Shell Scripting (Shell Programming)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 498 380
Rank change year-on-year -76 -118 +61
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 336 571 1,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.58% 0.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.01% 1.33% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 228 268 642
10th Percentile £41,500 £41,189 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,063 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,216 42,952 86,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.25% 43.31% 54.04%
Number of salaries quoted 24,896 27,477 43,381
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,250 £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 £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

Shell Script
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Shell Script as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Shell Script.

Salary trend for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Shell Script over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Shell Script in the UK

Shell Script
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Shell Script within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -63 258 £65,000 - 82
UK excluding London -87 235 £52,500 - 51
Work from Home -10 117 £65,000 +8.33% 36
London 0 78 £80,000 +4.58% 42
South West -1 56 £60,000 +20.00% 9
South East -24 51 £42,000 -16.00% 13
North of England +7 32 £48,507 -2.99% 5
Scotland -75 31 £42,000 -30.00% 5
East of England 0 27 £60,000 -16.67% 13
Midlands -11 22 £50,000 +1.01% 4
North West -21 17 £102,500 +127.78% 4
Yorkshire +66 15 £47,754 -27.09% 1
Wales -4 15 £50,000 - 2
West Midlands +9 11 £44,500 -10.10% 1
East Midlands -7 11 £52,500 -4.33% 3
Northern Ireland +14 2 £77,500 +3.33% 1

Shell Script
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 55 (16.37%) Apache
2 40 (11.90%) Tomcat
3 29 (8.63%) IIS
4 28 (8.33%) WebLogic
5 25 (7.44%) nginx
6 21 (6.25%) OpenStack
7 20 (5.95%) Apache Spark
8 17 (5.06%) Jupyter
9 8 (2.38%) Confluence
10 7 (2.08%) WebSphere
11 5 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.60%) GlassFish
12 2 (0.60%) JCAPS
12 2 (0.60%) SAS
12 2 (0.60%) WebSphere Application Server
13 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.60%) Abaqus
3 2 (0.60%) GNU Octave
3 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.60%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 27 (8.04%) NEC Housing
2 5 (1.49%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.60%) Adaptiv
4 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.30%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 90 (26.79%) AWS
2 57 (16.96%) Azure
3 40 (11.90%) GCP
4 38 (11.31%) Serverless
5 30 (8.93%) OpenShift
6 29 (8.63%) Amazon S3
7 25 (7.44%) Amazon EKS
8 17 (5.06%) MinIO
9 16 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (4.46%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (3.87%) GitHub
13 12 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (2.98%) SaaS
15 9 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (1.79%) Entra ID
16 6 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 5 (1.49%) Cloud Composer
17 5 (1.49%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.57%) Firewall
2 10 (2.98%) Cisco ASA
3 8 (2.38%) HTTPS
3 8 (2.38%) SSL
4 7 (2.08%) Ethernet
4 7 (2.08%) Internet
4 7 (2.08%) OpenVPN
5 6 (1.79%) Software-Defined Networking
5 6 (1.79%) VLAN
5 6 (1.79%) VPN
6 5 (1.49%) AMQP
6 5 (1.49%) DNS
6 5 (1.49%) Network Security
7 4 (1.19%) BGP
8 3 (0.89%) DHCP
8 3 (0.89%) FTP
8 3 (0.89%) SAN
8 3 (0.89%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.60%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.60%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (9.82%) Oracle Database
2 28 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
3 27 (8.04%) Relational Database
4 26 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (5.95%) Hadoop
6 19 (5.65%) Big Data
7 18 (5.36%) NoSQL
7 18 (5.36%) Presto
8 10 (2.98%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (2.38%) DynamoDB
9 8 (2.38%) MySQL
10 5 (1.49%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.49%) InfluxDB
10 5 (1.49%) Looker
10 5 (1.49%) Metadata
10 5 (1.49%) Pentaho
10 5 (1.49%) Power BI
10 5 (1.49%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 78 (23.21%) Jenkins
2 45 (13.39%) Git
3 28 (8.33%) JIRA
4 27 (8.04%) GitLab
5 17 (5.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 16 (4.76%) CircleCI
7 14 (4.17%) JUnit
8 13 (3.87%) Maven
9 8 (2.38%) Gradle
9 8 (2.38%) Vagrant
10 6 (1.79%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.79%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.49%) DTrace
11 5 (1.49%) GDB
11 5 (1.49%) git-flow
11 5 (1.49%) Subversion
12 4 (1.19%) JMeter
12 4 (1.19%) Mockito
12 4 (1.19%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.89%) Oracle Forms
General
1 104 (30.95%) Finance
2 65 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 57 (16.96%) Public Sector
4 49 (14.58%) Police
5 42 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (10.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (9.82%) Law
8 29 (8.63%) Banking
9 27 (8.04%) Local Government
10 16 (4.76%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.38%) Financial Institution
11 8 (2.38%) Manufacturing
12 7 (2.08%) Billing
12 7 (2.08%) Electronics
12 7 (2.08%) Front Office
12 7 (2.08%) Health Technology
13 6 (1.79%) Legal
14 5 (1.49%) Investment Banking
15 4 (1.19%) Back Office
16 3 (0.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 69 (20.54%) Developer
2 60 (17.86%) Senior
3 59 (17.56%) Applications Support
4 49 (14.58%) DevOps Engineer
5 47 (13.99%) Software Engineer
6 35 (10.42%) Analyst
7 32 (9.52%) Support Analyst
8 27 (8.04%) Applications Support Analyst
8 27 (8.04%) Java Developer
9 26 (7.74%) Senior Analyst
9 26 (7.74%) Senior Applications Support
9 26 (7.74%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
9 26 (7.74%) Senior Support Analyst
10 24 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
11 22 (6.55%) Cloud Engineer
12 21 (6.25%) Administrator
13 20 (5.95%) Data Engineer
14 17 (5.06%) Big Data Engineer
15 16 (4.76%) Systems Administrator
16 15 (4.46%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (19.64%) Spring
2 53 (15.77%) Web Services
3 36 (10.71%) Elastic Stack
4 31 (9.23%) Spring Boot
5 28 (8.33%) J2EE
5 28 (8.33%) Java EE
6 27 (8.04%) JSON
7 23 (6.85%) RabbitMQ
8 22 (6.55%) XML
9 21 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
10 20 (5.95%) HTML
10 20 (5.95%) REST
11 19 (5.65%) Node.js
11 19 (5.65%) YAML
12 17 (5.06%) Apache NiFi
13 16 (4.76%) Apache Camel
14 14 (4.17%) Middleware
14 14 (4.17%) React
15 12 (3.57%) AngularJS
16 11 (3.27%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.90%) Public Cloud
2 26 (7.74%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (3.87%) Cloud Native
6 11 (3.27%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.68%) Algorithms
7 9 (2.68%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.38%) IoT
9 7 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (2.08%) Market Risk
9 7 (2.08%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.79%) Mainframe
10 6 (1.79%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.49%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.49%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.19%) FPGA
12 4 (1.19%) VHDL
13 3 (0.89%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 201 (59.82%) Linux
2 117 (34.82%) Unix
3 49 (14.58%) Windows
4 38 (11.31%) Solaris
5 35 (10.42%) Ubuntu
6 20 (5.95%) CentOS
7 19 (5.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (4.17%) Debian
9 8 (2.38%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.60%) AIX
10 2 (0.60%) Android
10 2 (0.60%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.60%) SUSE
10 2 (0.60%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.30%) Fedora
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (33.63%) DevOps
2 93 (27.68%) CI/CD
3 86 (25.60%) Problem-Solving
4 81 (24.11%) Agile
5 71 (21.13%) Software Engineering
6 58 (17.26%) Containerisation
7 49 (14.58%) Infrastructure as Code
8 48 (14.29%) Configuration Management
9 45 (13.39%) Task Automation
10 32 (9.52%) TDD
11 31 (9.23%) Microservices
12 30 (8.93%) ITIL
12 30 (8.93%) Scrum
13 29 (8.63%) Data Security
14 28 (8.33%) Incident Management
14 28 (8.33%) Server Management
15 27 (8.04%) Actionable Insight
15 27 (8.04%) Network Architecture
16 26 (7.74%) Enterprise Search
16 26 (7.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 132 (39.29%) Java
1 132 (39.29%) Python
2 76 (22.62%) SQL
3 61 (18.15%) Bash
4 46 (13.69%) JavaScript
5 38 (11.31%) C
6 29 (8.63%) PowerShell
7 22 (6.55%) C++
8 21 (6.25%) Perl
9 17 (5.06%) TypeScript
10 14 (4.17%) PL/SQL
11 10 (2.98%) Ada
12 9 (2.68%) Go
13 7 (2.08%) C#
14 6 (1.79%) Rust
15 5 (1.49%) AWK
15 5 (1.49%) Groovy
15 5 (1.49%) OCaml
15 5 (1.49%) PHP
15 5 (1.49%) SystemTap
Qualifications
1 115 (34.23%) Security Cleared
2 62 (18.45%) Degree
3 53 (15.77%) SC Cleared
4 32 (9.52%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (2.38%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.38%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.49%) MCAD
10 4 (1.19%) CCNA
10 4 (1.19%) CCNP
10 4 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.19%) PhD
11 3 (0.89%) HNC
11 3 (0.89%) HND
11 3 (0.89%) RHCE
12 2 (0.60%) Linux+ Certification
12 2 (0.60%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.04%) Accessibility
1 27 (8.04%) SLA
2 4 (1.19%) NCSC
3 2 (0.60%) GDPR
3 2 (0.60%) QA
3 2 (0.60%) SEPA
4 1 (0.30%) MISRA
4 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 80 (23.81%) Docker
2 14 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (3.57%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.68%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.60%) Firmware
6 2 (0.60%) KVM
6 2 (0.60%) Lustre
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.60%) Shibboleth
6 2 (0.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.30%) LXC
7 1 (0.30%) Samba
7 1 (0.30%) Squid
7 1 (0.30%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 85 (25.30%) Ansible
2 66 (19.64%) Terraform
3 64 (19.05%) Kubernetes
4 37 (11.01%) Grafana
5 28 (8.33%) Prometheus
6 26 (7.74%) OpenSSO
6 26 (7.74%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (6.85%) Progress Chef
8 17 (5.06%) HAProxy
9 12 (3.57%) Puppet
10 7 (2.08%) Kibana
11 6 (1.79%) ITRS Geneos
11 6 (1.79%) ZABBIX
12 5 (1.49%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (1.19%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.89%) SCCM
14 3 (0.89%) SCOM
14 3 (0.89%) WSUS
15 2 (0.60%) Data Guard
15 2 (0.60%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 85 (25.30%) Oracle
2 56 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 40 (11.90%) Red Hat
4 30 (8.93%) Remedy
5 27 (8.04%) NEC
5 27 (8.04%) VMware
6 14 (4.17%) Splunk
7 13 (3.87%) Google
8 12 (3.57%) WSO2
9 11 (3.27%) Cisco
10 8 (2.38%) Sybase
11 6 (1.79%) AppDynamics
11 6 (1.79%) IBM
12 5 (1.49%) CA
12 5 (1.49%) EMC
12 5 (1.49%) McAfee
12 5 (1.49%) Teradata
13 4 (1.19%) Dynatrace
13 4 (1.19%) Veritas
14 2 (0.60%) Mellanox