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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 122 177
Rank change year-on-year -74 +55 -56
Permanent jobs citing Bash 241 447 599
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.26% 2.98% 1.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.72% 7.55% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 132 152 330
10th Percentile £45,125 £45,898 £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 £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,000 £101,316
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 5,105 5,917 13,634
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.59% 39.51% 40.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,777 4,096 11,479
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,500
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 £100,000
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 1 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 23 (9.54%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (6.22%) Apache
3 13 (5.39%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.07%) Jupyter
5 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.66%) nginx
6 3 (1.24%) CMS
7 2 (0.83%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.83%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.41%) Confluence
8 1 (0.41%) Skype for Business
8 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
1 138 (57.26%) Azure
2 124 (51.45%) AWS
3 65 (26.97%) Entra ID
4 52 (21.58%) Google Workspace
5 34 (14.11%) GitHub
6 29 (12.03%) Amazon S3
7 28 (11.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 27 (11.20%) GitHub Actions
9 25 (10.37%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (9.96%) Pulumi
11 23 (9.54%) Amazon EC2
12 20 (8.30%) Amazon EKS
12 20 (8.30%) GCP
13 19 (7.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 17 (7.05%) AWS CloudFormation
15 16 (6.64%) Azure AKS
16 14 (5.81%) SaaS
17 13 (5.39%) Serverless
18 12 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
18 12 (4.98%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 72 (29.88%) Broadband
2 29 (12.03%) Firewall
3 25 (10.37%) VPN
4 12 (4.98%) DNS
5 7 (2.90%) 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%) SSL
9 2 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.83%) DHCP
9 2 (0.83%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.83%) LAN
9 2 (0.83%) NGFW
9 2 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.83%) SAN
9 2 (0.83%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.88%) NoSQL
1 19 (7.88%) Relational Database
2 18 (7.47%) RDBMS
3 17 (7.05%) Amazon Redshift
3 17 (7.05%) Apache Iceberg
3 17 (7.05%) Tableau
4 15 (6.22%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (5.39%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (5.39%) SQL Server
6 11 (4.56%) Amazon RDS
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 QuickSight
9 8 (3.32%) DynamoDB
9 8 (3.32%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (9.13%) GitLab
2 21 (8.71%) Git
2 21 (8.71%) Jenkins
3 18 (7.47%) Jaeger
4 9 (3.73%) MLflow
5 8 (3.32%) Maven
6 6 (2.49%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.49%) JIRA
7 5 (2.07%) JUnit
7 5 (2.07%) Mockito
7 5 (2.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (1.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.66%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.24%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.24%) Vite
10 2 (0.83%) MSI
10 2 (0.83%) Postman
10 2 (0.83%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.41%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.41%) JMeter
General
1 64 (26.56%) Social Skills
2 58 (24.07%) Organisational Skills
3 29 (12.03%) Games
4 22 (9.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (7.05%) Public Sector
6 16 (6.64%) Finance
7 11 (4.56%) Retail
8 10 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.07%) Banking
11 4 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.24%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.24%) Aviation
12 3 (1.24%) Legal
12 3 (1.24%) Marketing
13 2 (0.83%) Billing
14 1 (0.41%) French Language
14 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 66 (27.39%) Senior
2 44 (18.26%) Lead
3 30 (12.45%) Cloud Engineer
3 30 (12.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (12.45%) Platform Engineer
4 27 (11.20%) Developer
5 21 (8.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 20 (8.30%) AWS Engineer
6 20 (8.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 20 (8.30%) Systems Engineer
7 18 (7.47%) IAM Developer
8 15 (6.22%) Senior DevOps
9 13 (5.39%) Azure Engineer
9 13 (5.39%) Consultant
9 13 (5.39%) Data Engineer
10 12 (4.98%) Senior Developer
11 11 (4.56%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 10 (4.15%) Linux Engineer
12 10 (4.15%) Support Engineer
13 9 (3.73%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (22.82%) REST
2 54 (22.41%) SAML
3 53 (21.99%) GraphQL
3 53 (21.99%) LDAP
3 53 (21.99%) OpenID
3 53 (21.99%) SOAP
4 52 (21.58%) OAuth
5 23 (9.54%) Elastic Stack
6 18 (7.47%) OpenTelemetry
7 11 (4.56%) Loki
7 11 (4.56%) YAML
8 10 (4.15%) Kafka
9 9 (3.73%) Faiss
9 9 (3.73%) PyTorch
9 9 (3.73%) TensorFlow
9 9 (3.73%) vLLM
10 7 (2.90%) React
10 7 (2.90%) Spring
11 5 (2.07%) FreeSWITCH
11 5 (2.07%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 57 (23.65%) Cyber Threat
2 53 (21.99%) Cyberattack
3 23 (9.54%) Cloud Native
4 14 (5.81%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.98%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (4.56%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (3.73%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (3.32%) Management Information System
9 7 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.90%) Private Cloud
10 6 (2.49%) Security Posture
11 5 (2.07%) Data Centre
11 5 (2.07%) PKI
12 4 (1.66%) Public Cloud
13 3 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
14 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
14 2 (0.83%) Clustering
14 2 (0.83%) Marketing Technology
14 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 92 (38.17%) Linux
2 25 (10.37%) Windows
3 19 (7.88%) Unix
4 8 (3.32%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.07%) Debian
6 4 (1.66%) CentOS
6 4 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.24%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.83%) 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
9 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (48.55%) CI/CD
2 111 (46.06%) Mentoring
3 105 (43.57%) DevOps
4 104 (43.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 87 (36.10%) Roadmaps
6 65 (26.97%) Agile
7 60 (24.90%) Cybersecurity
8 57 (23.65%) Identity Access Management
9 53 (21.99%) Programme Delivery
10 52 (21.58%) Regulatory Compliance
11 50 (20.75%) Containerisation
12 49 (20.33%) Observability
13 47 (19.50%) Platform Engineering
14 39 (16.18%) Cloud Security
15 38 (15.77%) High Availability
16 34 (14.11%) AI
17 32 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
18 30 (12.45%) GitOps
18 30 (12.45%) Performance Optimisation
19 29 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 150 (62.24%) Python
2 130 (53.94%) PowerShell
3 67 (27.80%) SQL
4 52 (21.58%) T-SQL
5 46 (19.09%) Java
6 41 (17.01%) Go
7 29 (12.03%) JavaScript
8 11 (4.56%) Bicep
9 9 (3.73%) Scala
10 8 (3.32%) C#
11 7 (2.90%) C++
11 7 (2.90%) PHP
12 5 (2.07%) Perl
12 5 (2.07%) PL/SQL
12 5 (2.07%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.66%) C
14 3 (1.24%) Groovy
14 3 (1.24%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.24%) Ruby
14 3 (1.24%) Rust
Qualifications
1 30 (12.45%) Degree
2 29 (12.03%) Security Cleared
3 26 (10.79%) AWS Certification
3 26 (10.79%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.56%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.66%) CREST Certified
7 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.66%) OSCP
8 3 (1.24%) CCSAM
8 3 (1.24%) CISSP
8 3 (1.24%) GPEN
8 3 (1.24%) GXPN
8 3 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.24%) OSCE
9 2 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.83%) CISM
9 2 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (23.24%) NIST
2 53 (21.99%) NCSC
3 30 (12.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (4.98%) 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 77 (31.95%) Docker
2 72 (29.88%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.49%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.07%) KVM
6 2 (0.83%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 92 (38.17%) Terraform
2 82 (34.02%) Kubernetes
3 51 (21.16%) Prometheus
4 43 (17.84%) Ansible
5 36 (14.94%) Grafana
6 32 (13.28%) Argo
7 22 (9.13%) Kustomize
8 12 (4.98%) Proxmox
9 10 (4.15%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (2.07%) Istio
11 4 (1.66%) Graylog
11 4 (1.66%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.24%) HP Fortify
12 3 (1.24%) Kibana
12 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (1.24%) Puppet
13 2 (0.83%) CASB
13 2 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.83%) logstash
13 2 (0.83%) Nagios
Vendors
1 41 (17.01%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.54%) Google
3 16 (6.64%) VMware
4 13 (5.39%) Red Hat
5 9 (3.73%) Databricks
5 9 (3.73%) Palantir
6 8 (3.32%) Cisco
6 8 (3.32%) CyberArk
6 8 (3.32%) Oracle
6 8 (3.32%) Splunk
7 5 (2.07%) Veeam
8 4 (1.66%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.24%) Dell
10 2 (0.83%) Apple
10 2 (0.83%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.83%) BT
10 2 (0.83%) Commvault
10 2 (0.83%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.83%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.83%) Palo Alto