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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 125 180
Rank change year-on-year -77 +55 -59
Permanent jobs citing Bash 242 443 597
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.26% 2.98% 1.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.73% 7.60% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 131 148 328
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,786 £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 £76,625 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,075 £100,880
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +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 5,116 5,829 13,641
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.58% 39.26% 40.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,758 4,029 11,465
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,525
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -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 4 June 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 22 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.79%) Apache
3 13 (5.37%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.07%) Jupyter
6 4 (1.65%) nginx
7 3 (1.24%) CMS
7 3 (1.24%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.83%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.41%) Confluence
9 1 (0.41%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.24%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (1.24%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 141 (58.26%) Azure
2 120 (49.59%) AWS
3 65 (26.86%) Entra ID
4 52 (21.49%) Google Workspace
5 36 (14.88%) GitHub
6 28 (11.57%) Amazon S3
7 27 (11.16%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (11.16%) GitHub Actions
8 25 (10.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 24 (9.92%) Pulumi
10 20 (8.26%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (8.26%) GCP
11 17 (7.02%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (6.61%) Azure AKS
12 16 (6.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 15 (6.20%) Serverless
14 14 (5.79%) SaaS
15 13 (5.37%) IaaS
15 13 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 71 (29.34%) Broadband
2 29 (11.98%) Firewall
3 28 (11.57%) VPN
4 13 (5.37%) DNS
5 7 (2.89%) Network Security
6 6 (2.48%) VLAN
6 6 (2.48%) VoIP
7 5 (2.07%) DMZ
7 5 (2.07%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (2.07%) STUN
8 3 (1.24%) DHCP
8 3 (1.24%) SSL
9 2 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.83%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.83%) LAN
9 2 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.83%) SAN
9 2 (0.83%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.83%) WAN
9 2 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.85%) NoSQL
1 19 (7.85%) Relational Database
2 18 (7.44%) RDBMS
3 17 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (6.61%) Amazon Redshift
4 16 (6.61%) Apache Iceberg
4 16 (6.61%) Tableau
5 13 (5.37%) SQL Server
6 12 (4.96%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (4.13%) BigQuery
7 10 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (3.72%) Delta Lake
8 9 (3.72%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (3.72%) Looker
8 9 (3.72%) Pinecone
8 9 (3.72%) Weaviate
9 8 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (3.31%) DynamoDB
9 8 (3.31%) MySQL
10 7 (2.89%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 22 (9.09%) Git
1 22 (9.09%) GitLab
2 21 (8.68%) Jenkins
3 18 (7.44%) Jaeger
4 9 (3.72%) MLflow
5 8 (3.31%) Maven
6 6 (2.48%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.48%) JIRA
7 5 (2.07%) JUnit
7 5 (2.07%) Mockito
7 5 (2.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (1.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.65%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.24%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.24%) Vite
10 2 (0.83%) MSI
10 2 (0.83%) Postman
10 2 (0.83%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 63 (26.03%) Social Skills
2 57 (23.55%) Organisational Skills
3 28 (11.57%) Games
4 24 (9.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (7.02%) Finance
5 17 (7.02%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.55%) Retail
7 10 (4.13%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.07%) Banking
10 4 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.24%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.24%) Aviation
11 3 (1.24%) Legal
11 3 (1.24%) Marketing
12 2 (0.83%) Billing
12 2 (0.83%) Law
13 1 (0.41%) French Language
13 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (28.10%) Senior
2 43 (17.77%) Lead
3 30 (12.40%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (11.16%) Cloud Engineer
4 27 (11.16%) Developer
4 27 (11.16%) Platform Engineer
5 21 (8.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 20 (8.26%) Systems Engineer
7 18 (7.44%) IAM Developer
8 17 (7.02%) AWS Engineer
8 17 (7.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 15 (6.20%) Senior DevOps
10 13 (5.37%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (5.37%) Consultant
11 12 (4.96%) Data Engineer
11 12 (4.96%) Senior Developer
12 10 (4.13%) Support Engineer
13 9 (3.72%) Data Consultant
13 9 (3.72%) Senior Consultant
13 9 (3.72%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (22.31%) REST
1 54 (22.31%) SAML
2 53 (21.90%) LDAP
2 53 (21.90%) OpenID
3 52 (21.49%) GraphQL
3 52 (21.49%) OAuth
3 52 (21.49%) SOAP
4 23 (9.50%) Elastic Stack
5 18 (7.44%) OpenTelemetry
6 11 (4.55%) YAML
7 10 (4.13%) Loki
8 9 (3.72%) Faiss
8 9 (3.72%) Kafka
8 9 (3.72%) PyTorch
8 9 (3.72%) TensorFlow
8 9 (3.72%) vLLM
9 7 (2.89%) React
9 7 (2.89%) Spring
10 6 (2.48%) RESTful
11 5 (2.07%) FreeSWITCH
Miscellaneous
1 56 (23.14%) Cyber Threat
2 52 (21.49%) Cyberattack
3 26 (10.74%) Cloud Native
4 14 (5.79%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.96%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (3.72%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.31%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (3.31%) Management Information System
8 8 (3.31%) Security Posture
9 7 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.89%) Private Cloud
10 6 (2.48%) Public Cloud
11 5 (2.07%) Data Centre
11 5 (2.07%) PKI
12 4 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
13 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.83%) Clustering
13 2 (0.83%) Hackathon
13 2 (0.83%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 89 (36.78%) Linux
2 28 (11.57%) Windows
3 19 (7.85%) Unix
4 8 (3.31%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.07%) Debian
6 4 (1.65%) CentOS
6 4 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.24%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.24%) VMS
7 3 (1.24%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.83%) Solaris
9 1 (0.41%) AIX
9 1 (0.41%) Android
9 1 (0.41%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.41%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (47.93%) CI/CD
2 112 (46.28%) Mentoring
3 105 (43.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 104 (42.98%) DevOps
5 88 (36.36%) Roadmaps
6 67 (27.69%) Agile
7 60 (24.79%) Cybersecurity
8 58 (23.97%) Identity Access Management
9 52 (21.49%) Programme Delivery
9 52 (21.49%) Regulatory Compliance
10 50 (20.66%) Containerisation
10 50 (20.66%) Observability
11 45 (18.60%) Platform Engineering
12 39 (16.12%) Cloud Security
13 37 (15.29%) AI
14 35 (14.46%) High Availability
15 34 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
16 32 (13.22%) GitOps
17 30 (12.40%) Continuous Improvement
18 29 (11.98%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 150 (61.98%) Python
2 133 (54.96%) PowerShell
3 68 (28.10%) SQL
4 52 (21.49%) T-SQL
5 46 (19.01%) Java
6 41 (16.94%) Go
7 29 (11.98%) JavaScript
8 13 (5.37%) Bicep
9 9 (3.72%) Scala
10 8 (3.31%) C#
11 7 (2.89%) C++
11 7 (2.89%) PHP
12 5 (2.07%) Perl
12 5 (2.07%) PL/SQL
12 5 (2.07%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.65%) C
13 4 (1.65%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (1.24%) Groovy
14 3 (1.24%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (12.81%) Security Cleared
2 28 (11.57%) Degree
2 28 (11.57%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.74%) AWS Certification
4 14 (5.79%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.89%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.65%) CISSP
7 4 (1.65%) CREST Certified
7 4 (1.65%) OSCP
8 3 (1.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.24%) CCSAM
8 3 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.24%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (1.24%) GPEN
8 3 (1.24%) GXPN
8 3 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.24%) OSCE
9 2 (0.83%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (22.73%) NIST
2 52 (21.49%) NCSC
3 30 (12.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.55%) Data Quality
5 10 (4.13%) QA
6 7 (2.89%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.24%) SLA
8 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.41%) GDPR
9 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 77 (31.82%) Docker
2 75 (30.99%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.48%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.07%) KVM
6 2 (0.83%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.83%) vSphere
7 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 91 (37.60%) Terraform
2 81 (33.47%) Kubernetes
3 50 (20.66%) Prometheus
4 43 (17.77%) Ansible
5 35 (14.46%) Grafana
6 34 (14.05%) Argo
7 24 (9.92%) Kustomize
8 12 (4.96%) Proxmox
9 10 (4.13%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (2.48%) Istio
11 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.65%) Graylog
12 4 (1.65%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.24%) HP Fortify
13 3 (1.24%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (1.24%) Kibana
13 3 (1.24%) Puppet
14 2 (0.83%) CASB
14 2 (0.83%) logstash
14 2 (0.83%) Nagios
Vendors
1 45 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.50%) Google
3 18 (7.44%) VMware
4 15 (6.20%) Red Hat
5 9 (3.72%) Databricks
5 9 (3.72%) Palantir
5 9 (3.72%) Splunk
6 8 (3.31%) Cisco
6 8 (3.31%) Oracle
7 7 (2.89%) CyberArk
8 5 (2.07%) Veeam
9 4 (1.65%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.24%) Apple
10 3 (1.24%) Dell
11 2 (0.83%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.83%) BT
11 2 (0.83%) Commvault
11 2 (0.83%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.83%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (0.83%) Palo Alto