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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 116 159
Rank change year-on-year -176 +43 -34
Permanent jobs citing Bash 182 447 512
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.74% 2.74% 2.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.92% 8.73% 5.65%
Number of salaries quoted 122 149 199
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% -13.19%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £63,568 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.83% +8.00% -10.71%

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 6,228 5,120 9,065
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.42% 31.39% 38.65%
Number of salaries quoted 4,656 3,451 6,180
10th Percentile £38,984 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -1.54% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £118,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% 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 19 September 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 15 (8.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.85%) Apache
2 7 (3.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.30%) Jupyter
4 5 (2.75%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.65%) nginx
6 2 (1.10%) Confluence
6 2 (1.10%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.55%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.10%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 116 (63.74%) Azure
2 95 (52.20%) AWS
3 47 (25.82%) GitHub
4 42 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (15.93%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (13.19%) Azure Monitor
6 24 (13.19%) Serverless
7 23 (12.64%) GCP
8 22 (12.09%) PaaS
9 21 (11.54%) IaaS
10 20 (10.99%) Azure AKS
11 18 (9.89%) Azure Key Vault
12 16 (8.79%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (8.24%) Azure Functions
14 14 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 14 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 14 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
14 14 (7.69%) Entra ID
14 14 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.74%) VPN
2 19 (10.44%) Firewall
3 13 (7.14%) DNS
4 10 (5.49%) TCP/IP
5 8 (4.40%) Network Security
6 4 (2.20%) DHCP
6 4 (2.20%) Kerberos
6 4 (2.20%) SSH
7 3 (1.65%) Broadband
8 2 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (1.10%) LAN
8 2 (1.10%) NGFW
8 2 (1.10%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.10%) SSL
8 2 (1.10%) Unified Communications
8 2 (1.10%) WAN
9 1 (0.55%) DKIM
9 1 (0.55%) DMARC
9 1 (0.55%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.55%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.44%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (4.40%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (3.85%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.30%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (2.75%) MySQL
6 5 (2.75%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.65%) Big Data
7 3 (1.65%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.65%) DocumentDB
7 3 (1.65%) Redis
8 2 (1.10%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.10%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.55%) GIS
9 1 (0.55%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.55%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 30 (16.48%) Git
2 28 (15.38%) GitLab
2 28 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.59%) Maven
4 10 (5.49%) JUnit
4 10 (5.49%) Mockito
5 6 (3.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (3.30%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.20%) JIRA
7 3 (1.65%) JMeter
7 3 (1.65%) Postman
8 2 (1.10%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.10%) MSI
8 2 (1.10%) Robot Framework
8 2 (1.10%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.10%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.10%) TestRail
9 1 (0.55%) CMake
9 1 (0.55%) GDB
9 1 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 57 (31.32%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.38%) Finance
3 25 (13.74%) Public Sector
4 22 (12.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (9.34%) Law
6 8 (4.40%) Banking
6 8 (4.40%) Retail
7 6 (3.30%) Legal
8 3 (1.65%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.65%) Aviation
9 2 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Electronics
10 1 (0.55%) French Language
10 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.55%) Marketing
10 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Police
10 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (22.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (19.23%) Senior
3 25 (13.74%) Platform Engineer
4 17 (9.34%) Analyst
4 17 (9.34%) Lead
5 14 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
5 14 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 14 (7.69%) Developer
6 13 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 13 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (6.59%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (6.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 12 (6.59%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 12 (6.59%) Java Developer
8 8 (4.40%) Administrator
8 8 (4.40%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 8 (4.40%) Senior Developer
8 8 (4.40%) Senior DevOps
9 7 (3.85%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (3.85%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (46.70%) Terraform
2 16 (8.79%) React
3 14 (7.69%) YAML
4 11 (6.04%) REST
5 10 (5.49%) Spring
6 7 (3.85%) .NET
6 7 (3.85%) Loki
6 7 (3.85%) SAML
7 6 (3.30%) Kafka
7 6 (3.30%) OpenID
7 6 (3.30%) Pulumi
8 5 (2.75%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (2.75%) RESTful
9 4 (2.20%) ARM Templates
9 4 (2.20%) Node.js
9 4 (2.20%) OAuth
9 4 (2.20%) OAuth2
9 4 (2.20%) PySpark
10 3 (1.65%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (1.65%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 36 (19.78%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.79%) Linux Command Line
2 16 (8.79%) Security Posture
3 14 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 14 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (6.59%) PKI
4 12 (6.59%) Podcast
5 7 (3.85%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.75%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.65%) Blog
9 3 (1.65%) CSOC
9 3 (1.65%) FPGA
9 3 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.65%) Robotics
9 3 (1.65%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.10%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.10%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 77 (42.31%) Linux
2 42 (23.08%) Windows
3 13 (7.14%) VMS
4 8 (4.40%) Ubuntu
5 7 (3.85%) Mac OS
6 6 (3.30%) Debian
6 6 (3.30%) Unix
7 4 (2.20%) Apple iOS
7 4 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (2.20%) Solaris
8 3 (1.65%) CentOS
8 3 (1.65%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (1.10%) Windows Server
9 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.55%) AIX
10 1 (0.55%) Android
10 1 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (69.78%) CI/CD
2 100 (54.95%) DevOps
3 96 (52.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (35.71%) Agile
4 65 (35.71%) Mentoring
5 62 (34.07%) Observability
6 57 (31.32%) Containerisation
7 54 (29.67%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (27.47%) Platform Engineering
9 48 (26.37%) AI
10 44 (24.18%) Cloud Security
11 37 (20.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (17.03%) Root Cause Analysis
13 30 (16.48%) DevSecOps
14 29 (15.93%) Analytics
14 29 (15.93%) Scrum
14 29 (15.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 29 (15.93%) Technical Leadership
15 22 (12.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 22 (12.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 135 (74.18%) Python
2 94 (51.65%) PowerShell
3 45 (24.73%) SQL
4 30 (16.48%) Java
5 28 (15.38%) Bicep
6 21 (11.54%) Go
7 19 (10.44%) JavaScript
8 17 (9.34%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (6.04%) PL/SQL
10 8 (4.40%) C#
11 5 (2.75%) C++
11 5 (2.75%) Ruby
12 4 (2.20%) PHP
12 4 (2.20%) Rust
13 3 (1.65%) C
14 2 (1.10%) Groovy
14 2 (1.10%) Objective-C
14 2 (1.10%) Perl
14 2 (1.10%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 49 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 43 (23.63%) SC Cleared
3 20 (10.99%) Azure Certification
4 16 (8.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (8.24%) Degree
6 8 (4.40%) AWS Certification
6 8 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (3.30%) CISSP
8 6 (3.30%) DV Cleared
8 6 (3.30%) GIAC
9 5 (2.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (2.75%) CompTIA CySA+
10 4 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.65%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.65%) CCNA CyberOps
11 3 (1.65%) CEH
11 3 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.65%) GCFA
11 3 (1.65%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.59%) QA
2 7 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.85%) NCSC
2 7 (3.85%) NIST
3 4 (2.20%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.20%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.10%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 72 (39.56%) Docker
2 27 (14.84%) Active Directory
3 23 (12.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (6.59%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (6.59%) vSphere
5 8 (4.40%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.75%) KVM
7 4 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.10%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 84 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 39 (21.43%) Grafana
3 37 (20.33%) Prometheus
4 24 (13.19%) Ansible
5 19 (10.44%) Argo
6 13 (7.14%) Istio
7 7 (3.85%) Kustomize
8 6 (3.30%) Proxmox
8 6 (3.30%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (2.20%) Graylog
10 4 (2.20%) linkerd
10 4 (2.20%) Puppet
10 4 (2.20%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.65%) Cilium
11 3 (1.65%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (1.10%) Kibana
12 2 (1.10%) Nagios
Vendors
1 60 (32.97%) Microsoft
2 26 (14.29%) VMware
3 20 (10.99%) Oracle
4 13 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 13 (7.14%) Splunk
5 12 (6.59%) Google
5 12 (6.59%) ScienceLogic
6 8 (4.40%) CyberArk
6 8 (4.40%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.85%) Cisco
8 5 (2.75%) Fortinet
8 5 (2.75%) New Relic
8 5 (2.75%) Veeam
9 3 (1.65%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (1.65%) NVIDIA
9 3 (1.65%) Okta
10 2 (1.10%) Apple
10 2 (1.10%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.10%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.10%) Palo Alto