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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 90 100
Rank change year-on-year -61 +10 -35
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,490 1,608 1,844
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.27% 3.26% 2.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.99% 12.51% 7.86%
Number of salaries quoted 998 1,063 1,188
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,750 £46,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £100,000
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 18,657 12,849 23,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.88% 26.05% 30.94%
Number of salaries quoted 13,194 8,261 14,329
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £47,500
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 28 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 28 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 -71 1,290 £59,000 +2.61% 935
UK excluding London -66 968 £52,500 - 592
Work from Home -32 515 £60,000 - 426
London -28 471 £70,000 -1.06% 371
North of England -78 239 £50,000 - 167
South East -50 235 £52,500 -8.70% 139
Midlands -47 161 £52,500 +5.00% 98
North West -78 147 £50,000 +5.26% 95
East of England -38 94 £57,500 +21.05% 48
South West -76 86 £55,000 +15.79% 71
West Midlands -64 81 £55,000 - 56
East Midlands -22 80 £42,500 +21.43% 42
Northern Ireland -27 70 £46,000 - 24
Yorkshire -33 56 £45,472 -13.39% 49
Scotland -5 46 £51,250 +7.89% 40
Wales -40 37 £38,500 -30.00% 21
North East -38 36 £51,500 -14.17% 25

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
1 253 (16.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 243 (16.31%) SharePoint
3 55 (3.69%) IIS
4 42 (2.82%) Confluence
5 15 (1.01%) nginx
6 8 (0.54%) Apache
7 6 (0.40%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.067%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.067%) WebSphere
Applications
1 65 (4.36%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (2.42%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.40%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.34%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.067%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 882 (59.19%) Azure
2 565 (37.92%) Microsoft 365
3 475 (31.88%) Entra ID
4 265 (17.79%) AWS
5 183 (12.28%) SaaS
6 182 (12.21%) Azure DevOps
7 122 (8.19%) Power Platform
8 117 (7.85%) GitHub
9 113 (7.58%) OneDrive
10 104 (6.98%) IaaS
11 91 (6.11%) Azure Monitor
12 90 (6.04%) Azure Sentinel
13 81 (5.44%) Power Automate
14 80 (5.37%) PaaS
15 72 (4.83%) GCP
16 71 (4.77%) Azure AKS
17 69 (4.63%) Azure Key Vault
18 66 (4.43%) GitHub Actions
19 64 (4.30%) Microsoft Purview
20 56 (3.76%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 327 (21.95%) Firewall
2 326 (21.88%) DNS
3 225 (15.10%) DHCP
4 224 (15.03%) VPN
5 148 (9.93%) TCP/IP
6 103 (6.91%) WAN
7 89 (5.97%) LAN
8 76 (5.10%) VLAN
9 60 (4.03%) Network Security
10 57 (3.83%) Wireless
11 49 (3.29%) Wi-Fi
12 36 (2.42%) SAN
13 32 (2.15%) Kerberos
14 26 (1.74%) SSL
15 23 (1.54%) HTTP
16 21 (1.41%) NAS
17 17 (1.14%) Internet
18 16 (1.07%) VoIP
18 16 (1.07%) VSAN
19 13 (0.87%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (10.07%) SQL Server
2 87 (5.84%) Azure SQL Database
3 64 (4.30%) Power BI
4 27 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (1.34%) MongoDB
6 16 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.07%) Relational Database
7 13 (0.87%) MySQL
8 12 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (0.67%) Data Lake
9 10 (0.67%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.54%) InfluxDB
10 8 (0.54%) Power Query
10 8 (0.54%) Redis
11 7 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.40%) Metadata
13 5 (0.34%) Db2
13 5 (0.34%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 103 (6.91%) JIRA
2 96 (6.44%) Git
3 80 (5.37%) GitLab
4 67 (4.50%) Jenkins
5 28 (1.88%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
8 10 (0.67%) TeamCity
9 8 (0.54%) Robot Framework
9 8 (0.54%) TestRail
10 7 (0.47%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.40%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.40%) Postman
11 6 (0.40%) Selenium
11 6 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.34%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.34%) MSI
12 5 (0.34%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.27%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
General
1 568 (38.12%) Social Skills
2 252 (16.91%) Finance
3 194 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (7.58%) Legal
5 108 (7.25%) Law
6 77 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (4.03%) Documentation Skills
8 51 (3.42%) Retail
9 45 (3.02%) Banking
10 44 (2.95%) Public Sector
11 39 (2.62%) Aerospace
12 37 (2.48%) Manufacturing
13 35 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (0.94%) Legal Technology
15 12 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (0.74%) Financial Institution
17 10 (0.67%) Investment Banking
18 9 (0.60%) Aviation
18 9 (0.60%) Front Office
18 9 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 290 (19.46%) Senior
2 210 (14.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 169 (11.34%) Analyst
4 134 (8.99%) Azure Engineer
5 133 (8.93%) Support Engineer
6 130 (8.72%) IT Engineer
7 129 (8.66%) Cloud Engineer
8 113 (7.58%) DevOps Engineer
9 107 (7.18%) IT Support
10 84 (5.64%) Platform Engineer
11 77 (5.17%) Consultant
12 75 (5.03%) Lead
13 69 (4.63%) Support Analyst
14 65 (4.36%) IT Support Engineer
15 62 (4.16%) Security Engineer
15 62 (4.16%) Systems Engineer
16 56 (3.76%) Administrator
16 56 (3.76%) Testing Manager
17 55 (3.69%) Senior Manager
18 53 (3.56%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 379 (25.44%) Terraform
2 70 (4.70%) .NET
3 58 (3.89%) REST
4 56 (3.76%) ARM Templates
5 47 (3.15%) SAML
6 45 (3.02%) Microsoft Graph
7 44 (2.95%) LDAP
8 43 (2.89%) YAML
9 42 (2.82%) OAuth
9 42 (2.82%) OpenID
10 34 (2.28%) HTML
11 28 (1.88%) JSON
12 25 (1.68%) CSS
13 24 (1.61%) SPFx
14 23 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
15 19 (1.28%) .NET Core
16 16 (1.07%) SOAP
17 14 (0.94%) ASP.NET
17 14 (0.94%) Kafka
18 13 (0.87%) React
Miscellaneous
1 132 (8.86%) Onboarding
2 92 (6.17%) Cloud Native
3 81 (5.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 76 (5.10%) Driving Licence
5 75 (5.03%) Management Information System
6 72 (4.83%) Security Posture
7 60 (4.03%) Virtual Team
8 54 (3.62%) PKI
9 52 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
10 49 (3.29%) Data Centre
10 49 (3.29%) Replication
11 44 (2.95%) Security Operations Centre
12 41 (2.75%) Public Cloud
13 36 (2.42%) Clustering
14 32 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
15 26 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
16 23 (1.54%) Cyber Defence
17 22 (1.48%) Private Cloud
18 19 (1.28%) CMDB
18 19 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 706 (47.38%) Windows
2 343 (23.02%) Linux
3 336 (22.55%) Windows Server
4 96 (6.44%) Windows 10
5 53 (3.56%) Apple iOS
6 44 (2.95%) Ubuntu
7 42 (2.82%) Android
8 40 (2.68%) Mac OS
9 39 (2.62%) VMS
10 33 (2.21%) CentOS
10 33 (2.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 30 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 28 (1.88%) Windows Server 2019
13 24 (1.61%) Unix
14 16 (1.07%) Rocky
15 8 (0.54%) Debian
15 8 (0.54%) Solaris
16 5 (0.34%) CoreOS
16 5 (0.34%) Kali Linux
17 4 (0.27%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (28.39%) Problem-Solving
2 397 (26.64%) DevOps
3 380 (25.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 358 (24.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 330 (22.15%) CI/CD
6 321 (21.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 273 (18.32%) ITIL
8 262 (17.58%) Cybersecurity
9 229 (15.37%) Mentoring
10 206 (13.83%) Disaster Recovery
11 176 (11.81%) AI
12 173 (11.61%) Agile
13 161 (10.81%) Root Cause Analysis
14 158 (10.60%) Project Delivery
15 157 (10.54%) High Availability
16 151 (10.13%) Platform Engineering
17 146 (9.80%) Cloud Security
18 144 (9.66%) Migration
19 141 (9.46%) Incident Response
20 134 (8.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 587 (39.40%) Python
2 313 (21.01%) Bash
3 307 (20.60%) SQL
4 141 (9.46%) JavaScript
5 129 (8.66%) C#
6 128 (8.59%) Bicep
7 82 (5.50%) TypeScript
8 51 (3.42%) Kusto Query Language
9 37 (2.48%) Java
9 37 (2.48%) T-SQL
10 23 (1.54%) VBScript
11 21 (1.41%) C++
12 19 (1.28%) Perl
13 13 (0.87%) PHP
14 12 (0.81%) Ruby
15 11 (0.74%) VBA
16 10 (0.67%) VB
17 8 (0.54%) Go
18 7 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 6 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 217 (14.56%) Security Cleared
2 170 (11.41%) Degree
3 160 (10.74%) Microsoft Certification
4 155 (10.40%) Azure Certification
5 145 (9.73%) SC Cleared
6 64 (4.30%) DV Cleared
7 61 (4.09%) CISSP
8 60 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 54 (3.62%) CompTIA Security+
10 53 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
11 42 (2.82%) CCNA
12 28 (1.88%) CEH
13 27 (1.81%) AWS Certification
14 22 (1.48%) CISM
14 22 (1.48%) DBS Check
15 20 (1.34%) OSCP
16 18 (1.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 16 (1.07%) CompTIA CySA+
17 16 (1.07%) CREST Certified
17 16 (1.07%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (7.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 81 (5.44%) QA
3 74 (4.97%) Cyber Essentials
4 62 (4.16%) NIST
5 48 (3.22%) GDPR
6 45 (3.02%) SLA
7 20 (1.34%) PCI DSS
8 19 (1.28%) Data Quality
9 14 (0.94%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 9 (0.60%) NCSC
11 8 (0.54%) PMO
11 8 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.34%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.27%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.13%) EMIR
15 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 544 (36.51%) Active Directory
2 243 (16.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 156 (10.47%) Hyper-V
4 144 (9.66%) Docker
5 82 (5.50%) vSphere
6 76 (5.10%) Virtual Machines
7 59 (3.96%) Virtual Desktop
8 28 (1.88%) VMware NSX
9 23 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
10 17 (1.14%) BitLocker
11 13 (0.87%) Firmware
12 8 (0.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.54%) KVM
12 8 (0.54%) Squid
13 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
17 1 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
17 1 (0.067%) Snort
Systems Management
1 263 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 226 (15.17%) Kubernetes
3 171 (11.48%) Ansible
4 81 (5.44%) Grafana
5 76 (5.10%) SCCM
6 59 (3.96%) Single Sign-On
7 45 (3.02%) Prometheus
8 26 (1.74%) vCenter Server
9 25 (1.68%) ZABBIX
10 24 (1.61%) Argo
10 24 (1.61%) Puppet
11 21 (1.41%) QRadar
12 20 (1.34%) Proxmox
13 17 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
14 16 (1.07%) Packer
15 15 (1.01%) FortiGate
15 15 (1.01%) Graylog
16 12 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 11 (0.74%) Progress Chef
17 11 (0.74%) VxRail
Vendors
1 941 (63.15%) Microsoft
2 279 (18.72%) VMware
3 105 (7.05%) Cisco
4 99 (6.64%) ServiceNow
5 91 (6.11%) Splunk
6 67 (4.50%) Veeam
7 51 (3.42%) Oracle
8 49 (3.29%) Red Hat
9 43 (2.89%) Citrix
10 38 (2.55%) Meraki
11 34 (2.28%) Sage
12 32 (2.15%) Dell
13 31 (2.08%) Dynatrace
14 30 (2.01%) Sophos
15 29 (1.95%) SAP
16 28 (1.88%) CyberArk
17 26 (1.74%) Apple
17 26 (1.74%) Fortinet
17 26 (1.74%) Google
17 26 (1.74%) SolarWinds