AWK
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring AWK skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited AWK over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 704 888 952
Rank change year-on-year +184 +64 +208
Permanent jobs citing AWK 2 10 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% 0.010% 0.029%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.012% 0.030% 0.066%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 8
10th Percentile - £40,650 £57,325
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% +8.78%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £64,375
90th Percentile - £60,782 £66,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +19.05%

All Programming Languages
UK

AWK falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 16,230 33,186 43,722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.66% 33.45% 43.28%
Number of salaries quoted 11,643 24,983 27,941
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,195 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £81,375 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £107,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +4.76%

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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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Top 5 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 11 May 2025. 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
UK excluding London +178 2 £55,000 - 3
England +151 2 £55,000 - 3
Work from Home +150 2 £55,000 +4.76% 1
North West - 2 £55,000 - 1
North of England - 2 £55,000 - 1

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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) FTP
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) HTTPS
1 2 (100.00%) SSH
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Unix Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) EDI
1 2 (100.00%) LAMP
1 2 (100.00%) Loki
1 2 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Life Science
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (100.00%) Renewable Energy
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) AIX
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Supplier Management
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Korn
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) KVM
1 2 (100.00%) Postfix
1 2 (100.00%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Nagios
1 2 (100.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) SAP
1 2 (100.00%) Tenable