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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 94 100
Rank change year-on-year -35 +6 -9
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,240 1,295 2,463
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.57% 3.16% 2.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.70% 9.41% 7.85%
Number of salaries quoted 919 1,063 2,133
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,875 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
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 14,253 13,763 31,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.04% 33.62% 35.04%
Number of salaries quoted 9,880 10,228 24,660
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,529
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £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 £86,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,200 £55,790 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.06% +3.31% -1.82%

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 31 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 31 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 -45 1,093 £57,500 -7.26% 384
UK excluding London -46 702 £52,500 - 315
London -13 491 £70,000 -12.50% 123
Work from Home -19 383 £60,000 +2.56% 176
South East -54 191 £56,750 -5.42% 97
North of England -55 141 £47,500 -9.52% 66
Scotland +42 101 £71,500 +19.17% 14
South West -20 97 £55,000 +15.79% 60
Midlands -48 97 £52,500 +5.00% 45
Yorkshire -19 70 £47,500 -9.52% 16
East of England -38 64 £40,000 -27.27% 34
North West -41 58 £51,500 +6.61% 35
East Midlands -25 54 £55,000 +15.79% 16
West Midlands -52 42 £48,000 -4.00% 29
North East -20 13 £45,000 -23.40% 15
Wales -19 10 £63,248 +25.11% 10
Northern Ireland -35 2 - - 1

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
1 189 (15.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 136 (10.97%) SharePoint
3 33 (2.66%) IIS
4 22 (1.77%) Exchange Server 2003
5 13 (1.05%) Confluence
6 6 (0.48%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.16%) Apache
7 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.16%) CMS
7 2 (0.16%) WordPress
8 1 (0.081%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.081%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.081%) Site Server
8 1 (0.081%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 53 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.32%) Siemens NX
5 3 (0.24%) CATIA
5 3 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.24%) Windchill
6 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.081%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.081%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
1 7 (0.56%) Markit EDM
2 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.32%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
3 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.081%) Actimize
4 1 (0.081%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.081%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.081%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.081%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 792 (63.87%) Azure
2 413 (33.31%) Microsoft 365
3 322 (25.97%) Entra ID
4 205 (16.53%) AWS
5 130 (10.48%) Azure DevOps
6 100 (8.06%) Power Platform
7 96 (7.74%) GitHub
8 75 (6.05%) Google Workspace
9 73 (5.89%) GCP
10 72 (5.81%) GitHub Actions
11 70 (5.65%) SaaS
12 61 (4.92%) PaaS
13 60 (4.84%) OneDrive
14 57 (4.60%) IaaS
15 49 (3.95%) Azure Monitor
16 39 (3.15%) Azure Logic Apps
16 39 (3.15%) Power Automate
17 38 (3.06%) Nutanix
18 37 (2.98%) Azure Key Vault
19 34 (2.74%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 235 (18.95%) DNS
2 217 (17.50%) Firewall
3 181 (14.60%) DHCP
4 130 (10.48%) VPN
5 111 (8.95%) TCP/IP
6 66 (5.32%) WAN
7 63 (5.08%) Broadband
8 61 (4.92%) LAN
9 54 (4.35%) Network Security
10 50 (4.03%) VLAN
11 45 (3.63%) Wi-Fi
12 39 (3.15%) VoIP
13 32 (2.58%) Wireless
14 30 (2.42%) SAN
15 28 (2.26%) SD-WAN
16 17 (1.37%) MPLS
17 16 (1.29%) BGP
18 14 (1.13%) VSAN
19 12 (0.97%) Internet
19 12 (0.97%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (11.29%) SQL Server
2 87 (7.02%) Power BI
3 31 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 29 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (2.26%) Oracle Database
6 26 (2.10%) Oracle Database 10g
6 26 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 25 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
8 24 (1.94%) MySQL
9 23 (1.85%) Relational Database
10 21 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (1.37%) NoSQL
12 15 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 14 (1.13%) Tableau
14 9 (0.73%) InfluxDB
15 8 (0.65%) MongoDB
16 7 (0.56%) Data Lake
17 5 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
17 5 (0.40%) Metadata
18 4 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 87 (7.02%) JIRA
2 81 (6.53%) Git
3 74 (5.97%) Jenkins
4 43 (3.47%) GitLab
5 25 (2.02%) Bitbucket
6 22 (1.77%) Octopus Deploy
7 15 (1.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 14 (1.13%) TeamCity
9 13 (1.05%) Metasploit
10 10 (0.81%) Robot Framework
11 9 (0.73%) Burp Suite
11 9 (0.73%) CircleCI
12 7 (0.56%) TestRail
12 7 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.32%) MLflow
14 4 (0.32%) SonarQube
15 3 (0.24%) Artifactory
15 3 (0.24%) Balsamiq
15 3 (0.24%) JMeter
General
1 433 (34.92%) Social Skills
2 268 (21.61%) Finance
3 154 (12.42%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
5 67 (5.40%) Law
6 41 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (3.06%) Legal
8 36 (2.90%) Retail
9 35 (2.82%) Public Sector
10 33 (2.66%) Games
11 31 (2.50%) Banking
12 29 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 24 (1.94%) Telecoms
14 23 (1.85%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.29%) Front Office
16 15 (1.21%) Advertising
17 8 (0.65%) Aerospace
18 7 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
19 6 (0.48%) Investment Banking
20 5 (0.40%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 203 (16.37%) Senior
2 148 (11.94%) Support Engineer
3 144 (11.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 124 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
5 113 (9.11%) Analyst
6 110 (8.87%) IT Support
7 83 (6.69%) IT Engineer
7 83 (6.69%) Security Engineer
8 79 (6.37%) Cloud Engineer
9 72 (5.81%) DevOps Engineer
10 71 (5.73%) Developer
11 64 (5.16%) IT Support Engineer
12 63 (5.08%) 3rd Line Support
13 59 (4.76%) Lead
14 55 (4.44%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 50 (4.03%) 2nd Line Support
16 45 (3.63%) Architect
17 41 (3.31%) Platform Engineer
18 36 (2.90%) Support Analyst
19 35 (2.82%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (7.26%) OAuth
2 87 (7.02%) REST
3 77 (6.21%) SAML
4 73 (5.89%) OpenID
5 70 (5.65%) GraphQL
6 64 (5.16%) LDAP
6 64 (5.16%) SOAP
7 63 (5.08%) .NET
8 34 (2.74%) YAML
9 29 (2.34%) JSON
10 28 (2.26%) .NET Core
11 22 (1.77%) ARM Templates
12 19 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
12 19 (1.53%) Microsoft Graph
13 16 (1.29%) Node.js
13 16 (1.29%) React
14 15 (1.21%) CSS
15 14 (1.13%) SPFx
16 13 (1.05%) HTML
16 13 (1.05%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 88 (7.10%) Onboarding
2 72 (5.81%) Cyber Threat
3 70 (5.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 61 (4.92%) Security Posture
5 59 (4.76%) Cyberattack
6 43 (3.47%) Management Information System
7 42 (3.39%) Driving Licence
8 41 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
9 39 (3.15%) Cyber Defence
10 38 (3.06%) Cloud Native
11 32 (2.58%) Data Centre
12 31 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
13 27 (2.18%) PKI
14 26 (2.10%) Public Cloud
14 26 (2.10%) Security Operations Centre
15 25 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
16 24 (1.94%) CMDB
17 19 (1.53%) Replication
18 18 (1.45%) Private Cloud
19 17 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 561 (45.24%) Windows
2 292 (23.55%) Windows Server
3 249 (20.08%) Linux
4 69 (5.56%) Windows 10
5 56 (4.52%) Mac OS
6 44 (3.55%) Unix
7 36 (2.90%) Android
7 36 (2.90%) Windows Server 2016
8 33 (2.66%) Apple iOS
9 32 (2.58%) Windows Server 2019
10 27 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 25 (2.02%) Solaris
12 24 (1.94%) CentOS
13 23 (1.85%) VMS
14 22 (1.77%) HPUX
14 22 (1.77%) Windows 7
14 22 (1.77%) Windows Server 2003
14 22 (1.77%) Windows Server 2008
15 19 (1.53%) Ubuntu
16 12 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (29.35%) Problem-Solving
2 274 (22.10%) DevOps
3 251 (20.24%) ITIL
4 245 (19.76%) CI/CD
5 236 (19.03%) Cybersecurity
6 233 (18.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 220 (17.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 207 (16.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 191 (15.40%) Mentoring
10 159 (12.82%) Agile
11 157 (12.66%) Disaster Recovery
12 146 (11.77%) Incident Response
13 141 (11.37%) Roadmaps
14 126 (10.16%) Root Cause Analysis
15 106 (8.55%) Task Automation
16 104 (8.39%) SIEM
17 103 (8.31%) Computer Science
18 101 (8.15%) Cloud Security
18 101 (8.15%) Identity Access Management
19 98 (7.90%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 439 (35.40%) Python
2 302 (24.35%) Bash
3 269 (21.69%) SQL
4 83 (6.69%) T-SQL
5 77 (6.21%) JavaScript
6 75 (6.05%) C#
7 63 (5.08%) Bicep
8 30 (2.42%) Kusto Query Language
9 28 (2.26%) Perl
10 18 (1.45%) Java
11 12 (0.97%) Go
12 10 (0.81%) VB.NET
13 9 (0.73%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.56%) C++
14 7 (0.56%) PHP
14 7 (0.56%) VB
15 6 (0.48%) C
15 6 (0.48%) Delphi
16 5 (0.40%) Google Apps Script
16 5 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 177 (14.27%) Degree
2 151 (12.18%) Security Cleared
3 101 (8.15%) Microsoft Certification
4 93 (7.50%) Azure Certification
4 93 (7.50%) SC Cleared
5 68 (5.48%) DV Cleared
6 55 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 52 (4.19%) CISSP
8 36 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
9 35 (2.82%) CREST Certified
10 30 (2.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 26 (2.10%) CEH
12 25 (2.02%) AWS Certification
12 25 (2.02%) GIAC
13 22 (1.77%) CCNA
13 22 (1.77%) CompTIA Security+
13 22 (1.77%) OSCP
14 20 (1.61%) CompTIA CySA+
15 18 (1.45%) SANS
16 15 (1.21%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (13.87%) NIST
2 165 (13.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 70 (5.65%) NCSC
4 65 (5.24%) SLA
5 62 (5.00%) GDPR
6 36 (2.90%) Accessibility
7 28 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 22 (1.77%) ISO 22301
9 18 (1.45%) Data Quality
10 17 (1.37%) QA
11 14 (1.13%) PCI DSS
12 13 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
13 11 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 9 (0.73%) SOC 2
15 6 (0.48%) DICOM
16 5 (0.40%) GRC
17 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 2 (0.16%) COBIT
18 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
18 2 (0.16%) HL7
System Software
1 460 (37.10%) Active Directory
2 147 (11.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 114 (9.19%) Docker
4 112 (9.03%) Hyper-V
5 45 (3.63%) vSphere
6 33 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
7 18 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (1.37%) Firmware
9 13 (1.05%) VMware NSX
10 10 (0.81%) BitLocker
11 9 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
12 7 (0.56%) XenApp
13 5 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 5 (0.40%) vCloud
13 5 (0.40%) XenDesktop
14 4 (0.32%) iptables
14 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.32%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.16%) Samba
Systems Management
1 251 (20.24%) Terraform
2 175 (14.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 168 (13.55%) Kubernetes
4 145 (11.69%) Ansible
5 53 (4.27%) Grafana
6 42 (3.39%) SCCM
7 38 (3.06%) Single Sign-On
8 31 (2.50%) Prometheus
9 20 (1.61%) Jamf Pro
10 18 (1.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 18 (1.45%) vCenter Server
11 16 (1.29%) Puppet
12 12 (0.97%) Nessus
13 11 (0.89%) VxRail
14 8 (0.65%) FortiGate
14 8 (0.65%) Progress Chef
14 8 (0.65%) QRadar
15 6 (0.48%) logstash
15 6 (0.48%) Nagios
15 6 (0.48%) WSUS
Vendors
1 651 (52.50%) Microsoft
2 242 (19.52%) VMware
3 115 (9.27%) Cisco
4 61 (4.92%) Splunk
5 55 (4.44%) ServiceNow
6 50 (4.03%) Oracle
7 47 (3.79%) Veeam
8 45 (3.63%) Red Hat
9 35 (2.82%) Google
10 34 (2.74%) Atlassian
10 34 (2.74%) Commvault
11 33 (2.66%) Palo Alto
12 30 (2.42%) CrowdStrike
13 27 (2.18%) Meraki
14 26 (2.10%) Citrix
14 26 (2.10%) CyberArk
14 26 (2.10%) Fortinet
15 24 (1.94%) Dell
16 22 (1.77%) Apple
17 20 (1.61%) Dynatrace