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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 126 179
Rank change year-on-year -86 +53 -53
Permanent jobs citing Bash 234 449 595
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.13% 2.83% 1.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.23% 7.69% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 134 155 315
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,306 £43,000
25th Percentile £47,560 £55,000 £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 £72,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £89,444 £92,000 £97,584
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +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 5,538 5,839 13,558
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.73% 36.75% 40.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,185 4,064 11,198
10th Percentile £39,891 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £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 £83,750 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £104,000
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 1 July 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 (7.26%) Apache Airflow
1 17 (7.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (5.13%) Apache
3 10 (4.27%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.14%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.28%) nginx
5 3 (1.28%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.85%) CMS
6 2 (0.85%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.43%) Confluence
7 1 (0.43%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (0.85%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Shopify
2 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 139 (59.40%) Azure
2 107 (45.73%) AWS
3 48 (20.51%) Entra ID
4 46 (19.66%) GitHub
5 39 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (15.38%) Google Workspace
7 26 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
8 25 (10.68%) IaaS
9 24 (10.26%) Amazon S3
9 24 (10.26%) Serverless
10 23 (9.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 20 (8.55%) PaaS
12 19 (8.12%) Azure Monitor
12 19 (8.12%) GCP
13 18 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
13 18 (7.69%) Pulumi
14 16 (6.84%) Azure AKS
15 15 (6.41%) Amazon EKS
15 15 (6.41%) SaaS
15 15 (6.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 49 (20.94%) Broadband
2 37 (15.81%) VPN
3 28 (11.97%) Firewall
4 12 (5.13%) DNS
5 8 (3.42%) Network Security
6 6 (2.56%) VLAN
6 6 (2.56%) VoIP
7 5 (2.14%) DMZ
7 5 (2.14%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (2.14%) STUN
8 4 (1.71%) TCP/IP
9 3 (1.28%) DHCP
9 3 (1.28%) SSL
10 2 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.85%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.85%) LAN
10 2 (0.85%) SAN
10 2 (0.85%) SSH
10 2 (0.85%) WAN
10 2 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.12%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (5.98%) Relational Database
2 14 (5.98%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 12 (5.13%) RDBMS
5 11 (4.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (4.70%) Apache Iceberg
5 11 (4.70%) Tableau
6 10 (4.27%) Amazon Athena
7 8 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (3.42%) MySQL
8 7 (2.99%) BigQuery
8 7 (2.99%) DynamoDB
9 6 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (2.56%) Delta Lake
9 6 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.56%) Looker
9 6 (2.56%) Pinecone
9 6 (2.56%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 33 (14.10%) Git
2 23 (9.83%) GitLab
2 23 (9.83%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.13%) Jaeger
4 7 (2.99%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.99%) JIRA
4 7 (2.99%) Maven
5 6 (2.56%) MLflow
6 5 (2.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (2.14%) JUnit
6 5 (2.14%) Mockito
6 5 (2.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (1.28%) Postman
7 3 (1.28%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.85%) JMeter
8 2 (0.85%) MSI
8 2 (0.85%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.85%) Vite
9 1 (0.43%) Eclipse
General
1 64 (27.35%) Social Skills
2 41 (17.52%) Organisational Skills
3 29 (12.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (7.69%) Finance
4 18 (7.69%) Games
5 17 (7.26%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.13%) Law
7 11 (4.70%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.70%) Retail
8 6 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.71%) Banking
9 4 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.28%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.28%) Aviation
10 3 (1.28%) Legal
10 3 (1.28%) Marketing
11 1 (0.43%) French Language
11 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.43%) Publishing
11 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (26.50%) Senior
2 33 (14.10%) DevOps Engineer
3 32 (13.68%) Lead
4 29 (12.39%) Platform Engineer
5 23 (9.83%) Cloud Engineer
6 22 (9.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (8.97%) Developer
8 16 (6.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 15 (6.41%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (5.98%) Senior DevOps
10 14 (5.98%) Systems Engineer
11 12 (5.13%) Analyst
11 12 (5.13%) IAM Developer
11 12 (5.13%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 11 (4.70%) Administrator
12 11 (4.70%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (4.70%) Data Engineer
12 11 (4.70%) Systems Administrator
13 10 (4.27%) Consultant
13 10 (4.27%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (16.24%) REST
1 38 (16.24%) SAML
2 37 (15.81%) LDAP
2 37 (15.81%) OpenID
3 36 (15.38%) GraphQL
3 36 (15.38%) OAuth
3 36 (15.38%) SOAP
4 17 (7.26%) Elastic Stack
5 14 (5.98%) YAML
6 13 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
7 10 (4.27%) Kafka
8 9 (3.85%) Loki
9 8 (3.42%) React
10 6 (2.56%) .NET
10 6 (2.56%) Faiss
10 6 (2.56%) PyTorch
10 6 (2.56%) RESTful
10 6 (2.56%) TensorFlow
10 6 (2.56%) vLLM
11 5 (2.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 40 (17.09%) Cyber Threat
2 36 (15.38%) Cyberattack
3 32 (13.68%) Cloud Native
4 17 (7.26%) Security Posture
5 16 (6.84%) Public Cloud
6 15 (6.41%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
8 12 (5.13%) Podcast
9 10 (4.27%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (4.27%) Product Ownership
10 9 (3.85%) Onboarding
11 8 (3.42%) Management Information System
12 7 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (2.99%) Private Cloud
13 6 (2.56%) Data Centre
14 5 (2.14%) PKI
15 3 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
16 2 (0.85%) Educational Technology
16 2 (0.85%) Hackathon
16 2 (0.85%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 89 (38.03%) Linux
2 39 (16.67%) Windows
3 15 (6.41%) Unix
4 13 (5.56%) VMS
5 8 (3.42%) Debian
5 8 (3.42%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.71%) CentOS
6 4 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.71%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.28%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.85%) Solaris
9 1 (0.43%) AIX
9 1 (0.43%) Android
9 1 (0.43%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.43%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (54.70%) CI/CD
2 114 (48.72%) DevOps
3 112 (47.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 98 (41.88%) Mentoring
5 74 (31.62%) Agile
6 67 (28.63%) Roadmaps
7 64 (27.35%) Observability
8 53 (22.65%) Platform Engineering
9 50 (21.37%) Containerisation
10 48 (20.51%) AI
11 47 (20.09%) Cloud Security
12 45 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
13 44 (18.80%) Cybersecurity
14 42 (17.95%) Identity Access Management
15 37 (15.81%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (15.38%) Programme Delivery
16 36 (15.38%) Regulatory Compliance
17 32 (13.68%) Root Cause Analysis
18 30 (12.82%) GitOps
19 29 (12.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 149 (63.68%) Python
2 132 (56.41%) PowerShell
3 69 (29.49%) SQL
4 37 (15.81%) Java
5 36 (15.38%) Go
5 36 (15.38%) T-SQL
6 25 (10.68%) JavaScript
7 23 (9.83%) Bicep
8 14 (5.98%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (4.27%) C#
10 9 (3.85%) PHP
11 6 (2.56%) C++
11 6 (2.56%) Ruby
11 6 (2.56%) Scala
12 5 (2.14%) Perl
12 5 (2.14%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.71%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.28%) C
14 3 (1.28%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.28%) Rust
Qualifications
1 33 (14.10%) Security Cleared
2 29 (12.39%) SC Cleared
3 24 (10.26%) Degree
4 23 (9.83%) Azure Certification
5 22 (9.40%) AWS Certification
6 16 (6.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.99%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.71%) CISSP
9 4 (1.71%) CREST Certified
9 4 (1.71%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.71%) OSCP
10 3 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.28%) CCSAM
10 3 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (1.28%) GPEN
10 3 (1.28%) GXPN
10 3 (1.28%) OSCE
11 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (16.24%) NIST
2 36 (15.38%) NCSC
3 24 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.85%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.85%) QA
5 7 (2.99%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.28%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.28%) SLA
7 1 (0.43%) GDPR
7 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 72 (30.77%) Docker
2 67 (28.63%) Active Directory
3 19 (8.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (5.13%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (5.13%) vSphere
5 6 (2.56%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.14%) KVM
7 2 (0.85%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 96 (41.03%) Terraform
2 79 (33.76%) Kubernetes
3 50 (21.37%) Prometheus
4 42 (17.95%) Ansible
5 40 (17.09%) Grafana
6 31 (13.25%) Argo
7 18 (7.69%) Kustomize
8 12 (5.13%) Proxmox
9 10 (4.27%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (3.85%) Istio
11 5 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.71%) Graylog
12 4 (1.71%) Kibana
12 4 (1.71%) Puppet
12 4 (1.71%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (1.28%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (1.28%) linkerd
13 3 (1.28%) Nagios
14 2 (0.85%) CASB
Vendors
1 59 (25.21%) Microsoft
2 29 (12.39%) VMware
3 18 (7.69%) Google
4 14 (5.98%) Red Hat
5 12 (5.13%) ScienceLogic
6 10 (4.27%) Oracle
6 10 (4.27%) Splunk
7 8 (3.42%) Cisco
8 7 (2.99%) CyberArk
9 6 (2.56%) Databricks
9 6 (2.56%) Palantir
10 5 (2.14%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.14%) Veeam
11 3 (1.28%) Apple
11 3 (1.28%) Commvault
11 3 (1.28%) Dell
11 3 (1.28%) New Relic
12 2 (0.85%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.85%) BT
12 2 (0.85%) Fortinet