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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 212 126
Rank change year-on-year +12 -86 +28
Permanent jobs citing Bash 187 298 559
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.23% 1.50% 2.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.43% 3.57% 5.68%
Number of salaries quoted 136 196 450
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,875 £46,188 £57,165
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% -
75th Percentile £84,063 £82,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £102,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -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 4,218 8,339 9,848
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.66% 41.96% 46.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,277 5,356 8,324
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +3.17%
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 26 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 (5.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (5.35%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.07%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.07%) nginx
2 2 (1.07%) SAS
3 1 (0.53%) CMS
3 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.07%) 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
1 100 (53.48%) Azure
2 84 (44.92%) AWS
3 46 (24.60%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (21.39%) GitHub
5 38 (20.32%) GitHub Actions
6 33 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 29 (15.51%) Entra ID
8 26 (13.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 26 (13.90%) Azure Monitor
9 23 (12.30%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (10.70%) GCP
11 18 (9.63%) Amazon EKS
12 17 (9.09%) Azure AKS
13 16 (8.56%) Serverless
14 12 (6.42%) SaaS
15 11 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (5.35%) Amazon ECS
17 9 (4.81%) Datadog
17 9 (4.81%) IaaS
18 8 (4.28%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.16%) Firewall
2 11 (5.88%) Network Security
2 11 (5.88%) VPN
3 10 (5.35%) DNS
4 9 (4.81%) Broadband
5 8 (4.28%) TCP/IP
5 8 (4.28%) WAN
6 5 (2.67%) InfiniBand
6 5 (2.67%) LAN
6 5 (2.67%) SAN
6 5 (2.67%) VLAN
7 4 (2.14%) BGP
7 4 (2.14%) DHCP
7 4 (2.14%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (2.14%) OSPF
8 3 (1.60%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.07%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (1.07%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (1.07%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.35%) NoSQL
2 6 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.60%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.60%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.60%) MySQL
4 2 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.07%) InfluxDB
4 2 (1.07%) Pentaho
4 2 (1.07%) Power BI
4 2 (1.07%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.53%) KDB
5 1 (0.53%) Kdb+
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 40 (21.39%) Jenkins
2 22 (11.76%) GitLab
3 13 (6.95%) Git
4 5 (2.67%) JIRA
5 4 (2.14%) Burp Suite
5 4 (2.14%) Metasploit
5 4 (2.14%) Robot Framework
5 4 (2.14%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.60%) Balsamiq
6 3 (1.60%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.60%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.07%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.07%) JMeter
7 2 (1.07%) Maven
7 2 (1.07%) MLflow
7 2 (1.07%) TestRail
8 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.53%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.53%) MSBuild
General
1 58 (31.02%) Social Skills
2 49 (26.20%) Finance
3 12 (6.42%) Telecoms
4 9 (4.81%) Banking
4 9 (4.81%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.74%) Games
5 7 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (2.67%) Retail
7 4 (2.14%) Back Office
7 4 (2.14%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.60%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.60%) Military
9 2 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.07%) Electronics
9 2 (1.07%) Marketing
10 1 (0.53%) Billing
10 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 40 (21.39%) Senior
2 39 (20.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (16.58%) Platform Engineer
4 22 (11.76%) Linux Engineer
5 20 (10.70%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (8.02%) Automation Engineer
7 14 (7.49%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (6.95%) Lead
9 11 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
9 11 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 10 (5.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 9 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (4.81%) Security Engineer
11 9 (4.81%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 9 (4.81%) Support Engineer
12 8 (4.28%) Developer
12 8 (4.28%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 8 (4.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 7 (3.74%) AWS DevOps
13 7 (3.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.63%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (5.35%) REST
3 8 (4.28%) GraphQL
3 8 (4.28%) SOAP
4 7 (3.74%) .NET
4 7 (3.74%) ARM Templates
4 7 (3.74%) LDAP
5 6 (3.21%) OAuth
5 6 (3.21%) OpenID
5 6 (3.21%) SAML
6 5 (2.67%) YAML
7 4 (2.14%) AWS CDK
7 4 (2.14%) AWS SAM
7 4 (2.14%) Jinja
8 3 (1.60%) Kafka
9 2 (1.07%) Node.js
9 2 (1.07%) PyTorch
9 2 (1.07%) React
9 2 (1.07%) scikit-learn
9 2 (1.07%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.70%) Product Ownership
2 16 (8.56%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.88%) Security Posture
4 8 (4.28%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (3.74%) Cyberattack
6 6 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.21%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.14%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.14%) Blog
7 4 (2.14%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.60%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.07%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.53%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.53%) Video on Demand
10 1 (0.53%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 91 (48.66%) Linux
2 37 (19.79%) Windows
3 23 (12.30%) Unix
4 9 (4.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.28%) CentOS
6 7 (3.74%) Debian
6 7 (3.74%) Solaris
7 5 (2.67%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.60%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.60%) 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
1 121 (64.71%) DevOps
2 99 (52.94%) CI/CD
3 89 (47.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 52 (27.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 46 (24.60%) Agile
6 45 (24.06%) Containerisation
7 40 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (18.72%) Mentoring
9 34 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 32 (17.11%) Incident Response
11 30 (16.04%) ITIL
12 28 (14.97%) Cloud Security
12 28 (14.97%) Platform Engineering
13 27 (14.44%) AI
14 26 (13.90%) Roadmaps
15 24 (12.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 23 (12.30%) Information Security
16 23 (12.30%) Machine Learning
16 23 (12.30%) RBAC
17 22 (11.76%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 149 (79.68%) Python
2 111 (59.36%) PowerShell
3 22 (11.76%) Bicep
4 18 (9.63%) SQL
5 17 (9.09%) Go
6 15 (8.02%) Perl
7 8 (4.28%) Java
7 8 (4.28%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.28%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.21%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.67%) Korn
10 4 (2.14%) C
10 4 (2.14%) C#
10 4 (2.14%) C++
10 4 (2.14%) Fortran
11 3 (1.60%) VBScript
12 2 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.53%) Groovy
13 1 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 34 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 24 (12.83%) AWS Certification
3 22 (11.76%) Degree
4 19 (10.16%) SC Cleared
5 14 (7.49%) Azure Certification
6 10 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (5.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (4.81%) DV Cleared
8 8 (4.28%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (3.21%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.67%) CCNP
10 5 (2.67%) RHCE
11 4 (2.14%) CISSP
11 4 (2.14%) GCIH
11 4 (2.14%) PhD
12 3 (1.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.60%) CCNA
12 3 (1.60%) CCSP
12 3 (1.60%) CITP
12 3 (1.60%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.16%) GDPR
2 12 (6.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 10 (5.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (5.35%) NIST
4 7 (3.74%) NCSC
5 6 (3.21%) QA
6 5 (2.67%) GRC
6 5 (2.67%) SLA
6 5 (2.67%) SOC 2
7 4 (2.14%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.07%) HIPAA
System Software
1 53 (28.34%) Docker
2 17 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 12 (6.42%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (6.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (5.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.14%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.14%) Lustre
6 3 (1.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (1.07%) Ceph
7 2 (1.07%) GPFS
7 2 (1.07%) 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 (52.41%) Terraform
2 66 (35.29%) Ansible
2 66 (35.29%) Kubernetes
3 30 (16.04%) Grafana
4 16 (8.56%) Prometheus
5 11 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (5.88%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (2.14%) Cilium
6 4 (2.14%) Nmap
7 3 (1.60%) Argo
8 2 (1.07%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.07%) Kubeflow
8 2 (1.07%) Puppet
9 1 (0.53%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.53%) Icinga
9 1 (0.53%) logstash
9 1 (0.53%) Nagios
9 1 (0.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.53%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 35 (18.72%) Microsoft
2 25 (13.37%) Red Hat
3 12 (6.42%) VMware
4 9 (4.81%) Splunk
5 8 (4.28%) Oracle
6 6 (3.21%) Cisco
6 6 (3.21%) Fortinet
7 5 (2.67%) NetApp
8 4 (2.14%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (2.14%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.60%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.60%) Juniper
9 3 (1.60%) Rapid7
9 3 (1.60%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.07%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.07%) Google
10 2 (1.07%) Informatica
10 2 (1.07%) SAP
10 2 (1.07%) Talend
10 2 (1.07%) Veeam