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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
24 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 206 129
Rank change year-on-year +19 -77 +18
Permanent jobs citing Bash 189 284 512
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.24% 1.64% 2.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.55% 3.85% 5.59%
Number of salaries quoted 130 196 409
10th Percentile £42,600 £37,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,313 £44,738 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% +0.80%
75th Percentile £82,188 £82,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,500 £93,778 £102,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% -3.57%

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 4,155 7,375 9,160
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.16% 42.62% 46.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,173 4,740 7,737
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £84,964 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 24 December 2025.

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 9 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.12%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.59%) Apache
5 2 (1.06%) nginx
5 2 (1.06%) SAS
6 1 (0.53%) CMS
6 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Weka
2 1 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 101 (53.44%) Azure
2 94 (49.74%) AWS
3 42 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (21.16%) GitHub
5 38 (20.11%) GitHub Actions
6 35 (18.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 34 (17.99%) Entra ID
8 26 (13.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 23 (12.17%) GCP
10 22 (11.64%) Amazon EKS
11 21 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
11 21 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (10.58%) Azure AKS
13 14 (7.41%) Serverless
14 12 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (6.35%) SaaS
15 11 (5.82%) Amazon ECS
15 11 (5.82%) Amazon S3
16 10 (5.29%) Datadog
16 10 (5.29%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 20 (10.58%) Broadband
2 17 (8.99%) Firewall
3 11 (5.82%) Network Security
3 11 (5.82%) VPN
4 8 (4.23%) DNS
4 8 (4.23%) TCP/IP
4 8 (4.23%) WAN
5 5 (2.65%) LAN
5 5 (2.65%) SAN
5 5 (2.65%) VLAN
6 4 (2.12%) BGP
6 4 (2.12%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (2.12%) OSPF
7 3 (1.59%) InfiniBand
7 3 (1.59%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.06%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (1.06%) MPLS
8 2 (1.06%) Multicast
8 2 (1.06%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.47%) NoSQL
2 8 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (4.23%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.70%) RDBMS
4 5 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (2.65%) Apache Iceberg
4 5 (2.65%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.65%) Tableau
5 3 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (1.59%) Amazon QuickSight
5 3 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.59%) Metadata
5 3 (1.59%) MySQL
6 2 (1.06%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.06%) InfluxDB
6 2 (1.06%) Looker
6 2 (1.06%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.06%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 38 (20.11%) Jenkins
2 19 (10.05%) GitLab
3 11 (5.82%) Git
4 7 (3.70%) Jaeger
5 5 (2.65%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.12%) Burp Suite
6 4 (2.12%) Metasploit
6 4 (2.12%) MLflow
6 4 (2.12%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.12%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.59%) Balsamiq
7 3 (1.59%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.59%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.59%) Maven
8 2 (1.06%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.06%) JIRA
8 2 (1.06%) JMeter
8 2 (1.06%) TestRail
9 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.53%) git-flow
General
1 54 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 45 (23.81%) Finance
3 12 (6.35%) Organisational Skills
3 12 (6.35%) Telecoms
4 11 (5.82%) Games
5 10 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.23%) Banking
6 8 (4.23%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.65%) Retail
9 4 (2.12%) Back Office
9 4 (2.12%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.59%) Military
11 2 (1.06%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.06%) Electronics
11 2 (1.06%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.06%) Marketing
12 1 (0.53%) Billing
12 1 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 39 (20.63%) Senior
2 33 (17.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
4 26 (13.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 24 (12.70%) Linux Engineer
6 21 (11.11%) Lead
7 15 (7.94%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (7.41%) Automation Engineer
9 10 (5.29%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (5.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.76%) Developer
10 9 (4.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 9 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
10 9 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.76%) Support Engineer
11 8 (4.23%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 8 (4.23%) Security Engineer
12 7 (3.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 7 (3.70%) IAM Developer
12 7 (3.70%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.17%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (7.94%) REST
3 13 (6.88%) GraphQL
3 13 (6.88%) SOAP
4 10 (5.29%) LDAP
4 10 (5.29%) OAuth
4 10 (5.29%) OpenID
4 10 (5.29%) SAML
5 7 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (3.17%) ARM Templates
6 6 (3.17%) Kafka
7 4 (2.12%) .NET
7 4 (2.12%) AWS CDK
7 4 (2.12%) AWS SAM
7 4 (2.12%) PyTorch
7 4 (2.12%) TensorFlow
8 3 (1.59%) Loki
8 3 (1.59%) Middleware
8 3 (1.59%) Spring
8 3 (1.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.88%) Cyber Threat
3 12 (6.35%) Cyberattack
4 11 (5.82%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.76%) Security Posture
6 6 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.12%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.12%) Blog
7 4 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.59%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.59%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.59%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.06%) e-Learning
9 2 (1.06%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.53%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.53%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 98 (51.85%) Linux
2 37 (19.58%) Windows
3 26 (13.76%) Unix
4 9 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.70%) CentOS
5 7 (3.70%) Debian
5 7 (3.70%) Solaris
6 5 (2.65%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.59%) VMS
8 2 (1.06%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.53%) Check Point GAiA
9 1 (0.53%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (62.96%) DevOps
2 95 (50.26%) CI/CD
3 89 (47.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (28.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 52 (27.51%) Agile
6 41 (21.69%) Containerisation
7 40 (21.16%) Mentoring
8 38 (20.11%) Roadmaps
9 35 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (17.99%) Cloud Security
11 32 (16.93%) Incident Response
11 32 (16.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 31 (16.40%) AI
12 31 (16.40%) ITIL
13 27 (14.29%) Machine Learning
14 26 (13.76%) Cybersecurity
15 25 (13.23%) Platform Engineering
16 24 (12.70%) Analytics
16 24 (12.70%) High Availability
17 23 (12.17%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 150 (79.37%) Python
2 102 (53.97%) PowerShell
3 23 (12.17%) Bicep
4 22 (11.64%) Go
5 21 (11.11%) SQL
6 17 (8.99%) Java
7 12 (6.35%) JavaScript
7 12 (6.35%) Perl
8 10 (5.29%) T-SQL
9 9 (4.76%) TypeScript
10 7 (3.70%) C++
11 5 (2.65%) C
11 5 (2.65%) Korn
12 4 (2.12%) Fortran
13 3 (1.59%) C#
13 3 (1.59%) Groovy
13 3 (1.59%) VBScript
14 2 (1.06%) Scala
15 1 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 34 (17.99%) Security Cleared
2 28 (14.81%) AWS Certification
3 24 (12.70%) Degree
4 19 (10.05%) SC Cleared
5 15 (7.94%) Azure Certification
6 10 (5.29%) DV Cleared
7 9 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.17%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.65%) CCNP
11 4 (2.12%) GCIH
11 4 (2.12%) PhD
12 3 (1.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.59%) CCNA
12 3 (1.59%) CCSP
12 3 (1.59%) CISSP
12 3 (1.59%) CITP
12 3 (1.59%) CREST Certified
13 2 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.94%) GDPR
1 15 (7.94%) NIST
2 12 (6.35%) NCSC
3 11 (5.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 9 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.65%) SLA
6 4 (2.12%) GRC
6 4 (2.12%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.12%) QA
6 4 (2.12%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.59%) Data Quality
System Software
1 51 (26.98%) Docker
2 20 (10.58%) Active Directory
3 13 (6.88%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (5.29%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (5.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.59%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (1.06%) Ceph
6 2 (1.06%) Lustre
7 1 (0.53%) vCloud
7 1 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.53%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 103 (54.50%) Terraform
2 65 (34.39%) Kubernetes
3 64 (33.86%) Ansible
4 29 (15.34%) Grafana
5 21 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 11 (5.82%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (5.29%) Red Hat Satellite
8 9 (4.76%) Argo
9 7 (3.70%) Kustomize
10 4 (2.12%) Cilium
10 4 (2.12%) logstash
10 4 (2.12%) Nmap
11 3 (1.59%) HP Fortify
12 2 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (1.06%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.53%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.53%) Icinga
13 1 (0.53%) Puppet
13 1 (0.53%) QRadar
13 1 (0.53%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 28 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.64%) Red Hat
3 10 (5.29%) VMware
4 9 (4.76%) Splunk
5 7 (3.70%) Google
5 7 (3.70%) Oracle
6 6 (3.17%) Cisco
6 6 (3.17%) Fortinet
7 5 (2.65%) LogicMonitor
7 5 (2.65%) NetApp
8 4 (2.12%) Palo Alto
8 4 (2.12%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.59%) Juniper
9 3 (1.59%) Rapid7
10 2 (1.06%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.06%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.06%) Databricks
10 2 (1.06%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.06%) Palantir
10 2 (1.06%) Talend
255 hybrid/remote Bash jobs