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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 195 135
Rank change year-on-year +14 -60 +11
Permanent jobs citing Bash 198 271 511
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.31% 1.65% 2.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.86% 3.83% 5.21%
Number of salaries quoted 125 183 404
10th Percentile £42,750 £37,500 £42,912
25th Percentile £56,250 £42,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £91,934
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £100,525
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +6.06% -5.71%

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 4,071 7,084 9,800
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.96% 43.01% 46.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3,095 4,446 8,332
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £108,584 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 9 January 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 11 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.55%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.03%) Apache
4 5 (2.53%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.02%) nginx
6 3 (1.52%) CMS
7 2 (1.01%) OpenStack
7 2 (1.01%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.52%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (1.52%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.01%) Weka
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 109 (55.05%) Azure
2 99 (50.00%) AWS
3 46 (23.23%) Entra ID
4 42 (21.21%) GitHub
5 41 (20.71%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (19.19%) GitHub Actions
7 36 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (14.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 23 (11.62%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (11.11%) GCP
10 22 (11.11%) Google Workspace
11 21 (10.61%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (10.10%) Azure AKS
13 19 (9.60%) Azure Monitor
14 15 (7.58%) Amazon S3
14 15 (7.58%) Serverless
15 14 (7.07%) SaaS
16 13 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
17 11 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
17 11 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 32 (16.16%) Broadband
2 16 (8.08%) Firewall
3 10 (5.05%) Network Security
3 10 (5.05%) VPN
4 8 (4.04%) DNS
4 8 (4.04%) TCP/IP
4 8 (4.04%) WAN
5 5 (2.53%) LAN
5 5 (2.53%) SAN
5 5 (2.53%) VLAN
6 4 (2.02%) BGP
6 4 (2.02%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (2.02%) OSPF
7 3 (1.52%) InfiniBand
7 3 (1.52%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.01%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (1.01%) MPLS
8 2 (1.01%) Multicast
8 2 (1.01%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.08%) NoSQL
2 11 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
2 11 (5.56%) Apache Iceberg
2 11 (5.56%) Tableau
3 8 (4.04%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.54%) RDBMS
5 6 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (3.03%) Amazon QuickSight
5 6 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (3.03%) Metadata
6 5 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (2.53%) BigQuery
6 5 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.53%) Delta Lake
6 5 (2.53%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.53%) Looker
6 5 (2.53%) MySQL
6 5 (2.53%) Pinecone
6 5 (2.53%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 39 (19.70%) Jenkins
2 19 (9.60%) GitLab
3 13 (6.57%) Git
4 7 (3.54%) Jaeger
5 5 (2.53%) MLflow
5 5 (2.53%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.02%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.02%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.52%) Balsamiq
7 3 (1.52%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.52%) Burp Suite
7 3 (1.52%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.52%) Maven
7 3 (1.52%) Metasploit
7 3 (1.52%) Vite
8 2 (1.01%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.01%) JMeter
8 2 (1.01%) TestRail
9 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.51%) JIRA
General
1 53 (26.77%) Social Skills
2 40 (20.20%) Finance
3 24 (12.12%) Organisational Skills
4 17 (8.59%) Games
5 12 (6.06%) Telecoms
6 10 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.04%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.03%) Banking
10 5 (2.53%) Retail
11 4 (2.02%) Back Office
11 4 (2.02%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.52%) Billing
12 3 (1.52%) Military
13 2 (1.01%) Aerospace
13 2 (1.01%) Electronics
13 2 (1.01%) Investment Banking
13 2 (1.01%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.01%) Marketing
14 1 (0.51%) Law
Job Titles
1 49 (24.75%) Senior
2 28 (14.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (14.14%) Platform Engineer
3 27 (13.64%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (12.63%) Linux Engineer
5 24 (12.12%) Lead
6 13 (6.57%) AWS Engineer
6 13 (6.57%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (6.06%) Automation Engineer
7 12 (6.06%) Developer
8 11 (5.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 11 (5.56%) IAM Developer
9 9 (4.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 9 (4.55%) Senior Developer
9 9 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
9 9 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.55%) Support Engineer
10 8 (4.04%) Consultant
10 8 (4.04%) Senior Consultant
10 8 (4.04%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (13.13%) REST
2 25 (12.63%) GraphQL
2 25 (12.63%) SOAP
3 23 (11.62%) Elastic Stack
4 22 (11.11%) LDAP
4 22 (11.11%) OAuth
4 22 (11.11%) OpenID
4 22 (11.11%) SAML
5 7 (3.54%) Kafka
5 7 (3.54%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (2.53%) ARM Templates
6 5 (2.53%) Faiss
6 5 (2.53%) Loki
6 5 (2.53%) PyTorch
6 5 (2.53%) TensorFlow
6 5 (2.53%) vLLM
7 4 (2.02%) AWS CDK
7 4 (2.02%) AWS SAM
8 3 (1.52%) Tailwind CSS
8 3 (1.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 26 (13.13%) Product Ownership
2 24 (12.12%) Cyber Threat
2 24 (12.12%) Cyberattack
3 10 (5.05%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.05%) Security Posture
4 9 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.02%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.02%) Blog
5 4 (2.02%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.52%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.01%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.01%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.01%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.51%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.51%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.51%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 96 (48.48%) Linux
2 37 (18.69%) Windows
3 26 (13.13%) Unix
4 8 (4.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.54%) Debian
5 7 (3.54%) Solaris
6 6 (3.03%) CentOS
7 5 (2.53%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.52%) VMS
9 2 (1.01%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (57.58%) DevOps
2 96 (48.48%) CI/CD
3 88 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (27.78%) Roadmaps
5 53 (26.77%) Continuous Improvement
6 51 (25.76%) Agile
7 49 (24.75%) Mentoring
8 37 (18.69%) Cloud Security
9 36 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (17.68%) Cybersecurity
11 34 (17.17%) Containerisation
12 32 (16.16%) AI
12 32 (16.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 31 (15.66%) Incident Response
13 31 (15.66%) ITIL
14 28 (14.14%) Identity Access Management
14 28 (14.14%) Machine Learning
15 27 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
16 26 (13.13%) Analytics
16 26 (13.13%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 147 (74.24%) Python
2 107 (54.04%) PowerShell
3 30 (15.15%) SQL
4 25 (12.63%) Go
5 22 (11.11%) Bicep
5 22 (11.11%) T-SQL
6 20 (10.10%) Java
7 14 (7.07%) JavaScript
8 11 (5.56%) Perl
9 9 (4.55%) TypeScript
10 7 (3.54%) C++
11 5 (2.53%) C
11 5 (2.53%) Korn
11 5 (2.53%) Scala
12 4 (2.02%) Fortran
13 3 (1.52%) C#
13 3 (1.52%) Groovy
13 3 (1.52%) PHP
13 3 (1.52%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 33 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.65%) Degree
3 27 (13.64%) AWS Certification
4 19 (9.60%) SC Cleared
5 14 (7.07%) Azure Certification
6 10 (5.05%) DV Cleared
7 8 (4.04%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (4.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (3.03%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.53%) CCNP
10 4 (2.02%) GCIH
10 4 (2.02%) PhD
11 3 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.52%) CCNA
11 3 (1.52%) CCSP
11 3 (1.52%) CISSP
11 3 (1.52%) CITP
11 3 (1.52%) CREST Certified
12 2 (1.01%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (13.13%) NIST
2 24 (12.12%) NCSC
3 15 (7.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (6.06%) GDPR
5 9 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (3.03%) Data Quality
7 5 (2.53%) QA
7 5 (2.53%) SLA
8 4 (2.02%) GRC
8 4 (2.02%) PCI DSS
8 4 (2.02%) SOC 2
System Software
1 50 (25.25%) Docker
2 32 (16.16%) Active Directory
3 13 (6.57%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (5.05%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (5.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.52%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (1.01%) Ceph
6 2 (1.01%) Lustre
7 1 (0.51%) vCloud
7 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 103 (52.02%) Terraform
2 64 (32.32%) Kubernetes
3 60 (30.30%) Ansible
4 30 (15.15%) Grafana
5 22 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 11 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (4.55%) Argo
8 8 (4.04%) Red Hat Satellite
9 7 (3.54%) Kustomize
10 4 (2.02%) Cilium
10 4 (2.02%) logstash
11 3 (1.52%) HP Fortify
11 3 (1.52%) Nmap
12 2 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (1.01%) Puppet
13 1 (0.51%) Icinga
13 1 (0.51%) Nagios
13 1 (0.51%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.51%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 1 (0.51%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (12.63%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.59%) Red Hat
3 10 (5.05%) VMware
4 9 (4.55%) Splunk
5 7 (3.54%) Google
5 7 (3.54%) Oracle
6 6 (3.03%) Cisco
7 5 (2.53%) Databricks
7 5 (2.53%) Fortinet
7 5 (2.53%) LogicMonitor
7 5 (2.53%) NetApp
7 5 (2.53%) Palantir
8 4 (2.02%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.52%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.52%) Rapid7
10 2 (1.01%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.01%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.01%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.01%) Talend
10 2 (1.01%) Veeam