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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 130 162
Rank change year-on-year -143 +32 -35
Permanent jobs citing Bash 189 446 513
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.85% 2.70% 2.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.15% 7.96% 5.28%
Number of salaries quoted 129 154 237
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,306 £40,833
25th Percentile £48,750 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £71,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +14.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,500 £92,125 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -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 6,006 5,600 9,722
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.97% 33.94% 38.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,515 3,867 7,608
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
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 4 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 17 (8.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.17%) Apache
2 6 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (2.65%) Jupyter
4 4 (2.12%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.59%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.53%) Confluence
6 1 (0.53%) nginx
6 1 (0.53%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.06%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 119 (62.96%) Azure
2 88 (46.56%) AWS
3 43 (22.75%) GitHub
4 37 (19.58%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (13.23%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (12.17%) IaaS
6 23 (12.17%) Serverless
7 21 (11.11%) GCP
7 21 (11.11%) PaaS
8 20 (10.58%) Azure Monitor
8 20 (10.58%) Entra ID
9 18 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
9 18 (9.52%) Amazon S3
10 15 (7.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (7.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (7.94%) Azure AKS
10 15 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
11 14 (7.41%) Azure Key Vault
11 14 (7.41%) SaaS
12 13 (6.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 34 (17.99%) VPN
2 27 (14.29%) Firewall
3 16 (8.47%) DNS
4 9 (4.76%) Broadband
4 9 (4.76%) TCP/IP
5 7 (3.70%) Network Security
6 5 (2.65%) DHCP
6 5 (2.65%) VLAN
7 4 (2.12%) Kerberos
7 4 (2.12%) SSH
7 4 (2.12%) VoIP
8 3 (1.59%) DMZ
8 3 (1.59%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.59%) SSL
8 3 (1.59%) STUN
9 2 (1.06%) iSCSI
9 2 (1.06%) LAN
9 2 (1.06%) SAN
9 2 (1.06%) WAN
9 2 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.05%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (5.82%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.70%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.17%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.17%) MySQL
6 5 (2.65%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.59%) Redis
8 2 (1.06%) Big Data
8 2 (1.06%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.06%) DocumentDB
8 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.53%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.53%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.53%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.53%) Looker
9 1 (0.53%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.53%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 27 (14.29%) Git
2 24 (12.70%) Jenkins
3 20 (10.58%) GitLab
4 11 (5.82%) Maven
5 9 (4.76%) JUnit
5 9 (4.76%) Mockito
6 7 (3.70%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.70%) JIRA
7 6 (3.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (2.65%) Postman
9 3 (1.59%) JMeter
9 3 (1.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (1.06%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.06%) MSI
10 2 (1.06%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.06%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.53%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.53%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.53%) TestRail
11 1 (0.53%) webpack
General
1 52 (27.51%) Social Skills
2 25 (13.23%) Finance
3 18 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (8.47%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.88%) Law
6 12 (6.35%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (4.76%) Retail
8 5 (2.65%) Banking
8 5 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.65%) Legal
9 3 (1.59%) Aviation
9 3 (1.59%) Marketing
10 2 (1.06%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.06%) Games
11 1 (0.53%) Electronics
11 1 (0.53%) French Language
11 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (22.75%) Senior
2 36 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
4 17 (8.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (7.41%) Developer
6 13 (6.88%) Analyst
6 13 (6.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 13 (6.88%) Lead
7 12 (6.35%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (6.35%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 11 (5.82%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (5.82%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (5.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 11 (5.82%) Java Developer
8 11 (5.82%) Senior DevOps
9 10 (5.29%) Administrator
9 10 (5.29%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (4.23%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 8 (4.23%) Linux Engineer
10 8 (4.23%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.94%) REST
2 14 (7.41%) YAML
3 13 (6.88%) SAML
4 12 (6.35%) OpenID
4 12 (6.35%) React
5 11 (5.82%) OAuth
6 9 (4.76%) GraphQL
6 9 (4.76%) SOAP
6 9 (4.76%) Spring
7 8 (4.23%) LDAP
8 7 (3.70%) .NET
9 6 (3.17%) Loki
9 6 (3.17%) RESTful
10 4 (2.12%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (2.12%) Kafka
10 4 (2.12%) OAuth2
10 4 (2.12%) OpenTelemetry
11 3 (1.59%) AngularJS
11 3 (1.59%) ARM Templates
11 3 (1.59%) FreeSWITCH
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.46%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.47%) Public Cloud
2 16 (8.47%) Security Posture
3 13 (6.88%) Linux Command Line
3 13 (6.88%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (6.35%) Podcast
5 11 (5.82%) Cyber Threat
5 11 (5.82%) PKI
6 8 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (3.70%) Cyberattack
7 7 (3.70%) Management Information System
8 6 (3.17%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.12%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.59%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.59%) FPGA
11 2 (1.06%) CSOC
11 2 (1.06%) Educational Technology
11 2 (1.06%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 76 (40.21%) Linux
2 42 (22.22%) Windows
3 13 (6.88%) VMS
4 6 (3.17%) Debian
4 6 (3.17%) Unix
5 5 (2.65%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.65%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.12%) CentOS
6 4 (2.12%) Mac OS
6 4 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.59%) Solaris
8 2 (1.06%) Android
8 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.53%) AIX
9 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.53%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.53%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (63.49%) CI/CD
2 100 (52.91%) DevOps
3 92 (48.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (34.39%) Agile
5 62 (32.80%) Observability
6 61 (32.28%) Mentoring
7 48 (25.40%) Platform Engineering
8 47 (24.87%) Problem-Solving
9 46 (24.34%) AI
10 45 (23.81%) Containerisation
11 43 (22.75%) Cloud Security
12 38 (20.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (15.87%) Root Cause Analysis
13 30 (15.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 27 (14.29%) Scrum
15 25 (13.23%) DevSecOps
15 25 (13.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 23 (12.17%) Analytics
16 23 (12.17%) Infrastructure Automation
17 22 (11.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 135 (71.43%) Python
2 105 (55.56%) PowerShell
3 48 (25.40%) SQL
4 28 (14.81%) Java
5 23 (12.17%) Bicep
6 19 (10.05%) Go
6 19 (10.05%) JavaScript
7 16 (8.47%) Kusto Query Language
8 9 (4.76%) C#
8 9 (4.76%) PL/SQL
9 7 (3.70%) PHP
9 7 (3.70%) T-SQL
10 6 (3.17%) C++
10 6 (3.17%) Ruby
11 4 (2.12%) C
11 4 (2.12%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.59%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.59%) Perl
12 3 (1.59%) Rust
13 2 (1.06%) Korn
Qualifications
1 39 (20.63%) Security Cleared
2 36 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.17%) Azure Certification
4 16 (8.47%) Degree
4 16 (8.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (4.76%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.17%) CISSP
6 6 (3.17%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.12%) CompTIA CySA+
7 4 (2.12%) CREST Certified
7 4 (2.12%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.12%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (2.12%) OSCP
8 3 (1.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.59%) GPEN
8 3 (1.59%) GXPN
8 3 (1.59%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.59%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (6.35%) NIST
3 11 (5.82%) NCSC
4 9 (4.76%) QA
5 7 (3.70%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.59%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.59%) SLA
7 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.06%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.53%) GDPR
8 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
System Software
1 60 (31.75%) Docker
2 37 (19.58%) Active Directory
3 22 (11.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (6.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (6.35%) vSphere
5 9 (4.76%) Hyper-V
6 6 (3.17%) KVM
7 2 (1.06%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.53%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 82 (43.39%) Terraform
2 74 (39.15%) Kubernetes
3 41 (21.69%) Grafana
4 37 (19.58%) Prometheus
5 31 (16.40%) Ansible
6 19 (10.05%) Argo
7 12 (6.35%) Istio
8 9 (4.76%) Proxmox
9 6 (3.17%) Kustomize
9 6 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (2.12%) Graylog
10 4 (2.12%) linkerd
10 4 (2.12%) Puppet
10 4 (2.12%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.59%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.59%) Kibana
11 3 (1.59%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.06%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 64 (33.86%) Microsoft
2 28 (14.81%) VMware
3 18 (9.52%) Oracle
4 14 (7.41%) Red Hat
5 12 (6.35%) ScienceLogic
6 10 (5.29%) Cisco
6 10 (5.29%) Splunk
7 8 (4.23%) Google
7 8 (4.23%) ServiceNow
8 6 (3.17%) CyberArk
8 6 (3.17%) New Relic
8 6 (3.17%) Veeam
9 4 (2.12%) Apple
9 4 (2.12%) Dell
9 4 (2.12%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.06%) BT
10 2 (1.06%) Commvault
10 2 (1.06%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.06%) HP
10 2 (1.06%) Juniper