Shell Script Jobs in London

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 415 420
Rank change year-on-year +111 +5 -50
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 92 87 179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.70% 0.36% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.69% 0.89% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 41 63 124
10th Percentile £38,500 £62,500 £42,150
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,625 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +6.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £126,500 £124,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +6.87% +12.93%

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 5,436 9,725 14,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.45% 40.29% 47.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3,618 7,499 11,456
10th Percentile £49,250 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £132,500 £122,500
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in London

Shell Script
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Shell Script in London

Shell Script
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

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 6 July 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
South London +13 22 - - 6
Central London +35 6 £90,000 - 25
East London - 1 £72,500 -
West London - 1 £60,000 - 4
Shell Script
England

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (4.35%) Jupyter
2 3 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.26%) Confluence
3 2 (2.17%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.09%) nginx
4 1 (1.09%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (1.09%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.09%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.09%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (7.61%) Chatbot
2 4 (4.35%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (1.09%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.09%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (1.09%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (1.09%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.09%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 50 (54.35%) AWS
2 24 (26.09%) Amazon ECS
3 23 (25.00%) Azure
4 21 (22.83%) Serverless
5 18 (19.57%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (18.48%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (9.78%) GitHub
8 7 (7.61%) GCP
8 7 (7.61%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (6.52%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (5.43%) BlazeMeter
10 5 (5.43%) Datadog
10 5 (5.43%) SaaS
11 4 (4.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 4 (4.35%) Amazon S3
11 4 (4.35%) AWS KMS
11 4 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.35%) OpenShift
11 4 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (2.17%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.61%) Firewall
2 6 (6.52%) SSL
2 6 (6.52%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.17%) Network Security
3 2 (2.17%) VPN
4 1 (1.09%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (1.09%) DHCP
4 1 (1.09%) DNS
4 1 (1.09%) HTTP
4 1 (1.09%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (1.09%) RTP
4 1 (1.09%) SAN
4 1 (1.09%) VLAN
4 1 (1.09%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (28.26%) Relational Database
2 24 (26.09%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (19.57%) RDBMS
4 9 (9.78%) MySQL
5 6 (6.52%) MongoDB
5 6 (6.52%) Redis
6 4 (4.35%) KDB
6 4 (4.35%) Kdb+
7 3 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (3.26%) Oracle Database
7 3 (3.26%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.09%) DB2
8 1 (1.09%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.09%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 44 (47.83%) Jenkins
2 22 (23.91%) Git
3 21 (22.83%) JUnit
4 20 (21.74%) Mockito
5 17 (18.48%) JMeter
6 9 (9.78%) JIRA
6 9 (9.78%) Maven
7 7 (7.61%) GitLab
8 4 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (4.35%) Bitbucket
8 4 (4.35%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (4.35%) Subversion
9 3 (3.26%) Artifactory
9 3 (3.26%) Postman
9 3 (3.26%) REST Assured
9 3 (3.26%) SoapUI
9 3 (3.26%) SonarQube
9 3 (3.26%) Xcode
9 3 (3.26%) XCTest
10 1 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 34 (36.96%) Finance
2 21 (22.83%) Public Sector
3 18 (19.57%) Social Skills
4 16 (17.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (17.39%) Law
5 12 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (9.78%) Banking
6 9 (9.78%) Marketing
7 4 (4.35%) Front Office
7 4 (4.35%) Legal
8 3 (3.26%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Aviation
10 1 (1.09%) Back Office
10 1 (1.09%) Billing
10 1 (1.09%) Electronics
10 1 (1.09%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.09%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (25.00%) Developer
2 22 (23.91%) Senior
3 18 (19.57%) Lead
4 17 (18.48%) Java Developer
4 17 (18.48%) Software Engineer
5 11 (11.96%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (11.96%) Linux Support
6 10 (10.87%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 9 (9.78%) Linux Engineer
8 8 (8.70%) Database Engineer
8 8 (8.70%) Lead Software Engineer
9 7 (7.61%) Linux Support Engineer
9 7 (7.61%) Support Engineer
10 6 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (5.43%) Applications Support
11 5 (5.43%) Java Engineer
11 5 (5.43%) Lead Java Engineer
11 5 (5.43%) Unix Support
12 4 (4.35%) Data Engineer
12 4 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (35.87%) REST
2 23 (25.00%) Spring
3 22 (23.91%) Hibernate
3 22 (23.91%) HTML
4 21 (22.83%) Spring Boot
5 20 (21.74%) Web Services
6 17 (18.48%) ActiveMQ
6 17 (18.48%) Apache Camel
6 17 (18.48%) jQuery
6 17 (18.48%) WireMock
7 16 (17.39%) XML
8 14 (15.22%) JSON
9 9 (9.78%) React
10 8 (8.70%) OAuth
10 8 (8.70%) OpenID
11 6 (6.52%) Pandas
12 4 (4.35%) AngularJS
12 4 (4.35%) FIX Protocol
12 4 (4.35%) HTML5
12 4 (4.35%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 21 (22.83%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (11.96%) Data Structures
3 9 (9.78%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (8.70%) Algorithms
4 8 (8.70%) Private Cloud
4 8 (8.70%) Product Ownership
4 8 (8.70%) Public Cloud
5 6 (6.52%) Clustering
5 6 (6.52%) Derivative
6 5 (5.43%) Equities
7 4 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (3.26%) Management Information System
9 2 (2.17%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.17%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (2.17%) Replication
10 1 (1.09%) Hedge funds
10 1 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
10 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 44 (47.83%) Linux
2 29 (31.52%) Unix
3 9 (9.78%) Windows
4 7 (7.61%) Mac OS
5 6 (6.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (5.43%) Ubuntu
7 3 (3.26%) Windows Server
8 2 (2.17%) VMS
9 1 (1.09%) CentOS
9 1 (1.09%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (48.91%) Agile
2 38 (41.30%) CI/CD
3 33 (35.87%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (35.87%) TDD
4 30 (32.61%) DevOps
5 26 (28.26%) Microservices
6 24 (26.09%) Software Engineering
7 22 (23.91%) SDLC
8 20 (21.74%) Workflow
9 18 (19.57%) Test Automation
10 17 (18.48%) BDD
10 17 (18.48%) Continuous Integration
10 17 (18.48%) Process Management
11 13 (14.13%) Scrum
12 12 (13.04%) Collaborative Working
12 12 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
13 11 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (11.96%) Infrastructure as Code
14 10 (10.87%) Build Automation
14 10 (10.87%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 65 (70.65%) Python
2 39 (42.39%) Java
3 32 (34.78%) SQL
4 21 (22.83%) JavaScript
5 11 (11.96%) Bash
6 10 (10.87%) PL/SQL
7 9 (9.78%) PowerShell
8 8 (8.70%) TypeScript
9 7 (7.61%) Go
10 6 (6.52%) C++
11 3 (3.26%) Gremlin
11 3 (3.26%) Groovy
11 3 (3.26%) SPARQL
12 2 (2.17%) C
12 2 (2.17%) Perl
13 1 (1.09%) ProC
Qualifications
1 19 (20.65%) Security Cleared
2 14 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.35%) Degree
3 4 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.61%) SLA
2 5 (5.43%) QA
System Software
1 49 (53.26%) Docker
2 7 (7.61%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (6.52%) Active Directory
3 6 (6.52%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 6 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.17%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.17%) vSphere
6 1 (1.09%) Corosync
6 1 (1.09%) Kamailio
6 1 (1.09%) KVM
Systems Management
1 38 (41.30%) Kubernetes
2 31 (33.70%) Ansible
3 19 (20.65%) Kibana
4 14 (15.22%) Grafana
5 13 (14.13%) Terraform
6 9 (9.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (8.70%) Prometheus
8 5 (5.43%) Nessus
8 5 (5.43%) Progress Chef
9 4 (4.35%) Proxmox
10 2 (2.17%) FortiGate
10 2 (2.17%) logstash
10 2 (2.17%) Packer
10 2 (2.17%) SCCM
11 1 (1.09%) CEMLI
11 1 (1.09%) Icinga
11 1 (1.09%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (1.09%) Pacemaker
11 1 (1.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (33.70%) Splunk
2 30 (32.61%) Dynatrace
3 19 (20.65%) Oracle
4 13 (14.13%) Google
5 9 (9.78%) Microsoft
6 7 (7.61%) Apple
6 7 (7.61%) VMware
7 6 (6.52%) Red Hat
7 6 (6.52%) Veritas
8 4 (4.35%) Juniper
8 4 (4.35%) Symantec
9 3 (3.26%) AppDynamics
9 3 (3.26%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (3.26%) Talend
10 2 (2.17%) SAP
11 1 (1.09%) Avaloq
11 1 (1.09%) BigPanda
11 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow
11 1 (1.09%) Sophos
11 1 (1.09%) Sybase