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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 126 179
Rank change year-on-year -112 +53 -54
Permanent jobs citing Bash 220 448 572
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.03% 2.72% 1.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.82% 7.66% 4.69%
Number of salaries quoted 140 156 291
10th Percentile £42,500 £49,375 £44,738
25th Percentile £46,446 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £71,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +14.00% -13.49%
75th Percentile £69,063 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £94,375 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +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 5,759 5,852 12,185
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.89% 35.49% 39.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,342 4,085 9,913
10th Percentile £38,773 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £107,500
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 17 July 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 (7.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (4.09%) Apache
4 7 (3.18%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.27%) Jupyter
6 3 (1.36%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.45%) Confluence
8 1 (0.45%) nginx
8 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.45%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.91%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 138 (62.73%) Azure
2 100 (45.45%) AWS
3 45 (20.45%) GitHub
4 43 (19.55%) Entra ID
5 38 (17.27%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (12.27%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (11.82%) Google Workspace
8 25 (11.36%) IaaS
9 24 (10.91%) Serverless
10 21 (9.55%) PaaS
11 20 (9.09%) Amazon S3
11 20 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
11 20 (9.09%) GCP
12 19 (8.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 16 (7.27%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (6.82%) Azure AKS
15 14 (6.36%) Azure Key Vault
15 14 (6.36%) SaaS
16 13 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
16 13 (5.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 37 (16.82%) VPN
2 33 (15.00%) Broadband
3 29 (13.18%) Firewall
4 14 (6.36%) DNS
5 8 (3.64%) Network Security
6 6 (2.73%) TCP/IP
6 6 (2.73%) VLAN
6 6 (2.73%) VoIP
7 5 (2.27%) DMZ
7 5 (2.27%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (2.27%) STUN
8 4 (1.82%) DHCP
8 4 (1.82%) Kerberos
8 4 (1.82%) SSH
9 3 (1.36%) SSL
10 2 (0.91%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.91%) LAN
10 2 (0.91%) SAN
10 2 (0.91%) WAN
10 2 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.55%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (6.36%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.91%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (3.64%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.18%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (3.18%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.18%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.73%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.73%) MySQL
6 6 (2.73%) RDBMS
7 5 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (2.27%) Apache Iceberg
7 5 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.27%) Tableau
8 4 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.82%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.36%) Big Data
9 3 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.36%) Looker
9 3 (1.36%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (12.73%) Git
2 24 (10.91%) Jenkins
3 22 (10.00%) GitLab
4 7 (3.18%) Bitbucket
4 7 (3.18%) Jaeger
4 7 (3.18%) JIRA
4 7 (3.18%) Maven
5 6 (2.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (2.27%) JUnit
6 5 (2.27%) Mockito
6 5 (2.27%) Postman
6 5 (2.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (1.36%) JMeter
7 3 (1.36%) MLflow
8 2 (0.91%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.91%) MSI
8 2 (0.91%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.45%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.45%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 60 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 31 (14.09%) Organisational Skills
3 23 (10.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (9.55%) Finance
4 21 (9.55%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.91%) Games
6 12 (5.45%) Law
7 10 (4.55%) Retail
8 7 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.82%) Banking
10 3 (1.36%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.36%) Aviation
10 3 (1.36%) Legal
10 3 (1.36%) Marketing
10 3 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) French Language
11 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.45%) Publishing
11 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (24.09%) Senior
2 34 (15.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (12.27%) Platform Engineer
4 26 (11.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 22 (10.00%) Lead
6 18 (8.18%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (7.73%) Developer
8 13 (5.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 13 (5.91%) Senior DevOps
9 12 (5.45%) Administrator
9 12 (5.45%) Analyst
9 12 (5.45%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 11 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (4.55%) Support Engineer
11 10 (4.55%) Systems Administrator
12 9 (4.09%) Systems Engineer
13 8 (3.64%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 8 (3.64%) Data Engineer
13 8 (3.64%) IAM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (14.55%) SAML
2 31 (14.09%) OpenID
3 30 (13.64%) OAuth
4 28 (12.73%) REST
5 27 (12.27%) LDAP
6 26 (11.82%) GraphQL
6 26 (11.82%) SOAP
7 14 (6.36%) YAML
8 10 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (4.09%) OpenTelemetry
10 8 (3.64%) React
11 7 (3.18%) .NET
11 7 (3.18%) Kafka
11 7 (3.18%) Loki
12 6 (2.73%) RESTful
13 5 (2.27%) FreeSWITCH
13 5 (2.27%) Spring
14 4 (1.82%) OAuth2
15 3 (1.36%) AngularJS
15 3 (1.36%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.55%) Cloud Native
2 30 (13.64%) Cyber Threat
3 26 (11.82%) Cyberattack
4 19 (8.64%) Linux Command Line
5 16 (7.27%) Public Cloud
5 16 (7.27%) Security Posture
6 13 (5.91%) Onboarding
7 12 (5.45%) Podcast
8 11 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (4.55%) PKI
10 9 (4.09%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (3.64%) Management Information System
12 6 (2.73%) Private Cloud
13 5 (2.27%) Data Centre
13 5 (2.27%) Product Ownership
14 3 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
15 2 (0.91%) Educational Technology
15 2 (0.91%) Hackathon
15 2 (0.91%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 81 (36.82%) Linux
2 42 (19.09%) Windows
3 13 (5.91%) VMS
4 12 (5.45%) Unix
5 8 (3.64%) Debian
5 8 (3.64%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.27%) CentOS
6 5 (2.27%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.36%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.36%) Solaris
8 3 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.45%) AIX
9 1 (0.45%) Android
9 1 (0.45%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.45%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (55.00%) CI/CD
2 108 (49.09%) DevOps
3 105 (47.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 86 (39.09%) Mentoring
5 65 (29.55%) Agile
6 62 (28.18%) Observability
7 50 (22.73%) Platform Engineering
8 47 (21.36%) Problem-Solving
9 46 (20.91%) Containerisation
9 46 (20.91%) Roadmaps
10 45 (20.45%) AI
11 44 (20.00%) Cloud Security
12 37 (16.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 37 (16.82%) Identity Access Management
13 35 (15.91%) Cybersecurity
14 33 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 31 (14.09%) Root Cause Analysis
16 27 (12.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 26 (11.82%) Programme Delivery
17 26 (11.82%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 144 (65.45%) Python
2 129 (58.64%) PowerShell
3 60 (27.27%) SQL
4 31 (14.09%) Java
5 26 (11.82%) Go
5 26 (11.82%) T-SQL
6 23 (10.45%) Bicep
7 19 (8.64%) JavaScript
8 15 (6.82%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (4.55%) C#
10 7 (3.18%) PHP
11 6 (2.73%) C++
11 6 (2.73%) Ruby
12 5 (2.27%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.82%) Perl
13 4 (1.82%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.36%) C
14 3 (1.36%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.36%) Rust
14 3 (1.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (14.55%) Security Cleared
2 30 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 24 (10.91%) Azure Certification
4 20 (9.09%) Degree
5 15 (6.82%) AWS Certification
5 15 (6.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.27%) CISSP
7 5 (2.27%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.82%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (1.82%) CREST Certified
8 4 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.82%) OSCP
9 3 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.36%) CCSAM
9 3 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.36%) GPEN
9 3 (1.36%) GXPN
9 3 (1.36%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.36%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (12.73%) NIST
2 26 (11.82%) NCSC
3 19 (8.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (4.09%) QA
5 7 (3.18%) SOC 2
6 6 (2.73%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.36%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.36%) SLA
8 1 (0.45%) GDPR
8 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 63 (28.64%) Docker
2 61 (27.73%) Active Directory
3 20 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (5.45%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (5.45%) vSphere
5 7 (3.18%) Hyper-V
6 6 (2.73%) KVM
7 2 (0.91%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 88 (40.00%) Terraform
2 74 (33.64%) Kubernetes
3 45 (20.45%) Prometheus
4 40 (18.18%) Grafana
5 38 (17.27%) Ansible
6 25 (11.36%) Argo
7 12 (5.45%) Kustomize
8 11 (5.00%) Proxmox
9 10 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (4.09%) Istio
11 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.82%) Graylog
12 4 (1.82%) Kibana
12 4 (1.82%) Puppet
12 4 (1.82%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (1.36%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (1.36%) linkerd
13 3 (1.36%) Nagios
14 2 (0.91%) CASB
Vendors
1 65 (29.55%) Microsoft
2 29 (13.18%) VMware
3 15 (6.82%) Red Hat
4 14 (6.36%) Oracle
5 12 (5.45%) Google
5 12 (5.45%) ScienceLogic
6 11 (5.00%) CyberArk
6 11 (5.00%) Splunk
7 9 (4.09%) Cisco
8 8 (3.64%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.73%) New Relic
10 5 (2.27%) Veeam
11 3 (1.36%) Apple
11 3 (1.36%) Commvault
11 3 (1.36%) Databricks
11 3 (1.36%) Dell
11 3 (1.36%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.36%) Palantir
12 2 (0.91%) BT
12 2 (0.91%) Dynatrace