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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 49 40
Rank change year-on-year +9 -9 +42
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 4 5 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 1.19% 1.04% 3.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.33% 3.45% 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 12
10th Percentile £42,106 - £41,875
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% +42.86%
75th Percentile £46,750 £42,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £46,900 - £84,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +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 30 145 188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 8.93% 30.27% 51.65%
Number of salaries quoted 19 72 155
10th Percentile £39,200 £37,550 £33,300
25th Percentile £44,000 £46,713 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +30.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £78,790 £80,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £95,000 £77,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

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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 24 October 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 2 £46,000 +15.00% 1
PowerShell
UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (25.00%) Parquet
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Data Migration Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Migration Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Security Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Test Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Avro
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Application Packaging
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) API Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft