PowerShell Jobs in Scotland

Windows PowerShell
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 217 114
Rank change year-on-year +80 -103 +12
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 27 60 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.88% 0.87% 2.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.60% 1.71% 6.25%
Number of salaries quoted 20 48 59
10th Percentile £32,000 £42,875 £41,850
25th Percentile £37,188 £47,188 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.20% +13.64% +14.58%
75th Percentile £64,688 £85,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £98,474 £82,510
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,039 3,516 1,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 33.77% 51.24% 40.38%
Number of salaries quoted 607 1,176 986
10th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,683 £42,500 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -4.86% +5.11%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Scotland

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Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in Scotland.

Salary trend for PowerShell in Scotland

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Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in Scotland

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Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 June 2025. 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
Glasgow +130 8 £60,000 +14.29% 15
Edinburgh +8 8 £75,000 - 16
Perth and Kinross - 5 £33,000 -
Highlands - 4 £40,000 -
West Lothian +7 1 £48,500 +2.11% 1
PowerShell
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 12 (44.44%) SharePoint
2 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (7.41%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (3.70%) CICS
4 1 (3.70%) IIS
4 1 (3.70%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 22 (81.48%) Azure
2 14 (51.85%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (18.52%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (18.52%) Entra ID
4 4 (14.81%) Azure AKS
4 4 (14.81%) OneDrive
5 3 (11.11%) AWS
6 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.70%) GCP
7 1 (3.70%) GitHub
7 1 (3.70%) IaaS
7 1 (3.70%) PaaS
7 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (33.33%) DHCP
1 9 (33.33%) DNS
1 9 (33.33%) VPN
2 8 (29.63%) Firewall
3 5 (18.52%) DKIM
3 5 (18.52%) DMARC
3 5 (18.52%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (14.81%) IPsec
4 4 (14.81%) SSL
4 4 (14.81%) VLAN
4 4 (14.81%) Wireless
5 1 (3.70%) BGP
5 1 (3.70%) Kerberos
5 1 (3.70%) OSPF
5 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (7.41%) Relational Database
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.70%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.81%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Finance
3 5 (18.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (14.81%) Law
4 4 (14.81%) Marketing
5 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Senior
2 6 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Help Desk Team Lead
3 5 (18.52%) Lead
3 5 (18.52%) Team Leader
4 4 (14.81%) IT Support
4 4 (14.81%) IT Support Technician
4 4 (14.81%) IT Technician
4 4 (14.81%) Senior IT Support
4 4 (14.81%) Senior IT Technician
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Support Technician
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Technician
4 4 (14.81%) Site Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Support Technician
5 3 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) REST
2 4 (14.81%) .NET
3 2 (7.41%) ARM Templates
3 2 (7.41%) CSS
4 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.70%) HTML
4 1 (3.70%) LDAP
4 1 (3.70%) OAuth
4 1 (3.70%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.70%) OpenID
4 1 (3.70%) React
4 1 (3.70%) SAML
4 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (14.81%) Replication
3 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.70%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (3.70%) e-Learning
4 1 (3.70%) Life Science
4 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (66.67%) Windows
2 8 (29.63%) Linux
3 7 (25.93%) Windows Server
4 6 (22.22%) Unix
4 6 (22.22%) VMS
4 6 (22.22%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (14.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (14.81%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
1 8 (29.63%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (25.93%) DevOps
2 7 (25.93%) Software Engineering
3 6 (22.22%) IT Strategy
3 6 (22.22%) Migration
4 5 (18.52%) Incident Response
4 5 (18.52%) Observability
4 5 (18.52%) Remote Monitoring and Management
4 5 (18.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (14.81%) Black-Box Testing
5 4 (14.81%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (14.81%) Continuous Delivery
5 4 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (14.81%) Customer Service
5 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (14.81%) Service-Level Objective
6 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (11.11%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) Python
2 7 (25.93%) Java
3 6 (22.22%) SQL
4 4 (14.81%) Bash
5 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.70%) Bicep
7 1 (3.70%) Groovy
7 1 (3.70%) JCL
7 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Azure Certification
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (11.11%) Degree
4 2 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.70%) CCNA
5 1 (3.70%) CCNP
5 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (14.81%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.70%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (44.44%) Hyper-V
2 7 (25.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (18.52%) Docker
4 4 (14.81%) Active Directory
5 1 (3.70%) NDS
5 1 (3.70%) RACF
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (29.63%) Terraform
3 5 (18.52%) Grafana
3 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
4 4 (14.81%) Dell DRAC
4 4 (14.81%) Prometheus
5 2 (7.41%) Ansible
6 1 (3.70%) CA Endevor
6 1 (3.70%) CA Single Sign-On
6 1 (3.70%) Opsview
6 1 (3.70%) PingFederate
6 1 (3.70%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 16 (59.26%) Microsoft
2 7 (25.93%) VMware
3 5 (18.52%) Apple
3 5 (18.52%) Splunk
4 4 (14.81%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.70%) Broadcom
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco
5 1 (3.70%) Databricks
5 1 (3.70%) ForgeRock
5 1 (3.70%) IBM
5 1 (3.70%) NetIQ
5 1 (3.70%) Okta
5 1 (3.70%) Ping Identity
5 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.70%) SolarWinds
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