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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 215 185
Rank change year-on-year +40 -30 -55
Permanent jobs citing Bash 238 214 523
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.43% 1.53% 1.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.44% 3.34% 4.00%
Number of salaries quoted 121 174 422
10th Percentile £44,000 £40,375 £43,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,698 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £81,250 £84,688 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 4,375 6,408 13,089
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.31% 45.93% 43.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,187 4,558 11,387
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
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 11 March 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 (7.98%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (4.20%) Apache
2 10 (4.20%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.10%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.68%) CMS
5 4 (1.68%) nginx
6 3 (1.26%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.84%) SAS
8 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.68%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.68%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.84%) Weka
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 138 (57.98%) Azure
2 126 (52.94%) AWS
3 76 (31.93%) Entra ID
4 57 (23.95%) Google Workspace
5 43 (18.07%) GitHub
6 38 (15.97%) GitHub Actions
7 32 (13.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 30 (12.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (10.92%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (10.92%) GCP
10 23 (9.66%) Amazon EKS
11 21 (8.82%) Amazon S3
12 19 (7.98%) Pulumi
13 17 (7.14%) SaaS
14 16 (6.72%) Microsoft 365
14 16 (6.72%) Serverless
15 15 (6.30%) AWS Lambda
15 15 (6.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 14 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
17 13 (5.46%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 80 (33.61%) Broadband
2 26 (10.92%) Firewall
3 21 (8.82%) VPN
4 11 (4.62%) VLAN
5 10 (4.20%) Network Security
6 7 (2.94%) DNS
7 5 (2.10%) DMZ
7 5 (2.10%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (2.10%) STUN
7 5 (2.10%) VoIP
8 4 (1.68%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (1.68%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.68%) WAN
9 3 (1.26%) DHCP
9 3 (1.26%) LAN
9 3 (1.26%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.84%) MPLS
10 2 (0.84%) NGFW
10 2 (0.84%) OSPF
10 2 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.34%) NoSQL
2 19 (7.98%) RDBMS
2 19 (7.98%) Relational Database
3 18 (7.56%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (7.56%) Apache Iceberg
3 18 (7.56%) Tableau
4 10 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (4.20%) BigQuery
4 10 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.78%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (3.78%) Amazon QuickSight
5 9 (3.78%) Delta Lake
5 9 (3.78%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (3.78%) Looker
5 9 (3.78%) Metadata
5 9 (3.78%) Pinecone
5 9 (3.78%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.78%) Weaviate
6 8 (3.36%) MySQL
7 7 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 28 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 19 (7.98%) Jaeger
3 17 (7.14%) Git
4 16 (6.72%) GitLab
5 9 (3.78%) MLflow
6 6 (2.52%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.10%) JIRA
7 5 (2.10%) Robot Framework
7 5 (2.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (2.10%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.68%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.68%) Vite
9 3 (1.26%) Balsamiq
9 3 (1.26%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.26%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.26%) JMeter
9 3 (1.26%) Maven
10 2 (0.84%) Postman
10 2 (0.84%) TestRail
11 1 (0.42%) Browser DevTools
General
1 71 (29.83%) Social Skills
2 63 (26.47%) Organisational Skills
3 34 (14.29%) Games
4 24 (10.08%) Finance
5 20 (8.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (5.46%) Retail
8 8 (3.36%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.10%) Banking
11 4 (1.68%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.68%) Back Office
11 4 (1.68%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.26%) Billing
12 3 (1.26%) Marketing
12 3 (1.26%) Military
12 3 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 72 (30.25%) Senior
2 38 (15.97%) Lead
3 35 (14.71%) Cloud Engineer
4 24 (10.08%) Developer
4 24 (10.08%) Platform Engineer
5 22 (9.24%) IAM Developer
6 21 (8.82%) Systems Engineer
7 20 (8.40%) DevOps Engineer
8 18 (7.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (6.72%) Consultant
10 15 (6.30%) AWS Engineer
11 14 (5.88%) Senior Developer
12 13 (5.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 13 (5.46%) Data Engineer
13 12 (5.04%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 12 (5.04%) Senior Consultant
13 12 (5.04%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (5.04%) Support Engineer
14 11 (4.62%) Linux Engineer
15 10 (4.20%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (24.79%) GraphQL
1 59 (24.79%) REST
1 59 (24.79%) SOAP
2 57 (23.95%) LDAP
2 57 (23.95%) OAuth
2 57 (23.95%) OpenID
2 57 (23.95%) SAML
3 34 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
4 19 (7.98%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (4.62%) Kafka
6 9 (3.78%) Faiss
6 9 (3.78%) PyTorch
6 9 (3.78%) TensorFlow
6 9 (3.78%) vLLM
7 7 (2.94%) Loki
8 5 (2.10%) CSS
8 5 (2.10%) FreeSWITCH
8 5 (2.10%) HTML
9 4 (1.68%) Middleware
9 4 (1.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (25.21%) Cyber Threat
2 59 (24.79%) Cyberattack
3 23 (9.66%) Product Ownership
4 13 (5.46%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (4.62%) Onboarding
6 10 (4.20%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (3.36%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (2.52%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.52%) Private Cloud
9 5 (2.10%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.68%) Blog
10 4 (1.68%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.84%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.84%) e-Learning
12 2 (0.84%) Marketing Technology
12 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 97 (40.76%) Linux
2 30 (12.61%) Unix
2 30 (12.61%) Windows
3 10 (4.20%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.52%) CentOS
5 5 (2.10%) Debian
6 3 (1.26%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.84%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.84%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.42%) Android
8 1 (0.42%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.42%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (45.80%) DevOps
2 101 (42.44%) CI/CD
3 100 (42.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 98 (41.18%) Mentoring
4 98 (41.18%) Roadmaps
5 68 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
6 64 (26.89%) Identity Access Management
7 59 (24.79%) Programme Delivery
8 58 (24.37%) Agile
9 57 (23.95%) Regulatory Compliance
10 42 (17.65%) Containerisation
11 41 (17.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (16.39%) High Availability
13 38 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
14 36 (15.13%) Cloud Security
14 36 (15.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 35 (14.71%) Performance Optimisation
16 30 (12.61%) AI
17 27 (11.34%) Incident Response
17 27 (11.34%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 145 (60.92%) Python
2 130 (54.62%) PowerShell
3 59 (24.79%) SQL
4 57 (23.95%) T-SQL
5 47 (19.75%) Go
6 32 (13.45%) Java
7 30 (12.61%) JavaScript
8 14 (5.88%) Bicep
9 9 (3.78%) Scala
10 7 (2.94%) C++
10 7 (2.94%) PHP
10 7 (2.94%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.68%) C#
11 4 (1.68%) Perl
12 3 (1.26%) C
12 3 (1.26%) Groovy
12 3 (1.26%) VBScript
13 2 (0.84%) Fortran
14 1 (0.42%) Korn
Qualifications
1 35 (14.71%) Degree
2 33 (13.87%) AWS Certification
3 23 (9.66%) Security Cleared
4 14 (5.88%) Azure Certification
5 13 (5.46%) SC Cleared
6 10 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (4.20%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.68%) CREST Certified
8 4 (1.68%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.26%) CCNP
9 3 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.26%) CITP
9 3 (1.26%) LPIC
10 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.84%) Linux+ Certification
10 2 (0.84%) PhD
11 1 (0.42%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.42%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (25.63%) NIST
2 59 (24.79%) NCSC
3 31 (13.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.20%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.94%) QA
6 6 (2.52%) SOC 2
7 5 (2.10%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.68%) GRC
9 3 (1.26%) SLA
10 2 (0.84%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.84%) GDPR
11 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 77 (32.35%) Active Directory
2 69 (28.99%) Docker
3 7 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.10%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.26%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.84%) Ceph
6 2 (0.84%) Lustre
6 2 (0.84%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.84%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.42%) KVM
7 1 (0.42%) vCloud
7 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 103 (43.28%) Terraform
2 76 (31.93%) Kubernetes
3 60 (25.21%) Ansible
4 40 (16.81%) Prometheus
5 32 (13.45%) Grafana
6 20 (8.40%) Argo
7 19 (7.98%) Kustomize
8 7 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (2.94%) Proxmox
8 7 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.68%) Cilium
9 4 (1.68%) logstash
10 3 (1.26%) HP Fortify
10 3 (1.26%) Puppet
11 2 (0.84%) Kibana
11 2 (0.84%) Nagios
12 1 (0.42%) Icinga
12 1 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.42%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 29 (12.18%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.98%) Google
3 12 (5.04%) VMware
4 11 (4.62%) Splunk
5 9 (3.78%) Cisco
5 9 (3.78%) CyberArk
5 9 (3.78%) Databricks
5 9 (3.78%) Palantir
5 9 (3.78%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.52%) Oracle
7 3 (1.26%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.26%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.26%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (1.26%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.84%) Apple
8 2 (0.84%) BT
8 2 (0.84%) Cloudera
8 2 (0.84%) Informatica
8 2 (0.84%) SolarWinds
8 2 (0.84%) Talend