10 2 (1.74%) Go
10 2 (1.74%) Groovy
11 1 (0.87%) ABAP
11 1 (0.87%) C#
11 1 (0.87%) COBOL
11 1 (0.87%) Micro Focus COBOL
11 1 (0.87%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (22.61%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.30%) Degree
2 13 (11.30%) DV Cleared
3 7 (6.09%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.35%) HNC
4 5 (4.35%) HND
5 4 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.48%) RHCE
5 4 (3.48%) RHCSA
6 2 (1.74%) IBM AIX Certification
6 2 (1.74%) Linux+ Certification
6 2 (1.74%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.61%) GDPR
1 3 (2.61%) QA
2 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.87%) JTAG
System Software
1 25 (21.74%) Docker
2 13 (11.30%) Oracle RAC
3 9 (7.83%) vSphere
4 7 (6.09%) Active Directory
5 3 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.74%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.74%) KVM
6 2 (1.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.87%) Firmware
7 1 (0.87%) QEMU
7 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (16.52%) Ansible
2 18 (15.65%) Kubernetes
3 13 (11.30%) Oracle RMAN
4 12 (10.43%) Data Guard
5 11 (9.57%) Nagios
6 9 (7.83%) Puppet
7 7 (6.09%) Kibana
8 5 (4.35%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (4.35%) Prometheus
9 4 (3.48%) Podman
10 3 (2.61%) Grafana
10 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.74%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (1.74%) Oracle Flashback
11 2 (1.74%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.87%) Control-M
12 1 (0.87%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 37 (32.17%) Oracle
2 12 (10.43%) IBM
2 12 (10.43%) Microsoft
3 11 (9.57%) VMware
4 8 (6.96%) Red Hat
4 8 (6.96%) Splunk
5 7 (6.09%) Dynatrace
6 5 (4.35%) Apple
7 3 (2.61%) Google
7 3 (2.61%) McAfee
7 3 (2.61%) Sybase
8 2 (1.74%) Adobe
8 2 (1.74%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.74%) Cisco
8 2 (1.74%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.74%) Juniper
8 2 (1.74%) Meraki
8 2 (1.74%) Okta
8 2 (1.74%) SAP
8 2 (1.74%) SonicWALL