Windows PowerShell
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PowerShell skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PowerShell over the 6 months to 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 61 91 87
Rank change year-on-year +30 -4 -7
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 2,528 4,507 4,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.74% 3.60% 3.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.68% 7.84% 7.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,999 3,346 3,732
10th Percentile £39,304 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% -

All Programming Languages
UK

PowerShell is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 21,640 57,467 67,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.55% 45.85% 52.23%
Number of salaries quoted 16,902 36,547 45,642
10th Percentile £39,820 £38,302 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,140 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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 2 December 2023.

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 2 December 2023. 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 +30 2,293 £60,000 - 625
UK excluding London +45 1,433 £53,500 +1.90% 449
Work from Home +21 1,060 £60,000 - 311
London +31 959 £70,000 - 220
South East +70 441 £52,500 -4.55% 130
South West +45 286 £52,500 +5.00% 67
Midlands +42 267 £53,500 +2.55% 54
North of England +12 234 £52,500 - 115
West Midlands +56 162 £49,565 -5.59% 34
North West +20 130 £55,000 +15.79% 67
East Midlands +12 103 £60,000 +16.50% 20
Yorkshire +1 94 £50,000 -9.09% 40
Scotland +5 76 £55,000 -2.22% 38
Wales +41 60 £57,165 +8.89% 15
East of England +26 51 £60,000 +9.09% 39
Northern Ireland +22 15 £60,000 +9.09% 4
North East +11 10 £42,500 -27.35% 9
Isle of Man - 10 £60,000 -

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
1 231 (9.14%) SharePoint
2 129 (5.10%) MS Exchange
3 110 (4.35%) IIS
4 64 (2.53%) Confluence
5 26 (1.03%) WebLogic
6 25 (0.99%) WebSphere
7 17 (0.67%) Apache
8 14 (0.55%) WebSphere Application Server
9 9 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
10 8 (0.32%) CMS
10 8 (0.32%) NServiceBus
11 5 (0.20%) nginx
11 5 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.16%) Apache Spark
12 4 (0.16%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.12%) Site Server
13 3 (0.12%) Skype for Business
13 3 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 95 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.40%) AutoCAD
4 9 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 9 (0.36%) PTC Creo
4 9 (0.36%) SOLIDWORKS
5 8 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.040%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 19 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.55%) Fidessa
3 12 (0.47%) BusinessWorks
4 10 (0.40%) SAP Business One
5 5 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.16%) Front Arena
6 4 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.079%) Endur
7 2 (0.079%) EuroRunner
7 2 (0.079%) Misys Equation
7 2 (0.079%) Salerio
7 2 (0.079%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.040%) Infor SunSystems
8 1 (0.040%) Softmar
Cloud Services
1 1,617 (63.96%) Azure
2 714 (28.24%) Microsoft 365
3 620 (24.53%) AWS
4 463 (18.31%) Azure DevOps
5 330 (13.05%) Entra ID
6 231 (9.14%) IaaS
7 210 (8.31%) PaaS
8 161 (6.37%) SaaS
9 155 (6.13%) GCP
10 149 (5.89%) Power Platform
11 130 (5.14%) GitHub
12 111 (4.39%) Azure Monitor
13 107 (4.23%) OpenShift
14 103 (4.07%) Serverless
15 78 (3.09%) Azure AKS
16 68 (2.69%) PowerApps
17 62 (2.45%) Azure Storage
17 62 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
18 58 (2.29%) Azure Logic Apps
19 55 (2.18%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 485 (19.19%) DNS
2 389 (15.39%) DHCP
3 325 (12.86%) Firewall
4 243 (9.61%) TCP/IP
5 192 (7.59%) VPN
6 141 (5.58%) SAN
7 123 (4.87%) WAN
8 116 (4.59%) HTTP
9 111 (4.39%) LAN
10 95 (3.76%) Network Security
11 91 (3.60%) VLAN
12 61 (2.41%) Wireless
13 56 (2.22%) Internet
14 46 (1.82%) SMTP
15 44 (1.74%) NAS
16 40 (1.58%) IPv4
17 39 (1.54%) SNMP
18 37 (1.46%) SSL
19 36 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
20 35 (1.38%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 400 (15.82%) SQL Server
2 85 (3.36%) Power BI
3 65 (2.57%) Amazon RDS
4 62 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 61 (2.41%) MongoDB
5 61 (2.41%) MySQL
5 61 (2.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 44 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 39 (1.54%) Oracle Database
8 36 (1.42%) Data Lake
8 36 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
8 36 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
9 34 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
10 29 (1.15%) Big Data
11 24 (0.95%) Metadata
12 22 (0.87%) NoSQL
13 21 (0.83%) Oracle Database 10g
13 21 (0.83%) Oracle Database 11g
13 21 (0.83%) Oracle Database 12c
14 19 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 216 (8.54%) Jenkins
2 179 (7.08%) Git
3 116 (4.59%) JIRA
4 98 (3.88%) GitLab
5 77 (3.05%) Sonatype Nexus
6 65 (2.57%) TeamCity
7 52 (2.06%) Octopus Deploy
8 45 (1.78%) Selenium
9 37 (1.46%) Artifactory
10 35 (1.38%) MSI
11 30 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 27 (1.07%) Team Foundation Server
13 26 (1.03%) Robot Framework
14 25 (0.99%) Bitbucket
14 25 (0.99%) SonarQube
14 25 (0.99%) Visual Studio
15 20 (0.79%) Liquibase
16 17 (0.67%) Oracle APEX
17 16 (0.63%) AdminStudio
17 16 (0.63%) InstallShield
General
1 513 (20.29%) Finance
2 475 (18.79%) Social Skills
3 242 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
4 169 (6.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 163 (6.45%) Banking
6 85 (3.36%) Public Sector
7 83 (3.28%) Law
8 71 (2.81%) Aerospace
9 68 (2.69%) Telecoms
10 67 (2.65%) Retail
11 58 (2.29%) Legal
12 43 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
13 40 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
14 32 (1.27%) Financial Institution
15 27 (1.07%) Back Office
15 27 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
16 25 (0.99%) Front Office
17 23 (0.91%) Manufacturing
17 23 (0.91%) Military
18 21 (0.83%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 464 (18.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 433 (17.13%) Senior
3 324 (12.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 272 (10.76%) Azure Engineer
5 202 (7.99%) Lead
6 196 (7.75%) Analyst
7 194 (7.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 162 (6.41%) Support Engineer
9 154 (6.09%) Administrator
10 130 (5.14%) Security Engineer
11 125 (4.94%) IT Engineer
12 123 (4.87%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 119 (4.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 118 (4.67%) Developer
15 113 (4.47%) Support Analyst
16 108 (4.27%) Applications Support
16 108 (4.27%) Architect
17 76 (3.01%) DBA
18 68 (2.69%) 3rd Line Support
18 68 (2.69%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (9.02%) .NET
2 164 (6.49%) JSON
3 163 (6.45%) YAML
4 151 (5.97%) ARM Templates
5 82 (3.24%) REST
6 60 (2.37%) XML
7 57 (2.25%) Web Services
8 56 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
9 52 (2.06%) .NET Framework
10 50 (1.98%) ASP.NET
11 41 (1.62%) React
12 36 (1.42%) HTML
13 31 (1.23%) J2EE
13 31 (1.23%) Kafka
13 31 (1.23%) Spring
14 29 (1.15%) Java EE
15 27 (1.07%) CSS
16 26 (1.03%) RESTful
17 24 (0.95%) AngularJS
18 23 (0.91%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 171 (6.76%) Public Cloud
2 149 (5.89%) Data Centre
3 103 (4.07%) PKI
4 86 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
5 85 (3.36%) Management Information System
6 76 (3.01%) Replication
7 69 (2.73%) Linux Command Line
8 56 (2.22%) Clustering
9 53 (2.10%) Virtual Team
10 52 (2.06%) Private Cloud
11 51 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
12 47 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
13 41 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
14 39 (1.54%) Cloud Native
15 36 (1.42%) Client/Server
16 29 (1.15%) Hedge funds
17 28 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
17 28 (1.11%) Onboarding
18 24 (0.95%) EFT
19 23 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1,324 (52.37%) Windows
2 734 (29.03%) Windows Server
3 597 (23.62%) Linux
4 194 (7.67%) Windows 10
5 174 (6.88%) Windows Server 2016
6 138 (5.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 137 (5.42%) Windows Server 2012
8 136 (5.38%) Unix
9 132 (5.22%) Windows Server 2019
10 104 (4.11%) Android
11 57 (2.25%) Ubuntu
12 54 (2.14%) Mac OS
13 48 (1.90%) CentOS
14 37 (1.46%) Windows 7
15 30 (1.19%) Solaris
16 29 (1.15%) VMS
17 28 (1.11%) Apple iOS
18 17 (0.67%) Mac OS X
18 17 (0.67%) SUSE
19 16 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 880 (34.81%) DevOps
2 595 (23.54%) Agile
3 527 (20.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 507 (20.06%) CI/CD
5 498 (19.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 459 (18.16%) ITIL
7 432 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
8 258 (10.21%) Mentoring
9 237 (9.38%) Containerisation
10 225 (8.90%) Actionable Insight
10 225 (8.90%) Migration
11 191 (7.56%) Customer Service
12 182 (7.20%) Task Automation
13 178 (7.04%) Continuous Integration
14 171 (6.76%) Disaster Recovery
15 169 (6.69%) Configuration Management
16 165 (6.53%) Cybersecurity
17 157 (6.21%) Collaborative Working
18 150 (5.93%) Computer Science
19 148 (5.85%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 880 (34.81%) Python
2 661 (26.15%) Bash
3 614 (24.29%) SQL
4 321 (12.70%) C#
5 255 (10.09%) Java
6 142 (5.62%) JavaScript
7 113 (4.47%) Ruby
8 100 (3.96%) Bicep
9 83 (3.28%) VBScript
10 82 (3.24%) T-SQL
11 76 (3.01%) Go
12 70 (2.77%) VB
13 60 (2.37%) Perl
14 45 (1.78%) Groovy
15 40 (1.58%) C++
16 28 (1.11%) TypeScript
17 26 (1.03%) Shell Script
18 25 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
18 25 (0.99%) Scala
19 24 (0.95%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 482 (19.07%) Security Cleared
2 413 (16.34%) Degree
3 324 (12.82%) SC Cleared
4 187 (7.40%) DV Cleared
5 149 (5.89%) Cisco Certification
6 139 (5.50%) Azure Certification
7 134 (5.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 104 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 68 (2.69%) CCNA
10 60 (2.37%) MCSA
11 59 (2.33%) MCSE
12 50 (1.98%) AWS Certification
13 36 (1.42%) CISSP
14 32 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
14 32 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 30 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
16 29 (1.15%) CCNP
17 27 (1.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 24 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
19 18 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (3.44%) SLA
2 71 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 65 (2.57%) QA
4 26 (1.03%) PCI DSS
5 24 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
6 23 (0.91%) Accessibility
7 20 (0.79%) NIST
8 16 (0.63%) NCSC
9 15 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 13 (0.51%) Data Quality
10 13 (0.51%) GDPR
11 9 (0.36%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.24%) ISO 9000
12 6 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 6 (0.24%) MISRA
13 5 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
14 4 (0.16%) WCAG
15 3 (0.12%) COBIT
15 3 (0.12%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.12%) PMO
System Software
1 934 (36.95%) Active Directory
2 611 (24.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 398 (15.74%) Docker
4 346 (13.69%) Hyper-V
5 127 (5.02%) vSphere
6 124 (4.91%) Virtual Machines
7 110 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
8 87 (3.44%) Virtual Desktop
9 25 (0.99%) VMware NSX
10 20 (0.79%) Microsoft App-V
11 18 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
12 14 (0.55%) Firmware
12 14 (0.55%) vCloud
13 11 (0.44%) DFS Replication
14 9 (0.36%) NFS
15 8 (0.32%) BitLocker
16 7 (0.28%) VMware Server
16 7 (0.28%) XenApp
17 3 (0.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 3 (0.12%) KVM
Systems Management
1 572 (22.63%) Terraform
2 511 (20.21%) Ansible
3 500 (19.78%) Kubernetes
4 317 (12.54%) SCCM
5 308 (12.18%) Microsoft Intune
6 271 (10.72%) Puppet
7 81 (3.20%) Grafana
7 81 (3.20%) SCOM
8 71 (2.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 70 (2.77%) Single Sign-On
10 65 (2.57%) Progress Chef
11 62 (2.45%) WSUS
12 59 (2.33%) Prometheus
13 50 (1.98%) vCenter Server
14 40 (1.58%) Microsoft Clustering
15 37 (1.46%) Packer
16 30 (1.19%) Istio
17 27 (1.07%) AirWatch
18 26 (1.03%) OpenSSO
19 23 (0.91%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,147 (45.37%) Microsoft
2 783 (30.97%) VMware
3 223 (8.82%) Citrix
4 207 (8.19%) Cisco
5 182 (7.20%) Oracle
6 179 (7.08%) Red Hat
7 99 (3.92%) HP
8 94 (3.72%) Splunk
9 84 (3.32%) ServiceNow
10 82 (3.24%) Veeam
11 80 (3.16%) Google
12 55 (2.18%) SolarWinds
13 46 (1.82%) CyberArk
14 43 (1.70%) Meraki
15 42 (1.66%) New Relic
16 41 (1.62%) Dell
17 36 (1.42%) McAfee
17 36 (1.42%) TOWER Software
18 34 (1.34%) NetApp
19 33 (1.31%) Apple