Shell Script Jobs with Work from Home Options

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 471 451 422
Rank change year-on-year -20 -29 -10
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 112 220 512
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.33% 0.52% 0.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.81% 1.06% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 89 147 235
10th Percentile £45,600 £39,700 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,382 £67,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £87,500 £96,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,800 20,832 40,207
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.76% 49.15% 58.79%
Number of salaries quoted 11,439 15,333 24,050
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £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 £78,750 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

Shell Script
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Shell Script as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Shell Script trend for jobs with a WFH option

Shell Script
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Shell Script.

Shell Script salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Shell Script
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Shell Script over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Shell Script salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (14.29%) Tomcat
2 15 (13.39%) Apache
3 14 (12.50%) IIS
4 7 (6.25%) nginx
5 5 (4.46%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (4.46%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 14 (12.50%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.89%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 38 (33.93%) AWS
2 19 (16.96%) Serverless
3 16 (14.29%) GCP
4 12 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (10.71%) Azure
4 12 (10.71%) OpenShift
5 11 (9.82%) GitHub
5 11 (9.82%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (8.04%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (8.04%) SaaS
7 8 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (6.25%) Amazon S3
9 6 (5.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (4.46%) Cloud Composer
10 5 (4.46%) dbt
10 5 (4.46%) Power Platform
11 4 (3.57%) AWS CodeBuild
12 3 (2.68%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.14%) HTTPS
1 8 (7.14%) SSL
2 7 (6.25%) OpenVPN
3 5 (4.46%) AMQP
3 5 (4.46%) Network Security
4 3 (2.68%) DNS
4 3 (2.68%) HTTP
5 1 (0.89%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.89%) Internet
5 1 (0.89%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.89%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.18%) Oracle Database
2 8 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 7 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (6.25%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.46%) BigQuery
4 5 (4.46%) InfluxDB
4 5 (4.46%) Looker
4 5 (4.46%) Power BI
4 5 (4.46%) Tableau
5 4 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.68%) MySQL
7 1 (0.89%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.89%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.89%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.89%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (19.64%) Jenkins
2 21 (18.75%) Git
3 15 (13.39%) GitLab
4 13 (11.61%) JIRA
5 9 (8.04%) CircleCI
6 8 (7.14%) Vagrant
7 7 (6.25%) git-flow
8 5 (4.46%) DTrace
8 5 (4.46%) GDB
9 4 (3.57%) Maven
9 4 (3.57%) Terragrunt
10 3 (2.68%) GoCD
11 2 (1.79%) Artifactory
11 2 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (1.79%) Gradle
11 2 (1.79%) JUnit
11 2 (1.79%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (1.79%) Travis CI
12 1 (0.89%) Ranorex
General
1 41 (36.61%) Finance
2 25 (22.32%) Public Sector
3 21 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 14 (12.50%) Local Government
4 14 (12.50%) Police
5 11 (9.82%) Telecoms
6 7 (6.25%) Financial Institution
6 7 (6.25%) Health Technology
7 6 (5.36%) Banking
8 4 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.57%) Billing
8 4 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.68%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.79%) Law
10 2 (1.79%) Retail
11 1 (0.89%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.89%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 20 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
1 20 (17.86%) Senior
2 18 (16.07%) Developer
3 15 (13.39%) Applications Support
4 14 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 13 (11.61%) Software Engineer
6 11 (9.82%) Administrator
6 11 (9.82%) Linux Engineer
7 10 (8.93%) Linux Administrator
7 10 (8.93%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 10 (8.93%) Systems Administrator
8 8 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (6.25%) Backend Developer
9 7 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 7 (6.25%) Linux Support
9 7 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (6.25%) React Developer
9 7 (6.25%) Senior Backend Developer
9 7 (6.25%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.46%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.50%) Web Services
2 11 (9.82%) JSON
3 7 (6.25%) CSS
3 7 (6.25%) CSS3
3 7 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (6.25%) Flask
3 7 (6.25%) HTML
3 7 (6.25%) HTML5
3 7 (6.25%) JSON Schema
3 7 (6.25%) Node.js
3 7 (6.25%) OpenAPI
3 7 (6.25%) React
3 7 (6.25%) Redux
3 7 (6.25%) Spring
3 7 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 7 (6.25%) Swagger
4 5 (4.46%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (2.68%) Kafka
5 3 (2.68%) REST
5 3 (2.68%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.96%) Public Cloud
2 12 (10.71%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (8.93%) Onboarding
4 8 (7.14%) Virtual Team
5 7 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (6.25%) IoT
5 7 (6.25%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.46%) Client/Server
6 5 (4.46%) Cloud Native
6 5 (4.46%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (4.46%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.79%) Digital Currency
7 2 (1.79%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.89%) Blog
8 1 (0.89%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.89%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.89%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.89%) Eurex
8 1 (0.89%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 82 (73.21%) Linux
2 33 (29.46%) Unix
3 22 (19.64%) Windows
4 18 (16.07%) CentOS
5 16 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (14.29%) Solaris
6 14 (12.50%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.68%) Debian
7 3 (2.68%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.89%) AIX
8 1 (0.89%) Fedora
8 1 (0.89%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (33.93%) DevOps
2 35 (31.25%) Software Engineering
3 31 (27.68%) CI/CD
4 24 (21.43%) Agile
5 22 (19.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (16.96%) Task Automation
7 18 (16.07%) Capacity Management
8 17 (15.18%) Artificial Intelligence
8 17 (15.18%) Platform Engineering
9 15 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (13.39%) Server Management
10 14 (12.50%) Data Security
10 14 (12.50%) Network Architecture
11 13 (11.61%) Continuous Integration
12 12 (10.71%) Analytics
12 12 (10.71%) Configuration Management
12 12 (10.71%) Deployment Automation
12 12 (10.71%) Visualisation
13 10 (8.93%) Continuous Delivery
13 10 (8.93%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 36 (32.14%) Python
2 31 (27.68%) Java
3 23 (20.54%) SQL
4 16 (14.29%) C
5 15 (13.39%) Bash
5 15 (13.39%) JavaScript
6 14 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 12 (10.71%) Perl
8 10 (8.93%) PowerShell
9 7 (6.25%) C#
10 5 (4.46%) C++
10 5 (4.46%) Go
10 5 (4.46%) OCaml
10 5 (4.46%) SystemTap
11 4 (3.57%) PHP
12 3 (2.68%) Ada
12 3 (2.68%) AWK
12 3 (2.68%) PL/SQL
12 3 (2.68%) sed
13 1 (0.89%) Rust
Qualifications
1 33 (29.46%) Security Cleared
2 24 (21.43%) Degree
3 16 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.57%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.68%) PhD
7 1 (0.89%) HNC
7 1 (0.89%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.57%) NCSC
3 2 (1.79%) SEPA
4 1 (0.89%) MISRA
4 1 (0.89%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (32.14%) Docker
2 7 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.89%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 30 (26.79%) Ansible
2 25 (22.32%) Terraform
3 24 (21.43%) Kubernetes
4 11 (9.82%) Grafana
5 6 (5.36%) Progress Chef
6 5 (4.46%) Docker Swarm
6 5 (4.46%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.79%) Kibana
7 2 (1.79%) NetBackup
7 2 (1.79%) Rancher
8 1 (0.89%) Podman
Vendors
1 20 (17.86%) Microsoft
1 20 (17.86%) Oracle
2 14 (12.50%) NEC
3 12 (10.71%) Google
4 7 (6.25%) McAfee
4 7 (6.25%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.46%) Teradata
5 5 (4.46%) VMware
6 2 (1.79%) IBM
6 2 (1.79%) Veritas
7 1 (0.89%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.89%) Murex
7 1 (0.89%) New Relic
7 1 (0.89%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.89%) SAP
7 1 (0.89%) Splunk
7 1 (0.89%) xMatters