Shell Script Job Trends in London

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Shell Script skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 297 369
Rank change year-on-year -112 +72 -13
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 39 94 84
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.16% 0.79% 0.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.71% 1.99% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 25 41 52
10th Percentile £50,000 £38,500 £50,250
25th Percentile £54,750 £55,000 £65,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -17.65% +13.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £101,875
90th Percentile - £98,750 £121,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £58,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.48% -22.67% +7.14%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,508 4,718 7,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 22.44% 39.53% 41.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,759 3,188 5,450
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,500 £81,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.45% -1.21% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,250 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -3.85%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Shell Script relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Shell Script job vacancy trend in London

Shell Script
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Shell Script.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in London over the 6 months to 7 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Shell Script in London

Shell Script
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Shell Script within the London region over the 6 months to 7 September 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
Central London +2 5 £85,000 +9.68% 3
South London -24 2 - -
Shell Script
England

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (12.82%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.56%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.56%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (7.69%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (28.21%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (12.82%) NetSuite
3 1 (2.56%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.95%) Azure
2 5 (12.82%) Entra ID
3 4 (10.26%) AWS
4 3 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.13%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 2 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.13%) GCP
5 2 (5.13%) Google Workspace
5 2 (5.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) Firewall
2 2 (5.13%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.56%) 4G
3 1 (2.56%) 5G
3 1 (2.56%) DNS
3 1 (2.56%) FTP
3 1 (2.56%) HTTP
3 1 (2.56%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 8 (20.51%) SQL Server
3 5 (12.82%) KDB
4 4 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (10.26%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.13%) MySQL
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (2.56%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (2.56%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.56%) OLTP
6 1 (2.56%) Oracle9i Database
6 1 (2.56%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.56%) Redis
6 1 (2.56%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (2.56%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Git
1 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.13%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (5.13%) JMeter
2 2 (5.13%) JUnit
2 2 (5.13%) Mockito
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (5.13%) Selenium
3 1 (2.56%) GitLab
3 1 (2.56%) JIRA
3 1 (2.56%) LSMW
General
1 20 (51.28%) Social Skills
2 14 (35.90%) Finance
3 12 (30.77%) Banking
4 6 (15.38%) Front Office
5 5 (12.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (12.82%) Retail
6 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.56%) German Language
8 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (46.15%) Senior
2 11 (28.21%) DBA
3 10 (25.64%) Oracle DBA
3 10 (25.64%) Senior DBA
3 10 (25.64%) Senior Oracle DBA
4 7 (17.95%) IT Support
4 7 (17.95%) Linux Engineer
5 6 (15.38%) Developer
6 5 (12.82%) IT Assistant
6 5 (12.82%) IT Support Assistant
6 5 (12.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 5 (12.82%) Support Assistant
7 3 (7.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Administrator
8 2 (5.13%) Computer Scientist
8 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Linux Systems Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Senior Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Senior IT Support
8 2 (5.13%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) FIX Protocol
1 5 (12.82%) FreeMarker
2 4 (10.26%) RESTful
3 3 (7.69%) 802.1X
3 3 (7.69%) HTML
4 2 (5.13%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (5.13%) Apache Camel
4 2 (5.13%) FastAPI
4 2 (5.13%) Flask
4 2 (5.13%) Hibernate
4 2 (5.13%) JPA
4 2 (5.13%) jQuery
4 2 (5.13%) Kafka
4 2 (5.13%) Mustache
4 2 (5.13%) OpenMP
4 2 (5.13%) Pandas
4 2 (5.13%) REST
4 2 (5.13%) Spring
4 2 (5.13%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.13%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Fixed Income
2 3 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.13%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.13%) CUDA
3 2 (5.13%) Derivative
3 2 (5.13%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.13%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (5.13%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.56%) Clustering
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.56%) Equities
4 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.56%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (61.54%) Linux
2 17 (43.59%) Unix
3 10 (25.64%) AIX
3 10 (25.64%) Oracle Linux
3 10 (25.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (12.82%) Mac OS
5 4 (10.26%) Windows
6 3 (7.69%) Apple iOS
7 2 (5.13%) CentOS
7 2 (5.13%) tvOS
7 2 (5.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (41.03%) ITIL
1 16 (41.03%) Performance Tuning
2 13 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 12 (30.77%) Change Management
3 12 (30.77%) High Availability
4 11 (28.21%) Incident Response
4 11 (28.21%) Runbook
5 10 (25.64%) Capacity Planning
5 10 (25.64%) Configuration Management
5 10 (25.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (12.82%) Mentoring
6 5 (12.82%) Observability
6 5 (12.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (10.26%) CI/CD
7 4 (10.26%) Collaborative Culture
7 4 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (10.26%) DevOps
7 4 (10.26%) Migration
7 4 (10.26%) Performance Optimisation
8 3 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 23 (58.97%) SQL
2 19 (48.72%) Bash
2 19 (48.72%) Python
3 12 (30.77%) Korn
3 12 (30.77%) PL/SQL
4 8 (20.51%) JavaScript
5 5 (12.82%) Java
5 5 (12.82%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.13%) C
6 2 (5.13%) C++
6 2 (5.13%) Fortran
6 2 (5.13%) Rust
7 1 (2.56%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.13%) Degree
2 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.13%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (30.77%) Oracle RAC
2 6 (15.38%) Docker
3 2 (5.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 12 (30.77%) Data Guard
1 12 (30.77%) Oracle RMAN
2 10 (25.64%) Nagios
3 5 (12.82%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (7.69%) Ansible
4 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (5.13%) Kibana
5 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle Flashback
5 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.56%) Control-M
6 1 (2.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 25 (64.10%) Oracle
2 10 (25.64%) IBM
2 10 (25.64%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.82%) Apple
4 3 (7.69%) Splunk
5 2 (5.13%) Adobe
5 2 (5.13%) Cisco
5 2 (5.13%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
5 2 (5.13%) Google
5 2 (5.13%) Juniper
5 2 (5.13%) Meraki
5 2 (5.13%) Okta
5 2 (5.13%) Red Hat
5 2 (5.13%) SAP
5 2 (5.13%) SonicWALL
6 1 (2.56%) Bloomberg
6 1 (2.56%) FXall
6 1 (2.56%) Moogsoft
6 1 (2.56%) Sybase