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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 98 95
Rank change year-on-year -25 -3 -8
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,246 1,358 2,473
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.67% 3.16% 2.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.18% 9.26% 8.23%
Number of salaries quoted 922 1,079 2,149
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -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 13,580 14,670 30,033
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.16% 34.12% 35.39%
Number of salaries quoted 9,533 10,271 24,193
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,000
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 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,790 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.42% +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 17 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 17 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 -38 1,080 £57,500 -7.26% 364
UK excluding London -40 700 £52,000 -5.45% 291
London -9 486 £70,000 -12.50% 126
Work from Home -11 397 £57,500 -2.75% 166
South East -44 191 £56,687 -5.52% 99
North of England -43 138 £47,500 -9.52% 53
Scotland +46 114 £74,500 +29.57% 19
South West -6 100 £55,000 +5.77% 47
Midlands -50 92 £52,500 +5.00% 42
Yorkshire -24 67 £47,500 -9.52% 15
East of England -33 57 £40,000 -27.27% 37
North West -37 56 £51,000 +2.00% 26
East Midlands -21 49 £55,000 +12.24% 21
West Midlands -43 42 £48,250 -3.50% 21
North East -21 15 £46,250 -22.92% 13
Wales -14 7 £55,000 +5.77% 4
Northern Ireland -33 2 - - 2

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
1 195 (15.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 141 (11.32%) SharePoint
3 37 (2.97%) IIS
4 22 (1.77%) Exchange Server 2003
5 13 (1.04%) 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%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.16%) WordPress
8 1 (0.080%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.080%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.080%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.080%) Site Server
Applications
1 51 (4.09%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.48%) Siemens NX
4 3 (0.24%) CATIA
4 3 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
4 3 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.24%) Windchill
5 1 (0.080%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.64%) Markit EDM
2 7 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (0.48%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
5 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.24%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.080%) Actimize
6 1 (0.080%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.080%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.080%) PlanetPress Connect
6 1 (0.080%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 813 (65.25%) Azure
2 414 (33.23%) Microsoft 365
3 340 (27.29%) Entra ID
4 206 (16.53%) AWS
5 149 (11.96%) Azure DevOps
6 105 (8.43%) Power Platform
7 100 (8.03%) GitHub
8 78 (6.26%) GCP
8 78 (6.26%) PaaS
9 77 (6.18%) Google Workspace
10 75 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
11 73 (5.86%) SaaS
12 68 (5.46%) IaaS
13 62 (4.98%) Azure Monitor
14 56 (4.49%) OneDrive
15 44 (3.53%) Power Automate
16 38 (3.05%) Azure Logic Apps
16 38 (3.05%) Azure Sentinel
16 38 (3.05%) Snowflake
17 35 (2.81%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 230 (18.46%) DNS
2 226 (18.14%) Firewall
3 180 (14.45%) DHCP
4 138 (11.08%) VPN
5 111 (8.91%) TCP/IP
6 69 (5.54%) WAN
7 64 (5.14%) Broadband
8 62 (4.98%) LAN
9 52 (4.17%) VLAN
10 49 (3.93%) Network Security
11 46 (3.69%) Wi-Fi
12 36 (2.89%) VoIP
13 34 (2.73%) SAN
13 34 (2.73%) Wireless
14 31 (2.49%) SD-WAN
15 16 (1.28%) VSAN
16 15 (1.20%) MPLS
17 14 (1.12%) BGP
18 12 (0.96%) NAS
18 12 (0.96%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (11.72%) SQL Server
2 89 (7.14%) Power BI
3 29 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (2.25%) Oracle Database
4 28 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 26 (2.09%) Oracle Database 10g
6 24 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
6 24 (1.93%) MySQL
6 24 (1.93%) Relational Database
7 19 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (1.28%) NoSQL
9 15 (1.20%) Tableau
10 14 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (0.72%) InfluxDB
12 6 (0.48%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.48%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (0.40%) Metadata
14 4 (0.32%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 90 (7.22%) JIRA
2 79 (6.34%) Jenkins
3 77 (6.18%) Git
4 42 (3.37%) GitLab
5 27 (2.17%) Octopus Deploy
6 26 (2.09%) Bitbucket
7 19 (1.52%) TeamCity
8 15 (1.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 13 (1.04%) Metasploit
10 10 (0.80%) Robot Framework
11 9 (0.72%) Burp Suite
11 9 (0.72%) CircleCI
12 7 (0.56%) TestRail
13 5 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.40%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.32%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.32%) MLflow
14 4 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
15 3 (0.24%) Balsamiq
15 3 (0.24%) JMeter
General
1 442 (35.47%) Social Skills
2 291 (23.35%) Finance
3 148 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (6.34%) Organisational Skills
5 56 (4.49%) Law
6 39 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (3.05%) Retail
8 37 (2.97%) Public Sector
9 34 (2.73%) Games
10 33 (2.65%) Legal
11 32 (2.57%) Banking
12 30 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 27 (2.17%) Telecoms
14 22 (1.77%) Manufacturing
15 15 (1.20%) Front Office
16 12 (0.96%) Advertising
17 9 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
18 8 (0.64%) Aerospace
18 8 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
19 7 (0.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 195 (15.65%) Senior
2 146 (11.72%) Support Engineer
3 142 (11.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 118 (9.47%) Azure Engineer
5 113 (9.07%) Analyst
6 101 (8.11%) IT Support
7 82 (6.58%) Security Engineer
8 81 (6.50%) DevOps Engineer
9 77 (6.18%) Cloud Engineer
10 75 (6.02%) IT Engineer
11 73 (5.86%) Developer
12 62 (4.98%) 3rd Line Support
13 60 (4.82%) Lead
14 59 (4.74%) IT Support Engineer
15 50 (4.01%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 44 (3.53%) Architect
16 44 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
17 42 (3.37%) 2nd Line Support
18 41 (3.29%) Support Analyst
19 35 (2.81%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (7.70%) REST
2 93 (7.46%) OAuth
3 82 (6.58%) SAML
4 76 (6.10%) OpenID
5 71 (5.70%) GraphQL
6 69 (5.54%) SOAP
7 65 (5.22%) LDAP
8 64 (5.14%) .NET
9 38 (3.05%) YAML
10 29 (2.33%) JSON
11 24 (1.93%) ARM Templates
12 22 (1.77%) .NET Core
13 20 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (1.52%) Microsoft Graph
15 17 (1.36%) React
15 17 (1.36%) Web Services
16 15 (1.20%) Node.js
17 13 (1.04%) Swagger
18 12 (0.96%) Middleware
19 11 (0.88%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 91 (7.30%) Onboarding
2 77 (6.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 71 (5.70%) Cyber Threat
4 60 (4.82%) Cyberattack
5 59 (4.74%) Security Posture
6 42 (3.37%) Driving Licence
6 42 (3.37%) Management Information System
7 40 (3.21%) Cloud Native
8 38 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (2.89%) Cyber Defence
10 35 (2.81%) Data Centre
11 31 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
12 30 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
13 27 (2.17%) PKI
14 24 (1.93%) Security Operations Centre
15 23 (1.85%) Product Ownership
16 21 (1.69%) CMDB
17 17 (1.36%) Public Cloud
17 17 (1.36%) Replication
18 16 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 556 (44.62%) Windows
2 294 (23.60%) Windows Server
3 242 (19.42%) Linux
4 68 (5.46%) Windows 10
5 57 (4.57%) Mac OS
6 42 (3.37%) Unix
7 35 (2.81%) Windows Server 2016
8 34 (2.73%) Android
8 34 (2.73%) Windows Server 2019
9 29 (2.33%) Apple iOS
10 27 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 25 (2.01%) CentOS
11 25 (2.01%) Solaris
11 25 (2.01%) VMS
12 23 (1.85%) Windows Server 2008
13 22 (1.77%) HPUX
13 22 (1.77%) Windows 7
13 22 (1.77%) Windows Server 2003
14 18 (1.44%) Ubuntu
15 13 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (30.02%) Problem-Solving
2 299 (24.00%) DevOps
3 259 (20.79%) CI/CD
4 249 (19.98%) ITIL
5 244 (19.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 229 (18.38%) Cybersecurity
7 213 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 207 (16.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 193 (15.49%) Mentoring
10 167 (13.40%) Disaster Recovery
11 165 (13.24%) Agile
12 147 (11.80%) Roadmaps
13 139 (11.16%) Incident Response
14 124 (9.95%) Root Cause Analysis
15 109 (8.75%) Task Automation
16 104 (8.35%) Cloud Security
17 99 (7.95%) Computer Science
18 97 (7.78%) Identity Access Management
18 97 (7.78%) Migration
19 96 (7.70%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 435 (34.91%) Python
2 309 (24.80%) Bash
3 271 (21.75%) SQL
4 86 (6.90%) T-SQL
5 75 (6.02%) C#
6 74 (5.94%) JavaScript
7 69 (5.54%) Bicep
8 29 (2.33%) Kusto Query Language
9 26 (2.09%) Perl
10 19 (1.52%) Java
11 13 (1.04%) Go
12 10 (0.80%) VB.NET
13 7 (0.56%) PHP
13 7 (0.56%) VB
14 6 (0.48%) Delphi
14 6 (0.48%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.40%) C++
15 5 (0.40%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.32%) C
16 4 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 174 (13.96%) Degree
2 151 (12.12%) Security Cleared
3 112 (8.99%) Microsoft Certification
4 95 (7.62%) Azure Certification
5 94 (7.54%) SC Cleared
6 60 (4.82%) DV Cleared
7 51 (4.09%) CISSP
8 49 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (2.81%) CREST Certified
10 32 (2.57%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (2.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 27 (2.17%) AWS Certification
12 26 (2.09%) CEH
13 23 (1.85%) GIAC
14 21 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
15 20 (1.61%) CCNA
15 20 (1.61%) CompTIA CySA+
15 20 (1.61%) OSCP
15 20 (1.61%) SANS
16 16 (1.28%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (13.88%) NIST
2 169 (13.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 73 (5.86%) NCSC
4 65 (5.22%) GDPR
5 64 (5.14%) SLA
6 43 (3.45%) Accessibility
7 32 (2.57%) Cyber Essentials
8 22 (1.77%) ISO 22301
9 19 (1.52%) QA
10 17 (1.36%) Data Quality
11 15 (1.20%) PCI DSS
12 13 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 10 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (0.64%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.40%) DICOM
15 5 (0.40%) GRC
16 3 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.16%) COBIT
17 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.16%) HL7
System Software
1 467 (37.48%) Active Directory
2 146 (11.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 117 (9.39%) Docker
3 117 (9.39%) Hyper-V
4 43 (3.45%) vSphere
5 41 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (1.52%) Firmware
8 17 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.72%) VMware NSX
11 8 (0.64%) BitLocker
11 8 (0.64%) vCloud
12 7 (0.56%) XenApp
13 5 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 5 (0.40%) XenDesktop
14 4 (0.32%) iptables
14 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.16%) KVM
15 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 265 (21.27%) Terraform
2 181 (14.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 167 (13.40%) Kubernetes
4 139 (11.16%) Ansible
5 54 (4.33%) Grafana
6 42 (3.37%) SCCM
7 40 (3.21%) Single Sign-On
8 31 (2.49%) Prometheus
9 20 (1.61%) Jamf Pro
10 19 (1.52%) Puppet
11 17 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (1.20%) vCenter Server
13 11 (0.88%) Nessus
13 11 (0.88%) VxRail
14 10 (0.80%) SCOM
15 9 (0.72%) FortiGate
16 8 (0.64%) Progress Chef
17 7 (0.56%) Control-M
17 7 (0.56%) Nagios
18 6 (0.48%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 655 (52.57%) Microsoft
2 240 (19.26%) VMware
3 108 (8.67%) Cisco
4 58 (4.65%) Splunk
5 51 (4.09%) ServiceNow
6 49 (3.93%) Oracle
6 49 (3.93%) Veeam
7 43 (3.45%) Red Hat
8 39 (3.13%) Google
9 35 (2.81%) Atlassian
10 33 (2.65%) Commvault
11 32 (2.57%) Palo Alto
12 29 (2.33%) CrowdStrike
13 27 (2.17%) Citrix
13 27 (2.17%) Meraki
14 26 (2.09%) CyberArk
15 25 (2.01%) Fortinet
16 24 (1.93%) Dell
17 22 (1.77%) Apple
17 22 (1.77%) Dynatrace