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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 590 463 411
Rank change year-on-year -127 -52 -5
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 261 513 1,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.64% 0.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.95% 1.58% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 177 270 562
10th Percentile £43,547 £42,450 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.69% -7.20%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,938 £77,500
90th Percentile £103,000 £106,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%

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 27,596 32,430 91,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.53% 40.19% 52.34%
Number of salaries quoted 19,728 24,108 43,810
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £37,171
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,850
% change year-on-year - +2.14% +7.70%

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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Top 16 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 26 July 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 -118 206 £72,500 +3.57% 34
UK excluding London -140 158 £55,000 - 21
Work from Home -23 90 £65,000 +8.33% 24
London 0 88 £80,000 +6.67% 17
South East -38 40 £47,491 -9.54% 3
South West -10 28 £80,000 +51.80% 4
Scotland -66 23 £42,000 -44.00% 1
North of England -29 22 £48,507 -19.16% 3
Midlands -21 21 £51,250 -1.91% 1
North West -20 15 £102,500 +121.62%
East of England -10 13 £55,000 -31.25% 6
East Midlands -24 11 £52,500 -4.33%
Wales +3 10 £50,000 -
West Midlands -7 10 £42,500 -14.14% 1
Yorkshire +33 7 £48,507 -25.94% 3
Northern Ireland +11 1 £52,500 -9.48% 3

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 52 (19.92%) Apache
2 34 (13.03%) Tomcat
3 27 (10.34%) IIS
4 20 (7.66%) Apache Spark
4 20 (7.66%) nginx
5 16 (6.13%) Jupyter
6 14 (5.36%) WebLogic
7 12 (4.60%) Confluence
8 10 (3.83%) OpenStack
9 7 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (2.68%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.77%) GlassFish
10 2 (0.77%) JCAPS
10 2 (0.77%) SAS
10 2 (0.77%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.38%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.77%) Abaqus
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 27 (10.34%) NEC Housing
2 5 (1.92%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.77%) Adaptiv
4 1 (0.38%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.38%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 64 (24.52%) AWS
2 42 (16.09%) Azure
3 30 (11.49%) GCP
4 28 (10.73%) Serverless
5 26 (9.96%) OpenShift
6 24 (9.20%) Amazon S3
7 16 (6.13%) MinIO
8 14 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (5.36%) Power Platform
9 11 (4.21%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (4.21%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (3.83%) GitHub
10 10 (3.83%) SaaS
11 9 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (2.68%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.92%) Cloud Composer
13 5 (1.92%) dbt
13 5 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.07%) DNS
1 8 (3.07%) HTTPS
1 8 (3.07%) SSL
2 6 (2.30%) Network Security
2 6 (2.30%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.92%) AMQP
3 5 (1.92%) Firewall
3 5 (1.92%) SNMP
3 5 (1.92%) Software-Defined Networking
3 5 (1.92%) VLAN
3 5 (1.92%) VPN
4 4 (1.53%) BGP
4 4 (1.53%) DHCP
4 4 (1.53%) Ethernet
4 4 (1.53%) Modbus
4 4 (1.53%) SAN
4 4 (1.53%) SSH
5 3 (1.15%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (1.15%) tcpdump
5 3 (1.15%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (14.56%) Oracle Database
2 24 (9.20%) Big Data
3 22 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (8.05%) Hadoop
5 19 (7.28%) SQL Server
6 18 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (6.51%) Presto
7 17 (6.51%) Relational Database
8 15 (5.75%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (5.75%) Tableau
9 14 (5.36%) Power BI
10 10 (3.83%) DynamoDB
11 9 (3.45%) NoSQL
12 8 (3.07%) RDBMS
12 8 (3.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (3.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (2.68%) MongoDB
14 6 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (2.30%) InfluxDB
15 5 (1.92%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 61 (23.37%) Jenkins
2 30 (11.49%) Git
2 30 (11.49%) JIRA
3 24 (9.20%) GitLab
4 16 (6.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (4.21%) JUnit
6 8 (3.07%) Maven
6 8 (3.07%) Vagrant
7 7 (2.68%) CircleCI
7 7 (2.68%) JMeter
7 7 (2.68%) Mockito
8 5 (1.92%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.53%) Gradle
9 4 (1.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (1.53%) Subversion
9 4 (1.53%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.15%) GoCD
10 3 (1.15%) IBM UrbanCode
10 3 (1.15%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 93 (35.63%) Finance
2 48 (18.39%) Social Skills
3 40 (15.33%) Public Sector
4 39 (14.94%) Police
5 29 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (10.73%) Banking
7 27 (10.34%) Local Government
8 21 (8.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (7.28%) Law
10 10 (3.83%) Telecoms
11 8 (3.07%) Front Office
11 8 (3.07%) Health Technology
12 6 (2.30%) Back Office
12 6 (2.30%) Legal
13 5 (1.92%) Electronics
13 5 (1.92%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.53%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.53%) Financial Institution
15 3 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (1.15%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (18.77%) Applications Support
2 45 (17.24%) Senior
3 37 (14.18%) Developer
3 37 (14.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (10.34%) Software Engineer
5 24 (9.20%) Data Engineer
6 23 (8.81%) Analyst
7 18 (6.90%) Administrator
8 17 (6.51%) Applications Support Analyst
8 17 (6.51%) Support Analyst
9 16 (6.13%) Big Data Engineer
9 16 (6.13%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (5.36%) Architect
10 14 (5.36%) DBA
11 13 (4.98%) Java Developer
12 12 (4.60%) Senior Analyst
12 12 (4.60%) Senior Applications Support
12 12 (4.60%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
12 12 (4.60%) Senior Support Analyst
12 12 (4.60%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (16.48%) Web Services
2 35 (13.41%) Spring
3 23 (8.81%) ActiveMQ
4 21 (8.05%) HTML
4 21 (8.05%) RabbitMQ
5 19 (7.28%) Elastic Stack
5 19 (7.28%) YAML
6 16 (6.13%) Apache NiFi
7 15 (5.75%) JSON
7 15 (5.75%) XML
8 14 (5.36%) J2EE
8 14 (5.36%) Java EE
8 14 (5.36%) REST
9 13 (4.98%) Node.js
10 12 (4.60%) Kafka
11 11 (4.21%) Spring Boot
12 10 (3.83%) React
13 9 (3.45%) Apache Camel
13 9 (3.45%) jQuery
14 8 (3.07%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.64%) Public Cloud
2 24 (9.20%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.60%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.21%) Algorithms
6 9 (3.45%) IoT
7 8 (3.07%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (2.68%) Cloud Native
9 6 (2.30%) Mainframe
9 6 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.92%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.92%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.53%) Raspberry Pi
12 3 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (1.15%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.15%) Market Risk
12 3 (1.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 2 (0.77%) Client/Server
13 2 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 148 (56.70%) Linux
2 102 (39.08%) Unix
3 53 (20.31%) Windows
4 33 (12.64%) Solaris
5 22 (8.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (7.66%) CentOS
7 18 (6.90%) Ubuntu
8 7 (2.68%) Windows Server
9 5 (1.92%) AIX
9 5 (1.92%) Debian
10 2 (0.77%) SUSE
10 2 (0.77%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.38%) Rocky
11 1 (0.38%) VMS
11 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (34.48%) DevOps
2 88 (33.72%) CI/CD
3 55 (21.07%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (19.92%) Agile
5 46 (17.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 42 (16.09%) Software Engineering
7 39 (14.94%) Task Automation
8 35 (13.41%) Containerisation
9 32 (12.26%) Configuration Management
9 32 (12.26%) Server Management
10 30 (11.49%) Data Security
11 28 (10.73%) Computer Science
11 28 (10.73%) Data Engineering
12 27 (10.34%) Network Architecture
13 26 (9.96%) Disaster Recovery
14 25 (9.58%) Mentoring
15 24 (9.20%) Analytics
15 24 (9.20%) Artificial Intelligence
16 23 (8.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 22 (8.43%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 120 (45.98%) Python
2 82 (31.42%) Java
3 68 (26.05%) SQL
4 48 (18.39%) Bash
5 33 (12.64%) PowerShell
6 24 (9.20%) JavaScript
7 23 (8.81%) C
8 19 (7.28%) Perl
9 18 (6.90%) C++
10 16 (6.13%) TypeScript
11 11 (4.21%) PL/SQL
12 8 (3.07%) Go
13 7 (2.68%) Groovy
14 6 (2.30%) PHP
15 4 (1.53%) AWK
15 4 (1.53%) R
16 3 (1.15%) Cython
16 3 (1.15%) Rust
16 3 (1.15%) Scala
16 3 (1.15%) sed
Qualifications
1 87 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 71 (27.20%) Degree
3 31 (11.88%) SC Cleared
4 29 (11.11%) DV Cleared
5 23 (8.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.45%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.92%) MCAD
7 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.53%) CCNA
8 4 (1.53%) CCNP
8 4 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.53%) CTC Cleared
8 4 (1.53%) PhD
9 3 (1.15%) Linux+ Certification
9 3 (1.15%) RHCE
10 2 (0.77%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.77%) HNC
10 2 (0.77%) HND
10 2 (0.77%) SAS Certification
11 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 16 (6.13%) SLA
3 4 (1.53%) NCSC
4 2 (0.77%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.77%) GDPR
5 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.38%) QA
System Software
1 62 (23.75%) Docker
2 11 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.92%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.53%) LXC
5 4 (1.53%) Squid
6 3 (1.15%) KVM
7 2 (0.77%) Lustre
7 2 (0.77%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.77%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.38%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.38%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 64 (24.52%) Ansible
2 48 (18.39%) Terraform
3 46 (17.62%) Kubernetes
4 39 (14.94%) Grafana
5 32 (12.26%) Prometheus
6 16 (6.13%) HAProxy
7 14 (5.36%) Progress Chef
8 13 (4.98%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (4.60%) OpenSSO
10 8 (3.07%) Kibana
10 8 (3.07%) Puppet
11 5 (1.92%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (1.92%) ITRS Geneos
11 5 (1.92%) ZABBIX
12 4 (1.53%) Cacti
12 4 (1.53%) Data Guard
12 4 (1.53%) Nagios
12 4 (1.53%) Opsview
12 4 (1.53%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (1.15%) WSUS
Vendors
1 72 (27.59%) Oracle
2 50 (19.16%) Microsoft
3 27 (10.34%) NEC
4 26 (9.96%) VMware
5 23 (8.81%) Red Hat
6 22 (8.43%) Splunk
7 16 (6.13%) Remedy
8 12 (4.60%) Google
9 7 (2.68%) Dynatrace
9 7 (2.68%) Sybase
10 6 (2.30%) AppDynamics
10 6 (2.30%) IBM
11 5 (1.92%) CA
11 5 (1.92%) Teradata
12 4 (1.53%) Cisco
12 4 (1.53%) EMC
12 4 (1.53%) Infoblox
12 4 (1.53%) Murex
13 3 (1.15%) SaltStack
13 3 (1.15%) Solace