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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 114 166
Rank change year-on-year -166 +52 -35
Permanent jobs citing Bash 184 444 453
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.75% 2.75% 1.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.96% 8.80% 5.12%
Number of salaries quoted 122 149 193
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% -11.97%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £63,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +6.30% -9.29%

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 6,209 5,046 8,843
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.36% 31.26% 38.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4,637 3,386 5,994
10th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £84,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -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 22 September 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 15 (8.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.80%) Apache
2 7 (3.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.26%) Jupyter
4 5 (2.72%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.63%) Confluence
5 3 (1.63%) nginx
6 2 (1.09%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.54%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.09%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 118 (64.13%) Azure
2 97 (52.72%) AWS
3 48 (26.09%) GitHub
4 43 (23.37%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (15.76%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (13.04%) Azure Monitor
6 24 (13.04%) GCP
6 24 (13.04%) Serverless
7 22 (11.96%) PaaS
8 21 (11.41%) IaaS
9 20 (10.87%) Azure AKS
10 18 (9.78%) Azure Key Vault
11 16 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (8.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (8.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (8.15%) Azure Functions
12 15 (8.15%) Azure Sentinel
12 15 (8.15%) SaaS
13 14 (7.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 14 (7.61%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.59%) VPN
2 19 (10.33%) Firewall
3 13 (7.07%) DNS
4 10 (5.43%) TCP/IP
5 9 (4.89%) Network Security
6 4 (2.17%) DHCP
6 4 (2.17%) Kerberos
6 4 (2.17%) SSH
7 3 (1.63%) Broadband
8 2 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (1.09%) LAN
8 2 (1.09%) NGFW
8 2 (1.09%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.09%) SSL
8 2 (1.09%) Unified Communications
8 2 (1.09%) WAN
9 1 (0.54%) DKIM
9 1 (0.54%) DMARC
9 1 (0.54%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.54%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.33%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (4.35%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (3.80%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.26%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (2.72%) MySQL
6 5 (2.72%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.63%) Big Data
7 3 (1.63%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.63%) DocumentDB
7 3 (1.63%) Redis
8 2 (1.09%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.54%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.54%) GIS
9 1 (0.54%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.54%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 30 (16.30%) Git
2 29 (15.76%) GitLab
2 29 (15.76%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.52%) Maven
4 10 (5.43%) JUnit
4 10 (5.43%) Mockito
5 6 (3.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (3.26%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.72%) JIRA
7 3 (1.63%) JMeter
7 3 (1.63%) Postman
8 2 (1.09%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.09%) MSI
8 2 (1.09%) Robot Framework
8 2 (1.09%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.09%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.09%) TestRail
9 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.54%) CMake
9 1 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 58 (31.52%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.22%) Finance
3 25 (13.59%) Public Sector
4 23 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (9.78%) Law
6 9 (4.89%) Banking
6 9 (4.89%) Retail
7 6 (3.26%) Legal
8 3 (1.63%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.63%) Aviation
9 2 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Electronics
10 1 (0.54%) French Language
10 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.54%) Marketing
10 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Police
10 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (22.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (19.02%) Senior
3 25 (13.59%) Platform Engineer
4 18 (9.78%) Analyst
5 17 (9.24%) Lead
6 14 (7.61%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (7.61%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (7.61%) Developer
7 13 (7.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 13 (7.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (6.52%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (6.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 12 (6.52%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 12 (6.52%) Java Developer
9 8 (4.35%) Administrator
9 8 (4.35%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 8 (4.35%) Senior Developer
9 8 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
10 7 (3.80%) Linux Engineer
10 7 (3.80%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (46.74%) Terraform
2 16 (8.70%) React
3 14 (7.61%) YAML
4 11 (5.98%) REST
5 10 (5.43%) Spring
6 7 (3.80%) .NET
6 7 (3.80%) Loki
6 7 (3.80%) SAML
7 6 (3.26%) Kafka
7 6 (3.26%) OpenID
7 6 (3.26%) Pulumi
8 5 (2.72%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (2.72%) RESTful
9 4 (2.17%) ARM Templates
9 4 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (2.17%) Node.js
9 4 (2.17%) OAuth
9 4 (2.17%) OAuth2
9 4 (2.17%) PySpark
10 3 (1.63%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 36 (19.57%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.24%) Security Posture
3 16 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
4 14 (7.61%) Public Cloud
4 14 (7.61%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (6.52%) PKI
5 12 (6.52%) Podcast
6 7 (3.80%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.26%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.72%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.63%) Blog
10 3 (1.63%) CSOC
10 3 (1.63%) FPGA
10 3 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.63%) Robotics
10 3 (1.63%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (1.09%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 79 (42.93%) Linux
2 43 (23.37%) Windows
3 13 (7.07%) VMS
4 8 (4.35%) Mac OS
4 8 (4.35%) Ubuntu
5 7 (3.80%) Unix
6 6 (3.26%) Debian
7 5 (2.72%) Apple iOS
8 4 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (2.17%) Solaris
9 3 (1.63%) CentOS
9 3 (1.63%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (1.09%) Windows Server
10 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.54%) AIX
11 1 (0.54%) Android
11 1 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (69.57%) CI/CD
2 101 (54.89%) DevOps
3 97 (52.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (35.87%) Agile
5 65 (35.33%) Mentoring
6 62 (33.70%) Observability
7 58 (31.52%) Containerisation
8 55 (29.89%) Problem-Solving
9 50 (27.17%) Platform Engineering
10 49 (26.63%) AI
11 45 (24.46%) Cloud Security
12 37 (20.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (16.85%) Root Cause Analysis
14 30 (16.30%) Analytics
14 30 (16.30%) DevSecOps
15 29 (15.76%) Scrum
15 29 (15.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 29 (15.76%) Technical Leadership
16 22 (11.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 22 (11.96%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 137 (74.46%) Python
2 95 (51.63%) PowerShell
3 45 (24.46%) SQL
4 30 (16.30%) Java
5 28 (15.22%) Bicep
6 22 (11.96%) Go
7 19 (10.33%) JavaScript
8 17 (9.24%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (5.98%) PL/SQL
10 8 (4.35%) C#
11 5 (2.72%) C++
11 5 (2.72%) Ruby
12 4 (2.17%) PHP
12 4 (2.17%) Rust
13 3 (1.63%) C
14 2 (1.09%) Groovy
14 2 (1.09%) Objective-C
14 2 (1.09%) Perl
14 2 (1.09%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 49 (26.63%) Security Cleared
2 43 (23.37%) SC Cleared
3 20 (10.87%) Azure Certification
4 16 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (8.15%) Degree
6 8 (4.35%) AWS Certification
6 8 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.80%) CompTIA Security+
7 7 (3.80%) GIAC
8 6 (3.26%) CISSP
8 6 (3.26%) DV Cleared
9 5 (2.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (2.72%) CompTIA CySA+
10 4 (2.17%) GCFA
10 4 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.63%) CEH
11 3 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.63%) GCIA
11 3 (1.63%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.52%) QA
2 7 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.80%) NCSC
2 7 (3.80%) NIST
3 4 (2.17%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.17%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.09%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.54%) GDPR
System Software
1 74 (40.22%) Docker
2 27 (14.67%) Active Directory
3 23 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (6.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (6.52%) vSphere
5 8 (4.35%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.72%) KVM
7 4 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.09%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 86 (46.74%) Kubernetes
2 40 (21.74%) Grafana
3 38 (20.65%) Prometheus
4 24 (13.04%) Ansible
5 19 (10.33%) Argo
6 13 (7.07%) Istio
7 7 (3.80%) Kustomize
8 6 (3.26%) Proxmox
8 6 (3.26%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (2.72%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (2.17%) Graylog
10 4 (2.17%) linkerd
10 4 (2.17%) Puppet
10 4 (2.17%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.63%) Cilium
11 3 (1.63%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.09%) HP Fortify
12 2 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (1.09%) Kibana
Vendors
1 60 (32.61%) Microsoft
2 26 (14.13%) VMware
3 20 (10.87%) Oracle
4 14 (7.61%) Splunk
5 13 (7.07%) Google
5 13 (7.07%) Red Hat
6 12 (6.52%) ScienceLogic
7 8 (4.35%) CyberArk
7 8 (4.35%) ServiceNow
8 7 (3.80%) Cisco
9 5 (2.72%) Fortinet
9 5 (2.72%) New Relic
9 5 (2.72%) Veeam
10 4 (2.17%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.63%) NVIDIA
11 3 (1.63%) Okta
12 2 (1.09%) Apple
12 2 (1.09%) Dell
12 2 (1.09%) Dynatrace
12 2 (1.09%) Palo Alto