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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 86 115
Rank change year-on-year -65 +29 -20
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,248 1,554 2,288
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.35% 3.62% 2.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.71% 11.60% 7.05%
Number of salaries quoted 918 974 1,901
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,725 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,750 £59,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.35% +8.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £89,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 16,184 13,399 32,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.51% 31.21% 33.39%
Number of salaries quoted 11,153 9,088 24,848
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -68 1,128 £60,000 - 393
UK excluding London -78 707 £52,500 +5.00% 311
London -13 509 £70,000 -6.67% 126
Work from Home -39 405 £57,500 +2.68% 149
South East -78 167 £56,750 -1.30% 102
North of England -107 161 £47,500 -6.40% 90
Midlands -53 124 £50,000 - 35
North West -99 84 £50,000 +8.70% 57
South West -49 80 £55,000 +15.79% 43
East of England -25 77 £57,500 +15.00% 27
Scotland +40 74 £50,000 +6.95% 16
East Midlands -24 72 £52,500 +40.00% 20
Yorkshire -26 57 £45,000 -28.00% 20
West Midlands -64 51 £48,250 -3.50% 15
Wales -19 21 £54,085 +8.17% 2
North East -29 20 £48,445 -15.75% 13
Northern Ireland - 3 £46,000 - 5

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
1 176 (14.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 160 (12.82%) SharePoint
3 41 (3.29%) IIS
4 19 (1.52%) Confluence
5 3 (0.24%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.16%) Apache
6 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.080%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.080%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.080%) Site Server
Applications
1 70 (5.61%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.080%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.080%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.56%) Markit EDM
2 5 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
3 3 (0.24%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.16%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.080%) Actimize
5 1 (0.080%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 812 (65.06%) Azure
2 452 (36.22%) Microsoft 365
3 345 (27.64%) Entra ID
4 210 (16.83%) AWS
5 123 (9.86%) Azure DevOps
6 106 (8.49%) Power Platform
7 93 (7.45%) GitHub
8 87 (6.97%) SaaS
9 80 (6.41%) OneDrive
10 77 (6.17%) IaaS
11 69 (5.53%) Google Workspace
12 67 (5.37%) GitHub Actions
13 59 (4.73%) GCP
14 55 (4.41%) Azure Sentinel
15 53 (4.25%) Power Automate
16 52 (4.17%) Azure AKS
16 52 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
17 51 (4.09%) PaaS
18 48 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
19 44 (3.53%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 245 (19.63%) Firewall
2 244 (19.55%) DNS
3 150 (12.02%) DHCP
4 148 (11.86%) VPN
5 104 (8.33%) TCP/IP
6 77 (6.17%) WAN
7 71 (5.69%) LAN
8 66 (5.29%) Network Security
9 58 (4.65%) Broadband
10 47 (3.77%) VLAN
11 44 (3.53%) Wi-Fi
12 40 (3.21%) VoIP
13 35 (2.80%) SAN
14 20 (1.60%) BGP
14 20 (1.60%) Wireless
15 18 (1.44%) SD-WAN
16 16 (1.28%) Kerberos
16 16 (1.28%) VSAN
17 14 (1.12%) MPLS
18 13 (1.04%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (11.46%) SQL Server
2 79 (6.33%) Power BI
3 51 (4.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 32 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (2.00%) MySQL
7 22 (1.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 21 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 20 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (1.52%) Relational Database
11 17 (1.36%) NoSQL
12 13 (1.04%) MongoDB
13 12 (0.96%) Tableau
14 10 (0.80%) InfluxDB
15 9 (0.72%) Data Lake
16 6 (0.48%) Metadata
17 5 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
18 4 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 3 (0.24%) DynamoDB
20 2 (0.16%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 94 (7.53%) Git
2 65 (5.21%) JIRA
3 60 (4.81%) Jenkins
4 52 (4.17%) GitLab
5 27 (2.16%) Bitbucket
6 17 (1.36%) Octopus Deploy
7 13 (1.04%) Metasploit
7 13 (1.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 13 (1.04%) TeamCity
8 10 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
9 9 (0.72%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.72%) Robot Framework
10 8 (0.64%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.64%) TestRail
11 4 (0.32%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.32%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.32%) MLflow
11 4 (0.32%) Selenium
12 3 (0.24%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.16%) Terragrunt
General
1 396 (31.73%) Social Skills
2 228 (18.27%) Finance
3 176 (14.10%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
5 77 (6.17%) Law
6 53 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (3.77%) Legal
8 43 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
9 42 (3.37%) Retail
10 40 (3.21%) Public Sector
11 29 (2.32%) Games
12 26 (2.08%) Manufacturing
13 24 (1.92%) Aerospace
13 24 (1.92%) Banking
14 19 (1.52%) Advertising
15 14 (1.12%) Telecoms
16 11 (0.88%) Front Office
17 6 (0.48%) Electronics
17 6 (0.48%) Police
18 5 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 238 (19.07%) Senior
2 157 (12.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 143 (11.46%) Analyst
4 130 (10.42%) Azure Engineer
5 129 (10.34%) Support Engineer
6 115 (9.21%) IT Support
7 99 (7.93%) IT Engineer
8 95 (7.61%) Cloud Engineer
9 81 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
10 80 (6.41%) Security Engineer
11 66 (5.29%) IT Support Engineer
12 61 (4.89%) Developer
13 58 (4.65%) 2nd Line Support
14 56 (4.49%) Lead
14 56 (4.49%) Systems Engineer
15 46 (3.69%) Platform Engineer
16 45 (3.61%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 45 (3.61%) Architect
17 42 (3.37%) Support Analyst
18 41 (3.29%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (7.69%) OAuth
2 89 (7.13%) SAML
3 85 (6.81%) REST
4 84 (6.73%) .NET
4 84 (6.73%) OpenID
5 76 (6.09%) LDAP
6 62 (4.97%) SOAP
7 58 (4.65%) GraphQL
8 39 (3.13%) .NET Core
9 38 (3.04%) Microsoft Graph
10 36 (2.88%) JSON
11 35 (2.80%) YAML
12 34 (2.72%) CSS
12 34 (2.72%) HTML
13 33 (2.64%) ARM Templates
14 26 (2.08%) SPFx
15 19 (1.52%) HTML5 Canvas
15 19 (1.52%) React
16 17 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
17 16 (1.28%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 92 (7.37%) Onboarding
2 72 (5.77%) Cyber Threat
3 66 (5.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 63 (5.05%) Cyberattack
5 61 (4.89%) Management Information System
6 58 (4.65%) Cloud Native
7 53 (4.25%) Security Posture
8 45 (3.61%) Cyber Defence
9 43 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
10 42 (3.37%) Driving Licence
11 40 (3.21%) Data Centre
12 36 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
13 30 (2.40%) PKI
14 29 (2.32%) Analytical Mindset
15 28 (2.24%) Public Cloud
16 25 (2.00%) CMDB
17 20 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
18 18 (1.44%) Low-Code
18 18 (1.44%) Private Cloud
18 18 (1.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 583 (46.71%) Windows
2 281 (22.52%) Windows Server
3 274 (21.96%) Linux
4 77 (6.17%) Windows 10
5 51 (4.09%) Mac OS
6 50 (4.01%) Apple iOS
7 49 (3.93%) Android
8 35 (2.80%) Windows Server 2016
9 32 (2.56%) VMS
10 29 (2.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 28 (2.24%) CentOS
12 25 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
13 21 (1.68%) Ubuntu
14 17 (1.36%) Unix
15 8 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
16 5 (0.40%) Debian
17 4 (0.32%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.32%) Kali Linux
18 3 (0.24%) AIX
18 3 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (25.16%) Problem-Solving
2 275 (22.04%) Cybersecurity
3 269 (21.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 264 (21.15%) CI/CD
5 248 (19.87%) DevOps
6 220 (17.63%) ITIL
7 216 (17.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 206 (16.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 186 (14.90%) Mentoring
10 159 (12.74%) Agile
11 155 (12.42%) Incident Response
12 145 (11.62%) Root Cause Analysis
13 139 (11.14%) Roadmaps
14 137 (10.98%) Disaster Recovery
15 127 (10.18%) SIEM
16 123 (9.86%) Containerisation
17 110 (8.81%) High Availability
18 109 (8.73%) Cloud Security
19 106 (8.49%) Task Automation
20 102 (8.17%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 484 (38.78%) Python
2 316 (25.32%) Bash
3 271 (21.71%) SQL
4 95 (7.61%) C#
5 76 (6.09%) T-SQL
6 72 (5.77%) JavaScript
7 69 (5.53%) Bicep
8 30 (2.40%) Kusto Query Language
9 26 (2.08%) Java
10 23 (1.84%) TypeScript
11 16 (1.28%) C++
12 14 (1.12%) Perl
13 12 (0.96%) VBScript
14 11 (0.88%) VB
14 11 (0.88%) VB.NET
14 11 (0.88%) VBA
15 10 (0.80%) Go
16 9 (0.72%) PHP
17 7 (0.56%) C
18 6 (0.48%) Korn
Qualifications
1 163 (13.06%) Degree
2 149 (11.94%) Security Cleared
3 114 (9.13%) Microsoft Certification
4 112 (8.97%) Azure Certification
5 89 (7.13%) SC Cleared
6 50 (4.01%) CISSP
6 50 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 42 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
8 41 (3.29%) DV Cleared
9 35 (2.80%) CompTIA Security+
10 29 (2.32%) CCNA
10 29 (2.32%) CREST Certified
11 27 (2.16%) OSCP
12 25 (2.00%) GIAC
13 24 (1.92%) AWS Certification
13 24 (1.92%) CEH
14 22 (1.76%) DBS Check
15 16 (1.28%) CompTIA CySA+
16 14 (1.12%) CCNP
17 12 (0.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (11.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 138 (11.06%) NIST
3 62 (4.97%) GDPR
4 53 (4.25%) NCSC
5 44 (3.53%) SLA
6 34 (2.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 20 (1.60%) Accessibility
7 20 (1.60%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.36%) ISO 22301
9 15 (1.20%) QA
9 15 (1.20%) SOC 2
10 14 (1.12%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
12 9 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.48%) DICOM
14 5 (0.40%) GRC
15 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
16 3 (0.24%) PMO
17 2 (0.16%) COBIT
System Software
1 472 (37.82%) Active Directory
2 173 (13.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 132 (10.58%) Docker
4 115 (9.21%) Hyper-V
5 53 (4.25%) vSphere
6 35 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (1.76%) BitLocker
7 22 (1.76%) Virtual Desktop
8 21 (1.68%) VMware NSX
9 18 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (1.12%) Firmware
11 10 (0.80%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.64%) KVM
13 6 (0.48%) Squid
14 5 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.32%) iptables
15 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.32%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.32%) XenDesktop
16 2 (0.16%) Samba
Systems Management
1 274 (21.96%) Terraform
2 201 (16.11%) Kubernetes
3 191 (15.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 145 (11.62%) Ansible
5 57 (4.57%) Grafana
6 54 (4.33%) Single Sign-On
7 50 (4.01%) SCCM
8 36 (2.88%) Prometheus
9 25 (2.00%) Jamf Pro
10 23 (1.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 23 (1.84%) vCenter Server
11 15 (1.20%) Nessus
11 15 (1.20%) QRadar
11 15 (1.20%) VxRail
12 14 (1.12%) Packer
12 14 (1.12%) ZABBIX
13 10 (0.80%) Graylog
13 10 (0.80%) WSUS
14 9 (0.72%) Nagios
14 9 (0.72%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 718 (57.53%) Microsoft
2 223 (17.87%) VMware
3 100 (8.01%) Cisco
4 71 (5.69%) Splunk
5 56 (4.49%) Red Hat
6 54 (4.33%) ServiceNow
7 41 (3.29%) Veeam
8 39 (3.13%) CrowdStrike
9 32 (2.56%) Meraki
10 30 (2.40%) Citrix
10 30 (2.40%) Dell
10 30 (2.40%) Google
11 27 (2.16%) Commvault
12 26 (2.08%) Apple
12 26 (2.08%) Fortinet
12 26 (2.08%) Oracle
13 25 (2.00%) Palo Alto
14 23 (1.84%) Tenable
15 22 (1.76%) CyberArk
16 21 (1.68%) Sophos