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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 512 547
Rank change year-on-year -99 +35 -101
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 155 117 201
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.15% 0.27% 0.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.92% 1.01% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 88 58 100
10th Percentile - £38,500 £43,911
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,063 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,250 £59,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.75% -18.62% +3.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,125 £107,500
UK median annual salary £54,500 £58,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.03% -20.00% +3.57%

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 16,765 11,555 20,860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.13% 26.72% 31.16%
Number of salaries quoted 12,230 7,598 12,802
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £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 £84,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +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 2 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 2 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 -4.49% 29
London -102 40 £75,000 +7.14% 114
South East -44 29 £65,000 -4.41% 25
North West -15 24 £42,500 -4.49% 16
Yorkshire - 16 £42,500 - 10
Midlands -46 13 £61,500 +6.49% 27
North East - 13 £42,500 - 3
East of England -43 9 £51,359 +31.69% 15
South West -66 9 £66,250 -30.26% 19
East Midlands -36 7 £61,500 +6.49% 5
West Midlands -42 6 - - 21
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 6 (3.87%) Apache
2 5 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.94%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.29%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.65%) JBoss
6 1 (0.65%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (7.10%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (3.23%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.65%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 62 (40.00%) AWS
2 50 (32.26%) Azure
3 45 (29.03%) GCP
4 30 (19.35%) Cloud Computing
5 16 (10.32%) Serverless
6 12 (7.74%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (7.10%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (4.52%) GitHub
9 7 (4.52%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.23%) Amazon S3
10 5 (3.23%) Entra ID
10 5 (3.23%) SaaS
11 4 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.94%) Cloud Composer
12 3 (1.94%) dbt
13 2 (1.29%) AWS CodeBuild
13 2 (1.29%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 30 (19.35%) Internet
2 13 (8.39%) DNS
2 13 (8.39%) Firewall
3 6 (3.87%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.58%) 5G
4 4 (2.58%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (1.94%) 4G
5 3 (1.94%) DHCP
5 3 (1.94%) HTTP
5 3 (1.94%) SSH
6 2 (1.29%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (1.29%) MQTT
6 2 (1.29%) Network Security
6 2 (1.29%) SSL
6 2 (1.29%) X.509
7 1 (0.65%) FTP
7 1 (0.65%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.65%) VPN
7 1 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (27.10%) SQL Server
2 37 (23.87%) MySQL
3 16 (10.32%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (9.03%) Oracle Database
5 13 (8.39%) Relational Database
6 7 (4.52%) RDBMS
7 6 (3.87%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.23%) KDB
9 4 (2.58%) Big Data
10 3 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.94%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.94%) Flink
10 3 (1.94%) Looker
10 3 (1.94%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.94%) Redis
11 2 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.65%) Db2
12 1 (0.65%) OLTP
12 1 (0.65%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 41 (26.45%) Git
2 19 (12.26%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.81%) GitLab
4 8 (5.16%) JMeter
4 8 (5.16%) JUnit
4 8 (5.16%) Mockito
5 4 (2.58%) Selenium
6 2 (1.29%) JIRA
7 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.65%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.65%) LSMW
7 1 (0.65%) Maven
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
General
1 40 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 38 (24.52%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (20.65%) Finance
4 30 (19.35%) Law
5 12 (7.74%) Banking
5 12 (7.74%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.52%) Front Office
6 7 (4.52%) Legal
7 5 (3.23%) Retail
8 3 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.94%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.29%) Automotive
9 2 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.65%) Avionics
10 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Electronics
10 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (21.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (20.00%) Senior
3 30 (19.35%) Trainee
4 27 (17.42%) DBA
5 22 (14.19%) Administrator
6 19 (12.26%) Database Engineer
7 12 (7.74%) Developer
7 12 (7.74%) IT Support
7 12 (7.74%) SQL DBA
8 11 (7.10%) Linux Engineer
8 11 (7.10%) Oracle DBA
8 11 (7.10%) Senior DBA
9 10 (6.45%) Senior Oracle DBA
10 8 (5.16%) Security Engineer
11 6 (3.87%) Applications Support
11 6 (3.87%) Linux Administrator
11 6 (3.87%) Support Assistant
12 5 (3.23%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 5 (3.23%) Senior Developer
12 5 (3.23%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.19%) Terraform
2 12 (7.74%) HTML
3 11 (7.10%) JSON
3 11 (7.10%) REST
4 10 (6.45%) XML
5 9 (5.81%) ActiveMQ
5 9 (5.81%) Spring
6 8 (5.16%) Apache Camel
6 8 (5.16%) Hibernate
6 8 (5.16%) jQuery
6 8 (5.16%) Spring Boot
6 8 (5.16%) WireMock
7 7 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (4.52%) RESTful
7 7 (4.52%) Web Services
8 6 (3.87%) Kafka
9 5 (3.23%) FastAPI
9 5 (3.23%) FIX Protocol
9 5 (3.23%) FreeMarker
9 5 (3.23%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 38 (24.52%) Linux Command Line
2 32 (20.65%) Replication
3 9 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.81%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.87%) Fixed Income
5 5 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.23%) PKI
6 3 (1.94%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.94%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.29%) CUDA
7 2 (1.29%) Derivative
7 2 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.29%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.29%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.29%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.65%) Molecular Biology
8 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 126 (81.29%) Linux
2 29 (18.71%) Unix
3 21 (13.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (11.61%) Windows
5 12 (7.74%) AIX
6 10 (6.45%) Oracle Linux
7 7 (4.52%) Windows Server
8 6 (3.87%) CentOS
9 4 (2.58%) Rocky
9 4 (2.58%) Ubuntu
10 3 (1.94%) Debian
10 3 (1.94%) Solaris
11 2 (1.29%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (1.29%) Mac OS
11 2 (1.29%) OpenWrt
11 2 (1.29%) tvOS
12 1 (0.65%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (40.65%) CI/CD
2 53 (34.19%) DevOps
3 49 (31.61%) High Availability
3 49 (31.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (30.32%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (29.68%) Continuous Improvement
6 43 (27.74%) Configuration Management
7 42 (27.10%) Containerisation
8 41 (26.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 38 (24.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 37 (23.87%) Platform Engineering
10 37 (23.87%) SDLC
11 35 (22.58%) Cloud Security
11 35 (22.58%) Continuous Integration
12 34 (21.94%) DevSecOps
12 34 (21.94%) Mentoring
13 33 (21.29%) Continuous Delivery
14 32 (20.65%) Analytical Thinking
14 32 (20.65%) Incident Management
15 31 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
Programming Languages
1 68 (43.87%) SQL
2 56 (36.13%) Python
3 33 (21.29%) Bash
4 22 (14.19%) Java
5 19 (12.26%) JavaScript
6 13 (8.39%) Korn
7 11 (7.10%) PL/SQL
8 8 (5.16%) C
9 6 (3.87%) Rust
10 5 (3.23%) C++
10 5 (3.23%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.58%) Scala
12 3 (1.94%) Fortran
13 2 (1.29%) Go
13 2 (1.29%) Perl
14 1 (0.65%) ABAP
14 1 (0.65%) C#
14 1 (0.65%) COBOL
14 1 (0.65%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 1 (0.65%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.39%) Degree
3 11 (7.10%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.87%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.23%) HNC
5 5 (3.23%) HND
6 3 (1.94%) RHCE
6 3 (1.94%) RHCSA
7 2 (1.29%) IBM AIX Certification
8 1 (0.65%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.23%) QA
2 3 (1.94%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.94%) GDPR
3 2 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.65%) DO-254
4 1 (0.65%) JTAG
System Software
1 62 (40.00%) Docker
2 11 (7.10%) Oracle RAC
3 8 (5.16%) vSphere
4 5 (3.23%) Active Directory
5 4 (2.58%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.94%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.65%) Ceph
7 1 (0.65%) Firmware
7 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.65%) KVM
7 1 (0.65%) Lustre
7 1 (0.65%) NFS
7 1 (0.65%) QEMU
7 1 (0.65%) Samba
Systems Management
1 22 (14.19%) Kubernetes
2 19 (12.26%) Ansible
3 11 (7.10%) Data Guard
3 11 (7.10%) Oracle RMAN
4 10 (6.45%) Nagios
5 9 (5.81%) Puppet
6 8 (5.16%) Kibana
6 8 (5.16%) Prometheus
7 7 (4.52%) Grafana
8 4 (2.58%) Podman
9 2 (1.29%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.29%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.65%) Control-M
10 1 (0.65%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.65%) Oracle Flashback
10 1 (0.65%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 38 (24.52%) Microsoft
2 36 (23.23%) Google
2 36 (23.23%) Oracle
3 13 (8.39%) Splunk
4 12 (7.74%) IBM
5 10 (6.45%) Red Hat
6 9 (5.81%) VMware
7 8 (5.16%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.58%) New Relic
9 3 (1.94%) Apple
9 3 (1.94%) McAfee
9 3 (1.94%) Sybase
10 2 (1.29%) Adobe
10 2 (1.29%) Cisco
10 2 (1.29%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.29%) Juniper
10 2 (1.29%) Meraki
10 2 (1.29%) Okta
10 2 (1.29%) SAP
10 2 (1.29%) SonicWALL