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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 445 401 409
Rank change year-on-year -44 +8 -2
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 9 30 99
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.040% 0.18% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.15% 0.54% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 6 23 56
10th Percentile £55,125 - -
25th Percentile £57,404 £40,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,451 £57,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.35% -23.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £76,509 £70,000 £89,375
90th Percentile £81,875 £82,500 £111,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% -20.00% +7.14%

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 6,068 5,537 9,531
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.73% 33.52% 38.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,553 3,814 7,451
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,573
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 10 August 2026.

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 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) GCP
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (11.11%) Cloudflare
5 1 (11.11%) CloudFront
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (11.11%) Route 53
5 1 (11.11%) Serverless
5 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) DNS
2 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (22.22%) Firewall
4 1 (11.11%) DHCP
4 1 (11.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Legal
3 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) DBA
2 3 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 2 (22.22%) Senior DBA
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared DBA
4 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Unix Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
1 1 (11.11%) boto
1 1 (11.11%) LAMP
1 1 (11.11%) LAPP Stack
1 1 (11.11%) LEMP Stack
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) Spring
1 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Replication
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Unix
3 3 (33.33%) Ubuntu
4 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (11.11%) CentOS
5 1 (11.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps
1 5 (55.56%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (22.22%) Auto-Scaling
4 2 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (22.22%) Database Security
4 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (22.22%) High Availability
4 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Principle of Least Privilege
4 2 (22.22%) Privileged Access Management
4 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) RBAC
4 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Groovy
3 1 (11.11%) Korn
3 1 (11.11%) Perl
3 1 (11.11%) PHP
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Linux+ Certification
3 1 (11.11%) RHCE
3 1 (11.11%) RHCSA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 1 (11.11%) KVM
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Ansible
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
1 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (22.22%) Google
2 2 (22.22%) YouTube
3 1 (11.11%) AppDynamics
3 1 (11.11%) VMware