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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 127 181
Rank change year-on-year -100 +54 -51
Permanent jobs citing Bash 227 451 593
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.07% 2.74% 1.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.96% 7.62% 4.58%
Number of salaries quoted 138 159 311
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,306 £43,000
25th Percentile £46,709 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -12.89%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,694 £92,750 £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 5,739 5,921 12,944
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.05% 35.95% 40.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,332 4,129 10,608
10th Percentile £39,204 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,118 £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 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £106,250
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 10 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 (7.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (5.73%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (4.41%) Apache
4 8 (3.52%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.20%) Jupyter
6 3 (1.32%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.88%) nginx
7 2 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.44%) CMS
8 1 (0.44%) Confluence
8 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.44%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.88%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.44%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 137 (60.35%) Azure
2 106 (46.70%) AWS
3 46 (20.26%) GitHub
4 42 (18.50%) Entra ID
5 39 (17.18%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (12.33%) Google Workspace
7 27 (11.89%) GitHub Actions
8 25 (11.01%) IaaS
9 23 (10.13%) Serverless
10 21 (9.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 21 (9.25%) Amazon S3
10 21 (9.25%) PaaS
11 20 (8.81%) Azure Monitor
11 20 (8.81%) GCP
12 17 (7.49%) Pulumi
13 16 (7.05%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (7.05%) Azure AKS
14 14 (6.17%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (6.17%) Azure Key Vault
14 14 (6.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (17.62%) Broadband
2 38 (16.74%) VPN
3 29 (12.78%) Firewall
4 13 (5.73%) DNS
5 8 (3.52%) Network Security
6 6 (2.64%) VLAN
6 6 (2.64%) VoIP
7 5 (2.20%) DMZ
7 5 (2.20%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (2.20%) STUN
7 5 (2.20%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.76%) DHCP
9 3 (1.32%) SSH
9 3 (1.32%) SSL
10 2 (0.88%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.88%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.88%) LAN
10 2 (0.88%) SAN
10 2 (0.88%) WAN
10 2 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.81%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (6.17%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.73%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (5.73%) Relational Database
4 12 (5.29%) NoSQL
5 11 (4.85%) RDBMS
6 8 (3.52%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (3.52%) MySQL
7 7 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (3.08%) Apache Iceberg
7 7 (3.08%) DynamoDB
7 7 (3.08%) Tableau
8 6 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.64%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.20%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.76%) Delta Lake
10 4 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.76%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.76%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 30 (13.22%) Git
2 25 (11.01%) Jenkins
3 22 (9.69%) GitLab
4 12 (5.29%) Jaeger
5 8 (3.52%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.08%) JIRA
6 7 (3.08%) Maven
7 6 (2.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (2.20%) JUnit
8 5 (2.20%) Mockito
8 5 (2.20%) Postman
8 5 (2.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (1.76%) JMeter
9 4 (1.76%) MLflow
10 3 (1.32%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.88%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.88%) MSI
11 2 (0.88%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.44%) Browser DevTools
12 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 62 (27.31%) Social Skills
2 33 (14.54%) Organisational Skills
3 28 (12.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (9.25%) Finance
5 18 (7.93%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.17%) Games
7 13 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (5.29%) Law
9 11 (4.85%) Retail
10 7 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.76%) Banking
12 3 (1.32%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.32%) Aviation
12 3 (1.32%) Legal
12 3 (1.32%) Marketing
12 3 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.44%) French Language
13 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.44%) Publishing
13 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (24.67%) Senior
2 34 (14.98%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (12.33%) Lead
3 28 (12.33%) Platform Engineer
4 23 (10.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 22 (9.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (7.93%) Developer
7 14 (6.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 14 (6.17%) Senior DevOps
8 13 (5.73%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (5.29%) Administrator
9 12 (5.29%) Analyst
9 12 (5.29%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (5.29%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 11 (4.85%) Systems Administrator
10 11 (4.85%) Systems Engineer
11 10 (4.41%) Support Engineer
12 9 (3.96%) Data Engineer
12 9 (3.96%) IAM Developer
13 8 (3.52%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (13.66%) SAML
2 30 (13.22%) OpenID
2 30 (13.22%) REST
3 29 (12.78%) LDAP
3 29 (12.78%) OAuth
4 28 (12.33%) GraphQL
4 28 (12.33%) SOAP
5 16 (7.05%) Elastic Stack
6 14 (6.17%) YAML
7 13 (5.73%) OpenTelemetry
8 8 (3.52%) Kafka
8 8 (3.52%) Loki
8 8 (3.52%) React
9 7 (3.08%) .NET
10 6 (2.64%) RESTful
11 5 (2.20%) FreeSWITCH
11 5 (2.20%) Spring
12 4 (1.76%) Faiss
12 4 (1.76%) TensorFlow
12 4 (1.76%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.10%) Cloud Native
1 32 (14.10%) Cyber Threat
2 28 (12.33%) Cyberattack
3 16 (7.05%) Public Cloud
3 16 (7.05%) Security Posture
4 15 (6.61%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (5.73%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (5.29%) Podcast
7 10 (4.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (4.41%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (3.52%) Management Information System
9 7 (3.08%) Private Cloud
9 7 (3.08%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.64%) PKI
11 5 (2.20%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
13 2 (0.88%) Educational Technology
13 2 (0.88%) Hackathon
13 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 87 (38.33%) Linux
2 42 (18.50%) Windows
3 16 (7.05%) Unix
4 13 (5.73%) VMS
5 8 (3.52%) Debian
5 8 (3.52%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.20%) CentOS
6 5 (2.20%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.32%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.32%) Solaris
8 3 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.44%) AIX
9 1 (0.44%) Android
9 1 (0.44%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.44%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (55.07%) CI/CD
2 116 (51.10%) DevOps
3 112 (49.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 90 (39.65%) Mentoring
5 72 (31.72%) Agile
6 65 (28.63%) Observability
7 55 (24.23%) Roadmaps
8 51 (22.47%) Platform Engineering
9 50 (22.03%) Containerisation
10 47 (20.70%) AI
10 47 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
11 45 (19.82%) Cloud Security
12 39 (17.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (15.86%) Cybersecurity
13 36 (15.86%) Identity Access Management
14 31 (13.66%) Root Cause Analysis
15 30 (13.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 30 (13.22%) Task Automation
16 29 (12.78%) GitOps
17 28 (12.33%) Programme Delivery
Programming Languages
1 150 (66.08%) Python
2 129 (56.83%) PowerShell
3 63 (27.75%) SQL
4 37 (16.30%) Java
5 33 (14.54%) Go
6 28 (12.33%) T-SQL
7 24 (10.57%) Bicep
7 24 (10.57%) JavaScript
8 14 (6.17%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (4.41%) C#
10 8 (3.52%) PHP
11 6 (2.64%) C++
11 6 (2.64%) Ruby
12 5 (2.20%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.76%) Perl
13 4 (1.76%) Scala
13 4 (1.76%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.32%) C
14 3 (1.32%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 33 (14.54%) Security Cleared
2 29 (12.78%) SC Cleared
3 24 (10.57%) Azure Certification
4 22 (9.69%) Degree
5 21 (9.25%) AWS Certification
6 16 (7.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.08%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.76%) CISSP
9 4 (1.76%) CREST Certified
9 4 (1.76%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.76%) OSCP
10 3 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.32%) CCSAM
10 3 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (1.32%) GPEN
10 3 (1.32%) GXPN
10 3 (1.32%) ISTQB
10 3 (1.32%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (13.22%) NIST
2 28 (12.33%) NCSC
3 20 (8.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.41%) QA
5 7 (3.08%) Data Quality
5 7 (3.08%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.32%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.32%) SLA
7 1 (0.44%) GDPR
7 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 68 (29.96%) Docker
2 60 (26.43%) Active Directory
3 20 (8.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (5.29%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (5.29%) vSphere
5 7 (3.08%) Hyper-V
6 6 (2.64%) KVM
7 2 (0.88%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 95 (41.85%) Terraform
2 79 (34.80%) Kubernetes
3 50 (22.03%) Prometheus
4 44 (19.38%) Ansible
5 41 (18.06%) Grafana
6 30 (13.22%) Argo
7 17 (7.49%) Kustomize
8 12 (5.29%) Proxmox
9 10 (4.41%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (3.96%) Istio
11 5 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.76%) Graylog
12 4 (1.76%) Kibana
12 4 (1.76%) Puppet
12 4 (1.76%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (1.32%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (1.32%) linkerd
13 3 (1.32%) Nagios
14 2 (0.88%) CASB
Vendors
1 62 (27.31%) Microsoft
2 30 (13.22%) VMware
3 17 (7.49%) Google
4 15 (6.61%) Red Hat
5 14 (6.17%) Oracle
6 12 (5.29%) ScienceLogic
6 12 (5.29%) Splunk
7 8 (3.52%) Cisco
7 8 (3.52%) CyberArk
7 8 (3.52%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.20%) New Relic
8 5 (2.20%) Veeam
9 4 (1.76%) Databricks
9 4 (1.76%) Palantir
10 3 (1.32%) Apple
10 3 (1.32%) Commvault
10 3 (1.32%) Dell
11 2 (0.88%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.88%) BT
11 2 (0.88%) Fortinet