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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 88 114
Rank change year-on-year -50 +26 -30
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,315 1,582 2,385
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.40% 3.53% 2.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.84% 11.32% 6.93%
Number of salaries quoted 968 998 1,910
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,500 £77,500 £75,188
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,101 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.20% - -3.85%

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 16,777 13,975 34,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.87% 31.16% 31.59%
Number of salaries quoted 11,850 9,210 25,980
10th Percentile £37,225 £35,000 £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 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,125 £98,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -54 1,222 £59,000 +1.20% 339
UK excluding London -65 785 £50,101 +0.20% 300
London -13 506 £70,000 -5.41% 101
Work from Home -45 427 £60,000 +9.09% 154
South East -44 203 £55,000 -4.35% 127
North of England -88 196 £47,500 -6.40% 66
Midlands -42 137 £50,000 - 27
North West -79 102 £51,500 +10.75% 50
East of England -26 86 £54,500 +14.74% 25
South West -44 84 £55,000 +15.79% 41
East Midlands -11 77 £45,000 +24.14% 14
Yorkshire -26 61 £45,000 -21.74% 13
West Midlands -69 59 £51,250 -4.54% 13
Scotland +37 52 £50,000 +3.09% 10
North East -24 33 £47,500 -19.15% 4
Wales -26 24 £54,085 +3.02% 9
Northern Ireland -28 3 £46,000 +6.75% 12

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
1 201 (15.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 188 (14.30%) SharePoint
3 43 (3.27%) IIS
4 23 (1.75%) Confluence
5 3 (0.23%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.15%) Apache
6 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.076%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.076%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.076%) nginx
7 1 (0.076%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.076%) SAS
7 1 (0.076%) Site Server
Applications
1 77 (5.86%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.076%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.076%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.61%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.23%) Alphatax
4 3 (0.23%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.076%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.076%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.076%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 862 (65.55%) Azure
2 485 (36.88%) Microsoft 365
3 360 (27.38%) Entra ID
4 219 (16.65%) AWS
5 143 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
6 121 (9.20%) Power Platform
7 105 (7.98%) GitHub
8 94 (7.15%) SaaS
9 93 (7.07%) IaaS
10 89 (6.77%) OneDrive
11 75 (5.70%) Azure Monitor
12 70 (5.32%) GitHub Actions
13 65 (4.94%) PaaS
13 65 (4.94%) Power Automate
14 64 (4.87%) Google Workspace
15 59 (4.49%) Azure AKS
15 59 (4.49%) Azure Sentinel
16 56 (4.26%) GCP
17 55 (4.18%) Azure Key Vault
18 47 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 267 (20.30%) Firewall
2 265 (20.15%) DNS
3 174 (13.23%) VPN
4 169 (12.85%) DHCP
5 113 (8.59%) TCP/IP
6 83 (6.31%) WAN
7 80 (6.08%) LAN
8 74 (5.63%) Network Security
9 58 (4.41%) VLAN
10 54 (4.11%) Broadband
11 45 (3.42%) Wi-Fi
12 38 (2.89%) VoIP
13 32 (2.43%) SAN
14 26 (1.98%) Wireless
15 23 (1.75%) BGP
16 19 (1.44%) Kerberos
17 17 (1.29%) SD-WAN
18 15 (1.14%) MPLS
18 15 (1.14%) SSL
19 14 (1.06%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (11.18%) SQL Server
2 83 (6.31%) Power BI
3 69 (5.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 41 (3.12%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (1.90%) MySQL
7 23 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (1.22%) MongoDB
9 14 (1.06%) NoSQL
9 14 (1.06%) Relational Database
9 14 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 13 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (0.68%) Data Lake
11 9 (0.68%) InfluxDB
11 9 (0.68%) Tableau
12 8 (0.61%) Metadata
13 5 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (0.38%) Redis
13 5 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 3 (0.23%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 99 (7.53%) Git
2 70 (5.32%) JIRA
3 66 (5.02%) Jenkins
4 61 (4.64%) GitLab
5 31 (2.36%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.22%) Octopus Deploy
7 15 (1.14%) TeamCity
8 13 (0.99%) Metasploit
9 12 (0.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 10 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
11 9 (0.68%) Burp Suite
12 8 (0.61%) Robot Framework
13 7 (0.53%) TestRail
14 5 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (0.38%) CircleCI
14 5 (0.38%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.38%) Selenium
15 4 (0.30%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.30%) SonarQube
16 3 (0.23%) MLflow
General
1 401 (30.49%) Social Skills
2 216 (16.43%) Finance
3 168 (12.78%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (6.92%) Law
5 79 (6.01%) Organisational Skills
6 56 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 50 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (3.65%) Legal
9 45 (3.42%) Retail
10 36 (2.74%) Public Sector
11 25 (1.90%) Aerospace
11 25 (1.90%) Manufacturing
12 24 (1.83%) Games
13 23 (1.75%) Banking
14 18 (1.37%) Advertising
15 16 (1.22%) Telecoms
16 9 (0.68%) Aviation
17 7 (0.53%) Front Office
17 7 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
18 6 (0.46%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 243 (18.48%) Senior
2 166 (12.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 148 (11.25%) Support Engineer
4 147 (11.18%) Analyst
5 134 (10.19%) IT Support
6 133 (10.11%) Azure Engineer
7 123 (9.35%) IT Engineer
8 107 (8.14%) Cloud Engineer
9 95 (7.22%) DevOps Engineer
10 85 (6.46%) Security Engineer
11 81 (6.16%) IT Support Engineer
12 65 (4.94%) Developer
12 65 (4.94%) Platform Engineer
13 60 (4.56%) Systems Engineer
14 59 (4.49%) 2nd Line Support
15 53 (4.03%) Lead
16 45 (3.42%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 43 (3.27%) Security Analyst
18 42 (3.19%) 3rd Line Engineer
18 42 (3.19%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (6.84%) SAML
2 89 (6.77%) OAuth
3 87 (6.62%) REST
4 85 (6.46%) .NET
5 81 (6.16%) OpenID
6 78 (5.93%) LDAP
7 60 (4.56%) SOAP
8 52 (3.95%) GraphQL
9 44 (3.35%) YAML
10 42 (3.19%) ARM Templates
11 40 (3.04%) JSON
12 39 (2.97%) Microsoft Graph
13 38 (2.89%) HTML
14 36 (2.74%) .NET Core
15 34 (2.59%) CSS
16 27 (2.05%) SPFx
17 22 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
18 19 (1.44%) HTML5 Canvas
19 18 (1.37%) React
20 15 (1.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 101 (7.68%) Onboarding
2 76 (5.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 71 (5.40%) Cloud Native
4 68 (5.17%) Cyber Threat
5 66 (5.02%) Security Posture
6 59 (4.49%) Management Information System
7 58 (4.41%) Driving Licence
8 57 (4.33%) Cyberattack
9 45 (3.42%) Security Operations Centre
10 44 (3.35%) Cyber Defence
11 42 (3.19%) Data Centre
12 37 (2.81%) PKI
13 36 (2.74%) Public Cloud
14 35 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
15 22 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
15 22 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
16 21 (1.60%) Replication
17 20 (1.52%) Private Cloud
18 19 (1.44%) Clustering
18 19 (1.44%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 615 (46.77%) Windows
2 297 (22.59%) Linux
3 296 (22.51%) Windows Server
4 79 (6.01%) Windows 10
5 53 (4.03%) Apple iOS
6 52 (3.95%) Mac OS
7 45 (3.42%) VMS
8 42 (3.19%) Android
9 37 (2.81%) Windows Server 2016
10 31 (2.36%) CentOS
11 29 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 28 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
13 24 (1.83%) Ubuntu
14 15 (1.14%) Unix
15 7 (0.53%) Debian
16 6 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.30%) AIX
17 4 (0.30%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.30%) Kali Linux
18 2 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (25.02%) Problem-Solving
2 299 (22.74%) Infrastructure as Code
3 296 (22.51%) CI/CD
4 292 (22.21%) Cybersecurity
5 279 (21.22%) DevOps
6 237 (18.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 227 (17.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 221 (16.81%) ITIL
9 187 (14.22%) Mentoring
10 166 (12.62%) Agile
11 161 (12.24%) Incident Response
12 158 (12.02%) Root Cause Analysis
13 155 (11.79%) Disaster Recovery
14 139 (10.57%) Roadmaps
15 137 (10.42%) High Availability
16 135 (10.27%) Containerisation
17 129 (9.81%) SIEM
18 124 (9.43%) Cloud Security
19 116 (8.82%) AI
20 113 (8.59%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 512 (38.94%) Python
2 351 (26.69%) Bash
3 277 (21.06%) SQL
4 95 (7.22%) C#
5 86 (6.54%) Bicep
6 80 (6.08%) T-SQL
7 77 (5.86%) JavaScript
8 38 (2.89%) Kusto Query Language
9 30 (2.28%) Java
10 26 (1.98%) TypeScript
11 18 (1.37%) C++
12 15 (1.14%) VBScript
13 13 (0.99%) Perl
13 13 (0.99%) PHP
14 11 (0.84%) VB
15 10 (0.76%) VBA
16 9 (0.68%) Go
17 8 (0.61%) C
17 8 (0.61%) Ruby
18 6 (0.46%) Korn
Qualifications
1 162 (12.32%) Degree
2 160 (12.17%) Security Cleared
3 137 (10.42%) Azure Certification
4 119 (9.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 105 (7.98%) SC Cleared
6 57 (4.33%) CISSP
7 54 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 50 (3.80%) Cisco Certification
9 43 (3.27%) DV Cleared
10 40 (3.04%) CompTIA Security+
11 33 (2.51%) CCNA
12 29 (2.21%) CREST Certified
13 28 (2.13%) DBS Check
13 28 (2.13%) OSCP
14 27 (2.05%) AWS Certification
15 24 (1.83%) CEH
15 24 (1.83%) GIAC
16 17 (1.29%) CCNP
16 17 (1.29%) CompTIA CySA+
17 14 (1.06%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (11.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 133 (10.11%) NIST
3 58 (4.41%) GDPR
4 52 (3.95%) Cyber Essentials
5 49 (3.73%) NCSC
6 38 (2.89%) SLA
7 20 (1.52%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.22%) PCI DSS
8 16 (1.22%) QA
9 15 (1.14%) SOC 2
10 14 (1.06%) Accessibility
11 13 (0.99%) ISO 22301
12 11 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 10 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.46%) DICOM
14 6 (0.46%) PMO
15 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.15%) EMIR
16 2 (0.15%) ISAE 3402
System Software
1 509 (38.71%) Active Directory
2 206 (15.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 143 (10.87%) Docker
4 135 (10.27%) Hyper-V
5 70 (5.32%) vSphere
6 40 (3.04%) Virtual Machines
7 34 (2.59%) Virtual Desktop
8 25 (1.90%) BitLocker
9 24 (1.83%) VMware NSX
10 15 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.76%) KVM
12 8 (0.61%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.61%) Squid
13 5 (0.38%) Firmware
13 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.30%) iptables
15 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
16 2 (0.15%) Samba
Systems Management
1 309 (23.50%) Terraform
2 217 (16.50%) Kubernetes
3 204 (15.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 155 (11.79%) Ansible
5 70 (5.32%) Grafana
6 59 (4.49%) Single Sign-On
7 50 (3.80%) Prometheus
8 48 (3.65%) SCCM
9 27 (2.05%) Jamf Pro
10 24 (1.83%) vCenter Server
11 21 (1.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 20 (1.52%) Packer
12 20 (1.52%) ZABBIX
13 19 (1.44%) Argo
14 17 (1.29%) Nessus
14 17 (1.29%) QRadar
15 14 (1.06%) Graylog
15 14 (1.06%) Proxmox
16 13 (0.99%) VxRail
17 12 (0.91%) Nagios
Vendors
1 773 (58.78%) Microsoft
2 256 (19.47%) VMware
3 101 (7.68%) Cisco
4 86 (6.54%) Splunk
5 67 (5.10%) ServiceNow
6 56 (4.26%) Red Hat
7 46 (3.50%) Veeam
8 39 (2.97%) Meraki
9 37 (2.81%) Oracle
10 31 (2.36%) Apple
10 31 (2.36%) CrowdStrike
11 28 (2.13%) Google
12 27 (2.05%) Citrix
12 27 (2.05%) Dell
12 27 (2.05%) Tenable
13 26 (1.98%) Fortinet
14 24 (1.83%) Palo Alto
14 24 (1.83%) Sophos
15 23 (1.75%) Commvault
16 22 (1.67%) SolarWinds