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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 364 359
Rank change year-on-year +44 -5 +91
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 59 82 93
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.45% 0.47% 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.34% 1.13% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 20 44 76
10th Percentile £43,375 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,125 £58,438 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £73,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.34% -1.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £80,625 £107,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £116,875 £105,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -14.81% - +13.45%

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 4,390 7,280 8,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.61% 42.12% 44.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,967 4,823 7,285
10th Percentile £46,089 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £127,500 £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 30 November 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 30 November 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 +42 18 - -
Central London +30 7 £50,625 -51.79% 2
West London -1 2 £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 (6.78%) Anypoint
2 3 (5.08%) Confluence
3 2 (3.39%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (64.41%) AWS
2 22 (37.29%) Amazon ECS
3 21 (35.59%) Azure
4 20 (33.90%) Amazon EC2
4 20 (33.90%) Amazon EKS
4 20 (33.90%) Serverless
5 6 (10.17%) GCP
6 4 (6.78%) Boomi
6 4 (6.78%) iPaaS
6 4 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (6.78%) Power Automate
6 4 (6.78%) Workato
7 3 (5.08%) GitHub
7 3 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.08%) OpenShift
8 2 (3.39%) Akamai
8 2 (3.39%) Datadog
8 2 (3.39%) Kong
8 2 (3.39%) Logz.io
8 2 (3.39%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.78%) Firewall
2 3 (5.08%) DNS
2 3 (5.08%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.39%) Network Security
3 2 (3.39%) SSL
3 2 (3.39%) VPN
4 1 (1.69%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (47.46%) Relational Database
2 24 (40.68%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (30.51%) RDBMS
4 9 (15.25%) MySQL
5 3 (5.08%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (5.08%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.39%) KDB
6 2 (3.39%) Kdb+
6 2 (3.39%) Redis
6 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.69%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.69%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (1.69%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 27 (45.76%) Jenkins
2 20 (33.90%) JMeter
2 20 (33.90%) JUnit
2 20 (33.90%) Mockito
3 8 (13.56%) Git
4 7 (11.86%) GitLab
5 6 (10.17%) JIRA
6 4 (6.78%) Maven
7 2 (3.39%) Artifactory
7 2 (3.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (3.39%) Bitbucket
7 2 (3.39%) Gradle
7 2 (3.39%) Subversion
8 1 (1.69%) CMake
8 1 (1.69%) MSBuild
General
1 19 (32.20%) Public Sector
2 13 (22.03%) Finance
3 12 (20.34%) Law
4 8 (13.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (11.86%) Social Skills
6 6 (10.17%) Legal
7 5 (8.47%) Marketing
8 4 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (3.39%) Advertising
10 2 (3.39%) Aviation
10 2 (3.39%) Banking
10 2 (3.39%) Front Office
11 1 (1.69%) Electronics
11 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (35.59%) Developer
2 20 (33.90%) Java Developer
3 18 (30.51%) Full-Stack Developer
3 18 (30.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 15 (25.42%) Mid-Level Java Developer
5 9 (15.25%) Software Engineer
6 7 (11.86%) Senior
6 7 (11.86%) Support Engineer
7 6 (10.17%) Lead
8 5 (8.47%) Administrator
9 4 (6.78%) Database Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Development Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Development Support Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Lead Software Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) Linux Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) Linux Support
10 3 (5.08%) Linux Support Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (50.85%) REST
2 25 (42.37%) JSON
2 25 (42.37%) XML
3 22 (37.29%) HTML
3 22 (37.29%) Spring
3 22 (37.29%) Spring Boot
3 22 (37.29%) Web Services
4 20 (33.90%) ActiveMQ
4 20 (33.90%) Apache Camel
4 20 (33.90%) Hibernate
4 20 (33.90%) jQuery
4 20 (33.90%) WireMock
5 6 (10.17%) RESTful
6 4 (6.78%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (6.78%) OAuth
6 4 (6.78%) OpenID
6 4 (6.78%) React
6 4 (6.78%) SOAP
7 3 (5.08%) LAMP
7 3 (5.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (32.20%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (8.47%) Replication
3 4 (6.78%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.78%) Data Structures
3 4 (6.78%) Low-Code
3 4 (6.78%) Private Cloud
3 4 (6.78%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.78%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.08%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.08%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.39%) Derivative
5 2 (3.39%) Equities
5 2 (3.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.39%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 27 (45.76%) Linux
2 16 (27.12%) Unix
3 5 (8.47%) CentOS
3 5 (8.47%) Ubuntu
3 5 (8.47%) Windows
4 4 (6.78%) Solaris
5 3 (5.08%) Rocky
6 2 (3.39%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.69%) AIX
7 1 (1.69%) Debian
7 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (64.41%) Agile
2 30 (50.85%) CI/CD
3 26 (44.07%) TDD
4 24 (40.68%) SDLC
5 23 (38.98%) Microservices
6 22 (37.29%) Workflow
7 20 (33.90%) BDD
8 19 (32.20%) Full-Stack Development
9 18 (30.51%) Process Management
10 16 (27.12%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (23.73%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (20.34%) DevOps
13 11 (18.64%) Software Engineering
13 11 (18.64%) Test Automation
14 10 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
15 9 (15.25%) Configuration Management
16 7 (11.86%) Containerisation
16 7 (11.86%) Continuous Integration
17 6 (10.17%) Open Source
17 6 (10.17%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (71.19%) Python
2 29 (49.15%) Java
3 24 (40.68%) JavaScript
4 12 (20.34%) SQL
5 7 (11.86%) Bash
6 6 (10.17%) C#
7 4 (6.78%) Go
7 4 (6.78%) TypeScript
8 3 (5.08%) PowerShell
9 2 (3.39%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.69%) Bourne shell
10 1 (1.69%) C
10 1 (1.69%) C++
10 1 (1.69%) C-shell
10 1 (1.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (30.51%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.78%) Degree
3 2 (3.39%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) QA
2 4 (6.78%) GDPR
3 1 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.69%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (66.10%) Docker
2 5 (8.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.08%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.39%) KVM
4 2 (3.39%) VMware NSX
4 2 (3.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (57.63%) Kubernetes
2 22 (37.29%) Kibana
3 21 (35.59%) Ansible
4 10 (16.95%) Terraform
5 7 (11.86%) Grafana
6 6 (10.17%) Prometheus
7 3 (5.08%) Nagios
8 2 (3.39%) Argo
8 2 (3.39%) FortiGate
8 2 (3.39%) logstash
8 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (3.39%) Progress Chef
8 2 (3.39%) SCCM
9 1 (1.69%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (1.69%) Podman
9 1 (1.69%) Puppet
9 1 (1.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 25 (42.37%) Dynatrace
1 25 (42.37%) Splunk
2 9 (15.25%) Oracle
3 6 (10.17%) Google
4 5 (8.47%) Red Hat
4 5 (8.47%) SAP
4 5 (8.47%) VMware
5 4 (6.78%) Dell
5 4 (6.78%) Epicor
5 4 (6.78%) IBM
5 4 (6.78%) IFS
5 4 (6.78%) Infor
5 4 (6.78%) Informatica
5 4 (6.78%) Jitterbit
5 4 (6.78%) MuleSoft
5 4 (6.78%) SnapLogic
5 4 (6.78%) Software AG
5 4 (6.78%) Talend
5 4 (6.78%) TIBCO
5 4 (6.78%) Workday