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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 120 156
Rank change year-on-year -166 +36 -36
Permanent jobs citing Bash 176 445 515
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.76% 2.69% 2.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.88% 8.34% 5.44%
Number of salaries quoted 120 151 226
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £45,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +16.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £64,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +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 6,108 5,336 9,464
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.54% 32.22% 38.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,601 3,666 7,210
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £38,975
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +2.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 22 August 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 16 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.98%) Apache
2 7 (3.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.41%) Jupyter
4 4 (2.27%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.70%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.14%) nginx
7 1 (0.57%) Confluence
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.57%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.14%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 111 (63.07%) Azure
2 85 (48.30%) AWS
3 42 (23.86%) GitHub
4 39 (22.16%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (13.07%) Serverless
7 22 (12.50%) PaaS
8 21 (11.93%) Azure Monitor
8 21 (11.93%) IaaS
9 20 (11.36%) GCP
10 17 (9.66%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (9.66%) Azure AKS
11 16 (9.09%) Amazon S3
12 15 (8.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (8.52%) Azure Key Vault
12 15 (8.52%) Entra ID
13 14 (7.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (7.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 14 (7.95%) Azure Functions
13 14 (7.95%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (15.91%) VPN
2 21 (11.93%) Firewall
3 17 (9.66%) DNS
4 11 (6.25%) TCP/IP
5 7 (3.98%) Network Security
6 6 (3.41%) DHCP
7 4 (2.27%) Kerberos
7 4 (2.27%) SSH
8 3 (1.70%) Broadband
9 2 (1.14%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (1.14%) LAN
9 2 (1.14%) NGFW
9 2 (1.14%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.14%) SSL
9 2 (1.14%) WAN
9 2 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.57%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.57%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.57%) Skype
10 1 (0.57%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.23%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.95%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (4.55%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.98%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.41%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.84%) MySQL
6 5 (2.84%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.70%) Big Data
7 3 (1.70%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.70%) Redis
8 2 (1.14%) DocumentDB
8 2 (1.14%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.57%) GIS
9 1 (0.57%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.57%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 27 (15.34%) Git
2 26 (14.77%) Jenkins
3 23 (13.07%) GitLab
4 12 (6.82%) Maven
5 10 (5.68%) JUnit
5 10 (5.68%) Mockito
6 7 (3.98%) Bitbucket
7 6 (3.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (3.41%) JIRA
8 5 (2.84%) Postman
9 3 (1.70%) JMeter
10 2 (1.14%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.14%) MSI
10 2 (1.14%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.57%) CMake
11 1 (0.57%) GDB
11 1 (0.57%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.57%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.57%) TestRail
General
1 50 (28.41%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.91%) Finance
3 20 (11.36%) Public Sector
4 17 (9.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.39%) Law
6 7 (3.98%) Retail
7 6 (3.41%) Legal
8 5 (2.84%) Banking
9 3 (1.70%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.70%) Aviation
9 3 (1.70%) Marketing
9 3 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Electronics
11 1 (0.57%) French Language
11 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.57%) Police
11 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (21.02%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (19.32%) Senior
3 27 (15.34%) Platform Engineer
4 14 (7.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (7.95%) Lead
5 13 (7.39%) Analyst
5 13 (7.39%) Azure Engineer
5 13 (7.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 13 (7.39%) Developer
6 12 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (6.82%) Full-Stack Developer
6 12 (6.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 12 (6.82%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 12 (6.82%) Java Developer
7 8 (4.55%) Administrator
7 8 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (4.55%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 8 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
8 7 (3.98%) Senior Developer
8 7 (3.98%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (46.59%) Terraform
2 14 (7.95%) YAML
3 13 (7.39%) React
4 10 (5.68%) REST
4 10 (5.68%) Spring
5 7 (3.98%) .NET
5 7 (3.98%) Loki
5 7 (3.98%) SAML
6 6 (3.41%) Kafka
6 6 (3.41%) OpenID
6 6 (3.41%) Pulumi
6 6 (3.41%) RESTful
7 5 (2.84%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (2.27%) ARM Templates
8 4 (2.27%) OAuth
8 4 (2.27%) OAuth2
9 3 (1.70%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.70%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.70%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 35 (19.89%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.52%) Public Cloud
2 15 (8.52%) Security Posture
3 14 (7.95%) Linux Command Line
3 14 (7.95%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (6.82%) PKI
4 12 (6.82%) Podcast
5 8 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.41%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.70%) Blog
8 3 (1.70%) CSOC
8 3 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.70%) FPGA
8 3 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.70%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.14%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 73 (41.48%) Linux
2 41 (23.30%) Windows
3 13 (7.39%) VMS
4 6 (3.41%) Ubuntu
4 6 (3.41%) Unix
5 5 (2.84%) Mac OS
6 4 (2.27%) Debian
6 4 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.27%) Solaris
7 2 (1.14%) Android
7 2 (1.14%) CentOS
7 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.57%) AIX
8 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.57%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (68.75%) CI/CD
2 99 (56.25%) DevOps
3 94 (53.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (38.07%) Agile
5 61 (34.66%) Observability
6 58 (32.95%) Mentoring
7 51 (28.98%) Platform Engineering
7 51 (28.98%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (28.41%) Containerisation
9 46 (26.14%) AI
10 41 (23.30%) Cloud Security
11 38 (21.59%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (17.61%) Root Cause Analysis
13 30 (17.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 29 (16.48%) Scrum
15 25 (14.20%) DevSecOps
15 25 (14.20%) Technical Leadership
16 24 (13.64%) Analytics
17 23 (13.07%) Infrastructure Automation
17 23 (13.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 130 (73.86%) Python
2 93 (52.84%) PowerShell
3 43 (24.43%) SQL
4 30 (17.05%) Java
5 24 (13.64%) Bicep
6 20 (11.36%) JavaScript
7 17 (9.66%) Go
7 17 (9.66%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (6.25%) PL/SQL
9 9 (5.11%) C#
10 6 (3.41%) C++
10 6 (3.41%) PHP
10 6 (3.41%) Ruby
11 4 (2.27%) C
11 4 (2.27%) Rust
12 3 (1.70%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.70%) Perl
12 3 (1.70%) TypeScript
13 2 (1.14%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (26.14%) Security Cleared
2 42 (23.86%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.36%) Azure Certification
4 16 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (7.95%) Degree
6 8 (4.55%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.98%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (3.41%) CISSP
8 6 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.84%) CompTIA CySA+
9 5 (2.84%) DV Cleared
10 4 (2.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.70%) CEH
11 3 (1.70%) GCIA
11 3 (1.70%) GIAC
11 3 (1.70%) GPEN
11 3 (1.70%) ISTQB
11 3 (1.70%) OSCE
11 3 (1.70%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.68%) QA
2 8 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.41%) NCSC
3 6 (3.41%) NIST
4 5 (2.84%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.70%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.70%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.14%) SLA
7 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 65 (36.93%) Docker
2 28 (15.91%) Active Directory
3 23 (13.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (6.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (6.82%) vSphere
5 9 (5.11%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.84%) KVM
7 2 (1.14%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 75 (42.61%) Kubernetes
2 40 (22.73%) Grafana
3 37 (21.02%) Prometheus
4 28 (15.91%) Ansible
5 19 (10.80%) Argo
6 13 (7.39%) Istio
7 7 (3.98%) Kustomize
8 6 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (3.41%) Proxmox
9 5 (2.84%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (2.27%) Graylog
10 4 (2.27%) linkerd
10 4 (2.27%) Puppet
10 4 (2.27%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.70%) Cilium
11 3 (1.70%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.70%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.14%) HP Fortify
12 2 (1.14%) Nagios
Vendors
1 59 (33.52%) Microsoft
2 27 (15.34%) VMware
3 20 (11.36%) Oracle
4 12 (6.82%) Red Hat
4 12 (6.82%) ScienceLogic
5 10 (5.68%) Google
5 10 (5.68%) Splunk
6 8 (4.55%) Cisco
6 8 (4.55%) CyberArk
6 8 (4.55%) ServiceNow
7 6 (3.41%) Veeam
8 5 (2.84%) Fortinet
8 5 (2.84%) New Relic
9 3 (1.70%) Apple
9 3 (1.70%) Dell
10 2 (1.14%) BT
10 2 (1.14%) Commvault
10 2 (1.14%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.14%) HP
10 2 (1.14%) Juniper