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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 361 398
Rank change year-on-year +11 +37 +78
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 37 56 79
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.24% 0.37% 0.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.82% 0.92% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 13 22 56
10th Percentile £43,375 £43,750 £49,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% -10.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £61,250 £81,563 £86,563
90th Percentile £77,500 £95,250 £140,000
England median annual salary £56,250 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% +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 4,521 6,115 8,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.43% 40.57% 42.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,183 3,974 7,753
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £78,000
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +0.65%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 12 February 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 12 February 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 +35 9 - - 1
Central London +23 7 £43,750 -50.00% 3
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 (10.81%) Anypoint
2 2 (5.41%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Shopify
2 2 (5.41%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 18 (48.65%) AWS
2 11 (29.73%) Azure
2 11 (29.73%) Serverless
3 9 (24.32%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (24.32%) Amazon ECS
3 9 (24.32%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (10.81%) Boomi
4 4 (10.81%) GCP
4 4 (10.81%) iPaaS
4 4 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (10.81%) Power Automate
4 4 (10.81%) Workato
5 3 (8.11%) GitHub
6 2 (5.41%) Algolia
6 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.41%) Cloud Functions
6 2 (5.41%) Firebase
6 2 (5.41%) Logz.io
6 2 (5.41%) Sentry
6 2 (5.41%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) Firewall
1 3 (8.11%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.41%) DNS
2 2 (5.41%) SSL
3 1 (2.70%) LAN
3 1 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (37.84%) Relational Database
2 10 (27.03%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (27.03%) RDBMS
3 6 (16.22%) MySQL
3 6 (16.22%) Oracle Database
4 3 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.41%) BigQuery
5 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.41%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (5.41%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (5.41%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.70%) SAP HANA
6 1 (2.70%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 10 (27.03%) Jenkins
2 9 (24.32%) JMeter
2 9 (24.32%) JUnit
2 9 (24.32%) Mockito
3 7 (18.92%) Git
4 4 (10.81%) JIRA
5 2 (5.41%) Artifactory
5 2 (5.41%) Gradle
5 2 (5.41%) Maven
5 2 (5.41%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (5.41%) Storybook
6 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (2.70%) LabVIEW
6 1 (2.70%) Selenium
6 1 (2.70%) Subversion
General
1 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Public Sector
3 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.81%) Finance
3 4 (10.81%) Law
3 4 (10.81%) Legal
4 2 (5.41%) Banking
4 2 (5.41%) Front Office
5 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.70%) German Language
5 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (40.54%) Developer
2 11 (29.73%) Full-Stack Developer
3 9 (24.32%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 9 (24.32%) Java Developer
3 9 (24.32%) Mid-Level Java Developer
4 7 (18.92%) Support Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Development Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Development Support Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Administrator
6 3 (8.11%) Automation Developer
6 3 (8.11%) DBA
6 3 (8.11%) Linux Support
6 3 (8.11%) Linux Support Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Senior
7 2 (5.41%) Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Applications Support
7 2 (5.41%) Server Support
7 2 (5.41%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (37.84%) REST
2 13 (35.14%) HTML
2 13 (35.14%) JSON
2 13 (35.14%) Web Services
2 13 (35.14%) XML
3 9 (24.32%) ActiveMQ
3 9 (24.32%) Apache Camel
3 9 (24.32%) Hibernate
3 9 (24.32%) jQuery
3 9 (24.32%) Spring
3 9 (24.32%) Spring Boot
3 9 (24.32%) WireMock
4 6 (16.22%) RESTful
5 4 (10.81%) CSS
5 4 (10.81%) SOAP
6 3 (8.11%) LAMP
7 2 (5.41%) HTML5
7 2 (5.41%) Node.js
7 2 (5.41%) OAuth
7 2 (5.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (16.22%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (13.51%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (10.81%) Low-Code
5 3 (8.11%) Data Centre
5 3 (8.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (8.11%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
6 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
6 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
6 2 (5.41%) Replication
7 1 (2.70%) Clustering
7 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 22 (59.46%) Linux
2 13 (35.14%) Unix
3 6 (16.22%) CentOS
3 6 (16.22%) Ubuntu
4 4 (10.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (8.11%) AIX
5 3 (8.11%) Rocky
5 3 (8.11%) Solaris
5 3 (8.11%) Windows
5 3 (8.11%) Windows Server
6 2 (5.41%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (2.70%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (56.76%) Agile
2 14 (37.84%) CI/CD
3 12 (32.43%) SDLC
4 11 (29.73%) Full-Stack Development
4 11 (29.73%) Microservices
4 11 (29.73%) TDD
5 9 (24.32%) BDD
5 9 (24.32%) Performance Tuning
5 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (24.32%) Process Management
5 9 (24.32%) Workflow
6 8 (21.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (18.92%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (18.92%) Problem Management
8 6 (16.22%) Change Management
8 6 (16.22%) Configuration Management
8 6 (16.22%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (13.51%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 23 (62.16%) Python
2 15 (40.54%) JavaScript
3 14 (37.84%) Java
4 12 (32.43%) SQL
5 10 (27.03%) Bash
6 6 (16.22%) C#
7 5 (13.51%) Korn
7 5 (13.51%) PL/SQL
8 2 (5.41%) Go
8 2 (5.41%) Perl
8 2 (5.41%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 13 (35.14%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.92%) Degree
3 3 (8.11%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.41%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.41%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) QA
2 4 (10.81%) GDPR
3 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.41%) WCAG
4 1 (2.70%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 17 (45.95%) Docker
2 4 (10.81%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.41%) KVM
5 1 (2.70%) Xen
Systems Management
1 17 (45.95%) Kubernetes
2 9 (24.32%) Ansible
2 9 (24.32%) Kibana
3 6 (16.22%) Terraform
4 5 (13.51%) Nagios
5 3 (8.11%) Data Guard
5 3 (8.11%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (5.41%) Argo
6 2 (5.41%) Grafana
6 2 (5.41%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.70%) Oracle Flashback
7 1 (2.70%) Podman
7 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (32.43%) Splunk
2 11 (29.73%) Dynatrace
2 11 (29.73%) Oracle
3 6 (16.22%) IBM
3 6 (16.22%) Red Hat
4 5 (13.51%) SAP
5 4 (10.81%) Dell
5 4 (10.81%) Epicor
5 4 (10.81%) IFS
5 4 (10.81%) Infor
5 4 (10.81%) Informatica
5 4 (10.81%) Jitterbit
5 4 (10.81%) MuleSoft
5 4 (10.81%) SnapLogic
5 4 (10.81%) Software AG
5 4 (10.81%) Talend
5 4 (10.81%) TIBCO
5 4 (10.81%) Workday
6 3 (8.11%) VMware
7 2 (5.41%) Google