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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 77 119
Rank change year-on-year -39 +42 -33
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 2,028 3,227 5,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.24% 4.00% 3.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.35% 9.95% 6.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,574 2,215 3,607
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £96,539 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -

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 27,596 32,430 91,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.53% 40.19% 52.34%
Number of salaries quoted 19,728 24,108 43,810
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £37,171
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,850
% change year-on-year - +2.14% +7.70%

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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in the UK

PowerShell
Top 17 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 26 July 2024. 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 -33 1,902 £57,500 -4.17% 245
UK excluding London -54 1,241 £50,000 -3.85% 213
Work from Home -24 787 £58,000 -3.33% 116
London -33 723 £75,000 +7.14% 71
South East -42 369 £52,500 -4.55% 53
North of England -33 319 £50,000 - 59
Midlands -49 194 £46,000 -12.38% 28
South West -27 189 £50,000 -4.76% 36
North West -43 159 £52,500 +2.94% 34
West Midlands -29 133 £48,800 -7.05% 23
Yorkshire -9 120 £50,000 - 16
East of England -15 87 £54,000 +20.00% 9
East Midlands -50 61 £45,000 -14.29% 5
Scotland -70 58 £55,000 - 20
North East +6 40 £44,274 -15.67% 10
Wales -48 16 £47,500 +19.50% 2
Northern Ireland -2 11 £40,000 -20.00% 11

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
1 255 (12.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 237 (11.69%) SharePoint
3 74 (3.65%) IIS
4 19 (0.94%) Confluence
5 13 (0.64%) Apache
6 10 (0.49%) Tomcat
7 6 (0.30%) nginx
7 6 (0.30%) WordPress
8 5 (0.25%) IBM Notes
8 5 (0.25%) SAS
9 4 (0.20%) CMS
10 3 (0.15%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.099%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.099%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.099%) Documentum
12 1 (0.049%) Exchange Server 2010
12 1 (0.049%) Mattermost
12 1 (0.049%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.049%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 152 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (2.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.59%) InfoPath
5 9 (0.44%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.049%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.049%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
2 10 (0.49%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
4 5 (0.25%) Teamcenter
5 4 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.099%) Endur
7 1 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.049%) Eikon
7 1 (0.049%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 1,232 (60.75%) Azure
2 578 (28.50%) Microsoft 365
3 373 (18.39%) AWS
4 367 (18.10%) Entra ID
5 271 (13.36%) Azure DevOps
6 196 (9.66%) Power Platform
7 149 (7.35%) SaaS
8 132 (6.51%) PaaS
9 129 (6.36%) IaaS
10 92 (4.54%) GitHub
11 84 (4.14%) Azure Monitor
12 80 (3.94%) OneDrive
13 79 (3.90%) Serverless
14 72 (3.55%) GCP
15 71 (3.50%) Azure Storage
16 60 (2.96%) Cloud Computing
17 59 (2.91%) Power Automate
17 59 (2.91%) PowerApps
18 45 (2.22%) Azure AKS
19 39 (1.92%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 363 (17.90%) DNS
2 350 (17.26%) Firewall
3 248 (12.23%) DHCP
4 163 (8.04%) TCP/IP
5 152 (7.50%) VPN
6 151 (7.45%) WAN
7 143 (7.05%) SAN
8 127 (6.26%) LAN
9 82 (4.04%) Network Security
10 74 (3.65%) VLAN
11 62 (3.06%) Wireless
12 54 (2.66%) HTTP
13 52 (2.56%) Internet
14 44 (2.17%) Remote Desktop
15 40 (1.97%) SD-WAN
15 40 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
16 38 (1.87%) NAS
17 34 (1.68%) SSL
18 29 (1.43%) VoIP
19 28 (1.38%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (14.15%) SQL Server
2 112 (5.52%) Power BI
3 93 (4.59%) Azure SQL Database
4 79 (3.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 61 (3.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 55 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
7 54 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
8 44 (2.17%) MongoDB
8 44 (2.17%) MySQL
9 27 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
10 25 (1.23%) Oracle Database
11 24 (1.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 22 (1.08%) Relational Database
13 17 (0.84%) NoSQL
14 12 (0.59%) Redis
15 11 (0.54%) Data Lake
15 11 (0.54%) Tableau
16 10 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
16 10 (0.49%) InfluxDB
17 9 (0.44%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 186 (9.17%) Git
2 122 (6.02%) Jenkins
3 81 (3.99%) JIRA
4 59 (2.91%) GitLab
5 33 (1.63%) Visual Studio
6 31 (1.53%) Octopus Deploy
7 25 (1.23%) TeamCity
8 24 (1.18%) MSI
9 14 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
10 13 (0.64%) AdminStudio
10 13 (0.64%) InstallShield
11 12 (0.59%) Artifactory
11 12 (0.59%) Selenium
11 12 (0.59%) SonarQube
12 11 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
13 10 (0.49%) gulp
13 10 (0.49%) Yeoman
14 9 (0.44%) CMake
14 9 (0.44%) Robot Framework
14 9 (0.44%) TestRail
General
1 528 (26.04%) Finance
2 503 (24.80%) Social Skills
3 200 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (7.10%) Banking
5 90 (4.44%) Legal
6 75 (3.70%) Law
7 69 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 64 (3.16%) Public Sector
9 53 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
10 52 (2.56%) Aerospace
11 43 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
12 38 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
13 33 (1.63%) Manufacturing
13 33 (1.63%) Telecoms
14 29 (1.43%) Retail
15 25 (1.23%) Marketing
16 21 (1.04%) Advertising
17 19 (0.94%) Back Office
18 17 (0.84%) Investment Banking
19 14 (0.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 389 (19.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 320 (15.78%) Senior
3 188 (9.27%) Azure Engineer
4 173 (8.53%) Analyst
5 164 (8.09%) Cloud Engineer
6 124 (6.11%) Developer
7 123 (6.07%) DevOps Engineer
8 110 (5.42%) Support Engineer
9 107 (5.28%) Administrator
10 105 (5.18%) IT Engineer
11 104 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
12 88 (4.34%) Lead
13 79 (3.90%) Security Engineer
14 72 (3.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 68 (3.35%) DBA
16 67 (3.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 65 (3.21%) Senior Analyst
18 62 (3.06%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
19 61 (3.01%) IT Support
20 59 (2.91%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (5.87%) .NET
2 88 (4.34%) ARM Templates
3 83 (4.09%) HTML
4 72 (3.55%) YAML
5 60 (2.96%) REST
6 39 (1.92%) CSS
7 34 (1.68%) JSON
8 33 (1.63%) XML
9 30 (1.48%) Web Services
10 28 (1.38%) React
11 27 (1.33%) .NET Framework
11 27 (1.33%) ASP.NET
12 24 (1.18%) HTML5
13 22 (1.08%) FIX Protocol
13 22 (1.08%) Node.js
13 22 (1.08%) SPFx
14 21 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
15 20 (0.99%) Microsoft Graph
15 20 (0.99%) RESTful
16 18 (0.89%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 145 (7.15%) Management Information System
2 123 (6.07%) Clustering
3 98 (4.83%) Data Centre
4 81 (3.99%) Cloud Native
5 80 (3.94%) PKI
6 74 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
7 68 (3.35%) Replication
8 63 (3.11%) Public Cloud
9 58 (2.86%) Onboarding
10 56 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
11 41 (2.02%) Driving Licence
12 38 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
13 29 (1.43%) Security Posture
14 23 (1.13%) Cyberattack
15 22 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
16 20 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
16 20 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
16 20 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
17 17 (0.84%) CCTV
18 16 (0.79%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 995 (49.06%) Windows
2 504 (24.85%) Windows Server
3 458 (22.58%) Linux
4 178 (8.78%) Windows Server 2016
5 171 (8.43%) Windows 10
6 146 (7.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 121 (5.97%) Windows Server 2012
8 89 (4.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 81 (3.99%) Unix
10 63 (3.11%) CentOS
11 57 (2.81%) Ubuntu
12 38 (1.87%) Windows 7
13 36 (1.78%) Mac OS
14 30 (1.48%) Windows Server 2008
15 26 (1.28%) Apple iOS
16 22 (1.08%) VMS
17 21 (1.04%) Android
18 20 (0.99%) Solaris
19 12 (0.59%) Oracle Linux
20 11 (0.54%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 589 (29.04%) DevOps
2 479 (23.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 391 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
4 359 (17.70%) CI/CD
5 329 (16.22%) Agile
6 300 (14.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 287 (14.15%) ITIL
8 281 (13.86%) Cybersecurity
9 183 (9.02%) Task Automation
10 166 (8.19%) Information Security
11 164 (8.09%) Computer Science
12 158 (7.79%) Platform Engineering
12 158 (7.79%) Roadmaps
13 156 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
14 148 (7.30%) Mentoring
15 141 (6.95%) Containerisation
15 141 (6.95%) Disaster Recovery
16 135 (6.66%) Customer Service
17 133 (6.56%) Migration
18 125 (6.16%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 638 (31.46%) Python
2 437 (21.55%) Bash
3 425 (20.96%) SQL
4 221 (10.90%) C#
5 112 (5.52%) JavaScript
6 87 (4.29%) Java
7 86 (4.24%) Bicep
8 77 (3.80%) T-SQL
9 63 (3.11%) Ruby
10 62 (3.06%) Perl
11 61 (3.01%) VB
12 54 (2.66%) C++
13 41 (2.02%) Go
14 40 (1.97%) Kusto Query Language
15 36 (1.78%) VBScript
16 33 (1.63%) Shell Script
17 32 (1.58%) C
18 24 (1.18%) TypeScript
19 17 (0.84%) ActionScript
20 14 (0.69%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 355 (17.50%) Degree
2 311 (15.34%) Security Cleared
3 193 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 158 (7.79%) DV Cleared
5 107 (5.28%) Azure Certification
6 102 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 88 (4.34%) Microsoft Certification
8 55 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
9 50 (2.47%) CISSP
10 39 (1.92%) CCNA
11 37 (1.82%) AWS Certification
12 27 (1.33%) DBS Check
12 27 (1.33%) MCP
12 27 (1.33%) MCSE
13 23 (1.13%) MCSA
14 21 (1.04%) CEH
15 20 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 17 (0.84%) CCNP
16 17 (0.84%) HNC
16 17 (0.84%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 55 (2.71%) SLA
3 37 (1.82%) GDPR
4 27 (1.33%) PCI DSS
5 23 (1.13%) NIST
6 16 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
6 16 (0.79%) HIPAA
6 16 (0.79%) QA
7 14 (0.69%) Data Quality
8 10 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 6 (0.30%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.25%) Solvency II
11 4 (0.20%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.20%) EMIR
11 4 (0.20%) GRC
11 4 (0.20%) MiFID
11 4 (0.20%) NCSC
11 4 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.099%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 748 (36.88%) Active Directory
2 383 (18.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 224 (11.05%) Hyper-V
4 207 (10.21%) Docker
5 132 (6.51%) Virtual Machines
6 104 (5.13%) vSphere
7 91 (4.49%) VMware ESXi
8 73 (3.60%) Virtual Desktop
9 70 (3.45%) XenApp
10 51 (2.51%) RACF
11 46 (2.27%) XenDesktop
12 23 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
13 21 (1.04%) Microsoft App-V
14 17 (0.84%) OpenSSH
15 15 (0.74%) VMware NSX
16 12 (0.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 12 (0.59%) NFS
17 10 (0.49%) pfSense
18 9 (0.44%) Terminal Services
18 9 (0.44%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 407 (20.07%) Terraform
2 302 (14.89%) Ansible
3 279 (13.76%) Kubernetes
4 238 (11.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 205 (10.11%) SCCM
6 88 (4.34%) Puppet
7 86 (4.24%) vCenter Server
8 71 (3.50%) WSUS
9 64 (3.16%) SCOM
10 59 (2.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 53 (2.61%) Grafana
12 46 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
13 37 (1.82%) Microsoft Clustering
14 36 (1.78%) Prometheus
15 34 (1.68%) Progress Chef
16 30 (1.48%) Failover Clustering
17 27 (1.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
18 21 (1.04%) IBM BigFix
19 19 (0.94%) Nagios
20 18 (0.89%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 1,013 (49.95%) Microsoft
2 520 (25.64%) VMware
3 148 (7.30%) Cisco
4 133 (6.56%) Citrix
5 126 (6.21%) Red Hat
6 124 (6.11%) Oracle
7 106 (5.23%) Veeam
8 76 (3.75%) ServiceNow
9 74 (3.65%) CyberArk
10 67 (3.30%) Dell
11 58 (2.86%) Splunk
12 56 (2.76%) Google
13 55 (2.71%) Fortinet
14 43 (2.12%) Commvault
15 40 (1.97%) HP
15 40 (1.97%) Juniper
16 37 (1.82%) Databricks
17 36 (1.78%) Apple
18 34 (1.68%) Atlassian
18 34 (1.68%) IBM