Bash Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Bash Shell
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Bash skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Bash over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 187 113
Rank change year-on-year +77 -74 +51
Permanent jobs citing Bash 663 565 977
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.13% 1.80% 2.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.44% 4.60% 6.19%
Number of salaries quoted 158 285 696
10th Percentile £49,625 £44,738 £43,602
25th Percentile £55,500 £47,500 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -13.19% +2.86%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £94,125 £95,000 £120,625
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +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 7,024 12,288 15,793
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 33.11% 39.15% 46.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,382 9,797 12,759
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Bash.

Bash salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Bash
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Bash over the 6 months to 19 July 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 10 (1.51%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.90%) Confluence
4 4 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.60%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.45%) IIS
6 2 (0.30%) nginx
6 2 (0.30%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.15%) Apache
Applications
1 14 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.15%) Autodesk Inventor
3 1 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
3 1 (0.15%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 292 (44.04%) AWS
2 215 (32.43%) Pulumi
3 85 (12.82%) Azure
4 33 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (4.83%) GitHub
6 27 (4.07%) GCP
7 25 (3.77%) Serverless
8 23 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (3.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 19 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (1.96%) SaaS
14 12 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
15 11 (1.66%) Amazon S3
15 11 (1.66%) Azure Data Factory
15 11 (1.66%) Power Platform
16 10 (1.51%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (1.51%) Datadog
16 10 (1.51%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 270 (40.72%) VPN
2 262 (39.52%) Cisco IOS
3 218 (32.88%) Broadband
4 14 (2.11%) Firewall
5 13 (1.96%) DNS
6 7 (1.06%) DHCP
6 7 (1.06%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.60%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.60%) InfiniBand
7 4 (0.60%) IPv4
7 4 (0.60%) Multicast
7 4 (0.60%) OSPF
7 4 (0.60%) VLAN
8 3 (0.45%) 5G
9 2 (0.30%) BGP
9 2 (0.30%) IGMP
9 2 (0.30%) Internet
9 2 (0.30%) Network Security
9 2 (0.30%) WAN
10 1 (0.15%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 221 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 217 (32.73%) RDBMS
3 11 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (1.66%) Power BI
3 11 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (1.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (1.21%) Big Data
5 8 (1.21%) SQL Server
6 6 (0.90%) MySQL
7 4 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.30%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.30%) Metadata
9 2 (0.30%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.15%) Redis
10 1 (0.15%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 215 (32.43%) Jaeger
2 30 (4.52%) Git
3 28 (4.22%) Jenkins
4 19 (2.87%) GitLab
5 12 (1.81%) JIRA
6 5 (0.75%) WiX
7 4 (0.60%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.60%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.30%) MLflow
9 2 (0.30%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.15%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.15%) Maven
10 1 (0.15%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.15%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.15%) Subversion
10 1 (0.15%) TestRail
General
1 478 (72.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 272 (41.03%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (8.45%) Social Skills
4 43 (6.49%) Finance
5 23 (3.47%) Banking
6 8 (1.21%) Telecoms
7 5 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (0.45%) Back Office
8 3 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.45%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.30%) Advertising
9 2 (0.30%) Law
9 2 (0.30%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.15%) Electronics
10 1 (0.15%) Games
10 1 (0.15%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.15%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.15%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 268 (40.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 234 (35.29%) Lead
3 215 (32.43%) Team Leader
4 50 (7.54%) DevOps Engineer
5 37 (5.58%) Senior
6 25 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
7 18 (2.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 16 (2.41%) AWS Engineer
9 15 (2.26%) Analyst
10 14 (2.11%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (1.96%) Azure Engineer
11 13 (1.96%) Developer
12 12 (1.81%) Linux Engineer
13 11 (1.66%) Administrator
13 11 (1.66%) AWS DevOps
13 11 (1.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 11 (1.66%) Systems Administrator
14 10 (1.51%) Automation Engineer
15 9 (1.36%) Linux Systems Administrator
15 9 (1.36%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 490 (73.91%) Elastic Stack
2 215 (32.43%) OpenTelemetry
3 14 (2.11%) .NET
4 10 (1.51%) ARM Templates
4 10 (1.51%) Pandas
5 9 (1.36%) REST
6 6 (0.90%) React
6 6 (0.90%) YAML
7 5 (0.75%) AWS CDK
7 5 (0.75%) Kafka
7 5 (0.75%) LDAP
8 4 (0.60%) .NET Framework
8 4 (0.60%) Blazor
8 4 (0.60%) COM
8 4 (0.60%) Entity Framework
8 4 (0.60%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (0.60%) HTML
8 4 (0.60%) Jinja
8 4 (0.60%) scikit-learn
8 4 (0.60%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 262 (39.52%) Cyberattack
2 16 (2.41%) Cloud Native
3 9 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (1.06%) Data Centre
4 7 (1.06%) Public Cloud
5 5 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (0.60%) Onboarding
6 4 (0.60%) Security Posture
6 4 (0.60%) Wiki
7 3 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (0.45%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (0.45%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.45%) Product Ownership
7 3 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.45%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.30%) Acoustics
8 2 (0.30%) Replication
9 1 (0.15%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.15%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 569 (85.82%) Linux
2 296 (44.65%) Windows
3 262 (39.52%) Android
4 234 (35.29%) Unix
5 14 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.51%) Windows Server
7 9 (1.36%) CentOS
8 6 (0.90%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.60%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.60%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.30%) Debian
10 2 (0.30%) Rocky
10 2 (0.30%) Solaris
10 2 (0.30%) VMS
10 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.15%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 584 (88.08%) DevOps
2 495 (74.66%) Task Automation
3 302 (45.55%) Problem-Solving
4 296 (44.65%) Platform Engineering
5 278 (41.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 273 (41.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 263 (39.67%) Containerisation
7 263 (39.67%) Storage Management
8 262 (39.52%) Line Management
8 262 (39.52%) Mathematics
8 262 (39.52%) Risk Management
9 243 (36.65%) Agile
10 242 (36.50%) Mentoring
11 235 (35.44%) High Availability
12 223 (33.63%) Performance Optimisation
13 222 (33.48%) Resource Management
14 221 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
15 218 (32.88%) Roadmaps
16 215 (32.43%) Cost Optimisation
16 215 (32.43%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 634 (95.63%) Python
2 361 (54.45%) PowerShell
3 235 (35.44%) Java
4 228 (34.39%) Go
5 226 (34.09%) JavaScript
6 34 (5.13%) SQL
7 17 (2.56%) Perl
8 15 (2.26%) Bicep
9 14 (2.11%) TypeScript
10 11 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (1.36%) C++
12 6 (0.90%) C#
12 6 (0.90%) R
13 4 (0.60%) C
13 4 (0.60%) Ruby
14 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.30%) Fortran
16 1 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 231 (34.84%) AWS Certification
2 19 (2.87%) Degree
3 18 (2.71%) Security Cleared
4 15 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (2.11%) Azure Certification
6 11 (1.66%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.06%) RHCE
8 6 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.75%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.60%) Linux+ Certification
10 4 (0.60%) MCSE
10 4 (0.60%) RHCSA
11 3 (0.45%) LPIC
12 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.30%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.30%) OSCP
12 2 (0.30%) PhD
13 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.15%) CCSA
13 1 (0.15%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.92%) GDPR
2 11 (1.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 10 (1.51%) QA
4 6 (0.90%) HIPAA
4 6 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.60%) NIST
6 2 (0.30%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.15%) GRC
7 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 533 (80.39%) Docker
2 267 (40.27%) Hyper-V
3 264 (39.82%) vSphere
4 262 (39.52%) VMware NSX
5 19 (2.87%) Active Directory
6 14 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.60%) Dovecot
8 4 (0.60%) Postfix
9 3 (0.45%) GPFS
9 3 (0.45%) Lustre
9 3 (0.45%) NFS
10 2 (0.30%) KVM
11 1 (0.15%) Corosync
11 1 (0.15%) Firmware
11 1 (0.15%) Kamailio
11 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 542 (81.75%) Terraform
2 530 (79.94%) Ansible
3 273 (41.18%) Kubernetes
4 245 (36.95%) Prometheus
5 216 (32.58%) Argo
5 216 (32.58%) Kustomize
6 25 (3.77%) Grafana
7 12 (1.81%) Red Hat Satellite
8 11 (1.66%) Puppet
9 9 (1.36%) Nagios
10 7 (1.06%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.75%) Kibana
11 5 (0.75%) SCCM
12 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.60%) SCOM
13 3 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.30%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.30%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.30%) Packer
14 2 (0.30%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 269 (40.57%) Splunk
2 263 (39.67%) Juniper
3 262 (39.52%) 3PAR
3 262 (39.52%) Cisco
4 218 (32.88%) Google
5 39 (5.88%) Microsoft
6 34 (5.13%) Red Hat
7 22 (3.32%) VMware
8 7 (1.06%) SolarWinds
9 5 (0.75%) Okta
10 4 (0.60%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.60%) F5
10 4 (0.60%) Oracle
10 4 (0.60%) Ping Identity
10 4 (0.60%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.45%) Commvault
12 2 (0.30%) ESRI
12 2 (0.30%) LogicMonitor
12 2 (0.30%) SAP
12 2 (0.30%) Sun