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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 356 364
Rank change year-on-year +38 +8 +104
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 71 91 98
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.55% 0.52% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.54% 1.23% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 23 49 82
10th Percentile £44,950 £50,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +15.38%
75th Percentile £77,500 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £113,750 £109,625
England median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -17.86% +3.70% +12.50%

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 4,596 7,369 8,660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.79% 42.19% 45.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,020 4,851 7,536
10th Percentile £47,450 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,250 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.81% - +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 15 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 15 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 +32 19 - -
Central London +33 7 £50,625 -51.79% 9
West London -3 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 (5.63%) Anypoint
1 4 (5.63%) Jupyter
2 3 (4.23%) Confluence
3 1 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 43 (60.56%) AWS
2 26 (36.62%) Azure
3 23 (32.39%) Amazon ECS
4 21 (29.58%) Amazon EC2
4 21 (29.58%) Amazon EKS
4 21 (29.58%) Serverless
5 8 (11.27%) GCP
6 5 (7.04%) GitHub
6 5 (7.04%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (5.63%) Boomi
7 4 (5.63%) iPaaS
7 4 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (5.63%) Power Automate
7 4 (5.63%) Workato
8 3 (4.23%) BlazeMeter
8 3 (4.23%) OpenShift
8 3 (4.23%) SaaS
9 2 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.82%) Kong
9 2 (2.82%) Logz.io
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.63%) Firewall
2 3 (4.23%) DNS
2 3 (4.23%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.82%) Network Security
3 2 (2.82%) SSL
3 2 (2.82%) VPN
4 1 (1.41%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (46.48%) Relational Database
2 26 (36.62%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (26.76%) RDBMS
4 13 (18.31%) MySQL
5 4 (5.63%) KDB
5 4 (5.63%) Kdb+
6 3 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (4.23%) MongoDB
6 3 (4.23%) Redis
7 2 (2.82%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.41%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.41%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (1.41%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 31 (43.66%) Jenkins
2 22 (30.99%) JUnit
2 22 (30.99%) Mockito
3 21 (29.58%) JMeter
4 13 (18.31%) Git
5 7 (9.86%) GitLab
5 7 (9.86%) JIRA
6 5 (7.04%) Maven
7 3 (4.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (4.23%) Subversion
8 2 (2.82%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.82%) Gradle
9 1 (1.41%) CMake
9 1 (1.41%) MSBuild
9 1 (1.41%) Postman
9 1 (1.41%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.41%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.41%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.41%) Xcode
General
1 22 (30.99%) Finance
2 20 (28.17%) Law
2 20 (28.17%) Public Sector
3 16 (22.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (14.08%) Social Skills
5 9 (12.68%) Marketing
6 8 (11.27%) Legal
7 6 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (7.04%) Banking
9 3 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.82%) Advertising
10 2 (2.82%) Aviation
10 2 (2.82%) Front Office
11 1 (1.41%) Electronics
11 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (32.39%) Developer
2 21 (29.58%) Java Developer
3 19 (26.76%) Full-Stack Developer
4 18 (25.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 15 (21.13%) Mid-Level Java Developer
5 15 (21.13%) Software Engineer
6 12 (16.90%) Lead
7 11 (15.49%) Senior
8 8 (11.27%) Database Engineer
8 8 (11.27%) Lead Software Engineer
9 7 (9.86%) Support Engineer
10 5 (7.04%) Administrator
10 5 (7.04%) Applications Support
10 5 (7.04%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (5.63%) Development Engineer
11 4 (5.63%) Development Support Engineer
11 4 (5.63%) Integration Engineer
11 4 (5.63%) Java Engineer
11 4 (5.63%) Senior Database Engineer
11 4 (5.63%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (50.70%) REST
2 25 (35.21%) JSON
2 25 (35.21%) XML
3 24 (33.80%) HTML
3 24 (33.80%) Spring
3 24 (33.80%) Spring Boot
3 24 (33.80%) Web Services
4 22 (30.99%) Hibernate
5 21 (29.58%) ActiveMQ
5 21 (29.58%) Apache Camel
5 21 (29.58%) jQuery
5 21 (29.58%) WireMock
6 8 (11.27%) OAuth
6 8 (11.27%) OpenID
6 8 (11.27%) React
7 6 (8.45%) RESTful
8 5 (7.04%) SOAP
9 4 (5.63%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (5.63%) Middleware
9 4 (5.63%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 21 (29.58%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (11.27%) Algorithms
2 8 (11.27%) Data Structures
2 8 (11.27%) Private Cloud
2 8 (11.27%) Product Ownership
2 8 (11.27%) Public Cloud
3 5 (7.04%) Replication
4 4 (5.63%) Derivative
4 4 (5.63%) Equities
4 4 (5.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (5.63%) Low-Code
5 3 (4.23%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.82%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.82%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.41%) Clustering
7 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 27 (38.03%) Linux
2 23 (32.39%) Unix
3 5 (7.04%) CentOS
3 5 (7.04%) Ubuntu
3 5 (7.04%) Windows
4 4 (5.63%) Solaris
5 3 (4.23%) Rocky
6 2 (2.82%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.41%) AIX
7 1 (1.41%) Debian
7 1 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (63.38%) Agile
2 35 (49.30%) CI/CD
3 34 (47.89%) TDD
4 31 (43.66%) SDLC
5 25 (35.21%) Microservices
6 23 (32.39%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (32.39%) Workflow
7 21 (29.58%) BDD
8 20 (28.17%) Full-Stack Development
9 19 (26.76%) Process Management
9 19 (26.76%) Software Engineering
9 19 (26.76%) Test Automation
10 16 (22.54%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (21.13%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (19.72%) DevOps
13 12 (16.90%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (15.49%) Configuration Management
15 9 (12.68%) Build Automation
15 9 (12.68%) Task Automation
16 8 (11.27%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 51 (71.83%) Python
2 35 (49.30%) Java
3 26 (36.62%) JavaScript
4 19 (26.76%) SQL
5 8 (11.27%) TypeScript
6 7 (9.86%) Bash
7 6 (8.45%) C#
7 6 (8.45%) Go
8 5 (7.04%) PowerShell
9 4 (5.63%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.41%) Bourne shell
10 1 (1.41%) C
10 1 (1.41%) C++
10 1 (1.41%) C-shell
10 1 (1.41%) Groovy
10 1 (1.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (26.76%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.63%) Degree
3 2 (2.82%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.82%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.04%) QA
2 4 (5.63%) GDPR
3 1 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (66.20%) Docker
2 5 (7.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.82%) KVM
4 2 (2.82%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (53.52%) Kubernetes
2 25 (35.21%) Ansible
3 23 (32.39%) Kibana
4 10 (14.08%) Terraform
5 9 (12.68%) Grafana
6 6 (8.45%) Prometheus
7 4 (5.63%) Progress Chef
8 3 (4.23%) Nagios
9 2 (2.82%) Argo
9 2 (2.82%) FortiGate
9 2 (2.82%) logstash
9 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (2.82%) SCCM
10 1 (1.41%) Oracle ZFS
10 1 (1.41%) Podman
10 1 (1.41%) Puppet
10 1 (1.41%) VxRail
Vendors
1 29 (40.85%) Dynatrace
1 29 (40.85%) Splunk
2 12 (16.90%) Google
2 12 (16.90%) Oracle
3 5 (7.04%) Red Hat
3 5 (7.04%) SAP
3 5 (7.04%) VMware
4 4 (5.63%) Dell
4 4 (5.63%) Epicor
4 4 (5.63%) IBM
4 4 (5.63%) IFS
4 4 (5.63%) Infor
4 4 (5.63%) Informatica
4 4 (5.63%) Jitterbit
4 4 (5.63%) MuleSoft
4 4 (5.63%) SnapLogic
4 4 (5.63%) Software AG
4 4 (5.63%) Talend
4 4 (5.63%) TIBCO
4 4 (5.63%) Workday