Shell Script Jobs with Work from Home Options

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 483 439 435
Rank change year-on-year -44 -4 -9
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 110 204 561
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.32% 0.53% 0.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.78% 1.10% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 75 151 233
10th Percentile £46,747 £41,047 £35,900
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,375 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £70,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £87,500 £114,000
UK median annual salary £63,750 £61,250 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.08% +5.60% -7.20%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 14,059 18,511 44,174
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.47% 48.13% 59.47%
Number of salaries quoted 11,501 14,065 23,940
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,161 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £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 £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

Shell Script
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Shell Script as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Shell Script trend for jobs with a WFH option

Shell Script
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Shell Script.

Shell Script salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Shell Script
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Shell Script over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Shell Script salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 29 (26.36%) Tomcat
2 27 (24.55%) Apache
2 27 (24.55%) IIS
3 6 (5.45%) nginx
4 5 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (4.55%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 27 (24.55%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.91%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 32 (29.09%) AWS
2 16 (14.55%) Serverless
3 13 (11.82%) GCP
4 12 (10.91%) OpenShift
5 9 (8.18%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (8.18%) SaaS
6 8 (7.27%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (7.27%) Azure
6 8 (7.27%) GitHub
6 8 (7.27%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (5.45%) Amazon S3
7 6 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.55%) Cloud Composer
8 5 (4.55%) dbt
8 5 (4.55%) Power Platform
8 5 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (3.64%) AWS CodeBuild
10 3 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.27%) HTTPS
1 8 (7.27%) SSL
2 6 (5.45%) OpenVPN
3 5 (4.55%) AMQP
3 5 (4.55%) Network Security
4 1 (0.91%) DHCP
4 1 (0.91%) DNS
4 1 (0.91%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.91%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (26.36%) Oracle Database
2 7 (6.36%) DynamoDB
2 7 (6.36%) Relational Database
3 6 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (4.55%) BigQuery
4 5 (4.55%) InfluxDB
4 5 (4.55%) Looker
4 5 (4.55%) Power BI
4 5 (4.55%) Tableau
5 4 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.91%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.91%) MySQL
6 1 (0.91%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.91%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (16.36%) Git
2 17 (15.45%) Jenkins
3 13 (11.82%) GitLab
4 11 (10.00%) JIRA
5 8 (7.27%) Vagrant
6 5 (4.55%) DTrace
6 5 (4.55%) GDB
7 4 (3.64%) CircleCI
7 4 (3.64%) git-flow
7 4 (3.64%) Maven
7 4 (3.64%) Terragrunt
8 3 (2.73%) GoCD
9 2 (1.82%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.82%) Gradle
9 2 (1.82%) JUnit
9 2 (1.82%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.91%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.91%) TeamCity
General
1 55 (50.00%) Finance
2 35 (31.82%) Public Sector
3 27 (24.55%) Local Government
3 27 (24.55%) Police
4 18 (16.36%) Social Skills
5 11 (10.00%) Telecoms
6 7 (6.36%) Banking
6 7 (6.36%) Health Technology
7 6 (5.45%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.64%) Billing
8 4 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.73%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.82%) Law
10 2 (1.82%) Retail
11 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.91%) Electronics
11 1 (0.91%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 28 (25.45%) Applications Support
2 17 (15.45%) Developer
3 16 (14.55%) Senior
4 15 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
5 11 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 10 (9.09%) Administrator
6 10 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (8.18%) Linux Administrator
7 9 (8.18%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 9 (8.18%) Systems Administrator
8 7 (6.36%) Backend Developer
8 7 (6.36%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (6.36%) Senior Backend Developer
8 7 (6.36%) Senior Developer
9 6 (5.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (5.45%) React Developer
9 6 (5.45%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (4.55%) Architect
10 5 (4.55%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (24.55%) Web Services
2 11 (10.00%) JSON
3 7 (6.36%) JSON Schema
3 7 (6.36%) Node.js
3 7 (6.36%) OpenAPI
3 7 (6.36%) Swagger
4 6 (5.45%) CSS
4 6 (5.45%) CSS3
4 6 (5.45%) Flask
4 6 (5.45%) HTML
4 6 (5.45%) HTML5
4 6 (5.45%) React
4 6 (5.45%) Redux
4 6 (5.45%) Spring
4 6 (5.45%) Spring Boot
5 5 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (3.64%) REST
6 4 (3.64%) XML
7 3 (2.73%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 30 (27.27%) Public Cloud
2 12 (10.91%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (6.36%) IoT
4 6 (5.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (4.55%) Client/Server
5 5 (4.55%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (4.55%) Mainframe
5 5 (4.55%) Virtual Team
6 4 (3.64%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.64%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.82%) Digital Currency
8 1 (0.91%) Blog
8 1 (0.91%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.91%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.91%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.91%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 81 (73.64%) Linux
2 44 (40.00%) Unix
3 33 (30.00%) Windows
4 28 (25.45%) Solaris
5 14 (12.73%) CentOS
6 13 (11.82%) Ubuntu
7 10 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (2.73%) Windows Server
9 2 (1.82%) Debian
10 1 (0.91%) AIX
10 1 (0.91%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (29.09%) DevOps
1 32 (29.09%) Task Automation
2 28 (25.45%) Server Management
3 27 (24.55%) CI/CD
3 27 (24.55%) Data Security
3 27 (24.55%) Network Architecture
3 27 (24.55%) Software Engineering
4 20 (18.18%) Agile
5 18 (16.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (15.45%) Platform Engineering
7 16 (14.55%) Artificial Intelligence
8 15 (13.64%) Capacity Management
8 15 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (10.00%) Analytics
9 11 (10.00%) Configuration Management
9 11 (10.00%) Visualisation
10 9 (8.18%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (8.18%) Deployment Automation
10 9 (8.18%) Machine Learning
11 8 (7.27%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 30 (27.27%) Python
2 28 (25.45%) Java
3 24 (21.82%) SQL
4 15 (13.64%) C
5 14 (12.73%) JavaScript
6 13 (11.82%) TypeScript
7 8 (7.27%) Bash
7 8 (7.27%) Perl
7 8 (7.27%) PowerShell
8 6 (5.45%) C#
9 5 (4.55%) Go
9 5 (4.55%) OCaml
9 5 (4.55%) SystemTap
10 4 (3.64%) C++
11 3 (2.73%) Ada
11 3 (2.73%) AWK
11 3 (2.73%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.73%) sed
12 2 (1.82%) Groovy
13 1 (0.91%) Rust
Qualifications
1 43 (39.09%) Security Cleared
2 38 (34.55%) Degree
3 13 (11.82%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.64%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.73%) PhD
7 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.91%) HNC
7 1 (0.91%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (24.55%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.64%) NCSC
3 2 (1.82%) SEPA
4 1 (0.91%) MISRA
4 1 (0.91%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (29.09%) Docker
2 4 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (21.82%) Ansible
2 20 (18.18%) Terraform
3 19 (17.27%) Kubernetes
4 11 (10.00%) Grafana
5 5 (4.55%) Docker Swarm
5 5 (4.55%) Progress Chef
5 5 (4.55%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.82%) Kibana
6 2 (1.82%) Rancher
7 1 (0.91%) Podman
Vendors
1 32 (29.09%) Oracle
2 31 (28.18%) Microsoft
3 27 (24.55%) NEC
4 9 (8.18%) Google
5 5 (4.55%) Teradata
6 4 (3.64%) McAfee
6 4 (3.64%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.64%) VMware
7 2 (1.82%) Murex
8 1 (0.91%) New Relic
8 1 (0.91%) Splunk
8 1 (0.91%) xMatters