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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 121 162
Rank change year-on-year -75 +41 -38
Permanent jobs citing Bash 235 447 611
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.24% 3.07% 1.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.68% 7.77% 4.53%
Number of salaries quoted 128 152 337
10th Percentile £45,575 £45,898 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £81,563 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,000 £101,711
UK median annual salary £63,250 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.30% +12.50% -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 5,024 5,752 13,479
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.53% 39.53% 41.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,698 3,957 11,426
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 £80,000
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 26 May 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 23 (9.79%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (6.38%) Apache
3 12 (5.11%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.70%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.70%) nginx
5 3 (1.28%) CMS
6 2 (0.85%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.43%) Confluence
7 1 (0.43%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (1.28%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 133 (56.60%) Azure
2 123 (52.34%) AWS
3 65 (27.66%) Entra ID
4 52 (22.13%) Google Workspace
5 35 (14.89%) GitHub
6 28 (11.91%) Amazon S3
6 28 (11.91%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (11.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 23 (9.79%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (9.79%) Pulumi
9 21 (8.94%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (8.94%) GCP
10 19 (8.09%) Amazon EKS
10 19 (8.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 18 (7.66%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (5.96%) Azure AKS
13 13 (5.53%) SaaS
13 13 (5.53%) Serverless
14 12 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (5.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 72 (30.64%) Broadband
2 28 (11.91%) Firewall
3 24 (10.21%) VPN
4 12 (5.11%) DNS
5 7 (2.98%) Network Security
6 6 (2.55%) VLAN
6 6 (2.55%) VoIP
7 5 (2.13%) DMZ
7 5 (2.13%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (2.13%) STUN
8 3 (1.28%) SSL
9 2 (0.85%) DHCP
9 2 (0.85%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.85%) SAN
10 1 (0.43%) DKIM
10 1 (0.43%) DMARC
10 1 (0.43%) Skype
10 1 (0.43%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.09%) NoSQL
1 19 (8.09%) Relational Database
2 18 (7.66%) Amazon Redshift
2 18 (7.66%) Apache Iceberg
2 18 (7.66%) RDBMS
2 18 (7.66%) Tableau
3 13 (5.53%) Amazon Athena
3 13 (5.53%) SQL Server
4 12 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (4.26%) BigQuery
5 10 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (3.83%) Amazon QuickSight
6 9 (3.83%) Delta Lake
6 9 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (3.83%) Looker
6 9 (3.83%) Metadata
6 9 (3.83%) Pinecone
6 9 (3.83%) Weaviate
7 8 (3.40%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 21 (8.94%) GitLab
1 21 (8.94%) Jenkins
2 20 (8.51%) Git
3 18 (7.66%) Jaeger
4 9 (3.83%) MLflow
5 8 (3.40%) Maven
6 6 (2.55%) JIRA
7 5 (2.13%) JUnit
7 5 (2.13%) Mockito
7 5 (2.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (1.70%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.70%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.28%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.28%) Vite
10 2 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.85%) MSI
10 2 (0.85%) Postman
10 2 (0.85%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.43%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.43%) webpack
General
1 61 (25.96%) Social Skills
2 58 (24.68%) Organisational Skills
3 29 (12.34%) Games
4 22 (9.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (6.81%) Finance
6 15 (6.38%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.68%) Retail
8 10 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.13%) Banking
11 4 (1.70%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.28%) Legal
12 3 (1.28%) Marketing
13 2 (0.85%) Billing
14 1 (0.43%) French Language
14 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.43%) Publishing
14 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (27.66%) Senior
2 44 (18.72%) Lead
3 29 (12.34%) Cloud Engineer
4 28 (11.91%) Platform Engineer
5 27 (11.49%) Developer
5 27 (11.49%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (8.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 20 (8.51%) Systems Engineer
8 19 (8.09%) AWS Engineer
8 19 (8.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 18 (7.66%) IAM Developer
10 15 (6.38%) Senior DevOps
11 14 (5.96%) Data Engineer
12 13 (5.53%) Azure Engineer
12 13 (5.53%) Consultant
13 12 (5.11%) Senior Developer
14 11 (4.68%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 10 (4.26%) Linux Engineer
15 10 (4.26%) Support Engineer
16 9 (3.83%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (23.40%) REST
2 54 (22.98%) SAML
3 53 (22.55%) GraphQL
3 53 (22.55%) LDAP
3 53 (22.55%) OpenID
3 53 (22.55%) SOAP
4 52 (22.13%) OAuth
5 23 (9.79%) Elastic Stack
6 18 (7.66%) OpenTelemetry
7 11 (4.68%) Loki
8 10 (4.26%) Kafka
9 9 (3.83%) Faiss
9 9 (3.83%) PyTorch
9 9 (3.83%) TensorFlow
9 9 (3.83%) vLLM
10 8 (3.40%) YAML
11 7 (2.98%) React
11 7 (2.98%) Spring
12 5 (2.13%) FreeSWITCH
13 4 (1.70%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 57 (24.26%) Cyber Threat
2 53 (22.55%) Cyberattack
3 19 (8.09%) Cloud Native
4 14 (5.96%) Product Ownership
5 13 (5.53%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (4.68%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (3.83%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.40%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.98%) Management Information System
9 7 (2.98%) Private Cloud
10 6 (2.55%) Security Posture
11 5 (2.13%) Data Centre
11 5 (2.13%) PKI
12 4 (1.70%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.85%) Clustering
13 2 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
13 2 (0.85%) Marketing Technology
13 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 89 (37.87%) Linux
2 24 (10.21%) Windows
3 19 (8.09%) Unix
4 8 (3.40%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.13%) Debian
6 4 (1.70%) CentOS
6 4 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.85%) Mac OS
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
9 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (48.51%) CI/CD
2 109 (46.38%) Mentoring
3 100 (42.55%) DevOps
4 99 (42.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 87 (37.02%) Roadmaps
6 63 (26.81%) Agile
7 59 (25.11%) Cybersecurity
8 56 (23.83%) Identity Access Management
9 53 (22.55%) Programme Delivery
10 52 (22.13%) Regulatory Compliance
11 47 (20.00%) Containerisation
12 46 (19.57%) Observability
13 41 (17.45%) Platform Engineering
14 37 (15.74%) Cloud Security
14 37 (15.74%) High Availability
15 32 (13.62%) AI
15 32 (13.62%) Performance Optimisation
15 32 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
16 28 (11.91%) Infrastructure Automation
16 28 (11.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 145 (61.70%) Python
2 124 (52.77%) PowerShell
3 64 (27.23%) SQL
4 52 (22.13%) T-SQL
5 44 (18.72%) Java
6 41 (17.45%) Go
7 29 (12.34%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.26%) Bicep
9 9 (3.83%) Scala
10 8 (3.40%) C++
11 7 (2.98%) C#
11 7 (2.98%) PHP
12 5 (2.13%) Perl
12 5 (2.13%) PL/SQL
12 5 (2.13%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.70%) C
14 3 (1.28%) Groovy
14 3 (1.28%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.28%) Ruby
14 3 (1.28%) Rust
Qualifications
1 29 (12.34%) Degree
2 27 (11.49%) Security Cleared
3 26 (11.06%) AWS Certification
4 24 (10.21%) SC Cleared
5 11 (4.68%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.98%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.70%) CREST Certified
7 4 (1.70%) OSCP
8 3 (1.28%) CCSAM
8 3 (1.28%) GPEN
8 3 (1.28%) GXPN
8 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.28%) OSCE
9 2 (0.85%) CISM
9 2 (0.85%) CISSP
9 2 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.85%) Linux+ Certification
9 2 (0.85%) LPIC
10 1 (0.43%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (23.83%) NIST
2 53 (22.55%) NCSC
3 30 (12.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (5.53%) Data Quality
5 9 (3.83%) QA
6 7 (2.98%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.28%) SLA
8 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.43%) GDPR
9 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 77 (32.77%) Docker
2 72 (30.64%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.55%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.13%) KVM
6 2 (0.85%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 88 (37.45%) Terraform
2 77 (32.77%) Kubernetes
3 49 (20.85%) Prometheus
4 41 (17.45%) Ansible
5 34 (14.47%) Grafana
6 31 (13.19%) Argo
7 22 (9.36%) Kustomize
8 12 (5.11%) Proxmox
9 10 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (2.13%) Istio
11 4 (1.70%) Graylog
11 4 (1.70%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.28%) HP Fortify
12 3 (1.28%) Kibana
12 3 (1.28%) logstash
12 3 (1.28%) Puppet
13 2 (0.85%) CASB
13 2 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.85%) Nagios
Vendors
1 37 (15.74%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.79%) Google
3 16 (6.81%) VMware
4 13 (5.53%) Red Hat
5 9 (3.83%) Databricks
5 9 (3.83%) Palantir
6 8 (3.40%) CyberArk
6 8 (3.40%) Oracle
7 7 (2.98%) Cisco
8 6 (2.55%) Splunk
9 5 (2.13%) Veeam
10 3 (1.28%) Dell
10 3 (1.28%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.85%) Apple
11 2 (0.85%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.85%) BT
11 2 (0.85%) Commvault
11 2 (0.85%) LogicMonitor
12 1 (0.43%) Mirantis
12 1 (0.43%) Okta