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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 127 179
Rank change year-on-year -76 +52 -53
Permanent jobs citing Bash 244 437 611
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.23% 2.85% 1.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.63% 7.50% 4.36%
Number of salaries quoted 129 143 325
10th Percentile £43,800 £47,284 £42,700
25th Percentile £50,468 £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 £75,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,000 £99,389
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 5,269 5,826 14,013
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.47% 38.00% 40.58%
Number of salaries quoted 3,889 4,037 11,599
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,551
25th Percentile £48,289 £49,250 £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 £101,250
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 16 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 21 (8.61%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.74%) Apache
3 12 (4.92%) Apache Spark
4 11 (4.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.05%) Jupyter
6 4 (1.64%) nginx
7 3 (1.23%) CMS
7 3 (1.23%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.82%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.41%) Confluence
9 1 (0.41%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.23%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (1.23%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.23%) Shopify
2 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 143 (58.61%) Azure
2 119 (48.77%) AWS
3 61 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 49 (20.08%) Google Workspace
5 39 (15.98%) GitHub
6 31 (12.70%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (11.48%) Amazon S3
8 25 (10.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 25 (10.25%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (9.84%) Pulumi
10 20 (8.20%) Amazon EC2
11 19 (7.79%) GCP
11 19 (7.79%) Serverless
12 17 (6.97%) IaaS
12 17 (6.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 16 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
13 16 (6.56%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (6.15%) Azure AKS
14 15 (6.15%) SaaS
15 13 (5.33%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 68 (27.87%) Broadband
2 31 (12.70%) VPN
3 28 (11.48%) Firewall
4 12 (4.92%) DNS
5 8 (3.28%) Network Security
6 6 (2.46%) VLAN
6 6 (2.46%) VoIP
7 5 (2.05%) DMZ
7 5 (2.05%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (2.05%) STUN
8 3 (1.23%) DHCP
8 3 (1.23%) SSL
8 3 (1.23%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.82%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.82%) LAN
9 2 (0.82%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.82%) SAN
9 2 (0.82%) WAN
9 2 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.79%) NoSQL
1 19 (7.79%) Relational Database
2 18 (7.38%) RDBMS
3 17 (6.97%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (6.15%) Amazon Redshift
4 15 (6.15%) Apache Iceberg
4 15 (6.15%) Tableau
5 14 (5.74%) SQL Server
6 12 (4.92%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (3.69%) BigQuery
9 8 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (3.28%) Delta Lake
9 8 (3.28%) DynamoDB
9 8 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (3.28%) Looker
9 8 (3.28%) MySQL
9 8 (3.28%) Pinecone
9 8 (3.28%) Weaviate
10 7 (2.87%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 29 (11.89%) Git
2 24 (9.84%) GitLab
3 23 (9.43%) Jenkins
4 18 (7.38%) Jaeger
5 8 (3.28%) Maven
5 8 (3.28%) MLflow
6 6 (2.46%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.46%) JIRA
7 5 (2.05%) JUnit
7 5 (2.05%) Mockito
7 5 (2.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.64%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.23%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.23%) Postman
9 3 (1.23%) Vite
10 2 (0.82%) JMeter
10 2 (0.82%) MSI
10 2 (0.82%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.41%) Eclipse
General
1 65 (26.64%) Social Skills
2 54 (22.13%) Organisational Skills
3 29 (11.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (10.25%) Games
5 17 (6.97%) Finance
5 17 (6.97%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.51%) Retail
7 6 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.46%) Law
8 4 (1.64%) Banking
8 4 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.23%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.23%) Aviation
9 3 (1.23%) Legal
9 3 (1.23%) Marketing
10 2 (0.82%) Billing
11 1 (0.41%) French Language
11 1 (0.41%) Publishing
11 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (27.46%) Senior
2 41 (16.80%) Lead
3 29 (11.89%) Platform Engineer
4 28 (11.48%) DevOps Engineer
5 27 (11.07%) Cloud Engineer
5 27 (11.07%) Developer
6 21 (8.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (7.79%) Systems Engineer
8 18 (7.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 17 (6.97%) AWS Engineer
9 17 (6.97%) IAM Developer
10 14 (5.74%) Senior DevOps
11 13 (5.33%) Data Engineer
12 12 (4.92%) Consultant
13 11 (4.51%) Azure Engineer
13 11 (4.51%) Senior Developer
14 10 (4.10%) Administrator
14 10 (4.10%) Support Engineer
14 10 (4.10%) Systems Administrator
15 9 (3.69%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (20.90%) REST
1 51 (20.90%) SAML
2 50 (20.49%) LDAP
2 50 (20.49%) OpenID
3 49 (20.08%) GraphQL
3 49 (20.08%) OAuth
3 49 (20.08%) SOAP
4 23 (9.43%) Elastic Stack
5 19 (7.79%) OpenTelemetry
6 12 (4.92%) YAML
7 10 (4.10%) Kafka
7 10 (4.10%) Loki
8 8 (3.28%) Faiss
8 8 (3.28%) PyTorch
8 8 (3.28%) React
8 8 (3.28%) TensorFlow
8 8 (3.28%) vLLM
9 6 (2.46%) RESTful
9 6 (2.46%) Spring
10 5 (2.05%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 53 (21.72%) Cyber Threat
2 49 (20.08%) Cyberattack
3 29 (11.89%) Cloud Native
4 14 (5.74%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (5.33%) Product Ownership
6 12 (4.92%) Security Posture
7 11 (4.51%) Linux Command Line
8 10 (4.10%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (4.10%) Public Cloud
9 9 (3.69%) Onboarding
10 8 (3.28%) Management Information System
11 7 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (2.87%) Private Cloud
12 6 (2.46%) Data Centre
12 6 (2.46%) Podcast
13 5 (2.05%) PKI
14 3 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
15 2 (0.82%) Clustering
15 2 (0.82%) Hackathon
15 2 (0.82%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 90 (36.89%) Linux
2 32 (13.11%) Windows
3 19 (7.79%) Unix
4 8 (3.28%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.87%) Debian
5 7 (2.87%) VMS
6 4 (1.64%) CentOS
6 4 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.23%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.23%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.82%) Solaris
9 1 (0.41%) AIX
9 1 (0.41%) Android
9 1 (0.41%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.41%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (49.59%) CI/CD
2 112 (45.90%) Mentoring
3 110 (45.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 109 (44.67%) DevOps
5 86 (35.25%) Roadmaps
6 72 (29.51%) Agile
7 57 (23.36%) Cybersecurity
8 56 (22.95%) Observability
9 55 (22.54%) Identity Access Management
10 52 (21.31%) Containerisation
11 49 (20.08%) Platform Engineering
11 49 (20.08%) Programme Delivery
11 49 (20.08%) Regulatory Compliance
12 43 (17.62%) AI
13 41 (16.80%) Cloud Security
14 39 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
15 34 (13.93%) GitOps
15 34 (13.93%) High Availability
16 33 (13.52%) Continuous Improvement
17 30 (12.30%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 152 (62.30%) Python
2 133 (54.51%) PowerShell
3 72 (29.51%) SQL
4 49 (20.08%) T-SQL
5 46 (18.85%) Java
6 42 (17.21%) Go
7 30 (12.30%) JavaScript
8 16 (6.56%) Bicep
9 9 (3.69%) C#
9 9 (3.69%) PHP
10 8 (3.28%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (3.28%) Scala
11 6 (2.46%) C++
12 5 (2.05%) Perl
12 5 (2.05%) PL/SQL
12 5 (2.05%) Ruby
12 5 (2.05%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.23%) C
13 3 (1.23%) Groovy
13 3 (1.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 31 (12.70%) Security Cleared
2 28 (11.48%) AWS Certification
2 28 (11.48%) SC Cleared
3 27 (11.07%) Degree
4 16 (6.56%) Azure Certification
5 10 (4.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.87%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.64%) CISSP
8 4 (1.64%) CREST Certified
8 4 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.64%) OSCP
9 3 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.23%) CCSAM
9 3 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (1.23%) GPEN
9 3 (1.23%) GXPN
9 3 (1.23%) OSCE
10 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (20.90%) NIST
2 49 (20.08%) NCSC
3 30 (12.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.51%) Data Quality
5 10 (4.10%) QA
6 7 (2.87%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.23%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.23%) SLA
8 1 (0.41%) GDPR
8 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 79 (32.38%) Docker
2 74 (30.33%) Active Directory
3 13 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.46%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (2.46%) vSphere
5 5 (2.05%) KVM
6 2 (0.82%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 95 (38.93%) Terraform
2 82 (33.61%) Kubernetes
3 54 (22.13%) Prometheus
4 45 (18.44%) Ansible
5 38 (15.57%) Grafana
6 36 (14.75%) Argo
7 24 (9.84%) Kustomize
8 12 (4.92%) Proxmox
9 10 (4.10%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (3.69%) Istio
11 5 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.64%) Graylog
12 4 (1.64%) Kibana
12 4 (1.64%) Puppet
12 4 (1.64%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (1.23%) HP Fortify
13 3 (1.23%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (1.23%) linkerd
13 3 (1.23%) Nagios
Vendors
1 51 (20.90%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.84%) Google
3 23 (9.43%) VMware
4 14 (5.74%) Red Hat
5 10 (4.10%) Splunk
6 9 (3.69%) Oracle
7 8 (3.28%) Cisco
7 8 (3.28%) Databricks
7 8 (3.28%) Palantir
8 7 (2.87%) CyberArk
9 6 (2.46%) ScienceLogic
10 5 (2.05%) Veeam
11 4 (1.64%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.23%) Apple
12 3 (1.23%) Commvault
12 3 (1.23%) Dell
13 2 (0.82%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.82%) BT
13 2 (0.82%) Fortinet
13 2 (0.82%) Palo Alto