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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 586 496 367
Rank change year-on-year -90 -129 +81
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 331 579 1,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.57% 1.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.00% 1.32% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 227 266 648
10th Percentile £41,500 £40,773 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
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 £100,000 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,875 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.20% -1.19% +10.53%

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 33,186 43,722 84,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.45% 43.28% 53.99%
Number of salaries quoted 24,983 27,941 43,470
10th Percentile £35,195 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £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 £107,000 £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 10 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 10 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 -73 250 £65,000 +8.33% 68
UK excluding London -72 231 £52,500 +1.20% 49
Work from Home -20 115 £65,000 +8.33% 27
London 0 75 £80,000 +6.67% 24
South West +3 56 £60,000 +20.00% 7
South East -10 52 £42,500 -15.00% 8
Scotland -70 31 £42,000 -30.00% 5
North of England -6 28 £55,000 +22.22% 6
East of England +11 27 £60,000 -16.67% 17
Midlands -18 20 £50,000 +1.01% 4
Wales 0 16 £50,000 - 2
North West -32 15 £102,500 +127.78% 4
Yorkshire +71 13 £47,000 -28.24% 2
East Midlands -14 11 £52,500 -4.33% 3
West Midlands -4 9 £44,500 -10.10% 1
Northern Ireland +15 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 49 (14.80%) Apache
2 34 (10.27%) Tomcat
3 29 (8.76%) WebLogic
4 25 (7.55%) nginx
5 23 (6.95%) IIS
6 21 (6.34%) OpenStack
7 20 (6.04%) Apache Spark
8 17 (5.14%) Jupyter
9 7 (2.11%) WebSphere
10 6 (1.81%) Confluence
11 5 (1.51%) 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 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.91%) 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 21 (6.34%) NEC Housing
2 5 (1.51%) 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 91 (27.49%) AWS
2 57 (17.22%) Azure
3 41 (12.39%) GCP
4 39 (11.78%) Serverless
5 30 (9.06%) OpenShift
6 29 (8.76%) Amazon S3
7 26 (7.85%) Amazon EKS
8 17 (5.14%) MinIO
9 16 (4.83%) Amazon ECS
9 16 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (3.63%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (3.63%) GitHub
13 10 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (3.02%) SaaS
14 6 (1.81%) Entra ID
14 6 (1.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 5 (1.51%) Cloud Composer
15 5 (1.51%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.63%) Firewall
2 10 (3.02%) Cisco ASA
3 8 (2.42%) HTTPS
3 8 (2.42%) SSL
4 7 (2.11%) Ethernet
4 7 (2.11%) Internet
4 7 (2.11%) OpenVPN
5 6 (1.81%) Software-Defined Networking
5 6 (1.81%) VLAN
5 6 (1.81%) VPN
6 5 (1.51%) AMQP
6 5 (1.51%) DNS
6 5 (1.51%) Network Security
7 4 (1.21%) BGP
8 3 (0.91%) DHCP
8 3 (0.91%) FTP
8 3 (0.91%) HTTP
8 3 (0.91%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.60%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.60%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.76%) Elasticsearch
2 28 (8.46%) Oracle Database
3 27 (8.16%) Relational Database
4 26 (7.85%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (6.04%) Hadoop
6 19 (5.74%) Big Data
7 18 (5.44%) NoSQL
7 18 (5.44%) Presto
8 8 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (2.42%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.42%) MySQL
8 8 (2.42%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.51%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.51%) InfluxDB
9 5 (1.51%) Looker
9 5 (1.51%) Metadata
9 5 (1.51%) Pentaho
9 5 (1.51%) Power BI
9 5 (1.51%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 78 (23.56%) Jenkins
2 46 (13.90%) Git
3 27 (8.16%) GitLab
3 27 (8.16%) JIRA
4 18 (5.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 18 (5.44%) CircleCI
5 14 (4.23%) JUnit
6 13 (3.93%) Maven
7 8 (2.42%) Gradle
7 8 (2.42%) Vagrant
8 6 (1.81%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.81%) git-flow
9 5 (1.51%) DTrace
9 5 (1.51%) GDB
9 5 (1.51%) Subversion
10 4 (1.21%) JMeter
10 4 (1.21%) Mockito
10 4 (1.21%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.21%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.91%) GoCD
General
1 96 (29.00%) Finance
2 67 (20.24%) Social Skills
3 52 (15.71%) Public Sector
4 43 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (12.99%) Police
5 35 (10.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (9.97%) Law
7 26 (7.85%) Banking
8 21 (6.34%) Local Government
9 16 (4.83%) Telecoms
10 8 (2.42%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.42%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.11%) Billing
11 7 (2.11%) Electronics
11 7 (2.11%) Front Office
11 7 (2.11%) Health Technology
12 6 (1.81%) Legal
13 5 (1.51%) Investment Banking
14 4 (1.21%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.21%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 69 (20.85%) Developer
2 63 (19.03%) Senior
3 54 (16.31%) Applications Support
4 51 (15.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 46 (13.90%) Software Engineer
6 36 (10.88%) Analyst
7 33 (9.97%) Support Analyst
8 28 (8.46%) Applications Support Analyst
9 27 (8.16%) Java Developer
9 27 (8.16%) Senior Analyst
9 27 (8.16%) Senior Applications Support
9 27 (8.16%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
9 27 (8.16%) Senior Support Analyst
10 24 (7.25%) Linux Engineer
11 23 (6.95%) Cloud Engineer
12 20 (6.04%) Administrator
12 20 (6.04%) Data Engineer
13 17 (5.14%) Big Data Engineer
14 15 (4.53%) Full Stack Developer
14 15 (4.53%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (20.24%) Spring
2 47 (14.20%) Web Services
3 37 (11.18%) Elastic Stack
4 31 (9.37%) Spring Boot
5 29 (8.76%) J2EE
5 29 (8.76%) Java EE
6 27 (8.16%) JSON
7 23 (6.95%) RabbitMQ
8 21 (6.34%) ActiveMQ
8 21 (6.34%) XML
9 20 (6.04%) HTML
9 20 (6.04%) REST
10 19 (5.74%) Node.js
10 19 (5.74%) YAML
11 17 (5.14%) Apache NiFi
12 16 (4.83%) Apache Camel
13 14 (4.23%) Middleware
13 14 (4.23%) React
14 12 (3.63%) AngularJS
15 11 (3.32%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 35 (10.57%) Public Cloud
2 26 (7.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (5.14%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (3.93%) Cloud Native
6 10 (3.02%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.72%) Algorithms
7 9 (2.72%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.72%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.42%) IoT
9 7 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (2.11%) Market Risk
9 7 (2.11%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.81%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.51%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.51%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.51%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.21%) FPGA
12 4 (1.21%) VHDL
13 3 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 197 (59.52%) Linux
2 110 (33.23%) Unix
3 43 (12.99%) Windows
4 35 (10.57%) Ubuntu
5 30 (9.06%) Solaris
6 21 (6.34%) CentOS
7 18 (5.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (4.23%) Debian
9 8 (2.42%) Windows Server
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%) AIX
11 1 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.30%) Fedora
11 1 (0.30%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (33.84%) DevOps
2 94 (28.40%) CI/CD
3 85 (25.68%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (24.17%) Agile
5 72 (21.75%) Software Engineering
6 60 (18.13%) Containerisation
7 50 (15.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 48 (14.50%) Configuration Management
9 39 (11.78%) Task Automation
10 32 (9.67%) TDD
11 31 (9.37%) ITIL
11 31 (9.37%) Microservices
11 31 (9.37%) Scrum
12 29 (8.76%) Incident Management
13 28 (8.46%) Actionable Insight
14 27 (8.16%) Enterprise Architecture
14 27 (8.16%) Enterprise Search
14 27 (8.16%) Impact Assessments
14 27 (8.16%) Service Management
14 27 (8.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 134 (40.48%) Java
2 133 (40.18%) Python
3 73 (22.05%) SQL
4 61 (18.43%) Bash
5 46 (13.90%) JavaScript
6 39 (11.78%) C
7 29 (8.76%) PowerShell
8 23 (6.95%) C++
9 22 (6.65%) Perl
10 17 (5.14%) TypeScript
11 12 (3.63%) PL/SQL
12 10 (3.02%) Ada
13 9 (2.72%) Go
14 7 (2.11%) C#
15 6 (1.81%) PHP
15 6 (1.81%) Rust
16 5 (1.51%) AWK
16 5 (1.51%) OCaml
16 5 (1.51%) SystemTap
17 4 (1.21%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 111 (33.53%) Security Cleared
2 55 (16.62%) Degree
2 55 (16.62%) SC Cleared
3 32 (9.67%) DV Cleared
4 14 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.42%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.42%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.51%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.51%) MCAD
9 4 (1.21%) CCNA
9 4 (1.21%) CCNP
9 4 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.21%) PhD
10 3 (0.91%) HNC
10 3 (0.91%) HND
10 3 (0.91%) RHCE
11 2 (0.60%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.60%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.16%) SLA
2 21 (6.34%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.21%) NCSC
4 2 (0.60%) GDPR
4 2 (0.60%) QA
4 2 (0.60%) SEPA
5 1 (0.30%) MISRA
5 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 81 (24.47%) Docker
2 14 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.93%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.72%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.91%) 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%) Samba
7 1 (0.30%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 85 (25.68%) Ansible
2 67 (20.24%) Terraform
3 66 (19.94%) Kubernetes
4 37 (11.18%) Grafana
5 27 (8.16%) OpenSSO
5 27 (8.16%) Prometheus
5 27 (8.16%) Single Sign-On
6 23 (6.95%) Progress Chef
7 17 (5.14%) HAProxy
8 12 (3.63%) Puppet
9 7 (2.11%) Kibana
10 6 (1.81%) ITRS Geneos
10 6 (1.81%) ZABBIX
11 5 (1.51%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (1.21%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.91%) SCCM
13 3 (0.91%) SCOM
13 3 (0.91%) WSUS
14 2 (0.60%) Data Guard
14 2 (0.60%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 78 (23.56%) Oracle
2 49 (14.80%) Microsoft
3 38 (11.48%) Red Hat
4 31 (9.37%) Remedy
5 25 (7.55%) VMware
6 21 (6.34%) NEC
7 14 (4.23%) Google
8 13 (3.93%) Splunk
9 12 (3.63%) WSO2
10 11 (3.32%) Cisco
11 8 (2.42%) Sybase
12 6 (1.81%) AppDynamics
12 6 (1.81%) McAfee
13 5 (1.51%) CA
13 5 (1.51%) EMC
13 5 (1.51%) IBM
13 5 (1.51%) Teradata
14 4 (1.21%) Dynatrace
14 4 (1.21%) Veritas
15 2 (0.60%) Mellanox