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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 300 363
Rank change year-on-year -27 +63 -20
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 19 13 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.092% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.55% 0.48% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 19 10 11
10th Percentile - £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,750 £42,740
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £44,500 £48,507
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -8.26% -7.61%
75th Percentile £43,750 £48,250 £111,250
90th Percentile - £49,425 -
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -14.29% +6.87%

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 3,478 2,701 5,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.76% 28.78% 27.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,629 1,440 4,068
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,000 £41,983
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,250 £72,750 £68,113
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -11 7 £42,500 -4.49% 8
Yorkshire -20 7 £42,500 - 4
North East - 5 £42,500 - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) AWS
1 1 (5.26%) Azure
1 1 (5.26%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) DHCP
1 1 (5.26%) DNS
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
1 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (94.74%) MySQL
1 18 (94.74%) SQL Server
General
1 18 (94.74%) Law
2 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Administrator
1 12 (63.16%) DBA
1 12 (63.16%) SQL DBA
2 6 (31.58%) Database Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Unix Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Unix Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (94.74%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) CentOS
2 1 (5.26%) Solaris
2 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
2 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) Continuous Improvement
1 18 (94.74%) High Availability
1 18 (94.74%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (5.26%) Configuration Management
2 1 (5.26%) DevOps
2 1 (5.26%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (5.26%) Patch Management
2 1 (5.26%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (5.26%) Project Delivery
2 1 (5.26%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (94.74%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) Bash
2 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Linux+ Certification
1 1 (5.26%) RHCE
1 1 (5.26%) RHCSA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.26%) KVM
1 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Ansible
1 1 (5.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
1 1 (5.26%) VMware