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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 89 108
Rank change year-on-year -57 +19 -39
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,491 1,628 1,821
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.29% 3.29% 2.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.96% 12.43% 7.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,020 1,079 1,200
10th Percentile £33,725 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £80,313
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -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 18,721 13,102 24,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.24% 26.51% 30.89%
Number of salaries quoted 13,272 8,465 15,075
10th Percentile £38,772 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,231
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 September 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 September 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 -65 1,298 £57,750 +0.43% 1,087
UK excluding London -65 978 £52,500 +2.44% 701
Work from Home -34 517 £60,000 +2.56% 465
London -37 469 £70,000 -3.45% 469
South East -29 240 £52,500 -8.70% 205
North of England -87 240 £50,000 - 178
Midlands -55 159 £52,500 +5.00% 98
North West -62 144 £50,000 +5.26% 100
East of England -42 99 £57,500 +21.05% 63
South West -83 86 £55,000 +15.79% 80
West Midlands -71 81 £55,000 +1.21% 54
East Midlands -31 78 £42,500 +21.43% 44
Northern Ireland -19 70 £46,000 - 14
Yorkshire -46 60 £45,000 -12.83% 52
Scotland -1 46 £51,250 +3.10% 52
Wales -48 38 £38,500 -30.00% 23
North East -43 36 £51,500 -6.36% 28

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
1 250 (16.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 245 (16.43%) SharePoint
3 54 (3.62%) IIS
4 41 (2.75%) Confluence
5 15 (1.01%) nginx
6 8 (0.54%) Apache
7 6 (0.40%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.067%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.067%) WebSphere
Applications
1 67 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (2.41%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.40%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.34%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.067%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 886 (59.42%) Azure
2 565 (37.89%) Microsoft 365
3 456 (30.58%) Entra ID
4 262 (17.57%) AWS
5 185 (12.41%) SaaS
6 176 (11.80%) Azure DevOps
7 119 (7.98%) Power Platform
8 115 (7.71%) OneDrive
9 114 (7.65%) GitHub
10 107 (7.18%) IaaS
11 90 (6.04%) Azure Monitor
12 82 (5.50%) Azure Sentinel
13 80 (5.37%) Power Automate
14 77 (5.16%) PaaS
15 73 (4.90%) Azure AKS
16 72 (4.83%) GCP
17 69 (4.63%) Azure Key Vault
18 66 (4.43%) GitHub Actions
19 58 (3.89%) Microsoft Purview
20 54 (3.62%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 328 (22.00%) DNS
2 326 (21.86%) Firewall
3 223 (14.96%) DHCP
4 218 (14.62%) VPN
5 144 (9.66%) TCP/IP
6 101 (6.77%) WAN
7 87 (5.84%) LAN
8 73 (4.90%) VLAN
9 60 (4.02%) Network Security
10 56 (3.76%) Wireless
11 49 (3.29%) Wi-Fi
12 36 (2.41%) SAN
13 30 (2.01%) Kerberos
14 25 (1.68%) SSL
15 22 (1.48%) NAS
16 20 (1.34%) HTTP
17 18 (1.21%) Internet
17 18 (1.21%) VoIP
18 16 (1.07%) VSAN
19 14 (0.94%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (10.19%) SQL Server
2 85 (5.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 63 (4.23%) Power BI
4 27 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.48%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (1.14%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 13 (0.87%) MySQL
10 11 (0.74%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.54%) Data Lake
12 8 (0.54%) InfluxDB
12 8 (0.54%) Redis
13 7 (0.47%) Power Query
14 6 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.40%) Metadata
15 5 (0.34%) Db2
15 5 (0.34%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 104 (6.98%) JIRA
2 100 (6.71%) Git
3 76 (5.10%) GitLab
4 66 (4.43%) Jenkins
5 28 (1.88%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 12 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
7 10 (0.67%) TeamCity
8 9 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (0.54%) Robot Framework
9 8 (0.54%) TestRail
10 7 (0.47%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.40%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.40%) Postman
11 6 (0.40%) Selenium
12 5 (0.34%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.27%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
14 3 (0.20%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 567 (38.03%) Social Skills
2 251 (16.83%) Finance
3 193 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (7.91%) Law
4 118 (7.91%) Legal
5 70 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 56 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
7 47 (3.15%) Retail
8 45 (3.02%) Banking
8 45 (3.02%) Public Sector
9 37 (2.48%) Manufacturing
9 37 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
10 34 (2.28%) Aerospace
11 15 (1.01%) Legal Technology
12 12 (0.80%) Advertising
12 12 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (0.74%) Financial Institution
14 9 (0.60%) Front Office
14 9 (0.60%) Investment Banking
14 9 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 293 (19.65%) Senior
2 211 (14.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 166 (11.13%) Analyst
4 141 (9.46%) Support Engineer
5 139 (9.32%) Azure Engineer
6 136 (9.12%) IT Engineer
7 135 (9.05%) Cloud Engineer
8 114 (7.65%) IT Support
9 110 (7.38%) DevOps Engineer
10 80 (5.37%) Platform Engineer
11 72 (4.83%) Consultant
12 71 (4.76%) Lead
12 71 (4.76%) Support Analyst
13 69 (4.63%) IT Support Engineer
14 65 (4.36%) Systems Engineer
15 64 (4.29%) Security Engineer
16 58 (3.89%) Administrator
17 57 (3.82%) Testing Manager
18 56 (3.76%) Developer
19 55 (3.69%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 372 (24.95%) Terraform
2 74 (4.96%) .NET
3 56 (3.76%) REST
4 55 (3.69%) ARM Templates
5 45 (3.02%) Microsoft Graph
6 44 (2.95%) YAML
7 42 (2.82%) SAML
8 40 (2.68%) LDAP
8 40 (2.68%) OpenID
9 39 (2.62%) OAuth
10 36 (2.41%) HTML
11 29 (1.95%) JSON
12 27 (1.81%) CSS
13 26 (1.74%) SPFx
14 23 (1.54%) .NET Core
15 21 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
16 16 (1.07%) SOAP
17 15 (1.01%) HTML5 Canvas
18 14 (0.94%) ASP.NET
18 14 (0.94%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 131 (8.79%) Onboarding
2 91 (6.10%) Cloud Native
3 78 (5.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 77 (5.16%) Driving Licence
5 74 (4.96%) Management Information System
6 71 (4.76%) Security Posture
7 61 (4.09%) Virtual Team
8 51 (3.42%) Data Centre
8 51 (3.42%) PKI
9 49 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
10 48 (3.22%) Replication
11 46 (3.09%) Public Cloud
12 42 (2.82%) Security Operations Centre
13 36 (2.41%) Clustering
13 36 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
14 26 (1.74%) Private Cloud
15 23 (1.54%) Cyber Defence
16 22 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
17 21 (1.41%) CMDB
18 19 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 705 (47.28%) Windows
2 347 (23.27%) Linux
3 340 (22.80%) Windows Server
4 92 (6.17%) Windows 10
5 54 (3.62%) Apple iOS
6 46 (3.09%) Ubuntu
7 42 (2.82%) Android
8 40 (2.68%) Mac OS
8 40 (2.68%) VMS
9 34 (2.28%) CentOS
9 34 (2.28%) Windows Server 2016
10 31 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 27 (1.81%) Windows Server 2019
12 23 (1.54%) Unix
13 16 (1.07%) Rocky
14 8 (0.54%) Debian
14 8 (0.54%) Solaris
15 5 (0.34%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.27%) AIX
16 4 (0.27%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (28.24%) Problem-Solving
2 387 (25.96%) DevOps
3 379 (25.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 354 (23.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 329 (22.07%) CI/CD
6 320 (21.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 286 (19.18%) ITIL
8 254 (17.04%) Cybersecurity
9 233 (15.63%) Mentoring
10 201 (13.48%) Disaster Recovery
11 172 (11.54%) AI
12 171 (11.47%) Agile
13 166 (11.13%) Root Cause Analysis
14 163 (10.93%) High Availability
15 155 (10.40%) Project Delivery
16 145 (9.73%) Platform Engineering
17 141 (9.46%) Incident Response
18 140 (9.39%) Cloud Security
19 132 (8.85%) Observability
20 130 (8.72%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 583 (39.10%) Python
2 307 (20.59%) Bash
3 304 (20.39%) SQL
4 142 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 134 (8.99%) C#
6 122 (8.18%) Bicep
7 85 (5.70%) TypeScript
8 50 (3.35%) Kusto Query Language
9 37 (2.48%) T-SQL
10 36 (2.41%) Java
11 23 (1.54%) VBScript
12 19 (1.27%) C++
13 18 (1.21%) Perl
14 13 (0.87%) Ruby
15 12 (0.80%) PHP
16 10 (0.67%) VB
16 10 (0.67%) VBA
17 9 (0.60%) Go
18 7 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 6 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 209 (14.02%) Security Cleared
2 171 (11.47%) Degree
3 161 (10.80%) Microsoft Certification
4 158 (10.60%) Azure Certification
5 144 (9.66%) SC Cleared
6 64 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 62 (4.16%) DV Cleared
8 57 (3.82%) Cisco Certification
9 55 (3.69%) CISSP
10 52 (3.49%) CompTIA Security+
11 43 (2.88%) CCNA
12 27 (1.81%) CEH
13 26 (1.74%) AWS Certification
14 22 (1.48%) DBS Check
15 21 (1.41%) CISM
16 20 (1.34%) OSCP
17 18 (1.21%) GIAC
17 18 (1.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 16 (1.07%) CCNP
18 16 (1.07%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (6.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 79 (5.30%) QA
3 70 (4.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 64 (4.29%) NIST
5 47 (3.15%) GDPR
6 46 (3.09%) SLA
7 19 (1.27%) Data Quality
8 18 (1.21%) PCI DSS
9 15 (1.01%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.54%) NCSC
10 8 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.47%) PMO
12 5 (0.34%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.27%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.13%) EMIR
15 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 540 (36.22%) Active Directory
2 249 (16.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 159 (10.66%) Hyper-V
4 141 (9.46%) Docker
5 83 (5.57%) vSphere
6 75 (5.03%) Virtual Machines
7 56 (3.76%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (1.81%) VMware NSX
9 20 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
10 18 (1.21%) BitLocker
11 10 (0.67%) Firmware
12 8 (0.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.54%) KVM
12 8 (0.54%) Squid
13 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.20%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.067%) HDFS
16 1 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 263 (17.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 224 (15.02%) Kubernetes
3 173 (11.60%) Ansible
4 79 (5.30%) Grafana
5 75 (5.03%) SCCM
6 56 (3.76%) Single Sign-On
7 43 (2.88%) Prometheus
8 25 (1.68%) vCenter Server
8 25 (1.68%) ZABBIX
9 24 (1.61%) Argo
10 21 (1.41%) QRadar
11 20 (1.34%) Proxmox
11 20 (1.34%) Puppet
12 18 (1.21%) Packer
13 17 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
14 15 (1.01%) FortiGate
14 15 (1.01%) Graylog
15 13 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 11 (0.74%) VxRail
17 10 (0.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 933 (62.58%) Microsoft
2 284 (19.05%) VMware
3 112 (7.51%) Cisco
4 108 (7.24%) ServiceNow
5 90 (6.04%) Splunk
6 66 (4.43%) Veeam
7 52 (3.49%) Oracle
7 52 (3.49%) Red Hat
8 43 (2.88%) Citrix
9 40 (2.68%) Meraki
10 34 (2.28%) Sage
11 32 (2.15%) Dell
12 31 (2.08%) Dynatrace
12 31 (2.08%) Sophos
13 28 (1.88%) SAP
14 27 (1.81%) CyberArk
15 26 (1.74%) Apple
15 26 (1.74%) Fortinet
15 26 (1.74%) Tenable
16 24 (1.61%) Google