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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 123 180
Rank change year-on-year -81 +57 -48
Permanent jobs citing Bash 247 444 607
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.22% 2.86% 1.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.57% 7.60% 4.31%
Number of salaries quoted 132 150 323
10th Percentile £42,550 £47,500 £42,600
25th Percentile £47,679 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -11.97%
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,625 £98,029
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 5,399 5,843 14,077
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.62% 37.58% 40.56%
Number of salaries quoted 4,021 4,055 11,653
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,184 £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 £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
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 22 June 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 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (5.26%) Apache
2 13 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (4.45%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.02%) Jupyter
5 4 (1.62%) nginx
6 3 (1.21%) CMS
6 3 (1.21%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.81%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.40%) Confluence
8 1 (0.40%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.21%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (1.21%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.21%) Shopify
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 145 (58.70%) Azure
2 117 (47.37%) AWS
3 60 (24.29%) Entra ID
4 48 (19.43%) Google Workspace
5 43 (17.41%) GitHub
6 34 (13.77%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (10.53%) Amazon S3
7 26 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
8 25 (10.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 24 (9.72%) Pulumi
10 20 (8.10%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (8.10%) Serverless
11 19 (7.69%) GCP
11 19 (7.69%) IaaS
12 17 (6.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 16 (6.48%) Amazon EKS
13 16 (6.48%) Azure AKS
13 16 (6.48%) SaaS
14 15 (6.07%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (6.07%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 67 (27.13%) Broadband
2 33 (13.36%) VPN
3 28 (11.34%) Firewall
4 12 (4.86%) DNS
5 8 (3.24%) Network Security
6 6 (2.43%) VLAN
6 6 (2.43%) VoIP
7 5 (2.02%) DMZ
7 5 (2.02%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (2.02%) STUN
8 4 (1.62%) TCP/IP
9 3 (1.21%) DHCP
9 3 (1.21%) SSL
10 2 (0.81%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.81%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.81%) LAN
10 2 (0.81%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.81%) SAN
10 2 (0.81%) WAN
10 2 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 19 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 19 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 18 (7.29%) RDBMS
3 14 (5.67%) SQL Server
4 13 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
4 13 (5.26%) Apache Iceberg
4 13 (5.26%) Tableau
5 11 (4.45%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (3.24%) BigQuery
7 8 (3.24%) MySQL
8 7 (2.83%) Delta Lake
8 7 (2.83%) DynamoDB
8 7 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (2.83%) Looker
8 7 (2.83%) Pinecone
8 7 (2.83%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 31 (12.55%) Git
2 23 (9.31%) GitLab
2 23 (9.31%) Jenkins
3 18 (7.29%) Jaeger
4 7 (2.83%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.83%) Maven
4 7 (2.83%) MLflow
5 6 (2.43%) JIRA
6 5 (2.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (2.02%) JUnit
6 5 (2.02%) Mockito
6 5 (2.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (1.21%) Postman
7 3 (1.21%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.21%) Vite
8 2 (0.81%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.81%) JMeter
8 2 (0.81%) MSI
8 2 (0.81%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.40%) Eclipse
General
1 66 (26.72%) Social Skills
2 53 (21.46%) Organisational Skills
3 31 (12.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (9.72%) Games
5 17 (6.88%) Finance
5 17 (6.88%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.45%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.45%) Retail
7 8 (3.24%) Law
8 6 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.62%) Banking
9 4 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.21%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.21%) Aviation
10 3 (1.21%) Legal
10 3 (1.21%) Marketing
11 2 (0.81%) Billing
12 1 (0.40%) French Language
12 1 (0.40%) Publishing
12 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (26.72%) Senior
2 39 (15.79%) Lead
3 32 (12.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (12.15%) Platform Engineer
5 27 (10.93%) Cloud Engineer
6 25 (10.12%) Developer
7 21 (8.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
9 18 (7.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 17 (6.88%) AWS Engineer
11 16 (6.48%) IAM Developer
12 14 (5.67%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (4.86%) Data Engineer
14 11 (4.45%) Administrator
14 11 (4.45%) Azure Engineer
14 11 (4.45%) Consultant
14 11 (4.45%) Systems Administrator
15 10 (4.05%) Senior Developer
15 10 (4.05%) Support Engineer
16 9 (3.64%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (20.24%) REST
1 50 (20.24%) SAML
2 49 (19.84%) LDAP
2 49 (19.84%) OpenID
3 48 (19.43%) GraphQL
3 48 (19.43%) OAuth
3 48 (19.43%) SOAP
4 23 (9.31%) Elastic Stack
5 19 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
6 14 (5.67%) YAML
7 11 (4.45%) Kafka
8 10 (4.05%) Loki
9 8 (3.24%) React
10 7 (2.83%) Faiss
10 7 (2.83%) PyTorch
10 7 (2.83%) TensorFlow
10 7 (2.83%) vLLM
11 6 (2.43%) .NET
11 6 (2.43%) RESTful
12 5 (2.02%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 52 (21.05%) Cyber Threat
2 48 (19.43%) Cyberattack
3 31 (12.55%) Cloud Native
4 14 (5.67%) Security Posture
4 14 (5.67%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (4.86%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (4.86%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.86%) Public Cloud
6 10 (4.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.64%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.24%) Management Information System
8 8 (3.24%) Podcast
9 7 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.83%) Private Cloud
10 6 (2.43%) Data Centre
11 5 (2.02%) PKI
12 3 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
13 2 (0.81%) Educational Technology
13 2 (0.81%) Hackathon
13 2 (0.81%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 94 (38.06%) Linux
2 35 (14.17%) Windows
3 20 (8.10%) Unix
4 9 (3.64%) VMS
5 8 (3.24%) Debian
5 8 (3.24%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.62%) CentOS
6 4 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.62%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.21%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.81%) Solaris
9 1 (0.40%) AIX
9 1 (0.40%) Android
9 1 (0.40%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.40%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (50.20%) CI/CD
2 114 (46.15%) DevOps
3 113 (45.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 113 (45.75%) Mentoring
4 85 (34.41%) Roadmaps
5 76 (30.77%) Agile
6 59 (23.89%) Observability
7 56 (22.67%) Cybersecurity
8 54 (21.86%) Containerisation
8 54 (21.86%) Identity Access Management
9 52 (21.05%) Platform Engineering
10 48 (19.43%) Programme Delivery
10 48 (19.43%) Regulatory Compliance
11 45 (18.22%) AI
12 44 (17.81%) Cloud Security
13 41 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
14 36 (14.57%) GitOps
15 35 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
16 34 (13.77%) High Availability
17 30 (12.15%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 153 (61.94%) Python
2 138 (55.87%) PowerShell
3 72 (29.15%) SQL
4 48 (19.43%) T-SQL
5 44 (17.81%) Java
6 41 (16.60%) Go
7 31 (12.55%) JavaScript
8 19 (7.69%) Bicep
9 10 (4.05%) C#
9 10 (4.05%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (4.05%) PHP
10 7 (2.83%) Scala
11 6 (2.43%) C++
11 6 (2.43%) Ruby
12 5 (2.02%) Perl
12 5 (2.02%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.62%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.21%) C
14 3 (1.21%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.21%) Rust
Qualifications
1 31 (12.55%) Security Cleared
2 28 (11.34%) AWS Certification
2 28 (11.34%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.53%) Degree
4 18 (7.29%) Azure Certification
5 12 (4.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.83%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.62%) CISSP
8 4 (1.62%) CREST Certified
8 4 (1.62%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.62%) OSCP
9 3 (1.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.21%) CCSAM
9 3 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (1.21%) GPEN
9 3 (1.21%) GXPN
9 3 (1.21%) OSCE
10 2 (0.81%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (20.24%) NIST
2 48 (19.43%) NCSC
3 30 (12.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.05%) Data Quality
4 10 (4.05%) QA
5 7 (2.83%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.21%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.21%) SLA
7 1 (0.40%) GDPR
7 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 78 (31.58%) Docker
2 75 (30.36%) Active Directory
3 15 (6.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.24%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (3.24%) vSphere
5 6 (2.43%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.02%) KVM
7 2 (0.81%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 98 (39.68%) Terraform
2 85 (34.41%) Kubernetes
3 55 (22.27%) Prometheus
4 46 (18.62%) Ansible
5 39 (15.79%) Grafana
6 37 (14.98%) Argo
7 24 (9.72%) Kustomize
8 12 (4.86%) Proxmox
9 10 (4.05%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (3.64%) Istio
11 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.62%) Graylog
12 4 (1.62%) Kibana
12 4 (1.62%) Puppet
12 4 (1.62%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (1.21%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (1.21%) linkerd
13 3 (1.21%) Nagios
14 2 (0.81%) CASB
Vendors
1 53 (21.46%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.12%) VMware
3 24 (9.72%) Google
4 14 (5.67%) Red Hat
5 10 (4.05%) Splunk
6 9 (3.64%) Oracle
7 8 (3.24%) Cisco
7 8 (3.24%) ScienceLogic
8 7 (2.83%) CyberArk
8 7 (2.83%) Databricks
8 7 (2.83%) Palantir
9 5 (2.02%) Veeam
10 4 (1.62%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.21%) Apple
11 3 (1.21%) Commvault
11 3 (1.21%) Dell
12 2 (0.81%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.81%) BT
12 2 (0.81%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.81%) New Relic