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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 357 368
Rank change year-on-year +25 +11 +87
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 36 67 79
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.26% 0.43% 0.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.84% 1.04% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 13 31 57
10th Percentile £43,375 £43,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,125 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61,250 £101,875 £86,250
90th Percentile - £118,750 £95,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.20% +2.08% +3.45%

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 4,262 6,441 7,856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 30.97% 41.41% 44.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,006 4,126 6,820
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 5 January 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 5 January 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
South London +38 12 - -
Central London +36 5 £43,750 -55.70% 2
West London -1 1 £60,000 - 1
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 4 (11.11%) Anypoint
2 3 (8.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 24 (66.67%) AWS
2 16 (44.44%) Serverless
3 14 (38.89%) Amazon EC2
3 14 (38.89%) Amazon ECS
3 14 (38.89%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (25.00%) Azure
5 4 (11.11%) Boomi
5 4 (11.11%) GCP
5 4 (11.11%) iPaaS
5 4 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (11.11%) Power Automate
5 4 (11.11%) Workato
6 2 (5.56%) Algolia
6 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.56%) Cloud Functions
6 2 (5.56%) Firebase
6 2 (5.56%) GitHub
6 2 (5.56%) Logz.io
6 2 (5.56%) Sentry
6 2 (5.56%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) DNS
1 3 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.56%) Firewall
2 2 (5.56%) SSL
3 1 (2.78%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 16 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (33.33%) RDBMS
4 5 (13.89%) MySQL
5 2 (5.56%) BigQuery
5 2 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 14 (38.89%) Jenkins
1 14 (38.89%) JMeter
1 14 (38.89%) JUnit
1 14 (38.89%) Mockito
2 6 (16.67%) Git
3 4 (11.11%) JIRA
4 3 (8.33%) Maven
5 2 (5.56%) Artifactory
5 2 (5.56%) Gradle
5 2 (5.56%) Storybook
6 1 (2.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.78%) GitLab
6 1 (2.78%) Subversion
General
1 12 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Law
3 4 (11.11%) Legal
4 3 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Finance
5 2 (5.56%) Advertising
5 2 (5.56%) Front Office
6 1 (2.78%) Aviation
6 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (47.22%) Developer
2 14 (38.89%) Full-Stack Developer
2 14 (38.89%) Java Developer
3 12 (33.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 12 (33.33%) Mid-Level Java Developer
4 7 (19.44%) Support Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Administrator
6 4 (11.11%) Development Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Development Support Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Integration Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Linux Support
7 3 (8.33%) Linux Support Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Applications Support Analyst
8 2 (5.56%) Linux Administrator
8 2 (5.56%) Server Analyst
8 2 (5.56%) Server Support Analyst
8 2 (5.56%) Unix Support
8 2 (5.56%) Unix Support Analyst
8 2 (5.56%) Windows Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (52.78%) REST
2 18 (50.00%) HTML
2 18 (50.00%) JSON
2 18 (50.00%) XML
3 16 (44.44%) Web Services
4 15 (41.67%) Spring
4 15 (41.67%) Spring Boot
5 14 (38.89%) ActiveMQ
5 14 (38.89%) Apache Camel
5 14 (38.89%) Hibernate
5 14 (38.89%) jQuery
5 14 (38.89%) WireMock
6 8 (22.22%) RESTful
7 4 (11.11%) CSS
7 4 (11.11%) SOAP
8 3 (8.33%) AngularJS
8 3 (8.33%) LAMP
9 2 (5.56%) Express.js
9 2 (5.56%) Mustache
9 2 (5.56%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 12 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (11.11%) Low-Code
2 4 (11.11%) Replication
2 4 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (5.56%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.78%) Clustering
5 1 (2.78%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (50.00%) Linux
2 11 (30.56%) Unix
3 5 (13.89%) CentOS
3 5 (13.89%) Ubuntu
4 4 (11.11%) Solaris
5 3 (8.33%) Rocky
6 2 (5.56%) Windows
6 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
7 1 (2.78%) AIX
7 1 (2.78%) Debian
7 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (75.00%) Agile
2 19 (52.78%) CI/CD
3 16 (44.44%) Microservices
3 16 (44.44%) SDLC
3 16 (44.44%) TDD
4 14 (38.89%) BDD
4 14 (38.89%) Full-Stack Development
4 14 (38.89%) Workflow
5 12 (33.33%) Process Management
6 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (19.44%) DevOps
8 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (16.67%) Problem Management
9 6 (16.67%) Scrum
10 5 (13.89%) Containerisation
10 5 (13.89%) Disaster Recovery
11 4 (11.11%) Change Management
11 4 (11.11%) Customer Experience
11 4 (11.11%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 24 (66.67%) Python
2 20 (55.56%) JavaScript
3 19 (52.78%) Java
4 6 (16.67%) Bash
4 6 (16.67%) C#
4 6 (16.67%) SQL
5 2 (5.56%) Go
5 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.78%) Bourne shell
6 1 (2.78%) C-shell
6 1 (2.78%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.89%) Degree
3 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) GDPR
1 4 (11.11%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.56%) WCAG
3 1 (2.78%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (61.11%) Docker
2 3 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.56%) KVM
3 2 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (58.33%) Kubernetes
2 14 (38.89%) Kibana
3 10 (27.78%) Ansible
4 7 (19.44%) Terraform
5 3 (8.33%) Nagios
6 2 (5.56%) Argo
6 2 (5.56%) Grafana
6 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.78%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (2.78%) Podman
7 1 (2.78%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.78%) Puppet
7 1 (2.78%) VxRail
Vendors
1 16 (44.44%) Dynatrace
1 16 (44.44%) Splunk
2 7 (19.44%) Oracle
3 5 (13.89%) Red Hat
4 4 (11.11%) Dell
4 4 (11.11%) Epicor
4 4 (11.11%) IBM
4 4 (11.11%) IFS
4 4 (11.11%) Infor
4 4 (11.11%) Informatica
4 4 (11.11%) Jitterbit
4 4 (11.11%) MuleSoft
4 4 (11.11%) SAP
4 4 (11.11%) SnapLogic
4 4 (11.11%) Software AG
4 4 (11.11%) Talend
4 4 (11.11%) TIBCO
4 4 (11.11%) Workday
5 3 (8.33%) VMware
6 2 (5.56%) Google