Shell Script Jobs

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 580 625 465
Rank change year-on-year +45 -160 -64
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 148 289 545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.27% 0.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.88% 0.86% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 79 200 275
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,450 £41,250
25th Percentile £39,625 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.05% +12.93%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,500 £53,750 £54,000
% change year-on-year -17.21% -0.46% +2.86%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 16,864 33,761 36,875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.48% 31.42% 41.48%
Number of salaries quoted 10,789 24,989 25,716
10th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Shell Script as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Shell Script.

Salary trend for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Shell Script over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 July 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
England +56 138 £60,000 -14.29% 509
London +114 91 £73,750 -7.81% 240
UK excluding London +79 74 £44,500 -17.21% 307
Work from Home +65 39 £60,000 -7.69% 246
South East +65 29 £41,000 -1.20% 69
Midlands +84 18 £57,500 +15.00% 56
West Midlands +62 13 £58,750 +32.02% 31
North of England +36 13 £44,500 -8.26% 54
North West +11 12 £44,500 -56.59% 31
East of England +18 9 £39,000 -35.00% 45
East Midlands +45 5 £57,500 +9.52% 25
Northern Ireland - 4 £50,000 - 10
Scotland +69 2 £65,000 +54.76% 17
South West +61 2 £60,000 -25.00% 45
Yorkshire +38 1 - - 21

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (2.70%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.03%) Confluence
3 2 (1.35%) Apache
3 2 (1.35%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.35%) nginx
3 2 (1.35%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.35%) SAS
3 2 (1.35%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.68%) JBoss
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.68%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.68%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (10.14%) Chatbot
2 7 (4.73%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (1.35%) EngageOne
4 1 (0.68%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (2.70%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.03%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 68 (45.95%) AWS
2 29 (19.59%) Amazon ECS
2 29 (19.59%) Azure
2 29 (19.59%) Serverless
3 26 (17.57%) Amazon EC2
4 24 (16.22%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (8.11%) Amazon S3
6 10 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (6.08%) GitHub
8 8 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (4.73%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 7 (4.73%) AWS KMS
9 7 (4.73%) GCP
9 7 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (4.73%) SaaS
10 6 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (3.38%) BlazeMeter
11 5 (3.38%) Datadog
11 5 (3.38%) OpenShift
12 4 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.76%) Firewall
2 9 (6.08%) SSL
3 6 (4.05%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.70%) Network Security
5 2 (1.35%) SAN
5 2 (1.35%) VPN
6 1 (0.68%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (0.68%) DHCP
6 1 (0.68%) DNS
6 1 (0.68%) HTTP
6 1 (0.68%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.68%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.68%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.68%) RTP
6 1 (0.68%) SpaceWire
6 1 (0.68%) VLAN
6 1 (0.68%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (20.27%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (19.59%) Relational Database
3 21 (14.19%) RDBMS
4 12 (8.11%) MySQL
5 8 (5.41%) Oracle Database
5 8 (5.41%) SQL Server
6 7 (4.73%) MongoDB
7 6 (4.05%) Redis
8 5 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.70%) DB2
9 4 (2.70%) KDB
9 4 (2.70%) Kdb+
10 3 (2.03%) Big Data
10 3 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.03%) Oracle Exadata
11 2 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.35%) Apache Hive
11 2 (1.35%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.35%) Pentaho
11 2 (1.35%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 56 (37.84%) Jenkins
2 30 (20.27%) Git
3 24 (16.22%) JUnit
4 22 (14.86%) Mockito
5 19 (12.84%) JMeter
6 15 (10.14%) JIRA
7 11 (7.43%) Maven
8 9 (6.08%) GitLab
9 7 (4.73%) Bitbucket Server
10 6 (4.05%) Artifactory
10 6 (4.05%) SonarQube
11 5 (3.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (3.38%) Subversion
12 4 (2.70%) Bitbucket
13 3 (2.03%) Cucumber
13 3 (2.03%) Postman
13 3 (2.03%) REST Assured
13 3 (2.03%) SoapUI
13 3 (2.03%) Vagrant
13 3 (2.03%) Xcode
General
1 43 (29.05%) Finance
2 42 (28.38%) Social Skills
3 30 (20.27%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (18.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (15.54%) Public Sector
6 18 (12.16%) Law
7 11 (7.43%) Marketing
8 9 (6.08%) Banking
8 9 (6.08%) Retail
9 8 (5.41%) Manufacturing
9 8 (5.41%) Telecoms
10 7 (4.73%) Legal
11 4 (2.70%) Advertising
11 4 (2.70%) Front Office
12 3 (2.03%) Billing
12 3 (2.03%) Cantonese Language
13 2 (1.35%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.35%) Mandarin Language
13 2 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (18.92%) Developer
2 26 (17.57%) Senior
3 20 (13.51%) Java Developer
3 20 (13.51%) Linux Engineer
4 19 (12.84%) Lead
4 19 (12.84%) Linux Support
4 19 (12.84%) Support Engineer
5 17 (11.49%) Software Engineer
6 15 (10.14%) Linux Support Engineer
7 12 (8.11%) Applications Support
7 12 (8.11%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (7.43%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (6.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 9 (6.08%) Analyst
10 9 (6.08%) Support Analyst
11 8 (5.41%) Database Engineer
11 8 (5.41%) Lead Software Engineer
12 7 (4.73%) Applications Support Analyst
12 7 (4.73%) Java Engineer
12 7 (4.73%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (28.38%) REST
2 29 (19.59%) Spring
3 28 (18.92%) Spring Boot
4 25 (16.89%) HTML
5 24 (16.22%) Hibernate
6 22 (14.86%) Web Services
7 20 (13.51%) JSON
7 20 (13.51%) XML
8 19 (12.84%) ActiveMQ
8 19 (12.84%) Apache Camel
8 19 (12.84%) jQuery
8 19 (12.84%) WireMock
9 13 (8.78%) React
10 9 (6.08%) Middleware
10 9 (6.08%) OAuth
10 9 (6.08%) OpenID
11 8 (5.41%) AngularJS
12 6 (4.05%) Elastic Stack
12 6 (4.05%) Pandas
13 5 (3.38%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.57%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (13.51%) Linux Command Line
3 13 (8.78%) Data Structures
4 9 (6.08%) Algorithms
5 8 (5.41%) Private Cloud
5 8 (5.41%) Product Ownership
5 8 (5.41%) Public Cloud
6 7 (4.73%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 6 (4.05%) Clustering
7 6 (4.05%) Derivative
8 5 (3.38%) Equities
8 5 (3.38%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (2.70%) Replication
10 3 (2.03%) Cloud Native
11 2 (1.35%) Equity Derivative
11 2 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.35%) Security Posture
11 2 (1.35%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 87 (58.78%) Linux
2 41 (27.70%) Unix
3 18 (12.16%) Windows
4 15 (10.14%) Mac OS
5 8 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (5.41%) Ubuntu
6 5 (3.38%) VMS
7 4 (2.70%) Windows Server
8 2 (1.35%) AIX
8 2 (1.35%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.68%) CentOS
9 1 (0.68%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (42.57%) Agile
2 61 (41.22%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (34.46%) CI/CD
4 45 (30.41%) DevOps
5 36 (24.32%) TDD
6 33 (22.30%) Microservices
7 29 (19.59%) Software Engineering
8 26 (17.57%) SDLC
9 22 (14.86%) Test Automation
10 21 (14.19%) Workflow
11 20 (13.51%) BDD
11 20 (13.51%) Computer Science
11 20 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (13.51%) Problem Management
12 19 (12.84%) Artificial Intelligence
12 19 (12.84%) Process Management
13 18 (12.16%) Continuous Integration
14 16 (10.81%) Asset Management
15 15 (10.14%) Infrastructure as Code
15 15 (10.14%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 86 (58.11%) Python
2 56 (37.84%) Java
3 55 (37.16%) SQL
4 27 (18.24%) JavaScript
5 23 (15.54%) Bash
6 22 (14.86%) PL/SQL
7 14 (9.46%) PowerShell
8 10 (6.76%) Groovy
8 10 (6.76%) Perl
9 9 (6.08%) Korn
9 9 (6.08%) TypeScript
10 7 (4.73%) C-shell
10 7 (4.73%) Go
11 6 (4.05%) C++
12 5 (3.38%) SPARQL
13 3 (2.03%) Gremlin
13 3 (2.03%) Ruby
14 2 (1.35%) C
15 1 (0.68%) ActionScript
15 1 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (16.89%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.81%) Degree
2 16 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.73%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.73%) PhD
5 4 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (2.03%) OCA
6 3 (2.03%) OCP
6 3 (2.03%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.35%) CASP
7 2 (1.35%) CISM
7 2 (1.35%) CISSP
7 2 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.11%) QA
2 7 (4.73%) SLA
3 3 (2.03%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.35%) Dublin Core
4 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.68%) ECSS
5 1 (0.68%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 61 (41.22%) Docker
2 14 (9.46%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (8.11%) Active Directory
4 8 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (4.73%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (4.05%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.35%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.35%) vSphere
8 1 (0.68%) Corosync
8 1 (0.68%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.68%) Firmware
8 1 (0.68%) HDFS
8 1 (0.68%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.68%) KVM
8 1 (0.68%) NDS
Systems Management
1 51 (34.46%) Kubernetes
2 39 (26.35%) Ansible
3 22 (14.86%) Kibana
4 21 (14.19%) Terraform
5 17 (11.49%) Grafana
5 17 (11.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (6.76%) Prometheus
7 8 (5.41%) Nessus
8 7 (4.73%) Proxmox
9 5 (3.38%) Packer
9 5 (3.38%) Progress Chef
10 3 (2.03%) Nagios
10 3 (2.03%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (1.35%) Control-M
11 2 (1.35%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.35%) logstash
11 2 (1.35%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (1.35%) SCCM
11 2 (1.35%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.68%) Icinga
Vendors
1 40 (27.03%) Oracle
2 35 (23.65%) Splunk
3 34 (22.97%) Dynatrace
4 20 (13.51%) Microsoft
5 15 (10.14%) Apple
6 13 (8.78%) Google
7 9 (6.08%) VMware
8 8 (5.41%) AppDynamics
8 8 (5.41%) Red Hat
9 7 (4.73%) Juniper
10 6 (4.05%) IBM
10 6 (4.05%) Veritas
11 5 (3.38%) Talend
12 4 (2.70%) SAP
12 4 (2.70%) Symantec
13 3 (2.03%) Atlassian
13 3 (2.03%) CA Agile Central
14 2 (1.35%) Informatica
15 1 (0.68%) NetIQ
15 1 (0.68%) Sophos