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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 138 210
Rank change year-on-year -17 +72 +18
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 15 26 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.27% 0.90% 0.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.76% 3.27% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 10 7 7
10th Percentile £48,750 £53,000 -
25th Percentile £51,250 £60,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £57,007
Median % change year-on-year - +9.64% -23.99%
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,250 £69,500
90th Percentile £74,750 £68,750 £83,900
South East median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% +10.00%

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 852 796 1,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.58% 27.60% 29.10%
Number of salaries quoted 614 544 1,613
10th Percentile £37,800 £37,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,188 £75,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £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
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 April 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 25 April 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 -4 10 £67,500 +8.00% 4
Oxfordshire - 4 £60,000 - 2
Buckinghamshire -21 1 £67,000 +24.65% 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 6 (40.00%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (33.33%) Serverless
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) DNS
1 4 (26.67%) Firewall
1 4 (26.67%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.67%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Git
1 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (20.00%) JMeter
2 3 (20.00%) JUnit
2 3 (20.00%) Mockito
3 2 (13.33%) GitLab
3 2 (13.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (6.67%) Artifactory
4 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
4 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (13.33%) Applications Architect
1 2 (13.33%) Applications Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) Architect
1 2 (13.33%) Design Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) Developer
1 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
1 2 (13.33%) Security Architect
1 2 (13.33%) Security Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) Software Validation Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) Software Verification Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) Support Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) Validation Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) Verification Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (6.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Mid-Level Java Developer
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) JSON
2 7 (46.67%) XML
3 4 (26.67%) JSON Schema
3 4 (26.67%) LDAP
3 4 (26.67%) Qt
3 4 (26.67%) Regular Expression
3 4 (26.67%) REST
3 4 (26.67%) Spring
4 3 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (20.00%) Apache Camel
4 3 (20.00%) Hibernate
4 3 (20.00%) HTML
4 3 (20.00%) jQuery
4 3 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (20.00%) Web Services
4 3 (20.00%) WireMock
5 2 (13.33%) React
6 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
6 1 (6.67%) GStreamer
6 1 (6.67%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
2 2 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) IoT
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (73.33%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (26.67%) VxWorks
2 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (46.67%) SDLC
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) Microservices
4 4 (26.67%) Application Security
4 4 (26.67%) BDD
4 4 (26.67%) SIEM
4 4 (26.67%) TDD
4 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
4 4 (26.67%) UML
5 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (20.00%) Process Management
5 3 (20.00%) Workflow
6 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 2 (13.33%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (13.33%) High Availability
6 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
6 2 (13.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) C++
3 4 (26.67%) C
3 4 (26.67%) Java
4 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (13.33%) Groovy
5 2 (13.33%) Perl
6 1 (6.67%) Korn
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) ECSS
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Docker
2 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (26.67%) vSphere
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (20.00%) Kibana
3 2 (13.33%) Ansible
3 2 (13.33%) Terraform
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) VMware
2 3 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (20.00%) Splunk
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) AppDynamics
4 1 (6.67%) Atlassian
4 1 (6.67%) NVIDIA
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle