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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 376 347
Rank change year-on-year +72 -29 +39
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 90 88 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.75% 0.46% 0.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.92% 1.11% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 37 52 119
10th Percentile £38,500 £50,250 £49,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £64,688 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +13.33% +13.21%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £100,250 £112,306 £122,500
England median annual salary £58,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -22.67% +7.14% +20.69%

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 4,684 7,943 10,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 39.26% 41.42% 46.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,155 5,307 8,928
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £136,250 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +1.56%

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

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +37 24 - -
Central London +29 5 £90,000 -14.29% 2
West London +45 2 £60,000 -
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 (4.44%) Confluence
1 4 (4.44%) Jupyter
2 2 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.11%) nginx
3 1 (1.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (7.78%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.11%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 48 (53.33%) AWS
2 28 (31.11%) Amazon ECS
3 26 (28.89%) Amazon EKS
3 26 (28.89%) Serverless
4 25 (27.78%) Amazon EC2
5 23 (25.56%) Azure
6 7 (7.78%) GitHub
7 6 (6.67%) GCP
7 6 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (5.56%) BlazeMeter
8 5 (5.56%) SaaS
9 4 (4.44%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.22%) Akamai
10 2 (2.22%) Datadog
10 2 (2.22%) Kong
10 2 (2.22%) Lucidchart
11 1 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.11%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (1.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.33%) Firewall
1 3 (3.33%) SSL
2 2 (2.22%) Network Security
2 2 (2.22%) VPN
3 1 (1.11%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (1.11%) DNS
3 1 (1.11%) RTP
3 1 (1.11%) SSH
3 1 (1.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (37.78%) Relational Database
2 33 (36.67%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (26.67%) RDBMS
4 11 (12.22%) MySQL
5 5 (5.56%) MongoDB
6 4 (4.44%) KDB
6 4 (4.44%) Kdb+
6 4 (4.44%) Redis
7 3 (3.33%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.22%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.11%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.11%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (1.11%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 42 (46.67%) Jenkins
2 28 (31.11%) JUnit
3 27 (30.00%) Mockito
4 25 (27.78%) JMeter
5 19 (21.11%) Git
6 9 (10.00%) Maven
7 8 (8.89%) GitLab
7 8 (8.89%) JIRA
8 4 (4.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (4.44%) Subversion
9 3 (3.33%) Artifactory
10 2 (2.22%) Bitbucket
10 2 (2.22%) Gradle
10 2 (2.22%) Postman
10 2 (2.22%) REST Assured
10 2 (2.22%) SoapUI
10 2 (2.22%) SonarQube
10 2 (2.22%) Xcode
10 2 (2.22%) XCTest
11 1 (1.11%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 31 (34.44%) Finance
2 27 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 17 (18.89%) Social Skills
4 16 (17.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (17.78%) Law
5 9 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.00%) Marketing
6 7 (7.78%) Banking
7 6 (6.67%) Front Office
8 4 (4.44%) Legal
9 3 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (3.33%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.22%) Advertising
10 2 (2.22%) Aviation
11 1 (1.11%) Billing
11 1 (1.11%) Electronics
11 1 (1.11%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.11%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (33.33%) Developer
2 25 (27.78%) Java Developer
3 18 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 17 (18.89%) Full-Stack Developer
5 16 (17.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 16 (17.78%) Lead
6 15 (16.67%) Senior
7 9 (10.00%) Mid-Level Java Developer
8 8 (8.89%) Database Engineer
8 8 (8.89%) Lead Software Engineer
9 7 (7.78%) Applications Support
9 7 (7.78%) Linux Engineer
9 7 (7.78%) Linux Support
9 7 (7.78%) Linux Support Engineer
9 7 (7.78%) Support Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Java Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Lead Java Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (4.44%) Data Engineer
11 4 (4.44%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (44.44%) REST
2 30 (33.33%) HTML
2 30 (33.33%) Spring
3 29 (32.22%) Spring Boot
4 28 (31.11%) Hibernate
5 25 (27.78%) ActiveMQ
5 25 (27.78%) Apache Camel
5 25 (27.78%) jQuery
5 25 (27.78%) Web Services
5 25 (27.78%) WireMock
6 23 (25.56%) XML
7 22 (24.44%) JSON
8 9 (10.00%) React
9 8 (8.89%) OAuth
9 8 (8.89%) OpenID
10 5 (5.56%) Pandas
11 4 (4.44%) AngularJS
11 4 (4.44%) CSS
11 4 (4.44%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (4.44%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 26 (28.89%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (12.22%) Data Structures
3 8 (8.89%) Algorithms
3 8 (8.89%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (8.89%) Private Cloud
3 8 (8.89%) Product Ownership
3 8 (8.89%) Public Cloud
4 6 (6.67%) Replication
5 5 (5.56%) Derivative
6 4 (4.44%) Equities
6 4 (4.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.22%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.11%) Clustering
8 1 (1.11%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.11%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 35 (38.89%) Linux
2 24 (26.67%) Unix
3 7 (7.78%) Mac OS
4 6 (6.67%) Windows
5 4 (4.44%) Solaris
6 2 (2.22%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.11%) AIX
7 1 (1.11%) Debian
7 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (58.89%) Agile
2 45 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 40 (44.44%) TDD
4 33 (36.67%) Microservices
5 30 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (30.00%) SDLC
6 27 (30.00%) Workflow
7 25 (27.78%) BDD
8 24 (26.67%) Software Engineering
9 23 (25.56%) Process Management
10 19 (21.11%) DevOps
10 19 (21.11%) Test Automation
11 18 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 17 (18.89%) Continuous Integration
13 16 (17.78%) Scrum
14 14 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
16 11 (12.22%) Continuous Improvement
16 11 (12.22%) Kanban
17 10 (11.11%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 62 (68.89%) Python
2 44 (48.89%) Java
3 28 (31.11%) SQL
4 27 (30.00%) JavaScript
5 13 (14.44%) Bash
6 8 (8.89%) Go
6 8 (8.89%) PL/SQL
6 8 (8.89%) PowerShell
6 8 (8.89%) TypeScript
7 6 (6.67%) C++
8 3 (3.33%) SPARQL
9 2 (2.22%) C
9 2 (2.22%) C#
9 2 (2.22%) Groovy
9 2 (2.22%) Perl
10 1 (1.11%) Bourne shell
10 1 (1.11%) C-shell
10 1 (1.11%) ProC
Qualifications
1 21 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.22%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.44%) Degree
4 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 54 (60.00%) Docker
2 5 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.22%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.22%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.22%) vSphere
5 1 (1.11%) Corosync
5 1 (1.11%) Kamailio
5 1 (1.11%) KVM
5 1 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 46 (51.11%) Kubernetes
2 27 (30.00%) Kibana
3 22 (24.44%) Ansible
4 12 (13.33%) Grafana
5 10 (11.11%) Terraform
6 9 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (6.67%) Progress Chef
7 6 (6.67%) Prometheus
8 2 (2.22%) FortiGate
8 2 (2.22%) logstash
8 2 (2.22%) SCCM
9 1 (1.11%) Argo
9 1 (1.11%) Icinga
9 1 (1.11%) Nessus
9 1 (1.11%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (1.11%) Pacemaker
9 1 (1.11%) Podman
9 1 (1.11%) Proxmox
9 1 (1.11%) Puppet
9 1 (1.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 36 (40.00%) Splunk
2 35 (38.89%) Dynatrace
3 15 (16.67%) Oracle
4 12 (13.33%) Google
5 9 (10.00%) Microsoft
6 7 (7.78%) Apple
7 3 (3.33%) Red Hat
7 3 (3.33%) Talend
7 3 (3.33%) VMware
8 2 (2.22%) AppDynamics
8 2 (2.22%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (2.22%) SAP
9 1 (1.11%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.11%) EMC
9 1 (1.11%) HP
9 1 (1.11%) Juniper
9 1 (1.11%) Qualys
9 1 (1.11%) VocaLink