Shell Script Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Shell Script skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 170 156
Rank change year-on-year +1 -14 +75
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 22 25 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.59% 0.58% 1.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.70% 1.92% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2 10 18
10th Percentile £55,175 - £46,875
25th Percentile £57,313 £43,911 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,750 £46,241 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.70% -36.66% +46.00%
75th Percentile £66,313 £64,563 £80,000
90th Percentile £67,325 £65,106 -
South East median annual salary £62,750 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +32.11% -20.83% +20.00%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 594 1,305 1,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.95% 30.09% 42.81%
Number of salaries quoted 386 724 1,002
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,100
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,965 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £90,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Shell Script job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Shell Script
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Shell Script.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Shell Script within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 October 2025. 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
Berkshire -1 20 - - 12
Buckinghamshire - 2 £62,750 - 6
Shell Script
South East

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (4.55%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (95.45%) AWS
2 20 (90.91%) Amazon EC2
2 20 (90.91%) Amazon ECS
2 20 (90.91%) Amazon EKS
2 20 (90.91%) Serverless
3 1 (4.55%) Azure
3 1 (4.55%) Boomi
3 1 (4.55%) iPaaS
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
3 1 (4.55%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (95.45%) Relational Database
2 20 (90.91%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (90.91%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (90.91%) Jenkins
1 20 (90.91%) JMeter
1 20 (90.91%) JUnit
1 20 (90.91%) Mockito
General
1 20 (90.91%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.55%) Law
2 1 (4.55%) Legal
2 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (86.36%) Developer
1 19 (86.36%) Java Developer
2 16 (72.73%) Full-Stack Developer
2 16 (72.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 14 (63.64%) Mid-Level Java Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Platform Integration Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (95.45%) REST
1 21 (95.45%) Web Services
2 20 (90.91%) ActiveMQ
2 20 (90.91%) Apache Camel
2 20 (90.91%) Hibernate
2 20 (90.91%) HTML
2 20 (90.91%) jQuery
2 20 (90.91%) Spring
2 20 (90.91%) Spring Boot
2 20 (90.91%) WireMock
3 19 (86.36%) JSON
3 19 (86.36%) XML
4 1 (4.55%) Mustache
4 1 (4.55%) RESTful
4 1 (4.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (90.91%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (95.45%) Agile
2 20 (90.91%) BDD
2 20 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 20 (90.91%) Microservices
2 20 (90.91%) Process Management
2 20 (90.91%) TDD
2 20 (90.91%) Workflow
3 17 (77.27%) Full-Stack Development
4 15 (68.18%) SDLC
5 2 (9.09%) Architectural Design
5 2 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (9.09%) Incident Management
5 2 (9.09%) Kanban
5 2 (9.09%) Scrum
6 1 (4.55%) Asset Management
6 1 (4.55%) Migration
6 1 (4.55%) Open Source
6 1 (4.55%) Problem Management
6 1 (4.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (4.55%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) Python
2 21 (95.45%) Java
2 21 (95.45%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.55%) Bash
3 1 (4.55%) C#
3 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (95.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (95.45%) Kubernetes
2 20 (90.91%) Kibana
Vendors
1 20 (90.91%) Dynatrace
1 20 (90.91%) Splunk
2 1 (4.55%) Dell
2 1 (4.55%) Epicor
2 1 (4.55%) IBM
2 1 (4.55%) IFS
2 1 (4.55%) Infor
2 1 (4.55%) Informatica
2 1 (4.55%) Jitterbit
2 1 (4.55%) MuleSoft
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle
2 1 (4.55%) SAP
2 1 (4.55%) SnapLogic
2 1 (4.55%) Software AG
2 1 (4.55%) Talend
2 1 (4.55%) TIBCO
2 1 (4.55%) Workday