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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 121 175
Rank change year-on-year -144 +54 -48
Permanent jobs citing Bash 197 447 523
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.90% 2.72% 1.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.33% 7.88% 5.07%
Number of salaries quoted 134 155 250
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,306 £42,950
25th Percentile £47,560 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +16.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £68,750 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,250 £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 5,915 5,672 10,321
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.02% 34.46% 38.70%
Number of salaries quoted 4,464 3,932 8,231
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,995
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% -5.38%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -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 29 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 (8.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.05%) Apache
2 6 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.54%) Jupyter
3 5 (2.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (2.03%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.52%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.51%) Confluence
6 1 (0.51%) nginx
6 1 (0.51%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.51%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.51%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.02%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 124 (62.94%) Azure
2 88 (44.67%) AWS
3 44 (22.34%) GitHub
4 38 (19.29%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (13.20%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (12.69%) Entra ID
7 24 (12.18%) IaaS
7 24 (12.18%) Serverless
8 21 (10.66%) PaaS
9 20 (10.15%) Azure Monitor
9 20 (10.15%) GCP
10 18 (9.14%) Amazon S3
11 17 (8.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 17 (8.63%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (8.12%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (7.61%) Azure AKS
14 14 (7.11%) Azure Key Vault
14 14 (7.11%) SaaS
15 13 (6.60%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (6.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 36 (18.27%) VPN
2 29 (14.72%) Firewall
3 16 (8.12%) DNS
4 14 (7.11%) Broadband
5 9 (4.57%) TCP/IP
6 8 (4.06%) Network Security
7 6 (3.05%) VLAN
8 5 (2.54%) DHCP
8 5 (2.54%) VoIP
9 4 (2.03%) DMZ
9 4 (2.03%) Kerberos
9 4 (2.03%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (2.03%) SSH
9 4 (2.03%) STUN
10 3 (1.52%) SSL
11 2 (1.02%) iSCSI
11 2 (1.02%) LAN
11 2 (1.02%) SAN
11 2 (1.02%) WAN
11 2 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.15%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.60%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (6.60%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.55%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.05%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.05%) MySQL
5 5 (2.54%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.52%) Redis
7 2 (1.02%) Big Data
7 2 (1.02%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.02%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.51%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.51%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.51%) Looker
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (13.71%) Git
2 25 (12.69%) Jenkins
3 22 (11.17%) GitLab
4 10 (5.08%) Maven
5 8 (4.06%) JIRA
5 8 (4.06%) JUnit
5 8 (4.06%) Mockito
6 7 (3.55%) Bitbucket
7 6 (3.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (2.54%) Postman
9 4 (2.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (1.52%) JMeter
11 2 (1.02%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.02%) MSI
11 2 (1.02%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.02%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.51%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.51%) TestRail
12 1 (0.51%) webpack
General
1 57 (28.93%) Social Skills
2 23 (11.68%) Finance
3 18 (9.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (8.63%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (7.61%) Public Sector
6 13 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (6.60%) Law
7 10 (5.08%) Retail
8 6 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.05%) Games
9 5 (2.54%) Banking
10 4 (2.03%) Legal
11 3 (1.52%) Aviation
11 3 (1.52%) Marketing
11 3 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.02%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.51%) Electronics
13 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 45 (22.84%) Senior
2 36 (18.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (13.71%) Platform Engineer
4 19 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (7.61%) Developer
6 14 (7.11%) Lead
7 13 (6.60%) Analyst
7 13 (6.60%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (6.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 12 (6.09%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 12 (6.09%) Senior DevOps
9 11 (5.58%) Administrator
9 11 (5.58%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (5.08%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (5.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 10 (5.08%) Java Developer
11 9 (4.57%) Linux Engineer
11 9 (4.57%) Systems Administrator
12 8 (4.06%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.64%) REST
2 18 (9.14%) SAML
3 17 (8.63%) OpenID
4 16 (8.12%) OAuth
5 14 (7.11%) GraphQL
5 14 (7.11%) SOAP
5 14 (7.11%) YAML
6 13 (6.60%) LDAP
7 11 (5.58%) React
8 8 (4.06%) Spring
9 7 (3.55%) .NET
10 6 (3.05%) Loki
10 6 (3.05%) RESTful
11 4 (2.03%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (2.03%) FreeSWITCH
11 4 (2.03%) Kafka
11 4 (2.03%) OAuth2
11 4 (2.03%) OpenTelemetry
12 3 (1.52%) AngularJS
12 3 (1.52%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 33 (16.75%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.12%) Cyber Threat
2 16 (8.12%) Public Cloud
2 16 (8.12%) Security Posture
3 13 (6.60%) Linux Command Line
4 12 (6.09%) Cyberattack
4 12 (6.09%) Podcast
4 12 (6.09%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (5.58%) PKI
6 9 (4.57%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (3.55%) Management Information System
8 6 (3.05%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.54%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.54%) Private Cloud
10 4 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.52%) FPGA
12 2 (1.02%) CSOC
12 2 (1.02%) Educational Technology
12 2 (1.02%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 79 (40.10%) Linux
2 44 (22.34%) Windows
3 13 (6.60%) VMS
4 7 (3.55%) Debian
4 7 (3.55%) Windows Server
5 6 (3.05%) Unix
6 5 (2.54%) CentOS
6 5 (2.54%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.03%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.52%) Solaris
8 3 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.02%) Android
10 1 (0.51%) AIX
10 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.51%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.51%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (61.42%) CI/CD
2 100 (50.76%) DevOps
3 92 (46.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (32.99%) Mentoring
5 63 (31.98%) Agile
6 62 (31.47%) Observability
7 49 (24.87%) Platform Engineering
8 47 (23.86%) Problem-Solving
9 46 (23.35%) AI
10 45 (22.84%) Containerisation
11 44 (22.34%) Cloud Security
12 38 (19.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (15.74%) Root Cause Analysis
14 29 (14.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 27 (13.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 25 (12.69%) DevSecOps
16 25 (12.69%) Scrum
17 24 (12.18%) Cybersecurity
17 24 (12.18%) Identity Access Management
17 24 (12.18%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 138 (70.05%) Python
2 112 (56.85%) PowerShell
3 49 (24.87%) SQL
4 27 (13.71%) Java
5 23 (11.68%) Bicep
6 20 (10.15%) Go
7 17 (8.63%) JavaScript
8 16 (8.12%) Kusto Query Language
9 12 (6.09%) T-SQL
10 9 (4.57%) C#
11 8 (4.06%) PL/SQL
12 7 (3.55%) PHP
13 6 (3.05%) C++
13 6 (3.05%) Ruby
14 4 (2.03%) C
14 4 (2.03%) Perl
14 4 (2.03%) TypeScript
15 3 (1.52%) Objective-C
15 3 (1.52%) Rust
16 2 (1.02%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 38 (19.29%) Security Cleared
2 35 (17.77%) SC Cleared
3 24 (12.18%) Azure Certification
4 16 (8.12%) Degree
4 16 (8.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (4.57%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.05%) CISSP
6 6 (3.05%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.54%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.03%) CompTIA CySA+
8 4 (2.03%) CREST Certified
8 4 (2.03%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (2.03%) OSCP
9 3 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.52%) CCSAM
9 3 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.52%) GPEN
9 3 (1.52%) GXPN
9 3 (1.52%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.63%) NIST
2 15 (7.61%) NCSC
3 14 (7.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (4.57%) QA
5 7 (3.55%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.52%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.52%) SLA
7 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.51%) GDPR
8 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
System Software
1 61 (30.96%) Docker
2 43 (21.83%) Active Directory
3 22 (11.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (6.09%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (6.09%) vSphere
5 9 (4.57%) Hyper-V
6 6 (3.05%) KVM
7 2 (1.02%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 83 (42.13%) Terraform
2 74 (37.56%) Kubernetes
3 41 (20.81%) Grafana
4 39 (19.80%) Prometheus
5 33 (16.75%) Ansible
6 19 (9.64%) Argo
7 11 (5.58%) Istio
8 10 (5.08%) Proxmox
9 6 (3.05%) Kustomize
9 6 (3.05%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (2.54%) Puppet
11 4 (2.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (2.03%) Graylog
11 4 (2.03%) Kibana
11 4 (2.03%) linkerd
11 4 (2.03%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (1.52%) Nagios
12 3 (1.52%) Progress Chef
12 3 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 67 (34.01%) Microsoft
2 30 (15.23%) VMware
3 17 (8.63%) Oracle
4 15 (7.61%) Red Hat
5 12 (6.09%) ScienceLogic
6 11 (5.58%) Cisco
6 11 (5.58%) Splunk
7 8 (4.06%) Google
7 8 (4.06%) ServiceNow
8 6 (3.05%) CyberArk
8 6 (3.05%) New Relic
8 6 (3.05%) Veeam
9 4 (2.03%) Apple
9 4 (2.03%) Dell
9 4 (2.03%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.52%) Commvault
11 2 (1.02%) BT
11 2 (1.02%) HP
11 2 (1.02%) Juniper
11 2 (1.02%) OpenAI