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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 217 170
Rank change year-on-year +56 -47 -33
Permanent jobs citing Bash 253 240 537
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.55% 1.54% 1.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.67% 3.45% 4.29%
Number of salaries quoted 126 179 436
10th Percentile £42,875 £37,500 £42,937
25th Percentile £51,474 £48,278 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +3.70% -2.80%
75th Percentile £79,688 £84,375 £85,313
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,778 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -6.40%

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 4,461 6,953 12,526
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.38% 44.74% 45.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,276 4,425 10,914
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,482 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 17 February 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 (7.51%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.95%) Apache
2 10 (3.95%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (3.16%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.98%) nginx
5 4 (1.58%) CMS
6 3 (1.19%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.79%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.58%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.58%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.79%) Weka
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.58%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 150 (59.29%) Azure
2 128 (50.59%) AWS
3 86 (33.99%) Entra ID
4 58 (22.92%) Google Workspace
5 45 (17.79%) GitHub
6 40 (15.81%) GitHub Actions
7 37 (14.62%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (13.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 34 (13.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (10.28%) Amazon EKS
10 25 (9.88%) GCP
11 21 (8.30%) Microsoft 365
12 19 (7.51%) Amazon S3
12 19 (7.51%) Pulumi
13 17 (6.72%) Azure AKS
14 16 (6.32%) Azure Monitor
15 14 (5.53%) SaaS
15 14 (5.53%) Serverless
15 14 (5.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 13 (5.14%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 81 (32.02%) Broadband
2 24 (9.49%) Firewall
3 17 (6.72%) VPN
4 12 (4.74%) Network Security
5 10 (3.95%) VLAN
6 6 (2.37%) DNS
7 4 (1.58%) DMZ
7 4 (1.58%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (1.58%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (1.58%) STUN
7 4 (1.58%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.58%) VoIP
7 4 (1.58%) WAN
8 3 (1.19%) LAN
8 3 (1.19%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.79%) DHCP
9 2 (0.79%) MPLS
9 2 (0.79%) NGFW
9 2 (0.79%) OSPF
9 2 (0.79%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.67%) NoSQL
2 19 (7.51%) RDBMS
2 19 (7.51%) Relational Database
3 18 (7.11%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (7.11%) Apache Iceberg
3 18 (7.11%) Tableau
4 10 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (3.95%) BigQuery
4 10 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.56%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (3.56%) Amazon QuickSight
5 9 (3.56%) Delta Lake
5 9 (3.56%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (3.56%) Looker
5 9 (3.56%) Metadata
5 9 (3.56%) Pinecone
5 9 (3.56%) Weaviate
6 7 (2.77%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (2.77%) MySQL
7 6 (2.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (13.04%) Jenkins
2 19 (7.51%) Jaeger
3 17 (6.72%) Git
3 17 (6.72%) GitLab
4 9 (3.56%) MLflow
5 6 (2.37%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.98%) Robot Framework
7 4 (1.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (1.58%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.58%) Vite
8 3 (1.19%) Balsamiq
8 3 (1.19%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.19%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.19%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.19%) JMeter
8 3 (1.19%) Maven
9 2 (0.79%) JIRA
9 2 (0.79%) TestRail
10 1 (0.40%) git-flow
10 1 (0.40%) Metasploit
General
1 70 (27.67%) Social Skills
2 61 (24.11%) Organisational Skills
3 35 (13.83%) Games
4 34 (13.44%) Finance
5 19 (7.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.53%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.35%) Retail
8 10 (3.95%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.98%) Banking
9 5 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.58%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.58%) Back Office
10 4 (1.58%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.19%) Billing
11 3 (1.19%) Military
11 3 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Local Government
12 1 (0.40%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 72 (28.46%) Senior
2 38 (15.02%) Lead
3 37 (14.62%) Cloud Engineer
4 26 (10.28%) Platform Engineer
5 25 (9.88%) Developer
6 23 (9.09%) IAM Developer
7 22 (8.70%) Systems Engineer
8 21 (8.30%) DevOps Engineer
9 18 (7.11%) Linux Engineer
10 17 (6.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (6.32%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (5.93%) Consultant
12 15 (5.93%) Senior Developer
13 13 (5.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 12 (4.74%) Azure Engineer
14 12 (4.74%) Data Engineer
14 12 (4.74%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 12 (4.74%) Senior Consultant
15 11 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
15 11 (4.35%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (24.11%) GraphQL
1 61 (24.11%) REST
1 61 (24.11%) SOAP
2 58 (22.92%) LDAP
2 58 (22.92%) OAuth
2 58 (22.92%) OpenID
2 58 (22.92%) SAML
3 34 (13.44%) Elastic Stack
4 19 (7.51%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (4.35%) Kafka
6 9 (3.56%) Faiss
6 9 (3.56%) PyTorch
6 9 (3.56%) TensorFlow
6 9 (3.56%) vLLM
7 7 (2.77%) Loki
8 5 (1.98%) Middleware
9 4 (1.58%) CSS
9 4 (1.58%) HTML
9 4 (1.58%) Vue
9 4 (1.58%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (23.72%) Cyber Threat
1 60 (23.72%) Cyberattack
2 31 (12.25%) Product Ownership
3 13 (5.14%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.56%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.56%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.16%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.77%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (2.37%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.98%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.58%) Blog
11 3 (1.19%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.19%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.79%) Clustering
12 2 (0.79%) e-Learning
13 1 (0.40%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 107 (42.29%) Linux
2 34 (13.44%) Windows
3 33 (13.04%) Unix
4 9 (3.56%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.16%) Debian
6 7 (2.77%) CentOS
7 3 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.79%) Solaris
8 2 (0.79%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.79%) VMS
9 1 (0.40%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.40%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (48.62%) DevOps
2 107 (42.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 107 (42.29%) Roadmaps
3 103 (40.71%) CI/CD
4 101 (39.92%) Mentoring
5 71 (28.06%) Cybersecurity
6 64 (25.30%) Identity Access Management
7 63 (24.90%) Agile
8 60 (23.72%) Programme Delivery
9 58 (22.92%) Regulatory Compliance
10 51 (20.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 41 (16.21%) Containerisation
12 39 (15.42%) Cloud Security
13 38 (15.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 38 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
14 37 (14.62%) AI
14 37 (14.62%) High Availability
15 34 (13.44%) Performance Optimisation
16 33 (13.04%) Coaching
17 30 (11.86%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 157 (62.06%) Python
2 143 (56.52%) PowerShell
3 58 (22.92%) SQL
3 58 (22.92%) T-SQL
4 46 (18.18%) Go
5 33 (13.04%) Java
6 27 (10.67%) JavaScript
7 18 (7.11%) Bicep
8 9 (3.56%) Scala
9 8 (3.16%) C++
10 7 (2.77%) Perl
11 6 (2.37%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.58%) C
12 4 (1.58%) C#
12 4 (1.58%) PHP
13 3 (1.19%) Fortran
13 3 (1.19%) Groovy
13 3 (1.19%) VBScript
14 2 (0.79%) Korn
Qualifications
1 38 (15.02%) AWS Certification
2 34 (13.44%) Degree
3 28 (11.07%) Security Cleared
4 16 (6.32%) Azure Certification
4 16 (6.32%) SC Cleared
5 10 (3.95%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.98%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.19%) CCNP
10 3 (1.19%) CITP
10 3 (1.19%) CREST Certified
10 3 (1.19%) LPIC
10 3 (1.19%) PhD
11 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.79%) GCIH
11 2 (0.79%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.79%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (24.51%) NIST
2 60 (23.72%) NCSC
3 32 (12.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.95%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.77%) QA
6 5 (1.98%) GDPR
6 5 (1.98%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.58%) GRC
7 4 (1.58%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.19%) SLA
9 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
System Software
1 76 (30.04%) Active Directory
2 66 (26.09%) Docker
3 12 (4.74%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (3.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.19%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.79%) Ceph
7 2 (0.79%) Lustre
7 2 (0.79%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.79%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.40%) KVM
8 1 (0.40%) vCloud
8 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 115 (45.45%) Terraform
2 76 (30.04%) Kubernetes
3 67 (26.48%) Ansible
4 40 (15.81%) Prometheus
5 34 (13.44%) Grafana
6 21 (8.30%) Argo
7 19 (7.51%) Kustomize
8 10 (3.95%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (2.77%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (2.37%) Proxmox
11 4 (1.58%) Cilium
11 4 (1.58%) logstash
11 4 (1.58%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (1.19%) HP Fortify
12 3 (1.19%) Puppet
13 2 (0.79%) Nagios
14 1 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.40%) Kibana
14 1 (0.40%) Nmap
14 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.51%) Google
3 13 (5.14%) VMware
4 12 (4.74%) Red Hat
5 11 (4.35%) Splunk
6 9 (3.56%) CyberArk
6 9 (3.56%) Databricks
6 9 (3.56%) Palantir
7 8 (3.16%) Cisco
8 6 (2.37%) Oracle
9 4 (1.58%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (1.19%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.19%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.19%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.19%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.79%) Cloudera
11 2 (0.79%) Informatica
11 2 (0.79%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.79%) NetApp
11 2 (0.79%) Talend