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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 459 456 428
Rank change year-on-year -3 -28 -18
Permanent jobs citing Shell Script 116 210 536
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.34% 0.52% 0.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.84% 1.05% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 82 148 236
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,733 £35,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £47,500
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 £80,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £87,500 £105,625
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 13,825 19,960 42,087
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.89% 49.19% 59.06%
Number of salaries quoted 11,368 14,681 24,008
10th Percentile £38,694 £41,000 £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 £105,000 £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 20 May 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 29 (25.00%) Tomcat
2 28 (24.14%) Apache
3 27 (23.28%) IIS
4 7 (6.03%) nginx
5 5 (4.31%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (4.31%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 27 (23.28%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.86%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 35 (30.17%) AWS
2 17 (14.66%) Serverless
3 14 (12.07%) GCP
4 12 (10.34%) OpenShift
5 11 (9.48%) Azure
6 10 (8.62%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (7.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (7.76%) GitHub
7 9 (7.76%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (7.76%) SaaS
8 7 (6.03%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (6.03%) Amazon S3
8 7 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (5.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (4.31%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (4.31%) Cloud Composer
10 5 (4.31%) dbt
10 5 (4.31%) Power Platform
11 4 (3.45%) AWS CodeBuild
12 3 (2.59%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.90%) HTTPS
1 8 (6.90%) SSL
2 7 (6.03%) OpenVPN
3 5 (4.31%) AMQP
3 5 (4.31%) Network Security
4 1 (0.86%) DNS
4 1 (0.86%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.86%) HTTP
4 1 (0.86%) Internet
4 1 (0.86%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 8 (6.90%) Relational Database
3 7 (6.03%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (6.03%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.31%) BigQuery
4 5 (4.31%) InfluxDB
4 5 (4.31%) Looker
4 5 (4.31%) Power BI
4 5 (4.31%) Tableau
5 4 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.59%) MySQL
7 1 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.86%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.86%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.86%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.86%) Spatial Data
7 1 (0.86%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (16.38%) Git
2 18 (15.52%) Jenkins
3 14 (12.07%) GitLab
4 11 (9.48%) JIRA
5 8 (6.90%) Vagrant
6 5 (4.31%) CircleCI
6 5 (4.31%) DTrace
6 5 (4.31%) GDB
6 5 (4.31%) git-flow
7 4 (3.45%) Maven
7 4 (3.45%) Terragrunt
8 3 (2.59%) GoCD
9 2 (1.72%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.72%) Gradle
9 2 (1.72%) JUnit
9 2 (1.72%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.86%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.86%) Subversion
General
1 55 (47.41%) Finance
2 36 (31.03%) Public Sector
3 27 (23.28%) Local Government
3 27 (23.28%) Police
4 19 (16.38%) Social Skills
5 11 (9.48%) Telecoms
6 7 (6.03%) Banking
6 7 (6.03%) Financial Institution
6 7 (6.03%) Health Technology
7 4 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.45%) Billing
7 4 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.59%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.72%) Law
9 2 (1.72%) Retail
10 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.86%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 28 (24.14%) Applications Support
2 18 (15.52%) Developer
3 16 (13.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (13.79%) Senior
4 12 (10.34%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (9.48%) Administrator
5 11 (9.48%) Linux Engineer
5 11 (9.48%) Software Engineer
6 10 (8.62%) Linux Administrator
6 10 (8.62%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 10 (8.62%) Systems Administrator
7 7 (6.03%) Backend Developer
7 7 (6.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 7 (6.03%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (6.03%) React Developer
7 7 (6.03%) Senior Backend Developer
7 7 (6.03%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.17%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Head of Engineering
9 5 (4.31%) Linux Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (23.28%) Web Services
2 11 (9.48%) JSON
3 7 (6.03%) CSS
3 7 (6.03%) CSS3
3 7 (6.03%) Flask
3 7 (6.03%) HTML
3 7 (6.03%) HTML5
3 7 (6.03%) JSON Schema
3 7 (6.03%) Node.js
3 7 (6.03%) OpenAPI
3 7 (6.03%) React
3 7 (6.03%) Redux
3 7 (6.03%) Swagger
4 6 (5.17%) Spring
4 6 (5.17%) Spring Boot
5 5 (4.31%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (4.31%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.59%) Kafka
6 3 (2.59%) Middleware
6 3 (2.59%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 30 (25.86%) Public Cloud
2 12 (10.34%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (6.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (6.03%) IoT
4 6 (5.17%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.17%) Virtual Team
5 5 (4.31%) Client/Server
5 5 (4.31%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.31%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (4.31%) Mainframe
5 5 (4.31%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.72%) Digital Currency
6 2 (1.72%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.86%) Blog
7 1 (0.86%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.86%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.86%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 87 (75.00%) Linux
2 46 (39.66%) Unix
3 35 (30.17%) Windows
4 29 (25.00%) Solaris
5 16 (13.79%) CentOS
6 14 (12.07%) Ubuntu
7 13 (11.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (2.59%) Debian
8 3 (2.59%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.86%) AIX
9 1 (0.86%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (29.31%) DevOps
2 32 (27.59%) Task Automation
3 29 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 28 (24.14%) CI/CD
4 28 (24.14%) Server Management
5 27 (23.28%) Data Security
5 27 (23.28%) Network Architecture
6 21 (18.10%) Agile
7 20 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (14.66%) Artificial Intelligence
8 17 (14.66%) Platform Engineering
9 16 (13.79%) Capacity Management
10 15 (12.93%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (10.34%) Analytics
11 12 (10.34%) Configuration Management
11 12 (10.34%) Visualisation
12 10 (8.62%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (8.62%) Deployment Automation
12 10 (8.62%) Machine Learning
13 8 (6.90%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (28.45%) Python
2 28 (24.14%) Java
3 24 (20.69%) SQL
4 15 (12.93%) C
4 15 (12.93%) JavaScript
5 14 (12.07%) TypeScript
6 13 (11.21%) Bash
7 10 (8.62%) Perl
8 9 (7.76%) PowerShell
9 7 (6.03%) C#
10 5 (4.31%) Go
10 5 (4.31%) OCaml
10 5 (4.31%) SystemTap
11 4 (3.45%) C++
12 3 (2.59%) Ada
12 3 (2.59%) AWK
12 3 (2.59%) PL/SQL
12 3 (2.59%) sed
13 2 (1.72%) PHP
14 1 (0.86%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 44 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 38 (32.76%) Degree
3 14 (12.07%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.45%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.59%) PhD
7 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.86%) HNC
7 1 (0.86%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (23.28%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.45%) NCSC
3 2 (1.72%) SEPA
4 1 (0.86%) MISRA
4 1 (0.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (29.31%) Docker
2 5 (4.31%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.86%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 27 (23.28%) Ansible
2 23 (19.83%) Terraform
3 20 (17.24%) Kubernetes
4 11 (9.48%) Grafana
5 6 (5.17%) Progress Chef
6 5 (4.31%) Docker Swarm
6 5 (4.31%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.72%) Kibana
7 2 (1.72%) Rancher
8 1 (0.86%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.86%) Podman
Vendors
1 32 (27.59%) Microsoft
1 32 (27.59%) Oracle
2 27 (23.28%) NEC
3 10 (8.62%) Google
4 6 (5.17%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.31%) McAfee
5 5 (4.31%) Teradata
5 5 (4.31%) VMware
6 1 (0.86%) IBM
6 1 (0.86%) Murex
6 1 (0.86%) New Relic
6 1 (0.86%) Splunk
6 1 (0.86%) Veritas
6 1 (0.86%) xMatters