Shell Script Jobs in England

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Shell Script skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Shell Script over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 589 584 522
Rank change year-on-year -5 -62 -162
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 101 254 461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.29% 0.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.67% 0.92% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 59 173 217
10th Percentile £38,500 £41,500 £38,950
25th Percentile £40,750 £47,500 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,500 £96,000 £105,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

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 15,030 27,631 38,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.40% 32.02% 43.28%
Number of salaries quoted 10,075 22,397 24,685
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,743 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.24% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,751 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Shell Script as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in England

Shell Script
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Shell Script in England.

Salary trend for Shell Script in England

Shell Script
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

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 17 May 2025. 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 +92 58 £71,250 -10.94% 75
South East +60 27 £53,750 +27.98% 30
Midlands +55 15 £60,000 +20.00% 24
North of England +27 14 £44,500 -14.02% 39
West Midlands +59 13 £60,000 +34.83% 18
North West -3 13 £44,500 -56.59% 20
East Midlands +11 2 - - 6
South West +56 1 £60,000 - 15
Yorkshire +49 1 - - 15
East of England +21 1 £67,500 +12.50% 23
Shell Script
UK

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.97%) Confluence
2 2 (1.98%) SAS
3 1 (0.99%) Apache
3 1 (0.99%) nginx
3 1 (0.99%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (0.99%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.99%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.99%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.99%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (6.93%) Chatbot
1 7 (6.93%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (1.98%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 6 (5.94%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (3.96%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.99%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.99%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.99%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.99%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.99%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 44 (43.56%) AWS
2 21 (20.79%) Amazon ECS
2 21 (20.79%) Serverless
3 18 (17.82%) Amazon EC2
4 16 (15.84%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (9.90%) Azure
6 9 (8.91%) Amazon S3
7 8 (7.92%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (7.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (6.93%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 7 (6.93%) AWS KMS
9 6 (5.94%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.96%) GitHub
10 4 (3.96%) SaaS
11 3 (2.97%) Amazon ELB
11 3 (2.97%) Amazon Glacier
11 3 (2.97%) Datadog
11 3 (2.97%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.98%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.91%) SSL
2 8 (7.92%) Firewall
3 6 (5.94%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.98%) Network Security
5 1 (0.99%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (0.99%) DHCP
5 1 (0.99%) DNS
5 1 (0.99%) HTTP
5 1 (0.99%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.99%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.99%) RTP
5 1 (0.99%) SAN
5 1 (0.99%) VLAN
5 1 (0.99%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (20.79%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (13.86%) RDBMS
2 14 (13.86%) Relational Database
3 9 (8.91%) Oracle Database
4 8 (7.92%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.95%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.95%) Oracle Exadata
6 4 (3.96%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.96%) MySQL
7 3 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.97%) Redis
8 2 (1.98%) Metadata
8 2 (1.98%) Metadata Repository
8 2 (1.98%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.98%) Pentaho
8 2 (1.98%) Power BI
8 2 (1.98%) Triplestore
9 1 (0.99%) DB2
9 1 (0.99%) OLTP
9 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (35.64%) Jenkins
2 16 (15.84%) Git
2 16 (15.84%) JUnit
3 15 (14.85%) Mockito
4 13 (12.87%) JMeter
5 8 (7.92%) JIRA
5 8 (7.92%) Maven
6 7 (6.93%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (3.96%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.97%) SonarQube
8 3 (2.97%) Subversion
8 3 (2.97%) Vagrant
9 2 (1.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (1.98%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.98%) Gradle
9 2 (1.98%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (1.98%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.98%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.98%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.98%) Xcode
General
1 30 (29.70%) Social Skills
2 27 (26.73%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (17.82%) Finance
4 17 (16.83%) Public Sector
5 13 (12.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (11.88%) Manufacturing
7 11 (10.89%) Retail
8 6 (5.94%) Telecoms
9 4 (3.96%) Banking
9 4 (3.96%) Front Office
10 3 (2.97%) Billing
10 3 (2.97%) Legal
11 2 (1.98%) Cantonese Language
11 2 (1.98%) Marketing
11 2 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.99%) Advertising
12 1 (0.99%) Back Office
12 1 (0.99%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.99%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 20 (19.80%) Developer
2 16 (15.84%) Senior
3 13 (12.87%) Java Developer
4 12 (11.88%) Linux Engineer
5 11 (10.89%) Analyst
5 11 (10.89%) Applications Support
5 11 (10.89%) Linux Support
5 11 (10.89%) Support Analyst
6 9 (8.91%) Applications Support Analyst
6 9 (8.91%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (8.91%) Support Engineer
7 7 (6.93%) Linux Support Engineer
8 6 (5.94%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.94%) Lead
9 5 (4.95%) DBA
9 5 (4.95%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (4.95%) Oracle DBA
9 5 (4.95%) Python Developer
9 5 (4.95%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.95%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (20.79%) REST
2 19 (18.81%) HTML
3 18 (17.82%) Spring
4 17 (16.83%) Hibernate
5 16 (15.84%) Spring Boot
6 15 (14.85%) Web Services
7 13 (12.87%) ActiveMQ
7 13 (12.87%) Apache Camel
7 13 (12.87%) jQuery
7 13 (12.87%) WireMock
7 13 (12.87%) XML
8 10 (9.90%) JSON
9 5 (4.95%) Middleware
9 5 (4.95%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (4.95%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 4 (3.96%) HTML5
11 3 (2.97%) J2EE
11 3 (2.97%) React
12 2 (1.98%) CSS
12 2 (1.98%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.84%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (11.88%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (8.91%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 6 (5.94%) Clustering
5 5 (4.95%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.95%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.97%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.98%) CCTV
7 2 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.98%) Derivative
7 2 (1.98%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (1.98%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.99%) Equities
8 1 (0.99%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.99%) IoT
8 1 (0.99%) LIMS
8 1 (0.99%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.99%) Replication
8 1 (0.99%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 67 (66.34%) Linux
2 32 (31.68%) Unix
3 17 (16.83%) Windows
4 8 (7.92%) Ubuntu
5 7 (6.93%) Mac OS
6 6 (5.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (4.95%) VMS
8 4 (3.96%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.99%) CentOS
9 1 (0.99%) Debian
9 1 (0.99%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (43.56%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (37.62%) Agile
3 33 (32.67%) DevOps
4 29 (28.71%) CI/CD
5 20 (19.80%) Microservices
6 17 (16.83%) Computer Science
6 17 (16.83%) TDD
7 16 (15.84%) Validation
8 14 (13.86%) Workflow
9 13 (12.87%) BDD
9 13 (12.87%) Process Management
10 12 (11.88%) Artificial Intelligence
10 12 (11.88%) Collaborative Working
10 12 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (11.88%) Scrum
11 11 (10.89%) Patch Management
11 11 (10.89%) Software Engineering
12 10 (9.90%) Architectural Design
12 10 (9.90%) Kanban
12 10 (9.90%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (59.41%) Python
2 44 (43.56%) SQL
3 34 (33.66%) Java
4 19 (18.81%) PL/SQL
5 18 (17.82%) JavaScript
6 12 (11.88%) Bash
7 9 (8.91%) C-shell
7 9 (8.91%) Korn
8 8 (7.92%) C++
8 8 (7.92%) Perl
9 7 (6.93%) PowerShell
10 6 (5.94%) Groovy
11 5 (4.95%) SPARQL
12 3 (2.97%) C
12 3 (2.97%) Go
12 3 (2.97%) Gremlin
12 3 (2.97%) Ruby
13 1 (0.99%) ActionScript
13 1 (0.99%) ActionScript 2.0
13 1 (0.99%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (19.80%) Security Cleared
2 16 (15.84%) Degree
2 16 (15.84%) SC Cleared
3 15 (14.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (8.91%) PhD
5 6 (5.94%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.96%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (3.96%) OCA
6 4 (3.96%) OCP
6 4 (3.96%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.98%) CASP
7 2 (1.98%) CISM
7 2 (1.98%) CISSP
7 2 (1.98%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.99%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.93%) SLA
2 6 (5.94%) QA
3 5 (4.95%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.98%) Dublin Core
4 2 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.99%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.99%) GDPR
System Software
1 32 (31.68%) Docker
2 12 (11.88%) Active Directory
3 10 (9.90%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (6.93%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (5.94%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (3.96%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.99%) Corosync
7 1 (0.99%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.99%) Firmware
7 1 (0.99%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.99%) KVM
Systems Management
1 28 (27.72%) Kubernetes
2 20 (19.80%) Ansible
3 15 (14.85%) Terraform
4 13 (12.87%) Kibana
5 8 (7.92%) Nessus
6 7 (6.93%) Grafana
6 7 (6.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (6.93%) Proxmox
7 5 (4.95%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (3.96%) Prometheus
9 3 (2.97%) Nagios
9 3 (2.97%) Packer
10 2 (1.98%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.99%) Argo
11 1 (0.99%) CEMLI
11 1 (0.99%) Icinga
11 1 (0.99%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.99%) MOM
11 1 (0.99%) Pacemaker
11 1 (0.99%) Puppet
Vendors
1 36 (35.64%) Oracle
2 22 (21.78%) Splunk
3 20 (19.80%) Dynatrace
4 10 (9.90%) Microsoft
5 7 (6.93%) Apple
5 7 (6.93%) Juniper
6 6 (5.94%) Red Hat
6 6 (5.94%) Veritas
7 5 (4.95%) Talend
7 5 (4.95%) VMware
8 4 (3.96%) Symantec
9 3 (2.97%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.98%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (1.98%) IBM
10 2 (1.98%) Informatica
10 2 (1.98%) SAP
11 1 (0.99%) Google
11 1 (0.99%) IBM Sterling
11 1 (0.99%) Sophos
11 1 (0.99%) Sybase