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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 123 158
Rank change year-on-year -159 +35 -32
Permanent jobs citing Bash 181 449 506
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.79% 2.71% 2.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.97% 8.33% 5.34%
Number of salaries quoted 127 157 220
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,984 £39,825
25th Percentile £49,375 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +16.00% -13.19%
75th Percentile £71,250 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £94,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -10.71%

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 6,090 5,389 9,483
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.67% 32.49% 38.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,570 3,713 7,344
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,229
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +2.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 16 August 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 17 (9.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.87%) Apache
2 7 (3.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.31%) Jupyter
4 4 (2.21%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.66%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.10%) nginx
7 1 (0.55%) Confluence
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.55%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.10%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 114 (62.98%) Azure
2 88 (48.62%) AWS
3 42 (23.20%) GitHub
4 39 (21.55%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (13.26%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (12.71%) Serverless
7 22 (12.15%) IaaS
7 22 (12.15%) PaaS
8 21 (11.60%) Azure Monitor
8 21 (11.60%) GCP
9 17 (9.39%) Amazon EC2
9 17 (9.39%) Amazon S3
9 17 (9.39%) Azure AKS
10 16 (8.84%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (8.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (8.29%) Azure Key Vault
11 15 (8.29%) SaaS
12 14 (7.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (7.73%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 14 (7.73%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (16.57%) VPN
2 23 (12.71%) Firewall
3 17 (9.39%) DNS
4 10 (5.52%) TCP/IP
5 7 (3.87%) Network Security
6 5 (2.76%) DHCP
7 4 (2.21%) Kerberos
7 4 (2.21%) SSH
8 3 (1.66%) SSL
8 3 (1.66%) VLAN
9 2 (1.10%) Broadband
9 2 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (1.10%) HTTP
9 2 (1.10%) iSCSI
9 2 (1.10%) LAN
9 2 (1.10%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (1.10%) SAN
9 2 (1.10%) VoIP
9 2 (1.10%) WAN
9 2 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.50%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.73%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (4.42%) DynamoDB
3 8 (4.42%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.31%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.31%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.31%) MySQL
5 3 (1.66%) Big Data
5 3 (1.66%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.66%) Redis
6 2 (1.10%) DocumentDB
6 2 (1.10%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.55%) GIS
7 1 (0.55%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 29 (16.02%) Git
2 26 (14.36%) Jenkins
3 23 (12.71%) GitLab
4 12 (6.63%) Maven
5 10 (5.52%) JUnit
5 10 (5.52%) Mockito
6 7 (3.87%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.87%) JIRA
7 6 (3.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (2.76%) Postman
9 3 (1.66%) JMeter
10 2 (1.10%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.10%) MSI
10 2 (1.10%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.10%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.55%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.55%) GDB
11 1 (0.55%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.55%) TestRail
11 1 (0.55%) webpack
General
1 52 (28.73%) Social Skills
2 27 (14.92%) Finance
3 19 (10.50%) Public Sector
4 18 (9.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (7.18%) Law
7 7 (3.87%) Retail
8 6 (3.31%) Legal
9 5 (2.76%) Banking
9 5 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.66%) Aviation
10 3 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.66%) Marketing
11 2 (1.10%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.55%) Electronics
12 1 (0.55%) French Language
12 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (20.99%) Senior
2 37 (20.44%) DevOps Engineer
3 26 (14.36%) Platform Engineer
4 15 (8.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (7.73%) Lead
6 13 (7.18%) Analyst
6 13 (7.18%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (7.18%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (7.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 13 (7.18%) Developer
7 12 (6.63%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (6.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 12 (6.63%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 12 (6.63%) Java Developer
8 9 (4.97%) Senior DevOps
9 8 (4.42%) Administrator
9 8 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (4.42%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 8 (4.42%) Linux Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.73%) React
1 14 (7.73%) YAML
2 10 (5.52%) Spring
3 9 (4.97%) REST
4 7 (3.87%) .NET
4 7 (3.87%) Loki
4 7 (3.87%) SAML
5 6 (3.31%) Kafka
5 6 (3.31%) OpenID
5 6 (3.31%) RESTful
6 5 (2.76%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (2.21%) ARM Templates
7 4 (2.21%) OAuth
7 4 (2.21%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.66%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.66%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.66%) JSON
8 3 (1.66%) PySpark
9 2 (1.10%) Jest
9 2 (1.10%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 36 (19.89%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.84%) Public Cloud
2 16 (8.84%) Security Posture
3 15 (8.29%) Linux Command Line
4 14 (7.73%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (6.63%) Podcast
6 11 (6.08%) PKI
7 7 (3.87%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.87%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.31%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.21%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.66%) Blog
10 3 (1.66%) CSOC
10 3 (1.66%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.66%) FPGA
10 3 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.66%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (1.10%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 77 (42.54%) Linux
2 42 (23.20%) Windows
3 13 (7.18%) VMS
4 6 (3.31%) Ubuntu
4 6 (3.31%) Unix
5 5 (2.76%) Debian
5 5 (2.76%) Mac OS
5 5 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.21%) Solaris
7 3 (1.66%) CentOS
7 3 (1.66%) Windows Server
8 2 (1.10%) Android
8 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.55%) AIX
9 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.55%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.55%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.55%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (66.85%) CI/CD
2 99 (54.70%) DevOps
3 93 (51.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (37.02%) Agile
5 61 (33.70%) Observability
6 56 (30.94%) Mentoring
7 50 (27.62%) Containerisation
7 50 (27.62%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (27.07%) Platform Engineering
9 46 (25.41%) AI
10 42 (23.20%) Cloud Security
11 38 (20.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (17.13%) Root Cause Analysis
13 30 (16.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 29 (16.02%) Scrum
15 25 (13.81%) DevSecOps
16 24 (13.26%) Analytics
16 24 (13.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 24 (13.26%) Technical Leadership
17 23 (12.71%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 134 (74.03%) Python
2 97 (53.59%) PowerShell
3 44 (24.31%) SQL
4 30 (16.57%) Java
5 24 (13.26%) Bicep
6 21 (11.60%) JavaScript
7 17 (9.39%) Go
7 17 (9.39%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (6.08%) PL/SQL
9 9 (4.97%) C#
10 7 (3.87%) PHP
11 6 (3.31%) C++
11 6 (3.31%) Ruby
12 4 (2.21%) C
12 4 (2.21%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.66%) Objective-C
13 3 (1.66%) Perl
13 3 (1.66%) Rust
14 2 (1.10%) Groovy
14 2 (1.10%) Korn
Qualifications
1 45 (24.86%) Security Cleared
2 42 (23.20%) SC Cleared
3 21 (11.60%) Azure Certification
4 16 (8.84%) Degree
4 16 (8.84%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (4.42%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.87%) CISSP
6 7 (3.87%) CompTIA Security+
6 7 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.76%) CompTIA CySA+
8 4 (2.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (2.21%) CREST Certified
8 4 (2.21%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.21%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (2.21%) OSCP
9 3 (1.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.66%) GPEN
9 3 (1.66%) GXPN
9 3 (1.66%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.66%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.52%) QA
2 7 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.31%) SOC 2
4 5 (2.76%) NCSC
4 5 (2.76%) NIST
5 3 (1.66%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.66%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.66%) SLA
6 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.55%) GDPR
7 1 (0.55%) HIPAA
System Software
1 65 (35.91%) Docker
2 29 (16.02%) Active Directory
3 23 (12.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (6.63%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (6.63%) vSphere
5 9 (4.97%) Hyper-V
6 6 (3.31%) KVM
7 2 (1.10%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (1.10%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 83 (45.86%) Terraform
2 76 (41.99%) Kubernetes
3 40 (22.10%) Grafana
4 37 (20.44%) Prometheus
5 28 (15.47%) Ansible
6 19 (10.50%) Argo
7 13 (7.18%) Istio
8 7 (3.87%) Kustomize
8 7 (3.87%) Proxmox
9 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (2.21%) Graylog
10 4 (2.21%) linkerd
10 4 (2.21%) Puppet
10 4 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (2.21%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.66%) Cilium
11 3 (1.66%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.66%) Kibana
11 3 (1.66%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 65 (35.91%) Microsoft
2 27 (14.92%) VMware
3 20 (11.05%) Oracle
4 14 (7.73%) Red Hat
5 12 (6.63%) ScienceLogic
6 10 (5.52%) Google
6 10 (5.52%) Splunk
7 9 (4.97%) Cisco
8 8 (4.42%) ServiceNow
9 6 (3.31%) CyberArk
9 6 (3.31%) New Relic
9 6 (3.31%) Veeam
10 5 (2.76%) Fortinet
11 4 (2.21%) Apple
11 4 (2.21%) Dell
12 2 (1.10%) BT
12 2 (1.10%) Commvault
12 2 (1.10%) Dynatrace
12 2 (1.10%) HP
12 2 (1.10%) Juniper