Shell Script Jobs with Work from Home Options

Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 443 420 494
Rank change year-on-year -23 +74 -81
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 90 161 488
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.32% 0.49% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.84% 1.06% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 57 130 227
10th Percentile £47,497 £41,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,375 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £87,500 £109,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year - +20.69% -7.20%

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 10,703 15,175 45,514
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.31% 46.24% 57.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,410 12,366 24,728
10th Percentile £39,000 £40,500 £38,443
25th Percentile £46,923 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,918 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

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 26 July 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 27 (30.00%) Apache
1 27 (30.00%) IIS
1 27 (30.00%) Tomcat
2 5 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.56%) Confluence
3 3 (3.33%) nginx
Business Applications
1 27 (30.00%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.11%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 26 (28.89%) AWS
2 13 (14.44%) Serverless
3 9 (10.00%) GCP
3 9 (10.00%) SaaS
4 8 (8.89%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (8.89%) OpenShift
5 6 (6.67%) Azure
5 6 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 5 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (5.56%) Cloud Composer
6 5 (5.56%) dbt
6 5 (5.56%) GitHub
7 4 (4.44%) AWS CodeBuild
7 4 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.89%) HTTPS
1 8 (8.89%) SSL
2 5 (5.56%) AMQP
2 5 (5.56%) Network Security
3 3 (3.33%) OpenVPN
4 1 (1.11%) DHCP
4 1 (1.11%) DNS
4 1 (1.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (30.00%) Oracle Database
2 8 (8.89%) DynamoDB
3 6 (6.67%) Power BI
3 6 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.67%) Tableau
4 5 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (5.56%) BigQuery
4 5 (5.56%) InfluxDB
4 5 (5.56%) Looker
5 4 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.11%) KDB
6 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.11%) MySQL
6 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.11%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.11%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 11 (12.22%) Git
1 11 (12.22%) Jenkins
2 10 (11.11%) JIRA
3 8 (8.89%) Vagrant
4 7 (7.78%) GitLab
5 4 (4.44%) Terragrunt
6 3 (3.33%) GoCD
6 3 (3.33%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.22%) DTrace
7 2 (2.22%) GDB
8 1 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 49 (54.44%) Finance
2 31 (34.44%) Public Sector
3 27 (30.00%) Local Government
3 27 (30.00%) Police
4 9 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 9 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 8 (8.89%) Health Technology
6 6 (6.67%) Banking
7 4 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.33%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.33%) Front Office
9 2 (2.22%) Billing
10 1 (1.11%) Law
10 1 (1.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (31.11%) Applications Support
2 17 (18.89%) Senior
3 12 (13.33%) Developer
4 9 (10.00%) Administrator
4 9 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
4 9 (10.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 9 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
5 8 (8.89%) Backend Developer
5 8 (8.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (8.89%) Senior Backend Developer
5 8 (8.89%) Senior Developer
6 7 (7.78%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Architect
8 5 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Head of Engineering
8 5 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) AWS Architect
9 4 (4.44%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (30.00%) Web Services
2 8 (8.89%) JSON
2 8 (8.89%) JSON Schema
2 8 (8.89%) Node.js
2 8 (8.89%) OpenAPI
2 8 (8.89%) Swagger
3 5 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (4.44%) XML
5 3 (3.33%) CSS
5 3 (3.33%) CSS3
5 3 (3.33%) Flask
5 3 (3.33%) HTML
5 3 (3.33%) HTML5
5 3 (3.33%) React
5 3 (3.33%) Redux
5 3 (3.33%) REST
6 1 (1.11%) Kafka
6 1 (1.11%) Middleware
6 1 (1.11%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 30 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 8 (8.89%) IoT
3 7 (7.78%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (5.56%) Mainframe
5 3 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.22%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.11%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.11%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.11%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 63 (70.00%) Linux
2 41 (45.56%) Unix
3 33 (36.67%) Windows
4 27 (30.00%) Solaris
5 11 (12.22%) CentOS
6 10 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (10.00%) Ubuntu
8 4 (4.44%) Windows Server
9 1 (1.11%) AIX
9 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (32.22%) Task Automation
2 28 (31.11%) Server Management
3 27 (30.00%) Data Security
3 27 (30.00%) Network Architecture
4 25 (27.78%) CI/CD
5 23 (25.56%) DevOps
6 17 (18.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
7 15 (16.67%) Software Engineering
8 14 (15.56%) Artificial Intelligence
9 11 (12.22%) Agile
9 11 (12.22%) Capacity Management
10 9 (10.00%) Analytics
10 9 (10.00%) Visualisation
11 8 (8.89%) Customer Experience
11 8 (8.89%) Integration Testing
11 8 (8.89%) Inventory Management
11 8 (8.89%) Software Delivery
12 7 (7.78%) Configuration Management
13 6 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 26 (28.89%) Python
2 21 (23.33%) Java
3 20 (22.22%) SQL
4 11 (12.22%) TypeScript
5 10 (11.11%) C
6 9 (10.00%) Bash
7 7 (7.78%) JavaScript
7 7 (7.78%) Perl
8 6 (6.67%) PowerShell
9 5 (5.56%) C++
9 5 (5.56%) Go
10 4 (4.44%) AWK
10 4 (4.44%) Groovy
11 3 (3.33%) C#
11 3 (3.33%) sed
12 2 (2.22%) OCaml
12 2 (2.22%) PL/SQL
12 2 (2.22%) SystemTap
13 1 (1.11%) Ada
13 1 (1.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (41.11%) Security Cleared
2 36 (40.00%) Degree
3 9 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.33%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.33%) PhD
5 2 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (30.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.44%) NCSC
3 1 (1.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (21.11%) Ansible
2 14 (15.56%) Terraform
3 10 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 8 (8.89%) Grafana
5 6 (6.67%) Progress Chef
6 5 (5.56%) Docker Swarm
6 5 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (32.22%) Oracle
2 27 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 27 (30.00%) NEC
3 5 (5.56%) Google
3 5 (5.56%) Teradata
4 4 (4.44%) Murex
5 3 (3.33%) VMware
6 2 (2.22%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.11%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.11%) New Relic
7 1 (1.11%) Splunk
7 1 (1.11%) xMatters