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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 85 114
Rank change year-on-year -54 +29 -30
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,362 1,626 2,364
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.41% 3.49% 2.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.88% 11.52% 7.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,010 1,051 1,905
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £75,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £91,974
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,099 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.15% +2.20% -3.85%

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 17,290 14,118 33,442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.92% 30.30% 31.69%
Number of salaries quoted 12,304 9,362 25,216
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,260 £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 £78,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.92% -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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -53 1,273 £57,500 -1.71% 429
UK excluding London -62 835 £50,000 -2.15% 331
London -16 499 £70,000 -3.45% 152
Work from Home -50 442 £60,000 +4.35% 206
South East -40 229 £53,000 -7.83% 121
North of England -82 207 £47,500 -6.40% 74
Midlands -47 139 £50,000 - 36
North West -85 109 £50,000 +3.51% 45
East of England -22 95 £54,000 +10.77% 27
South West -46 92 £55,000 +15.79% 49
East Midlands -12 77 £45,000 +28.57% 15
Yorkshire -31 63 £45,000 -14.29% 15
West Midlands -75 61 £51,250 -6.82% 21
Scotland +36 44 £50,000 +12.99% 14
North East -30 35 £47,972 -20.05% 17
Wales -28 26 £53,085 -3.48% 20
Northern Ireland -28 3 £46,000 +6.75% 7

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
1 218 (16.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 198 (14.54%) SharePoint
3 48 (3.52%) IIS
4 25 (1.84%) Confluence
5 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.22%) nginx
5 3 (0.22%) SAS
5 3 (0.22%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.15%) Apache
6 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.073%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.073%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.073%) Site Server
7 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
Applications
1 78 (5.73%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.073%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.073%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (0.66%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.37%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.22%) Alphatax
4 3 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.15%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.073%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.073%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 886 (65.05%) Azure
2 503 (36.93%) Microsoft 365
3 366 (26.87%) Entra ID
4 231 (16.96%) AWS
5 151 (11.09%) Azure DevOps
6 124 (9.10%) Power Platform
7 115 (8.44%) GitHub
8 104 (7.64%) IaaS
9 95 (6.98%) SaaS
10 91 (6.68%) OneDrive
11 83 (6.09%) Azure Monitor
12 75 (5.51%) PaaS
13 74 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
14 66 (4.85%) Power Automate
15 63 (4.63%) Azure AKS
16 62 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
17 58 (4.26%) Azure Key Vault
18 57 (4.19%) GCP
19 52 (3.82%) Google Workspace
19 52 (3.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 298 (21.88%) Firewall
2 286 (21.00%) DNS
3 204 (14.98%) VPN
4 194 (14.24%) DHCP
5 123 (9.03%) TCP/IP
6 92 (6.75%) WAN
7 89 (6.53%) LAN
8 80 (5.87%) Network Security
9 71 (5.21%) VLAN
10 54 (3.96%) Wi-Fi
11 44 (3.23%) Broadband
12 38 (2.79%) VoIP
13 36 (2.64%) Wireless
14 35 (2.57%) SAN
15 23 (1.69%) BGP
15 23 (1.69%) Kerberos
16 17 (1.25%) SD-WAN
17 16 (1.17%) SSL
18 15 (1.10%) MPLS
19 14 (1.03%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (11.75%) SQL Server
2 83 (6.09%) Power BI
3 78 (5.73%) Azure SQL Database
4 45 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (1.91%) MySQL
7 25 (1.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 21 (1.54%) MongoDB
9 16 (1.17%) Relational Database
10 15 (1.10%) NoSQL
11 14 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (0.73%) InfluxDB
14 8 (0.59%) Data Lake
14 8 (0.59%) Tableau
15 6 (0.44%) Metadata
16 5 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
16 5 (0.37%) Redis
16 5 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 4 (0.29%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 110 (8.08%) Git
2 77 (5.65%) JIRA
3 69 (5.07%) Jenkins
4 65 (4.77%) GitLab
5 33 (2.42%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
7 13 (0.95%) Metasploit
7 13 (0.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 13 (0.95%) TeamCity
8 11 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
9 9 (0.66%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.66%) Robot Framework
10 8 (0.59%) TestRail
11 7 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.44%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.44%) Selenium
13 5 (0.37%) CircleCI
13 5 (0.37%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.29%) Artifactory
15 3 (0.22%) Postman
General
1 423 (31.06%) Social Skills
2 219 (16.08%) Finance
3 165 (12.11%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (7.05%) Law
5 70 (5.14%) Organisational Skills
6 58 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 53 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (3.52%) Legal
9 44 (3.23%) Retail
10 39 (2.86%) Public Sector
11 26 (1.91%) Manufacturing
12 25 (1.84%) Aerospace
13 23 (1.69%) Banking
14 18 (1.32%) Games
14 18 (1.32%) Telecoms
15 17 (1.25%) Advertising
16 9 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (0.59%) Aviation
18 6 (0.44%) Front Office
18 6 (0.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 246 (18.06%) Senior
2 173 (12.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 157 (11.53%) Analyst
4 154 (11.31%) Support Engineer
5 143 (10.50%) IT Support
6 139 (10.21%) IT Engineer
7 132 (9.69%) Azure Engineer
8 112 (8.22%) Cloud Engineer
9 103 (7.56%) DevOps Engineer
10 87 (6.39%) IT Support Engineer
10 87 (6.39%) Security Engineer
11 71 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
12 65 (4.77%) Developer
13 62 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
14 61 (4.48%) 2nd Line Support
15 54 (3.96%) Lead
16 50 (3.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 44 (3.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 44 (3.23%) Support Analyst
18 43 (3.16%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (6.53%) .NET
2 80 (5.87%) SAML
3 78 (5.73%) OAuth
3 78 (5.73%) REST
4 71 (5.21%) OpenID
5 67 (4.92%) LDAP
6 49 (3.60%) SOAP
7 48 (3.52%) ARM Templates
8 44 (3.23%) YAML
9 42 (3.08%) JSON
10 41 (3.01%) HTML
11 39 (2.86%) GraphQL
11 39 (2.86%) Microsoft Graph
12 37 (2.72%) .NET Core
13 33 (2.42%) CSS
14 25 (1.84%) SPFx
15 23 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
16 19 (1.40%) HTML5 Canvas
17 17 (1.25%) XML
18 16 (1.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 106 (7.78%) Onboarding
2 80 (5.87%) Cloud Native
3 78 (5.73%) Hybrid Cloud
4 73 (5.36%) Security Posture
5 66 (4.85%) Driving Licence
6 61 (4.48%) Management Information System
7 57 (4.19%) Cyber Threat
8 47 (3.45%) Data Centre
9 45 (3.30%) Cyberattack
9 45 (3.30%) Security Operations Centre
10 44 (3.23%) Public Cloud
11 43 (3.16%) PKI
12 42 (3.08%) Cyber Defence
13 38 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
14 35 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
15 23 (1.69%) Private Cloud
15 23 (1.69%) Replication
16 22 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
17 20 (1.47%) Clustering
18 17 (1.25%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 650 (47.72%) Windows
2 317 (23.27%) Windows Server
3 311 (22.83%) Linux
4 78 (5.73%) Windows 10
5 52 (3.82%) Apple iOS
6 50 (3.67%) Mac OS
6 50 (3.67%) VMS
7 40 (2.94%) Android
8 39 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
9 33 (2.42%) CentOS
10 31 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 28 (2.06%) Windows Server 2019
12 25 (1.84%) Ubuntu
13 14 (1.03%) Unix
14 8 (0.59%) Debian
15 6 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
16 5 (0.37%) Kali Linux
17 4 (0.29%) AIX
17 4 (0.29%) CoreOS
18 2 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (26.21%) Problem-Solving
2 316 (23.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 313 (22.98%) CI/CD
4 295 (21.66%) DevOps
5 280 (20.56%) Cybersecurity
6 251 (18.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 246 (18.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 233 (17.11%) ITIL
9 183 (13.44%) Mentoring
10 181 (13.29%) Agile
11 168 (12.33%) Disaster Recovery
12 164 (12.04%) Incident Response
12 164 (12.04%) Root Cause Analysis
13 145 (10.65%) High Availability
14 142 (10.43%) Containerisation
15 138 (10.13%) Roadmaps
16 133 (9.77%) Cloud Security
17 131 (9.62%) SIEM
18 124 (9.10%) Task Automation
19 122 (8.96%) AI
Programming Languages
1 530 (38.91%) Python
2 353 (25.92%) Bash
3 286 (21.00%) SQL
4 100 (7.34%) Bicep
5 98 (7.20%) C#
6 77 (5.65%) JavaScript
7 73 (5.36%) T-SQL
8 43 (3.16%) Kusto Query Language
9 33 (2.42%) Java
10 28 (2.06%) TypeScript
11 19 (1.40%) C++
12 17 (1.25%) VBScript
13 15 (1.10%) PHP
14 12 (0.88%) Perl
15 11 (0.81%) Go
15 11 (0.81%) VB
16 10 (0.73%) VBA
17 9 (0.66%) Ruby
18 8 (0.59%) C
19 6 (0.44%) Korn
Qualifications
1 173 (12.70%) Security Cleared
2 167 (12.26%) Degree
3 149 (10.94%) Azure Certification
4 132 (9.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 113 (8.30%) SC Cleared
6 60 (4.41%) Cisco Certification
7 57 (4.19%) CISSP
8 56 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 45 (3.30%) DV Cleared
10 42 (3.08%) CCNA
10 42 (3.08%) CompTIA Security+
11 29 (2.13%) CREST Certified
11 29 (2.13%) DBS Check
12 28 (2.06%) OSCP
13 27 (1.98%) AWS Certification
14 24 (1.76%) GIAC
15 23 (1.69%) CEH
16 21 (1.54%) CCNP
17 16 (1.17%) CompTIA CySA+
18 15 (1.10%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (10.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 122 (8.96%) NIST
3 66 (4.85%) GDPR
4 57 (4.19%) Cyber Essentials
5 41 (3.01%) SLA
6 37 (2.72%) NCSC
7 21 (1.54%) Data Quality
8 20 (1.47%) QA
9 18 (1.32%) PCI DSS
9 18 (1.32%) SOC 2
10 13 (0.95%) Accessibility
11 12 (0.88%) ISO 22301
12 11 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 9 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.44%) DICOM
14 6 (0.44%) PMO
15 3 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.15%) EMIR
16 2 (0.15%) ISAE 3402
16 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 524 (38.47%) Active Directory
2 227 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 150 (11.01%) Hyper-V
4 146 (10.72%) Docker
5 81 (5.95%) vSphere
6 48 (3.52%) Virtual Machines
7 40 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
8 25 (1.84%) BitLocker
9 24 (1.76%) VMware NSX
10 16 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.73%) KVM
12 8 (0.59%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.59%) Squid
13 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.29%) Firmware
14 4 (0.29%) iptables
15 3 (0.22%) Terminal Services
16 2 (0.15%) Samba
Systems Management
1 325 (23.86%) Terraform
2 227 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 211 (15.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 163 (11.97%) Ansible
5 74 (5.43%) Grafana
6 59 (4.33%) Single Sign-On
7 50 (3.67%) Prometheus
7 50 (3.67%) SCCM
8 27 (1.98%) Jamf Pro
9 25 (1.84%) vCenter Server
10 22 (1.62%) ZABBIX
11 21 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 21 (1.54%) Argo
12 20 (1.47%) Packer
13 18 (1.32%) QRadar
14 16 (1.17%) Nessus
15 15 (1.10%) Proxmox
16 14 (1.03%) Graylog
16 14 (1.03%) VxRail
17 12 (0.88%) Nagios
Vendors
1 812 (59.62%) Microsoft
2 275 (20.19%) VMware
3 107 (7.86%) Cisco
4 90 (6.61%) Splunk
5 72 (5.29%) ServiceNow
6 58 (4.26%) Red Hat
7 51 (3.74%) Veeam
8 41 (3.01%) Meraki
9 40 (2.94%) Oracle
10 31 (2.28%) Tenable
11 30 (2.20%) CrowdStrike
12 29 (2.13%) Apple
12 29 (2.13%) Dell
13 28 (2.06%) Google
14 27 (1.98%) Sophos
15 26 (1.91%) Palo Alto
16 25 (1.84%) Citrix
16 25 (1.84%) Fortinet
17 23 (1.69%) SolarWinds
18 22 (1.62%) Dynatrace