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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 98 92
Rank change year-on-year -26 -6 -1
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,236 1,391 2,485
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.71% 3.16% 2.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.43% 9.12% 8.33%
Number of salaries quoted 911 1,080 2,150
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,025 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.78% +10.95% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £88,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 13,102 15,260 29,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.15% 34.63% 35.72%
Number of salaries quoted 9,245 10,344 24,184
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,094
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 £56,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% +4.63% -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 9 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 9 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 -30 1,061 £57,500 -8.00% 417
UK excluding London -34 700 £52,500 -4.55% 345
London -8 472 £70,000 -12.50% 131
Work from Home -8 399 £55,000 -7.66% 184
South East -50 192 £56,623 -5.63% 137
North of England -32 138 £47,500 -9.52% 67
Scotland +54 120 £74,500 +35.45% 22
South West -3 100 £55,000 +4.76% 47
Midlands -50 89 £52,500 +5.00% 37
Yorkshire -26 66 £47,500 -9.52% 25
North West -35 57 £53,000 +0.95% 33
East of England -23 53 £40,000 -27.27% 39
East Midlands -22 45 £55,000 +8.91% 19
West Midlands -48 43 £48,000 -4.00% 18
North East -14 15 £46,250 -22.92% 10
Wales -8 7 £55,000 +5.77% 6
Northern Ireland -31 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
1 192 (15.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 138 (11.17%) SharePoint
3 37 (2.99%) IIS
4 22 (1.78%) Exchange Server 2003
5 13 (1.05%) Confluence
6 6 (0.49%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.24%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.16%) Apache
8 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.16%) CMS
8 2 (0.16%) nginx
8 2 (0.16%) WordPress
9 1 (0.081%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.081%) CICS
9 1 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.081%) Site Server
9 1 (0.081%) WebSphere
Applications
1 50 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.49%) Siemens NX
4 5 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.24%) CATIA
6 3 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.24%) Windchill
7 1 (0.081%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.65%) Markit EDM
2 7 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (0.49%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.32%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
5 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.16%) PlanetPress Connect
7 1 (0.081%) Actimize
7 1 (0.081%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.081%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.081%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 799 (64.64%) Azure
2 417 (33.74%) Microsoft 365
3 345 (27.91%) Entra ID
4 205 (16.59%) AWS
5 151 (12.22%) Azure DevOps
6 103 (8.33%) Power Platform
7 93 (7.52%) GitHub
8 80 (6.47%) GCP
9 78 (6.31%) PaaS
10 76 (6.15%) Google Workspace
11 74 (5.99%) SaaS
12 71 (5.74%) GitHub Actions
13 66 (5.34%) IaaS
14 64 (5.18%) Azure Monitor
15 51 (4.13%) OneDrive
16 42 (3.40%) Power Automate
17 39 (3.16%) Snowflake
18 37 (2.99%) Azure Sentinel
19 36 (2.91%) Azure Logic Apps
19 36 (2.91%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 224 (18.12%) Firewall
2 221 (17.88%) DNS
3 176 (14.24%) DHCP
4 135 (10.92%) VPN
5 109 (8.82%) TCP/IP
6 71 (5.74%) WAN
7 64 (5.18%) Broadband
7 64 (5.18%) LAN
8 50 (4.05%) VLAN
9 47 (3.80%) Wi-Fi
10 44 (3.56%) Network Security
11 36 (2.91%) Wireless
12 33 (2.67%) VoIP
13 32 (2.59%) SAN
14 31 (2.51%) SD-WAN
15 15 (1.21%) VSAN
16 14 (1.13%) MPLS
17 12 (0.97%) NAS
17 12 (0.97%) WinSCP
18 11 (0.89%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (11.73%) SQL Server
2 85 (6.88%) Power BI
3 29 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (2.35%) Relational Database
3 29 (2.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 28 (2.27%) Oracle Database
4 28 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (2.10%) MySQL
5 26 (2.10%) Oracle Database 10g
6 19 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 17 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (1.21%) NoSQL
8 15 (1.21%) Tableau
9 14 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (0.65%) InfluxDB
10 8 (0.65%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.49%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (0.40%) Metadata
13 4 (0.32%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 90 (7.28%) JIRA
2 80 (6.47%) Jenkins
3 73 (5.91%) Git
4 35 (2.83%) GitLab
5 27 (2.18%) Octopus Deploy
6 25 (2.02%) Bitbucket
7 20 (1.62%) TeamCity
8 15 (1.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 14 (1.13%) Metasploit
10 10 (0.81%) Burp Suite
11 9 (0.73%) CircleCI
11 9 (0.73%) Robot Framework
12 6 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.49%) 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
1 438 (35.44%) Social Skills
2 303 (24.51%) Finance
3 142 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (6.23%) Organisational Skills
5 50 (4.05%) Law
6 42 (3.40%) Retail
7 41 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
8 37 (2.99%) Public Sector
9 34 (2.75%) Banking
9 34 (2.75%) Games
10 32 (2.59%) Legal
11 29 (2.35%) Telecoms
12 28 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 24 (1.94%) Manufacturing
14 15 (1.21%) Front Office
15 10 (0.81%) Advertising
15 10 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (0.65%) Aerospace
18 7 (0.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 189 (15.29%) Senior
2 146 (11.81%) Support Engineer
3 142 (11.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 114 (9.22%) Azure Engineer
5 110 (8.90%) Analyst
6 97 (7.85%) IT Support
7 82 (6.63%) DevOps Engineer
7 82 (6.63%) Security Engineer
8 76 (6.15%) Developer
9 75 (6.07%) Cloud Engineer
9 75 (6.07%) IT Engineer
10 63 (5.10%) Lead
11 61 (4.94%) 3rd Line Support
12 57 (4.61%) IT Support Engineer
13 48 (3.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 44 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
15 43 (3.48%) Architect
16 42 (3.40%) Support Analyst
17 38 (3.07%) 2nd Line Support
18 36 (2.91%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (8.17%) REST
2 90 (7.28%) OAuth
3 81 (6.55%) SAML
4 76 (6.15%) OpenID
5 71 (5.74%) GraphQL
5 71 (5.74%) SOAP
6 65 (5.26%) .NET
6 65 (5.26%) LDAP
7 36 (2.91%) YAML
8 29 (2.35%) JSON
9 24 (1.94%) ARM Templates
10 20 (1.62%) React
11 19 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
11 19 (1.54%) Microsoft Graph
12 18 (1.46%) .NET Core
12 18 (1.46%) Web Services
13 15 (1.21%) Node.js
14 12 (0.97%) Swagger
15 11 (0.89%) AngularJS
15 11 (0.89%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 93 (7.52%) Onboarding
2 78 (6.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 71 (5.74%) Cyber Threat
4 60 (4.85%) Cyberattack
5 58 (4.69%) Security Posture
6 44 (3.56%) Management Information System
7 42 (3.40%) Driving Licence
8 39 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
9 37 (2.99%) Cloud Native
10 35 (2.83%) Cyber Defence
11 33 (2.67%) Data Centre
12 31 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
13 29 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
14 27 (2.18%) Product Ownership
15 25 (2.02%) PKI
16 23 (1.86%) Security Operations Centre
17 20 (1.62%) CMDB
18 17 (1.38%) Virtual Team
19 16 (1.29%) Hedge funds
20 15 (1.21%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 551 (44.58%) Windows
2 291 (23.54%) Windows Server
3 234 (18.93%) Linux
4 67 (5.42%) Windows 10
5 56 (4.53%) Mac OS
6 41 (3.32%) Unix
7 33 (2.67%) Android
7 33 (2.67%) Windows Server 2016
7 33 (2.67%) Windows Server 2019
8 28 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 27 (2.18%) Apple iOS
10 25 (2.02%) CentOS
10 25 (2.02%) Solaris
11 24 (1.94%) VMS
11 24 (1.94%) Windows Server 2008
12 22 (1.78%) HPUX
12 22 (1.78%) Windows 7
12 22 (1.78%) Windows Server 2003
13 18 (1.46%) Ubuntu
14 14 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (29.94%) Problem-Solving
2 302 (24.43%) DevOps
3 254 (20.55%) CI/CD
4 238 (19.26%) ITIL
5 232 (18.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 227 (18.37%) Cybersecurity
7 211 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 207 (16.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 189 (15.29%) Mentoring
10 166 (13.43%) Agile
11 164 (13.27%) Disaster Recovery
12 150 (12.14%) Roadmaps
13 132 (10.68%) Incident Response
14 123 (9.95%) Root Cause Analysis
15 107 (8.66%) Task Automation
16 102 (8.25%) Cloud Security
17 97 (7.85%) Asset Management
17 97 (7.85%) Migration
18 95 (7.69%) Computer Science
18 95 (7.69%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 430 (34.79%) Python
2 304 (24.60%) Bash
3 274 (22.17%) SQL
4 85 (6.88%) T-SQL
5 79 (6.39%) C#
6 70 (5.66%) JavaScript
7 68 (5.50%) Bicep
8 27 (2.18%) Kusto Query Language
9 25 (2.02%) Perl
10 21 (1.70%) Java
11 15 (1.21%) Go
12 11 (0.89%) VB.NET
13 7 (0.57%) C++
13 7 (0.57%) PHP
13 7 (0.57%) VB
14 6 (0.49%) Delphi
15 5 (0.40%) Google Apps Script
15 5 (0.40%) VBA
15 5 (0.40%) VBScript
16 4 (0.32%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 170 (13.75%) Degree
2 153 (12.38%) Security Cleared
3 112 (9.06%) Microsoft Certification
4 95 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 91 (7.36%) Azure Certification
6 60 (4.85%) DV Cleared
7 52 (4.21%) CISSP
8 45 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 36 (2.91%) CREST Certified
10 31 (2.51%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (2.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 28 (2.27%) AWS Certification
12 25 (2.02%) CEH
13 23 (1.86%) GIAC
14 21 (1.70%) SANS
15 19 (1.54%) CCNA
15 19 (1.54%) CompTIA CySA+
15 19 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
15 19 (1.54%) OSCP
16 16 (1.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (13.83%) NIST
2 164 (13.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 73 (5.91%) NCSC
4 64 (5.18%) GDPR
5 61 (4.94%) SLA
6 45 (3.64%) Accessibility
7 32 (2.59%) Cyber Essentials
8 21 (1.70%) ISO 22301
9 18 (1.46%) QA
10 17 (1.38%) Data Quality
11 15 (1.21%) PCI DSS
12 14 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 10 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.57%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.40%) DICOM
15 5 (0.40%) GRC
16 3 (0.24%) HL7
16 3 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.16%) COBIT
17 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
System Software
1 466 (37.70%) Active Directory
2 141 (11.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 114 (9.22%) Docker
4 112 (9.06%) Hyper-V
5 42 (3.40%) Virtual Machines
5 42 (3.40%) vSphere
6 28 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (1.54%) Firmware
8 17 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.65%) vCloud
10 8 (0.65%) VMware NSX
11 7 (0.57%) XenApp
12 6 (0.49%) BitLocker
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%) Samba
15 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 263 (21.28%) Terraform
2 183 (14.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 162 (13.11%) Kubernetes
4 137 (11.08%) Ansible
5 51 (4.13%) Grafana
6 41 (3.32%) SCCM
7 40 (3.24%) Single Sign-On
8 28 (2.27%) Prometheus
9 21 (1.70%) Puppet
10 18 (1.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (1.38%) Jamf Pro
12 14 (1.13%) vCenter Server
13 11 (0.89%) Nessus
14 10 (0.81%) SCOM
15 9 (0.73%) Progress Chef
15 9 (0.73%) VxRail
16 8 (0.65%) FortiGate
17 7 (0.57%) Control-M
17 7 (0.57%) Nagios
18 6 (0.49%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 644 (52.10%) Microsoft
2 233 (18.85%) VMware
3 98 (7.93%) Cisco
4 56 (4.53%) Splunk
5 52 (4.21%) ServiceNow
6 49 (3.96%) Oracle
7 48 (3.88%) Veeam
8 41 (3.32%) Red Hat
9 39 (3.16%) Google
10 34 (2.75%) Atlassian
11 32 (2.59%) Commvault
12 30 (2.43%) Palo Alto
13 28 (2.27%) Citrix
14 26 (2.10%) CrowdStrike
14 26 (2.10%) CyberArk
15 25 (2.02%) Fortinet
16 24 (1.94%) Meraki
17 22 (1.78%) Dell
18 21 (1.70%) Apple
19 20 (1.62%) SolarWinds