Shell Script Job Trends in the North of England

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Shell Script skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 260 250
Rank change year-on-year +7 -10 +130
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 6 27 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.056% 0.30% 0.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.33% 1.06% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 18
10th Percentile £26,250 £37,600 £42,200
25th Percentile £31,563 £39,625 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -16.36% +23.60%
75th Percentile £60,000 £49,000 -
90th Percentile £63,750 - £60,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +3.45%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,793 2,547 3,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.74% 28.07% 35.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,400 1,374 2,513
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £82,600 £86,250 £80,000
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 North of England

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

Shell Script job vacancy trend in the North of England

Shell Script
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Shell Script in the North of England

Shell Script
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 13 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
North West +17 4 £60,000 +30.43% 5
Yorkshire -17 2 £27,500 -26.67% 6
Shell Script
England

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Datadog
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DHCP
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Software Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Snowflake Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Driving Licence
1 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (33.33%) Server Migrations
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Observability
2 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
2 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Server Management
2 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Plesk
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Argo
2 1 (16.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Draytek
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Dell
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat