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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 596 587 494
Rank change year-on-year -9 -93 -116
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 116 336 576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.34% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.69% 1.01% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 71 228 273
10th Percentile £38,500 £41,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,250 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

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 16,823 33,238 43,130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.94% 33.26% 43.34%
Number of salaries quoted 11,248 24,895 27,636
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,250 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +4.76%

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 20 May 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 20 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
England +3 103 £60,000 -7.69% 319
UK excluding London +5 67 £54,250 +3.33% 240
London +99 59 £70,000 -12.50% 122
Work from Home +52 44 £60,000 -7.69% 218
South East +64 26 £53,750 +27.98% 52
Midlands +52 15 £60,000 +20.00% 40
North of England +31 14 £44,500 -8.26% 67
West Midlands +62 13 £60,000 +34.83% 27
North West -12 13 £44,500 -56.59% 28
Scotland +100 5 £85,253 +102.98% 12
Northern Ireland +39 4 £50,000 -35.48% 6
East of England +13 3 £39,000 -35.00% 40
East Midlands +15 2 - - 12
Yorkshire +57 1 - - 30
South West +48 1 £60,000 - 25

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 3 (2.59%) Apache
1 3 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.59%) Confluence
2 2 (1.72%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.72%) nginx
2 2 (1.72%) SAS
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.86%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.86%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.86%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.86%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (7.76%) Chatbot
2 7 (6.03%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (1.72%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 6 (5.17%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (3.45%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 51 (43.97%) AWS
2 23 (19.83%) Serverless
3 21 (18.10%) Amazon ECS
4 20 (17.24%) Amazon EC2
5 18 (15.52%) Amazon EKS
6 15 (12.93%) Azure
7 11 (9.48%) Amazon S3
8 10 (8.62%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (6.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 7 (6.03%) AWS KMS
10 7 (6.03%) GitHub
11 6 (5.17%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (4.31%) SaaS
13 4 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (3.45%) Entra ID
13 4 (3.45%) GCP
14 3 (2.59%) Amazon Glacier
14 3 (2.59%) BlazeMeter
14 3 (2.59%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.76%) SSL
2 8 (6.90%) Firewall
3 7 (6.03%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.72%) Network Security
5 1 (0.86%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (0.86%) DHCP
5 1 (0.86%) DNS
5 1 (0.86%) HTTP
5 1 (0.86%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.86%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.86%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.86%) RTP
5 1 (0.86%) SAN
5 1 (0.86%) SpaceWire
5 1 (0.86%) VLAN
5 1 (0.86%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (18.97%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (12.07%) RDBMS
2 14 (12.07%) Relational Database
3 9 (7.76%) Oracle Database
4 8 (6.90%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.31%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.31%) Oracle Exadata
6 4 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.45%) MySQL
7 3 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.59%) DB2
7 3 (2.59%) Redis
8 2 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.72%) Apache Hive
8 2 (1.72%) Big Data
8 2 (1.72%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.72%) Pentaho
8 2 (1.72%) Power BI
8 2 (1.72%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 43 (37.07%) Jenkins
2 21 (18.10%) Git
3 16 (13.79%) JUnit
4 15 (12.93%) Mockito
5 13 (11.21%) JMeter
6 11 (9.48%) JIRA
7 8 (6.90%) Maven
8 7 (6.03%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (5.17%) Artifactory
10 5 (4.31%) SonarQube
11 3 (2.59%) Cucumber
11 3 (2.59%) IBM UrbanCode
11 3 (2.59%) Subversion
11 3 (2.59%) Vagrant
12 2 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (1.72%) Bitbucket
12 2 (1.72%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (1.72%) SoapUI
12 2 (1.72%) TeamCity
12 2 (1.72%) Xcode
General
1 35 (30.17%) Social Skills
2 33 (28.45%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (21.55%) Finance
4 17 (14.66%) Public Sector
5 14 (12.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (10.34%) Manufacturing
7 11 (9.48%) Retail
8 7 (6.03%) Banking
8 7 (6.03%) Telecoms
9 4 (3.45%) Front Office
10 3 (2.59%) Advertising
10 3 (2.59%) Billing
10 3 (2.59%) Legal
11 2 (1.72%) Cantonese Language
11 2 (1.72%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.72%) Marketing
11 2 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.86%) Back Office
12 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (18.10%) Developer
2 20 (17.24%) Senior
3 14 (12.07%) Java Developer
3 14 (12.07%) Linux Engineer
4 13 (11.21%) Linux Support
5 12 (10.34%) Applications Support
5 12 (10.34%) Support Engineer
6 11 (9.48%) Analyst
6 11 (9.48%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (9.48%) Support Analyst
7 9 (7.76%) Applications Support Analyst
7 9 (7.76%) Linux Support Engineer
8 7 (6.03%) Lead
8 7 (6.03%) Software Engineer
9 6 (5.17%) Data Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) DBA
10 5 (4.31%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.31%) Oracle DBA
10 5 (4.31%) Python Developer
10 5 (4.31%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (20.69%) REST
2 22 (18.97%) HTML
3 20 (17.24%) Spring
4 19 (16.38%) Spring Boot
5 17 (14.66%) Hibernate
6 15 (12.93%) Web Services
7 13 (11.21%) ActiveMQ
7 13 (11.21%) Apache Camel
7 13 (11.21%) jQuery
7 13 (11.21%) JSON
7 13 (11.21%) WireMock
7 13 (11.21%) XML
8 7 (6.03%) Middleware
9 6 (5.17%) CSS
9 6 (5.17%) React
10 5 (4.31%) AngularJS
10 5 (4.31%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (4.31%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 4 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (3.45%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.52%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (12.07%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (7.76%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 6 (5.17%) Clustering
5 5 (4.31%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.31%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.45%) Mainframe
7 3 (2.59%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.59%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.72%) CCTV
8 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.72%) Derivative
8 2 (1.72%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.72%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.86%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.86%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 76 (65.52%) Linux
2 37 (31.90%) Unix
3 17 (14.66%) Windows
4 9 (7.76%) Mac OS
5 8 (6.90%) Ubuntu
6 6 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (4.31%) VMS
8 4 (3.45%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.86%) CentOS
9 1 (0.86%) Debian
9 1 (0.86%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (41.38%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (36.21%) Agile
3 39 (33.62%) DevOps
4 34 (29.31%) CI/CD
5 22 (18.97%) Microservices
6 17 (14.66%) Software Engineering
6 17 (14.66%) TDD
7 16 (13.79%) Computer Science
7 16 (13.79%) Validation
8 14 (12.07%) Artificial Intelligence
8 14 (12.07%) BDD
8 14 (12.07%) Problem Management
8 14 (12.07%) Workflow
9 13 (11.21%) Collaborative Working
9 13 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (11.21%) Mentoring
9 13 (11.21%) Process Management
9 13 (11.21%) Scrum
9 13 (11.21%) SDLC
10 11 (9.48%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (56.03%) Python
2 51 (43.97%) SQL
3 44 (37.93%) Java
4 24 (20.69%) JavaScript
5 22 (18.97%) PL/SQL
6 18 (15.52%) Bash
7 12 (10.34%) PowerShell
8 10 (8.62%) Perl
9 9 (7.76%) C++
9 9 (7.76%) C-shell
9 9 (7.76%) Groovy
9 9 (7.76%) Korn
10 5 (4.31%) C
10 5 (4.31%) SPARQL
11 3 (2.59%) Go
11 3 (2.59%) Gremlin
11 3 (2.59%) JCL
11 3 (2.59%) Ruby
12 1 (0.86%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (0.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (18.10%) Security Cleared
2 15 (12.93%) Degree
2 15 (12.93%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (7.76%) PhD
5 6 (5.17%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (3.45%) OCA
6 4 (3.45%) OCP
6 4 (3.45%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.72%) CASP
7 2 (1.72%) CISM
7 2 (1.72%) CISSP
7 2 (1.72%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.86%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.62%) QA
2 7 (6.03%) SLA
3 5 (4.31%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.72%) Dublin Core
4 2 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.86%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.86%) ECSS
5 1 (0.86%) GDPR
5 1 (0.86%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 35 (30.17%) Docker
2 12 (10.34%) Active Directory
3 10 (8.62%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (6.03%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (5.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.86%) Corosync
7 1 (0.86%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.86%) Firmware
7 1 (0.86%) HDFS
7 1 (0.86%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.86%) KVM
7 1 (0.86%) NDS
Systems Management
1 32 (27.59%) Kubernetes
2 22 (18.97%) Ansible
3 17 (14.66%) Terraform
4 14 (12.07%) Kibana
5 9 (7.76%) Grafana
5 9 (7.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (6.90%) Nessus
7 7 (6.03%) Proxmox
8 6 (5.17%) Prometheus
9 5 (4.31%) Oracle RMAN
9 5 (4.31%) Packer
10 3 (2.59%) CA Endevor
10 3 (2.59%) Nagios
10 3 (2.59%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.72%) Control-M
12 1 (0.86%) CA Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.86%) Icinga
12 1 (0.86%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.86%) MOM
12 1 (0.86%) Puppet
Vendors
1 40 (34.48%) Oracle
2 24 (20.69%) Splunk
3 23 (19.83%) Dynatrace
4 12 (10.34%) Microsoft
5 9 (7.76%) Apple
6 7 (6.03%) Juniper
7 6 (5.17%) AppDynamics
7 6 (5.17%) Red Hat
7 6 (5.17%) Veritas
8 5 (4.31%) Talend
8 5 (4.31%) VMware
9 4 (3.45%) IBM
9 4 (3.45%) Symantec
10 3 (2.59%) Atlassian
11 2 (1.72%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (1.72%) Informatica
11 2 (1.72%) SAP
12 1 (0.86%) ForgeRock
12 1 (0.86%) NVIDIA
12 1 (0.86%) ServiceNow