Shell Script Job Trends in South London

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South London requiring Shell Script skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 72 59
Rank change year-on-year +38 -13 +34
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 12 12 4
As % of all permanent jobs in South London 2.54% 2.09% 1.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.39% 7.14% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - £60,500 -
25th Percentile - £61,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile - £68,750 £77,500
90th Percentile - - -
London median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -18.52% -10.00% +11.11%

All Programming Languages
South London

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 South London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 69 168 139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 14.59% 29.32% 35.92%
Number of salaries quoted 41 40 113
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £41,050
25th Percentile £38,750 £44,688 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £56,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% -19.64% +16.67%
75th Percentile £58,000 £64,688 £80,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £83,750
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +3.23%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Shell Script job vacancy trend in South London

Shell Script
Salary Trend in South London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Shell Script.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 5 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
Croydon +19 12 - -
Shell Script
London

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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 12 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 12 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 12 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
1 12 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 12 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 12 (100.00%) JMeter
1 12 (100.00%) JUnit
1 12 (100.00%) Mockito
General
1 12 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
1 12 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 12 (100.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 12 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 12 (100.00%) Mid-Level Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 12 (100.00%) Apache Camel
1 12 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 12 (100.00%) HTML
1 12 (100.00%) jQuery
1 12 (100.00%) JSON
1 12 (100.00%) REST
1 12 (100.00%) Spring
1 12 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 12 (100.00%) Web Services
1 12 (100.00%) WireMock
1 12 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
1 12 (100.00%) BDD
1 12 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 12 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 12 (100.00%) Microservices
1 12 (100.00%) Process Management
1 12 (100.00%) SDLC
1 12 (100.00%) TDD
1 12 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Java
1 12 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 12 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Kibana
1 12 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 12 (100.00%) Splunk