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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 213 163
Rank change year-on-year +50 -50 -21
Permanent jobs citing Bash 249 247 556
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.57% 1.55% 2.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.78% 3.53% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 132 175 447
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £42,874
25th Percentile £54,375 £47,500 £52,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £102,500
UK median annual salary £67,250 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.93% +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 4,310 7,000 12,598
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.22% 43.79% 45.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3,201 4,372 10,921
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £84,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £98,750
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 3 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 18 (7.23%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (4.02%) Apache
3 9 (3.61%) Apache Spark
3 9 (3.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (3.61%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.01%) nginx
5 4 (1.61%) CMS
6 2 (0.80%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.80%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.61%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (1.61%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.80%) Weka
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.61%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 144 (57.83%) Azure
2 129 (51.81%) AWS
3 78 (31.33%) Entra ID
4 47 (18.88%) Google Workspace
5 46 (18.47%) GitHub
6 41 (16.47%) GitHub Actions
7 40 (16.06%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (14.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 36 (14.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 27 (10.84%) Amazon EKS
11 25 (10.04%) GCP
12 21 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
13 20 (8.03%) Amazon S3
14 19 (7.63%) Azure AKS
14 19 (7.63%) Azure Monitor
14 19 (7.63%) Pulumi
15 17 (6.83%) Serverless
16 15 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
16 15 (6.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 14 (5.62%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (28.11%) Broadband
2 20 (8.03%) Firewall
3 14 (5.62%) VPN
4 12 (4.82%) Network Security
5 8 (3.21%) DNS
6 7 (2.81%) VLAN
7 6 (2.41%) TCP/IP
8 5 (2.01%) WAN
9 4 (1.61%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (1.61%) LAN
10 3 (1.20%) InfiniBand
10 3 (1.20%) SAN
10 3 (1.20%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.80%) BGP
11 2 (0.80%) DHCP
11 2 (0.80%) DMZ
11 2 (0.80%) MPLS
11 2 (0.80%) NGFW
11 2 (0.80%) OSPF
11 2 (0.80%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (11.65%) NoSQL
2 20 (8.03%) Relational Database
3 19 (7.63%) RDBMS
4 17 (6.83%) Amazon Redshift
4 17 (6.83%) Apache Iceberg
4 17 (6.83%) Tableau
5 13 (5.22%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (3.61%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (3.61%) Amazon QuickSight
6 9 (3.61%) BigQuery
6 9 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (3.61%) Metadata
7 8 (3.21%) Delta Lake
7 8 (3.21%) Looker
7 8 (3.21%) Pinecone
7 8 (3.21%) Weaviate
8 7 (2.81%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (2.81%) MySQL
9 5 (2.01%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 39 (15.66%) Jenkins
2 19 (7.63%) Jaeger
3 18 (7.23%) GitLab
4 16 (6.43%) Git
5 8 (3.21%) MLflow
6 6 (2.41%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.01%) Robot Framework
8 4 (1.61%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.61%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.61%) Vite
9 3 (1.20%) Balsamiq
9 3 (1.20%) Burp Suite
9 3 (1.20%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.20%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.20%) JMeter
9 3 (1.20%) Maven
9 3 (1.20%) Metasploit
10 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.80%) TestRail
11 1 (0.40%) git-flow
General
1 66 (26.51%) Social Skills
2 49 (19.68%) Organisational Skills
3 39 (15.66%) Finance
4 29 (11.65%) Games
5 19 (7.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (6.02%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.22%) Telecoms
8 12 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (3.61%) Retail
10 5 (2.01%) Banking
11 4 (1.61%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.61%) Back Office
11 4 (1.61%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.20%) Billing
12 3 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.20%) Military
13 2 (0.80%) Electronics
13 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.80%) Marketing
14 1 (0.40%) Law
Job Titles
1 69 (27.71%) Senior
2 38 (15.26%) Cloud Engineer
2 38 (15.26%) Lead
3 26 (10.44%) Platform Engineer
4 25 (10.04%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (8.84%) Developer
6 20 (8.03%) IAM Developer
6 20 (8.03%) Linux Engineer
7 18 (7.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (7.23%) Systems Engineer
8 15 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
9 14 (5.62%) Senior Developer
10 13 (5.22%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (5.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 12 (4.82%) Data Engineer
11 12 (4.82%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 12 (4.82%) Senior DevOps
12 11 (4.42%) Consultant
12 11 (4.42%) Senior Consultant
12 11 (4.42%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (20.08%) GraphQL
1 50 (20.08%) REST
1 50 (20.08%) SOAP
2 47 (18.88%) LDAP
2 47 (18.88%) OAuth
2 47 (18.88%) OpenID
2 47 (18.88%) SAML
3 36 (14.46%) Elastic Stack
4 19 (7.63%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (4.42%) Kafka
6 8 (3.21%) Faiss
6 8 (3.21%) PyTorch
6 8 (3.21%) TensorFlow
6 8 (3.21%) vLLM
7 7 (2.81%) Loki
8 5 (2.01%) Middleware
9 4 (1.61%) CSS
9 4 (1.61%) HTML
9 4 (1.61%) Vue
9 4 (1.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (19.68%) Cyber Threat
1 49 (19.68%) Cyberattack
2 32 (12.85%) Product Ownership
3 13 (5.22%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.42%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.42%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (4.02%) Security Posture
6 9 (3.61%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.21%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.61%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.61%) Blog
8 4 (1.61%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.61%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.20%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.80%) e-Learning
11 1 (0.40%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 111 (44.58%) Linux
2 39 (15.66%) Windows
3 35 (14.06%) Unix
4 7 (2.81%) Debian
4 7 (2.81%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.01%) CentOS
6 4 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.20%) Solaris
7 3 (1.20%) VMS
8 2 (0.80%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (51.41%) DevOps
2 113 (45.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 104 (41.77%) CI/CD
4 97 (38.96%) Roadmaps
5 93 (37.35%) Mentoring
6 67 (26.91%) Agile
7 60 (24.10%) Cybersecurity
8 54 (21.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 53 (21.29%) Identity Access Management
10 49 (19.68%) Programme Delivery
11 47 (18.88%) Regulatory Compliance
12 43 (17.27%) Containerisation
12 43 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
13 42 (16.87%) Cloud Security
13 42 (16.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 38 (15.26%) AI
15 36 (14.46%) Coaching
15 36 (14.46%) High Availability
16 34 (13.65%) Performance Optimisation
17 31 (12.45%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 166 (66.67%) Python
2 137 (55.02%) PowerShell
3 53 (21.29%) SQL
4 47 (18.88%) T-SQL
5 43 (17.27%) Go
6 34 (13.65%) Java
7 27 (10.84%) JavaScript
8 21 (8.43%) Bicep
9 9 (3.61%) C++
10 8 (3.21%) Perl
10 8 (3.21%) Scala
10 8 (3.21%) TypeScript
11 5 (2.01%) C
12 4 (1.61%) C#
12 4 (1.61%) Fortran
12 4 (1.61%) PHP
13 3 (1.20%) Groovy
13 3 (1.20%) Korn
13 3 (1.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 41 (16.47%) AWS Certification
2 34 (13.65%) Degree
3 33 (13.25%) Security Cleared
4 19 (7.63%) SC Cleared
5 16 (6.43%) Azure Certification
6 12 (4.82%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.81%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (2.41%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.61%) CCNP
10 4 (1.61%) GCIH
10 4 (1.61%) PhD
11 3 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.20%) CCSP
11 3 (1.20%) CISSP
11 3 (1.20%) CITP
11 3 (1.20%) CREST Certified
12 2 (0.80%) CCNA
12 2 (0.80%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (20.48%) NIST
2 49 (19.68%) NCSC
3 28 (11.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.02%) Data Quality
5 9 (3.61%) GDPR
6 6 (2.41%) QA
6 6 (2.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.61%) GRC
7 4 (1.61%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.61%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.20%) SLA
9 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
System Software
1 68 (27.31%) Docker
2 65 (26.10%) Active Directory
3 13 (5.22%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (4.02%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.80%) Ceph
7 2 (0.80%) Lustre
8 1 (0.40%) vCloud
8 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 119 (47.79%) Terraform
2 80 (32.13%) Kubernetes
3 70 (28.11%) Ansible
4 39 (15.66%) Prometheus
5 35 (14.06%) Grafana
6 21 (8.43%) Argo
7 19 (7.63%) Kustomize
8 11 (4.42%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (2.81%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (2.41%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (1.61%) Cilium
11 4 (1.61%) logstash
12 3 (1.20%) HP Fortify
12 3 (1.20%) Nmap
12 3 (1.20%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.80%) Puppet
14 1 (0.40%) Icinga
14 1 (0.40%) Nagios
14 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (10.44%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.63%) Google
3 13 (5.22%) Red Hat
4 11 (4.42%) VMware
5 10 (4.02%) Splunk
6 9 (3.61%) CyberArk
7 8 (3.21%) Databricks
7 8 (3.21%) Palantir
8 7 (2.81%) Cisco
9 6 (2.41%) Oracle
10 4 (1.61%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.61%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (1.20%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.20%) NetApp
11 3 (1.20%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.20%) Rapid7
11 3 (1.20%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.80%) Informatica
12 2 (0.80%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.80%) SAP