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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 98 98
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 -19
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 2,422 3,533 5,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.46% 3.40% 3.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.28% 7.87% 6.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,987 2,504 3,620
10th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £43,701
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.69% +7.27%
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 33,269 44,878 84,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.74% 43.24% 53.88%
Number of salaries quoted 25,012 28,616 44,114
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,171
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 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +1.85% +8.00%

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 3 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 3 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 -5 2,273 £55,000 -8.33% 552
UK excluding London -23 1,546 £50,000 -4.76% 335
Work from Home -37 835 £59,000 -1.67% 299
London -4 783 £73,750 +5.36% 218
South East -18 441 £52,500 -4.55% 112
North of England -41 328 £50,000 - 75
South West +27 295 £50,000 -4.76% 42
Midlands +7 242 £47,100 -10.29% 54
North West -43 168 £52,500 +10.53% 39
West Midlands -7 160 £47,300 -11.17% 34
East of England +30 153 £48,750 -15.22% 32
Yorkshire -23 122 £47,500 -8.65% 30
East Midlands +14 80 £46,000 -12.38% 20
Scotland -103 61 £58,750 +6.82% 16
North East +2 38 £46,500 -15.45% 6
Wales -36 21 £47,500 +10.47% 4
Northern Ireland +4 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
1 362 (14.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 300 (12.39%) SharePoint
3 90 (3.72%) IIS
4 26 (1.07%) 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%) Liferay
12 2 (0.083%) nginx
12 2 (0.083%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 167 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (1.82%) 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 (0.041%) 1Password
7 1 (0.041%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.041%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.041%) Simulink
7 1 (0.041%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.041%) 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 (0.041%) Eikon
8 1 (0.041%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.041%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.041%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,484 (61.27%) Azure
2 812 (33.53%) Microsoft 365
3 450 (18.58%) AWS
4 357 (14.74%) Entra ID
5 337 (13.91%) Azure DevOps
6 220 (9.08%) Power Platform
7 185 (7.64%) SaaS
8 166 (6.85%) PaaS
9 156 (6.44%) IaaS
10 102 (4.21%) GitHub
11 101 (4.17%) OneDrive
12 89 (3.67%) GCP
13 83 (3.43%) Azure Monitor
14 77 (3.18%) Power Automate
15 74 (3.06%) PowerApps
16 70 (2.89%) Serverless
17 69 (2.85%) Cloud Computing
18 62 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
19 47 (1.94%) Azure AKS
20 45 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 461 (19.03%) Firewall
2 460 (18.99%) DNS
3 339 (14.00%) DHCP
4 248 (10.24%) TCP/IP
5 212 (8.75%) VPN
6 202 (8.34%) WAN
7 189 (7.80%) SAN
8 186 (7.68%) LAN
9 105 (4.34%) VLAN
10 101 (4.17%) Wireless
11 88 (3.63%) Network Security
12 72 (2.97%) Internet
13 70 (2.89%) Wi-Fi
14 67 (2.77%) HTTP
15 44 (1.82%) VoIP
16 42 (1.73%) SNMP
17 41 (1.69%) SD-WAN
18 39 (1.61%) NAS
19 34 (1.40%) SSL
20 29 (1.20%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 350 (14.45%) SQL Server
2 101 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 98 (4.05%) Power BI
4 96 (3.96%) MySQL
5 80 (3.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 75 (3.10%) MongoDB
7 69 (2.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 50 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
8 50 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
9 46 (1.90%) Relational Database
10 27 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
11 22 (0.91%) InfluxDB
12 19 (0.78%) NoSQL
12 19 (0.78%) Oracle Database
13 18 (0.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 17 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
14 17 (0.70%) Redis
15 12 (0.50%) RDBMS
16 11 (0.45%) MariaDB
17 10 (0.41%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 184 (7.60%) Git
2 180 (7.43%) Jenkins
3 111 (4.58%) JIRA
4 64 (2.64%) GitLab
5 48 (1.98%) TeamCity
6 42 (1.73%) Visual Studio
7 27 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
8 25 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
9 22 (0.91%) Bitbucket
10 21 (0.87%) SonarQube
11 17 (0.70%) Eclipse
11 17 (0.70%) 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 (0.41%) MSBuild
15 10 (0.41%) Trac
15 10 (0.41%) Yeoman
General
1 608 (25.10%) Social Skills
2 438 (18.08%) Finance
3 215 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (4.58%) Banking
5 97 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 92 (3.80%) Law
7 77 (3.18%) Public Sector
8 73 (3.01%) Aerospace
9 51 (2.11%) Retail
10 50 (2.06%) Manufacturing
11 47 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
12 45 (1.86%) Legal
13 44 (1.82%) Telecoms
14 43 (1.78%) Marketing
15 34 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
15 34 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
16 27 (1.11%) Games
17 20 (0.83%) Investment Banking
18 19 (0.78%) Electronics
19 17 (0.70%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 435 (17.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 401 (16.56%) Senior
3 201 (8.30%) Support Engineer
4 184 (7.60%) Azure Engineer
5 179 (7.39%) Developer
6 177 (7.31%) DevOps Engineer
7 167 (6.90%) Analyst
8 166 (6.85%) IT Engineer
9 158 (6.52%) Administrator
10 134 (5.53%) Cloud Engineer
11 128 (5.28%) Lead
12 119 (4.91%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 118 (4.87%) IT Support
14 96 (3.96%) Architect
15 95 (3.92%) Security Engineer
16 80 (3.30%) Systems Engineer
17 74 (3.06%) DBA
18 73 (3.01%) Consultant
18 73 (3.01%) Platform Engineer
19 68 (2.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (9.29%) .NET
2 106 (4.38%) HTML
3 103 (4.25%) ARM Templates
4 101 (4.17%) JSON
5 79 (3.26%) REST
6 76 (3.14%) XML
7 69 (2.85%) YAML
8 66 (2.73%) CSS
9 63 (2.60%) .NET Framework
10 60 (2.48%) Web Services
11 49 (2.02%) ASP.NET
12 48 (1.98%) React
13 41 (1.69%) AngularJS
14 40 (1.65%) Elastic Stack
15 39 (1.61%) .NET Core
16 32 (1.32%) RESTful
17 31 (1.28%) Node.js
18 30 (1.24%) SOAP
19 25 (1.03%) SPFx
20 24 (0.99%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 153 (6.32%) Data Centre
2 109 (4.50%) Clustering
3 106 (4.38%) Management Information System
4 101 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
5 92 (3.80%) Public Cloud
6 81 (3.34%) PKI
7 77 (3.18%) Replication
8 64 (2.64%) Onboarding
9 55 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 49 (2.02%) Driving Licence
11 46 (1.90%) Cloud Native
12 35 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
13 32 (1.32%) Private Cloud
14 27 (1.11%) Client/Server
15 22 (0.91%) Product Ownership
16 20 (0.83%) CCTV
16 20 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
17 19 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
18 17 (0.70%) CMDB
18 17 (0.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1,338 (55.24%) Windows
2 702 (28.98%) Windows Server
3 621 (25.64%) Linux
4 216 (8.92%) Windows Server 2016
5 208 (8.59%) Windows 10
6 192 (7.93%) Windows Server 2019
7 163 (6.73%) Windows Server 2012
8 107 (4.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 99 (4.09%) Unix
10 77 (3.18%) CentOS
11 70 (2.89%) Mac OS
12 66 (2.73%) Ubuntu
13 48 (1.98%) Apple iOS
14 46 (1.90%) Windows 7
15 41 (1.69%) Windows Server 2008
16 36 (1.49%) Android
16 36 (1.49%) VMS
17 19 (0.78%) Solaris
18 16 (0.66%) Windows XP
19 14 (0.58%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 691 (28.53%) DevOps
2 545 (22.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 476 (19.65%) Problem-Solving
4 372 (15.36%) ITIL
5 352 (14.53%) Agile
6 350 (14.45%) CI/CD
7 319 (13.17%) Infrastructure as Code
8 278 (11.48%) Cybersecurity
9 215 (8.88%) Mentoring
10 205 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 179 (7.39%) Migration
12 168 (6.94%) Disaster Recovery
13 165 (6.81%) Roadmaps
14 161 (6.65%) Project Management
15 159 (6.56%) Containerisation
16 154 (6.36%) Task Automation
17 149 (6.15%) Customer Service
18 145 (5.99%) Change Management
19 139 (5.74%) Computer Science
20 133 (5.49%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 695 (28.70%) Python
2 523 (21.59%) Bash
3 470 (19.41%) SQL
4 308 (12.72%) C#
5 159 (6.56%) JavaScript
6 144 (5.95%) Java
7 109 (4.50%) T-SQL
8 89 (3.67%) Perl
9 79 (3.26%) Ruby
10 75 (3.10%) Bicep
11 56 (2.31%) VB
12 47 (1.94%) VBScript
13 44 (1.82%) TypeScript
14 41 (1.69%) Go
15 37 (1.53%) C++
16 31 (1.28%) C
17 30 (1.24%) Shell Script
18 28 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
19 20 (0.83%) VB.NET
20 19 (0.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 473 (19.53%) Security Cleared
2 411 (16.97%) Degree
3 308 (12.72%) SC Cleared
4 232 (9.58%) DV Cleared
5 127 (5.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 115 (4.75%) Cisco Certification
7 111 (4.58%) Azure Certification
8 86 (3.55%) CCNA
9 83 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 48 (1.98%) CISSP
11 45 (1.86%) MCSA
12 43 (1.78%) MCSE
13 39 (1.61%) AWS Certification
14 30 (1.24%) DBS Check
15 26 (1.07%) CCNP
16 25 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 24 (0.99%) CEH
17 24 (0.99%) SANS
18 23 (0.95%) MCP
18 23 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 70 (2.89%) SLA
3 32 (1.32%) NIST
4 31 (1.28%) PCI DSS
5 30 (1.24%) GDPR
6 26 (1.07%) QA
7 18 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (0.41%) Accessibility
8 10 (0.41%) GRC
9 9 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 8 (0.33%) PMO
11 7 (0.29%) NCSC
12 5 (0.21%) Data Quality
13 4 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.12%) ISO 9000
15 2 (0.083%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.083%) SOC 2
16 1 (0.041%) Actionable Recommendations
16 1 (0.041%) EMIR
16 1 (0.041%) MISRA
System Software
1 951 (39.27%) Active Directory
2 482 (19.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 325 (13.42%) Hyper-V
4 229 (9.45%) Docker
5 133 (5.49%) vSphere
6 127 (5.24%) VMware ESXi
7 117 (4.83%) Virtual Machines
8 81 (3.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 34 (1.40%) XenApp
10 18 (0.74%) 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 (0.45%) VMware NSX
14 10 (0.41%) DFS Replication
14 10 (0.41%) OpenSSH
14 10 (0.41%) pfSense
15 9 (0.37%) Terminal Services
15 9 (0.37%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 376 (15.52%) Terraform
2 344 (14.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 324 (13.38%) Kubernetes
4 302 (12.47%) Ansible
5 260 (10.73%) SCCM
6 126 (5.20%) Puppet
7 100 (4.13%) vCenter Server
8 73 (3.01%) WSUS
9 72 (2.97%) Grafana
10 58 (2.39%) SCOM
11 54 (2.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 47 (1.94%) Progress Chef
13 43 (1.78%) Prometheus
14 42 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
15 41 (1.69%) Microsoft Clustering
16 29 (1.20%) Nagios
17 26 (1.07%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
18 23 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
19 22 (0.91%) Failover Clustering
20 20 (0.83%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,236 (51.03%) Microsoft
2 706 (29.15%) VMware
3 211 (8.71%) Cisco
4 183 (7.56%) Citrix
5 160 (6.61%) Red Hat
6 148 (6.11%) Oracle
7 147 (6.07%) Veeam
8 85 (3.51%) Splunk
9 64 (2.64%) Google
9 64 (2.64%) HP
9 64 (2.64%) ServiceNow
10 59 (2.44%) Palo Alto
11 51 (2.11%) Commvault
12 50 (2.06%) Dell
13 44 (1.82%) Apple
13 44 (1.82%) Juniper
14 41 (1.69%) SolarWinds
15 39 (1.61%) Bloomberg
15 39 (1.61%) Fortinet
16 38 (1.57%) NetApp