Bourne shell Job Trends

Bourne shell
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Bourne shell skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 675 795 776
Rank change year-on-year +120 -19 +403
Permanent jobs citing Bourne shell 1 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.001% 0.002%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.008% 0.004% 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 13,110 24,157 24,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.51% 30.93% 40.83%
Number of salaries quoted 8,456 15,118 20,186
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £39,557
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,025 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £107,500 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

Bourne shell
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Bourne shell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Bourne shell 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 18 September 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 +109 1 - -
London - 1 - -

Bourne shell
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 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