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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 628 511 599
Rank change year-on-year -117 +88 -114
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 101 138 204
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.32% 0.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.63% 1.06% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 71 76 143
10th Percentile - £38,500 £47,231
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,188 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,625 £87,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £108,445
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -14.29% -

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 16,152 13,065 24,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.16% 30.19% 30.24%
Number of salaries quoted 11,823 8,807 18,886
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £101,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.78% +7.50% -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 July 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 July 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 -82 45 £75,000 +7.14% 16
South East -24 23 £66,000 +78.38% 9
North of England -23 22 £42,500 -4.49% 23
North West -6 9 £42,500 -4.49% 14
Yorkshire - 7 £42,500 - 6
North East - 6 £42,500 - 3
East of England -11 5 £51,359 +31.69% 1
Midlands -42 4 £61,500 +6.96% 13
East Midlands -31 2 £61,500 +6.49% 4
West Midlands -38 2 - - 9
South West -59 2 - - 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 (4.95%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.98%) Apache
3 1 (0.99%) Confluence
3 1 (0.99%) nginx
3 1 (0.99%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.97%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (13.86%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (4.95%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.99%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.99%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.99%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.99%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (21.78%) AWS
2 16 (15.84%) Azure
3 11 (10.89%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (10.89%) Serverless
4 9 (8.91%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (8.91%) GCP
5 8 (7.92%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (4.95%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.96%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.97%) GitHub
8 3 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.98%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 2 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.98%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.98%) SaaS
10 1 (0.99%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.99%) CloudFront
10 1 (0.99%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 19 (18.81%) Firewall
2 11 (10.89%) DNS
3 3 (2.97%) Network Security
3 3 (2.97%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (2.97%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.98%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (1.98%) DHCP
4 2 (1.98%) SSL
5 1 (0.99%) FTP
5 1 (0.99%) MQTT
5 1 (0.99%) NAS
5 1 (0.99%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (28.71%) SQL Server
2 20 (19.80%) MySQL
3 19 (18.81%) Oracle Database
4 12 (11.88%) Relational Database
5 11 (10.89%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (6.93%) RDBMS
7 5 (4.95%) KDB
8 4 (3.96%) Oracle Database 11g
8 4 (3.96%) Oracle Database 12c
8 4 (3.96%) Oracle Exadata
9 3 (2.97%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.99%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.99%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.99%) OLTP
11 1 (0.99%) Oracle9i Database
11 1 (0.99%) SAP Data Services
11 1 (0.99%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 14 (13.86%) Jenkins
2 11 (10.89%) Git
3 8 (7.92%) JMeter
4 7 (6.93%) JUnit
4 7 (6.93%) Mockito
5 5 (4.95%) GitLab
5 5 (4.95%) JIRA
6 4 (3.96%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (2.97%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (1.98%) Selenium
8 2 (1.98%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.99%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.99%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.99%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.99%) LSMW
9 1 (0.99%) Subversion
General
1 37 (36.63%) Social Skills
2 31 (30.69%) Finance
3 18 (17.82%) Law
4 15 (14.85%) Banking
5 9 (8.91%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.93%) Front Office
6 7 (6.93%) Legal
7 6 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (4.95%) Retail
9 2 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.98%) German Language
10 1 (0.99%) Automotive
10 1 (0.99%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (29.70%) DBA
2 24 (23.76%) Senior
3 19 (18.81%) Administrator
4 14 (13.86%) Oracle DBA
4 14 (13.86%) Senior DBA
5 13 (12.87%) Senior Oracle DBA
6 12 (11.88%) IT Support
6 12 (11.88%) SQL DBA
7 10 (9.90%) Database Engineer
8 7 (6.93%) Developer
8 7 (6.93%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (5.94%) Applications Support
9 6 (5.94%) Support Assistant
10 5 (4.95%) Application Support Team Leader
10 5 (4.95%) IT Support Assistant
10 5 (4.95%) Lead
10 5 (4.95%) Security Engineer
10 5 (4.95%) Support Engineer
10 5 (4.95%) Support Team Leader
10 5 (4.95%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.87%) JSON
2 12 (11.88%) XML
3 8 (7.92%) HTML
3 8 (7.92%) Spring
4 7 (6.93%) ActiveMQ
4 7 (6.93%) Apache Camel
4 7 (6.93%) Hibernate
4 7 (6.93%) jQuery
4 7 (6.93%) JSON Schema
4 7 (6.93%) LDAP
4 7 (6.93%) Regular Expression
4 7 (6.93%) REST
4 7 (6.93%) Spring Boot
4 7 (6.93%) WireMock
5 6 (5.94%) Web Services
6 5 (4.95%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (4.95%) FreeMarker
7 4 (3.96%) RESTful
8 3 (2.97%) 802.1X
8 3 (2.97%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.80%) Replication
2 8 (7.92%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (7.92%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (6.93%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.94%) Fixed Income
5 4 (3.96%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (2.97%) PKI
7 2 (1.98%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.98%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.98%) Derivative
7 2 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.98%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.98%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.99%) IoT
8 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.99%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 75 (74.26%) Linux
2 29 (28.71%) Unix
3 21 (20.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (13.86%) Windows
5 13 (12.87%) AIX
5 13 (12.87%) Oracle Linux
6 7 (6.93%) Windows Server
7 5 (4.95%) CentOS
7 5 (4.95%) Mac OS
7 5 (4.95%) Ubuntu
8 3 (2.97%) Apple iOS
8 3 (2.97%) Solaris
9 2 (1.98%) Debian
9 2 (1.98%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (39.60%) High Availability
2 33 (32.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 33 (32.67%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (25.74%) Performance Tuning
4 23 (22.77%) ITIL
5 21 (20.79%) Disaster Recovery
6 20 (19.80%) CI/CD
7 19 (18.81%) Runbook
8 18 (17.82%) Incident Response
9 17 (16.83%) Change Management
10 15 (14.85%) Configuration Management
10 15 (14.85%) DevOps
10 15 (14.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 14 (13.86%) Capacity Planning
12 13 (12.87%) Agile
13 11 (10.89%) Computer Science
13 11 (10.89%) Microservices
14 10 (9.90%) Containerisation
14 10 (9.90%) Infrastructure as Code
14 10 (9.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 54 (53.47%) SQL
2 41 (40.59%) Python
3 30 (29.70%) Bash
4 19 (18.81%) Java
5 18 (17.82%) Korn
5 18 (17.82%) PL/SQL
6 14 (13.86%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.95%) Perl
7 5 (4.95%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.97%) C++
8 3 (2.97%) Rust
9 2 (1.98%) C
9 2 (1.98%) Groovy
10 1 (0.99%) ABAP
10 1 (0.99%) Fortran
10 1 (0.99%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (20.79%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.87%) Degree
3 11 (10.89%) DV Cleared
4 8 (7.92%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.95%) HNC
5 5 (4.95%) HND
6 4 (3.96%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.98%) Linux+ Certification
8 2 (1.98%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.98%) RHCE
8 2 (1.98%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.97%) QA
2 2 (1.98%) GDPR
2 2 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (20.79%) Docker
2 18 (17.82%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (6.93%) Active Directory
3 7 (6.93%) vSphere
4 3 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.98%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.98%) KVM
6 1 (0.99%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.99%) Xen
Systems Management
1 19 (18.81%) Kubernetes
2 17 (16.83%) Oracle RMAN
3 16 (15.84%) Data Guard
4 15 (14.85%) Ansible
5 14 (13.86%) Nagios
6 10 (9.90%) Terraform
7 7 (6.93%) Kibana
7 7 (6.93%) Puppet
8 6 (5.94%) Prometheus
9 5 (4.95%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (3.96%) Grafana
11 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (2.97%) Oracle Flashback
11 3 (2.97%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.99%) Control-M
12 1 (0.99%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.99%) Podman
12 1 (0.99%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 40 (39.60%) Oracle
2 13 (12.87%) IBM
3 12 (11.88%) Microsoft
4 10 (9.90%) VMware
5 9 (8.91%) Splunk
6 7 (6.93%) Dynatrace
6 7 (6.93%) Red Hat
7 5 (4.95%) Apple
8 3 (2.97%) Google
8 3 (2.97%) McAfee
8 3 (2.97%) Sybase
9 2 (1.98%) Adobe
9 2 (1.98%) Cisco
9 2 (1.98%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (1.98%) Juniper
9 2 (1.98%) Meraki
9 2 (1.98%) NVIDIA
9 2 (1.98%) Okta
9 2 (1.98%) SAP
9 2 (1.98%) SonicWALL