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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 206 171
Rank change year-on-year +22 -35 -42
Permanent jobs citing Bash 230 200 560
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.37% 1.56% 1.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.02% 3.45% 4.24%
Number of salaries quoted 117 172 421
10th Percentile £42,900 £45,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,163 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £93,778 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -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 4,584 5,791 13,194
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.38% 45.20% 42.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,341 4,513 11,435
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +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 1 April 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 (8.26%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (4.35%) Apache
2 10 (4.35%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.74%) CMS
3 4 (1.74%) nginx
4 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.30%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.87%) SAS
5 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.74%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.74%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.87%) Weka
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.74%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 132 (57.39%) Azure
2 126 (54.78%) AWS
3 69 (30.00%) Entra ID
4 56 (24.35%) Google Workspace
5 42 (18.26%) GitHub
6 38 (16.52%) GitHub Actions
7 29 (12.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 29 (12.61%) GCP
8 26 (11.30%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (10.43%) Amazon S3
10 22 (9.57%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (9.57%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (8.70%) Pulumi
12 18 (7.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 17 (7.39%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (6.96%) SaaS
14 16 (6.96%) Serverless
15 15 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (5.22%) Datadog
17 11 (4.78%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 79 (34.35%) Broadband
2 28 (12.17%) Firewall
3 22 (9.57%) VPN
4 13 (5.65%) Network Security
5 11 (4.78%) VLAN
6 10 (4.35%) DNS
7 5 (2.17%) DMZ
7 5 (2.17%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (2.17%) STUN
7 5 (2.17%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.17%) VoIP
8 4 (1.74%) DHCP
8 4 (1.74%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (1.74%) WAN
9 3 (1.30%) LAN
9 3 (1.30%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.87%) BGP
10 2 (0.87%) MPLS
10 2 (0.87%) NGFW
10 2 (0.87%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.74%) NoSQL
2 19 (8.26%) RDBMS
2 19 (8.26%) Relational Database
3 18 (7.83%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (7.83%) Apache Iceberg
3 18 (7.83%) Tableau
4 10 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (4.35%) BigQuery
4 10 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.91%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (3.91%) Amazon QuickSight
5 9 (3.91%) Delta Lake
5 9 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (3.91%) Looker
5 9 (3.91%) Metadata
5 9 (3.91%) Pinecone
5 9 (3.91%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.91%) Weaviate
6 8 (3.48%) MySQL
7 7 (3.04%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 26 (11.30%) Jenkins
2 19 (8.26%) Jaeger
3 17 (7.39%) Git
4 16 (6.96%) GitLab
5 9 (3.91%) MLflow
6 6 (2.61%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.17%) JIRA
7 5 (2.17%) Robot Framework
7 5 (2.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (2.17%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.74%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.74%) Vite
9 3 (1.30%) Balsamiq
9 3 (1.30%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.30%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.30%) JMeter
9 3 (1.30%) Maven
10 2 (0.87%) Postman
10 2 (0.87%) TestRail
11 1 (0.43%) Browser DevTools
General
1 72 (31.30%) Social Skills
2 62 (26.96%) Organisational Skills
3 33 (14.35%) Games
4 20 (8.70%) Finance
4 20 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.65%) Retail
6 12 (5.22%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.48%) Banking
8 7 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (3.04%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.74%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.74%) Back Office
9 4 (1.74%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.30%) Billing
10 3 (1.30%) Marketing
10 3 (1.30%) Military
11 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 67 (29.13%) Senior
2 38 (16.52%) Lead
3 33 (14.35%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (10.87%) Platform Engineer
5 23 (10.00%) Developer
6 21 (9.13%) IAM Developer
7 20 (8.70%) Systems Engineer
8 19 (8.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 18 (7.83%) DevOps Engineer
10 16 (6.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 16 (6.96%) Consultant
11 15 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (5.65%) Data Engineer
12 13 (5.65%) Senior Developer
12 13 (5.65%) Support Engineer
13 12 (5.22%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 12 (5.22%) Senior Consultant
14 11 (4.78%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 11 (4.78%) Azure Engineer
14 11 (4.78%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (25.22%) GraphQL
1 58 (25.22%) REST
1 58 (25.22%) SOAP
2 56 (24.35%) LDAP
2 56 (24.35%) OAuth
2 56 (24.35%) OpenID
2 56 (24.35%) SAML
3 35 (15.22%) Elastic Stack
4 19 (8.26%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (4.78%) Kafka
6 9 (3.91%) Faiss
6 9 (3.91%) PyTorch
6 9 (3.91%) TensorFlow
6 9 (3.91%) vLLM
7 7 (3.04%) Loki
8 5 (2.17%) CSS
8 5 (2.17%) FreeSWITCH
8 5 (2.17%) HTML
9 4 (1.74%) Middleware
9 4 (1.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (26.96%) Cyber Threat
2 58 (25.22%) Cyberattack
3 17 (7.39%) Product Ownership
4 13 (5.65%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (4.78%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.48%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (3.48%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (3.48%) Security Posture
7 7 (3.04%) Data Centre
7 7 (3.04%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.61%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.74%) Blog
9 4 (1.74%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.87%) Clustering
11 2 (0.87%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 94 (40.87%) Linux
2 31 (13.48%) Windows
3 28 (12.17%) Unix
4 11 (4.78%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.61%) CentOS
6 5 (2.17%) Debian
7 4 (1.74%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.87%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.87%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.43%) Android
10 1 (0.43%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.43%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.43%) Solaris
10 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (44.35%) CI/CD
2 100 (43.48%) DevOps
3 99 (43.04%) Mentoring
4 94 (40.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 94 (40.87%) Roadmaps
5 64 (27.83%) Cybersecurity
6 63 (27.39%) Identity Access Management
7 58 (25.22%) Programme Delivery
8 56 (24.35%) Regulatory Compliance
9 52 (22.61%) Agile
10 41 (17.83%) Containerisation
11 39 (16.96%) High Availability
12 38 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
13 37 (16.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 36 (15.65%) Cloud Security
15 34 (14.78%) Performance Optimisation
16 31 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
17 28 (12.17%) Observability
18 27 (11.74%) Platform Engineering
19 26 (11.30%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 141 (61.30%) Python
2 124 (53.91%) PowerShell
3 59 (25.65%) SQL
4 56 (24.35%) T-SQL
5 50 (21.74%) Go
6 35 (15.22%) Java
7 29 (12.61%) JavaScript
8 12 (5.22%) Bicep
9 9 (3.91%) Scala
10 8 (3.48%) C++
11 7 (3.04%) C#
11 7 (3.04%) PHP
12 6 (2.61%) Perl
12 6 (2.61%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.74%) C
14 3 (1.30%) Groovy
14 3 (1.30%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.30%) Ruby
14 3 (1.30%) Rust
14 3 (1.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 36 (15.65%) Degree
2 31 (13.48%) AWS Certification
3 23 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 13 (5.65%) SC Cleared
5 12 (5.22%) Azure Certification
5 12 (5.22%) DV Cleared
6 10 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.04%) CREST Certified
8 5 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.74%) OSCP
10 3 (1.30%) CCNP
10 3 (1.30%) CCSAM
10 3 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.30%) CITP
10 3 (1.30%) GPEN
10 3 (1.30%) GXPN
10 3 (1.30%) LPIC
10 3 (1.30%) OSCE
11 2 (0.87%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (26.09%) NIST
2 58 (25.22%) NCSC
3 33 (14.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.35%) Data Quality
5 8 (3.48%) SOC 2
6 7 (3.04%) QA
7 5 (2.17%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.74%) GRC
9 3 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (1.30%) SLA
10 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.43%) GDPR
11 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
System Software
1 77 (33.48%) Active Directory
2 71 (30.87%) Docker
3 7 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.74%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.87%) Ceph
6 2 (0.87%) Lustre
6 2 (0.87%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.87%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.43%) KVM
7 1 (0.43%) vCloud
7 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 96 (41.74%) Terraform
2 75 (32.61%) Kubernetes
3 58 (25.22%) Ansible
4 42 (18.26%) Prometheus
5 31 (13.48%) Grafana
6 22 (9.57%) Argo
7 19 (8.26%) Kustomize
8 7 (3.04%) Proxmox
8 7 (3.04%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.74%) Cilium
9 4 (1.74%) logstash
9 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.30%) HP Fortify
10 3 (1.30%) Kibana
10 3 (1.30%) Nagios
10 3 (1.30%) Puppet
11 2 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.43%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.43%) Podman
12 1 (0.43%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 26 (11.30%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.26%) Google
3 15 (6.52%) VMware
4 12 (5.22%) Splunk
5 10 (4.35%) Cisco
6 9 (3.91%) CyberArk
6 9 (3.91%) Databricks
6 9 (3.91%) Palantir
6 9 (3.91%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.17%) Oracle
8 3 (1.30%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.30%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.30%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.87%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.87%) Commvault
9 2 (0.87%) Dell
9 2 (0.87%) Informatica
9 2 (0.87%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (0.87%) Talend
9 2 (0.87%) Veeam