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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 217 177
Rank change year-on-year +35 -40 -49
Permanent jobs citing Bash 232 203 581
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.35% 1.57% 1.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.94% 3.53% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 119 174 408
10th Percentile £42,950 £46,194 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £102,500
UK median annual salary £64,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.57% +12.00% -10.71%

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 4,701 5,751 13,361
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.29% 44.49% 42.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,426 4,536 11,534
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 £112,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £63,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.31% +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 9 April 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 19 (8.19%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (4.31%) Apache
2 10 (4.31%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.72%) CMS
3 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.72%) nginx
4 3 (1.29%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.86%) SAS
5 2 (0.86%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.43%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.72%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.86%) Weka
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 131 (56.47%) Azure
2 127 (54.74%) AWS
3 69 (29.74%) Entra ID
4 56 (24.14%) Google Workspace
5 42 (18.10%) GitHub
6 38 (16.38%) GitHub Actions
7 29 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 29 (12.50%) GCP
8 25 (10.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (10.34%) Amazon S3
10 22 (9.48%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (8.62%) Pulumi
12 18 (7.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 17 (7.33%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (6.90%) Serverless
15 15 (6.47%) AWS Lambda
15 15 (6.47%) SaaS
16 12 (5.17%) Datadog
17 11 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 79 (34.05%) Broadband
2 30 (12.93%) Firewall
3 23 (9.91%) VPN
4 13 (5.60%) Network Security
5 11 (4.74%) VLAN
6 10 (4.31%) DNS
7 6 (2.59%) VoIP
8 5 (2.16%) DMZ
8 5 (2.16%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (2.16%) STUN
8 5 (2.16%) TCP/IP
9 4 (1.72%) DHCP
9 4 (1.72%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (1.72%) WAN
10 3 (1.29%) LAN
10 3 (1.29%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (1.29%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.86%) InfiniBand
11 2 (0.86%) NGFW
11 2 (0.86%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.64%) NoSQL
2 19 (8.19%) RDBMS
2 19 (8.19%) Relational Database
3 18 (7.76%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (7.76%) Apache Iceberg
3 18 (7.76%) Tableau
4 10 (4.31%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (4.31%) BigQuery
4 10 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (4.31%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.88%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (3.88%) Amazon QuickSight
5 9 (3.88%) Delta Lake
5 9 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (3.88%) Looker
5 9 (3.88%) Metadata
5 9 (3.88%) MySQL
5 9 (3.88%) Pinecone
5 9 (3.88%) Weaviate
6 7 (3.02%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 25 (10.78%) Jenkins
2 19 (8.19%) Jaeger
3 17 (7.33%) Git
4 16 (6.90%) GitLab
5 9 (3.88%) MLflow
6 6 (2.59%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.16%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.16%) JIRA
7 5 (2.16%) Robot Framework
7 5 (2.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (2.16%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.72%) Vite
9 3 (1.29%) Balsamiq
9 3 (1.29%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.29%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.29%) JMeter
9 3 (1.29%) Maven
10 2 (0.86%) Postman
10 2 (0.86%) TestRail
11 1 (0.43%) Browser DevTools
General
1 73 (31.47%) Social Skills
2 63 (27.16%) Organisational Skills
3 33 (14.22%) Games
4 21 (9.05%) Finance
5 20 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (6.03%) Retail
7 13 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (5.17%) Public Sector
9 8 (3.45%) Banking
10 7 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (3.02%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.72%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.72%) Back Office
11 4 (1.72%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.29%) Billing
12 3 (1.29%) Marketing
12 3 (1.29%) Military
13 1 (0.43%) Electronics
13 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (29.31%) Senior
2 38 (16.38%) Lead
3 32 (13.79%) Cloud Engineer
4 27 (11.64%) Platform Engineer
5 23 (9.91%) Developer
6 21 (9.05%) IAM Developer
7 20 (8.62%) Systems Engineer
8 19 (8.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 18 (7.76%) DevOps Engineer
10 17 (7.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 16 (6.90%) Consultant
12 15 (6.47%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (5.60%) Data Engineer
13 13 (5.60%) Senior Developer
13 13 (5.60%) Support Engineer
14 12 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
14 12 (5.17%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 12 (5.17%) Senior Consultant
14 12 (5.17%) Senior DevOps
15 11 (4.74%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (25.00%) GraphQL
1 58 (25.00%) REST
1 58 (25.00%) SOAP
2 56 (24.14%) LDAP
2 56 (24.14%) OAuth
2 56 (24.14%) OpenID
2 56 (24.14%) SAML
3 35 (15.09%) Elastic Stack
4 19 (8.19%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (4.74%) Kafka
6 9 (3.88%) Faiss
6 9 (3.88%) PyTorch
6 9 (3.88%) TensorFlow
6 9 (3.88%) vLLM
7 7 (3.02%) Loki
8 5 (2.16%) CSS
8 5 (2.16%) FreeSWITCH
8 5 (2.16%) HTML
9 4 (1.72%) Middleware
9 4 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (26.72%) Cyber Threat
2 58 (25.00%) Cyberattack
3 17 (7.33%) Product Ownership
4 13 (5.60%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (4.74%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.88%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (3.45%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.45%) Security Posture
8 7 (3.02%) Data Centre
8 7 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (3.02%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.72%) Blog
9 4 (1.72%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.86%) Clustering
11 2 (0.86%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 95 (40.95%) Linux
2 30 (12.93%) Windows
3 28 (12.07%) Unix
4 11 (4.74%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.59%) CentOS
6 5 (2.16%) Debian
7 4 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.86%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.86%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.43%) Android
9 1 (0.43%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.43%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.43%) Solaris
9 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (43.97%) CI/CD
2 99 (42.67%) DevOps
2 99 (42.67%) Mentoring
3 94 (40.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 94 (40.52%) Roadmaps
4 64 (27.59%) Cybersecurity
5 63 (27.16%) Identity Access Management
6 58 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
7 56 (24.14%) Regulatory Compliance
8 53 (22.84%) Agile
9 42 (18.10%) Containerisation
9 42 (18.10%) High Availability
10 38 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (15.52%) Cloud Security
11 36 (15.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 34 (14.66%) Performance Optimisation
13 31 (13.36%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
15 28 (12.07%) Observability
16 26 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 141 (60.78%) Python
2 126 (54.31%) PowerShell
3 60 (25.86%) SQL
4 56 (24.14%) T-SQL
5 51 (21.98%) Go
6 36 (15.52%) Java
7 29 (12.50%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.31%) Bicep
9 9 (3.88%) Scala
10 8 (3.45%) C++
11 7 (3.02%) C#
11 7 (3.02%) PHP
12 6 (2.59%) Perl
12 6 (2.59%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.72%) C
14 3 (1.29%) Groovy
14 3 (1.29%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.29%) Ruby
14 3 (1.29%) Rust
14 3 (1.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 37 (15.95%) Degree
2 31 (13.36%) AWS Certification
3 22 (9.48%) Security Cleared
4 12 (5.17%) DV Cleared
4 12 (5.17%) SC Cleared
5 11 (4.74%) Azure Certification
6 10 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.02%) CREST Certified
8 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.72%) OSCP
10 3 (1.29%) CCNP
10 3 (1.29%) CCSAM
10 3 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.29%) CITP
10 3 (1.29%) GPEN
10 3 (1.29%) GXPN
10 3 (1.29%) LPIC
10 3 (1.29%) OSCE
11 2 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.86%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (25.86%) NIST
2 58 (25.00%) NCSC
3 33 (14.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.31%) Data Quality
5 8 (3.45%) SOC 2
6 7 (3.02%) QA
7 5 (2.16%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.72%) GRC
9 3 (1.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (1.29%) SLA
10 2 (0.86%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.43%) GDPR
11 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
System Software
1 78 (33.62%) Active Directory
2 72 (31.03%) Docker
3 7 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.72%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.86%) Ceph
6 2 (0.86%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (0.86%) Lustre
6 2 (0.86%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.86%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.43%) KVM
7 1 (0.43%) vCloud
7 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 95 (40.95%) Terraform
2 76 (32.76%) Kubernetes
3 59 (25.43%) Ansible
4 44 (18.97%) Prometheus
5 32 (13.79%) Grafana
6 22 (9.48%) Argo
7 19 (8.19%) Kustomize
8 8 (3.45%) Proxmox
9 7 (3.02%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.72%) Cilium
10 4 (1.72%) logstash
10 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (1.29%) HP Fortify
11 3 (1.29%) Kibana
11 3 (1.29%) Nagios
11 3 (1.29%) Puppet
12 2 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.43%) CASB
13 1 (0.43%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.43%) Podman
Vendors
1 27 (11.64%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.19%) Google
3 16 (6.90%) VMware
4 13 (5.60%) Splunk
5 10 (4.31%) Cisco
5 10 (4.31%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.88%) CyberArk
6 9 (3.88%) Databricks
6 9 (3.88%) Palantir
7 5 (2.16%) Oracle
8 3 (1.29%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.29%) Dell
8 3 (1.29%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.29%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.86%) Apple
9 2 (0.86%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.86%) Commvault
9 2 (0.86%) Informatica
9 2 (0.86%) Talend
9 2 (0.86%) Veeam