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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 115 167
Rank change year-on-year -87 +52 -43
Permanent jobs citing Bash 225 451 633
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.22% 3.10% 1.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.53% 7.42% 4.74%
Number of salaries quoted 121 158 350
10th Percentile £44,000 £47,231 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £100,793
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -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 4,962 6,075 13,343
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.81% 41.80% 41.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,657 4,289 11,384
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
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 14 May 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 22 (9.78%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (6.22%) Apache
3 11 (4.89%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.22%) nginx
5 4 (1.78%) CMS
5 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.33%) Jupyter
6 3 (1.33%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.89%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.44%) Confluence
8 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.44%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.78%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.78%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.78%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 127 (56.44%) Azure
2 118 (52.44%) AWS
3 64 (28.44%) Entra ID
4 52 (23.11%) Google Workspace
5 35 (15.56%) GitHub
6 29 (12.89%) Amazon S3
6 29 (12.89%) GitHub Actions
7 25 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 21 (9.33%) Amazon EC2
9 20 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (8.44%) Pulumi
10 19 (8.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 18 (8.00%) GCP
12 17 (7.56%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (6.67%) Serverless
14 14 (6.22%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (5.33%) Azure AKS
15 12 (5.33%) SaaS
15 12 (5.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 72 (32.00%) Broadband
2 28 (12.44%) Firewall
3 23 (10.22%) VPN
4 11 (4.89%) DNS
5 8 (3.56%) Network Security
6 7 (3.11%) VLAN
7 6 (2.67%) VoIP
8 5 (2.22%) DMZ
8 5 (2.22%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (2.22%) STUN
9 3 (1.33%) SSL
10 2 (0.89%) BGP
10 2 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.89%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.89%) NGFW
10 2 (0.89%) OSPF
10 2 (0.89%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.89%) SAN
10 2 (0.89%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.89%) NoSQL
2 18 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 18 (8.00%) Apache Iceberg
2 18 (8.00%) RDBMS
2 18 (8.00%) Relational Database
2 18 (8.00%) Tableau
3 12 (5.33%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (5.33%) SQL Server
4 11 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (4.89%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (4.44%) BigQuery
5 10 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (4.00%) Amazon QuickSight
6 9 (4.00%) Delta Lake
6 9 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (4.00%) Looker
6 9 (4.00%) Metadata
6 9 (4.00%) Pinecone
6 9 (4.00%) Weaviate
7 8 (3.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 20 (8.89%) Git
2 18 (8.00%) Jaeger
2 18 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 17 (7.56%) GitLab
4 9 (4.00%) MLflow
5 7 (3.11%) Maven
6 6 (2.67%) JIRA
7 5 (2.22%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (1.78%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.78%) Vite
9 3 (1.33%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.33%) JUnit
9 3 (1.33%) Mockito
10 2 (0.89%) Postman
10 2 (0.89%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.44%) Browser DevTools
11 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.44%) TestRail
11 1 (0.44%) webpack
General
1 60 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 58 (25.78%) Organisational Skills
3 29 (12.89%) Games
4 22 (9.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (6.22%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.78%) Finance
7 11 (4.89%) Retail
8 10 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.22%) Banking
11 4 (1.78%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.33%) Billing
12 3 (1.33%) Legal
12 3 (1.33%) Marketing
13 2 (0.89%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.44%) Aviation
14 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (28.89%) Senior
2 41 (18.22%) Lead
3 26 (11.56%) Platform Engineer
4 24 (10.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 24 (10.67%) Developer
4 24 (10.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (8.89%) Systems Engineer
6 19 (8.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (8.00%) IAM Developer
8 16 (7.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 15 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
9 15 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
10 14 (6.22%) Data Engineer
11 13 (5.78%) Consultant
12 11 (4.89%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 11 (4.89%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (4.89%) Senior Developer
13 10 (4.44%) Linux Engineer
13 10 (4.44%) Support Engineer
14 9 (4.00%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (24.00%) REST
1 54 (24.00%) SAML
2 53 (23.56%) GraphQL
2 53 (23.56%) LDAP
2 53 (23.56%) OpenID
2 53 (23.56%) SOAP
3 52 (23.11%) OAuth
4 25 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
5 18 (8.00%) OpenTelemetry
6 11 (4.89%) Loki
7 10 (4.44%) Kafka
8 9 (4.00%) Faiss
8 9 (4.00%) PyTorch
8 9 (4.00%) TensorFlow
8 9 (4.00%) vLLM
9 8 (3.56%) YAML
10 6 (2.67%) Spring
11 5 (2.22%) AngularJS
11 5 (2.22%) FreeSWITCH
11 5 (2.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 57 (25.33%) Cyber Threat
2 53 (23.56%) Cyberattack
3 15 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (4.44%) Onboarding
6 9 (4.00%) Cloud Native
6 9 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (3.11%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.11%) Private Cloud
7 7 (3.11%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.22%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.78%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.33%) PKI
11 2 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.89%) Clustering
11 2 (0.89%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (0.89%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 90 (40.00%) Linux
2 23 (10.22%) Windows
3 21 (9.33%) Unix
4 8 (3.56%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.22%) Debian
6 4 (1.78%) CentOS
6 4 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.89%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.89%) Solaris
9 1 (0.44%) AIX
9 1 (0.44%) Android
9 1 (0.44%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.44%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (47.11%) CI/CD
2 105 (46.67%) Mentoring
3 95 (42.22%) DevOps
4 90 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 87 (38.67%) Roadmaps
6 59 (26.22%) Cybersecurity
7 56 (24.89%) Agile
7 56 (24.89%) Identity Access Management
8 53 (23.56%) Programme Delivery
9 52 (23.11%) Regulatory Compliance
10 39 (17.33%) Containerisation
11 38 (16.89%) High Availability
11 38 (16.89%) Observability
12 37 (16.44%) Platform Engineering
13 35 (15.56%) Cloud Security
14 32 (14.22%) Performance Optimisation
15 31 (13.78%) Problem-Solving
16 28 (12.44%) GitOps
16 28 (12.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 26 (11.56%) AI
Programming Languages
1 138 (61.33%) Python
2 115 (51.11%) PowerShell
3 61 (27.11%) SQL
4 52 (23.11%) T-SQL
5 41 (18.22%) Java
6 40 (17.78%) Go
7 29 (12.89%) JavaScript
8 9 (4.00%) Bicep
8 9 (4.00%) Scala
9 8 (3.56%) C++
9 8 (3.56%) PHP
10 6 (2.67%) C#
10 6 (2.67%) Perl
10 6 (2.67%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.78%) C
11 4 (1.78%) Groovy
12 3 (1.33%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.33%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.33%) Ruby
12 3 (1.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 31 (13.78%) Degree
2 26 (11.56%) AWS Certification
3 21 (9.33%) Security Cleared
4 17 (7.56%) SC Cleared
5 11 (4.89%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.11%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.78%) CREST Certified
7 4 (1.78%) OSCP
8 3 (1.33%) CCSAM
8 3 (1.33%) GPEN
8 3 (1.33%) GXPN
8 3 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.33%) LPIC
8 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.33%) OSCE
9 2 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.89%) CISM
9 2 (0.89%) CISSP
9 2 (0.89%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (24.44%) NIST
2 53 (23.56%) NCSC
3 29 (12.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (5.78%) Data Quality
5 9 (4.00%) QA
6 6 (2.67%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.33%) SLA
8 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.44%) GDPR
9 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 72 (32.00%) Active Directory
2 70 (31.11%) Docker
3 5 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.78%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.33%) KVM
6 2 (0.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 82 (36.44%) Terraform
2 72 (32.00%) Kubernetes
3 44 (19.56%) Ansible
4 42 (18.67%) Prometheus
5 28 (12.44%) Grafana
6 26 (11.56%) Argo
7 22 (9.78%) Kustomize
8 10 (4.44%) Proxmox
9 9 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.78%) HP Fortify
10 4 (1.78%) Istio
10 4 (1.78%) logstash
11 3 (1.33%) Kibana
11 3 (1.33%) Puppet
12 2 (0.89%) CASB
12 2 (0.89%) Graylog
12 2 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.89%) Nagios
12 2 (0.89%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 32 (14.22%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.44%) Google
3 14 (6.22%) Red Hat
3 14 (6.22%) VMware
4 9 (4.00%) Databricks
4 9 (4.00%) Palantir
5 8 (3.56%) Cisco
5 8 (3.56%) CyberArk
6 6 (2.67%) Splunk
7 5 (2.22%) Oracle
8 3 (1.33%) Dell
8 3 (1.33%) Veeam
9 2 (0.89%) Apple
9 2 (0.89%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.89%) BT
9 2 (0.89%) Commvault
9 2 (0.89%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.89%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (0.89%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.89%) ServiceNow