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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 88 110
Rank change year-on-year -61 +22 -41
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,477 1,618 1,815
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.30% 3.26% 2.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.96% 12.34% 7.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,024 1,069 1,226
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,500 £36,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.96% +1.00% -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 18,548 13,113 24,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.36% 26.43% 30.79%
Number of salaries quoted 13,189 8,454 15,373
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -4.62%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -67 1,289 £57,500 - 665
UK excluding London -65 970 £52,500 +3.96% 448
Work from Home -32 510 £60,000 - 457
London -35 462 £70,000 -3.45% 290
South East -30 242 £52,500 -8.70% 135
North of England -79 235 £50,000 - 117
Midlands -38 159 £52,500 +5.00% 69
North West -67 139 £50,000 +8.70% 69
East of England -35 100 £57,500 +21.05% 45
South West -81 84 £55,000 +15.79% 48
East Midlands -18 80 £42,500 +21.43% 32
West Midlands -68 79 £55,000 - 37
Northern Ireland -18 69 £46,000 - 6
Yorkshire -50 60 £42,500 -19.05% 31
Scotland +8 45 £50,000 +14.29% 30
North East -36 36 £50,000 - 18
Wales -50 36 £38,500 -30.00% 13

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
1 245 (16.59%) SharePoint
2 244 (16.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 55 (3.72%) IIS
4 40 (2.71%) Confluence
5 15 (1.02%) nginx
6 8 (0.54%) Apache
7 6 (0.41%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
9 3 (0.20%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.068%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.068%) WebSphere
Applications
1 70 (4.74%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (2.44%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.41%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.34%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.068%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 880 (59.58%) Azure
2 556 (37.64%) Microsoft 365
3 439 (29.72%) Entra ID
4 256 (17.33%) AWS
5 184 (12.46%) SaaS
6 176 (11.92%) Azure DevOps
7 118 (7.99%) Power Platform
8 117 (7.92%) OneDrive
9 110 (7.45%) GitHub
10 108 (7.31%) IaaS
11 84 (5.69%) Azure Monitor
12 83 (5.62%) Azure Sentinel
13 81 (5.48%) Power Automate
14 75 (5.08%) PaaS
15 72 (4.87%) Azure AKS
16 69 (4.67%) Azure Key Vault
16 69 (4.67%) GCP
17 62 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
18 55 (3.72%) Microsoft Purview
19 50 (3.39%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 326 (22.07%) Firewall
2 323 (21.87%) DNS
3 216 (14.62%) DHCP
4 211 (14.29%) VPN
5 141 (9.55%) TCP/IP
6 100 (6.77%) WAN
7 86 (5.82%) LAN
8 71 (4.81%) VLAN
9 63 (4.27%) Network Security
10 55 (3.72%) Wireless
11 47 (3.18%) Wi-Fi
12 35 (2.37%) SAN
13 30 (2.03%) Kerberos
14 23 (1.56%) SSL
15 22 (1.49%) NAS
16 20 (1.35%) HTTP
17 19 (1.29%) Internet
17 19 (1.29%) VoIP
18 17 (1.15%) BGP
19 16 (1.08%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (9.88%) SQL Server
2 82 (5.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 62 (4.20%) Power BI
4 26 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.49%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (1.15%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 13 (0.88%) NoSQL
10 12 (0.81%) MySQL
11 9 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.54%) InfluxDB
13 7 (0.47%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.47%) Power Query
13 7 (0.47%) Redis
14 6 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.41%) Metadata
15 5 (0.34%) RDBMS
16 4 (0.27%) Db2
Development Applications
1 105 (7.11%) JIRA
2 100 (6.77%) Git
3 72 (4.87%) GitLab
4 60 (4.06%) Jenkins
5 28 (1.90%) Bitbucket
6 13 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
7 12 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 10 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
9 9 (0.61%) TeamCity
10 8 (0.54%) Robot Framework
10 8 (0.54%) TestRail
11 6 (0.41%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.41%) Selenium
11 6 (0.41%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.34%) Postman
13 4 (0.27%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
13 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.20%) JMeter
14 3 (0.20%) MSI
General
1 558 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 244 (16.52%) Finance
3 190 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (8.33%) Law
5 118 (7.99%) Legal
6 69 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 54 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
8 46 (3.11%) Public Sector
9 44 (2.98%) Retail
10 43 (2.91%) Banking
11 37 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
12 35 (2.37%) Manufacturing
13 29 (1.96%) Aerospace
14 15 (1.02%) Legal Technology
15 14 (0.95%) Advertising
16 12 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.74%) Financial Institution
18 9 (0.61%) Aviation
18 9 (0.61%) Telecoms
19 8 (0.54%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 290 (19.63%) Senior
2 207 (14.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 166 (11.24%) Analyst
4 141 (9.55%) Support Engineer
5 140 (9.48%) Azure Engineer
6 135 (9.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 135 (9.14%) IT Engineer
7 117 (7.92%) IT Support
8 105 (7.11%) DevOps Engineer
9 78 (5.28%) Platform Engineer
10 70 (4.74%) Consultant
10 70 (4.74%) Lead
11 69 (4.67%) IT Support Engineer
12 67 (4.54%) Support Analyst
13 66 (4.47%) Security Engineer
14 64 (4.33%) Systems Engineer
15 58 (3.93%) Developer
15 58 (3.93%) Testing Manager
16 56 (3.79%) Administrator
17 55 (3.72%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 363 (24.58%) Terraform
2 78 (5.28%) .NET
3 52 (3.52%) REST
4 51 (3.45%) ARM Templates
5 46 (3.11%) YAML
6 45 (3.05%) Microsoft Graph
7 42 (2.84%) SAML
8 39 (2.64%) HTML
8 39 (2.64%) LDAP
8 39 (2.64%) OAuth
8 39 (2.64%) OpenID
9 30 (2.03%) CSS
9 30 (2.03%) JSON
10 28 (1.90%) SPFx
11 26 (1.76%) .NET Core
12 20 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
13 17 (1.15%) HTML5 Canvas
14 16 (1.08%) SOAP
15 15 (1.02%) ASP.NET
15 15 (1.02%) React
Miscellaneous
1 128 (8.67%) Onboarding
2 91 (6.16%) Cloud Native
3 75 (5.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 74 (5.01%) Driving Licence
5 73 (4.94%) Management Information System
6 70 (4.74%) Security Posture
7 60 (4.06%) Virtual Team
8 51 (3.45%) Data Centre
9 47 (3.18%) PKI
10 46 (3.11%) Public Cloud
11 45 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
12 44 (2.98%) Replication
13 40 (2.71%) Security Operations Centre
14 36 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
15 34 (2.30%) Clustering
16 27 (1.83%) Private Cloud
17 24 (1.62%) CMDB
17 24 (1.62%) Cyber Defence
17 24 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
18 20 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 694 (46.99%) Windows
2 342 (23.16%) Linux
3 326 (22.07%) Windows Server
4 87 (5.89%) Windows 10
5 56 (3.79%) Apple iOS
6 44 (2.98%) Android
6 44 (2.98%) Ubuntu
7 41 (2.78%) Mac OS
8 39 (2.64%) VMS
9 35 (2.37%) Windows Server 2016
10 34 (2.30%) CentOS
11 29 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 27 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
13 19 (1.29%) Unix
14 16 (1.08%) Rocky
15 8 (0.54%) Debian
15 8 (0.54%) Solaris
16 5 (0.34%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.27%) AIX
17 4 (0.27%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (27.83%) Problem-Solving
2 380 (25.73%) DevOps
3 370 (25.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 345 (23.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 327 (22.14%) CI/CD
6 312 (21.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 295 (19.97%) ITIL
8 248 (16.79%) Cybersecurity
9 230 (15.57%) Mentoring
10 194 (13.13%) Disaster Recovery
11 167 (11.31%) Agile
11 167 (11.31%) High Availability
12 165 (11.17%) AI
13 163 (11.04%) Root Cause Analysis
14 153 (10.36%) Project Delivery
15 142 (9.61%) Incident Response
16 140 (9.48%) Platform Engineering
17 138 (9.34%) Cloud Security
18 131 (8.87%) Containerisation
19 130 (8.80%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 570 (38.59%) Python
2 303 (20.51%) Bash
3 298 (20.18%) SQL
4 146 (9.88%) JavaScript
5 139 (9.41%) C#
6 116 (7.85%) Bicep
7 86 (5.82%) TypeScript
8 49 (3.32%) Kusto Query Language
9 37 (2.51%) Java
10 36 (2.44%) T-SQL
11 23 (1.56%) VBScript
12 20 (1.35%) C++
12 20 (1.35%) Perl
13 14 (0.95%) Ruby
14 13 (0.88%) PHP
15 10 (0.68%) VB
15 10 (0.68%) VBA
16 9 (0.61%) Go
17 7 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 6 (0.41%) C
Qualifications
1 203 (13.74%) Security Cleared
2 171 (11.58%) Degree
3 157 (10.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 156 (10.56%) Azure Certification
5 140 (9.48%) SC Cleared
6 65 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 61 (4.13%) Cisco Certification
8 59 (3.99%) DV Cleared
9 53 (3.59%) CompTIA Security+
10 50 (3.39%) CISSP
11 45 (3.05%) CCNA
12 27 (1.83%) CEH
13 23 (1.56%) DBS Check
14 22 (1.49%) AWS Certification
14 22 (1.49%) OSCP
15 19 (1.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 18 (1.22%) CCNP
16 18 (1.22%) GIAC
17 17 (1.15%) CISM
17 17 (1.15%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (7.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 78 (5.28%) QA
3 69 (4.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 64 (4.33%) NIST
5 47 (3.18%) GDPR
6 46 (3.11%) SLA
7 20 (1.35%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.15%) PCI DSS
9 15 (1.02%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.47%) NCSC
11 7 (0.47%) PMO
12 5 (0.34%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.27%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.14%) EMIR
15 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 526 (35.61%) Active Directory
2 246 (16.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 157 (10.63%) Hyper-V
4 137 (9.28%) Docker
5 81 (5.48%) vSphere
6 68 (4.60%) Virtual Machines
7 54 (3.66%) Virtual Desktop
8 28 (1.90%) VMware NSX
9 22 (1.49%) BitLocker
10 18 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.54%) KVM
11 8 (0.54%) Squid
12 7 (0.47%) Firmware
13 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.20%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.068%) Ceph
16 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 263 (17.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 221 (14.96%) Kubernetes
3 172 (11.65%) Ansible
4 78 (5.28%) Grafana
5 77 (5.21%) SCCM
6 52 (3.52%) Single Sign-On
7 41 (2.78%) Prometheus
8 25 (1.69%) vCenter Server
8 25 (1.69%) ZABBIX
9 21 (1.42%) Argo
9 21 (1.42%) QRadar
10 20 (1.35%) Jamf Pro
10 20 (1.35%) Proxmox
11 19 (1.29%) Packer
12 18 (1.22%) Puppet
13 15 (1.02%) FortiGate
13 15 (1.02%) Graylog
14 13 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 11 (0.74%) VxRail
16 9 (0.61%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 921 (62.36%) Microsoft
2 280 (18.96%) VMware
3 117 (7.92%) Cisco
4 106 (7.18%) ServiceNow
5 87 (5.89%) Splunk
6 62 (4.20%) Veeam
7 53 (3.59%) Red Hat
8 49 (3.32%) Oracle
9 43 (2.91%) Citrix
10 42 (2.84%) Meraki
11 34 (2.30%) Sage
12 33 (2.23%) Dynatrace
13 32 (2.17%) Sophos
14 31 (2.10%) Dell
15 27 (1.83%) CyberArk
15 27 (1.83%) Fortinet
15 27 (1.83%) SAP
15 27 (1.83%) Tenable
16 26 (1.76%) Apple
17 25 (1.69%) CrowdStrike