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

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 492 371
Rank change year-on-year -93 -121 +75
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 330 613 1,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.58% 1.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.99% 1.34% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 234 271 669
10th Percentile £41,500 £40,000 £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 £72,500
90th Percentile £94,250 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% +16.67%

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 33,184 45,628 82,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.80% 43.54% 53.68%
Number of salaries quoted 25,016 29,016 44,193
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 £53,635 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -2.48% +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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -66 246 £60,000 - 85
UK excluding London -77 232 £52,500 +1.94% 54
Work from Home -21 108 £62,500 +4.17% 39
London +12 73 £80,000 +10.12% 33
South West -4 58 £60,000 +50.00% 10
South East +9 56 £52,500 +5.00% 11
Scotland -70 32 £42,000 -30.00% 4
East of England +12 28 £60,000 -16.67% 17
North of England -17 23 £65,000 +44.44% 6
Wales +3 18 £50,000 - 2
Midlands -3 16 £50,000 +1.01% 4
Yorkshire +78 12 £47,000 -28.24% 1
East Midlands -18 11 £52,500 +0.48% 2
North West -35 11 £102,500 +127.78% 5
West Midlands +18 5 £44,500 -8.25% 2
Northern Ireland +19 2 £77,500 +3.33% 2

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 33 (10.00%) Apache
2 31 (9.39%) WebLogic
3 25 (7.58%) nginx
4 21 (6.36%) OpenStack
5 20 (6.06%) Apache Spark
5 20 (6.06%) Tomcat
6 17 (5.15%) Jupyter
7 9 (2.73%) IIS
8 7 (2.12%) WebSphere
9 5 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (1.52%) Confluence
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 4 (1.21%) 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 7 (2.12%) 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 (28.18%) AWS
2 57 (17.27%) Azure
3 43 (13.03%) GCP
4 42 (12.73%) Serverless
5 30 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 29 (8.79%) Amazon EKS
6 29 (8.79%) OpenShift
7 20 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (5.15%) MinIO
9 16 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (3.94%) GitHub
12 12 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (3.03%) SaaS
14 6 (1.82%) Entra ID
14 6 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 5 (1.52%) AWS CodeBuild
15 5 (1.52%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.64%) Firewall
2 10 (3.03%) Cisco ASA
3 8 (2.42%) HTTPS
3 8 (2.42%) SSL
4 7 (2.12%) Ethernet
4 7 (2.12%) Internet
4 7 (2.12%) OpenVPN
5 6 (1.82%) DNS
5 6 (1.82%) HTTP
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%) Network Security
7 4 (1.21%) BGP
8 3 (0.91%) FTP
9 2 (0.61%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.61%) SAN
9 2 (0.61%) SS7
9 2 (0.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (9.39%) Elasticsearch
2 27 (8.18%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (8.18%) Relational Database
3 20 (6.06%) Hadoop
4 19 (5.76%) Big Data
5 18 (5.45%) NoSQL
5 18 (5.45%) Presto
6 15 (4.55%) Oracle Database
7 9 (2.73%) MySQL
8 8 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (2.42%) DynamoDB
9 7 (2.12%) SQL Server
10 5 (1.52%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.52%) InfluxDB
10 5 (1.52%) Looker
10 5 (1.52%) Metadata
10 5 (1.52%) Pentaho
10 5 (1.52%) Power BI
10 5 (1.52%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 83 (25.15%) Jenkins
2 51 (15.45%) Git
3 30 (9.09%) GitLab
4 29 (8.79%) JIRA
5 23 (6.97%) CircleCI
6 20 (6.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 14 (4.24%) JUnit
8 13 (3.94%) Maven
9 9 (2.73%) git-flow
10 8 (2.42%) Gradle
10 8 (2.42%) Vagrant
11 6 (1.82%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.52%) DTrace
12 5 (1.52%) GDB
12 5 (1.52%) Subversion
13 4 (1.21%) Artifactory
13 4 (1.21%) JMeter
13 4 (1.21%) Mockito
13 4 (1.21%) SonarQube
13 4 (1.21%) Terragrunt
General
1 82 (24.85%) Finance
2 72 (21.82%) Social Skills
3 47 (14.24%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (12.12%) Public Sector
5 35 (10.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (10.00%) Law
7 29 (8.79%) Police
8 25 (7.58%) Banking
9 17 (5.15%) Telecoms
10 8 (2.42%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.42%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.12%) Billing
11 7 (2.12%) Electronics
11 7 (2.12%) Front Office
11 7 (2.12%) Local Government
12 6 (1.82%) Health Technology
12 6 (1.82%) Legal
13 5 (1.52%) Investment Banking
14 4 (1.21%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.21%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 67 (20.30%) Developer
2 65 (19.70%) Senior
3 55 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 46 (13.94%) Software Engineer
5 42 (12.73%) Applications Support
6 39 (11.82%) Analyst
7 35 (10.61%) Support Analyst
8 30 (9.09%) Applications Support Analyst
9 29 (8.79%) Senior Analyst
9 29 (8.79%) Senior Applications Support
9 29 (8.79%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
9 29 (8.79%) Senior Support Analyst
10 27 (8.18%) Java Developer
11 25 (7.58%) Cloud Engineer
11 25 (7.58%) Linux Engineer
12 20 (6.06%) Administrator
13 19 (5.76%) Data Engineer
14 17 (5.15%) Big Data Engineer
15 15 (4.55%) Full Stack Developer
15 15 (4.55%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (21.21%) Spring
2 40 (12.12%) Elastic Stack
3 33 (10.00%) Web Services
4 32 (9.70%) Spring Boot
5 31 (9.39%) J2EE
5 31 (9.39%) Java EE
6 27 (8.18%) JSON
7 24 (7.27%) RabbitMQ
8 21 (6.36%) ActiveMQ
8 21 (6.36%) REST
8 21 (6.36%) XML
9 20 (6.06%) HTML
9 20 (6.06%) YAML
10 18 (5.45%) Node.js
11 17 (5.15%) Apache NiFi
12 16 (4.85%) Apache Camel
13 14 (4.24%) React
14 12 (3.64%) AngularJS
14 12 (3.64%) Middleware
15 11 (3.33%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 23 (6.97%) Public Cloud
3 18 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.24%) Linux Command Line
4 14 (4.24%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.94%) Cloud Native
6 12 (3.64%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.73%) Algorithms
7 9 (2.73%) Virtual Team
8 8 (2.42%) Mainframe
8 8 (2.42%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (2.12%) IoT
9 7 (2.12%) Market Risk
10 5 (1.52%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.52%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.21%) FPGA
11 4 (1.21%) VHDL
12 3 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 194 (58.79%) Linux
2 99 (30.00%) Unix
3 34 (10.30%) Ubuntu
4 28 (8.48%) Windows
5 24 (7.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 23 (6.97%) CentOS
7 16 (4.85%) Solaris
8 14 (4.24%) Debian
9 7 (2.12%) 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
1 116 (35.15%) DevOps
2 101 (30.61%) CI/CD
3 86 (26.06%) Problem-Solving
4 84 (25.45%) Agile
5 76 (23.03%) Software Engineering
6 65 (19.70%) Containerisation
7 53 (16.06%) Infrastructure as Code
8 47 (14.24%) Configuration Management
9 34 (10.30%) Scrum
10 33 (10.00%) ITIL
10 33 (10.00%) Microservices
11 32 (9.70%) TDD
12 31 (9.39%) Incident Management
13 30 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
14 29 (8.79%) Enterprise Architecture
14 29 (8.79%) Enterprise Search
14 29 (8.79%) Impact Assessments
14 29 (8.79%) Information Management
14 29 (8.79%) Service Management
14 29 (8.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 140 (42.42%) Python
2 139 (42.12%) Java
3 73 (22.12%) SQL
4 59 (17.88%) Bash
5 45 (13.64%) JavaScript
6 39 (11.82%) C
7 30 (9.09%) PowerShell
8 24 (7.27%) Perl
9 23 (6.97%) C++
10 16 (4.85%) TypeScript
11 10 (3.03%) Ada
11 10 (3.03%) PL/SQL
12 9 (2.73%) Go
12 9 (2.73%) PHP
13 7 (2.12%) C#
14 6 (1.82%) Rust
15 5 (1.52%) AWK
15 5 (1.52%) Groovy
15 5 (1.52%) OCaml
15 5 (1.52%) SystemTap
Qualifications
1 102 (30.91%) Security Cleared
2 60 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 41 (12.42%) Degree
4 32 (9.70%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (2.42%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.42%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.52%) MCAD
10 4 (1.21%) CCNA
10 4 (1.21%) CCNP
10 4 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.21%) PhD
11 3 (0.91%) HNC
11 3 (0.91%) HND
12 2 (0.61%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.61%) SAS Certification
13 1 (0.30%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.79%) SLA
2 7 (2.12%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.52%) QA
4 4 (1.21%) NCSC
5 2 (0.61%) GDPR
5 2 (0.61%) SEPA
6 1 (0.30%) MISRA
6 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 83 (25.15%) Docker
2 15 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.73%) 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
7 1 (0.30%) Samba
7 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.30%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 89 (26.97%) Ansible
2 71 (21.52%) Terraform
3 68 (20.61%) Kubernetes
4 34 (10.30%) Grafana
5 29 (8.79%) OpenSSO
5 29 (8.79%) Single Sign-On
6 25 (7.58%) Prometheus
7 21 (6.36%) Progress Chef
8 17 (5.15%) HAProxy
9 10 (3.03%) Puppet
10 7 (2.12%) Kibana
11 6 (1.82%) ITRS Geneos
11 6 (1.82%) ZABBIX
12 5 (1.52%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (1.21%) 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 67 (20.30%) Oracle
2 38 (11.52%) Red Hat
3 34 (10.30%) Microsoft
4 33 (10.00%) Remedy
5 22 (6.67%) VMware
6 16 (4.85%) Google
7 12 (3.64%) WSO2
8 11 (3.33%) Cisco
8 11 (3.33%) Splunk
9 8 (2.42%) McAfee
9 8 (2.42%) Sybase
10 7 (2.12%) AppDynamics
10 7 (2.12%) NEC
11 6 (1.82%) IBM
12 5 (1.52%) CA
12 5 (1.52%) EMC
12 5 (1.52%) Teradata
13 4 (1.21%) Dynatrace
13 4 (1.21%) Veritas
14 3 (0.91%) Atlassian