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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 481 368
Rank change year-on-year -90 -113 +83
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 329 613 1,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.59% 1.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.99% 1.36% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 229 277 665
10th Percentile £41,500 £40,828 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% +10.53%

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 33,234 44,926 84,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.73% 43.28% 53.87%
Number of salaries quoted 25,009 28,661 44,069
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,066
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,750 £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 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +1.85% +8.00%

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 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 2 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 -98 246 £60,000 - 85
UK excluding London -83 230 £52,500 +1.94% 55
Work from Home -13 112 £65,000 +8.33% 29
London -4 74 £80,000 +6.67% 32
South West -8 56 £60,000 +26.32% 8
South East -1 53 £48,750 -2.50% 9
Scotland -68 31 £42,000 -30.00% 7
East of England +4 28 £60,000 -16.67% 19
North of England -16 25 £65,000 +44.44% 7
Wales +8 18 £50,000 - 1
Midlands -1 18 £50,000 +1.01% 4
North West -36 13 £102,500 +127.78% 4
Yorkshire +75 12 £47,000 -28.24% 2
East Midlands -17 11 £52,500 -4.33% 2
West Midlands +18 7 £44,500 -10.10% 2
Northern Ireland +28 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 41 (12.46%) Apache
2 31 (9.42%) WebLogic
3 27 (8.21%) Tomcat
4 25 (7.60%) nginx
5 21 (6.38%) OpenStack
6 20 (6.08%) Apache Spark
7 17 (5.17%) Jupyter
8 16 (4.86%) IIS
9 7 (2.13%) WebSphere
10 5 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (1.52%) Confluence
11 2 (0.61%) GlassFish
11 2 (0.61%) JCAPS
11 2 (0.61%) SAS
11 2 (0.61%) WebSphere Application Server
12 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.61%) Abaqus
3 2 (0.61%) GNU Octave
3 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.61%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 14 (4.26%) NEC Housing
2 5 (1.52%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.61%) Adaptiv
4 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.30%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 93 (28.27%) AWS
2 57 (17.33%) Azure
3 42 (12.77%) GCP
4 41 (12.46%) Serverless
5 30 (9.12%) Amazon S3
6 29 (8.81%) OpenShift
7 28 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (5.47%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (5.17%) MinIO
10 16 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (4.56%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (3.65%) GitHub
14 11 (3.34%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (3.04%) SaaS
16 6 (1.82%) Entra ID
16 6 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 5 (1.52%) Cloud Composer
17 5 (1.52%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.65%) Firewall
2 10 (3.04%) Cisco ASA
3 8 (2.43%) HTTPS
3 8 (2.43%) SSL
4 7 (2.13%) Ethernet
4 7 (2.13%) Internet
4 7 (2.13%) OpenVPN
5 6 (1.82%) DNS
5 6 (1.82%) Software-Defined Networking
5 6 (1.82%) VLAN
5 6 (1.82%) VPN
6 5 (1.52%) AMQP
6 5 (1.52%) HTTP
6 5 (1.52%) Network Security
7 4 (1.22%) BGP
8 3 (0.91%) FTP
9 2 (0.61%) DHCP
9 2 (0.61%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.61%) SAN
9 2 (0.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (9.42%) Elasticsearch
2 27 (8.21%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (8.21%) Relational Database
3 22 (6.69%) Oracle Database
4 20 (6.08%) Hadoop
5 19 (5.78%) Big Data
6 18 (5.47%) NoSQL
6 18 (5.47%) Presto
7 8 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (2.43%) DynamoDB
7 8 (2.43%) MySQL
8 7 (2.13%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.52%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.52%) InfluxDB
9 5 (1.52%) Looker
9 5 (1.52%) Metadata
9 5 (1.52%) Pentaho
9 5 (1.52%) Power BI
9 5 (1.52%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 79 (24.01%) Jenkins
2 47 (14.29%) Git
3 29 (8.81%) GitLab
4 27 (8.21%) JIRA
5 20 (6.08%) CircleCI
6 19 (5.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 14 (4.26%) JUnit
8 13 (3.95%) Maven
9 8 (2.43%) Gradle
9 8 (2.43%) Vagrant
10 7 (2.13%) git-flow
11 6 (1.82%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.52%) DTrace
12 5 (1.52%) GDB
12 5 (1.52%) Subversion
13 4 (1.22%) Artifactory
13 4 (1.22%) JMeter
13 4 (1.22%) Mockito
13 4 (1.22%) SonarQube
13 4 (1.22%) Terragrunt
General
1 88 (26.75%) Finance
2 69 (20.97%) Social Skills
3 46 (13.98%) Public Sector
4 45 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (10.94%) Police
6 35 (10.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (10.03%) Law
8 25 (7.60%) Banking
9 16 (4.86%) Telecoms
10 14 (4.26%) Local Government
11 8 (2.43%) Financial Institution
11 8 (2.43%) Manufacturing
12 7 (2.13%) Billing
12 7 (2.13%) Electronics
12 7 (2.13%) Front Office
12 7 (2.13%) Health Technology
13 6 (1.82%) Legal
14 5 (1.52%) Investment Banking
15 4 (1.22%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.22%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 68 (20.67%) Developer
2 66 (20.06%) Senior
3 53 (16.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 49 (14.89%) Applications Support
5 46 (13.98%) Software Engineer
6 38 (11.55%) Analyst
7 35 (10.64%) Support Analyst
8 30 (9.12%) Applications Support Analyst
9 29 (8.81%) Senior Analyst
9 29 (8.81%) Senior Applications Support
9 29 (8.81%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
9 29 (8.81%) Senior Support Analyst
10 27 (8.21%) Java Developer
11 24 (7.29%) Cloud Engineer
12 23 (6.99%) Linux Engineer
13 20 (6.08%) Administrator
14 19 (5.78%) Data Engineer
15 17 (5.17%) Big Data Engineer
16 15 (4.56%) Full Stack Developer
16 15 (4.56%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (21.28%) Spring
2 40 (12.16%) Web Services
3 39 (11.85%) Elastic Stack
4 32 (9.73%) Spring Boot
5 31 (9.42%) J2EE
5 31 (9.42%) Java EE
6 28 (8.51%) JSON
7 24 (7.29%) RabbitMQ
8 21 (6.38%) ActiveMQ
8 21 (6.38%) REST
8 21 (6.38%) XML
9 20 (6.08%) HTML
10 19 (5.78%) Node.js
10 19 (5.78%) YAML
11 17 (5.17%) Apache NiFi
12 16 (4.86%) Apache Camel
13 14 (4.26%) React
14 13 (3.95%) Middleware
15 12 (3.65%) AngularJS
16 11 (3.34%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.81%) Public Cloud
2 26 (7.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (5.47%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (3.95%) Cloud Native
6 12 (3.65%) Onboarding
7 11 (3.34%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.74%) Algorithms
9 8 (2.43%) IoT
9 8 (2.43%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.43%) Virtual Team
10 7 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (2.13%) Market Risk
11 6 (1.82%) Mainframe
12 5 (1.52%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (1.52%) Reference Data
13 4 (1.22%) FPGA
13 4 (1.22%) VHDL
14 3 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 193 (58.66%) Linux
2 105 (31.91%) Unix
3 35 (10.64%) Windows
4 34 (10.33%) Ubuntu
5 23 (6.99%) Solaris
6 22 (6.69%) CentOS
7 20 (6.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (4.26%) Debian
9 7 (2.13%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.61%) Android
10 2 (0.61%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.61%) SUSE
10 2 (0.61%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.30%) AIX
11 1 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.30%) Fedora
11 1 (0.30%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (34.65%) DevOps
2 97 (29.48%) CI/CD
3 85 (25.84%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (24.32%) Agile
5 74 (22.49%) Software Engineering
6 63 (19.15%) Containerisation
7 52 (15.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 47 (14.29%) Configuration Management
9 33 (10.03%) ITIL
9 33 (10.03%) Microservices
9 33 (10.03%) Scrum
10 32 (9.73%) TDD
11 31 (9.42%) Incident Management
11 31 (9.42%) Task Automation
12 30 (9.12%) Actionable Insight
13 29 (8.81%) Enterprise Architecture
13 29 (8.81%) Enterprise Search
13 29 (8.81%) Impact Assessments
13 29 (8.81%) Information Management
13 29 (8.81%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 138 (41.95%) Java
2 135 (41.03%) Python
3 72 (21.88%) SQL
4 60 (18.24%) Bash
5 45 (13.68%) JavaScript
6 39 (11.85%) C
7 30 (9.12%) PowerShell
8 24 (7.29%) Perl
9 23 (6.99%) C++
10 17 (5.17%) TypeScript
11 10 (3.04%) Ada
11 10 (3.04%) PL/SQL
12 9 (2.74%) Go
13 8 (2.43%) PHP
14 7 (2.13%) C#
15 6 (1.82%) Rust
16 5 (1.52%) AWK
16 5 (1.52%) Groovy
16 5 (1.52%) OCaml
16 5 (1.52%) SystemTap
Qualifications
1 107 (32.52%) Security Cleared
2 58 (17.63%) SC Cleared
3 47 (14.29%) Degree
4 32 (9.73%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (2.43%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.43%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.52%) MCAD
10 4 (1.22%) CCNA
10 4 (1.22%) CCNP
10 4 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.22%) PhD
11 3 (0.91%) HNC
11 3 (0.91%) HND
12 2 (0.61%) RHCE
12 2 (0.61%) SAS Certification
13 1 (0.30%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.81%) SLA
2 14 (4.26%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.22%) NCSC
4 3 (0.91%) QA
5 2 (0.61%) GDPR
5 2 (0.61%) SEPA
6 1 (0.30%) MISRA
6 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 81 (24.62%) Docker
2 14 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.74%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.91%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.61%) Firmware
6 2 (0.61%) Lustre
6 2 (0.61%) Shibboleth
6 2 (0.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.30%) KVM
7 1 (0.30%) Samba
7 1 (0.30%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 87 (26.44%) Ansible
2 69 (20.97%) Terraform
3 67 (20.36%) Kubernetes
4 35 (10.64%) Grafana
5 29 (8.81%) OpenSSO
5 29 (8.81%) Single Sign-On
6 26 (7.90%) Prometheus
7 22 (6.69%) Progress Chef
8 17 (5.17%) HAProxy
9 11 (3.34%) Puppet
10 7 (2.13%) Kibana
11 6 (1.82%) ITRS Geneos
11 6 (1.82%) ZABBIX
12 5 (1.52%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (1.22%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.91%) Oracle RMAN
14 3 (0.91%) SCCM
14 3 (0.91%) SCOM
14 3 (0.91%) WSUS
15 2 (0.61%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 72 (21.88%) Oracle
2 41 (12.46%) Microsoft
3 37 (11.25%) Red Hat
4 33 (10.03%) Remedy
5 23 (6.99%) VMware
6 15 (4.56%) Google
7 14 (4.26%) NEC
8 12 (3.65%) Splunk
8 12 (3.65%) WSO2
9 11 (3.34%) Cisco
10 8 (2.43%) Sybase
11 7 (2.13%) AppDynamics
11 7 (2.13%) McAfee
12 6 (1.82%) IBM
13 5 (1.52%) CA
13 5 (1.52%) EMC
13 5 (1.52%) Teradata
14 4 (1.22%) Dynatrace
14 4 (1.22%) Veritas
15 3 (0.91%) Atlassian