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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 201 143
Rank change year-on-year +22 -58 +2
Permanent jobs citing Bash 209 267 515
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.40% 1.62% 2.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.15% 3.76% 5.11%
Number of salaries quoted 121 182 406
10th Percentile £42,750 £37,500 £42,874
25th Percentile £56,250 £42,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £100,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +6.06% -5.71%

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 4,055 7,093 10,070
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.13% 43.16% 46.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,056 4,451 8,585
10th Percentile £37,000 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% -5.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 12 January 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 11 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (4.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.31%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.87%) Apache
4 5 (2.39%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.91%) nginx
6 3 (1.44%) CMS
7 2 (0.96%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.96%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (1.44%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.96%) Weka
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 116 (55.50%) Azure
2 102 (48.80%) AWS
3 55 (26.32%) Entra ID
4 41 (19.62%) GitHub
5 40 (19.14%) Azure DevOps
6 37 (17.70%) GitHub Actions
7 35 (16.75%) AWS CloudFormation
8 31 (14.83%) Google Workspace
9 29 (13.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 22 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
11 21 (10.05%) GCP
11 21 (10.05%) Microsoft 365
12 19 (9.09%) Azure AKS
12 19 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (7.18%) Amazon S3
13 15 (7.18%) Serverless
14 14 (6.70%) SaaS
15 13 (6.22%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (6.22%) Pulumi
16 11 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 47 (22.49%) Broadband
2 16 (7.66%) Firewall
3 10 (4.78%) Network Security
3 10 (4.78%) VPN
4 8 (3.83%) DNS
5 7 (3.35%) TCP/IP
5 7 (3.35%) WAN
6 5 (2.39%) LAN
6 5 (2.39%) SAN
6 5 (2.39%) VLAN
7 4 (1.91%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (1.44%) BGP
8 3 (1.44%) InfiniBand
8 3 (1.44%) OSPF
8 3 (1.44%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.96%) DHCP
9 2 (0.96%) MPLS
9 2 (0.96%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.53%) NoSQL
2 14 (6.70%) Relational Database
3 13 (6.22%) RDBMS
4 11 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (5.26%) Apache Iceberg
4 11 (5.26%) Tableau
5 6 (2.87%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (2.87%) Amazon QuickSight
5 6 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (2.87%) Metadata
6 5 (2.39%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (2.39%) BigQuery
6 5 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.39%) Delta Lake
6 5 (2.39%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.39%) Looker
6 5 (2.39%) MySQL
6 5 (2.39%) Pinecone
6 5 (2.39%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 38 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 18 (8.61%) GitLab
3 13 (6.22%) Jaeger
4 12 (5.74%) Git
5 5 (2.39%) MLflow
5 5 (2.39%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.91%) Robot Framework
6 4 (1.91%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.44%) Balsamiq
7 3 (1.44%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.44%) Burp Suite
7 3 (1.44%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.44%) Maven
7 3 (1.44%) Metasploit
7 3 (1.44%) Vite
8 2 (0.96%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.96%) JMeter
8 2 (0.96%) TestRail
9 1 (0.48%) git-flow
9 1 (0.48%) JIRA
General
1 56 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 39 (18.66%) Finance
3 33 (15.79%) Organisational Skills
4 21 (10.05%) Games
5 13 (6.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (5.74%) Telecoms
7 10 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (3.83%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.87%) Banking
10 5 (2.39%) Retail
11 4 (1.91%) Back Office
11 4 (1.91%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.44%) Billing
12 3 (1.44%) Military
13 2 (0.96%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.96%) Electronics
13 2 (0.96%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.96%) Marketing
14 1 (0.48%) Law
Job Titles
1 52 (24.88%) Senior
2 30 (14.35%) Lead
3 29 (13.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 27 (12.92%) Platform Engineer
5 25 (11.96%) DevOps Engineer
5 25 (11.96%) Linux Engineer
6 15 (7.18%) Developer
7 14 (6.70%) IAM Developer
8 13 (6.22%) AWS Engineer
8 13 (6.22%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (6.22%) Systems Engineer
9 12 (5.74%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.78%) Senior Developer
12 9 (4.31%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 9 (4.31%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 9 (4.31%) Senior DevOps
12 9 (4.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.31%) Support Engineer
13 8 (3.83%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (16.75%) REST
2 34 (16.27%) GraphQL
2 34 (16.27%) SOAP
3 31 (14.83%) LDAP
3 31 (14.83%) OAuth
3 31 (14.83%) OpenID
3 31 (14.83%) SAML
4 29 (13.88%) Elastic Stack
5 13 (6.22%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (3.35%) Kafka
7 5 (2.39%) Faiss
7 5 (2.39%) Loki
7 5 (2.39%) PyTorch
7 5 (2.39%) TensorFlow
7 5 (2.39%) vLLM
8 4 (1.91%) ARM Templates
8 4 (1.91%) AWS CDK
8 4 (1.91%) AWS SAM
9 3 (1.44%) Vue
9 3 (1.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (15.79%) Cyber Threat
1 33 (15.79%) Cyberattack
2 26 (12.44%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.78%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.78%) Security Posture
4 9 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.91%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.91%) Blog
5 4 (1.91%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.44%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.96%) e-Learning
7 2 (0.96%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.96%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.48%) Clustering
8 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.48%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.48%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 100 (47.85%) Linux
2 37 (17.70%) Windows
3 32 (15.31%) Unix
4 7 (3.35%) Debian
4 7 (3.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.35%) Solaris
5 5 (2.39%) CentOS
5 5 (2.39%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.44%) VMS
7 2 (0.96%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.48%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (55.98%) DevOps
2 92 (44.02%) CI/CD
2 92 (44.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 70 (33.49%) Roadmaps
4 64 (30.62%) Mentoring
5 57 (27.27%) Agile
6 52 (24.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
8 37 (17.70%) Cloud Security
8 37 (17.70%) Containerisation
8 37 (17.70%) Identity Access Management
9 36 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (15.79%) Programme Delivery
11 32 (15.31%) AI
11 32 (15.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 31 (14.83%) ITIL
12 31 (14.83%) Regulatory Compliance
13 30 (14.35%) Incident Response
14 29 (13.88%) High Availability
15 28 (13.40%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 150 (71.77%) Python
2 114 (54.55%) PowerShell
3 35 (16.75%) SQL
4 31 (14.83%) Go
4 31 (14.83%) T-SQL
5 26 (12.44%) Java
6 21 (10.05%) Bicep
7 20 (9.57%) JavaScript
8 11 (5.26%) Perl
9 9 (4.31%) TypeScript
10 7 (3.35%) C++
11 5 (2.39%) C
11 5 (2.39%) Korn
11 5 (2.39%) Scala
12 4 (1.91%) Fortran
13 3 (1.44%) C#
13 3 (1.44%) Groovy
13 3 (1.44%) PHP
13 3 (1.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 34 (16.27%) Security Cleared
2 33 (15.79%) AWS Certification
3 29 (13.88%) Degree
4 19 (9.09%) SC Cleared
5 14 (6.70%) Azure Certification
6 11 (5.26%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.83%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (2.87%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.39%) CCNP
11 4 (1.91%) GCIH
11 4 (1.91%) PhD
12 3 (1.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.44%) CCNA
12 3 (1.44%) CCSP
12 3 (1.44%) CISSP
12 3 (1.44%) CITP
12 3 (1.44%) CREST Certified
13 2 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (16.75%) NIST
2 33 (15.79%) NCSC
3 20 (9.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (5.74%) GDPR
5 9 (4.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (2.87%) Data Quality
7 5 (2.39%) QA
7 5 (2.39%) SLA
8 4 (1.91%) GRC
8 4 (1.91%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.91%) SOC 2
System Software
1 55 (26.32%) Docker
2 41 (19.62%) Active Directory
3 13 (6.22%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (4.78%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (4.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.44%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.96%) Ceph
6 2 (0.96%) Lustre
7 1 (0.48%) vCloud
7 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 105 (50.24%) Terraform
2 69 (33.01%) Kubernetes
3 65 (31.10%) Ansible
4 30 (14.35%) Grafana
5 28 (13.40%) Prometheus
6 15 (7.18%) Argo
7 13 (6.22%) Kustomize
8 11 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (3.83%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (1.91%) Cilium
10 4 (1.91%) logstash
11 3 (1.44%) HP Fortify
11 3 (1.44%) Nmap
12 2 (0.96%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.96%) Puppet
13 1 (0.48%) Icinga
13 1 (0.48%) Nagios
13 1 (0.48%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.48%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 1 (0.48%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (11.48%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.66%) Red Hat
3 13 (6.22%) Google
4 10 (4.78%) VMware
5 9 (4.31%) Splunk
6 6 (2.87%) Cisco
6 6 (2.87%) Oracle
7 5 (2.39%) Databricks
7 5 (2.39%) Fortinet
7 5 (2.39%) NetApp
7 5 (2.39%) Palantir
8 4 (1.91%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (1.44%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.44%) Rapid7
9 3 (1.44%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.96%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.96%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.96%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.96%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.96%) Talend