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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 121 181
Rank change year-on-year -154 +60 -53
Permanent jobs citing Bash 197 433 387
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.78% 2.64% 1.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.14% 8.80% 4.50%
Number of salaries quoted 119 133 186
10th Percentile £43,500 £46,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £74,375 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £94,750 £92,875
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -7.14%

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 6,272 4,919 8,596
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.91% 29.95% 41.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,564 3,255 5,522
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,188
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +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 16 October 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 14 (7.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.55%) Apache
2 7 (3.55%) Jupyter
2 7 (3.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.05%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.03%) Confluence
5 3 (1.52%) nginx
6 2 (1.02%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.02%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 118 (59.90%) Azure
2 113 (57.36%) AWS
3 52 (26.40%) GitHub
4 43 (21.83%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (18.78%) GCP
6 31 (15.74%) GitHub Actions
7 25 (12.69%) SaaS
8 24 (12.18%) Azure Monitor
8 24 (12.18%) Serverless
9 23 (11.68%) Azure AKS
10 21 (10.66%) Amazon EKS
10 21 (10.66%) PaaS
11 20 (10.15%) IaaS
12 18 (9.14%) Azure Key Vault
13 17 (8.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 16 (8.12%) Azure Sentinel
15 15 (7.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (7.61%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (7.61%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (7.61%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 34 (17.26%) VPN
2 19 (9.64%) TCP/IP
3 17 (8.63%) Firewall
4 13 (6.60%) DNS
5 10 (5.08%) BGP
5 10 (5.08%) VLAN
6 8 (4.06%) Network Security
7 4 (2.03%) DHCP
7 4 (2.03%) Kerberos
7 4 (2.03%) SSH
8 3 (1.52%) Broadband
9 2 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (1.02%) LAN
9 2 (1.02%) NGFW
9 2 (1.02%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.02%) SSL
9 2 (1.02%) Unified Communications
9 2 (1.02%) WAN
10 1 (0.51%) DKIM
10 1 (0.51%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (12.69%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (8.63%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (7.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (4.57%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.06%) DynamoDB
6 6 (3.05%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (3.05%) Big Data
7 4 (2.03%) DocumentDB
7 4 (2.03%) MySQL
7 4 (2.03%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.52%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.52%) Redis
9 2 (1.02%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.02%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.51%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.51%) Apache Zeppelin
10 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.51%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (16.75%) GitLab
2 30 (15.23%) Git
2 30 (15.23%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.60%) TeamCity
4 12 (6.09%) Maven
5 10 (5.08%) JUnit
5 10 (5.08%) Mockito
6 6 (3.05%) JIRA
7 5 (2.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (2.54%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.52%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.52%) JMeter
8 3 (1.52%) Postman
9 2 (1.02%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.02%) MSI
9 2 (1.02%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.51%) git-flow
10 1 (0.51%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.51%) TestRail
10 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 58 (29.44%) Social Skills
2 36 (18.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 35 (17.77%) Finance
4 31 (15.74%) Law
5 30 (15.23%) Public Sector
6 23 (11.68%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (10.15%) Retail
8 19 (9.64%) Banking
9 9 (4.57%) Back Office
9 9 (4.57%) Financial Institution
10 6 (3.05%) Legal
11 3 (1.52%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.52%) Aviation
12 2 (1.02%) Marketing
13 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.51%) Electronics
13 1 (0.51%) French Language
13 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.51%) Police
13 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 47 (23.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 42 (21.32%) Senior
3 24 (12.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 22 (11.17%) Analyst
4 22 (11.17%) Platform Engineer
5 17 (8.63%) Lead
6 15 (7.61%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (7.11%) Developer
8 13 (6.60%) GCP Engineer
9 12 (6.09%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (6.09%) Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (6.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 12 (6.09%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 12 (6.09%) Java Developer
10 11 (5.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 10 (5.08%) Administrator
11 10 (5.08%) Information Analyst
11 10 (5.08%) Information Security Analyst
11 10 (5.08%) Security Analyst
11 10 (5.08%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (51.78%) Terraform
2 17 (8.63%) React
3 15 (7.61%) RESTful
4 14 (7.11%) OpenTelemetry
4 14 (7.11%) YAML
5 11 (5.58%) REST
6 10 (5.08%) Spring
7 7 (3.55%) Loki
7 7 (3.55%) SAML
8 6 (3.05%) .NET
8 6 (3.05%) Kafka
8 6 (3.05%) OpenID
9 5 (2.54%) Pulumi
9 5 (2.54%) PySpark
10 4 (2.03%) ARM Templates
10 4 (2.03%) Node.js
10 4 (2.03%) OAuth
10 4 (2.03%) OAuth2
11 3 (1.52%) GraphQL
11 3 (1.52%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 44 (22.34%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.63%) Linux Command Line
3 16 (8.12%) Security Posture
4 13 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (6.60%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (6.09%) Blog
5 12 (6.09%) PKI
5 12 (6.09%) Podcast
5 12 (6.09%) Public Cloud
6 7 (3.55%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.52%) CSOC
9 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.52%) FPGA
9 3 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.52%) Robotics
9 3 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.02%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.02%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 81 (41.12%) Linux
2 42 (21.32%) Windows
3 13 (6.60%) VMS
4 10 (5.08%) macOS
5 8 (4.06%) Ubuntu
6 7 (3.55%) Apple iOS
7 6 (3.05%) Debian
7 6 (3.05%) Unix
8 3 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.52%) Robot Operating System
8 3 (1.52%) Windows Server
9 2 (1.02%) CentOS
9 2 (1.02%) Rocky
9 2 (1.02%) Solaris
10 1 (0.51%) Android
10 1 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (71.07%) CI/CD
2 108 (54.82%) DevOps
3 100 (50.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (36.04%) Observability
5 67 (34.01%) Mentoring
6 66 (33.50%) Agile
7 63 (31.98%) Problem-Solving
8 59 (29.95%) Containerisation
9 54 (27.41%) AI
10 49 (24.87%) Cloud Security
11 46 (23.35%) Platform Engineering
12 41 (20.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 33 (16.75%) DevSecOps
13 33 (16.75%) Root Cause Analysis
13 33 (16.75%) Technical Leadership
14 32 (16.24%) Analytics
15 30 (15.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 30 (15.23%) Runbook
15 30 (15.23%) Scrum
16 26 (13.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 152 (77.16%) Python
2 88 (44.67%) PowerShell
3 54 (27.41%) SQL
4 38 (19.29%) Java
5 36 (18.27%) Go
6 28 (14.21%) Bicep
7 20 (10.15%) JavaScript
8 17 (8.63%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (5.58%) PL/SQL
10 6 (3.05%) C#
11 4 (2.03%) C++
11 4 (2.03%) PHP
11 4 (2.03%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.52%) Ruby
12 3 (1.52%) TypeScript
13 2 (1.02%) Groovy
13 2 (1.02%) Rust
13 2 (1.02%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.51%) C
14 1 (0.51%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 51 (25.89%) Security Cleared
2 44 (22.34%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.66%) Azure Certification
4 16 (8.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (7.11%) Degree
6 9 (4.57%) AWS Certification
6 9 (4.57%) GIAC
7 8 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.55%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (3.05%) CISSP
9 6 (3.05%) GCFA
10 5 (2.54%) CompTIA CySA+
10 5 (2.54%) DV Cleared
11 4 (2.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (1.52%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (1.52%) CCNA CyberOps
12 3 (1.52%) CEH
12 3 (1.52%) GCIA
12 3 (1.52%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (6.60%) PCI DSS
3 12 (6.09%) QA
3 12 (6.09%) SOC 2
4 9 (4.57%) NIST
5 7 (3.55%) NCSC
6 5 (2.54%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.52%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.51%) GDPR
System Software
1 74 (37.56%) Docker
2 25 (12.69%) Active Directory
2 25 (12.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (7.11%) vSphere
4 12 (6.09%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (4.06%) Hyper-V
5 8 (4.06%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.54%) KVM
7 3 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.51%) zsh
Systems Management
1 98 (49.75%) Kubernetes
2 47 (23.86%) Grafana
3 43 (21.83%) Prometheus
4 27 (13.71%) Ansible
5 18 (9.14%) Argo
6 15 (7.61%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (5.58%) Istio
8 6 (3.05%) Proxmox
9 5 (2.54%) Kustomize
9 5 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (2.03%) Graylog
10 4 (2.03%) linkerd
10 4 (2.03%) Puppet
10 4 (2.03%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.52%) Cilium
11 3 (1.52%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (1.02%) HP Fortify
12 2 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.51%) CASB
Vendors
1 56 (28.43%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.20%) VMware
3 25 (12.69%) Google
4 19 (9.64%) Oracle
5 12 (6.09%) ScienceLogic
5 12 (6.09%) Splunk
6 8 (4.06%) CyberArk
7 7 (3.55%) Cisco
7 7 (3.55%) Red Hat
8 6 (3.05%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.54%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (2.54%) Fortinet
9 5 (2.54%) New Relic
9 5 (2.54%) Veeam
10 4 (2.03%) YouTube
11 3 (1.52%) NVIDIA
11 3 (1.52%) Okta
11 3 (1.52%) OpenAI
12 2 (1.02%) Apple
12 2 (1.02%) Palo Alto