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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 125 175
Rank change year-on-year -112 +50 -49
Permanent jobs citing Bash 220 452 589
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.03% 2.73% 1.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.83% 7.63% 4.64%
Number of salaries quoted 138 160 307
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,306 £44,738
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,694 £93,875 £95,500
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 5,743 5,922 12,706
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.90% 35.81% 39.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,357 4,136 10,387
10th Percentile £39,000 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £107,500
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 13 July 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 17 (7.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (5.91%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (4.55%) Apache
4 8 (3.64%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.27%) Jupyter
6 3 (1.36%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.91%) nginx
7 2 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.45%) CMS
8 1 (0.45%) Confluence
8 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.45%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.91%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.45%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 135 (61.36%) Azure
2 100 (45.45%) AWS
3 46 (20.91%) GitHub
4 40 (18.18%) Entra ID
5 39 (17.73%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (12.27%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (11.82%) Google Workspace
8 25 (11.36%) IaaS
9 23 (10.45%) Serverless
10 21 (9.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 21 (9.55%) Amazon S3
10 21 (9.55%) PaaS
11 20 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
11 20 (9.09%) GCP
12 16 (7.27%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (7.27%) Azure AKS
13 14 (6.36%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (6.36%) Azure Key Vault
13 14 (6.36%) SaaS
14 13 (5.91%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 38 (17.27%) VPN
2 33 (15.00%) Broadband
3 29 (13.18%) Firewall
4 13 (5.91%) DNS
5 8 (3.64%) Network Security
6 6 (2.73%) VLAN
6 6 (2.73%) VoIP
7 5 (2.27%) DMZ
7 5 (2.27%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (2.27%) STUN
7 5 (2.27%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.82%) DHCP
9 3 (1.36%) SSH
9 3 (1.36%) SSL
10 2 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.91%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.91%) LAN
10 2 (0.91%) SAN
10 2 (0.91%) WAN
10 2 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (6.36%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.91%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (3.64%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (3.64%) MySQL
4 8 (3.64%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.18%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (3.18%) Apache Iceberg
5 7 (3.18%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.18%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.18%) Tableau
6 6 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.73%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.73%) RDBMS
7 5 (2.27%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.82%) Delta Lake
8 4 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.82%) Pinecone
8 4 (1.82%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 30 (13.64%) Git
2 25 (11.36%) Jenkins
3 22 (10.00%) GitLab
4 8 (3.64%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.18%) Jaeger
5 7 (3.18%) JIRA
5 7 (3.18%) Maven
6 6 (2.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (2.27%) JUnit
7 5 (2.27%) Mockito
7 5 (2.27%) Postman
7 5 (2.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (1.82%) JMeter
8 4 (1.82%) MLflow
9 3 (1.36%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.91%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.91%) MSI
10 2 (0.91%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.45%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
General
1 61 (27.73%) Social Skills
2 31 (14.09%) Organisational Skills
3 23 (10.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (9.55%) Finance
5 18 (8.18%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.91%) Games
7 12 (5.45%) Law
8 11 (5.00%) Retail
9 7 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.82%) Banking
11 3 (1.36%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.36%) Aviation
11 3 (1.36%) Legal
11 3 (1.36%) Marketing
11 3 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.45%) French Language
12 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.45%) Publishing
12 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (25.00%) Senior
2 34 (15.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (12.73%) Platform Engineer
4 23 (10.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 23 (10.45%) Lead
5 19 (8.64%) Cloud Engineer
6 17 (7.73%) Developer
7 14 (6.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 14 (6.36%) Senior DevOps
8 13 (5.91%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (5.45%) Administrator
9 12 (5.45%) Analyst
9 12 (5.45%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (5.45%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 11 (5.00%) Systems Administrator
11 10 (4.55%) Support Engineer
12 9 (4.09%) Data Engineer
12 9 (4.09%) Systems Engineer
13 8 (3.64%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 8 (3.64%) IAM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (13.18%) SAML
2 28 (12.73%) OpenID
2 28 (12.73%) REST
3 27 (12.27%) LDAP
3 27 (12.27%) OAuth
4 26 (11.82%) GraphQL
4 26 (11.82%) SOAP
5 14 (6.36%) YAML
6 11 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (3.64%) Kafka
7 8 (3.64%) Loki
7 8 (3.64%) OpenTelemetry
7 8 (3.64%) React
8 7 (3.18%) .NET
9 6 (2.73%) RESTful
10 5 (2.27%) FreeSWITCH
10 5 (2.27%) Spring
11 4 (1.82%) Faiss
11 4 (1.82%) TensorFlow
11 4 (1.82%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.55%) Cloud Native
2 30 (13.64%) Cyber Threat
3 26 (11.82%) Cyberattack
4 16 (7.27%) Public Cloud
4 16 (7.27%) Security Posture
5 15 (6.82%) Linux Command Line
6 13 (5.91%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (5.45%) Podcast
8 10 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (4.55%) Onboarding
9 8 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (3.64%) Management Information System
10 7 (3.18%) Private Cloud
10 7 (3.18%) Product Ownership
11 6 (2.73%) PKI
12 5 (2.27%) Data Centre
13 3 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
14 2 (0.91%) Educational Technology
14 2 (0.91%) Hackathon
14 2 (0.91%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 82 (37.27%) Linux
2 42 (19.09%) Windows
3 13 (5.91%) VMS
4 11 (5.00%) Unix
5 8 (3.64%) Debian
5 8 (3.64%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.27%) CentOS
6 5 (2.27%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.36%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.36%) Solaris
8 3 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.45%) AIX
9 1 (0.45%) Android
9 1 (0.45%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.45%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (57.27%) CI/CD
2 110 (50.00%) DevOps
3 107 (48.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 83 (37.73%) Mentoring
5 67 (30.45%) Agile
6 65 (29.55%) Observability
7 51 (23.18%) Platform Engineering
8 48 (21.82%) Roadmaps
9 47 (21.36%) AI
9 47 (21.36%) Problem-Solving
10 46 (20.91%) Containerisation
11 45 (20.45%) Cloud Security
12 39 (17.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (15.45%) Cybersecurity
13 34 (15.45%) Identity Access Management
14 31 (14.09%) Root Cause Analysis
15 30 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 28 (12.73%) Infrastructure Automation
17 27 (12.27%) Analytics
17 27 (12.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 145 (65.91%) Python
2 127 (57.73%) PowerShell
3 62 (28.18%) SQL
4 32 (14.55%) Java
5 28 (12.73%) Go
6 26 (11.82%) T-SQL
7 24 (10.91%) Bicep
8 19 (8.64%) JavaScript
9 14 (6.36%) Kusto Query Language
10 10 (4.55%) C#
11 8 (3.64%) PHP
12 6 (2.73%) C++
12 6 (2.73%) Ruby
13 5 (2.27%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.82%) Perl
14 4 (1.82%) Scala
14 4 (1.82%) TypeScript
15 3 (1.36%) C
15 3 (1.36%) Objective-C
15 3 (1.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 32 (14.55%) Security Cleared
2 29 (13.18%) SC Cleared
3 24 (10.91%) Azure Certification
4 22 (10.00%) Degree
5 16 (7.27%) AWS Certification
5 16 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.73%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.82%) CISSP
7 4 (1.82%) CREST Certified
7 4 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.82%) OSCP
8 3 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.36%) CCSAM
8 3 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.36%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (1.36%) GPEN
8 3 (1.36%) GXPN
8 3 (1.36%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.36%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (12.73%) NIST
2 26 (11.82%) NCSC
3 19 (8.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.55%) QA
5 7 (3.18%) Data Quality
5 7 (3.18%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.36%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.36%) SLA
7 1 (0.45%) GDPR
7 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 64 (29.09%) Docker
2 58 (26.36%) Active Directory
3 20 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (5.45%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (5.45%) vSphere
5 7 (3.18%) Hyper-V
6 6 (2.73%) KVM
7 2 (0.91%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 91 (41.36%) Terraform
2 75 (34.09%) Kubernetes
3 45 (20.45%) Prometheus
4 41 (18.64%) Grafana
5 40 (18.18%) Ansible
6 25 (11.36%) Argo
7 12 (5.45%) Kustomize
7 12 (5.45%) Proxmox
8 10 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (4.09%) Istio
10 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.82%) Graylog
11 4 (1.82%) Kibana
11 4 (1.82%) Puppet
11 4 (1.82%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (1.36%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (1.36%) linkerd
12 3 (1.36%) Nagios
13 2 (0.91%) CASB
Vendors
1 62 (28.18%) Microsoft
2 30 (13.64%) VMware
3 15 (6.82%) Red Hat
4 14 (6.36%) Oracle
5 12 (5.45%) Google
5 12 (5.45%) ScienceLogic
5 12 (5.45%) Splunk
6 8 (3.64%) Cisco
6 8 (3.64%) CyberArk
6 8 (3.64%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.27%) New Relic
7 5 (2.27%) Veeam
8 4 (1.82%) Databricks
8 4 (1.82%) Palantir
9 3 (1.36%) Apple
9 3 (1.36%) Commvault
9 3 (1.36%) Dell
10 2 (0.91%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.91%) BT
10 2 (0.91%) Fortinet