PowerShell Job Trends

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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 94 80
Rank change year-on-year -22 -14 +11
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,248 1,502 2,461
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.93% 2.94% 3.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.24% 8.66% 8.98%
Number of salaries quoted 925 1,047 2,140
10th Percentile £33,000 £37,500 £36,975
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year - +0.96% -5.45%

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 12,191 17,354 27,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.83% 33.95% 37.59%
Number of salaries quoted 8,809 10,204 22,597
10th Percentile £33,350 £37,574 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% +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 5 February 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 5 February 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 -25 1,041 £57,500 -8.00% 405
UK excluding London -15 735 £52,500 - 372
London -15 441 £70,000 -7.59% 114
Work from Home +10 412 £57,500 -11.54% 186
South East -42 188 £57,500 -4.17% 129
Scotland +54 140 £69,250 +31.90% 24
North of England -19 134 £50,000 -4.76% 101
South West +11 104 £55,000 - 42
Midlands -30 89 £52,500 +5.00% 49
East of England +12 69 £41,750 -20.48% 28
Yorkshire -17 62 £48,445 -7.72% 30
North West -28 58 £50,000 - 57
West Midlands -35 45 £48,500 -3.00% 23
East Midlands -14 43 £55,000 +8.91% 26
North East -7 14 £48,445 -15.75% 14
Wales +2 10 £55,000 +5.77% 8
Northern Ireland -20 2 £46,000 - 2

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
1 186 (14.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 145 (11.62%) SharePoint
3 47 (3.77%) IIS
4 22 (1.76%) Exchange Server 2003
5 18 (1.44%) Confluence
6 11 (0.88%) Skype for Business
7 6 (0.48%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.24%) nginx
10 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.16%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) WordPress
11 1 (0.080%) CICS
11 1 (0.080%) WebSphere
Applications
1 43 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.48%) Siemens NX
5 5 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.24%) CATIA
6 3 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.24%) Windchill
7 1 (0.080%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 10 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.64%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.48%) Markit EDM
3 6 (0.48%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.40%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.40%) PlanetPress Connect
4 5 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
6 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.080%) Actimize
7 1 (0.080%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.080%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.080%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 826 (66.19%) Azure
2 410 (32.85%) Microsoft 365
3 341 (27.32%) Entra ID
4 214 (17.15%) AWS
5 197 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
6 116 (9.29%) Power Platform
7 94 (7.53%) GitHub
8 78 (6.25%) GCP
9 74 (5.93%) PaaS
10 73 (5.85%) GitHub Actions
11 67 (5.37%) Google Workspace
12 66 (5.29%) Azure Monitor
13 56 (4.49%) IaaS
13 56 (4.49%) SaaS
14 55 (4.41%) Power Automate
15 47 (3.77%) OneDrive
16 40 (3.21%) AWS CloudFormation
17 39 (3.13%) Snowflake
18 38 (3.04%) Azure Sentinel
19 36 (2.88%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 223 (17.87%) Firewall
2 211 (16.91%) DNS
3 166 (13.30%) DHCP
4 116 (9.29%) VPN
5 104 (8.33%) TCP/IP
6 80 (6.41%) WAN
7 66 (5.29%) LAN
8 57 (4.57%) Broadband
9 45 (3.61%) VLAN
10 44 (3.53%) Wi-Fi
11 40 (3.21%) Wireless
12 32 (2.56%) SD-WAN
13 30 (2.40%) Network Security
14 27 (2.16%) SAN
15 22 (1.76%) VoIP
16 17 (1.36%) Internet
16 17 (1.36%) VSAN
17 13 (1.04%) MPLS
18 12 (0.96%) Cisco IOS
18 12 (0.96%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (11.62%) SQL Server
2 84 (6.73%) Power BI
3 36 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 34 (2.72%) Relational Database
5 30 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (2.40%) Oracle Database
6 26 (2.08%) Oracle Database 10g
7 24 (1.92%) MySQL
8 22 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
10 13 (1.04%) NoSQL
11 12 (0.96%) Tableau
12 11 (0.88%) MongoDB
12 11 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
14 6 (0.48%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.48%) InfluxDB
15 5 (0.40%) DTS
15 5 (0.40%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 96 (7.69%) JIRA
2 89 (7.13%) Jenkins
3 78 (6.25%) Git
4 35 (2.80%) GitLab
5 31 (2.48%) Octopus Deploy
6 23 (1.84%) TeamCity
7 17 (1.36%) Bitbucket
8 13 (1.04%) Burp Suite
8 13 (1.04%) Metasploit
9 10 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 9 (0.72%) Robot Framework
11 7 (0.56%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.48%) TestRail
13 5 (0.40%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.32%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.32%) MLflow
14 4 (0.32%) Toad
15 3 (0.24%) JMeter
15 3 (0.24%) MSI
General
1 438 (35.10%) Social Skills
2 325 (26.04%) Finance
3 129 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (5.53%) Organisational Skills
5 48 (3.85%) Law
6 47 (3.77%) Retail
7 44 (3.53%) Public Sector
8 39 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
9 37 (2.96%) Games
10 35 (2.80%) Banking
11 34 (2.72%) Legal
12 29 (2.32%) Telecoms
13 28 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 28 (2.24%) Manufacturing
14 16 (1.28%) Front Office
15 14 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (0.80%) Aerospace
18 9 (0.72%) Advertising
19 7 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 198 (15.87%) Senior
2 152 (12.18%) Support Engineer
3 138 (11.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 115 (9.21%) Azure Engineer
5 97 (7.77%) Analyst
6 88 (7.05%) DevOps Engineer
7 87 (6.97%) Cloud Engineer
8 86 (6.89%) Developer
9 80 (6.41%) Security Engineer
10 78 (6.25%) IT Support
11 68 (5.45%) Lead
12 66 (5.29%) IT Engineer
13 57 (4.57%) 3rd Line Support
14 53 (4.25%) Platform Engineer
15 50 (4.01%) Applications Support
16 49 (3.93%) Applications Engineer
17 47 (3.77%) IT Support Engineer
18 46 (3.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
19 42 (3.37%) Support Analyst
20 37 (2.96%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (8.81%) REST
2 77 (6.17%) SOAP
3 75 (6.01%) OAuth
4 74 (5.93%) .NET
5 69 (5.53%) SAML
6 66 (5.29%) GraphQL
7 65 (5.21%) OpenID
8 58 (4.65%) LDAP
9 44 (3.53%) YAML
10 35 (2.80%) JSON
11 25 (2.00%) ARM Templates
11 25 (2.00%) React
12 21 (1.68%) Web Services
13 19 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
14 17 (1.36%) AngularJS
14 17 (1.36%) Microsoft Graph
15 16 (1.28%) Node.js
16 14 (1.12%) Middleware
17 13 (1.04%) .NET Core
18 11 (0.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 91 (7.29%) Onboarding
2 72 (5.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 65 (5.21%) Security Posture
4 58 (4.65%) Cyber Threat
5 54 (4.33%) Cyberattack
6 50 (4.01%) Product Ownership
7 44 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
7 44 (3.53%) Management Information System
8 38 (3.04%) Cloud Native
9 36 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
10 33 (2.64%) Data Centre
11 31 (2.48%) Driving Licence
12 26 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
12 26 (2.08%) CMDB
12 26 (2.08%) PKI
13 24 (1.92%) Cyber Defence
14 22 (1.76%) Virtual Team
15 20 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
16 19 (1.52%) Hedge funds
16 19 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 536 (42.95%) Windows
2 287 (23.00%) Windows Server
3 214 (17.15%) Linux
4 67 (5.37%) Windows 10
5 50 (4.01%) Mac OS
6 42 (3.37%) Unix
7 36 (2.88%) VMS
7 36 (2.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 35 (2.80%) Windows Server 2019
9 31 (2.48%) Android
10 27 (2.16%) Windows Server 2008
11 25 (2.00%) Solaris
12 22 (1.76%) HPUX
12 22 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 22 (1.76%) Windows 7
12 22 (1.76%) Windows Server 2003
13 21 (1.68%) Apple iOS
14 18 (1.44%) CentOS
15 17 (1.36%) Windows Server 2012
16 13 (1.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (30.29%) Problem-Solving
2 344 (27.56%) DevOps
3 264 (21.15%) CI/CD
4 246 (19.71%) ITIL
5 236 (18.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 221 (17.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 214 (17.15%) Cybersecurity
8 209 (16.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 194 (15.54%) Mentoring
10 188 (15.06%) Agile
11 163 (13.06%) Disaster Recovery
12 156 (12.50%) Roadmaps
13 123 (9.86%) Task Automation
14 120 (9.62%) Coaching
14 120 (9.62%) Root Cause Analysis
15 113 (9.05%) Asset Management
16 111 (8.89%) Incident Response
17 105 (8.41%) Cloud Security
18 103 (8.25%) Migration
19 93 (7.45%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 429 (34.38%) Python
2 306 (24.52%) Bash
3 289 (23.16%) SQL
4 103 (8.25%) C#
5 78 (6.25%) T-SQL
6 77 (6.17%) Bicep
7 68 (5.45%) JavaScript
8 26 (2.08%) Perl
9 24 (1.92%) Go
9 24 (1.92%) Java
10 22 (1.76%) Kusto Query Language
11 13 (1.04%) VB
12 11 (0.88%) VB.NET
13 10 (0.80%) VBScript
14 9 (0.72%) TypeScript
14 9 (0.72%) VBA
15 8 (0.64%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.48%) C++
17 4 (0.32%) PHP
17 4 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 163 (13.06%) Degree
2 162 (12.98%) Security Cleared
3 112 (8.97%) Microsoft Certification
4 103 (8.25%) SC Cleared
5 89 (7.13%) Azure Certification
6 61 (4.89%) DV Cleared
7 46 (3.69%) CISSP
8 43 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 38 (3.04%) Cisco Certification
10 34 (2.72%) CREST Certified
11 33 (2.64%) AWS Certification
12 31 (2.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 23 (1.84%) CEH
14 20 (1.60%) CCNA
15 19 (1.52%) SANS
16 18 (1.44%) GIAC
17 17 (1.36%) CompTIA CySA+
17 17 (1.36%) DBS Check
18 15 (1.20%) OSCP
19 14 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (12.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 156 (12.50%) NIST
3 69 (5.53%) GDPR
4 68 (5.45%) NCSC
5 54 (4.33%) SLA
6 47 (3.77%) Accessibility
7 28 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 17 (1.36%) ISO 22301
9 16 (1.28%) QA
10 14 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 14 (1.12%) Data Quality
11 13 (1.04%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.48%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.40%) GRC
15 3 (0.24%) DICOM
15 3 (0.24%) HL7
15 3 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.16%) COBIT
17 1 (0.080%) HIPAA
System Software
1 445 (35.66%) Active Directory
2 135 (10.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 110 (8.81%) Docker
4 96 (7.69%) Hyper-V
5 47 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
6 44 (3.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 35 (2.80%) vSphere
8 21 (1.68%) Firmware
9 15 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
10 14 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.64%) vCloud
11 8 (0.64%) XenApp
12 6 (0.48%) VMware NSX
12 6 (0.48%) XenDesktop
13 5 (0.40%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 2 (0.16%) iptables
15 2 (0.16%) KVM
15 2 (0.16%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 275 (22.04%) Terraform
2 199 (15.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 163 (13.06%) Kubernetes
4 137 (10.98%) Ansible
5 53 (4.25%) SCCM
6 45 (3.61%) Grafana
6 45 (3.61%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (1.84%) Prometheus
8 19 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 19 (1.52%) Puppet
9 14 (1.12%) SCOM
10 13 (1.04%) WSUS
11 12 (0.96%) vCenter Server
12 10 (0.80%) Nessus
13 9 (0.72%) FortiGate
14 8 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
14 8 (0.64%) SCVMM
14 8 (0.64%) VxRail
15 7 (0.56%) McAfee ePO
15 7 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 645 (51.68%) Microsoft
2 217 (17.39%) VMware
3 95 (7.61%) Cisco
4 68 (5.45%) ServiceNow
5 53 (4.25%) Oracle
6 46 (3.69%) Veeam
7 44 (3.53%) Splunk
8 40 (3.21%) Google
9 37 (2.96%) Atlassian
10 33 (2.64%) Citrix
10 33 (2.64%) Red Hat
11 32 (2.56%) Palo Alto
12 27 (2.16%) CyberArk
13 26 (2.08%) Commvault
13 26 (2.08%) SolarWinds
14 24 (1.92%) Fortinet
15 22 (1.76%) CrowdStrike
15 22 (1.76%) SAP
16 21 (1.68%) Dell
17 19 (1.52%) Meraki