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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 307 422
Rank change year-on-year -77 +115 -24
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 43 95 86
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.19% 0.76% 0.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.80% 1.82% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 26 43 60
10th Percentile £54,750 £38,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £69,688 £58,125 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £101,750 £123,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -14.29% +6.87%

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 5,366 5,231 9,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.09% 41.62% 40.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,788 3,634 7,146
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,063 £60,527
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £132,500
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 13 July 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 13 July 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 0 7 £85,000 -5.56% 6
South London -4 2 - -
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 5 (11.63%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.33%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.98%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (27.91%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (11.63%) NetSuite
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.95%) Azure
2 5 (11.63%) Entra ID
3 3 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.65%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 2 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (4.65%) AWS
4 2 (4.65%) Google Workspace
4 2 (4.65%) Serverless
5 1 (2.33%) GitHub
5 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.95%) Firewall
2 2 (4.65%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (4.65%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.33%) DHCP
3 1 (2.33%) DNS
3 1 (2.33%) FTP
3 1 (2.33%) NAS
3 1 (2.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (39.53%) Oracle Database
2 8 (18.60%) SQL Server
3 5 (11.63%) KDB
3 5 (11.63%) Relational Database
4 4 (9.30%) Oracle Database 11g
4 4 (9.30%) Oracle Database 12c
4 4 (9.30%) Oracle Exadata
5 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (4.65%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.33%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (2.33%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.33%) MySQL
7 1 (2.33%) OLTP
7 1 (2.33%) Oracle9i Database
7 1 (2.33%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (2.33%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Git
2 4 (9.30%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (6.98%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (6.98%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.65%) JIRA
4 2 (4.65%) JMeter
4 2 (4.65%) JUnit
4 2 (4.65%) Mockito
5 1 (2.33%) LabVIEW
5 1 (2.33%) LSMW
5 1 (2.33%) Selenium
5 1 (2.33%) Subversion
General
1 23 (53.49%) Social Skills
2 14 (32.56%) Finance
3 13 (30.23%) Banking
4 5 (11.63%) Front Office
4 5 (11.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (11.63%) Retail
5 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.65%) German Language
5 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (41.86%) Senior
2 12 (27.91%) DBA
3 11 (25.58%) Oracle DBA
3 11 (25.58%) Senior DBA
3 11 (25.58%) Senior Oracle DBA
4 7 (16.28%) IT Support
4 7 (16.28%) Linux Engineer
5 6 (13.95%) Developer
6 5 (11.63%) IT Assistant
6 5 (11.63%) IT Support Assistant
6 5 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 5 (11.63%) Support Assistant
7 4 (9.30%) Database Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Oracle Database Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Administrator
9 2 (4.65%) Java Developer
9 2 (4.65%) Linux Administrator
9 2 (4.65%) Python Developer
9 2 (4.65%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.63%) FIX Protocol
1 5 (11.63%) FreeMarker
2 3 (6.98%) 802.1X
2 3 (6.98%) RESTful
3 2 (4.65%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (4.65%) Apache Camel
3 2 (4.65%) Hibernate
3 2 (4.65%) HTML
3 2 (4.65%) JPA
3 2 (4.65%) jQuery
3 2 (4.65%) Mustache
3 2 (4.65%) Spring
3 2 (4.65%) Spring Boot
3 2 (4.65%) WireMock
4 1 (2.33%) BAPI
4 1 (2.33%) Django
4 1 (2.33%) Flask
4 1 (2.33%) Middleware
4 1 (2.33%) Pandas
4 1 (2.33%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Fixed Income
2 4 (9.30%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (6.98%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.65%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (4.65%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (2.33%) Clustering
5 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.33%) Derivative
5 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.33%) Market Risk
5 1 (2.33%) Replication
5 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (60.47%) Linux
2 18 (41.86%) Unix
3 12 (27.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (25.58%) AIX
4 11 (25.58%) Oracle Linux
5 5 (11.63%) Mac OS
6 3 (6.98%) Apple iOS
6 3 (6.98%) CentOS
6 3 (6.98%) Ubuntu
6 3 (6.98%) Windows
7 2 (4.65%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (46.51%) Performance Tuning
2 18 (41.86%) ITIL
3 15 (34.88%) Incident Response
3 15 (34.88%) Runbook
4 13 (30.23%) Change Management
4 13 (30.23%) Disaster Recovery
4 13 (30.23%) High Availability
5 12 (27.91%) Configuration Management
6 11 (25.58%) Capacity Planning
6 11 (25.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (11.63%) CI/CD
7 5 (11.63%) Mentoring
7 5 (11.63%) Migration
7 5 (11.63%) Observability
7 5 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (9.30%) Agile
8 4 (9.30%) Collaborative Culture
8 4 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (9.30%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (9.30%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 25 (58.14%) SQL
2 21 (48.84%) Python
3 20 (46.51%) Bash
4 16 (37.21%) PL/SQL
5 15 (34.88%) Korn
6 7 (16.28%) JavaScript
7 5 (11.63%) Java
7 5 (11.63%) PowerShell
8 2 (4.65%) Perl
9 1 (2.33%) ABAP
9 1 (2.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.30%) Oracle Certification
3 3 (6.98%) DV Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.65%) Degree
4 2 (4.65%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.33%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (2.33%) RHCE
5 1 (2.33%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.65%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (34.88%) Oracle RAC
2 6 (13.95%) Docker
3 2 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.33%) KVM
4 1 (2.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 14 (32.56%) Data Guard
1 14 (32.56%) Oracle RMAN
2 12 (27.91%) Nagios
3 5 (11.63%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (9.30%) Ansible
5 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
5 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (6.98%) Oracle Flashback
6 2 (4.65%) Kibana
7 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.33%) Puppet
7 1 (2.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 29 (67.44%) Oracle
2 11 (25.58%) IBM
3 10 (23.26%) Microsoft
4 5 (11.63%) Apple
5 4 (9.30%) Splunk
6 2 (4.65%) Adobe
6 2 (4.65%) Cisco
6 2 (4.65%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (4.65%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.65%) Google
6 2 (4.65%) Juniper
6 2 (4.65%) Meraki
6 2 (4.65%) Okta
6 2 (4.65%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.65%) SAP
6 2 (4.65%) SonicWALL
6 2 (4.65%) VMware
7 1 (2.33%) Sybase