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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 116 158
Rank change year-on-year -174 +42 -36
Permanent jobs citing Bash 179 445 501
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.75% 2.75% 2.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.90% 8.76% 5.58%
Number of salaries quoted 120 146 200
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,875 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,688 £55,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% -13.49%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £94,375 £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 6,175 5,082 8,973
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.97% 31.39% 38.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4,633 3,450 6,303
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -1.54% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -4.62%

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 9 September 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 15 (8.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.91%) Apache
2 7 (3.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.35%) Jupyter
4 5 (2.79%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.12%) Confluence
5 2 (1.12%) nginx
5 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.56%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
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 91 (50.84%) AWS
3 47 (26.26%) GitHub
4 42 (23.46%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (16.20%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (13.97%) Serverless
7 24 (13.41%) Azure Monitor
8 22 (12.29%) PaaS
9 21 (11.73%) IaaS
10 20 (11.17%) Azure AKS
10 20 (11.17%) GCP
11 19 (10.61%) Amazon EC2
12 18 (10.06%) Azure Key Vault
13 16 (8.94%) Amazon S3
14 15 (8.38%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (7.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 14 (7.82%) Azure Functions
15 14 (7.82%) Entra ID
16 13 (7.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 13 (7.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (14.53%) VPN
2 20 (11.17%) Firewall
3 16 (8.94%) DNS
4 11 (6.15%) TCP/IP
5 7 (3.91%) Network Security
6 5 (2.79%) DHCP
7 4 (2.23%) Kerberos
7 4 (2.23%) SSH
8 3 (1.68%) Broadband
9 2 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (1.12%) LAN
9 2 (1.12%) NGFW
9 2 (1.12%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.12%) SSL
9 2 (1.12%) WAN
10 1 (0.56%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.56%) SAN
10 1 (0.56%) VLAN
10 1 (0.56%) VoIP
10 1 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.06%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (4.47%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.91%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.35%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.79%) MySQL
6 5 (2.79%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.68%) Big Data
7 3 (1.68%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.68%) Redis
8 2 (1.12%) DocumentDB
8 2 (1.12%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.12%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.56%) GIS
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.56%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 29 (16.20%) Git
2 28 (15.64%) GitLab
3 27 (15.08%) Jenkins
4 12 (6.70%) Maven
5 10 (5.59%) JUnit
5 10 (5.59%) Mockito
6 6 (3.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (3.35%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.23%) JIRA
8 3 (1.68%) JMeter
8 3 (1.68%) Postman
9 2 (1.12%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.12%) MSI
9 2 (1.12%) Robot Framework
9 2 (1.12%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.12%) TestRail
10 1 (0.56%) CMake
10 1 (0.56%) GDB
10 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 51 (28.49%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.20%) Finance
3 24 (13.41%) Public Sector
4 17 (9.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (7.26%) Law
7 6 (3.35%) Legal
8 5 (2.79%) Banking
9 4 (2.23%) Retail
10 3 (1.68%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.68%) Aviation
11 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Electronics
12 1 (0.56%) French Language
12 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.56%) Marketing
12 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Police
12 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (21.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (18.99%) Senior
3 27 (15.08%) Platform Engineer
4 17 (9.50%) Lead
5 14 (7.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (7.26%) Analyst
6 13 (7.26%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (7.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 13 (7.26%) Developer
7 12 (6.70%) Cloud 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 8 (4.47%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (4.47%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 7 (3.91%) Linux Engineer
9 7 (3.91%) Senior DevOps
9 7 (3.91%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (3.91%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (47.49%) Terraform
2 15 (8.38%) React
3 14 (7.82%) YAML
4 10 (5.59%) REST
4 10 (5.59%) Spring
5 7 (3.91%) .NET
5 7 (3.91%) Loki
5 7 (3.91%) SAML
6 6 (3.35%) Kafka
6 6 (3.35%) OpenID
6 6 (3.35%) Pulumi
7 5 (2.79%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (2.79%) RESTful
8 4 (2.23%) ARM Templates
8 4 (2.23%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (2.23%) Node.js
8 4 (2.23%) OAuth
8 4 (2.23%) OAuth2
8 4 (2.23%) PySpark
9 3 (1.68%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 35 (19.55%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.94%) Linux Command Line
3 15 (8.38%) Public Cloud
3 15 (8.38%) Security Posture
4 14 (7.82%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (6.70%) PKI
5 12 (6.70%) Podcast
6 7 (3.91%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.35%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.68%) Blog
10 3 (1.68%) CSOC
10 3 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.68%) FPGA
10 3 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.68%) Robotics
10 3 (1.68%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (1.12%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 74 (41.34%) Linux
2 41 (22.91%) Windows
3 13 (7.26%) VMS
4 8 (4.47%) Ubuntu
5 6 (3.35%) Debian
5 6 (3.35%) Unix
6 4 (2.23%) Mac OS
6 4 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.23%) Solaris
7 3 (1.68%) CentOS
7 3 (1.68%) Robot Operating System
8 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
8 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.56%) AIX
9 1 (0.56%) Android
9 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (70.39%) CI/CD
2 100 (55.87%) DevOps
3 96 (53.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (37.43%) Agile
5 63 (35.20%) Mentoring
5 63 (35.20%) Observability
6 55 (30.73%) Containerisation
7 52 (29.05%) Platform Engineering
8 49 (27.37%) Problem-Solving
9 48 (26.82%) AI
10 42 (23.46%) Cloud Security
11 38 (21.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (17.32%) Root Cause Analysis
13 30 (16.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 29 (16.20%) DevSecOps
14 29 (16.20%) Scrum
14 29 (16.20%) Technical Leadership
15 27 (15.08%) Analytics
16 24 (13.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 24 (13.41%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 132 (73.74%) Python
2 95 (53.07%) PowerShell
3 44 (24.58%) SQL
4 30 (16.76%) Java
5 27 (15.08%) Bicep
6 18 (10.06%) JavaScript
7 17 (9.50%) Kusto Query Language
8 16 (8.94%) Go
9 11 (6.15%) PL/SQL
10 9 (5.03%) C#
11 6 (3.35%) C++
11 6 (3.35%) Ruby
12 5 (2.79%) Rust
13 4 (2.23%) C
13 4 (2.23%) PHP
14 3 (1.68%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.68%) Perl
15 2 (1.12%) Groovy
15 2 (1.12%) Shell Script
15 2 (1.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 49 (27.37%) Security Cleared
2 43 (24.02%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.17%) Azure Certification
4 16 (8.94%) Degree
4 16 (8.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.91%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.91%) CompTIA Security+
7 6 (3.35%) CISSP
7 6 (3.35%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (2.79%) CompTIA CySA+
9 4 (2.23%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.68%) CEH
10 3 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.68%) GCIA
10 3 (1.68%) GIAC
10 3 (1.68%) GPEN
10 3 (1.68%) ISTQB
10 3 (1.68%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.70%) QA
2 8 (4.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.91%) NCSC
4 6 (3.35%) NIST
5 5 (2.79%) SOC 2
6 4 (2.23%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.68%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 70 (39.11%) Docker
2 27 (15.08%) 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 5 (2.79%) KVM
7 2 (1.12%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 79 (44.13%) Kubernetes
2 40 (22.35%) Grafana
3 36 (20.11%) Prometheus
4 26 (14.53%) Ansible
5 19 (10.61%) Argo
6 13 (7.26%) Istio
7 7 (3.91%) Kustomize
8 6 (3.35%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (2.79%) Proxmox
10 4 (2.23%) Graylog
10 4 (2.23%) linkerd
10 4 (2.23%) Puppet
10 4 (2.23%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.68%) Cilium
11 3 (1.68%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.12%) HP Fortify
12 2 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (1.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 60 (33.52%) Microsoft
2 26 (14.53%) VMware
3 20 (11.17%) Oracle
4 13 (7.26%) Red Hat
5 12 (6.70%) ScienceLogic
6 11 (6.15%) Splunk
7 10 (5.59%) Google
8 8 (4.47%) Cisco
8 8 (4.47%) CyberArk
8 8 (4.47%) ServiceNow
9 6 (3.35%) Veeam
10 5 (2.79%) Fortinet
10 5 (2.79%) New Relic
11 3 (1.68%) Dell
11 3 (1.68%) NVIDIA
11 3 (1.68%) Okta
12 2 (1.12%) Apple
12 2 (1.12%) Commvault
12 2 (1.12%) HP
12 2 (1.12%) Juniper