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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 151 129
Rank change year-on-year +37 -22 +27
Permanent jobs citing Bash 444 514 632
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.74% 2.22% 2.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.74% 5.71% 5.43%
Number of salaries quoted 149 202 535
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £42,874
25th Percentile £55,000 £45,000 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -11.97% +1.43%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +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 5,079 9,007 11,642
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.34% 38.85% 47.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,418 6,109 10,041
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £118,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%

Bash
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Bash trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Bash
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Bash.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Bash

Bash
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Bash over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Bash salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.58%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.68%) IIS
5 1 (0.23%) Apache
5 1 (0.23%) Confluence
5 1 (0.23%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.23%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.23%) Autodesk Inventor
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 82 (18.47%) Azure
2 76 (17.12%) AWS
3 36 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (6.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 26 (5.86%) GitHub
6 25 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (5.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 21 (4.73%) Azure Monitor
9 18 (4.05%) Serverless
10 17 (3.83%) Entra ID
10 17 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (3.60%) GCP
12 14 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (2.93%) Azure AKS
14 12 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
15 11 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (2.48%) Amazon S3
16 8 (1.80%) IaaS
16 8 (1.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 271 (61.04%) VPN
2 262 (59.01%) Cisco IOS
3 16 (3.60%) Firewall
4 14 (3.15%) DNS
5 9 (2.03%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.35%) DHCP
7 5 (1.13%) SAN
8 4 (0.90%) InfiniBand
8 4 (0.90%) Network Security
8 4 (0.90%) WAN
9 3 (0.68%) Broadband
10 2 (0.45%) BGP
10 2 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.45%) IGMP
10 2 (0.45%) LAN
10 2 (0.45%) Multicast
10 2 (0.45%) OSPF
10 2 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.23%) Internet
11 1 (0.23%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (1.35%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.13%) Power BI
3 5 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (0.90%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.90%) RDBMS
4 4 (0.90%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.68%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.45%) Big Data
6 2 (0.45%) Metadata
6 2 (0.45%) MySQL
7 1 (0.23%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.23%) KDB
7 1 (0.23%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.23%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (7.21%) Jenkins
2 17 (3.83%) Git
2 17 (3.83%) GitLab
3 6 (1.35%) JIRA
4 4 (0.90%) Burp Suite
4 4 (0.90%) Metasploit
5 3 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.45%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.45%) Jaeger
6 2 (0.45%) MLflow
7 1 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.23%) git-flow
7 1 (0.23%) Maven
7 1 (0.23%) MSBuild
General
1 271 (61.04%) Analytical Skills
2 264 (59.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 54 (12.16%) Social Skills
4 44 (9.91%) Finance
5 11 (2.48%) Banking
6 7 (1.58%) Telecoms
7 4 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.68%) Law
8 3 (0.68%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.45%) Games
9 2 (0.45%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.45%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.23%) Advertising
10 1 (0.23%) Electronics
10 1 (0.23%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.23%) Local Government
10 1 (0.23%) Marketing
10 1 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 268 (60.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 49 (11.04%) DevOps Engineer
3 39 (8.78%) Senior
4 28 (6.31%) Platform Engineer
5 26 (5.86%) Linux Engineer
6 18 (4.05%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (3.38%) Automation Engineer
7 15 (3.38%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (3.15%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (2.93%) AWS DevOps
9 13 (2.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 13 (2.93%) Lead
10 12 (2.70%) Senior DevOps
10 12 (2.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 11 (2.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (2.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 10 (2.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 9 (2.03%) Linux Support
14 8 (1.80%) Software Engineer
15 7 (1.58%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 277 (62.39%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (2.25%) .NET
3 8 (1.80%) ARM Templates
4 6 (1.35%) AWS CDK
5 5 (1.13%) REST
5 5 (1.13%) YAML
6 4 (0.90%) Jinja
6 4 (0.90%) React
7 3 (0.68%) AWS SAM
7 3 (0.68%) CSS
7 3 (0.68%) HTML
7 3 (0.68%) Node.js
7 3 (0.68%) Pandas
7 3 (0.68%) scikit-learn
8 2 (0.45%) Google JAX
8 2 (0.45%) Hugging Face
8 2 (0.45%) JAX
8 2 (0.45%) LDAP
8 2 (0.45%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 263 (59.23%) Cyberattack
2 13 (2.93%) Product Ownership
3 12 (2.70%) Cloud Native
4 9 (2.03%) Security Posture
5 7 (1.58%) Data Centre
6 6 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (0.90%) Algorithms
7 4 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (0.90%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.68%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.68%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.45%) Acoustics
9 2 (0.45%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.45%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.45%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 367 (82.66%) Linux
2 296 (66.67%) Windows
3 262 (59.01%) Android
4 28 (6.31%) Unix
5 15 (3.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.80%) Debian
6 8 (1.80%) Solaris
6 8 (1.80%) Windows Server
7 6 (1.35%) CentOS
8 4 (0.90%) VMS
9 2 (0.45%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.23%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.23%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (84.91%) DevOps
2 298 (67.12%) Problem-Solving
3 292 (65.77%) Platform Engineering
4 280 (63.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 280 (63.06%) Task Automation
5 266 (59.91%) Mathematics
6 264 (59.46%) Storage Management
7 262 (59.01%) Line Management
7 262 (59.01%) Risk Management
8 96 (21.62%) CI/CD
9 69 (15.54%) Infrastructure as Code
10 45 (10.14%) Containerisation
11 31 (6.98%) Agile
12 29 (6.53%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (5.63%) High Availability
13 25 (5.63%) Software Engineering
14 24 (5.41%) Mentoring
15 22 (4.95%) Configuration Management
16 21 (4.73%) Observability
17 20 (4.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 413 (93.02%) Python
2 355 (79.95%) PowerShell
3 23 (5.18%) Perl
4 18 (4.05%) Bicep
5 15 (3.38%) SQL
6 12 (2.70%) Go
7 11 (2.48%) JavaScript
7 11 (2.48%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.25%) Java
9 7 (1.58%) C++
10 6 (1.35%) C
10 6 (1.35%) Fortran
11 5 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (1.13%) Korn
12 2 (0.45%) Ruby
12 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.23%) C#
13 1 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (6.31%) Security Cleared
2 21 (4.73%) AWS Certification
3 17 (3.83%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (2.93%) Azure Certification
5 13 (2.93%) Degree
6 7 (1.58%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.35%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.35%) PhD
7 6 (1.35%) RHCE
8 5 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.90%) CISSP
9 4 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.90%) MCSE
9 4 (0.90%) RHCSA
10 3 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.68%) CCSP
10 3 (0.68%) GCIH
10 3 (0.68%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.53%) GDPR
2 17 (3.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 8 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.58%) QA
5 5 (1.13%) NIST
5 5 (1.13%) SLA
6 2 (0.45%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.23%) GRC
7 1 (0.23%) NCSC
7 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 313 (70.50%) Docker
2 265 (59.68%) Hyper-V
3 263 (59.23%) vSphere
4 262 (59.01%) VMware NSX
5 15 (3.38%) Active Directory
6 14 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 10 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.68%) GPFS
9 3 (0.68%) Lustre
9 3 (0.68%) NFS
10 2 (0.45%) KVM
11 1 (0.23%) Corosync
11 1 (0.23%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.23%) Kamailio
11 1 (0.23%) Postfix
11 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.23%) Xen
Systems Management
1 341 (76.80%) Terraform
2 330 (74.32%) Ansible
3 59 (13.29%) Kubernetes
4 27 (6.08%) Grafana
5 19 (4.28%) Prometheus
6 15 (3.38%) Red Hat Satellite
7 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.35%) Nagios
8 5 (1.13%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.13%) Puppet
9 4 (0.90%) Argo
9 4 (0.90%) Nmap
10 3 (0.68%) SCCM
11 2 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.45%) Kibana
11 2 (0.45%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.45%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.45%) SCOM
12 1 (0.23%) Icinga
12 1 (0.23%) Pacemaker
Vendors
1 268 (60.36%) Splunk
2 265 (59.68%) Juniper
3 264 (59.46%) Cisco
4 262 (59.01%) 3PAR
5 38 (8.56%) Microsoft
6 33 (7.43%) Red Hat
7 20 (4.50%) VMware
8 6 (1.35%) SolarWinds
9 5 (1.13%) NetApp
9 5 (1.13%) Oracle
10 3 (0.68%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.68%) Google
10 3 (0.68%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.68%) Rapid7
11 2 (0.45%) ArcSight
11 2 (0.45%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.45%) Commvault
11 2 (0.45%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.45%) SAP
11 2 (0.45%) ServiceNow