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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 507 590
Rank change year-on-year -113 +83 -59
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 57 106 229
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.073% 0.28% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.41% 0.83% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 37 61 174
10th Percentile £45,850 £38,500 £41,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -2.04% +2.08%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £81,500 £95,000 £95,875
UK median annual salary £61,250 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.08% - -

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 13,837 12,735 26,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.77% 34.08% 32.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,702 9,358 22,451
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,125
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,623 £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 £87,500 £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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -45 29 £57,500 -14.81% 27
South East -55 22 £57,500 -8.00% 16
West Midlands -37 2 - - 4
North West -41 2 £55,000 +23.60% 6
Midlands -45 2 - - 6
South West -55 2 - - 2
North of England -73 2 £55,000 +23.60% 10
East of England -34 1 £70,000 +3.70% 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 3 (5.26%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (5.26%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (5.26%) FLEXCUBE
1 3 (5.26%) Shopify
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 18 (31.58%) AWS
2 12 (21.05%) Azure
3 8 (14.04%) GCP
3 8 (14.04%) Serverless
4 6 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (7.02%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (7.02%) SaaS
6 3 (5.26%) Boomi
6 3 (5.26%) GitHub
6 3 (5.26%) iPaaS
6 3 (5.26%) Power Automate
6 3 (5.26%) Workato
7 2 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.51%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (3.51%) Firebase
7 2 (3.51%) Sentry
7 2 (3.51%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.05%) Firewall
2 6 (10.53%) DNS
3 4 (7.02%) SpaceWire
4 3 (5.26%) Network Security
4 3 (5.26%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.75%) DHCP
5 1 (1.75%) LAN
5 1 (1.75%) NAS
5 1 (1.75%) SAN
5 1 (1.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.79%) Relational Database
2 7 (12.28%) Oracle Database
3 6 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (8.77%) RDBMS
5 4 (7.02%) MySQL
6 3 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (5.26%) NoSQL
6 3 (5.26%) Oracle Database 11g
6 3 (5.26%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (5.26%) Oracle Exadata
6 3 (5.26%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.51%) BigQuery
7 2 (3.51%) KDB
8 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.75%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.75%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.75%) Power BI
8 1 (1.75%) SAP HANA
8 1 (1.75%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 16 (28.07%) Git
2 10 (17.54%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.77%) JMeter
4 4 (7.02%) GitLab
4 4 (7.02%) JIRA
4 4 (7.02%) JUnit
4 4 (7.02%) Mockito
5 3 (5.26%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (3.51%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.51%) Storybook
7 1 (1.75%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.75%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.75%) LabVIEW
7 1 (1.75%) Selenium
7 1 (1.75%) Subversion
7 1 (1.75%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (24.56%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.28%) Finance
3 6 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.26%) Banking
5 3 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.26%) Law
5 3 (5.26%) Legal
6 2 (3.51%) Front Office
6 2 (3.51%) German Language
7 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 12 (21.05%) Support Engineer
2 10 (17.54%) Linux Engineer
3 9 (15.79%) Developer
4 7 (12.28%) Linux Support
4 7 (12.28%) Linux Support Engineer
4 7 (12.28%) Senior
5 5 (8.77%) DBA
6 4 (7.02%) Administrator
6 4 (7.02%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (7.02%) Implementation Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Implementation Specialist
6 4 (7.02%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (7.02%) Linux Specialist
6 4 (7.02%) Oracle DBA
6 4 (7.02%) Product Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Product Specialist
6 4 (7.02%) Products Support Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Products Support Specialist
6 4 (7.02%) Support Specialist
7 3 (5.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.05%) JSON
2 11 (19.30%) XML
3 10 (17.54%) REST
4 7 (12.28%) Web Services
5 6 (10.53%) HTML
6 5 (8.77%) RESTful
6 5 (8.77%) Spring
7 4 (7.02%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (7.02%) Apache Camel
7 4 (7.02%) Hibernate
7 4 (7.02%) jQuery
7 4 (7.02%) JSON Schema
7 4 (7.02%) LDAP
7 4 (7.02%) Qt
7 4 (7.02%) Regular Expression
7 4 (7.02%) Spring Boot
7 4 (7.02%) WireMock
8 3 (5.26%) 802.1X
8 3 (5.26%) AngularJS
8 3 (5.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (8.77%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (8.77%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (7.02%) Onboarding
3 4 (7.02%) Video on Demand
3 4 (7.02%) Video\Live Streaming
4 3 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.26%) Low-Code
4 3 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.51%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (3.51%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (3.51%) Fixed Income
5 2 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.51%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.51%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.75%) Clustering
6 1 (1.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 41 (71.93%) Linux
2 14 (24.56%) Unix
3 13 (22.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (21.05%) CentOS
5 8 (14.04%) Ubuntu
6 5 (8.77%) Windows
6 5 (8.77%) Windows Server
7 4 (7.02%) VxWorks
8 3 (5.26%) AIX
8 3 (5.26%) Apple iOS
8 3 (5.26%) Mac OS
8 3 (5.26%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (5.26%) Rocky
9 2 (3.51%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (31.58%) CI/CD
2 14 (24.56%) Agile
3 13 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (21.05%) High Availability
4 12 (21.05%) SDLC
5 10 (17.54%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (17.54%) DevOps
5 10 (17.54%) Performance Tuning
6 9 (15.79%) Containerisation
6 9 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (15.79%) ITIL
6 9 (15.79%) Microservices
6 9 (15.79%) Runbook
6 9 (15.79%) Test Automation
7 8 (14.04%) Change Management
7 8 (14.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (12.28%) Incident Response
8 7 (12.28%) Proactive Monitoring
8 7 (12.28%) Security Hardening
8 7 (12.28%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 30 (52.63%) Python
2 21 (36.84%) Bash
3 11 (19.30%) Java
3 11 (19.30%) SQL
4 9 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 8 (14.04%) Korn
5 8 (14.04%) Perl
6 7 (12.28%) PL/SQL
7 6 (10.53%) C++
8 4 (7.02%) C
9 3 (5.26%) C#
10 2 (3.51%) Groovy
10 2 (3.51%) Rust
10 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (28.07%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.79%) DV Cleared
3 7 (12.28%) Degree
4 4 (7.02%) SC Cleared
5 3 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (3.51%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.75%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (1.75%) RHCE
7 1 (1.75%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) ECSS
1 4 (7.02%) QA
2 3 (5.26%) GDPR
3 2 (3.51%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (33.33%) Docker
2 7 (12.28%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (7.02%) Active Directory
3 4 (7.02%) vSphere
4 3 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.51%) KVM
6 1 (1.75%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.75%) Xen
Systems Management
1 18 (31.58%) Kubernetes
2 14 (24.56%) Ansible
3 8 (14.04%) Nagios
3 8 (14.04%) Terraform
4 6 (10.53%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (8.77%) Data Guard
5 5 (8.77%) Puppet
6 4 (7.02%) Kibana
6 4 (7.02%) Prometheus
7 3 (5.26%) Grafana
7 3 (5.26%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (3.51%) Oracle Flashback
8 2 (3.51%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.75%) Argo
9 1 (1.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (1.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (24.56%) Oracle
2 7 (12.28%) Splunk
2 7 (12.28%) VMware
3 6 (10.53%) IBM
3 6 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 5 (8.77%) Red Hat
5 4 (7.02%) Dynatrace
5 4 (7.02%) SAP
6 3 (5.26%) Apple
6 3 (5.26%) Dell
6 3 (5.26%) IFS
6 3 (5.26%) Infor
6 3 (5.26%) Informatica
6 3 (5.26%) Jitterbit
6 3 (5.26%) MuleSoft
6 3 (5.26%) SnapLogic
6 3 (5.26%) Software AG
6 3 (5.26%) Talend
6 3 (5.26%) TIBCO
6 3 (5.26%) Workday