Hybrid/Remote Shell Script Job Trends

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Shell Script skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 363 381
Rank change year-on-year +2 +18 +167
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 43 101 110
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.27% 0.51% 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.93% 1.21% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 19 23 91
10th Percentile £42,780 £43,449 £47,250
25th Percentile £43,375 £50,875 £51,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £80,000 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +16.79% +18.10%
75th Percentile £65,000 £101,875 £80,000
90th Percentile £68,500 £133,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £71,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -19.30% +1.79% +16.67%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,640 8,314 10,387
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 28.97% 41.67% 47.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,287 5,286 8,758
10th Percentile £34,900 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +2.36%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Shell Script and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Shell Script job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Shell Script
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Shell Script.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Shell Script

Shell Script
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Shell Script over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Shell Script salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Shell Script
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (20.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (11.63%) Anypoint
3 4 (9.30%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (4.65%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 21 (48.84%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (11.63%) Shopify
3 4 (9.30%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 29 (67.44%) Azure
2 22 (51.16%) AWS
2 22 (51.16%) OCI
3 21 (48.84%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (48.84%) GitHub
4 12 (27.91%) Entra ID
5 9 (20.93%) GitHub Copilot
5 9 (20.93%) Power Platform
6 5 (11.63%) Boomi
6 5 (11.63%) iPaaS
6 5 (11.63%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (11.63%) Power Automate
6 5 (11.63%) Workato
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) SSH
2 1 (2.33%) Asterisk PBX
2 1 (2.33%) RTP
2 1 (2.33%) SAN
2 1 (2.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.93%) Power BI
1 9 (20.93%) Tableau
2 7 (16.28%) SQL Server
3 6 (13.95%) Relational Database
4 5 (11.63%) MySQL
5 4 (9.30%) BusinessObjects
5 4 (9.30%) MS Access
5 4 (9.30%) SAP Data Services
6 3 (6.98%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (2.33%) DB2
7 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (51.16%) Jenkins
2 21 (48.84%) Oracle Forms
3 12 (27.91%) Git
4 11 (25.58%) JIRA
5 4 (9.30%) GitLab
5 4 (9.30%) Toad
6 3 (6.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (6.98%) Maven
6 3 (6.98%) Subversion
General
1 22 (51.16%) Finance
2 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.95%) Law
4 5 (11.63%) Legal
5 4 (9.30%) Local Government
5 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.98%) Aviation
7 2 (4.65%) Front Office
8 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (58.14%) Applications Engineer
2 21 (48.84%) Cloud Engineer
3 16 (37.21%) Senior
4 12 (27.91%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 10 (23.26%) Support Engineer
6 6 (13.95%) Applications Support
7 5 (11.63%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (9.30%) Applications Support Engineer
8 4 (9.30%) Development Engineer
8 4 (9.30%) Development Support Engineer
8 4 (9.30%) Senior Applications Engineer
8 4 (9.30%) Senior Applications Support
8 4 (9.30%) Senior Support Engineer
9 3 (6.98%) Software Engineer
10 2 (4.65%) Analyst
10 2 (4.65%) DBA
10 2 (4.65%) Developer
10 2 (4.65%) Linux Support Engineer
10 2 (4.65%) Server Support
10 2 (4.65%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (60.47%) RESTful
2 17 (39.53%) JSON
2 17 (39.53%) SOAP
2 17 (39.53%) XML
3 9 (20.93%) OAuth
3 9 (20.93%) OAuth2
3 9 (20.93%) SAML
4 8 (18.60%) REST
5 5 (11.63%) Web Services
6 3 (6.98%) AngularJS
6 3 (6.98%) Ionic Framework
6 3 (6.98%) Spring
6 3 (6.98%) Spring Boot
7 2 (4.65%) CSS
7 2 (4.65%) HTML
7 2 (4.65%) LAMP
7 2 (4.65%) Node.js
8 1 (2.33%) FreeSWITCH
8 1 (2.33%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 22 (51.16%) Cloud Native
2 21 (48.84%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (11.63%) Low-Code
3 5 (11.63%) Replication
4 2 (4.65%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.33%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 15 (34.88%) Linux
2 12 (27.91%) Unix
3 7 (16.28%) Windows
4 6 (13.95%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.65%) CentOS
5 2 (4.65%) Rocky
5 2 (4.65%) Solaris
5 2 (4.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (86.05%) Agile
2 28 (65.12%) CI/CD
3 26 (60.47%) ERP
4 24 (55.81%) Test Automation
5 22 (51.16%) DevOps
6 21 (48.84%) API Integration
6 21 (48.84%) Asset Management
6 21 (48.84%) Coaching
7 17 (39.53%) Migration
8 14 (32.56%) Root Cause Analysis
9 13 (30.23%) Data Governance
9 13 (30.23%) Observability
10 12 (27.91%) Business Strategy
10 12 (27.91%) Identity Access Management
10 12 (27.91%) Mentoring
10 12 (27.91%) Translating Business Requirements
11 11 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (23.26%) AI
12 10 (23.26%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (23.26%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 34 (79.07%) SQL
2 31 (72.09%) Java
3 30 (69.77%) Python
4 22 (51.16%) PL/SQL
5 7 (16.28%) C#
5 7 (16.28%) JavaScript
6 5 (11.63%) PowerShell
7 4 (9.30%) VB
8 2 (4.65%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.33%) Bash
9 1 (2.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (18.60%) Degree
2 3 (6.98%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.33%) OCA
3 1 (2.33%) OCP
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) GDPR
2 3 (6.98%) QA
System Software
1 12 (27.91%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.95%) Docker
3 3 (6.98%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.33%) Corosync
4 1 (2.33%) Kamailio
4 1 (2.33%) KVM
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 21 (48.84%) Single Sign-On
1 21 (48.84%) Terraform
2 7 (16.28%) Ansible
3 6 (13.95%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.98%) Nagios
5 2 (4.65%) Grafana
5 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.33%) Data Guard
6 1 (2.33%) Icinga
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (2.33%) Pacemaker
Vendors
1 33 (76.74%) Oracle
2 12 (27.91%) Okta
3 10 (23.26%) SAP
4 9 (20.93%) Microsoft
5 5 (11.63%) Dell
5 5 (11.63%) Epicor
5 5 (11.63%) IBM
5 5 (11.63%) IFS
5 5 (11.63%) Infor
5 5 (11.63%) Informatica
5 5 (11.63%) Jitterbit
5 5 (11.63%) MuleSoft
5 5 (11.63%) SnapLogic
5 5 (11.63%) Software AG
5 5 (11.63%) Talend
5 5 (11.63%) TIBCO
5 5 (11.63%) Workday
6 4 (9.30%) NEC
7 1 (2.33%) Cognos