PowerShell Jobs

Windows PowerShell
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 105 98
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 -1
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,365 2,437 3,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.62% 2.48% 3.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.71% 7.34% 7.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,060 2,012 2,513
10th Percentile £34,000 £36,025 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £81,563 £74,813 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,778 £87,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,757 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.51% -4.76% +5.00%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 15,664 33,221 45,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.03% 33.78% 43.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,561 25,021 28,803
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +2.33%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the UK

PowerShell
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for PowerShell in the UK

PowerShell
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in the UK

PowerShell
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England -4 1,302 £60,000 +9.09% 686
UK excluding London -16 771 £51,757 +3.51% 455
London +16 543 £77,500 +5.08% 265
Work from Home +25 460 £57,500 -2.54% 403
South East +28 294 £57,500 +9.52% 137
Midlands -1 151 £50,000 +7.53% 62
North of England -55 135 £49,153 -1.69% 97
West Midlands -1 95 £50,000 +6.84% 48
East of England +9 89 £50,000 +2.56% 60
North West -43 84 £46,000 -12.38% 58
South West -25 77 £47,500 -5.00% 67
East Midlands +24 56 £40,000 -15.79% 13
Yorkshire -7 36 £55,250 +16.32% 28
Scotland +93 26 £55,000 -6.38% 28
North East +29 15 £57,500 +23.66% 11
Wales +24 5 £50,552 +6.43% 12
Northern Ireland +29 2 - - 7
Isle of Man - 2 £34,500 -

PowerShell
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 248 (18.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 179 (13.11%) SharePoint
3 42 (3.08%) IIS
4 9 (0.66%) Confluence
5 8 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.44%) WordPress
7 5 (0.37%) Apache
7 5 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
7 5 (0.37%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.22%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.22%) CMS
8 3 (0.22%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.073%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.073%) nginx
9 1 (0.073%) Office Communications Server
9 1 (0.073%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.073%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.073%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 89 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.03%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.22%) Acrobat
4 3 (0.22%) SOLIDWORKS
5 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.073%) 1Password
6 1 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.66%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.37%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.22%) Sage 50
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.073%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.073%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.073%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 776 (56.85%) Azure
2 435 (31.87%) Microsoft 365
3 258 (18.90%) Entra ID
4 235 (17.22%) AWS
5 151 (11.06%) Azure DevOps
6 121 (8.86%) Power Platform
7 105 (7.69%) IaaS
8 102 (7.47%) SaaS
9 93 (6.81%) Power Automate
10 84 (6.15%) PaaS
11 80 (5.86%) GCP
12 73 (5.35%) GitHub
13 68 (4.98%) OneDrive
14 67 (4.91%) PowerApps
15 56 (4.10%) Azure Monitor
16 37 (2.71%) Cloud Computing
17 36 (2.64%) Azure AKS
18 33 (2.42%) Azure Sentinel
19 28 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
20 27 (1.98%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 287 (21.03%) Firewall
2 220 (16.12%) DNS
3 182 (13.33%) VPN
4 179 (13.11%) DHCP
5 171 (12.53%) TCP/IP
6 98 (7.18%) WAN
7 90 (6.59%) VLAN
8 82 (6.01%) Network Security
9 79 (5.79%) LAN
10 67 (4.91%) SAN
11 44 (3.22%) VSAN
12 42 (3.08%) VoIP
13 31 (2.27%) SD-WAN
14 30 (2.20%) Wi-Fi
15 29 (2.12%) Wireless
16 28 (2.05%) BGP
16 28 (2.05%) NAS
17 26 (1.90%) OSPF
17 26 (1.90%) SMTP
18 24 (1.76%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (11.72%) SQL Server
2 71 (5.20%) Power BI
3 39 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
4 35 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 34 (2.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 25 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 22 (1.61%) Relational Database
8 18 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (1.10%) Data Lake
9 15 (1.10%) MySQL
10 12 (0.88%) Big Data
11 10 (0.73%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 5 (0.37%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.37%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.29%) FileMaker
14 4 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 64 (4.69%) Cucumber
1 64 (4.69%) Robot Framework
2 55 (4.03%) Git
3 46 (3.37%) Jenkins
4 39 (2.86%) JIRA
5 18 (1.32%) GitLab
6 11 (0.81%) MSI
7 10 (0.73%) Bitbucket
8 9 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
8 9 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 7 (0.51%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.44%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.44%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.37%) IBM UrbanCode
11 5 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.29%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.29%) InstallShield
12 4 (0.29%) WiX
13 3 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (0.22%) Vagrant
General
1 439 (32.16%) Social Skills
2 299 (21.90%) Finance
3 127 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 93 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (5.93%) Telecoms
6 63 (4.62%) Legal
7 58 (4.25%) Banking
8 53 (3.88%) Law
9 42 (3.08%) Retail
10 32 (2.34%) Automotive
11 22 (1.61%) German Language
12 19 (1.39%) Advertising
12 19 (1.39%) Public Sector
13 15 (1.10%) Electronics
13 15 (1.10%) Local Government
14 14 (1.03%) Back Office
14 14 (1.03%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (0.95%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 183 (13.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 170 (12.45%) Senior
3 138 (10.11%) Analyst
4 111 (8.13%) Lead
5 108 (7.91%) IT Support
6 107 (7.84%) Cloud Engineer
7 105 (7.69%) Support Engineer
8 100 (7.33%) Azure Engineer
9 88 (6.45%) IT Engineer
10 85 (6.23%) Developer
11 68 (4.98%) DevOps Engineer
12 65 (4.76%) Security Engineer
13 64 (4.69%) Test Automation Engineer
13 64 (4.69%) Test Engineer
14 58 (4.25%) Administrator
15 48 (3.52%) Support Analyst
16 46 (3.37%) Systems Engineer
17 44 (3.22%) Architect
18 43 (3.15%) 3rd Line Support
18 43 (3.15%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (3.88%) .NET
2 46 (3.37%) REST
3 42 (3.08%) YAML
4 37 (2.71%) ARM Templates
5 33 (2.42%) HTML
6 32 (2.34%) React
7 28 (2.05%) JSON
7 28 (2.05%) SailPoint
8 27 (1.98%) CSS
8 27 (1.98%) XML
9 25 (1.83%) LDAP
10 24 (1.76%) SOAP
11 23 (1.68%) Web Services
12 18 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
13 17 (1.25%) .NET Framework
13 17 (1.25%) ASP.NET
13 17 (1.25%) SPFx
14 16 (1.17%) Azure Blueprints
14 16 (1.17%) FIX Protocol
14 16 (1.17%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 116 (8.50%) Management Information System
2 80 (5.86%) Linux Command Line
3 62 (4.54%) Onboarding
4 54 (3.96%) Data Centre
5 51 (3.74%) Security Posture
6 49 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 47 (3.44%) Clustering
8 40 (2.93%) Cloud Native
8 40 (2.93%) Hedge funds
9 34 (2.49%) Public Cloud
10 25 (1.83%) Virtual Team
11 24 (1.76%) PKI
12 23 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
13 22 (1.61%) Private Cloud
14 20 (1.47%) IoT
14 20 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
15 19 (1.39%) Replication
16 17 (1.25%) Client/Server
16 17 (1.25%) Smartphone
17 16 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 730 (53.48%) Windows
2 352 (25.79%) Linux
3 342 (25.05%) Windows Server
4 102 (7.47%) Windows 10
5 93 (6.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 89 (6.52%) Windows Server 2019
7 47 (3.44%) Unix
8 44 (3.22%) Mac OS
9 41 (3.00%) Windows Server 2012
10 38 (2.78%) Ubuntu
11 31 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 26 (1.90%) VMS
13 25 (1.83%) Android
14 24 (1.76%) Apple iOS
15 19 (1.39%) Mac OS X
16 18 (1.32%) CentOS
17 11 (0.81%) Windows Server 2008
18 7 (0.51%) Windows 7
19 5 (0.37%) Debian
19 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (27.25%) DevOps
2 356 (26.08%) Problem-Solving
3 251 (18.39%) CI/CD
4 236 (17.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 203 (14.87%) Infrastructure as Code
6 197 (14.43%) Mentoring
7 195 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
8 183 (13.41%) ITIL
9 160 (11.72%) Agile
10 138 (10.11%) Disaster Recovery
11 123 (9.01%) Computer Science
12 114 (8.35%) Task Automation
13 106 (7.77%) High Availability
14 104 (7.62%) Migration
15 101 (7.40%) Coaching
16 98 (7.18%) Continuous Improvement
16 98 (7.18%) Test Automation
17 90 (6.59%) Containerisation
18 87 (6.37%) Incident Management
19 85 (6.23%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 557 (40.81%) Python
2 290 (21.25%) Bash
3 288 (21.10%) SQL
4 143 (10.48%) JavaScript
5 109 (7.99%) C#
6 45 (3.30%) Java
7 41 (3.00%) T-SQL
8 36 (2.64%) TypeScript
9 35 (2.56%) Bicep
10 26 (1.90%) Perl
11 17 (1.25%) C++
12 15 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 14 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
14 13 (0.95%) Go
15 11 (0.81%) Ruby
15 11 (0.81%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.59%) R
17 7 (0.51%) VBScript
18 6 (0.44%) VBA
19 5 (0.37%) JCL
Qualifications
1 342 (25.05%) Degree
2 162 (11.87%) Security Cleared
3 143 (10.48%) Microsoft Certification
4 123 (9.01%) Azure Certification
5 115 (8.42%) DV Cleared
6 99 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 71 (5.20%) SC Cleared
8 55 (4.03%) CompTIA Security+
9 54 (3.96%) CISSP
10 48 (3.52%) Cisco Certification
11 39 (2.86%) CEH
12 38 (2.78%) MCSE
13 34 (2.49%) AWS Certification
14 32 (2.34%) CCNA
14 32 (2.34%) OSCP
15 31 (2.27%) GCIH
15 31 (2.27%) Network+ Certification
16 28 (2.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 23 (1.68%) GCIA
17 23 (1.68%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (5.93%) QA
2 79 (5.79%) GDPR
3 74 (5.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 61 (4.47%) NIST
5 32 (2.34%) SLA
6 30 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials
7 26 (1.90%) PCI DSS
8 23 (1.68%) HIPAA
9 19 (1.39%) Data Quality
10 16 (1.17%) SOC 2
11 15 (1.10%) NCSC
12 12 (0.88%) COBIT
12 12 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 12 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.66%) Accessibility
14 4 (0.29%) HL7
15 2 (0.15%) GRC
15 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 1 (0.073%) Actionable Recommendations
16 1 (0.073%) JTAG
System Software
1 474 (34.73%) Active Directory
2 258 (18.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 138 (10.11%) Hyper-V
4 105 (7.69%) Docker
5 93 (6.81%) vSphere
6 70 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
7 66 (4.84%) VMware ESXi
8 44 (3.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 41 (3.00%) VMware NSX
10 18 (1.32%) XenApp
11 14 (1.03%) BitLocker
12 11 (0.81%) Microsoft App-V
13 10 (0.73%) Terminal Services
13 10 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
14 7 (0.51%) Firmware
15 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 3 (0.22%) Dovecot
17 3 (0.22%) Postfix
17 3 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 235 (17.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 228 (16.70%) Terraform
3 158 (11.58%) Ansible
4 156 (11.43%) Kubernetes
5 141 (10.33%) SCCM
6 53 (3.88%) Single Sign-On
7 47 (3.44%) Puppet
8 32 (2.34%) vCenter Server
9 30 (2.20%) Prometheus
10 29 (2.12%) Grafana
11 25 (1.83%) SCOM
12 24 (1.76%) Progress Chef
12 24 (1.76%) WSUS
13 21 (1.54%) NetBackup
14 18 (1.32%) vRealize
15 17 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 15 (1.10%) CASB
16 15 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
16 15 (1.10%) QRadar
17 14 (1.03%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 705 (51.65%) Microsoft
2 321 (23.52%) VMware
3 125 (9.16%) Cisco
4 97 (7.11%) Citrix
5 59 (4.32%) Veeam
6 55 (4.03%) ServiceNow
7 51 (3.74%) Google
8 46 (3.37%) Meraki
9 41 (3.00%) Fortinet
10 40 (2.93%) SolarWinds
11 39 (2.86%) Apple
11 39 (2.86%) Okta
11 39 (2.86%) Oracle
12 38 (2.78%) Red Hat
13 36 (2.64%) Splunk
14 32 (2.34%) Dell
14 32 (2.34%) Palo Alto
15 28 (2.05%) iManage
16 26 (1.90%) Salesforce
17 23 (1.68%) Databricks