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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 218 160
Rank change year-on-year +35 -58 -36
Permanent jobs citing Bash 229 197 658
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.26% 1.46% 2.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.80% 3.54% 4.94%
Number of salaries quoted 123 167 371
10th Percentile £42,800 £47,392 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,942 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +11.50% -10.31%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,625 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £102,500
UK median annual salary £64,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.86% +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 4,774 5,563 13,326
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.36% 41.32% 40.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,511 4,457 11,430
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 30 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 21 (9.17%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (5.68%) Apache
3 10 (4.37%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.18%) nginx
5 4 (1.75%) CMS
6 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.31%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.87%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.87%) SAS
7 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.44%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.75%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 126 (55.02%) Azure
2 122 (53.28%) AWS
3 66 (28.82%) Entra ID
4 56 (24.45%) Google Workspace
5 37 (16.16%) GitHub
6 33 (14.41%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (12.23%) Amazon S3
8 26 (11.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 23 (10.04%) GCP
10 21 (9.17%) Amazon EKS
10 21 (9.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (8.73%) Amazon EC2
11 20 (8.73%) Pulumi
12 19 (8.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 17 (7.42%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (7.42%) Serverless
14 15 (6.55%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (5.24%) Snowflake
16 11 (4.80%) OpenShift
16 11 (4.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 78 (34.06%) Broadband
2 28 (12.23%) Firewall
3 22 (9.61%) VPN
4 10 (4.37%) DNS
5 9 (3.93%) Network Security
5 9 (3.93%) VLAN
6 6 (2.62%) VoIP
7 5 (2.18%) DMZ
7 5 (2.18%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (2.18%) STUN
8 4 (1.75%) TCP/IP
9 3 (1.31%) BGP
9 3 (1.31%) DHCP
9 3 (1.31%) LAN
9 3 (1.31%) OSPF
9 3 (1.31%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (1.31%) SSL
9 3 (1.31%) WAN
10 2 (0.87%) NGFW
10 2 (0.87%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.48%) NoSQL
2 19 (8.30%) RDBMS
2 19 (8.30%) Relational Database
3 18 (7.86%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (7.86%) Apache Iceberg
3 18 (7.86%) Tableau
4 11 (4.80%) Amazon Athena
4 11 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (4.80%) SQL Server
5 10 (4.37%) BigQuery
5 10 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (3.93%) Amazon QuickSight
6 9 (3.93%) Delta Lake
6 9 (3.93%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (3.93%) Looker
6 9 (3.93%) Metadata
6 9 (3.93%) MySQL
6 9 (3.93%) Pinecone
6 9 (3.93%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 21 (9.17%) Jenkins
2 19 (8.30%) Git
2 19 (8.30%) Jaeger
3 17 (7.42%) GitLab
4 9 (3.93%) MLflow
5 6 (2.62%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.18%) JIRA
6 5 (2.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (1.75%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.75%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.75%) Maven
7 4 (1.75%) Robot Framework
7 4 (1.75%) 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 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.44%) Balsamiq
General
1 66 (28.82%) Social Skills
2 62 (27.07%) Organisational Skills
3 32 (13.97%) Games
4 22 (9.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (6.55%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.68%) Finance
7 12 (5.24%) Retail
8 11 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (2.62%) Banking
9 6 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.75%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.75%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.31%) Billing
11 3 (1.31%) Marketing
12 2 (0.87%) Legal
13 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (30.13%) Senior
2 37 (16.16%) Lead
3 26 (11.35%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (10.92%) Platform Engineer
5 24 (10.48%) Developer
6 22 (9.61%) DevOps Engineer
7 21 (9.17%) IAM Developer
8 20 (8.73%) Systems Engineer
9 17 (7.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 16 (6.99%) Data Engineer
11 15 (6.55%) AWS Engineer
11 15 (6.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 14 (6.11%) Consultant
12 14 (6.11%) Senior DevOps
13 13 (5.68%) Senior Developer
14 11 (4.80%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 11 (4.80%) Support Engineer
15 10 (4.37%) Azure Engineer
15 10 (4.37%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 10 (4.37%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (24.89%) GraphQL
1 57 (24.89%) LDAP
1 57 (24.89%) REST
1 57 (24.89%) SAML
1 57 (24.89%) SOAP
2 56 (24.45%) OAuth
2 56 (24.45%) OpenID
3 30 (13.10%) Elastic Stack
4 19 (8.30%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (4.80%) Kafka
5 11 (4.80%) Loki
6 9 (3.93%) Faiss
6 9 (3.93%) PyTorch
6 9 (3.93%) TensorFlow
6 9 (3.93%) vLLM
7 6 (2.62%) YAML
8 5 (2.18%) AngularJS
8 5 (2.18%) CSS
8 5 (2.18%) FreeSWITCH
8 5 (2.18%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 61 (26.64%) Cyber Threat
2 57 (24.89%) Cyberattack
3 15 (6.55%) Product Ownership
4 13 (5.68%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (4.80%) Cloud Native
6 10 (4.37%) Onboarding
7 9 (3.93%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (3.49%) Security Posture
9 7 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (3.06%) Management Information System
9 7 (3.06%) Private Cloud
10 5 (2.18%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.75%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.87%) Clustering
13 2 (0.87%) e-Learning
13 2 (0.87%) Marketing Technology
13 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
14 1 (0.44%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 88 (38.43%) Linux
2 24 (10.48%) Unix
3 23 (10.04%) Windows
4 8 (3.49%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.18%) CentOS
5 5 (2.18%) Debian
6 4 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.31%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.87%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.87%) Solaris
9 1 (0.44%) AIX
9 1 (0.44%) Android
9 1 (0.44%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.44%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (46.29%) Mentoring
2 105 (45.85%) CI/CD
3 95 (41.48%) DevOps
4 92 (40.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 92 (40.17%) Roadmaps
5 64 (27.95%) Cybersecurity
6 61 (26.64%) Identity Access Management
7 57 (24.89%) Programme Delivery
8 56 (24.45%) Agile
8 56 (24.45%) Regulatory Compliance
9 40 (17.47%) High Availability
10 37 (16.16%) Cloud Security
10 37 (16.16%) Containerisation
11 34 (14.85%) Observability
11 34 (14.85%) Platform Engineering
11 34 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (14.41%) Performance Optimisation
13 28 (12.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 27 (11.79%) GitOps
15 26 (11.35%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 140 (61.14%) Python
2 118 (51.53%) PowerShell
3 61 (26.64%) SQL
4 56 (24.45%) T-SQL
5 45 (19.65%) Go
6 39 (17.03%) Java
7 28 (12.23%) JavaScript
8 9 (3.93%) Bicep
8 9 (3.93%) Scala
9 8 (3.49%) C++
9 8 (3.49%) PHP
10 6 (2.62%) C#
10 6 (2.62%) Perl
10 6 (2.62%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.75%) C
11 4 (1.75%) Groovy
12 3 (1.31%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.31%) Ruby
12 3 (1.31%) Rust
13 2 (0.87%) Korn
Qualifications
1 32 (13.97%) Degree
2 28 (12.23%) AWS Certification
3 21 (9.17%) Security Cleared
4 14 (6.11%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.37%) Azure Certification
5 10 (4.37%) DV Cleared
6 8 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.18%) CREST Certified
8 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.75%) OSCP
9 3 (1.31%) CCSAM
9 3 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.31%) GPEN
9 3 (1.31%) GXPN
9 3 (1.31%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.31%) LPIC
9 3 (1.31%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.31%) OSCE
10 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (26.20%) NIST
2 57 (24.89%) NCSC
3 31 (13.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (5.24%) Data Quality
5 9 (3.93%) QA
6 6 (2.62%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.31%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.31%) SLA
8 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.44%) GDPR
9 1 (0.44%) GRC
9 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
System Software
1 76 (33.19%) Active Directory
2 68 (29.69%) Docker
3 5 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.31%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.87%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.44%) KVM
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 86 (37.55%) Terraform
2 73 (31.88%) Kubernetes
3 49 (21.40%) Ansible
4 44 (19.21%) Prometheus
5 30 (13.10%) Grafana
6 26 (11.35%) Argo
7 23 (10.04%) Kustomize
8 8 (3.49%) Proxmox
8 8 (3.49%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.75%) HP Fortify
9 4 (1.75%) Istio
9 4 (1.75%) logstash
10 3 (1.31%) Kibana
10 3 (1.31%) Nagios
10 3 (1.31%) Puppet
11 2 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.87%) CASB
12 1 (0.44%) Cilium
12 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.44%) Podman
Vendors
1 26 (11.35%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.73%) Google
3 15 (6.55%) Red Hat
4 14 (6.11%) VMware
5 9 (3.93%) Databricks
5 9 (3.93%) Palantir
5 9 (3.93%) Splunk
6 8 (3.49%) Cisco
6 8 (3.49%) CyberArk
7 5 (2.18%) Oracle
8 3 (1.31%) Dell
9 2 (0.87%) Apple
9 2 (0.87%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.87%) BT
9 2 (0.87%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.87%) Commvault
9 2 (0.87%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.87%) Informatica
9 2 (0.87%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.87%) Talend