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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 96 96
Rank change year-on-year -60 0 -35
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,500 1,554 1,810
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.26% 3.16% 2.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.11% 12.43% 8.10%
Number of salaries quoted 994 1,064 1,175
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £42,063 £42,780 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £89,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year - +3.96% -6.48%

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 18,486 12,502 22,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.56% 25.41% 31.50%
Number of salaries quoted 13,150 8,123 13,402
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,862 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £83,938 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
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 15 October 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 October 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 -63 1,297 £57,500 - 313
UK excluding London -72 973 £52,500 - 245
Work from Home -36 521 £60,000 - 532
London -36 466 £70,000 -3.45% 98
South East -34 239 £52,500 -8.70% 78
North of England -91 233 £50,000 - 64
Midlands -29 162 £52,500 +1.94% 36
North West -83 139 £50,000 - 35
East of England -42 98 £57,500 +21.05% 15
South West -67 94 £55,000 +13.40% 46
East Midlands 0 83 £42,500 +15.65% 10
West Midlands -66 79 £55,000 - 26
Northern Ireland -24 70 £46,000 - 2
Yorkshire -50 57 £48,445 -3.11% 19
Scotland -4 46 £52,500 +10.53% 8
North East -35 37 £51,500 -14.17% 11
Wales -52 31 £35,000 -36.36% 7

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
1 265 (17.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 243 (16.20%) SharePoint
3 50 (3.33%) IIS
4 43 (2.87%) Confluence
5 15 (1.00%) nginx
6 8 (0.53%) Apache
7 5 (0.33%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.067%) FactoryTalk
10 1 (0.067%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.067%) WebSphere
Applications
1 63 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.067%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 36 (2.40%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.40%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.33%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.067%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 1 (0.067%) Actimize
7 1 (0.067%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 907 (60.47%) Azure
2 585 (39.00%) Microsoft 365
3 510 (34.00%) Entra ID
4 260 (17.33%) AWS
5 187 (12.47%) SaaS
6 182 (12.13%) Azure DevOps
7 128 (8.53%) Power Platform
8 116 (7.73%) GitHub
9 115 (7.67%) OneDrive
10 109 (7.27%) IaaS
11 95 (6.33%) Azure Monitor
12 92 (6.13%) Azure Sentinel
13 79 (5.27%) PaaS
14 78 (5.20%) Power Automate
15 73 (4.87%) Azure AKS
15 73 (4.87%) GCP
16 71 (4.73%) Microsoft Purview
17 69 (4.60%) Azure Key Vault
18 65 (4.33%) Microsoft Copilot
19 62 (4.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 345 (23.00%) DNS
2 335 (22.33%) Firewall
3 244 (16.27%) DHCP
4 243 (16.20%) VPN
5 164 (10.93%) TCP/IP
6 96 (6.40%) WAN
7 85 (5.67%) LAN
7 85 (5.67%) VLAN
8 63 (4.20%) Network Security
9 60 (4.00%) Wireless
10 49 (3.27%) Wi-Fi
11 40 (2.67%) SAN
12 35 (2.33%) Kerberos
13 32 (2.13%) SSL
14 27 (1.80%) NAS
15 24 (1.60%) HTTP
16 18 (1.20%) VSAN
17 14 (0.93%) FTP
17 14 (0.93%) Internet
17 14 (0.93%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (10.13%) SQL Server
2 84 (5.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 63 (4.20%) Power BI
4 23 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.47%) MongoDB
6 18 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (1.13%) Relational Database
8 13 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (0.80%) MySQL
10 11 (0.73%) NoSQL
11 10 (0.67%) Data Lake
11 10 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.53%) InfluxDB
12 8 (0.53%) Redis
12 8 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (0.47%) Metadata
13 7 (0.47%) Power Query
14 6 (0.40%) Db2
14 6 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 5 (0.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 99 (6.60%) JIRA
2 92 (6.13%) Git
3 81 (5.40%) GitLab
4 66 (4.40%) Jenkins
5 25 (1.67%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
7 10 (0.67%) TeamCity
8 8 (0.53%) Robot Framework
8 8 (0.53%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.53%) TestRail
9 7 (0.47%) Postman
10 6 (0.40%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.40%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.40%) Selenium
11 5 (0.33%) Burp Suite
11 5 (0.33%) MSI
11 5 (0.33%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.27%) Claude Code
General
1 577 (38.47%) Social Skills
2 250 (16.67%) Finance
3 199 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (7.80%) Legal
5 102 (6.80%) Law
6 77 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 58 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (3.00%) Retail
9 44 (2.93%) Banking
10 40 (2.67%) Public Sector
11 39 (2.60%) Aerospace
12 38 (2.53%) Manufacturing
13 37 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (0.93%) Legal Technology
15 13 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (0.80%) Financial Institution
17 10 (0.67%) Advertising
17 10 (0.67%) Investment Banking
18 9 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
18 9 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 288 (19.20%) Senior
2 230 (15.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 178 (11.87%) Analyst
4 135 (9.00%) IT Engineer
5 134 (8.93%) Azure Engineer
6 130 (8.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 128 (8.53%) Support Engineer
8 119 (7.93%) DevOps Engineer
9 107 (7.13%) IT Support
10 82 (5.47%) Consultant
10 82 (5.47%) Platform Engineer
11 72 (4.80%) Lead
12 71 (4.73%) Support Analyst
13 69 (4.60%) IT Support Engineer
14 59 (3.93%) Security Engineer
15 58 (3.87%) Systems Engineer
16 55 (3.67%) Administrator
16 55 (3.67%) Senior Manager
16 55 (3.67%) Testing Manager
17 49 (3.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (25.33%) Terraform
2 66 (4.40%) .NET
3 58 (3.87%) REST
4 56 (3.73%) SAML
5 54 (3.60%) ARM Templates
6 50 (3.33%) LDAP
7 43 (2.87%) Microsoft Graph
7 43 (2.87%) OpenID
8 41 (2.73%) OAuth
8 41 (2.73%) YAML
9 29 (1.93%) HTML
10 27 (1.80%) JSON
11 24 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
12 21 (1.40%) SPFx
13 20 (1.33%) CSS
14 16 (1.07%) Kafka
15 15 (1.00%) .NET Core
16 14 (0.93%) ASP.NET
16 14 (0.93%) SOAP
17 13 (0.87%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 131 (8.73%) Onboarding
2 92 (6.13%) Cloud Native
3 86 (5.73%) Driving Licence
4 81 (5.40%) Hybrid Cloud
5 74 (4.93%) Security Posture
6 68 (4.53%) Management Information System
7 62 (4.13%) Replication
8 60 (4.00%) Virtual Team
9 55 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
9 55 (3.67%) PKI
10 49 (3.27%) Data Centre
11 40 (2.67%) Security Operations Centre
12 39 (2.60%) Clustering
12 39 (2.60%) Public Cloud
13 30 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
14 29 (1.93%) Cyber Threat
15 23 (1.53%) Cyber Defence
15 23 (1.53%) Private Cloud
16 21 (1.40%) Enterprise Storage
17 19 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 725 (48.33%) Windows
2 358 (23.87%) Linux
3 354 (23.60%) Windows Server
4 98 (6.53%) Windows 10
5 49 (3.27%) Apple iOS
6 46 (3.07%) Ubuntu
7 42 (2.80%) macOS
8 41 (2.73%) Android
9 39 (2.60%) VMS
10 36 (2.40%) Windows Server 2019
11 33 (2.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 32 (2.13%) CentOS
13 26 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 22 (1.47%) Unix
15 19 (1.27%) Rocky
16 8 (0.53%) Debian
17 7 (0.47%) Kali Linux
17 7 (0.47%) Solaris
18 5 (0.33%) CoreOS
19 4 (0.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (29.00%) Problem-Solving
2 397 (26.47%) Continuous Improvement
2 397 (26.47%) DevOps
3 361 (24.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 346 (23.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 324 (21.60%) CI/CD
6 265 (17.67%) ITIL
7 264 (17.60%) Cybersecurity
8 236 (15.73%) Mentoring
9 231 (15.40%) Disaster Recovery
10 191 (12.73%) AI
11 170 (11.33%) Project Delivery
12 169 (11.27%) Root Cause Analysis
13 168 (11.20%) Agile
14 159 (10.60%) Platform Engineering
15 155 (10.33%) High Availability
16 152 (10.13%) Cloud Security
16 152 (10.13%) Migration
17 145 (9.67%) Infrastructure Automation
18 144 (9.60%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 580 (38.67%) Python
2 312 (20.80%) Bash
3 296 (19.73%) SQL
4 134 (8.93%) JavaScript
5 129 (8.60%) Bicep
6 124 (8.27%) C#
7 81 (5.40%) TypeScript
8 55 (3.67%) Kusto Query Language
9 43 (2.87%) Java
10 35 (2.33%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.40%) C++
11 21 (1.40%) VBScript
12 19 (1.27%) Perl
13 13 (0.87%) PHP
14 11 (0.73%) Ruby
15 8 (0.53%) Go
15 8 (0.53%) VB
15 8 (0.53%) VBA
16 6 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 227 (15.13%) Security Cleared
2 169 (11.27%) Microsoft Certification
3 168 (11.20%) Degree
4 164 (10.93%) Azure Certification
5 144 (9.60%) SC Cleared
6 68 (4.53%) DV Cleared
7 66 (4.40%) CISSP
8 57 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 55 (3.67%) CompTIA Security+
10 47 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
11 39 (2.60%) CCNA
12 28 (1.87%) CEH
13 26 (1.73%) DBS Check
14 25 (1.67%) AWS Certification
15 21 (1.40%) CISM
16 19 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 18 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
17 18 (1.20%) GIAC
17 18 (1.20%) OSCP
18 16 (1.07%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (7.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 83 (5.53%) QA
3 81 (5.40%) Cyber Essentials
4 70 (4.67%) NIST
5 50 (3.33%) SLA
6 44 (2.93%) GDPR
7 22 (1.47%) Data Quality
7 22 (1.47%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 11 (0.73%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.67%) NCSC
11 9 (0.60%) Accessibility
11 9 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.53%) PMO
13 7 (0.47%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.13%) EMIR
15 2 (0.13%) GRC
15 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 564 (37.60%) Active Directory
2 250 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 172 (11.47%) Hyper-V
4 136 (9.07%) Docker
5 83 (5.53%) vSphere
6 79 (5.27%) Virtual Machines
7 62 (4.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 35 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
9 31 (2.07%) VMware NSX
10 17 (1.13%) BitLocker
11 15 (1.00%) Firmware
12 8 (0.53%) KVM
13 6 (0.40%) Squid
14 5 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 5 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.20%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 3 (0.20%) NFS
17 2 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 275 (18.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 230 (15.33%) Kubernetes
3 173 (11.53%) Ansible
4 81 (5.40%) Grafana
5 78 (5.20%) SCCM
6 65 (4.33%) Single Sign-On
7 45 (3.00%) Prometheus
8 35 (2.33%) Puppet
9 30 (2.00%) vCenter Server
10 24 (1.60%) Argo
11 23 (1.53%) ZABBIX
12 21 (1.40%) QRadar
13 20 (1.33%) FortiGate
13 20 (1.33%) Proxmox
14 15 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 15 (1.00%) Graylog
15 14 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
15 14 (0.93%) Progress Chef
16 13 (0.87%) Packer
17 11 (0.73%) Kibana
Vendors
1 968 (64.53%) Microsoft
2 292 (19.47%) VMware
3 111 (7.40%) Cisco
4 93 (6.20%) ServiceNow
5 89 (5.93%) Splunk
6 72 (4.80%) Veeam
7 48 (3.20%) Oracle
8 42 (2.80%) Citrix
8 42 (2.80%) Red Hat
9 37 (2.47%) Meraki
10 34 (2.27%) Sage
11 32 (2.13%) Dell
11 32 (2.13%) SolarWinds
12 30 (2.00%) Dynatrace
13 29 (1.93%) CyberArk
13 29 (1.93%) Google
13 29 (1.93%) SAP
13 29 (1.93%) Sophos
14 27 (1.80%) Apple
14 27 (1.80%) Fortinet