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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 120 172
Rank change year-on-year -161 +52 -49
Permanent jobs citing Bash 190 446 456
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.77% 2.71% 1.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.04% 8.75% 5.06%
Number of salaries quoted 124 148 193
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £64,635 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.24% +3.85% -7.14%

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 6,241 5,096 9,015
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.26% 30.91% 39.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,653 3,409 5,991
10th Percentile £39,764 £36,250 £39,625
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £117,500
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 25 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 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.68%) Apache
2 7 (3.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.16%) Jupyter
4 5 (2.63%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.58%) Confluence
5 3 (1.58%) nginx
6 2 (1.05%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.53%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.05%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 118 (62.11%) Azure
2 103 (54.21%) AWS
3 49 (25.79%) GitHub
4 43 (22.63%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
6 28 (14.74%) GCP
7 24 (12.63%) Azure Monitor
7 24 (12.63%) Serverless
8 22 (11.58%) PaaS
9 21 (11.05%) IaaS
10 20 (10.53%) Azure AKS
11 18 (9.47%) Azure Key Vault
12 17 (8.95%) SaaS
13 16 (8.42%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 15 (7.89%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (7.89%) Azure Functions
14 15 (7.89%) Azure Sentinel
15 14 (7.37%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 14 (7.37%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 27 (14.21%) VPN
2 19 (10.00%) Firewall
3 13 (6.84%) DNS
4 12 (6.32%) TCP/IP
5 9 (4.74%) Network Security
6 4 (2.11%) DHCP
6 4 (2.11%) Kerberos
6 4 (2.11%) SSH
7 3 (1.58%) BGP
7 3 (1.58%) Broadband
7 3 (1.58%) VLAN
8 2 (1.05%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (1.05%) LAN
8 2 (1.05%) NGFW
8 2 (1.05%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.05%) SSL
8 2 (1.05%) Unified Communications
8 2 (1.05%) WAN
9 1 (0.53%) HTTP
9 1 (0.53%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.05%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (7.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (4.21%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.68%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.16%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (2.63%) MySQL
7 5 (2.63%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.11%) DocumentDB
9 3 (1.58%) Big Data
9 3 (1.58%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.58%) Redis
10 2 (1.05%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.53%) GIS
11 1 (0.53%) Oracle Exadata
11 1 (0.53%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 30 (15.79%) Git
1 30 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 29 (15.26%) GitLab
3 12 (6.32%) Maven
4 10 (5.26%) JUnit
4 10 (5.26%) Mockito
5 6 (3.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (3.16%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.63%) JIRA
6 5 (2.63%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.58%) JMeter
7 3 (1.58%) Postman
8 2 (1.05%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.05%) MSI
8 2 (1.05%) Robot Framework
8 2 (1.05%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.05%) TestRail
9 1 (0.53%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.53%) CMake
9 1 (0.53%) GDB
General
1 61 (32.11%) Social Skills
2 30 (15.79%) Finance
3 27 (14.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 26 (13.68%) Public Sector
5 22 (11.58%) Law
6 19 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (6.84%) Banking
7 13 (6.84%) Retail
8 6 (3.16%) Legal
9 3 (1.58%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.58%) Aviation
10 2 (1.05%) Back Office
10 2 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.05%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.53%) Electronics
11 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.53%) Marketing
11 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Police
11 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (22.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 36 (18.95%) Senior
3 26 (13.68%) Platform Engineer
4 20 (10.53%) Analyst
5 17 (8.95%) Lead
6 15 (7.89%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (7.37%) Azure Engineer
7 14 (7.37%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 14 (7.37%) Developer
8 12 (6.32%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (6.32%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 12 (6.32%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 12 (6.32%) Java Developer
9 8 (4.21%) Administrator
9 8 (4.21%) Information Analyst
9 8 (4.21%) Information Security Analyst
9 8 (4.21%) Security Analyst
9 8 (4.21%) Senior Developer
9 8 (4.21%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (47.37%) Terraform
2 16 (8.42%) React
3 14 (7.37%) YAML
4 11 (5.79%) REST
5 10 (5.26%) Spring
6 8 (4.21%) Loki
7 7 (3.68%) .NET
7 7 (3.68%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (3.68%) RESTful
7 7 (3.68%) SAML
8 6 (3.16%) Kafka
8 6 (3.16%) OpenID
8 6 (3.16%) Pulumi
9 4 (2.11%) ARM Templates
9 4 (2.11%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (2.11%) Node.js
9 4 (2.11%) OAuth
9 4 (2.11%) OAuth2
9 4 (2.11%) PySpark
10 3 (1.58%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 39 (20.53%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.95%) Security Posture
3 16 (8.42%) Linux Command Line
4 14 (7.37%) Public Cloud
4 14 (7.37%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (6.32%) PKI
5 12 (6.32%) Podcast
6 7 (3.68%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.63%) Blog
8 5 (2.63%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.58%) CSOC
10 3 (1.58%) FPGA
10 3 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.58%) Robotics
10 3 (1.58%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (1.05%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.05%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 81 (42.63%) Linux
2 44 (23.16%) Windows
3 13 (6.84%) VMS
4 9 (4.74%) Mac OS
5 8 (4.21%) Ubuntu
6 7 (3.68%) Unix
7 6 (3.16%) Apple iOS
7 6 (3.16%) Debian
8 4 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (2.11%) Solaris
9 3 (1.58%) CentOS
9 3 (1.58%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (1.05%) Windows Server
10 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.53%) AIX
11 1 (0.53%) Android
11 1 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 102 (53.68%) DevOps
3 99 (52.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (34.74%) Agile
4 66 (34.74%) Mentoring
5 65 (34.21%) Observability
6 58 (30.53%) Containerisation
7 57 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (26.84%) Platform Engineering
9 49 (25.79%) AI
10 45 (23.68%) Cloud Security
11 38 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (16.32%) DevSecOps
12 31 (16.32%) Root Cause Analysis
13 30 (15.79%) Analytics
13 30 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
14 29 (15.26%) Scrum
14 29 (15.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 24 (12.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 23 (12.11%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 143 (75.26%) Python
2 95 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 47 (24.74%) SQL
4 33 (17.37%) Java
5 28 (14.74%) Bicep
6 27 (14.21%) Go
7 19 (10.00%) JavaScript
8 17 (8.95%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (5.79%) PL/SQL
10 8 (4.21%) C#
11 5 (2.63%) C++
11 5 (2.63%) Ruby
12 4 (2.11%) PHP
12 4 (2.11%) Rust
13 3 (1.58%) C
14 2 (1.05%) Objective-C
14 2 (1.05%) Perl
14 2 (1.05%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (1.05%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.05%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 44 (23.16%) SC Cleared
3 20 (10.53%) Azure Certification
4 16 (8.42%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (7.89%) Degree
6 8 (4.21%) AWS Certification
6 8 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.21%) GIAC
7 7 (3.68%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (3.16%) CISSP
8 6 (3.16%) DV Cleared
9 5 (2.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (2.63%) CompTIA CySA+
9 5 (2.63%) GCFA
10 4 (2.11%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.58%) CCNA CyberOps
11 3 (1.58%) CEH
11 3 (1.58%) GCIA
11 3 (1.58%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.32%) QA
2 9 (4.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.21%) NIST
4 7 (3.68%) NCSC
5 6 (3.16%) SOC 2
6 5 (2.63%) PCI DSS
7 4 (2.11%) Data Quality
8 2 (1.05%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.53%) GDPR
System Software
1 75 (39.47%) Docker
2 27 (14.21%) Active Directory
3 23 (12.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (6.32%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (6.32%) vSphere
5 8 (4.21%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.63%) KVM
6 5 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.05%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.53%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 90 (47.37%) Kubernetes
2 43 (22.63%) Grafana
3 40 (21.05%) Prometheus
4 24 (12.63%) Ansible
5 20 (10.53%) Argo
6 13 (6.84%) Istio
7 8 (4.21%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (3.68%) Kustomize
9 6 (3.16%) Proxmox
10 5 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (2.11%) Graylog
11 4 (2.11%) linkerd
11 4 (2.11%) Puppet
11 4 (2.11%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (1.58%) Cilium
12 3 (1.58%) Progress Chef
13 2 (1.05%) HP Fortify
13 2 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (1.05%) Kibana
Vendors
1 60 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.68%) VMware
3 20 (10.53%) Oracle
4 15 (7.89%) Google
5 14 (7.37%) Splunk
6 13 (6.84%) Red Hat
7 12 (6.32%) ScienceLogic
8 8 (4.21%) CyberArk
8 8 (4.21%) ServiceNow
9 7 (3.68%) Cisco
10 5 (2.63%) Fortinet
10 5 (2.63%) New Relic
10 5 (2.63%) Veeam
11 4 (2.11%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (1.58%) NVIDIA
12 3 (1.58%) Okta
13 2 (1.05%) Apple
13 2 (1.05%) Dynatrace
13 2 (1.05%) OpenAI
13 2 (1.05%) Palo Alto