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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 217 167
Rank change year-on-year +59 -50 -29
Permanent jobs citing Bash 256 240 541
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.59% 1.53% 1.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.79% 3.44% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 127 178 438
10th Percentile £43,500 £37,500 £42,962
25th Percentile £52,145 £47,500 £51,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £87,500
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 4,425 6,984 12,522
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.41% 44.52% 45.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,251 4,475 10,893
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £79,600
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £98,750
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 13 February 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 (7.42%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.91%) Apache
2 10 (3.91%) Apache Spark
3 9 (3.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (3.52%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.95%) nginx
5 4 (1.56%) CMS
6 3 (1.17%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.78%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.56%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.78%) Weka
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 152 (59.38%) Azure
2 128 (50.00%) AWS
3 88 (34.38%) Entra ID
4 58 (22.66%) Google Workspace
5 45 (17.58%) GitHub
6 40 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
7 39 (15.23%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (13.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 34 (13.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 26 (10.16%) Amazon EKS
11 25 (9.77%) GCP
12 23 (8.98%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (7.42%) Amazon S3
13 19 (7.42%) Pulumi
14 18 (7.03%) Azure AKS
14 18 (7.03%) Azure Monitor
15 14 (5.47%) SaaS
15 14 (5.47%) Serverless
15 14 (5.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 13 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 81 (31.64%) Broadband
2 21 (8.20%) Firewall
3 14 (5.47%) VPN
4 12 (4.69%) Network Security
5 8 (3.13%) VLAN
6 6 (2.34%) DNS
7 4 (1.56%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (1.56%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.56%) WAN
8 3 (1.17%) DMZ
8 3 (1.17%) InfiniBand
8 3 (1.17%) LAN
8 3 (1.17%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.17%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.17%) STUN
8 3 (1.17%) VoIP
9 2 (0.78%) DHCP
9 2 (0.78%) MPLS
9 2 (0.78%) NGFW
9 2 (0.78%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.55%) NoSQL
2 19 (7.42%) RDBMS
2 19 (7.42%) Relational Database
3 18 (7.03%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (7.03%) Apache Iceberg
3 18 (7.03%) Tableau
4 10 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (3.91%) BigQuery
4 10 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.52%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (3.52%) Amazon QuickSight
5 9 (3.52%) Delta Lake
5 9 (3.52%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (3.52%) Looker
5 9 (3.52%) Metadata
5 9 (3.52%) Pinecone
5 9 (3.52%) Weaviate
6 7 (2.73%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (2.73%) MySQL
7 5 (1.95%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 34 (13.28%) Jenkins
2 19 (7.42%) Jaeger
3 17 (6.64%) GitLab
4 16 (6.25%) Git
5 9 (3.52%) MLflow
6 6 (2.34%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.95%) Robot Framework
8 4 (1.56%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.56%) Vite
9 3 (1.17%) Balsamiq
9 3 (1.17%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.17%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.17%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.17%) JMeter
9 3 (1.17%) Maven
9 3 (1.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.78%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.78%) JIRA
10 2 (0.78%) Metasploit
10 2 (0.78%) TestRail
General
1 69 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 60 (23.44%) Organisational Skills
3 36 (14.06%) Finance
4 35 (13.67%) Games
5 19 (7.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (5.47%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (4.30%) Telecoms
9 10 (3.91%) Retail
10 5 (1.95%) Banking
11 4 (1.56%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.56%) Back Office
11 4 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.56%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.17%) Billing
12 3 (1.17%) Military
12 3 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.39%) Local Government
13 1 (0.39%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 73 (28.52%) Senior
2 38 (14.84%) Lead
3 37 (14.45%) Cloud Engineer
4 26 (10.16%) Platform Engineer
5 25 (9.77%) Developer
6 23 (8.98%) IAM Developer
7 22 (8.59%) Systems Engineer
8 21 (8.20%) DevOps Engineer
9 18 (7.03%) Linux Engineer
10 17 (6.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (5.86%) Senior Developer
13 14 (5.47%) Consultant
14 13 (5.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 12 (4.69%) Azure Engineer
15 12 (4.69%) Data Engineer
15 12 (4.69%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 12 (4.69%) Senior Consultant
16 10 (3.91%) Senior DevOps
16 10 (3.91%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (23.83%) GraphQL
1 61 (23.83%) REST
1 61 (23.83%) SOAP
2 58 (22.66%) LDAP
2 58 (22.66%) OAuth
2 58 (22.66%) OpenID
2 58 (22.66%) SAML
3 34 (13.28%) Elastic Stack
4 19 (7.42%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (4.30%) Kafka
6 9 (3.52%) Faiss
6 9 (3.52%) PyTorch
6 9 (3.52%) TensorFlow
6 9 (3.52%) vLLM
7 7 (2.73%) Loki
8 5 (1.95%) Middleware
9 4 (1.56%) CSS
9 4 (1.56%) HTML
9 4 (1.56%) Vue
9 4 (1.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (23.44%) Cyber Threat
1 60 (23.44%) Cyberattack
2 33 (12.89%) Product Ownership
3 13 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.52%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.52%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.13%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.73%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (2.34%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.56%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.56%) Blog
9 4 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.56%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.17%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.78%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.78%) Clustering
11 2 (0.78%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 107 (41.80%) Linux
2 35 (13.67%) Windows
3 34 (13.28%) Unix
4 8 (3.13%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.73%) CentOS
5 7 (2.73%) Debian
6 3 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.78%) Solaris
7 2 (0.78%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.78%) VMS
8 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (48.83%) DevOps
2 109 (42.58%) Infrastructure as Code
2 109 (42.58%) Roadmaps
3 103 (40.23%) CI/CD
4 101 (39.45%) Mentoring
5 71 (27.73%) Cybersecurity
6 65 (25.39%) Agile
7 64 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
8 60 (23.44%) Programme Delivery
9 58 (22.66%) Regulatory Compliance
10 53 (20.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 41 (16.02%) Containerisation
12 40 (15.63%) Cloud Security
13 39 (15.23%) AI
13 39 (15.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 37 (14.45%) Problem-Solving
15 36 (14.06%) High Availability
16 35 (13.67%) Coaching
17 34 (13.28%) Performance Optimisation
18 31 (12.11%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 160 (62.50%) Python
2 145 (56.64%) PowerShell
3 58 (22.66%) T-SQL
4 57 (22.27%) SQL
5 45 (17.58%) Go
6 33 (12.89%) Java
7 27 (10.55%) JavaScript
8 19 (7.42%) Bicep
9 9 (3.52%) C++
9 9 (3.52%) Scala
10 7 (2.73%) Perl
11 6 (2.34%) TypeScript
12 5 (1.95%) C
13 4 (1.56%) C#
13 4 (1.56%) Fortran
13 4 (1.56%) PHP
14 3 (1.17%) Groovy
14 3 (1.17%) VBScript
15 2 (0.78%) Korn
Qualifications
1 38 (14.84%) AWS Certification
2 35 (13.67%) Degree
3 29 (11.33%) Security Cleared
4 17 (6.64%) SC Cleared
5 16 (6.25%) Azure Certification
6 10 (3.91%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (2.34%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.56%) PhD
12 3 (1.17%) CCNP
12 3 (1.17%) CITP
12 3 (1.17%) CREST Certified
12 3 (1.17%) GCIH
12 3 (1.17%) LPIC
13 2 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.78%) CISSP
13 2 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.78%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (24.22%) NIST
2 60 (23.44%) NCSC
3 33 (12.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.91%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.73%) QA
6 6 (2.34%) GDPR
7 5 (1.95%) SOC 2
8 4 (1.56%) GRC
8 4 (1.56%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.78%) SLA
10 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 75 (29.30%) Active Directory
2 66 (25.78%) Docker
3 13 (5.08%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (3.91%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.78%) Ceph
7 2 (0.78%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.78%) Lustre
8 1 (0.39%) vCloud
8 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 116 (45.31%) Terraform
2 76 (29.69%) Kubernetes
3 67 (26.17%) Ansible
4 39 (15.23%) Prometheus
5 34 (13.28%) Grafana
6 21 (8.20%) Argo
7 19 (7.42%) Kustomize
8 11 (4.30%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.56%) Cilium
10 4 (1.56%) logstash
10 4 (1.56%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.56%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (1.17%) HP Fortify
11 3 (1.17%) Puppet
12 2 (0.78%) Nagios
12 2 (0.78%) Nmap
13 1 (0.39%) Icinga
13 1 (0.39%) Kibana
13 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (11.33%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.42%) Google
3 12 (4.69%) Red Hat
4 11 (4.30%) Splunk
4 11 (4.30%) VMware
5 9 (3.52%) CyberArk
5 9 (3.52%) Databricks
5 9 (3.52%) Palantir
6 7 (2.73%) Cisco
7 6 (2.34%) Oracle
8 4 (1.56%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (1.17%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.17%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.17%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.17%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.78%) Informatica
10 2 (0.78%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.78%) NetApp
10 2 (0.78%) Rapid7
10 2 (0.78%) Talend
110 hybrid/remote Bash jobs