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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 119 182
Rank change year-on-year -160 +63 -53
Permanent jobs citing Bash 197 432 416
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.79% 2.59% 1.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.19% 8.72% 4.78%
Number of salaries quoted 122 132 186
10th Percentile £42,625 £46,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,250 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £74,688 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £94,875 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -7.14%

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 6,183 4,954 8,706
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.88% 29.71% 40.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4,543 3,275 5,602
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,950 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.79% -3.08%

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 10 October 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 14 (7.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.55%) Apache
2 7 (3.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.05%) Jupyter
4 5 (2.54%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.03%) Confluence
6 3 (1.52%) nginx
7 2 (1.02%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.02%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 118 (59.90%) Azure
2 110 (55.84%) AWS
3 51 (25.89%) GitHub
4 43 (21.83%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (17.77%) GCP
6 31 (15.74%) GitHub Actions
7 24 (12.18%) SaaS
7 24 (12.18%) Serverless
8 23 (11.68%) Azure Monitor
9 22 (11.17%) Azure AKS
9 22 (11.17%) PaaS
10 21 (10.66%) IaaS
11 19 (9.64%) Amazon EKS
12 18 (9.14%) Azure Key Vault
13 16 (8.12%) Azure Sentinel
13 16 (8.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 15 (7.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 15 (7.61%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (7.61%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (7.61%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 33 (16.75%) VPN
2 18 (9.14%) TCP/IP
3 17 (8.63%) Firewall
4 13 (6.60%) DNS
5 9 (4.57%) BGP
5 9 (4.57%) VLAN
6 8 (4.06%) Network Security
7 4 (2.03%) DHCP
7 4 (2.03%) Kerberos
7 4 (2.03%) SSH
8 3 (1.52%) Broadband
9 2 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (1.02%) LAN
9 2 (1.02%) NGFW
9 2 (1.02%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.02%) SSL
9 2 (1.02%) Unified Communications
9 2 (1.02%) WAN
10 1 (0.51%) DKIM
10 1 (0.51%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.71%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (8.12%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (7.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (4.06%) DynamoDB
4 8 (4.06%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.05%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (2.54%) Big Data
6 5 (2.54%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.03%) DocumentDB
7 4 (2.03%) MySQL
8 3 (1.52%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.52%) Redis
9 2 (1.02%) InfluxDB
9 2 (1.02%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.51%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.51%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.51%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 31 (15.74%) GitLab
1 31 (15.74%) Jenkins
2 30 (15.23%) Git
3 12 (6.09%) Maven
3 12 (6.09%) TeamCity
4 10 (5.08%) JUnit
4 10 (5.08%) Mockito
5 6 (3.05%) JIRA
6 5 (2.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (2.54%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.52%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.52%) JMeter
7 3 (1.52%) Postman
8 2 (1.02%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.02%) MSI
8 2 (1.02%) Robot Framework
8 2 (1.02%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.02%) TestRail
9 1 (0.51%) GDB
9 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 59 (29.95%) Social Skills
2 35 (17.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 33 (16.75%) Finance
4 30 (15.23%) Law
5 29 (14.72%) Public Sector
6 22 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (10.15%) Retail
8 19 (9.64%) Banking
9 8 (4.06%) Back Office
9 8 (4.06%) Financial Institution
10 6 (3.05%) Legal
11 3 (1.52%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.52%) Aviation
12 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.51%) Electronics
12 1 (0.51%) French Language
12 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.51%) Marketing
12 1 (0.51%) Police
12 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 46 (23.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 43 (21.83%) Senior
3 23 (11.68%) Platform Engineer
4 22 (11.17%) Analyst
4 22 (11.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 17 (8.63%) Lead
6 14 (7.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (7.11%) Developer
7 12 (6.09%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (6.09%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (6.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 12 (6.09%) GCP Engineer
7 12 (6.09%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 12 (6.09%) Java Developer
8 11 (5.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 10 (5.08%) Administrator
9 10 (5.08%) Information Analyst
9 10 (5.08%) Information Security Analyst
9 10 (5.08%) Security Analyst
9 10 (5.08%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (50.25%) Terraform
2 17 (8.63%) React
3 14 (7.11%) RESTful
3 14 (7.11%) YAML
4 13 (6.60%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (5.58%) REST
6 10 (5.08%) Spring
7 8 (4.06%) Loki
8 7 (3.55%) SAML
9 6 (3.05%) .NET
9 6 (3.05%) Kafka
9 6 (3.05%) OpenID
10 5 (2.54%) Pulumi
11 4 (2.03%) ARM Templates
11 4 (2.03%) Node.js
11 4 (2.03%) OAuth
11 4 (2.03%) OAuth2
11 4 (2.03%) PySpark
12 3 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (1.52%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 45 (22.84%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.12%) Linux Command Line
2 16 (8.12%) Security Posture
3 14 (7.11%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (6.09%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (6.09%) PKI
4 12 (6.09%) Podcast
4 12 (6.09%) Public Cloud
5 11 (5.58%) Blog
6 7 (3.55%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.52%) CSOC
9 3 (1.52%) FPGA
9 3 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.52%) Robotics
9 3 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.02%) Educational Technology
10 2 (1.02%) Hackathon
10 2 (1.02%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 81 (41.12%) Linux
2 44 (22.34%) Windows
3 12 (6.09%) VMS
4 10 (5.08%) Mac OS
5 8 (4.06%) Ubuntu
6 7 (3.55%) Apple iOS
7 6 (3.05%) Debian
7 6 (3.05%) Unix
8 4 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (1.52%) CentOS
9 3 (1.52%) Robot Operating System
9 3 (1.52%) Solaris
9 3 (1.52%) Windows Server
10 2 (1.02%) Rocky
11 1 (0.51%) AIX
11 1 (0.51%) Android
11 1 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (70.56%) CI/CD
2 106 (53.81%) DevOps
3 100 (50.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (36.04%) Observability
5 69 (35.03%) Mentoring
6 68 (34.52%) Agile
7 61 (30.96%) Problem-Solving
8 59 (29.95%) Containerisation
9 52 (26.40%) AI
10 48 (24.37%) Cloud Security
10 48 (24.37%) Platform Engineering
11 39 (19.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 33 (16.75%) Technical Leadership
13 32 (16.24%) Analytics
13 32 (16.24%) DevSecOps
14 31 (15.74%) Root Cause Analysis
15 29 (14.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 29 (14.72%) Scrum
16 28 (14.21%) Runbook
16 28 (14.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 151 (76.65%) Python
2 90 (45.69%) PowerShell
3 53 (26.90%) SQL
4 37 (18.78%) Java
5 34 (17.26%) Go
6 28 (14.21%) Bicep
7 20 (10.15%) JavaScript
8 17 (8.63%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (5.58%) PL/SQL
10 6 (3.05%) C#
11 4 (2.03%) C++
11 4 (2.03%) PHP
11 4 (2.03%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.52%) Ruby
12 3 (1.52%) TypeScript
13 2 (1.02%) Groovy
13 2 (1.02%) Rust
13 2 (1.02%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.51%) C
14 1 (0.51%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 52 (26.40%) Security Cleared
2 44 (22.34%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.66%) Azure Certification
4 16 (8.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (7.11%) Degree
6 9 (4.57%) AWS Certification
6 9 (4.57%) GIAC
7 8 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.55%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (3.05%) CISSP
9 6 (3.05%) DV Cleared
9 6 (3.05%) GCFA
10 5 (2.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (2.54%) CompTIA CySA+
11 3 (1.52%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.52%) CCNA CyberOps
11 3 (1.52%) CEH
11 3 (1.52%) GCIA
11 3 (1.52%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (6.09%) PCI DSS
2 12 (6.09%) QA
3 11 (5.58%) SOC 2
4 9 (4.57%) NIST
5 7 (3.55%) NCSC
6 4 (2.03%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.51%) GDPR
System Software
1 74 (37.56%) Docker
2 25 (12.69%) Active Directory
2 25 (12.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (7.11%) vSphere
4 12 (6.09%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (4.06%) Hyper-V
5 8 (4.06%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.54%) KVM
7 3 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.02%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 99 (50.25%) Kubernetes
2 47 (23.86%) Grafana
3 43 (21.83%) Prometheus
4 26 (13.20%) Ansible
5 19 (9.64%) Argo
6 14 (7.11%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (6.60%) Istio
8 7 (3.55%) Kustomize
9 6 (3.05%) Proxmox
10 5 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (2.03%) Graylog
11 4 (2.03%) linkerd
11 4 (2.03%) Puppet
11 4 (2.03%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.52%) Cilium
12 3 (1.52%) Progress Chef
13 2 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (1.02%) HP Fortify
13 2 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.51%) CASB
Vendors
1 56 (28.43%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.20%) VMware
3 23 (11.68%) Google
4 20 (10.15%) Oracle
5 13 (6.60%) Splunk
6 12 (6.09%) ScienceLogic
7 11 (5.58%) Red Hat
8 8 (4.06%) CyberArk
9 7 (3.55%) Cisco
9 7 (3.55%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.54%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (2.54%) Fortinet
10 5 (2.54%) New Relic
10 5 (2.54%) Veeam
11 3 (1.52%) NVIDIA
11 3 (1.52%) Okta
11 3 (1.52%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.52%) YouTube
12 2 (1.02%) Dynatrace
12 2 (1.02%) Palo Alto