PowerShell Jobs with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 86 120
Rank change year-on-year -44 +34 -21
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 829 1,566 2,218
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.45% 3.77% 3.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.00% 7.65% 5.48%
Number of salaries quoted 686 1,196 1,747
10th Percentile £39,000 £38,999 £37,200
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,938 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £108,125 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% +6.36%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,808 20,465 40,492
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.78% 49.22% 58.94%
Number of salaries quoted 11,416 15,044 23,932
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £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 £78,750 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PowerShell trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PowerShell.

PowerShell salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing PowerShell over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

PowerShell salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 126 (15.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 94 (11.34%) SharePoint
3 46 (5.55%) IIS
4 7 (0.84%) Tomcat
5 6 (0.72%) Apache
6 5 (0.60%) CMS
6 5 (0.60%) Confluence
7 2 (0.24%) nginx
7 2 (0.24%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.12%) Documentum
8 1 (0.12%) IBM Notes
8 1 (0.12%) Moodle
8 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.12%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 24 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) 1Password
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (0.97%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.48%) BusinessWorks
4 3 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.24%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 580 (69.96%) Azure
2 308 (37.15%) Microsoft 365
3 188 (22.68%) AWS
4 148 (17.85%) Entra ID
5 118 (14.23%) Azure DevOps
6 75 (9.05%) Power Platform
7 63 (7.60%) SaaS
8 61 (7.36%) PaaS
9 54 (6.51%) IaaS
10 51 (6.15%) GitHub
11 46 (5.55%) GCP
12 43 (5.19%) Azure Monitor
13 37 (4.46%) Serverless
14 33 (3.98%) OneDrive
14 33 (3.98%) Power Automate
15 31 (3.74%) Azure AKS
16 28 (3.38%) PowerApps
17 25 (3.02%) Azure Sentinel
17 25 (3.02%) Azure Storage
18 24 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 161 (19.42%) DNS
2 159 (19.18%) Firewall
3 110 (13.27%) DHCP
4 65 (7.84%) VPN
5 64 (7.72%) LAN
6 63 (7.60%) TCP/IP
6 63 (7.60%) WAN
7 58 (7.00%) SAN
8 38 (4.58%) Network Security
9 28 (3.38%) Internet
10 27 (3.26%) Wireless
11 21 (2.53%) VLAN
12 18 (2.17%) SNMP
13 15 (1.81%) Wireshark
14 14 (1.69%) SSL
15 13 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
16 12 (1.45%) NGFW
16 12 (1.45%) Remote Desktop
17 11 (1.33%) FTP
17 11 (1.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (15.08%) SQL Server
2 43 (5.19%) MySQL
3 40 (4.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 37 (4.46%) Azure SQL Database
4 37 (4.46%) Power BI
5 28 (3.38%) MongoDB
6 26 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
7 24 (2.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 14 (1.69%) Relational Database
9 13 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
10 12 (1.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 11 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (1.33%) Oracle Database
12 10 (1.21%) MariaDB
12 10 (1.21%) Redis
13 9 (1.09%) InfluxDB
14 7 (0.84%) NoSQL
15 5 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
16 4 (0.48%) Oracle ODI
17 3 (0.36%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 88 (10.62%) Git
2 58 (7.00%) Jenkins
3 53 (6.39%) JIRA
4 26 (3.14%) TeamCity
5 16 (1.93%) GitLab
6 13 (1.57%) Octopus Deploy
6 13 (1.57%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (1.21%) gulp
7 10 (1.21%) Trac
7 10 (1.21%) Yeoman
8 8 (0.97%) Visual Studio
9 7 (0.84%) MSBuild
10 5 (0.60%) MSI
10 5 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (0.48%) AdminStudio
11 4 (0.48%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.48%) InstallShield
11 4 (0.48%) Moq
11 4 (0.48%) NUnit
11 4 (0.48%) Terragrunt
General
1 195 (23.52%) Social Skills
2 189 (22.80%) Finance
3 70 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (5.43%) Banking
5 33 (3.98%) Law
6 28 (3.38%) Telecoms
7 27 (3.26%) Public Sector
8 26 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (2.53%) Marketing
10 20 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
11 15 (1.81%) Legal
11 15 (1.81%) Retail
12 12 (1.45%) Aerospace
12 12 (1.45%) Front Office
12 12 (1.45%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.33%) Tech for Good
14 10 (1.21%) Back Office
14 10 (1.21%) Health Technology
15 9 (1.09%) Advertising
16 8 (0.97%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 159 (19.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 102 (12.30%) Senior
3 88 (10.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 80 (9.65%) Developer
5 79 (9.53%) Azure Engineer
6 67 (8.08%) IT Engineer
7 59 (7.12%) Analyst
8 56 (6.76%) Lead
8 56 (6.76%) Support Engineer
9 49 (5.91%) Administrator
10 47 (5.67%) Cloud Engineer
11 39 (4.70%) Security Engineer
12 34 (4.10%) Platform Engineer
13 33 (3.98%) Support Analyst
14 32 (3.86%) Consultant
14 32 (3.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 30 (3.62%) Architect
15 30 (3.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 29 (3.50%) IT Support
17 28 (3.38%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (10.86%) .NET
2 44 (5.31%) ARM Templates
3 41 (4.95%) HTML
3 41 (4.95%) JSON
4 35 (4.22%) YAML
5 34 (4.10%) .NET Framework
6 30 (3.62%) CSS
7 29 (3.50%) ASP.NET
8 28 (3.38%) REST
9 24 (2.90%) React
10 23 (2.77%) XML
11 22 (2.65%) Node.js
11 22 (2.65%) SPFx
12 19 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
12 19 (2.29%) Microsoft Graph
12 19 (2.29%) RESTful
13 15 (1.81%) .NET Core
14 11 (1.33%) SOAP
14 11 (1.33%) Web Services
15 9 (1.09%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 72 (8.69%) Clustering
2 66 (7.96%) Self-Motivation
3 63 (7.60%) Data Centre
4 42 (5.07%) Management Information System
5 35 (4.22%) PKI
5 35 (4.22%) Public Cloud
6 24 (2.90%) Client/Server
7 23 (2.77%) Onboarding
7 23 (2.77%) Private Cloud
8 21 (2.53%) Product Ownership
8 21 (2.53%) Replication
9 17 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
10 16 (1.93%) Cloud Native
11 13 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.57%) Security Operations Centre
12 12 (1.45%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
13 11 (1.33%) Cyberattack
13 11 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (1.33%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 461 (55.61%) Windows
2 266 (32.09%) Windows Server
3 198 (23.88%) Linux
4 63 (7.60%) Windows Server 2016
5 52 (6.27%) Windows 10
6 47 (5.67%) Unix
7 45 (5.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 38 (4.58%) Windows Server 2012
9 35 (4.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 21 (2.53%) Apple iOS
11 20 (2.41%) Android
12 15 (1.81%) Windows Server 2008
13 12 (1.45%) VMS
14 10 (1.21%) Oracle Linux
14 10 (1.21%) Solaris
14 10 (1.21%) Windows 7
15 7 (0.84%) Mac OS
15 7 (0.84%) Ubuntu
16 4 (0.48%) Mac OS X
16 4 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (32.09%) DevOps
2 190 (22.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 160 (19.30%) CI/CD
4 155 (18.70%) Agile
5 144 (17.37%) Infrastructure as Code
6 132 (15.92%) ITIL
7 125 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (11.22%) Cybersecurity
9 88 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
10 82 (9.89%) Roadmaps
11 73 (8.81%) Information Security
12 72 (8.69%) Configuration Management
13 71 (8.56%) Disaster Recovery
13 71 (8.56%) Migration
14 63 (7.60%) Change Management
15 61 (7.36%) Analytics
16 59 (7.12%) Containerisation
17 58 (7.00%) Service Management
17 58 (7.00%) Task Automation
18 57 (6.88%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 228 (27.50%) Python
2 145 (17.49%) Bash
3 141 (17.01%) SQL
4 126 (15.20%) C#
5 57 (6.88%) JavaScript
6 48 (5.79%) T-SQL
7 39 (4.70%) Java
8 37 (4.46%) VB
9 35 (4.22%) VBScript
10 31 (3.74%) Perl
10 31 (3.74%) Ruby
11 29 (3.50%) TypeScript
12 21 (2.53%) Kusto Query Language
13 20 (2.41%) Bicep
14 17 (2.05%) Go
15 11 (1.33%) PHP
16 10 (1.21%) Groovy
17 9 (1.09%) ActionScript
17 9 (1.09%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.97%) Korn
Qualifications
1 132 (15.92%) Degree
2 115 (13.87%) Security Cleared
3 71 (8.56%) SC Cleared
4 36 (4.34%) DV Cleared
5 34 (4.10%) Azure Certification
6 24 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (2.29%) CISSP
7 19 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (2.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 15 (1.81%) SANS
11 14 (1.69%) Master's Degree
12 13 (1.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 13 (1.57%) CCSP
12 13 (1.57%) CEH
12 13 (1.57%) SSCP
13 11 (1.33%) DBS Check
14 10 (1.21%) AWS Certification
15 9 (1.09%) MCP
16 7 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (3.86%) SLA
3 23 (2.77%) NIST
4 16 (1.93%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.21%) GRC
6 9 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (1.09%) GDPR
7 8 (0.97%) QA
8 4 (0.48%) NCSC
9 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.12%) EMIR
10 1 (0.12%) GxP
10 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 357 (43.06%) Active Directory
2 136 (16.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 91 (10.98%) Docker
3 91 (10.98%) Hyper-V
4 66 (7.96%) VMware ESXi
5 59 (7.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 54 (6.51%) Virtual Machines
7 41 (4.95%) vSphere
8 22 (2.65%) XenApp
9 11 (1.33%) NFS
10 10 (1.21%) DFS Replication
10 10 (1.21%) pfSense
10 10 (1.21%) XenDesktop
11 9 (1.09%) Microsoft App-V
11 9 (1.09%) OpenSSH
12 5 (0.60%) Terminal Services
13 4 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 2 (0.24%) Firmware
15 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 161 (19.42%) Terraform
2 136 (16.41%) Kubernetes
2 136 (16.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 119 (14.35%) Ansible
4 93 (11.22%) SCCM
5 45 (5.43%) Grafana
5 45 (5.43%) vCenter Server
6 44 (5.31%) Puppet
7 43 (5.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 43 (5.19%) WSUS
8 33 (3.98%) Microsoft Clustering
9 26 (3.14%) SCOM
10 23 (2.77%) Single Sign-On
11 20 (2.41%) Nagios
12 19 (2.29%) Prometheus
13 17 (2.05%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 17 (2.05%) Progress Chef
14 13 (1.57%) HAProxy
14 13 (1.57%) Nmap
15 11 (1.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 462 (55.73%) Microsoft
2 225 (27.14%) VMware
3 94 (11.34%) Citrix
4 50 (6.03%) Cisco
5 49 (5.91%) Oracle
6 37 (4.46%) Veeam
7 36 (4.34%) ServiceNow
8 33 (3.98%) Red Hat
9 26 (3.14%) NetApp
9 26 (3.14%) Sun
10 25 (3.02%) Qualys
10 25 (3.02%) Splunk
11 23 (2.77%) Commvault
12 21 (2.53%) IBM
13 20 (2.41%) Fortinet
14 18 (2.17%) CrowdStrike
15 16 (1.93%) HP
15 16 (1.93%) McAfee
16 14 (1.69%) Rapid7
17 13 (1.57%) Thycotic