Shell Script Job Trends in the South West

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Shell Script skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 176 204
Rank change year-on-year -6 +28 +30
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 3 12 52
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.054% 0.32% 0.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.36% 0.92% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1 12 51
10th Percentile - £55,688 £32,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £61,875 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £77,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% +55.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £66,875
90th Percentile - - £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £63,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.80% +6.25% +3.45%

All Programming Languages
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 834 1,302 2,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.11% 34.63% 39.68%
Number of salaries quoted 588 700 2,158
10th Percentile £32,350 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.00% -1.40%
75th Percentile £67,725 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,000 £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 South West

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

Shell Script job vacancy trend in the South West

Shell Script
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Shell Script
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 4 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
Bristol 0 2 £90,000 +12.50%
Gloucestershire +9 1 - -
Shell Script
England

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) AMQP
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) InfluxDB
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
1 1 (33.33%) webMethods Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Matrix Management
2 1 (33.33%) Matrix Organization
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Software AG
1 1 (33.33%) webMethods