Bourne shell Job Trends

Bourne shell
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Bourne shell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 661 760 735
Rank change year-on-year +99 -25 +387
Permanent jobs citing Bourne shell 1 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.002% 0.001% 0.002%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.008% 0.005% 0.004%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £32,500 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £35,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -63.64%
75th Percentile - £37,500 £35,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £35,000 -

All Programming Languages
UK

Bourne shell 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 12,366 21,555 22,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.75% 31.68% 40.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,263 12,885 18,282
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

Bourne shell
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Bourne shell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Bourne shell job vacancy trend in the UK

Bourne shell
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Bourne shell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Bourne shell

Bourne shell
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bourne shell within the UK over the 6 months to 30 October 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 +84 1 - -
London - 1 - -

Bourne shell
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Unix Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Unix Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Unix Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Unix Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Planning and Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Component Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) C-shell
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle ZFS
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VocaLink