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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 122 154
Rank change year-on-year -159 +32 -34
Permanent jobs citing Bash 178 449 509
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.78% 2.72% 2.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.93% 8.40% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 123 157 220
10th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £39,825
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +16.00% -13.19%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,000 £94,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -10.71%

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 6,085 5,345 9,497
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.58% 32.41% 38.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,574 3,682 7,299
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +2.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,438 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 19 August 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 (9.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.93%) Apache
2 7 (3.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.37%) Jupyter
4 4 (2.25%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.69%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.12%) nginx
7 1 (0.56%) Confluence
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.56%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.12%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 112 (62.92%) Azure
2 87 (48.88%) AWS
3 42 (23.60%) GitHub
4 39 (21.91%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (13.48%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (12.92%) Serverless
7 22 (12.36%) PaaS
8 21 (11.80%) Azure Monitor
8 21 (11.80%) IaaS
9 20 (11.24%) GCP
10 17 (9.55%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (9.55%) Azure AKS
11 16 (8.99%) Amazon S3
12 15 (8.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (8.43%) Azure Key Vault
12 15 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (7.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (7.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 14 (7.87%) Azure Functions
13 14 (7.87%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (15.73%) VPN
2 22 (12.36%) Firewall
3 17 (9.55%) DNS
4 11 (6.18%) TCP/IP
5 7 (3.93%) Network Security
6 6 (3.37%) DHCP
7 4 (2.25%) Kerberos
7 4 (2.25%) SSH
8 2 (1.12%) Broadband
8 2 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (1.12%) iSCSI
8 2 (1.12%) LAN
8 2 (1.12%) NGFW
8 2 (1.12%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (1.12%) SAN
8 2 (1.12%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.12%) SSL
8 2 (1.12%) WAN
8 2 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.56%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.67%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.87%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (4.49%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.93%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.37%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.37%) MySQL
5 6 (3.37%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.69%) Big Data
6 3 (1.69%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.69%) Redis
7 2 (1.12%) DocumentDB
7 2 (1.12%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.56%) GIS
8 1 (0.56%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 27 (15.17%) Git
2 26 (14.61%) Jenkins
3 23 (12.92%) GitLab
4 12 (6.74%) Maven
5 10 (5.62%) JUnit
5 10 (5.62%) Mockito
6 7 (3.93%) Bitbucket
7 6 (3.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (3.37%) JIRA
8 5 (2.81%) Postman
9 3 (1.69%) JMeter
10 2 (1.12%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.12%) MSI
10 2 (1.12%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.56%) CMake
11 1 (0.56%) GDB
11 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.56%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.56%) TestRail
General
1 51 (28.65%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.73%) Finance
3 20 (11.24%) Public Sector
4 17 (9.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.30%) Law
6 7 (3.93%) Retail
7 6 (3.37%) Legal
8 5 (2.81%) Banking
9 4 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.69%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.69%) Aviation
10 3 (1.69%) Marketing
11 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Electronics
12 1 (0.56%) French Language
12 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.56%) Police
12 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (21.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (20.79%) Senior
3 27 (15.17%) Platform Engineer
4 14 (7.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (7.87%) Lead
5 13 (7.30%) Analyst
5 13 (7.30%) Azure Engineer
5 13 (7.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 13 (7.30%) Developer
6 12 (6.74%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (6.74%) Full-Stack Developer
6 12 (6.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 12 (6.74%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 12 (6.74%) Java Developer
7 9 (5.06%) Senior DevOps
8 8 (4.49%) Administrator
8 8 (4.49%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (4.49%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 8 (4.49%) Linux Engineer
9 7 (3.93%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.87%) YAML
2 13 (7.30%) React
3 10 (5.62%) Spring
4 9 (5.06%) REST
5 7 (3.93%) .NET
5 7 (3.93%) Loki
5 7 (3.93%) SAML
6 6 (3.37%) Kafka
6 6 (3.37%) OpenID
6 6 (3.37%) RESTful
7 5 (2.81%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (2.25%) ARM Templates
8 4 (2.25%) OAuth
8 4 (2.25%) OAuth2
9 3 (1.69%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.69%) PySpark
10 2 (1.12%) GraphQL
10 2 (1.12%) Jest
10 2 (1.12%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 36 (20.22%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.43%) Public Cloud
2 15 (8.43%) Security Posture
3 14 (7.87%) Linux Command Line
3 14 (7.87%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (6.74%) PKI
4 12 (6.74%) Podcast
5 8 (4.49%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.93%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.25%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.69%) Blog
9 3 (1.69%) CSOC
9 3 (1.69%) FPGA
9 3 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.12%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 75 (42.13%) Linux
2 42 (23.60%) Windows
3 13 (7.30%) VMS
4 6 (3.37%) Ubuntu
4 6 (3.37%) Unix
5 5 (2.81%) Mac OS
5 5 (2.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.25%) Debian
6 4 (2.25%) Solaris
7 2 (1.12%) Android
7 2 (1.12%) CentOS
7 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.56%) AIX
8 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.56%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (68.54%) CI/CD
2 100 (56.18%) DevOps
3 95 (53.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (37.64%) Agile
5 61 (34.27%) Observability
6 57 (32.02%) Mentoring
7 51 (28.65%) Containerisation
7 51 (28.65%) Platform Engineering
7 51 (28.65%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (25.84%) AI
9 42 (23.60%) Cloud Security
10 38 (21.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (17.42%) Root Cause Analysis
12 30 (16.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 29 (16.29%) Scrum
14 25 (14.04%) DevSecOps
14 25 (14.04%) Technical Leadership
15 24 (13.48%) Analytics
16 23 (12.92%) Infrastructure Automation
16 23 (12.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 132 (74.16%) Python
2 94 (52.81%) PowerShell
3 43 (24.16%) SQL
4 30 (16.85%) Java
5 24 (13.48%) Bicep
6 20 (11.24%) JavaScript
7 17 (9.55%) Go
7 17 (9.55%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (6.18%) PL/SQL
9 9 (5.06%) C#
10 6 (3.37%) C++
10 6 (3.37%) PHP
10 6 (3.37%) Ruby
11 4 (2.25%) C
11 4 (2.25%) Rust
12 3 (1.69%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.69%) Perl
12 3 (1.69%) TypeScript
13 2 (1.12%) Korn
13 2 (1.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (25.84%) Security Cleared
2 42 (23.60%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.24%) Azure Certification
4 16 (8.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (8.43%) Degree
6 8 (4.49%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.93%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (3.37%) CISSP
8 6 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.81%) CompTIA CySA+
9 5 (2.81%) DV Cleared
10 4 (2.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (2.25%) CREST Certified
10 4 (2.25%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (2.25%) OSCP
11 3 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.69%) CCSAM
11 3 (1.69%) GPEN
11 3 (1.69%) GXPN
11 3 (1.69%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.62%) QA
2 7 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.81%) NCSC
3 5 (2.81%) NIST
3 5 (2.81%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.69%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.69%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.12%) SLA
6 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 67 (37.64%) Docker
2 29 (16.29%) Active Directory
3 23 (12.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (6.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (6.74%) vSphere
5 9 (5.06%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.81%) KVM
7 2 (1.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (1.12%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 83 (46.63%) Terraform
2 78 (43.82%) Kubernetes
3 40 (22.47%) Grafana
4 37 (20.79%) Prometheus
5 28 (15.73%) Ansible
6 19 (10.67%) Argo
7 13 (7.30%) Istio
8 7 (3.93%) Kustomize
9 6 (3.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (3.37%) Proxmox
10 5 (2.81%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (2.25%) Graylog
11 4 (2.25%) linkerd
11 4 (2.25%) Puppet
11 4 (2.25%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (1.69%) Cilium
12 3 (1.69%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (1.69%) Progress Chef
13 2 (1.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 61 (34.27%) Microsoft
2 27 (15.17%) VMware
3 20 (11.24%) Oracle
4 13 (7.30%) Red Hat
5 12 (6.74%) ScienceLogic
6 10 (5.62%) Google
6 10 (5.62%) Splunk
7 8 (4.49%) Cisco
7 8 (4.49%) ServiceNow
8 7 (3.93%) CyberArk
9 6 (3.37%) Veeam
10 5 (2.81%) Fortinet
10 5 (2.81%) New Relic
11 4 (2.25%) Dell
12 3 (1.69%) Apple
13 2 (1.12%) BT
13 2 (1.12%) Commvault
13 2 (1.12%) Dynatrace
13 2 (1.12%) HP
13 2 (1.12%) Juniper