Shell Script Job Trends in the Midlands

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Shell Script skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 229 237
Rank change year-on-year +13 +8 +68
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 3 17 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.038% 0.27% 0.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.26% 1.01% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 4
10th Percentile - £50,700 £44,385
25th Percentile £56,500 £53,750 £44,588
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £52,350
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +14.61% +29.26%
75th Percentile £59,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile - £63,000 -
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +3.45%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,145 1,685 2,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.38% 26.97% 31.73%
Number of salaries quoted 924 915 1,799
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £32,428
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,875
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Shell Script job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Shell Script
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Shell Script.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Shell Script within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 January 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
West Midlands +18 2 - - 6
East Midlands -11 1 £58,000 +12.62% 1
Shell Script
England

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) JBoss
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (33.33%) Gradle
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Spring MVC
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Line Management
2 1 (33.33%) Log Aggregation
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) OOP
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Nessus
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) VMware