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 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 207 164
Rank change year-on-year +43 -43 -26
Permanent jobs citing Bash 256 244 544
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.59% 1.55% 1.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.86% 3.50% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 129 175 441
10th Percentile £42,750 £37,500 £42,874
25th Percentile £52,145 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £81,250 £84,375 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,250 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.79% +7.69% -6.40%

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 4,366 6,978 12,558
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.16% 44.36% 45.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,229 4,418 10,919
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £79,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 10 February 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 19 (7.42%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.91%) Apache
2 10 (3.91%) Apache Spark
3 9 (3.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (3.52%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.95%) nginx
5 4 (1.56%) CMS
6 3 (1.17%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.78%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.56%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.78%) Weka
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 151 (58.98%) Azure
2 128 (50.00%) AWS
3 87 (33.98%) Entra ID
4 56 (21.88%) Google Workspace
5 44 (17.19%) GitHub
6 40 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (15.23%) GitHub Actions
8 34 (13.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 34 (13.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (10.16%) GCP
10 25 (9.77%) Amazon EKS
11 22 (8.59%) Microsoft 365
12 19 (7.42%) Pulumi
13 18 (7.03%) Amazon S3
13 18 (7.03%) Azure AKS
13 18 (7.03%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (5.47%) SaaS
14 14 (5.47%) Serverless
15 13 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (5.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 79 (30.86%) Broadband
2 21 (8.20%) Firewall
3 13 (5.08%) VPN
4 12 (4.69%) Network Security
5 8 (3.13%) VLAN
6 5 (1.95%) DNS
7 4 (1.56%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (1.56%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.56%) WAN
8 3 (1.17%) DMZ
8 3 (1.17%) InfiniBand
8 3 (1.17%) LAN
8 3 (1.17%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.17%) SAN
8 3 (1.17%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.17%) STUN
8 3 (1.17%) VoIP
9 2 (0.78%) DHCP
9 2 (0.78%) MPLS
9 2 (0.78%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.55%) NoSQL
2 19 (7.42%) RDBMS
2 19 (7.42%) Relational Database
3 18 (7.03%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (7.03%) Apache Iceberg
3 18 (7.03%) Tableau
4 11 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (3.91%) BigQuery
5 10 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (3.52%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (3.52%) Amazon QuickSight
6 9 (3.52%) Delta Lake
6 9 (3.52%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (3.52%) Looker
6 9 (3.52%) Metadata
6 9 (3.52%) Pinecone
6 9 (3.52%) Weaviate
7 7 (2.73%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (2.73%) MySQL
8 4 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 35 (13.67%) Jenkins
2 19 (7.42%) Jaeger
3 18 (7.03%) GitLab
4 16 (6.25%) Git
5 9 (3.52%) MLflow
6 6 (2.34%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.95%) Robot Framework
8 4 (1.56%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.56%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.56%) Vite
9 3 (1.17%) Balsamiq
9 3 (1.17%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.17%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.17%) JMeter
9 3 (1.17%) Maven
9 3 (1.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.78%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.78%) JIRA
10 2 (0.78%) Metasploit
10 2 (0.78%) TestRail
General
1 69 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 58 (22.66%) Organisational Skills
3 37 (14.45%) Finance
4 34 (13.28%) Games
5 19 (7.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (5.47%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (4.30%) Telecoms
9 10 (3.91%) Retail
10 5 (1.95%) Banking
11 4 (1.56%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.56%) Back Office
11 4 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.56%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.17%) Billing
12 3 (1.17%) Military
12 3 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.39%) Local Government
13 1 (0.39%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 71 (27.73%) Senior
2 38 (14.84%) Cloud Engineer
2 38 (14.84%) Lead
3 25 (9.77%) Developer
3 25 (9.77%) Platform Engineer
4 23 (8.98%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (8.98%) IAM Developer
5 22 (8.59%) Systems Engineer
6 20 (7.81%) Linux Engineer
7 18 (7.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (6.64%) AWS Engineer
9 15 (5.86%) Senior Developer
10 13 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (5.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 13 (5.08%) Consultant
11 12 (4.69%) Data Engineer
11 12 (4.69%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 12 (4.69%) Senior Consultant
12 11 (4.30%) Senior DevOps
12 11 (4.30%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (23.05%) GraphQL
1 59 (23.05%) REST
1 59 (23.05%) SOAP
2 56 (21.88%) LDAP
2 56 (21.88%) OAuth
2 56 (21.88%) OpenID
2 56 (21.88%) SAML
3 33 (12.89%) Elastic Stack
4 19 (7.42%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (4.30%) Kafka
6 9 (3.52%) Faiss
6 9 (3.52%) PyTorch
6 9 (3.52%) TensorFlow
6 9 (3.52%) vLLM
7 7 (2.73%) Loki
8 5 (1.95%) Middleware
9 4 (1.56%) CSS
9 4 (1.56%) HTML
9 4 (1.56%) Vue
9 4 (1.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (22.66%) Cyber Threat
1 58 (22.66%) Cyberattack
2 33 (12.89%) Product Ownership
3 13 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.30%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.52%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.52%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.52%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.73%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (2.34%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.56%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.56%) Blog
8 4 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.56%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.17%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.78%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.78%) Clustering
10 2 (0.78%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 109 (42.58%) Linux
2 35 (13.67%) Unix
2 35 (13.67%) Windows
3 8 (3.13%) Debian
3 8 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.34%) CentOS
5 4 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.17%) Solaris
6 3 (1.17%) VMS
6 3 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.78%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (49.22%) DevOps
2 109 (42.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 107 (41.80%) Roadmaps
4 104 (40.63%) CI/CD
5 99 (38.67%) Mentoring
6 69 (26.95%) Cybersecurity
7 64 (25.00%) Agile
8 62 (24.22%) Identity Access Management
9 58 (22.66%) Programme Delivery
10 56 (21.88%) Regulatory Compliance
11 52 (20.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 41 (16.02%) Containerisation
13 40 (15.63%) AI
13 40 (15.63%) Cloud Security
13 40 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 38 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
15 36 (14.06%) High Availability
16 35 (13.67%) Coaching
17 34 (13.28%) Performance Optimisation
18 32 (12.50%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 163 (63.67%) Python
2 144 (56.25%) PowerShell
3 56 (21.88%) SQL
3 56 (21.88%) T-SQL
4 45 (17.58%) Go
5 34 (13.28%) Java
6 27 (10.55%) JavaScript
7 19 (7.42%) Bicep
8 9 (3.52%) C++
8 9 (3.52%) Scala
9 8 (3.13%) Perl
10 6 (2.34%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.95%) C
12 4 (1.56%) C#
12 4 (1.56%) Fortran
12 4 (1.56%) PHP
13 3 (1.17%) Groovy
13 3 (1.17%) Korn
13 3 (1.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 38 (14.84%) AWS Certification
2 35 (13.67%) Degree
3 30 (11.72%) Security Cleared
4 17 (6.64%) SC Cleared
5 16 (6.25%) Azure Certification
6 10 (3.91%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (2.34%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.56%) PhD
12 3 (1.17%) CCNP
12 3 (1.17%) CITP
12 3 (1.17%) CREST Certified
12 3 (1.17%) GCIH
12 3 (1.17%) LPIC
13 2 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.78%) CCSP
13 2 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.78%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (23.44%) NIST
2 58 (22.66%) NCSC
3 31 (12.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.91%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.73%) GDPR
5 7 (2.73%) QA
6 5 (1.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.56%) GRC
7 4 (1.56%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.56%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.17%) SLA
9 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 74 (28.91%) Active Directory
2 65 (25.39%) Docker
3 13 (5.08%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (3.91%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.78%) Ceph
7 2 (0.78%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.78%) Lustre
8 1 (0.39%) vCloud
8 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 116 (45.31%) Terraform
2 76 (29.69%) Kubernetes
3 68 (26.56%) Ansible
4 39 (15.23%) Prometheus
5 33 (12.89%) Grafana
6 21 (8.20%) Argo
7 19 (7.42%) Kustomize
8 11 (4.30%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.95%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (1.56%) Cilium
11 4 (1.56%) logstash
11 4 (1.56%) Proxmox
12 3 (1.17%) HP Fortify
12 3 (1.17%) Puppet
13 2 (0.78%) Nagios
13 2 (0.78%) Nmap
14 1 (0.39%) Icinga
14 1 (0.39%) Kibana
14 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (11.33%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.42%) Google
3 12 (4.69%) Red Hat
3 12 (4.69%) VMware
4 11 (4.30%) Splunk
5 9 (3.52%) CyberArk
5 9 (3.52%) Databricks
5 9 (3.52%) Palantir
6 7 (2.73%) Cisco
7 6 (2.34%) Oracle
8 4 (1.56%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (1.17%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.17%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.17%) NetApp
9 3 (1.17%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.17%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.78%) Informatica
10 2 (0.78%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.78%) Rapid7
10 2 (0.78%) Talend