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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 128 178
Rank change year-on-year -101 +50 -48
Permanent jobs citing Bash 220 449 564
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.02% 2.72% 1.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.79% 7.70% 4.68%
Number of salaries quoted 141 157 285
10th Percentile £42,500 £49,500 £44,738
25th Percentile £46,446 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +16.00% -13.19%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £94,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -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 5,800 5,830 12,053
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.91% 35.34% 39.56%
Number of salaries quoted 4,379 4,068 9,797
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 £82,500 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £107,500
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 19 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 (7.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (4.09%) Apache
4 7 (3.18%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.27%) Jupyter
6 3 (1.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (1.36%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.45%) Confluence
7 1 (0.45%) nginx
7 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.45%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.91%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 138 (62.73%) Azure
2 102 (46.36%) AWS
3 45 (20.45%) GitHub
4 41 (18.64%) Entra ID
5 38 (17.27%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (12.27%) GitHub Actions
7 25 (11.36%) IaaS
8 24 (10.91%) Google Workspace
8 24 (10.91%) Serverless
9 21 (9.55%) PaaS
10 20 (9.09%) Amazon S3
10 20 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
10 20 (9.09%) GCP
11 19 (8.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (7.27%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (6.82%) Azure AKS
14 14 (6.36%) Azure Key Vault
14 14 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (6.36%) SaaS
15 13 (5.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 38 (17.27%) VPN
2 31 (14.09%) Broadband
3 30 (13.64%) Firewall
4 14 (6.36%) DNS
5 9 (4.09%) Network Security
6 7 (3.18%) VLAN
7 6 (2.73%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.73%) VoIP
8 5 (2.27%) DMZ
8 5 (2.27%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (2.27%) STUN
9 4 (1.82%) DHCP
9 4 (1.82%) Kerberos
9 4 (1.82%) SSH
10 3 (1.36%) SSL
11 2 (0.91%) LAN
11 2 (0.91%) SAN
11 2 (0.91%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.91%) WAN
11 2 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.55%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (6.36%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.91%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (3.64%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.18%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (3.18%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.18%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.73%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.73%) MySQL
6 6 (2.73%) RDBMS
7 5 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (2.27%) Apache Iceberg
7 5 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.27%) Tableau
8 4 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.82%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.36%) Big Data
9 3 (1.36%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.36%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (12.73%) Git
2 24 (10.91%) Jenkins
3 22 (10.00%) GitLab
4 8 (3.64%) Maven
5 7 (3.18%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.18%) Jaeger
5 7 (3.18%) JIRA
6 6 (2.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (2.73%) JUnit
6 6 (2.73%) Mockito
7 5 (2.27%) Postman
7 5 (2.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (1.36%) JMeter
8 3 (1.36%) MLflow
9 2 (0.91%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.91%) MSI
9 2 (0.91%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.45%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.45%) TestRail
10 1 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 60 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 29 (13.18%) Organisational Skills
3 23 (10.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (10.00%) Finance
5 21 (9.55%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.45%) Games
7 12 (5.45%) Law
8 11 (5.00%) Retail
9 7 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.82%) Banking
11 3 (1.36%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.36%) Aviation
11 3 (1.36%) Legal
11 3 (1.36%) Marketing
11 3 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.45%) French Language
12 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (23.64%) Senior
2 34 (15.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (12.27%) Platform Engineer
4 26 (11.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 22 (10.00%) Lead
6 18 (8.18%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (8.18%) Developer
7 13 (5.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 13 (5.91%) Senior DevOps
8 12 (5.45%) Administrator
8 12 (5.45%) Analyst
8 12 (5.45%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 11 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (4.55%) Support Engineer
10 10 (4.55%) Systems Administrator
11 9 (4.09%) Systems Engineer
12 8 (3.64%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 8 (3.64%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (3.64%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (13.64%) SAML
2 29 (13.18%) OpenID
3 28 (12.73%) OAuth
4 27 (12.27%) REST
5 25 (11.36%) LDAP
6 24 (10.91%) GraphQL
6 24 (10.91%) SOAP
7 14 (6.36%) YAML
8 10 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (4.09%) OpenTelemetry
9 9 (4.09%) React
10 7 (3.18%) .NET
10 7 (3.18%) Kafka
10 7 (3.18%) Loki
11 6 (2.73%) RESTful
11 6 (2.73%) Spring
12 5 (2.27%) FreeSWITCH
13 4 (1.82%) OAuth2
14 3 (1.36%) AngularJS
14 3 (1.36%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.55%) Cloud Native
2 28 (12.73%) Cyber Threat
3 24 (10.91%) Cyberattack
4 19 (8.64%) Linux Command Line
5 16 (7.27%) Public Cloud
5 16 (7.27%) Security Posture
6 13 (5.91%) Onboarding
7 12 (5.45%) Podcast
7 12 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (4.55%) PKI
10 9 (4.09%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (3.64%) Management Information System
12 6 (2.73%) Private Cloud
13 5 (2.27%) Data Centre
13 5 (2.27%) Product Ownership
14 3 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
15 2 (0.91%) Educational Technology
15 2 (0.91%) Hackathon
15 2 (0.91%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 83 (37.73%) Linux
2 43 (19.55%) Windows
3 13 (5.91%) VMS
4 12 (5.45%) Unix
5 8 (3.64%) Debian
5 8 (3.64%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.27%) CentOS
6 5 (2.27%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.36%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.36%) Solaris
8 3 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.45%) AIX
9 1 (0.45%) Android
9 1 (0.45%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.45%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (55.45%) CI/CD
2 108 (49.09%) DevOps
3 105 (47.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 85 (38.64%) Mentoring
5 66 (30.00%) Agile
6 62 (28.18%) Observability
7 50 (22.73%) Platform Engineering
8 48 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
9 47 (21.36%) Containerisation
10 46 (20.91%) AI
11 44 (20.00%) Cloud Security
11 44 (20.00%) Roadmaps
12 37 (16.82%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (16.36%) Identity Access Management
14 34 (15.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 33 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
16 31 (14.09%) Root Cause Analysis
17 27 (12.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 26 (11.82%) Analytics
18 26 (11.82%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 145 (65.91%) Python
2 128 (58.18%) PowerShell
3 60 (27.27%) SQL
4 32 (14.55%) Java
5 26 (11.82%) Go
6 24 (10.91%) T-SQL
7 23 (10.45%) Bicep
8 20 (9.09%) JavaScript
9 15 (6.82%) Kusto Query Language
10 10 (4.55%) C#
11 7 (3.18%) PHP
12 6 (2.73%) C++
12 6 (2.73%) PL/SQL
12 6 (2.73%) Ruby
13 4 (1.82%) Perl
13 4 (1.82%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.36%) C
14 3 (1.36%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.36%) Rust
14 3 (1.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 31 (14.09%) SC Cleared
3 25 (11.36%) Azure Certification
4 20 (9.09%) Degree
5 15 (6.82%) AWS Certification
5 15 (6.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.27%) CISSP
7 5 (2.27%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (2.27%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.82%) CREST Certified
8 4 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.82%) OSCP
9 3 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.36%) CCSAM
9 3 (1.36%) CompTIA CySA+
9 3 (1.36%) GPEN
9 3 (1.36%) GXPN
9 3 (1.36%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.36%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.82%) NIST
2 24 (10.91%) NCSC
3 18 (8.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (4.09%) QA
5 7 (3.18%) SOC 2
6 6 (2.73%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.36%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.36%) SLA
8 1 (0.45%) GDPR
8 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 64 (29.09%) Docker
2 60 (27.27%) Active Directory
3 21 (9.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (5.45%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (5.45%) vSphere
5 8 (3.64%) Hyper-V
6 6 (2.73%) KVM
7 2 (0.91%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 88 (40.00%) Terraform
2 75 (34.09%) Kubernetes
3 45 (20.45%) Prometheus
4 40 (18.18%) Grafana
5 38 (17.27%) Ansible
6 25 (11.36%) Argo
7 12 (5.45%) Kustomize
8 11 (5.00%) Proxmox
9 10 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (4.09%) Istio
11 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.82%) Graylog
12 4 (1.82%) Kibana
12 4 (1.82%) Puppet
12 4 (1.82%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (1.36%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (1.36%) linkerd
13 3 (1.36%) Nagios
14 2 (0.91%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 66 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 30 (13.64%) VMware
3 15 (6.82%) Oracle
3 15 (6.82%) Red Hat
4 12 (5.45%) Google
4 12 (5.45%) ScienceLogic
5 11 (5.00%) CyberArk
5 11 (5.00%) Splunk
6 10 (4.55%) Cisco
7 8 (3.64%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.73%) New Relic
9 5 (2.27%) Veeam
10 3 (1.36%) Apple
10 3 (1.36%) Commvault
10 3 (1.36%) Databricks
10 3 (1.36%) Dell
10 3 (1.36%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.36%) Palantir
11 2 (0.91%) BT
11 2 (0.91%) Dynatrace