Shell Script Jobs with Work from Home Options

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 476 459 433
Rank change year-on-year -17 -26 -36
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 115 214 506
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.34% 0.50% 0.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.83% 1.02% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 91 144 239
10th Percentile £46,250 £38,025 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,382 £67,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,774 21,050 39,720
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.74% 49.22% 58.78%
Number of salaries quoted 11,430 15,512 23,955
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £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 £78,750 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

Shell Script
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Shell Script as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Shell Script trend for jobs with a WFH option

Shell Script
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Shell Script.

Shell Script salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Shell Script
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Shell Script over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Shell Script salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (13.91%) Tomcat
2 15 (13.04%) Apache
3 14 (12.17%) IIS
4 7 (6.09%) nginx
5 5 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (4.35%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 14 (12.17%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.87%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 39 (33.91%) AWS
2 20 (17.39%) Serverless
3 17 (14.78%) GCP
4 13 (11.30%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (11.30%) Azure
5 12 (10.43%) GitHub
5 12 (10.43%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (9.57%) OpenShift
7 9 (7.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (7.83%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (7.83%) SaaS
8 8 (6.96%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (6.09%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (6.09%) Amazon S3
10 6 (5.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (4.35%) Cloud Composer
11 5 (4.35%) dbt
11 5 (4.35%) Power Platform
12 4 (3.48%) AWS CodeBuild
13 3 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.96%) HTTPS
1 8 (6.96%) SSL
2 7 (6.09%) OpenVPN
3 5 (4.35%) AMQP
3 5 (4.35%) Network Security
4 4 (3.48%) DNS
4 4 (3.48%) HTTP
5 1 (0.87%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.87%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.87%) Internet
5 1 (0.87%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.87%) SpaceWire
5 1 (0.87%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.78%) Oracle Database
2 8 (6.96%) Relational Database
3 7 (6.09%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (6.09%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.35%) BigQuery
4 5 (4.35%) InfluxDB
4 5 (4.35%) Looker
4 5 (4.35%) Power BI
4 5 (4.35%) Tableau
5 4 (3.48%) MySQL
5 4 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.87%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.87%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.87%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.87%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.87%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 21 (18.26%) Git
3 16 (13.91%) GitLab
4 13 (11.30%) JIRA
5 11 (9.57%) CircleCI
6 8 (6.96%) git-flow
6 8 (6.96%) Vagrant
7 5 (4.35%) DTrace
7 5 (4.35%) GDB
8 4 (3.48%) Maven
8 4 (3.48%) Terragrunt
9 3 (2.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (2.61%) Travis CI
10 2 (1.74%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.74%) GoCD
10 2 (1.74%) Gradle
10 2 (1.74%) JUnit
10 2 (1.74%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.87%) Subversion
General
1 41 (35.65%) Finance
2 26 (22.61%) Public Sector
3 22 (19.13%) Social Skills
4 14 (12.17%) Local Government
4 14 (12.17%) Police
5 12 (10.43%) Telecoms
6 7 (6.09%) Financial Institution
6 7 (6.09%) Health Technology
7 6 (5.22%) Banking
8 4 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.48%) Billing
8 4 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.61%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.74%) Law
10 2 (1.74%) Retail
11 1 (0.87%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.87%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 21 (18.26%) DevOps Engineer
1 21 (18.26%) Senior
2 18 (15.65%) Developer
3 15 (13.04%) Applications Support
3 15 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
4 13 (11.30%) Software Engineer
5 11 (9.57%) Administrator
5 11 (9.57%) Linux Engineer
6 10 (8.70%) Linux Administrator
6 10 (8.70%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 10 (8.70%) Systems Administrator
7 8 (6.96%) Linux Support
7 8 (6.96%) Senior Software Engineer
8 7 (6.09%) Backend Developer
8 7 (6.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 7 (6.09%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (6.09%) React Developer
8 7 (6.09%) Senior Backend Developer
8 7 (6.09%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.35%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.17%) Web Services
2 11 (9.57%) JSON
3 8 (6.96%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (6.09%) CSS
4 7 (6.09%) CSS3
4 7 (6.09%) Flask
4 7 (6.09%) HTML
4 7 (6.09%) HTML5
4 7 (6.09%) JSON Schema
4 7 (6.09%) Node.js
4 7 (6.09%) OpenAPI
4 7 (6.09%) React
4 7 (6.09%) Redux
4 7 (6.09%) Spring
4 7 (6.09%) Spring Boot
4 7 (6.09%) Swagger
5 5 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.61%) Middleware
6 3 (2.61%) REST
6 3 (2.61%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.39%) Public Cloud
2 12 (10.43%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (10.43%) Onboarding
3 9 (7.83%) Virtual Team
4 8 (6.96%) Management Information System
5 7 (6.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (6.09%) IoT
6 5 (4.35%) Client/Server
6 5 (4.35%) Cloud Native
6 5 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (4.35%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.74%) Digital Currency
7 2 (1.74%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.87%) Blog
8 1 (0.87%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.87%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.87%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.87%) Eurex
8 1 (0.87%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 85 (73.91%) Linux
2 33 (28.70%) Unix
3 21 (18.26%) Windows
4 19 (16.52%) CentOS
5 18 (15.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (13.91%) Solaris
7 14 (12.17%) Ubuntu
8 3 (2.61%) Debian
9 2 (1.74%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.87%) AIX
10 1 (0.87%) Fedora
10 1 (0.87%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (33.91%) DevOps
2 37 (32.17%) Software Engineering
3 33 (28.70%) CI/CD
4 24 (20.87%) Agile
5 23 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (16.52%) Task Automation
7 18 (15.65%) Capacity Management
8 17 (14.78%) Artificial Intelligence
8 17 (14.78%) Platform Engineering
9 15 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
9 15 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (13.04%) Server Management
10 14 (12.17%) Data Security
10 14 (12.17%) Network Architecture
11 13 (11.30%) Deployment Automation
12 12 (10.43%) Analytics
12 12 (10.43%) Configuration Management
12 12 (10.43%) Continuous Delivery
12 12 (10.43%) Visualisation
13 11 (9.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 38 (33.04%) Python
2 31 (26.96%) Java
3 23 (20.00%) SQL
4 16 (13.91%) C
5 14 (12.17%) Bash
5 14 (12.17%) JavaScript
5 14 (12.17%) TypeScript
6 13 (11.30%) Perl
7 10 (8.70%) PowerShell
8 7 (6.09%) C#
9 5 (4.35%) C++
9 5 (4.35%) Go
9 5 (4.35%) OCaml
9 5 (4.35%) PHP
9 5 (4.35%) SystemTap
10 3 (2.61%) Ada
10 3 (2.61%) AWK
10 3 (2.61%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.61%) sed
11 1 (0.87%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 34 (29.57%) Security Cleared
2 24 (20.87%) Degree
3 17 (14.78%) SC Cleared
4 11 (9.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.48%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.61%) PhD
7 1 (0.87%) HNC
7 1 (0.87%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.17%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.48%) NCSC
3 2 (1.74%) SEPA
4 1 (0.87%) MISRA
4 1 (0.87%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (31.30%) Docker
2 8 (6.96%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.87%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 31 (26.96%) Ansible
2 26 (22.61%) Terraform
3 25 (21.74%) Kubernetes
4 10 (8.70%) Grafana
5 6 (5.22%) Progress Chef
6 5 (4.35%) Docker Swarm
6 5 (4.35%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.74%) Kibana
7 2 (1.74%) NetBackup
7 2 (1.74%) Rancher
8 1 (0.87%) Podman
Vendors
1 21 (18.26%) Oracle
2 20 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 14 (12.17%) NEC
4 13 (11.30%) Google
5 8 (6.96%) McAfee
5 8 (6.96%) Red Hat
6 5 (4.35%) Teradata
7 4 (3.48%) VMware
8 2 (1.74%) IBM
8 2 (1.74%) Veritas
9 1 (0.87%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.87%) Murex
9 1 (0.87%) New Relic
9 1 (0.87%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.87%) SAP
9 1 (0.87%) Splunk
9 1 (0.87%) xMatters