PowerShell Jobs with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 101 77 138
Rank change year-on-year -24 +61 -45
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 787 1,331 2,277
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.82% 4.06% 2.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.35% 8.77% 5.00%
Number of salaries quoted 567 1,022 1,694
10th Percentile £39,000 £38,999 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.50% +4.35% +4.55%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

PowerShell falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,703 15,175 45,514
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.31% 46.24% 57.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,410 12,366 24,728
10th Percentile £39,000 £40,500 £38,443
25th Percentile £46,923 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,918 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PowerShell trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PowerShell.

PowerShell salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing PowerShell over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

PowerShell salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 87 (11.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 85 (10.80%) SharePoint
3 44 (5.59%) IIS
4 11 (1.40%) Confluence
5 10 (1.27%) Tomcat
6 5 (0.64%) nginx
7 3 (0.38%) Apache
8 2 (0.25%) CMS
9 1 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.13%) Documentum
9 1 (0.13%) IBM Notes
9 1 (0.13%) Moodle
9 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.13%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 34 (4.32%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.52%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.13%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 521 (66.20%) Azure
2 229 (29.10%) Microsoft 365
3 207 (26.30%) Entra ID
4 137 (17.41%) AWS
5 114 (14.49%) Azure DevOps
6 85 (10.80%) Power Platform
7 53 (6.73%) Azure Monitor
8 52 (6.61%) Azure Storage
9 51 (6.48%) SaaS
10 49 (6.23%) PaaS
11 44 (5.59%) GitHub
12 41 (5.21%) Serverless
13 40 (5.08%) IaaS
14 37 (4.70%) Power Automate
15 33 (4.19%) GCP
16 30 (3.81%) PowerApps
17 25 (3.18%) Azure Functions
17 25 (3.18%) OneDrive
18 24 (3.05%) Azure Logic Apps
19 23 (2.92%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 130 (16.52%) Firewall
2 128 (16.26%) DNS
3 78 (9.91%) DHCP
4 45 (5.72%) SAN
5 35 (4.45%) VPN
6 34 (4.32%) TCP/IP
7 30 (3.81%) WAN
8 28 (3.56%) LAN
9 26 (3.30%) Remote Desktop
10 25 (3.18%) Network Security
11 24 (3.05%) Internet
12 23 (2.92%) Wireless
13 15 (1.91%) SSL
14 13 (1.65%) VLAN
15 11 (1.40%) Fibre Channel
16 10 (1.27%) Intrusion Detection
17 9 (1.14%) 5G
17 9 (1.14%) SD-WAN
17 9 (1.14%) Skype
17 9 (1.14%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (15.12%) SQL Server
2 48 (6.10%) Azure SQL Database
2 48 (6.10%) Power BI
3 31 (3.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 29 (3.68%) Amazon RDS
5 27 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (2.92%) MySQL
7 22 (2.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (1.52%) MongoDB
9 10 (1.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 9 (1.14%) InfluxDB
10 9 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (1.02%) Oracle Database
11 8 (1.02%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.89%) NoSQL
13 6 (0.76%) Tableau
14 5 (0.64%) MariaDB
14 5 (0.64%) Power Query
14 5 (0.64%) PowerPivot
15 4 (0.51%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 92 (11.69%) Git
2 43 (5.46%) JIRA
3 41 (5.21%) Jenkins
4 20 (2.54%) GitLab
4 20 (2.54%) Octopus Deploy
5 18 (2.29%) TeamCity
6 10 (1.27%) gulp
6 10 (1.27%) Yeoman
7 9 (1.14%) Trac
8 8 (1.02%) Selenium
8 8 (1.02%) Visual Studio
9 7 (0.89%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.76%) JMeter
11 5 (0.64%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.64%) MSI
12 4 (0.51%) AdminStudio
12 4 (0.51%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.51%) InstallShield
12 4 (0.51%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 244 (31.00%) Finance
2 163 (20.71%) Social Skills
3 81 (10.29%) Banking
4 65 (8.26%) Legal
5 64 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (5.21%) Public Sector
7 38 (4.83%) Law
8 27 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (2.16%) Back Office
11 16 (2.03%) Telecoms
12 13 (1.65%) Advertising
12 13 (1.65%) Front Office
13 12 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.27%) Marketing
15 9 (1.14%) Manufacturing
16 8 (1.02%) Aerospace
17 6 (0.76%) Military
17 6 (0.76%) Retail
18 5 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 146 (18.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 127 (16.14%) Senior
3 99 (12.58%) Analyst
4 97 (12.33%) Azure Engineer
5 82 (10.42%) Cloud Engineer
6 61 (7.75%) Developer
7 59 (7.50%) Senior Analyst
8 57 (7.24%) DevOps Engineer
9 50 (6.35%) Governance Analyst
9 50 (6.35%) IT Engineer
10 43 (5.46%) Platform Engineer
11 39 (4.96%) Support Engineer
12 37 (4.70%) Automation Engineer
13 36 (4.57%) Lead
14 29 (3.68%) Applications Support
15 28 (3.56%) Consultant
16 27 (3.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 26 (3.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 25 (3.18%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
19 24 (3.05%) PowerShell Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (6.86%) ARM Templates
2 52 (6.61%) .NET
3 40 (5.08%) HTML
4 37 (4.70%) REST
5 30 (3.81%) YAML
6 28 (3.56%) CSS
7 22 (2.80%) React
8 20 (2.54%) SPFx
9 18 (2.29%) Node.js
10 17 (2.16%) Microsoft Graph
11 15 (1.91%) JSON
11 15 (1.91%) XML
12 14 (1.78%) RESTful
12 14 (1.78%) Web Services
13 13 (1.65%) .NET Framework
13 13 (1.65%) ASP.NET
14 12 (1.52%) FIX Protocol
14 12 (1.52%) Software Packaging
15 11 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
16 7 (0.89%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 80 (10.17%) Management Information System
2 77 (9.78%) Clustering
3 48 (6.10%) PKI
4 36 (4.57%) Self-Motivation
5 34 (4.32%) Replication
6 32 (4.07%) Data Centre
7 28 (3.56%) Public Cloud
8 26 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
9 24 (3.05%) Onboarding
10 23 (2.92%) Cloud Native
11 21 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
12 13 (1.65%) Private Cloud
13 12 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (1.52%) Low-Code
13 12 (1.52%) Product Ownership
14 11 (1.40%) Derivative
15 9 (1.14%) Driving Licence
16 8 (1.02%) Client/Server
16 8 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 388 (49.30%) Windows
2 213 (27.06%) Windows Server
3 159 (20.20%) Linux
4 62 (7.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 45 (5.72%) Windows 10
6 39 (4.96%) Unix
6 39 (4.96%) Windows Server 2012
6 39 (4.96%) Windows Server 2019
7 28 (3.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 16 (2.03%) Android
9 15 (1.91%) Apple iOS
9 15 (1.91%) Windows Server 2008
10 11 (1.40%) Solaris
11 10 (1.27%) Mac OS
11 10 (1.27%) Oracle Linux
12 9 (1.14%) Windows 7
13 7 (0.89%) VMS
14 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.13%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (30.37%) DevOps
2 186 (23.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 155 (19.70%) CI/CD
4 153 (19.44%) Agile
5 133 (16.90%) Infrastructure as Code
6 107 (13.60%) ITIL
7 104 (13.21%) Cybersecurity
8 103 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
9 95 (12.07%) Information Security
10 94 (11.94%) Roadmaps
11 89 (11.31%) Coaching
12 87 (11.05%) RBAC
13 70 (8.89%) Task Automation
14 69 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
15 68 (8.64%) Security Operations
16 67 (8.51%) Service Management
17 65 (8.26%) Change Management
18 61 (7.75%) Identity Access Management
19 60 (7.62%) Platform Engineering
20 59 (7.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 217 (27.57%) Python
2 199 (25.29%) SQL
3 134 (17.03%) Bash
4 106 (13.47%) C#
5 47 (5.97%) Bicep
6 42 (5.34%) JavaScript
7 40 (5.08%) VB
8 35 (4.45%) T-SQL
9 30 (3.81%) Kusto Query Language
9 30 (3.81%) VBScript
10 29 (3.68%) Java
11 18 (2.29%) TypeScript
12 15 (1.91%) ActionScript
13 13 (1.65%) Perl
14 10 (1.27%) Go
15 9 (1.14%) Ruby
16 6 (0.76%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.76%) VBA
17 5 (0.64%) C++
18 4 (0.51%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 127 (16.14%) Degree
2 90 (11.44%) Security Cleared
3 50 (6.35%) Azure Certification
3 50 (6.35%) SC Cleared
4 33 (4.19%) DV Cleared
5 24 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (2.29%) DBS Check
8 16 (2.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 12 (1.52%) MCP
10 11 (1.40%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.40%) CCA
10 11 (1.40%) Citrix Certification
11 9 (1.14%) CISSP
12 8 (1.02%) CISM
13 7 (0.89%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.81%) SLA
2 24 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (1.78%) GDPR
4 11 (1.40%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.27%) HIPAA
5 10 (1.27%) NIST
6 8 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (1.02%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.89%) QA
8 6 (0.76%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.51%) EMIR
9 4 (0.51%) GRC
9 4 (0.51%) MiFID
9 4 (0.51%) NCSC
9 4 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.51%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.13%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.13%) GxP
System Software
1 354 (44.98%) Active Directory
2 130 (16.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 87 (11.05%) Docker
4 81 (10.29%) Virtual Machines
5 78 (9.91%) Hyper-V
6 52 (6.61%) Virtual Desktop
7 50 (6.35%) RACF
7 50 (6.35%) VMware ESXi
8 40 (5.08%) XenApp
9 39 (4.96%) vSphere
10 22 (2.80%) XenDesktop
11 15 (1.91%) OpenSSH
12 10 (1.27%) pfSense
13 9 (1.14%) Microsoft App-V
13 9 (1.14%) NFS
14 8 (1.02%) Terminal Services
15 5 (0.64%) VMware NSX
16 4 (0.51%) Ceph
17 3 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
18 2 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 175 (22.24%) Terraform
2 120 (15.25%) Ansible
3 110 (13.98%) Kubernetes
4 88 (11.18%) SCCM
5 73 (9.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 44 (5.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 35 (4.45%) SCOM
7 35 (4.45%) vCenter Server
8 33 (4.19%) Grafana
8 33 (4.19%) WSUS
9 28 (3.56%) Microsoft Clustering
10 21 (2.67%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 18 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
12 17 (2.16%) Failover Clustering
12 17 (2.16%) Prometheus
12 17 (2.16%) Puppet
13 15 (1.91%) IBM BigFix
13 15 (1.91%) PowerCLI
14 14 (1.78%) Progress Chef
15 12 (1.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 429 (54.51%) Microsoft
2 185 (23.51%) VMware
3 67 (8.51%) Citrix
4 57 (7.24%) CyberArk
5 43 (5.46%) Oracle
6 40 (5.08%) ServiceNow
7 35 (4.45%) Cisco
8 34 (4.32%) Veeam
9 32 (4.07%) Fortinet
10 26 (3.30%) IBM
11 24 (3.05%) Red Hat
12 20 (2.54%) Splunk
13 17 (2.16%) Commvault
13 17 (2.16%) Databricks
13 17 (2.16%) Dell
13 17 (2.16%) SolarWinds
14 14 (1.78%) HP
14 14 (1.78%) Juniper
15 12 (1.52%) BMC
15 12 (1.52%) Remedy