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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 124 164
Rank change year-on-year -148 +40 -41
Permanent jobs citing Bash 185 446 505
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.82% 2.71% 2.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.05% 8.02% 5.23%
Number of salaries quoted 129 154 228
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,439 £40,583
25th Percentile £48,750 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +16.00% -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 £61,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +9.76% -12.14%

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 6,065 5,564 9,649
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.83% 33.75% 38.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,560 3,833 7,546
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,287
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 £82,500 £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 7 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 (9.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (3.24%) Apache
4 5 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.70%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.62%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.62%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.54%) Confluence
6 1 (0.54%) nginx
6 1 (0.54%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.54%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.08%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 115 (62.16%) Azure
2 88 (47.57%) AWS
3 42 (22.70%) GitHub
4 37 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (12.97%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (12.43%) IaaS
6 23 (12.43%) Serverless
7 21 (11.35%) PaaS
8 20 (10.81%) Azure Monitor
8 20 (10.81%) GCP
9 18 (9.73%) Amazon EC2
9 18 (9.73%) Amazon S3
10 16 (8.65%) Entra ID
10 16 (8.65%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (8.11%) Azure AKS
11 15 (8.11%) SaaS
12 14 (7.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (7.57%) Azure Key Vault
13 13 (7.03%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 33 (17.84%) VPN
2 26 (14.05%) Firewall
3 17 (9.19%) DNS
4 9 (4.86%) TCP/IP
5 7 (3.78%) Network Security
6 5 (2.70%) Broadband
6 5 (2.70%) DHCP
6 5 (2.70%) VLAN
7 4 (2.16%) Kerberos
7 4 (2.16%) SSH
7 4 (2.16%) VoIP
8 3 (1.62%) DMZ
8 3 (1.62%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.62%) SSL
8 3 (1.62%) STUN
9 2 (1.08%) LAN
9 2 (1.08%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (1.08%) SAN
9 2 (1.08%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.27%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (7.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (5.95%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.78%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.24%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.24%) MySQL
6 5 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.62%) Redis
8 2 (1.08%) Big Data
8 2 (1.08%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.08%) DocumentDB
8 2 (1.08%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.54%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.54%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 27 (14.59%) Git
2 24 (12.97%) Jenkins
3 20 (10.81%) GitLab
4 12 (6.49%) Maven
5 10 (5.41%) JUnit
5 10 (5.41%) Mockito
6 7 (3.78%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.78%) JIRA
7 6 (3.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (2.70%) Postman
9 3 (1.62%) JMeter
9 3 (1.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (1.08%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.08%) MSI
10 2 (1.08%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.08%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.54%) Browser DevTools
11 1 (0.54%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.54%) TestRail
11 1 (0.54%) webpack
General
1 52 (28.11%) Social Skills
2 26 (14.05%) Finance
3 18 (9.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (8.65%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.03%) Law
6 8 (4.32%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (4.32%) Retail
7 5 (2.70%) Banking
7 5 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.70%) Legal
8 3 (1.62%) Aviation
8 3 (1.62%) Marketing
9 2 (1.08%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.08%) Games
10 1 (0.54%) French Language
10 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 41 (22.16%) Senior
2 36 (19.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (14.59%) Platform Engineer
4 17 (9.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (7.57%) Developer
6 13 (7.03%) Analyst
6 13 (7.03%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (7.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 13 (7.03%) Lead
7 12 (6.49%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (6.49%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 12 (6.49%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 12 (6.49%) Java Developer
8 11 (5.95%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (5.41%) Senior DevOps
10 9 (4.86%) Administrator
11 8 (4.32%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.32%) Linux Engineer
11 8 (4.32%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.57%) YAML
2 13 (7.03%) React
3 12 (6.49%) REST
4 10 (5.41%) SAML
4 10 (5.41%) Spring
5 9 (4.86%) OpenID
6 7 (3.78%) .NET
6 7 (3.78%) OAuth
7 6 (3.24%) Loki
7 6 (3.24%) RESTful
8 5 (2.70%) GraphQL
8 5 (2.70%) SOAP
9 4 (2.16%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (2.16%) Kafka
9 4 (2.16%) LDAP
9 4 (2.16%) OAuth2
9 4 (2.16%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (1.62%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.62%) ARM Templates
10 3 (1.62%) FreeSWITCH
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.84%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.65%) Public Cloud
2 16 (8.65%) Security Posture
3 14 (7.57%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (7.03%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (6.49%) Podcast
6 11 (5.95%) PKI
7 7 (3.78%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (3.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (3.78%) Management Information System
8 6 (3.24%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.62%) Cyberattack
10 3 (1.62%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.62%) FPGA
10 3 (1.62%) Private Cloud
11 2 (1.08%) CSOC
11 2 (1.08%) Educational Technology
11 2 (1.08%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 76 (41.08%) Linux
2 43 (23.24%) Windows
3 13 (7.03%) VMS
4 6 (3.24%) Debian
4 6 (3.24%) Unix
5 5 (2.70%) Mac OS
5 5 (2.70%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.70%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.16%) CentOS
6 4 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.62%) Solaris
8 2 (1.08%) Android
8 2 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.54%) AIX
9 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.54%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.54%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (64.86%) CI/CD
2 100 (54.05%) DevOps
3 92 (49.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (35.68%) Agile
5 61 (32.97%) Observability
6 58 (31.35%) Mentoring
7 49 (26.49%) Platform Engineering
8 48 (25.95%) Problem-Solving
9 46 (24.86%) Containerisation
10 45 (24.32%) AI
11 42 (22.70%) Cloud Security
12 38 (20.54%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (16.22%) Root Cause Analysis
13 30 (16.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 28 (15.14%) Scrum
15 26 (14.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 25 (13.51%) DevSecOps
17 23 (12.43%) Analytics
17 23 (12.43%) Infrastructure Automation
17 23 (12.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 134 (72.43%) Python
2 102 (55.14%) PowerShell
3 44 (23.78%) SQL
4 28 (15.14%) Java
5 23 (12.43%) Bicep
6 20 (10.81%) JavaScript
7 17 (9.19%) Go
8 16 (8.65%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (5.41%) PL/SQL
10 9 (4.86%) C#
11 7 (3.78%) PHP
12 6 (3.24%) C++
12 6 (3.24%) Ruby
13 4 (2.16%) C
13 4 (2.16%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.62%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.62%) Perl
14 3 (1.62%) Rust
14 3 (1.62%) T-SQL
15 2 (1.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 37 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.43%) Azure Certification
4 16 (8.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (8.11%) Degree
6 8 (4.32%) AWS Certification
7 6 (3.24%) CISSP
7 6 (3.24%) CompTIA Security+
7 6 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.16%) CompTIA CySA+
8 4 (2.16%) CREST Certified
8 4 (2.16%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.16%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (2.16%) OSCP
9 3 (1.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.62%) CCSAM
9 3 (1.62%) GPEN
9 3 (1.62%) GXPN
9 3 (1.62%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.62%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (4.86%) QA
2 8 (4.32%) NIST
3 7 (3.78%) NCSC
3 7 (3.78%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.62%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.62%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.62%) SLA
5 2 (1.08%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.08%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.54%) GDPR
6 1 (0.54%) HIPAA
System Software
1 60 (32.43%) Docker
2 33 (17.84%) Active Directory
3 22 (11.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (6.49%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (6.49%) vSphere
5 9 (4.86%) Hyper-V
6 6 (3.24%) KVM
7 2 (1.08%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 81 (43.78%) Terraform
2 74 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 40 (21.62%) Grafana
4 36 (19.46%) Prometheus
5 30 (16.22%) Ansible
6 19 (10.27%) Argo
7 12 (6.49%) Istio
8 8 (4.32%) Proxmox
9 6 (3.24%) Kustomize
9 6 (3.24%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (2.16%) Graylog
10 4 (2.16%) linkerd
10 4 (2.16%) Puppet
10 4 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (2.16%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.62%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.62%) Kibana
11 3 (1.62%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.08%) Nagios
Vendors
1 65 (35.14%) Microsoft
2 27 (14.59%) VMware
3 19 (10.27%) Oracle
4 14 (7.57%) Red Hat
5 12 (6.49%) ScienceLogic
6 10 (5.41%) Cisco
6 10 (5.41%) Splunk
7 9 (4.86%) Google
8 8 (4.32%) ServiceNow
9 6 (3.24%) CyberArk
9 6 (3.24%) New Relic
9 6 (3.24%) Veeam
10 4 (2.16%) Apple
10 4 (2.16%) Dell
10 4 (2.16%) Fortinet
11 2 (1.08%) BT
11 2 (1.08%) Commvault
11 2 (1.08%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.08%) HP
11 2 (1.08%) Juniper