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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 123 186
Rank change year-on-year -103 +63 -60
Permanent jobs citing Bash 232 449 595
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.11% 2.78% 1.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.16% 7.61% 4.45%
Number of salaries quoted 133 156 314
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,306 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,641
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +11.75% -12.08%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £93,125 £95,875
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -10.71%

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 5,577 5,900 13,357
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.77% 36.50% 40.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,202 4,120 11,006
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,688 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
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 4 July 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 17 (7.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (6.47%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (4.74%) Apache
4 9 (3.88%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.16%) Jupyter
6 3 (1.29%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.86%) nginx
7 2 (0.86%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.43%) CMS
8 1 (0.43%) Confluence
8 1 (0.43%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.43%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 139 (59.91%) Azure
2 104 (44.83%) AWS
3 48 (20.69%) Entra ID
4 44 (18.97%) GitHub
5 38 (16.38%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (15.52%) Google Workspace
7 25 (10.78%) GitHub Actions
7 25 (10.78%) IaaS
8 23 (9.91%) Serverless
9 22 (9.48%) Amazon S3
10 21 (9.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 20 (8.62%) PaaS
12 19 (8.19%) Azure Monitor
12 19 (8.19%) GCP
13 18 (7.76%) Pulumi
14 16 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (6.90%) Azure AKS
15 14 (6.03%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (6.03%) Azure Key Vault
15 14 (6.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (21.12%) Broadband
2 37 (15.95%) VPN
3 29 (12.50%) Firewall
4 13 (5.60%) DNS
5 8 (3.45%) Network Security
6 6 (2.59%) VLAN
6 6 (2.59%) VoIP
7 5 (2.16%) DMZ
7 5 (2.16%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (2.16%) STUN
7 5 (2.16%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.72%) DHCP
9 3 (1.29%) SSL
10 2 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.86%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.86%) LAN
10 2 (0.86%) SAN
10 2 (0.86%) SSH
10 2 (0.86%) WAN
10 2 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.62%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (6.03%) Relational Database
2 14 (6.03%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (5.60%) NoSQL
4 12 (5.17%) RDBMS
5 9 (3.88%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (3.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (3.88%) Apache Iceberg
5 9 (3.88%) Tableau
6 8 (3.45%) MySQL
7 7 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (3.02%) DynamoDB
8 6 (2.59%) BigQuery
8 6 (2.59%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.16%) Delta Lake
9 5 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.16%) Looker
9 5 (2.16%) Pinecone
9 5 (2.16%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 31 (13.36%) Git
2 23 (9.91%) GitLab
3 22 (9.48%) Jenkins
4 12 (5.17%) Jaeger
5 8 (3.45%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.02%) JIRA
6 7 (3.02%) Maven
7 6 (2.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (2.16%) JUnit
8 5 (2.16%) MLflow
8 5 (2.16%) Mockito
8 5 (2.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (1.29%) Postman
9 3 (1.29%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.86%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.86%) JMeter
10 2 (0.86%) MSI
10 2 (0.86%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.43%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 64 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 41 (17.67%) Organisational Skills
3 29 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (8.19%) Finance
5 18 (7.76%) Games
6 17 (7.33%) Public Sector
7 12 (5.17%) Law
8 11 (4.74%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (4.74%) Retail
9 7 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.72%) Banking
10 4 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.29%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.29%) Aviation
11 3 (1.29%) Legal
11 3 (1.29%) Marketing
12 1 (0.43%) French Language
12 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.43%) Publishing
12 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (26.29%) Senior
2 33 (14.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (13.36%) Lead
4 28 (12.07%) Platform Engineer
5 22 (9.48%) Cloud Engineer
5 22 (9.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (9.05%) Developer
7 14 (6.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 14 (6.03%) Senior DevOps
7 14 (6.03%) Systems Engineer
8 13 (5.60%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (5.17%) Administrator
9 12 (5.17%) Analyst
9 12 (5.17%) IAM Developer
9 12 (5.17%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 11 (4.74%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (4.74%) Systems Administrator
11 10 (4.31%) Data Engineer
11 10 (4.31%) Support Engineer
12 9 (3.88%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (16.38%) REST
1 38 (16.38%) SAML
2 37 (15.95%) LDAP
2 37 (15.95%) OpenID
3 36 (15.52%) GraphQL
3 36 (15.52%) OAuth
3 36 (15.52%) SOAP
4 17 (7.33%) Elastic Stack
5 13 (5.60%) OpenTelemetry
5 13 (5.60%) YAML
6 9 (3.88%) Kafka
7 8 (3.45%) Loki
7 8 (3.45%) React
8 7 (3.02%) .NET
9 6 (2.59%) RESTful
10 5 (2.16%) FreeSWITCH
10 5 (2.16%) PyTorch
10 5 (2.16%) Spring
10 5 (2.16%) TensorFlow
10 5 (2.16%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 40 (17.24%) Cyber Threat
2 36 (15.52%) Cyberattack
3 32 (13.79%) Cloud Native
4 16 (6.90%) Public Cloud
4 16 (6.90%) Security Posture
5 14 (6.03%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (5.60%) Linux Command Line
7 12 (5.17%) Podcast
8 10 (4.31%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (3.88%) Onboarding
10 8 (3.45%) Management Information System
10 8 (3.45%) Product Ownership
11 7 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (3.02%) Private Cloud
12 6 (2.59%) Data Centre
13 5 (2.16%) PKI
14 3 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
15 2 (0.86%) Educational Technology
15 2 (0.86%) Hackathon
15 2 (0.86%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 88 (37.93%) Linux
2 39 (16.81%) Windows
3 16 (6.90%) Unix
4 13 (5.60%) VMS
5 8 (3.45%) Debian
5 8 (3.45%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.16%) CentOS
6 5 (2.16%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.29%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.29%) Solaris
8 3 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.43%) AIX
9 1 (0.43%) Android
9 1 (0.43%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.43%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (53.88%) CI/CD
2 113 (48.71%) DevOps
3 111 (47.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 98 (42.24%) Mentoring
5 73 (31.47%) Agile
6 65 (28.02%) Roadmaps
7 64 (27.59%) Observability
8 52 (22.41%) Platform Engineering
9 51 (21.98%) Containerisation
10 47 (20.26%) AI
11 45 (19.40%) Cloud Security
12 44 (18.97%) Cybersecurity
12 44 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
13 42 (18.10%) Identity Access Management
14 37 (15.95%) Continuous Improvement
15 36 (15.52%) Programme Delivery
15 36 (15.52%) Regulatory Compliance
16 31 (13.36%) Root Cause Analysis
17 30 (12.93%) GitOps
18 29 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 148 (63.79%) Python
2 132 (56.90%) PowerShell
3 68 (29.31%) SQL
4 37 (15.95%) Java
5 36 (15.52%) T-SQL
6 35 (15.09%) Go
7 24 (10.34%) JavaScript
8 23 (9.91%) Bicep
9 14 (6.03%) Kusto Query Language
10 10 (4.31%) C#
11 8 (3.45%) PHP
12 6 (2.59%) C++
12 6 (2.59%) Ruby
13 5 (2.16%) Perl
13 5 (2.16%) PL/SQL
13 5 (2.16%) Scala
14 4 (1.72%) TypeScript
15 3 (1.29%) C
15 3 (1.29%) Objective-C
15 3 (1.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 33 (14.22%) Security Cleared
2 29 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.91%) Azure Certification
4 22 (9.48%) AWS Certification
4 22 (9.48%) Degree
5 16 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (3.02%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.72%) CISSP
8 4 (1.72%) CREST Certified
8 4 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.72%) OSCP
9 3 (1.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.29%) CCSAM
9 3 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (1.29%) GPEN
9 3 (1.29%) GXPN
9 3 (1.29%) Linux+ Certification
9 3 (1.29%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (16.38%) NIST
2 36 (15.52%) NCSC
3 24 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 8 (3.45%) QA
5 7 (3.02%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.29%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.29%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.29%) SLA
7 1 (0.43%) GDPR
7 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 70 (30.17%) Docker
2 67 (28.88%) Active Directory
3 20 (8.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (5.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (5.17%) vSphere
5 7 (3.02%) Hyper-V
6 6 (2.59%) KVM
7 2 (0.86%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 94 (40.52%) Terraform
2 80 (34.48%) Kubernetes
3 50 (21.55%) Prometheus
4 44 (18.97%) Ansible
5 40 (17.24%) Grafana
6 31 (13.36%) Argo
7 18 (7.76%) Kustomize
8 12 (5.17%) Proxmox
9 10 (4.31%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (3.88%) Istio
11 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (2.16%) Puppet
12 4 (1.72%) Graylog
12 4 (1.72%) Kibana
12 4 (1.72%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (1.29%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (1.29%) linkerd
13 3 (1.29%) Nagios
14 2 (0.86%) CASB
Vendors
1 59 (25.43%) Microsoft
2 30 (12.93%) VMware
3 18 (7.76%) Google
4 15 (6.47%) Red Hat
5 12 (5.17%) Oracle
5 12 (5.17%) ScienceLogic
6 11 (4.74%) Splunk
7 8 (3.45%) Cisco
8 7 (3.02%) CyberArk
9 6 (2.59%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.16%) Databricks
10 5 (2.16%) Palantir
10 5 (2.16%) Veeam
11 3 (1.29%) Apple
11 3 (1.29%) Commvault
11 3 (1.29%) Dell
11 3 (1.29%) New Relic
12 2 (0.86%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.86%) BT
12 2 (0.86%) Fortinet