PowerShell Job Trends

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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 94 57
Rank change year-on-year -15 -37 +35
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,328 1,783 2,526
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.52% 2.64% 4.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.11% 8.35% 11.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,102 1,184 2,042
10th Percentile £33,391 £37,825 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,125 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% -4.63% +2.86%

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 11,955 21,341 21,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.71% 31.57% 41.05%
Number of salaries quoted 8,541 12,628 17,628
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,281
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,068
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £109,125 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 13 November 2025.

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 13 November 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
England -9 1,176 £58,000 -7.20% 734
UK excluding London +4 835 £52,500 +1.94% 511
London -32 426 £75,000 - 292
Work from Home -43 376 £60,000 -11.11% 341
South East -8 237 £58,000 +3.11% 192
North of England -18 155 £50,000 - 81
Midlands +27 130 £52,500 +10.53% 81
South West +21 109 £51,250 -0.49% 66
East of England +30 106 £47,500 -9.52% 49
West Midlands +22 99 £57,500 +31.43% 48
Scotland +2 81 £67,000 +34.00% 37
Yorkshire -12 75 £47,500 -12.04% 22
North West -3 70 £53,125 +6.25% 45
East Midlands +7 31 £39,750 -16.32% 33
Wales +16 16 £55,000 +12.01% 10
North East -1 10 £60,000 +35.52% 14
Northern Ireland -2 4 £46,000 +15.00% 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
1 241 (18.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 183 (13.78%) SharePoint
3 65 (4.89%) IIS
4 60 (4.52%) Confluence
5 22 (1.66%) Exchange Server 2003
6 19 (1.43%) Skype for Business
7 14 (1.05%) nginx
8 6 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.45%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.38%) Apache
10 2 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.15%) CMS
10 2 (0.15%) WordPress
11 1 (0.075%) CICS
11 1 (0.075%) WebSphere
Applications
1 51 (3.84%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.60%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 7 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.45%) Siemens NX
6 4 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.30%) SOLIDWORKS
7 3 (0.23%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.23%) CATIA
7 3 (0.23%) Windchill
8 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.15%) Revit
9 1 (0.075%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 13 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.60%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.45%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.38%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.38%) PlanetPress Connect
5 3 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.23%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.15%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.075%) Eikon
7 1 (0.075%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.075%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.075%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.075%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.075%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 857 (64.53%) Azure
2 461 (34.71%) Microsoft 365
3 285 (21.46%) Entra ID
4 257 (19.35%) AWS
5 213 (16.04%) Azure DevOps
6 114 (8.58%) Power Platform
7 100 (7.53%) PaaS
8 91 (6.85%) GitHub
8 91 (6.85%) SaaS
9 89 (6.70%) Azure Monitor
10 77 (5.80%) GCP
11 76 (5.72%) IaaS
12 71 (5.35%) Power Automate
13 70 (5.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 64 (4.82%) GitHub Actions
15 54 (4.07%) Serverless
16 52 (3.92%) Azure Sentinel
17 49 (3.69%) Amazon S3
18 48 (3.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 47 (3.54%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 303 (22.82%) Firewall
2 268 (20.18%) DNS
3 203 (15.29%) DHCP
4 120 (9.04%) TCP/IP
5 110 (8.28%) VPN
6 105 (7.91%) WAN
7 80 (6.02%) LAN
8 56 (4.22%) VLAN
9 52 (3.92%) Wireless
10 48 (3.61%) SAN
11 37 (2.79%) Internet
12 35 (2.64%) Wi-Fi
13 33 (2.48%) Network Security
13 33 (2.48%) SD-WAN
14 30 (2.26%) SMTP
15 28 (2.11%) HTTP
16 24 (1.81%) FTP
17 23 (1.73%) SSH
18 22 (1.66%) NAS
19 20 (1.51%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (10.54%) SQL Server
2 67 (5.05%) Amazon RDS
3 61 (4.59%) Power BI
4 31 (2.33%) Relational Database
5 29 (2.18%) Oracle Database
5 29 (2.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 26 (1.96%) Oracle Database 10g
7 23 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (1.28%) MySQL
10 13 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
11 12 (0.90%) NoSQL
12 10 (0.75%) MongoDB
13 9 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (0.68%) DTS
14 8 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
15 7 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (0.45%) Data Mining
17 4 (0.30%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 135 (10.17%) JIRA
2 117 (8.81%) Jenkins
3 112 (8.43%) Git
4 44 (3.31%) GitLab
5 37 (2.79%) Octopus Deploy
6 36 (2.71%) Vagrant
7 24 (1.81%) TeamCity
8 17 (1.28%) MSI
9 12 (0.90%) Burp Suite
9 12 (0.90%) Metasploit
10 10 (0.75%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 5 (0.38%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.30%) Robot Framework
13 4 (0.30%) Toad
13 4 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
14 3 (0.23%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.23%) Balsamiq
General
1 461 (34.71%) Social Skills
2 293 (22.06%) Finance
3 83 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (5.87%) Law
5 62 (4.67%) Public Sector
6 41 (3.09%) Banking
6 41 (3.09%) Legal
7 38 (2.86%) Retail
8 35 (2.64%) Manufacturing
9 32 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
10 31 (2.33%) Telecoms
11 30 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 26 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
14 18 (1.36%) Marketing
15 17 (1.28%) Games
16 16 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
17 14 (1.05%) Automotive
18 13 (0.98%) Front Office
19 11 (0.83%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 206 (15.51%) Support Engineer
2 165 (12.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 152 (11.45%) Senior
4 122 (9.19%) DevOps Engineer
5 118 (8.89%) Azure Engineer
6 99 (7.45%) Analyst
7 96 (7.23%) 3rd Line Support
8 92 (6.93%) IT Support
9 91 (6.85%) Cloud Engineer
10 82 (6.17%) IT Engineer
11 78 (5.87%) Developer
12 77 (5.80%) Lead
12 77 (5.80%) Security Engineer
13 72 (5.42%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 71 (5.35%) Platform Engineer
15 54 (4.07%) Applications Support
16 53 (3.99%) IT Support Engineer
17 48 (3.61%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
17 48 (3.61%) Infrastructure Support
17 48 (3.61%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (6.33%) .NET
2 75 (5.65%) REST
3 71 (5.35%) YAML
4 40 (3.01%) SOAP
5 37 (2.79%) ARM Templates
6 36 (2.71%) JSON
7 35 (2.64%) LDAP
8 24 (1.81%) SAML
9 21 (1.58%) Web Services
10 19 (1.43%) Microsoft Graph
11 18 (1.36%) AngularJS
12 17 (1.28%) Elastic Stack
12 17 (1.28%) OAuth
13 16 (1.20%) React
14 13 (0.98%) .NET Framework
15 12 (0.90%) GraphQL
15 12 (0.90%) Node.js
15 12 (0.90%) XML
16 11 (0.83%) Middleware
16 11 (0.83%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 96 (7.23%) Onboarding
2 67 (5.05%) Security Posture
3 59 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 57 (4.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 43 (3.24%) PKI
6 42 (3.16%) Data Centre
7 41 (3.09%) Cloud Native
8 39 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
9 35 (2.64%) Management Information System
10 33 (2.48%) Replication
11 30 (2.26%) Driving Licence
11 30 (2.26%) Virtual Team
12 29 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
13 28 (2.11%) Public Cloud
14 27 (2.03%) Private Cloud
14 27 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
15 21 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
16 20 (1.51%) Video Conferencing
17 18 (1.36%) Hedge funds
17 18 (1.36%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 613 (46.16%) Windows
2 351 (26.43%) Windows Server
3 260 (19.58%) Linux
4 74 (5.57%) Windows 10
5 73 (5.50%) VMS
5 73 (5.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 48 (3.61%) Unix
6 48 (3.61%) Windows Server 2016
7 44 (3.31%) Mac OS
8 31 (2.33%) Windows Server 2008
9 27 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 25 (1.88%) Solaris
11 23 (1.73%) Amazon Linux
12 22 (1.66%) HPUX
12 22 (1.66%) Windows 7
12 22 (1.66%) Windows Server 2003
12 22 (1.66%) Windows Server 2012
13 21 (1.58%) Ubuntu
14 19 (1.43%) Android
15 12 (0.90%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (31.25%) DevOps
2 343 (25.83%) Problem-Solving
3 299 (22.52%) CI/CD
4 236 (17.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 231 (17.39%) ITIL
6 221 (16.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 205 (15.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 188 (14.16%) Agile
9 165 (12.42%) Mentoring
10 156 (11.75%) Cybersecurity
11 143 (10.77%) Task Automation
12 137 (10.32%) Disaster Recovery
13 126 (9.49%) Cloud Security
14 119 (8.96%) Migration
15 99 (7.45%) Roadmaps
16 98 (7.38%) Change Management
17 97 (7.30%) Platform Engineering
18 95 (7.15%) Coaching
18 95 (7.15%) ITSM
19 92 (6.93%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 441 (33.21%) Python
2 266 (20.03%) SQL
3 257 (19.35%) Bash
4 109 (8.21%) C#
5 73 (5.50%) Bicep
6 59 (4.44%) JavaScript
7 53 (3.99%) Java
8 39 (2.94%) Groovy
9 38 (2.86%) Perl
10 27 (2.03%) Go
11 25 (1.88%) Kusto Query Language
12 24 (1.81%) T-SQL
12 24 (1.81%) VB
13 14 (1.05%) TypeScript
14 13 (0.98%) Shell Script
15 12 (0.90%) VBScript
16 10 (0.75%) VBA
17 7 (0.53%) Ruby
18 6 (0.45%) PL/SQL
19 5 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 212 (15.96%) Security Cleared
2 181 (13.63%) Degree
3 145 (10.92%) SC Cleared
4 111 (8.36%) Azure Certification
5 105 (7.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 68 (5.12%) DV Cleared
7 56 (4.22%) Cisco Certification
8 52 (3.92%) AWS Certification
9 49 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 37 (2.79%) CCNA
11 31 (2.33%) CISSP
11 31 (2.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 25 (1.88%) Master's Degree
13 20 (1.51%) CCNP
13 20 (1.51%) CREST Certified
14 18 (1.36%) OSCP
14 18 (1.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 17 (1.28%) CEH
16 14 (1.05%) Network+ Certification
17 13 (0.98%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (9.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 110 (8.28%) NIST
3 64 (4.82%) GDPR
4 59 (4.44%) SLA
5 40 (3.01%) NCSC
6 33 (2.48%) Accessibility
7 30 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 18 (1.36%) QA
9 10 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.60%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.53%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.45%) ISO 22301
13 5 (0.38%) GRC
14 3 (0.23%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.15%) HL7
16 1 (0.075%) Actionable Recommendations
16 1 (0.075%) Data Quality
16 1 (0.075%) Disclosure Scotland
16 1 (0.075%) NIST 800
16 1 (0.075%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 482 (36.30%) Active Directory
2 207 (15.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 145 (10.92%) Hyper-V
4 130 (9.79%) Docker
5 56 (4.22%) Virtual Machines
6 48 (3.61%) Virtual Desktop
7 33 (2.48%) vSphere
8 25 (1.88%) DFS Replication
9 24 (1.81%) VMware ESXi
10 15 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
11 13 (0.98%) Firmware
11 13 (0.98%) XenApp
12 10 (0.75%) Postfix
12 10 (0.75%) Squid
13 9 (0.68%) Dovecot
14 8 (0.60%) Terminal Services
15 7 (0.53%) vCloud
16 6 (0.45%) XenDesktop
17 5 (0.38%) VMware NSX
18 4 (0.30%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 312 (23.49%) Terraform
2 238 (17.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 183 (13.78%) Kubernetes
4 159 (11.97%) Ansible
5 86 (6.48%) Grafana
6 81 (6.10%) SCCM
7 73 (5.50%) Prometheus
8 48 (3.61%) Single Sign-On
9 33 (2.48%) WSUS
10 25 (1.88%) SCOM
11 18 (1.36%) vCenter Server
12 17 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 17 (1.28%) Autotask
12 17 (1.28%) WMI
13 16 (1.20%) Backup Exec
14 15 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
14 15 (1.13%) Puppet
15 13 (0.98%) Nessus
16 12 (0.90%) Progress Chef
16 12 (0.90%) QRadar
Vendors
1 748 (56.33%) Microsoft
2 282 (21.23%) VMware
3 121 (9.11%) Cisco
4 113 (8.51%) ServiceNow
5 71 (5.35%) Oracle
6 61 (4.59%) Veeam
7 56 (4.22%) Splunk
8 49 (3.69%) Citrix
9 46 (3.46%) Red Hat
10 44 (3.31%) Atlassian
11 35 (2.64%) Google
11 35 (2.64%) SolarWinds
12 27 (2.03%) Palo Alto
13 26 (1.96%) SAP
14 24 (1.81%) Meraki
15 23 (1.73%) Sophos
16 22 (1.66%) Apple
16 22 (1.66%) Juniper
17 20 (1.51%) Bloomberg
17 20 (1.51%) SonicWALL