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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 88 115
Rank change year-on-year -51 +27 -29
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,305 1,579 2,384
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.39% 3.53% 2.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.81% 11.31% 6.94%
Number of salaries quoted 962 996 1,910
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £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 £74,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -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 16,716 13,966 34,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.85% 31.23% 31.59%
Number of salaries quoted 11,809 9,201 25,948
10th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £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 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
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 June 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 June 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 -49 1,212 £59,000 +0.85% 368
UK excluding London -68 776 £51,500 +3.00% 330
London -14 505 £70,000 -6.67% 111
Work from Home -40 422 £60,000 +9.09% 155
South East -47 197 £55,000 -4.35% 130
North of England -91 195 £47,500 -7.99% 68
Midlands -44 136 £50,000 - 39
North West -78 102 £51,500 +10.75% 51
East of England -23 85 £55,000 +15.79% 25
South West -48 84 £55,000 +15.79% 37
East Midlands -11 77 £45,000 +24.14% 20
Yorkshire -22 61 £45,000 -28.00% 13
West Midlands -74 58 £51,250 -4.54% 19
Scotland +39 52 £50,000 +3.09% 15
North East -30 32 £47,500 -19.15% 5
Wales -25 24 £54,085 +3.02% 6
Northern Ireland -30 3 £46,000 +6.75% 26

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
1 198 (15.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 185 (14.18%) SharePoint
3 41 (3.14%) IIS
4 23 (1.76%) Confluence
5 3 (0.23%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.15%) Apache
6 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.077%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.077%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.077%) nginx
7 1 (0.077%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.077%) SAS
7 1 (0.077%) Site Server
Applications
1 75 (5.75%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.077%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.077%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.54%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.23%) Alphatax
4 3 (0.23%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.077%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.077%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.077%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 856 (65.59%) Azure
2 479 (36.70%) Microsoft 365
3 360 (27.59%) Entra ID
4 217 (16.63%) AWS
5 142 (10.88%) Azure DevOps
6 119 (9.12%) Power Platform
7 104 (7.97%) GitHub
8 94 (7.20%) SaaS
9 92 (7.05%) IaaS
10 87 (6.67%) OneDrive
11 74 (5.67%) Azure Monitor
12 70 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
13 64 (4.90%) Google Workspace
13 64 (4.90%) PaaS
14 63 (4.83%) Power Automate
15 59 (4.52%) Azure AKS
16 58 (4.44%) Azure Sentinel
17 54 (4.14%) Azure Key Vault
17 54 (4.14%) GCP
18 46 (3.52%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 266 (20.38%) Firewall
2 264 (20.23%) DNS
3 172 (13.18%) VPN
4 168 (12.87%) DHCP
5 113 (8.66%) TCP/IP
6 83 (6.36%) WAN
7 80 (6.13%) LAN
8 73 (5.59%) Network Security
9 58 (4.44%) VLAN
10 54 (4.14%) Broadband
11 45 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
12 38 (2.91%) VoIP
13 32 (2.45%) SAN
14 26 (1.99%) Wireless
15 23 (1.76%) BGP
16 19 (1.46%) Kerberos
17 17 (1.30%) SD-WAN
18 15 (1.15%) MPLS
18 15 (1.15%) SSL
19 14 (1.07%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (11.26%) SQL Server
2 83 (6.36%) Power BI
3 68 (5.21%) Azure SQL Database
4 41 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (1.92%) MySQL
7 22 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (1.15%) MongoDB
9 15 (1.15%) Relational Database
10 14 (1.07%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.69%) Data Lake
12 9 (0.69%) InfluxDB
12 9 (0.69%) Tableau
13 8 (0.61%) Metadata
14 5 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.38%) Redis
14 5 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 3 (0.23%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 98 (7.51%) Git
2 68 (5.21%) JIRA
3 66 (5.06%) Jenkins
4 61 (4.67%) GitLab
5 31 (2.38%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
7 15 (1.15%) TeamCity
8 13 (1.00%) Metasploit
9 12 (0.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 10 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
11 9 (0.69%) Burp Suite
12 8 (0.61%) Robot Framework
13 7 (0.54%) TestRail
14 5 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (0.38%) CircleCI
14 5 (0.38%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.38%) Selenium
15 4 (0.31%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.31%) SonarQube
16 3 (0.23%) MLflow
General
1 395 (30.27%) Social Skills
2 216 (16.55%) Finance
3 165 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (6.82%) Law
5 79 (6.05%) Organisational Skills
6 57 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 48 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (3.45%) Legal
8 45 (3.45%) Retail
9 37 (2.84%) Public Sector
10 25 (1.92%) Aerospace
10 25 (1.92%) Manufacturing
11 24 (1.84%) Games
12 21 (1.61%) Banking
13 18 (1.38%) Advertising
14 16 (1.23%) Telecoms
15 9 (0.69%) Aviation
16 7 (0.54%) Front Office
16 7 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 240 (18.39%) Senior
2 164 (12.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 147 (11.26%) Support Engineer
4 145 (11.11%) Analyst
5 133 (10.19%) Azure Engineer
5 133 (10.19%) IT Support
6 121 (9.27%) IT Engineer
7 106 (8.12%) Cloud Engineer
8 94 (7.20%) DevOps Engineer
9 83 (6.36%) Security Engineer
10 80 (6.13%) IT Support Engineer
11 65 (4.98%) Platform Engineer
12 63 (4.83%) Developer
13 59 (4.52%) 2nd Line Support
13 59 (4.52%) Systems Engineer
14 55 (4.21%) Lead
15 45 (3.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 43 (3.30%) Security Analyst
17 42 (3.22%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 42 (3.22%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (6.90%) SAML
2 89 (6.82%) OAuth
3 87 (6.67%) REST
4 85 (6.51%) .NET
5 81 (6.21%) OpenID
6 78 (5.98%) LDAP
7 60 (4.60%) SOAP
8 52 (3.98%) GraphQL
9 44 (3.37%) YAML
10 42 (3.22%) ARM Templates
11 40 (3.07%) JSON
12 39 (2.99%) Microsoft Graph
13 37 (2.84%) HTML
14 35 (2.68%) .NET Core
15 33 (2.53%) CSS
16 27 (2.07%) SPFx
17 22 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
18 19 (1.46%) HTML5 Canvas
19 18 (1.38%) React
20 15 (1.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 101 (7.74%) Onboarding
2 74 (5.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 71 (5.44%) Cloud Native
4 67 (5.13%) Cyber Threat
5 64 (4.90%) Security Posture
6 59 (4.52%) Management Information System
7 57 (4.37%) Cyberattack
8 56 (4.29%) Driving Licence
9 45 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
10 44 (3.37%) Cyber Defence
11 42 (3.22%) Data Centre
12 36 (2.76%) PKI
13 35 (2.68%) Public Cloud
14 34 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
15 22 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
16 21 (1.61%) CMDB
16 21 (1.61%) Replication
16 21 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
17 20 (1.53%) Private Cloud
18 19 (1.46%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 611 (46.82%) Windows
2 294 (22.53%) Linux
2 294 (22.53%) Windows Server
3 79 (6.05%) Windows 10
4 53 (4.06%) Apple iOS
5 51 (3.91%) Mac OS
6 44 (3.37%) Android
6 44 (3.37%) VMS
7 37 (2.84%) Windows Server 2016
8 31 (2.38%) CentOS
9 29 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 28 (2.15%) Windows Server 2019
11 24 (1.84%) Ubuntu
12 15 (1.15%) Unix
13 7 (0.54%) Debian
14 6 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.31%) AIX
15 4 (0.31%) CoreOS
15 4 (0.31%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (24.90%) Problem-Solving
2 296 (22.68%) Infrastructure as Code
3 294 (22.53%) CI/CD
4 287 (21.99%) Cybersecurity
5 276 (21.15%) DevOps
6 234 (17.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 220 (16.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 220 (16.86%) ITIL
8 187 (14.33%) Mentoring
9 164 (12.57%) Agile
10 158 (12.11%) Incident Response
11 155 (11.88%) Root Cause Analysis
12 153 (11.72%) Disaster Recovery
13 139 (10.65%) Roadmaps
14 137 (10.50%) High Availability
15 134 (10.27%) Containerisation
16 128 (9.81%) SIEM
17 120 (9.20%) Cloud Security
18 112 (8.58%) AI
18 112 (8.58%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 508 (38.93%) Python
2 349 (26.74%) Bash
3 275 (21.07%) SQL
4 94 (7.20%) C#
5 85 (6.51%) Bicep
6 79 (6.05%) T-SQL
7 74 (5.67%) JavaScript
8 37 (2.84%) Kusto Query Language
9 30 (2.30%) Java
10 26 (1.99%) TypeScript
11 17 (1.30%) C++
12 15 (1.15%) VBScript
13 13 (1.00%) Perl
13 13 (1.00%) PHP
14 11 (0.84%) VB
15 10 (0.77%) VBA
16 9 (0.69%) Go
17 8 (0.61%) Ruby
18 7 (0.54%) C
19 6 (0.46%) Korn
Qualifications
1 161 (12.34%) Degree
1 161 (12.34%) Security Cleared
2 136 (10.42%) Azure Certification
3 120 (9.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 106 (8.12%) SC Cleared
5 56 (4.29%) CISSP
6 54 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 50 (3.83%) Cisco Certification
8 43 (3.30%) DV Cleared
9 40 (3.07%) CompTIA Security+
10 33 (2.53%) CCNA
11 29 (2.22%) CREST Certified
12 28 (2.15%) OSCP
13 27 (2.07%) AWS Certification
13 27 (2.07%) DBS Check
14 23 (1.76%) CEH
14 23 (1.76%) GIAC
15 17 (1.30%) CCNP
15 17 (1.30%) CompTIA CySA+
16 13 (1.00%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (11.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 130 (9.96%) NIST
3 58 (4.44%) GDPR
4 50 (3.83%) Cyber Essentials
5 49 (3.75%) NCSC
6 40 (3.07%) SLA
7 20 (1.53%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.23%) PCI DSS
9 14 (1.07%) Accessibility
9 14 (1.07%) QA
9 14 (1.07%) SOC 2
10 13 (1.00%) ISO 22301
11 11 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.46%) DICOM
13 6 (0.46%) PMO
14 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.15%) EMIR
15 2 (0.15%) ISAE 3402
System Software
1 506 (38.77%) Active Directory
2 204 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 142 (10.88%) Docker
4 135 (10.34%) Hyper-V
5 68 (5.21%) vSphere
6 40 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
7 33 (2.53%) Virtual Desktop
8 25 (1.92%) BitLocker
9 24 (1.84%) VMware NSX
10 15 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.77%) KVM
12 8 (0.61%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.61%) Squid
13 6 (0.46%) Firmware
14 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.31%) iptables
16 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
17 2 (0.15%) Samba
Systems Management
1 305 (23.37%) Terraform
2 215 (16.48%) Kubernetes
3 203 (15.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 154 (11.80%) Ansible
5 69 (5.29%) Grafana
6 59 (4.52%) Single Sign-On
7 50 (3.83%) Prometheus
8 48 (3.68%) SCCM
9 27 (2.07%) Jamf Pro
10 24 (1.84%) vCenter Server
11 21 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 20 (1.53%) Packer
12 20 (1.53%) ZABBIX
13 19 (1.46%) Argo
14 17 (1.30%) Nessus
14 17 (1.30%) QRadar
15 14 (1.07%) Graylog
15 14 (1.07%) Proxmox
16 13 (1.00%) VxRail
17 12 (0.92%) Nagios
Vendors
1 765 (58.62%) Microsoft
2 254 (19.46%) VMware
3 103 (7.89%) Cisco
4 84 (6.44%) Splunk
5 66 (5.06%) ServiceNow
6 56 (4.29%) Red Hat
7 46 (3.52%) Veeam
8 39 (2.99%) Meraki
9 37 (2.84%) Oracle
10 31 (2.38%) Apple
10 31 (2.38%) CrowdStrike
11 28 (2.15%) Google
12 27 (2.07%) Citrix
12 27 (2.07%) Dell
13 26 (1.99%) Fortinet
13 26 (1.99%) Tenable
14 24 (1.84%) Sophos
15 23 (1.76%) Commvault
15 23 (1.76%) Palo Alto
16 21 (1.61%) Logitech