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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 355 347
Rank change year-on-year +49 -8 +110
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 73 86 119
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.62% 0.49% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.64% 1.15% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 26 42 100
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £54,000
25th Percentile £54,063 £60,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £104,688 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,306 £121,375
England median annual salary £58,000 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -17.14% +2.94% +13.33%

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 4,438 7,480 9,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 37.59% 42.67% 45.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,954 4,958 7,995
10th Percentile £48,575 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £130,000 £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 21 October 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 21 October 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 +35 19 - -
Central London +34 3 £90,000 -14.29% 9
West London -1 2 £60,000 -
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 (5.48%) Jupyter
2 3 (4.11%) Confluence
3 2 (2.74%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.37%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 43 (58.90%) AWS
2 25 (34.25%) Azure
3 23 (31.51%) Amazon ECS
4 21 (28.77%) Amazon EC2
4 21 (28.77%) Amazon EKS
4 21 (28.77%) Serverless
5 7 (9.59%) GCP
6 5 (6.85%) BlazeMeter
6 5 (6.85%) GitHub
6 5 (6.85%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (6.85%) SaaS
7 4 (5.48%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.74%) Akamai
8 2 (2.74%) Datadog
8 2 (2.74%) Kong
8 2 (2.74%) Logz.io
8 2 (2.74%) Lucidchart
8 2 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.74%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.74%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.11%) Firewall
2 2 (2.74%) DNS
2 2 (2.74%) Network Security
2 2 (2.74%) SSL
2 2 (2.74%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.74%) VPN
3 1 (1.37%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (1.37%) RTP
3 1 (1.37%) SSH
3 1 (1.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (42.47%) Relational Database
2 27 (36.99%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (26.03%) RDBMS
4 11 (15.07%) MySQL
5 4 (5.48%) KDB
5 4 (5.48%) Kdb+
5 4 (5.48%) MongoDB
6 3 (4.11%) Redis
7 2 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.74%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.74%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.37%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.37%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (1.37%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 34 (46.58%) Jenkins
2 22 (30.14%) JUnit
2 22 (30.14%) Mockito
3 21 (28.77%) JMeter
4 15 (20.55%) Git
5 8 (10.96%) GitLab
6 7 (9.59%) JIRA
7 6 (8.22%) Maven
8 3 (4.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (4.11%) Subversion
9 2 (2.74%) Artifactory
9 2 (2.74%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.74%) Gradle
10 1 (1.37%) CMake
10 1 (1.37%) MSBuild
10 1 (1.37%) Postman
10 1 (1.37%) REST Assured
10 1 (1.37%) SoapUI
10 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.37%) Xcode
General
1 25 (34.25%) Finance
2 21 (28.77%) Public Sector
3 18 (24.66%) Law
4 16 (21.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (16.44%) Social Skills
6 9 (12.33%) Marketing
7 8 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (8.22%) Legal
9 5 (6.85%) Banking
10 4 (5.48%) Front Office
11 3 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (2.74%) Advertising
12 2 (2.74%) Aviation
12 2 (2.74%) Telecoms
13 1 (1.37%) Electronics
13 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
13 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (32.88%) Developer
2 21 (28.77%) Java Developer
3 17 (23.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 16 (21.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 15 (20.55%) Software Engineer
6 13 (17.81%) Lead
6 13 (17.81%) Mid-Level Java Developer
7 12 (16.44%) Senior
8 8 (10.96%) Database Engineer
8 8 (10.96%) Lead Software Engineer
9 7 (9.59%) Applications Support
10 5 (6.85%) Administrator
10 5 (6.85%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (5.48%) Java Engineer
11 4 (5.48%) Lead Java Engineer
11 4 (5.48%) Senior Database Engineer
11 4 (5.48%) Senior Java Engineer
11 4 (5.48%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (5.48%) Support Engineer
12 3 (4.11%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (47.95%) REST
2 25 (34.25%) HTML
3 24 (32.88%) Spring
3 24 (32.88%) Spring Boot
4 22 (30.14%) Hibernate
4 22 (30.14%) JSON
4 22 (30.14%) Web Services
4 22 (30.14%) XML
5 21 (28.77%) ActiveMQ
5 21 (28.77%) Apache Camel
5 21 (28.77%) jQuery
5 21 (28.77%) WireMock
6 9 (12.33%) React
7 8 (10.96%) OAuth
7 8 (10.96%) OpenID
8 4 (5.48%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (5.48%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (5.48%) Middleware
8 4 (5.48%) Pandas
8 4 (5.48%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 21 (28.77%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (10.96%) Algorithms
2 8 (10.96%) Data Structures
2 8 (10.96%) Private Cloud
2 8 (10.96%) Product Ownership
2 8 (10.96%) Public Cloud
3 6 (8.22%) Replication
4 5 (6.85%) Derivative
5 4 (5.48%) Equities
5 4 (5.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (4.11%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.74%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.74%) Low-Code
7 2 (2.74%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.37%) Clustering
8 1 (1.37%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (34.25%) Linux
2 24 (32.88%) Unix
3 5 (6.85%) Windows
4 4 (5.48%) Solaris
5 2 (2.74%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.74%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.37%) AIX
6 1 (1.37%) CentOS
6 1 (1.37%) Debian
6 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (61.64%) Agile
2 40 (54.79%) CI/CD
3 35 (47.95%) TDD
4 29 (39.73%) SDLC
5 27 (36.99%) Microservices
6 25 (34.25%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (31.51%) Workflow
8 21 (28.77%) BDD
9 19 (26.03%) Process Management
9 19 (26.03%) Software Engineering
9 19 (26.03%) Test Automation
10 18 (24.66%) Full-Stack Development
11 17 (23.29%) Continuous Integration
12 16 (21.92%) Infrastructure as Code
13 15 (20.55%) DevOps
14 10 (13.70%) Configuration Management
14 10 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (13.70%) Task Automation
15 9 (12.33%) Continuous Deployment
15 9 (12.33%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 52 (71.23%) Python
2 36 (49.32%) Java
3 24 (32.88%) JavaScript
4 21 (28.77%) SQL
5 9 (12.33%) Bash
6 8 (10.96%) TypeScript
7 7 (9.59%) PowerShell
8 6 (8.22%) Go
8 6 (8.22%) PL/SQL
9 4 (5.48%) C#
10 2 (2.74%) C++
10 2 (2.74%) Perl
11 1 (1.37%) Bourne shell
11 1 (1.37%) C
11 1 (1.37%) C-shell
11 1 (1.37%) Groovy
11 1 (1.37%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 19 (26.03%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.85%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.48%) Degree
4 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.22%) QA
2 2 (2.74%) GDPR
3 1 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (63.01%) Docker
2 4 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.11%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.74%) KVM
4 2 (2.74%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.74%) vSphere
5 1 (1.37%) Corosync
5 1 (1.37%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 38 (52.05%) Kubernetes
2 23 (31.51%) Kibana
3 22 (30.14%) Ansible
4 12 (16.44%) Grafana
5 9 (12.33%) Terraform
6 7 (9.59%) Prometheus
7 6 (8.22%) Progress Chef
8 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (2.74%) Argo
9 2 (2.74%) FortiGate
9 2 (2.74%) logstash
9 2 (2.74%) SCCM
10 1 (1.37%) Icinga
10 1 (1.37%) Oracle ZFS
10 1 (1.37%) Pacemaker
10 1 (1.37%) Podman
10 1 (1.37%) Puppet
10 1 (1.37%) VxRail
Vendors
1 31 (42.47%) Dynatrace
2 30 (41.10%) Splunk
3 14 (19.18%) Oracle
4 12 (16.44%) Google
5 4 (5.48%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.48%) Red Hat
5 4 (5.48%) SAP
5 4 (5.48%) VMware
6 3 (4.11%) Talend
7 2 (2.74%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.74%) Apple
7 2 (2.74%) Dell
7 2 (2.74%) Epicor
7 2 (2.74%) IBM
7 2 (2.74%) Infor
7 2 (2.74%) Informatica
7 2 (2.74%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.74%) SnapLogic
7 2 (2.74%) Software AG
7 2 (2.74%) TIBCO