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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 216 169
Rank change year-on-year +51 -47 -38
Permanent jobs citing Bash 248 228 527
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.51% 1.52% 1.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.59% 3.38% 4.22%
Number of salaries quoted 124 177 424
10th Percentile £44,675 £37,500 £43,225
25th Percentile £52,145 £48,306 £51,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £84,063
90th Percentile £98,125 £93,778 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -6.40%

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 4,438 6,747 12,474
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.99% 44.99% 44.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,238 4,433 10,873
10th Percentile £38,691 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 27 February 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 (7.66%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (4.03%) Apache
2 10 (4.03%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (2.82%) SharePoint
5 5 (2.02%) nginx
6 4 (1.61%) CMS
7 3 (1.21%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.81%) SAS
9 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.61%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.61%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.81%) Weka
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.61%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 148 (59.68%) Azure
2 127 (51.21%) AWS
3 83 (33.47%) Entra ID
4 58 (23.39%) Google Workspace
5 44 (17.74%) GitHub
6 39 (15.73%) GitHub Actions
7 33 (13.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 33 (13.31%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (10.48%) GCP
10 24 (9.68%) Amazon EKS
11 21 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (8.06%) Amazon S3
13 19 (7.66%) Pulumi
14 15 (6.05%) Azure AKS
14 15 (6.05%) SaaS
14 15 (6.05%) Serverless
15 14 (5.65%) AWS Lambda
15 14 (5.65%) Azure Monitor
15 14 (5.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 81 (32.66%) Broadband
2 25 (10.08%) Firewall
3 18 (7.26%) VPN
4 11 (4.44%) Network Security
4 11 (4.44%) VLAN
5 5 (2.02%) DMZ
5 5 (2.02%) DNS
5 5 (2.02%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (2.02%) STUN
5 5 (2.02%) VoIP
6 4 (1.61%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.61%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.61%) WAN
7 3 (1.21%) LAN
7 3 (1.21%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.81%) BGP
8 2 (0.81%) DHCP
8 2 (0.81%) MPLS
8 2 (0.81%) NGFW
8 2 (0.81%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.89%) NoSQL
2 19 (7.66%) RDBMS
2 19 (7.66%) Relational Database
3 18 (7.26%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (7.26%) Apache Iceberg
3 18 (7.26%) Tableau
4 10 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (4.03%) BigQuery
4 10 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.63%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (3.63%) Amazon QuickSight
5 9 (3.63%) Delta Lake
5 9 (3.63%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (3.63%) Looker
5 9 (3.63%) Metadata
5 9 (3.63%) Pinecone
5 9 (3.63%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.63%) Weaviate
6 8 (3.23%) MySQL
7 7 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 30 (12.10%) Jenkins
2 19 (7.66%) Jaeger
3 18 (7.26%) Git
4 16 (6.45%) GitLab
5 9 (3.63%) MLflow
6 6 (2.42%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.02%) Robot Framework
7 5 (2.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (2.02%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.61%) Vite
9 3 (1.21%) Balsamiq
9 3 (1.21%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.21%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.21%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.21%) JIRA
9 3 (1.21%) JMeter
9 3 (1.21%) Maven
10 2 (0.81%) TestRail
11 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.40%) git-flow
General
1 73 (29.44%) Social Skills
2 62 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 35 (14.11%) Games
4 31 (12.50%) Finance
5 20 (8.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.65%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.44%) Retail
8 9 (3.63%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.02%) Banking
11 4 (1.61%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.61%) Back Office
11 4 (1.61%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.21%) Billing
12 3 (1.21%) Military
12 3 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.40%) Local Government
13 1 (0.40%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 75 (30.24%) Senior
2 38 (15.32%) Lead
3 37 (14.92%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (10.08%) Developer
4 25 (10.08%) Platform Engineer
5 23 (9.27%) IAM Developer
6 22 (8.87%) Systems Engineer
7 20 (8.06%) DevOps Engineer
8 18 (7.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (6.45%) Consultant
10 15 (6.05%) AWS Engineer
10 15 (6.05%) Linux Engineer
10 15 (6.05%) Senior Developer
11 13 (5.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 13 (5.24%) Data Engineer
12 12 (4.84%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 12 (4.84%) Senior Consultant
12 12 (4.84%) Senior DevOps
13 11 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
14 10 (4.03%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (24.60%) GraphQL
1 61 (24.60%) REST
1 61 (24.60%) SOAP
2 58 (23.39%) LDAP
2 58 (23.39%) OAuth
2 58 (23.39%) OpenID
2 58 (23.39%) SAML
3 34 (13.71%) Elastic Stack
4 19 (7.66%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (4.44%) Kafka
6 9 (3.63%) Faiss
6 9 (3.63%) PyTorch
6 9 (3.63%) TensorFlow
6 9 (3.63%) vLLM
7 7 (2.82%) Loki
8 5 (2.02%) CSS
8 5 (2.02%) FreeSWITCH
8 5 (2.02%) HTML
8 5 (2.02%) Middleware
9 4 (1.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (24.60%) Cyber Threat
2 60 (24.19%) Cyberattack
3 29 (11.69%) Product Ownership
4 13 (5.24%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (4.03%) Cloud Native
6 9 (3.63%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (3.63%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (2.42%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.42%) Security Posture
9 5 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.02%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.61%) Blog
10 4 (1.61%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.81%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.81%) Clustering
12 2 (0.81%) e-Learning
12 2 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 103 (41.53%) Linux
2 33 (13.31%) Windows
3 30 (12.10%) Unix
4 10 (4.03%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.82%) CentOS
6 6 (2.42%) Debian
7 3 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.81%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.40%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.40%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (47.18%) DevOps
2 105 (42.34%) Roadmaps
3 104 (41.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 101 (40.73%) CI/CD
5 100 (40.32%) Mentoring
6 72 (29.03%) Cybersecurity
7 65 (26.21%) Identity Access Management
8 62 (25.00%) Agile
9 60 (24.19%) Programme Delivery
10 58 (23.39%) Regulatory Compliance
11 48 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 42 (16.94%) Containerisation
13 39 (15.73%) High Availability
14 38 (15.32%) Cloud Security
14 38 (15.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 37 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
16 35 (14.11%) AI
16 35 (14.11%) Performance Optimisation
17 30 (12.10%) Coaching
18 28 (11.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 151 (60.89%) Python
2 141 (56.85%) PowerShell
3 59 (23.79%) SQL
4 58 (23.39%) T-SQL
5 46 (18.55%) Go
6 32 (12.90%) Java
7 28 (11.29%) JavaScript
8 16 (6.45%) Bicep
9 9 (3.63%) Scala
10 7 (2.82%) C++
11 6 (2.42%) Perl
11 6 (2.42%) TypeScript
12 5 (2.02%) PHP
13 4 (1.61%) C#
14 3 (1.21%) C
14 3 (1.21%) Groovy
14 3 (1.21%) VBScript
15 2 (0.81%) Fortran
16 1 (0.40%) Korn
Qualifications
1 35 (14.11%) AWS Certification
1 35 (14.11%) Degree
2 25 (10.08%) Security Cleared
3 16 (6.45%) Azure Certification
4 15 (6.05%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.03%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.61%) CREST Certified
7 4 (1.61%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.21%) CCNP
8 3 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.21%) CITP
8 3 (1.21%) LPIC
9 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.81%) Linux+ Certification
9 2 (0.81%) PhD
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.40%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (25.00%) NIST
2 60 (24.19%) NCSC
3 31 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.03%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.82%) QA
6 6 (2.42%) SOC 2
7 5 (2.02%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.61%) GDPR
8 4 (1.61%) GRC
9 3 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.81%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 78 (31.45%) Active Directory
2 68 (27.42%) Docker
3 11 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.21%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.81%) Ceph
7 2 (0.81%) Lustre
7 2 (0.81%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.81%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.40%) KVM
8 1 (0.40%) vCloud
8 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 111 (44.76%) Terraform
2 77 (31.05%) Kubernetes
3 62 (25.00%) Ansible
4 40 (16.13%) Prometheus
5 33 (13.31%) Grafana
6 21 (8.47%) Argo
7 19 (7.66%) Kustomize
8 9 (3.63%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (2.42%) Proxmox
11 4 (1.61%) Cilium
11 4 (1.61%) logstash
12 3 (1.21%) HP Fortify
12 3 (1.21%) Puppet
12 3 (1.21%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.81%) Kibana
13 2 (0.81%) Nagios
14 1 (0.40%) CASB
14 1 (0.40%) Icinga
14 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 32 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.66%) Google
3 12 (4.84%) Red Hat
4 11 (4.44%) Splunk
4 11 (4.44%) VMware
5 9 (3.63%) Cisco
5 9 (3.63%) CyberArk
5 9 (3.63%) Databricks
5 9 (3.63%) Palantir
6 6 (2.42%) Oracle
7 3 (1.21%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.21%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.21%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (1.21%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.81%) Cloudera
8 2 (0.81%) Informatica
8 2 (0.81%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.81%) SolarWinds
8 2 (0.81%) Talend
9 1 (0.40%) Commvault