Which roles ask for Scripting at tech companies · 122 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
122 roles counted that list Scripting, one per company, title and level; 228 postings in the window.
In short
Scripting: listed in 122 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 104 and preferred in 18. The largest group is security engineer roles: 30 of 122 (25%).
- Required
- 104 of 122 (85%)
- Of the roles that list Scripting
- Preferred
- 18 of 122 (15%)
- Of the roles that list Scripting
- Largest group
- 30 of 122 (25%)
- Security engineer
Roles that ask for Scripting
Roles listing Scripting, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.
| Role | Roles | Of the role's roles we read |
|---|---|---|
| Security engineer | 30 | 30 of 126 (24%) |
| DevOps engineer | 26 | 26 of 58 (45%) |
| Platform engineer | 17 | 17 of 57 (30%) |
| Software engineer | 16 | 16 of 719 (2%) |
| Site reliability engineer | 15 | 15 of 70 (21%) |
| QA engineer | 10 | 10 of 63 (16%) |
| Data analyst | 3 | 3 of 47 |
| Forward deployed engineer | 2 | 2 of 63 (3%) |
| Software architect | 2 | 2 of 32 |
| Data engineer | 1 | 1 of 99 (1%) |
Companies that ask for it most
- Black Duck Software, Inc.4 roles
- Deepgram4 roles
- Peraton4 roles
- TASQ Staffing Solutions4 roles
- Akamai Technologies3 roles
- Axonius3 roles
- Cloudflare3 roles
- Okta3 roles
- Palantir3 roles
- Zscaler2 roles
Asked alongside
Out of the 122 Scripting roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 90 of 122 (74%) |
| Shell Scripting | 56 of 122 (46%) |
| Terraform | 55 of 122 (45%) |
| AWS | 53 of 122 (43%) |
| Infrastructure as Code | 52 of 122 (43%) |
| CI/CD | 49 of 122 (40%) |
| Kubernetes | 43 of 122 (35%) |
| Azure | 40 of 122 (33%) |
| GCP | 39 of 122 (32%) |
| Docker | 38 of 122 (31%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| CI/CD | 16 of 122 (13%) |
| Python | 15 of 122 (12%) |
| ISO 27001 | 13 of 122 (11%) |
| SOC 2 | 13 of 122 (11%) |
| DevSecOps | 12 of 122 (10%) |
| AWS | 11 of 122 (9%) |
| Incident Response | 11 of 122 (9%) |
| Azure | 10 of 122 (8%) |
| Cybersecurity | 10 of 122 (8%) |
| Docker | 10 of 122 (8%) |
Experience
Of the 65 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 65 of 65 (100%)
- 2+ years
- 65 of 65 (100%)
- 3+ years
- 62 of 65 (95%)
- 5+ years
- 48 of 65 (74%)
- 8+ years
- 9 of 65 (14%)
- 10+ years
- 1 of 65 (2%)
Degree
Of the 81 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 4 of 81 (5%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 26 of 81 (32%)
- Preferred
- 1 of 81 (1%)
- Not mentioned
- 50 of 81 (62%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 122 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 48 of 122 (39%)
- Remote roles
- 89 of 122 (73%)
How we count: 122 roles from 90 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology