PowerShell Job Trends in Scotland

Windows PowerShell
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 94 212
Rank change year-on-year +40 +118 -96
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 97 26 62
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.89% 1.35% 0.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.31% 4.22% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 27 22 54
10th Percentile £36,700 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +6.82%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £98,474
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 678 616 3,631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 20.17% 32.00% 58.09%
Number of salaries quoted 292 452 1,146
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Scotland

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Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in Scotland

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Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 20 April 2026. 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
Edinburgh +41 58 £69,250 -13.44% 12
Stirling - 13 - -
Glasgow -17 8 £37,500 -37.50% 7
Midlothian - 6 - - 4
West Lothian -3 5 - -
Fife - 4 - -
Falkirk - 2 - -
East Lothian - 1 - -
Lanarkshire - 1 - - 2
PowerShell
UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.19%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Markit EDM
2 2 (2.06%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 77 (79.38%) Azure
2 43 (44.33%) Entra ID
3 31 (31.96%) Google Workspace
4 23 (23.71%) dbt
4 23 (23.71%) Snowflake
5 21 (21.65%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (20.62%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (19.59%) Azure Key Vault
8 13 (13.40%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (7.22%) GitHub
9 7 (7.22%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (4.12%) OneDrive
10 4 (4.12%) Power Platform
10 4 (4.12%) SaaS
11 3 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (3.09%) AWS
11 3 (3.09%) GCP
12 2 (2.06%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
13 1 (1.03%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 35 (36.08%) Broadband
2 8 (8.25%) Telnet
3 6 (6.19%) DHCP
3 6 (6.19%) DNS
3 6 (6.19%) Firewall
3 6 (6.19%) VPN
4 5 (5.15%) WAN
5 4 (4.12%) LAN
6 3 (3.09%) BGP
6 3 (3.09%) MPLS
6 3 (3.09%) VLAN
6 3 (3.09%) Wireless
7 2 (2.06%) Mobile Broadband
7 2 (2.06%) Softphone
7 2 (2.06%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (2.06%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.03%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.03%) Unified Communications
8 1 (1.03%) VSAN
8 1 (1.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.37%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.09%) Power BI
3 2 (2.06%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.03%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (10.31%) JIRA
2 7 (7.22%) Jenkins
General
1 43 (44.33%) Finance
1 43 (44.33%) Social Skills
2 33 (34.02%) Games
2 33 (34.02%) Organisational Skills
3 15 (15.46%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.25%) Front Office
5 1 (1.03%) Banking
5 1 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (37.11%) Senior
2 19 (19.59%) Azure Engineer
3 12 (12.37%) Developer
3 12 (12.37%) IAM Developer
4 11 (11.34%) Applications Engineer
5 8 (8.25%) Platform Specialist
5 8 (8.25%) Senior Developer
5 8 (8.25%) Systems Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) Security Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) 3rd Line Support
8 5 (5.15%) Architect
9 4 (4.12%) 2nd Line Support
9 4 (4.12%) Analyst
9 4 (4.12%) Applications Support
9 4 (4.12%) Applications Support Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) IT Support Analyst
9 4 (4.12%) Network Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Support Analyst
9 4 (4.12%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (45.36%) GraphQL
2 42 (43.30%) OAuth
3 33 (34.02%) REST
3 33 (34.02%) SOAP
4 31 (31.96%) LDAP
4 31 (31.96%) OpenID
4 31 (31.96%) SAML
5 11 (11.34%) OpenAPI
5 11 (11.34%) Swagger
6 8 (8.25%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (8.25%) YAML
7 2 (2.06%) Web Services
8 1 (1.03%) .NET
8 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 33 (34.02%) Cyber Threat
1 33 (34.02%) Cyberattack
2 8 (8.25%) Equities
2 8 (8.25%) Fixed Income
3 5 (5.15%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.12%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.12%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.12%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.09%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.09%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.06%) iPhone
6 2 (2.06%) Robotics
6 2 (2.06%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.03%) Clustering
7 1 (1.03%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (31.96%) Windows
2 20 (20.62%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.12%) Linux
4 3 (3.09%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.06%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.06%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.06%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (2.06%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.03%) AIX
6 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.03%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (55.67%) Mentoring
2 46 (47.42%) Roadmaps
3 37 (38.14%) Cybersecurity
4 35 (36.08%) Asset Management
4 35 (36.08%) Coaching
5 33 (34.02%) Programme Delivery
6 32 (32.99%) Identity Access Management
7 31 (31.96%) Regulatory Compliance
8 30 (30.93%) Agile
9 29 (29.90%) DevOps
10 27 (27.84%) CI/CD
11 25 (25.77%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (23.71%) ITIL
13 21 (21.65%) Infrastructure as Code
14 12 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (12.37%) Data Modelling
15 11 (11.34%) OO
15 11 (11.34%) Root Cause Analysis
15 11 (11.34%) Software Engineering
16 10 (10.31%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 44 (45.36%) Bash
2 33 (34.02%) SQL
3 31 (31.96%) T-SQL
4 24 (24.74%) Python
5 12 (12.37%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (7.22%) CISSP
1 7 (7.22%) CREST Certified
1 7 (7.22%) SANS
2 5 (5.15%) Degree
2 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.09%) CCNA
3 3 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.06%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.06%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.03%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.03%) CCNP
5 1 (1.03%) CEH
5 1 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.03%) GIAC
5 1 (1.03%) GREM
5 1 (1.03%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.03%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (34.02%) NCSC
1 33 (34.02%) NIST
2 15 (15.46%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.06%) GDPR
System Software
1 44 (45.36%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.12%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (4.12%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.09%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.06%) BitLocker
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 24 (24.74%) Terraform
2 9 (9.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (5.15%) Ansible
4 3 (3.09%) Grafana
4 3 (3.09%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.03%) Computer Incident Response Team
6 1 (1.03%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.03%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle Flashback
6 1 (1.03%) QRadar
6 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (44.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.31%) Cisco
3 8 (8.25%) Charles River
4 5 (5.15%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.15%) VMware
5 4 (4.12%) Ab Initio
5 4 (4.12%) IBM
5 4 (4.12%) Splunk
6 3 (3.09%) F5
6 3 (3.09%) Fortinet
6 3 (3.09%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.06%) Bomgar
7 2 (2.06%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.06%) iManage
8 1 (1.03%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.03%) EMC
8 1 (1.03%) Meraki
8 1 (1.03%) Oracle
8 1 (1.03%) Proofpoint
8 1 (1.03%) Veeam