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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 89 107
Rank change year-on-year -55 +18 -7
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,236 1,367 2,383
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.40% 3.25% 2.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.96% 9.82% 7.35%
Number of salaries quoted 904 1,062 2,031
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,050 £36,000
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 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £94,878 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -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 15,520 13,919 32,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.53% 33.05% 34.00%
Number of salaries quoted 10,545 10,217 25,054
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,495 £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 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,565 £53,635
% change year-on-year +3.48% +3.60% -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 25 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 25 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 -62 1,095 £57,500 -4.17% 311
UK excluding London -60 689 £52,500 +0.96% 277
London -13 510 £70,000 -9.68% 96
Work from Home -30 395 £60,000 +4.35% 208
South East -83 170 £55,000 -4.35% 103
North of England -41 138 £48,445 -1.44% 53
Midlands -65 108 £52,500 +5.00% 34
Scotland +37 94 £54,375 -1.14% 14
South West -48 86 £55,000 +15.79% 34
East of England -45 71 £47,500 -13.64% 29
North West -50 68 £55,000 +19.57% 32
East Midlands -48 62 £55,000 +37.50% 16
Yorkshire -38 56 £47,500 -13.64% 11
West Midlands -70 45 £47,750 -4.50% 18
Wales -12 19 £61,496 +21.65% 10
North East -44 14 £45,000 -21.74% 10
Northern Ireland -35 3 £46,000 - 12

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
1 174 (14.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 152 (12.30%) SharePoint
3 39 (3.16%) IIS
4 16 (1.29%) Confluence
5 7 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2003
6 6 (0.49%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.16%) Apache
7 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.16%) CMS
7 2 (0.16%) WordPress
8 1 (0.081%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.081%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.081%) Site Server
8 1 (0.081%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 52 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.24%) CATIA
3 3 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.24%) Siemens NX
3 3 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
3 3 (0.24%) Windchill
4 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.081%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.57%) Markit EDM
2 5 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
4 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.24%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.081%) Actimize
5 1 (0.081%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 797 (64.48%) Azure
2 427 (34.55%) Microsoft 365
3 339 (27.43%) Entra ID
4 207 (16.75%) AWS
5 128 (10.36%) Azure DevOps
6 102 (8.25%) Power Platform
7 95 (7.69%) GitHub
8 76 (6.15%) OneDrive
9 74 (5.99%) Google Workspace
9 74 (5.99%) SaaS
10 73 (5.91%) GitHub Actions
11 70 (5.66%) GCP
12 57 (4.61%) IaaS
13 50 (4.05%) PaaS
14 48 (3.88%) Power Automate
15 47 (3.80%) Azure Logic Apps
15 47 (3.80%) Azure Sentinel
16 45 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
16 45 (3.64%) Azure Monitor
17 40 (3.24%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 228 (18.45%) DNS
2 223 (18.04%) Firewall
3 155 (12.54%) DHCP
4 135 (10.92%) VPN
5 103 (8.33%) TCP/IP
6 73 (5.91%) WAN
7 67 (5.42%) LAN
8 63 (5.10%) Broadband
9 60 (4.85%) Network Security
10 49 (3.96%) VLAN
11 44 (3.56%) Wi-Fi
12 39 (3.16%) VoIP
13 34 (2.75%) SAN
14 29 (2.35%) Wireless
15 23 (1.86%) SD-WAN
16 21 (1.70%) BGP
17 18 (1.46%) MPLS
18 13 (1.05%) VSAN
19 12 (0.97%) Internet
19 12 (0.97%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (10.92%) SQL Server
2 86 (6.96%) Power BI
3 43 (3.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 30 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
6 24 (1.94%) MySQL
7 23 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 19 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 17 (1.38%) Relational Database
10 15 (1.21%) NoSQL
11 14 (1.13%) Tableau
12 11 (0.89%) InfluxDB
13 10 (0.81%) Oracle Database
14 9 (0.73%) Data Lake
14 9 (0.73%) MongoDB
15 8 (0.65%) Oracle Database 10g
16 7 (0.57%) Metadata
17 5 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
18 4 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 95 (7.69%) Git
2 71 (5.74%) Jenkins
2 71 (5.74%) JIRA
3 47 (3.80%) GitLab
4 28 (2.27%) Bitbucket
5 17 (1.38%) Octopus Deploy
6 14 (1.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 13 (1.05%) Metasploit
8 11 (0.89%) Robot Framework
8 11 (0.89%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.73%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.73%) TestRail
9 9 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
10 8 (0.65%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.32%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.32%) MLflow
12 4 (0.32%) Selenium
13 3 (0.24%) Balsamiq
13 3 (0.24%) SonarQube
General
1 413 (33.41%) Social Skills
2 248 (20.06%) Finance
3 170 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (6.55%) Organisational Skills
5 65 (5.26%) Law
6 44 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 44 (3.56%) Retail
7 43 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
8 41 (3.32%) Legal
8 41 (3.32%) Public Sector
9 33 (2.67%) Games
10 29 (2.35%) Banking
11 26 (2.10%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.46%) Front Office
12 18 (1.46%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.38%) Aerospace
14 16 (1.29%) Advertising
15 7 (0.57%) Military
16 6 (0.49%) Electronics
16 6 (0.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 222 (17.96%) Senior
2 146 (11.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 135 (10.92%) Support Engineer
4 134 (10.84%) Analyst
5 129 (10.44%) Azure Engineer
6 106 (8.58%) IT Support
7 85 (6.88%) IT Engineer
8 83 (6.72%) Security Engineer
9 80 (6.47%) Cloud Engineer
10 70 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
11 69 (5.58%) Developer
12 65 (5.26%) Lead
13 59 (4.77%) IT Support Engineer
14 51 (4.13%) 2nd Line Support
15 45 (3.64%) Architect
15 45 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
16 43 (3.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 43 (3.48%) 3rd Line Support
16 43 (3.48%) Systems Engineer
17 42 (3.40%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (8.01%) OAuth
2 90 (7.28%) REST
3 84 (6.80%) SAML
4 83 (6.72%) OpenID
5 76 (6.15%) .NET
6 70 (5.66%) LDAP
7 69 (5.58%) GraphQL
8 67 (5.42%) SOAP
9 37 (2.99%) .NET Core
10 33 (2.67%) JSON
10 33 (2.67%) YAML
11 30 (2.43%) ARM Templates
12 28 (2.27%) CSS
12 28 (2.27%) Microsoft Graph
13 26 (2.10%) HTML
14 25 (2.02%) SPFx
15 18 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
15 18 (1.46%) React
16 16 (1.29%) HTML5 Canvas
16 16 (1.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 97 (7.85%) Onboarding
2 75 (6.07%) Cyber Threat
3 71 (5.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 67 (5.42%) Cyberattack
5 59 (4.77%) Management Information System
6 56 (4.53%) Security Posture
7 48 (3.88%) Cloud Native
8 42 (3.40%) Cyber Defence
9 41 (3.32%) Security Operations Centre
10 40 (3.24%) Driving Licence
11 39 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
12 34 (2.75%) Data Centre
13 31 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
14 30 (2.43%) Public Cloud
15 24 (1.94%) CMDB
15 24 (1.94%) PKI
16 18 (1.46%) Low-Code
17 17 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
18 16 (1.29%) Product Ownership
18 16 (1.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 560 (45.31%) Windows
2 277 (22.41%) Windows Server
3 257 (20.79%) Linux
4 76 (6.15%) Windows 10
5 51 (4.13%) Mac OS
6 49 (3.96%) Apple iOS
7 48 (3.88%) Android
8 38 (3.07%) Windows Server 2016
9 30 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 28 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
11 26 (2.10%) Unix
12 24 (1.94%) CentOS
12 24 (1.94%) VMS
13 18 (1.46%) Ubuntu
14 11 (0.89%) Solaris
15 10 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
16 7 (0.57%) HPUX
16 7 (0.57%) Windows 7
16 7 (0.57%) Windows Server 2003
16 7 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (27.43%) Problem-Solving
2 261 (21.12%) DevOps
3 260 (21.04%) Cybersecurity
4 258 (20.87%) CI/CD
5 252 (20.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 227 (18.37%) ITIL
7 210 (16.99%) Continuous Improvement
8 202 (16.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 195 (15.78%) Mentoring
10 163 (13.19%) Agile
11 153 (12.38%) Incident Response
12 139 (11.25%) Disaster Recovery
13 138 (11.17%) Roadmaps
14 129 (10.44%) Root Cause Analysis
15 120 (9.71%) SIEM
16 114 (9.22%) Containerisation
17 109 (8.82%) Cloud Security
18 104 (8.41%) Task Automation
19 101 (8.17%) Identity Access Management
20 98 (7.93%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 476 (38.51%) Python
2 313 (25.32%) Bash
3 271 (21.93%) SQL
4 90 (7.28%) C#
5 84 (6.80%) T-SQL
6 77 (6.23%) JavaScript
7 69 (5.58%) Bicep
8 33 (2.67%) Kusto Query Language
9 23 (1.86%) Java
10 20 (1.62%) TypeScript
11 16 (1.29%) Perl
12 11 (0.89%) C++
12 11 (0.89%) Go
13 10 (0.81%) VB.NET
14 9 (0.73%) VB
15 8 (0.65%) VBA
16 7 (0.57%) C
16 7 (0.57%) PHP
16 7 (0.57%) VBScript
17 6 (0.49%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 163 (13.19%) Degree
2 144 (11.65%) Security Cleared
3 103 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 89 (7.20%) Azure Certification
5 87 (7.04%) SC Cleared
6 53 (4.29%) CISSP
6 53 (4.29%) DV Cleared
7 52 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 39 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
9 34 (2.75%) CREST Certified
10 32 (2.59%) CompTIA Security+
11 25 (2.02%) CCNA
12 24 (1.94%) OSCP
13 23 (1.86%) GIAC
14 22 (1.78%) CEH
14 22 (1.78%) CompTIA CySA+
15 21 (1.70%) AWS Certification
16 17 (1.38%) DBS Check
17 15 (1.21%) CCNP
18 14 (1.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (12.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 156 (12.62%) NIST
2 67 (5.42%) GDPR
3 64 (5.18%) NCSC
4 49 (3.96%) SLA
5 29 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 28 (2.27%) Accessibility
7 20 (1.62%) Data Quality
8 19 (1.54%) ISO 22301
9 15 (1.21%) QA
10 14 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (1.05%) PCI DSS
11 13 (1.05%) SOC 2
12 11 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.49%) DICOM
14 5 (0.40%) GRC
15 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.16%) COBIT
18 1 (0.081%) HL7
System Software
1 460 (37.22%) Active Directory
2 155 (12.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 128 (10.36%) Docker
4 102 (8.25%) Hyper-V
5 43 (3.48%) vSphere
6 35 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (1.78%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (1.46%) VMware NSX
9 15 (1.21%) Firmware
10 14 (1.13%) BitLocker
11 9 (0.73%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 7 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.40%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.32%) iptables
14 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.32%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.24%) Squid
16 2 (0.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.16%) Samba
Systems Management
1 261 (21.12%) Terraform
2 183 (14.81%) Kubernetes
3 181 (14.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 147 (11.89%) Ansible
5 55 (4.45%) Grafana
6 46 (3.72%) SCCM
7 43 (3.48%) Single Sign-On
8 34 (2.75%) Prometheus
9 23 (1.86%) Jamf Pro
10 21 (1.70%) vCenter Server
11 20 (1.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 13 (1.05%) Nessus
12 13 (1.05%) VxRail
13 12 (0.97%) Puppet
14 10 (0.81%) FortiGate
14 10 (0.81%) QRadar
15 9 (0.73%) Packer
16 8 (0.65%) logstash
16 8 (0.65%) Progress Chef
16 8 (0.65%) WSUS
Vendors
1 689 (55.74%) Microsoft
2 219 (17.72%) VMware
3 107 (8.66%) Cisco
4 64 (5.18%) Splunk
5 56 (4.53%) ServiceNow
6 55 (4.45%) Red Hat
7 41 (3.32%) Veeam
8 40 (3.24%) CrowdStrike
9 34 (2.75%) Google
9 34 (2.75%) Oracle
10 31 (2.51%) Commvault
11 30 (2.43%) Palo Alto
12 29 (2.35%) Dell
13 28 (2.27%) Meraki
14 27 (2.18%) Fortinet
15 26 (2.10%) CyberArk
16 24 (1.94%) Apple
16 24 (1.94%) Citrix
17 19 (1.54%) Atlassian
17 19 (1.54%) Sophos