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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 434 382
Rank change year-on-year +7 -52 +137
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 79 117 183
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.33% 0.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.21% 1.06% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 24 47 119
10th Percentile £42,780 £43,449 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,383 £47,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,625 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,625 £90,011 £80,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £63,621 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.62% +6.04% -

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 6,527 11,057 12,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.55% 30.74% 36.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,898 5,972 9,855
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 +31 42 £47,500 -44.28% 2
South East +11 19 £53,750 -9.76% 29
North of England -9 6 £55,000 +19.57% 13
East of England +15 5 £43,085 - 21
North West +23 4 £60,000 +30.43% 5
South West +3 4 £95,000 +20.63% 8
Midlands +7 3 £58,000 +0.87% 12
West Midlands +13 2 - - 4
Yorkshire -20 2 £27,500 -26.67% 6
East Midlands -10 1 £58,000 +12.62% 8
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 17 (21.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (5.06%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (5.06%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.53%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.27%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.27%) Confluence
4 1 (1.27%) JBoss
4 1 (1.27%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 37 (46.84%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (5.06%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 45 (56.96%) AWS
2 40 (50.63%) Azure
3 37 (46.84%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (46.84%) GitHub
3 37 (46.84%) OCI
4 20 (25.32%) Entra ID
5 19 (24.05%) Amazon EC2
5 19 (24.05%) Power Platform
6 18 (22.78%) Serverless
7 17 (21.52%) GitHub Copilot
8 11 (13.92%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (13.92%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (10.13%) Amazon S3
9 8 (10.13%) SaaS
10 7 (8.86%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (6.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (6.33%) AWS CodePipeline
12 4 (5.06%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (5.06%) OpenShift
13 3 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.06%) Firewall
2 3 (3.80%) AMQP
2 3 (3.80%) DHCP
2 3 (3.80%) DNS
3 2 (2.53%) SpaceWire
3 2 (2.53%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.53%) VPN
4 1 (1.27%) HTTP
4 1 (1.27%) SAN
4 1 (1.27%) SSH
4 1 (1.27%) SSL
4 1 (1.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (24.05%) Power BI
2 17 (21.52%) Tableau
3 15 (18.99%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (18.99%) Relational Database
4 11 (13.92%) RDBMS
5 10 (12.66%) SQL Server
6 7 (8.86%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (7.59%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (5.06%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (5.06%) MS Access
8 4 (5.06%) SAP Data Services
8 4 (5.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (3.80%) InfluxDB
9 3 (3.80%) MySQL
10 2 (2.53%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 53 (67.09%) Jenkins
2 37 (46.84%) Oracle Forms
3 27 (34.18%) Git
4 19 (24.05%) JIRA
5 12 (15.19%) JUnit
6 11 (13.92%) JMeter
6 11 (13.92%) Mockito
7 4 (5.06%) Toad
8 2 (2.53%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.27%) Gradle
9 1 (1.27%) Maven
9 1 (1.27%) TeamCity
General
1 39 (49.37%) Finance
2 15 (18.99%) Public Sector
3 14 (17.72%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.06%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.06%) Local Government
6 1 (1.27%) Electronics
6 1 (1.27%) Law
6 1 (1.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 41 (51.90%) Applications Engineer
2 37 (46.84%) Cloud Engineer
3 25 (31.65%) Senior
4 20 (25.32%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 13 (16.46%) Developer
5 13 (16.46%) Java Developer
6 12 (15.19%) Support Engineer
7 11 (13.92%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (13.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 11 (13.92%) Mid-Level Java Developer
8 5 (6.33%) Linux Specialist
9 4 (5.06%) Applications Support
9 4 (5.06%) Applications Support Engineer
9 4 (5.06%) Linux Support
9 4 (5.06%) Product Engineer
9 4 (5.06%) Products Support Engineer
9 4 (5.06%) Products Support Specialist
9 4 (5.06%) Senior Support Engineer
9 4 (5.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 4 (5.06%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (48.10%) RESTful
2 32 (40.51%) JSON
2 32 (40.51%) XML
3 27 (34.18%) SOAP
4 20 (25.32%) REST
5 17 (21.52%) OAuth
5 17 (21.52%) OAuth2
5 17 (21.52%) SAML
6 12 (15.19%) Spring
6 12 (15.19%) Spring Boot
6 12 (15.19%) Web Services
7 11 (13.92%) ActiveMQ
7 11 (13.92%) Apache Camel
7 11 (13.92%) Hibernate
7 11 (13.92%) HTML
7 11 (13.92%) jQuery
7 11 (13.92%) WireMock
8 3 (3.80%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (2.53%) Qt
10 1 (1.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (46.84%) Cloud Native
1 37 (46.84%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (13.92%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.06%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.06%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.06%) Video on Demand
3 4 (5.06%) Video\Live Streaming
4 3 (3.80%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.53%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.27%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.27%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 23 (29.11%) Linux
2 13 (16.46%) Unix
3 7 (8.86%) Windows
4 6 (7.59%) Windows Server
5 5 (6.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (5.06%) CentOS
7 2 (2.53%) VxWorks
7 2 (2.53%) Windows 10
7 2 (2.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (74.68%) CI/CD
2 56 (70.89%) Agile
3 41 (51.90%) API Integration
3 41 (51.90%) DevOps
4 39 (49.37%) Asset Management
4 39 (49.37%) Test Automation
5 38 (48.10%) ERP
6 37 (46.84%) Coaching
7 29 (36.71%) Microservices
8 25 (31.65%) Migration
8 25 (31.65%) Root Cause Analysis
9 24 (30.38%) Data Governance
10 21 (26.58%) Event-Driven
10 21 (26.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 21 (26.58%) Mentoring
10 21 (26.58%) Observability
11 20 (25.32%) Business Strategy
11 20 (25.32%) Identity Access Management
11 20 (25.32%) Translating Business Requirements
12 19 (24.05%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 61 (77.22%) Python
2 54 (68.35%) Java
3 50 (63.29%) SQL
4 38 (48.10%) PL/SQL
5 13 (16.46%) JavaScript
6 8 (10.13%) Bash
6 8 (10.13%) PowerShell
7 4 (5.06%) Perl
7 4 (5.06%) VB
8 3 (3.80%) C++
8 3 (3.80%) Go
9 2 (2.53%) C
10 1 (1.27%) C#
10 1 (1.27%) Rust
10 1 (1.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (18.99%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.59%) Degree
3 4 (5.06%) DV Cleared
3 4 (5.06%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.06%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.53%) ECSS
3 1 (1.27%) GDPR
3 1 (1.27%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (27.85%) Active Directory
2 17 (21.52%) Docker
3 2 (2.53%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 42 (53.16%) Terraform
2 37 (46.84%) Single Sign-On
3 17 (21.52%) Kubernetes
4 11 (13.92%) Kibana
5 4 (5.06%) Ansible
5 4 (5.06%) Control-M
6 3 (3.80%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (3.80%) Grafana
6 3 (3.80%) Progress Chef
6 3 (3.80%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.53%) Plesk
8 1 (1.27%) Argo
8 1 (1.27%) Nagios
8 1 (1.27%) Nessus
8 1 (1.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 49 (62.03%) Oracle
2 20 (25.32%) Okta
3 19 (24.05%) Microsoft
4 11 (13.92%) Dynatrace
4 11 (13.92%) Splunk
5 5 (6.33%) Informatica
5 5 (6.33%) SAP
6 4 (5.06%) NEC
7 3 (3.80%) VMware
8 2 (2.53%) Dell
8 2 (2.53%) Draytek
8 2 (2.53%) Software AG
9 1 (1.27%) Epicor
9 1 (1.27%) IBM
9 1 (1.27%) Infor
9 1 (1.27%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.27%) SnapLogic
9 1 (1.27%) Talend
9 1 (1.27%) TIBCO
9 1 (1.27%) webMethods