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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 90 99
Rank change year-on-year -62 +9 -36
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,475 1,618 1,830
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.25% 3.26% 2.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.04% 12.65% 8.05%
Number of salaries quoted 994 1,058 1,182
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £42,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,188 £82,500
90th Percentile £89,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -5.66%

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 18,347 12,793 22,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.58% 25.76% 31.03%
Number of salaries quoted 13,020 8,190 13,763
10th Percentile £39,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £84,125 £83,750 £84,982
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
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 8 October 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 8 October 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 1,272 £57,500 - 1,104
UK excluding London -68 954 £52,500 - 639
Work from Home -37 511 £60,000 +1.27% 519
London -26 464 £70,000 -2.44% 492
South East -40 234 £52,500 -8.70% 173
North of England -89 231 £50,000 - 161
Midlands -47 161 £52,500 +2.24% 84
North West -78 138 £50,000 - 86
East of England -48 92 £57,500 +21.05% 61
South West -71 86 £55,000 +13.40% 87
East Midlands -17 81 £42,500 +15.65% 35
West Midlands -70 80 £55,000 - 49
Northern Ireland -23 70 £46,000 - 17
Yorkshire -50 56 £45,472 -13.39% 52
Scotland -14 47 £52,500 +23.53% 46
North East -32 37 £51,500 -14.17% 24
Wales -59 33 £35,000 -36.36% 21

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
1 258 (17.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 239 (16.20%) SharePoint
3 52 (3.53%) IIS
4 43 (2.92%) Confluence
5 15 (1.02%) nginx
6 8 (0.54%) Apache
7 6 (0.41%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.068%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.068%) WebSphere
Applications
1 65 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.068%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 36 (2.44%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.41%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.34%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.068%) Actimize
7 1 (0.068%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 878 (59.53%) Azure
2 570 (38.64%) Microsoft 365
3 489 (33.15%) Entra ID
4 259 (17.56%) AWS
5 185 (12.54%) SaaS
6 180 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
7 123 (8.34%) Power Platform
8 117 (7.93%) GitHub
9 110 (7.46%) OneDrive
10 107 (7.25%) IaaS
11 94 (6.37%) Azure Monitor
12 89 (6.03%) Azure Sentinel
13 80 (5.42%) PaaS
14 76 (5.15%) Power Automate
15 71 (4.81%) Azure AKS
15 71 (4.81%) GCP
16 69 (4.68%) Azure Key Vault
17 65 (4.41%) Microsoft Purview
18 63 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
19 58 (3.93%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 334 (22.64%) DNS
2 327 (22.17%) Firewall
3 235 (15.93%) DHCP
4 232 (15.73%) VPN
5 157 (10.64%) TCP/IP
6 99 (6.71%) WAN
7 86 (5.83%) LAN
8 81 (5.49%) VLAN
9 60 (4.07%) Network Security
9 60 (4.07%) Wireless
10 50 (3.39%) Wi-Fi
11 36 (2.44%) SAN
12 33 (2.24%) Kerberos
13 31 (2.10%) SSL
14 25 (1.69%) HTTP
15 23 (1.56%) NAS
16 16 (1.08%) VSAN
17 15 (1.02%) Internet
17 15 (1.02%) VoIP
18 14 (0.95%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (10.31%) SQL Server
2 84 (5.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 64 (4.34%) Power BI
4 24 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (1.42%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (1.15%) Relational Database
7 14 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (0.81%) MySQL
9 11 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (0.68%) Data Lake
10 10 (0.68%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.54%) Power Query
11 8 (0.54%) Redis
11 8 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.47%) InfluxDB
13 6 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.34%) Db2
14 5 (0.34%) Metadata
14 5 (0.34%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 100 (6.78%) JIRA
2 91 (6.17%) Git
3 80 (5.42%) GitLab
4 65 (4.41%) Jenkins
5 26 (1.76%) Bitbucket
6 11 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
7 10 (0.68%) TeamCity
8 8 (0.54%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.47%) Robot Framework
9 7 (0.47%) TestRail
10 6 (0.41%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.41%) Postman
11 5 (0.34%) Burp Suite
11 5 (0.34%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.34%) MSI
11 5 (0.34%) Selenium
11 5 (0.34%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
General
1 572 (38.78%) Social Skills
2 250 (16.95%) Finance
3 194 (13.15%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (7.66%) Legal
5 104 (7.05%) Law
6 75 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 58 (3.93%) Documentation Skills
8 46 (3.12%) Retail
9 45 (3.05%) Banking
10 38 (2.58%) Aerospace
10 38 (2.58%) Public Sector
11 36 (2.44%) Manufacturing
12 35 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (0.95%) Legal Technology
14 12 (0.81%) Financial Institution
14 12 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (0.68%) Investment Banking
16 9 (0.61%) Aviation
16 9 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 280 (18.98%) Senior
2 211 (14.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 178 (12.07%) Analyst
4 134 (9.08%) Azure Engineer
5 132 (8.95%) IT Engineer
6 129 (8.75%) Cloud Engineer
6 129 (8.75%) Support Engineer
7 116 (7.86%) DevOps Engineer
8 106 (7.19%) IT Support
9 82 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
10 79 (5.36%) Consultant
11 74 (5.02%) Lead
12 70 (4.75%) Support Analyst
13 67 (4.54%) IT Support Engineer
14 60 (4.07%) Security Engineer
15 59 (4.00%) Systems Engineer
16 55 (3.73%) Senior Manager
16 55 (3.73%) Testing Manager
17 54 (3.66%) Administrator
18 47 (3.19%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 374 (25.36%) Terraform
2 64 (4.34%) .NET
3 56 (3.80%) REST
4 55 (3.73%) ARM Templates
5 51 (3.46%) SAML
6 48 (3.25%) LDAP
7 43 (2.92%) YAML
8 42 (2.85%) Microsoft Graph
9 41 (2.78%) OAuth
9 41 (2.78%) OpenID
10 31 (2.10%) HTML
11 27 (1.83%) JSON
12 23 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
13 22 (1.49%) CSS
14 20 (1.36%) SPFx
15 16 (1.08%) .NET Core
16 15 (1.02%) Kafka
16 15 (1.02%) SOAP
17 13 (0.88%) RESTful
18 12 (0.81%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 126 (8.54%) Onboarding
2 92 (6.24%) Cloud Native
3 81 (5.49%) Driving Licence
4 80 (5.42%) Hybrid Cloud
5 75 (5.08%) Security Posture
6 69 (4.68%) Management Information System
7 60 (4.07%) Virtual Team
8 56 (3.80%) Replication
9 53 (3.59%) PKI
10 50 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
11 46 (3.12%) Data Centre
12 41 (2.78%) Security Operations Centre
13 38 (2.58%) Public Cloud
14 37 (2.51%) Clustering
15 29 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
16 28 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
17 23 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
18 21 (1.42%) Private Cloud
19 19 (1.29%) Enterprise Storage
19 19 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 709 (48.07%) Windows
2 342 (23.19%) Linux
3 341 (23.12%) Windows Server
4 98 (6.64%) Windows 10
5 49 (3.32%) Apple iOS
6 44 (2.98%) Ubuntu
7 40 (2.71%) Android
7 40 (2.71%) Mac OS
8 38 (2.58%) VMS
9 34 (2.31%) Windows Server 2016
9 34 (2.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 31 (2.10%) CentOS
11 27 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 23 (1.56%) Unix
13 17 (1.15%) Rocky
14 8 (0.54%) Debian
14 8 (0.54%) Solaris
15 7 (0.47%) Kali Linux
16 5 (0.34%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (28.68%) Problem-Solving
2 393 (26.64%) DevOps
3 385 (26.10%) Continuous Improvement
4 355 (24.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 326 (22.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 321 (21.76%) CI/CD
7 265 (17.97%) ITIL
8 260 (17.63%) Cybersecurity
9 230 (15.59%) Mentoring
10 223 (15.12%) Disaster Recovery
11 183 (12.41%) AI
12 168 (11.39%) Agile
13 163 (11.05%) Root Cause Analysis
14 162 (10.98%) Project Delivery
15 155 (10.51%) High Availability
16 154 (10.44%) Platform Engineering
17 151 (10.24%) Cloud Security
18 149 (10.10%) Migration
19 143 (9.69%) Incident Response
20 135 (9.15%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 581 (39.39%) Python
2 307 (20.81%) Bash
3 299 (20.27%) SQL
4 133 (9.02%) JavaScript
5 127 (8.61%) Bicep
6 122 (8.27%) C#
7 79 (5.36%) TypeScript
8 53 (3.59%) Kusto Query Language
9 37 (2.51%) Java
10 36 (2.44%) T-SQL
11 22 (1.49%) VBScript
12 20 (1.36%) C++
13 19 (1.29%) Perl
14 13 (0.88%) PHP
15 11 (0.75%) Ruby
16 10 (0.68%) VBA
17 9 (0.61%) VB
18 8 (0.54%) Go
19 7 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 6 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 214 (14.51%) Security Cleared
2 166 (11.25%) Degree
3 164 (11.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 159 (10.78%) Azure Certification
5 139 (9.42%) SC Cleared
6 64 (4.34%) CISSP
6 64 (4.34%) DV Cleared
7 57 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 56 (3.80%) CompTIA Security+
9 50 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
10 41 (2.78%) CCNA
11 28 (1.90%) CEH
12 26 (1.76%) AWS Certification
12 26 (1.76%) DBS Check
13 22 (1.49%) CISM
14 19 (1.29%) OSCP
15 18 (1.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 17 (1.15%) CompTIA CySA+
16 17 (1.15%) GIAC
17 15 (1.02%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (7.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 81 (5.49%) QA
3 79 (5.36%) Cyber Essentials
4 67 (4.54%) NIST
5 49 (3.32%) SLA
6 45 (3.05%) GDPR
7 21 (1.42%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.36%) Data Quality
9 13 (0.88%) SOC 2
10 12 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (0.68%) NCSC
12 8 (0.54%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.54%) PMO
12 8 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.41%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.14%) EMIR
15 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 1 (0.068%) TickIT
System Software
1 551 (37.36%) Active Directory
2 238 (16.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 162 (10.98%) Hyper-V
4 137 (9.29%) Docker
5 80 (5.42%) vSphere
6 78 (5.29%) Virtual Machines
7 62 (4.20%) Virtual Desktop
8 28 (1.90%) VMware ESXi
9 27 (1.83%) VMware NSX
10 16 (1.08%) BitLocker
11 15 (1.02%) Firmware
12 8 (0.54%) KVM
13 7 (0.47%) Squid
14 6 (0.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
16 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
18 2 (0.14%) DFS Replication
18 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
18 2 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 265 (17.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 224 (15.19%) Kubernetes
3 167 (11.32%) Ansible
4 78 (5.29%) Grafana
5 77 (5.22%) SCCM
6 59 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
7 43 (2.92%) Prometheus
8 31 (2.10%) Puppet
9 26 (1.76%) vCenter Server
10 24 (1.63%) Argo
10 24 (1.63%) ZABBIX
11 21 (1.42%) QRadar
12 20 (1.36%) Proxmox
13 19 (1.29%) FortiGate
14 15 (1.02%) Graylog
14 15 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
15 14 (0.95%) Packer
15 14 (0.95%) Progress Chef
16 13 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 10 (0.68%) VxRail
Vendors
1 948 (64.27%) Microsoft
2 278 (18.85%) VMware
3 105 (7.12%) Cisco
4 95 (6.44%) ServiceNow
5 88 (5.97%) Splunk
6 69 (4.68%) Veeam
7 49 (3.32%) Oracle
8 43 (2.92%) Red Hat
9 42 (2.85%) Citrix
10 37 (2.51%) Meraki
11 34 (2.31%) Sage
12 31 (2.10%) SolarWinds
13 30 (2.03%) Dell
13 30 (2.03%) Dynatrace
14 29 (1.97%) SAP
14 29 (1.97%) Sophos
15 28 (1.90%) CyberArk
16 27 (1.83%) Apple
16 27 (1.83%) Fortinet
16 27 (1.83%) Google