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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 95 89
Rank change year-on-year -21 -6 +1
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,253 1,452 2,422
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.79% 3.07% 3.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.67% 8.92% 8.64%
Number of salaries quoted 924 1,053 2,111
10th Percentile £32,575 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,938 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 12,957 16,269 28,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.50% 34.42% 36.95%
Number of salaries quoted 9,199 10,065 22,859
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,000 £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 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +5.50% -0.91%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -29 1,059 £57,500 -8.00% 380
UK excluding London -23 712 £50,000 -9.09% 317
London -7 470 £70,000 -9.68% 139
Work from Home -1 412 £55,000 -12.00% 143
South East -49 192 £56,750 -5.42% 125
North of England -24 142 £47,500 -9.52% 57
Scotland +58 129 £69,250 +15.42% 23
South West +2 101 £55,000 +3.77% 42
Midlands -53 84 £52,500 +5.00% 42
Yorkshire -20 65 £47,500 -9.52% 21
North West -29 61 £50,000 -4.76% 24
East of England -14 53 £40,000 -27.27% 33
East Midlands -31 42 £55,000 +8.91% 21
West Midlands -47 41 £47,500 -5.00% 21
North East -4 16 £47,500 -20.83% 13
Wales 0 10 £55,000 +5.77% 6
Northern Ireland -28 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
1 191 (15.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 138 (11.01%) SharePoint
3 38 (3.03%) IIS
4 22 (1.76%) 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 46 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.48%) Siemens NX
3 6 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.24%) CATIA
5 3 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.24%) Windchill
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%) PlanetPress Connect
5 5 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
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
1 814 (64.96%) Azure
2 419 (33.44%) Microsoft 365
3 346 (27.61%) Entra ID
4 214 (17.08%) AWS
5 167 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
6 118 (9.42%) Power Platform
7 95 (7.58%) GitHub
8 83 (6.62%) GCP
9 79 (6.30%) PaaS
10 77 (6.15%) Google Workspace
11 73 (5.83%) GitHub Actions
12 72 (5.75%) SaaS
13 67 (5.35%) Azure Monitor
14 63 (5.03%) IaaS
15 50 (3.99%) Power Automate
16 48 (3.83%) OneDrive
17 42 (3.35%) Snowflake
18 37 (2.95%) Azure Logic Apps
18 37 (2.95%) dbt
19 36 (2.87%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 225 (17.96%) Firewall
2 220 (17.56%) DNS
3 178 (14.21%) DHCP
4 130 (10.38%) VPN
5 110 (8.78%) TCP/IP
6 79 (6.30%) WAN
7 71 (5.67%) LAN
8 64 (5.11%) Broadband
9 52 (4.15%) VLAN
10 48 (3.83%) Wi-Fi
11 37 (2.95%) Network Security
12 36 (2.87%) Wireless
13 34 (2.71%) SAN
14 33 (2.63%) SD-WAN
15 31 (2.47%) VoIP
16 17 (1.36%) VSAN
17 14 (1.12%) MPLS
17 14 (1.12%) NAS
18 12 (0.96%) BGP
18 12 (0.96%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (11.57%) SQL Server
2 91 (7.26%) Power BI
3 32 (2.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 31 (2.47%) Relational Database
5 30 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (2.31%) Oracle Database
7 27 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (2.08%) Oracle Database 10g
9 25 (2.00%) MySQL
10 18 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
11 16 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (1.20%) Tableau
13 14 (1.12%) NoSQL
13 14 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (0.64%) InfluxDB
14 8 (0.64%) MongoDB
15 6 (0.48%) Data Lake
16 5 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
16 5 (0.40%) Metadata
17 4 (0.32%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 92 (7.34%) JIRA
2 84 (6.70%) Jenkins
3 76 (6.07%) Git
4 37 (2.95%) GitLab
5 29 (2.31%) Octopus Deploy
6 22 (1.76%) Bitbucket
7 21 (1.68%) 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 (35.43%) Social Skills
2 313 (24.98%) Finance
3 143 (11.41%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (6.30%) Organisational Skills
5 47 (3.75%) Retail
6 44 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
7 43 (3.43%) Law
8 37 (2.95%) Games
9 36 (2.87%) Public Sector
10 35 (2.79%) Banking
11 32 (2.55%) Legal
12 29 (2.31%) Telecoms
13 28 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 25 (2.00%) Manufacturing
15 15 (1.20%) Front Office
16 14 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
17 13 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
18 8 (0.64%) Advertising
18 8 (0.64%) Aerospace
19 6 (0.48%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 191 (15.24%) Senior
2 149 (11.89%) Support Engineer
3 147 (11.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 114 (9.10%) Azure Engineer
5 107 (8.54%) Analyst
6 90 (7.18%) IT Support
7 83 (6.62%) Developer
7 83 (6.62%) Security Engineer
8 82 (6.54%) DevOps Engineer
9 79 (6.30%) Cloud Engineer
10 71 (5.67%) IT Engineer
11 65 (5.19%) Lead
12 60 (4.79%) 3rd Line Support
13 54 (4.31%) IT Support Engineer
14 48 (3.83%) Platform Engineer
15 45 (3.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 41 (3.27%) Applications Support
16 41 (3.27%) Support Analyst
17 40 (3.19%) Architect
18 39 (3.11%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (8.70%) REST
2 90 (7.18%) OAuth
3 81 (6.46%) SAML
4 76 (6.07%) OpenID
4 76 (6.07%) SOAP
5 73 (5.83%) GraphQL
6 69 (5.51%) .NET
7 65 (5.19%) LDAP
8 35 (2.79%) YAML
9 33 (2.63%) JSON
10 25 (2.00%) ARM Templates
11 21 (1.68%) React
12 19 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
12 19 (1.52%) Web Services
13 17 (1.36%) Microsoft Graph
14 16 (1.28%) .NET Core
15 14 (1.12%) Node.js
16 13 (1.04%) AngularJS
16 13 (1.04%) Middleware
17 12 (0.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 91 (7.26%) Onboarding
2 78 (6.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 70 (5.59%) Cyber Threat
4 61 (4.87%) Cyberattack
4 61 (4.87%) Security Posture
5 49 (3.91%) Management Information System
6 41 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
7 40 (3.19%) Driving Licence
8 37 (2.95%) Product Ownership
9 35 (2.79%) Cloud Native
10 34 (2.71%) Data Centre
11 32 (2.55%) Cyber Defence
11 32 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
12 28 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
13 26 (2.08%) PKI
14 24 (1.92%) CMDB
15 22 (1.76%) Security Operations Centre
16 19 (1.52%) Virtual Team
17 17 (1.36%) Hedge funds
17 17 (1.36%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 548 (43.74%) Windows
2 294 (23.46%) Windows Server
3 230 (18.36%) Linux
4 68 (5.43%) Windows 10
5 54 (4.31%) 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 (2.08%) Apple iOS
10 26 (2.08%) CentOS
10 26 (2.08%) Windows Server 2008
11 25 (2.00%) Solaris
12 22 (1.76%) HPUX
12 22 (1.76%) Windows 7
12 22 (1.76%) Windows Server 2003
13 17 (1.36%) Ubuntu
14 15 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (30.33%) Problem-Solving
2 319 (25.46%) DevOps
3 257 (20.51%) CI/CD
4 238 (18.99%) ITIL
5 231 (18.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 226 (18.04%) Cybersecurity
7 214 (17.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 214 (17.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 193 (15.40%) Mentoring
9 173 (13.81%) Agile
10 169 (13.49%) Disaster Recovery
11 152 (12.13%) Roadmaps
12 125 (9.98%) Root Cause Analysis
13 123 (9.82%) Incident Response
14 114 (9.10%) Task Automation
15 103 (8.22%) Coaching
16 102 (8.14%) Asset Management
16 102 (8.14%) Cloud Security
17 100 (7.98%) Business Intelligence
17 100 (7.98%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 434 (34.64%) Python
2 314 (25.06%) Bash
3 284 (22.67%) SQL
4 91 (7.26%) C#
5 86 (6.86%) T-SQL
6 69 (5.51%) JavaScript
7 68 (5.43%) Bicep
8 25 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
8 25 (2.00%) Perl
9 21 (1.68%) Go
10 20 (1.60%) Java
11 11 (0.88%) VB.NET
12 8 (0.64%) VBA
13 7 (0.56%) PHP
13 7 (0.56%) VB
13 7 (0.56%) VBScript
14 6 (0.48%) C++
14 6 (0.48%) Delphi
15 5 (0.40%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 169 (13.49%) Degree
2 157 (12.53%) Security Cleared
3 111 (8.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 96 (7.66%) SC Cleared
5 90 (7.18%) Azure Certification
6 60 (4.79%) 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 30 (2.39%) AWS Certification
13 24 (1.92%) CEH
14 22 (1.76%) GIAC
15 21 (1.68%) SANS
16 20 (1.60%) 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
1 172 (13.73%) NIST
2 164 (13.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 74 (5.91%) NCSC
4 62 (4.95%) GDPR
5 55 (4.39%) SLA
6 49 (3.91%) Accessibility
7 31 (2.47%) Cyber Essentials
8 20 (1.60%) 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
1 464 (37.03%) Active Directory
2 145 (11.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 110 (8.78%) Docker
4 109 (8.70%) Hyper-V
5 46 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
6 41 (3.27%) vSphere
7 35 (2.79%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (1.52%) Firmware
9 17 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
10 13 (1.04%) 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
15 3 (0.24%) KVM
16 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 268 (21.39%) Terraform
2 186 (14.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 159 (12.69%) Kubernetes
4 143 (11.41%) Ansible
5 50 (3.99%) Grafana
6 44 (3.51%) SCCM
7 41 (3.27%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (2.08%) Prometheus
9 20 (1.60%) Puppet
10 17 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 14 (1.12%) vCenter Server
12 12 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
13 11 (0.88%) Nessus
14 10 (0.80%) SCOM
15 9 (0.72%) FortiGate
15 9 (0.72%) VxRail
16 8 (0.64%) Nagios
16 8 (0.64%) Progress Chef
16 8 (0.64%) SCVMM
17 7 (0.56%) Control-M
Vendors
1 640 (51.08%) Microsoft
2 236 (18.83%) VMware
3 98 (7.82%) Cisco
4 58 (4.63%) ServiceNow
5 53 (4.23%) Splunk
6 50 (3.99%) Veeam
7 49 (3.91%) Oracle
8 42 (3.35%) Google
8 42 (3.35%) Red Hat
9 34 (2.71%) Atlassian
10 31 (2.47%) Citrix
10 31 (2.47%) Commvault
10 31 (2.47%) Palo Alto
11 26 (2.08%) CyberArk
11 26 (2.08%) Fortinet
12 24 (1.92%) Dell
13 23 (1.84%) CrowdStrike
13 23 (1.84%) SolarWinds
14 21 (1.68%) Meraki
15 20 (1.60%) Tenable