Shell Script Job Trends in the South East

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
England > South East

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 275 304
Rank change year-on-year -35 +29 -71
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 28 21 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.15% 0.23% 0.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.97% 1.24% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 14 1 14
10th Percentile £51,250 - £40,250
25th Percentile £57,500 - £43,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,000 £44,982
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +51.17% -40.02%
75th Percentile £77,500 - £56,250
90th Percentile £88,750 - £64,563
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% -17.24% +3.57%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,893 1,697 3,739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.24% 18.90% 30.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,310 1,165 2,285
10th Percentile £37,500 £30,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,750 £40,240 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £72,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Shell Script job vacancy trend in the South East

Shell Script
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Shell Script.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in the South East over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Shell Script in the South East

Shell Script
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Shell Script within the South East region over the 6 months to 6 October 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
Thames Valley -4 20 £65,000 -4.41% 6
Berkshire +3 15 £65,000 - 2
Oxfordshire - 4 £62,500 - 3
East Sussex - 3 - - 1
Hampshire - 3 £67,500 - 2
Buckinghamshire -6 1 £51,359 -24.47% 1
Surrey - 1 £80,000 - 2
Home Counties - 1 - -
Shell Script
England

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 19 (67.86%) AWS
2 10 (35.71%) Serverless
3 8 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
3 8 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (25.00%) Azure
4 7 (25.00%) GCP
5 3 (10.71%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) DNS
1 4 (14.29%) Firewall
2 3 (10.71%) Internet
2 3 (10.71%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (7.14%) MQTT
4 1 (3.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (32.14%) Relational Database
3 6 (21.43%) RDBMS
4 2 (7.14%) Big Data
5 1 (3.57%) Db2
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 8 (28.57%) JMeter
1 8 (28.57%) JUnit
1 8 (28.57%) Mockito
2 6 (21.43%) Git
3 2 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 8 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Finance
4 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Senior
2 7 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Java Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Administrator
5 3 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (10.71%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Linux Administrator
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Security Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 3 (10.71%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (10.71%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (35.71%) JSON
1 10 (35.71%) XML
2 8 (28.57%) ActiveMQ
2 8 (28.57%) Apache Camel
2 8 (28.57%) Hibernate
2 8 (28.57%) HTML
2 8 (28.57%) jQuery
2 8 (28.57%) Spring
2 8 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 8 (28.57%) WireMock
3 7 (25.00%) REST
3 7 (25.00%) Terraform
4 6 (21.43%) Web Services
5 4 (14.29%) JSON Schema
5 4 (14.29%) LDAP
5 4 (14.29%) Regular Expression
6 3 (10.71%) RESTful
6 3 (10.71%) XMPP
7 2 (7.14%) JPA
7 2 (7.14%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
4 3 (10.71%) PKI
5 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.57%) Replication
5 1 (3.57%) Robotics
5 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (57.14%) Linux
2 7 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (21.43%) Windows
3 6 (21.43%) Windows Server
4 3 (10.71%) Rocky
5 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) CI/CD
2 12 (42.86%) Agile
3 11 (39.29%) DevOps
3 11 (39.29%) Microservices
4 10 (35.71%) SDLC
5 9 (32.14%) TDD
6 8 (28.57%) BDD
6 8 (28.57%) Containerisation
6 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (28.57%) Workflow
7 7 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (25.00%) DevSecOps
8 6 (21.43%) Cloud Security
8 6 (21.43%) Mentoring
8 6 (21.43%) Process Management
9 5 (17.86%) Biometrics
9 5 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (17.86%) SIEM
9 5 (17.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 4 (14.29%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Python
2 11 (39.29%) Java
3 10 (35.71%) JavaScript
4 4 (14.29%) Bash
5 2 (7.14%) Rust
6 1 (3.57%) COBOL
6 1 (3.57%) Micro Focus COBOL
6 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 8 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 4 (14.29%) Degree
4 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) HNC
5 1 (3.57%) HND
System Software
1 14 (50.00%) Docker
2 7 (25.00%) vSphere
3 4 (14.29%) Active Directory
4 3 (10.71%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 8 (28.57%) Kibana
3 6 (21.43%) Ansible
4 2 (7.14%) Podman
4 2 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Splunk
2 8 (28.57%) Dynatrace
3 7 (25.00%) VMware
4 4 (14.29%) Google
4 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 3 (10.71%) McAfee
5 3 (10.71%) Oracle
5 3 (10.71%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.57%) Micro Focus
6 1 (3.57%) New Relic
6 1 (3.57%) NVIDIA