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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 130 160
Rank change year-on-year -140 +30 -34
Permanent jobs citing Bash 196 446 526
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.88% 2.70% 2.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.27% 7.86% 5.30%
Number of salaries quoted 132 154 252
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,439 £40,833
25th Percentile £47,679 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +16.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £69,063 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,375 £94,750
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 5,993 5,675 9,923
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.98% 34.31% 38.13%
Number of salaries quoted 4,517 3,932 7,862
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
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 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -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 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 (8.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.06%) Apache
2 6 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (2.55%) Jupyter
4 4 (2.04%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.53%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.51%) Confluence
6 1 (0.51%) nginx
6 1 (0.51%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.51%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.51%) WordPress
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
1 124 (63.27%) Azure
2 88 (44.90%) AWS
3 43 (21.94%) GitHub
4 38 (19.39%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (12.76%) Entra ID
5 25 (12.76%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (12.24%) Serverless
7 23 (11.73%) IaaS
8 21 (10.71%) PaaS
9 20 (10.20%) Azure Monitor
9 20 (10.20%) GCP
10 18 (9.18%) Amazon S3
11 17 (8.67%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (8.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (8.16%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (7.65%) Azure AKS
14 14 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
14 14 (7.14%) SaaS
15 13 (6.63%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (6.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 34 (17.35%) VPN
2 27 (13.78%) Firewall
3 16 (8.16%) DNS
4 14 (7.14%) Broadband
5 9 (4.59%) TCP/IP
6 8 (4.08%) Network Security
7 5 (2.55%) DHCP
7 5 (2.55%) VLAN
8 4 (2.04%) Kerberos
8 4 (2.04%) SSH
8 4 (2.04%) VoIP
9 3 (1.53%) DMZ
9 3 (1.53%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (1.53%) SSL
9 3 (1.53%) STUN
10 2 (1.02%) iSCSI
10 2 (1.02%) LAN
10 2 (1.02%) SAN
10 2 (1.02%) WAN
10 2 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (6.12%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.57%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.06%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.06%) MySQL
6 5 (2.55%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.53%) Redis
8 2 (1.02%) Big Data
8 2 (1.02%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.02%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.51%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.51%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.51%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.51%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.51%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 27 (13.78%) Git
2 25 (12.76%) Jenkins
3 22 (11.22%) GitLab
4 11 (5.61%) Maven
5 9 (4.59%) JUnit
5 9 (4.59%) Mockito
6 8 (4.08%) JIRA
7 7 (3.57%) Bitbucket
8 6 (3.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (2.55%) Postman
10 3 (1.53%) JMeter
10 3 (1.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (1.02%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.02%) MSI
11 2 (1.02%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.02%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.51%) CMake
12 1 (0.51%) GDB
12 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.51%) webpack
General
1 56 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 24 (12.24%) Finance
3 18 (9.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (8.67%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (7.65%) Public Sector
6 13 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (6.63%) Law
7 9 (4.59%) Retail
8 6 (3.06%) Games
9 5 (2.55%) Banking
9 5 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.04%) Legal
11 3 (1.53%) Aviation
11 3 (1.53%) Marketing
11 3 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.02%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.51%) Electronics
13 1 (0.51%) French Language
13 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 45 (22.96%) Senior
2 36 (18.37%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (13.78%) Platform Engineer
4 18 (9.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 16 (8.16%) Developer
6 14 (7.14%) Lead
7 13 (6.63%) Analyst
7 13 (6.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 12 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (6.12%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 11 (5.61%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (5.61%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (5.61%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 11 (5.61%) Java Developer
9 11 (5.61%) Senior DevOps
10 10 (5.10%) Administrator
10 10 (5.10%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (4.59%) Linux Engineer
12 8 (4.08%) Senior Developer
12 8 (4.08%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.20%) REST
2 18 (9.18%) SAML
3 17 (8.67%) OpenID
4 16 (8.16%) OAuth
5 14 (7.14%) GraphQL
5 14 (7.14%) SOAP
5 14 (7.14%) YAML
6 13 (6.63%) LDAP
7 12 (6.12%) React
8 9 (4.59%) Spring
9 7 (3.57%) .NET
10 6 (3.06%) Loki
10 6 (3.06%) RESTful
11 4 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (2.04%) Kafka
11 4 (2.04%) OAuth2
11 4 (2.04%) OpenTelemetry
12 3 (1.53%) AngularJS
12 3 (1.53%) ARM Templates
12 3 (1.53%) FreeSWITCH
Miscellaneous
1 33 (16.84%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.16%) Cyber Threat
2 16 (8.16%) Public Cloud
2 16 (8.16%) Security Posture
3 13 (6.63%) Linux Command Line
3 13 (6.63%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (6.12%) Cyberattack
4 12 (6.12%) Podcast
5 11 (5.61%) PKI
6 8 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (3.57%) Management Information System
8 6 (3.06%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.55%) Data Centre
10 4 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (2.04%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.53%) FPGA
12 2 (1.02%) CSOC
12 2 (1.02%) Educational Technology
12 2 (1.02%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 78 (39.80%) Linux
2 43 (21.94%) Windows
3 13 (6.63%) VMS
4 6 (3.06%) Debian
4 6 (3.06%) Unix
4 6 (3.06%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.55%) CentOS
5 5 (2.55%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.04%) Mac OS
6 4 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.53%) Solaris
7 3 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.02%) Android
9 1 (0.51%) AIX
9 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.51%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.51%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (61.73%) CI/CD
2 99 (50.51%) DevOps
3 91 (46.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (33.67%) Mentoring
5 64 (32.65%) Agile
6 61 (31.12%) Observability
7 49 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
8 47 (23.98%) Problem-Solving
9 46 (23.47%) AI
9 46 (23.47%) Containerisation
10 43 (21.94%) Cloud Security
11 38 (19.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (15.82%) Root Cause Analysis
13 29 (14.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 26 (13.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 26 (13.27%) Scrum
15 25 (12.76%) DevSecOps
16 24 (12.24%) Cybersecurity
16 24 (12.24%) Identity Access Management
17 23 (11.73%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 136 (69.39%) Python
2 111 (56.63%) PowerShell
3 49 (25.00%) SQL
4 28 (14.29%) Java
5 23 (11.73%) Bicep
6 19 (9.69%) Go
7 18 (9.18%) JavaScript
8 16 (8.16%) Kusto Query Language
9 12 (6.12%) T-SQL
10 9 (4.59%) C#
10 9 (4.59%) PL/SQL
11 7 (3.57%) PHP
12 6 (3.06%) C++
12 6 (3.06%) Ruby
13 4 (2.04%) C
13 4 (2.04%) Perl
13 4 (2.04%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.53%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.53%) Rust
15 2 (1.02%) Korn
Qualifications
1 39 (19.90%) Security Cleared
2 36 (18.37%) SC Cleared
3 23 (11.73%) Azure Certification
4 16 (8.16%) Degree
4 16 (8.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (4.08%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.06%) CISSP
6 6 (3.06%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.55%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.04%) CompTIA CySA+
8 4 (2.04%) CREST Certified
8 4 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (2.04%) OSCP
9 3 (1.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.53%) CCSAM
9 3 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.53%) GXPN
9 3 (1.53%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.53%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.67%) NIST
2 15 (7.65%) NCSC
3 14 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (4.59%) QA
5 7 (3.57%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.53%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.53%) SLA
7 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.51%) GDPR
8 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
System Software
1 62 (31.63%) Docker
2 42 (21.43%) Active Directory
3 22 (11.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (6.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (6.12%) vSphere
5 9 (4.59%) Hyper-V
6 6 (3.06%) KVM
7 2 (1.02%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 82 (41.84%) Terraform
2 74 (37.76%) Kubernetes
3 40 (20.41%) Grafana
4 38 (19.39%) Prometheus
5 32 (16.33%) Ansible
6 19 (9.69%) Argo
7 11 (5.61%) Istio
8 9 (4.59%) Proxmox
9 6 (3.06%) Kustomize
9 6 (3.06%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (2.55%) Puppet
11 4 (2.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (2.04%) Graylog
11 4 (2.04%) Kibana
11 4 (2.04%) linkerd
11 4 (2.04%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.53%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (1.53%) Nagios
12 3 (1.53%) Progress Chef
12 3 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (33.67%) Microsoft
2 29 (14.80%) VMware
3 18 (9.18%) Oracle
4 15 (7.65%) Red Hat
5 12 (6.12%) ScienceLogic
6 11 (5.61%) Splunk
7 10 (5.10%) Cisco
8 8 (4.08%) Google
8 8 (4.08%) ServiceNow
9 6 (3.06%) CyberArk
9 6 (3.06%) New Relic
9 6 (3.06%) Veeam
10 4 (2.04%) Apple
10 4 (2.04%) Dell
10 4 (2.04%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.53%) Commvault
12 2 (1.02%) BT
12 2 (1.02%) Dynatrace
12 2 (1.02%) HP
12 2 (1.02%) Juniper