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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 237 162
Rank change year-on-year +48 -75 -38
Permanent jobs citing Bash 230 193 653
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.25% 1.35% 2.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.74% 3.28% 4.89%
Number of salaries quoted 124 164 367
10th Percentile £43,300 £47,311 £42,800
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,163 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% +12.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £102,500
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 4,849 5,877 13,352
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.41% 41.25% 41.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,555 4,447 11,439
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 7 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 21 (9.13%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (5.65%) Apache
3 10 (4.35%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.17%) nginx
5 4 (1.74%) CMS
5 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.30%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.87%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.87%) SAS
7 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.43%) Confluence
8 1 (0.43%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.74%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.74%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.74%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 127 (55.22%) Azure
2 124 (53.91%) AWS
3 64 (27.83%) Entra ID
4 53 (23.04%) Google Workspace
5 37 (16.09%) GitHub
6 32 (13.91%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (12.17%) Amazon S3
8 24 (10.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 22 (9.57%) GCP
10 20 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
10 20 (8.70%) Pulumi
11 19 (8.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (8.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 18 (7.83%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (6.96%) Serverless
14 14 (6.09%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (5.22%) SaaS
15 12 (5.22%) Snowflake
16 11 (4.78%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 75 (32.61%) Broadband
2 30 (13.04%) Firewall
3 23 (10.00%) VPN
4 10 (4.35%) DNS
4 10 (4.35%) Network Security
5 8 (3.48%) VLAN
6 6 (2.61%) VoIP
7 5 (2.17%) DMZ
7 5 (2.17%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (2.17%) STUN
8 3 (1.30%) BGP
8 3 (1.30%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (1.30%) LAN
8 3 (1.30%) NGFW
8 3 (1.30%) OSPF
8 3 (1.30%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.30%) SSL
8 3 (1.30%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.30%) WAN
9 2 (0.87%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 19 (8.26%) RDBMS
2 19 (8.26%) Relational Database
3 18 (7.83%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (7.83%) Apache Iceberg
3 18 (7.83%) Tableau
4 12 (5.22%) SQL Server
5 11 (4.78%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (4.78%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (4.35%) BigQuery
6 10 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (3.91%) Amazon QuickSight
7 9 (3.91%) Delta Lake
7 9 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (3.91%) Looker
7 9 (3.91%) Metadata
7 9 (3.91%) MySQL
7 9 (3.91%) Pinecone
7 9 (3.91%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 20 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 19 (8.26%) Git
2 19 (8.26%) Jaeger
3 16 (6.96%) GitLab
4 9 (3.91%) MLflow
5 6 (2.61%) JIRA
5 6 (2.61%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.17%) Maven
6 5 (2.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (1.74%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.74%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.74%) Robot Framework
7 4 (1.74%) Vite
8 2 (0.87%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.87%) JMeter
8 2 (0.87%) Postman
8 2 (0.87%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.87%) TestRail
9 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.43%) JUnit
General
1 64 (27.83%) Social Skills
2 59 (25.65%) Organisational Skills
3 29 (12.61%) Games
4 22 (9.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (6.52%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.09%) Finance
7 12 (5.22%) Retail
8 10 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (2.61%) Banking
9 6 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.74%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.30%) Billing
11 3 (1.30%) Marketing
11 3 (1.30%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.87%) Legal
13 1 (0.43%) Back Office
13 1 (0.43%) Electronics
13 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 67 (29.13%) Senior
2 39 (16.96%) Lead
3 26 (11.30%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (10.87%) Platform Engineer
5 23 (10.00%) Developer
6 22 (9.57%) DevOps Engineer
7 20 (8.70%) Systems Engineer
8 19 (8.26%) IAM Developer
9 18 (7.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 16 (6.96%) Data Engineer
11 15 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
11 15 (6.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 14 (6.09%) Consultant
12 14 (6.09%) Senior DevOps
13 11 (4.78%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 11 (4.78%) Senior Developer
14 10 (4.35%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 10 (4.35%) Senior Consultant
14 10 (4.35%) Support Engineer
14 10 (4.35%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (23.91%) SAML
2 54 (23.48%) GraphQL
2 54 (23.48%) LDAP
2 54 (23.48%) OpenID
2 54 (23.48%) REST
2 54 (23.48%) SOAP
3 53 (23.04%) OAuth
4 28 (12.17%) Elastic Stack
5 19 (8.26%) OpenTelemetry
6 11 (4.78%) Kafka
6 11 (4.78%) Loki
7 9 (3.91%) Faiss
7 9 (3.91%) PyTorch
7 9 (3.91%) TensorFlow
7 9 (3.91%) vLLM
8 6 (2.61%) YAML
9 5 (2.17%) AngularJS
9 5 (2.17%) CSS
9 5 (2.17%) HTML
9 5 (2.17%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 58 (25.22%) Cyber Threat
2 54 (23.48%) Cyberattack
3 15 (6.52%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.22%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (4.78%) Cloud Native
6 10 (4.35%) Onboarding
7 9 (3.91%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (3.48%) Security Posture
9 7 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (3.04%) Management Information System
9 7 (3.04%) Private Cloud
10 5 (2.17%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.74%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.87%) Clustering
13 2 (0.87%) e-Learning
13 2 (0.87%) Marketing Technology
13 2 (0.87%) PKI
13 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 89 (38.70%) Linux
2 24 (10.43%) Windows
3 22 (9.57%) Unix
4 8 (3.48%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.17%) CentOS
5 5 (2.17%) Debian
6 4 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.87%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.87%) Solaris
9 1 (0.43%) AIX
9 1 (0.43%) Android
9 1 (0.43%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.43%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (46.09%) CI/CD
1 106 (46.09%) Mentoring
2 95 (41.30%) DevOps
3 92 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 89 (38.70%) Roadmaps
5 61 (26.52%) Cybersecurity
6 58 (25.22%) Agile
6 58 (25.22%) Identity Access Management
7 54 (23.48%) Programme Delivery
8 53 (23.04%) Regulatory Compliance
9 39 (16.96%) High Availability
10 37 (16.09%) Cloud Security
10 37 (16.09%) Containerisation
11 35 (15.22%) Observability
12 34 (14.78%) Platform Engineering
13 33 (14.35%) Performance Optimisation
13 33 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 28 (12.17%) GitOps
16 26 (11.30%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 141 (61.30%) Python
2 118 (51.30%) PowerShell
3 62 (26.96%) SQL
4 53 (23.04%) T-SQL
5 44 (19.13%) Go
6 40 (17.39%) Java
7 28 (12.17%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.35%) Bicep
9 9 (3.91%) Scala
10 8 (3.48%) C++
10 8 (3.48%) PHP
11 7 (3.04%) C#
12 6 (2.61%) Perl
12 6 (2.61%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.74%) C
13 4 (1.74%) Groovy
14 3 (1.30%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.30%) Ruby
14 3 (1.30%) Rust
15 2 (0.87%) Korn
Qualifications
1 32 (13.91%) Degree
2 28 (12.17%) AWS Certification
3 21 (9.13%) Security Cleared
4 15 (6.52%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 10 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 8 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.17%) CREST Certified
8 4 (1.74%) OSCP
9 3 (1.30%) CCSAM
9 3 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.30%) GPEN
9 3 (1.30%) GXPN
9 3 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.30%) LPIC
9 3 (1.30%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.30%) OSCE
10 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.87%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (24.78%) NIST
2 54 (23.48%) NCSC
3 32 (13.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (5.22%) Data Quality
5 9 (3.91%) QA
6 7 (3.04%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.30%) SLA
8 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.43%) GDPR
9 1 (0.43%) GRC
9 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
System Software
1 73 (31.74%) Active Directory
2 69 (30.00%) Docker
3 5 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.30%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.87%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (0.87%) KVM
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 86 (37.39%) Terraform
2 73 (31.74%) Kubernetes
3 49 (21.30%) Ansible
4 43 (18.70%) Prometheus
5 28 (12.17%) Grafana
6 26 (11.30%) Argo
7 23 (10.00%) Kustomize
8 9 (3.91%) Proxmox
8 9 (3.91%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.74%) HP Fortify
9 4 (1.74%) Istio
9 4 (1.74%) logstash
10 3 (1.30%) Kibana
10 3 (1.30%) Nagios
10 3 (1.30%) Puppet
11 2 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.87%) CASB
11 2 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.43%) Podman
Vendors
1 29 (12.61%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.70%) Google
3 15 (6.52%) Red Hat
4 14 (6.09%) VMware
5 9 (3.91%) Cisco
5 9 (3.91%) Databricks
5 9 (3.91%) Palantir
6 8 (3.48%) CyberArk
6 8 (3.48%) Splunk
7 6 (2.61%) Oracle
8 3 (1.30%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.30%) Dell
8 3 (1.30%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.30%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.87%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.87%) Commvault
9 2 (0.87%) Informatica
9 2 (0.87%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.87%) Talend
9 2 (0.87%) Veeam