AWK
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for AWK skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited AWK over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 878 965 1194
Rank change year-on-year +87 +229 -288
Permanent jobs citing AWK 10 30 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.030% 0.026%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.030% 0.068% 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 9 7 33
10th Percentile £40,650 £58,350 -
25th Percentile £47,500 £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £57,458
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.78% -0.07%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £60,782 £65,250 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +19.05% +10.53%

All Programming Languages
UK

AWK 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 33,235 43,949 85,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.51% 43.27% 54.00%
Number of salaries quoted 24,988 28,012 43,733
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £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 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,325
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.14% +6.65%

AWK
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWK in the UK

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Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWK.

Salary trend for AWK in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWK over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for AWK in the UK

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Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWK within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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 +59 10 £55,000 -12.00% 4
UK excluding London -27 10 £55,000 -12.00% 3
Work from Home +75 8 £52,500 -16.00% 3
South East - 5 £55,000 -
East Midlands - 3 £50,000 -
Midlands - 3 £50,000 -
East of England - 2 £55,750 - 3

AWK
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 (10.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) SSL
2 1 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (10.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Ingres
1 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Automotive
2 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Administrator
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (30.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) DBA
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Unix Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) EDI
2 2 (20.00%) YAML
3 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) CentOS
2 3 (30.00%) Debian
2 3 (30.00%) SUSE
3 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (10.00%) Solaris
4 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (30.00%) Change Management
3 3 (30.00%) IT Strategy
3 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Information Security
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Budgeting
5 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (10.00%) Microservices
5 1 (10.00%) Server Hardening
5 1 (10.00%) Storage Management
5 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
1 7 (70.00%) sed
2 5 (50.00%) Bash
2 5 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Bourne shell
4 1 (10.00%) C
4 1 (10.00%) C++
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) Korn
4 1 (10.00%) Perl
4 1 (10.00%) PHP
4 1 (10.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) PhD
3 3 (30.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (10.00%) RHCE
4 1 (10.00%) RHCSA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Ansible
2 4 (40.00%) Terraform
3 2 (20.00%) Puppet
4 1 (10.00%) NetBackup
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle ZFS
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (10.00%) yum
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Veeam
1 3 (30.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) EMC
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) Veritas