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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 115 157
Rank change year-on-year -172 +42 -31
Permanent jobs citing Bash 180 444 513
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.75% 2.73% 2.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.93% 8.72% 5.69%
Number of salaries quoted 119 148 202
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,375 £55,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% -13.19%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £94,125 £95,000
UK median annual salary £64,818 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.97% +8.00% -11.08%

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 6,148 5,094 9,008
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.50% 31.36% 38.60%
Number of salaries quoted 4,604 3,442 6,176
10th Percentile £38,984 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -1.54% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 September 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 15 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.89%) Apache
2 7 (3.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.33%) Jupyter
4 5 (2.78%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.11%) Confluence
5 2 (1.11%) nginx
5 2 (1.11%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.56%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 115 (63.89%) Azure
2 93 (51.67%) AWS
3 45 (25.00%) GitHub
4 42 (23.33%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
6 24 (13.33%) GCP
7 23 (12.78%) Serverless
8 22 (12.22%) PaaS
9 21 (11.67%) IaaS
10 20 (11.11%) Azure AKS
11 18 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
12 16 (8.89%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (7.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (7.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 14 (7.78%) Azure Functions
13 14 (7.78%) Azure Sentinel
13 14 (7.78%) Entra ID
13 14 (7.78%) SaaS
14 13 (7.22%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.89%) VPN
2 19 (10.56%) Firewall
3 13 (7.22%) DNS
4 10 (5.56%) TCP/IP
5 9 (5.00%) Network Security
6 4 (2.22%) DHCP
6 4 (2.22%) Kerberos
6 4 (2.22%) SSH
7 3 (1.67%) Broadband
8 2 (1.11%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (1.11%) LAN
8 2 (1.11%) NGFW
8 2 (1.11%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.11%) SSL
8 2 (1.11%) Unified Communications
8 2 (1.11%) WAN
9 1 (0.56%) DKIM
9 1 (0.56%) DMARC
9 1 (0.56%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.56%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (4.44%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.89%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.78%) MySQL
6 5 (2.78%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.67%) Big Data
7 3 (1.67%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.67%) Redis
8 2 (1.11%) DocumentDB
8 2 (1.11%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.11%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.56%) GIS
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.56%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 29 (16.11%) Git
2 28 (15.56%) GitLab
2 28 (15.56%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.67%) Maven
4 10 (5.56%) JUnit
4 10 (5.56%) Mockito
5 6 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (3.33%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.22%) JIRA
7 3 (1.67%) JMeter
7 3 (1.67%) Postman
8 2 (1.11%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.11%) MSI
8 2 (1.11%) Robot Framework
8 2 (1.11%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.11%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.11%) TestRail
9 1 (0.56%) CMake
9 1 (0.56%) GDB
9 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 55 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.11%) Finance
3 25 (13.89%) Public Sector
4 21 (11.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (9.44%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (9.44%) Law
6 9 (5.00%) Banking
7 8 (4.44%) Retail
8 6 (3.33%) Legal
9 3 (1.67%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.67%) Aviation
10 2 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Electronics
11 1 (0.56%) French Language
11 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.56%) Marketing
11 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Police
11 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (21.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (18.89%) Senior
3 24 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
4 17 (9.44%) Analyst
4 17 (9.44%) Lead
5 13 (7.22%) Azure Engineer
5 13 (7.22%) Developer
5 13 (7.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 12 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
6 12 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 12 (6.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 12 (6.67%) Java Developer
7 8 (4.44%) Administrator
7 8 (4.44%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 8 (4.44%) Senior DevOps
8 7 (3.89%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (3.89%) Senior Developer
8 7 (3.89%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (46.67%) Terraform
2 15 (8.33%) React
3 14 (7.78%) YAML
4 10 (5.56%) REST
4 10 (5.56%) Spring
5 7 (3.89%) .NET
5 7 (3.89%) Loki
5 7 (3.89%) SAML
6 6 (3.33%) Kafka
6 6 (3.33%) OpenID
6 6 (3.33%) Pulumi
7 5 (2.78%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (2.78%) RESTful
8 4 (2.22%) ARM Templates
8 4 (2.22%) Node.js
8 4 (2.22%) OAuth
8 4 (2.22%) OAuth2
8 4 (2.22%) PySpark
9 3 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.67%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 36 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.44%) Security Posture
3 16 (8.89%) Linux Command Line
4 15 (8.33%) Public Cloud
5 14 (7.78%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (6.67%) PKI
6 12 (6.67%) Podcast
7 7 (3.89%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (3.33%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.67%) Blog
10 3 (1.67%) CSOC
10 3 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.67%) FPGA
10 3 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.67%) Robotics
10 3 (1.67%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (1.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 77 (42.78%) Linux
2 43 (23.89%) Windows
3 13 (7.22%) VMS
4 8 (4.44%) Ubuntu
5 7 (3.89%) Mac OS
6 6 (3.33%) Debian
6 6 (3.33%) Unix
7 4 (2.22%) Apple iOS
7 4 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (2.22%) Solaris
8 3 (1.67%) CentOS
8 3 (1.67%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (1.11%) Windows Server
9 2 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.56%) AIX
10 1 (0.56%) Android
10 1 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (69.44%) CI/CD
2 98 (54.44%) DevOps
3 95 (52.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (36.11%) Agile
4 65 (36.11%) Mentoring
5 62 (34.44%) Observability
6 56 (31.11%) Containerisation
7 53 (29.44%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (27.22%) Platform Engineering
9 48 (26.67%) AI
10 44 (24.44%) Cloud Security
11 36 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (17.22%) Root Cause Analysis
13 29 (16.11%) Analytics
13 29 (16.11%) DevSecOps
13 29 (16.11%) Scrum
13 29 (16.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 29 (16.11%) Technical Leadership
14 22 (12.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 22 (12.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 133 (73.89%) Python
2 94 (52.22%) PowerShell
3 44 (24.44%) SQL
4 31 (17.22%) Java
5 27 (15.00%) Bicep
6 21 (11.67%) Go
7 18 (10.00%) JavaScript
8 17 (9.44%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (6.11%) PL/SQL
10 9 (5.00%) C#
11 6 (3.33%) C++
11 6 (3.33%) Ruby
12 5 (2.78%) Rust
13 4 (2.22%) C
13 4 (2.22%) PHP
14 3 (1.67%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.67%) Perl
15 2 (1.11%) Groovy
15 2 (1.11%) Shell Script
15 2 (1.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 49 (27.22%) Security Cleared
2 43 (23.89%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.11%) Azure Certification
4 16 (8.89%) Degree
4 16 (8.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (4.44%) AWS Certification
5 8 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.89%) CompTIA Security+
7 6 (3.33%) CISSP
7 6 (3.33%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.33%) GIAC
8 5 (2.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (2.78%) CompTIA CySA+
9 4 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.67%) CEH
10 3 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.67%) GCFA
10 3 (1.67%) GCIA
10 3 (1.67%) GXPN
10 3 (1.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.67%) QA
2 7 (3.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.89%) NCSC
2 7 (3.89%) NIST
3 4 (2.22%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.22%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.11%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 71 (39.44%) Docker
2 27 (15.00%) Active Directory
3 23 (12.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (6.67%) vSphere
5 8 (4.44%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.78%) KVM
7 3 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.11%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 82 (45.56%) Kubernetes
2 39 (21.67%) Grafana
3 37 (20.56%) Prometheus
4 24 (13.33%) Ansible
5 18 (10.00%) Argo
6 13 (7.22%) Istio
7 7 (3.89%) Kustomize
8 6 (3.33%) Proxmox
8 6 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (2.22%) Graylog
10 4 (2.22%) linkerd
10 4 (2.22%) Puppet
10 4 (2.22%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.67%) Cilium
11 3 (1.67%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.11%) HP Fortify
12 2 (1.11%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (1.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 60 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 26 (14.44%) VMware
3 20 (11.11%) Oracle
4 13 (7.22%) Red Hat
4 13 (7.22%) Splunk
5 12 (6.67%) Google
5 12 (6.67%) ScienceLogic
6 8 (4.44%) CyberArk
6 8 (4.44%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.89%) Cisco
8 5 (2.78%) Fortinet
8 5 (2.78%) New Relic
8 5 (2.78%) Veeam
9 3 (1.67%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (1.67%) NVIDIA
9 3 (1.67%) Okta
10 2 (1.11%) Dell
10 2 (1.11%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.11%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.11%) Palo Alto