Hybrid/Remote Bash Job Trends

Bash Shell
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Bash skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 220 164
Rank change year-on-year +40 -56 -41
Permanent jobs citing Bash 230 200 667
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.28% 1.49% 2.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.83% 3.52% 4.99%
Number of salaries quoted 122 172 380
10th Percentile £42,775 £47,257 £42,950
25th Percentile £51,563 £53,163 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +11.50% -10.31%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,750 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.36% +16.67% -14.29%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Bash falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,765 5,681 13,365
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.61% 42.45% 41.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,493 4,518 11,481
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,979 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Bash
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Bash and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Bash job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Bash
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Bash.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Bash

Bash
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Bash over the 6 months to 23 April 2026.

Bash salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Bash
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 19 (8.26%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (4.78%) Apache
3 10 (4.35%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.17%) nginx
5 4 (1.74%) CMS
5 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.30%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.87%) SAS
7 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.43%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.74%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.74%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.74%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 129 (56.09%) Azure
2 120 (52.17%) AWS
3 68 (29.57%) Entra ID
4 56 (24.35%) Google Workspace
5 38 (16.52%) GitHub
6 34 (14.78%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (11.30%) Amazon S3
8 24 (10.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 23 (10.00%) GCP
10 21 (9.13%) Amazon EKS
10 21 (9.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (8.70%) Pulumi
12 19 (8.26%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (8.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 18 (7.83%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (7.39%) Serverless
15 15 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (5.22%) SaaS
17 11 (4.78%) OpenShift
17 11 (4.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 79 (34.35%) Broadband
2 28 (12.17%) Firewall
3 23 (10.00%) VPN
4 11 (4.78%) DNS
5 10 (4.35%) Network Security
5 10 (4.35%) VLAN
6 6 (2.61%) VoIP
7 5 (2.17%) DMZ
7 5 (2.17%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (2.17%) STUN
7 5 (2.17%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.74%) DHCP
8 4 (1.74%) WAN
9 3 (1.30%) BGP
9 3 (1.30%) LAN
9 3 (1.30%) OSPF
9 3 (1.30%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (1.30%) SD-WAN
9 3 (1.30%) SSL
10 2 (0.87%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.43%) NoSQL
2 19 (8.26%) RDBMS
2 19 (8.26%) Relational Database
3 18 (7.83%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (7.83%) Apache Iceberg
3 18 (7.83%) Tableau
4 11 (4.78%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (4.78%) SQL Server
5 10 (4.35%) BigQuery
5 10 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (3.91%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (3.91%) Amazon QuickSight
6 9 (3.91%) Delta Lake
6 9 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (3.91%) Looker
6 9 (3.91%) Metadata
6 9 (3.91%) MySQL
6 9 (3.91%) Pinecone
6 9 (3.91%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 20 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 19 (8.26%) Jaeger
3 18 (7.83%) Git
4 14 (6.09%) GitLab
5 9 (3.91%) MLflow
6 6 (2.61%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.17%) JIRA
7 5 (2.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (1.74%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.74%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.74%) Maven
8 4 (1.74%) Robot Framework
8 4 (1.74%) Vite
9 2 (0.87%) Balsamiq
9 2 (0.87%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.87%) JMeter
9 2 (0.87%) Postman
9 2 (0.87%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.87%) TestRail
10 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 69 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 63 (27.39%) Organisational Skills
3 33 (14.35%) Games
4 20 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (6.96%) Finance
6 13 (5.65%) Public Sector
7 12 (5.22%) Retail
8 11 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (2.61%) Banking
9 6 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.74%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.74%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.30%) Billing
11 3 (1.30%) Marketing
12 2 (0.87%) Military
13 1 (0.43%) Electronics
13 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 67 (29.13%) Senior
2 38 (16.52%) Lead
3 28 (12.17%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (10.87%) Platform Engineer
5 24 (10.43%) Developer
6 21 (9.13%) IAM Developer
7 20 (8.70%) Systems Engineer
8 19 (8.26%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (7.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
10 15 (6.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 15 (6.52%) Consultant
10 15 (6.52%) Data Engineer
11 13 (5.65%) Senior Developer
12 12 (5.22%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 12 (5.22%) Senior DevOps
13 11 (4.78%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 11 (4.78%) Senior Consultant
13 11 (4.78%) Support Engineer
14 10 (4.35%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (25.22%) GraphQL
1 58 (25.22%) REST
1 58 (25.22%) SOAP
2 57 (24.78%) LDAP
2 57 (24.78%) SAML
3 56 (24.35%) OAuth
3 56 (24.35%) OpenID
4 30 (13.04%) Elastic Stack
5 19 (8.26%) OpenTelemetry
6 11 (4.78%) Kafka
6 11 (4.78%) Loki
7 9 (3.91%) Faiss
7 9 (3.91%) PyTorch
7 9 (3.91%) TensorFlow
7 9 (3.91%) vLLM
8 6 (2.61%) YAML
9 5 (2.17%) AngularJS
9 5 (2.17%) CSS
9 5 (2.17%) HTML
9 5 (2.17%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 62 (26.96%) Cyber Threat
2 58 (25.22%) Cyberattack
3 16 (6.96%) Product Ownership
4 13 (5.65%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (4.78%) Onboarding
6 10 (4.35%) Cloud Native
7 9 (3.91%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (3.48%) Management Information System
8 8 (3.48%) Security Posture
9 7 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (3.04%) Private Cloud
10 5 (2.17%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.74%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.87%) Clustering
13 2 (0.87%) e-Learning
13 2 (0.87%) Marketing Technology
13 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
14 1 (0.43%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 88 (38.26%) Linux
2 24 (10.43%) Unix
2 24 (10.43%) Windows
3 9 (3.91%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.17%) CentOS
4 5 (2.17%) Debian
5 4 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.74%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.87%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.87%) Solaris
7 1 (0.43%) AIX
7 1 (0.43%) Android
7 1 (0.43%) FreeBSD
7 1 (0.43%) OpenBSD
7 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (45.22%) Mentoring
2 102 (44.35%) CI/CD
3 96 (41.74%) DevOps
4 93 (40.43%) Roadmaps
5 92 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 66 (28.70%) Cybersecurity
7 61 (26.52%) Identity Access Management
8 58 (25.22%) Programme Delivery
9 56 (24.35%) Agile
9 56 (24.35%) Regulatory Compliance
10 40 (17.39%) High Availability
11 36 (15.65%) Cloud Security
11 36 (15.65%) Containerisation
12 34 (14.78%) Performance Optimisation
12 34 (14.78%) Platform Engineering
13 33 (14.35%) Observability
13 33 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 28 (12.17%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (11.74%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 139 (60.43%) Python
2 122 (53.04%) PowerShell
3 59 (25.65%) SQL
4 56 (24.35%) T-SQL
5 46 (20.00%) Go
6 37 (16.09%) Java
7 28 (12.17%) JavaScript
8 9 (3.91%) Bicep
8 9 (3.91%) Scala
9 8 (3.48%) C++
9 8 (3.48%) PHP
10 7 (3.04%) C#
11 6 (2.61%) Perl
11 6 (2.61%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.74%) C
12 4 (1.74%) Groovy
13 3 (1.30%) Objective-C
13 3 (1.30%) Ruby
13 3 (1.30%) Rust
14 2 (0.87%) Korn
Qualifications
1 34 (14.78%) Degree
2 28 (12.17%) AWS Certification
3 20 (8.70%) Security Cleared
4 13 (5.65%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 10 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 8 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.61%) CREST Certified
8 5 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.74%) OSCP
10 3 (1.30%) CCNP
10 3 (1.30%) CCSAM
10 3 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (1.30%) GPEN
10 3 (1.30%) GXPN
10 3 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.30%) LPIC
10 3 (1.30%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.30%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (26.52%) NIST
2 58 (25.22%) NCSC
3 31 (13.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.35%) Data Quality
5 7 (3.04%) QA
6 6 (2.61%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.30%) SLA
8 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.43%) GDPR
9 1 (0.43%) GRC
9 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
System Software
1 77 (33.48%) Active Directory
2 66 (28.70%) Docker
3 6 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.74%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.87%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.43%) KVM
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 85 (36.96%) Terraform
2 71 (30.87%) Kubernetes
3 49 (21.30%) Ansible
4 44 (19.13%) Prometheus
5 30 (13.04%) Grafana
6 26 (11.30%) Argo
7 23 (10.00%) Kustomize
8 8 (3.48%) Proxmox
8 8 (3.48%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.74%) HP Fortify
9 4 (1.74%) Istio
9 4 (1.74%) logstash
10 3 (1.30%) Kibana
10 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.30%) Nagios
10 3 (1.30%) Puppet
11 2 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.87%) CASB
12 1 (0.43%) Cilium
12 1 (0.43%) Podman
Vendors
1 29 (12.61%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.70%) Google
3 15 (6.52%) Red Hat
3 15 (6.52%) VMware
4 9 (3.91%) Cisco
4 9 (3.91%) CyberArk
4 9 (3.91%) Databricks
4 9 (3.91%) Palantir
4 9 (3.91%) Splunk
5 5 (2.17%) Oracle
6 3 (1.30%) Dell
7 2 (0.87%) Apple
7 2 (0.87%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.87%) BT
7 2 (0.87%) Cloudera
7 2 (0.87%) Commvault
7 2 (0.87%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.87%) Informatica
7 2 (0.87%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.87%) Talend