Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Shell Script skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Shell Script over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 586 496 373
Rank change year-on-year -90 -123 +83
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 334 571 1,584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.57% 0.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.01% 1.32% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 228 264 652
10th Percentile £41,500 £41,047 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,375 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £94,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,375 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.24% -0.24% +10.53%

All Programming Languages
UK

Shell Script 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 33,118 43,362 86,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.44% 43.21% 54.03%
Number of salaries quoted 24,897 27,723 43,724
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,250 £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 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,779
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.21% +5.56%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -73 254 £62,500 - 74
UK excluding London -63 233 £52,500 +0.24% 52
Work from Home -8 117 £65,000 +8.33% 30
London +10 76 £80,000 +6.67% 28
South West +1 57 £60,000 +20.00% 12
South East -15 51 £42,000 -16.00% 10
Scotland -65 31 £42,000 -30.00% 6
North of England -15 30 £51,754 +15.01% 7
East of England -1 27 £60,000 -16.67% 11
Midlands +3 21 £50,000 +1.01% 4
North West -27 16 £102,500 +127.78% 5
Wales +4 15 £50,000 - 2
Yorkshire +72 14 £47,000 -28.24% 2
East Midlands -16 11 £52,500 -4.33% 3
West Midlands +3 10 £44,500 -10.10% 1
Northern Ireland +23 2 £77,500 +3.33% 1

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 53 (15.87%) Apache
2 37 (11.08%) Tomcat
3 28 (8.38%) WebLogic
4 26 (7.78%) IIS
4 26 (7.78%) nginx
5 21 (6.29%) Apache Spark
5 21 (6.29%) OpenStack
6 18 (5.39%) Jupyter
7 7 (2.10%) Confluence
7 7 (2.10%) WebSphere
8 5 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.60%) GlassFish
9 2 (0.60%) JCAPS
9 2 (0.60%) SAS
9 2 (0.60%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.60%) Abaqus
3 2 (0.60%) GNU Octave
3 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.60%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 24 (7.19%) NEC Housing
2 5 (1.50%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.60%) Adaptiv
4 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.30%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 91 (27.25%) AWS
2 57 (17.07%) Azure
3 41 (12.28%) GCP
4 39 (11.68%) Serverless
5 31 (9.28%) OpenShift
6 30 (8.98%) Amazon S3
7 26 (7.78%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (5.39%) MinIO
9 16 (4.79%) Amazon ECS
9 16 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (4.19%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (3.89%) GitHub
12 12 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (2.99%) SaaS
14 6 (1.80%) Entra ID
14 6 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 5 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (1.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.59%) Firewall
2 10 (2.99%) Cisco ASA
3 8 (2.40%) HTTPS
3 8 (2.40%) SSL
4 7 (2.10%) Ethernet
4 7 (2.10%) Internet
4 7 (2.10%) OpenVPN
5 6 (1.80%) Software-Defined Networking
5 6 (1.80%) VLAN
5 6 (1.80%) VPN
6 5 (1.50%) AMQP
6 5 (1.50%) DNS
6 5 (1.50%) Network Security
7 4 (1.20%) BGP
8 3 (0.90%) DHCP
8 3 (0.90%) FTP
8 3 (0.90%) HTTP
8 3 (0.90%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.60%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.60%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (9.28%) Oracle Database
2 28 (8.38%) Elasticsearch
3 27 (8.08%) Relational Database
4 26 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (6.29%) Hadoop
6 20 (5.99%) Big Data
7 19 (5.69%) Presto
8 18 (5.39%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.69%) SQL Server
10 8 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (2.40%) DynamoDB
10 8 (2.40%) MySQL
11 5 (1.50%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.50%) InfluxDB
11 5 (1.50%) Looker
11 5 (1.50%) Metadata
11 5 (1.50%) Pentaho
11 5 (1.50%) Power BI
11 5 (1.50%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 80 (23.95%) Jenkins
2 46 (13.77%) Git
3 28 (8.38%) JIRA
4 27 (8.08%) GitLab
5 19 (5.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 18 (5.39%) CircleCI
7 14 (4.19%) JUnit
8 13 (3.89%) Maven
9 8 (2.40%) Gradle
9 8 (2.40%) Vagrant
10 6 (1.80%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.80%) git-flow
11 5 (1.50%) DTrace
11 5 (1.50%) GDB
11 5 (1.50%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.50%) Subversion
12 4 (1.20%) JMeter
12 4 (1.20%) Mockito
12 4 (1.20%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.90%) Ant
General
1 99 (29.64%) Finance
2 66 (19.76%) Social Skills
3 55 (16.47%) Public Sector
4 46 (13.77%) Police
5 42 (12.57%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (10.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (9.88%) Law
8 27 (8.08%) Banking
9 24 (7.19%) Local Government
10 16 (4.79%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.40%) Financial Institution
11 8 (2.40%) Manufacturing
12 7 (2.10%) Billing
12 7 (2.10%) Electronics
12 7 (2.10%) Front Office
12 7 (2.10%) Health Technology
13 6 (1.80%) Legal
14 5 (1.50%) Investment Banking
15 4 (1.20%) Back Office
16 3 (0.90%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 69 (20.66%) Developer
2 61 (18.26%) Senior
3 56 (16.77%) Applications Support
4 52 (15.57%) DevOps Engineer
5 46 (13.77%) Software Engineer
6 35 (10.48%) Analyst
7 32 (9.58%) Support Analyst
8 27 (8.08%) Applications Support Analyst
8 27 (8.08%) Java Developer
9 26 (7.78%) Senior Analyst
9 26 (7.78%) Senior Applications Support
9 26 (7.78%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
9 26 (7.78%) Senior Support Analyst
10 24 (7.19%) Linux Engineer
11 23 (6.89%) Cloud Engineer
12 21 (6.29%) Data Engineer
13 20 (5.99%) Administrator
14 18 (5.39%) Big Data Engineer
15 15 (4.49%) Full Stack Developer
15 15 (4.49%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (19.76%) Spring
2 50 (14.97%) Web Services
3 38 (11.38%) Elastic Stack
4 31 (9.28%) Spring Boot
5 28 (8.38%) J2EE
5 28 (8.38%) Java EE
6 27 (8.08%) JSON
7 24 (7.19%) RabbitMQ
8 22 (6.59%) ActiveMQ
9 21 (6.29%) XML
10 20 (5.99%) HTML
10 20 (5.99%) REST
10 20 (5.99%) YAML
11 19 (5.69%) Node.js
12 18 (5.39%) Apache NiFi
13 16 (4.79%) Apache Camel
14 14 (4.19%) Middleware
14 14 (4.19%) React
15 12 (3.59%) AngularJS
16 11 (3.29%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.38%) Public Cloud
2 27 (8.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (5.09%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.19%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (3.89%) Cloud Native
6 10 (2.99%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.99%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.69%) Algorithms
7 9 (2.69%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.40%) IoT
9 7 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (2.10%) Market Risk
9 7 (2.10%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.80%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.50%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.50%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.20%) FPGA
12 4 (1.20%) VHDL
13 3 (0.90%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 200 (59.88%) Linux
2 112 (33.53%) Unix
3 46 (13.77%) Windows
4 35 (10.48%) Ubuntu
5 33 (9.88%) Solaris
6 21 (6.29%) CentOS
7 18 (5.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (4.19%) Debian
9 8 (2.40%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.60%) Android
10 2 (0.60%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.60%) SUSE
10 2 (0.60%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.30%) AIX
11 1 (0.30%) Fedora
11 1 (0.30%) Rocky
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (34.13%) DevOps
2 95 (28.44%) CI/CD
3 85 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
4 81 (24.25%) Agile
5 72 (21.56%) Software Engineering
6 60 (17.96%) Containerisation
7 51 (15.27%) Infrastructure as Code
8 48 (14.37%) Configuration Management
9 42 (12.57%) Task Automation
10 32 (9.58%) TDD
11 31 (9.28%) Microservices
11 31 (9.28%) Scrum
12 30 (8.98%) ITIL
13 28 (8.38%) Incident Management
13 28 (8.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 27 (8.08%) Actionable Insight
15 26 (7.78%) Enterprise Architecture
15 26 (7.78%) Enterprise Search
15 26 (7.78%) Information Management
15 26 (7.78%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 134 (40.12%) Python
2 133 (39.82%) Java
3 74 (22.16%) SQL
4 62 (18.56%) Bash
5 46 (13.77%) JavaScript
6 38 (11.38%) C
7 29 (8.68%) PowerShell
8 22 (6.59%) C++
8 22 (6.59%) Perl
9 17 (5.09%) TypeScript
10 13 (3.89%) PL/SQL
11 10 (2.99%) Ada
12 9 (2.69%) Go
13 7 (2.10%) C#
14 6 (1.80%) PHP
14 6 (1.80%) Rust
15 5 (1.50%) AWK
15 5 (1.50%) OCaml
15 5 (1.50%) SystemTap
16 4 (1.20%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 114 (34.13%) Security Cleared
2 58 (17.37%) Degree
3 54 (16.17%) SC Cleared
4 33 (9.88%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (2.40%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.40%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.50%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.50%) MCAD
10 4 (1.20%) CCNA
10 4 (1.20%) CCNP
10 4 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.20%) PhD
11 3 (0.90%) HNC
11 3 (0.90%) HND
11 3 (0.90%) RHCE
12 2 (0.60%) Linux+ Certification
12 2 (0.60%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.78%) SLA
2 24 (7.19%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.20%) NCSC
4 2 (0.60%) GDPR
4 2 (0.60%) QA
4 2 (0.60%) SEPA
5 1 (0.30%) MISRA
5 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 82 (24.55%) Docker
2 14 (4.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.89%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.69%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.60%) Firmware
6 2 (0.60%) KVM
6 2 (0.60%) Lustre
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.60%) Shibboleth
6 2 (0.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.30%) Samba
7 1 (0.30%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 86 (25.75%) Ansible
2 68 (20.36%) Terraform
3 67 (20.06%) Kubernetes
4 38 (11.38%) Grafana
5 28 (8.38%) Prometheus
6 26 (7.78%) OpenSSO
6 26 (7.78%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (6.89%) Progress Chef
8 18 (5.39%) HAProxy
9 12 (3.59%) Puppet
10 7 (2.10%) Kibana
11 6 (1.80%) ITRS Geneos
11 6 (1.80%) ZABBIX
12 5 (1.50%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (1.20%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.90%) SCCM
14 3 (0.90%) SCOM
14 3 (0.90%) WSUS
15 2 (0.60%) Data Guard
15 2 (0.60%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 81 (24.25%) Oracle
2 53 (15.87%) Microsoft
3 38 (11.38%) Red Hat
4 30 (8.98%) Remedy
5 25 (7.49%) VMware
6 24 (7.19%) NEC
7 14 (4.19%) Google
8 13 (3.89%) Splunk
9 12 (3.59%) WSO2
10 11 (3.29%) Cisco
11 8 (2.40%) Sybase
12 6 (1.80%) AppDynamics
12 6 (1.80%) McAfee
13 5 (1.50%) CA
13 5 (1.50%) EMC
13 5 (1.50%) IBM
13 5 (1.50%) Teradata
14 4 (1.20%) Dynatrace
14 4 (1.20%) Veritas
15 2 (0.60%) Mellanox