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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 211 182
Rank change year-on-year +26 -29 -49
Permanent jobs citing Bash 229 203 560
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.36% 1.56% 1.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.10% 3.44% 4.25%
Number of salaries quoted 115 170 419
10th Percentile £43,400 £42,375 £44,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £81,250 £84,688 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,778 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -10.00%

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 4,490 5,904 13,166
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.60% 45.43% 43.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,264 4,513 11,429
10th Percentile £39,438 £40,000 £38,500
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
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 25 March 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 (8.30%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (4.37%) Apache
2 10 (4.37%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.75%) CMS
3 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.75%) nginx
4 3 (1.31%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.31%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.87%) SAS
6 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.75%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.87%) Weka
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 132 (57.64%) Azure
2 125 (54.59%) AWS
3 71 (31.00%) Entra ID
4 56 (24.45%) Google Workspace
5 43 (18.78%) GitHub
6 39 (17.03%) GitHub Actions
7 30 (13.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 28 (12.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 27 (11.79%) GCP
10 23 (10.04%) Amazon EKS
10 23 (10.04%) Amazon S3
10 23 (10.04%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (8.30%) Pulumi
12 17 (7.42%) SaaS
12 17 (7.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 16 (6.99%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (6.99%) Serverless
14 15 (6.55%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (5.24%) Datadog
15 12 (5.24%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 79 (34.50%) Broadband
2 27 (11.79%) Firewall
3 22 (9.61%) VPN
4 11 (4.80%) Network Security
4 11 (4.80%) VLAN
5 9 (3.93%) DNS
6 5 (2.18%) DMZ
6 5 (2.18%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (2.18%) STUN
6 5 (2.18%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.18%) VoIP
7 4 (1.75%) DHCP
7 4 (1.75%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (1.75%) WAN
8 3 (1.31%) LAN
8 3 (1.31%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.87%) BGP
9 2 (0.87%) MPLS
9 2 (0.87%) NGFW
9 2 (0.87%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.79%) NoSQL
2 19 (8.30%) RDBMS
2 19 (8.30%) Relational Database
3 18 (7.86%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (7.86%) Apache Iceberg
3 18 (7.86%) Tableau
4 10 (4.37%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (4.37%) BigQuery
4 10 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.93%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (3.93%) Amazon QuickSight
5 9 (3.93%) Delta Lake
5 9 (3.93%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (3.93%) Looker
5 9 (3.93%) Metadata
5 9 (3.93%) Pinecone
5 9 (3.93%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.93%) Weaviate
6 8 (3.49%) MySQL
7 7 (3.06%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 27 (11.79%) Jenkins
2 19 (8.30%) Jaeger
3 17 (7.42%) Git
4 15 (6.55%) GitLab
5 9 (3.93%) MLflow
6 6 (2.62%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.18%) JIRA
7 5 (2.18%) Robot Framework
7 5 (2.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (2.18%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.75%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.75%) Vite
9 3 (1.31%) Balsamiq
9 3 (1.31%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.31%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.31%) JMeter
9 3 (1.31%) Maven
10 2 (0.87%) Postman
10 2 (0.87%) TestRail
11 1 (0.44%) Browser DevTools
General
1 69 (30.13%) Social Skills
2 62 (27.07%) Organisational Skills
3 33 (14.41%) Games
4 20 (8.73%) Finance
4 20 (8.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.68%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.68%) Retail
6 7 (3.06%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.62%) Banking
7 6 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.75%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.75%) Back Office
8 4 (1.75%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.31%) Billing
9 3 (1.31%) Marketing
9 3 (1.31%) Military
9 3 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Electronics
10 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (29.69%) Senior
2 38 (16.59%) Lead
3 34 (14.85%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (10.92%) Platform Engineer
5 23 (10.04%) Developer
6 21 (9.17%) IAM Developer
7 20 (8.73%) Systems Engineer
8 19 (8.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 18 (7.86%) DevOps Engineer
10 16 (6.99%) Consultant
11 15 (6.55%) AWS Engineer
12 14 (6.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 13 (5.68%) Data Engineer
13 13 (5.68%) Senior Developer
14 12 (5.24%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 12 (5.24%) Senior Consultant
14 12 (5.24%) Support Engineer
15 11 (4.80%) Senior DevOps
16 10 (4.37%) Azure Engineer
16 10 (4.37%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (25.33%) GraphQL
1 58 (25.33%) REST
1 58 (25.33%) SOAP
2 56 (24.45%) LDAP
2 56 (24.45%) OAuth
2 56 (24.45%) OpenID
2 56 (24.45%) SAML
3 34 (14.85%) Elastic Stack
4 19 (8.30%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (4.80%) Kafka
6 9 (3.93%) Faiss
6 9 (3.93%) PyTorch
6 9 (3.93%) TensorFlow
6 9 (3.93%) vLLM
7 7 (3.06%) Loki
8 5 (2.18%) CSS
8 5 (2.18%) FreeSWITCH
8 5 (2.18%) HTML
9 4 (1.75%) Middleware
9 4 (1.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (26.20%) Cyber Threat
2 58 (25.33%) Cyberattack
3 19 (8.30%) Product Ownership
4 13 (5.68%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (4.80%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.93%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (3.49%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (2.62%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.62%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.62%) Security Posture
9 5 (2.18%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.75%) Blog
11 3 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.87%) e-Learning
12 2 (0.87%) Marketing Technology
12 2 (0.87%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 91 (39.74%) Linux
2 29 (12.66%) Windows
3 27 (11.79%) Unix
4 10 (4.37%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.62%) CentOS
6 5 (2.18%) Debian
7 3 (1.31%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.87%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.87%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.44%) Android
9 1 (0.44%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.44%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (44.98%) DevOps
2 100 (43.67%) CI/CD
3 97 (42.36%) Mentoring
4 96 (41.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 94 (41.05%) Roadmaps
6 65 (28.38%) Cybersecurity
7 63 (27.51%) Identity Access Management
8 58 (25.33%) Programme Delivery
9 56 (24.45%) Regulatory Compliance
10 54 (23.58%) Agile
11 42 (18.34%) Containerisation
12 38 (16.59%) High Availability
13 37 (16.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 37 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
14 36 (15.72%) Cloud Security
14 36 (15.72%) Continuous Improvement
15 35 (15.28%) Performance Optimisation
16 27 (11.79%) Incident Response
16 27 (11.79%) Observability
17 26 (11.35%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 140 (61.14%) Python
2 125 (54.59%) PowerShell
3 59 (25.76%) SQL
4 56 (24.45%) T-SQL
5 47 (20.52%) Go
6 33 (14.41%) Java
7 29 (12.66%) JavaScript
8 13 (5.68%) Bicep
9 9 (3.93%) Scala
10 7 (3.06%) PHP
11 6 (2.62%) C++
11 6 (2.62%) TypeScript
12 5 (2.18%) C#
13 4 (1.75%) Perl
14 3 (1.31%) Groovy
14 3 (1.31%) VBScript
15 2 (0.87%) C
16 1 (0.44%) Korn
16 1 (0.44%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (14.85%) Degree
2 32 (13.97%) AWS Certification
3 21 (9.17%) Security Cleared
4 13 (5.68%) Azure Certification
5 11 (4.80%) SC Cleared
6 10 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (4.37%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.18%) CREST Certified
9 3 (1.31%) CCNP
9 3 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.31%) CITP
9 3 (1.31%) LPIC
10 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.87%) Linux+ Certification
10 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.87%) OSCP
11 1 (0.44%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.44%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (26.20%) NIST
2 58 (25.33%) NCSC
3 32 (13.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.37%) Data Quality
5 7 (3.06%) QA
5 7 (3.06%) SOC 2
6 5 (2.18%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.75%) GRC
8 3 (1.31%) SLA
9 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.44%) GDPR
10 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
System Software
1 76 (33.19%) Active Directory
2 68 (29.69%) Docker
3 6 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.75%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.87%) Ceph
6 2 (0.87%) Lustre
6 2 (0.87%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.87%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.44%) KVM
7 1 (0.44%) vCloud
7 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 99 (43.23%) Terraform
2 74 (32.31%) Kubernetes
3 58 (25.33%) Ansible
4 40 (17.47%) Prometheus
5 31 (13.54%) Grafana
6 21 (9.17%) Argo
7 19 (8.30%) Kustomize
8 7 (3.06%) Proxmox
8 7 (3.06%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.75%) Cilium
10 4 (1.75%) logstash
11 3 (1.31%) HP Fortify
11 3 (1.31%) Puppet
12 2 (0.87%) Kibana
12 2 (0.87%) Nagios
13 1 (0.44%) Icinga
13 1 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.44%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.44%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 26 (11.35%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.30%) Google
3 13 (5.68%) VMware
4 11 (4.80%) Splunk
5 10 (4.37%) Cisco
6 9 (3.93%) CyberArk
6 9 (3.93%) Databricks
6 9 (3.93%) Palantir
7 8 (3.49%) Red Hat
8 6 (2.62%) Oracle
9 3 (1.31%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.31%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.31%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (1.31%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.87%) Apple
10 2 (0.87%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.87%) Dell
10 2 (0.87%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.87%) Talend
10 2 (0.87%) Veeam