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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 125 180
Rank change year-on-year -71 +55 -52
Permanent jobs citing Bash 241 441 600
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.24% 2.92% 1.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.67% 7.56% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 129 146 327
10th Percentile £44,800 £47,231 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,125 £99,384
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -14.29%

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 5,163 5,834 13,867
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.54% 38.59% 40.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,782 4,044 11,564
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 June 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 22 (9.13%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.81%) Apache
3 13 (5.39%) Apache Spark
4 9 (3.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.07%) Jupyter
6 4 (1.66%) nginx
7 3 (1.24%) CMS
7 3 (1.24%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.83%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.41%) Confluence
9 1 (0.41%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.24%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (1.24%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 142 (58.92%) Azure
2 120 (49.79%) AWS
3 63 (26.14%) Entra ID
4 50 (20.75%) Google Workspace
5 37 (15.35%) GitHub
6 29 (12.03%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (11.20%) Amazon S3
8 26 (10.79%) GitHub Actions
9 25 (10.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 24 (9.96%) Pulumi
11 20 (8.30%) Amazon EC2
11 20 (8.30%) GCP
12 17 (7.05%) Amazon EKS
13 16 (6.64%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (6.64%) Azure AKS
13 16 (6.64%) Serverless
13 16 (6.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 15 (6.22%) IaaS
15 14 (5.81%) SaaS
16 13 (5.39%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 69 (28.63%) Broadband
2 30 (12.45%) VPN
3 29 (12.03%) Firewall
4 13 (5.39%) DNS
5 8 (3.32%) Network Security
6 6 (2.49%) VLAN
6 6 (2.49%) VoIP
7 5 (2.07%) DMZ
7 5 (2.07%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (2.07%) STUN
8 3 (1.24%) DHCP
8 3 (1.24%) SSL
9 2 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.83%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.83%) LAN
9 2 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.83%) SAN
9 2 (0.83%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.83%) WAN
9 2 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.88%) NoSQL
1 19 (7.88%) Relational Database
2 18 (7.47%) RDBMS
3 17 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (6.64%) Amazon Redshift
4 16 (6.64%) Apache Iceberg
4 16 (6.64%) Tableau
5 13 (5.39%) SQL Server
6 12 (4.98%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (4.15%) BigQuery
7 10 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (3.73%) Delta Lake
8 9 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (3.73%) Looker
8 9 (3.73%) Pinecone
8 9 (3.73%) Weaviate
9 8 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (3.32%) MySQL
10 7 (2.90%) Amazon QuickSight
10 7 (2.90%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 24 (9.96%) Git
2 22 (9.13%) GitLab
3 21 (8.71%) Jenkins
4 18 (7.47%) Jaeger
5 9 (3.73%) MLflow
6 7 (2.90%) Maven
7 6 (2.49%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.49%) JIRA
8 5 (2.07%) JUnit
8 5 (2.07%) Mockito
8 5 (2.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (1.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.24%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.24%) Vite
11 2 (0.83%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.83%) MSI
11 2 (0.83%) Postman
11 2 (0.83%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.41%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.41%) JMeter
General
1 64 (26.56%) Social Skills
2 55 (22.82%) Organisational Skills
3 26 (10.79%) Games
3 26 (10.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (7.05%) Finance
4 17 (7.05%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.56%) Retail
6 10 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.66%) Banking
8 4 (1.66%) Law
8 4 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.24%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.24%) Aviation
9 3 (1.24%) Legal
9 3 (1.24%) Marketing
10 2 (0.83%) Billing
11 1 (0.41%) French Language
11 1 (0.41%) Publishing
11 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (28.22%) Senior
2 41 (17.01%) Lead
3 30 (12.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (11.62%) Platform Engineer
5 27 (11.20%) Cloud Engineer
6 26 (10.79%) Developer
7 21 (8.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 20 (8.30%) Systems Engineer
9 17 (7.05%) AWS Engineer
9 17 (7.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 17 (7.05%) IAM Developer
10 15 (6.22%) Senior DevOps
11 13 (5.39%) Consultant
12 12 (4.98%) Azure Engineer
12 12 (4.98%) Data Engineer
13 11 (4.56%) Senior Developer
14 10 (4.15%) Support Engineer
15 9 (3.73%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
15 9 (3.73%) Data Consultant
15 9 (3.73%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (21.58%) REST
1 52 (21.58%) SAML
2 51 (21.16%) LDAP
2 51 (21.16%) OpenID
3 50 (20.75%) GraphQL
3 50 (20.75%) OAuth
3 50 (20.75%) SOAP
4 23 (9.54%) Elastic Stack
5 19 (7.88%) OpenTelemetry
6 11 (4.56%) YAML
7 10 (4.15%) Kafka
7 10 (4.15%) Loki
8 9 (3.73%) Faiss
8 9 (3.73%) PyTorch
8 9 (3.73%) TensorFlow
8 9 (3.73%) vLLM
9 7 (2.90%) React
10 6 (2.49%) RESTful
10 6 (2.49%) Spring
11 5 (2.07%) FreeSWITCH
Miscellaneous
1 54 (22.41%) Cyber Threat
2 50 (20.75%) Cyberattack
3 27 (11.20%) Cloud Native
4 14 (5.81%) Product Ownership
5 13 (5.39%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (4.56%) Linux Command Line
7 10 (4.15%) Security Posture
8 9 (3.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (3.73%) Onboarding
9 8 (3.32%) Management Information System
9 8 (3.32%) Public Cloud
10 7 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (2.90%) Private Cloud
11 6 (2.49%) Data Centre
12 5 (2.07%) PKI
13 4 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
13 4 (1.66%) Podcast
14 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
14 2 (0.83%) Hackathon
14 2 (0.83%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 89 (36.93%) Linux
2 30 (12.45%) Windows
3 19 (7.88%) Unix
4 9 (3.73%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.07%) Debian
5 5 (2.07%) VMS
6 4 (1.66%) CentOS
6 4 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.66%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.24%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.83%) Solaris
9 1 (0.41%) AIX
9 1 (0.41%) Android
9 1 (0.41%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.41%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (49.38%) CI/CD
2 112 (46.47%) Mentoring
3 107 (44.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 105 (43.57%) DevOps
5 87 (36.10%) Roadmaps
6 68 (28.22%) Agile
7 58 (24.07%) Cybersecurity
8 56 (23.24%) Identity Access Management
9 53 (21.99%) Observability
10 50 (20.75%) Containerisation
10 50 (20.75%) Programme Delivery
10 50 (20.75%) Regulatory Compliance
11 46 (19.09%) Platform Engineering
12 40 (16.60%) AI
12 40 (16.60%) Cloud Security
13 35 (14.52%) High Availability
13 35 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
14 33 (13.69%) GitOps
15 31 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
16 29 (12.03%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 150 (62.24%) Python
2 131 (54.36%) PowerShell
3 70 (29.05%) SQL
4 50 (20.75%) T-SQL
5 45 (18.67%) Java
6 42 (17.43%) Go
7 29 (12.03%) JavaScript
8 14 (5.81%) Bicep
9 9 (3.73%) Scala
10 8 (3.32%) C#
11 7 (2.90%) PHP
12 6 (2.49%) C++
12 6 (2.49%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (2.07%) Perl
13 5 (2.07%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.66%) TypeScript
15 3 (1.24%) C
15 3 (1.24%) Objective-C
15 3 (1.24%) Ruby
15 3 (1.24%) Rust
Qualifications
1 32 (13.28%) Security Cleared
2 29 (12.03%) SC Cleared
3 28 (11.62%) Degree
4 27 (11.20%) AWS Certification
5 15 (6.22%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (3.32%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.66%) CISSP
9 4 (1.66%) CREST Certified
9 4 (1.66%) OSCP
10 3 (1.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.24%) CCSAM
10 3 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.24%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (1.24%) GPEN
10 3 (1.24%) GXPN
10 3 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.24%) OSCE
11 2 (0.83%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (21.58%) NIST
2 50 (20.75%) NCSC
3 30 (12.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.56%) Data Quality
5 10 (4.15%) QA
6 7 (2.90%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.24%) SLA
8 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.41%) GDPR
9 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 78 (32.37%) Docker
2 74 (30.71%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.49%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.07%) KVM
6 4 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.66%) vSphere
7 2 (0.83%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 93 (38.59%) Terraform
2 82 (34.02%) Kubernetes
3 52 (21.58%) Prometheus
4 43 (17.84%) Ansible
5 36 (14.94%) Grafana
6 35 (14.52%) Argo
7 24 (9.96%) Kustomize
8 12 (4.98%) Proxmox
9 10 (4.15%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (2.90%) Istio
11 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.66%) Graylog
12 4 (1.66%) Kibana
12 4 (1.66%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (1.24%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (1.24%) Nagios
13 3 (1.24%) Puppet
14 2 (0.83%) CASB
14 2 (0.83%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 49 (20.33%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.54%) Google
3 21 (8.71%) VMware
4 15 (6.22%) Red Hat
5 10 (4.15%) Splunk
6 9 (3.73%) Databricks
6 9 (3.73%) Palantir
7 8 (3.32%) Cisco
7 8 (3.32%) Oracle
8 7 (2.90%) CyberArk
9 5 (2.07%) Veeam
10 4 (1.66%) ScienceLogic
10 4 (1.66%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.24%) Apple
11 3 (1.24%) Commvault
11 3 (1.24%) Dell
12 2 (0.83%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.83%) BT
12 2 (0.83%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.83%) Palo Alto