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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 596 489 384
Rank change year-on-year -107 -105 +70
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 333 574 1,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.59% 0.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.99% 1.37% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 224 274 636
10th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,000 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +3.45% -7.20%
75th Percentile £84,063 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £96,250
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 33,562 41,867 90,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.71% 43.01% 54.20%
Number of salaries quoted 25,071 26,942 43,619
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £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 £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,772 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.23% +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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -79 257 £65,000 - 83
UK excluding London -85 228 £52,500 -0.38% 44
Work from Home -23 112 £65,000 +8.33% 44
London +48 83 £80,000 +2.56% 45
South West -8 54 £60,000 +13.85% 8
South East -31 50 £42,000 -20.00% 11
Scotland -72 30 £42,000 -30.00% 5
North of England -2 28 £75,000 +53.85% 6
East of England -8 28 £60,000 -20.00% 9
Midlands -8 22 £50,000 +1.01% 4
North West -20 16 £102,500 +127.78% 5
Wales -10 15 £50,000 - 1
Yorkshire +57 12 £48,507 -25.94% 1
West Midlands +6 11 £44,500 -10.10% 1
East Midlands -14 11 £52,500 -4.33% 3
Northern Ireland +13 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 57 (17.12%) Apache
2 40 (12.01%) Tomcat
3 28 (8.41%) IIS
3 28 (8.41%) WebLogic
4 24 (7.21%) nginx
5 21 (6.31%) Apache Spark
5 21 (6.31%) OpenStack
6 17 (5.11%) Jupyter
7 9 (2.70%) Confluence
8 7 (2.10%) WebSphere
9 6 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.60%) GlassFish
10 2 (0.60%) JCAPS
10 2 (0.60%) SAS
10 2 (0.60%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.60%) Abaqus
2 2 (0.60%) GNU Octave
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.60%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 27 (8.11%) NEC Housing
2 5 (1.50%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.60%) Adaptiv
4 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.30%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 89 (26.73%) AWS
2 57 (17.12%) Azure
3 41 (12.31%) GCP
4 36 (10.81%) Serverless
5 30 (9.01%) OpenShift
6 29 (8.71%) Amazon S3
7 23 (6.91%) Amazon EKS
8 17 (5.11%) MinIO
9 15 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (4.20%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (3.60%) GitHub
13 11 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (3.00%) SaaS
15 8 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
16 7 (2.10%) Entra ID
17 6 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 5 (1.50%) Cloud Composer
18 5 (1.50%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.60%) Firewall
2 10 (3.00%) Cisco ASA
3 8 (2.40%) HTTPS
3 8 (2.40%) SSL
4 7 (2.10%) Ethernet
4 7 (2.10%) Software-Defined Networking
4 7 (2.10%) VLAN
4 7 (2.10%) VPN
5 6 (1.80%) DNS
5 6 (1.80%) Internet
5 6 (1.80%) OpenVPN
6 5 (1.50%) AMQP
6 5 (1.50%) Network Security
6 5 (1.50%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.20%) BGP
7 4 (1.20%) DHCP
7 4 (1.20%) SAN
8 3 (0.90%) FTP
8 3 (0.90%) tcpdump
8 3 (0.90%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (9.91%) Oracle Database
2 28 (8.41%) Elasticsearch
3 26 (7.81%) Relational Database
4 25 (7.51%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (6.31%) Hadoop
6 20 (6.01%) Big Data
7 18 (5.41%) Presto
8 17 (5.11%) NoSQL
9 10 (3.00%) SQL Server
10 8 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (2.40%) DynamoDB
10 8 (2.40%) MySQL
11 6 (1.80%) Tableau
12 5 (1.50%) BigQuery
12 5 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.50%) InfluxDB
12 5 (1.50%) Looker
12 5 (1.50%) Pentaho
12 5 (1.50%) Power BI
12 5 (1.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 78 (23.42%) Jenkins
2 44 (13.21%) Git
3 28 (8.41%) JIRA
4 26 (7.81%) GitLab
5 17 (5.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 15 (4.50%) CircleCI
7 14 (4.20%) JUnit
8 13 (3.90%) Maven
9 8 (2.40%) Gradle
9 8 (2.40%) Vagrant
10 6 (1.80%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.80%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.50%) DTrace
11 5 (1.50%) GDB
11 5 (1.50%) Subversion
12 4 (1.20%) git-flow
12 4 (1.20%) JMeter
12 4 (1.20%) Mockito
12 4 (1.20%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.90%) GoCD
General
1 106 (31.83%) Finance
2 67 (20.12%) Social Skills
3 55 (16.52%) Public Sector
4 49 (14.71%) Police
5 42 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (10.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (9.61%) Law
8 29 (8.71%) Banking
9 27 (8.11%) Local Government
10 16 (4.80%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.40%) Front Office
11 8 (2.40%) Manufacturing
12 7 (2.10%) Billing
12 7 (2.10%) Electronics
12 7 (2.10%) Financial Institution
12 7 (2.10%) Health Technology
13 6 (1.80%) Legal
14 5 (1.50%) Investment Banking
15 4 (1.20%) Back Office
16 3 (0.90%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 67 (20.12%) Developer
2 61 (18.32%) Senior
3 59 (17.72%) Applications Support
4 49 (14.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 46 (13.81%) Software Engineer
6 35 (10.51%) Analyst
7 32 (9.61%) Support Analyst
8 27 (8.11%) Applications Support Analyst
9 26 (7.81%) Java Developer
9 26 (7.81%) Senior Analyst
9 26 (7.81%) Senior Applications Support
9 26 (7.81%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
9 26 (7.81%) Senior Support Analyst
10 25 (7.51%) Linux Engineer
11 21 (6.31%) Administrator
11 21 (6.31%) Data Engineer
12 19 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
13 17 (5.11%) Big Data Engineer
14 16 (4.80%) Systems Administrator
15 15 (4.50%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (19.52%) Spring
2 52 (15.62%) Web Services
3 34 (10.21%) Elastic Stack
4 30 (9.01%) Spring Boot
5 28 (8.41%) J2EE
5 28 (8.41%) Java EE
6 27 (8.11%) JSON
7 23 (6.91%) RabbitMQ
7 23 (6.91%) XML
8 21 (6.31%) ActiveMQ
8 21 (6.31%) REST
9 19 (5.71%) HTML
9 19 (5.71%) Node.js
9 19 (5.71%) YAML
10 17 (5.11%) Apache NiFi
11 15 (4.50%) Apache Camel
11 15 (4.50%) Middleware
12 14 (4.20%) React
13 11 (3.30%) AngularJS
14 10 (3.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 40 (12.01%) Public Cloud
2 25 (7.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.20%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (3.60%) Cloud Native
6 11 (3.30%) Product Ownership
7 10 (3.00%) Algorithms
8 8 (2.40%) IoT
8 8 (2.40%) Management Information System
9 7 (2.10%) Market Risk
10 6 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.80%) Mainframe
10 6 (1.80%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.50%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.50%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.50%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.20%) FPGA
12 4 (1.20%) VHDL
13 3 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 200 (60.06%) Linux
2 120 (36.04%) Unix
3 49 (14.71%) Windows
4 39 (11.71%) Solaris
5 36 (10.81%) Ubuntu
6 19 (5.71%) CentOS
7 17 (5.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (4.20%) Debian
9 8 (2.40%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.90%) AIX
11 2 (0.60%) Android
11 2 (0.60%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.60%) SUSE
11 2 (0.60%) 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
1 112 (33.63%) DevOps
2 94 (28.23%) CI/CD
3 87 (26.13%) Problem-Solving
4 77 (23.12%) Agile
5 67 (20.12%) Software Engineering
6 58 (17.42%) Containerisation
7 49 (14.71%) Configuration Management
8 48 (14.41%) Infrastructure as Code
9 46 (13.81%) Task Automation
10 31 (9.31%) Microservices
10 31 (9.31%) TDD
11 30 (9.01%) Data Security
11 30 (9.01%) ITIL
12 28 (8.41%) Incident Management
12 28 (8.41%) Scrum
12 28 (8.41%) Server Management
13 27 (8.11%) Actionable Insight
13 27 (8.11%) Computer Science
13 27 (8.11%) Enterprise Architecture
13 27 (8.11%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 132 (39.64%) Python
2 131 (39.34%) Java
3 75 (22.52%) SQL
4 57 (17.12%) Bash
5 45 (13.51%) JavaScript
6 38 (11.41%) C
7 28 (8.41%) PowerShell
8 22 (6.61%) C++
8 22 (6.61%) Perl
9 16 (4.80%) TypeScript
10 13 (3.90%) PL/SQL
11 10 (3.00%) Ada
12 9 (2.70%) Go
13 6 (1.80%) C#
13 6 (1.80%) Groovy
13 6 (1.80%) Rust
14 5 (1.50%) AWK
14 5 (1.50%) OCaml
14 5 (1.50%) SystemTap
15 4 (1.20%) sed
Qualifications
1 113 (33.93%) Security Cleared
2 63 (18.92%) Degree
3 51 (15.32%) SC Cleared
4 32 (9.61%) DV Cleared
5 17 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.40%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.10%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.10%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.50%) MCAD
8 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.20%) CCNA
9 4 (1.20%) CCNP
9 4 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.20%) PhD
9 4 (1.20%) RHCE
10 3 (0.90%) HNC
10 3 (0.90%) HND
10 3 (0.90%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.60%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.41%) Accessibility
1 28 (8.41%) SLA
2 4 (1.20%) NCSC
3 2 (0.60%) GDPR
3 2 (0.60%) QA
3 2 (0.60%) SEPA
4 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.30%) MISRA
4 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 78 (23.42%) Docker
2 17 (5.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (3.60%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.40%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.90%) KVM
7 2 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.60%) Firmware
7 2 (0.60%) Lustre
7 2 (0.60%) LXC
7 2 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.60%) Shibboleth
7 2 (0.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.60%) Squid
8 1 (0.30%) Samba
8 1 (0.30%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.30%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 84 (25.23%) Ansible
2 65 (19.52%) Terraform
3 64 (19.22%) Kubernetes
4 39 (11.71%) Grafana
5 31 (9.31%) Prometheus
6 26 (7.81%) OpenSSO
6 26 (7.81%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (7.51%) Progress Chef
8 17 (5.11%) HAProxy
9 15 (4.50%) Puppet
10 7 (2.10%) Kibana
10 7 (2.10%) ZABBIX
11 6 (1.80%) ITRS Geneos
12 5 (1.50%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.90%) SCCM
13 3 (0.90%) SCOM
13 3 (0.90%) WSUS
14 2 (0.60%) Control-M
14 2 (0.60%) Data Guard
14 2 (0.60%) Opsview
Vendors
1 86 (25.83%) Oracle
2 57 (17.12%) Microsoft
3 41 (12.31%) Red Hat
4 30 (9.01%) Remedy
4 30 (9.01%) VMware
5 27 (8.11%) NEC
6 17 (5.11%) Splunk
7 13 (3.90%) Google
8 11 (3.30%) Cisco
8 11 (3.30%) WSO2
9 8 (2.40%) Sybase
10 7 (2.10%) AppDynamics
11 5 (1.50%) CA
11 5 (1.50%) EMC
11 5 (1.50%) IBM
11 5 (1.50%) Teradata
12 4 (1.20%) Dynatrace
12 4 (1.20%) McAfee
13 3 (0.90%) New Relic
13 3 (0.90%) SaltStack