PowerShell Jobs in Scotland

Windows PowerShell
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring PowerShell skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PowerShell over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 218 122
Rank change year-on-year +83 -96 -10
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 26 57 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.89% 0.85% 2.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.64% 1.52% 5.43%
Number of salaries quoted 22 51 75
10th Percentile £32,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,207 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.68% +4.55% +15.18%
75th Percentile £71,438 £80,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £92,400 £98,474 £82,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%

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 984 3,747 1,971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 33.54% 56.08% 42.53%
Number of salaries quoted 725 1,138 1,095
10th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,683 £43,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,250 £80,000 £87,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Scotland

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Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for PowerShell in Scotland

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Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Scotland over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

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 15 May 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
Edinburgh +6 9 £80,000 +6.67% 15
Glasgow +161 5 £60,000 +20.00% 14
Perth and Kinross - 5 £33,000 -
Highlands - 4 £40,000 -
Aberdeen +25 1 £71,000 +29.09% 8
West Lothian - 1 £48,500 -
PowerShell
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (46.15%) SharePoint
2 7 (26.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (7.69%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (3.85%) CICS
4 1 (3.85%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 21 (80.77%) Azure
2 15 (57.69%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (23.08%) Entra ID
4 5 (19.23%) AWS
4 5 (19.23%) GitHub
5 4 (15.38%) OneDrive
6 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (11.54%) GCP
7 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
8 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (3.85%) IaaS
8 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
8 1 (3.85%) PowerApps
8 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (34.62%) VPN
2 8 (30.77%) DHCP
2 8 (30.77%) DNS
3 7 (26.92%) Firewall
4 5 (19.23%) DKIM
4 5 (19.23%) DMARC
4 5 (19.23%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (15.38%) IPsec
5 4 (15.38%) SSL
5 4 (15.38%) VLAN
5 4 (15.38%) Wireless
6 1 (3.85%) BGP
6 1 (3.85%) Kerberos
6 1 (3.85%) OSPF
6 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
6 1 (3.85%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.85%) DB2
3 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 3 (11.54%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (3.85%) JIRA
3 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Senior
2 5 (19.23%) Help Desk Team Lead
2 5 (19.23%) Lead
2 5 (19.23%) Team Leader
3 4 (15.38%) IT Support
3 4 (15.38%) IT Support Technician
3 4 (15.38%) IT Technician
3 4 (15.38%) Senior IT Support
3 4 (15.38%) Senior IT Technician
3 4 (15.38%) Senior Support Technician
3 4 (15.38%) Senior Technician
3 4 (15.38%) Support Technician
4 3 (11.54%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Administrator
5 2 (7.69%) Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 1 (3.85%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.85%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) CSS
2 3 (11.54%) HTML
3 2 (7.69%) ARM Templates
3 2 (7.69%) React
4 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.85%) LDAP
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (3.85%) OAuth
4 1 (3.85%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.85%) OpenID
4 1 (3.85%) REST
4 1 (3.85%) SAML
4 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.85%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (15.38%) Mainframe
2 4 (15.38%) Replication
3 3 (11.54%) Public Cloud
4 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 2 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.85%) Digital Signage
5 1 (3.85%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (3.85%) e-Learning
5 1 (3.85%) Life Science
5 1 (3.85%) Low-Code
5 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (53.85%) Windows
2 8 (30.77%) Unix
3 7 (26.92%) Windows Server
4 6 (23.08%) Linux
4 6 (23.08%) VMS
4 6 (23.08%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (23.08%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.85%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) DevOps
1 8 (30.77%) IT Strategy
2 7 (26.92%) CI/CD
2 7 (26.92%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (23.08%) Software Engineering
4 5 (19.23%) Incident Response
4 5 (19.23%) Migration
4 5 (19.23%) Remote Monitoring and Management
5 4 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (15.38%) Customer Service
5 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 3 (11.54%) Cash Management
6 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
6 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (11.54%) Roadmaps
6 3 (11.54%) SDLC
7 2 (7.69%) Agile
7 2 (7.69%) ITIL
7 2 (7.69%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
2 5 (19.23%) Bash
2 5 (19.23%) Java
2 5 (19.23%) Python
3 4 (15.38%) Shell Script
4 3 (11.54%) JCL
4 3 (11.54%) SQL
5 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.85%) Bicep
6 1 (3.85%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (15.38%) Degree
3 3 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.85%) CCNA
5 1 (3.85%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (15.38%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.85%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 11 (42.31%) Hyper-V
2 6 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.85%) Docker
4 1 (3.85%) NDS
4 1 (3.85%) RACF
Systems Management
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (19.23%) Terraform
3 4 (15.38%) Dell DRAC
4 3 (11.54%) CA Endevor
5 2 (7.69%) Ansible
5 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
6 1 (3.85%) CA Single Sign-On
6 1 (3.85%) Grafana
6 1 (3.85%) Opsview
6 1 (3.85%) PingFederate
6 1 (3.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (69.23%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) VMware
3 5 (19.23%) Apple
4 2 (7.69%) Cisco
5 1 (3.85%) Broadcom
5 1 (3.85%) Databricks
5 1 (3.85%) ForgeRock
5 1 (3.85%) IBM
5 1 (3.85%) NetIQ
5 1 (3.85%) Okta
5 1 (3.85%) Ping Identity
5 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.85%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.85%) Splunk