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 21 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 563 593 503
Rank change year-on-year +30 -90 -135
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 124 321 600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.33% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.78% 0.97% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 73 231 281
10th Percentile £38,500 £41,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £47,500 £43,750
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 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% -4.76%

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 15,804 32,987 46,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.30% 33.98% 43.65%
Number of salaries quoted 11,666 24,970 29,413
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 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +2.80%

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 21 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 21 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 +39 106 £60,000 -2.04% 272
UK excluding London +61 76 £60,000 +14.29% 178
London +87 64 £67,500 -15.63% 125
Work from Home +112 49 £60,000 -7.69% 102
South East +90 34 £62,500 +13.64% 40
Midlands +72 15 £60,000 +14.29% 27
North of England +74 14 £44,500 -19.09% 37
West Midlands +48 13 £60,000 +34.83% 20
North West +21 12 £44,500 -49.86% 19
Scotland +106 7 £85,253 +102.98% 14
Northern Ireland +44 6 £50,000 -35.48% 13
Yorkshire +73 2 - - 16
East Midlands +57 2 - - 6
South West +64 1 £60,000 +2.13% 20
East of England +35 1 £67,500 +12.50% 27

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 6 (4.84%) Apache
2 4 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.23%) nginx
3 3 (2.42%) Confluence
4 2 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.61%) SAS
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.81%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.81%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.81%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (5.65%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (4.03%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (1.61%) EngageOne
3 2 (1.61%) InDesign
3 2 (1.61%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (4.84%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (3.23%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 62 (50.00%) AWS
2 30 (24.19%) Serverless
3 27 (21.77%) Amazon EC2
3 27 (21.77%) Amazon ECS
4 25 (20.16%) Amazon EKS
5 20 (16.13%) Azure
6 12 (9.68%) Amazon S3
7 11 (8.87%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (7.26%) GitHub
9 8 (6.45%) GCP
9 8 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (5.65%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 7 (5.65%) AWS KMS
11 6 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (4.84%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (4.03%) Power Platform
13 4 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (3.23%) Entra ID
14 3 (2.42%) Amazon Glacier
14 3 (2.42%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.26%) SSL
2 8 (6.45%) Firewall
2 8 (6.45%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.61%) Network Security
4 1 (0.81%) DHCP
4 1 (0.81%) DNS
4 1 (0.81%) HTTP
4 1 (0.81%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.81%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.81%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.81%) SAN
4 1 (0.81%) SpaceWire
4 1 (0.81%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (24.19%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (16.13%) RDBMS
2 20 (16.13%) Relational Database
3 11 (8.87%) SQL Server
4 9 (7.26%) Oracle Database
5 5 (4.03%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.03%) Oracle Exadata
5 5 (4.03%) Power BI
6 4 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.23%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.42%) DB2
7 3 (2.42%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.42%) MySQL
7 3 (2.42%) Redis
8 2 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.61%) Apache Hive
8 2 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.61%) Pentaho
8 2 (1.61%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 50 (40.32%) Jenkins
2 22 (17.74%) JUnit
3 21 (16.94%) Mockito
4 19 (15.32%) Git
4 19 (15.32%) JMeter
5 12 (9.68%) JIRA
6 8 (6.45%) Maven
7 7 (5.65%) Artifactory
7 7 (5.65%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (4.84%) SonarQube
9 5 (4.03%) IBM UrbanCode
10 4 (3.23%) Cucumber
11 3 (2.42%) Subversion
11 3 (2.42%) Vagrant
12 2 (1.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (1.61%) Bitbucket
12 2 (1.61%) Gradle
12 2 (1.61%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (1.61%) SoapUI
12 2 (1.61%) Xcode
General
1 32 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (22.58%) Social Skills
3 24 (19.35%) Finance
4 21 (16.94%) Public Sector
5 14 (11.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (9.68%) Manufacturing
7 10 (8.06%) Retail
8 9 (7.26%) Banking
9 5 (4.03%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.42%) Billing
10 3 (2.42%) Front Office
10 3 (2.42%) Legal
11 2 (1.61%) Advertising
11 2 (1.61%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.61%) Multimedia
11 2 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.61%) Publishing
12 1 (0.81%) Back Office
12 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (23.39%) Developer
2 25 (20.16%) Senior
3 21 (16.94%) Java Developer
4 11 (8.87%) Analyst
4 11 (8.87%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (8.87%) Support Analyst
5 10 (8.06%) Applications Support
5 10 (8.06%) Linux Engineer
5 10 (8.06%) Support Engineer
6 9 (7.26%) Applications Support Analyst
6 9 (7.26%) Linux Support
7 8 (6.45%) Data Engineer
7 8 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (6.45%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) Lead
9 5 (4.03%) DBA
9 5 (4.03%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 5 (4.03%) Linux Support Engineer
9 5 (4.03%) Oracle DBA
9 5 (4.03%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (26.61%) REST
2 31 (25.00%) HTML
3 26 (20.97%) Spring
4 25 (20.16%) Spring Boot
5 23 (18.55%) Hibernate
6 21 (16.94%) Web Services
7 19 (15.32%) ActiveMQ
7 19 (15.32%) Apache Camel
7 19 (15.32%) jQuery
7 19 (15.32%) WireMock
8 15 (12.10%) JSON
9 14 (11.29%) XML
10 10 (8.06%) CSS
11 7 (5.65%) AngularJS
11 7 (5.65%) Middleware
11 7 (5.65%) React
12 5 (4.03%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (4.03%) Oracle Fusion
12 5 (4.03%) Oracle GoldenGate
13 4 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 25 (20.16%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (8.06%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (7.26%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 6 (4.84%) Clustering
4 6 (4.84%) Mainframe
5 5 (4.03%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.03%) Management Information System
5 5 (4.03%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.23%) CCTV
7 3 (2.42%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.61%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.61%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.81%) Derivative
9 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.81%) LIMS
9 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 78 (62.90%) Linux
2 40 (32.26%) Unix
3 19 (15.32%) Windows
4 8 (6.45%) Ubuntu
5 7 (5.65%) Mac OS
6 6 (4.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (4.03%) VMS
8 4 (3.23%) Windows Server
9 3 (2.42%) CentOS
10 1 (0.81%) Debian
10 1 (0.81%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (39.52%) Agile
2 46 (37.10%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (33.87%) DevOps
4 34 (27.42%) CI/CD
5 29 (23.39%) Microservices
6 24 (19.35%) TDD
7 22 (17.74%) SDLC
8 20 (16.13%) BDD
8 20 (16.13%) Computer Science
8 20 (16.13%) Software Engineering
8 20 (16.13%) Workflow
9 19 (15.32%) Process Management
10 16 (12.90%) Collaborative Working
10 16 (12.90%) Scrum
10 16 (12.90%) Validation
11 15 (12.10%) Architectural Design
12 14 (11.29%) Kanban
12 14 (11.29%) Mentoring
13 13 (10.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (8.87%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (58.06%) Python
2 55 (44.35%) SQL
3 54 (43.55%) Java
4 34 (27.42%) JavaScript
5 19 (15.32%) PL/SQL
6 15 (12.10%) Bash
7 13 (10.48%) Perl
8 11 (8.87%) PowerShell
9 10 (8.06%) Groovy
10 9 (7.26%) C++
10 9 (7.26%) C-shell
10 9 (7.26%) Korn
11 8 (6.45%) C
12 5 (4.03%) JCL
13 4 (3.23%) Ruby
13 4 (3.23%) SPARQL
14 3 (2.42%) Go
14 3 (2.42%) Gremlin
15 1 (0.81%) ActionScript 2.0
15 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 22 (17.74%) SC Cleared
3 21 (16.94%) Degree
4 18 (14.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (7.26%) PhD
6 6 (4.84%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (3.23%) OCA
7 4 (3.23%) OCP
7 4 (3.23%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.61%) CASP
8 2 (1.61%) CISM
8 2 (1.61%) CISSP
8 2 (1.61%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.87%) QA
2 7 (5.65%) SLA
3 5 (4.03%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.61%) Dublin Core
4 2 (1.61%) GDPR
4 2 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.81%) ECSS
5 1 (0.81%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 40 (32.26%) Docker
2 12 (9.68%) Active Directory
3 10 (8.06%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (5.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (4.84%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.81%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.81%) Firmware
7 1 (0.81%) HDFS
7 1 (0.81%) NDS
Systems Management
1 37 (29.84%) Kubernetes
2 22 (17.74%) Ansible
3 20 (16.13%) Kibana
4 18 (14.52%) Terraform
5 8 (6.45%) Nessus
6 7 (5.65%) Proxmox
7 6 (4.84%) Packer
8 5 (4.03%) CA Endevor
8 5 (4.03%) Grafana
8 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (4.03%) Oracle RMAN
8 5 (4.03%) Prometheus
9 3 (2.42%) Nagios
10 2 (1.61%) Control-M
11 1 (0.81%) CA Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.81%) Core Impact
11 1 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.81%) MOM
11 1 (0.81%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.81%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (28.23%) Oracle
2 27 (21.77%) Splunk
3 25 (20.16%) Dynatrace
4 8 (6.45%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.45%) Red Hat
5 7 (5.65%) AppDynamics
5 7 (5.65%) Juniper
6 6 (4.84%) Veritas
7 5 (4.03%) Apple
7 5 (4.03%) IBM
7 5 (4.03%) VMware
8 4 (3.23%) Atlassian
8 4 (3.23%) Informatica
8 4 (3.23%) Symantec
8 4 (3.23%) Talend
9 2 (1.61%) Adobe
9 2 (1.61%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.81%) SAP
10 1 (0.81%) Sophos
10 1 (0.81%) Sybase