Shell Script Jobs

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Shell Script skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Shell Script over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 562 570 495
Rank change year-on-year +8 -75 -126
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 122 337 607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.34% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.78% 1.01% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 73 234 270
10th Percentile £38,500 £41,500 £40,450
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% +1.94% -1.90%

All Programming Languages
UK

Shell Script 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 15,664 33,221 45,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.03% 33.78% 43.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,561 25,021 28,803
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £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 £82,500 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +2.33%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Top 15 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 30 April 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
England +47 104 £60,000 - 131
UK excluding London +52 75 £60,000 +14.29% 86
London +91 62 £67,500 -15.63% 61
Work from Home +112 46 £60,000 -7.69% 86
South East +91 33 £62,500 +13.64% 15
Midlands +58 15 £60,000 +20.00% 11
North of England +73 14 £44,500 -31.54% 24
West Midlands +57 13 £60,000 +34.83% 9
North West +32 12 £44,500 -56.59% 16
Scotland +103 7 £85,253 +102.98% 10
Northern Ireland +40 6 £50,000 -35.48% 7
Yorkshire +60 2 - - 8
East Midlands +40 2 - - 2
South West +58 1 £60,000 - 12
East of England +31 1 £67,500 +12.50% 9

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 4 (3.28%) Apache
1 4 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.46%) Confluence
3 2 (1.64%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.64%) nginx
3 2 (1.64%) SAS
4 1 (0.82%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.82%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.82%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.82%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.82%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.82%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (5.74%) Chatbot
1 7 (5.74%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (1.64%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 6 (4.92%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (3.28%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.82%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.82%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.82%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 59 (48.36%) AWS
2 29 (23.77%) Serverless
3 26 (21.31%) Amazon EC2
3 26 (21.31%) Amazon ECS
4 24 (19.67%) Amazon EKS
5 17 (13.93%) Azure
6 12 (9.84%) Amazon S3
7 11 (9.02%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (7.38%) GitHub
9 8 (6.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (5.74%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 7 (5.74%) AWS KMS
11 6 (4.92%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (4.92%) GCP
12 5 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (3.28%) Entra ID
13 4 (3.28%) Power Platform
14 3 (2.46%) Amazon Glacier
14 3 (2.46%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.38%) SSL
2 8 (6.56%) Firewall
2 8 (6.56%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.64%) Network Security
4 1 (0.82%) DHCP
4 1 (0.82%) DNS
4 1 (0.82%) HTTP
4 1 (0.82%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.82%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.82%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.82%) SAN
4 1 (0.82%) SpaceWire
4 1 (0.82%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (22.95%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (15.57%) RDBMS
2 19 (15.57%) Relational Database
3 10 (8.20%) SQL Server
4 9 (7.38%) Oracle Database
5 5 (4.10%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.10%) Oracle Exadata
6 4 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.28%) Power BI
7 3 (2.46%) DB2
7 3 (2.46%) MySQL
7 3 (2.46%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.46%) Redis
8 2 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.64%) Apache Hive
8 2 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.64%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.64%) Pentaho
8 2 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 48 (39.34%) Jenkins
2 21 (17.21%) JUnit
3 20 (16.39%) Mockito
4 19 (15.57%) Git
5 18 (14.75%) JMeter
6 12 (9.84%) JIRA
7 8 (6.56%) Maven
8 7 (5.74%) Artifactory
8 7 (5.74%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (4.92%) SonarQube
10 5 (4.10%) IBM UrbanCode
11 4 (3.28%) Cucumber
12 3 (2.46%) Subversion
12 3 (2.46%) Vagrant
13 2 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (1.64%) GitLab
13 2 (1.64%) Postman
13 2 (1.64%) REST Assured
13 2 (1.64%) TeamCity
13 2 (1.64%) XCTest
General
1 32 (26.23%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (24.59%) Social Skills
3 25 (20.49%) Finance
4 21 (17.21%) Public Sector
5 14 (11.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (9.84%) Manufacturing
7 10 (8.20%) Retail
8 9 (7.38%) Banking
9 5 (4.10%) Telecoms
10 4 (3.28%) Front Office
11 3 (2.46%) Billing
11 3 (2.46%) Legal
12 2 (1.64%) Advertising
12 2 (1.64%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.64%) Multimedia
12 2 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.82%) Automotive
13 1 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.82%) Law
Job Titles
1 27 (22.13%) Developer
2 23 (18.85%) Senior
3 20 (16.39%) Java Developer
4 12 (9.84%) Linux Engineer
4 12 (9.84%) Support Engineer
5 11 (9.02%) Analyst
5 11 (9.02%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (9.02%) Linux Support
5 11 (9.02%) Support Analyst
6 9 (7.38%) Applications Support
6 9 (7.38%) Applications Support Analyst
7 8 (6.56%) Data Engineer
7 8 (6.56%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.74%) Lead
8 7 (5.74%) Linux Support Engineer
9 5 (4.10%) DBA
9 5 (4.10%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (4.10%) Oracle DBA
9 5 (4.10%) Python Developer
9 5 (4.10%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (24.59%) REST
2 29 (23.77%) HTML
3 25 (20.49%) Spring
4 24 (19.67%) Spring Boot
5 22 (18.03%) Hibernate
6 20 (16.39%) Web Services
7 18 (14.75%) ActiveMQ
7 18 (14.75%) Apache Camel
7 18 (14.75%) jQuery
7 18 (14.75%) WireMock
8 14 (11.48%) JSON
9 13 (10.66%) XML
10 8 (6.56%) CSS
11 7 (5.74%) Middleware
12 6 (4.92%) React
13 5 (4.10%) AngularJS
13 5 (4.10%) Elastic Stack
13 5 (4.10%) Oracle Fusion
13 5 (4.10%) Oracle GoldenGate
14 4 (3.28%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 24 (19.67%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (9.84%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (7.38%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 6 (4.92%) Clustering
4 6 (4.92%) Mainframe
5 5 (4.10%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.10%) Management Information System
5 5 (4.10%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.28%) CCTV
7 3 (2.46%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.64%) Derivative
8 2 (1.64%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.64%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.82%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.82%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.82%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 77 (63.11%) Linux
2 38 (31.15%) Unix
3 19 (15.57%) Windows
4 8 (6.56%) Ubuntu
5 7 (5.74%) Mac OS
6 6 (4.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (4.10%) VMS
8 4 (3.28%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.82%) CentOS
9 1 (0.82%) Debian
9 1 (0.82%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (40.16%) Agile
2 47 (38.52%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (33.61%) DevOps
4 34 (27.87%) CI/CD
5 28 (22.95%) Microservices
6 23 (18.85%) TDD
7 20 (16.39%) SDLC
7 20 (16.39%) Software Engineering
8 19 (15.57%) BDD
8 19 (15.57%) Computer Science
8 19 (15.57%) Workflow
9 18 (14.75%) Process Management
9 18 (14.75%) Scrum
10 17 (13.93%) Collaborative Working
10 17 (13.93%) Validation
11 16 (13.11%) Architectural Design
12 15 (12.30%) Kanban
12 15 (12.30%) Mentoring
13 13 (10.66%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (9.84%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 70 (57.38%) Python
2 55 (45.08%) SQL
3 50 (40.98%) Java
4 31 (25.41%) JavaScript
5 19 (15.57%) PL/SQL
6 17 (13.93%) Bash
7 11 (9.02%) PowerShell
8 10 (8.20%) C++
8 10 (8.20%) Groovy
8 10 (8.20%) Perl
9 9 (7.38%) C-shell
9 9 (7.38%) Korn
10 6 (4.92%) C
11 5 (4.10%) JCL
11 5 (4.10%) SPARQL
12 3 (2.46%) Go
12 3 (2.46%) Gremlin
12 3 (2.46%) Ruby
13 1 (0.82%) ActionScript 2.0
13 1 (0.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (22.95%) Security Cleared
2 22 (18.03%) SC Cleared
3 19 (15.57%) Degree
4 17 (13.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (7.38%) PhD
6 6 (4.92%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.28%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (3.28%) OCA
7 4 (3.28%) OCP
7 4 (3.28%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.64%) CASP
8 2 (1.64%) CISM
8 2 (1.64%) CISSP
8 2 (1.64%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.82%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.02%) QA
2 7 (5.74%) SLA
3 5 (4.10%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.64%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.64%) Dublin Core
4 2 (1.64%) GDPR
4 2 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.82%) ECSS
5 1 (0.82%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 39 (31.97%) Docker
2 12 (9.84%) Active Directory
3 10 (8.20%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (5.74%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (4.92%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.82%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.82%) Firmware
7 1 (0.82%) HDFS
7 1 (0.82%) NDS
Systems Management
1 36 (29.51%) Kubernetes
2 22 (18.03%) Ansible
3 19 (15.57%) Kibana
4 18 (14.75%) Terraform
5 8 (6.56%) Nessus
6 7 (5.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (5.74%) Proxmox
7 6 (4.92%) Packer
8 5 (4.10%) CA Endevor
8 5 (4.10%) Grafana
8 5 (4.10%) Oracle RMAN
8 5 (4.10%) Prometheus
9 3 (2.46%) Nagios
10 2 (1.64%) Control-M
11 1 (0.82%) Argo
11 1 (0.82%) CA Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.82%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.82%) MOM
11 1 (0.82%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 36 (29.51%) Oracle
2 26 (21.31%) Splunk
3 24 (19.67%) Dynatrace
4 10 (8.20%) Microsoft
5 7 (5.74%) AppDynamics
5 7 (5.74%) Apple
5 7 (5.74%) Juniper
6 6 (4.92%) Red Hat
6 6 (4.92%) Veritas
7 5 (4.10%) IBM
7 5 (4.10%) Talend
7 5 (4.10%) VMware
8 4 (3.28%) Atlassian
8 4 (3.28%) Symantec
9 3 (2.46%) Informatica
10 2 (1.64%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.82%) BigPanda
11 1 (0.82%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.82%) Okta
11 1 (0.82%) Ping Identity