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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 124 177
Rank change year-on-year -127 +53 -47
Permanent jobs citing Bash 207 451 536
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.96% 2.74% 1.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.54% 7.79% 4.77%
Number of salaries quoted 140 159 267
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,661 £44,738
25th Percentile £47,236 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +16.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £69,063 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £94,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +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 5,849 5,793 11,234
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.99% 35.14% 39.08%
Number of salaries quoted 4,412 4,034 9,066
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £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 £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.78% +7.50% -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 23 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 (8.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.38%) Apache
4 5 (2.42%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.42%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.45%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.48%) Confluence
6 1 (0.48%) nginx
6 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.48%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.97%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 132 (63.77%) Azure
2 93 (44.93%) AWS
3 46 (22.22%) GitHub
4 38 (18.36%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (16.91%) Entra ID
6 28 (13.53%) GitHub Actions
7 25 (12.08%) Serverless
8 24 (11.59%) IaaS
9 21 (10.14%) PaaS
10 20 (9.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 20 (9.66%) Azure Monitor
11 19 (9.18%) Amazon S3
11 19 (9.18%) GCP
12 18 (8.70%) Google Workspace
13 17 (8.21%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (7.73%) Microsoft 365
15 15 (7.25%) Azure AKS
15 15 (7.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 14 (6.76%) Azure Key Vault
16 14 (6.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (17.87%) VPN
2 30 (14.49%) Firewall
3 20 (9.66%) Broadband
4 15 (7.25%) DNS
5 9 (4.35%) Network Security
6 7 (3.38%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.90%) VLAN
8 5 (2.42%) VoIP
9 4 (1.93%) DHCP
9 4 (1.93%) DMZ
9 4 (1.93%) Kerberos
9 4 (1.93%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (1.93%) SSH
9 4 (1.93%) STUN
10 3 (1.45%) SSL
11 2 (0.97%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.97%) LAN
11 2 (0.97%) SAN
11 2 (0.97%) WAN
11 2 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.28%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (6.28%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.38%) DynamoDB
4 6 (2.90%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (2.90%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.90%) MySQL
5 5 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.45%) Apache Iceberg
6 3 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.45%) Redis
6 3 (1.45%) Tableau
7 2 (0.97%) Big Data
7 2 (0.97%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.97%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.97%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.97%) Looker
7 2 (0.97%) Pinecone
7 2 (0.97%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 27 (13.04%) Git
2 25 (12.08%) Jenkins
3 23 (11.11%) GitLab
4 8 (3.86%) JIRA
4 8 (3.86%) Maven
5 7 (3.38%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (2.90%) JUnit
6 6 (2.90%) Mockito
7 5 (2.42%) Postman
8 4 (1.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (1.45%) JMeter
10 2 (0.97%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.97%) MLflow
10 2 (0.97%) MSI
10 2 (0.97%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.48%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.48%) TestRail
11 1 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 58 (28.02%) Social Skills
2 23 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 22 (10.63%) Finance
4 18 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 17 (8.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.80%) Law
8 10 (4.83%) Retail
9 8 (3.86%) Games
10 6 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.93%) Banking
12 3 (1.45%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.45%) Aviation
12 3 (1.45%) Legal
12 3 (1.45%) Marketing
12 3 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.48%) French Language
13 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (23.19%) Senior
2 35 (16.91%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (13.53%) Platform Engineer
4 23 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (7.25%) Developer
5 15 (7.25%) Lead
6 14 (6.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (6.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 13 (6.28%) Senior DevOps
8 12 (5.80%) Administrator
8 12 (5.80%) Analyst
8 12 (5.80%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 11 (5.31%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (5.31%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (4.83%) Systems Administrator
11 9 (4.35%) Support Engineer
12 8 (3.86%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 8 (3.86%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (3.86%) Java Developer
12 8 (3.86%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (11.59%) SAML
2 23 (11.11%) OpenID
2 23 (11.11%) REST
3 22 (10.63%) OAuth
4 20 (9.66%) GraphQL
4 20 (9.66%) SOAP
5 19 (9.18%) LDAP
6 14 (6.76%) YAML
7 9 (4.35%) React
8 7 (3.38%) .NET
8 7 (3.38%) Loki
9 6 (2.90%) RESTful
9 6 (2.90%) Spring
10 5 (2.42%) Kafka
11 4 (1.93%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (1.93%) FreeSWITCH
11 4 (1.93%) OAuth2
11 4 (1.93%) OpenTelemetry
12 3 (1.45%) AngularJS
12 3 (1.45%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 33 (15.94%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.63%) Cyber Threat
3 18 (8.70%) Cyberattack
4 16 (7.73%) Linux Command Line
4 16 (7.73%) Public Cloud
4 16 (7.73%) Security Posture
5 12 (5.80%) Podcast
6 11 (5.31%) PKI
6 11 (5.31%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (4.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (4.83%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (3.86%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.90%) Private Cloud
10 5 (2.42%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.93%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (1.45%) FPGA
13 2 (0.97%) CSOC
13 2 (0.97%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 77 (37.20%) Linux
2 43 (20.77%) Windows
3 13 (6.28%) VMS
4 7 (3.38%) Debian
4 7 (3.38%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.90%) Unix
6 5 (2.42%) CentOS
6 5 (2.42%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.93%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.45%) Solaris
8 3 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.97%) Android
10 1 (0.48%) AIX
10 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.48%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.48%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (58.94%) CI/CD
2 102 (49.28%) DevOps
3 97 (46.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (34.78%) Mentoring
5 63 (30.43%) Observability
6 61 (29.47%) Agile
7 51 (24.64%) Platform Engineering
8 48 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
9 46 (22.22%) AI
9 46 (22.22%) Cloud Security
10 43 (20.77%) Containerisation
11 39 (18.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (14.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 31 (14.98%) Root Cause Analysis
13 30 (14.49%) Cybersecurity
13 30 (14.49%) Identity Access Management
13 30 (14.49%) Roadmaps
14 29 (14.01%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 26 (12.56%) DevSecOps
16 25 (12.08%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 140 (67.63%) Python
2 121 (58.45%) PowerShell
3 53 (25.60%) SQL
4 25 (12.08%) Java
5 23 (11.11%) Bicep
6 20 (9.66%) Go
7 18 (8.70%) T-SQL
8 16 (7.73%) Kusto Query Language
9 14 (6.76%) JavaScript
10 9 (4.35%) C#
11 7 (3.38%) PHP
12 6 (2.90%) C++
12 6 (2.90%) PL/SQL
12 6 (2.90%) Ruby
13 4 (1.93%) Perl
13 4 (1.93%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.45%) C
14 3 (1.45%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.45%) Rust
15 2 (0.97%) Korn
Qualifications
1 35 (16.91%) Security Cleared
2 32 (15.46%) SC Cleared
3 24 (11.59%) Azure Certification
4 18 (8.70%) Degree
5 16 (7.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (4.35%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.90%) CISSP
7 6 (2.90%) CompTIA Security+
7 6 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.42%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.93%) CompTIA CySA+
9 4 (1.93%) CREST Certified
9 4 (1.93%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.93%) OSCP
10 3 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.45%) CCSAM
10 3 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.45%) GPEN
10 3 (1.45%) GXPN
10 3 (1.45%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.63%) NIST
2 20 (9.66%) NCSC
3 18 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (4.35%) QA
5 7 (3.38%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.93%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.45%) SLA
8 2 (0.97%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.48%) GDPR
9 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 60 (28.99%) Docker
2 53 (25.60%) Active Directory
3 21 (10.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (5.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (5.80%) vSphere
5 8 (3.86%) Hyper-V
6 6 (2.90%) KVM
7 2 (0.97%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 84 (40.58%) Terraform
2 72 (34.78%) Kubernetes
3 42 (20.29%) Grafana
4 41 (19.81%) Prometheus
5 33 (15.94%) Ansible
6 19 (9.18%) Argo
7 11 (5.31%) Proxmox
8 10 (4.83%) Istio
9 7 (3.38%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (2.90%) Kustomize
10 6 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (2.42%) Puppet
12 4 (1.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (1.93%) Graylog
12 4 (1.93%) Kibana
12 4 (1.93%) linkerd
12 4 (1.93%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.45%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (1.45%) Nagios
13 3 (1.45%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 67 (32.37%) Microsoft
2 30 (14.49%) VMware
3 15 (7.25%) Oracle
3 15 (7.25%) Red Hat
4 12 (5.80%) ScienceLogic
5 11 (5.31%) Splunk
6 10 (4.83%) Cisco
6 10 (4.83%) CyberArk
7 8 (3.86%) Google
7 8 (3.86%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.90%) New Relic
9 5 (2.42%) Veeam
10 4 (1.93%) Apple
10 4 (1.93%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.45%) Commvault
11 3 (1.45%) Dell
12 2 (0.97%) BT
12 2 (0.97%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.97%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.97%) Palantir