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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 97 99
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -20
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 2,407 3,528 5,403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.44% 3.41% 3.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.25% 7.88% 6.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,978 2,501 3,617
10th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 33,199 44,762 84,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.70% 43.22% 53.81%
Number of salaries quoted 24,953 28,538 44,073
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,350
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.09% +6.70%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -8 2,258 £55,000 -8.33% 551
UK excluding London -24 1,535 £50,000 -4.76% 334
Work from Home -38 832 £59,000 -1.67% 276
London -5 780 £73,943 +5.63% 217
South East -18 437 £52,500 -2.78% 114
North of England -45 327 £50,000 - 73
South West +27 294 £50,000 -4.76% 43
Midlands +8 237 £46,500 -11.43% 53
North West -41 167 £52,500 +10.53% 38
West Midlands -1 159 £47,100 -12.78% 33
East of England +34 153 £48,750 -15.22% 33
Yorkshire -24 122 £47,500 -8.65% 29
East Midlands +2 76 £46,000 -12.38% 20
Scotland -107 61 £58,750 +6.82% 15
North East +4 38 £46,500 -15.45% 6
Wales -28 21 £47,500 +10.47% 4
Northern Ireland +1 9 £35,000 -36.36% 6

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
1 356 (14.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 298 (12.38%) SharePoint
3 89 (3.70%) IIS
4 26 (1.08%) Confluence
5 15 (0.62%) WordPress
6 14 (0.58%) CMS
7 9 (0.37%) Apache
8 8 (0.33%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.29%) Skype for Business
10 6 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
10 6 (0.25%) NServiceBus
11 5 (0.21%) IBM Notes
11 5 (0.21%) SAS
11 5 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
12 2 (0.083%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.083%) Documentum
12 2 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2003
12 2 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2007
12 2 (0.083%) nginx
12 2 (0.083%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 167 (6.94%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.29%) InfoPath
6 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.042%) 1Password
7 1 (0.042%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.042%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.042%) Simulink
7 1 (0.042%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.042%) Weka
Business Applications
1 20 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.62%) Fidessa
3 9 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.21%) BusinessWorks
5 5 (0.21%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.12%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.083%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.042%) Eikon
8 1 (0.042%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.042%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.042%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,475 (61.28%) Azure
2 809 (33.61%) Microsoft 365
3 450 (18.70%) AWS
4 357 (14.83%) Entra ID
5 333 (13.83%) Azure DevOps
6 219 (9.10%) Power Platform
7 185 (7.69%) SaaS
8 165 (6.86%) PaaS
9 156 (6.48%) IaaS
10 101 (4.20%) GitHub
10 101 (4.20%) OneDrive
11 89 (3.70%) GCP
12 82 (3.41%) Azure Monitor
13 76 (3.16%) Power Automate
14 73 (3.03%) PowerApps
15 70 (2.91%) Serverless
16 69 (2.87%) Cloud Computing
17 62 (2.58%) Azure Sentinel
18 47 (1.95%) Azure AKS
19 45 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 458 (19.03%) DNS
1 458 (19.03%) Firewall
2 338 (14.04%) DHCP
3 248 (10.30%) TCP/IP
4 209 (8.68%) VPN
5 202 (8.39%) WAN
6 188 (7.81%) SAN
7 186 (7.73%) LAN
8 103 (4.28%) VLAN
9 101 (4.20%) Wireless
10 88 (3.66%) Network Security
11 72 (2.99%) Internet
12 69 (2.87%) Wi-Fi
13 67 (2.78%) HTTP
14 43 (1.79%) VoIP
15 42 (1.74%) SNMP
16 41 (1.70%) SD-WAN
17 39 (1.62%) NAS
18 34 (1.41%) SSL
19 29 (1.20%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 349 (14.50%) SQL Server
2 101 (4.20%) Azure SQL Database
3 98 (4.07%) Power BI
4 96 (3.99%) MySQL
5 80 (3.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 71 (2.95%) MongoDB
7 69 (2.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 50 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
8 50 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
9 46 (1.91%) Relational Database
10 26 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
11 22 (0.91%) InfluxDB
12 19 (0.79%) NoSQL
12 19 (0.79%) Oracle Database
13 18 (0.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 17 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
14 17 (0.71%) Redis
15 12 (0.50%) RDBMS
16 11 (0.46%) MariaDB
17 10 (0.42%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 182 (7.56%) Git
2 179 (7.44%) Jenkins
3 111 (4.61%) JIRA
4 64 (2.66%) GitLab
5 48 (1.99%) TeamCity
6 42 (1.74%) Visual Studio
7 27 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
8 25 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
9 22 (0.91%) Bitbucket
10 21 (0.87%) SonarQube
11 17 (0.71%) Eclipse
11 17 (0.71%) MSI
12 15 (0.62%) Moq
12 15 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
13 13 (0.54%) NUnit
13 13 (0.54%) Selenium
14 12 (0.50%) gulp
15 10 (0.42%) MSBuild
15 10 (0.42%) Trac
15 10 (0.42%) Yeoman
General
1 604 (25.09%) Social Skills
2 437 (18.16%) Finance
3 214 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (4.61%) Banking
5 93 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 92 (3.82%) Law
7 76 (3.16%) Public Sector
8 73 (3.03%) Aerospace
9 50 (2.08%) Manufacturing
9 50 (2.08%) Retail
10 47 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
11 45 (1.87%) Legal
12 44 (1.83%) Telecoms
13 43 (1.79%) Marketing
14 34 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
14 34 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
15 27 (1.12%) Games
16 20 (0.83%) Investment Banking
17 19 (0.79%) Electronics
18 17 (0.71%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 430 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 399 (16.58%) Senior
3 197 (8.18%) Support Engineer
4 182 (7.56%) Azure Engineer
5 177 (7.35%) Developer
6 176 (7.31%) DevOps Engineer
7 165 (6.86%) Analyst
8 163 (6.77%) IT Engineer
9 157 (6.52%) Administrator
10 132 (5.48%) Cloud Engineer
11 127 (5.28%) Lead
12 118 (4.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 117 (4.86%) IT Support
14 96 (3.99%) Architect
15 94 (3.91%) Security Engineer
16 80 (3.32%) Systems Engineer
17 74 (3.07%) DBA
18 73 (3.03%) Consultant
18 73 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
19 67 (2.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (9.26%) .NET
2 105 (4.36%) HTML
3 103 (4.28%) ARM Templates
4 100 (4.15%) JSON
5 78 (3.24%) REST
6 76 (3.16%) XML
7 69 (2.87%) YAML
8 65 (2.70%) CSS
9 63 (2.62%) .NET Framework
10 60 (2.49%) Web Services
11 49 (2.04%) ASP.NET
12 48 (1.99%) React
13 41 (1.70%) AngularJS
14 40 (1.66%) Elastic Stack
15 38 (1.58%) .NET Core
16 32 (1.33%) RESTful
17 31 (1.29%) Node.js
18 30 (1.25%) SOAP
19 25 (1.04%) SPFx
20 24 (1.00%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 152 (6.31%) Data Centre
2 108 (4.49%) Clustering
3 102 (4.24%) Management Information System
4 101 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
5 92 (3.82%) Public Cloud
6 80 (3.32%) PKI
7 77 (3.20%) Replication
8 64 (2.66%) Onboarding
9 55 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 49 (2.04%) Driving Licence
11 46 (1.91%) Cloud Native
12 35 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
13 32 (1.33%) Private Cloud
14 27 (1.12%) Client/Server
15 22 (0.91%) Product Ownership
16 20 (0.83%) CCTV
16 20 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
17 19 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
18 17 (0.71%) Data Structures
18 17 (0.71%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1,333 (55.38%) Windows
2 697 (28.96%) Windows Server
3 619 (25.72%) Linux
4 215 (8.93%) Windows Server 2016
5 208 (8.64%) Windows 10
6 191 (7.94%) Windows Server 2019
7 162 (6.73%) Windows Server 2012
8 107 (4.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 99 (4.11%) Unix
10 77 (3.20%) CentOS
11 70 (2.91%) Mac OS
12 66 (2.74%) Ubuntu
13 47 (1.95%) Apple iOS
14 46 (1.91%) Windows 7
15 41 (1.70%) Windows Server 2008
16 36 (1.50%) Android
17 35 (1.45%) VMS
18 19 (0.79%) Solaris
19 16 (0.66%) Windows XP
20 14 (0.58%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 683 (28.38%) DevOps
2 540 (22.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 473 (19.65%) Problem-Solving
4 371 (15.41%) ITIL
5 349 (14.50%) Agile
5 349 (14.50%) CI/CD
6 318 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
7 277 (11.51%) Cybersecurity
8 214 (8.89%) Mentoring
9 204 (8.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 179 (7.44%) Migration
11 167 (6.94%) Disaster Recovery
12 165 (6.86%) Roadmaps
13 161 (6.69%) Project Management
14 158 (6.56%) Containerisation
15 154 (6.40%) Task Automation
16 149 (6.19%) Customer Service
17 145 (6.02%) Change Management
18 137 (5.69%) Computer Science
19 133 (5.53%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 689 (28.62%) Python
2 518 (21.52%) Bash
3 462 (19.19%) SQL
4 305 (12.67%) C#
5 158 (6.56%) JavaScript
6 143 (5.94%) Java
7 108 (4.49%) T-SQL
8 89 (3.70%) Perl
9 79 (3.28%) Ruby
10 75 (3.12%) Bicep
11 56 (2.33%) VB
12 47 (1.95%) VBScript
13 44 (1.83%) TypeScript
14 41 (1.70%) Go
15 37 (1.54%) C++
16 31 (1.29%) C
17 30 (1.25%) Shell Script
18 28 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
19 20 (0.83%) VB.NET
20 18 (0.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 473 (19.65%) Security Cleared
2 405 (16.83%) Degree
3 308 (12.80%) SC Cleared
4 232 (9.64%) DV Cleared
5 127 (5.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 111 (4.61%) Azure Certification
6 111 (4.61%) Cisco Certification
7 82 (3.41%) CCNA
7 82 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 48 (1.99%) CISSP
9 45 (1.87%) MCSA
10 43 (1.79%) MCSE
11 39 (1.62%) AWS Certification
12 30 (1.25%) DBS Check
13 26 (1.08%) CCNP
14 25 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 24 (1.00%) CEH
15 24 (1.00%) SANS
16 23 (0.96%) MCP
16 23 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 70 (2.91%) SLA
3 32 (1.33%) NIST
4 30 (1.25%) GDPR
4 30 (1.25%) PCI DSS
5 25 (1.04%) QA
6 18 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (0.42%) GRC
8 9 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 8 (0.33%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.33%) PMO
10 7 (0.29%) NCSC
11 5 (0.21%) Data Quality
12 4 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.12%) ISO 9000
14 2 (0.083%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.083%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.042%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.042%) EMIR
15 1 (0.042%) MISRA
System Software
1 943 (39.18%) Active Directory
2 481 (19.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 323 (13.42%) Hyper-V
4 228 (9.47%) Docker
5 133 (5.53%) vSphere
6 126 (5.23%) VMware ESXi
7 117 (4.86%) Virtual Machines
8 81 (3.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 34 (1.41%) XenApp
10 18 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
11 16 (0.66%) Microsoft App-V
11 16 (0.66%) NFS
12 13 (0.54%) vCloud
12 13 (0.54%) XenDesktop
13 11 (0.46%) VMware NSX
14 10 (0.42%) DFS Replication
14 10 (0.42%) OpenSSH
14 10 (0.42%) pfSense
15 9 (0.37%) Terminal Services
15 9 (0.37%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 374 (15.54%) Terraform
2 343 (14.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 323 (13.42%) Kubernetes
4 301 (12.51%) Ansible
5 259 (10.76%) SCCM
6 126 (5.23%) Puppet
7 100 (4.15%) vCenter Server
8 72 (2.99%) WSUS
9 71 (2.95%) Grafana
10 58 (2.41%) SCOM
11 53 (2.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 47 (1.95%) Progress Chef
13 43 (1.79%) Prometheus
14 41 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
15 40 (1.66%) Microsoft Clustering
16 29 (1.20%) Nagios
17 26 (1.08%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
18 23 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
19 22 (0.91%) Failover Clustering
20 19 (0.79%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1,232 (51.18%) Microsoft
2 704 (29.25%) VMware
3 206 (8.56%) Cisco
4 183 (7.60%) Citrix
5 160 (6.65%) Red Hat
6 148 (6.15%) Oracle
7 147 (6.11%) Veeam
8 85 (3.53%) Splunk
9 64 (2.66%) Google
9 64 (2.66%) HP
9 64 (2.66%) ServiceNow
10 59 (2.45%) Palo Alto
11 51 (2.12%) Commvault
12 49 (2.04%) Dell
13 44 (1.83%) Apple
14 43 (1.79%) Juniper
15 40 (1.66%) SolarWinds
16 39 (1.62%) Bloomberg
16 39 (1.62%) Fortinet
17 38 (1.58%) NetApp