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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 95 98
Rank change year-on-year -42 +3 -3
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,231 1,290 2,451
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.52% 3.15% 2.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.47% 9.43% 7.72%
Number of salaries quoted 915 1,055 2,114
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £35,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £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 14,537 13,677 31,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.93% 33.42% 34.91%
Number of salaries quoted 10,125 10,250 24,845
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,529
25th Percentile £46,446 £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 £83,750 £86,250 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £55,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +1.80% +2.78% -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 5 April 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 5 April 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 -47 1,093 £57,500 -4.17% 384
UK excluding London -56 685 £52,500 - 315
London -11 501 £70,000 -12.50% 123
Work from Home -21 384 £57,500 -1.71% 176
South East -53 189 £57,500 -4.17% 97
North of England -50 134 £47,500 -9.52% 66
Midlands -52 99 £52,500 +5.00% 45
Scotland +32 94 £71,500 +19.17% 14
South West -26 94 £55,000 +15.79% 60
North West -38 64 £55,000 +17.02% 35
East of England -38 64 £40,000 -27.27% 34
Yorkshire -39 58 £47,500 -11.63% 16
East Midlands -23 55 £55,000 +15.79% 16
West Midlands -57 43 £48,000 -4.00% 29
North East -25 12 £45,000 -21.74% 15
Wales -21 11 £61,496 +21.65% 10
Northern Ireland -40 1 - - 1

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
1 183 (14.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 136 (11.05%) SharePoint
3 34 (2.76%) IIS
4 20 (1.62%) Exchange Server 2003
5 14 (1.14%) Confluence
6 6 (0.49%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.16%) Apache
7 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.16%) CMS
7 2 (0.16%) WordPress
8 1 (0.081%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.081%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.081%) Site Server
Applications
1 53 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.24%) CATIA
4 3 (0.24%) Siemens NX
4 3 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
4 3 (0.24%) Windchill
5 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.081%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.081%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
1 7 (0.57%) Markit EDM
2 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
3 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.24%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.081%) Actimize
4 1 (0.081%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.081%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.081%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 799 (64.91%) Azure
2 413 (33.55%) Microsoft 365
3 323 (26.24%) Entra ID
4 208 (16.90%) AWS
5 130 (10.56%) Azure DevOps
6 99 (8.04%) Power Platform
7 97 (7.88%) GitHub
8 75 (6.09%) Google Workspace
9 74 (6.01%) GCP
10 72 (5.85%) GitHub Actions
11 70 (5.69%) SaaS
12 62 (5.04%) OneDrive
13 60 (4.87%) PaaS
14 57 (4.63%) IaaS
15 47 (3.82%) Azure Monitor
16 40 (3.25%) Power Automate
17 38 (3.09%) Azure Logic Apps
17 38 (3.09%) Azure Sentinel
17 38 (3.09%) Nutanix
18 37 (3.01%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 228 (18.52%) DNS
2 214 (17.38%) Firewall
3 175 (14.22%) DHCP
4 129 (10.48%) VPN
5 107 (8.69%) TCP/IP
6 66 (5.36%) WAN
7 63 (5.12%) Broadband
8 61 (4.96%) LAN
9 57 (4.63%) Network Security
10 50 (4.06%) VLAN
11 45 (3.66%) Wi-Fi
12 38 (3.09%) VoIP
13 32 (2.60%) SAN
13 32 (2.60%) Wireless
14 28 (2.27%) SD-WAN
15 17 (1.38%) MPLS
16 16 (1.30%) BGP
17 14 (1.14%) VSAN
18 12 (0.97%) WinSCP
19 11 (0.89%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (10.97%) SQL Server
2 85 (6.90%) Power BI
3 32 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
4 28 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (2.11%) Oracle Database
6 25 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 24 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
7 24 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
7 24 (1.95%) MySQL
7 24 (1.95%) Oracle Database 10g
8 22 (1.79%) Relational Database
9 17 (1.38%) NoSQL
10 15 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 14 (1.14%) Tableau
12 10 (0.81%) InfluxDB
13 8 (0.65%) MongoDB
14 7 (0.57%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
15 5 (0.41%) Metadata
16 4 (0.32%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 85 (6.90%) Git
2 74 (6.01%) Jenkins
2 74 (6.01%) JIRA
3 45 (3.66%) GitLab
4 26 (2.11%) Bitbucket
5 21 (1.71%) Octopus Deploy
6 14 (1.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 13 (1.06%) Metasploit
7 13 (1.06%) TeamCity
8 11 (0.89%) Robot Framework
9 9 (0.73%) Burp Suite
10 8 (0.65%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.65%) TestRail
10 8 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
11 5 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.32%) MLflow
12 4 (0.32%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.24%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.24%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.24%) Selenium
General
1 420 (34.12%) Social Skills
2 260 (21.12%) Finance
3 156 (12.67%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (6.50%) Organisational Skills
5 70 (5.69%) Law
6 42 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
7 40 (3.25%) Legal
7 40 (3.25%) Retail
8 37 (3.01%) Public Sector
9 34 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 33 (2.68%) Games
11 31 (2.52%) Banking
12 24 (1.95%) Manufacturing
13 23 (1.87%) Telecoms
14 16 (1.30%) Front Office
15 14 (1.14%) Advertising
16 10 (0.81%) Aerospace
17 6 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.49%) Investment Banking
18 5 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 203 (16.49%) Senior
2 150 (12.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 147 (11.94%) Support Engineer
4 126 (10.24%) Azure Engineer
5 111 (9.02%) Analyst
6 110 (8.94%) IT Support
7 85 (6.90%) IT Engineer
8 84 (6.82%) Security Engineer
9 82 (6.66%) Cloud Engineer
10 70 (5.69%) DevOps Engineer
11 65 (5.28%) IT Support Engineer
12 61 (4.96%) 3rd Line Support
12 61 (4.96%) Lead
13 60 (4.87%) Developer
14 53 (4.31%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 51 (4.14%) 2nd Line Support
16 47 (3.82%) Architect
17 43 (3.49%) Platform Engineer
18 36 (2.92%) Support Analyst
18 36 (2.92%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (7.55%) OAuth
2 89 (7.23%) REST
3 78 (6.34%) SAML
4 76 (6.17%) OpenID
5 70 (5.69%) GraphQL
6 66 (5.36%) LDAP
7 64 (5.20%) .NET
7 64 (5.20%) SOAP
8 34 (2.76%) YAML
9 29 (2.36%) .NET Core
10 28 (2.27%) JSON
11 24 (1.95%) ARM Templates
12 20 (1.62%) Microsoft Graph
13 19 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
14 16 (1.30%) CSS
14 16 (1.30%) Node.js
14 16 (1.30%) React
15 15 (1.22%) SPFx
16 14 (1.14%) HTML
17 13 (1.06%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 92 (7.47%) Onboarding
2 73 (5.93%) Cyber Threat
3 71 (5.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 64 (5.20%) Cyberattack
5 60 (4.87%) Security Posture
6 49 (3.98%) Management Information System
7 44 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
8 42 (3.41%) Driving Licence
9 41 (3.33%) Cloud Native
10 38 (3.09%) Cyber Defence
11 34 (2.76%) Data Centre
12 31 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
12 31 (2.52%) Security Operations Centre
13 28 (2.27%) Public Cloud
14 25 (2.03%) PKI
15 24 (1.95%) CMDB
15 24 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
16 19 (1.54%) Replication
17 18 (1.46%) Private Cloud
18 17 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 563 (45.74%) Windows
2 288 (23.40%) Windows Server
3 253 (20.55%) Linux
4 71 (5.77%) Windows 10
5 55 (4.47%) Mac OS
6 41 (3.33%) Unix
7 38 (3.09%) Windows Server 2016
8 37 (3.01%) Android
8 37 (3.01%) Apple iOS
9 31 (2.52%) Windows Server 2019
10 26 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 25 (2.03%) CentOS
12 23 (1.87%) Solaris
12 23 (1.87%) VMS
13 20 (1.62%) HPUX
13 20 (1.62%) Windows 7
13 20 (1.62%) Windows Server 2003
13 20 (1.62%) Windows Server 2008
14 19 (1.54%) Ubuntu
15 12 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (28.68%) Problem-Solving
2 272 (22.10%) DevOps
3 251 (20.39%) CI/CD
4 244 (19.82%) Cybersecurity
5 241 (19.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 232 (18.85%) ITIL
7 215 (17.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 203 (16.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 192 (15.60%) Mentoring
10 159 (12.92%) Agile
11 154 (12.51%) Disaster Recovery
12 146 (11.86%) Incident Response
13 141 (11.45%) Roadmaps
14 129 (10.48%) Root Cause Analysis
15 108 (8.77%) Task Automation
16 105 (8.53%) SIEM
17 104 (8.45%) Containerisation
18 103 (8.37%) Cloud Security
19 102 (8.29%) Identity Access Management
20 93 (7.55%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 446 (36.23%) Python
2 304 (24.70%) Bash
3 262 (21.28%) SQL
4 82 (6.66%) T-SQL
5 79 (6.42%) C#
6 67 (5.44%) JavaScript
7 65 (5.28%) Bicep
8 29 (2.36%) Kusto Query Language
9 27 (2.19%) Perl
10 20 (1.62%) Java
11 12 (0.97%) Go
12 10 (0.81%) TypeScript
12 10 (0.81%) VB.NET
13 9 (0.73%) C++
14 7 (0.57%) C
14 7 (0.57%) PHP
14 7 (0.57%) VB
15 6 (0.49%) Delphi
15 6 (0.49%) Ruby
16 5 (0.41%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 163 (13.24%) Degree
2 156 (12.67%) Security Cleared
3 102 (8.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 95 (7.72%) SC Cleared
5 93 (7.55%) Azure Certification
6 66 (5.36%) DV Cleared
7 56 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 52 (4.22%) CISSP
9 37 (3.01%) Cisco Certification
10 34 (2.76%) CREST Certified
11 26 (2.11%) AWS Certification
11 26 (2.11%) CEH
12 25 (2.03%) GIAC
13 24 (1.95%) OSCP
14 23 (1.87%) CCNA
15 22 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
16 20 (1.62%) CompTIA CySA+
17 16 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 16 (1.30%) SANS
18 15 (1.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (13.57%) NIST
2 161 (13.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 69 (5.61%) NCSC
4 63 (5.12%) SLA
5 62 (5.04%) GDPR
6 32 (2.60%) Accessibility
7 27 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials
8 22 (1.79%) ISO 22301
9 18 (1.46%) Data Quality
10 16 (1.30%) QA
11 14 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
11 14 (1.14%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 10 (0.81%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.49%) DICOM
15 5 (0.41%) GRC
16 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.16%) COBIT
17 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.16%) HL7
System Software
1 464 (37.69%) Active Directory
2 151 (12.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 121 (9.83%) Docker
4 112 (9.10%) Hyper-V
5 48 (3.90%) vSphere
6 32 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
7 18 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 16 (1.30%) Firmware
10 14 (1.14%) VMware NSX
11 10 (0.81%) BitLocker
12 9 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (0.49%) XenApp
14 5 (0.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 4 (0.32%) iptables
15 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.32%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.32%) vCloud
15 4 (0.32%) XenDesktop
16 2 (0.16%) Samba
Systems Management
1 259 (21.04%) Terraform
2 175 (14.22%) Kubernetes
3 173 (14.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 147 (11.94%) Ansible
5 55 (4.47%) Grafana
6 40 (3.25%) SCCM
7 39 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
8 33 (2.68%) Prometheus
9 21 (1.71%) Jamf Pro
10 20 (1.62%) vCenter Server
11 19 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (1.22%) Puppet
13 13 (1.06%) Nessus
14 12 (0.97%) VxRail
15 8 (0.65%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.65%) Progress Chef
15 8 (0.65%) QRadar
16 7 (0.57%) logstash
16 7 (0.57%) WSUS
17 6 (0.49%) Nagios
Vendors
1 662 (53.78%) Microsoft
2 245 (19.90%) VMware
3 114 (9.26%) Cisco
4 63 (5.12%) Splunk
5 55 (4.47%) ServiceNow
6 48 (3.90%) Red Hat
7 47 (3.82%) Oracle
7 47 (3.82%) Veeam
8 35 (2.84%) Commvault
8 35 (2.84%) Google
9 33 (2.68%) Palo Alto
10 31 (2.52%) CrowdStrike
11 28 (2.27%) Meraki
12 27 (2.19%) Citrix
12 27 (2.19%) Fortinet
13 26 (2.11%) CyberArk
13 26 (2.11%) Dell
14 22 (1.79%) Apple
14 22 (1.79%) Atlassian
15 20 (1.62%) Dynatrace