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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 125 175
Rank change year-on-year -77 +50 -48
Permanent jobs citing Bash 239 437 604
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.21% 2.87% 1.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.57% 7.51% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 127 143 328
10th Percentile £44,600 £47,231 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £75,375 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,000 £96,917
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -14.29%

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 5,226 5,820 13,973
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.46% 38.19% 40.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,855 4,028 11,596
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,289 £49,118 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 June 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 21 (8.79%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.86%) Apache
3 12 (5.02%) Apache Spark
4 9 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.09%) Jupyter
6 4 (1.67%) nginx
7 3 (1.26%) CMS
7 3 (1.26%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.84%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.42%) Confluence
9 1 (0.42%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.26%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (1.26%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 138 (57.74%) Azure
2 119 (49.79%) AWS
3 61 (25.52%) Entra ID
4 49 (20.50%) Google Workspace
5 37 (15.48%) GitHub
6 28 (11.72%) Amazon S3
6 28 (11.72%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (10.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 25 (10.46%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (10.04%) Pulumi
9 20 (8.37%) Amazon EC2
10 18 (7.53%) GCP
11 17 (7.11%) Serverless
12 16 (6.69%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (6.69%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (6.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 15 (6.28%) IaaS
13 15 (6.28%) SaaS
14 14 (5.86%) Azure AKS
15 12 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 68 (28.45%) Broadband
2 29 (12.13%) VPN
3 28 (11.72%) Firewall
4 12 (5.02%) DNS
5 8 (3.35%) Network Security
6 6 (2.51%) VLAN
6 6 (2.51%) VoIP
7 5 (2.09%) DMZ
7 5 (2.09%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (2.09%) STUN
8 3 (1.26%) DHCP
8 3 (1.26%) SSL
9 2 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.84%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.84%) LAN
9 2 (0.84%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.84%) SAN
9 2 (0.84%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.84%) WAN
9 2 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.95%) NoSQL
1 19 (7.95%) Relational Database
2 18 (7.53%) RDBMS
3 17 (7.11%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (6.28%) Amazon Redshift
4 15 (6.28%) Apache Iceberg
4 15 (6.28%) Tableau
5 13 (5.44%) SQL Server
6 12 (5.02%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (3.77%) BigQuery
7 9 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (3.35%) Delta Lake
8 8 (3.35%) DynamoDB
8 8 (3.35%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (3.35%) Looker
8 8 (3.35%) MySQL
8 8 (3.35%) Pinecone
8 8 (3.35%) Weaviate
9 7 (2.93%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 26 (10.88%) Git
2 23 (9.62%) GitLab
3 22 (9.21%) Jenkins
4 18 (7.53%) Jaeger
5 8 (3.35%) Maven
5 8 (3.35%) MLflow
6 6 (2.51%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.51%) JIRA
7 5 (2.09%) JUnit
7 5 (2.09%) Mockito
7 5 (2.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.67%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.26%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.26%) Postman
9 3 (1.26%) Vite
10 2 (0.84%) JMeter
10 2 (0.84%) MSI
10 2 (0.84%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.42%) Eclipse
General
1 63 (26.36%) Social Skills
2 54 (22.59%) Organisational Skills
3 26 (10.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (10.46%) Games
5 17 (7.11%) Finance
5 17 (7.11%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.60%) Retail
7 10 (4.18%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.67%) Banking
9 4 (1.67%) Law
9 4 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.26%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.26%) Aviation
10 3 (1.26%) Legal
10 3 (1.26%) Marketing
11 2 (0.84%) Billing
12 1 (0.42%) French Language
12 1 (0.42%) Publishing
12 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (28.03%) Senior
2 41 (17.15%) Lead
3 28 (11.72%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (11.72%) Platform Engineer
4 27 (11.30%) Cloud Engineer
4 27 (11.30%) Developer
5 21 (8.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (7.95%) Systems Engineer
7 17 (7.11%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (7.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 17 (7.11%) IAM Developer
8 15 (6.28%) Senior DevOps
9 12 (5.02%) Consultant
9 12 (5.02%) Data Engineer
10 11 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (4.60%) Senior Developer
11 10 (4.18%) Support Engineer
12 9 (3.77%) Administrator
12 9 (3.77%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 9 (3.77%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (21.34%) REST
1 51 (21.34%) SAML
2 50 (20.92%) LDAP
2 50 (20.92%) OpenID
3 49 (20.50%) GraphQL
3 49 (20.50%) OAuth
3 49 (20.50%) SOAP
4 23 (9.62%) Elastic Stack
5 19 (7.95%) OpenTelemetry
6 11 (4.60%) YAML
7 10 (4.18%) Kafka
7 10 (4.18%) Loki
8 8 (3.35%) Faiss
8 8 (3.35%) PyTorch
8 8 (3.35%) React
8 8 (3.35%) TensorFlow
8 8 (3.35%) vLLM
9 6 (2.51%) RESTful
9 6 (2.51%) Spring
10 5 (2.09%) FreeSWITCH
Miscellaneous
1 53 (22.18%) Cyber Threat
2 49 (20.50%) Cyberattack
3 28 (11.72%) Cloud Native
4 13 (5.44%) Product Ownership
4 13 (5.44%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (4.60%) Linux Command Line
6 10 (4.18%) Security Posture
7 9 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.77%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.35%) Management Information System
8 8 (3.35%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.93%) Private Cloud
10 6 (2.51%) Data Centre
11 5 (2.09%) PKI
12 4 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.67%) Podcast
13 2 (0.84%) Clustering
13 2 (0.84%) Hackathon
13 2 (0.84%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 90 (37.66%) Linux
2 30 (12.55%) Windows
3 19 (7.95%) Unix
4 8 (3.35%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.51%) Debian
6 5 (2.09%) VMS
7 4 (1.67%) CentOS
7 4 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.26%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.26%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.84%) Solaris
9 2 (0.84%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.42%) AIX
10 1 (0.42%) Android
10 1 (0.42%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.42%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (49.37%) CI/CD
2 111 (46.44%) Mentoring
3 106 (44.35%) DevOps
3 106 (44.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 85 (35.56%) Roadmaps
5 70 (29.29%) Agile
6 57 (23.85%) Cybersecurity
7 55 (23.01%) Identity Access Management
8 53 (22.18%) Observability
9 51 (21.34%) Containerisation
10 49 (20.50%) Programme Delivery
10 49 (20.50%) Regulatory Compliance
11 47 (19.67%) Platform Engineering
12 39 (16.32%) AI
12 39 (16.32%) Cloud Security
13 37 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
14 35 (14.64%) High Availability
15 34 (14.23%) GitOps
16 31 (12.97%) Continuous Improvement
17 30 (12.55%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 149 (62.34%) Python
2 129 (53.97%) PowerShell
3 69 (28.87%) SQL
4 49 (20.50%) T-SQL
5 46 (19.25%) Java
6 41 (17.15%) Go
7 29 (12.13%) JavaScript
8 13 (5.44%) Bicep
9 8 (3.35%) C#
9 8 (3.35%) PHP
9 8 (3.35%) Scala
10 6 (2.51%) C++
10 6 (2.51%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (2.09%) Perl
11 5 (2.09%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.09%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.67%) Ruby
13 3 (1.26%) C
13 3 (1.26%) Groovy
13 3 (1.26%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 31 (12.97%) Security Cleared
2 28 (11.72%) AWS Certification
2 28 (11.72%) SC Cleared
3 27 (11.30%) Degree
4 14 (5.86%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.93%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.67%) CISSP
8 4 (1.67%) CREST Certified
8 4 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.67%) OSCP
9 3 (1.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.26%) CCSAM
9 3 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (1.26%) GPEN
9 3 (1.26%) GXPN
9 3 (1.26%) OSCE
10 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (21.34%) NIST
2 49 (20.50%) NCSC
3 30 (12.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.60%) Data Quality
5 10 (4.18%) QA
6 7 (2.93%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.26%) SLA
8 2 (0.84%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.42%) GDPR
9 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 79 (33.05%) Docker
2 72 (30.13%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.51%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.09%) KVM
6 4 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.67%) vSphere
7 2 (0.84%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.42%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 92 (38.49%) Terraform
2 81 (33.89%) Kubernetes
3 53 (22.18%) Prometheus
4 44 (18.41%) Ansible
5 37 (15.48%) Grafana
6 36 (15.06%) Argo
7 24 (10.04%) Kustomize
8 12 (5.02%) Proxmox
9 10 (4.18%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (3.35%) Istio
11 5 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.67%) Graylog
12 4 (1.67%) Kibana
12 4 (1.67%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (1.26%) HP Fortify
13 3 (1.26%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (1.26%) Nagios
13 3 (1.26%) Puppet
14 2 (0.84%) CASB
Vendors
1 48 (20.08%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.62%) Google
3 21 (8.79%) VMware
4 14 (5.86%) Red Hat
5 10 (4.18%) Splunk
6 9 (3.77%) Oracle
7 8 (3.35%) Cisco
7 8 (3.35%) Databricks
7 8 (3.35%) Palantir
8 7 (2.93%) CyberArk
9 5 (2.09%) Veeam
10 4 (1.67%) ScienceLogic
10 4 (1.67%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.26%) Apple
11 3 (1.26%) Commvault
11 3 (1.26%) Dell
12 2 (0.84%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.84%) BT
12 2 (0.84%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.84%) Palo Alto