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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
19 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 211 125
Rank change year-on-year +10 -86 +33
Permanent jobs citing Bash 186 291 570
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.22% 1.49% 2.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.40% 3.56% 5.65%
Number of salaries quoted 135 188 464
10th Percentile £44,150 £37,500 £44,263
25th Percentile £56,375 £44,738 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -5.71% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,313 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £102,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -3.57% -

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 4,226 8,171 10,087
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.66% 41.71% 47.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,288 5,191 8,500
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,625 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 19 November 2025.

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 10 (5.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (5.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.08%) nginx
2 2 (1.08%) SAS
3 1 (0.54%) CMS
3 1 (0.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.08%) Weka
2 1 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.54%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.54%) Autodesk Inventor
2 1 (0.54%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.54%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 97 (52.15%) Azure
2 84 (45.16%) AWS
3 45 (24.19%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (19.89%) GitHub
5 35 (18.82%) GitHub Actions
6 31 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 29 (15.59%) Entra ID
8 26 (13.98%) Azure Monitor
9 24 (12.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 24 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
10 19 (10.22%) GCP
11 17 (9.14%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (8.60%) Azure AKS
13 14 (7.53%) Serverless
14 12 (6.45%) SaaS
15 9 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (4.84%) IaaS
16 8 (4.30%) Datadog
16 8 (4.30%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.22%) Firewall
2 12 (6.45%) DNS
3 11 (5.91%) VPN
4 10 (5.38%) Network Security
5 9 (4.84%) Broadband
6 7 (3.76%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.76%) WAN
7 6 (3.23%) InfiniBand
8 5 (2.69%) DHCP
8 5 (2.69%) SAN
9 4 (2.15%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (2.15%) LAN
9 4 (2.15%) VLAN
10 3 (1.61%) BGP
10 3 (1.61%) OSPF
10 3 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.08%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (1.08%) IGMP
11 2 (1.08%) Multicast
11 2 (1.08%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.84%) NoSQL
2 6 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.61%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.61%) MySQL
4 2 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.08%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.08%) InfluxDB
4 2 (1.08%) Pentaho
4 2 (1.08%) Power BI
4 2 (1.08%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.54%) KDB
5 1 (0.54%) Kdb+
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.54%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (20.43%) Jenkins
2 21 (11.29%) GitLab
3 13 (6.99%) Git
4 5 (2.69%) JIRA
5 4 (2.15%) Burp Suite
5 4 (2.15%) Metasploit
5 4 (2.15%) Robot Framework
5 4 (2.15%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.61%) Balsamiq
6 3 (1.61%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.08%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.08%) JMeter
7 2 (1.08%) MLflow
7 2 (1.08%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.08%) TestRail
8 1 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.54%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.54%) Maven
8 1 (0.54%) Vite
General
1 59 (31.72%) Social Skills
2 49 (26.34%) Finance
3 11 (5.91%) Telecoms
4 9 (4.84%) Banking
4 9 (4.84%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.76%) Games
5 7 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.69%) Retail
8 4 (2.15%) Back Office
8 4 (2.15%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.61%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.61%) Military
10 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.08%) Electronics
10 2 (1.08%) Marketing
11 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.54%) Local Government
11 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (21.51%) DevOps Engineer
1 40 (21.51%) Senior
2 30 (16.13%) Platform Engineer
3 22 (11.83%) Linux Engineer
4 20 (10.75%) Cloud Engineer
5 15 (8.06%) Automation Engineer
6 12 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (6.45%) Lead
7 11 (5.91%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (5.91%) Senior DevOps
7 11 (5.91%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 10 (5.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (4.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.84%) Security Engineer
9 9 (4.84%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 9 (4.84%) Support Engineer
10 8 (4.30%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (4.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.30%) Developer
10 8 (4.30%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.14%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (5.38%) REST
3 8 (4.30%) .NET
3 8 (4.30%) GraphQL
3 8 (4.30%) SOAP
4 7 (3.76%) ARM Templates
4 7 (3.76%) LDAP
5 6 (3.23%) OAuth
5 6 (3.23%) OpenID
5 6 (3.23%) SAML
6 5 (2.69%) YAML
7 4 (2.15%) AWS CDK
7 4 (2.15%) Jinja
8 3 (1.61%) AWS SAM
8 3 (1.61%) Kafka
9 2 (1.08%) Google JAX
9 2 (1.08%) Node.js
9 2 (1.08%) React
9 2 (1.08%) scikit-learn
9 2 (1.08%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.75%) Product Ownership
2 16 (8.60%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.38%) Security Posture
4 8 (4.30%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (3.76%) Cyberattack
6 6 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.69%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.15%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.15%) Blog
8 4 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.61%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.08%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.54%) e-Learning
11 1 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.54%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.54%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 91 (48.92%) Linux
2 38 (20.43%) Windows
3 22 (11.83%) Unix
4 10 (5.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (4.84%) CentOS
6 8 (4.30%) Debian
7 7 (3.76%) Solaris
7 7 (3.76%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.61%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.61%) VMS
9 2 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.54%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.54%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.54%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (63.44%) DevOps
2 97 (52.15%) CI/CD
3 88 (47.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (27.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 45 (24.19%) Agile
6 44 (23.66%) Containerisation
7 40 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (18.82%) Mentoring
9 33 (17.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 29 (15.59%) Incident Response
11 28 (15.05%) ITIL
12 27 (14.52%) AI
12 27 (14.52%) Platform Engineering
13 26 (13.98%) Roadmaps
14 25 (13.44%) Cloud Security
14 25 (13.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 23 (12.37%) Information Security
15 23 (12.37%) Machine Learning
15 23 (12.37%) RBAC
16 22 (11.83%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 147 (79.03%) Python
2 110 (59.14%) PowerShell
3 21 (11.29%) Bicep
4 18 (9.68%) Go
5 17 (9.14%) SQL
6 15 (8.06%) Perl
7 8 (4.30%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.76%) Java
8 7 (3.76%) TypeScript
9 6 (3.23%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.69%) Korn
11 4 (2.15%) C
11 4 (2.15%) C#
11 4 (2.15%) C++
11 4 (2.15%) Fortran
12 3 (1.61%) VBScript
13 2 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 36 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 24 (12.90%) AWS Certification
3 22 (11.83%) SC Cleared
4 20 (10.75%) Degree
5 13 (6.99%) Azure Certification
6 11 (5.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (5.38%) DV Cleared
8 8 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (3.76%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (3.23%) RHCE
11 5 (2.69%) Master's Degree
12 4 (2.15%) CCNP
12 4 (2.15%) CISSP
12 4 (2.15%) GCIH
12 4 (2.15%) PhD
13 3 (1.61%) CCNA
13 3 (1.61%) CCSP
13 3 (1.61%) CITP
13 3 (1.61%) LPIC
13 3 (1.61%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.22%) GDPR
2 12 (6.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 10 (5.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (5.38%) NIST
4 7 (3.76%) NCSC
5 6 (3.23%) QA
6 5 (2.69%) GRC
6 5 (2.69%) SLA
6 5 (2.69%) SOC 2
7 4 (2.15%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.08%) HIPAA
System Software
1 52 (27.96%) Docker
2 17 (9.14%) Active Directory
3 12 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (5.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (2.69%) Lustre
6 4 (2.15%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.61%) GPFS
7 3 (1.61%) NFS
7 3 (1.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (1.08%) Ceph
9 1 (0.54%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.54%) Postfix
9 1 (0.54%) vCloud
9 1 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 95 (51.08%) Terraform
2 65 (34.95%) Ansible
2 65 (34.95%) Kubernetes
3 29 (15.59%) Grafana
4 16 (8.60%) Prometheus
5 11 (5.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (5.91%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (2.15%) Cilium
6 4 (2.15%) Nmap
7 3 (1.61%) Argo
8 2 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.08%) Kubeflow
8 2 (1.08%) Nagios
8 2 (1.08%) Puppet
9 1 (0.54%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.54%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.54%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.54%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.54%) QRadar
9 1 (0.54%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 36 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 25 (13.44%) Red Hat
3 14 (7.53%) VMware
4 9 (4.84%) Splunk
5 8 (4.30%) Oracle
6 5 (2.69%) Cisco
6 5 (2.69%) Fortinet
6 5 (2.69%) NetApp
7 4 (2.15%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.15%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.61%) Juniper
8 3 (1.61%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.61%) Rapid7
8 3 (1.61%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.08%) Google
9 2 (1.08%) Informatica
9 2 (1.08%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.08%) SAP
9 2 (1.08%) Talend
9 2 (1.08%) Veeam
303 hybrid/remote Bash jobs