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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 90 96
Rank change year-on-year -54 +6 -34
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,492 1,618 1,819
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.26% 3.26% 2.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.07% 12.65% 8.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,005 1,060 1,173
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £42,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,250 £75,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £89,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -5.66%

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 18,479 12,786 22,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.64% 25.74% 30.94%
Number of salaries quoted 13,116 8,181 13,706
10th Percentile £39,163 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -64 1,288 £59,500 +3.48% 1,206
UK excluding London -66 962 £52,500 - 723
Work from Home -34 518 £60,000 - 542
London -27 473 £70,000 -0.71% 560
South East -36 236 £52,500 -8.70% 232
North of England -85 233 £50,000 - 174
Midlands -44 162 £52,500 +2.24% 88
North West -73 140 £50,000 - 94
East of England -48 94 £57,500 +21.05% 62
South West -74 86 £57,500 +18.56% 95
East Midlands -17 82 £42,500 +15.65% 36
West Midlands -71 80 £55,000 - 52
Northern Ireland -25 70 £46,000 - 16
Yorkshire -45 56 £45,472 -11.92% 55
Scotland -8 47 £52,500 +23.53% 47
North East -41 37 £51,500 -14.17% 26
Wales -49 34 £35,000 -36.36% 22

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
1 259 (17.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 241 (16.15%) SharePoint
3 54 (3.62%) IIS
4 43 (2.88%) Confluence
5 15 (1.01%) nginx
6 8 (0.54%) Apache
7 6 (0.40%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.067%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.067%) WebSphere
Applications
1 64 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (2.41%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.40%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.34%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.067%) Actimize
7 1 (0.067%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 886 (59.38%) Azure
2 572 (38.34%) Microsoft 365
3 488 (32.71%) Entra ID
4 263 (17.63%) AWS
5 184 (12.33%) SaaS
6 183 (12.27%) Azure DevOps
7 126 (8.45%) Power Platform
8 120 (8.04%) GitHub
9 112 (7.51%) OneDrive
10 108 (7.24%) IaaS
11 95 (6.37%) Azure Monitor
12 88 (5.90%) Azure Sentinel
13 81 (5.43%) PaaS
14 79 (5.29%) Power Automate
15 73 (4.89%) GCP
16 72 (4.83%) Azure AKS
17 70 (4.69%) Azure Key Vault
18 65 (4.36%) GitHub Actions
19 64 (4.29%) Microsoft Purview
20 57 (3.82%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 333 (22.32%) DNS
2 329 (22.05%) Firewall
3 232 (15.55%) DHCP
3 232 (15.55%) VPN
4 155 (10.39%) TCP/IP
5 100 (6.70%) WAN
6 87 (5.83%) LAN
7 80 (5.36%) VLAN
8 60 (4.02%) Network Security
9 59 (3.95%) Wireless
10 50 (3.35%) Wi-Fi
11 38 (2.55%) SAN
12 33 (2.21%) Kerberos
13 30 (2.01%) SSL
14 25 (1.68%) HTTP
15 22 (1.47%) NAS
16 16 (1.07%) Internet
16 16 (1.07%) VoIP
16 16 (1.07%) VSAN
17 14 (0.94%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (10.32%) SQL Server
2 86 (5.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 66 (4.42%) Power BI
4 26 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (1.41%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (1.14%) Relational Database
7 14 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (0.94%) MySQL
8 12 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (0.74%) NoSQL
10 10 (0.67%) Data Lake
11 8 (0.54%) Power Query
11 8 (0.54%) Redis
11 8 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.47%) InfluxDB
13 6 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.40%) Metadata
14 5 (0.34%) Db2
14 5 (0.34%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 102 (6.84%) JIRA
2 95 (6.37%) Git
3 80 (5.36%) GitLab
4 66 (4.42%) Jenkins
5 27 (1.81%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
7 10 (0.67%) TeamCity
8 8 (0.54%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.47%) Robot Framework
9 7 (0.47%) TestRail
10 6 (0.40%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.40%) Postman
11 5 (0.34%) Burp Suite
11 5 (0.34%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.34%) MSI
11 5 (0.34%) Selenium
11 5 (0.34%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
General
1 577 (38.67%) Social Skills
2 255 (17.09%) Finance
3 195 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (7.51%) Legal
5 105 (7.04%) Law
6 76 (5.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 58 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
8 47 (3.15%) Retail
9 45 (3.02%) Banking
10 39 (2.61%) Aerospace
10 39 (2.61%) Public Sector
11 36 (2.41%) Manufacturing
11 36 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (0.94%) Legal Technology
13 12 (0.80%) Financial Institution
13 12 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (0.67%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.60%) Aviation
15 9 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 288 (19.30%) Senior
2 211 (14.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 177 (11.86%) Analyst
4 136 (9.12%) Azure Engineer
5 131 (8.78%) Cloud Engineer
5 131 (8.78%) IT Engineer
6 129 (8.65%) Support Engineer
7 117 (7.84%) DevOps Engineer
8 105 (7.04%) IT Support
9 83 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
10 79 (5.29%) Consultant
11 76 (5.09%) Lead
12 69 (4.62%) Support Analyst
13 66 (4.42%) IT Support Engineer
14 61 (4.09%) Security Engineer
14 61 (4.09%) Systems Engineer
15 55 (3.69%) Senior Manager
15 55 (3.69%) Testing Manager
16 54 (3.62%) Administrator
17 52 (3.49%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 382 (25.60%) Terraform
2 69 (4.62%) .NET
3 57 (3.82%) ARM Templates
3 57 (3.82%) REST
4 51 (3.42%) SAML
5 48 (3.22%) LDAP
6 44 (2.95%) Microsoft Graph
6 44 (2.95%) YAML
7 43 (2.88%) OAuth
7 43 (2.88%) OpenID
8 34 (2.28%) HTML
9 29 (1.94%) JSON
10 25 (1.68%) CSS
11 23 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
11 23 (1.54%) SPFx
12 18 (1.21%) .NET Core
13 16 (1.07%) SOAP
14 15 (1.01%) Kafka
15 14 (0.94%) ASP.NET
15 14 (0.94%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 127 (8.51%) Onboarding
2 95 (6.37%) Cloud Native
3 82 (5.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 80 (5.36%) Driving Licence
5 76 (5.09%) Security Posture
6 70 (4.69%) Management Information System
7 60 (4.02%) Virtual Team
8 55 (3.69%) Replication
9 54 (3.62%) PKI
10 51 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
11 48 (3.22%) Data Centre
12 41 (2.75%) Security Operations Centre
13 40 (2.68%) Public Cloud
14 37 (2.48%) Clustering
15 30 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
16 28 (1.88%) Cyber Threat
17 23 (1.54%) Cyber Defence
18 21 (1.41%) Private Cloud
19 19 (1.27%) Enterprise Storage
19 19 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 715 (47.92%) Windows
2 348 (23.32%) Linux
3 340 (22.79%) Windows Server
4 98 (6.57%) Windows 10
5 51 (3.42%) Apple iOS
6 44 (2.95%) Ubuntu
7 41 (2.75%) Android
8 40 (2.68%) Mac OS
9 38 (2.55%) VMS
10 34 (2.28%) Windows Server 2016
11 33 (2.21%) Windows Server 2019
12 31 (2.08%) CentOS
13 30 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 23 (1.54%) Unix
15 17 (1.14%) Rocky
16 8 (0.54%) Debian
16 8 (0.54%) Solaris
17 7 (0.47%) Kali Linux
18 5 (0.34%) CoreOS
19 4 (0.27%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (28.42%) Problem-Solving
2 400 (26.81%) DevOps
3 388 (26.01%) Continuous Improvement
4 363 (24.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 330 (22.12%) CI/CD
6 327 (21.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 269 (18.03%) ITIL
8 262 (17.56%) Cybersecurity
9 230 (15.42%) Mentoring
10 221 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
11 182 (12.20%) AI
12 173 (11.60%) Agile
13 161 (10.79%) High Availability
13 161 (10.79%) Root Cause Analysis
14 160 (10.72%) Project Delivery
15 155 (10.39%) Platform Engineering
16 152 (10.19%) Cloud Security
17 148 (9.92%) Migration
18 142 (9.52%) Incident Response
19 138 (9.25%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 589 (39.48%) Python
2 313 (20.98%) Bash
3 306 (20.51%) SQL
4 137 (9.18%) JavaScript
5 131 (8.78%) Bicep
6 126 (8.45%) C#
7 82 (5.50%) TypeScript
8 52 (3.49%) Kusto Query Language
9 38 (2.55%) Java
10 37 (2.48%) T-SQL
11 23 (1.54%) VBScript
12 20 (1.34%) C++
13 19 (1.27%) Perl
14 13 (0.87%) PHP
15 11 (0.74%) Ruby
15 11 (0.74%) VBA
16 10 (0.67%) VB
17 8 (0.54%) Go
18 7 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 6 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 215 (14.41%) Security Cleared
2 169 (11.33%) Degree
3 162 (10.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 158 (10.59%) Azure Certification
5 139 (9.32%) SC Cleared
6 66 (4.42%) DV Cleared
7 62 (4.16%) CISSP
8 59 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 57 (3.82%) CompTIA Security+
10 51 (3.42%) Cisco Certification
11 41 (2.75%) CCNA
12 28 (1.88%) CEH
13 26 (1.74%) AWS Certification
14 25 (1.68%) DBS Check
15 22 (1.47%) CISM
16 19 (1.27%) OSCP
17 18 (1.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 17 (1.14%) CompTIA CySA+
18 17 (1.14%) GIAC
19 15 (1.01%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (7.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 81 (5.43%) QA
3 77 (5.16%) Cyber Essentials
4 66 (4.42%) NIST
5 47 (3.15%) SLA
6 46 (3.08%) GDPR
7 22 (1.47%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.34%) Data Quality
9 14 (0.94%) SOC 2
10 11 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (0.67%) NCSC
12 8 (0.54%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.54%) PMO
12 8 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.40%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.13%) EMIR
15 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 554 (37.13%) Active Directory
2 242 (16.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 160 (10.72%) Hyper-V
4 142 (9.52%) Docker
5 81 (5.43%) vSphere
6 80 (5.36%) Virtual Machines
7 62 (4.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 28 (1.88%) VMware ESXi
8 28 (1.88%) VMware NSX
9 17 (1.14%) BitLocker
10 15 (1.01%) Firmware
11 8 (0.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.54%) KVM
12 7 (0.47%) Squid
13 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.13%) DFS Replication
16 2 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
16 2 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 266 (17.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 231 (15.48%) Kubernetes
3 172 (11.53%) Ansible
4 79 (5.29%) Grafana
5 78 (5.23%) SCCM
6 60 (4.02%) Single Sign-On
7 44 (2.95%) Prometheus
8 31 (2.08%) Puppet
9 26 (1.74%) vCenter Server
10 24 (1.61%) Argo
10 24 (1.61%) ZABBIX
11 22 (1.47%) QRadar
12 20 (1.34%) Proxmox
13 18 (1.21%) FortiGate
14 16 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
15 15 (1.01%) Graylog
15 15 (1.01%) Packer
16 14 (0.94%) Progress Chef
17 12 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 10 (0.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 956 (64.08%) Microsoft
2 282 (18.90%) VMware
3 106 (7.10%) Cisco
4 97 (6.50%) ServiceNow
5 89 (5.97%) Splunk
6 69 (4.62%) Veeam
7 49 (3.28%) Oracle
8 46 (3.08%) Red Hat
9 44 (2.95%) Citrix
10 37 (2.48%) Meraki
11 34 (2.28%) Sage
12 33 (2.21%) Dell
13 31 (2.08%) Dynatrace
14 30 (2.01%) SolarWinds
14 30 (2.01%) Sophos
15 29 (1.94%) CyberArk
15 29 (1.94%) SAP
16 28 (1.88%) Google
17 27 (1.81%) Apple
17 27 (1.81%) Fortinet