PowerShell Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Windows PowerShell
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring PowerShell skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 50 40
Rank change year-on-year +13 -10 +48
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 3 8 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 0.95% 1.56% 3.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.32% 4.97% 5.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 13
10th Percentile £42,106 £34,300 -
25th Percentile £43,379 £38,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £40,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -46.67% +60.43%
75th Percentile £46,750 £42,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £46,900 £42,200 £84,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -

All Programming Languages
Northern Ireland

PowerShell falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 41 161 244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 12.97% 31.32% 59.22%
Number of salaries quoted 21 82 208
10th Percentile £39,000 £37,550 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,500 £46,713 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £63,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +27.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £92,500 £76,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Northern Ireland

PowerShell
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing PowerShell

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Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 16 September 2025. 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
County Antrim +8 1 £46,000 +15.00% 6
PowerShell
UK

PowerShell
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Security Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Application Packaging
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft