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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 91 108
Rank change year-on-year -54 +17 -39
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,469 1,589 1,798
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.29% 3.23% 2.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.93% 12.28% 7.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,014 1,047 1,203
10th Percentile £32,825 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,538 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £95,800
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 18,532 12,937 23,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.27% 26.33% 30.82%
Number of salaries quoted 13,180 8,304 15,114
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £106,250
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 15 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 15 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 -69 1,281 £57,500 - 1,223
UK excluding London -61 970 £52,500 +3.96% 736
Work from Home -32 508 £60,000 - 517
London -35 456 £70,000 -3.45% 583
South East -37 240 £52,500 -8.70% 204
North of England -73 238 £50,000 - 192
Midlands -55 158 £52,500 +5.00% 105
North West -69 141 £50,000 +6.95% 110
East of England -37 98 £57,500 +21.05% 63
South West -73 85 £55,000 +15.79% 91
West Midlands -64 80 £55,000 - 64
East Midlands -17 78 £42,500 +21.43% 41
Northern Ireland -20 70 £46,000 - 12
Yorkshire -44 61 £42,500 -17.68% 56
Scotland +5 45 £50,000 +17.65% 65
North East -34 36 £50,000 -9.09% 27
Wales -53 36 £38,500 -30.00% 19

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 (16.41%) Microsoft Exchange
1 241 (16.41%) SharePoint
2 55 (3.74%) IIS
3 41 (2.79%) Confluence
4 15 (1.02%) nginx
5 8 (0.54%) Apache
6 6 (0.41%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.27%) SAS
8 3 (0.20%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.068%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.068%) WebSphere
Applications
1 69 (4.70%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.48%) 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 (2.45%) 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
1 870 (59.22%) Azure
2 554 (37.71%) Microsoft 365
3 439 (29.88%) Entra ID
4 258 (17.56%) AWS
5 184 (12.53%) SaaS
6 174 (11.84%) Azure DevOps
7 116 (7.90%) Power Platform
8 113 (7.69%) OneDrive
9 109 (7.42%) GitHub
10 105 (7.15%) IaaS
11 85 (5.79%) Azure Monitor
12 83 (5.65%) Azure Sentinel
13 80 (5.45%) Power Automate
14 74 (5.04%) PaaS
15 71 (4.83%) GCP
16 69 (4.70%) Azure AKS
17 66 (4.49%) Azure Key Vault
18 63 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
19 56 (3.81%) Microsoft Purview
20 51 (3.47%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 324 (22.06%) Firewall
2 318 (21.65%) DNS
3 215 (14.64%) DHCP
4 212 (14.43%) VPN
5 142 (9.67%) TCP/IP
6 100 (6.81%) WAN
7 85 (5.79%) LAN
8 71 (4.83%) VLAN
9 62 (4.22%) Network Security
10 55 (3.74%) Wireless
11 46 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
12 35 (2.38%) SAN
13 30 (2.04%) Kerberos
14 23 (1.57%) SSL
15 22 (1.50%) NAS
16 20 (1.36%) HTTP
17 19 (1.29%) Internet
18 18 (1.23%) VoIP
19 16 (1.09%) VSAN
20 15 (1.02%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (10.01%) SQL Server
2 81 (5.51%) Azure SQL Database
3 62 (4.22%) Power BI
4 26 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.50%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.16%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 13 (0.88%) NoSQL
10 12 (0.82%) MySQL
11 9 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.54%) InfluxDB
13 7 (0.48%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.48%) Power Query
13 7 (0.48%) Redis
14 6 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.41%) Metadata
15 5 (0.34%) Db2
15 5 (0.34%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 106 (7.22%) JIRA
2 101 (6.88%) Git
3 75 (5.11%) GitLab
4 64 (4.36%) Jenkins
5 28 (1.91%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 12 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
7 9 (0.61%) TeamCity
7 9 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
8 8 (0.54%) Robot Framework
8 8 (0.54%) TestRail
9 6 (0.41%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.41%) Postman
9 6 (0.41%) Selenium
9 6 (0.41%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.27%) Burp Suite
10 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
10 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.20%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.20%) JMeter
General
1 560 (38.12%) Social Skills
2 244 (16.61%) Finance
3 191 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (8.17%) Law
5 118 (8.03%) Legal
6 68 (4.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 56 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
8 46 (3.13%) Public Sector
9 44 (3.00%) Banking
9 44 (3.00%) Retail
10 37 (2.52%) Manufacturing
10 37 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
11 31 (2.11%) Aerospace
12 15 (1.02%) Legal Technology
13 13 (0.88%) Advertising
14 12 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (0.75%) Financial Institution
16 9 (0.61%) Aviation
16 9 (0.61%) Telecoms
17 8 (0.54%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 291 (19.81%) Senior
2 207 (14.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 165 (11.23%) Analyst
4 142 (9.67%) Support Engineer
5 135 (9.19%) Azure Engineer
5 135 (9.19%) IT Engineer
6 130 (8.85%) Cloud Engineer
7 117 (7.96%) IT Support
8 108 (7.35%) DevOps Engineer
9 78 (5.31%) Platform Engineer
10 70 (4.77%) Consultant
10 70 (4.77%) Lead
11 69 (4.70%) IT Support Engineer
12 68 (4.63%) Support Analyst
13 65 (4.42%) Security Engineer
14 64 (4.36%) Systems Engineer
15 58 (3.95%) Testing Manager
16 57 (3.88%) Developer
17 56 (3.81%) Administrator
18 55 (3.74%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 364 (24.78%) Terraform
2 76 (5.17%) .NET
3 52 (3.54%) REST
4 50 (3.40%) ARM Templates
5 45 (3.06%) YAML
6 44 (3.00%) Microsoft Graph
7 42 (2.86%) SAML
8 39 (2.65%) LDAP
8 39 (2.65%) OAuth
8 39 (2.65%) OpenID
9 37 (2.52%) HTML
10 28 (1.91%) CSS
10 28 (1.91%) JSON
11 27 (1.84%) SPFx
12 24 (1.63%) .NET Core
13 20 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
14 16 (1.09%) HTML5 Canvas
14 16 (1.09%) SOAP
15 15 (1.02%) ASP.NET
15 15 (1.02%) React
Miscellaneous
1 128 (8.71%) Onboarding
2 91 (6.19%) Cloud Native
3 76 (5.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 75 (5.11%) Driving Licence
5 73 (4.97%) Management Information System
6 70 (4.77%) Security Posture
7 60 (4.08%) Virtual Team
8 50 (3.40%) Data Centre
9 48 (3.27%) PKI
10 47 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
11 45 (3.06%) Public Cloud
11 45 (3.06%) Replication
12 40 (2.72%) Security Operations Centre
13 36 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
14 35 (2.38%) Clustering
15 26 (1.77%) Private Cloud
16 24 (1.63%) Cyber Defence
17 23 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
18 22 (1.50%) CMDB
19 19 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 689 (46.90%) Windows
2 341 (23.21%) Linux
3 325 (22.12%) Windows Server
4 85 (5.79%) Windows 10
5 54 (3.68%) Apple iOS
6 44 (3.00%) Ubuntu
7 42 (2.86%) Android
8 40 (2.72%) Mac OS
9 39 (2.65%) VMS
10 35 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 34 (2.31%) CentOS
12 29 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 27 (1.84%) Windows Server 2019
14 19 (1.29%) Unix
15 16 (1.09%) Rocky
16 8 (0.54%) Debian
16 8 (0.54%) Solaris
17 5 (0.34%) CoreOS
18 4 (0.27%) Kali Linux
18 4 (0.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (28.18%) Problem-Solving
2 379 (25.80%) DevOps
3 371 (25.26%) Continuous Improvement
4 343 (23.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 324 (22.06%) CI/CD
6 313 (21.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 289 (19.67%) ITIL
8 251 (17.09%) Cybersecurity
9 230 (15.66%) Mentoring
10 191 (13.00%) Disaster Recovery
11 168 (11.44%) AI
12 167 (11.37%) Agile
13 163 (11.10%) Root Cause Analysis
14 161 (10.96%) High Availability
15 152 (10.35%) Project Delivery
16 142 (9.67%) Incident Response
17 140 (9.53%) Cloud Security
17 140 (9.53%) Platform Engineering
18 131 (8.92%) Observability
19 130 (8.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 572 (38.94%) Python
2 304 (20.69%) Bash
3 299 (20.35%) SQL
4 143 (9.73%) JavaScript
5 137 (9.33%) C#
6 114 (7.76%) Bicep
7 85 (5.79%) TypeScript
8 50 (3.40%) Kusto Query Language
9 37 (2.52%) Java
10 36 (2.45%) T-SQL
11 23 (1.57%) VBScript
12 20 (1.36%) C++
13 19 (1.29%) Perl
14 14 (0.95%) Ruby
15 12 (0.82%) PHP
16 10 (0.68%) Go
16 10 (0.68%) VB
16 10 (0.68%) VBA
17 7 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 6 (0.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 204 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 167 (11.37%) Degree
3 157 (10.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 153 (10.42%) Azure Certification
5 141 (9.60%) SC Cleared
6 63 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 60 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
8 59 (4.02%) DV Cleared
9 52 (3.54%) CISSP
9 52 (3.54%) CompTIA Security+
10 45 (3.06%) CCNA
11 27 (1.84%) CEH
12 23 (1.57%) DBS Check
13 22 (1.50%) AWS Certification
14 21 (1.43%) OSCP
15 19 (1.29%) CISM
16 18 (1.23%) GIAC
16 18 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 17 (1.16%) CCNP
17 17 (1.16%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (7.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 79 (5.38%) QA
3 69 (4.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 64 (4.36%) NIST
5 46 (3.13%) GDPR
6 45 (3.06%) SLA
7 20 (1.36%) Data Quality
8 18 (1.23%) PCI DSS
9 15 (1.02%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.54%) NCSC
11 7 (0.48%) PMO
12 6 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.34%) Accessibility
14 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.27%) ISO 22301
15 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
16 2 (0.14%) EMIR
16 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 524 (35.67%) Active Directory
2 245 (16.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 158 (10.76%) Hyper-V
4 140 (9.53%) Docker
5 81 (5.51%) vSphere
6 68 (4.63%) Virtual Machines
7 54 (3.68%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (1.84%) VMware NSX
9 20 (1.36%) BitLocker
10 18 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.54%) KVM
11 8 (0.54%) Squid
12 7 (0.48%) 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
1 261 (17.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 220 (14.98%) Kubernetes
3 169 (11.50%) Ansible
4 80 (5.45%) Grafana
5 74 (5.04%) SCCM
6 53 (3.61%) Single Sign-On
7 43 (2.93%) Prometheus
8 25 (1.70%) vCenter Server
8 25 (1.70%) ZABBIX
9 24 (1.63%) Argo
10 21 (1.43%) QRadar
11 20 (1.36%) Proxmox
12 19 (1.29%) Jamf Pro
13 18 (1.23%) Packer
13 18 (1.23%) Puppet
14 15 (1.02%) FortiGate
14 15 (1.02%) Graylog
15 13 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 11 (0.75%) VxRail
17 9 (0.61%) Kibana
Vendors
1 913 (62.15%) Microsoft
2 279 (18.99%) VMware
3 113 (7.69%) Cisco
4 105 (7.15%) ServiceNow
5 89 (6.06%) Splunk
6 62 (4.22%) Veeam
7 53 (3.61%) Red Hat
8 50 (3.40%) Oracle
9 43 (2.93%) Citrix
10 41 (2.79%) Meraki
11 34 (2.31%) Sage
12 33 (2.25%) Dynatrace
13 32 (2.18%) Sophos
14 31 (2.11%) Dell
15 27 (1.84%) CyberArk
15 27 (1.84%) Tenable
16 26 (1.77%) Fortinet
16 26 (1.77%) SAP
17 25 (1.70%) Apple
17 25 (1.70%) CrowdStrike