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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 591 478 392
Rank change year-on-year -113 -86 +61
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 328 568 1,628
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.60% 0.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.97% 1.42% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 220 282 622
10th Percentile £41,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,063 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £61,250 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.08% +5.60% -7.20%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £97,250
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 33,947 40,085 91,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.25% 42.29% 54.38%
Number of salaries quoted 25,291 26,714 43,327
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 £85,688 £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 2 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 2 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 -71 254 £65,000 - 85
UK excluding London -113 223 £52,500 -0.38% 40
Work from Home -41 110 £65,000 +8.33% 31
London +20 85 £80,000 - 48
South West -16 51 £60,000 +15.16% 10
South East -44 50 £42,000 -20.00% 11
Scotland -86 29 £42,000 -30.00% 1
East of England -9 28 £60,000 -20.00% 9
North of England -13 27 £75,504 +54.88% 3
Midlands -14 22 £50,000 +1.01% 5
Wales -9 15 £50,000 - 1
North West -37 15 £102,500 +127.78% 2
Yorkshire +42 12 £48,507 -25.94% 1
West Midlands -14 11 £44,500 -10.10% 2
East Midlands -14 11 £52,500 -4.33% 3
Northern Ireland +12 2 £77,500 +3.33% 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 (16.46%) Apache
2 40 (12.20%) Tomcat
3 28 (8.54%) IIS
3 28 (8.54%) WebLogic
4 23 (7.01%) nginx
5 20 (6.10%) Apache Spark
5 20 (6.10%) OpenStack
6 16 (4.88%) Jupyter
7 9 (2.74%) Confluence
8 7 (2.13%) WebSphere
9 6 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.61%) GlassFish
10 2 (0.61%) JCAPS
10 2 (0.61%) SAS
10 2 (0.61%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.61%) Abaqus
2 2 (0.61%) GNU Octave
2 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.61%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 27 (8.23%) NEC Housing
2 5 (1.52%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.61%) Adaptiv
4 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.30%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 87 (26.52%) AWS
2 54 (16.46%) Azure
3 40 (12.20%) GCP
4 36 (10.98%) Serverless
5 29 (8.84%) OpenShift
6 27 (8.23%) Amazon S3
7 23 (7.01%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (4.88%) MinIO
9 15 (4.57%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (4.27%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (3.66%) GitHub
12 11 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (3.05%) SaaS
14 8 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (2.13%) Entra ID
16 6 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
17 5 (1.52%) Power Platform
17 5 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.96%) Firewall
2 10 (3.05%) Cisco ASA
3 8 (2.44%) DNS
3 8 (2.44%) HTTPS
3 8 (2.44%) SSL
4 7 (2.13%) Ethernet
4 7 (2.13%) Software-Defined Networking
4 7 (2.13%) VLAN
4 7 (2.13%) VPN
5 6 (1.83%) OpenVPN
6 5 (1.52%) AMQP
6 5 (1.52%) DHCP
6 5 (1.52%) Network Security
6 5 (1.52%) SAN
6 5 (1.52%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.22%) BGP
7 4 (1.22%) Internet
8 3 (0.91%) FTP
8 3 (0.91%) tcpdump
8 3 (0.91%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.06%) Oracle Database
2 28 (8.54%) Elasticsearch
3 25 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (7.62%) Relational Database
4 20 (6.10%) Hadoop
5 19 (5.79%) Big Data
6 17 (5.18%) Presto
7 15 (4.57%) NoSQL
8 10 (3.05%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.44%) DynamoDB
10 7 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.83%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.83%) Tableau
12 5 (1.52%) BigQuery
12 5 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.52%) InfluxDB
12 5 (1.52%) Looker
12 5 (1.52%) MySQL
12 5 (1.52%) Pentaho
12 5 (1.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 77 (23.48%) Jenkins
2 43 (13.11%) Git
3 28 (8.54%) JIRA
4 25 (7.62%) GitLab
5 16 (4.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 15 (4.57%) CircleCI
6 15 (4.57%) JUnit
7 13 (3.96%) Maven
8 8 (2.44%) Gradle
8 8 (2.44%) Vagrant
9 6 (1.83%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.83%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.52%) DTrace
10 5 (1.52%) GDB
10 5 (1.52%) JMeter
10 5 (1.52%) Mockito
10 5 (1.52%) Subversion
11 4 (1.22%) git-flow
11 4 (1.22%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.91%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 105 (32.01%) Finance
2 66 (20.12%) Social Skills
3 55 (16.77%) Public Sector
4 49 (14.94%) Police
5 42 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (10.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (9.45%) Law
8 29 (8.84%) Banking
9 27 (8.23%) Local Government
10 16 (4.88%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.44%) Front Office
11 8 (2.44%) Manufacturing
12 7 (2.13%) Billing
12 7 (2.13%) Electronics
12 7 (2.13%) Financial Institution
12 7 (2.13%) Health Technology
13 6 (1.83%) Legal
14 5 (1.52%) Investment Banking
15 4 (1.22%) Back Office
16 3 (0.91%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 67 (20.43%) Developer
2 61 (18.60%) Senior
3 59 (17.99%) Applications Support
4 48 (14.63%) DevOps Engineer
5 45 (13.72%) Software Engineer
6 35 (10.67%) Analyst
7 32 (9.76%) Support Analyst
8 27 (8.23%) Applications Support Analyst
9 26 (7.93%) Senior Analyst
9 26 (7.93%) Senior Applications Support
9 26 (7.93%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
9 26 (7.93%) Senior Support Analyst
10 25 (7.62%) Java Developer
11 24 (7.32%) Linux Engineer
12 20 (6.10%) Administrator
12 20 (6.10%) Data Engineer
13 17 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
14 16 (4.88%) Big Data Engineer
14 16 (4.88%) Full Stack Developer
15 15 (4.57%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (19.82%) Spring
2 52 (15.85%) Web Services
3 32 (9.76%) Elastic Stack
4 30 (9.15%) Spring Boot
5 28 (8.54%) J2EE
5 28 (8.54%) Java EE
6 26 (7.93%) JSON
7 22 (6.71%) RabbitMQ
7 22 (6.71%) XML
8 21 (6.40%) ActiveMQ
8 21 (6.40%) REST
9 20 (6.10%) HTML
10 18 (5.49%) Node.js
10 18 (5.49%) YAML
11 16 (4.88%) Apache NiFi
12 15 (4.57%) Apache Camel
12 15 (4.57%) Middleware
13 14 (4.27%) React
14 10 (3.05%) Flask
14 10 (3.05%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 40 (12.20%) Public Cloud
2 24 (7.32%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.27%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (3.35%) Algorithms
5 11 (3.35%) Cloud Native
5 11 (3.35%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.44%) IoT
6 8 (2.44%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.13%) Market Risk
8 6 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.83%) Mainframe
8 6 (1.83%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.52%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.52%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.52%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.22%) FPGA
10 4 (1.22%) VHDL
11 3 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 197 (60.06%) Linux
2 117 (35.67%) Unix
3 46 (14.02%) Windows
4 38 (11.59%) Solaris
5 34 (10.37%) Ubuntu
6 19 (5.79%) CentOS
7 18 (5.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (3.66%) Debian
9 8 (2.44%) Windows Server
10 4 (1.22%) AIX
11 2 (0.61%) Android
11 2 (0.61%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.61%) SUSE
11 2 (0.61%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.30%) Fedora
12 1 (0.30%) Rocky
12 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (33.23%) DevOps
2 91 (27.74%) CI/CD
3 87 (26.52%) Problem-Solving
4 76 (23.17%) Agile
5 66 (20.12%) Software Engineering
6 56 (17.07%) Containerisation
7 47 (14.33%) Configuration Management
8 45 (13.72%) Infrastructure as Code
8 45 (13.72%) Task Automation
9 31 (9.45%) Microservices
9 31 (9.45%) TDD
10 30 (9.15%) Data Security
10 30 (9.15%) ITIL
11 28 (8.54%) Incident Management
11 28 (8.54%) Scrum
11 28 (8.54%) Server Management
12 27 (8.23%) Actionable Insight
12 27 (8.23%) Computer Science
12 27 (8.23%) Enterprise Architecture
12 27 (8.23%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 130 (39.63%) Python
2 129 (39.33%) Java
3 72 (21.95%) SQL
4 52 (15.85%) Bash
5 45 (13.72%) JavaScript
6 38 (11.59%) C
7 27 (8.23%) PowerShell
8 22 (6.71%) C++
9 21 (6.40%) Perl
10 16 (4.88%) TypeScript
11 12 (3.66%) PL/SQL
12 10 (3.05%) Ada
13 9 (2.74%) Go
14 6 (1.83%) C#
14 6 (1.83%) Groovy
14 6 (1.83%) Rust
15 5 (1.52%) AWK
15 5 (1.52%) OCaml
15 5 (1.52%) SystemTap
16 4 (1.22%) sed
Qualifications
1 111 (33.84%) Security Cleared
2 63 (19.21%) Degree
3 50 (15.24%) SC Cleared
4 31 (9.45%) DV Cleared
5 17 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.44%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.13%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.13%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.52%) MCAD
8 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.22%) CCNA
9 4 (1.22%) CCNP
9 4 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.22%) PhD
9 4 (1.22%) RHCE
10 3 (0.91%) HNC
10 3 (0.91%) HND
10 3 (0.91%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.61%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.84%) SLA
2 28 (8.54%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.22%) NCSC
4 2 (0.61%) GDPR
4 2 (0.61%) QA
4 2 (0.61%) SEPA
5 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.30%) MISRA
5 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 76 (23.17%) Docker
2 16 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (3.66%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.13%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.91%) KVM
5 3 (0.91%) LXC
5 3 (0.91%) Squid
6 2 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.61%) Firmware
6 2 (0.61%) Lustre
6 2 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.30%) Samba
7 1 (0.30%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.30%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 83 (25.30%) Ansible
2 62 (18.90%) Kubernetes
3 60 (18.29%) Terraform
4 37 (11.28%) Grafana
5 30 (9.15%) Prometheus
6 26 (7.93%) OpenSSO
6 26 (7.93%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (7.01%) Progress Chef
8 16 (4.88%) HAProxy
9 15 (4.57%) Puppet
10 8 (2.44%) Kibana
11 7 (2.13%) ZABBIX
12 6 (1.83%) ITRS Geneos
13 5 (1.52%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.91%) Opsview
14 3 (0.91%) SCCM
14 3 (0.91%) SCOM
14 3 (0.91%) WSUS
15 2 (0.61%) Data Guard
15 2 (0.61%) Rancher
Vendors
1 87 (26.52%) Oracle
2 56 (17.07%) Microsoft
3 42 (12.80%) Red Hat
4 30 (9.15%) Remedy
4 30 (9.15%) VMware
5 27 (8.23%) NEC
6 19 (5.79%) Splunk
7 12 (3.66%) Google
8 11 (3.35%) Cisco
9 10 (3.05%) WSO2
10 8 (2.44%) Sybase
11 7 (2.13%) AppDynamics
12 6 (1.83%) IBM
13 5 (1.52%) CA
13 5 (1.52%) Dynatrace
13 5 (1.52%) EMC
13 5 (1.52%) Teradata
14 4 (1.22%) McAfee
15 3 (0.91%) New Relic
15 3 (0.91%) SaltStack