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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 94 104
Rank change year-on-year -23 +10 -23
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 2,343 3,547 5,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.35% 3.58% 3.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.05% 8.26% 6.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,911 2,438 3,549
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,925 £42,750
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 33,216 42,952 86,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.25% 43.31% 54.04%
Number of salaries quoted 24,896 27,477 43,381
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 18 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 18 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 -15 2,204 £55,000 -8.33% 584
UK excluding London -37 1,488 £50,000 -4.76% 383
Work from Home -43 817 £58,000 -3.33% 260
London -11 766 £73,750 +5.36% 237
South East -26 421 £52,500 -4.55% 143
North of England -44 328 £50,000 - 93
South West +6 285 £50,000 -2.44% 44
Midlands -13 228 £46,500 -11.43% 48
North West -51 166 £52,500 +10.53% 51
West Midlands -6 153 £47,500 -10.80% 31
East of England +18 147 £47,500 -17.39% 38
Yorkshire -24 122 £47,500 -5.00% 34
East Midlands -5 73 £45,000 -14.29% 17
Scotland -115 56 £60,000 +9.09% 17
North East +3 40 £47,500 -17.39% 8
Wales -49 18 £44,500 +15.58% 3
Northern Ireland -12 8 £35,000 -39.13% 5

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
1 330 (14.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 280 (11.95%) SharePoint
3 83 (3.54%) IIS
4 25 (1.07%) Confluence
5 14 (0.60%) 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 (0.26%) 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 2013
12 2 (0.085%) Liferay
12 2 (0.085%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.085%) Moodle
12 2 (0.085%) nginx
12 2 (0.085%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 168 (7.17%) Microsoft Office
2 45 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.34%) InfoPath
6 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.043%) 1Password
7 1 (0.043%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.043%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.043%) Simulink
7 1 (0.043%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.043%) Weka
Business Applications
1 18 (0.77%) 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 (0.043%) Eikon
7 1 (0.043%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.043%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.043%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.043%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,440 (61.46%) Azure
2 779 (33.25%) Microsoft 365
3 433 (18.48%) AWS
4 365 (15.58%) Entra ID
5 295 (12.59%) Azure DevOps
6 219 (9.35%) Power Platform
7 180 (7.68%) SaaS
8 159 (6.79%) PaaS
9 141 (6.02%) IaaS
10 105 (4.48%) GitHub
11 98 (4.18%) OneDrive
12 84 (3.59%) Azure Monitor
13 82 (3.50%) GCP
14 75 (3.20%) Cloud Computing
15 74 (3.16%) Power Automate
16 72 (3.07%) PowerApps
17 71 (3.03%) Serverless
18 62 (2.65%) Azure Sentinel
19 49 (2.09%) Azure AKS
20 46 (1.96%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 448 (19.12%) DNS
2 447 (19.08%) Firewall
3 330 (14.08%) DHCP
4 243 (10.37%) TCP/IP
5 194 (8.28%) VPN
5 194 (8.28%) WAN
6 182 (7.77%) SAN
7 177 (7.55%) LAN
8 97 (4.14%) VLAN
9 93 (3.97%) Wireless
10 86 (3.67%) Network Security
11 70 (2.99%) Internet
12 69 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
13 64 (2.73%) HTTP
14 42 (1.79%) VoIP
15 40 (1.71%) SD-WAN
15 40 (1.71%) SNMP
16 36 (1.54%) NAS
17 33 (1.41%) SSL
18 29 (1.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 346 (14.77%) SQL Server
2 106 (4.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 100 (4.27%) Power BI
4 95 (4.05%) MySQL
5 85 (3.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 75 (3.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 64 (2.73%) MongoDB
8 51 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
9 49 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
10 44 (1.88%) Relational Database
11 25 (1.07%) 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 (7.90%) Git
2 171 (7.30%) Jenkins
3 108 (4.61%) JIRA
4 52 (2.22%) GitLab
5 48 (2.05%) Visual Studio
6 45 (1.92%) TeamCity
7 30 (1.28%) Octopus Deploy
8 25 (1.07%) Team Foundation Server
9 21 (0.90%) Bitbucket
10 19 (0.81%) Eclipse
11 17 (0.73%) MSI
12 15 (0.64%) Moq
12 15 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
13 13 (0.55%) NUnit
14 12 (0.51%) gulp
15 10 (0.43%) Trac
15 10 (0.43%) Yeoman
16 9 (0.38%) Robot Framework
16 9 (0.38%) Selenium
16 9 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 604 (25.78%) Social Skills
2 464 (19.80%) Finance
3 215 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (5.08%) Banking
5 89 (3.80%) Law
6 83 (3.54%) Aerospace
7 77 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 71 (3.03%) Public Sector
9 52 (2.22%) Legal
10 50 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
11 49 (2.09%) Manufacturing
11 49 (2.09%) Retail
12 43 (1.84%) Marketing
13 42 (1.79%) Telecoms
14 36 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
15 34 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
16 26 (1.11%) Games
17 19 (0.81%) Advertising
17 19 (0.81%) Electronics
18 17 (0.73%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 411 (17.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 391 (16.69%) Senior
3 178 (7.60%) Support Engineer
4 173 (7.38%) Developer
5 167 (7.13%) Azure Engineer
6 166 (7.08%) Analyst
7 164 (7.00%) Administrator
8 161 (6.87%) DevOps Engineer
9 153 (6.53%) IT Engineer
10 130 (5.55%) Cloud Engineer
11 119 (5.08%) Lead
12 108 (4.61%) IT Support
13 107 (4.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 94 (4.01%) Architect
15 87 (3.71%) Security Engineer
16 80 (3.41%) DBA
16 80 (3.41%) Systems Engineer
17 75 (3.20%) Platform Engineer
18 74 (3.16%) Consultant
19 65 (2.77%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (9.30%) .NET
2 106 (4.52%) HTML
3 97 (4.14%) ARM Templates
4 86 (3.67%) JSON
5 76 (3.24%) REST
6 70 (2.99%) XML
7 66 (2.82%) YAML
8 64 (2.73%) CSS
9 60 (2.56%) .NET Framework
10 56 (2.39%) Web Services
11 47 (2.01%) ASP.NET
12 46 (1.96%) React
13 39 (1.66%) AngularJS
14 36 (1.54%) .NET Core
15 34 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
16 29 (1.24%) SOAP
17 28 (1.20%) Node.js
17 28 (1.20%) RESTful
18 26 (1.11%) FIX Protocol
19 25 (1.07%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 147 (6.27%) Data Centre
2 109 (4.65%) Clustering
3 102 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 98 (4.18%) Self-Motivation
5 80 (3.41%) Public Cloud
6 75 (3.20%) Replication
7 73 (3.12%) PKI
8 65 (2.77%) Onboarding
9 53 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
10 51 (2.18%) Driving Licence
11 47 (2.01%) Cloud Native
12 36 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
13 33 (1.41%) Private Cloud
14 25 (1.07%) 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 (0.73%) CMDB
18 17 (0.73%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 1,264 (53.95%) Windows
2 653 (27.87%) Windows Server
3 590 (25.18%) Linux
4 211 (9.01%) Windows Server 2016
5 202 (8.62%) Windows 10
6 192 (8.19%) Windows Server 2019
7 162 (6.91%) Windows Server 2012
8 103 (4.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 102 (4.35%) Unix
10 80 (3.41%) CentOS
11 64 (2.73%) Mac OS
11 64 (2.73%) Ubuntu
12 48 (2.05%) Apple iOS
13 45 (1.92%) Windows 7
14 38 (1.62%) Windows Server 2008
15 36 (1.54%) Android
16 34 (1.45%) VMS
17 21 (0.90%) Solaris
18 16 (0.68%) Windows XP
19 15 (0.64%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 640 (27.32%) DevOps
2 519 (22.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 478 (20.40%) Problem-Solving
4 372 (15.88%) ITIL
5 349 (14.90%) Agile
6 331 (14.13%) CI/CD
7 299 (12.76%) Infrastructure as Code
8 282 (12.04%) Cybersecurity
9 202 (8.62%) Mentoring
10 194 (8.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 175 (7.47%) Roadmaps
12 173 (7.38%) Migration
13 162 (6.91%) Disaster Recovery
14 161 (6.87%) Project Management
15 154 (6.57%) Task Automation
16 147 (6.27%) Customer Service
17 145 (6.19%) Change Management
18 143 (6.10%) Containerisation
19 140 (5.98%) Computer Science
20 131 (5.59%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 655 (27.96%) Python
2 489 (20.87%) Bash
3 463 (19.76%) SQL
4 306 (13.06%) C#
5 162 (6.91%) JavaScript
6 140 (5.98%) Java
7 110 (4.69%) T-SQL
8 89 (3.80%) Perl
9 80 (3.41%) Ruby
10 71 (3.03%) Bicep
11 57 (2.43%) VB
12 45 (1.92%) VBScript
13 44 (1.88%) TypeScript
14 41 (1.75%) C++
15 40 (1.71%) Go
16 33 (1.41%) C
17 29 (1.24%) Shell Script
18 26 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
19 20 (0.85%) VB.NET
20 16 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 453 (19.33%) Security Cleared
2 393 (16.77%) Degree
3 295 (12.59%) SC Cleared
4 221 (9.43%) DV Cleared
5 121 (5.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 111 (4.74%) Azure Certification
7 99 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
8 79 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 69 (2.94%) CCNA
10 51 (2.18%) CISSP
11 41 (1.75%) AWS Certification
11 41 (1.75%) MCSA
11 41 (1.75%) MCSE
12 30 (1.28%) DBS Check
13 28 (1.20%) CCNP
14 26 (1.11%) CEH
15 24 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 24 (1.02%) MCP
15 24 (1.02%) SANS
16 22 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 68 (2.90%) SLA
3 32 (1.37%) NIST
4 30 (1.28%) GDPR
5 29 (1.24%) 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 (0.43%) GRC
10 8 (0.34%) PMO
11 6 (0.26%) 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 (0.043%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 899 (38.37%) Active Directory
2 437 (18.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 303 (12.93%) Hyper-V
4 220 (9.39%) Docker
5 127 (5.42%) vSphere
6 125 (5.34%) VMware ESXi
7 116 (4.95%) Virtual Machines
8 79 (3.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 42 (1.79%) XenApp
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 (0.43%) pfSense
13 10 (0.43%) RACF
14 9 (0.38%) Terminal Services
14 9 (0.38%) VMware Server
15 8 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 368 (15.71%) Terraform
2 335 (14.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 310 (13.23%) Kubernetes
4 297 (12.68%) Ansible
5 249 (10.63%) SCCM
6 116 (4.95%) Puppet
7 101 (4.31%) vCenter Server
8 71 (3.03%) WSUS
9 61 (2.60%) SCOM
10 57 (2.43%) Grafana
11 54 (2.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 47 (2.01%) Progress Chef
13 45 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
14 39 (1.66%) Microsoft Clustering
15 31 (1.32%) Prometheus
16 28 (1.20%) 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 1,223 (52.20%) Microsoft
2 653 (27.87%) VMware
3 187 (7.98%) Cisco
4 179 (7.64%) Citrix
5 159 (6.79%) Red Hat
6 157 (6.70%) Oracle
7 147 (6.27%) Veeam
8 82 (3.50%) Splunk
9 66 (2.82%) ServiceNow
10 61 (2.60%) Google
11 59 (2.52%) HP
12 58 (2.48%) Dell
13 56 (2.39%) Palo Alto
14 52 (2.22%) Commvault
15 44 (1.88%) Juniper
16 41 (1.75%) Fortinet
17 39 (1.66%) Apple
17 39 (1.66%) NetApp
18 38 (1.62%) Bloomberg
19 33 (1.41%) Sun