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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 205 128
Rank change year-on-year +4 -77 +25
Permanent jobs citing Bash 185 299 532
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.21% 1.59% 2.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.49% 3.76% 5.51%
Number of salaries quoted 135 199 427
10th Percentile £44,150 £37,500 £43,450
25th Percentile £56,250 £46,125 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% +0.80%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £101,450
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% -3.57%

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 4,123 7,959 9,655
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.96% 42.32% 46.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,162 5,149 8,179
10th Percentile £35,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £100,837
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 10 December 2025.

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 10 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.08%) Apache
3 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.08%) nginx
3 2 (1.08%) SAS
4 1 (0.54%) CMS
4 1 (0.54%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Weka
2 1 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.54%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.54%) Autodesk Inventor
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.54%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.54%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 100 (54.05%) Azure
2 86 (46.49%) AWS
3 47 (25.41%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (22.70%) GitHub
5 40 (21.62%) GitHub Actions
6 32 (17.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (16.22%) Entra ID
8 28 (15.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 25 (13.51%) Azure Monitor
10 22 (11.89%) Microsoft 365
11 21 (11.35%) Amazon EKS
12 20 (10.81%) GCP
13 19 (10.27%) Azure AKS
14 15 (8.11%) Serverless
15 11 (5.95%) SaaS
16 10 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
16 10 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
17 9 (4.86%) Datadog
17 9 (4.86%) IaaS
18 8 (4.32%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.65%) Firewall
2 11 (5.95%) Network Security
3 10 (5.41%) Broadband
3 10 (5.41%) VPN
4 8 (4.32%) TCP/IP
4 8 (4.32%) WAN
5 7 (3.78%) DNS
6 5 (2.70%) LAN
6 5 (2.70%) SAN
6 5 (2.70%) VLAN
7 4 (2.16%) BGP
7 4 (2.16%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (2.16%) OSPF
8 3 (1.62%) InfiniBand
8 3 (1.62%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.08%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (1.08%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (1.08%) Multicast
9 2 (1.08%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.41%) NoSQL
2 8 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.62%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (1.62%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.62%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.62%) MySQL
4 2 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.08%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.08%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (1.08%) InfluxDB
4 2 (1.08%) Metadata
4 2 (1.08%) Pentaho
4 2 (1.08%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.08%) Tableau
5 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 39 (21.08%) Jenkins
2 22 (11.89%) GitLab
3 14 (7.57%) Git
4 5 (2.70%) JIRA
5 4 (2.16%) Burp Suite
5 4 (2.16%) Metasploit
5 4 (2.16%) Robot Framework
5 4 (2.16%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.62%) Balsamiq
6 3 (1.62%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.62%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.08%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.08%) JMeter
7 2 (1.08%) MLflow
7 2 (1.08%) TestRail
8 1 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.54%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.54%) Maven
General
1 57 (30.81%) Social Skills
2 49 (26.49%) Finance
3 12 (6.49%) Telecoms
4 9 (4.86%) Banking
4 9 (4.86%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.32%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (3.78%) Games
7 5 (2.70%) Retail
8 4 (2.16%) Back Office
8 4 (2.16%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.62%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.62%) Military
10 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.08%) Electronics
10 2 (1.08%) Marketing
11 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.54%) Billing
11 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 38 (20.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (18.92%) Senior
3 31 (16.76%) Platform Engineer
4 24 (12.97%) Linux Engineer
5 23 (12.43%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (8.65%) Azure Engineer
7 14 (7.57%) Automation Engineer
7 14 (7.57%) Lead
8 12 (6.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (4.86%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 9 (4.86%) Senior DevOps
10 9 (4.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.86%) Support Engineer
11 8 (4.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.32%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 8 (4.32%) Security Engineer
12 7 (3.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.78%) Principal Engineer
12 7 (3.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.19%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (5.95%) REST
3 9 (4.86%) GraphQL
3 9 (4.86%) SOAP
4 7 (3.78%) ARM Templates
4 7 (3.78%) LDAP
5 6 (3.24%) OAuth
5 6 (3.24%) OpenID
5 6 (3.24%) SAML
6 5 (2.70%) .NET
6 5 (2.70%) Kafka
6 5 (2.70%) YAML
7 4 (2.16%) AWS CDK
7 4 (2.16%) AWS SAM
7 4 (2.16%) Jinja
8 3 (1.62%) Loki
9 2 (1.08%) Google JAX
9 2 (1.08%) Hugging Face
9 2 (1.08%) JAX
9 2 (1.08%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.81%) Product Ownership
2 16 (8.65%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.41%) Security Posture
4 9 (4.86%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (4.32%) Cyberattack
6 6 (3.24%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.16%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.16%) Blog
8 4 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.62%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.62%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.08%) e-Learning
10 2 (1.08%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.54%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.54%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (0.54%) Video on Demand
11 1 (0.54%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 91 (49.19%) Linux
2 36 (19.46%) Windows
3 20 (10.81%) Unix
4 9 (4.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.32%) CentOS
6 7 (3.78%) Debian
6 7 (3.78%) Solaris
7 5 (2.70%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.62%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.62%) VMS
9 1 (0.54%) Check Point GAiA
9 1 (0.54%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.54%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (66.49%) DevOps
2 103 (55.68%) CI/CD
3 92 (49.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (28.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 49 (26.49%) Agile
6 44 (23.78%) Containerisation
7 39 (21.08%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (18.92%) Mentoring
9 34 (18.38%) Incident Response
9 34 (18.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 33 (17.84%) Cloud Security
11 30 (16.22%) ITIL
12 29 (15.68%) Platform Engineering
13 28 (15.14%) AI
14 26 (14.05%) Roadmaps
14 26 (14.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 25 (13.51%) Observability
16 24 (12.97%) Machine Learning
17 23 (12.43%) Analytics
18 22 (11.89%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 147 (79.46%) Python
2 108 (58.38%) PowerShell
3 24 (12.97%) Bicep
4 19 (10.27%) SQL
5 16 (8.65%) Go
6 12 (6.49%) Perl
7 8 (4.32%) Java
7 8 (4.32%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.24%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.24%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.70%) C++
9 5 (2.70%) Korn
10 4 (2.16%) C
10 4 (2.16%) Fortran
11 3 (1.62%) C#
11 3 (1.62%) VBScript
12 1 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.54%) Groovy
12 1 (0.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (17.84%) Security Cleared
2 24 (12.97%) AWS Certification
3 23 (12.43%) Degree
4 18 (9.73%) SC Cleared
5 16 (8.65%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.86%) DV Cleared
7 8 (4.32%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (3.24%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.70%) CCNP
11 4 (2.16%) GCIH
11 4 (2.16%) PhD
12 3 (1.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.62%) CCNA
12 3 (1.62%) CCSP
12 3 (1.62%) CISSP
12 3 (1.62%) CITP
12 3 (1.62%) CREST Certified
12 3 (1.62%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.65%) GDPR
2 11 (5.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 10 (5.41%) NIST
4 9 (4.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (4.32%) NCSC
6 6 (3.24%) QA
7 5 (2.70%) SLA
8 4 (2.16%) GRC
8 4 (2.16%) PCI DSS
8 4 (2.16%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.08%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.54%) HIPAA
System Software
1 51 (27.57%) Docker
2 16 (8.65%) Active Directory
3 12 (6.49%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (5.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (5.41%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (2.16%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.62%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (1.08%) Ceph
8 2 (1.08%) Lustre
9 1 (0.54%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.54%) Postfix
9 1 (0.54%) vCloud
9 1 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 101 (54.59%) Terraform
2 68 (36.76%) Kubernetes
3 63 (34.05%) Ansible
4 32 (17.30%) Grafana
5 19 (10.27%) Prometheus
6 11 (5.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (5.41%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (2.16%) Cilium
8 4 (2.16%) Nmap
9 3 (1.62%) Argo
9 3 (1.62%) logstash
10 2 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.08%) Kubeflow
10 2 (1.08%) Puppet
11 1 (0.54%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.54%) Icinga
11 1 (0.54%) Nagios
11 1 (0.54%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.54%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 32 (17.30%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.97%) Red Hat
3 11 (5.95%) VMware
4 9 (4.86%) Splunk
5 8 (4.32%) Oracle
6 6 (3.24%) Cisco
6 6 (3.24%) Fortinet
7 5 (2.70%) NetApp
8 4 (2.16%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (2.16%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.62%) Juniper
9 3 (1.62%) Rapid7
9 3 (1.62%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.08%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.08%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.08%) Informatica
10 2 (1.08%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.08%) SAP
10 2 (1.08%) Talend
10 2 (1.08%) Veeam