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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 92 110
Rank change year-on-year -58 +18 -13
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,225 1,350 2,359
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.36% 3.18% 2.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.83% 9.81% 7.27%
Number of salaries quoted 892 1,042 1,994
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,775 £35,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,967 £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 £75,000 £81,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £88,525
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +1.50% -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 15,641 13,766 32,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.31% 32.38% 33.85%
Number of salaries quoted 10,647 10,074 25,002
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £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 £86,250 £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 3 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 3 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 -60 1,089 £59,500 -0.83% 406
UK excluding London -59 678 £52,500 +3.45% 342
London -12 510 £70,000 -9.68% 132
Work from Home -21 394 £60,000 +4.35% 164
South East -87 159 £55,000 -4.35% 121
North of England -50 142 £48,445 -3.11% 72
Midlands -57 113 £50,000 - 42
Scotland +34 87 £51,875 -2.96% 27
South West -46 83 £55,000 +15.79% 44
East of England -31 71 £58,750 +17.50% 33
North West -33 69 £53,750 +16.85% 40
East Midlands -22 67 £55,000 +37.50% 21
Yorkshire -38 58 £47,500 -14.41% 19
West Midlands -67 45 £47,500 -5.00% 21
Wales -13 20 £58,248 +15.22% 12
North East -33 15 £45,000 -21.74% 13
Northern Ireland -31 3 £46,000 - 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
1 169 (13.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 158 (12.90%) SharePoint
3 40 (3.27%) IIS
4 16 (1.31%) Confluence
5 5 (0.41%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.16%) Apache
6 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.082%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.082%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.082%) CMS
7 1 (0.082%) Site Server
7 1 (0.082%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.082%) WordPress
Applications
1 52 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) CATIA
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.16%) Siemens NX
3 2 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.16%) Windchill
4 1 (0.082%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.57%) Markit EDM
2 5 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
4 3 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.16%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.082%) Actimize
6 1 (0.082%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.082%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.082%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 793 (64.73%) Azure
2 432 (35.27%) Microsoft 365
3 335 (27.35%) Entra ID
4 212 (17.31%) AWS
5 125 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
6 105 (8.57%) Power Platform
7 91 (7.43%) GitHub
8 80 (6.53%) OneDrive
9 78 (6.37%) SaaS
10 72 (5.88%) Google Workspace
11 69 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
12 67 (5.47%) GCP
13 59 (4.82%) IaaS
14 52 (4.24%) Azure Sentinel
15 51 (4.16%) Power Automate
16 48 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
17 47 (3.84%) Azure Logic Apps
17 47 (3.84%) PaaS
18 43 (3.51%) Azure Key Vault
18 43 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 228 (18.61%) DNS
2 225 (18.37%) Firewall
3 145 (11.84%) DHCP
4 135 (11.02%) VPN
5 100 (8.16%) TCP/IP
6 66 (5.39%) WAN
7 62 (5.06%) LAN
8 60 (4.90%) Broadband
8 60 (4.90%) Network Security
9 46 (3.76%) VLAN
10 41 (3.35%) Wi-Fi
11 40 (3.27%) VoIP
12 36 (2.94%) SAN
13 25 (2.04%) Wireless
14 20 (1.63%) BGP
15 18 (1.47%) SD-WAN
16 16 (1.31%) MPLS
17 14 (1.14%) VSAN
18 13 (1.06%) Kerberos
19 12 (0.98%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (11.43%) SQL Server
2 87 (7.10%) Power BI
3 48 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 30 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
7 25 (2.04%) MySQL
8 23 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 20 (1.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 16 (1.31%) NoSQL
10 16 (1.31%) Relational Database
11 14 (1.14%) Tableau
12 11 (0.90%) InfluxDB
12 11 (0.90%) MongoDB
13 10 (0.82%) Data Lake
14 8 (0.65%) Metadata
15 5 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
16 4 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 3 (0.24%) Power Query
17 3 (0.24%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 93 (7.59%) Git
2 69 (5.63%) JIRA
3 68 (5.55%) Jenkins
4 48 (3.92%) GitLab
5 28 (2.29%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.31%) Octopus Deploy
7 13 (1.06%) Metasploit
7 13 (1.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 11 (0.90%) Robot Framework
8 11 (0.90%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.73%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.73%) TestRail
9 9 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
10 8 (0.65%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.33%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.33%) MLflow
12 4 (0.33%) Selenium
13 3 (0.24%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.24%) SonarQube
General
1 404 (32.98%) Social Skills
2 240 (19.59%) Finance
3 169 (13.80%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (6.29%) Organisational Skills
5 67 (5.47%) Law
6 48 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 45 (3.67%) Retail
8 43 (3.51%) Legal
9 42 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
10 41 (3.35%) Public Sector
11 30 (2.45%) Games
12 29 (2.37%) Manufacturing
13 26 (2.12%) Banking
14 17 (1.39%) Advertising
14 17 (1.39%) Aerospace
15 16 (1.31%) Front Office
15 16 (1.31%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.57%) Electronics
17 6 (0.49%) Military
17 6 (0.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 230 (18.78%) Senior
2 147 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 136 (11.10%) Analyst
4 127 (10.37%) Support Engineer
5 126 (10.29%) Azure Engineer
6 103 (8.41%) IT Support
7 86 (7.02%) Security Engineer
8 85 (6.94%) Cloud Engineer
9 84 (6.86%) IT Engineer
10 73 (5.96%) DevOps Engineer
11 70 (5.71%) Developer
12 63 (5.14%) Lead
13 56 (4.57%) IT Support Engineer
14 54 (4.41%) 2nd Line Support
15 47 (3.84%) Systems Engineer
16 46 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
17 44 (3.59%) Architect
18 41 (3.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
18 41 (3.35%) Support Analyst
19 40 (3.27%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (8.00%) OAuth
2 87 (7.10%) REST
3 86 (7.02%) SAML
4 85 (6.94%) OpenID
5 80 (6.53%) .NET
6 70 (5.71%) LDAP
7 64 (5.22%) GraphQL
8 63 (5.14%) SOAP
9 39 (3.18%) .NET Core
10 35 (2.86%) JSON
11 33 (2.69%) Microsoft Graph
12 32 (2.61%) CSS
13 31 (2.53%) YAML
14 30 (2.45%) HTML
15 29 (2.37%) ARM Templates
15 29 (2.37%) SPFx
16 20 (1.63%) React
17 19 (1.55%) HTML5 Canvas
18 17 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
19 16 (1.31%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 93 (7.59%) Onboarding
2 73 (5.96%) Cyber Threat
3 71 (5.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 64 (5.22%) Cyberattack
5 59 (4.82%) Management Information System
6 54 (4.41%) Security Posture
7 53 (4.33%) Cloud Native
8 43 (3.51%) Cyber Defence
8 43 (3.51%) Security Operations Centre
9 38 (3.10%) Driving Licence
10 37 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
11 35 (2.86%) Data Centre
12 31 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
13 29 (2.37%) Public Cloud
14 26 (2.12%) PKI
15 24 (1.96%) CMDB
16 18 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
17 17 (1.39%) Low-Code
18 16 (1.31%) Private Cloud
18 16 (1.31%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 553 (45.14%) Windows
2 273 (22.29%) Windows Server
3 260 (21.22%) Linux
4 76 (6.20%) Windows 10
5 51 (4.16%) Mac OS
6 48 (3.92%) Apple iOS
7 46 (3.76%) Android
8 36 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
9 29 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 27 (2.20%) VMS
11 25 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
12 24 (1.96%) CentOS
13 17 (1.39%) Ubuntu
13 17 (1.39%) Unix
14 10 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.41%) Debian
16 4 (0.33%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.24%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.24%) Solaris
18 2 (0.16%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
2 262 (21.39%) Cybersecurity
3 257 (20.98%) CI/CD
3 257 (20.98%) DevOps
4 256 (20.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 223 (18.20%) ITIL
6 211 (17.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 201 (16.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 190 (15.51%) Mentoring
9 161 (13.14%) Agile
10 155 (12.65%) Incident Response
11 135 (11.02%) Disaster Recovery
11 135 (11.02%) Roadmaps
12 134 (10.94%) Root Cause Analysis
13 125 (10.20%) SIEM
14 119 (9.71%) Containerisation
15 115 (9.39%) Cloud Security
16 104 (8.49%) Task Automation
17 101 (8.24%) Security Operations
18 99 (8.08%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 477 (38.94%) Python
2 312 (25.47%) Bash
3 271 (22.12%) SQL
4 92 (7.51%) C#
5 79 (6.45%) JavaScript
5 79 (6.45%) T-SQL
6 68 (5.55%) Bicep
7 33 (2.69%) Kusto Query Language
8 23 (1.88%) Java
8 23 (1.88%) TypeScript
9 11 (0.90%) C++
9 11 (0.90%) Go
9 11 (0.90%) VB.NET
10 9 (0.73%) Perl
10 9 (0.73%) VB
10 9 (0.73%) VBA
11 7 (0.57%) C
11 7 (0.57%) PHP
12 6 (0.49%) Delphi
12 6 (0.49%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 165 (13.47%) Degree
2 138 (11.27%) Security Cleared
3 104 (8.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 92 (7.51%) Azure Certification
5 80 (6.53%) SC Cleared
6 52 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 51 (4.16%) CISSP
8 45 (3.67%) DV Cleared
9 37 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
10 33 (2.69%) CompTIA Security+
11 31 (2.53%) CREST Certified
12 25 (2.04%) CCNA
12 25 (2.04%) OSCP
13 23 (1.88%) GIAC
14 22 (1.80%) CEH
14 22 (1.80%) CompTIA CySA+
15 21 (1.71%) AWS Certification
16 18 (1.47%) DBS Check
17 14 (1.14%) CCNP
17 14 (1.14%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (12.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 146 (11.92%) NIST
3 66 (5.39%) GDPR
4 59 (4.82%) NCSC
5 41 (3.35%) SLA
6 28 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 27 (2.20%) Accessibility
8 20 (1.63%) Data Quality
9 19 (1.55%) ISO 22301
10 16 (1.31%) QA
11 15 (1.22%) SOC 2
12 14 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
13 13 (1.06%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.49%) DICOM
16 5 (0.41%) GRC
17 4 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
19 2 (0.16%) COBIT
19 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 450 (36.73%) Active Directory
2 159 (12.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 129 (10.53%) Docker
4 102 (8.33%) Hyper-V
5 46 (3.76%) vSphere
6 32 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (1.88%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (1.55%) VMware NSX
9 18 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
10 16 (1.31%) BitLocker
11 15 (1.22%) Firmware
12 10 (0.82%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 5 (0.41%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.33%) iptables
14 4 (0.33%) KVM
14 4 (0.33%) Squid
14 4 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.33%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 264 (21.55%) Terraform
2 190 (15.51%) Kubernetes
3 178 (14.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 144 (11.76%) Ansible
5 55 (4.49%) Grafana
6 46 (3.76%) Single Sign-On
7 45 (3.67%) SCCM
8 34 (2.78%) Prometheus
9 25 (2.04%) Jamf Pro
10 21 (1.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 21 (1.71%) vCenter Server
11 14 (1.14%) VxRail
12 13 (1.06%) Nessus
13 11 (0.90%) Puppet
14 10 (0.82%) Packer
14 10 (0.82%) QRadar
15 9 (0.73%) FortiGate
15 9 (0.73%) WSUS
16 8 (0.65%) logstash
17 7 (0.57%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 679 (55.43%) Microsoft
2 212 (17.31%) VMware
3 102 (8.33%) Cisco
4 64 (5.22%) Splunk
5 56 (4.57%) ServiceNow
6 55 (4.49%) Red Hat
7 43 (3.51%) CrowdStrike
8 37 (3.02%) Veeam
9 33 (2.69%) Google
10 31 (2.53%) Dell
11 30 (2.45%) Commvault
12 27 (2.20%) Meraki
13 26 (2.12%) Citrix
13 26 (2.12%) Fortinet
13 26 (2.12%) Palo Alto
14 24 (1.96%) Apple
14 24 (1.96%) Oracle
15 23 (1.88%) CyberArk
16 20 (1.63%) Tenable
17 19 (1.55%) Adobe