Shell Script Jobs in the West Midlands

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 240 265
Rank change year-on-year +57 +25 -32
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 13 7 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.29% 0.097% 0.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.42% 0.37% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 12
10th Percentile £54,150 £39,850 £39,825
25th Percentile £56,250 £41,500 £45,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £44,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +34.83% -8.25% -3.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £45,500 £54,250
90th Percentile £62,875 £45,950 £79,225
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 915 1,869 2,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.49% 25.81% 36.67%
Number of salaries quoted 589 1,627 1,253
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,400 £77,050 £79,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Shell Script as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in the West Midlands

Shell Script
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Shell Script in the West Midlands

Shell Script
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Shell Script within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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
Birmingham +36 11 £60,000 +34.83% 5
Solihull - 1 - -
Warwickshire - 1 £53,500 - 2
Shell Script
England

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (30.77%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon S3
2 4 (30.77%) AWS KMS
2 4 (30.77%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (30.77%) Serverless
2 4 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon Glacier
4 2 (15.38%) Azure
4 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Firewall
1 5 (38.46%) SSL
2 2 (15.38%) Network Security
3 1 (7.69%) DHCP
3 1 (7.69%) DNS
3 1 (7.69%) HTTP
3 1 (7.69%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (7.69%) SAN
3 1 (7.69%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle Database
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle Exadata
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 4 (30.77%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (23.08%) Vagrant
4 2 (15.38%) Git
4 2 (15.38%) JIRA
5 1 (7.69%) Maven
5 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (30.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (15.38%) Legal
3 1 (7.69%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) DBA
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle DBA
2 4 (30.77%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Oracle Applications DBA
3 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity Practitioner
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Developer
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Middleware
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle Fusion
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (7.69%) HTML
2 1 (7.69%) Laravel
2 1 (7.69%) LDAP
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) Vue
2 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
1 2 (15.38%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Linux
2 9 (69.23%) Windows
3 6 (46.15%) Unix
4 5 (38.46%) Ubuntu
5 3 (23.08%) VMS
6 1 (7.69%) CentOS
6 1 (7.69%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Patch Management
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Capacity Management
3 5 (38.46%) Data Management
3 5 (38.46%) Database Tuning
3 5 (38.46%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (30.77%) Key Management
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) Server Management
5 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security
5 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
5 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (15.38%) Information Security
6 2 (15.38%) Information Security Management
6 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 2 (15.38%) Security Management
6 2 (15.38%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) SQL
2 5 (38.46%) PL/SQL
2 5 (38.46%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) Groovy
3 3 (23.08%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) Perl
3 3 (23.08%) Ruby
4 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.69%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) OCA
1 4 (30.77%) OCP
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (15.38%) CASP
2 2 (15.38%) CISM
2 2 (15.38%) CISSP
2 2 (15.38%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) Accessibility
2 2 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 5 (38.46%) Docker
3 4 (30.77%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (30.77%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (7.69%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (7.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Nessus
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (30.77%) Ansible
2 4 (30.77%) Proxmox
2 4 (30.77%) Terraform
3 3 (23.08%) Nagios
4 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle
2 4 (30.77%) Juniper
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) Sophos
4 1 (7.69%) VMware