Which roles ask for Shell Scripting at tech companies · 129 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
129 roles counted that list Shell Scripting, one per company, title and level; 247 postings in the window.
In short
Shell Scripting: listed in 129 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 111 and preferred in 18. The largest group is DevOps engineer roles: 34 of 129 (26%).
- Required
- 111 of 129 (86%)
- Of the roles that list Shell Scripting
- Preferred
- 18 of 129 (14%)
- Of the roles that list Shell Scripting
- Largest group
- 34 of 129 (26%)
- DevOps engineer
Roles that ask for Shell Scripting
Roles listing Shell 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 |
|---|---|---|
| DevOps engineer | 34 | 34 of 58 (59%) |
| Software engineer | 30 | 30 of 719 (4%) |
| Platform engineer | 19 | 19 of 57 (33%) |
| Security engineer | 15 | 15 of 126 (12%) |
| Site reliability engineer | 11 | 11 of 70 (16%) |
| QA engineer | 7 | 7 of 63 (11%) |
| Data engineer | 4 | 4 of 99 (4%) |
| AI engineer | 2 | 2 of 70 (3%) |
| Forward deployed engineer | 2 | 2 of 63 (3%) |
| Analytics engineer | 1 | 1 of 28 |
Companies that ask for it most
- Black Duck Software, Inc.5 roles
- Akamai Technologies4 roles
- TASQ Staffing Solutions4 roles
- Black Financial Consult3 roles
- CoreWeave3 roles
- Crusoe3 roles
- Okta3 roles
- Peraton3 roles
- Wiz, Inc.3 roles
- Zscaler3 roles
Asked alongside
Out of the 129 Shell 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 | 93 of 129 (72%) |
| CI/CD | 65 of 129 (50%) |
| Terraform | 59 of 129 (46%) |
| Kubernetes | 57 of 129 (44%) |
| Docker | 55 of 129 (43%) |
| Linux | 55 of 129 (43%) |
| Scripting | 55 of 129 (43%) |
| AWS | 54 of 129 (42%) |
| Infrastructure as Code | 43 of 129 (33%) |
| GCP | 39 of 129 (30%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Observability | 16 of 129 (12%) |
| Kubernetes | 15 of 129 (12%) |
| CI/CD | 14 of 129 (11%) |
| Python | 14 of 129 (11%) |
| Terraform | 14 of 129 (11%) |
| AWS | 13 of 129 (10%) |
| Infrastructure as Code | 13 of 129 (10%) |
| Azure | 12 of 129 (9%) |
| Docker | 12 of 129 (9%) |
| Agile | 11 of 129 (9%) |
Experience
Of the 68 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 68 of 68 (100%)
- 2+ years
- 67 of 68 (99%)
- 3+ years
- 64 of 68 (94%)
- 5+ years
- 45 of 68 (66%)
- 8+ years
- 9 of 68 (13%)
- 10+ years
- 3 of 68 (4%)
Degree
Of the 82 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 13 of 82 (16%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 23 of 82 (28%)
- Preferred
- 5 of 82 (6%)
- Not mentioned
- 41 of 82 (50%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 129 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Median stated pay
- $147.1k a year
- Roles stating pay
- 50 of 129 (39%)
- Remote roles
- 102 of 129 (79%)
How we count: 129 roles from 93 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