PowerShell Jobs

Windows PowerShell
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 29 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 60 94
Rank change year-on-year -44 +34 -5
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,805 2,780 4,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.37% 4.80% 3.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.99% 11.83% 7.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,176 2,054 3,437
10th Percentile £37,625 £37,500 £35,942
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £79,350
90th Percentile £96,875 £93,375 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.63% +2.86% +5.00%

All Programming Languages
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22,585 23,502 66,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.71% 40.61% 47.95%
Number of salaries quoted 13,134 18,282 38,108
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,140 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,879 £65,000 £62,833
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% +3.45% +4.72%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% 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 29 October 2024.

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 29 October 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 -48 1,687 £62,500 +4.17% 497
UK excluding London -66 1,041 £51,500 -4.63% 337
London -30 714 £75,000 +7.14% 182
Work from Home -42 695 £67,500 +12.50% 283
South East -50 318 £56,252 +3.21% 98
North of England -32 250 £50,000 - 79
Midlands -82 166 £47,500 -12.04% 64
South West -66 132 £50,500 -3.81% 38
North West -52 124 £50,000 -9.09% 57
West Midlands -51 122 £45,000 -9.21% 44
Yorkshire +7 103 £54,500 +9.00% 14
Scotland -5 79 £52,500 -12.50% 22
East of England -27 78 £52,500 +5.00% 38
East Midlands -87 44 £47,500 -20.83% 20
North East -21 23 £44,274 +0.05% 9
Wales -42 10 £49,750 +10.56% 5
Channel Islands - 7 £50,000 -
Northern Ireland +3 5 £40,000 -46.67% 2

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
1 227 (12.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 179 (9.92%) SharePoint
3 56 (3.10%) IIS
4 34 (1.88%) Confluence
5 21 (1.16%) nginx
6 20 (1.11%) Apache
7 5 (0.28%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.22%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.22%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.11%) CMS
10 2 (0.11%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.055%) Mattermost
11 1 (0.055%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.055%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.055%) WordPress
Applications
1 103 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.28%) InfoPath
5 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.055%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.44%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.28%) Sage 200
4 4 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 3 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.11%) Endur
6 2 (0.11%) Magento
6 2 (0.11%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.11%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.11%) TIBCO iProcess
6 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.055%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.055%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 1,108 (61.39%) Azure
2 476 (26.37%) Microsoft 365
3 358 (19.83%) Entra ID
4 340 (18.84%) AWS
5 297 (16.45%) Azure DevOps
6 183 (10.14%) Power Platform
7 156 (8.64%) IaaS
8 149 (8.25%) PaaS
9 134 (7.42%) SaaS
10 98 (5.43%) Azure Monitor
11 85 (4.71%) GCP
12 69 (3.82%) Azure Storage
12 69 (3.82%) Power Automate
13 67 (3.71%) Azure Logic Apps
14 65 (3.60%) PowerApps
15 62 (3.43%) Azure AKS
16 59 (3.27%) GitHub
17 57 (3.16%) Serverless
18 51 (2.83%) OneDrive
19 46 (2.55%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 298 (16.51%) Firewall
2 297 (16.45%) DNS
3 188 (10.42%) DHCP
4 133 (7.37%) VPN
5 125 (6.93%) TCP/IP
6 121 (6.70%) SAN
7 105 (5.82%) WAN
8 102 (5.65%) Network Security
9 84 (4.65%) LAN
10 68 (3.77%) VLAN
11 54 (2.99%) NAS
11 54 (2.99%) Remote Desktop
12 37 (2.05%) BGP
13 33 (1.83%) OSPF
14 32 (1.77%) SSL
15 30 (1.66%) SD-WAN
16 29 (1.61%) HTTP
17 27 (1.50%) Internet
18 26 (1.44%) WLAN
19 23 (1.27%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 260 (14.40%) SQL Server
2 121 (6.70%) Power BI
3 106 (5.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 65 (3.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 63 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
6 51 (2.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 48 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
8 46 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
9 39 (2.16%) MySQL
10 33 (1.83%) MongoDB
11 17 (0.94%) Oracle Database
12 16 (0.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 15 (0.83%) MariaDB
14 14 (0.78%) Data Lake
14 14 (0.78%) Tableau
15 10 (0.55%) DB2
15 10 (0.55%) Redis
15 10 (0.55%) Relational Database
16 9 (0.50%) NoSQL
17 8 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 140 (7.76%) Git
2 76 (4.21%) Jenkins
3 66 (3.66%) JIRA
4 58 (3.21%) Octopus Deploy
5 50 (2.77%) GitLab
6 22 (1.22%) TeamCity
7 21 (1.16%) Selenium
8 20 (1.11%) MSI
8 20 (1.11%) Visual Studio
9 15 (0.83%) SonarQube
10 14 (0.78%) Bitbucket
11 11 (0.61%) Artifactory
12 10 (0.55%) AdminStudio
12 10 (0.55%) InstallShield
13 9 (0.50%) Burp Suite
13 9 (0.50%) Metasploit
13 9 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
13 9 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 9 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
14 8 (0.44%) JMeter
General
1 495 (27.42%) Finance
2 486 (26.93%) Social Skills
3 179 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
4 138 (7.65%) Banking
5 96 (5.32%) Legal
6 75 (4.16%) Law
7 54 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (2.88%) Public Sector
9 45 (2.49%) Retail
10 39 (2.16%) Back Office
11 32 (1.77%) Manufacturing
12 31 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
13 28 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
14 25 (1.39%) Aerospace
15 23 (1.27%) Financial Institution
15 23 (1.27%) Telecoms
16 22 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
17 21 (1.16%) Automotive
17 21 (1.16%) Investment Banking
18 16 (0.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 335 (18.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 297 (16.45%) Senior
3 190 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
4 172 (9.53%) Analyst
5 171 (9.47%) Cloud Engineer
6 110 (6.09%) Developer
7 105 (5.82%) DevOps Engineer
8 102 (5.65%) IT Engineer
9 92 (5.10%) Platform Engineer
10 82 (4.54%) Administrator
11 77 (4.27%) Lead
12 69 (3.82%) Security Engineer
13 67 (3.71%) Systems Engineer
14 64 (3.55%) Automation Engineer
15 60 (3.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 57 (3.16%) Senior Analyst
16 57 (3.16%) Support Engineer
17 53 (2.94%) Applications Support
18 52 (2.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 52 (2.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (5.26%) .NET
2 84 (4.65%) ARM Templates
3 63 (3.49%) REST
3 63 (3.49%) YAML
4 50 (2.77%) HTML
5 43 (2.38%) Web Services
6 28 (1.55%) JSON
7 27 (1.50%) CSS
8 25 (1.39%) FIX Protocol
9 23 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
10 21 (1.16%) ASP.NET
10 21 (1.16%) SAML
10 21 (1.16%) XML
11 18 (1.00%) .NET Framework
12 17 (0.94%) jQuery
12 17 (0.94%) React
12 17 (0.94%) SOAP
13 14 (0.78%) ADO
13 14 (0.78%) WinForms
14 12 (0.66%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 161 (8.92%) Management Information System
2 90 (4.99%) Clustering
3 86 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 81 (4.49%) Data Centre
5 78 (4.32%) Public Cloud
6 60 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
7 58 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
8 55 (3.05%) Replication
9 49 (2.71%) PKI
10 44 (2.44%) Onboarding
11 42 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
12 36 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
13 32 (1.77%) Driving Licence
14 31 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
15 30 (1.66%) Private Cloud
16 28 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
17 24 (1.33%) Security Posture
17 24 (1.33%) Smartphone
18 22 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
19 19 (1.05%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 877 (48.59%) Windows
2 450 (24.93%) Linux
3 401 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 136 (7.53%) Windows 10
5 103 (5.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 89 (4.93%) Unix
7 81 (4.49%) Windows Server 2019
8 60 (3.32%) Ubuntu
9 57 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 54 (2.99%) Windows Server 2012
11 43 (2.38%) CentOS
12 29 (1.61%) Mac OS
13 25 (1.39%) Android
14 24 (1.33%) VMS
15 21 (1.16%) Mac OS X
15 21 (1.16%) Windows 7
16 19 (1.05%) Apple iOS
17 18 (1.00%) Solaris
18 17 (0.94%) Windows Server 2008
19 10 (0.55%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 571 (31.63%) DevOps
2 409 (22.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 349 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
4 345 (19.11%) CI/CD
5 308 (17.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 287 (15.90%) Agile
7 276 (15.29%) ITIL
8 236 (13.07%) Cybersecurity
9 183 (10.14%) Task Automation
10 175 (9.70%) Computer Science
11 150 (8.31%) Platform Engineering
12 149 (8.25%) Migration
13 146 (8.09%) Containerisation
14 142 (7.87%) Disaster Recovery
14 142 (7.87%) Mentoring
15 140 (7.76%) Information Security
16 138 (7.65%) Continuous Improvement
17 131 (7.26%) Identity Access Management
18 126 (6.98%) Roadmaps
19 121 (6.70%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 615 (34.07%) Python
2 489 (27.09%) SQL
3 351 (19.45%) Bash
4 186 (10.30%) C#
5 101 (5.60%) JavaScript
6 86 (4.76%) Bicep
7 67 (3.71%) T-SQL
8 65 (3.60%) Java
9 55 (3.05%) Perl
10 44 (2.44%) Ruby
11 41 (2.27%) Go
12 40 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
13 38 (2.11%) C++
14 36 (1.99%) VB
15 33 (1.83%) Shell Script
16 27 (1.50%) VBScript
17 22 (1.22%) C
18 16 (0.89%) PHP
19 13 (0.72%) Korn
20 12 (0.66%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 318 (17.62%) Degree
2 227 (12.58%) Security Cleared
3 141 (7.81%) Microsoft Certification
4 138 (7.65%) Azure Certification
4 138 (7.65%) DV Cleared
5 124 (6.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 105 (5.82%) SC Cleared
7 47 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
8 45 (2.49%) CISSP
9 38 (2.11%) MCSE
10 30 (1.66%) CCNA
11 29 (1.61%) HND
12 26 (1.44%) AWS Certification
12 26 (1.44%) CEH
13 25 (1.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 20 (1.11%) HNC
15 19 (1.05%) Network+ Certification
16 17 (0.94%) MCSA
16 17 (0.94%) OSCP
17 16 (0.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 57 (3.16%) SLA
3 39 (2.16%) GDPR
4 29 (1.61%) NIST
4 29 (1.61%) PCI DSS
5 27 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 22 (1.22%) HIPAA
7 15 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 12 (0.66%) Data Quality
9 11 (0.61%) QA
9 11 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.55%) Solvency II
11 7 (0.39%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.17%) EMIR
14 3 (0.17%) MiFID
15 2 (0.11%) Accessibility
16 1 (0.055%) MISRA
16 1 (0.055%) PMO
System Software
1 698 (38.67%) Active Directory
2 395 (21.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 221 (12.24%) Docker
4 175 (9.70%) Hyper-V
5 128 (7.09%) Virtual Machines
6 108 (5.98%) vSphere
7 79 (4.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 70 (3.88%) VMware ESXi
9 69 (3.82%) XenApp
10 56 (3.10%) XenDesktop
11 51 (2.83%) RACF
12 44 (2.44%) VMware NSX
13 21 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
14 17 (0.94%) VMware Server
15 13 (0.72%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 10 (0.55%) Microsoft App-V
17 9 (0.50%) Firmware
18 8 (0.44%) Terminal Server
19 7 (0.39%) OpenSSH
20 5 (0.28%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 452 (25.04%) Terraform
2 331 (18.34%) Ansible
3 244 (13.52%) Kubernetes
4 168 (9.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 142 (7.87%) SCCM
6 82 (4.54%) Puppet
7 56 (3.10%) Grafana
8 51 (2.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 50 (2.77%) WSUS
10 47 (2.60%) Prometheus
11 41 (2.27%) SCOM
11 41 (2.27%) vCenter Server
12 39 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
13 27 (1.50%) Progress Chef
14 26 (1.44%) Microsoft Clustering
15 25 (1.39%) Failover Clustering
16 21 (1.16%) vRealize
16 21 (1.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
17 16 (0.89%) Packer
18 12 (0.66%) CASB
Vendors
1 899 (49.81%) Microsoft
2 504 (27.92%) VMware
3 144 (7.98%) Citrix
4 124 (6.87%) Cisco
5 100 (5.54%) Veeam
6 88 (4.88%) Dell
7 82 (4.54%) Oracle
8 80 (4.43%) Red Hat
9 76 (4.21%) ServiceNow
10 70 (3.88%) CyberArk
11 69 (3.82%) Google
12 53 (2.94%) Databricks
13 50 (2.77%) Apple
13 50 (2.77%) HP
14 49 (2.71%) Fortinet
15 47 (2.60%) Splunk
16 34 (1.88%) Atlassian
17 31 (1.72%) SolarWinds
18 30 (1.66%) Palo Alto
19 27 (1.50%) Remedy