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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 477 467 421
Rank change year-on-year -10 -46 -30
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 99 218 493
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.50% 0.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.72% 1.01% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 89 147 236
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £77,941 £67,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £87,500 £91,875
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 13,773 21,518 39,098
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.75% 49.31% 58.72%
Number of salaries quoted 11,448 15,769 24,010
10th Percentile £38,694 £40,750 £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 £103,750 £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 24 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 7 (7.07%) nginx
2 5 (5.05%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.05%) Confluence
3 2 (2.02%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.01%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 38 (38.38%) AWS
2 19 (19.19%) Serverless
3 18 (18.18%) GCP
4 14 (14.14%) AWS Lambda
4 14 (14.14%) Azure
5 13 (13.13%) GitHub
5 13 (13.13%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (10.10%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (9.09%) OpenShift
7 9 (9.09%) SaaS
8 7 (7.07%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (7.07%) Amazon S3
8 7 (7.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (5.05%) Cloud Composer
10 5 (5.05%) dbt
10 5 (5.05%) Power Platform
11 4 (4.04%) AWS CodeBuild
12 3 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.08%) HTTPS
1 8 (8.08%) SSL
2 7 (7.07%) OpenVPN
3 5 (5.05%) AMQP
3 5 (5.05%) DNS
3 5 (5.05%) HTTP
3 5 (5.05%) Network Security
4 1 (1.01%) Diameter Protocol
4 1 (1.01%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.01%) Internet
4 1 (1.01%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.01%) SpaceWire
4 1 (1.01%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.08%) Relational Database
2 7 (7.07%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (5.05%) BigQuery
3 5 (5.05%) DynamoDB
3 5 (5.05%) InfluxDB
3 5 (5.05%) Looker
3 5 (5.05%) Power BI
3 5 (5.05%) Tableau
4 4 (4.04%) MySQL
4 4 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.03%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.01%) Data Mart
6 1 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.01%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.01%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.01%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 20 (20.20%) Git
3 17 (17.17%) GitLab
4 12 (12.12%) CircleCI
4 12 (12.12%) JIRA
5 9 (9.09%) git-flow
6 8 (8.08%) Vagrant
7 5 (5.05%) DTrace
7 5 (5.05%) GDB
8 4 (4.04%) Maven
8 4 (4.04%) Terragrunt
9 3 (3.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (3.03%) Travis CI
10 2 (2.02%) Artifactory
10 2 (2.02%) Gradle
10 2 (2.02%) JUnit
10 2 (2.02%) SonarQube
10 2 (2.02%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (1.01%) Ranorex
General
1 27 (27.27%) Finance
2 23 (23.23%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.13%) Public Sector
4 12 (12.12%) Telecoms
5 7 (7.07%) Financial Institution
6 6 (6.06%) Banking
7 5 (5.05%) Health Technology
8 4 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (4.04%) Billing
8 4 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.03%) Retail Banking
10 2 (2.02%) Law
10 2 (2.02%) Retail
11 1 (1.01%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.01%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 22 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (16.16%) Cloud Engineer
2 16 (16.16%) Developer
2 16 (16.16%) Senior
3 12 (12.12%) Administrator
3 12 (12.12%) Linux Engineer
3 12 (12.12%) Software Engineer
4 11 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
4 11 (11.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 11 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
5 9 (9.09%) Linux Support
6 7 (7.07%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 7 (7.07%) React Developer
6 7 (7.07%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) Backend Developer
7 5 (5.05%) Head of Engineering
7 5 (5.05%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) Senior Backend Developer
7 5 (5.05%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.04%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
1 9 (9.09%) JSON
2 7 (7.07%) CSS
2 7 (7.07%) CSS3
2 7 (7.07%) Flask
2 7 (7.07%) HTML
2 7 (7.07%) HTML5
2 7 (7.07%) React
2 7 (7.07%) Redux
2 7 (7.07%) Spring
2 7 (7.07%) Spring Boot
3 5 (5.05%) JSON Schema
3 5 (5.05%) Node.js
3 5 (5.05%) OpenAPI
3 5 (5.05%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (5.05%) Swagger
4 3 (3.03%) Kafka
4 3 (3.03%) Middleware
4 3 (3.03%) REST
4 3 (3.03%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.14%) Onboarding
2 12 (12.12%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (10.10%) Virtual Team
4 9 (9.09%) Management Information System
5 7 (7.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (6.06%) Public Cloud
7 5 (5.05%) Client/Server
7 5 (5.05%) Cloud Native
7 5 (5.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (5.05%) IoT
7 5 (5.05%) Mainframe
8 2 (2.02%) Digital Currency
8 2 (2.02%) Educational Technology
9 1 (1.01%) Blog
9 1 (1.01%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.01%) Driving Licence
9 1 (1.01%) Eurex
9 1 (1.01%) Hedge funds
9 1 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (1.01%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 70 (70.71%) Linux
2 20 (20.20%) CentOS
3 19 (19.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (18.18%) Unix
5 14 (14.14%) Ubuntu
6 5 (5.05%) Windows
7 3 (3.03%) Debian
8 2 (2.02%) Solaris
9 1 (1.01%) AIX
9 1 (1.01%) Fedora
9 1 (1.01%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (38.38%) DevOps
2 37 (37.37%) Software Engineering
3 32 (32.32%) CI/CD
4 23 (23.23%) Agile
5 22 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (17.17%) Capacity Management
7 16 (16.16%) Continuous Integration
8 15 (15.15%) Artificial Intelligence
8 15 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (14.14%) Deployment Automation
10 13 (13.13%) Continuous Delivery
10 13 (13.13%) Platform Engineering
11 12 (12.12%) Analytics
11 12 (12.12%) Configuration Management
11 12 (12.12%) Scrum
11 12 (12.12%) Visualisation
12 11 (11.11%) Containerisation
12 11 (11.11%) Kanban
13 10 (10.10%) Continuous Deployment
13 10 (10.10%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 38 (38.38%) Python
2 28 (28.28%) Java
3 23 (23.23%) SQL
4 15 (15.15%) C
4 15 (15.15%) Perl
5 12 (12.12%) Bash
5 12 (12.12%) JavaScript
5 12 (12.12%) TypeScript
6 10 (10.10%) PowerShell
7 7 (7.07%) C#
8 6 (6.06%) PHP
9 5 (5.05%) Go
9 5 (5.05%) OCaml
9 5 (5.05%) SystemTap
10 4 (4.04%) C++
11 3 (3.03%) Ada
11 3 (3.03%) AWK
11 3 (3.03%) PL/SQL
11 3 (3.03%) sed
12 2 (2.02%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 12 (12.12%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (10.10%) Degree
5 4 (4.04%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.03%) PhD
7 1 (1.01%) HNC
7 1 (1.01%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.04%) NCSC
2 2 (2.02%) SEPA
3 1 (1.01%) MISRA
3 1 (1.01%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 35 (35.35%) Docker
2 9 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.01%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 32 (32.32%) Ansible
2 27 (27.27%) Terraform
3 24 (24.24%) Kubernetes
4 8 (8.08%) Grafana
5 6 (6.06%) Progress Chef
6 5 (5.05%) Docker Swarm
6 5 (5.05%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.02%) Kibana
7 2 (2.02%) NetBackup
7 2 (2.02%) Rancher
8 1 (1.01%) Core Impact
8 1 (1.01%) Podman
Vendors
1 14 (14.14%) Google
2 9 (9.09%) McAfee
3 8 (8.08%) Red Hat
4 7 (7.07%) Oracle
5 6 (6.06%) Microsoft
6 5 (5.05%) Teradata
7 2 (2.02%) IBM
7 2 (2.02%) Veritas
7 2 (2.02%) VMware
8 1 (1.01%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.01%) Murex
8 1 (1.01%) New Relic
8 1 (1.01%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.01%) SAP
8 1 (1.01%) Splunk
8 1 (1.01%) xMatters