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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 85 113
Rank change year-on-year -61 +28 -19
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,273 1,548 2,324
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.37% 3.64% 2.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.83% 11.69% 7.11%
Number of salaries quoted 936 966 1,911
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,563 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £89,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%

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 16,249 13,241 32,697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.51% 31.11% 33.03%
Number of salaries quoted 11,258 8,910 25,001
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £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 £111,250 £100,000
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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -64 1,153 £60,000 - 334
UK excluding London -76 724 £52,500 +5.00% 272
London -6 518 £70,000 -6.67% 103
Work from Home -42 416 £60,000 +7.14% 132
South East -72 171 £57,125 -0.65% 91
North of England -105 168 £47,500 -7.99% 73
Midlands -60 125 £50,000 +2.56% 31
North West -100 88 £50,101 +8.92% 47
South West -47 82 £55,000 +15.79% 39
East of England -32 79 £57,500 +21.05% 27
East Midlands -18 75 £52,500 +44.83% 17
Scotland +44 74 £50,000 +6.95% 16
Yorkshire -33 57 £45,000 -28.00% 16
West Midlands -88 49 £48,000 -4.00% 14
North East -32 23 £45,750 -20.43% 10
Wales -14 22 £53,171 +6.34% 2
Northern Ireland - 3 £46,000 - 2

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
1 175 (13.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 163 (12.80%) SharePoint
3 42 (3.30%) IIS
4 22 (1.73%) Confluence
5 3 (0.24%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.16%) Apache
6 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.079%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.079%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.079%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.079%) Site Server
Applications
1 70 (5.50%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.079%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.079%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.55%) Markit EDM
2 5 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.31%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
4 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.16%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.079%) Actimize
6 1 (0.079%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 827 (64.96%) Azure
2 455 (35.74%) Microsoft 365
3 345 (27.10%) Entra ID
4 219 (17.20%) AWS
5 131 (10.29%) Azure DevOps
6 109 (8.56%) Power Platform
7 97 (7.62%) GitHub
8 87 (6.83%) SaaS
9 81 (6.36%) OneDrive
10 77 (6.05%) IaaS
11 69 (5.42%) GitHub Actions
11 69 (5.42%) Google Workspace
12 59 (4.63%) GCP
13 57 (4.48%) Azure Sentinel
14 54 (4.24%) Power Automate
15 53 (4.16%) Azure AKS
15 53 (4.16%) Azure Monitor
16 51 (4.01%) Azure Key Vault
16 51 (4.01%) PaaS
17 44 (3.46%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 248 (19.48%) Firewall
2 246 (19.32%) DNS
3 151 (11.86%) VPN
4 150 (11.78%) DHCP
5 104 (8.17%) TCP/IP
6 76 (5.97%) WAN
7 71 (5.58%) LAN
8 65 (5.11%) Network Security
9 58 (4.56%) Broadband
10 47 (3.69%) VLAN
11 44 (3.46%) Wi-Fi
12 40 (3.14%) VoIP
13 34 (2.67%) SAN
14 20 (1.57%) BGP
14 20 (1.57%) Wireless
15 16 (1.26%) Kerberos
15 16 (1.26%) SD-WAN
15 16 (1.26%) VSAN
16 13 (1.02%) HTTP
16 13 (1.02%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (11.70%) SQL Server
2 82 (6.44%) Power BI
3 56 (4.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 33 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
5 30 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (2.04%) MySQL
7 23 (1.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 22 (1.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 20 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
9 20 (1.57%) Relational Database
10 17 (1.34%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.02%) MongoDB
12 12 (0.94%) Tableau
13 10 (0.79%) InfluxDB
14 9 (0.71%) Data Lake
15 6 (0.47%) Metadata
16 5 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
16 5 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 3 (0.24%) DynamoDB
17 3 (0.24%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 97 (7.62%) Git
2 68 (5.34%) JIRA
3 65 (5.11%) Jenkins
4 58 (4.56%) GitLab
5 29 (2.28%) Bitbucket
6 17 (1.34%) Octopus Deploy
7 13 (1.02%) Metasploit
7 13 (1.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 13 (1.02%) TeamCity
8 10 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
9 9 (0.71%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.71%) Robot Framework
10 8 (0.63%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.63%) TestRail
11 4 (0.31%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.31%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.31%) MLflow
11 4 (0.31%) Selenium
12 3 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.24%) SonarQube
General
1 393 (30.87%) Social Skills
2 234 (18.38%) Finance
3 177 (13.90%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (6.13%) Organisational Skills
5 77 (6.05%) Law
6 54 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (3.69%) Legal
8 43 (3.38%) Retail
9 42 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
10 40 (3.14%) Public Sector
11 29 (2.28%) Games
12 27 (2.12%) Banking
13 26 (2.04%) Aerospace
13 26 (2.04%) Manufacturing
14 19 (1.49%) Advertising
15 14 (1.10%) Telecoms
16 11 (0.86%) Front Office
17 7 (0.55%) Investment Banking
18 6 (0.47%) Electronics
18 6 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 242 (19.01%) Senior
2 159 (12.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 144 (11.31%) Analyst
4 135 (10.60%) Azure Engineer
5 133 (10.45%) Support Engineer
6 119 (9.35%) IT Support
7 103 (8.09%) IT Engineer
8 100 (7.86%) Cloud Engineer
9 87 (6.83%) DevOps Engineer
10 80 (6.28%) Security Engineer
11 69 (5.42%) IT Support Engineer
12 62 (4.87%) Developer
13 58 (4.56%) 2nd Line Support
14 56 (4.40%) Lead
14 56 (4.40%) Systems Engineer
15 50 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
16 44 (3.46%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 43 (3.38%) Architect
18 42 (3.30%) Security Analyst
18 42 (3.30%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (7.54%) OAuth
2 89 (6.99%) SAML
3 88 (6.91%) REST
4 87 (6.83%) .NET
5 84 (6.60%) OpenID
6 77 (6.05%) LDAP
7 62 (4.87%) SOAP
8 58 (4.56%) GraphQL
9 39 (3.06%) .NET Core
9 39 (3.06%) Microsoft Graph
9 39 (3.06%) YAML
10 36 (2.83%) JSON
11 35 (2.75%) ARM Templates
12 34 (2.67%) CSS
12 34 (2.67%) HTML
13 26 (2.04%) SPFx
14 19 (1.49%) HTML5 Canvas
14 19 (1.49%) React
15 18 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
16 15 (1.18%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 93 (7.31%) Onboarding
2 72 (5.66%) Cyber Threat
3 68 (5.34%) Hybrid Cloud
4 63 (4.95%) Cyberattack
5 62 (4.87%) Cloud Native
6 60 (4.71%) Management Information System
7 53 (4.16%) Security Posture
8 45 (3.53%) Cyber Defence
8 45 (3.53%) Security Operations Centre
9 42 (3.30%) Driving Licence
10 40 (3.14%) Data Centre
11 35 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
12 34 (2.67%) PKI
13 29 (2.28%) Analytical Mindset
13 29 (2.28%) Public Cloud
14 25 (1.96%) CMDB
15 20 (1.57%) Replication
16 19 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
16 19 (1.49%) Private Cloud
17 18 (1.41%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 595 (46.74%) Windows
2 285 (22.39%) Windows Server
3 279 (21.92%) Linux
4 78 (6.13%) Windows 10
5 52 (4.08%) Mac OS
6 50 (3.93%) Apple iOS
7 49 (3.85%) Android
8 36 (2.83%) Windows Server 2016
9 34 (2.67%) VMS
10 30 (2.36%) CentOS
10 30 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 26 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
12 22 (1.73%) Ubuntu
13 17 (1.34%) Unix
14 8 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.39%) Debian
16 4 (0.31%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.31%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.24%) AIX
17 3 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (24.90%) Problem-Solving
2 284 (22.31%) Infrastructure as Code
3 281 (22.07%) CI/CD
4 277 (21.76%) Cybersecurity
5 264 (20.74%) DevOps
6 223 (17.52%) ITIL
7 219 (17.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 207 (16.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 187 (14.69%) Mentoring
10 169 (13.28%) Agile
11 157 (12.33%) Incident Response
12 146 (11.47%) Root Cause Analysis
13 139 (10.92%) Disaster Recovery
14 136 (10.68%) Roadmaps
15 130 (10.21%) Containerisation
15 130 (10.21%) SIEM
16 115 (9.03%) High Availability
17 111 (8.72%) Task Automation
18 110 (8.64%) Cloud Security
19 104 (8.17%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 501 (39.36%) Python
2 330 (25.92%) Bash
3 277 (21.76%) SQL
4 96 (7.54%) C#
5 78 (6.13%) T-SQL
6 74 (5.81%) JavaScript
7 73 (5.73%) Bicep
8 29 (2.28%) Kusto Query Language
9 28 (2.20%) Java
10 23 (1.81%) TypeScript
11 17 (1.34%) C++
12 15 (1.18%) Perl
13 12 (0.94%) VBScript
14 11 (0.86%) VB
14 11 (0.86%) VB.NET
14 11 (0.86%) VBA
15 10 (0.79%) PHP
16 9 (0.71%) Go
17 7 (0.55%) C
18 6 (0.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 159 (12.49%) Degree
2 155 (12.18%) Security Cleared
3 115 (9.03%) Azure Certification
4 114 (8.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 95 (7.46%) SC Cleared
6 50 (3.93%) CISSP
7 49 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 43 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
9 42 (3.30%) DV Cleared
10 36 (2.83%) CompTIA Security+
11 30 (2.36%) CREST Certified
12 29 (2.28%) CCNA
13 28 (2.20%) OSCP
14 25 (1.96%) AWS Certification
14 25 (1.96%) GIAC
15 24 (1.89%) CEH
16 23 (1.81%) DBS Check
17 16 (1.26%) CompTIA CySA+
18 15 (1.18%) CCNP
19 12 (0.94%) CCSAM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (11.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 139 (10.92%) NIST
3 60 (4.71%) GDPR
4 53 (4.16%) NCSC
5 44 (3.46%) SLA
6 36 (2.83%) Cyber Essentials
7 20 (1.57%) Accessibility
7 20 (1.57%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.26%) ISO 22301
9 15 (1.18%) QA
9 15 (1.18%) SOC 2
10 14 (1.10%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
12 10 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.47%) DICOM
14 5 (0.39%) GRC
15 4 (0.31%) PMO
16 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
16 3 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.16%) COBIT
System Software
1 478 (37.55%) Active Directory
2 180 (14.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 141 (11.08%) Docker
4 119 (9.35%) Hyper-V
5 55 (4.32%) vSphere
6 36 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
8 22 (1.73%) BitLocker
9 21 (1.65%) VMware NSX
10 17 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
11 14 (1.10%) Firmware
12 10 (0.79%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 10 (0.79%) KVM
13 7 (0.55%) Squid
14 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.31%) iptables
15 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.31%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.31%) XenDesktop
16 2 (0.16%) Samba
Systems Management
1 288 (22.62%) Terraform
2 209 (16.42%) Kubernetes
3 191 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 149 (11.70%) Ansible
5 63 (4.95%) Grafana
6 58 (4.56%) Single Sign-On
7 50 (3.93%) SCCM
8 42 (3.30%) Prometheus
9 25 (1.96%) Jamf Pro
10 24 (1.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 23 (1.81%) vCenter Server
12 17 (1.34%) ZABBIX
13 16 (1.26%) Nessus
13 16 (1.26%) QRadar
14 15 (1.18%) Packer
15 14 (1.10%) VxRail
16 13 (1.02%) Graylog
17 11 (0.86%) Proxmox
18 10 (0.79%) Nagios
18 10 (0.79%) WSUS
Vendors
1 728 (57.19%) Microsoft
2 228 (17.91%) VMware
3 101 (7.93%) Cisco
4 77 (6.05%) Splunk
5 58 (4.56%) Red Hat
6 56 (4.40%) ServiceNow
7 44 (3.46%) Veeam
8 39 (3.06%) CrowdStrike
9 32 (2.51%) Meraki
9 32 (2.51%) Oracle
10 30 (2.36%) Google
11 29 (2.28%) Citrix
11 29 (2.28%) Dell
12 27 (2.12%) Fortinet
13 26 (2.04%) Apple
13 26 (2.04%) Commvault
14 25 (1.96%) Palo Alto
15 23 (1.81%) Tenable
16 21 (1.65%) CyberArk
16 21 (1.65%) Sophos