Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

bash

336 live US technical postings name bash in August 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 336 postings naming bash that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer54.5%
  2. 2Software Engineer29.2%
  3. 3Security Engineer11.6%
  4. 4Data Engineer1.8%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where bash is named
n = 58
10th
$101k
25th
$121k
Median
$159k
75th
$182k
90th
$202k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote13.7%
  2. 2Washington, DC7.7%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA6.5%
  4. 4San Francisco, CA5.7%
  5. 5New York, NY4.8%
  6. 6Seattle, WA3.6%
  7. 7Austin, TX2.7%
  8. 8Boston, MA2.4%

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.