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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 475 368
Rank change year-on-year -109 -107 +67
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 324 622 1,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.59% 1.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.98% 1.35% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 234 281 663
10th Percentile £41,325 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £94,250 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +16.67%

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 33,108 46,004 82,589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.88% 43.52% 53.65%
Number of salaries quoted 25,049 29,252 44,335
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £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 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,635 £55,000 £53,850
% change year-on-year -2.48% +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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -81 242 £62,500 +4.17% 85
UK excluding London -70 230 £52,500 +5.00% 57
Work from Home -33 98 £65,000 +8.33% 38
London -8 70 £80,000 +10.12% 33
South West +9 60 £60,000 +50.00% 10
South East +3 59 £55,000 +10.55% 11
Scotland -72 31 £42,000 -30.00% 5
East of England +22 29 £60,000 -16.67% 18
North of England -25 22 £65,000 +44.44% 5
Wales -4 18 £50,000 - 2
Yorkshire +69 13 £47,000 -25.10% 1
Midlands +9 12 £52,500 +6.06% 5
East Midlands -14 9 £52,500 +0.48% 3
North West -41 9 £102,500 +127.78% 4
West Midlands +22 3 £44,500 -8.25% 2
Northern Ireland +15 2 £77,500 +3.33% 2

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 31 (9.57%) WebLogic
2 27 (8.33%) Apache
3 26 (8.02%) nginx
4 21 (6.48%) Apache Spark
4 21 (6.48%) OpenStack
5 18 (5.56%) Jupyter
6 13 (4.01%) Tomcat
7 7 (2.16%) WebSphere
8 5 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (1.54%) Confluence
9 3 (0.93%) IIS
10 2 (0.62%) GlassFish
10 2 (0.62%) JCAPS
10 2 (0.62%) SAS
10 2 (0.62%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.31%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.62%) Abaqus
4 2 (0.62%) GNU Octave
4 2 (0.62%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (1.54%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.62%) Adaptiv
2 2 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.31%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 96 (29.63%) AWS
2 58 (17.90%) Azure
3 44 (13.58%) GCP
3 44 (13.58%) Serverless
4 32 (9.88%) Amazon S3
5 31 (9.57%) Amazon EKS
6 28 (8.64%) OpenShift
7 23 (7.10%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (5.56%) MinIO
9 16 (4.94%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (4.94%) Amazon ECS
9 16 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (4.32%) GitHub
11 13 (4.01%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (3.09%) SaaS
14 6 (1.85%) AWS CodeBuild
14 6 (1.85%) Entra ID
14 6 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 5 (1.54%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.70%) Firewall
2 10 (3.09%) Cisco ASA
3 8 (2.47%) HTTPS
3 8 (2.47%) SSL
4 7 (2.16%) Ethernet
4 7 (2.16%) Internet
4 7 (2.16%) OpenVPN
5 6 (1.85%) DNS
5 6 (1.85%) HTTP
5 6 (1.85%) Software-Defined Networking
5 6 (1.85%) VLAN
5 6 (1.85%) VPN
6 5 (1.54%) AMQP
6 5 (1.54%) Network Security
7 4 (1.23%) BGP
8 3 (0.93%) FTP
9 2 (0.62%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.62%) SAN
9 2 (0.62%) SS7
9 2 (0.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (9.57%) Elasticsearch
2 27 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 21 (6.48%) Hadoop
4 20 (6.17%) Big Data
5 19 (5.86%) Presto
6 18 (5.56%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.78%) MySQL
8 8 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (2.47%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.47%) Oracle Database
9 7 (2.16%) SQL Server
10 5 (1.54%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.54%) InfluxDB
10 5 (1.54%) Looker
10 5 (1.54%) Metadata
10 5 (1.54%) Pentaho
10 5 (1.54%) Power BI
10 5 (1.54%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 84 (25.93%) Jenkins
2 52 (16.05%) Git
3 32 (9.88%) GitLab
4 28 (8.64%) JIRA
5 25 (7.72%) CircleCI
6 21 (6.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 14 (4.32%) JUnit
8 13 (4.01%) Maven
9 11 (3.40%) git-flow
10 8 (2.47%) Gradle
10 8 (2.47%) Vagrant
11 6 (1.85%) Artifactory
11 6 (1.85%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.85%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.54%) Cucumber
12 5 (1.54%) DTrace
12 5 (1.54%) GDB
12 5 (1.54%) Subversion
13 4 (1.23%) JMeter
13 4 (1.23%) Mockito
General
1 76 (23.46%) Finance
2 72 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 47 (14.51%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (10.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 35 (10.80%) Public Sector
5 33 (10.19%) Law
6 25 (7.72%) Banking
7 22 (6.79%) Police
8 17 (5.25%) Telecoms
9 8 (2.47%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.47%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.16%) Billing
10 7 (2.16%) Electronics
10 7 (2.16%) Front Office
11 6 (1.85%) Legal
12 5 (1.54%) Health Technology
12 5 (1.54%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.23%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.23%) Back Office
14 3 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 66 (20.37%) Developer
2 60 (18.52%) Senior
3 58 (17.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 44 (13.58%) Software Engineer
5 39 (12.04%) Analyst
6 35 (10.80%) Applications Support
6 35 (10.80%) Support Analyst
7 30 (9.26%) Applications Support Analyst
8 29 (8.95%) Senior Analyst
8 29 (8.95%) Senior Applications Support
8 29 (8.95%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
8 29 (8.95%) Senior Support Analyst
9 27 (8.33%) Java Developer
10 26 (8.02%) Cloud Engineer
11 25 (7.72%) Linux Engineer
12 20 (6.17%) Administrator
12 20 (6.17%) Data Engineer
13 18 (5.56%) Big Data Engineer
14 15 (4.63%) Full Stack Developer
14 15 (4.63%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (21.60%) Spring
2 43 (13.27%) Elastic Stack
3 32 (9.88%) Spring Boot
4 31 (9.57%) J2EE
4 31 (9.57%) Java EE
5 28 (8.64%) JSON
6 26 (8.02%) RabbitMQ
6 26 (8.02%) Web Services
7 23 (7.10%) REST
8 22 (6.79%) ActiveMQ
8 22 (6.79%) YAML
9 21 (6.48%) HTML
9 21 (6.48%) XML
10 18 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
11 17 (5.25%) Node.js
12 16 (4.94%) Apache Camel
13 14 (4.32%) React
14 12 (3.70%) AngularJS
14 12 (3.70%) CSS
14 12 (3.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 20 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (4.94%) Public Cloud
4 15 (4.63%) Onboarding
5 14 (4.32%) Linux Command Line
6 13 (4.01%) Cloud Native
6 13 (4.01%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.09%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.78%) Algorithms
9 8 (2.47%) Mainframe
9 8 (2.47%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (2.16%) Market Risk
11 6 (1.85%) IoT
12 5 (1.54%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (1.54%) Reference Data
13 4 (1.23%) FPGA
13 4 (1.23%) VHDL
14 3 (0.93%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 187 (57.72%) Linux
2 90 (27.78%) Unix
3 34 (10.49%) Ubuntu
4 24 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (7.10%) CentOS
6 19 (5.86%) Windows
7 14 (4.32%) Debian
8 9 (2.78%) Solaris
9 5 (1.54%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.62%) Android
10 2 (0.62%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.62%) SUSE
10 2 (0.62%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.31%) Fedora
11 1 (0.31%) Rocky
11 1 (0.31%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (36.73%) DevOps
2 104 (32.10%) CI/CD
3 86 (26.54%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (26.23%) Agile
5 75 (23.15%) Software Engineering
6 67 (20.68%) Containerisation
7 56 (17.28%) Infrastructure as Code
8 48 (14.81%) Configuration Management
9 35 (10.80%) Scrum
10 34 (10.49%) Microservices
11 33 (10.19%) ITIL
12 32 (9.88%) TDD
13 31 (9.57%) Incident Management
14 30 (9.26%) Actionable Insight
14 30 (9.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 29 (8.95%) Enterprise Architecture
15 29 (8.95%) Enterprise Search
15 29 (8.95%) Impact Assessments
15 29 (8.95%) Information Management
15 29 (8.95%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 142 (43.83%) Python
2 136 (41.98%) Java
3 74 (22.84%) SQL
4 58 (17.90%) Bash
5 43 (13.27%) JavaScript
6 37 (11.42%) C
7 30 (9.26%) PowerShell
8 26 (8.02%) Perl
9 21 (6.48%) C++
10 15 (4.63%) TypeScript
11 10 (3.09%) Ada
11 10 (3.09%) PHP
11 10 (3.09%) PL/SQL
12 9 (2.78%) Go
13 7 (2.16%) C#
14 6 (1.85%) Groovy
14 6 (1.85%) Rust
15 5 (1.54%) AWK
15 5 (1.54%) OCaml
15 5 (1.54%) SystemTap
Qualifications
1 97 (29.94%) Security Cleared
2 61 (18.83%) SC Cleared
3 35 (10.80%) Degree
4 33 (10.19%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (4.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (2.47%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.47%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.54%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.54%) MCAD
10 4 (1.23%) CCNA
10 4 (1.23%) CCNP
10 4 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.23%) PhD
11 3 (0.93%) HNC
11 3 (0.93%) HND
12 2 (0.62%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.62%) MCP
12 2 (0.62%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.95%) SLA
2 6 (1.85%) QA
3 4 (1.23%) NCSC
4 2 (0.62%) GDPR
4 2 (0.62%) SEPA
5 1 (0.31%) MISRA
5 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 84 (25.93%) Docker
2 16 (4.94%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.78%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.62%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.62%) Firmware
6 2 (0.62%) Lustre
6 2 (0.62%) Shibboleth
6 2 (0.62%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.31%) Samba
7 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.31%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 93 (28.70%) Ansible
2 75 (23.15%) Terraform
3 70 (21.60%) Kubernetes
4 33 (10.19%) Grafana
5 29 (8.95%) OpenSSO
5 29 (8.95%) Single Sign-On
6 26 (8.02%) Prometheus
7 21 (6.48%) Progress Chef
8 18 (5.56%) HAProxy
9 10 (3.09%) Puppet
10 7 (2.16%) Kibana
11 6 (1.85%) ITRS Geneos
11 6 (1.85%) ZABBIX
12 5 (1.54%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (1.23%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.93%) Oracle RMAN
14 3 (0.93%) Packer
14 3 (0.93%) SCCM
14 3 (0.93%) SCOM
14 3 (0.93%) WSUS
Vendors
1 60 (18.52%) Oracle
2 38 (11.73%) Red Hat
3 33 (10.19%) Remedy
4 28 (8.64%) Microsoft
5 20 (6.17%) VMware
6 17 (5.25%) Google
7 12 (3.70%) WSO2
8 11 (3.40%) Cisco
8 11 (3.40%) Splunk
9 9 (2.78%) McAfee
10 8 (2.47%) AppDynamics
10 8 (2.47%) Sybase
11 7 (2.16%) IBM
12 5 (1.54%) CA
12 5 (1.54%) EMC
12 5 (1.54%) Teradata
13 4 (1.23%) Atlassian
13 4 (1.23%) Dynatrace
13 4 (1.23%) Veritas
14 2 (0.62%) Cadence