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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 85 114
Rank change year-on-year -51 +29 -34
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,407 1,669 2,242
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.42% 3.40% 2.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.95% 11.62% 7.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,032 1,096 1,790
10th Percentile £32,000 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £42,500
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 £75,625
90th Percentile £87,275 £90,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -3.38%

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 17,689 14,363 30,853
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.81% 29.29% 31.56%
Number of salaries quoted 12,666 9,544 22,873
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £35,206
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 18 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 18 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 -55 1,280 £57,500 - 285
UK excluding London -58 888 £52,500 +5.00% 227
Work from Home -37 493 £60,000 +7.14% 144
London -23 486 £70,000 -3.45% 89
South East -30 247 £53,000 -7.83% 87
North of England -97 209 £48,445 -0.43% 49
Midlands -39 145 £50,000 - 36
North West -85 110 £50,051 +8.22% 29
East of England -25 95 £55,000 +8.91% 23
South West -61 83 £55,000 +15.79% 27
East Midlands -3 75 £42,500 +13.33% 16
West Midlands -64 69 £52,500 -4.55% 20
Yorkshire -37 60 £47,500 -6.40% 11
Scotland +30 43 £52,500 +31.25% 12
North East -26 39 £48,445 -19.26% 10
Northern Ireland -28 38 £46,000 +6.75% 1
Wales -33 28 £53,000 -3.64% 4

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
1 221 (15.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 197 (14.00%) SharePoint
3 50 (3.55%) IIS
4 27 (1.92%) Confluence
5 6 (0.43%) nginx
6 4 (0.28%) SAS
7 3 (0.21%) Apache
7 3 (0.21%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.21%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.071%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.071%) Site Server
8 1 (0.071%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.071%) WebSphere
Applications
1 79 (5.61%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (0.78%) NetSuite
2 10 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.43%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.21%) Alphatax
5 3 (0.21%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.14%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.071%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 892 (63.40%) Azure
2 505 (35.89%) Microsoft 365
3 379 (26.94%) Entra ID
4 247 (17.56%) AWS
5 150 (10.66%) Azure DevOps
6 135 (9.59%) SaaS
7 122 (8.67%) Power Platform
8 112 (7.96%) GitHub
9 103 (7.32%) IaaS
10 91 (6.47%) OneDrive
11 85 (6.04%) Azure Monitor
12 77 (5.47%) PaaS
13 72 (5.12%) GitHub Actions
14 66 (4.69%) Azure Sentinel
15 65 (4.62%) Azure AKS
15 65 (4.62%) Power Automate
16 60 (4.26%) GCP
17 58 (4.12%) Azure Key Vault
18 52 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
19 50 (3.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 313 (22.25%) Firewall
2 293 (20.82%) DNS
3 204 (14.50%) VPN
4 198 (14.07%) DHCP
5 126 (8.96%) TCP/IP
6 95 (6.75%) WAN
7 87 (6.18%) LAN
8 75 (5.33%) Network Security
9 71 (5.05%) VLAN
10 49 (3.48%) Wi-Fi
11 41 (2.91%) Wireless
12 37 (2.63%) VoIP
13 35 (2.49%) SAN
14 32 (2.27%) Broadband
14 32 (2.27%) Kerberos
15 22 (1.56%) BGP
16 17 (1.21%) NAS
17 16 (1.14%) Internet
17 16 (1.14%) SD-WAN
17 16 (1.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (11.23%) SQL Server
2 82 (5.83%) Power BI
3 81 (5.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 42 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 23 (1.63%) MySQL
7 21 (1.49%) MongoDB
8 16 (1.14%) Relational Database
9 15 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (1.00%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.64%) InfluxDB
12 8 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.43%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.43%) Tableau
14 5 (0.36%) Metadata
14 5 (0.36%) Redis
15 4 (0.28%) Big Data
15 4 (0.28%) Power Query
15 4 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 106 (7.53%) Git
2 82 (5.83%) JIRA
3 69 (4.90%) GitLab
4 65 (4.62%) Jenkins
5 30 (2.13%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
7 12 (0.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 11 (0.78%) Metasploit
8 11 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
9 10 (0.71%) TeamCity
10 9 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (0.50%) Burp Suite
11 7 (0.50%) Robot Framework
11 7 (0.50%) TestRail
12 6 (0.43%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.43%) Selenium
13 5 (0.36%) Postman
14 4 (0.28%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.28%) SonarQube
15 3 (0.21%) Terragrunt
General
1 460 (32.69%) Social Skills
2 212 (15.07%) Finance
3 172 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (8.96%) Law
5 85 (6.04%) Legal
6 61 (4.34%) Organisational Skills
7 56 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
9 41 (2.91%) Retail
10 39 (2.77%) Public Sector
11 27 (1.92%) Manufacturing
12 26 (1.85%) Banking
13 21 (1.49%) Aerospace
14 17 (1.21%) Advertising
15 16 (1.14%) Telecoms
16 12 (0.85%) Games
17 10 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
18 9 (0.64%) Financial Institution
19 7 (0.50%) Front Office
19 7 (0.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 273 (19.40%) Senior
2 177 (12.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 161 (11.44%) Analyst
4 153 (10.87%) Support Engineer
5 142 (10.09%) IT Engineer
6 141 (10.02%) IT Support
7 133 (9.45%) Azure Engineer
8 117 (8.32%) Cloud Engineer
9 100 (7.11%) DevOps Engineer
10 84 (5.97%) IT Support Engineer
10 84 (5.97%) Security Engineer
11 69 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
12 64 (4.55%) 2nd Line Support
12 64 (4.55%) Developer
13 62 (4.41%) Systems Engineer
14 60 (4.26%) Lead
15 52 (3.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 47 (3.34%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 47 (3.34%) Support Analyst
17 43 (3.06%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (6.25%) .NET
2 72 (5.12%) SAML
3 70 (4.98%) OAuth
4 65 (4.62%) REST
5 63 (4.48%) OpenID
6 59 (4.19%) LDAP
7 54 (3.84%) ARM Templates
8 44 (3.13%) YAML
9 43 (3.06%) HTML
9 43 (3.06%) JSON
10 39 (2.77%) Microsoft Graph
11 37 (2.63%) .NET Core
11 37 (2.63%) SOAP
12 32 (2.27%) CSS
13 27 (1.92%) GraphQL
14 24 (1.71%) SPFx
15 21 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
16 19 (1.35%) HTML5 Canvas
17 18 (1.28%) XML
18 17 (1.21%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 110 (7.82%) Onboarding
2 84 (5.97%) Cloud Native
3 77 (5.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 71 (5.05%) Security Posture
5 63 (4.48%) Driving Licence
6 61 (4.34%) Management Information System
7 53 (3.77%) Data Centre
8 47 (3.34%) Cyber Threat
9 45 (3.20%) Security Operations Centre
10 44 (3.13%) PKI
10 44 (3.13%) Public Cloud
11 43 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
12 42 (2.99%) Virtual Team
13 36 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
14 35 (2.49%) Cyber Defence
15 34 (2.42%) Cyberattack
16 24 (1.71%) Private Cloud
17 23 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
18 22 (1.56%) Replication
19 21 (1.49%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 655 (46.55%) Windows
2 318 (22.60%) Windows Server
3 317 (22.53%) Linux
4 79 (5.61%) Windows 10
5 55 (3.91%) Apple iOS
6 50 (3.55%) VMS
7 47 (3.34%) Mac OS
8 42 (2.99%) Android
9 40 (2.84%) Windows Server 2016
10 34 (2.42%) CentOS
11 32 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 27 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
13 26 (1.85%) Ubuntu
14 15 (1.07%) Unix
15 8 (0.57%) Debian
16 7 (0.50%) Kali Linux
17 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
18 4 (0.28%) AIX
18 4 (0.28%) CoreOS
19 2 (0.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (25.59%) Problem-Solving
2 333 (23.67%) DevOps
3 318 (22.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 317 (22.53%) CI/CD
5 288 (20.47%) Continuous Improvement
6 267 (18.98%) Cybersecurity
7 265 (18.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 238 (16.92%) ITIL
9 212 (15.07%) Mentoring
10 172 (12.22%) Agile
11 169 (12.01%) Disaster Recovery
12 164 (11.66%) Incident Response
12 164 (11.66%) Root Cause Analysis
13 151 (10.73%) High Availability
14 139 (9.88%) Containerisation
14 139 (9.88%) SIEM
15 131 (9.31%) Cloud Security
15 131 (9.31%) Roadmaps
16 125 (8.88%) AI
17 119 (8.46%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 567 (40.30%) Python
2 340 (24.16%) Bash
3 279 (19.83%) SQL
4 134 (9.52%) C#
5 115 (8.17%) JavaScript
6 102 (7.25%) Bicep
7 65 (4.62%) TypeScript
8 61 (4.34%) T-SQL
9 49 (3.48%) Kusto Query Language
10 35 (2.49%) Java
11 19 (1.35%) C++
12 18 (1.28%) VBScript
13 17 (1.21%) PHP
14 12 (0.85%) Perl
15 11 (0.78%) Go
16 10 (0.71%) VB
16 10 (0.71%) VBA
17 9 (0.64%) Ruby
18 8 (0.57%) C
19 6 (0.43%) Korn
Qualifications
1 171 (12.15%) Security Cleared
2 168 (11.94%) Degree
3 154 (10.95%) Azure Certification
4 129 (9.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 115 (8.17%) SC Cleared
6 63 (4.48%) Cisco Certification
7 57 (4.05%) CISSP
7 57 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 47 (3.34%) CompTIA Security+
9 45 (3.20%) CCNA
9 45 (3.20%) DV Cleared
10 26 (1.85%) CEH
10 26 (1.85%) DBS Check
10 26 (1.85%) OSCP
11 25 (1.78%) CREST Certified
11 25 (1.78%) GIAC
12 24 (1.71%) AWS Certification
13 22 (1.56%) CCNP
14 17 (1.21%) CISM
15 16 (1.14%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (9.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 109 (7.75%) NIST
3 63 (4.48%) GDPR
4 60 (4.26%) QA
5 59 (4.19%) Cyber Essentials
6 43 (3.06%) SLA
7 25 (1.78%) NCSC
8 22 (1.56%) Data Quality
9 21 (1.49%) PCI DSS
10 19 (1.35%) SOC 2
11 12 (0.85%) ISO 22301
12 10 (0.71%) Accessibility
13 8 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.43%) PMO
16 5 (0.36%) DICOM
17 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
18 2 (0.14%) ISAE 3402
18 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 523 (37.17%) Active Directory
2 232 (16.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 156 (11.09%) Hyper-V
4 140 (9.95%) Docker
5 81 (5.76%) vSphere
6 52 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
7 42 (2.99%) Virtual Desktop
8 25 (1.78%) BitLocker
9 23 (1.63%) VMware NSX
10 17 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.71%) KVM
12 8 (0.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.57%) Squid
13 4 (0.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.21%) iptables
14 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.21%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.14%) Firmware
15 2 (0.14%) Samba
Systems Management
1 329 (23.38%) Terraform
2 230 (16.35%) Kubernetes
3 218 (15.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 164 (11.66%) Ansible
5 77 (5.47%) Grafana
6 59 (4.19%) SCCM
7 56 (3.98%) Single Sign-On
8 52 (3.70%) Prometheus
9 26 (1.85%) Jamf Pro
10 25 (1.78%) vCenter Server
11 24 (1.71%) ZABBIX
12 21 (1.49%) Argo
13 20 (1.42%) Packer
13 20 (1.42%) QRadar
14 17 (1.21%) Proxmox
15 16 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 14 (1.00%) Graylog
17 12 (0.85%) Nessus
17 12 (0.85%) VxRail
18 11 (0.78%) Nagios
Vendors
1 824 (58.56%) Microsoft
2 279 (19.83%) VMware
3 118 (8.39%) Cisco
4 95 (6.75%) Splunk
5 84 (5.97%) ServiceNow
6 58 (4.12%) Red Hat
7 52 (3.70%) Veeam
8 42 (2.99%) Meraki
9 40 (2.84%) Oracle
10 32 (2.27%) Tenable
11 31 (2.20%) Sophos
12 30 (2.13%) Citrix
13 29 (2.06%) Apple
13 29 (2.06%) CrowdStrike
14 27 (1.92%) Dell
14 27 (1.92%) Fortinet
14 27 (1.92%) Palo Alto
15 24 (1.71%) Dynatrace
16 23 (1.63%) CyberArk
16 23 (1.63%) SolarWinds