PowerShell Job Trends

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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 99 86
Rank change year-on-year -23 -13 +4
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,254 1,403 2,446
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.78% 3.08% 3.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.66% 8.97% 8.52%
Number of salaries quoted 924 1,037 2,126
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +10.62% -5.83%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,250 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.64% +10.00% -4.81%

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 12,986 15,643 28,699
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.39% 34.32% 36.40%
Number of salaries quoted 9,212 9,910 23,359
10th Percentile £34,500 £37,574 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,188 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,145
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.20% -1.55%

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 3 March 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 March 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 -33 1,065 £57,500 -8.00% 447
UK excluding London -29 717 £50,250 -8.64% 384
London -5 469 £70,000 -9.68% 137
Work from Home -1 409 £55,000 -12.00% 167
South East -43 195 £56,750 -5.42% 144
North of England -41 141 £47,500 -9.52% 70
Scotland +57 128 £71,500 +30.00% 26
South West -5 102 £55,000 +3.77% 56
Midlands -57 87 £52,500 +5.00% 48
Yorkshire -24 65 £47,500 -9.52% 26
North West -21 60 £50,000 -4.76% 32
East of England -17 54 £40,000 -27.27% 42
East Midlands -23 45 £55,000 +8.91% 25
West Midlands -43 41 £47,500 -5.00% 23
North East -11 16 £47,500 -20.83% 13
Wales -7 9 £55,000 +5.77% 8
Northern Ireland -28 2 - - 3

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
1 193 (15.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 139 (11.08%) SharePoint
3 37 (2.95%) IIS
4 22 (1.75%) Exchange Server 2003
5 13 (1.04%) Confluence
6 6 (0.48%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.40%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.16%) CMS
8 2 (0.16%) nginx
8 2 (0.16%) WordPress
9 1 (0.080%) Apache
9 1 (0.080%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.080%) CICS
9 1 (0.080%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.080%) Site Server
9 1 (0.080%) WebSphere
Applications
1 49 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.48%) Siemens NX
4 5 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.24%) CATIA
5 3 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.24%) Windchill
6 1 (0.080%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.64%) Markit EDM
3 7 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.48%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.32%) PlanetPress Connect
7 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
7 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
8 1 (0.080%) Actimize
8 1 (0.080%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.080%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.080%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 812 (64.75%) Azure
2 420 (33.49%) Microsoft 365
3 348 (27.75%) Entra ID
4 209 (16.67%) AWS
5 165 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
6 115 (9.17%) Power Platform
7 95 (7.58%) GitHub
8 82 (6.54%) GCP
9 79 (6.30%) PaaS
10 77 (6.14%) Google Workspace
11 73 (5.82%) GitHub Actions
12 72 (5.74%) SaaS
13 66 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
13 66 (5.26%) IaaS
14 49 (3.91%) OneDrive
15 48 (3.83%) Power Automate
16 40 (3.19%) Snowflake
17 37 (2.95%) Azure Logic Apps
17 37 (2.95%) dbt
18 36 (2.87%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 226 (18.02%) DNS
2 225 (17.94%) Firewall
3 181 (14.43%) DHCP
4 133 (10.61%) VPN
5 112 (8.93%) TCP/IP
6 78 (6.22%) WAN
7 71 (5.66%) LAN
8 64 (5.10%) Broadband
9 53 (4.23%) VLAN
10 49 (3.91%) Wi-Fi
11 38 (3.03%) Network Security
12 36 (2.87%) Wireless
13 33 (2.63%) SAN
13 33 (2.63%) VoIP
14 32 (2.55%) SD-WAN
15 17 (1.36%) VSAN
16 14 (1.12%) MPLS
17 13 (1.04%) NAS
18 12 (0.96%) BGP
18 12 (0.96%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (11.40%) SQL Server
2 89 (7.10%) Power BI
3 31 (2.47%) Relational Database
3 31 (2.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 30 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (2.31%) Oracle Database
6 27 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (2.07%) Oracle Database 10g
8 25 (1.99%) MySQL
9 18 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
10 16 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (1.20%) Tableau
12 14 (1.12%) NoSQL
12 14 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (0.64%) InfluxDB
13 8 (0.64%) MongoDB
14 6 (0.48%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
15 5 (0.40%) Metadata
16 4 (0.32%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 90 (7.18%) JIRA
2 82 (6.54%) Jenkins
3 76 (6.06%) Git
4 37 (2.95%) GitLab
5 28 (2.23%) Octopus Deploy
6 22 (1.75%) Bitbucket
7 20 (1.59%) TeamCity
8 15 (1.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 13 (1.04%) Metasploit
10 10 (0.80%) Burp Suite
11 9 (0.72%) CircleCI
11 9 (0.72%) Robot Framework
12 6 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.48%) TestRail
13 5 (0.40%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.32%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.32%) MLflow
15 3 (0.24%) Balsamiq
15 3 (0.24%) Eclipse
15 3 (0.24%) JMeter
General
1 444 (35.41%) Social Skills
2 312 (24.88%) Finance
3 144 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (6.30%) Organisational Skills
5 47 (3.75%) Retail
6 46 (3.67%) Law
7 43 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (2.87%) Games
8 36 (2.87%) Public Sector
9 34 (2.71%) Banking
10 33 (2.63%) Legal
11 29 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 29 (2.31%) Telecoms
12 25 (1.99%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.20%) Front Office
14 12 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (0.64%) Advertising
16 8 (0.64%) Aerospace
17 6 (0.48%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 191 (15.23%) Senior
2 149 (11.88%) Support Engineer
3 146 (11.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 117 (9.33%) Azure Engineer
5 107 (8.53%) Analyst
6 92 (7.34%) IT Support
7 84 (6.70%) Developer
8 82 (6.54%) Security Engineer
9 81 (6.46%) DevOps Engineer
10 80 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
11 73 (5.82%) IT Engineer
12 65 (5.18%) Lead
13 61 (4.86%) 3rd Line Support
14 55 (4.39%) IT Support Engineer
15 49 (3.91%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 47 (3.75%) Platform Engineer
17 41 (3.27%) Support Analyst
18 40 (3.19%) Applications Support
18 40 (3.19%) Architect
19 39 (3.11%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (8.69%) REST
2 91 (7.26%) OAuth
3 82 (6.54%) SAML
4 77 (6.14%) SOAP
5 76 (6.06%) OpenID
6 73 (5.82%) GraphQL
7 68 (5.42%) .NET
8 65 (5.18%) LDAP
9 35 (2.79%) YAML
10 33 (2.63%) JSON
11 25 (1.99%) ARM Templates
12 21 (1.67%) React
13 19 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
13 19 (1.52%) Web Services
14 17 (1.36%) Microsoft Graph
15 16 (1.28%) .NET Core
16 14 (1.12%) Node.js
17 13 (1.04%) AngularJS
17 13 (1.04%) Middleware
18 12 (0.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 95 (7.58%) Onboarding
2 77 (6.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 70 (5.58%) Cyber Threat
4 61 (4.86%) Cyberattack
5 60 (4.78%) Security Posture
6 46 (3.67%) Management Information System
7 41 (3.27%) Driving Licence
7 41 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
8 37 (2.95%) Product Ownership
9 35 (2.79%) Cloud Native
10 34 (2.71%) Data Centre
11 33 (2.63%) Cyber Defence
12 31 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
13 29 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
14 26 (2.07%) PKI
15 23 (1.83%) CMDB
16 22 (1.75%) Security Operations Centre
17 18 (1.44%) Virtual Team
18 17 (1.36%) Hedge funds
18 17 (1.36%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 550 (43.86%) Windows
2 294 (23.44%) Windows Server
3 230 (18.34%) Linux
4 69 (5.50%) Windows 10
5 56 (4.47%) Mac OS
6 41 (3.27%) Unix
7 35 (2.79%) Windows Server 2016
7 35 (2.79%) Windows Server 2019
8 33 (2.63%) Android
9 28 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 28 (2.23%) VMS
10 26 (2.07%) Apple iOS
10 26 (2.07%) CentOS
10 26 (2.07%) Windows Server 2008
11 25 (1.99%) Solaris
12 22 (1.75%) HPUX
12 22 (1.75%) Windows 7
12 22 (1.75%) Windows Server 2003
13 18 (1.44%) Ubuntu
14 15 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (30.62%) Problem-Solving
2 315 (25.12%) DevOps
3 255 (20.33%) CI/CD
4 237 (18.90%) ITIL
5 231 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 228 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
7 214 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 210 (16.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 194 (15.47%) Mentoring
10 176 (14.04%) Agile
11 168 (13.40%) Disaster Recovery
12 153 (12.20%) Roadmaps
13 128 (10.21%) Root Cause Analysis
14 124 (9.89%) Incident Response
15 115 (9.17%) Task Automation
16 103 (8.21%) Coaching
17 102 (8.13%) Asset Management
18 101 (8.05%) Cloud Security
19 98 (7.81%) Business Intelligence
19 98 (7.81%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 432 (34.45%) Python
2 311 (24.80%) Bash
3 284 (22.65%) SQL
4 91 (7.26%) C#
5 86 (6.86%) T-SQL
6 71 (5.66%) JavaScript
7 67 (5.34%) Bicep
8 25 (1.99%) Kusto Query Language
8 25 (1.99%) Perl
9 21 (1.67%) Java
10 18 (1.44%) Go
11 11 (0.88%) VB.NET
12 7 (0.56%) PHP
12 7 (0.56%) VB
12 7 (0.56%) VBA
12 7 (0.56%) VBScript
13 6 (0.48%) C++
13 6 (0.48%) Delphi
14 5 (0.40%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 169 (13.48%) Degree
2 156 (12.44%) Security Cleared
3 111 (8.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 95 (7.58%) SC Cleared
5 91 (7.26%) Azure Certification
6 59 (4.70%) DV Cleared
7 51 (4.07%) CISSP
8 42 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 36 (2.87%) CREST Certified
10 33 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
11 31 (2.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 28 (2.23%) AWS Certification
13 24 (1.91%) CEH
14 22 (1.75%) GIAC
15 21 (1.67%) SANS
16 20 (1.59%) CCNA
17 19 (1.52%) CompTIA CySA+
18 18 (1.44%) CompTIA Security+
18 18 (1.44%) OSCP
19 16 (1.28%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (13.64%) NIST
2 163 (13.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 74 (5.90%) NCSC
4 63 (5.02%) GDPR
5 57 (4.55%) SLA
6 47 (3.75%) Accessibility
7 32 (2.55%) Cyber Essentials
8 20 (1.59%) ISO 22301
9 17 (1.36%) Data Quality
9 17 (1.36%) QA
10 15 (1.20%) PCI DSS
11 14 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.56%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.40%) DICOM
14 5 (0.40%) GRC
15 3 (0.24%) HL7
15 3 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.16%) COBIT
16 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
System Software
1 466 (37.16%) Active Directory
2 144 (11.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 113 (9.01%) Docker
4 109 (8.69%) Hyper-V
5 44 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
6 41 (3.27%) vSphere
7 34 (2.71%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (1.52%) Firmware
9 17 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
10 12 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.64%) vCloud
11 8 (0.64%) VMware NSX
11 8 (0.64%) XenApp
12 6 (0.48%) XenDesktop
13 5 (0.40%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.24%) iptables
16 2 (0.16%) KVM
16 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 265 (21.13%) Terraform
2 188 (14.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 161 (12.84%) Kubernetes
4 140 (11.16%) Ansible
5 50 (3.99%) Grafana
6 43 (3.43%) SCCM
7 40 (3.19%) Single Sign-On
8 27 (2.15%) Prometheus
9 20 (1.59%) Puppet
10 17 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 14 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
11 14 (1.12%) vCenter Server
12 11 (0.88%) Nessus
13 10 (0.80%) SCOM
14 9 (0.72%) FortiGate
14 9 (0.72%) Nagios
14 9 (0.72%) VxRail
15 8 (0.64%) Progress Chef
15 8 (0.64%) SCVMM
16 7 (0.56%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 645 (51.44%) Microsoft
2 235 (18.74%) VMware
3 98 (7.81%) Cisco
4 57 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 56 (4.47%) Splunk
6 50 (3.99%) Oracle
7 49 (3.91%) Veeam
8 43 (3.43%) Red Hat
9 41 (3.27%) Google
10 34 (2.71%) Atlassian
11 31 (2.47%) Commvault
11 31 (2.47%) Palo Alto
12 30 (2.39%) Citrix
13 27 (2.15%) Fortinet
14 26 (2.07%) CyberArk
15 23 (1.83%) CrowdStrike
15 23 (1.83%) SolarWinds
16 22 (1.75%) Apple
16 22 (1.75%) Dell
17 21 (1.67%) Meraki