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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 124 166
Rank change year-on-year -80 +42 -45
Permanent jobs citing Bash 224 453 626
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.19% 3.00% 1.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.51% 7.43% 4.67%
Number of salaries quoted 119 160 344
10th Percentile £43,800 £47,231 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £81,875 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,750 £93,753 £101,054
UK median annual salary £64,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.19% +12.50% -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 4,970 6,093 13,408
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.44% 40.36% 41.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,657 4,260 11,388
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,225 £38,750
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 £79,313
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £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 20 May 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 22 (9.82%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (6.25%) Apache
3 11 (4.91%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.79%) nginx
5 3 (1.34%) CMS
5 3 (1.34%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.34%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.89%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.45%) Confluence
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.45%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.34%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (1.34%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 128 (57.14%) Azure
2 117 (52.23%) AWS
3 64 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 52 (23.21%) Google Workspace
5 34 (15.18%) GitHub
6 29 (12.95%) Amazon S3
7 28 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (9.38%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (8.93%) Amazon EKS
11 19 (8.48%) Pulumi
11 19 (8.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 17 (7.59%) GCP
13 16 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (6.70%) Serverless
15 14 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (5.80%) Azure AKS
17 12 (5.36%) SaaS
17 12 (5.36%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 72 (32.14%) Broadband
2 29 (12.95%) Firewall
3 24 (10.71%) VPN
4 11 (4.91%) DNS
5 8 (3.57%) Network Security
6 7 (3.13%) VLAN
7 6 (2.68%) VoIP
8 5 (2.23%) DMZ
8 5 (2.23%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (2.23%) STUN
9 3 (1.34%) SSL
10 2 (0.89%) BGP
10 2 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.89%) DHCP
10 2 (0.89%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.89%) LAN
10 2 (0.89%) OSPF
10 2 (0.89%) SAN
10 2 (0.89%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.89%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.48%) NoSQL
2 18 (8.04%) Amazon Redshift
2 18 (8.04%) Apache Iceberg
2 18 (8.04%) RDBMS
2 18 (8.04%) Relational Database
2 18 (8.04%) Tableau
3 12 (5.36%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (5.36%) SQL Server
4 11 (4.91%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (4.91%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (4.46%) BigQuery
5 10 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (4.02%) Amazon QuickSight
6 9 (4.02%) Delta Lake
6 9 (4.02%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (4.02%) Looker
6 9 (4.02%) Metadata
6 9 (4.02%) Pinecone
6 9 (4.02%) Weaviate
7 7 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 19 (8.48%) Git
2 18 (8.04%) Jaeger
3 17 (7.59%) Jenkins
4 16 (7.14%) GitLab
5 9 (4.02%) MLflow
6 7 (3.13%) Maven
7 6 (2.68%) JIRA
8 5 (2.23%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (1.79%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.34%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.34%) JUnit
10 3 (1.34%) Mockito
10 3 (1.34%) Vite
11 2 (0.89%) Postman
11 2 (0.89%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.45%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.45%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.45%) TestRail
12 1 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 60 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 58 (25.89%) Organisational Skills
3 29 (12.95%) Games
4 22 (9.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.80%) Finance
7 11 (4.91%) Retail
8 9 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.23%) Banking
11 4 (1.79%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.34%) Billing
12 3 (1.34%) Legal
12 3 (1.34%) Marketing
13 1 (0.45%) Aviation
13 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.45%) Publishing
13 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (29.02%) Senior
2 42 (18.75%) Lead
3 25 (11.16%) Platform Engineer
4 24 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
4 24 (10.71%) Developer
4 24 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (8.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (8.93%) Systems Engineer
6 18 (8.04%) IAM Developer
7 16 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 15 (6.70%) AWS Engineer
8 15 (6.70%) Senior DevOps
9 14 (6.25%) Data Engineer
10 13 (5.80%) Consultant
11 11 (4.91%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 11 (4.91%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (4.91%) Senior Developer
12 10 (4.46%) Linux Engineer
12 10 (4.46%) Support Engineer
13 9 (4.02%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (24.11%) REST
1 54 (24.11%) SAML
2 53 (23.66%) GraphQL
2 53 (23.66%) LDAP
2 53 (23.66%) OpenID
2 53 (23.66%) SOAP
3 52 (23.21%) OAuth
4 24 (10.71%) Elastic Stack
5 18 (8.04%) OpenTelemetry
6 11 (4.91%) Loki
7 10 (4.46%) Kafka
8 9 (4.02%) Faiss
8 9 (4.02%) PyTorch
8 9 (4.02%) TensorFlow
8 9 (4.02%) vLLM
9 7 (3.13%) YAML
10 6 (2.68%) Spring
11 5 (2.23%) AngularJS
11 5 (2.23%) FreeSWITCH
11 5 (2.23%) React
Miscellaneous
1 57 (25.45%) Cyber Threat
2 53 (23.66%) Cyberattack
3 14 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (4.02%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.02%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (4.02%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.13%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.13%) Private Cloud
6 7 (3.13%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.23%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.79%) PKI
8 4 (1.79%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.89%) Clustering
9 2 (0.89%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (0.89%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.45%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 88 (39.29%) Linux
2 23 (10.27%) Windows
3 20 (8.93%) Unix
4 8 (3.57%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.23%) Debian
6 4 (1.79%) CentOS
6 4 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.89%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.89%) Solaris
9 1 (0.45%) AIX
9 1 (0.45%) Android
9 1 (0.45%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.45%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (46.88%) CI/CD
1 105 (46.88%) Mentoring
2 95 (42.41%) DevOps
3 89 (39.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 86 (38.39%) Roadmaps
5 59 (26.34%) Cybersecurity
6 56 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
7 54 (24.11%) Agile
8 53 (23.66%) Programme Delivery
9 52 (23.21%) Regulatory Compliance
10 39 (17.41%) Observability
11 38 (16.96%) Containerisation
11 38 (16.96%) High Availability
12 36 (16.07%) Platform Engineering
13 35 (15.63%) Cloud Security
14 32 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
15 30 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
16 28 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 27 (12.05%) AI
17 27 (12.05%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 138 (61.61%) Python
2 116 (51.79%) PowerShell
3 60 (26.79%) SQL
4 52 (23.21%) T-SQL
5 41 (18.30%) Java
6 40 (17.86%) Go
7 28 (12.50%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.46%) Bicep
9 9 (4.02%) Scala
10 8 (3.57%) C++
11 7 (3.13%) PHP
12 6 (2.68%) C#
12 6 (2.68%) Perl
12 6 (2.68%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.79%) C
13 4 (1.79%) Groovy
14 3 (1.34%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.34%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.34%) Ruby
14 3 (1.34%) Rust
Qualifications
1 30 (13.39%) Degree
2 26 (11.61%) AWS Certification
3 21 (9.38%) Security Cleared
4 17 (7.59%) SC Cleared
5 11 (4.91%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.79%) CREST Certified
8 4 (1.79%) OSCP
9 3 (1.34%) CCSAM
9 3 (1.34%) GPEN
9 3 (1.34%) GXPN
9 3 (1.34%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.34%) LPIC
9 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.34%) OSCE
10 2 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.89%) CISM
10 2 (0.89%) CISSP
10 2 (0.89%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (24.55%) NIST
2 53 (23.66%) NCSC
3 29 (12.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (5.80%) Data Quality
5 8 (3.57%) QA
6 6 (2.68%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.34%) SLA
8 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.45%) GDPR
9 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 72 (32.14%) Active Directory
2 69 (30.80%) Docker
3 6 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.23%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.79%) KVM
6 2 (0.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 81 (36.16%) Terraform
2 70 (31.25%) Kubernetes
3 43 (19.20%) Ansible
4 41 (18.30%) Prometheus
5 27 (12.05%) Grafana
6 26 (11.61%) Argo
7 22 (9.82%) Kustomize
8 11 (4.91%) Proxmox
9 9 (4.02%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.79%) HP Fortify
10 4 (1.79%) Istio
10 4 (1.79%) logstash
11 3 (1.34%) Graylog
11 3 (1.34%) Kibana
11 3 (1.34%) Puppet
11 3 (1.34%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.89%) CASB
12 2 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.89%) Nagios
Vendors
1 34 (15.18%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.48%) Google
3 15 (6.70%) VMware
4 13 (5.80%) Red Hat
5 9 (4.02%) Databricks
5 9 (4.02%) Palantir
6 8 (3.57%) Cisco
6 8 (3.57%) CyberArk
7 5 (2.23%) Oracle
7 5 (2.23%) Splunk
8 4 (1.79%) Veeam
9 3 (1.34%) Dell
10 2 (0.89%) Apple
10 2 (0.89%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.89%) BT
10 2 (0.89%) Commvault
10 2 (0.89%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.89%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.89%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.89%) ServiceNow