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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 208 124
Rank change year-on-year +15 -84 +28
Permanent jobs citing Bash 189 299 563
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.24% 1.52% 2.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.51% 3.62% 5.73%
Number of salaries quoted 137 196 454
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,500 £46,188 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £97,000 £93,778 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £69,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year +0.72% +0.08% -0.79%

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 4,195 8,266 9,828
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.46% 42.05% 46.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,240 5,315 8,327
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,427 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +2.36%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £100,000
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 29 November 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 10 (5.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (5.29%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.06%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.06%) nginx
3 2 (1.06%) SAS
4 1 (0.53%) Apache
4 1 (0.53%) CMS
4 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.06%) Weka
2 1 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.53%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.53%) Autodesk Inventor
2 1 (0.53%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.53%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 101 (53.44%) Azure
2 84 (44.44%) AWS
3 47 (24.87%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (21.69%) GitHub
5 39 (20.63%) GitHub Actions
6 32 (16.93%) AWS CloudFormation
7 29 (15.34%) Entra ID
8 26 (13.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 26 (13.76%) Azure Monitor
9 23 (12.17%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (10.58%) GCP
11 18 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (9.52%) Azure AKS
12 15 (7.94%) Serverless
13 12 (6.35%) SaaS
14 10 (5.29%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (5.29%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (4.76%) Datadog
15 9 (4.76%) IaaS
16 8 (4.23%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.52%) Firewall
2 11 (5.82%) Network Security
3 10 (5.29%) VPN
4 9 (4.76%) Broadband
4 9 (4.76%) DNS
5 8 (4.23%) TCP/IP
5 8 (4.23%) WAN
6 5 (2.65%) InfiniBand
6 5 (2.65%) LAN
6 5 (2.65%) SAN
6 5 (2.65%) VLAN
7 4 (2.12%) BGP
7 4 (2.12%) DHCP
7 4 (2.12%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (2.12%) OSPF
8 3 (1.59%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.06%) IGMP
9 2 (1.06%) MPLS
9 2 (1.06%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.29%) NoSQL
2 5 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.59%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.59%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.59%) MySQL
4 2 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.06%) InfluxDB
4 2 (1.06%) Pentaho
4 2 (1.06%) Power BI
4 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.53%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.53%) Kdb+
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (21.16%) Jenkins
2 22 (11.64%) GitLab
3 14 (7.41%) Git
4 5 (2.65%) JIRA
5 4 (2.12%) Burp Suite
5 4 (2.12%) Metasploit
5 4 (2.12%) Robot Framework
5 4 (2.12%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.59%) Balsamiq
6 3 (1.59%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.59%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.06%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.06%) JMeter
7 2 (1.06%) Maven
7 2 (1.06%) MLflow
7 2 (1.06%) TestRail
8 1 (0.53%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.53%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.53%) Vite
General
1 57 (30.16%) Social Skills
2 50 (26.46%) Finance
3 12 (6.35%) Telecoms
4 9 (4.76%) Banking
4 9 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.70%) Games
6 7 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.65%) Retail
8 4 (2.12%) Back Office
8 4 (2.12%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.59%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.59%) Military
10 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.06%) Electronics
10 2 (1.06%) Marketing
11 1 (0.53%) Billing
11 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 40 (21.16%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (20.63%) Senior
3 30 (15.87%) Platform Engineer
4 22 (11.64%) Linux Engineer
5 20 (10.58%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (7.94%) Automation Engineer
6 15 (7.94%) Azure Engineer
7 14 (7.41%) Lead
8 11 (5.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 11 (5.82%) Senior DevOps
8 11 (5.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.76%) Security Engineer
9 9 (4.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 9 (4.76%) Support Engineer
10 8 (4.23%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (4.23%) Developer
10 8 (4.23%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 8 (4.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 7 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (3.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (5.29%) REST
3 8 (4.23%) GraphQL
3 8 (4.23%) SOAP
4 7 (3.70%) .NET
4 7 (3.70%) ARM Templates
4 7 (3.70%) LDAP
5 6 (3.17%) OAuth
5 6 (3.17%) OpenID
5 6 (3.17%) SAML
6 5 (2.65%) YAML
7 4 (2.12%) AWS CDK
7 4 (2.12%) AWS SAM
7 4 (2.12%) Jinja
7 4 (2.12%) Kafka
8 2 (1.06%) Google JAX
8 2 (1.06%) Hugging Face
8 2 (1.06%) JAX
8 2 (1.06%) PyTorch
8 2 (1.06%) React
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.58%) Product Ownership
2 16 (8.47%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.82%) Security Posture
4 8 (4.23%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (3.70%) Cyberattack
6 6 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.17%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.12%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.12%) Blog
7 4 (2.12%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.59%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.06%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.53%) Video on Demand
10 1 (0.53%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 93 (49.21%) Linux
2 37 (19.58%) Windows
3 23 (12.17%) Unix
4 9 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.23%) CentOS
6 7 (3.70%) Debian
6 7 (3.70%) Solaris
7 5 (2.65%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.59%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.59%) VMS
9 1 (0.53%) Check Point GAiA
9 1 (0.53%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (65.08%) DevOps
2 102 (53.97%) CI/CD
3 89 (47.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (28.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 48 (25.40%) Agile
6 45 (23.81%) Containerisation
7 41 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (17.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 34 (17.99%) Mentoring
9 33 (17.46%) Incident Response
10 30 (15.87%) ITIL
11 29 (15.34%) Cloud Security
12 27 (14.29%) AI
12 27 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
13 26 (13.76%) Roadmaps
14 24 (12.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 23 (12.17%) Analytics
15 23 (12.17%) Information Security
15 23 (12.17%) Machine Learning
15 23 (12.17%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 151 (79.89%) Python
2 111 (58.73%) PowerShell
3 23 (12.17%) Bicep
4 19 (10.05%) SQL
5 17 (8.99%) Go
6 15 (7.94%) Perl
7 8 (4.23%) Java
7 8 (4.23%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.23%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.17%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.65%) C++
9 5 (2.65%) Korn
10 4 (2.12%) C
10 4 (2.12%) C#
10 4 (2.12%) Fortran
11 3 (1.59%) VBScript
12 2 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.53%) Groovy
13 1 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (17.46%) Security Cleared
2 24 (12.70%) AWS Certification
3 22 (11.64%) Degree
4 18 (9.52%) SC Cleared
5 15 (7.94%) Azure Certification
6 10 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (5.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (4.76%) DV Cleared
8 8 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (3.17%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.65%) CCNP
10 5 (2.65%) RHCE
11 4 (2.12%) CISSP
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%) CITP
12 3 (1.59%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.05%) GDPR
2 12 (6.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 10 (5.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (5.29%) NIST
4 7 (3.70%) NCSC
5 6 (3.17%) QA
6 5 (2.65%) GRC
6 5 (2.65%) SLA
6 5 (2.65%) SOC 2
7 4 (2.12%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.06%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 53 (28.04%) Docker
2 17 (8.99%) Active Directory
3 12 (6.35%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (5.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.12%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.12%) Lustre
6 3 (1.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (1.06%) Ceph
7 2 (1.06%) GPFS
7 2 (1.06%) NFS
8 1 (0.53%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.53%) Postfix
8 1 (0.53%) vCloud
8 1 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.53%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 98 (51.85%) Terraform
2 67 (35.45%) Kubernetes
3 65 (34.39%) Ansible
4 30 (15.87%) Grafana
5 16 (8.47%) Prometheus
6 11 (5.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (5.82%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (2.12%) Cilium
7 4 (2.12%) Nmap
8 3 (1.59%) Argo
9 2 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.06%) Kubeflow
9 2 (1.06%) logstash
9 2 (1.06%) Puppet
10 1 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.53%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.53%) Icinga
10 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.53%) QRadar
10 1 (0.53%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 35 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 25 (13.23%) Red Hat
3 12 (6.35%) VMware
4 9 (4.76%) Splunk
5 8 (4.23%) Oracle
6 6 (3.17%) Cisco
6 6 (3.17%) Fortinet
7 5 (2.65%) NetApp
8 4 (2.12%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (2.12%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.59%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.59%) Juniper
9 3 (1.59%) Rapid7
9 3 (1.59%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.06%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.06%) Google
10 2 (1.06%) Informatica
10 2 (1.06%) SAP
10 2 (1.06%) Talend
10 2 (1.06%) Veeam