Shell Script Jobs in the UK excluding London

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Shell Script skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Shell Script over the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 526 485
Rank change year-on-year +61 -41 -118
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 76 227 311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.33% 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.78% 1.01% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 40 150 124
10th Percentile £40,750 £33,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,813 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,778 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,801 22,422 25,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.84% 32.35% 40.61%
Number of salaries quoted 7,187 16,408 14,210
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +2.80%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Shell Script as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in the UK excluding London

Shell Script
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Shell Script in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Shell Script in the UK excluding London

Shell Script
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Shell Script in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Shell Script in the UK excluding London

Shell Script
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Shell Script within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
South East +90 34 £62,500 +13.64% 40
Midlands +72 15 £60,000 +14.29% 27
North of England +74 14 £44,500 -19.09% 38
West Midlands +48 13 £60,000 +34.83% 20
North West +21 12 £44,500 -49.86% 20
Scotland +106 7 £85,253 +102.98% 14
Northern Ireland +44 6 £50,000 -35.48% 14
Yorkshire +73 2 - - 16
East Midlands +57 2 - - 6
South West +64 1 £60,000 +2.13% 20
East of England +35 1 £67,500 +12.50% 27
Shell Script
UK

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.63%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.63%) SAS
2 1 (1.32%) Apache
2 1 (1.32%) Confluence
2 1 (1.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (9.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (2.63%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (5.26%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 40 (52.63%) AWS
2 28 (36.84%) Serverless
3 26 (34.21%) Amazon ECS
4 25 (32.89%) Amazon EC2
5 22 (28.95%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (13.16%) Amazon S3
6 10 (13.16%) Azure
7 9 (11.84%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (9.21%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 7 (9.21%) AWS KMS
10 5 (6.58%) GCP
10 5 (6.58%) GitHub
11 4 (5.26%) Entra ID
12 3 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (3.95%) Amazon ELB
12 3 (3.95%) Amazon Glacier
13 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (2.63%) SaaS
14 1 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.53%) Firewall
1 8 (10.53%) SSL
2 2 (2.63%) Network Security
3 1 (1.32%) DHCP
3 1 (1.32%) DNS
3 1 (1.32%) HTTP
3 1 (1.32%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.32%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.32%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (1.32%) SAN
3 1 (1.32%) SpaceWire
3 1 (1.32%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (31.58%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 19 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 7 (9.21%) Oracle Database
4 5 (6.58%) Oracle Exadata
5 4 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (5.26%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.95%) MySQL
7 2 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.63%) Apache Hive
7 2 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.63%) DB2
7 2 (2.63%) Metadata
7 2 (2.63%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.63%) Pentaho
7 2 (2.63%) Triplestore
8 1 (1.32%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.32%) Impala
8 1 (1.32%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 38 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 19 (25.00%) JMeter
2 19 (25.00%) JUnit
2 19 (25.00%) Mockito
3 7 (9.21%) Bitbucket Server
4 6 (7.89%) Git
5 5 (6.58%) IBM UrbanCode
5 5 (6.58%) JIRA
6 3 (3.95%) Vagrant
7 2 (2.63%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.63%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.63%) GitLab
7 2 (2.63%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.32%) Maven
8 1 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (32.89%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 17 (22.37%) Social Skills
4 14 (18.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (15.79%) Finance
5 12 (15.79%) Manufacturing
6 9 (11.84%) Retail
7 5 (6.58%) Banking
8 4 (5.26%) Telecoms
9 3 (3.95%) Legal
10 2 (2.63%) Advertising
10 2 (2.63%) Billing
10 2 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.32%) Automotive
11 1 (1.32%) Cantonese Language
11 1 (1.32%) Electronics
11 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.32%) Law
11 1 (1.32%) Marketing
11 1 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 22 (28.95%) Developer
2 20 (26.32%) Java Developer
3 11 (14.47%) Analyst
3 11 (14.47%) Support Analyst
4 9 (11.84%) Applications Support
4 9 (11.84%) Applications Support Analyst
4 9 (11.84%) Senior
5 8 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (6.58%) DBA
7 5 (6.58%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 5 (6.58%) Oracle DBA
7 5 (6.58%) Support Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Oracle Applications DBA
8 4 (5.26%) Technical Support
9 3 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 3 (3.95%) Software Engineer
10 2 (2.63%) C/C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (32.89%) HTML
2 23 (30.26%) REST
3 22 (28.95%) Spring Boot
4 21 (27.63%) Spring
5 19 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
5 19 (25.00%) Apache Camel
5 19 (25.00%) Hibernate
5 19 (25.00%) jQuery
5 19 (25.00%) Web Services
5 19 (25.00%) WireMock
6 11 (14.47%) JSON
7 10 (13.16%) XML
8 7 (9.21%) Middleware
9 6 (7.89%) CSS
10 5 (6.58%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (6.58%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 4 (5.26%) React
12 3 (3.95%) AngularJS
12 3 (3.95%) Mustache
13 2 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (27.63%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (11.84%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 5 (6.58%) Mainframe
3 5 (6.58%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.26%) CCTV
5 3 (3.95%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.95%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.63%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.63%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.63%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.32%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.32%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.32%) IoT
7 1 (1.32%) LIMS
7 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (59.21%) Linux
2 19 (25.00%) Unix
3 14 (18.42%) Windows
4 8 (10.53%) Ubuntu
5 3 (3.95%) VMS
6 1 (1.32%) CentOS
6 1 (1.32%) Debian
6 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (47.37%) Agile
2 30 (39.47%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (34.21%) CI/CD
4 23 (30.26%) Microservices
5 20 (26.32%) BDD
5 20 (26.32%) TDD
6 19 (25.00%) Process Management
6 19 (25.00%) Workflow
7 18 (23.68%) DevOps
8 17 (22.37%) SDLC
9 14 (18.42%) Collaborative Working
10 13 (17.11%) Computer Science
11 12 (15.79%) Architectural Design
11 12 (15.79%) Scrum
11 12 (15.79%) Software Engineering
11 12 (15.79%) Validation
12 11 (14.47%) Kanban
12 11 (14.47%) Patch Management
13 9 (11.84%) Mentoring
13 9 (11.84%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 45 (59.21%) Python
2 37 (48.68%) Java
3 34 (44.74%) SQL
4 28 (36.84%) JavaScript
5 14 (18.42%) PL/SQL
6 9 (11.84%) C-shell
6 9 (11.84%) Korn
6 9 (11.84%) PowerShell
7 8 (10.53%) Bash
8 7 (9.21%) Perl
9 6 (7.89%) Groovy
10 5 (6.58%) JCL
11 3 (3.95%) C
11 3 (3.95%) C++
11 3 (3.95%) Ruby
12 2 (2.63%) SPARQL
13 1 (1.32%) ActionScript
13 1 (1.32%) ActionScript 2.0
13 1 (1.32%) PHP
13 1 (1.32%) XPath
Qualifications
1 23 (30.26%) Security Cleared
2 19 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (17.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (17.11%) Degree
4 9 (11.84%) PhD
5 4 (5.26%) OCA
5 4 (5.26%) OCP
5 4 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (2.63%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.63%) CASP
6 2 (2.63%) CISM
6 2 (2.63%) CISSP
6 2 (2.63%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.89%) QA
2 5 (6.58%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.63%) Dublin Core
3 2 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.32%) ECSS
4 1 (1.32%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 32 (42.11%) Docker
2 10 (13.16%) Active Directory
3 8 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (9.21%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.32%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (1.32%) Firmware
5 1 (1.32%) HDFS
5 1 (1.32%) NDS
Systems Management
1 25 (32.89%) Kubernetes
2 20 (26.32%) Kibana
3 10 (13.16%) Terraform
4 9 (11.84%) Ansible
5 8 (10.53%) Nessus
6 7 (9.21%) Proxmox
7 5 (6.58%) CA Endevor
7 5 (6.58%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (3.95%) Nagios
9 2 (2.63%) Control-M
9 2 (2.63%) Packer
9 2 (2.63%) Prometheus
10 1 (1.32%) Argo
10 1 (1.32%) CA Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.32%) Grafana
10 1 (1.32%) Karpenter
10 1 (1.32%) PingFederate
10 1 (1.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (30.26%) Oracle
2 21 (27.63%) Splunk
3 20 (26.32%) Dynatrace
4 7 (9.21%) Juniper
5 4 (5.26%) AppDynamics
6 3 (3.95%) IBM
6 3 (3.95%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.63%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.63%) Informatica
7 2 (2.63%) Talend
8 1 (1.32%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.32%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (1.32%) NetIQ
8 1 (1.32%) NVIDIA
8 1 (1.32%) Okta
8 1 (1.32%) Ping Identity
8 1 (1.32%) SAP
8 1 (1.32%) Sophos
8 1 (1.32%) VMware