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

 6 months to
1 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 195 129
Rank change year-on-year +8 -66 +20
Permanent jobs citing Bash 194 282 514
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.28% 1.66% 2.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.70% 3.87% 5.45%
Number of salaries quoted 123 195 408
10th Percentile £42,750 £37,500 £43,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £44,738 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% +0.80%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £101,275
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% -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 4,131 7,280 9,423
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.32% 42.74% 46.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,124 4,624 7,974
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.62% +4.00% -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 1 January 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 9 (4.64%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (4.64%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (4.64%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.58%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.06%) Apache
4 3 (1.55%) nginx
5 2 (1.03%) CMS
5 2 (1.03%) SAS
6 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (1.03%) Photoshop
1 2 (1.03%) Weka
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 108 (55.67%) Azure
2 95 (48.97%) AWS
3 46 (23.71%) Entra ID
4 41 (21.13%) GitHub
5 40 (20.62%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (19.59%) GitHub Actions
7 36 (18.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (14.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 23 (11.86%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (11.34%) GCP
10 22 (11.34%) Google Workspace
11 21 (10.82%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (10.31%) Azure AKS
13 19 (9.79%) Azure Monitor
14 15 (7.73%) Serverless
15 13 (6.70%) Amazon S3
15 13 (6.70%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (6.70%) SaaS
16 11 (5.67%) Amazon ECS
17 10 (5.15%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 32 (16.49%) Broadband
2 16 (8.25%) Firewall
3 10 (5.15%) Network Security
3 10 (5.15%) VPN
4 8 (4.12%) DNS
4 8 (4.12%) TCP/IP
4 8 (4.12%) WAN
5 5 (2.58%) LAN
5 5 (2.58%) SAN
5 5 (2.58%) VLAN
6 4 (2.06%) BGP
6 4 (2.06%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (2.06%) OSPF
7 3 (1.55%) InfiniBand
7 3 (1.55%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.03%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (1.03%) MPLS
8 2 (1.03%) Multicast
8 2 (1.03%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.25%) NoSQL
2 10 (5.15%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (4.12%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.61%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (3.61%) Apache Iceberg
4 7 (3.61%) RDBMS
4 7 (3.61%) Tableau
5 5 (2.58%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.06%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (2.06%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.06%) Metadata
6 4 (2.06%) MySQL
7 3 (1.55%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.55%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.55%) Looker
7 3 (1.55%) Pinecone
7 3 (1.55%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 39 (20.10%) Jenkins
2 18 (9.28%) GitLab
3 10 (5.15%) Git
4 7 (3.61%) Jaeger
5 5 (2.58%) MLflow
5 5 (2.58%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.06%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.06%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.55%) Balsamiq
7 3 (1.55%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.55%) Burp Suite
7 3 (1.55%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.55%) Maven
7 3 (1.55%) Metasploit
8 2 (1.03%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.03%) JMeter
8 2 (1.03%) TestRail
8 2 (1.03%) Vite
9 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.52%) git-flow
General
1 54 (27.84%) Social Skills
2 41 (21.13%) Finance
3 24 (12.37%) Organisational Skills
4 17 (8.76%) Games
5 12 (6.19%) Telecoms
6 10 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.12%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.09%) Banking
10 5 (2.58%) Retail
11 4 (2.06%) Back Office
11 4 (2.06%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.55%) Military
13 2 (1.03%) Aerospace
13 2 (1.03%) Billing
13 2 (1.03%) Electronics
13 2 (1.03%) Investment Banking
13 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.03%) Marketing
14 1 (0.52%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 46 (23.71%) Senior
2 29 (14.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (13.92%) Platform Engineer
4 26 (13.40%) Cloud Engineer
5 24 (12.37%) Linux Engineer
6 21 (10.82%) Lead
7 13 (6.70%) Automation Engineer
7 13 (6.70%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (6.19%) AWS Engineer
8 12 (6.19%) Developer
9 11 (5.67%) IAM Developer
10 9 (4.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 9 (4.64%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 9 (4.64%) Senior Developer
10 9 (4.64%) Senior DevOps
10 9 (4.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.64%) Support Engineer
11 8 (4.12%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 8 (4.12%) Security Engineer
11 8 (4.12%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (13.40%) REST
2 25 (12.89%) GraphQL
2 25 (12.89%) SOAP
3 23 (11.86%) Elastic Stack
4 22 (11.34%) LDAP
4 22 (11.34%) OAuth
4 22 (11.34%) OpenID
4 22 (11.34%) SAML
5 7 (3.61%) Kafka
5 7 (3.61%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (2.58%) ARM Templates
6 5 (2.58%) PyTorch
6 5 (2.58%) TensorFlow
7 4 (2.06%) AWS CDK
7 4 (2.06%) AWS SAM
7 4 (2.06%) Loki
8 3 (1.55%) Faiss
8 3 (1.55%) Gherkin
8 3 (1.55%) Jest
8 3 (1.55%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.37%) Cyber Threat
1 24 (12.37%) Cyberattack
2 23 (11.86%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.15%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.64%) Security Posture
5 7 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.06%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.06%) Blog
7 4 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.55%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.55%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.03%) e-Learning
9 2 (1.03%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.03%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.52%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.52%) Video on Demand
10 1 (0.52%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 95 (48.97%) Linux
2 37 (19.07%) Windows
3 26 (13.40%) Unix
4 8 (4.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.61%) Debian
5 7 (3.61%) Solaris
6 6 (3.09%) CentOS
7 5 (2.58%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.55%) VMS
9 2 (1.03%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (58.76%) DevOps
2 91 (46.91%) CI/CD
3 87 (44.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (27.32%) Continuous Improvement
5 52 (26.80%) Roadmaps
6 50 (25.77%) Agile
7 49 (25.26%) Mentoring
8 36 (18.56%) Containerisation
9 35 (18.04%) Cloud Security
9 35 (18.04%) Cybersecurity
10 34 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (16.49%) AI
11 32 (16.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 30 (15.46%) Incident Response
12 30 (15.46%) ITIL
13 28 (14.43%) Identity Access Management
13 28 (14.43%) Machine Learning
14 25 (12.89%) High Availability
14 25 (12.89%) Platform Engineering
15 24 (12.37%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 144 (74.23%) Python
2 106 (54.64%) PowerShell
3 28 (14.43%) SQL
4 23 (11.86%) Go
5 22 (11.34%) Bicep
5 22 (11.34%) T-SQL
6 18 (9.28%) Java
7 13 (6.70%) JavaScript
8 11 (5.67%) Perl
9 9 (4.64%) TypeScript
10 7 (3.61%) C++
11 5 (2.58%) C
11 5 (2.58%) Korn
12 4 (2.06%) Fortran
13 3 (1.55%) C#
13 3 (1.55%) Groovy
13 3 (1.55%) Scala
13 3 (1.55%) VBScript
14 2 (1.03%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (17.01%) Security Cleared
2 27 (13.92%) AWS Certification
3 26 (13.40%) Degree
4 19 (9.79%) SC Cleared
5 14 (7.22%) Azure Certification
6 10 (5.15%) DV Cleared
7 8 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (3.09%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.58%) CCNP
10 4 (2.06%) GCIH
10 4 (2.06%) PhD
11 3 (1.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.55%) CCNA
11 3 (1.55%) CCSP
11 3 (1.55%) CISSP
11 3 (1.55%) CITP
11 3 (1.55%) CREST Certified
12 2 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (13.40%) NIST
2 24 (12.37%) NCSC
3 15 (7.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (6.70%) GDPR
5 10 (5.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (2.58%) QA
6 5 (2.58%) SLA
7 4 (2.06%) Data Quality
7 4 (2.06%) GRC
7 4 (2.06%) PCI DSS
7 4 (2.06%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (25.26%) Docker
2 32 (16.49%) Active Directory
3 13 (6.70%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (5.15%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.55%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (1.03%) Ceph
6 2 (1.03%) Lustre
7 1 (0.52%) vCloud
7 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 101 (52.06%) Terraform
2 64 (32.99%) Kubernetes
3 60 (30.93%) Ansible
4 30 (15.46%) Grafana
5 22 (11.34%) Prometheus
6 11 (5.67%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (4.64%) Argo
7 9 (4.64%) Red Hat Satellite
8 7 (3.61%) Kustomize
9 4 (2.06%) Cilium
9 4 (2.06%) logstash
10 3 (1.55%) HP Fortify
10 3 (1.55%) Nmap
11 2 (1.03%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (1.03%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.52%) Icinga
12 1 (0.52%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.52%) Puppet
12 1 (0.52%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 1 (0.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (12.89%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.28%) Red Hat
3 10 (5.15%) VMware
4 9 (4.64%) Splunk
5 7 (3.61%) Google
5 7 (3.61%) Oracle
6 6 (3.09%) Cisco
7 5 (2.58%) Fortinet
7 5 (2.58%) LogicMonitor
7 5 (2.58%) NetApp
8 4 (2.06%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.55%) Databricks
9 3 (1.55%) Palantir
9 3 (1.55%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.55%) Rapid7
10 2 (1.03%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.03%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.03%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.03%) Talend
10 2 (1.03%) Veeam
119 hybrid/remote Bash jobs