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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 335 418
Rank change year-on-year -46 +83 +11
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 27 61 74
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.13% 0.48% 0.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.52% 1.17% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 17 32 53
10th Percentile £54,350 £38,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £54,750 £43,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -17.19% +6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £117,125 £140,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +8.33%

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 5,151 5,230 9,402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.68% 41.16% 40.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,634 3,853 7,633
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £131,250 £127,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 8 £85,000 -8.11% 11
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 1 (3.70%) Anypoint
1 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) SPSS
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (3.70%) NetSuite
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (3.70%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 5 (18.52%) Azure
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (11.11%) GCP
3 3 (11.11%) GitHub
4 2 (7.41%) Algolia
4 2 (7.41%) AWS
4 2 (7.41%) Cloud Functions
4 2 (7.41%) Firebase
4 2 (7.41%) Sentry
4 2 (7.41%) Serverless
4 2 (7.41%) Stripe
5 1 (3.70%) Boomi
5 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.70%) iPaaS
5 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.70%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) Firewall
2 3 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 2 (7.41%) DNS
4 1 (3.70%) DHCP
4 1 (3.70%) LAN
4 1 (3.70%) NAS
4 1 (3.70%) SAN
4 1 (3.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) Oracle Database
2 4 (14.81%) KDB
3 3 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle Database 11g
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle Database 12c
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle Exadata
3 3 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 2 (7.41%) BigQuery
4 2 (7.41%) MySQL
4 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.70%) SAP HANA
5 1 (3.70%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Git
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (7.41%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (7.41%) JIRA
3 2 (7.41%) Storybook
4 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.70%) LabVIEW
4 1 (3.70%) Selenium
4 1 (3.70%) Subversion
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Finance
3 4 (14.81%) Front Office
4 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Banking
4 3 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (7.41%) German Language
6 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Law
6 1 (3.70%) Legal
6 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Developer
1 6 (22.22%) Linux Engineer
1 6 (22.22%) Senior
2 4 (14.81%) DBA
2 4 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Automation Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Database Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle DBA
3 3 (11.11%) Senior DBA
3 3 (11.11%) Senior Oracle DBA
4 2 (7.41%) Administrator
4 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (7.41%) Support Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Support Assistant
5 1 (3.70%) Sybase DBA
5 1 (3.70%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.70%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (11.11%) 802.1X
2 3 (11.11%) RESTful
3 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
3 2 (7.41%) CSS
3 2 (7.41%) CSS3
3 2 (7.41%) Express.js
3 2 (7.41%) HTML
3 2 (7.41%) HTML5
3 2 (7.41%) Jest
3 2 (7.41%) JWT
3 2 (7.41%) Node.js
3 2 (7.41%) OAuth
3 2 (7.41%) REST
3 2 (7.41%) RxJS
3 2 (7.41%) Sass
4 1 (3.70%) FreeMarker
4 1 (3.70%) SOAP
4 1 (3.70%) Web Services
4 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (14.81%) Fixed Income
2 4 (14.81%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
4 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.70%) Clustering
5 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.70%) Low-Code
5 1 (3.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (66.67%) Linux
2 8 (29.63%) Unix
3 5 (18.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (14.81%) CentOS
4 4 (14.81%) Ubuntu
5 3 (11.11%) AIX
5 3 (11.11%) Apple iOS
5 3 (11.11%) Mac OS
5 3 (11.11%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (3.70%) Rocky
6 1 (3.70%) Windows
6 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 7 (25.93%) Incident Response
2 7 (25.93%) Runbook
3 6 (22.22%) Agile
3 6 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (18.52%) Analytics
4 5 (18.52%) Configuration Management
4 5 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (18.52%) ITIL
4 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.81%) Change Management
5 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
5 4 (14.81%) DevOps
5 4 (14.81%) Mentoring
5 4 (14.81%) Migration
5 4 (14.81%) Observability
5 4 (14.81%) Proactive Monitoring
5 4 (14.81%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (14.81%) Security Hardening
5 4 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) Python
2 12 (44.44%) Bash
3 10 (37.04%) SQL
4 7 (25.93%) Korn
4 7 (25.93%) PL/SQL
5 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
6 3 (11.11%) Java
7 2 (7.41%) Perl
7 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
8 1 (3.70%) C#
8 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
8 1 (3.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Degree
2 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (7.41%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.70%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (3.70%) RHCE
5 1 (3.70%) RHCSA
5 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) QA
2 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.41%) WCAG
3 1 (3.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (18.52%) Docker
3 3 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (7.41%) KVM
5 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.70%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Ansible
1 5 (18.52%) Data Guard
1 5 (18.52%) Nagios
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (11.11%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (7.41%) Oracle Flashback
4 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.70%) Puppet
4 1 (3.70%) Terraform
4 1 (3.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (51.85%) Oracle
2 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
3 4 (14.81%) IBM
4 3 (11.11%) Apple
4 3 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 3 (11.11%) Splunk
4 3 (11.11%) VMware
5 2 (7.41%) Google
5 2 (7.41%) SAP
5 2 (7.41%) SendGrid
6 1 (3.70%) Delphix
6 1 (3.70%) IFS
6 1 (3.70%) Infor
6 1 (3.70%) Jitterbit
6 1 (3.70%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.70%) Pure Storage
6 1 (3.70%) SnapLogic
6 1 (3.70%) Talend
6 1 (3.70%) TIBCO
6 1 (3.70%) Workday