Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 21 April 2021

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 21 April 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Windows PowerShell
England > London
6 months to
21 Apr 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 85 69 81
Rank change year-on-year -16 +12 +9
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,156 1,848 2,311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.71% 4.12% 3.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.23% 7.30% 6.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,015 1,582 1,845
10th Percentile £41,754 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £74,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,375 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -

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 London with a requirement for coding skills.

All Programming Languages
London
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 18,548 25,322 34,343
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in London 59.54% 56.52% 56.65%
Number of salaries quoted 14,993 21,192 29,092
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £88,750 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £96,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in London

PowerShell
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for PowerShell in London

PowerShell
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in London over the 6 months to 21 April 2021.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in London

PowerShell
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the London region over the 6 months to 21 April 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
Central London +2 328 £75,000 +25.00% 73
West London +36 54 £51,250 -6.82% 21
South London -31 28 £62,500 +8.70% 7
East London +10 8 £47,500 +5.56% 17
North London +24 1 £45,000 +9.09% 3
PowerShell
England

For the 6 months to 21 April 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 London region with a requirement for PowerShell.

1 806 (69.72%) Azure
2 544 (47.06%) Windows
3 499 (43.17%) Active Directory
4 481 (41.61%) DevOps
5 462 (39.97%) Microsoft
6 366 (31.66%) SQL
7 322 (27.85%) Python
8 315 (27.25%) Terraform
9 314 (27.16%) Microsoft 365
10 309 (26.73%) VMware
11 287 (24.83%) Finance
11 287 (24.83%) AWS
12 280 (24.22%) Agile Software Development
13 274 (23.70%) Azure Active Directory
14 266 (23.01%) C#
15 260 (22.49%) Windows Server
16 247 (21.37%) SQL Server
17 240 (20.76%) .NET
18 239 (20.67%) Linux
19 216 (18.69%) VMware Infrastructure
20 213 (18.43%) SharePoint
21 200 (17.30%) Continuous Integration
22 193 (16.70%) PaaS
23 182 (15.74%) JavaScript
24 171 (14.79%) DNS
25 170 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
26 168 (14.53%) Deployment Automation
27 161 (13.93%) SCCM
28 160 (13.84%) Test Automation
28 160 (13.84%) Docker

PowerShell
Co-occurring IT Skills in 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
1 213 (18.43%) SharePoint
2 77 (6.66%) IIS
3 73 (6.31%) MS Exchange
4 28 (2.42%) Confluence
5 22 (1.90%) SharePoint 2013
6 21 (1.82%) Exchange Server 2010
7 17 (1.47%) Apache
8 14 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (1.12%) Skype for Business
10 10 (0.87%) Exchange Server 2013
11 9 (0.78%) OpenStack
12 8 (0.69%) nginx
13 7 (0.61%) Apache Spark
14 6 (0.52%) JBoss
14 6 (0.52%) WebSphere
15 4 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
15 4 (0.35%) CloudStack
15 4 (0.35%) GlassFish
16 2 (0.17%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
16 2 (0.17%) CMS
Applications
1 67 (5.80%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.087%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.087%) Weka
Business Applications
1 74 (6.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.35%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
4 3 (0.26%) Eikon
4 3 (0.26%) Tradar
5 2 (0.17%) Endur
6 1 (0.087%) Academy Housing
6 1 (0.087%) MetaTrader
6 1 (0.087%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.087%) RMDS
6 1 (0.087%) Sentinel
Cloud Services
1 806 (69.72%) Azure
2 314 (27.16%) Microsoft 365
3 287 (24.83%) AWS
4 274 (23.70%) Azure Active Directory
5 193 (16.70%) PaaS
6 113 (9.78%) IaaS
7 100 (8.65%) Azure Key Vault
8 94 (8.13%) Serverless
9 90 (7.79%) Azure Service Bus
10 84 (7.27%) SaaS
11 82 (7.09%) Azure Storage
12 74 (6.40%) Azure App Service
13 71 (6.14%) Azure Service Fabric
14 70 (6.06%) GCP
15 58 (5.02%) Azure Functions
16 54 (4.67%) Power Platform
17 48 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
18 39 (3.37%) GitHub
19 31 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
20 30 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 171 (14.79%) DNS
2 134 (11.59%) DHCP
3 122 (10.55%) Firewall
4 116 (10.03%) TCP/IP
5 70 (6.06%) SAN
6 47 (4.07%) VPN
7 43 (3.72%) WAN
8 39 (3.37%) LAN
9 32 (2.77%) NetScaler
10 31 (2.68%) VLAN
11 30 (2.60%) Network Security
12 27 (2.34%) VoIP
13 23 (1.99%) Internet
13 23 (1.99%) Remote Desktop
13 23 (1.99%) SSL
14 19 (1.64%) HTTP
15 14 (1.21%) NAS
16 12 (1.04%) BGP
16 12 (1.04%) Skype
17 11 (0.95%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (21.37%) SQL Server
2 63 (5.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 33 (2.85%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (2.77%) MySQL
5 26 (2.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 25 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
7 24 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (1.90%) Power BI
8 22 (1.90%) Relational Database
9 20 (1.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 18 (1.56%) RDBMS
11 17 (1.47%) MongoDB
12 16 (1.38%) Big Data
12 16 (1.38%) NoSQL
13 15 (1.30%) SQL Server 2016
14 13 (1.12%) Redis
14 13 (1.12%) SQL Server 2012
15 12 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 10 (0.87%) Amazon DynamoDB
16 10 (0.87%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 155 (13.41%) Jenkins
2 104 (9.00%) Git (software)
3 87 (7.53%) TeamCity
4 83 (7.18%) Team Foundation Server
5 74 (6.40%) Visual Studio Team System
6 61 (5.28%) Octopus Deploy
7 46 (3.98%) JIRA
8 31 (2.68%) GitLab
9 24 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
10 22 (1.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 21 (1.82%) Bitbucket
12 17 (1.47%) Selenium
13 15 (1.30%) Visual Studio
14 10 (0.87%) Postman
15 9 (0.78%) Cucumber
15 9 (0.78%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.78%) Jasmine
15 9 (0.78%) Karma Test Runner
15 9 (0.78%) MSI
15 9 (0.78%) SpecFlow
General
1 287 (24.83%) Finance
2 63 (5.45%) Banking
3 41 (3.55%) Public Sector
4 34 (2.94%) Law
4 34 (2.94%) Legal
5 22 (1.90%) Marketing
6 17 (1.47%) Telecoms
7 15 (1.30%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.21%) Electronics
8 14 (1.21%) Manufacturing
8 14 (1.21%) Retail
9 12 (1.04%) Back Office
10 10 (0.87%) Front Office
11 9 (0.78%) Games
12 6 (0.52%) Online Betting
13 5 (0.43%) Advertising
14 4 (0.35%) Housing Association
14 4 (0.35%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.26%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.17%) Billing
Job Titles
1 200 (17.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 145 (12.54%) Azure Engineer
3 143 (12.37%) Developer
4 125 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 106 (9.17%) C# Developer
6 98 (8.48%) Analyst
6 98 (8.48%) Azure Developer
7 85 (7.35%) Applications Support
8 84 (7.27%) .NET Developer
9 76 (6.57%) Senior Developer
9 76 (6.57%) Support Engineer
10 75 (6.49%) C# .NET Developer
11 73 (6.31%) Architect
11 73 (6.31%) Senior DevOps
12 69 (5.97%) SQL Developer
13 68 (5.88%) Senior C# Developer
14 65 (5.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 65 (5.62%) Cloud Engineer
15 62 (5.36%) Support Analyst
16 55 (4.76%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 240 (20.76%) .NET
2 139 (12.02%) Web Services
3 135 (11.68%) .NET Core
4 121 (10.47%) React
5 116 (10.03%) ASP.NET Web API
6 109 (9.43%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 108 (9.34%) CSS
8 107 (9.26%) jQuery
9 93 (8.04%) .NET Framework
10 81 (7.01%) Entity Framework
11 49 (4.24%) Node.js
12 44 (3.81%) JSON
13 33 (2.85%) AngularJS
14 31 (2.68%) REST
15 30 (2.60%) HTML
16 29 (2.51%) Vue.js
17 28 (2.42%) XML
18 21 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
19 18 (1.56%) RESTful
20 17 (1.47%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 91 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
2 80 (6.92%) N-Tier
3 75 (6.49%) Data Centre
4 73 (6.31%) Public Cloud
5 48 (4.15%) Reinsurance
6 37 (3.20%) Hedge funds
7 31 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 28 (2.42%) Cloud Native
9 27 (2.34%) Clustering
9 27 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
10 23 (1.99%) Replication
11 22 (1.90%) PKI
12 21 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
13 20 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
14 15 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
14 15 (1.30%) Management Information System
15 14 (1.21%) Social Media
16 11 (0.95%) Client/Server
16 11 (0.95%) Enterprise Storage
17 10 (0.87%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 544 (47.06%) Windows
2 260 (22.49%) Windows Server
3 239 (20.67%) Linux
4 114 (9.86%) Windows 10
5 99 (8.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 71 (6.14%) Windows Server 2012
7 58 (5.02%) Windows Server 2019
8 45 (3.89%) Unix
9 35 (3.03%) Windows 7
10 32 (2.77%) Windows Server 2008
11 27 (2.34%) Android
12 26 (2.25%) CentOS
13 24 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 21 (1.82%) Ubuntu
15 19 (1.64%) Apple iOS
16 16 (1.38%) Mac OS
17 10 (0.87%) Solaris
18 6 (0.52%) Windows 8
19 5 (0.43%) Kali Linux
19 5 (0.43%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (41.61%) DevOps
2 280 (24.22%) Agile Software Development
3 200 (17.30%) Continuous Integration
4 170 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 168 (14.53%) Deployment Automation
6 160 (13.84%) ITIL
6 160 (13.84%) Test Automation
7 140 (12.11%) Migration
8 137 (11.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 131 (11.33%) Microservices
10 129 (11.16%) Mentoring
11 121 (10.47%) MVC
12 108 (9.34%) SOA
13 93 (8.04%) OO
14 84 (7.27%) Configuration Management
15 78 (6.75%) Problem-Solving
16 77 (6.66%) UML
17 75 (6.49%) CRM
17 75 (6.49%) SOLID
18 71 (6.14%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Programming Languages
1 366 (31.66%) SQL
2 322 (27.85%) Python
3 266 (23.01%) C#
4 182 (15.74%) JavaScript
5 148 (12.80%) Bash Shell
6 120 (10.38%) T-SQL
7 88 (7.61%) Java
8 56 (4.84%) Ruby
9 40 (3.46%) Go
10 31 (2.68%) Perl
11 30 (2.60%) VB
12 25 (2.16%) VBScript
13 21 (1.82%) Shell Script
14 19 (1.64%) C++
15 16 (1.38%) C
15 16 (1.38%) VB.NET
16 14 (1.21%) Groovy
17 13 (1.12%) Scala
18 11 (0.95%) VBA
19 8 (0.69%) PHP
Qualifications
1 131 (11.33%) Degree
2 53 (4.58%) Microsoft Certification
3 36 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
3 36 (3.11%) Security Cleared
4 33 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (2.68%) CCNA
6 29 (2.51%) SC Cleared
7 26 (2.25%) ITIL Certification
8 20 (1.73%) MCSE
9 14 (1.21%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.12%) CCNP
11 12 (1.04%) CISSP
11 12 (1.04%) MCSA
12 11 (0.95%) A+ Certification
12 11 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 8 (0.69%) CCIE
13 8 (0.69%) DV Cleared
14 7 (0.61%) MOS
15 6 (0.52%) MCITP
16 5 (0.43%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (2.60%) QA
2 20 (1.73%) SLA
3 13 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.35%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.35%) PMO
7 3 (0.26%) NIST
7 3 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.17%) GRC
8 2 (0.17%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.087%) GDPR
9 1 (0.087%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.087%) WCAG
System Software
1 499 (43.17%) Active Directory
2 216 (18.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 160 (13.84%) Docker
4 73 (6.31%) Hyper-V
5 49 (4.24%) XenDesktop
6 44 (3.81%) vSphere
7 37 (3.20%) VMware ESXi
7 37 (3.20%) XenApp
8 21 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
9 18 (1.56%) VMware NSX
10 16 (1.38%) Virtual Servers
11 14 (1.21%) Microsoft App-V
11 14 (1.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 13 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
13 12 (1.04%) Xen
14 9 (0.78%) VMware Server
15 7 (0.61%) DFS Replication
16 6 (0.52%) BitLocker
16 6 (0.52%) Snort
17 5 (0.43%) Squid
Systems Management
1 315 (27.25%) Terraform
2 161 (13.93%) SCCM
3 159 (13.75%) Kubernetes
4 153 (13.24%) Ansible
5 144 (12.46%) Opscode Chef
6 114 (9.86%) Microsoft Intune
7 107 (9.26%) Puppet
8 53 (4.58%) SCOM
9 40 (3.46%) Single Sign-On
10 24 (2.08%) Grafana
11 21 (1.82%) vCenter Server
12 19 (1.64%) Failover Clustering
12 19 (1.64%) Packer
13 16 (1.38%) Prometheus
14 13 (1.12%) WSUS
15 11 (0.95%) Control-M
15 11 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
16 10 (0.87%) Kibana
16 10 (0.87%) Nagios
17 9 (0.78%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 462 (39.97%) Microsoft
2 309 (26.73%) VMware
3 122 (10.55%) Citrix
4 84 (7.27%) Cisco
5 72 (6.23%) Nintex
6 47 (4.07%) HP
7 44 (3.81%) Oracle
8 34 (2.94%) Google
9 32 (2.77%) ServiceNow
10 29 (2.51%) NetApp
10 29 (2.51%) Red Hat
11 27 (2.34%) SolarWinds
12 26 (2.25%) Dell
13 25 (2.16%) Splunk
14 23 (1.99%) Apple
15 21 (1.82%) AppDynamics
16 19 (1.64%) Avaya
16 19 (1.64%) Meraki
17 18 (1.56%) Veeam
18 17 (1.47%) Bloomberg