Shell Script Job Trends in the North West

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Shell Script skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 190 228
Rank change year-on-year +10 +38 +32
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 3 15 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.042% 0.32% 0.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.33% 1.12% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £50,000 - £32,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £43,000 £35,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £46,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -14.81% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £49,000 £55,500
90th Percentile - - £65,600
England median annual salary £56,250 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% +3.45%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 911 1,339 2,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.67% 28.73% 34.81%
Number of salaries quoted 759 784 1,953
10th Percentile £33,125 £35,416 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
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 the North West

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

Shell Script job vacancy trend in the North West

Shell Script
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Shell Script.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Shell Script within the North West region over the 6 months to 11 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
Manchester -4 1 £60,000 +30.43%
Cheshire -28 1 £60,000 - 1
Merseyside - 1 £50,000 -
Shell Script
England

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Datadog
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Argo
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Nagios
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform