PowerShell Jobs

Windows PowerShell
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PowerShell skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PowerShell over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 90 110
Rank change year-on-year -27 +20 -29
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 2,407 3,500 5,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.29% 3.69% 3.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.09% 8.73% 6.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,905 2,362 3,514
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £43,421 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.42% +8.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

All Programming Languages
UK

PowerShell is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,947 40,085 91,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.25% 42.29% 54.38%
Number of salaries quoted 25,291 26,714 43,327
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,688 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the UK

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Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PowerShell.

Salary trend for PowerShell in the UK

PowerShell
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in the UK

PowerShell
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -15 2,268 £55,000 -8.33% 509
UK excluding London -47 1,538 £50,000 -4.76% 341
Work from Home -36 877 £59,000 -1.67% 245
London -10 784 £75,000 +7.14% 189
South East -33 426 £52,500 -4.55% 107
North of England -36 359 £50,000 - 86
South West +5 286 £50,000 -2.44% 43
Midlands -13 236 £46,500 -13.89% 46
North West -52 178 £52,500 +10.18% 46
West Midlands -15 159 £47,500 -12.04% 28
East of England +10 149 £47,500 -17.39% 33
Yorkshire -21 136 £47,500 -5.00% 33
East Midlands -18 76 £45,000 -18.18% 17
Scotland -105 59 £65,000 +18.18% 29
North East -1 45 £46,500 -25.60% 7
Wales -62 18 £45,000 +16.88% 3
Northern Ireland -11 8 £35,000 -41.67% 5

PowerShell
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 332 (13.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 277 (11.51%) SharePoint
3 81 (3.37%) IIS
4 25 (1.04%) Confluence
5 14 (0.58%) WordPress
6 13 (0.54%) CMS
7 8 (0.33%) Apache
8 7 (0.29%) Skype for Business
9 6 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
9 6 (0.25%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.21%) IBM Notes
10 5 (0.21%) SAS
11 4 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.12%) nginx
13 2 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2013
13 2 (0.083%) Liferay
13 2 (0.083%) Magnolia
13 2 (0.083%) Moodle
13 2 (0.083%) NServiceBus
13 2 (0.083%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 168 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.33%) InfoPath
6 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.042%) 1Password
7 1 (0.042%) Simulink
7 1 (0.042%) Weka
Business Applications
1 17 (0.71%) Fidessa
2 12 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
5 5 (0.21%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.083%) Endur
7 1 (0.042%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (0.042%) Eikon
7 1 (0.042%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.042%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.042%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.042%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,461 (60.70%) Azure
2 766 (31.82%) Microsoft 365
3 445 (18.49%) AWS
4 409 (16.99%) Entra ID
5 301 (12.51%) Azure DevOps
6 220 (9.14%) Power Platform
7 184 (7.64%) SaaS
8 155 (6.44%) PaaS
9 138 (5.73%) IaaS
10 104 (4.32%) GitHub
11 100 (4.15%) OneDrive
12 92 (3.82%) Azure Monitor
13 83 (3.45%) GCP
14 74 (3.07%) Power Automate
15 73 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
15 73 (3.03%) PowerApps
16 72 (2.99%) Serverless
17 58 (2.41%) Azure Sentinel
18 55 (2.29%) Azure Storage
19 48 (1.99%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 460 (19.11%) Firewall
2 457 (18.99%) DNS
3 341 (14.17%) DHCP
4 249 (10.34%) TCP/IP
5 192 (7.98%) WAN
6 191 (7.94%) VPN
7 187 (7.77%) SAN
8 172 (7.15%) LAN
9 100 (4.15%) VLAN
10 95 (3.95%) Network Security
11 92 (3.82%) Wireless
12 69 (2.87%) Wi-Fi
13 66 (2.74%) HTTP
13 66 (2.74%) Internet
14 43 (1.79%) VoIP
15 40 (1.66%) SD-WAN
16 37 (1.54%) NAS
16 37 (1.54%) SNMP
17 33 (1.37%) Remote Desktop
18 32 (1.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 341 (14.17%) SQL Server
2 106 (4.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 102 (4.24%) Power BI
4 91 (3.78%) MySQL
5 81 (3.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 73 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 65 (2.70%) MongoDB
8 49 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
9 45 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
10 41 (1.70%) Relational Database
11 30 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
12 27 (1.12%) Oracle Database
12 27 (1.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 19 (0.79%) NoSQL
13 19 (0.79%) Redis
14 15 (0.62%) MariaDB
15 14 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
16 12 (0.50%) RDBMS
17 10 (0.42%) InfluxDB
18 9 (0.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 193 (8.02%) Git
2 172 (7.15%) Jenkins
3 108 (4.49%) JIRA
4 57 (2.37%) GitLab
5 47 (1.95%) Visual Studio
6 42 (1.74%) TeamCity
7 29 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
8 26 (1.08%) Team Foundation Server
9 20 (0.83%) Bitbucket
10 19 (0.79%) Eclipse
11 18 (0.75%) MSI
12 15 (0.62%) Moq
12 15 (0.62%) NUnit
12 15 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
13 12 (0.50%) gulp
14 10 (0.42%) Selenium
14 10 (0.42%) Trac
14 10 (0.42%) Yeoman
15 9 (0.37%) Robot Framework
15 9 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 607 (25.22%) Social Skills
2 531 (22.06%) Finance
3 213 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
4 160 (6.65%) Banking
5 92 (3.82%) Legal
6 87 (3.61%) Aerospace
7 85 (3.53%) Law
8 82 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 68 (2.83%) Public Sector
10 51 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
11 46 (1.91%) Manufacturing
12 45 (1.87%) Retail
13 41 (1.70%) Marketing
14 40 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
15 38 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
15 38 (1.58%) Telecoms
16 25 (1.04%) Games
17 20 (0.83%) Advertising
18 19 (0.79%) Investment Banking
19 18 (0.75%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 430 (17.86%) Senior
2 424 (17.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 200 (8.31%) Analyst
4 173 (7.19%) Azure Engineer
4 173 (7.19%) Developer
5 168 (6.98%) Support Engineer
6 167 (6.94%) Administrator
7 161 (6.69%) DevOps Engineer
8 150 (6.23%) IT Engineer
9 146 (6.07%) Cloud Engineer
10 114 (4.74%) Lead
11 106 (4.40%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 102 (4.24%) IT Support
13 94 (3.91%) Security Engineer
14 91 (3.78%) Architect
15 86 (3.57%) DBA
16 81 (3.37%) Platform Engineer
17 77 (3.20%) Systems Engineer
18 74 (3.07%) Senior Analyst
19 70 (2.91%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (8.93%) .NET
2 106 (4.40%) HTML
3 101 (4.20%) ARM Templates
4 74 (3.07%) REST
5 72 (2.99%) JSON
6 67 (2.78%) XML
7 66 (2.74%) YAML
8 63 (2.62%) CSS
9 60 (2.49%) .NET Framework
10 55 (2.29%) Web Services
11 49 (2.04%) ASP.NET
12 45 (1.87%) React
13 39 (1.62%) AngularJS
14 35 (1.45%) .NET Core
15 32 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
16 28 (1.16%) FIX Protocol
17 26 (1.08%) Node.js
17 26 (1.08%) RESTful
17 26 (1.08%) SPFx
18 25 (1.04%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 149 (6.19%) Management Information System
2 142 (5.90%) Data Centre
3 118 (4.90%) Clustering
4 101 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
5 83 (3.45%) Public Cloud
6 77 (3.20%) Replication
7 76 (3.16%) PKI
8 68 (2.83%) Onboarding
9 58 (2.41%) Cloud Native
10 53 (2.20%) Driving Licence
10 53 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
11 39 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
12 30 (1.25%) Private Cloud
13 26 (1.08%) Product Ownership
14 25 (1.04%) Client/Server
15 21 (0.87%) Cyberattack
16 20 (0.83%) CCTV
16 20 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
16 20 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
17 19 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1,256 (52.18%) Windows
2 635 (26.38%) Windows Server
3 599 (24.89%) Linux
4 218 (9.06%) Windows Server 2016
5 203 (8.43%) Windows 10
6 196 (8.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 161 (6.69%) Windows Server 2012
8 106 (4.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 105 (4.36%) Unix
10 82 (3.41%) CentOS
11 64 (2.66%) Ubuntu
12 62 (2.58%) Mac OS
13 48 (1.99%) Apple iOS
14 47 (1.95%) Windows 7
15 38 (1.58%) Windows Server 2008
16 36 (1.50%) Android
17 32 (1.33%) VMS
18 23 (0.96%) Solaris
19 16 (0.66%) Windows XP
20 15 (0.62%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 662 (27.50%) DevOps
2 533 (22.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 481 (19.98%) Problem-Solving
4 404 (16.78%) Agile
5 382 (15.87%) ITIL
6 355 (14.75%) CI/CD
7 327 (13.59%) Cybersecurity
8 308 (12.80%) Infrastructure as Code
9 217 (9.02%) Roadmaps
10 194 (8.06%) Mentoring
11 185 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 183 (7.60%) Migration
13 178 (7.40%) Information Security
14 174 (7.23%) Task Automation
15 161 (6.69%) Disaster Recovery
15 161 (6.69%) Project Management
16 149 (6.19%) Customer Service
17 147 (6.11%) Containerisation
18 146 (6.07%) Computer Science
19 140 (5.82%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 675 (28.04%) Python
2 499 (20.73%) SQL
3 494 (20.52%) Bash
4 306 (12.71%) C#
5 167 (6.94%) JavaScript
6 144 (5.98%) Java
7 108 (4.49%) T-SQL
8 89 (3.70%) Perl
9 86 (3.57%) Ruby
10 81 (3.37%) Bicep
11 64 (2.66%) VB
12 48 (1.99%) Go
13 47 (1.95%) C++
14 46 (1.91%) VBScript
15 44 (1.83%) TypeScript
16 35 (1.45%) C
17 30 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
18 27 (1.12%) Shell Script
19 20 (0.83%) VB.NET
20 14 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 454 (18.86%) Security Cleared
2 402 (16.70%) Degree
3 297 (12.34%) SC Cleared
4 224 (9.31%) DV Cleared
5 113 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 108 (4.49%) Azure Certification
7 93 (3.86%) Cisco Certification
8 81 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 65 (2.70%) CCNA
10 57 (2.37%) CISSP
11 43 (1.79%) AWS Certification
12 39 (1.62%) MCSA
13 35 (1.45%) MCSE
14 31 (1.29%) DBS Check
15 28 (1.16%) CCNP
16 27 (1.12%) CEH
17 26 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 26 (1.08%) MCP
18 24 (1.00%) SANS
19 22 (0.91%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (3.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 69 (2.87%) SLA
3 32 (1.33%) NIST
3 32 (1.33%) PCI DSS
4 30 (1.25%) GDPR
5 21 (0.87%) QA
6 19 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 10 (0.42%) GRC
9 7 (0.29%) PMO
10 6 (0.25%) NCSC
11 5 (0.21%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.21%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.21%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.17%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.12%) EMIR
13 3 (0.12%) MiFID
14 2 (0.083%) ISO 9000
15 1 (0.042%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 923 (38.35%) Active Directory
2 439 (18.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 305 (12.67%) Hyper-V
4 229 (9.51%) Docker
5 125 (5.19%) vSphere
6 121 (5.03%) Virtual Machines
7 115 (4.78%) VMware ESXi
8 83 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
9 52 (2.16%) XenApp
10 50 (2.08%) RACF
11 28 (1.16%) XenDesktop
12 17 (0.71%) Microsoft App-V
12 17 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
13 15 (0.62%) NFS
14 13 (0.54%) OpenSSH
15 10 (0.42%) pfSense
15 10 (0.42%) Terminal Services
16 9 (0.37%) vCloud
16 9 (0.37%) VMware NSX
16 9 (0.37%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 397 (16.49%) Terraform
2 339 (14.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 327 (13.59%) Kubernetes
4 315 (13.09%) Ansible
5 251 (10.43%) SCCM
6 120 (4.99%) Puppet
7 103 (4.28%) vCenter Server
8 77 (3.20%) WSUS
9 66 (2.74%) SCOM
10 60 (2.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 57 (2.37%) Grafana
12 48 (1.99%) Progress Chef
13 46 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
14 41 (1.70%) Microsoft Clustering
15 32 (1.33%) Prometheus
16 28 (1.16%) Nagios
17 24 (1.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
18 23 (0.96%) Failover Clustering
19 21 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
20 18 (0.75%) Autotask
Vendors
1 1,255 (52.14%) Microsoft
2 647 (26.88%) VMware
3 183 (7.60%) Citrix
4 182 (7.56%) Cisco
5 167 (6.94%) Oracle
6 166 (6.90%) Red Hat
7 151 (6.27%) Veeam
8 85 (3.53%) Splunk
9 68 (2.83%) ServiceNow
10 65 (2.70%) CyberArk
11 63 (2.62%) Dell
12 61 (2.53%) Google
13 57 (2.37%) HP
14 53 (2.20%) Palo Alto
15 51 (2.12%) Commvault
16 44 (1.83%) Juniper
17 43 (1.79%) Fortinet
18 40 (1.66%) Bloomberg
19 38 (1.58%) Apple
20 37 (1.54%) NetApp