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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 170 216
Rank change year-on-year -71 +46 -1
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 3 4 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.033% 0.11% 0.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.20% 0.49% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 25
10th Percentile - £85,500 £66,500
25th Percentile - £86,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.75% +51.80%
75th Percentile - £102,500 £87,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £52,500 £59,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.02% -26.25% +14.29%

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 1,490 814 2,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.62% 23.21% 25.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,058 537 1,500
10th Percentile £32,675 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,918
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.60% -6.28%

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 11 August 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
Gloucestershire - 3 - - 4
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
3 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) Maven
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Automation Tester
1 2 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) LAMP
2 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Unix
3 1 (33.33%) CentOS
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 2 (66.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle