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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 93 106
Rank change year-on-year -22 +13 -25
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 2,384 3,563 5,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.36% 3.62% 3.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.15% 8.36% 6.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,910 2,422 3,531
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,806 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £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 33,326 42,611 88,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.02% 43.26% 54.15%
Number of salaries quoted 24,946 27,225 43,437
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £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 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £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

PowerShell
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 23 May 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 23 May 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 2,247 £55,000 -8.33% 670
UK excluding London -36 1,529 £50,000 -4.76% 481
Work from Home -34 863 £58,000 -3.33% 287
London -11 770 £74,137 +5.91% 301
South East -27 421 £52,500 -4.55% 219
North of England -40 354 £50,000 - 100
South West +5 295 £50,000 -4.76% 46
Midlands -15 233 £46,500 -13.89% 50
North West -43 178 £52,500 +10.53% 55
West Midlands -5 155 £47,500 -12.04% 32
East of England +12 147 £47,500 -17.39% 48
Yorkshire -24 132 £47,500 -5.00% 35
East Midlands -2 76 £45,000 -14.29% 18
Scotland -106 57 £62,500 +13.64% 21
North East +4 44 £47,500 -17.39% 10
Wales -52 17 £44,000 +14.29% 3
Northern Ireland -6 8 £35,000 -39.13% 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
1 333 (13.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 278 (11.66%) SharePoint
3 83 (3.48%) IIS
4 26 (1.09%) Confluence
5 14 (0.59%) WordPress
6 13 (0.55%) CMS
7 9 (0.38%) Apache
8 7 (0.29%) Skype for Business
8 7 (0.29%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
10 5 (0.21%) IBM Notes
10 5 (0.21%) SAS
10 5 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
11 3 (0.13%) nginx
12 2 (0.084%) Exchange Server 2007
12 2 (0.084%) Exchange Server 2013
12 2 (0.084%) Liferay
12 2 (0.084%) Moodle
12 2 (0.084%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.084%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 169 (7.09%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.34%) InfoPath
6 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.042%) 1Password
7 1 (0.042%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.042%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.042%) Simulink
7 1 (0.042%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.042%) Weka
Business Applications
1 17 (0.71%) Fidessa
2 15 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
5 5 (0.21%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.13%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (0.042%) Eikon
7 1 (0.042%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.042%) Endur
7 1 (0.042%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.042%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.042%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,445 (60.61%) Azure
2 767 (32.17%) Microsoft 365
3 440 (18.46%) AWS
4 401 (16.82%) Entra ID
5 293 (12.29%) Azure DevOps
6 221 (9.27%) Power Platform
7 181 (7.59%) SaaS
8 155 (6.50%) PaaS
9 138 (5.79%) IaaS
10 105 (4.40%) GitHub
11 98 (4.11%) OneDrive
12 87 (3.65%) Azure Monitor
13 83 (3.48%) GCP
14 76 (3.19%) Cloud Computing
15 72 (3.02%) Power Automate
16 71 (2.98%) PowerApps
17 69 (2.89%) Serverless
18 62 (2.60%) Azure Sentinel
19 47 (1.97%) Azure AKS
19 47 (1.97%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 457 (19.17%) DNS
2 451 (18.92%) Firewall
3 336 (14.09%) DHCP
4 247 (10.36%) TCP/IP
5 193 (8.10%) WAN
6 192 (8.05%) VPN
7 185 (7.76%) SAN
8 174 (7.30%) LAN
9 96 (4.03%) VLAN
10 92 (3.86%) Wireless
11 86 (3.61%) Network Security
12 68 (2.85%) Internet
12 68 (2.85%) Wi-Fi
13 67 (2.81%) HTTP
14 42 (1.76%) SD-WAN
14 42 (1.76%) VoIP
15 39 (1.64%) SNMP
16 37 (1.55%) NAS
17 33 (1.38%) SSL
18 31 (1.30%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 346 (14.51%) SQL Server
2 105 (4.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 102 (4.28%) Power BI
4 93 (3.90%) MySQL
5 87 (3.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 77 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 65 (2.73%) MongoDB
8 50 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
9 48 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
10 44 (1.85%) Relational Database
11 27 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
12 26 (1.09%) Oracle Database
12 26 (1.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 19 (0.80%) Redis
14 18 (0.76%) NoSQL
15 16 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
16 15 (0.63%) MariaDB
17 12 (0.50%) RDBMS
18 10 (0.42%) InfluxDB
19 9 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 186 (7.80%) Git
2 174 (7.30%) Jenkins
3 108 (4.53%) JIRA
4 55 (2.31%) GitLab
5 49 (2.06%) Visual Studio
6 42 (1.76%) TeamCity
7 28 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
8 25 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
9 22 (0.92%) Bitbucket
10 19 (0.80%) Eclipse
11 17 (0.71%) MSI
12 15 (0.63%) Moq
12 15 (0.63%) NUnit
12 15 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
13 12 (0.50%) gulp
14 10 (0.42%) Selenium
14 10 (0.42%) Trac
14 10 (0.42%) Yeoman
15 9 (0.38%) Robot Framework
15 9 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 601 (25.21%) Social Skills
2 514 (21.56%) Finance
3 213 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (6.59%) Banking
5 89 (3.73%) Legal
6 88 (3.69%) Aerospace
7 85 (3.57%) Law
8 78 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 72 (3.02%) Public Sector
10 51 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
11 48 (2.01%) Manufacturing
12 46 (1.93%) Retail
13 43 (1.80%) Marketing
14 42 (1.76%) Telecoms
15 37 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
16 36 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
17 25 (1.05%) Games
18 19 (0.80%) Advertising
18 19 (0.80%) Electronics
19 18 (0.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 430 (18.04%) Senior
2 416 (17.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 203 (8.52%) Analyst
4 174 (7.30%) Support Engineer
5 170 (7.13%) Developer
6 169 (7.09%) Azure Engineer
7 167 (7.01%) Administrator
8 157 (6.59%) DevOps Engineer
9 151 (6.33%) IT Engineer
10 137 (5.75%) Cloud Engineer
11 113 (4.74%) Lead
12 107 (4.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 106 (4.45%) IT Support
14 89 (3.73%) Architect
15 88 (3.69%) Security Engineer
16 84 (3.52%) DBA
17 80 (3.36%) Platform Engineer
18 78 (3.27%) Systems Engineer
19 77 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
20 73 (3.06%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (9.10%) .NET
2 104 (4.36%) HTML
3 97 (4.07%) ARM Templates
4 77 (3.23%) JSON
5 75 (3.15%) REST
6 69 (2.89%) XML
7 63 (2.64%) CSS
7 63 (2.64%) YAML
8 60 (2.52%) .NET Framework
9 55 (2.31%) Web Services
10 48 (2.01%) ASP.NET
11 44 (1.85%) React
12 39 (1.64%) AngularJS
13 35 (1.47%) .NET Core
13 35 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
14 28 (1.17%) RESTful
15 27 (1.13%) FIX Protocol
15 27 (1.13%) SOAP
16 25 (1.05%) Node.js
16 25 (1.05%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 144 (6.04%) Data Centre
2 141 (5.91%) Management Information System
3 115 (4.82%) Clustering
4 100 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
5 81 (3.40%) Public Cloud
6 76 (3.19%) Replication
7 73 (3.06%) PKI
8 65 (2.73%) Onboarding
9 53 (2.22%) Driving Licence
10 51 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
11 50 (2.10%) Cloud Native
12 36 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
13 31 (1.30%) Private Cloud
14 25 (1.05%) Client/Server
14 25 (1.05%) Product Ownership
15 20 (0.84%) CCTV
16 19 (0.80%) Cyberattack
16 19 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
16 19 (0.80%) Security Posture
17 17 (0.71%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 1,259 (52.81%) Windows
2 644 (27.01%) Windows Server
3 596 (25.00%) Linux
4 213 (8.93%) Windows Server 2016
5 203 (8.52%) Windows 10
6 194 (8.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 163 (6.84%) Windows Server 2012
8 105 (4.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 103 (4.32%) Unix
10 82 (3.44%) CentOS
11 63 (2.64%) Ubuntu
12 62 (2.60%) Mac OS
13 48 (2.01%) Apple iOS
14 46 (1.93%) Windows 7
15 38 (1.59%) Windows Server 2008
16 36 (1.51%) Android
17 32 (1.34%) VMS
18 22 (0.92%) Solaris
19 16 (0.67%) Windows XP
20 15 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 647 (27.14%) DevOps
2 524 (21.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 476 (19.97%) Problem-Solving
4 391 (16.40%) Agile
5 377 (15.81%) ITIL
6 339 (14.22%) CI/CD
7 320 (13.42%) Cybersecurity
8 301 (12.63%) Infrastructure as Code
9 214 (8.98%) Roadmaps
10 199 (8.35%) Mentoring
11 189 (7.93%) Continuous Improvement
12 180 (7.55%) Migration
13 172 (7.21%) Information Security
14 163 (6.84%) Task Automation
15 162 (6.80%) Disaster Recovery
15 162 (6.80%) Project Management
16 147 (6.17%) Customer Service
17 145 (6.08%) Containerisation
18 143 (6.00%) Computer Science
19 142 (5.96%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 666 (27.94%) Python
2 504 (21.14%) SQL
3 491 (20.60%) Bash
4 307 (12.88%) C#
5 162 (6.80%) JavaScript
6 141 (5.91%) Java
7 113 (4.74%) T-SQL
8 89 (3.73%) Perl
9 82 (3.44%) Ruby
10 72 (3.02%) Bicep
11 60 (2.52%) VB
12 46 (1.93%) Go
13 45 (1.89%) VBScript
14 44 (1.85%) TypeScript
15 43 (1.80%) C++
16 33 (1.38%) C
17 28 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
17 28 (1.17%) Shell Script
18 20 (0.84%) VB.NET
19 14 (0.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 450 (18.88%) Security Cleared
2 398 (16.69%) Degree
3 295 (12.37%) SC Cleared
4 222 (9.31%) DV Cleared
5 116 (4.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 108 (4.53%) Azure Certification
7 98 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
8 78 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 69 (2.89%) CCNA
10 52 (2.18%) CISSP
11 41 (1.72%) AWS Certification
12 40 (1.68%) MCSA
13 39 (1.64%) MCSE
14 31 (1.30%) DBS Check
15 28 (1.17%) CCNP
16 27 (1.13%) CEH
17 25 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 25 (1.05%) MCP
18 24 (1.01%) SANS
19 22 (0.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 68 (2.85%) SLA
3 33 (1.38%) NIST
4 32 (1.34%) PCI DSS
5 30 (1.26%) GDPR
6 21 (0.88%) QA
7 18 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 10 (0.42%) GRC
10 8 (0.34%) PMO
11 6 (0.25%) NCSC
12 5 (0.21%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.17%) Data Quality
13 4 (0.17%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.13%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.084%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.084%) EMIR
15 2 (0.084%) ISO 9000
15 2 (0.084%) MiFID
16 1 (0.042%) GxP
System Software
1 927 (38.88%) Active Directory
2 434 (18.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 306 (12.84%) Hyper-V
4 225 (9.44%) Docker
5 126 (5.29%) vSphere
6 120 (5.03%) VMware ESXi
7 115 (4.82%) Virtual Machines
8 79 (3.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 48 (2.01%) RACF
10 47 (1.97%) XenApp
11 24 (1.01%) XenDesktop
12 16 (0.67%) Microsoft App-V
12 16 (0.67%) NFS
12 16 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
13 12 (0.50%) OpenSSH
14 10 (0.42%) pfSense
14 10 (0.42%) Terminal Services
14 10 (0.42%) vCloud
15 9 (0.38%) VMware Server
16 8 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 380 (15.94%) Terraform
2 332 (13.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 318 (13.34%) Kubernetes
4 309 (12.96%) Ansible
5 247 (10.36%) SCCM
6 119 (4.99%) Puppet
7 103 (4.32%) vCenter Server
8 75 (3.15%) WSUS
9 64 (2.68%) SCOM
10 58 (2.43%) Grafana
11 57 (2.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 48 (2.01%) Progress Chef
13 45 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
14 40 (1.68%) Microsoft Clustering
15 32 (1.34%) Prometheus
16 29 (1.22%) Nagios
17 23 (0.96%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
18 22 (0.92%) Failover Clustering
19 20 (0.84%) Jamf Pro
20 18 (0.76%) WMI
Vendors
1 1,256 (52.68%) Microsoft
2 648 (27.18%) VMware
3 187 (7.84%) Cisco
4 181 (7.59%) Citrix
5 165 (6.92%) Oracle
6 164 (6.88%) Red Hat
7 150 (6.29%) Veeam
8 83 (3.48%) Splunk
9 66 (2.77%) ServiceNow
10 61 (2.56%) CyberArk
10 61 (2.56%) Dell
11 59 (2.47%) Google
12 58 (2.43%) HP
13 55 (2.31%) Palo Alto
14 52 (2.18%) Commvault
15 44 (1.85%) Juniper
16 42 (1.76%) Fortinet
17 39 (1.64%) Bloomberg
17 39 (1.64%) NetApp
18 38 (1.59%) Apple