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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 127 165
Rank change year-on-year -151 +38 -45
Permanent jobs citing Bash 181 450 502
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.80% 2.72% 2.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.98% 8.13% 5.27%
Number of salaries quoted 125 159 226
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,145 £40,416
25th Percentile £48,750 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% -13.19%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,500 £91,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £64,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -5.19% +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 6,068 5,537 9,531
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.73% 33.52% 38.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,553 3,814 7,451
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,573
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 10 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 (9.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (3.31%) Apache
4 5 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.76%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.66%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.66%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.10%) nginx
7 1 (0.55%) Confluence
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.55%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.10%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 113 (62.43%) Azure
2 86 (47.51%) AWS
3 42 (23.20%) GitHub
4 38 (20.99%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (13.26%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (12.71%) Serverless
7 22 (12.15%) IaaS
8 21 (11.60%) PaaS
9 20 (11.05%) Azure Monitor
10 19 (10.50%) GCP
11 18 (9.94%) Amazon EC2
11 18 (9.94%) Amazon S3
12 16 (8.84%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (8.29%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (8.29%) Azure AKS
13 15 (8.29%) Entra ID
13 15 (8.29%) SaaS
14 14 (7.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 14 (7.73%) Azure Key Vault
15 13 (7.18%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (17.68%) VPN
2 25 (13.81%) Firewall
3 17 (9.39%) DNS
4 9 (4.97%) TCP/IP
5 7 (3.87%) Network Security
6 5 (2.76%) DHCP
7 4 (2.21%) Broadband
7 4 (2.21%) Kerberos
7 4 (2.21%) SSH
7 4 (2.21%) VLAN
8 3 (1.66%) SSL
8 3 (1.66%) VoIP
9 2 (1.10%) DMZ
9 2 (1.10%) HTTP
9 2 (1.10%) iSCSI
9 2 (1.10%) LAN
9 2 (1.10%) SAN
9 2 (1.10%) STUN
9 2 (1.10%) WAN
9 2 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.50%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (7.18%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (5.52%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.87%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.31%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.31%) MySQL
6 5 (2.76%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.66%) Redis
8 2 (1.10%) Big Data
8 2 (1.10%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.10%) DocumentDB
8 2 (1.10%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.55%) GIS
9 1 (0.55%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.55%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 28 (15.47%) Git
2 25 (13.81%) Jenkins
3 20 (11.05%) GitLab
4 12 (6.63%) Maven
5 10 (5.52%) JUnit
5 10 (5.52%) Mockito
6 7 (3.87%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.87%) JIRA
7 6 (3.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (2.76%) Postman
9 3 (1.66%) JMeter
10 2 (1.10%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.10%) MSI
10 2 (1.10%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (1.10%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.55%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.55%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.55%) TestRail
11 1 (0.55%) webpack
General
1 50 (27.62%) Social Skills
2 26 (14.36%) Finance
3 18 (9.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (9.39%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.18%) Law
6 12 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.42%) Retail
8 7 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.76%) Banking
9 5 (2.76%) Legal
10 4 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.66%) Aviation
11 3 (1.66%) Marketing
12 2 (1.10%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.55%) Electronics
13 1 (0.55%) French Language
13 1 (0.55%) Games
13 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 40 (22.10%) Senior
2 37 (20.44%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (14.92%) Platform Engineer
4 16 (8.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (7.18%) Analyst
5 13 (7.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 13 (7.18%) Developer
5 13 (7.18%) Lead
6 12 (6.63%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (6.63%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (6.63%) Full-Stack Developer
6 12 (6.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 12 (6.63%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 12 (6.63%) Java Developer
7 10 (5.52%) Senior DevOps
8 9 (4.97%) Administrator
9 8 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (4.42%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 8 (4.42%) Linux Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.73%) YAML
2 13 (7.18%) React
3 11 (6.08%) REST
4 10 (5.52%) Spring
5 9 (4.97%) SAML
6 8 (4.42%) OpenID
7 7 (3.87%) .NET
8 6 (3.31%) Loki
8 6 (3.31%) OAuth
8 6 (3.31%) RESTful
9 4 (2.21%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (2.21%) GraphQL
9 4 (2.21%) Kafka
9 4 (2.21%) OAuth2
9 4 (2.21%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (2.21%) SOAP
10 3 (1.66%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.66%) ARM Templates
10 3 (1.66%) JSON
10 3 (1.66%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (18.23%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.84%) Public Cloud
2 16 (8.84%) Security Posture
3 14 (7.73%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (7.18%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (6.63%) Podcast
6 11 (6.08%) PKI
7 7 (3.87%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (3.87%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.87%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.31%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.66%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.66%) FPGA
10 3 (1.66%) Private Cloud
11 2 (1.10%) CSOC
11 2 (1.10%) Educational Technology
11 2 (1.10%) Hackathon
11 2 (1.10%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 76 (41.99%) Linux
2 42 (23.20%) Windows
3 13 (7.18%) VMS
4 6 (3.31%) Unix
5 5 (2.76%) Debian
5 5 (2.76%) Mac OS
5 5 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.76%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.21%) CentOS
6 4 (2.21%) Solaris
6 4 (2.21%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.10%) Android
7 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.55%) AIX
8 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.55%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.55%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (65.19%) CI/CD
2 98 (54.14%) DevOps
3 91 (50.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (36.46%) Agile
5 61 (33.70%) Observability
6 57 (31.49%) Mentoring
7 50 (27.62%) Platform Engineering
8 48 (26.52%) Problem-Solving
9 47 (25.97%) Containerisation
10 45 (24.86%) AI
11 42 (23.20%) Cloud Security
12 37 (20.44%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (16.57%) Root Cause Analysis
13 30 (16.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 28 (15.47%) Scrum
15 26 (14.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 25 (13.81%) DevSecOps
17 24 (13.26%) Infrastructure Automation
18 23 (12.71%) Analytics
18 23 (12.71%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 131 (72.38%) Python
2 99 (54.70%) PowerShell
3 44 (24.31%) SQL
4 29 (16.02%) Java
5 23 (12.71%) Bicep
6 20 (11.05%) JavaScript
7 17 (9.39%) Go
8 16 (8.84%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (6.08%) PL/SQL
10 9 (4.97%) C#
11 7 (3.87%) PHP
12 6 (3.31%) C++
12 6 (3.31%) Ruby
13 4 (2.21%) C
13 4 (2.21%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.66%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.66%) Perl
14 3 (1.66%) Rust
15 2 (1.10%) Groovy
15 2 (1.10%) Korn
Qualifications
1 41 (22.65%) Security Cleared
2 38 (20.99%) SC Cleared
3 22 (12.15%) Azure Certification
4 16 (8.84%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (7.73%) Degree
6 8 (4.42%) AWS Certification
7 6 (3.31%) CISSP
7 6 (3.31%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.21%) CompTIA CySA+
9 4 (2.21%) CREST Certified
9 4 (2.21%) DV Cleared
9 4 (2.21%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (2.21%) OSCP
10 3 (1.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.66%) GPEN
10 3 (1.66%) GXPN
10 3 (1.66%) ISTQB
10 3 (1.66%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (4.42%) QA
3 7 (3.87%) NIST
3 7 (3.87%) SOC 2
4 6 (3.31%) NCSC
5 3 (1.66%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.66%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.66%) SLA
6 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.55%) GDPR
7 1 (0.55%) HIPAA
System Software
1 61 (33.70%) Docker
2 31 (17.13%) Active Directory
3 23 (12.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (6.63%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (6.63%) vSphere
5 9 (4.97%) Hyper-V
6 6 (3.31%) KVM
7 2 (1.10%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (1.10%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 81 (44.75%) Terraform
2 74 (40.88%) Kubernetes
3 40 (22.10%) Grafana
4 36 (19.89%) Prometheus
5 30 (16.57%) Ansible
6 19 (10.50%) Argo
7 12 (6.63%) Istio
8 8 (4.42%) Proxmox
9 6 (3.31%) Kustomize
9 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (2.21%) Graylog
10 4 (2.21%) linkerd
10 4 (2.21%) Puppet
10 4 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (2.21%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.66%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.66%) Kibana
11 3 (1.66%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.10%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 64 (35.36%) Microsoft
2 28 (15.47%) VMware
3 20 (11.05%) Oracle
4 15 (8.29%) Red Hat
5 12 (6.63%) ScienceLogic
6 10 (5.52%) Splunk
7 9 (4.97%) Cisco
7 9 (4.97%) Google
8 8 (4.42%) ServiceNow
9 6 (3.31%) CyberArk
9 6 (3.31%) New Relic
9 6 (3.31%) Veeam
10 4 (2.21%) Apple
10 4 (2.21%) Dell
10 4 (2.21%) Fortinet
11 2 (1.10%) BT
11 2 (1.10%) Commvault
11 2 (1.10%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.10%) HP
11 2 (1.10%) Juniper