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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 219 169
Rank change year-on-year +56 -50 -41
Permanent jobs citing Bash 252 232 531
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.54% 1.55% 1.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.68% 3.43% 4.24%
Number of salaries quoted 128 176 428
10th Percentile £45,575 £37,500 £43,000
25th Percentile £52,145 £48,306 £51,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £70,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +5.66% -4.60%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,500 £93,778 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -6.40%

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 4,437 6,757 12,532
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.06% 45.01% 45.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,243 4,412 10,929
10th Percentile £38,300 £40,025 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £79,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 24 February 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 (7.54%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.97%) Apache
2 10 (3.97%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (2.78%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.98%) nginx
6 4 (1.59%) CMS
7 3 (1.19%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.79%) SAS
9 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.59%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.59%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.79%) Weka
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.59%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 150 (59.52%) Azure
2 131 (51.98%) AWS
3 83 (32.94%) Entra ID
4 58 (23.02%) Google Workspace
5 45 (17.86%) GitHub
6 40 (15.87%) GitHub Actions
7 34 (13.49%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (13.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 33 (13.10%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (10.32%) GCP
10 25 (9.92%) Amazon EKS
11 21 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (7.94%) Amazon S3
13 19 (7.54%) Pulumi
14 16 (6.35%) Azure AKS
15 15 (5.95%) SaaS
15 15 (5.95%) Serverless
16 14 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
16 14 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
16 14 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 81 (32.14%) Broadband
2 26 (10.32%) Firewall
3 18 (7.14%) VPN
4 12 (4.76%) Network Security
5 11 (4.37%) VLAN
6 6 (2.38%) DNS
7 5 (1.98%) DMZ
7 5 (1.98%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (1.98%) STUN
7 5 (1.98%) VoIP
8 4 (1.59%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (1.59%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.59%) WAN
9 3 (1.19%) LAN
9 3 (1.19%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.79%) BGP
10 2 (0.79%) DHCP
10 2 (0.79%) MPLS
10 2 (0.79%) NGFW
10 2 (0.79%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.71%) NoSQL
2 19 (7.54%) RDBMS
2 19 (7.54%) Relational Database
3 18 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (7.14%) Apache Iceberg
3 18 (7.14%) Tableau
4 10 (3.97%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (3.97%) BigQuery
4 10 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (3.57%) Amazon QuickSight
5 9 (3.57%) Delta Lake
5 9 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (3.57%) Looker
5 9 (3.57%) Metadata
5 9 (3.57%) Pinecone
5 9 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.57%) Weaviate
6 8 (3.17%) MySQL
7 7 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 32 (12.70%) Jenkins
2 19 (7.54%) Jaeger
3 18 (7.14%) Git
4 17 (6.75%) GitLab
5 9 (3.57%) MLflow
6 6 (2.38%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.98%) Robot Framework
7 5 (1.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (1.98%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.59%) Vite
9 3 (1.19%) Balsamiq
9 3 (1.19%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.19%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.19%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.19%) JIRA
9 3 (1.19%) JMeter
9 3 (1.19%) Maven
10 2 (0.79%) TestRail
11 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.40%) git-flow
General
1 73 (28.97%) Social Skills
2 62 (24.60%) Organisational Skills
3 35 (13.89%) Games
4 31 (12.30%) Finance
5 20 (7.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.37%) Retail
8 10 (3.97%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.98%) Banking
11 4 (1.59%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.59%) Back Office
11 4 (1.59%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.19%) Billing
12 3 (1.19%) Military
12 3 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.40%) Local Government
13 1 (0.40%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 75 (29.76%) Senior
2 38 (15.08%) Lead
3 37 (14.68%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (9.92%) Developer
4 25 (9.92%) Platform Engineer
5 23 (9.13%) IAM Developer
6 22 (8.73%) Systems Engineer
7 21 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 18 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (6.35%) AWS Engineer
9 16 (6.35%) Consultant
9 16 (6.35%) Linux Engineer
10 15 (5.95%) Senior Developer
11 13 (5.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 13 (5.16%) Data Engineer
12 12 (4.76%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 12 (4.76%) Senior Consultant
12 12 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
13 11 (4.37%) Azure Engineer
14 10 (3.97%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (24.21%) GraphQL
1 61 (24.21%) REST
1 61 (24.21%) SOAP
2 58 (23.02%) LDAP
2 58 (23.02%) OAuth
2 58 (23.02%) OpenID
2 58 (23.02%) SAML
3 34 (13.49%) Elastic Stack
4 19 (7.54%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (4.37%) Kafka
6 9 (3.57%) Faiss
6 9 (3.57%) PyTorch
6 9 (3.57%) TensorFlow
6 9 (3.57%) vLLM
7 7 (2.78%) Loki
8 5 (1.98%) CSS
8 5 (1.98%) FreeSWITCH
8 5 (1.98%) HTML
8 5 (1.98%) Middleware
9 4 (1.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (24.21%) Cyber Threat
2 60 (23.81%) Cyberattack
3 29 (11.51%) Product Ownership
4 13 (5.16%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.97%) Cloud Native
6 9 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (3.57%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (2.78%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.38%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.98%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.59%) Blog
11 4 (1.59%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
13 2 (0.79%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.79%) Clustering
13 2 (0.79%) e-Learning
13 2 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 106 (42.06%) Linux
2 35 (13.89%) Windows
3 30 (11.90%) Unix
4 10 (3.97%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.17%) CentOS
6 7 (2.78%) Debian
7 3 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.79%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.40%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.40%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (47.22%) DevOps
2 105 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 105 (41.67%) Roadmaps
3 103 (40.87%) CI/CD
4 101 (40.08%) Mentoring
5 72 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
6 65 (25.79%) Identity Access Management
7 62 (24.60%) Agile
8 60 (23.81%) Programme Delivery
9 58 (23.02%) Regulatory Compliance
10 49 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 42 (16.67%) Containerisation
12 39 (15.48%) Cloud Security
12 39 (15.48%) High Availability
13 38 (15.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 37 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
15 35 (13.89%) AI
15 35 (13.89%) Performance Optimisation
16 31 (12.30%) Coaching
17 29 (11.51%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 154 (61.11%) Python
2 144 (57.14%) PowerShell
3 59 (23.41%) SQL
4 58 (23.02%) T-SQL
5 46 (18.25%) Go
6 33 (13.10%) Java
7 28 (11.11%) JavaScript
8 17 (6.75%) Bicep
9 9 (3.57%) Scala
10 7 (2.78%) C++
10 7 (2.78%) TypeScript
11 6 (2.38%) Perl
12 5 (1.98%) PHP
13 4 (1.59%) C#
14 3 (1.19%) C
14 3 (1.19%) Groovy
14 3 (1.19%) VBScript
15 2 (0.79%) Fortran
16 1 (0.40%) Korn
Qualifications
1 37 (14.68%) AWS Certification
2 35 (13.89%) Degree
3 25 (9.92%) Security Cleared
4 16 (6.35%) Azure Certification
5 15 (5.95%) SC Cleared
6 10 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.97%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.59%) CREST Certified
8 4 (1.59%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.19%) CCNP
9 3 (1.19%) CITP
9 3 (1.19%) LPIC
10 2 (0.79%) CISSP
10 2 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.79%) GCIH
10 2 (0.79%) Linux+ Certification
10 2 (0.79%) PhD
10 2 (0.79%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (24.60%) NIST
2 60 (23.81%) NCSC
3 32 (12.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.97%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.78%) QA
6 6 (2.38%) SOC 2
7 5 (1.98%) GDPR
7 5 (1.98%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.59%) GRC
9 3 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 78 (30.95%) Active Directory
2 68 (26.98%) Docker
3 11 (4.37%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (3.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.19%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.79%) Ceph
7 2 (0.79%) Lustre
7 2 (0.79%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.79%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.40%) KVM
8 1 (0.40%) vCloud
8 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 113 (44.84%) Terraform
2 78 (30.95%) Kubernetes
3 63 (25.00%) Ansible
4 40 (15.87%) Prometheus
5 33 (13.10%) Grafana
6 21 (8.33%) Argo
7 19 (7.54%) Kustomize
8 9 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (2.38%) Proxmox
11 4 (1.59%) Cilium
11 4 (1.59%) logstash
12 3 (1.19%) HP Fortify
12 3 (1.19%) Puppet
12 3 (1.19%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.79%) Kibana
13 2 (0.79%) Nagios
14 1 (0.40%) CASB
14 1 (0.40%) Icinga
14 1 (0.40%) Nmap
Vendors
1 33 (13.10%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.54%) Google
3 13 (5.16%) Red Hat
4 11 (4.37%) Splunk
4 11 (4.37%) VMware
5 9 (3.57%) Cisco
5 9 (3.57%) CyberArk
5 9 (3.57%) Databricks
5 9 (3.57%) Palantir
6 6 (2.38%) Oracle
7 4 (1.59%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.19%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.19%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.19%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.19%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.79%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.79%) Informatica
9 2 (0.79%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.79%) Talend
10 1 (0.40%) New Relic