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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 207 143
Rank change year-on-year +30 -64 0
Permanent jobs citing Bash 219 265 525
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.43% 1.63% 2.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.25% 3.75% 4.93%
Number of salaries quoted 122 183 421
10th Percentile £42,750 £37,500 £42,874
25th Percentile £56,250 £42,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,125 £90,000
90th Percentile £99,500 £93,778 £102,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.11% -6.64%

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 4,174 7,076 10,648
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.21% 43.43% 45.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,142 4,416 9,123
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +7.44% -6.92%

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 January 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 14 (6.39%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (4.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.11%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.65%) Apache
4 7 (3.20%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.28%) nginx
6 4 (1.83%) CMS
7 2 (0.91%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.91%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.83%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.91%) Weka
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 122 (55.71%) Azure
2 109 (49.77%) AWS
3 59 (26.94%) Entra ID
4 43 (19.63%) GitHub
5 40 (18.26%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (17.35%) GitHub Actions
7 36 (16.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 35 (15.98%) Google Workspace
9 31 (14.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 24 (10.96%) Amazon EKS
11 23 (10.50%) GCP
12 21 (9.59%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (8.68%) Azure AKS
13 19 (8.68%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (7.31%) Amazon S3
15 15 (6.85%) Serverless
16 14 (6.39%) Pulumi
16 14 (6.39%) SaaS
17 13 (5.94%) AWS Lambda
18 12 (5.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 53 (24.20%) Broadband
2 17 (7.76%) Firewall
3 11 (5.02%) VPN
4 10 (4.57%) Network Security
5 8 (3.65%) DNS
6 6 (2.74%) TCP/IP
6 6 (2.74%) WAN
7 5 (2.28%) LAN
7 5 (2.28%) SAN
7 5 (2.28%) VLAN
8 4 (1.83%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (1.37%) InfiniBand
9 3 (1.37%) SD-WAN
9 3 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.91%) BGP
10 2 (0.91%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.91%) DHCP
10 2 (0.91%) MPLS
10 2 (0.91%) NGFW
10 2 (0.91%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.96%) NoSQL
2 15 (6.85%) Relational Database
3 14 (6.39%) RDBMS
4 13 (5.94%) Amazon Redshift
4 13 (5.94%) Apache Iceberg
4 13 (5.94%) Tableau
5 12 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (3.20%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (3.20%) Amazon QuickSight
6 7 (3.20%) BigQuery
6 7 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.20%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (3.20%) Metadata
6 7 (3.20%) MySQL
7 6 (2.74%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (2.74%) Delta Lake
7 6 (2.74%) Looker
7 6 (2.74%) Pinecone
7 6 (2.74%) Weaviate
8 5 (2.28%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 39 (17.81%) Jenkins
2 18 (8.22%) GitLab
3 15 (6.85%) Git
4 14 (6.39%) Jaeger
5 6 (2.74%) MLflow
5 6 (2.74%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.28%) Robot Framework
7 4 (1.83%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.83%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.83%) Vite
8 3 (1.37%) Balsamiq
8 3 (1.37%) Burp Suite
8 3 (1.37%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.37%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.37%) JMeter
8 3 (1.37%) Maven
8 3 (1.37%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.91%) TestRail
10 1 (0.46%) git-flow
10 1 (0.46%) JIRA
General
1 58 (26.48%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.81%) Finance
3 37 (16.89%) Organisational Skills
4 23 (10.50%) Games
5 14 (6.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (5.94%) Telecoms
7 11 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (3.65%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.74%) Banking
9 6 (2.74%) Retail
10 4 (1.83%) Back Office
10 4 (1.83%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.37%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.37%) Billing
11 3 (1.37%) Military
12 2 (0.91%) Electronics
12 2 (0.91%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.91%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.91%) Marketing
13 1 (0.46%) Law
Job Titles
1 59 (26.94%) Senior
2 32 (14.61%) Lead
3 30 (13.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 27 (12.33%) Platform Engineer
5 25 (11.42%) DevOps Engineer
6 24 (10.96%) Linux Engineer
7 17 (7.76%) Developer
8 16 (7.31%) IAM Developer
9 14 (6.39%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (5.94%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (5.94%) Systems Engineer
11 12 (5.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 12 (5.48%) Senior Developer
12 11 (5.02%) Automation Engineer
13 10 (4.57%) Data Engineer
13 10 (4.57%) Senior DevOps
14 9 (4.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 9 (4.11%) Senior Consultant
14 9 (4.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 9 (4.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (17.81%) REST
2 38 (17.35%) GraphQL
2 38 (17.35%) SOAP
3 35 (15.98%) LDAP
3 35 (15.98%) OAuth
3 35 (15.98%) OpenID
3 35 (15.98%) SAML
4 31 (14.16%) Elastic Stack
5 14 (6.39%) OpenTelemetry
6 9 (4.11%) Kafka
7 6 (2.74%) Faiss
7 6 (2.74%) Loki
7 6 (2.74%) PyTorch
7 6 (2.74%) TensorFlow
7 6 (2.74%) vLLM
8 4 (1.83%) ARM Templates
8 4 (1.83%) AWS CDK
8 4 (1.83%) AWS SAM
8 4 (1.83%) Tailwind CSS
8 4 (1.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.89%) Cyber Threat
1 37 (16.89%) Cyberattack
2 28 (12.79%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.02%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (4.57%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.57%) Security Posture
5 4 (1.83%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.83%) Blog
5 4 (1.83%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.37%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.91%) e-Learning
7 2 (0.91%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.91%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.91%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.46%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.46%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 105 (47.95%) Linux
2 38 (17.35%) Windows
3 33 (15.07%) Unix
4 7 (3.20%) Debian
4 7 (3.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.20%) Solaris
5 5 (2.28%) CentOS
5 5 (2.28%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.37%) VMS
7 2 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.46%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (54.79%) DevOps
2 97 (44.29%) CI/CD
3 96 (43.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 78 (35.62%) Roadmaps
5 69 (31.51%) Mentoring
6 61 (27.85%) Agile
7 55 (25.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 48 (21.92%) Cybersecurity
9 41 (18.72%) Identity Access Management
10 40 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
11 39 (17.81%) Cloud Security
12 37 (16.89%) Containerisation
12 37 (16.89%) Programme Delivery
13 35 (15.98%) Regulatory Compliance
14 34 (15.53%) AI
15 32 (14.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 31 (14.16%) ITIL
17 30 (13.70%) High Availability
17 30 (13.70%) Incident Response
18 29 (13.24%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 155 (70.78%) Python
2 118 (53.88%) PowerShell
3 40 (18.26%) SQL
4 35 (15.98%) T-SQL
5 34 (15.53%) Go
6 28 (12.79%) Java
7 22 (10.05%) JavaScript
8 21 (9.59%) Bicep
9 10 (4.57%) Perl
10 9 (4.11%) TypeScript
11 8 (3.65%) C++
12 6 (2.74%) Scala
13 5 (2.28%) C
13 5 (2.28%) Korn
14 4 (1.83%) Fortran
14 4 (1.83%) PHP
15 3 (1.37%) C#
15 3 (1.37%) Groovy
15 3 (1.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 35 (15.98%) AWS Certification
1 35 (15.98%) Security Cleared
2 32 (14.61%) Degree
3 19 (8.68%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.39%) Azure Certification
5 12 (5.48%) DV Cleared
6 8 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.74%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.28%) CCNP
10 4 (1.83%) GCIH
10 4 (1.83%) PhD
11 3 (1.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.37%) CCNA
11 3 (1.37%) CCSP
11 3 (1.37%) CISSP
11 3 (1.37%) CITP
11 3 (1.37%) CREST Certified
12 2 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (17.81%) NIST
2 37 (16.89%) NCSC
3 22 (10.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (5.02%) GDPR
5 8 (3.65%) Data Quality
5 8 (3.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (2.74%) QA
7 5 (2.28%) SLA
8 4 (1.83%) GRC
8 4 (1.83%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.83%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
System Software
1 58 (26.48%) Docker
2 45 (20.55%) Active Directory
3 13 (5.94%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (4.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (4.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.37%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.91%) Ceph
6 2 (0.91%) Lustre
7 1 (0.46%) vCloud
7 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 109 (49.77%) Terraform
2 72 (32.88%) Kubernetes
3 67 (30.59%) Ansible
4 32 (14.61%) Grafana
5 31 (14.16%) Prometheus
6 16 (7.31%) Argo
7 14 (6.39%) Kustomize
8 11 (5.02%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (3.20%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (1.83%) Cilium
10 4 (1.83%) logstash
11 3 (1.37%) HP Fortify
11 3 (1.37%) Nmap
12 2 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.91%) Puppet
13 1 (0.46%) Icinga
13 1 (0.46%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.46%) Proxmox
13 1 (0.46%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 1 (0.46%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (10.96%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.85%) Red Hat
3 14 (6.39%) Google
4 11 (5.02%) VMware
5 10 (4.57%) Splunk
6 7 (3.20%) Oracle
7 6 (2.74%) Cisco
7 6 (2.74%) Databricks
7 6 (2.74%) Palantir
8 5 (2.28%) Fortinet
8 5 (2.28%) NetApp
9 4 (1.83%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (1.37%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.37%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.37%) Rapid7
10 3 (1.37%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.91%) Informatica
11 2 (0.91%) Juniper
11 2 (0.91%) SAP
11 2 (0.91%) Veeam