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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 92 110
Rank change year-on-year -56 +18 -12
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,222 1,362 2,369
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.36% 3.21% 2.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.82% 9.91% 7.30%
Number of salaries quoted 889 1,057 2,012
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,600 £36,025
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £74,813
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,757 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.44% +3.51% -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 15,617 13,750 32,449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.39% 32.44% 33.91%
Number of salaries quoted 10,621 10,105 25,014
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £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 £85,420 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,635
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.54% -2.48%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -61 1,084 £58,000 -3.33% 311
UK excluding London -63 673 £52,500 +1.44% 272
London -14 513 £70,000 -9.68% 101
Work from Home -14 399 £60,000 +4.35% 137
South East -91 158 £55,000 -4.35% 108
North of England -59 139 £48,445 -1.44% 53
Midlands -60 111 £50,000 - 32
Scotland +34 89 £51,875 -5.68% 15
South West -39 82 £55,000 +15.79% 31
East of England -38 71 £56,250 +12.50% 25
North West -46 68 £52,500 +14.13% 31
East Midlands -33 65 £55,000 +37.50% 15
Yorkshire -41 57 £47,500 -14.03% 11
West Midlands -67 45 £47,138 -5.73% 17
Wales -14 20 £58,248 +15.22% 10
North East -33 14 £45,000 -21.74% 11
Northern Ireland -38 3 £46,000 - 10

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
1 167 (13.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 158 (12.93%) SharePoint
3 40 (3.27%) IIS
4 15 (1.23%) Confluence
5 5 (0.41%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.16%) Apache
6 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.082%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.082%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.082%) CMS
7 1 (0.082%) Exchange Server 2003
7 1 (0.082%) Site Server
7 1 (0.082%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.082%) WordPress
Applications
1 52 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) CATIA
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.16%) Siemens NX
3 2 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.16%) Windchill
4 1 (0.082%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.57%) Markit EDM
2 5 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.25%) Alphatax
4 3 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.16%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.082%) Actimize
6 1 (0.082%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.082%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.082%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 790 (64.65%) Azure
2 429 (35.11%) Microsoft 365
3 335 (27.41%) Entra ID
4 211 (17.27%) AWS
5 123 (10.07%) Azure DevOps
6 106 (8.67%) Power Platform
7 92 (7.53%) GitHub
8 79 (6.46%) OneDrive
9 77 (6.30%) SaaS
10 74 (6.06%) Google Workspace
11 70 (5.73%) GitHub Actions
12 69 (5.65%) GCP
13 56 (4.58%) IaaS
14 51 (4.17%) Power Automate
15 49 (4.01%) Azure Sentinel
16 48 (3.93%) Azure Data Factory
17 47 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
17 47 (3.85%) PaaS
18 42 (3.44%) Azure Monitor
19 40 (3.27%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 223 (18.25%) DNS
1 223 (18.25%) Firewall
2 146 (11.95%) DHCP
3 133 (10.88%) VPN
4 100 (8.18%) TCP/IP
5 68 (5.56%) WAN
6 64 (5.24%) LAN
7 62 (5.07%) Broadband
8 60 (4.91%) Network Security
9 46 (3.76%) VLAN
10 43 (3.52%) Wi-Fi
11 40 (3.27%) VoIP
12 36 (2.95%) SAN
13 27 (2.21%) Wireless
14 20 (1.64%) BGP
14 20 (1.64%) SD-WAN
15 16 (1.31%) MPLS
16 14 (1.15%) VSAN
17 13 (1.06%) Kerberos
18 12 (0.98%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (11.37%) SQL Server
2 88 (7.20%) Power BI
3 46 (3.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 31 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
7 25 (2.05%) MySQL
8 23 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 20 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 17 (1.39%) Relational Database
11 16 (1.31%) NoSQL
12 14 (1.15%) Tableau
13 11 (0.90%) InfluxDB
14 10 (0.82%) Data Lake
15 9 (0.74%) MongoDB
16 7 (0.57%) Metadata
17 5 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
18 4 (0.33%) Oracle Database
18 4 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 3 (0.25%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 93 (7.61%) Git
2 69 (5.65%) Jenkins
3 68 (5.56%) JIRA
4 47 (3.85%) GitLab
5 28 (2.29%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.31%) Octopus Deploy
7 13 (1.06%) Metasploit
7 13 (1.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 11 (0.90%) Robot Framework
8 11 (0.90%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.74%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.74%) TestRail
9 9 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
10 8 (0.65%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.33%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.33%) MLflow
12 4 (0.33%) Selenium
13 3 (0.25%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.25%) SonarQube
General
1 410 (33.55%) Social Skills
2 242 (19.80%) Finance
3 171 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (6.55%) Organisational Skills
5 65 (5.32%) Law
6 48 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 46 (3.76%) Retail
8 44 (3.60%) Legal
9 43 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
10 39 (3.19%) Public Sector
11 32 (2.62%) Games
12 29 (2.37%) Manufacturing
13 28 (2.29%) Banking
14 18 (1.47%) Front Office
15 17 (1.39%) Advertising
15 17 (1.39%) Aerospace
15 17 (1.39%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.57%) Electronics
17 6 (0.49%) Military
17 6 (0.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 228 (18.66%) Senior
2 144 (11.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 136 (11.13%) Analyst
4 129 (10.56%) Support Engineer
5 125 (10.23%) Azure Engineer
6 104 (8.51%) IT Support
7 83 (6.79%) Security Engineer
8 82 (6.71%) Cloud Engineer
8 82 (6.71%) IT Engineer
9 73 (5.97%) DevOps Engineer
10 71 (5.81%) Developer
11 63 (5.16%) Lead
12 56 (4.58%) IT Support Engineer
13 54 (4.42%) 2nd Line Support
14 46 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
15 45 (3.68%) Systems Engineer
16 44 (3.60%) Architect
17 42 (3.44%) Support Analyst
18 40 (3.27%) Security Analyst
19 39 (3.19%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (8.18%) OAuth
2 90 (7.36%) REST
3 87 (7.12%) SAML
4 86 (7.04%) OpenID
5 80 (6.55%) .NET
6 72 (5.89%) LDAP
7 66 (5.40%) GraphQL
7 66 (5.40%) SOAP
8 39 (3.19%) .NET Core
9 35 (2.86%) JSON
10 33 (2.70%) Microsoft Graph
11 32 (2.62%) CSS
12 31 (2.54%) YAML
13 30 (2.45%) HTML
14 29 (2.37%) ARM Templates
15 28 (2.29%) SPFx
16 19 (1.55%) HTML5 Canvas
16 19 (1.55%) React
17 18 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
18 16 (1.31%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 93 (7.61%) Onboarding
2 75 (6.14%) Cyber Threat
3 73 (5.97%) Hybrid Cloud
4 66 (5.40%) Cyberattack
5 59 (4.83%) Management Information System
6 54 (4.42%) Security Posture
7 51 (4.17%) Cloud Native
8 43 (3.52%) Cyber Defence
9 42 (3.44%) Security Operations Centre
10 39 (3.19%) Driving Licence
10 39 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
11 36 (2.95%) Data Centre
12 31 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
13 30 (2.45%) Public Cloud
14 24 (1.96%) CMDB
14 24 (1.96%) PKI
15 17 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
15 17 (1.39%) Low-Code
15 17 (1.39%) Private Cloud
16 16 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 551 (45.09%) Windows
2 274 (22.42%) Windows Server
3 261 (21.36%) Linux
4 76 (6.22%) Windows 10
5 51 (4.17%) Mac OS
6 47 (3.85%) Apple iOS
7 45 (3.68%) Android
8 36 (2.95%) Windows Server 2016
9 29 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 25 (2.05%) Windows Server 2019
11 24 (1.96%) CentOS
11 24 (1.96%) VMS
12 19 (1.55%) Unix
13 17 (1.39%) Ubuntu
14 9 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.41%) Debian
16 4 (0.33%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.33%) Solaris
17 3 (0.25%) CoreOS
18 2 (0.16%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (27.09%) Problem-Solving
2 260 (21.28%) Cybersecurity
3 254 (20.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 253 (20.70%) DevOps
5 252 (20.62%) CI/CD
6 223 (18.25%) ITIL
7 208 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 200 (16.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 191 (15.63%) Mentoring
10 156 (12.77%) Agile
11 154 (12.60%) Incident Response
12 138 (11.29%) Disaster Recovery
13 136 (11.13%) Roadmaps
14 130 (10.64%) Root Cause Analysis
15 121 (9.90%) SIEM
16 116 (9.49%) Containerisation
17 113 (9.25%) Cloud Security
18 104 (8.51%) Task Automation
19 100 (8.18%) Identity Access Management
19 100 (8.18%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 474 (38.79%) Python
2 309 (25.29%) Bash
3 272 (22.26%) SQL
4 92 (7.53%) C#
5 83 (6.79%) T-SQL
6 79 (6.46%) JavaScript
7 68 (5.56%) Bicep
8 33 (2.70%) Kusto Query Language
9 23 (1.88%) Java
10 22 (1.80%) TypeScript
11 11 (0.90%) C++
11 11 (0.90%) Go
11 11 (0.90%) VB.NET
12 10 (0.82%) Perl
13 9 (0.74%) VB
13 9 (0.74%) VBA
14 7 (0.57%) C
14 7 (0.57%) PHP
15 6 (0.49%) Delphi
15 6 (0.49%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 163 (13.34%) Degree
2 140 (11.46%) Security Cleared
3 104 (8.51%) Microsoft Certification
4 88 (7.20%) Azure Certification
5 82 (6.71%) SC Cleared
6 53 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 51 (4.17%) CISSP
8 46 (3.76%) DV Cleared
9 37 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (2.62%) CompTIA Security+
11 31 (2.54%) CREST Certified
12 25 (2.05%) CCNA
12 25 (2.05%) OSCP
13 23 (1.88%) GIAC
14 22 (1.80%) CEH
14 22 (1.80%) CompTIA CySA+
15 21 (1.72%) AWS Certification
16 17 (1.39%) DBS Check
17 14 (1.15%) CCNP
18 13 (1.06%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (12.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 149 (12.19%) NIST
3 65 (5.32%) GDPR
4 61 (4.99%) NCSC
5 42 (3.44%) SLA
6 29 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials
7 27 (2.21%) Accessibility
8 20 (1.64%) Data Quality
8 20 (1.64%) ISO 22301
9 16 (1.31%) QA
10 14 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (1.15%) SOC 2
11 13 (1.06%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.49%) DICOM
14 5 (0.41%) GRC
15 4 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.16%) COBIT
17 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 453 (37.07%) Active Directory
2 155 (12.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 130 (10.64%) Docker
4 100 (8.18%) Hyper-V
5 44 (3.60%) vSphere
6 32 (2.62%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (1.55%) VMware NSX
9 18 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
10 15 (1.23%) Firmware
11 14 (1.15%) BitLocker
12 10 (0.82%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 5 (0.41%) Terminal Services
13 5 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.33%) iptables
14 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.33%) Squid
14 4 (0.33%) XenDesktop
15 2 (0.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 2 (0.16%) Samba
Systems Management
1 263 (21.52%) Terraform
2 188 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 174 (14.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 146 (11.95%) Ansible
5 55 (4.50%) Grafana
6 45 (3.68%) Single Sign-On
7 44 (3.60%) SCCM
8 34 (2.78%) Prometheus
9 24 (1.96%) Jamf Pro
10 21 (1.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 21 (1.72%) vCenter Server
11 14 (1.15%) VxRail
12 13 (1.06%) Nessus
13 11 (0.90%) Puppet
14 10 (0.82%) FortiGate
14 10 (0.82%) Packer
14 10 (0.82%) QRadar
15 9 (0.74%) WSUS
16 8 (0.65%) logstash
17 7 (0.57%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 678 (55.48%) Microsoft
2 212 (17.35%) VMware
3 102 (8.35%) Cisco
4 65 (5.32%) Splunk
5 56 (4.58%) ServiceNow
6 55 (4.50%) Red Hat
7 41 (3.36%) CrowdStrike
8 36 (2.95%) Veeam
9 33 (2.70%) Google
10 32 (2.62%) Commvault
11 30 (2.45%) Dell
12 28 (2.29%) Palo Alto
13 27 (2.21%) Meraki
14 26 (2.13%) Fortinet
14 26 (2.13%) Oracle
15 24 (1.96%) Apple
15 24 (1.96%) Citrix
16 23 (1.88%) CyberArk
17 19 (1.55%) Dynatrace
17 19 (1.55%) Tenable