Shell Script Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 477 464
Rank change year-on-year +126 -13 -30
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 46 115 214
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.31% 0.34% 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.77% 0.83% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 36 91 144
10th Percentile £40,750 £46,250 £38,025
25th Percentile £43,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,563 £82,500 £78,382
90th Percentile £93,778 £111,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

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 5,974 13,779 21,042
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.95% 40.72% 49.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,843 11,434 15,507
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £41,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Shell Script
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Shell Script as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Shell Script trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Shell Script
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Shell Script over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 2 (4.35%) Apache
1 2 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.17%) nginx
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.17%) SAS
Business Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Oracle Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 15 (32.61%) AWS
2 12 (26.09%) Azure
3 7 (15.22%) GitHub
4 5 (10.87%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (10.87%) GCP
5 4 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (8.70%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (6.52%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.52%) Serverless
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.22%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.35%) Network Security
3 1 (2.17%) HTTPS
3 1 (2.17%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.22%) Oracle Database
2 4 (8.70%) Oracle Exadata
3 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.35%) Metadata
4 2 (4.35%) Metadata Repository
4 2 (4.35%) MySQL
4 2 (4.35%) Pentaho
4 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.35%) Redis
4 2 (4.35%) Triplestore
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.17%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.17%) Big Data
5 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.17%) HBase
5 1 (2.17%) Impala
5 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.17%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (21.74%) Git
1 10 (21.74%) Jenkins
2 6 (13.04%) JIRA
3 5 (10.87%) Artifactory
3 5 (10.87%) IBM UrbanCode
3 5 (10.87%) SonarQube
4 3 (6.52%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (4.35%) JUnit
5 2 (4.35%) Maven
5 2 (4.35%) Mockito
5 2 (4.35%) Postman
5 2 (4.35%) REST Assured
5 2 (4.35%) SoapUI
5 2 (4.35%) Subversion
5 2 (4.35%) Xcode
5 2 (4.35%) XCTest
6 1 (2.17%) GitLab
General
1 23 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (34.78%) Social Skills
3 14 (30.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (26.09%) Finance
4 12 (26.09%) Manufacturing
5 9 (19.57%) Retail
6 7 (15.22%) Banking
7 3 (6.52%) Telecoms
8 2 (4.35%) Legal
8 2 (4.35%) Multimedia
8 2 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (2.17%) Billing
9 1 (2.17%) Cantonese Language
9 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.17%) Electronics
9 1 (2.17%) Law
9 1 (2.17%) Marketing
9 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Senior
2 9 (19.57%) Analyst
2 9 (19.57%) Applications Support
2 9 (19.57%) Applications Support Analyst
2 9 (19.57%) Support Analyst
3 5 (10.87%) Software Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) C++ Software Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) DBA
4 4 (8.70%) Oracle Applications DBA
4 4 (8.70%) Oracle DBA
4 4 (8.70%) Unix Support
5 3 (6.52%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (6.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Linux Support
5 3 (6.52%) Senior Linux Support
5 3 (6.52%) Senior Unix Support
5 3 (6.52%) Server Support
6 2 (4.35%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.22%) CSS
1 7 (15.22%) HTML
2 5 (10.87%) REST
3 4 (8.70%) JSON
3 4 (8.70%) Middleware
3 4 (8.70%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (8.70%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 3 (6.52%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (6.52%) Kafka
4 3 (6.52%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (6.52%) XML
5 2 (4.35%) Anaconda
5 2 (4.35%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.35%) Apache Jena
5 2 (4.35%) Bootstrap
5 2 (4.35%) CSS3
5 2 (4.35%) Material-UI
5 2 (4.35%) Pandas
5 2 (4.35%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (4.35%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 6 (13.04%) Mainframe
3 5 (10.87%) Clustering
3 5 (10.87%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (10.87%) Management Information System
3 5 (10.87%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.35%) CCTV
4 2 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.35%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (80.43%) Linux
2 18 (39.13%) Unix
3 8 (17.39%) Windows
4 5 (10.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.35%) VMS
6 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (54.35%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (30.43%) DevOps
2 14 (30.43%) Software Engineering
3 12 (26.09%) Computer Science
4 11 (23.91%) Mentoring
4 11 (23.91%) Validation
5 10 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (19.57%) Translating Business Requirements
7 8 (17.39%) SDLC
8 7 (15.22%) Agile
8 7 (15.22%) Multithreading
9 6 (13.04%) Data Management
9 6 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (10.87%) Cash Management
10 5 (10.87%) Change Management
10 5 (10.87%) IT Strategy
10 5 (10.87%) ITIL
10 5 (10.87%) Server Building
10 5 (10.87%) Server Patching
10 5 (10.87%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (58.70%) SQL
2 16 (34.78%) Python
3 13 (28.26%) Java
4 12 (26.09%) PL/SQL
5 10 (21.74%) PowerShell
6 9 (19.57%) C-shell
6 9 (19.57%) Korn
7 7 (15.22%) Bash
7 7 (15.22%) JavaScript
8 6 (13.04%) C
9 5 (10.87%) Groovy
9 5 (10.87%) JCL
10 4 (8.70%) C++
11 3 (6.52%) Perl
12 2 (4.35%) SPARQL
13 1 (2.17%) ActionScript
13 1 (2.17%) ActionScript 2.0
13 1 (2.17%) ProC
13 1 (2.17%) XPath
Qualifications
1 11 (23.91%) Computer Science Degree
1 11 (23.91%) Degree
2 9 (19.57%) PhD
3 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
4 5 (10.87%) AWS Certification
5 4 (8.70%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (8.70%) OCA
5 4 (8.70%) OCP
5 4 (8.70%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (4.35%) CASP
6 2 (4.35%) CISM
6 2 (4.35%) CISSP
6 2 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) QA
2 4 (8.70%) Accessibility
2 4 (8.70%) SLA
3 2 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (4.35%) Dublin Core
3 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.17%) ECSS
System Software
1 5 (10.87%) Active Directory
1 5 (10.87%) Docker
1 5 (10.87%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 4 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.52%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.17%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (17.39%) Ansible
2 7 (15.22%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.87%) CA Endevor
3 5 (10.87%) Packer
3 5 (10.87%) Terraform
4 4 (8.70%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 22 (47.83%) Oracle
2 5 (10.87%) Red Hat
2 5 (10.87%) Veritas
3 4 (8.70%) AppDynamics
3 4 (8.70%) IBM
3 4 (8.70%) Symantec
3 4 (8.70%) VMware
4 3 (6.52%) Atlassian
4 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.52%) Splunk
5 2 (4.35%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (4.35%) Dynatrace
5 2 (4.35%) Informatica
5 2 (4.35%) Talend
6 1 (2.17%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (2.17%) SAP