Shell Script Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Shell Script skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 435 481
Rank change year-on-year -54 +46 +51
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 58 91 212
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.32% 0.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.75% 1.02% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 19 39 147
10th Percentile £43,250 £42,500 £33,100
25th Percentile £49,375 £49,625 £42,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,375 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £72,750 £93,778 £83,750
UK median annual salary £58,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.08% - -

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 7,709 8,883 19,652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.75% 31.55% 33.87%
Number of salaries quoted 5,492 5,840 15,494
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,976 £43,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +4.63% -1.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Shell Script job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Shell Script
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Shell Script.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Shell Script

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 11 March 2026.

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 11 March 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
Scotland +7 29 - -
South East -16 19 £57,500 -9.80% 16
North of England -47 5 £50,000 +12.36% 4
North West -23 3 £60,000 +34.83% 3
West Midlands -14 2 - - 6
Midlands -26 2 - - 7
Yorkshire -40 2 £27,500 - 1
East of England -15 1 £70,000 +3.70% 3
South West -22 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland -28 1 - -
Shell Script
UK

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (18.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.45%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.72%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 25 (43.10%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.72%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 30 (51.72%) AWS
2 29 (50.00%) Azure
3 26 (44.83%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (43.10%) GitHub
4 25 (43.10%) OCI
5 14 (24.14%) Entra ID
6 12 (20.69%) Power Platform
7 11 (18.97%) GitHub Copilot
8 10 (17.24%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (17.24%) Serverless
9 8 (13.79%) SaaS
10 6 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (8.62%) AWS CodePipeline
12 4 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (6.90%) Amazon S3
12 4 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (6.90%) AWS Step Functions
13 3 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
14 2 (3.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.07%) Firewall
2 5 (8.62%) DNS
3 4 (6.90%) SpaceWire
4 2 (3.45%) DHCP
4 2 (3.45%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.45%) VPN
5 1 (1.72%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.72%) Network Security
5 1 (1.72%) SAN
5 1 (1.72%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.69%) Power BI
2 11 (18.97%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (18.97%) Tableau
3 7 (12.07%) Relational Database
4 6 (10.34%) RDBMS
5 5 (8.62%) SQL Server
6 4 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (6.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (5.17%) MySQL
8 1 (1.72%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.72%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 33 (56.90%) Jenkins
2 25 (43.10%) Oracle Forms
3 21 (36.21%) Git
4 11 (18.97%) JIRA
5 6 (10.34%) JMeter
5 6 (10.34%) JUnit
5 6 (10.34%) Mockito
6 1 (1.72%) GitLab
6 1 (1.72%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (44.83%) Finance
2 10 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Electronics
6 1 (1.72%) Law
6 1 (1.72%) Legal
Job Titles
1 26 (44.83%) Applications Engineer
1 26 (44.83%) Cloud Engineer
2 16 (27.59%) Senior
3 15 (25.86%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 7 (12.07%) Developer
4 7 (12.07%) Java Developer
4 7 (12.07%) Support Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (10.34%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 6 (10.34%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 4 (6.90%) Implementation Specialist
6 4 (6.90%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Linux Specialist
6 4 (6.90%) Linux Support
6 4 (6.90%) Linux Support Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Product Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Product Specialist
6 4 (6.90%) Products Support Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Products Support Specialist
6 4 (6.90%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (44.83%) RESTful
2 24 (41.38%) JSON
2 24 (41.38%) XML
3 19 (32.76%) SOAP
4 12 (20.69%) REST
5 11 (18.97%) OAuth
5 11 (18.97%) OAuth2
5 11 (18.97%) SAML
6 7 (12.07%) Web Services
7 6 (10.34%) ActiveMQ
7 6 (10.34%) Apache Camel
7 6 (10.34%) Hibernate
7 6 (10.34%) HTML
7 6 (10.34%) jQuery
7 6 (10.34%) Spring
7 6 (10.34%) Spring Boot
7 6 (10.34%) WireMock
8 4 (6.90%) Qt
9 3 (5.17%) JSON Schema
9 3 (5.17%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (44.83%) Cloud Native
2 25 (43.10%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (6.90%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.90%) Video on Demand
4 4 (6.90%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (3.45%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.45%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.72%) IoT
6 1 (1.72%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (43.10%) Linux
2 8 (13.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (13.79%) Unix
3 5 (8.62%) CentOS
3 5 (8.62%) Windows
3 5 (8.62%) Windows Server
4 4 (6.90%) VxWorks
5 2 (3.45%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.72%) Debian
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.72%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (74.14%) CI/CD
2 34 (58.62%) Agile
3 29 (50.00%) API Integration
3 29 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 27 (46.55%) DevOps
5 26 (44.83%) ERP
6 25 (43.10%) Asset Management
6 25 (43.10%) Coaching
7 19 (32.76%) Root Cause Analysis
8 18 (31.03%) Data Governance
9 17 (29.31%) Microservices
10 15 (25.86%) Event-Driven
10 15 (25.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 15 (25.86%) Mentoring
10 15 (25.86%) Migration
10 15 (25.86%) Observability
11 14 (24.14%) Business Strategy
11 14 (24.14%) Identity Access Management
11 14 (24.14%) Translating Business Requirements
12 12 (20.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 42 (72.41%) Python
2 33 (56.90%) Java
3 30 (51.72%) SQL
4 25 (43.10%) PL/SQL
5 8 (13.79%) JavaScript
6 7 (12.07%) Bash
7 6 (10.34%) C++
8 4 (6.90%) C
8 4 (6.90%) Perl
9 3 (5.17%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.72%) C#
10 1 (1.72%) Rust
10 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.17%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.45%) Degree
4 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) Data Quality
1 4 (6.90%) ECSS
2 1 (1.72%) GDPR
2 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (32.76%) Active Directory
2 11 (18.97%) Docker
3 3 (5.17%) vSphere
4 2 (3.45%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (48.28%) Terraform
2 25 (43.10%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (18.97%) Kubernetes
4 6 (10.34%) Kibana
5 4 (6.90%) Ansible
5 4 (6.90%) Control-M
6 2 (3.45%) Grafana
6 2 (3.45%) Nagios
6 2 (3.45%) Plesk
6 2 (3.45%) Puppet
7 1 (1.72%) Argo
7 1 (1.72%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (1.72%) Graylog
7 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (55.17%) Oracle
2 14 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 14 (24.14%) Okta
3 6 (10.34%) Dynatrace
3 6 (10.34%) Splunk
3 6 (10.34%) VMware
4 5 (8.62%) Informatica
5 2 (3.45%) Draytek
6 1 (1.72%) Commvault
6 1 (1.72%) Dell
6 1 (1.72%) Epicor
6 1 (1.72%) IBM
6 1 (1.72%) IFS
6 1 (1.72%) Infor
6 1 (1.72%) NVIDIA
6 1 (1.72%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.72%) SAP
6 1 (1.72%) Software AG
6 1 (1.72%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.72%) Workday