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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 93 110
Rank change year-on-year -21 +17 -31
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 2,403 3,540 5,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.34% 3.64% 3.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.16% 8.46% 6.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,908 2,392 3,548
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,250
25th Percentile £43,253 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% +6.36%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,938 £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 33,562 41,867 90,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.71% 43.01% 54.20%
Number of salaries quoted 25,071 26,942 43,619
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 £53,772 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.23% +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 28 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 28 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 -13 2,263 £55,000 -8.33% 545
UK excluding London -37 1,545 £50,000 -4.76% 359
Work from Home -33 878 £58,000 -6.45% 266
London -10 771 £75,000 +7.14% 203
South East -27 427 £52,500 -4.55% 106
North of England -47 359 £50,000 - 97
South West +3 292 £50,000 -4.76% 48
Midlands -6 237 £46,500 -13.89% 49
North West -40 179 £52,500 +10.53% 54
West Midlands -7 159 £47,500 -12.04% 31
East of England +10 148 £47,500 -17.39% 37
Yorkshire -20 135 £47,500 -5.00% 35
East Midlands -11 76 £45,000 -16.28% 18
Scotland -102 61 £60,000 +9.09% 20
North East +5 45 £46,500 -19.13% 8
Wales -62 16 £44,500 +15.58% 5
Northern Ireland -13 8 £35,000 -41.67% 6

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
1 337 (14.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 275 (11.44%) SharePoint
3 81 (3.37%) IIS
4 25 (1.04%) Confluence
5 14 (0.58%) WordPress
6 13 (0.54%) CMS
7 9 (0.37%) 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 2003
13 2 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2007
13 2 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2013
13 2 (0.083%) Liferay
13 2 (0.083%) Moodle
13 2 (0.083%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 171 (7.12%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.67%) 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%) 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 13 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
5 5 (0.21%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.083%) BusinessWorks
6 2 (0.083%) Endur
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 1,464 (60.92%) Azure
2 768 (31.96%) Microsoft 365
3 444 (18.48%) AWS
4 407 (16.94%) Entra ID
5 299 (12.44%) Azure DevOps
6 222 (9.24%) Power Platform
7 184 (7.66%) SaaS
8 156 (6.49%) PaaS
9 140 (5.83%) IaaS
10 104 (4.33%) GitHub
11 97 (4.04%) OneDrive
12 91 (3.79%) Azure Monitor
13 83 (3.45%) GCP
14 75 (3.12%) Cloud Computing
15 74 (3.08%) Power Automate
16 72 (3.00%) PowerApps
16 72 (3.00%) Serverless
17 61 (2.54%) Azure Sentinel
18 53 (2.21%) Azure Storage
19 48 (2.00%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 460 (19.14%) DNS
2 456 (18.98%) Firewall
3 341 (14.19%) DHCP
4 249 (10.36%) TCP/IP
5 194 (8.07%) WAN
6 193 (8.03%) VPN
7 186 (7.74%) SAN
8 176 (7.32%) LAN
9 97 (4.04%) VLAN
10 92 (3.83%) Wireless
11 91 (3.79%) Network Security
12 69 (2.87%) Wi-Fi
13 67 (2.79%) HTTP
13 67 (2.79%) Internet
14 42 (1.75%) VoIP
15 41 (1.71%) SD-WAN
16 39 (1.62%) SNMP
17 36 (1.50%) NAS
18 33 (1.37%) SSL
19 31 (1.29%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 345 (14.36%) SQL Server
2 106 (4.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 101 (4.20%) Power BI
4 92 (3.83%) MySQL
5 85 (3.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 77 (3.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 66 (2.75%) MongoDB
8 48 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
8 48 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
9 44 (1.83%) Relational Database
10 29 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
11 27 (1.12%) Oracle Database
11 27 (1.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 19 (0.79%) NoSQL
12 19 (0.79%) Redis
13 15 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
13 15 (0.62%) MariaDB
14 12 (0.50%) RDBMS
15 10 (0.42%) InfluxDB
16 9 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 191 (7.95%) Git
2 173 (7.20%) Jenkins
3 109 (4.54%) JIRA
4 55 (2.29%) GitLab
5 49 (2.04%) Visual Studio
6 42 (1.75%) TeamCity
7 29 (1.21%) 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%) SonarQube
15 9 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 608 (25.30%) Social Skills
2 525 (21.85%) Finance
3 214 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (6.53%) Banking
5 90 (3.75%) Legal
6 89 (3.70%) Aerospace
7 86 (3.58%) Law
8 81 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 70 (2.91%) Public Sector
10 54 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
11 48 (2.00%) Manufacturing
12 46 (1.91%) Retail
13 42 (1.75%) Marketing
14 41 (1.71%) Telecoms
15 38 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
16 37 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
17 25 (1.04%) Games
18 19 (0.79%) Advertising
19 18 (0.75%) Electronics
20 17 (0.71%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 434 (18.06%) Senior
2 414 (17.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 207 (8.61%) Analyst
4 173 (7.20%) Azure Engineer
5 171 (7.12%) Developer
5 171 (7.12%) Support Engineer
6 167 (6.95%) Administrator
7 159 (6.62%) DevOps Engineer
8 148 (6.16%) IT Engineer
9 144 (5.99%) Cloud Engineer
10 115 (4.79%) Lead
11 106 (4.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 104 (4.33%) IT Support
13 94 (3.91%) Security Engineer
14 91 (3.79%) Architect
15 86 (3.58%) DBA
16 81 (3.37%) Platform Engineer
17 79 (3.29%) Senior Analyst
18 77 (3.20%) Systems Engineer
19 72 (3.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (8.91%) .NET
2 106 (4.41%) HTML
3 101 (4.20%) ARM Templates
4 74 (3.08%) JSON
4 74 (3.08%) REST
5 68 (2.83%) XML
6 66 (2.75%) YAML
7 63 (2.62%) CSS
8 59 (2.46%) .NET Framework
9 55 (2.29%) Web Services
10 47 (1.96%) ASP.NET
11 44 (1.83%) React
12 39 (1.62%) AngularJS
13 35 (1.46%) .NET Core
14 34 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
15 28 (1.17%) RESTful
16 27 (1.12%) FIX Protocol
17 26 (1.08%) Node.js
17 26 (1.08%) SOAP
18 25 (1.04%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 145 (6.03%) Data Centre
1 145 (6.03%) Management Information System
2 118 (4.91%) Clustering
3 103 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
4 84 (3.50%) Public Cloud
5 77 (3.20%) PKI
6 76 (3.16%) Replication
7 67 (2.79%) Onboarding
8 53 (2.21%) Cloud Native
8 53 (2.21%) Driving Licence
9 52 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
10 37 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
11 30 (1.25%) Private Cloud
12 27 (1.12%) Product Ownership
13 25 (1.04%) Client/Server
14 20 (0.83%) CCTV
15 19 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
15 19 (0.79%) Cyberattack
15 19 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
15 19 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1,257 (52.31%) Windows
2 638 (26.55%) Windows Server
3 594 (24.72%) Linux
4 217 (9.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 207 (8.61%) Windows 10
6 197 (8.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 165 (6.87%) Windows Server 2012
8 104 (4.33%) Unix
9 103 (4.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 82 (3.41%) CentOS
11 63 (2.62%) Ubuntu
12 61 (2.54%) Mac OS
13 48 (2.00%) Apple iOS
14 47 (1.96%) Windows 7
15 38 (1.58%) Windows Server 2008
16 36 (1.50%) Android
17 33 (1.37%) VMS
18 22 (0.92%) Solaris
19 16 (0.67%) Windows XP
20 15 (0.62%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 657 (27.34%) DevOps
2 522 (21.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 481 (20.02%) Problem-Solving
4 404 (16.81%) Agile
5 381 (15.86%) ITIL
6 348 (14.48%) CI/CD
7 328 (13.65%) Cybersecurity
8 306 (12.73%) Infrastructure as Code
9 217 (9.03%) Roadmaps
10 198 (8.24%) Mentoring
11 191 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 183 (7.62%) Migration
13 178 (7.41%) Information Security
14 167 (6.95%) Task Automation
15 163 (6.78%) Disaster Recovery
16 162 (6.74%) Project Management
17 148 (6.16%) Customer Service
18 147 (6.12%) Computer Science
19 146 (6.08%) Containerisation
20 145 (6.03%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 671 (27.92%) Python
2 505 (21.02%) SQL
3 491 (20.43%) Bash
4 310 (12.90%) C#
5 165 (6.87%) JavaScript
6 144 (5.99%) Java
7 111 (4.62%) T-SQL
8 89 (3.70%) Perl
9 83 (3.45%) Ruby
10 79 (3.29%) Bicep
11 64 (2.66%) VB
12 47 (1.96%) Go
13 46 (1.91%) VBScript
14 44 (1.83%) C++
14 44 (1.83%) TypeScript
15 35 (1.46%) C
16 31 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
17 28 (1.17%) Shell Script
18 20 (0.83%) VB.NET
19 14 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 453 (18.85%) Security Cleared
2 403 (16.77%) Degree
3 298 (12.40%) SC Cleared
4 224 (9.32%) DV Cleared
5 117 (4.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 112 (4.66%) Azure Certification
7 94 (3.91%) Cisco Certification
8 81 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 65 (2.70%) CCNA
10 56 (2.33%) CISSP
11 41 (1.71%) AWS Certification
11 41 (1.71%) MCSA
12 38 (1.58%) MCSE
13 31 (1.29%) DBS Check
14 28 (1.17%) CCNP
15 27 (1.12%) CEH
16 26 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 25 (1.04%) MCP
18 24 (1.00%) SANS
19 22 (0.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 68 (2.83%) SLA
3 33 (1.37%) NIST
4 32 (1.33%) PCI DSS
5 30 (1.25%) GDPR
6 21 (0.87%) QA
7 17 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 10 (0.42%) GRC
10 7 (0.29%) PMO
11 6 (0.25%) NCSC
12 5 (0.21%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.17%) Data Quality
13 4 (0.17%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.12%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.083%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.083%) EMIR
15 2 (0.083%) ISO 9000
15 2 (0.083%) MiFID
16 1 (0.042%) GxP
System Software
1 929 (38.66%) Active Directory
2 433 (18.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 303 (12.61%) Hyper-V
4 227 (9.45%) Docker
5 125 (5.20%) vSphere
6 119 (4.95%) Virtual Machines
7 117 (4.87%) VMware ESXi
8 82 (3.41%) Virtual Desktop
9 50 (2.08%) RACF
10 49 (2.04%) XenApp
11 25 (1.04%) XenDesktop
12 17 (0.71%) Microsoft App-V
13 16 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
14 15 (0.62%) NFS
15 13 (0.54%) OpenSSH
16 10 (0.42%) pfSense
16 10 (0.42%) Terminal Services
16 10 (0.42%) vCloud
17 9 (0.37%) VMware Server
18 8 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 391 (16.27%) Terraform
2 338 (14.07%) Microsoft Intune
3 325 (13.52%) Kubernetes
4 311 (12.94%) Ansible
5 252 (10.49%) SCCM
6 118 (4.91%) Puppet
7 103 (4.29%) vCenter Server
8 78 (3.25%) WSUS
9 67 (2.79%) SCOM
10 61 (2.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 59 (2.46%) Grafana
12 48 (2.00%) Progress Chef
13 46 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
14 40 (1.66%) Microsoft Clustering
15 32 (1.33%) Prometheus
16 29 (1.21%) 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 1,265 (52.64%) Microsoft
2 644 (26.80%) VMware
3 187 (7.78%) Cisco
4 182 (7.57%) Citrix
5 167 (6.95%) Oracle
6 164 (6.82%) Red Hat
7 151 (6.28%) Veeam
8 85 (3.54%) Splunk
9 68 (2.83%) ServiceNow
10 64 (2.66%) CyberArk
11 63 (2.62%) Dell
12 59 (2.46%) Google
12 59 (2.46%) HP
13 53 (2.21%) Palo Alto
14 52 (2.16%) Commvault
15 45 (1.87%) Juniper
16 43 (1.79%) Fortinet
17 39 (1.62%) Bloomberg
18 38 (1.58%) Apple
18 38 (1.58%) NetApp