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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 117 156
Rank change year-on-year -173 +39 -34
Permanent jobs citing Bash 177 445 508
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.75% 2.75% 2.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.88% 8.74% 5.60%
Number of salaries quoted 119 148 209
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,375 £55,938 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £94,125 £95,000
UK median annual salary £64,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.19% +8.00% -11.44%

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 6,136 5,091 9,076
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.01% 31.44% 38.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,610 3,464 6,551
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -0.78% -0.77%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £116,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 6 September 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 15 (8.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.95%) Apache
2 7 (3.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.39%) Jupyter
4 4 (2.26%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.13%) nginx
5 2 (1.13%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.56%) Confluence
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.56%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.13%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 112 (63.28%) Azure
2 90 (50.85%) AWS
3 47 (26.55%) GitHub
4 42 (23.73%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (16.38%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (13.56%) Azure Monitor
6 24 (13.56%) Serverless
7 22 (12.43%) PaaS
8 21 (11.86%) IaaS
9 20 (11.30%) Azure AKS
9 20 (11.30%) GCP
10 18 (10.17%) Amazon EC2
10 18 (10.17%) Azure Key Vault
11 16 (9.04%) Amazon S3
12 15 (8.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (7.91%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 14 (7.91%) Azure Functions
13 14 (7.91%) Entra ID
14 13 (7.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (7.34%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (14.69%) VPN
2 20 (11.30%) Firewall
3 16 (9.04%) DNS
4 11 (6.21%) TCP/IP
5 7 (3.95%) Network Security
6 5 (2.82%) DHCP
7 4 (2.26%) Kerberos
7 4 (2.26%) SSH
8 3 (1.69%) Broadband
9 2 (1.13%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (1.13%) LAN
9 2 (1.13%) NGFW
9 2 (1.13%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.13%) SSL
9 2 (1.13%) WAN
10 1 (0.56%) DKIM
10 1 (0.56%) DMARC
10 1 (0.56%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.56%) Skype
10 1 (0.56%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.91%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (4.52%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.95%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.39%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.82%) MySQL
6 5 (2.82%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.69%) Big Data
7 3 (1.69%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.69%) Redis
8 2 (1.13%) DocumentDB
8 2 (1.13%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.13%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.56%) GIS
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 29 (16.38%) Git
2 28 (15.82%) GitLab
3 27 (15.25%) Jenkins
4 12 (6.78%) Maven
5 10 (5.65%) JUnit
5 10 (5.65%) Mockito
6 6 (3.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (3.39%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.26%) JIRA
8 3 (1.69%) JMeter
8 3 (1.69%) Postman
9 2 (1.13%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.13%) MSI
9 2 (1.13%) Robot Framework
9 2 (1.13%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.13%) TestRail
10 1 (0.56%) CMake
10 1 (0.56%) GDB
10 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 51 (28.81%) Social Skills
2 27 (15.25%) Finance
3 23 (12.99%) Public Sector
4 17 (9.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.34%) Law
6 6 (3.39%) Legal
7 5 (2.82%) Banking
8 4 (2.26%) Retail
9 3 (1.69%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.69%) Aviation
10 2 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Electronics
11 1 (0.56%) French Language
11 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.56%) Marketing
11 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Police
11 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (22.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 33 (18.64%) Senior
3 27 (15.25%) Platform Engineer
4 17 (9.60%) Lead
5 14 (7.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (7.34%) Analyst
6 13 (7.34%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (7.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 13 (7.34%) Developer
7 12 (6.78%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (6.78%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (6.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 12 (6.78%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 12 (6.78%) Java Developer
8 8 (4.52%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (4.52%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 7 (3.95%) Administrator
9 7 (3.95%) Senior Developer
9 7 (3.95%) Senior DevOps
9 7 (3.95%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (47.46%) Terraform
2 15 (8.47%) React
3 14 (7.91%) YAML
4 10 (5.65%) REST
4 10 (5.65%) Spring
5 7 (3.95%) .NET
5 7 (3.95%) Loki
5 7 (3.95%) SAML
6 6 (3.39%) Kafka
6 6 (3.39%) OpenID
6 6 (3.39%) Pulumi
7 5 (2.82%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (2.82%) RESTful
8 4 (2.26%) ARM Templates
8 4 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (2.26%) Node.js
8 4 (2.26%) OAuth
8 4 (2.26%) OAuth2
9 3 (1.69%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 35 (19.77%) Cloud Native
2 16 (9.04%) Linux Command Line
3 15 (8.47%) Public Cloud
3 15 (8.47%) Security Posture
4 14 (7.91%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (6.78%) PKI
5 12 (6.78%) Podcast
6 6 (3.39%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.39%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.69%) Blog
9 3 (1.69%) CSOC
9 3 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.69%) FPGA
9 3 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.69%) Robotics
9 3 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.13%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 74 (41.81%) Linux
2 41 (23.16%) Windows
3 13 (7.34%) VMS
4 8 (4.52%) Ubuntu
5 6 (3.39%) Debian
5 6 (3.39%) Unix
6 4 (2.26%) Mac OS
6 4 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.26%) Solaris
7 3 (1.69%) CentOS
7 3 (1.69%) Robot Operating System
8 2 (1.13%) Windows Server
8 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.56%) AIX
9 1 (0.56%) Android
9 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (70.06%) CI/CD
2 100 (56.50%) DevOps
3 95 (53.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (37.85%) Agile
5 63 (35.59%) Observability
6 61 (34.46%) Mentoring
7 55 (31.07%) Containerisation
8 52 (29.38%) Platform Engineering
9 49 (27.68%) Problem-Solving
10 47 (26.55%) AI
11 41 (23.16%) Cloud Security
12 38 (21.47%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (17.51%) Root Cause Analysis
14 30 (16.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 29 (16.38%) Scrum
16 28 (15.82%) DevSecOps
16 28 (15.82%) Technical Leadership
17 27 (15.25%) Analytics
18 24 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 24 (13.56%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 131 (74.01%) Python
2 95 (53.67%) PowerShell
3 43 (24.29%) SQL
4 30 (16.95%) Java
5 27 (15.25%) Bicep
6 18 (10.17%) JavaScript
7 17 (9.60%) Kusto Query Language
8 16 (9.04%) Go
9 11 (6.21%) PL/SQL
10 9 (5.08%) C#
11 6 (3.39%) C++
11 6 (3.39%) Ruby
12 5 (2.82%) Rust
13 4 (2.26%) C
13 4 (2.26%) PHP
14 3 (1.69%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.69%) Perl
15 2 (1.13%) Search Processing Language
15 2 (1.13%) Shell Script
15 2 (1.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 47 (26.55%) Security Cleared
2 42 (23.73%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.30%) Azure Certification
4 16 (9.04%) Degree
4 16 (9.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.95%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.95%) CompTIA Security+
7 6 (3.39%) CISSP
7 6 (3.39%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (2.82%) CompTIA CySA+
9 4 (2.26%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.69%) CEH
10 3 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.69%) GIAC
10 3 (1.69%) GPEN
10 3 (1.69%) ISTQB
10 3 (1.69%) OSCE
10 3 (1.69%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.78%) QA
2 8 (4.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.39%) NCSC
3 6 (3.39%) NIST
4 5 (2.82%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.69%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.13%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 70 (39.55%) Docker
2 27 (15.25%) Active Directory
3 23 (12.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (6.78%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (6.78%) vSphere
5 9 (5.08%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.82%) KVM
7 2 (1.13%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 78 (44.07%) Kubernetes
2 40 (22.60%) Grafana
3 36 (20.34%) Prometheus
4 26 (14.69%) Ansible
5 19 (10.73%) Argo
6 13 (7.34%) Istio
7 7 (3.95%) Kustomize
8 6 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (2.82%) Proxmox
10 4 (2.26%) Graylog
10 4 (2.26%) linkerd
10 4 (2.26%) Puppet
10 4 (2.26%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.69%) Cilium
11 3 (1.69%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (1.13%) Nagios
12 2 (1.13%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 60 (33.90%) Microsoft
2 26 (14.69%) VMware
3 20 (11.30%) Oracle
4 13 (7.34%) Red Hat
5 12 (6.78%) ScienceLogic
6 11 (6.21%) Splunk
7 10 (5.65%) Google
8 8 (4.52%) Cisco
8 8 (4.52%) CyberArk
8 8 (4.52%) ServiceNow
9 6 (3.39%) Veeam
10 5 (2.82%) Fortinet
10 5 (2.82%) New Relic
11 3 (1.69%) Dell
11 3 (1.69%) NVIDIA
12 2 (1.13%) Apple
12 2 (1.13%) Commvault
12 2 (1.13%) Dynatrace
12 2 (1.13%) HP
12 2 (1.13%) Juniper