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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 174 183
Rank change year-on-year -5 +9 -46
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 22 22 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.29% 0.58% 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.98% 3.46% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 12 1 11
10th Percentile £51,875 - -
25th Percentile £57,500 - £43,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +43.16% -36.67%
75th Percentile £71,563 - £61,031
90th Percentile £91,625 - £64,563
South East median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £44,982
% change year-on-year -4.41% +51.17% -35.74%

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 1,111 636 1,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.86% 16.78% 28.48%
Number of salaries quoted 870 379 788
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -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
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Shell Script in the Thames Valley

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 29 September 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
Berkshire -6 17 £65,000 - 1
Oxfordshire - 4 £62,500 - 3
Buckinghamshire -2 1 £51,359 -24.47% 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) AWS
2 10 (45.45%) Amazon EC2
2 10 (45.45%) Amazon EKS
2 10 (45.45%) Serverless
3 8 (36.36%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) DNS
1 4 (18.18%) Firewall
2 3 (13.64%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (40.91%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (40.91%) Relational Database
2 6 (27.27%) RDBMS
3 2 (9.09%) Big Data
4 1 (4.55%) Db2
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 8 (36.36%) JMeter
2 8 (36.36%) JUnit
2 8 (36.36%) Mockito
3 2 (9.09%) Git
3 2 (9.09%) GitLab
3 2 (9.09%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.55%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 9 (40.91%) Public Sector
2 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Security Engineer
1 7 (31.82%) Senior
2 5 (22.73%) Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Java Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Support Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Administrator
4 3 (13.64%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (13.64%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Linux Administrator
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Security Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 3 (13.64%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (50.00%) JSON
2 10 (45.45%) XML
3 9 (40.91%) Spring
4 8 (36.36%) ActiveMQ
4 8 (36.36%) Apache Camel
4 8 (36.36%) Hibernate
4 8 (36.36%) HTML
4 8 (36.36%) jQuery
4 8 (36.36%) Spring Boot
4 8 (36.36%) WireMock
5 7 (31.82%) REST
6 6 (27.27%) Web Services
7 5 (22.73%) Terraform
8 4 (18.18%) JSON Schema
8 4 (18.18%) LDAP
8 4 (18.18%) Regular Expression
9 3 (13.64%) XMPP
10 2 (9.09%) JPA
10 2 (9.09%) Mustache
10 2 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (31.82%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.64%) PKI
3 1 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (50.00%) Linux
2 7 (31.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (27.27%) Windows
3 6 (27.27%) Windows Server
4 3 (13.64%) Rocky
5 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 11 (50.00%) Agile
3 10 (45.45%) Microservices
4 9 (40.91%) BDD
4 9 (40.91%) TDD
5 8 (36.36%) Workflow
6 7 (31.82%) DevOps
7 6 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (27.27%) Process Management
7 6 (27.27%) SDLC
8 5 (22.73%) Biometrics
8 5 (22.73%) SIEM
9 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (13.64%) Cloud Security
10 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
10 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
10 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
10 3 (13.64%) Mentoring
10 3 (13.64%) Scrum
10 3 (13.64%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Python
2 10 (45.45%) Java
3 8 (36.36%) JavaScript
4 4 (18.18%) Bash
5 2 (9.09%) Groovy
5 2 (9.09%) Perl
6 1 (4.55%) COBOL
6 1 (4.55%) Micro Focus COBOL
6 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 7 (31.82%) DV Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) HNC
4 1 (4.55%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Docker
2 7 (31.82%) vSphere
3 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
4 3 (13.64%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 8 (36.36%) Kibana
3 5 (22.73%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Splunk
2 8 (36.36%) Dynatrace
3 7 (31.82%) VMware
4 3 (13.64%) McAfee
4 3 (13.64%) Red Hat
5 2 (9.09%) Oracle
6 1 (4.55%) AppDynamics
6 1 (4.55%) Atlassian
6 1 (4.55%) Micro Focus
6 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.55%) New Relic