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

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 93 104
Rank change year-on-year -20 +11 -26
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 2,355 3,586 5,442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.36% 3.60% 3.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.09% 8.31% 6.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,912 2,456 3,544
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,188 £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 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £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 33,238 43,130 87,022
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.26% 43.34% 53.96%
Number of salaries quoted 24,895 27,636 43,338
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,250 £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 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

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 19 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 19 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 -16 2,215 £55,000 -8.33% 632
UK excluding London -38 1,498 £50,000 -4.76% 423
Work from Home -41 827 £58,000 -3.33% 273
London -14 768 £73,750 +5.36% 249
South East -31 421 £52,500 -4.55% 155
North of England -53 333 £50,000 - 107
South West +12 287 £50,000 -4.76% 51
Midlands -10 230 £46,500 -12.68% 55
North West -49 168 £52,500 +10.53% 57
West Midlands -8 154 £47,500 -12.04% 34
East of England +15 147 £47,500 -17.39% 37
Yorkshire -25 124 £47,500 -5.00% 42
East Midlands -9 74 £45,000 -14.29% 21
Scotland -122 57 £60,000 +9.09% 18
North East +9 41 £47,500 -17.39% 8
Wales -53 18 £44,500 +15.58% 3
Northern Ireland -10 8 £35,000 -39.13% 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
1 331 (14.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 280 (11.89%) SharePoint
3 83 (3.52%) IIS
4 25 (1.06%) Confluence
5 14 (0.59%) WordPress
6 13 (0.55%) CMS
7 9 (0.38%) Apache
8 7 (0.30%) Skype for Business
8 7 (0.30%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
10 5 (0.21%) IBM Notes
10 5 (0.21%) SAS
10 5 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
11 3 (0.13%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.085%) Exchange Server 2003
12 2 (0.085%) Exchange Server 2013
12 2 (0.085%) Liferay
12 2 (0.085%) Moodle
12 2 (0.085%) nginx
12 2 (0.085%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 168 (7.13%) Microsoft Office
2 45 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.34%) 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 18 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.68%) Fidessa
3 9 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.21%) Teamcenter
6 4 (0.17%) BusinessWorks
6 4 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.042%) Eikon
7 1 (0.042%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.042%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.042%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.042%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,440 (61.15%) Azure
2 780 (33.12%) Microsoft 365
3 434 (18.43%) AWS
4 375 (15.92%) Entra ID
5 295 (12.53%) Azure DevOps
6 219 (9.30%) Power Platform
7 180 (7.64%) SaaS
8 159 (6.75%) PaaS
9 141 (5.99%) IaaS
10 105 (4.46%) GitHub
11 98 (4.16%) OneDrive
12 84 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
13 82 (3.48%) GCP
14 75 (3.18%) Cloud Computing
15 74 (3.14%) Power Automate
16 72 (3.06%) PowerApps
16 72 (3.06%) Serverless
17 62 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
18 49 (2.08%) Azure AKS
19 46 (1.95%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 448 (19.02%) DNS
1 448 (19.02%) Firewall
2 330 (14.01%) DHCP
3 243 (10.32%) TCP/IP
4 194 (8.24%) VPN
4 194 (8.24%) WAN
5 183 (7.77%) SAN
6 177 (7.52%) LAN
7 97 (4.12%) VLAN
8 93 (3.95%) Wireless
9 86 (3.65%) Network Security
10 70 (2.97%) Internet
11 69 (2.93%) Wi-Fi
12 64 (2.72%) HTTP
13 42 (1.78%) VoIP
14 40 (1.70%) SD-WAN
14 40 (1.70%) SNMP
15 37 (1.57%) NAS
16 33 (1.40%) SSL
17 29 (1.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 346 (14.69%) SQL Server
2 106 (4.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 100 (4.25%) Power BI
4 95 (4.03%) MySQL
5 85 (3.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 75 (3.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 64 (2.72%) MongoDB
8 51 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
9 49 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
10 44 (1.87%) Relational Database
11 25 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
12 24 (1.02%) Oracle Database
13 23 (0.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 19 (0.81%) NoSQL
14 19 (0.81%) Redis
15 16 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
16 15 (0.64%) MariaDB
17 12 (0.51%) RDBMS
18 11 (0.47%) InfluxDB
19 9 (0.38%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 185 (7.86%) Git
2 171 (7.26%) Jenkins
3 108 (4.59%) JIRA
4 52 (2.21%) GitLab
5 48 (2.04%) Visual Studio
6 45 (1.91%) TeamCity
7 30 (1.27%) Octopus Deploy
8 25 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
9 21 (0.89%) Bitbucket
10 19 (0.81%) Eclipse
11 17 (0.72%) MSI
12 15 (0.64%) Moq
12 15 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
13 13 (0.55%) NUnit
14 12 (0.51%) gulp
15 10 (0.42%) Trac
15 10 (0.42%) Yeoman
16 9 (0.38%) Selenium
16 9 (0.38%) SonarQube
16 9 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 605 (25.69%) Social Skills
2 474 (20.13%) Finance
3 216 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (5.48%) Banking
5 89 (3.78%) Law
6 83 (3.52%) Aerospace
7 77 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 71 (3.01%) Public Sector
9 62 (2.63%) Legal
10 50 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
11 49 (2.08%) Manufacturing
11 49 (2.08%) Retail
12 43 (1.83%) Marketing
13 42 (1.78%) Telecoms
14 36 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
15 34 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
16 26 (1.10%) Games
17 19 (0.81%) Advertising
17 19 (0.81%) Electronics
18 17 (0.72%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 412 (17.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 401 (17.03%) Senior
3 178 (7.56%) Support Engineer
4 176 (7.47%) Analyst
5 173 (7.35%) Developer
6 167 (7.09%) Azure Engineer
7 164 (6.96%) Administrator
8 161 (6.84%) DevOps Engineer
9 153 (6.50%) IT Engineer
10 130 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
11 119 (5.05%) Lead
12 108 (4.59%) IT Support
13 107 (4.54%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 94 (3.99%) Architect
15 87 (3.69%) Security Engineer
16 80 (3.40%) DBA
16 80 (3.40%) Systems Engineer
17 75 (3.18%) Platform Engineer
18 74 (3.14%) Consultant
19 65 (2.76%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (9.26%) .NET
2 106 (4.50%) HTML
3 97 (4.12%) ARM Templates
4 86 (3.65%) JSON
5 76 (3.23%) REST
6 70 (2.97%) XML
7 66 (2.80%) YAML
8 64 (2.72%) CSS
9 60 (2.55%) .NET Framework
10 56 (2.38%) Web Services
11 47 (2.00%) ASP.NET
12 46 (1.95%) React
13 39 (1.66%) AngularJS
14 36 (1.53%) .NET Core
15 34 (1.44%) Elastic Stack
16 29 (1.23%) SOAP
17 28 (1.19%) Node.js
17 28 (1.19%) RESTful
18 26 (1.10%) FIX Protocol
19 25 (1.06%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 147 (6.24%) Data Centre
2 112 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 109 (4.63%) Clustering
4 98 (4.16%) Self-Motivation
5 80 (3.40%) Public Cloud
6 75 (3.18%) Replication
7 73 (3.10%) PKI
8 66 (2.80%) Onboarding
9 53 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
10 51 (2.17%) Driving Licence
11 47 (2.00%) Cloud Native
12 36 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
13 33 (1.40%) Private Cloud
14 25 (1.06%) Client/Server
15 24 (1.02%) Product Ownership
16 20 (0.85%) CCTV
17 19 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
17 19 (0.81%) Security Posture
18 17 (0.72%) CMDB
18 17 (0.72%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 1,265 (53.72%) Windows
2 654 (27.77%) Windows Server
3 591 (25.10%) Linux
4 212 (9.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 202 (8.58%) Windows 10
6 193 (8.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 162 (6.88%) Windows Server 2012
8 103 (4.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 102 (4.33%) Unix
10 80 (3.40%) CentOS
11 64 (2.72%) Mac OS
11 64 (2.72%) Ubuntu
12 48 (2.04%) Apple iOS
13 45 (1.91%) Windows 7
14 38 (1.61%) Windows Server 2008
15 36 (1.53%) Android
16 34 (1.44%) VMS
17 21 (0.89%) Solaris
18 16 (0.68%) Windows XP
19 15 (0.64%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 640 (27.18%) DevOps
2 520 (22.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 478 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
4 372 (15.80%) ITIL
5 359 (15.24%) Agile
6 331 (14.06%) CI/CD
7 299 (12.70%) Infrastructure as Code
8 292 (12.40%) Cybersecurity
9 202 (8.58%) Mentoring
10 194 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 185 (7.86%) Roadmaps
12 173 (7.35%) Migration
13 162 (6.88%) Disaster Recovery
14 161 (6.84%) Project Management
15 154 (6.54%) Task Automation
16 147 (6.24%) Customer Service
17 145 (6.16%) Change Management
18 143 (6.07%) Containerisation
19 141 (5.99%) Information Security
20 140 (5.94%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 656 (27.86%) Python
2 490 (20.81%) Bash
3 473 (20.08%) SQL
4 307 (13.04%) C#
5 162 (6.88%) JavaScript
6 141 (5.99%) Java
7 110 (4.67%) T-SQL
8 89 (3.78%) Perl
9 81 (3.44%) Ruby
10 71 (3.01%) Bicep
11 57 (2.42%) VB
12 45 (1.91%) VBScript
13 44 (1.87%) TypeScript
14 41 (1.74%) C++
14 41 (1.74%) Go
15 33 (1.40%) C
16 29 (1.23%) Shell Script
17 26 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
18 20 (0.85%) VB.NET
19 16 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 453 (19.24%) Security Cleared
2 395 (16.77%) Degree
3 295 (12.53%) SC Cleared
4 221 (9.38%) DV Cleared
5 121 (5.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 111 (4.71%) Azure Certification
7 100 (4.25%) Cisco Certification
8 79 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 70 (2.97%) CCNA
10 51 (2.17%) CISSP
11 41 (1.74%) AWS Certification
11 41 (1.74%) MCSA
11 41 (1.74%) MCSE
12 30 (1.27%) DBS Check
13 28 (1.19%) CCNP
14 26 (1.10%) CEH
15 24 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 24 (1.02%) MCP
15 24 (1.02%) SANS
16 23 (0.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 68 (2.89%) SLA
3 32 (1.36%) NIST
4 30 (1.27%) GDPR
5 29 (1.23%) PCI DSS
6 23 (0.98%) QA
7 15 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 10 (0.42%) GRC
10 8 (0.34%) PMO
11 6 (0.25%) NCSC
12 5 (0.21%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.17%) Data Quality
14 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.085%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.085%) EMIR
15 2 (0.085%) ISO 9000
15 2 (0.085%) MiFID
15 2 (0.085%) SOC 2
16 1 (0.042%) MISRA
System Software
1 909 (38.60%) Active Directory
2 437 (18.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 304 (12.91%) Hyper-V
4 220 (9.34%) Docker
5 127 (5.39%) vSphere
6 125 (5.31%) VMware ESXi
7 116 (4.93%) Virtual Machines
8 79 (3.35%) Virtual Desktop
9 42 (1.78%) XenApp
10 20 (0.85%) RACF
10 20 (0.85%) XenDesktop
11 16 (0.68%) Microsoft App-V
11 16 (0.68%) NFS
11 16 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
12 11 (0.47%) OpenSSH
12 11 (0.47%) vCloud
13 10 (0.42%) pfSense
14 9 (0.38%) Terminal Services
14 9 (0.38%) VMware Server
15 8 (0.34%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 368 (15.63%) Terraform
2 335 (14.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 310 (13.16%) Kubernetes
4 297 (12.61%) Ansible
5 249 (10.57%) SCCM
6 116 (4.93%) Puppet
7 101 (4.29%) vCenter Server
8 71 (3.01%) WSUS
9 61 (2.59%) SCOM
10 57 (2.42%) Grafana
11 54 (2.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 47 (2.00%) Progress Chef
13 45 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
14 39 (1.66%) Microsoft Clustering
15 31 (1.32%) Prometheus
16 28 (1.19%) Nagios
17 23 (0.98%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
18 20 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
19 19 (0.81%) Failover Clustering
19 19 (0.81%) WMI
Vendors
1 1,233 (52.36%) Microsoft
2 654 (27.77%) VMware
3 187 (7.94%) Cisco
4 179 (7.60%) Citrix
5 159 (6.75%) Red Hat
6 157 (6.67%) Oracle
7 148 (6.28%) Veeam
8 82 (3.48%) Splunk
9 66 (2.80%) ServiceNow
10 61 (2.59%) Google
11 59 (2.51%) HP
12 58 (2.46%) Dell
13 56 (2.38%) Palo Alto
14 52 (2.21%) Commvault
15 44 (1.87%) Juniper
16 41 (1.74%) Fortinet
17 39 (1.66%) Apple
17 39 (1.66%) NetApp
18 38 (1.61%) Bloomberg
19 33 (1.40%) Sun