Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 31 July 2021

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 31 July 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Windows PowerShell
Central London > City of London
6 months to
31 Jul 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 52 54 67
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 -2
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 288 238 437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 5.11% 4.53% 4.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.46% 7.91% 7.03%
Number of salaries quoted 241 195 391
10th Percentile £52,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £45,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% - -
75th Percentile £88,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,500 £85,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% - +4.35%

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 advertised in the City of London with a requirement for coding skills.

All Programming Languages
City of London
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,406 3,008 6,214
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London 60.49% 57.24% 60.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3,109 2,675 5,580
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £93,750 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £108,750 £105,000 £97,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year +7.14% +5.66% +6.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the City of London.

Salary trend for PowerShell in the City of London

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 July 2021.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in the City of London

For the 6 months to 31 July 2021, IT jobs citing PowerShell also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the City of London region with a requirement for PowerShell.

1 215 (74.65%) Azure
2 170 (59.03%) DevOps
3 120 (41.67%) Terraform
4 118 (40.97%) SQL
5 110 (38.19%) Windows
6 106 (36.81%) Agile Software Development
7 96 (33.33%) Microsoft
8 89 (30.90%) SQL Server
9 83 (28.82%) Active Directory
10 82 (28.47%) Python
10 82 (28.47%) PaaS
10 82 (28.47%) Azure Active Directory
11 73 (25.35%) .NET
12 72 (25.00%) JavaScript
13 71 (24.65%) C#
14 70 (24.31%) Opscode Chef
15 69 (23.96%) Continuous Integration
16 68 (23.61%) AWS
17 65 (22.57%) Test Automation
18 63 (21.88%) T-SQL
18 63 (21.88%) Deployment Automation
19 62 (21.53%) Microservices
19 62 (21.53%) Finance
20 61 (21.18%) Docker
21 60 (20.83%) VMware
22 59 (20.49%) MVC
22 59 (20.49%) Linux
22 59 (20.49%) SharePoint
22 59 (20.49%) Microsoft 365
22 59 (20.49%) .NET Core

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Co-occurring IT Skills in the City of London by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 59 (20.49%) SharePoint
2 16 (5.56%) MS Exchange
3 12 (4.17%) Confluence
4 8 (2.78%) IIS
5 5 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.74%) Exchange Server 2010
5 5 (1.74%) Skype for Business
6 4 (1.39%) GlassFish
6 4 (1.39%) JBoss
6 4 (1.39%) WebSphere
7 3 (1.04%) SAS
7 3 (1.04%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.35%) CMS
8 1 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2003
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 25 (8.68%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 42 (14.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.39%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
2 4 (1.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (1.04%) FastStats
3 3 (1.04%) Unica
4 1 (0.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.35%) Salerio
Cloud Services
1 215 (74.65%) Azure
2 82 (28.47%) Azure Active Directory
2 82 (28.47%) PaaS
3 68 (23.61%) AWS
4 59 (20.49%) Microsoft 365
5 57 (19.79%) Azure Key Vault
6 47 (16.32%) Azure Service Bus
7 44 (15.28%) Azure Storage
8 43 (14.93%) Azure App Service
9 41 (14.24%) Azure Service Fabric
9 41 (14.24%) IaaS
10 26 (9.03%) Serverless
11 22 (7.64%) Power Platform
12 17 (5.90%) Azure Functions
13 16 (5.56%) SaaS
14 11 (3.82%) GCP
15 10 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (3.13%) GitHub
17 6 (2.08%) Datadog
18 5 (1.74%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.29%) Firewall
2 18 (6.25%) DNS
3 16 (5.56%) DHCP
4 15 (5.21%) TCP/IP
5 12 (4.17%) Network Security
6 11 (3.82%) VPN
7 10 (3.47%) VLAN
8 7 (2.43%) NetScaler
9 6 (2.08%) SAN
10 5 (1.74%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (1.74%) Fibre Channel
11 4 (1.39%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (1.39%) LAN
11 4 (1.39%) VoIP
11 4 (1.39%) VSAN
11 4 (1.39%) WAN
12 3 (1.04%) Cisco Firepower
12 3 (1.04%) Cisco Nexus
12 3 (1.04%) WebEx
13 2 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (30.90%) SQL Server
2 19 (6.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 18 (6.25%) Power BI
4 17 (5.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 14 (4.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (4.51%) Relational Database
7 12 (4.17%) SQL Server 2012
7 12 (4.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 11 (3.82%) InfluxDB
9 9 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (3.13%) MongoDB
9 9 (3.13%) RDBMS
10 8 (2.78%) MySQL
10 8 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (2.08%) SQL Server 2014
12 5 (1.74%) NoSQL
12 5 (1.74%) Tableau
13 4 (1.39%) Data Lake
14 3 (1.04%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 50 (17.36%) Team Foundation Server
1 50 (17.36%) Visual Studio Team System
2 40 (13.89%) Git (software)
3 38 (13.19%) Jenkins
4 21 (7.29%) TeamCity
5 19 (6.60%) Octopus Deploy
6 18 (6.25%) JIRA
7 13 (4.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 11 (3.82%) GitLab
9 6 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.74%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.39%) Apache Archiva
11 4 (1.39%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.39%) JUnit
11 4 (1.39%) Mockito
12 3 (1.04%) Visual Studio
12 3 (1.04%) WinDbg
13 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
14 1 (0.35%) Chocolatey
General
1 62 (21.53%) Finance
2 55 (19.10%) Social Skills
3 47 (16.32%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.56%) Law
5 13 (4.51%) Legal
6 9 (3.13%) Banking
7 7 (2.43%) Games
7 7 (2.43%) Online Betting
7 7 (2.43%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.08%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.08%) Marketing
9 4 (1.39%) Public Speaking
10 3 (1.04%) Back Office
10 3 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.04%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.04%) Retail
11 2 (0.69%) Front Office
11 2 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 64 (22.22%) Developer
2 49 (17.01%) Azure Developer
3 43 (14.93%) C# Developer
4 41 (14.24%) Azure Engineer
5 38 (13.19%) DevOps Engineer
6 37 (12.85%) Senior Developer
7 34 (11.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 29 (10.07%) Senior C# Developer
9 24 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
10 23 (7.99%) Senior DevOps
11 19 (6.60%) .NET Developer
12 18 (6.25%) SQL Developer
13 17 (5.90%) Integration Developer
14 16 (5.56%) Senior .NET Developer
14 16 (5.56%) Senior SQL Developer
15 15 (5.21%) ASP.NET MVC Developer
15 15 (5.21%) C# .NET Developer
15 15 (5.21%) DevOps Developer
16 14 (4.86%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
16 14 (4.86%) Digital Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (25.35%) .NET
2 59 (20.49%) .NET Core
3 57 (19.79%) React
4 56 (19.44%) CSS
4 56 (19.44%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 54 (18.75%) ASP.NET Web API
6 53 (18.40%) jQuery
7 52 (18.06%) Entity Framework
8 51 (17.71%) Web Services
9 45 (15.63%) .NET Framework
10 13 (4.51%) JSON
11 9 (3.13%) Node.js
12 7 (2.43%) REST
13 6 (2.08%) RESTful
14 5 (1.74%) AngularJS
15 4 (1.39%) Apache Camel
15 4 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
15 4 (1.39%) Hystrix
15 4 (1.39%) JAX-RS
15 4 (1.39%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 53 (18.40%) N-Tier
2 15 (5.21%) Reinsurance
3 14 (4.86%) Data Centre
4 12 (4.17%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (3.47%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.47%) Social Media
6 9 (3.13%) Clustering
7 7 (2.43%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.43%) Digital Media
7 7 (2.43%) EMC VNX
8 6 (2.08%) Client/Server
8 6 (2.08%) Enterprise Storage
9 5 (1.74%) Equities
9 5 (1.74%) Hedge funds
9 5 (1.74%) Replication
9 5 (1.74%) Symmetrix
9 5 (1.74%) Tandem
9 5 (1.74%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (1.39%) EMC VNXe
Operating Systems
1 110 (38.19%) Windows
2 59 (20.49%) Linux
3 44 (15.28%) Windows Server
4 29 (10.07%) Windows 10
5 22 (7.64%) Windows Server 2016
6 21 (7.29%) Windows Server 2012
7 18 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 12 (4.17%) Windows Server 2008
9 11 (3.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (3.82%) Unix
10 10 (3.47%) Data ONTAP
11 7 (2.43%) CentOS
11 7 (2.43%) Ubuntu
11 7 (2.43%) Windows 7
12 5 (1.74%) Android
12 5 (1.74%) Windows Server 2003
13 4 (1.39%) Apple iOS
14 3 (1.04%) VMS
15 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.35%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (59.03%) DevOps
2 106 (36.81%) Agile Software Development
3 69 (23.96%) Continuous Integration
4 65 (22.57%) Test Automation
5 63 (21.88%) Deployment Automation
6 62 (21.53%) Microservices
7 59 (20.49%) MVC
8 53 (18.40%) SOA
8 53 (18.40%) UML
9 52 (18.06%) SOLID
10 51 (17.71%) Migration
11 50 (17.36%) OO
12 48 (16.67%) CRM
12 48 (16.67%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
13 47 (16.32%) Infrastructure as Code
14 43 (14.93%) Mentoring
15 41 (14.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 34 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
17 31 (10.76%) Configuration Management
18 26 (9.03%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 118 (40.97%) SQL
2 82 (28.47%) Python
3 72 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 71 (24.65%) C#
5 63 (21.88%) T-SQL
6 46 (15.97%) Bash Shell
7 14 (4.86%) Java
8 7 (2.43%) C++
8 7 (2.43%) Perl
9 4 (1.39%) Java 8
9 4 (1.39%) VBA
9 4 (1.39%) VBScript
10 3 (1.04%) Go
10 3 (1.04%) R
10 3 (1.04%) Scala
11 2 (0.69%) C
11 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
11 2 (0.69%) Groovy
11 2 (0.69%) Ruby
12 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 44 (15.28%) Degree
2 19 (6.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (1.39%) CCNA
5 3 (1.04%) EnCE
5 3 (1.04%) GCFA
5 3 (1.04%) GCFE
5 3 (1.04%) GREM
6 2 (0.69%) A+ Certification
6 2 (0.69%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.69%) CISSP
6 2 (0.69%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.69%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.35%) CCSP
7 1 (0.35%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (0.35%) MCSA
7 1 (0.35%) MCSE
7 1 (0.35%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.56%) SLA
2 5 (1.74%) GDPR
3 4 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.39%) QA
4 2 (0.69%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 83 (28.82%) Active Directory
2 61 (21.18%) Docker
3 41 (14.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (5.56%) vSphere
5 11 (3.82%) XenDesktop
6 10 (3.47%) Hyper-V
7 9 (3.13%) XenApp
8 5 (1.74%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.69%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.35%) KVM
11 1 (0.35%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 120 (41.67%) Terraform
2 70 (24.31%) Opscode Chef
3 55 (19.10%) Kubernetes
4 43 (14.93%) Ansible
5 29 (10.07%) Puppet
6 27 (9.38%) SCCM
7 14 (4.86%) Microsoft Intune
8 11 (3.82%) Grafana
9 5 (1.74%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
10 4 (1.39%) NetBackup
10 4 (1.39%) SCOM
10 4 (1.39%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.04%) Backup Exec
11 3 (1.04%) Cisco CUCM
11 3 (1.04%) EnCase
11 3 (1.04%) FTK
11 3 (1.04%) Kibana
11 3 (1.04%) Nagios
11 3 (1.04%) Perfmon
11 3 (1.04%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 96 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 60 (20.83%) VMware
3 42 (14.58%) Nintex
4 25 (8.68%) Cisco
5 23 (7.99%) Citrix
6 19 (6.60%) NetApp
7 15 (5.21%) ServiceNow
8 11 (3.82%) SolarWinds
9 10 (3.47%) Google
9 10 (3.47%) LogicMonitor
9 10 (3.47%) Symantec
10 9 (3.13%) EMC
10 9 (3.13%) IBM
10 9 (3.13%) Oracle
10 9 (3.13%) Palo Alto
11 8 (2.78%) Dell
11 8 (2.78%) HP
12 7 (2.43%) iManage
12 7 (2.43%) Splunk
13 6 (2.08%) AppDynamics