Windows PowerShell
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 86 116
Rank change year-on-year -48 +30 -28
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,299 1,566 2,357
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.41% 3.54% 2.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.85% 11.21% 6.98%
Number of salaries quoted 960 982 1,910
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,775 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,500 £78,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -3.85%

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 16,555 13,971 33,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.92% 31.60% 31.73%
Number of salaries quoted 11,594 9,186 25,567
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,625 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in the UK

PowerShell
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PowerShell

PowerShell
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell over the 6 months to 11 June 2026.

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 11 June 2026. 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 -57 1,198 £59,000 +0.85% 369
UK excluding London -74 760 £52,500 +5.00% 307
London -7 513 £70,000 -6.67% 112
Work from Home -46 420 £60,000 +9.09% 163
South East -48 189 £55,875 -2.83% 125
North of England -87 185 £47,500 -6.40% 64
Midlands -39 134 £50,000 - 32
North West -86 96 £51,500 +11.96% 46
South West -37 84 £55,000 +15.79% 49
East of England -27 83 £57,500 +21.05% 28
East Midlands -8 76 £47,500 +31.03% 17
Yorkshire -27 59 £45,000 -21.74% 12
Scotland +45 58 £50,000 +6.95% 12
West Midlands -71 57 £52,500 - 15
North East -28 30 £46,500 -20.85% 7
Wales -21 24 £55,000 +4.76% 6
Northern Ireland -32 3 £46,000 +6.75% 4

PowerShell
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 195 (15.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 177 (13.63%) SharePoint
3 41 (3.16%) IIS
4 23 (1.77%) Confluence
5 3 (0.23%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.15%) Apache
7 1 (0.077%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.077%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.077%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.077%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.077%) Site Server
Applications
1 75 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.077%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.077%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (0.38%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.31%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.23%) Alphatax
3 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.15%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.077%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.077%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.077%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 851 (65.51%) Azure
2 476 (36.64%) Microsoft 365
3 356 (27.41%) Entra ID
4 218 (16.78%) AWS
5 139 (10.70%) Azure DevOps
6 113 (8.70%) Power Platform
7 99 (7.62%) GitHub
8 93 (7.16%) SaaS
9 90 (6.93%) IaaS
10 84 (6.47%) OneDrive
11 69 (5.31%) Google Workspace
12 68 (5.23%) Azure Monitor
13 67 (5.16%) GitHub Actions
14 61 (4.70%) PaaS
15 58 (4.46%) Azure AKS
15 58 (4.46%) Power Automate
16 57 (4.39%) GCP
17 54 (4.16%) Azure Key Vault
17 54 (4.16%) Azure Sentinel
18 44 (3.39%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 264 (20.32%) Firewall
2 260 (20.02%) DNS
3 168 (12.93%) VPN
4 165 (12.70%) DHCP
5 110 (8.47%) TCP/IP
6 85 (6.54%) WAN
7 80 (6.16%) LAN
8 68 (5.23%) Network Security
9 55 (4.23%) Broadband
10 53 (4.08%) VLAN
11 46 (3.54%) Wi-Fi
12 38 (2.93%) VoIP
13 34 (2.62%) SAN
14 25 (1.92%) Wireless
15 23 (1.77%) BGP
16 18 (1.39%) SD-WAN
17 17 (1.31%) Kerberos
18 16 (1.23%) VSAN
19 15 (1.15%) MPLS
20 14 (1.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (11.24%) SQL Server
2 81 (6.24%) Power BI
3 64 (4.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 39 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (2.00%) MySQL
7 22 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (1.23%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (1.15%) MongoDB
9 15 (1.15%) NoSQL
10 14 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (0.77%) Tableau
12 9 (0.69%) Data Lake
12 9 (0.69%) InfluxDB
13 7 (0.54%) Metadata
14 5 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 4 (0.31%) Redis
16 3 (0.23%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 95 (7.31%) Git
2 67 (5.16%) JIRA
3 65 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 59 (4.54%) GitLab
5 32 (2.46%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
7 15 (1.15%) TeamCity
8 13 (1.00%) Metasploit
9 12 (0.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 10 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
11 9 (0.69%) Burp Suite
12 8 (0.62%) Robot Framework
13 7 (0.54%) TestRail
14 5 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (0.38%) CircleCI
15 4 (0.31%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.31%) Cypress.io
15 4 (0.31%) MLflow
15 4 (0.31%) Selenium
15 4 (0.31%) SonarQube
General
1 390 (30.02%) Social Skills
2 225 (17.32%) Finance
3 172 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (6.62%) Law
5 80 (6.16%) Organisational Skills
6 59 (4.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (3.62%) Legal
8 46 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
9 44 (3.39%) Retail
10 39 (3.00%) Public Sector
11 26 (2.00%) Aerospace
11 26 (2.00%) Games
12 23 (1.77%) Banking
12 23 (1.77%) Manufacturing
13 19 (1.46%) Advertising
14 15 (1.15%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.62%) Aviation
15 8 (0.62%) Front Office
16 6 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 239 (18.40%) Senior
2 161 (12.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 147 (11.32%) Support Engineer
4 146 (11.24%) Analyst
5 135 (10.39%) Azure Engineer
6 130 (10.01%) IT Support
7 122 (9.39%) IT Engineer
8 104 (8.01%) Cloud Engineer
9 94 (7.24%) DevOps Engineer
10 83 (6.39%) Security Engineer
11 80 (6.16%) IT Support Engineer
12 62 (4.77%) Developer
13 61 (4.70%) Platform Engineer
14 60 (4.62%) 2nd Line Support
15 59 (4.54%) Systems Engineer
16 58 (4.46%) Lead
17 43 (3.31%) 3rd Line Engineer
18 42 (3.23%) Architect
18 42 (3.23%) Security Analyst
19 41 (3.16%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (7.16%) OAuth
2 92 (7.08%) SAML
3 89 (6.85%) REST
4 85 (6.54%) .NET
5 84 (6.47%) OpenID
6 79 (6.08%) LDAP
7 62 (4.77%) SOAP
8 55 (4.23%) GraphQL
9 43 (3.31%) YAML
10 41 (3.16%) ARM Templates
10 41 (3.16%) JSON
11 38 (2.93%) Microsoft Graph
12 36 (2.77%) .NET Core
12 36 (2.77%) HTML
13 34 (2.62%) CSS
14 26 (2.00%) SPFx
15 20 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
16 19 (1.46%) HTML5 Canvas
16 19 (1.46%) React
17 15 (1.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 102 (7.85%) Onboarding
2 71 (5.47%) Hybrid Cloud
3 70 (5.39%) Cyber Threat
4 68 (5.23%) Cloud Native
5 61 (4.70%) Management Information System
5 61 (4.70%) Security Posture
6 59 (4.54%) Cyberattack
7 50 (3.85%) Driving Licence
8 44 (3.39%) Cyber Defence
9 42 (3.23%) Data Centre
9 42 (3.23%) Security Operations Centre
10 36 (2.77%) PKI
11 35 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
12 33 (2.54%) Public Cloud
13 26 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
14 25 (1.92%) CMDB
15 20 (1.54%) Private Cloud
15 20 (1.54%) Replication
16 19 (1.46%) Clustering
16 19 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 608 (46.81%) Windows
2 292 (22.48%) Windows Server
3 289 (22.25%) Linux
4 83 (6.39%) Windows 10
5 52 (4.00%) Mac OS
6 51 (3.93%) Apple iOS
7 47 (3.62%) Android
8 42 (3.23%) VMS
9 39 (3.00%) Windows Server 2016
10 31 (2.39%) CentOS
10 31 (2.39%) Windows Server 2019
11 30 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 25 (1.92%) Ubuntu
13 17 (1.31%) Unix
14 6 (0.46%) Debian
14 6 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.31%) AIX
15 4 (0.31%) CoreOS
15 4 (0.31%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
2 293 (22.56%) CI/CD
3 292 (22.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 284 (21.86%) Cybersecurity
5 273 (21.02%) DevOps
6 231 (17.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 220 (16.94%) ITIL
8 215 (16.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 188 (14.47%) Mentoring
10 163 (12.55%) Agile
11 160 (12.32%) Incident Response
12 153 (11.78%) Root Cause Analysis
13 149 (11.47%) Disaster Recovery
14 140 (10.78%) Roadmaps
15 133 (10.24%) Containerisation
16 131 (10.08%) High Availability
17 127 (9.78%) SIEM
18 115 (8.85%) Cloud Security
19 110 (8.47%) Task Automation
20 109 (8.39%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 504 (38.80%) Python
2 345 (26.56%) Bash
3 275 (21.17%) SQL
4 95 (7.31%) C#
5 83 (6.39%) Bicep
6 81 (6.24%) T-SQL
7 73 (5.62%) JavaScript
8 33 (2.54%) Kusto Query Language
9 31 (2.39%) Java
10 25 (1.92%) TypeScript
11 16 (1.23%) C++
12 15 (1.15%) VBScript
13 14 (1.08%) Perl
14 12 (0.92%) PHP
15 11 (0.85%) VB
16 10 (0.77%) VBA
17 9 (0.69%) Go
18 7 (0.54%) Ruby
18 7 (0.54%) VB.NET
19 6 (0.46%) Korn
Qualifications
1 162 (12.47%) Degree
2 160 (12.32%) Security Cleared
3 131 (10.08%) Azure Certification
4 121 (9.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 103 (7.93%) SC Cleared
6 55 (4.23%) CISSP
7 52 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 50 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (3.39%) DV Cleared
10 37 (2.85%) CompTIA Security+
11 33 (2.54%) CCNA
12 29 (2.23%) CREST Certified
12 29 (2.23%) OSCP
13 28 (2.16%) DBS Check
14 26 (2.00%) AWS Certification
15 23 (1.77%) CEH
16 22 (1.69%) GIAC
17 17 (1.31%) CCNP
18 16 (1.23%) CompTIA CySA+
19 14 (1.08%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (11.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 135 (10.39%) NIST
3 56 (4.31%) GDPR
4 51 (3.93%) NCSC
5 47 (3.62%) Cyber Essentials
6 41 (3.16%) SLA
7 20 (1.54%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.31%) PCI DSS
9 16 (1.23%) Accessibility
10 14 (1.08%) ISO 22301
11 13 (1.00%) QA
11 13 (1.00%) SOC 2
12 11 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.46%) DICOM
14 6 (0.46%) PMO
15 4 (0.31%) GRC
15 4 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 502 (38.65%) Active Directory
2 195 (15.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 142 (10.93%) Docker
4 128 (9.85%) Hyper-V
5 65 (5.00%) vSphere
6 37 (2.85%) Virtual Machines
7 27 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
8 25 (1.92%) BitLocker
9 24 (1.85%) VMware NSX
10 15 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.77%) KVM
12 8 (0.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.62%) Firmware
12 8 (0.62%) Squid
13 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.31%) iptables
15 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
16 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 303 (23.33%) Terraform
2 215 (16.55%) Kubernetes
3 200 (15.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 152 (11.70%) Ansible
5 63 (4.85%) Grafana
6 61 (4.70%) Single Sign-On
7 49 (3.77%) SCCM
8 46 (3.54%) Prometheus
9 27 (2.08%) Jamf Pro
10 24 (1.85%) vCenter Server
11 23 (1.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 19 (1.46%) Packer
12 19 (1.46%) ZABBIX
13 17 (1.31%) Nessus
13 17 (1.31%) QRadar
14 15 (1.15%) Argo
14 15 (1.15%) VxRail
15 14 (1.08%) Proxmox
16 13 (1.00%) Graylog
17 12 (0.92%) Nagios
Vendors
1 758 (58.35%) Microsoft
2 247 (19.01%) VMware
3 103 (7.93%) Cisco
4 84 (6.47%) Splunk
5 66 (5.08%) ServiceNow
6 59 (4.54%) Red Hat
7 45 (3.46%) Veeam
8 36 (2.77%) Meraki
8 36 (2.77%) Oracle
9 33 (2.54%) CrowdStrike
10 32 (2.46%) Google
11 30 (2.31%) Apple
12 28 (2.16%) Dell
13 27 (2.08%) Citrix
14 25 (1.92%) Commvault
14 25 (1.92%) Tenable
15 24 (1.85%) Fortinet
15 24 (1.85%) Sophos
16 23 (1.77%) Palo Alto
17 22 (1.69%) SolarWinds