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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 97 102
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 -21
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 2,377 3,475 5,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.40% 3.43% 3.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.17% 7.92% 6.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,955 2,464 3,575
10th Percentile £35,850 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% +6.36%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,813 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £98,750 £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 33,162 43,852 84,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.46% 43.27% 54.01%
Number of salaries quoted 24,974 27,985 43,449
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 £106,275 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,112
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.55% +6.22%

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 9 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 9 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 -11 2,230 £55,000 -8.33% 541
UK excluding London -25 1,514 £50,000 -4.76% 327
Work from Home -44 825 £59,000 -1.67% 237
London -7 769 £73,750 +5.36% 217
South East -25 430 £52,500 -4.55% 110
North of England -36 329 £50,000 - 72
South West +13 283 £50,000 -4.76% 45
Midlands -5 235 £46,500 -11.43% 49
North West -45 166 £52,500 +10.53% 38
West Midlands -12 157 £47,500 -12.04% 34
East of England +35 152 £50,000 -13.04% 36
Yorkshire -15 124 £47,500 -7.77% 27
East Midlands -2 76 £45,000 -14.29% 15
Scotland -108 59 £57,500 +4.55% 13
North East +5 39 £47,500 -17.39% 7
Wales -38 21 £47,500 +18.75% 4
Northern Ireland +1 9 £35,000 -39.13% 7

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
1 341 (14.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 293 (12.33%) SharePoint
3 86 (3.62%) IIS
4 26 (1.09%) Confluence
5 14 (0.59%) CMS
5 14 (0.59%) WordPress
6 9 (0.38%) Apache
7 7 (0.29%) Skype for Business
7 7 (0.29%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
9 5 (0.21%) IBM Notes
9 5 (0.21%) NServiceBus
9 5 (0.21%) SAS
9 5 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
10 2 (0.084%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.084%) Documentum
10 2 (0.084%) Exchange Server 2003
10 2 (0.084%) Exchange Server 2007
10 2 (0.084%) nginx
10 2 (0.084%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 167 (7.03%) Microsoft Office
2 45 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.34%) InfoPath
4 8 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.042%) 1Password
6 1 (0.042%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.042%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.042%) Simulink
6 1 (0.042%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.042%) Weka
Business Applications
1 19 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.67%) Fidessa
3 9 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.21%) Teamcenter
6 4 (0.17%) BusinessWorks
6 4 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.084%) 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 1,474 (62.01%) Azure
2 798 (33.57%) Microsoft 365
3 448 (18.85%) AWS
4 358 (15.06%) Entra ID
5 321 (13.50%) Azure DevOps
6 224 (9.42%) Power Platform
7 183 (7.70%) SaaS
8 164 (6.90%) PaaS
9 150 (6.31%) IaaS
10 103 (4.33%) GitHub
11 101 (4.25%) OneDrive
12 89 (3.74%) GCP
13 83 (3.49%) Azure Monitor
14 76 (3.20%) Power Automate
14 76 (3.20%) PowerApps
15 73 (3.07%) Cloud Computing
16 70 (2.94%) Serverless
17 62 (2.61%) Azure Sentinel
18 50 (2.10%) Azure AKS
19 45 (1.89%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 458 (19.27%) Firewall
2 456 (19.18%) DNS
3 336 (14.14%) DHCP
4 245 (10.31%) TCP/IP
5 204 (8.58%) VPN
6 200 (8.41%) WAN
7 185 (7.78%) SAN
8 184 (7.74%) LAN
9 101 (4.25%) VLAN
10 99 (4.16%) Wireless
11 90 (3.79%) Network Security
12 71 (2.99%) Internet
13 69 (2.90%) Wi-Fi
14 66 (2.78%) HTTP
15 45 (1.89%) VoIP
16 42 (1.77%) SNMP
17 41 (1.72%) SD-WAN
18 36 (1.51%) NAS
19 34 (1.43%) SSL
20 29 (1.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 349 (14.68%) SQL Server
2 104 (4.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 100 (4.21%) Power BI
4 98 (4.12%) MySQL
5 80 (3.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 70 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 63 (2.65%) MongoDB
8 52 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
9 50 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
10 45 (1.89%) Relational Database
11 25 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
12 23 (0.97%) InfluxDB
13 21 (0.88%) Oracle Database
14 19 (0.80%) NoSQL
14 19 (0.80%) Redis
14 19 (0.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 17 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
16 13 (0.55%) MariaDB
17 12 (0.50%) RDBMS
18 10 (0.42%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 185 (7.78%) Git
2 180 (7.57%) Jenkins
3 110 (4.63%) JIRA
4 63 (2.65%) GitLab
5 47 (1.98%) TeamCity
6 45 (1.89%) Visual Studio
7 28 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
8 25 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
9 22 (0.93%) Bitbucket
10 21 (0.88%) SonarQube
11 18 (0.76%) Eclipse
12 17 (0.72%) MSI
13 15 (0.63%) Moq
13 15 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
14 13 (0.55%) NUnit
15 12 (0.50%) gulp
16 11 (0.46%) Selenium
17 10 (0.42%) MSBuild
17 10 (0.42%) Trac
17 10 (0.42%) Yeoman
General
1 604 (25.41%) Social Skills
2 442 (18.59%) Finance
3 215 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (4.54%) Banking
5 91 (3.83%) Law
6 79 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 78 (3.28%) Aerospace
8 73 (3.07%) Public Sector
9 52 (2.19%) Manufacturing
10 49 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
10 49 (2.06%) Retail
11 44 (1.85%) Marketing
11 44 (1.85%) Telecoms
12 42 (1.77%) Legal
13 36 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
14 34 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
15 27 (1.14%) Games
16 20 (0.84%) Electronics
17 17 (0.72%) Investment Banking
18 16 (0.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 418 (17.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 387 (16.28%) Senior
3 186 (7.82%) Support Engineer
4 185 (7.78%) Azure Engineer
5 177 (7.45%) Developer
5 177 (7.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 160 (6.73%) Administrator
6 160 (6.73%) Analyst
7 157 (6.60%) IT Engineer
8 130 (5.47%) Cloud Engineer
9 125 (5.26%) Lead
10 112 (4.71%) IT Support
11 110 (4.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 97 (4.08%) Architect
13 92 (3.87%) Security Engineer
14 79 (3.32%) Systems Engineer
15 75 (3.16%) Consultant
16 74 (3.11%) DBA
16 74 (3.11%) Platform Engineer
17 69 (2.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (9.38%) .NET
2 107 (4.50%) HTML
3 100 (4.21%) ARM Templates
4 95 (4.00%) JSON
5 78 (3.28%) REST
6 74 (3.11%) XML
7 70 (2.94%) YAML
8 65 (2.73%) CSS
9 62 (2.61%) .NET Framework
10 59 (2.48%) Web Services
11 48 (2.02%) ASP.NET
11 48 (2.02%) React
12 44 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
13 40 (1.68%) AngularJS
14 38 (1.60%) .NET Core
15 31 (1.30%) Node.js
15 31 (1.30%) RESTful
16 29 (1.22%) SOAP
17 25 (1.05%) FIX Protocol
17 25 (1.05%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 152 (6.39%) Data Centre
2 106 (4.46%) Clustering
3 100 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
4 93 (3.91%) Management Information System
5 92 (3.87%) Public Cloud
6 76 (3.20%) Replication
7 74 (3.11%) PKI
8 64 (2.69%) Onboarding
9 55 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
10 50 (2.10%) Driving Licence
11 45 (1.89%) Cloud Native
12 35 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
13 32 (1.35%) Private Cloud
14 26 (1.09%) Client/Server
15 24 (1.01%) Product Ownership
16 20 (0.84%) CCTV
16 20 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
16 20 (0.84%) Security Posture
17 19 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
18 17 (0.72%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1,303 (54.82%) Windows
2 674 (28.36%) Windows Server
3 610 (25.66%) Linux
4 210 (8.83%) Windows Server 2016
5 204 (8.58%) Windows 10
6 190 (7.99%) Windows Server 2019
7 159 (6.69%) Windows Server 2012
8 102 (4.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 101 (4.25%) Unix
10 78 (3.28%) CentOS
11 68 (2.86%) Mac OS
12 65 (2.73%) Ubuntu
13 48 (2.02%) Apple iOS
14 46 (1.94%) Windows 7
15 40 (1.68%) Windows Server 2008
16 36 (1.51%) Android
17 34 (1.43%) VMS
18 21 (0.88%) Solaris
19 16 (0.67%) Windows XP
20 14 (0.59%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 660 (27.77%) DevOps
2 525 (22.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 480 (20.19%) Problem-Solving
4 373 (15.69%) ITIL
5 355 (14.93%) Agile
6 345 (14.51%) CI/CD
7 319 (13.42%) Infrastructure as Code
8 278 (11.70%) Cybersecurity
9 207 (8.71%) Mentoring
10 201 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 176 (7.40%) Migration
12 168 (7.07%) Disaster Recovery
13 167 (7.03%) Roadmaps
14 162 (6.82%) Project Management
15 157 (6.60%) Containerisation
16 153 (6.44%) Task Automation
17 150 (6.31%) Change Management
18 149 (6.27%) Customer Service
19 141 (5.93%) Computer Science
20 135 (5.68%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 669 (28.14%) Python
2 506 (21.29%) Bash
3 450 (18.93%) SQL
4 308 (12.96%) C#
5 162 (6.82%) JavaScript
6 139 (5.85%) Java
7 105 (4.42%) T-SQL
8 89 (3.74%) Perl
9 78 (3.28%) Ruby
10 74 (3.11%) Bicep
11 56 (2.36%) VB
12 45 (1.89%) VBScript
13 44 (1.85%) TypeScript
14 40 (1.68%) Go
15 38 (1.60%) C++
16 32 (1.35%) C
17 30 (1.26%) Kusto Query Language
18 29 (1.22%) Shell Script
19 20 (0.84%) VB.NET
20 18 (0.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 457 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 397 (16.70%) Degree
3 298 (12.54%) SC Cleared
4 221 (9.30%) DV Cleared
5 123 (5.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 112 (4.71%) Azure Certification
7 100 (4.21%) Cisco Certification
8 82 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 71 (2.99%) CCNA
10 48 (2.02%) CISSP
11 42 (1.77%) MCSA
11 42 (1.77%) MCSE
12 41 (1.72%) AWS Certification
13 30 (1.26%) DBS Check
14 26 (1.09%) CCNP
15 24 (1.01%) CEH
15 24 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 24 (1.01%) SANS
16 23 (0.97%) MCP
17 22 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 70 (2.94%) SLA
3 32 (1.35%) NIST
4 31 (1.30%) PCI DSS
5 30 (1.26%) GDPR
6 23 (0.97%) QA
7 17 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (0.42%) GRC
8 10 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 8 (0.34%) PMO
10 7 (0.29%) NCSC
11 5 (0.21%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.21%) Data Quality
12 3 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.13%) ISO 9000
13 2 (0.084%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.042%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.042%) EMIR
14 1 (0.042%) MISRA
System Software
1 914 (38.45%) Active Directory
2 457 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 309 (13.00%) Hyper-V
4 228 (9.59%) Docker
5 128 (5.38%) vSphere
6 125 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
7 116 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
8 80 (3.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 36 (1.51%) XenApp
10 18 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
11 16 (0.67%) Microsoft App-V
11 16 (0.67%) NFS
12 15 (0.63%) XenDesktop
13 12 (0.50%) vCloud
14 10 (0.42%) DFS Replication
14 10 (0.42%) OpenSSH
14 10 (0.42%) pfSense
14 10 (0.42%) VMware Server
15 9 (0.38%) Terminal Services
16 8 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 380 (15.99%) Terraform
2 341 (14.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 323 (13.59%) Kubernetes
4 303 (12.75%) Ansible
5 252 (10.60%) SCCM
6 120 (5.05%) Puppet
7 100 (4.21%) vCenter Server
8 72 (3.03%) WSUS
9 71 (2.99%) Grafana
10 58 (2.44%) SCOM
11 55 (2.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 47 (1.98%) Progress Chef
13 44 (1.85%) Prometheus
14 42 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
15 37 (1.56%) Microsoft Clustering
16 29 (1.22%) Nagios
17 23 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
17 23 (0.97%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
18 19 (0.80%) Failover Clustering
18 19 (0.80%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1,227 (51.62%) Microsoft
2 676 (28.44%) VMware
3 192 (8.08%) Cisco
4 180 (7.57%) Citrix
5 156 (6.56%) Red Hat
6 151 (6.35%) Oracle
7 146 (6.14%) Veeam
8 86 (3.62%) Splunk
9 64 (2.69%) Google
9 64 (2.69%) ServiceNow
10 60 (2.52%) HP
11 58 (2.44%) Palo Alto
12 52 (2.19%) Commvault
12 52 (2.19%) Dell
13 44 (1.85%) Juniper
14 43 (1.81%) Apple
15 40 (1.68%) Fortinet
16 39 (1.64%) Bloomberg
16 39 (1.64%) NetApp
17 36 (1.51%) SolarWinds