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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 89 110
Rank change year-on-year -62 +21 -10
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,227 1,365 2,365
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.37% 3.23% 2.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.86% 9.87% 7.31%
Number of salaries quoted 896 1,058 2,009
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,950
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 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £94,144 £87,600
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,914 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.13% +3.83% -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 15,607 13,830 32,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.43% 32.68% 33.90%
Number of salaries quoted 10,607 10,170 24,922
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £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 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,635
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.54% -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 28 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 28 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 -66 1,085 £57,500 -4.17% 366
UK excluding London -66 683 £52,500 +1.13% 329
London -14 509 £70,000 -9.68% 113
Work from Home -24 399 £60,000 +4.35% 181
South East -91 161 £55,000 -4.35% 120
North of England -48 139 £48,445 +0.29% 68
Midlands -61 110 £52,500 +5.00% 33
Scotland +35 94 £53,750 -2.27% 14
South West -44 85 £55,000 +15.79% 47
East of England -39 71 £50,000 -9.09% 31
North West -40 69 £53,750 +16.85% 44
East Midlands -33 63 £55,000 +37.50% 17
Yorkshire -40 56 £47,500 -13.64% 13
West Midlands -67 46 £47,500 -5.00% 16
Wales -14 20 £58,248 +15.22% 15
North East -42 14 £45,000 -21.74% 11
Northern Ireland -36 3 £46,000 - 13

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
1 170 (13.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 155 (12.63%) SharePoint
3 41 (3.34%) IIS
4 17 (1.39%) Confluence
5 6 (0.49%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (0.16%) Apache
7 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.081%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.081%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.081%) CMS
8 1 (0.081%) Site Server
8 1 (0.081%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.081%) WordPress
Applications
1 53 (4.32%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) CATIA
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.16%) Siemens NX
3 2 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.16%) Windchill
4 1 (0.081%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.57%) Markit EDM
2 5 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
4 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.081%) Actimize
6 1 (0.081%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 787 (64.14%) Azure
2 428 (34.88%) Microsoft 365
3 336 (27.38%) Entra ID
4 208 (16.95%) AWS
5 125 (10.19%) Azure DevOps
6 104 (8.48%) Power Platform
7 95 (7.74%) GitHub
8 78 (6.36%) OneDrive
9 76 (6.19%) SaaS
10 74 (6.03%) Google Workspace
11 73 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
12 70 (5.70%) GCP
13 56 (4.56%) IaaS
14 51 (4.16%) Power Automate
15 49 (3.99%) Azure Logic Apps
16 48 (3.91%) PaaS
17 47 (3.83%) Azure Data Factory
17 47 (3.83%) Azure Sentinel
18 44 (3.59%) Azure Monitor
19 40 (3.26%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 225 (18.34%) DNS
2 222 (18.09%) Firewall
3 148 (12.06%) DHCP
4 135 (11.00%) VPN
5 101 (8.23%) TCP/IP
6 71 (5.79%) WAN
7 67 (5.46%) LAN
8 63 (5.13%) Broadband
9 60 (4.89%) Network Security
10 47 (3.83%) VLAN
11 43 (3.50%) Wi-Fi
12 39 (3.18%) VoIP
13 34 (2.77%) SAN
14 28 (2.28%) Wireless
15 21 (1.71%) BGP
15 21 (1.71%) SD-WAN
16 18 (1.47%) MPLS
17 13 (1.06%) VSAN
18 12 (0.98%) Internet
18 12 (0.98%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (11.17%) SQL Server
2 87 (7.09%) Power BI
3 45 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 30 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
6 24 (1.96%) MySQL
7 23 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 20 (1.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 17 (1.39%) Relational Database
10 16 (1.30%) NoSQL
11 14 (1.14%) Tableau
12 11 (0.90%) InfluxDB
13 9 (0.73%) Data Lake
13 9 (0.73%) MongoDB
14 7 (0.57%) Metadata
14 7 (0.57%) Oracle Database
15 5 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
15 5 (0.41%) Oracle Database 10g
16 4 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 95 (7.74%) Git
2 72 (5.87%) Jenkins
3 71 (5.79%) JIRA
4 47 (3.83%) GitLab
5 29 (2.36%) Bitbucket
6 17 (1.39%) Octopus Deploy
7 14 (1.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 13 (1.06%) Metasploit
9 11 (0.90%) Robot Framework
9 11 (0.90%) TeamCity
10 9 (0.73%) Burp Suite
10 9 (0.73%) TestRail
10 9 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
11 8 (0.65%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.33%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.33%) MLflow
13 4 (0.33%) Selenium
14 3 (0.24%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.24%) Balsamiq
General
1 411 (33.50%) Social Skills
2 248 (20.21%) Finance
3 170 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (6.60%) Organisational Skills
5 63 (5.13%) Law
6 46 (3.75%) Retail
7 44 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 43 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
9 42 (3.42%) Legal
10 40 (3.26%) Public Sector
11 33 (2.69%) Games
12 29 (2.36%) Banking
13 27 (2.20%) Manufacturing
14 18 (1.47%) Front Office
14 18 (1.47%) Telecoms
15 17 (1.39%) Aerospace
16 16 (1.30%) Advertising
17 7 (0.57%) Electronics
17 7 (0.57%) Military
18 6 (0.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 222 (18.09%) Senior
2 143 (11.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 137 (11.17%) Analyst
4 132 (10.76%) Support Engineer
5 125 (10.19%) Azure Engineer
6 105 (8.56%) IT Support
7 83 (6.76%) IT Engineer
7 83 (6.76%) Security Engineer
8 79 (6.44%) Cloud Engineer
9 71 (5.79%) DevOps Engineer
10 70 (5.70%) Developer
11 65 (5.30%) Lead
12 57 (4.65%) IT Support Engineer
13 53 (4.32%) 2nd Line Support
14 46 (3.75%) Architect
15 45 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
16 44 (3.59%) Support Analyst
16 44 (3.59%) Systems Engineer
17 40 (3.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 40 (3.26%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (8.07%) OAuth
2 91 (7.42%) REST
3 85 (6.93%) SAML
4 84 (6.85%) OpenID
5 79 (6.44%) .NET
6 71 (5.79%) LDAP
7 68 (5.54%) GraphQL
8 67 (5.46%) SOAP
9 39 (3.18%) .NET Core
10 34 (2.77%) JSON
11 32 (2.61%) Microsoft Graph
11 32 (2.61%) YAML
12 31 (2.53%) CSS
13 30 (2.44%) ARM Templates
14 29 (2.36%) HTML
15 27 (2.20%) SPFx
16 19 (1.55%) React
17 18 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
17 18 (1.47%) HTML5 Canvas
18 17 (1.39%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 94 (7.66%) Onboarding
2 76 (6.19%) Cyber Threat
3 72 (5.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 67 (5.46%) Cyberattack
5 60 (4.89%) Management Information System
6 55 (4.48%) Security Posture
7 47 (3.83%) Cloud Native
8 42 (3.42%) Cyber Defence
9 41 (3.34%) Security Operations Centre
10 40 (3.26%) Driving Licence
11 38 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
12 33 (2.69%) Data Centre
13 32 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
14 29 (2.36%) Public Cloud
15 24 (1.96%) CMDB
15 24 (1.96%) PKI
16 18 (1.47%) Low-Code
17 17 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
18 16 (1.30%) Product Ownership
18 16 (1.30%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 555 (45.23%) Windows
2 276 (22.49%) Windows Server
3 257 (20.95%) Linux
4 76 (6.19%) Windows 10
5 52 (4.24%) Mac OS
6 48 (3.91%) Apple iOS
7 47 (3.83%) Android
8 38 (3.10%) Windows Server 2016
9 29 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 28 (2.28%) Windows Server 2019
11 24 (1.96%) CentOS
11 24 (1.96%) VMS
12 23 (1.87%) Unix
13 18 (1.47%) Ubuntu
14 10 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
15 8 (0.65%) Solaris
16 5 (0.41%) Debian
17 4 (0.33%) HPUX
17 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2003
17 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (27.22%) Problem-Solving
2 260 (21.19%) Cybersecurity
3 256 (20.86%) DevOps
4 255 (20.78%) CI/CD
5 251 (20.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 224 (18.26%) ITIL
7 210 (17.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 200 (16.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 191 (15.57%) Mentoring
10 161 (13.12%) Agile
11 153 (12.47%) Incident Response
12 139 (11.33%) Disaster Recovery
13 137 (11.17%) Roadmaps
14 130 (10.59%) Root Cause Analysis
15 119 (9.70%) SIEM
16 116 (9.45%) Containerisation
17 109 (8.88%) Cloud Security
18 104 (8.48%) Task Automation
19 100 (8.15%) Security Operations
20 99 (8.07%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 475 (38.71%) Python
2 310 (25.26%) Bash
3 271 (22.09%) SQL
4 93 (7.58%) C#
5 84 (6.85%) T-SQL
6 79 (6.44%) JavaScript
7 67 (5.46%) Bicep
8 33 (2.69%) Kusto Query Language
9 24 (1.96%) Java
10 22 (1.79%) TypeScript
11 13 (1.06%) Perl
12 12 (0.98%) Go
13 11 (0.90%) C++
14 10 (0.81%) VB.NET
15 9 (0.73%) VB
15 9 (0.73%) VBA
16 8 (0.65%) VBScript
17 7 (0.57%) C
17 7 (0.57%) PHP
18 6 (0.49%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 161 (13.12%) Degree
2 140 (11.41%) Security Cleared
3 104 (8.48%) Microsoft Certification
4 90 (7.33%) Azure Certification
5 84 (6.85%) SC Cleared
6 54 (4.40%) CISSP
7 53 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 49 (3.99%) DV Cleared
9 39 (3.18%) Cisco Certification
10 34 (2.77%) CREST Certified
11 32 (2.61%) CompTIA Security+
12 25 (2.04%) CCNA
12 25 (2.04%) OSCP
13 23 (1.87%) GIAC
14 22 (1.79%) AWS Certification
14 22 (1.79%) CEH
14 22 (1.79%) CompTIA CySA+
15 17 (1.39%) DBS Check
16 14 (1.14%) CCNP
16 14 (1.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (12.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 153 (12.47%) NIST
3 66 (5.38%) GDPR
4 63 (5.13%) NCSC
5 46 (3.75%) SLA
6 29 (2.36%) Cyber Essentials
7 28 (2.28%) Accessibility
8 20 (1.63%) Data Quality
8 20 (1.63%) ISO 22301
9 15 (1.22%) QA
10 14 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (1.06%) PCI DSS
11 13 (1.06%) SOC 2
12 11 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.49%) DICOM
14 5 (0.41%) GRC
15 4 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.16%) COBIT
17 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 454 (37.00%) Active Directory
2 153 (12.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 129 (10.51%) Docker
4 100 (8.15%) Hyper-V
5 44 (3.59%) vSphere
6 36 (2.93%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (1.55%) VMware NSX
9 18 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
10 15 (1.22%) Firmware
11 14 (1.14%) BitLocker
12 9 (0.73%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 6 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.41%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.33%) iptables
15 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.33%) Squid
15 4 (0.33%) XenDesktop
16 2 (0.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.16%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 259 (21.11%) Terraform
2 184 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 176 (14.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 147 (11.98%) Ansible
5 55 (4.48%) Grafana
6 46 (3.75%) SCCM
7 42 (3.42%) Single Sign-On
8 34 (2.77%) Prometheus
9 24 (1.96%) Jamf Pro
10 21 (1.71%) vCenter Server
11 20 (1.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 13 (1.06%) Nessus
12 13 (1.06%) VxRail
13 12 (0.98%) Puppet
14 10 (0.81%) FortiGate
14 10 (0.81%) Packer
14 10 (0.81%) QRadar
15 8 (0.65%) logstash
15 8 (0.65%) Progress Chef
15 8 (0.65%) WSUS
Vendors
1 686 (55.91%) Microsoft
2 213 (17.36%) VMware
3 103 (8.39%) Cisco
4 65 (5.30%) Splunk
5 56 (4.56%) Red Hat
6 55 (4.48%) ServiceNow
7 41 (3.34%) CrowdStrike
8 38 (3.10%) Veeam
9 34 (2.77%) Google
10 31 (2.53%) Commvault
11 30 (2.44%) Oracle
12 29 (2.36%) Dell
13 28 (2.28%) Palo Alto
14 27 (2.20%) Fortinet
14 27 (2.20%) Meraki
15 24 (1.96%) Apple
15 24 (1.96%) Citrix
15 24 (1.96%) CyberArk
16 20 (1.63%) SolarWinds
17 19 (1.55%) Dynatrace