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

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 887 956 1165
Rank change year-on-year +69 +209 -256
Permanent jobs citing AWK 9 32 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.031% 0.026%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.027% 0.071% 0.049%
Number of salaries quoted 8 9 33
10th Percentile £40,100 £54,000 -
25th Percentile £46,063 £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £57,458
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +8.78% -14.88%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £57,981 £65,500 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.00% +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 33,278 45,076 83,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.79% 43.37% 53.85%
Number of salaries quoted 25,047 28,788 44,148
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 £53,750
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.33% +7.50%

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 30 April 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 30 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 +104 9 £52,500 -16.00% 4
UK excluding London -42 9 £52,500 -16.00% 3
Work from Home +85 7 £50,000 -17.01% 3
South East - 5 £55,000 -
East Midlands - 3 £50,000 -
Midlands - 3 £50,000 -
East of England - 1 £46,500 - 3

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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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (11.11%) SAN
1 1 (11.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Ingres
1 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Git
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Automotive
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Administrator
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (33.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (22.22%) DBA
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Unix Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) EDI
2 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) CentOS
2 3 (33.33%) Debian
2 3 (33.33%) SUSE
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Solaris
3 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Security
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (22.22%) Change Management
3 2 (22.22%) Information Security
4 1 (11.11%) Benchmarking
4 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
4 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
4 1 (11.11%) Mathematics
4 1 (11.11%) Microservices
4 1 (11.11%) Server Hardening
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
1 7 (77.78%) sed
2 5 (55.56%) Shell Script
3 4 (44.44%) Bash
4 3 (33.33%) SQL
5 1 (11.11%) Bourne shell
5 1 (11.11%) Korn
5 1 (11.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Degree
2 4 (44.44%) PhD
3 3 (33.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (11.11%) RHCE
4 1 (11.11%) RHCSA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Ansible
2 4 (44.44%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) NetBackup
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle ZFS
3 1 (11.11%) Puppet
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (11.11%) yum
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Veeam
1 3 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) EMC
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) Veritas