Shell Script Job Trends in Manchester

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Shell Script skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 142 138
Rank change year-on-year +9 -4 +87
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 2 13 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.072% 0.47% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.38% 1.41% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile £53,250 - £44,350
25th Percentile £54,375 £43,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £46,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -16.36% +46.85%
75th Percentile £65,625 £49,000 £56,000
90th Percentile £66,750 - £70,400
North West median annual salary £60,000 £46,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +30.43% -16.36% +46.85%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 533 923 977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 19.28% 33.65% 43.06%
Number of salaries quoted 455 483 803
10th Percentile £33,675 £38,750 £37,316
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £44,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - +0.80% -
75th Percentile £74,033 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,300 £87,250 £82,548
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Shell Script relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Shell Script job vacancy trend in Manchester

Shell Script
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Shell Script.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SSH
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Server Management
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat