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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 173 145
Rank change year-on-year -7 -28 +94
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 26 24 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.67% 0.49% 1.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.87% 1.77% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1 12 33
10th Percentile - - £43,400
25th Percentile - £43,911 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £51,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.68% -31.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile - £59,266 £80,000
90th Percentile - £64,563 -
South East median annual salary £52,500 £46,241 £68,500
% change year-on-year +13.54% -32.49% +37.00%

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 672 1,355 1,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 17.41% 27.86% 42.52%
Number of salaries quoted 394 847 1,133
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,563 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £74,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £92,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Shell Script as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script 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 18 September 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 +8 25 - - 5
Buckinghamshire - 1 £68,000 - 7
Shell Script
South East

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 25 (96.15%) Amazon ECS
1 25 (96.15%) AWS
1 25 (96.15%) Serverless
2 24 (92.31%) Amazon EC2
2 24 (92.31%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.85%) AWS KMS
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (3.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (92.31%) PostgreSQL
1 24 (92.31%) RDBMS
1 24 (92.31%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (96.15%) Jenkins
2 24 (92.31%) JMeter
2 24 (92.31%) JUnit
2 24 (92.31%) Mockito
3 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 24 (92.31%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (88.46%) Developer
1 23 (88.46%) Java Developer
2 15 (57.69%) Full-Stack Developer
2 15 (57.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 9 (34.62%) Mid-Level Java Developer
4 1 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (92.31%) ActiveMQ
1 24 (92.31%) Apache Camel
1 24 (92.31%) Hibernate
1 24 (92.31%) HTML
1 24 (92.31%) jQuery
1 24 (92.31%) REST
1 24 (92.31%) Spring
1 24 (92.31%) Spring Boot
1 24 (92.31%) Web Services
1 24 (92.31%) WireMock
2 17 (65.38%) JSON
2 17 (65.38%) XML
3 1 (3.85%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 24 (92.31%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (96.15%) Agile
2 24 (92.31%) BDD
2 24 (92.31%) CI/CD
2 24 (92.31%) Microservices
2 24 (92.31%) Process Management
2 24 (92.31%) TDD
2 24 (92.31%) Workflow
3 16 (61.54%) Full-Stack Development
4 10 (38.46%) SDLC
5 7 (26.92%) Architectural Design
5 7 (26.92%) Collaborative Working
5 7 (26.92%) Kanban
5 7 (26.92%) Scrum
6 1 (3.85%) Asset Management
6 1 (3.85%) Data Security
6 1 (3.85%) Incident Management
6 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (3.85%) ITIL
6 1 (3.85%) Migration
6 1 (3.85%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (100.00%) Python
2 24 (92.31%) Java
2 24 (92.31%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.85%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (65.38%) Security Cleared
2 7 (26.92%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 25 (96.15%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (92.31%) Kibana
1 24 (92.31%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Ansible
2 1 (3.85%) Nessus
2 1 (3.85%) Proxmox
2 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (92.31%) Dynatrace
1 24 (92.31%) Splunk
2 1 (3.85%) Juniper