Shell Script Jobs

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Shell Script skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Shell Script over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 616 481 398
Rank change year-on-year -135 -83 +36
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 322 564 1,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.61% 0.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.94% 1.44% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 215 280 606
10th Percentile £41,700 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,250 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,750 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +9.91% -7.20%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,313 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,125 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,700 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.38% +0.38% +5.00%

All Programming Languages
UK

Shell Script is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 34,343 39,181 92,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.67% 42.09% 54.00%
Number of salaries quoted 25,459 26,275 43,476
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

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 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Top 16 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 9 June 2024. 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 -104 252 £67,500 +3.05% 80
UK excluding London -138 218 £52,500 -0.38% 45
Work from Home -33 106 £65,000 +8.33% 35
London -20 86 £80,000 +1.27% 40
South West -16 50 £62,500 +18.60% 10
South East -44 47 £41,500 -20.95% 11
East of England -15 28 £60,000 -20.00% 8
Scotland -84 28 £42,000 -37.78% 3
North of England -17 27 £75,504 +43.82% 3
Midlands -35 23 £50,000 -1.72% 5
Wales -3 15 £50,000 - 4
North West -30 15 £102,500 +127.78% 2
Yorkshire +45 12 £48,507 -25.94% 1
East Midlands -31 12 £52,500 -4.33% 3
West Midlands -16 11 £44,500 -10.10% 2
Northern Ireland +8 1 - - 1

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 54 (16.77%) Apache
2 40 (12.42%) Tomcat
3 28 (8.70%) IIS
4 27 (8.39%) WebLogic
5 23 (7.14%) nginx
6 19 (5.90%) Apache Spark
6 19 (5.90%) OpenStack
7 16 (4.97%) Jupyter
8 9 (2.80%) Confluence
9 7 (2.17%) WebSphere
10 6 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.62%) GlassFish
11 2 (0.62%) JCAPS
11 2 (0.62%) SAS
11 2 (0.62%) WebSphere Application Server
12 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.31%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.62%) Abaqus
2 2 (0.62%) GNU Octave
2 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.62%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 27 (8.39%) NEC Housing
2 5 (1.55%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.62%) Adaptiv
4 1 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.31%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 83 (25.78%) AWS
2 49 (15.22%) Azure
3 39 (12.11%) GCP
4 34 (10.56%) Serverless
5 28 (8.70%) OpenShift
6 26 (8.07%) Amazon S3
7 21 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (4.97%) MinIO
9 14 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (4.04%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (3.42%) GitHub
12 10 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (3.11%) SaaS
13 7 (2.17%) Entra ID
13 7 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (1.55%) Cloud Composer
15 5 (1.55%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.04%) Firewall
2 10 (3.11%) Cisco ASA
3 9 (2.80%) DNS
4 8 (2.48%) HTTPS
4 8 (2.48%) SSL
5 7 (2.17%) Ethernet
5 7 (2.17%) Software-Defined Networking
5 7 (2.17%) VLAN
5 7 (2.17%) VPN
6 6 (1.86%) OpenVPN
6 6 (1.86%) SAN
7 5 (1.55%) AMQP
7 5 (1.55%) DHCP
7 5 (1.55%) Network Security
7 5 (1.55%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.24%) BGP
9 3 (0.93%) FTP
9 3 (0.93%) Internet
9 3 (0.93%) tcpdump
9 3 (0.93%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (10.56%) Oracle Database
2 27 (8.39%) Elasticsearch
3 23 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (6.52%) Relational Database
5 20 (6.21%) Hadoop
6 19 (5.90%) Big Data
7 17 (5.28%) Presto
8 13 (4.04%) NoSQL
9 10 (3.11%) SQL Server
10 8 (2.48%) DynamoDB
11 6 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.86%) Tableau
12 5 (1.55%) BigQuery
12 5 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.55%) InfluxDB
12 5 (1.55%) Looker
12 5 (1.55%) Metadata
12 5 (1.55%) Pentaho
12 5 (1.55%) Power BI
12 5 (1.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 74 (22.98%) Jenkins
2 40 (12.42%) Git
3 27 (8.39%) JIRA
4 24 (7.45%) GitLab
5 16 (4.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 14 (4.35%) CircleCI
6 14 (4.35%) JUnit
7 11 (3.42%) Maven
8 8 (2.48%) Vagrant
9 7 (2.17%) Gradle
10 6 (1.86%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.55%) DTrace
11 5 (1.55%) GDB
11 5 (1.55%) JMeter
11 5 (1.55%) Mockito
11 5 (1.55%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.55%) Subversion
12 4 (1.24%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.93%) git-flow
13 3 (0.93%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 103 (31.99%) Finance
2 63 (19.57%) Social Skills
3 53 (16.46%) Public Sector
4 48 (14.91%) Police
5 40 (12.42%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (10.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (9.63%) Law
8 29 (9.01%) Banking
9 27 (8.39%) Local Government
10 16 (4.97%) Telecoms
11 9 (2.80%) Front Office
12 8 (2.48%) Manufacturing
13 7 (2.17%) Billing
13 7 (2.17%) Electronics
13 7 (2.17%) Financial Institution
13 7 (2.17%) Health Technology
14 6 (1.86%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.86%) Legal
15 4 (1.24%) Back Office
16 3 (0.93%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 66 (20.50%) Developer
2 60 (18.63%) Senior
3 58 (18.01%) Applications Support
4 46 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 45 (13.98%) Software Engineer
6 34 (10.56%) Analyst
7 31 (9.63%) Support Analyst
8 26 (8.07%) Applications Support Analyst
9 25 (7.76%) Senior Analyst
9 25 (7.76%) Senior Applications Support
9 25 (7.76%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
9 25 (7.76%) Senior Support Analyst
10 24 (7.45%) Java Developer
11 23 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
12 19 (5.90%) Administrator
12 19 (5.90%) Data Engineer
13 16 (4.97%) Big Data Engineer
13 16 (4.97%) Cloud Engineer
14 15 (4.66%) Full Stack Developer
15 14 (4.35%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (19.25%) Spring
2 51 (15.84%) Web Services
3 30 (9.32%) Elastic Stack
4 28 (8.70%) Spring Boot
5 27 (8.39%) J2EE
5 27 (8.39%) Java EE
6 24 (7.45%) JSON
7 22 (6.83%) RabbitMQ
8 21 (6.52%) ActiveMQ
8 21 (6.52%) XML
9 20 (6.21%) HTML
10 19 (5.90%) REST
11 18 (5.59%) YAML
12 17 (5.28%) Node.js
13 16 (4.97%) Apache NiFi
14 15 (4.66%) Middleware
15 14 (4.35%) Apache Camel
15 14 (4.35%) React
16 10 (3.11%) CSS
16 10 (3.11%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 40 (12.42%) Public Cloud
2 24 (7.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (3.42%) Cloud Native
5 11 (3.42%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.11%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.48%) IoT
8 7 (2.17%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.17%) Market Risk
9 6 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.86%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.55%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.55%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.55%) Reference Data
10 5 (1.55%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.24%) FPGA
11 4 (1.24%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.24%) VHDL
12 3 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 194 (60.25%) Linux
2 116 (36.02%) Unix
3 46 (14.29%) Windows
4 37 (11.49%) Solaris
5 32 (9.94%) Ubuntu
6 19 (5.90%) CentOS
6 19 (5.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (3.11%) Debian
8 8 (2.48%) Windows Server
9 5 (1.55%) AIX
10 2 (0.62%) Android
10 2 (0.62%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.62%) SUSE
10 2 (0.62%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.31%) Fedora
11 1 (0.31%) Rocky
11 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (32.92%) DevOps
2 89 (27.64%) CI/CD
3 84 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 73 (22.67%) Agile
5 64 (19.88%) Software Engineering
6 53 (16.46%) Containerisation
7 46 (14.29%) Configuration Management
8 45 (13.98%) Task Automation
9 44 (13.66%) Infrastructure as Code
10 30 (9.32%) Data Security
10 30 (9.32%) Microservices
10 30 (9.32%) TDD
11 29 (9.01%) ITIL
12 28 (8.70%) Server Management
13 27 (8.39%) Incident Management
13 27 (8.39%) Network Architecture
14 26 (8.07%) Computer Science
14 26 (8.07%) Enterprise Architecture
14 26 (8.07%) Scrum
14 26 (8.07%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 128 (39.75%) Python
2 126 (39.13%) Java
3 69 (21.43%) SQL
4 50 (15.53%) Bash
5 44 (13.66%) JavaScript
6 37 (11.49%) C
7 27 (8.39%) PowerShell
8 22 (6.83%) Perl
9 21 (6.52%) C++
10 16 (4.97%) TypeScript
11 12 (3.73%) PL/SQL
12 10 (3.11%) Ada
13 9 (2.80%) Go
14 6 (1.86%) C#
14 6 (1.86%) Groovy
14 6 (1.86%) Rust
15 5 (1.55%) AWK
15 5 (1.55%) OCaml
15 5 (1.55%) SystemTap
16 4 (1.24%) sed
Qualifications
1 108 (33.54%) Security Cleared
2 63 (19.57%) Degree
3 47 (14.60%) SC Cleared
4 31 (9.63%) DV Cleared
5 16 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.17%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.86%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.86%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.55%) MCAD
8 5 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.24%) CCNA
9 4 (1.24%) CCNP
9 4 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.24%) PhD
9 4 (1.24%) RHCE
10 3 (0.93%) HNC
10 3 (0.93%) HND
10 3 (0.93%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.62%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.01%) SLA
2 28 (8.70%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.24%) NCSC
4 2 (0.62%) GDPR
4 2 (0.62%) QA
4 2 (0.62%) SEPA
5 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.31%) MISRA
5 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 72 (22.36%) Docker
2 15 (4.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.42%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.86%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.24%) LXC
6 4 (1.24%) Squid
7 3 (0.93%) KVM
8 2 (0.62%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.62%) Firmware
8 2 (0.62%) Lustre
8 2 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.62%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.31%) Samba
9 1 (0.31%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.31%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 81 (25.16%) Ansible
2 58 (18.01%) Kubernetes
3 56 (17.39%) Terraform
4 37 (11.49%) Grafana
5 31 (9.63%) Prometheus
6 25 (7.76%) OpenSSO
6 25 (7.76%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (6.83%) Progress Chef
8 16 (4.97%) HAProxy
9 15 (4.66%) Puppet
10 8 (2.48%) Kibana
11 7 (2.17%) ZABBIX
12 6 (1.86%) ITRS Geneos
13 5 (1.55%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (1.24%) Opsview
15 3 (0.93%) Data Guard
15 3 (0.93%) Oracle RMAN
15 3 (0.93%) SCCM
15 3 (0.93%) SCOM
15 3 (0.93%) WSUS
Vendors
1 87 (27.02%) Oracle
2 55 (17.08%) Microsoft
3 43 (13.35%) Red Hat
4 30 (9.32%) VMware
5 29 (9.01%) Remedy
6 27 (8.39%) NEC
7 20 (6.21%) Splunk
8 11 (3.42%) Cisco
8 11 (3.42%) Google
9 9 (2.80%) WSO2
10 7 (2.17%) AppDynamics
10 7 (2.17%) IBM
10 7 (2.17%) Sybase
11 5 (1.55%) CA
11 5 (1.55%) Dynatrace
11 5 (1.55%) EMC
11 5 (1.55%) Teradata
12 4 (1.24%) Infoblox
13 3 (0.93%) New Relic
13 3 (0.93%) SaltStack