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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 315 361
Rank change year-on-year -86 +46 +9
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 42 74 88
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.16% 0.63% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.76% 1.66% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 22 27 44
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,150 £50,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -16.42% +11.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £99,063
90th Percentile £91,750 £96,500 £111,917
England median annual salary £52,500 £59,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year -11.02% -17.19% +1.79%

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 5,557 4,454 7,695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.33% 38.21% 42.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,630 2,978 5,043
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,350 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 13 October 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 13 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
Central London +4 4 £85,000 -5.56% 16
South London -19 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 (11.90%) SharePoint
2 4 (9.52%) Apache
2 4 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.38%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.38%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (26.19%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (11.90%) NetSuite
3 1 (2.38%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.05%) Azure
2 7 (16.67%) GCP
3 6 (14.29%) AWS
4 5 (11.90%) Entra ID
5 4 (9.52%) Cloud Composer
5 4 (9.52%) dbt
5 4 (9.52%) SaaS
6 2 (4.76%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.76%) Google Workspace
6 2 (4.76%) OpenShift
6 2 (4.76%) Serverless
7 1 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) Firewall
2 2 (4.76%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (4.76%) DNS
2 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.38%) 4G
3 1 (2.38%) 5G
3 1 (2.38%) FTP
3 1 (2.38%) HTTP
3 1 (2.38%) Internet
3 1 (2.38%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (28.57%) Oracle Database
2 8 (19.05%) SQL Server
3 4 (9.52%) BigQuery
3 4 (9.52%) Flink
3 4 (9.52%) KDB
3 4 (9.52%) Looker
3 4 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.76%) MySQL
6 1 (2.38%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (2.38%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.38%) OLTP
6 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (2.38%) Oracle9i Database
6 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.38%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (2.38%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Git
1 3 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.76%) GitLab
2 2 (4.76%) JMeter
2 2 (4.76%) JUnit
2 2 (4.76%) Mockito
2 2 (4.76%) Selenium
3 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (2.38%) LSMW
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle APEX
General
1 20 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 14 (33.33%) Finance
3 12 (28.57%) Banking
4 5 (11.90%) Front Office
4 5 (11.90%) Retail
5 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (42.86%) Senior
2 11 (26.19%) DBA
3 10 (23.81%) Oracle DBA
3 10 (23.81%) Senior DBA
3 10 (23.81%) Senior Oracle DBA
4 7 (16.67%) IT Support
4 7 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
5 6 (14.29%) Developer
6 5 (11.90%) IT Assistant
6 5 (11.90%) IT Support Assistant
6 5 (11.90%) Support Assistant
7 4 (9.52%) Administrator
7 4 (9.52%) Data Scientist
7 4 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 3 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (7.14%) Linux Administrator
8 3 (7.14%) Linux Systems Engineer
8 3 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (4.76%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) FreeMarker
1 5 (11.90%) Terraform
2 4 (9.52%) Apache Beam
2 4 (9.52%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (9.52%) RESTful
3 3 (7.14%) HTML
4 2 (4.76%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (4.76%) Apache Camel
4 2 (4.76%) Flask
4 2 (4.76%) Hibernate
4 2 (4.76%) JPA
4 2 (4.76%) jQuery
4 2 (4.76%) Kafka
4 2 (4.76%) Mustache
4 2 (4.76%) OpenMP
4 2 (4.76%) Pandas
4 2 (4.76%) REST
4 2 (4.76%) Spring
4 2 (4.76%) Spring Boot
4 2 (4.76%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Fixed Income
2 4 (9.52%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (7.14%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.76%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.76%) CUDA
4 2 (4.76%) Derivative
4 2 (4.76%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (2.38%) Clustering
5 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.38%) Equities
5 1 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.38%) Market Risk
5 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.38%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (64.29%) Linux
2 17 (40.48%) Unix
3 13 (30.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (23.81%) AIX
4 10 (23.81%) Oracle Linux
5 5 (11.90%) Windows
6 3 (7.14%) CentOS
7 2 (4.76%) macOS
7 2 (4.76%) Rocky
7 2 (4.76%) tvOS
7 2 (4.76%) Ubuntu
8 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (35.71%) ITIL
1 15 (35.71%) Performance Tuning
2 13 (30.95%) Disaster Recovery
3 12 (28.57%) Change Management
3 12 (28.57%) Configuration Management
3 12 (28.57%) High Availability
4 11 (26.19%) Incident Response
4 11 (26.19%) Runbook
5 10 (23.81%) Capacity Planning
5 10 (23.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (19.05%) DevOps
6 8 (19.05%) Observability
7 7 (16.67%) AI
7 7 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 6 (14.29%) Machine Learning
9 5 (11.90%) Data Analysis
9 5 (11.90%) Data Science
9 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (11.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 4 (9.52%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 26 (61.90%) SQL
2 22 (52.38%) Python
3 18 (42.86%) Bash
4 11 (26.19%) Korn
4 11 (26.19%) PL/SQL
5 8 (19.05%) Java
5 8 (19.05%) JavaScript
6 5 (11.90%) PowerShell
7 4 (9.52%) Scala
8 2 (4.76%) C
8 2 (4.76%) C++
8 2 (4.76%) Fortran
8 2 (4.76%) Rust
9 1 (2.38%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.76%) Degree
3 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.76%) QA
3 1 (2.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (26.19%) Oracle RAC
2 8 (19.05%) Docker
3 2 (4.76%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (26.19%) Data Guard
1 11 (26.19%) Oracle RMAN
2 10 (23.81%) Nagios
3 8 (19.05%) Kubernetes
4 4 (9.52%) Ansible
5 2 (4.76%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (4.76%) Kibana
5 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.38%) Control-M
6 1 (2.38%) Grafana
6 1 (2.38%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 23 (54.76%) Oracle
2 10 (23.81%) IBM
3 8 (19.05%) Microsoft
4 7 (16.67%) Google
4 7 (16.67%) Splunk
5 4 (9.52%) New Relic
5 4 (9.52%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.76%) Adobe
6 2 (4.76%) Apple
6 2 (4.76%) Cisco
6 2 (4.76%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (4.76%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.76%) Juniper
6 2 (4.76%) Meraki
6 2 (4.76%) Okta
6 2 (4.76%) SAP
6 2 (4.76%) SonicWALL
7 1 (2.38%) FXall
7 1 (2.38%) Moogsoft
7 1 (2.38%) Sybase