PowerShell Jobs in the North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for PowerShell skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PowerShell over the 3 months to 26 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Windows PowerShell England / North West
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	139	105	189
Rank change year-on-year	-34	+84
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell	151	138	69
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West	2.19%	2.49%	1.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category	3.73%	4.64%	2.07%
Number of salaries quoted	127	107	43
Median salary	£40,000	£40,000	£42,500
Median salary % change year-on-year	-	-5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than	£33,550	£33,750	£33,600
10% offered a salary of more than	£47,500	£58,500	£55,000
UK excluding London median salary	£42,500	£42,500	£42,500

PowerShell is in the programming language skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for programming language skills.

Programming Language Skills North West
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for programming language skills	4051	2975	3326
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West	58.88%	53.70%	52.05%
Number of salaries quoted	3475	2571	2826
Median salary	£40,000	£40,000	£40,000
90% offered a salary of more than	£29,000	£27,486	£27,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£60,000	£52,500	£55,000
UK excluding London median salary	£42,500	£41,000	£40,000
% change year-on-year	+3.65%	+2.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in the North West citing PowerShell as a proportion of all permanent or contract IT jobs with a match in the Programming Languages category.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing PowerShell in the North West.

Salary trend for PowerShell in the North West

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Salary Histogram in the North West

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing PowerShell in the North West over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in the North West

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Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the North West region over the 3 months to 26 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
Manchester	-29	88	£40,000	-	13
Cheshire	-13	37	£37,500	-21.05%	5
Merseyside	-15	25	£40,000	-33.33%	1
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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the North West

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, IT jobs citing PowerShell also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads across the North West region with a requirement for PowerShell.

1	189 (73.83%)	Windows
2	143 (55.86%)	Microsoft
3	121 (47.27%)	Active Directory
4	113 (44.14%)	VMware
5	84 (32.81%)	Hyper-V
6	82 (32.03%)	VMware Infrastructure
7	80 (31.25%)	Agile Software Development
8	76 (29.69%)	Windows Server
9	71 (27.73%)	DevOps
10	67 (26.17%)	Opscode Chef
11	66 (25.78%)	SQL Server
12	61 (23.83%)	Puppet
13	60 (23.44%)	Ansible
14	59 (23.05%)	Linux
15	55 (21.48%)	Microsoft Azure

16	54 (21.09%)	Amazon AWS
16	54 (21.09%)	ITIL
17	52 (20.31%)	Office 365
18	51 (19.92%)	Git (software)
18	51 (19.92%)	Continuous Integration
18	51 (19.92%)	SQL
19	48 (18.75%)	DNS
20	43 (16.80%)	WAN
21	41 (16.02%)	Firewall
22	40 (15.63%)	TDD
22	40 (15.63%)	Windows Server 2012
23	39 (15.23%)	DHCP
24	37 (14.45%)	LAN
24	37 (14.45%)	VBScript
24	37 (14.45%)	.NET

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Co-occurring IT Skills in the North West 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
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	36 (14.06%)	IIS
2	35 (13.67%)	SharePoint
3	28 (10.94%)	MS Exchange
4	20 (7.81%)	Exchange Server 2010
5	18 (7.03%)	Skype for Business
6	14 (5.47%)	Exchange Server 2013
7	11 (4.30%)	IBM Notes
8	10 (3.91%)	CMS
8	10 (3.91%)	SharePoint 2010
9	9 (3.52%)	SharePoint 2013
10	7 (2.73%)	Tomcat
11	3 (1.17%)	Confluence
12	2 (0.78%)	JBoss
12	2 (0.78%)	MindAlign
12	2 (0.78%)	Office Communications Server
13	1 (0.39%)	Apache
13	1 (0.39%)	Jetty
13	1 (0.39%)	nginx
13	1 (0.39%)	Oracle Service Bus
13	1 (0.39%)	WebSphere

Applications
1	10 (3.91%)	Microsoft Office
2	4 (1.56%)	Microsoft Excel
2	4 (1.56%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
3	3 (1.17%)	Microsoft Project
4	1 (0.39%)	InfoPath

Business Applications
1	3 (1.17%)	Dynamics AX
2	2 (0.78%)	Dynamics CRM

Cloud Services
1	55 (21.48%)	Microsoft Azure
2	54 (21.09%)	Amazon AWS
3	52 (20.31%)	Office 365
4	19 (7.42%)	PaaS
4	19 (7.42%)	SaaS
5	16 (6.25%)	IaaS
6	7 (2.73%)	AWS CloudFormation
7	6 (2.34%)	Amazon EC2
7	6 (2.34%)	Amazon S3
8	3 (1.17%)	Cloud Computing
8	3 (1.17%)	CodePlex
8	3 (1.17%)	Sumo Logic
9	2 (0.78%)	OneDrive
10	1 (0.39%)	DigitalOcean
10	1 (0.39%)	GitHub
10	1 (0.39%)	Heroku

Communications & Networking
1	48 (18.75%)	DNS
2	43 (16.80%)	WAN
3	41 (16.02%)	Firewall
4	39 (15.23%)	DHCP
5	37 (14.45%)	LAN
6	32 (12.50%)	SAN
7	16 (6.25%)	VPN
8	15 (5.86%)	Skype
9	13 (5.08%)	VoIP
10	12 (4.69%)	TCP/IP
11	10 (3.91%)	NAS
12	9 (3.52%)	Internet
12	9 (3.52%)	Network Security
13	8 (3.13%)	MPLS
13	8 (3.13%)	Remote Desktop
14	6 (2.34%)	NetScaler
15	3 (1.17%)	Ethernet
15	3 (1.17%)	VLAN
16	2 (0.78%)	Extranet
16	2 (0.78%)	Intranet

Database & Business Intelligence
1	66 (25.78%)	SQL Server
2	14 (5.47%)	SQL Server 2012
3	13 (5.08%)	MySQL
3	13 (5.08%)	SQL Server 2008
4	10 (3.91%)	SQL Server 2014
5	7 (2.73%)	MongoDB
5	7 (2.73%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
6	6 (2.34%)	SQL Server Integration Services
7	4 (1.56%)	IDOL
8	3 (1.17%)	Oracle Database
8	3 (1.17%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
9	2 (0.78%)	Data Warehouse
9	2 (0.78%)	NoSQL
9	2 (0.78%)	OLAP
9	2 (0.78%)	OLAP Cube
9	2 (0.78%)	Oracle Reports
9	2 (0.78%)	SQL Server 2000
9	2 (0.78%)	SQL Server 2005
10	1 (0.39%)	Informix
10	1 (0.39%)	PostgreSQL

Development Applications
1	51 (19.92%)	Git (software)
2	35 (13.67%)	NuGet
3	29 (11.33%)	Team Foundation Server
4	22 (8.59%)	Jenkins
5	14 (5.47%)	TeamCity
6	11 (4.30%)	Atlassian Bamboo
7	10 (3.91%)	GoCD
7	10 (3.91%)	Maven
8	9 (3.52%)	Octopus Deploy
9	8 (3.13%)	Gradle
10	7 (2.73%)	Ant
11	6 (2.34%)	Hudson
11	6 (2.34%)	MSBuild
11	6 (2.34%)	MSI
11	6 (2.34%)	Visual Studio Team System
12	5 (1.95%)	InstallShield
13	4 (1.56%)	ClearCase
13	4 (1.56%)	CruiseControl
13	4 (1.56%)	Mercurial
13	4 (1.56%)	Subversion

General
1	37 (14.45%)	Finance
2	13 (5.08%)	Retail
3	8 (3.13%)	Banking
3	8 (3.13%)	Legal
4	5 (1.95%)	Law
5	4 (1.56%)	Advertising
6	3 (1.17%)	Pharmaceutical
6	3 (1.17%)	Telecoms
7	2 (0.78%)	Electronics
8	1 (0.39%)	Back Office
8	1 (0.39%)	Billing
8	1 (0.39%)	Financial Institution
8	1 (0.39%)	Investment Banking

Job Titles
1	40 (15.63%)	DevOps Engineer
2	37 (14.45%)	Infrastructure Engineer
3	26 (10.16%)	Administrator
3	26 (10.16%)	Analyst
3	26 (10.16%)	Support Engineer
4	23 (8.98%)	3rd Line Support
5	21 (8.20%)	Systems Administrator
6	20 (7.81%)	Release Engineer
6	20 (7.81%)	Wintel Engineer
7	19 (7.42%)	Developer
7	19 (7.42%)	Windows Engineer
8	18 (7.03%)	Systems Engineer
9	17 (6.64%)	Build Engineer
10	16 (6.25%)	Build and Release Engineer
10	16 (6.25%)	Cloud Engineer
10	16 (6.25%)	Infrastructure Analyst
11	15 (5.86%)	Support Analyst
12	14 (5.47%)	IT Support
13	13 (5.08%)	3rd Line Engineer
13	13 (5.08%)	VMware Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	37 (14.45%)	.NET
2	17 (6.64%)	Web Services
3	11 (4.30%)	ASP.NET
4	10 (3.91%)	.NET Framework
5	9 (3.52%)	ASP.NET Web API
6	8 (3.13%)	CSS
7	7 (2.73%)	AngularJS
7	7 (2.73%)	HTML
7	7 (2.73%)	HTML5
7	7 (2.73%)	Twitter Bootstrap
8	6 (2.34%)	Entity Framework
8	6 (2.34%)	J2EE
8	6 (2.34%)	React
9	5 (1.95%)	jQuery
10	4 (1.56%)	REST
11	3 (1.17%)	ASP.NET MVC
11	3 (1.17%)	CSS3
11	3 (1.17%)	LAMP
11	3 (1.17%)	XML
11	3 (1.17%)	XSLT

Miscellaneous
1	16 (6.25%)	Data Centre
2	15 (5.86%)	Analytical Skills
3	10 (3.91%)	Clustering
3	10 (3.91%)	Enterprise Software
4	9 (3.52%)	Computer Science
5	8 (3.13%)	Management Information System
5	8 (3.13%)	Public Cloud
6	6 (2.34%)	Greenfield Project
7	5 (1.95%)	Replication
8	4 (1.56%)	Mobile Computing
9	3 (1.17%)	Private Cloud
9	3 (1.17%)	Raspberry Pi
10	2 (0.78%)	Cyber Attack
10	2 (0.78%)	Fat Client
10	2 (0.78%)	Hybrid Cloud
10	2 (0.78%)	RSA SecurID
10	2 (0.78%)	Thin Client
11	1 (0.39%)	Blackberry
11	1 (0.39%)	Device Driver
11	1 (0.39%)	PKI

Operating Systems
1	189 (73.83%)	Windows
2	76 (29.69%)	Windows Server
3	59 (23.05%)	Linux
4	40 (15.63%)	Windows Server 2012
5	35 (13.67%)	Windows Server 2008
6	29 (11.33%)	Windows 7
7	25 (9.77%)	Windows Server 2003
8	18 (7.03%)	Windows 10
9	10 (3.91%)	Windows 8
10	6 (2.34%)	Unix
11	4 (1.56%)	AIX
11	4 (1.56%)	Windows 2000
12	3 (1.17%)	Android
12	3 (1.17%)	CentOS
12	3 (1.17%)	VMS
13	2 (0.78%)	Windows Mobile
14	1 (0.39%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14	1 (0.39%)	Ubuntu

Processes & Methodologies
1	80 (31.25%)	Agile Software Development
2	71 (27.73%)	DevOps
3	54 (21.09%)	ITIL
4	51 (19.92%)	Continuous Integration
5	40 (15.63%)	TDD
6	35 (13.67%)	Continuous Delivery
7	26 (10.16%)	Disaster Recovery
8	24 (9.38%)	Configuration Management
9	15 (5.86%)	Project Management
10	14 (5.47%)	Service Management
11	13 (5.08%)	Document Management
11	13 (5.08%)	Problem Management
11	13 (5.08%)	Scrum
12	11 (4.30%)	Mentoring
12	11 (4.30%)	Test Automation
13	10 (3.91%)	Business Transformation
14	9 (3.52%)	Change Management
14	9 (3.52%)	Knowledge Management
14	9 (3.52%)	Machine Learning
14	9 (3.52%)	Software Engineering

Programming Languages
1	51 (19.92%)	SQL
2	37 (14.45%)	VBScript
3	35 (13.67%)	Python
4	32 (12.50%)	C#
5	24 (9.38%)	VB
6	22 (8.59%)	JavaScript
7	19 (7.42%)	Java
8	16 (6.25%)	Perl
9	10 (3.91%)	Ruby
10	7 (2.73%)	C++
10	7 (2.73%)	Go
10	7 (2.73%)	VB.NET
11	6 (2.34%)	Bash Shell
12	5 (1.95%)	Shell Script
12	5 (1.95%)	T-SQL
13	4 (1.56%)	Groovy
14	3 (1.17%)	PHP
14	3 (1.17%)	VBA
15	1 (0.39%)	C

Qualifications
1	30 (11.72%)	Microsoft Certification
2	29 (11.33%)	Security Cleared
3	22 (8.59%)	SC Cleared
4	20 (7.81%)	Degree
5	19 (7.42%)	MCSE
6	12 (4.69%)	MCSA
7	7 (2.73%)	CCNA
7	7 (2.73%)	Cisco Certification
7	7 (2.73%)	MCITP
7	7 (2.73%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8	6 (2.34%)	MCP
9	5 (1.95%)	DV Cleared
10	4 (1.56%)	BC Cleared
10	4 (1.56%)	Computer Science Degree
10	4 (1.56%)	MCT
10	4 (1.56%)	NCDA
11	3 (1.17%)	NCIE
11	3 (1.17%)	VCAP
12	2 (0.78%)	CCAA
12	2 (0.78%)	Citrix Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	37 (14.45%)	QA
2	6 (2.34%)	Cyber Essentials
3	3 (1.17%)	HIPAA
3	3 (1.17%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	3 (1.17%)	SLA

System Software
1	121 (47.27%)	Active Directory
2	84 (32.81%)	Hyper-V
3	82 (32.03%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	28 (10.94%)	Virtual Machines
5	22 (8.59%)	Xen
6	21 (8.20%)	VirtualBox
6	21 (8.20%)	XenApp
7	18 (7.03%)	vSphere
8	14 (5.47%)	Terminal Services
9	12 (4.69%)	XenDesktop
10	11 (4.30%)	Docker
11	9 (3.52%)	VMware ESXi
12	6 (2.34%)	Microsoft App-V
13	3 (1.17%)	KVM
14	2 (0.78%)	Virtual Desktop
14	2 (0.78%)	VMware Workstation
15	1 (0.39%)	Kamailio
15	1 (0.39%)	Virtual Servers
15	1 (0.39%)	XenServer
15	1 (0.39%)	zsh

Systems Management
1	67 (26.17%)	Opscode Chef
2	61 (23.83%)	Puppet
3	60 (23.44%)	Ansible
4	34 (13.28%)	SCCM
5	19 (7.42%)	SCOM
6	12 (4.69%)	WSUS
7	7 (2.73%)	Nagios
7	7 (2.73%)	SCOrch
7	7 (2.73%)	SCVMM
7	7 (2.73%)	Terraform
8	6 (2.34%)	SCDPM
9	5 (1.95%)	EdgeSight
9	5 (1.95%)	Salt
10	4 (1.56%)	AirWatch
10	4 (1.56%)	vRealize
11	3 (1.17%)	Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12	2 (0.78%)	Backup Exec
12	2 (0.78%)	MAILsweeper
13	1 (0.39%)	NetBackup
13	1 (0.39%)	Oracle Enterprise Manager

Vendors
1	143 (55.86%)	Microsoft
2	113 (44.14%)	VMware
3	37 (14.45%)	Citrix
4	35 (13.67%)	HP
5	26 (10.16%)	Cisco
6	18 (7.03%)	Veeam
7	14 (5.47%)	Dell
8	11 (4.30%)	Lotus
8	11 (4.30%)	NetApp
9	8 (3.13%)	iManage
10	7 (2.73%)	Oracle
10	7 (2.73%)	Zerto
11	6 (2.34%)	Atlassian
11	6 (2.34%)	Google
11	6 (2.34%)	Interwoven
12	5 (1.95%)	Wyse
13	4 (1.56%)	McAfee
14	3 (1.17%)	Avaya
14	3 (1.17%)	Juniper
14	3 (1.17%)	Symantec