PowerShell Job Trends

Windows PowerShell
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring PowerShell skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 106 70
Rank change year-on-year +18 -36 +29
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,622 1,830 2,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.28% 2.34% 4.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.37% 7.58% 10.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,071 1,209 2,043
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £42,625 £46,250 £45,763
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £76,125 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £96,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,349 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.70% -4.76% +5.00%

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 13,110 24,157 24,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.51% 30.93% 40.83%
Number of salaries quoted 8,456 15,118 20,186
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £39,557
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,025 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £107,500 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 +13 1,511 £57,500 -4.17% 601
UK excluding London +43 1,121 £51,349 +2.70% 546
Work from Home +4 642 £60,000 -4.00% 316
London -5 442 £72,500 -3.33% 175
North of England +40 387 £50,000 - 93
North West +70 316 £47,500 -5.00% 47
South East +18 264 £57,500 +13.86% 198
Midlands +55 191 £50,000 +1.21% 85
East of England +15 127 £47,500 -9.52% 69
West Midlands +40 122 £55,000 +22.22% 44
South West +34 89 £47,500 -5.94% 61
East Midlands +51 69 £35,000 -30.00% 38
Yorkshire -12 61 £51,625 -4.40% 31
Scotland +22 52 £49,707 -6.21% 32
Wales +26 17 £55,000 +5.77% 11
North East +3 10 £60,000 +35.52% 16
Northern Ireland +12 3 £46,000 +15.00% 8

PowerShell
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 237 (14.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 190 (11.71%) SharePoint
3 78 (4.81%) IIS
4 60 (3.70%) Confluence
5 19 (1.17%) Skype for Business
6 14 (0.86%) nginx
7 11 (0.68%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.37%) Apache
9 5 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.18%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.18%) CMS
10 3 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
11 2 (0.12%) CICS
11 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.062%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.062%) Exchange Server 2010
12 1 (0.062%) Office Communications Server
12 1 (0.062%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 58 (3.58%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.49%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 4 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.18%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.12%) Revit
7 1 (0.062%) Autodesk Inventor
7 1 (0.062%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.062%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 18 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.37%) Workday HCM
3 5 (0.31%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.25%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.25%) PlanetPress Connect
5 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.062%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.062%) Eikon
6 1 (0.062%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.062%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.062%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.062%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.062%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 842 (51.91%) Azure
2 466 (28.73%) Microsoft 365
3 290 (17.88%) AWS
4 278 (17.14%) Entra ID
5 200 (12.33%) Azure DevOps
6 133 (8.20%) Power Platform
7 124 (7.64%) SaaS
8 108 (6.66%) PaaS
9 106 (6.54%) Power Automate
10 102 (6.29%) Azure Monitor
11 86 (5.30%) IaaS
12 82 (5.06%) GCP
13 74 (4.56%) GitHub
14 62 (3.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 57 (3.51%) Serverless
16 56 (3.45%) PowerApps
17 55 (3.39%) Azure Sentinel
18 54 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
19 53 (3.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 49 (3.02%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 454 (27.99%) VPN
2 319 (19.67%) Firewall
3 270 (16.65%) Cisco IOS
4 268 (16.52%) DNS
5 196 (12.08%) DHCP
6 179 (11.04%) TCP/IP
7 115 (7.09%) WAN
8 73 (4.50%) LAN
9 63 (3.88%) SAN
10 62 (3.82%) VLAN
11 51 (3.14%) Wireless
12 50 (3.08%) Network Security
13 44 (2.71%) SMTP
14 38 (2.34%) SD-WAN
15 35 (2.16%) NAS
16 34 (2.10%) FTP
16 34 (2.10%) Internet
17 31 (1.91%) HTTP
18 30 (1.85%) VoIP
19 27 (1.66%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (10.54%) SQL Server
2 92 (5.67%) Amazon RDS
3 74 (4.56%) Power BI
4 41 (2.53%) MySQL
5 35 (2.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 28 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (1.73%) Relational Database
7 20 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 17 (1.05%) Data Lake
10 14 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (0.55%) MongoDB
13 8 (0.49%) DTS
13 8 (0.49%) RDBMS
14 7 (0.43%) NoSQL
15 5 (0.31%) Big Data
15 5 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
15 5 (0.31%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 128 (7.89%) Git
2 109 (6.72%) JIRA
3 104 (6.41%) Jenkins
4 64 (3.95%) Cucumber
4 64 (3.95%) Robot Framework
5 42 (2.59%) Vagrant
6 38 (2.34%) GitLab
7 27 (1.66%) MSI
8 25 (1.54%) Octopus Deploy
9 18 (1.11%) TeamCity
10 16 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
10 16 (0.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 12 (0.74%) Burp Suite
11 12 (0.74%) Metasploit
12 6 (0.37%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.25%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.25%) Toad
14 3 (0.18%) CircleCI
14 3 (0.18%) SonarQube
15 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 489 (30.15%) Social Skills
2 380 (23.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 343 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
4 247 (15.23%) Finance
5 95 (5.86%) Telecoms
6 66 (4.07%) Public Sector
7 64 (3.95%) Law
8 51 (3.14%) Banking
9 45 (2.77%) Legal
10 34 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
11 33 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
12 32 (1.97%) Manufacturing
13 26 (1.60%) Retail
14 24 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
15 20 (1.23%) Front Office
16 19 (1.17%) Marketing
17 15 (0.92%) Automotive
17 15 (0.92%) Local Government
18 14 (0.86%) Advertising
19 13 (0.80%) Games
Job Titles
1 442 (27.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 201 (12.39%) Support Engineer
3 148 (9.12%) Senior
4 118 (7.27%) IT Support
5 114 (7.03%) Azure Engineer
6 108 (6.66%) DevOps Engineer
7 105 (6.47%) Analyst
8 84 (5.18%) IT Engineer
9 82 (5.06%) Cloud Engineer
10 81 (4.99%) Lead
11 72 (4.44%) 3rd Line Support
12 70 (4.32%) Infrastructure Support
13 69 (4.25%) Platform Engineer
14 66 (4.07%) Applications Support
15 64 (3.95%) Test Automation Engineer
15 64 (3.95%) Test Engineer
16 61 (3.76%) Administrator
16 61 (3.76%) Security Engineer
17 60 (3.70%) Developer
17 60 (3.70%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 273 (16.83%) Elastic Stack
2 80 (4.93%) .NET
3 73 (4.50%) REST
4 65 (4.01%) YAML
5 48 (2.96%) SOAP
6 42 (2.59%) JSON
7 41 (2.53%) ARM Templates
8 36 (2.22%) LDAP
9 22 (1.36%) SAML
9 22 (1.36%) Web Services
10 19 (1.17%) React
11 18 (1.11%) XML
12 13 (0.80%) .NET Framework
12 13 (0.80%) AngularJS
12 13 (0.80%) HTML
13 11 (0.68%) Node.js
14 10 (0.62%) Microsoft Graph
14 10 (0.62%) OAuth
14 10 (0.62%) RESTful
15 9 (0.55%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 264 (16.28%) Cyberattack
2 90 (5.55%) Onboarding
3 84 (5.18%) Linux Command Line
4 58 (3.58%) Security Posture
5 57 (3.51%) Data Centre
6 49 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
6 49 (3.02%) Product Ownership
7 47 (2.90%) Clustering
7 47 (2.90%) PKI
8 44 (2.71%) Cloud Native
9 37 (2.28%) Management Information System
9 37 (2.28%) Replication
10 31 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
11 28 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (1.48%) Public Cloud
13 22 (1.36%) Hedge funds
13 22 (1.36%) Virtual Team
14 21 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
15 20 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
15 20 (1.23%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 970 (59.80%) Windows
2 611 (37.67%) Linux
3 359 (22.13%) Windows Server
4 277 (17.08%) Android
5 84 (5.18%) VMS
6 81 (4.99%) Windows Server 2019
7 74 (4.56%) Windows 10
8 61 (3.76%) Windows Server 2016
9 42 (2.59%) Mac OS
10 38 (2.34%) Unix
11 34 (2.10%) Windows Server 2012
12 26 (1.60%) Amazon Linux
13 25 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 22 (1.36%) Ubuntu
15 20 (1.23%) Apple iOS
16 15 (0.92%) Windows Server 2008
17 10 (0.62%) CentOS
18 6 (0.37%) Windows 7
19 5 (0.31%) Kali Linux
19 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 718 (44.27%) DevOps
2 611 (37.67%) Problem-Solving
3 487 (30.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 407 (25.09%) Task Automation
5 356 (21.95%) Platform Engineering
6 297 (18.31%) Storage Management
7 296 (18.25%) CI/CD
8 284 (17.51%) Risk Management
9 265 (16.34%) Line Management
9 265 (16.34%) Mathematics
10 219 (13.50%) Agile
11 218 (13.44%) Mentoring
12 212 (13.07%) Infrastructure as Code
13 196 (12.08%) ITIL
14 164 (10.11%) Cybersecurity
15 145 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
16 144 (8.88%) Coaching
17 138 (8.51%) Migration
18 134 (8.26%) Test Automation
19 131 (8.08%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 747 (46.05%) Python
2 553 (34.09%) Bash
3 293 (18.06%) SQL
4 122 (7.52%) JavaScript
5 111 (6.84%) C#
6 79 (4.87%) Bicep
7 69 (4.25%) Java
8 44 (2.71%) Groovy
9 30 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
10 27 (1.66%) T-SQL
11 24 (1.48%) VB
12 21 (1.29%) TypeScript
13 20 (1.23%) Go
13 20 (1.23%) Perl
14 15 (0.92%) VBA
15 14 (0.86%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.62%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.49%) C++
17 8 (0.49%) VBScript
18 6 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 251 (15.47%) Degree
2 224 (13.81%) Security Cleared
3 128 (7.89%) Azure Certification
4 123 (7.58%) SC Cleared
5 105 (6.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 84 (5.18%) DV Cleared
7 55 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
9 51 (3.14%) AWS Certification
10 38 (2.34%) CCNA
11 30 (1.85%) DBS Check
12 29 (1.79%) CISSP
13 28 (1.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 24 (1.48%) Master's Degree
15 19 (1.17%) CCNP
16 18 (1.11%) OSCP
17 17 (1.05%) CISM
18 16 (0.99%) CompTIA Security+
19 14 (0.86%) MCSA
19 14 (0.86%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (7.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 85 (5.24%) NIST
3 81 (4.99%) GDPR
4 79 (4.87%) QA
5 46 (2.84%) SLA
6 32 (1.97%) Cyber Essentials
7 29 (1.79%) NCSC
8 16 (0.99%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.80%) HIPAA
10 10 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 9 (0.55%) SOC 2
12 8 (0.49%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.37%) GRC
13 6 (0.37%) HL7
14 2 (0.12%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.062%) COBIT
15 1 (0.062%) Data Quality
15 1 (0.062%) ISO 13485
15 1 (0.062%) WCAG
System Software
1 486 (29.96%) Active Directory
2 438 (27.00%) Hyper-V
3 400 (24.66%) Docker
4 297 (18.31%) vSphere
5 264 (16.28%) VMware NSX
6 250 (15.41%) VMware Infrastructure
7 68 (4.19%) Virtual Machines
8 57 (3.51%) VMware ESXi
9 38 (2.34%) Virtual Desktop
10 29 (1.79%) DFS Replication
11 19 (1.17%) Terminal Services
12 10 (0.62%) Squid
12 10 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
12 10 (0.62%) XenApp
13 9 (0.55%) Dovecot
13 9 (0.55%) Firmware
13 9 (0.55%) Postfix
14 8 (0.49%) BitLocker
14 8 (0.49%) Microsoft App-V
15 6 (0.37%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 552 (34.03%) Terraform
2 437 (26.94%) Ansible
3 257 (15.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 196 (12.08%) Kubernetes
5 89 (5.49%) SCCM
6 85 (5.24%) Grafana
7 80 (4.93%) Single Sign-On
8 75 (4.62%) Prometheus
9 38 (2.34%) WSUS
10 35 (2.16%) vCenter Server
11 33 (2.03%) SCOM
12 31 (1.91%) Puppet
13 30 (1.85%) WMI
14 23 (1.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 20 (1.23%) Jamf Pro
15 20 (1.23%) Progress Chef
16 17 (1.05%) Autotask
17 16 (0.99%) Backup Exec
17 16 (0.99%) QRadar
18 14 (0.86%) Nagios
Vendors
1 763 (47.04%) Microsoft
2 373 (23.00%) Cisco
3 316 (19.48%) Splunk
4 300 (18.50%) VMware
5 279 (17.20%) Juniper
6 262 (16.15%) 3PAR
7 106 (6.54%) ServiceNow
8 77 (4.75%) Citrix
9 62 (3.82%) Veeam
10 53 (3.27%) Oracle
11 48 (2.96%) Meraki
12 46 (2.84%) Google
13 41 (2.53%) Red Hat
14 34 (2.10%) SolarWinds
15 33 (2.03%) Apple
16 31 (1.91%) HP
17 29 (1.79%) Sophos
18 25 (1.54%) SAP
19 24 (1.48%) Bloomberg
20 23 (1.42%) Palo Alto