Bash Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Bash Shell
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Bash skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Bash over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 160 109
Rank change year-on-year -58 -51 +63
Permanent jobs citing Bash 196 690 1,269
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.31% 2.04% 2.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.28% 5.01% 6.03%
Number of salaries quoted 166 369 841
10th Percentile £47,365 £42,500 £43,453
25th Percentile £53,788 £47,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,783 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.50% -10.31% +1.82%
75th Percentile £85,938 £80,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £93,778 £102,500 £117,236
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -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 5,974 13,779 21,042
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.95% 40.72% 49.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,843 11,434 15,507
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £41,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Bash
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Bash as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Bash trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Bash
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Bash.

Bash salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Bash
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Bash over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Bash salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Bash
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (4.59%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.06%) Confluence
3 5 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.04%) IIS
5 3 (1.53%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.53%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.02%) nginx
7 1 (0.51%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (5.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.51%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 95 (48.47%) Azure
2 79 (40.31%) AWS
3 44 (22.45%) GCP
3 44 (22.45%) GitHub
4 25 (12.76%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (11.73%) Serverless
6 17 (8.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 16 (8.16%) SaaS
8 15 (7.65%) Datadog
9 13 (6.63%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (6.63%) Azure AKS
9 13 (6.63%) Entra ID
10 12 (6.12%) Azure Monitor
10 12 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (4.59%) Power Platform
13 8 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (4.08%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (4.08%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 20 (10.20%) Firewall
2 11 (5.61%) TCP/IP
3 9 (4.59%) DNS
3 9 (4.59%) HTTP
3 9 (4.59%) WAN
4 8 (4.08%) 5G
4 8 (4.08%) VLAN
4 8 (4.08%) VPN
5 6 (3.06%) Network Security
6 5 (2.55%) LAN
7 4 (2.04%) Broadband
7 4 (2.04%) DHCP
7 4 (2.04%) HTTPS
7 4 (2.04%) IPv4
7 4 (2.04%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.53%) Internet
9 2 (1.02%) Multicast
9 2 (1.02%) OpenVPN
9 2 (1.02%) OSPF
10 1 (0.51%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.63%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.59%) Big Data
2 9 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (4.59%) MySQL
2 9 (4.59%) Power BI
3 8 (4.08%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (4.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.55%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (2.55%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.55%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.04%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.02%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.02%) Metadata
7 2 (1.02%) Redis
7 2 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (18.37%) Jenkins
2 35 (17.86%) Git
3 19 (9.69%) GitLab
4 11 (5.61%) JIRA
5 8 (4.08%) Visual Studio
6 7 (3.57%) TeamCity
7 5 (2.55%) IBM UrbanCode
7 5 (2.55%) WiX
8 4 (2.04%) Spinnaker
9 3 (1.53%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.02%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.02%) Maven
11 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.51%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.51%) CMake
11 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.51%) Subversion
11 1 (0.51%) TestRail
General
1 55 (28.06%) Finance
2 37 (18.88%) Social Skills
3 35 (17.86%) Banking
4 18 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.57%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.06%) Marketing
7 5 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.04%) Back Office
8 4 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.53%) Retail
10 2 (1.02%) Advertising
10 2 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.02%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.02%) Law
10 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.51%) Electronics
11 1 (0.51%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.51%) Police
11 1 (0.51%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 38 (19.39%) Senior
2 34 (17.35%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (12.24%) Software Engineer
4 23 (11.73%) Lead
5 16 (8.16%) Platform Engineer
6 14 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (7.14%) Developer
7 12 (6.12%) Administrator
7 12 (6.12%) Analyst
7 12 (6.12%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (6.12%) Security Engineer
7 12 (6.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 11 (5.61%) Systems Administrator
9 10 (5.10%) Linux Administrator
9 10 (5.10%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 9 (4.59%) Site Engineer
11 8 (4.08%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (4.08%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 8 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.08%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.67%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (7.14%) HTML
3 13 (6.63%) REST
4 10 (5.10%) Pandas
5 8 (4.08%) CSS
5 8 (4.08%) SOAP
6 7 (3.57%) ARM Templates
7 6 (3.06%) React
8 5 (2.55%) .NET
8 5 (2.55%) ADO
8 5 (2.55%) AWS CDK
8 5 (2.55%) Azure Blueprints
8 5 (2.55%) GraphQL
8 5 (2.55%) Middleware
8 5 (2.55%) Node.js
9 4 (2.04%) .NET Framework
9 4 (2.04%) COM
9 4 (2.04%) LDAP
9 4 (2.04%) XML
9 4 (2.04%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.63%) Data Centre
1 13 (6.63%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (6.12%) Management Information System
2 12 (6.12%) Public Cloud
3 10 (5.10%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (4.59%) Algorithms
5 8 (4.08%) Security Posture
6 6 (3.06%) Clustering
7 5 (2.55%) Mainframe
7 5 (2.55%) Replication
8 4 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.04%) GNSS
8 4 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.04%) Self-Driving Car
8 4 (2.04%) Wiki
9 3 (1.53%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.53%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.02%) Acoustics
10 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 108 (55.10%) Linux
2 50 (25.51%) Windows
3 31 (15.82%) Unix
4 18 (9.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (8.16%) Windows Server
6 10 (5.10%) Mac OS
7 9 (4.59%) VMS
8 7 (3.57%) CentOS
9 4 (2.04%) Solaris
9 4 (2.04%) Ubuntu
9 4 (2.04%) Windows 10
10 3 (1.53%) Android
11 2 (1.02%) Debian
11 2 (1.02%) Rocky
12 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (38.78%) DevOps
2 68 (34.69%) CI/CD
3 57 (29.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (17.86%) Containerisation
4 35 (17.86%) Software Engineering
5 33 (16.84%) Agile
6 32 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (14.80%) Mentoring
8 28 (14.29%) Observability
9 27 (13.78%) Platform Engineering
10 26 (13.27%) Computer Science
11 25 (12.76%) Configuration Management
12 20 (10.20%) DevSecOps
12 20 (10.20%) SDLC
13 18 (9.18%) Task Automation
14 16 (8.16%) Cloud Security
14 16 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (8.16%) Cybersecurity
14 16 (8.16%) Data Pipeline
14 16 (8.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 163 (83.16%) Python
2 91 (46.43%) PowerShell
3 48 (24.49%) SQL
4 28 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 26 (13.27%) Java
6 22 (11.22%) C++
7 20 (10.20%) C
7 20 (10.20%) TypeScript
8 17 (8.67%) Perl
9 13 (6.63%) Bicep
10 10 (5.10%) Fortran
11 9 (4.59%) Go
11 9 (4.59%) Ruby
12 8 (4.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (3.57%) C#
13 7 (3.57%) Shell Script
14 6 (3.06%) R
15 5 (2.55%) JCL
16 4 (2.04%) Jython
17 1 (0.51%) PHP
Qualifications
1 36 (18.37%) Degree
2 20 (10.20%) Security Cleared
3 19 (9.69%) AWS Certification
4 13 (6.63%) SC Cleared
5 12 (6.12%) DV Cleared
6 11 (5.61%) Master's Degree
6 11 (5.61%) PhD
7 9 (4.59%) Azure Certification
7 9 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (3.06%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (3.06%) CISSP
10 5 (2.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (2.55%) CCSP
11 3 (1.53%) Linux+ Certification
11 3 (1.53%) RHCE
11 3 (1.53%) RHCSA
12 2 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.24%) GDPR
2 14 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 8 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.08%) NIST
4 6 (3.06%) HIPAA
5 5 (2.55%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.55%) QA
6 4 (2.04%) PMO
7 2 (1.02%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.51%) NCSC
8 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (26.02%) Docker
2 25 (12.76%) Active Directory
3 13 (6.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (5.10%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (4.08%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.55%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.04%) vSphere
8 3 (1.53%) Dovecot
8 3 (1.53%) Postfix
9 2 (1.02%) Firmware
10 1 (0.51%) LXC
10 1 (0.51%) Samba
10 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 63 (32.14%) Terraform
2 51 (26.02%) Kubernetes
3 49 (25.00%) Ansible
4 24 (12.24%) Prometheus
5 15 (7.65%) Grafana
6 14 (7.14%) Puppet
7 11 (5.61%) Progress Chef
8 9 (4.59%) Nagios
9 7 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (3.06%) Istio
10 6 (3.06%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (3.06%) SCCM
10 6 (3.06%) SCOM
11 5 (2.55%) CA Endevor
11 5 (2.55%) CASB
11 5 (2.55%) linkerd
12 4 (2.04%) Failover Clustering
12 4 (2.04%) Kibana
12 4 (2.04%) SCOrch
12 4 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (20.41%) Microsoft
2 30 (15.31%) VMware
3 27 (13.78%) Red Hat
4 10 (5.10%) Google
5 9 (4.59%) Splunk
6 7 (3.57%) SolarWinds
7 6 (3.06%) Dynatrace
8 5 (2.55%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.04%) F5
9 4 (2.04%) Okta
10 3 (1.53%) Cisco
10 3 (1.53%) Meraki
10 3 (1.53%) Ping Identity
11 2 (1.02%) ArcSight
11 2 (1.02%) Atlassian
11 2 (1.02%) Commvault
11 2 (1.02%) ESRI
11 2 (1.02%) Rapid7
12 1 (0.51%) Dell
12 1 (0.51%) Imperva