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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 537 456
Rank change year-on-year -5 -81 +96
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 64 158 217
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.32% 0.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.62% 0.95% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 37 68 149
10th Percentile £42,780 £43,863 £40,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,938 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +2.08% +3.45%
75th Percentile £61,250 £84,063 £81,250
90th Percentile £73,000 £107,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% - +5.93%

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 10,277 16,554 18,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.54% 33.95% 38.48%
Number of salaries quoted 7,757 9,745 15,319
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 +20 37 £55,000 -18.52% 6
South East +8 20 £53,750 -9.09% 9
North of England -7 6 £55,000 +19.57% 4
East of England +13 5 £43,085 - 6
North West +12 4 £60,000 +30.43% 3
South West +1 4 £95,000 +20.63% 2
Midlands +8 3 £58,000 +5.45% 4
West Midlands +15 2 - - 2
Yorkshire -20 2 £27,500 -26.67% 1
East Midlands -1 1 £58,000 +12.62% 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 (7.81%) Anypoint
2 4 (6.25%) Confluence
2 4 (6.25%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.56%) JBoss
4 1 (1.56%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Shopify
2 4 (6.25%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 33 (51.56%) AWS
2 19 (29.69%) Serverless
3 18 (28.13%) Amazon EC2
4 14 (21.88%) Amazon ECS
4 14 (21.88%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (18.75%) Azure
6 7 (10.94%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (7.81%) Boomi
7 5 (7.81%) iPaaS
7 5 (7.81%) Power Automate
7 5 (7.81%) Workato
8 4 (6.25%) Amazon S3
8 4 (6.25%) GCP
8 4 (6.25%) OpenShift
8 4 (6.25%) SaaS
9 3 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.13%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (3.13%) Firebase
10 2 (3.13%) Logz.io
10 2 (3.13%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.38%) DNS
1 6 (9.38%) Firewall
1 6 (9.38%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.69%) AMQP
2 3 (4.69%) DHCP
2 3 (4.69%) SSL
3 2 (3.13%) SpaceWire
3 2 (3.13%) SSH
3 2 (3.13%) VPN
4 1 (1.56%) HTTP
4 1 (1.56%) LAN
4 1 (1.56%) SAN
4 1 (1.56%) VLAN
4 1 (1.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (34.38%) Relational Database
2 17 (26.56%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (18.75%) RDBMS
4 9 (14.06%) MySQL
5 8 (12.50%) SQL Server
6 5 (7.81%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (6.25%) MS Access
7 4 (6.25%) Oracle Database
7 4 (6.25%) SAP Data Services
8 3 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (4.69%) InfluxDB
8 3 (4.69%) MongoDB
9 2 (3.13%) BigQuery
9 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (1.56%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (1.56%) SAP HANA
10 1 (1.56%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 19 (29.69%) Jenkins
2 15 (23.44%) JUnit
3 14 (21.88%) JMeter
3 14 (21.88%) Mockito
4 12 (18.75%) Git
5 6 (9.38%) JIRA
6 4 (6.25%) Maven
6 4 (6.25%) Toad
7 3 (4.69%) Gradle
8 2 (3.13%) Artifactory
8 2 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (3.13%) Storybook
9 1 (1.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.56%) GitLab
9 1 (1.56%) Subversion
9 1 (1.56%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 16 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.81%) Finance
4 5 (7.81%) Law
4 5 (7.81%) Legal
5 4 (6.25%) Local Government
6 3 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.13%) Advertising
7 2 (3.13%) Front Office
8 1 (1.56%) Aviation
8 1 (1.56%) Electronics
8 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (29.69%) Developer
2 18 (28.13%) Support Engineer
3 16 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 14 (21.88%) Full-Stack Developer
5 12 (18.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 12 (18.75%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 7 (10.94%) Linux Engineer
6 7 (10.94%) Linux Support
6 7 (10.94%) Linux Support Engineer
6 7 (10.94%) Senior
7 6 (9.38%) Applications Support
8 5 (7.81%) Administrator
8 5 (7.81%) DBA
8 5 (7.81%) Integration Engineer
8 5 (7.81%) Linux Specialist
9 4 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) Development Support Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) Implementation Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) Implementation Specialist
9 4 (6.25%) Senior Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (37.50%) REST
2 19 (29.69%) JSON
2 19 (29.69%) XML
3 18 (28.13%) HTML
4 17 (26.56%) Web Services
5 16 (25.00%) Spring
5 16 (25.00%) Spring Boot
6 14 (21.88%) ActiveMQ
6 14 (21.88%) Apache Camel
6 14 (21.88%) Hibernate
6 14 (21.88%) jQuery
6 14 (21.88%) WireMock
7 9 (14.06%) RESTful
8 7 (10.94%) SOAP
9 4 (6.25%) CSS
10 3 (4.69%) AngularJS
10 3 (4.69%) LAMP
10 3 (4.69%) Node.js
10 3 (4.69%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (4.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (9.38%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (7.81%) Low-Code
3 5 (7.81%) Replication
4 4 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (6.25%) Video on Demand
4 4 (6.25%) Video\Live Streaming
5 3 (4.69%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.13%) Clustering
6 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.13%) Driving Licence
6 2 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.56%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.56%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 39 (60.94%) Linux
2 21 (32.81%) Unix
3 10 (15.63%) Windows
4 9 (14.06%) CentOS
4 9 (14.06%) Windows Server
5 7 (10.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (9.38%) Ubuntu
7 4 (6.25%) Solaris
8 3 (4.69%) Rocky
9 2 (3.13%) VxWorks
9 2 (3.13%) Windows 10
9 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (1.56%) AIX
10 1 (1.56%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (56.25%) Agile
2 26 (40.63%) CI/CD
3 20 (31.25%) SDLC
4 18 (28.13%) Workflow
5 17 (26.56%) Microservices
6 16 (25.00%) TDD
7 15 (23.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (21.88%) BDD
8 14 (21.88%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (18.75%) DevOps
9 12 (18.75%) Process Management
10 11 (17.19%) Containerisation
10 11 (17.19%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (14.06%) Migration
11 9 (14.06%) Problem Management
12 8 (12.50%) Configuration Management
13 7 (10.94%) Change Management
13 7 (10.94%) Disaster Recovery
13 7 (10.94%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (59.38%) Python
2 25 (39.06%) Java
3 22 (34.38%) JavaScript
4 17 (26.56%) SQL
5 14 (21.88%) Bash
6 7 (10.94%) C#
6 7 (10.94%) PowerShell
7 5 (7.81%) Go
7 5 (7.81%) Perl
8 4 (6.25%) VB
9 3 (4.69%) C++
9 3 (4.69%) TypeScript
10 2 (3.13%) C
10 2 (3.13%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.56%) Bourne shell
11 1 (1.56%) C-shell
11 1 (1.56%) Korn
11 1 (1.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 12 (18.75%) Degree
3 6 (9.38%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.56%) OCA
5 1 (1.56%) OCP
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.81%) GDPR
2 4 (6.25%) QA
3 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.13%) ECSS
3 2 (3.13%) SLA
3 2 (3.13%) WCAG
4 1 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 28 (43.75%) Docker
2 3 (4.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.13%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.13%) KVM
3 2 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 28 (43.75%) Kubernetes
2 15 (23.44%) Ansible
3 14 (21.88%) Kibana
4 12 (18.75%) Terraform
5 5 (7.81%) Grafana
5 5 (7.81%) Nagios
5 5 (7.81%) Prometheus
6 4 (6.25%) Progress Chef
7 3 (4.69%) Argo
7 3 (4.69%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (3.13%) Plesk
8 2 (3.13%) Puppet
9 1 (1.56%) Data Guard
9 1 (1.56%) Nessus
9 1 (1.56%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (1.56%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (1.56%) Podman
9 1 (1.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 17 (26.56%) Oracle
2 16 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 16 (25.00%) Splunk
3 10 (15.63%) SAP
4 7 (10.94%) Red Hat
5 6 (9.38%) Dell
5 6 (9.38%) Software AG
5 6 (9.38%) VMware
6 5 (7.81%) Epicor
6 5 (7.81%) IBM
6 5 (7.81%) IFS
6 5 (7.81%) Infor
6 5 (7.81%) Informatica
6 5 (7.81%) Jitterbit
6 5 (7.81%) MuleSoft
6 5 (7.81%) SnapLogic
6 5 (7.81%) Talend
6 5 (7.81%) TIBCO
6 5 (7.81%) Workday
7 4 (6.25%) NEC