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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 122 168
Rank change year-on-year -150 +46 -45
Permanent jobs citing Bash 179 450 509
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.79% 2.71% 2.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.95% 8.26% 5.32%
Number of salaries quoted 125 158 226
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,064 £40,416
25th Percentile £48,750 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +16.00% -13.19%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,875 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -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 6,062 5,448 9,566
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.67% 32.79% 38.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4,549 3,750 7,418
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +2.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 13 August 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 17 (9.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (3.35%) Apache
4 5 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.79%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.68%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.68%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.12%) nginx
7 1 (0.56%) Confluence
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.56%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.12%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 113 (63.13%) Azure
2 86 (48.04%) AWS
3 41 (22.91%) GitHub
4 38 (21.23%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (12.85%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (12.29%) IaaS
6 22 (12.29%) Serverless
7 21 (11.73%) GCP
7 21 (11.73%) PaaS
8 20 (11.17%) Azure Monitor
9 16 (8.94%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (8.94%) Amazon S3
9 16 (8.94%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (8.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (8.38%) Azure AKS
10 15 (8.38%) SaaS
11 14 (7.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (7.82%) Azure Key Vault
12 13 (7.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 13 (7.26%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 31 (17.32%) VPN
2 25 (13.97%) Firewall
3 17 (9.50%) DNS
4 10 (5.59%) TCP/IP
5 7 (3.91%) Network Security
6 5 (2.79%) DHCP
7 4 (2.23%) Kerberos
7 4 (2.23%) SSH
7 4 (2.23%) VLAN
8 3 (1.68%) SSL
8 3 (1.68%) VoIP
9 2 (1.12%) Broadband
9 2 (1.12%) DMZ
9 2 (1.12%) HTTP
9 2 (1.12%) LAN
9 2 (1.12%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (1.12%) SAN
9 2 (1.12%) STUN
9 2 (1.12%) WAN
9 2 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.61%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (7.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (5.03%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.91%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.35%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.35%) MySQL
6 5 (2.79%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.68%) Redis
8 2 (1.12%) Big Data
8 2 (1.12%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.12%) DocumentDB
8 2 (1.12%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.56%) GIS
9 1 (0.56%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 28 (15.64%) Git
2 26 (14.53%) Jenkins
3 21 (11.73%) GitLab
4 12 (6.70%) Maven
5 10 (5.59%) JUnit
5 10 (5.59%) Mockito
6 7 (3.91%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.91%) JIRA
7 6 (3.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (2.79%) Postman
9 3 (1.68%) JMeter
10 2 (1.12%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.12%) MSI
10 2 (1.12%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (1.12%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.56%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.56%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.56%) TestRail
11 1 (0.56%) webpack
General
1 49 (27.37%) Social Skills
2 27 (15.08%) Finance
3 18 (10.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (10.06%) Public Sector
4 13 (7.26%) Law
5 12 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.47%) Retail
7 6 (3.35%) Legal
8 5 (2.79%) Banking
8 5 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.68%) Aviation
10 3 (1.68%) Marketing
11 2 (1.12%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.56%) Electronics
12 1 (0.56%) French Language
12 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (21.23%) Senior
2 37 (20.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (13.97%) Platform Engineer
4 16 (8.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (7.82%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (7.26%) Analyst
6 13 (7.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 13 (7.26%) Developer
6 13 (7.26%) Lead
7 12 (6.70%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (6.70%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (6.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 12 (6.70%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 12 (6.70%) Java Developer
8 10 (5.59%) Senior DevOps
9 9 (5.03%) Administrator
10 8 (4.47%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (4.47%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 8 (4.47%) Linux Engineer
11 7 (3.91%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.82%) YAML
2 13 (7.26%) React
3 10 (5.59%) Spring
4 9 (5.03%) REST
5 7 (3.91%) .NET
5 7 (3.91%) Loki
5 7 (3.91%) SAML
6 6 (3.35%) OpenID
6 6 (3.35%) RESTful
7 5 (2.79%) Kafka
8 4 (2.23%) OAuth
8 4 (2.23%) OAuth2
8 4 (2.23%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (1.68%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.68%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.68%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.68%) JSON
10 2 (1.12%) ADO
10 2 (1.12%) Middleware
10 2 (1.12%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (18.99%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.94%) Public Cloud
2 16 (8.94%) Security Posture
3 14 (7.82%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (7.26%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (6.70%) Podcast
6 11 (6.15%) PKI
7 7 (3.91%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (3.91%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.91%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.23%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.68%) Blog
9 3 (1.68%) CSOC
9 3 (1.68%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.68%) FPGA
9 3 (1.68%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.68%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.12%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 77 (43.02%) Linux
2 43 (24.02%) Windows
3 13 (7.26%) VMS
4 6 (3.35%) Unix
5 5 (2.79%) Debian
5 5 (2.79%) Mac OS
5 5 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.79%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.23%) Solaris
6 4 (2.23%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.68%) CentOS
8 2 (1.12%) Android
8 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.56%) AIX
9 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.56%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.56%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (65.92%) CI/CD
2 97 (54.19%) DevOps
3 91 (50.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (36.87%) Agile
5 61 (34.08%) Observability
6 55 (30.73%) Mentoring
7 48 (26.82%) Containerisation
7 48 (26.82%) Platform Engineering
7 48 (26.82%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (25.14%) AI
9 42 (23.46%) Cloud Security
10 36 (20.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (16.76%) Root Cause Analysis
11 30 (16.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 29 (16.20%) Scrum
13 25 (13.97%) DevSecOps
13 25 (13.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 23 (12.85%) Analytics
14 23 (12.85%) Infrastructure Automation
14 23 (12.85%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 132 (73.74%) Python
2 97 (54.19%) PowerShell
3 43 (24.02%) SQL
4 29 (16.20%) Java
5 23 (12.85%) Bicep
6 21 (11.73%) JavaScript
7 18 (10.06%) Go
8 17 (9.50%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (6.15%) PL/SQL
10 9 (5.03%) C#
11 7 (3.91%) PHP
12 6 (3.35%) C++
12 6 (3.35%) Ruby
13 4 (2.23%) C
13 4 (2.23%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.68%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.68%) Perl
14 3 (1.68%) Rust
15 2 (1.12%) Groovy
15 2 (1.12%) Korn
Qualifications
1 44 (24.58%) Security Cleared
2 41 (22.91%) SC Cleared
3 22 (12.29%) Azure Certification
4 16 (8.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (7.82%) Degree
6 9 (5.03%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.91%) CISSP
7 7 (3.91%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (2.79%) CompTIA CySA+
8 5 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (2.23%) CREST Certified
9 4 (2.23%) DV Cleared
9 4 (2.23%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (2.23%) OSCP
10 3 (1.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.68%) GPEN
10 3 (1.68%) GXPN
10 3 (1.68%) ISTQB
10 3 (1.68%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.47%) QA
2 7 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.35%) SOC 2
4 5 (2.79%) NCSC
4 5 (2.79%) NIST
5 3 (1.68%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.68%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.68%) SLA
6 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.12%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.56%) GDPR
7 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
System Software
1 62 (34.64%) Docker
2 29 (16.20%) Active Directory
3 23 (12.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (6.70%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (6.70%) vSphere
5 9 (5.03%) Hyper-V
6 6 (3.35%) KVM
7 2 (1.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (1.12%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 81 (45.25%) Terraform
2 75 (41.90%) Kubernetes
3 40 (22.35%) Grafana
4 37 (20.67%) Prometheus
5 29 (16.20%) Ansible
6 18 (10.06%) Argo
7 12 (6.70%) Istio
8 8 (4.47%) Proxmox
9 6 (3.35%) Kustomize
9 6 (3.35%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (2.23%) Graylog
10 4 (2.23%) linkerd
10 4 (2.23%) Puppet
10 4 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (2.23%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.68%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.68%) Kibana
11 3 (1.68%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.12%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 64 (35.75%) Microsoft
2 28 (15.64%) VMware
3 20 (11.17%) Oracle
4 14 (7.82%) Red Hat
5 12 (6.70%) ScienceLogic
6 10 (5.59%) Cisco
6 10 (5.59%) Google
6 10 (5.59%) Splunk
7 8 (4.47%) ServiceNow
8 6 (3.35%) CyberArk
8 6 (3.35%) New Relic
8 6 (3.35%) Veeam
9 5 (2.79%) Fortinet
10 4 (2.23%) Apple
10 4 (2.23%) Dell
11 2 (1.12%) BT
11 2 (1.12%) Commvault
11 2 (1.12%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.12%) HP
11 2 (1.12%) Juniper