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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 209 130
Rank change year-on-year +103 -79 +29
Permanent jobs citing Bash 447 293 569
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.80% 1.48% 2.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.69% 3.53% 5.50%
Number of salaries quoted 139 185 464
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £44,263
25th Percentile £56,250 £44,738 £58,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -

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 4,614 8,307 10,338
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 28.95% 41.82% 47.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,268 5,285 8,718
10th Percentile £34,925 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +1.77%

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 5 November 2025.

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 11 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.45%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.22%) Apache
4 1 (0.22%) Confluence
4 1 (0.22%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.45%) Weka
3 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.22%) Autodesk Inventor
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.22%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 94 (21.03%) Azure
2 81 (18.12%) AWS
3 45 (10.07%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (8.05%) GitHub
5 35 (7.83%) GitHub Actions
6 34 (7.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 28 (6.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 28 (6.26%) Entra ID
8 26 (5.82%) Azure Monitor
9 25 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (4.47%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (3.80%) Serverless
12 16 (3.58%) Azure AKS
13 15 (3.36%) GCP
14 13 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (2.68%) SaaS
16 10 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (2.24%) Amazon S3
17 9 (2.01%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 274 (61.30%) VPN
2 262 (58.61%) Cisco IOS
3 19 (4.25%) Firewall
4 14 (3.13%) DNS
5 8 (1.79%) Broadband
5 8 (1.79%) Network Security
6 6 (1.34%) DHCP
6 6 (1.34%) InfiniBand
6 6 (1.34%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.34%) WAN
7 5 (1.12%) SAN
8 3 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (0.67%) LAN
8 3 (0.67%) VLAN
8 3 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.45%) BGP
9 2 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.45%) IGMP
9 2 (0.45%) Multicast
9 2 (0.45%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (1.79%) NoSQL
3 4 (0.89%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.67%) MySQL
4 3 (0.67%) Power BI
4 3 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.45%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.45%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.45%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.22%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.22%) KDB
6 1 (0.22%) Kdb+
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (8.50%) Jenkins
2 20 (4.47%) GitLab
3 14 (3.13%) Git
4 5 (1.12%) JIRA
5 4 (0.89%) Burp Suite
5 4 (0.89%) Metasploit
6 3 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.67%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.45%) Balsamiq
7 2 (0.45%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.45%) Jaeger
7 2 (0.45%) MLflow
7 2 (0.45%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.22%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.22%) git-flow
8 1 (0.22%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.22%) TestRail
General
1 267 (59.73%) Analytical Skills
2 264 (59.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 57 (12.75%) Social Skills
4 49 (10.96%) Finance
5 11 (2.46%) Telecoms
6 8 (1.79%) Banking
7 7 (1.57%) Games
8 6 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (1.34%) Public Sector
9 4 (0.89%) Retail
10 3 (0.67%) Back Office
10 3 (0.67%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.45%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.45%) Military
12 1 (0.22%) Electronics
12 1 (0.22%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.22%) Local Government
12 1 (0.22%) Marketing
12 1 (0.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 269 (60.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 44 (9.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 39 (8.72%) Senior
4 32 (7.16%) Platform Engineer
5 24 (5.37%) Linux Engineer
6 19 (4.25%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (3.58%) Automation Engineer
7 16 (3.58%) AWS Engineer
8 13 (2.91%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (2.68%) AWS DevOps
9 12 (2.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 12 (2.68%) Lead
9 12 (2.68%) Senior DevOps
9 12 (2.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 11 (2.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 9 (2.01%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 9 (2.01%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 9 (2.01%) Support Engineer
12 8 (1.79%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 8 (1.79%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (62.42%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (2.24%) .NET
3 9 (2.01%) REST
4 7 (1.57%) ARM Templates
4 7 (1.57%) GraphQL
4 7 (1.57%) SOAP
5 6 (1.34%) LDAP
6 5 (1.12%) OAuth
6 5 (1.12%) OpenID
6 5 (1.12%) SAML
7 4 (0.89%) AWS CDK
7 4 (0.89%) Jinja
7 4 (0.89%) YAML
8 3 (0.67%) AWS SAM
8 3 (0.67%) Node.js
9 2 (0.45%) Google JAX
9 2 (0.45%) Hugging Face
9 2 (0.45%) JAX
9 2 (0.45%) Kafka
9 2 (0.45%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 268 (59.96%) Cyberattack
2 19 (4.25%) Product Ownership
3 15 (3.36%) Cloud Native
4 9 (2.01%) Security Posture
5 7 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.12%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.12%) Onboarding
8 4 (0.89%) Algorithms
8 4 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.67%) Blog
9 3 (0.67%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.67%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.22%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.22%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.22%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.22%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 359 (80.31%) Linux
2 300 (67.11%) Windows
3 262 (58.61%) Android
4 26 (5.82%) Unix
5 10 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.79%) CentOS
6 8 (1.79%) Debian
6 8 (1.79%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.57%) Solaris
8 3 (0.67%) VMS
9 2 (0.45%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.22%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.22%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (86.13%) DevOps
2 299 (66.89%) Problem-Solving
3 291 (65.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 291 (65.10%) Platform Engineering
4 283 (63.31%) Task Automation
5 266 (59.51%) Mathematics
6 264 (59.06%) Storage Management
7 263 (58.84%) Risk Management
8 262 (58.61%) Line Management
9 100 (22.37%) CI/CD
10 90 (20.13%) Infrastructure as Code
11 48 (10.74%) Containerisation
11 48 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (8.72%) Agile
13 31 (6.94%) Mentoring
14 28 (6.26%) ITIL
15 27 (6.04%) AI
15 27 (6.04%) Incident Response
16 26 (5.82%) Roadmaps
17 25 (5.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 412 (92.17%) Python
2 370 (82.77%) PowerShell
3 19 (4.25%) Bicep
4 18 (4.03%) Perl
5 17 (3.80%) Go
6 14 (3.13%) SQL
7 9 (2.01%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.79%) Java
8 8 (1.79%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.12%) Korn
9 5 (1.12%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.89%) C
10 4 (0.89%) C++
10 4 (0.89%) Fortran
11 3 (0.67%) C#
11 3 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.45%) VBScript
13 1 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (7.61%) Security Cleared
2 24 (5.37%) AWS Certification
3 22 (4.92%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.80%) Degree
5 13 (2.91%) Azure Certification
6 12 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.57%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.34%) RHCE
9 4 (0.89%) CISSP
9 4 (0.89%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.89%) PhD
10 3 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.67%) CCNA
10 3 (0.67%) CCNP
10 3 (0.67%) CCSP
10 3 (0.67%) GCIH
10 3 (0.67%) LPIC
10 3 (0.67%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.92%) GDPR
2 14 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 8 (1.79%) NIST
4 7 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.57%) QA
5 6 (1.34%) NCSC
6 5 (1.12%) SLA
7 4 (0.89%) GRC
7 4 (0.89%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.67%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.45%) HIPAA
System Software
1 316 (70.69%) Docker
2 266 (59.51%) Hyper-V
3 264 (59.06%) vSphere
4 263 (58.84%) VMware NSX
5 17 (3.80%) Active Directory
6 13 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
7 10 (2.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (1.12%) Lustre
9 3 (0.67%) GPFS
9 3 (0.67%) NFS
9 3 (0.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.45%) Ceph
10 2 (0.45%) KVM
11 1 (0.22%) Corosync
11 1 (0.22%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.22%) Kamailio
11 1 (0.22%) vCloud
11 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 358 (80.09%) Terraform
2 329 (73.60%) Ansible
3 65 (14.54%) Kubernetes
4 33 (7.38%) Grafana
5 20 (4.47%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.91%) Red Hat Satellite
7 11 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.89%) Argo
8 4 (0.89%) Nmap
9 3 (0.67%) Cilium
9 3 (0.67%) Puppet
10 2 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.45%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.45%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.45%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.22%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.22%) QRadar
11 1 (0.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 269 (60.18%) Splunk
2 266 (59.51%) Cisco
3 265 (59.28%) Juniper
4 262 (58.61%) 3PAR
5 37 (8.28%) Microsoft
6 25 (5.59%) Red Hat
7 15 (3.36%) VMware
8 7 (1.57%) Oracle
9 5 (1.12%) NetApp
10 4 (0.89%) Fortinet
10 4 (0.89%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (0.67%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.67%) Google
11 3 (0.67%) Rapid7
11 3 (0.67%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.45%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.45%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.45%) SAP
12 2 (0.45%) Veeam
13 1 (0.22%) IBM