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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 91 103
Rank change year-on-year -51 +12 -8
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,237 1,350 2,430
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.46% 3.28% 2.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.22% 9.88% 7.59%
Number of salaries quoted 913 1,052 2,083
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,275 £35,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,966 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 15,040 13,664 32,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.74% 33.17% 34.41%
Number of salaries quoted 10,317 10,257 24,947
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,250
25th Percentile £46,833 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +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 £56,750 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +3.18% +1.85% -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 14 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 14 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 -56 1,095 £58,000 -3.33% 360
UK excluding London -71 690 £52,500 - 319
London -11 504 £70,000 -12.50% 107
Work from Home -23 394 £60,000 +2.56% 159
South East -76 185 £57,750 +0.43% 97
North of England -55 135 £47,500 -7.99% 66
Midlands -68 101 £52,500 +5.00% 38
Scotland +48 95 £67,000 +11.67% 26
South West -33 93 £55,000 +15.79% 48
North West -39 68 £55,000 +18.28% 32
East of England -54 64 £40,250 -26.82% 39
East Midlands -45 56 £55,000 +15.79% 17
Yorkshire -46 54 £47,500 -9.52% 22
West Midlands -58 44 £48,000 -4.00% 21
Wales -16 15 £65,000 +28.58% 16
North East -35 13 £45,000 -21.74% 12
Northern Ireland -42 2 £46,000 - 3

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
1 183 (14.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 139 (11.24%) SharePoint
3 38 (3.07%) IIS
4 19 (1.54%) Exchange Server 2003
5 15 (1.21%) Confluence
6 6 (0.49%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.16%) Apache
7 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.16%) CMS
7 2 (0.16%) WordPress
8 1 (0.081%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.081%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.081%) Site Server
8 1 (0.081%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 53 (4.28%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.24%) CATIA
4 3 (0.24%) Siemens NX
4 3 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
4 3 (0.24%) Windchill
5 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.081%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
1 7 (0.57%) Markit EDM
2 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
3 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.24%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.081%) Actimize
4 1 (0.081%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 795 (64.27%) Azure
2 417 (33.71%) Microsoft 365
3 331 (26.76%) Entra ID
4 211 (17.06%) AWS
5 127 (10.27%) Azure DevOps
6 98 (7.92%) GitHub
6 98 (7.92%) Power Platform
7 75 (6.06%) GCP
7 75 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
7 75 (6.06%) Google Workspace
8 71 (5.74%) SaaS
9 63 (5.09%) OneDrive
10 59 (4.77%) IaaS
11 57 (4.61%) PaaS
12 46 (3.72%) Azure Monitor
13 41 (3.31%) Azure Logic Apps
13 41 (3.31%) Azure Sentinel
13 41 (3.31%) Power Automate
14 38 (3.07%) Azure Key Vault
15 37 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 232 (18.76%) DNS
2 223 (18.03%) Firewall
3 175 (14.15%) DHCP
4 134 (10.83%) VPN
5 103 (8.33%) TCP/IP
6 70 (5.66%) WAN
7 63 (5.09%) Broadband
7 63 (5.09%) LAN
8 59 (4.77%) Network Security
9 50 (4.04%) VLAN
10 46 (3.72%) Wi-Fi
11 40 (3.23%) VoIP
12 33 (2.67%) SAN
12 33 (2.67%) Wireless
13 28 (2.26%) SD-WAN
14 20 (1.62%) BGP
15 19 (1.54%) MPLS
16 13 (1.05%) VSAN
17 12 (0.97%) WinSCP
18 11 (0.89%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (11.24%) SQL Server
2 83 (6.71%) Power BI
3 34 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 31 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (2.10%) MySQL
6 25 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
7 24 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
7 24 (1.94%) Oracle Database
7 24 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 22 (1.78%) Oracle Database 10g
9 20 (1.62%) Relational Database
10 18 (1.46%) NoSQL
11 17 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 14 (1.13%) Tableau
13 10 (0.81%) InfluxDB
14 8 (0.65%) MongoDB
15 7 (0.57%) Data Lake
16 6 (0.49%) Metadata
17 5 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
18 4 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 89 (7.19%) Git
2 76 (6.14%) Jenkins
3 73 (5.90%) JIRA
4 46 (3.72%) GitLab
5 28 (2.26%) Bitbucket
6 18 (1.46%) Octopus Deploy
7 14 (1.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 13 (1.05%) Metasploit
9 12 (0.97%) TeamCity
10 11 (0.89%) Robot Framework
11 9 (0.73%) Burp Suite
12 8 (0.65%) CircleCI
12 8 (0.65%) TestRail
12 8 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
13 6 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.32%) Balsamiq
14 4 (0.32%) MLflow
14 4 (0.32%) SonarQube
15 3 (0.24%) Artifactory
15 3 (0.24%) Cypress.io
General
1 415 (33.55%) Social Skills
2 260 (21.02%) Finance
3 166 (13.42%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (6.71%) Organisational Skills
5 66 (5.34%) Law
6 44 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
7 41 (3.31%) Retail
8 40 (3.23%) Legal
9 39 (3.15%) Public Sector
10 38 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 33 (2.67%) Games
12 31 (2.51%) Banking
13 24 (1.94%) Manufacturing
14 22 (1.78%) Telecoms
15 17 (1.37%) Front Office
16 14 (1.13%) Advertising
17 13 (1.05%) Aerospace
18 8 (0.65%) Military
19 6 (0.49%) Investment Banking
20 5 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 215 (17.38%) Senior
2 152 (12.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 144 (11.64%) Support Engineer
4 126 (10.19%) Azure Engineer
5 118 (9.54%) Analyst
6 110 (8.89%) IT Support
7 85 (6.87%) IT Engineer
8 83 (6.71%) Security Engineer
9 80 (6.47%) Cloud Engineer
10 69 (5.58%) DevOps Engineer
11 64 (5.17%) IT Support Engineer
11 64 (5.17%) Lead
12 62 (5.01%) Developer
13 58 (4.69%) 3rd Line Support
14 53 (4.28%) 2nd Line Support
15 48 (3.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 45 (3.64%) Architect
16 45 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
17 41 (3.31%) Systems Engineer
18 38 (3.07%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (7.84%) OAuth
2 88 (7.11%) REST
3 81 (6.55%) SAML
4 80 (6.47%) OpenID
5 70 (5.66%) GraphQL
6 68 (5.50%) .NET
7 66 (5.34%) LDAP
8 65 (5.25%) SOAP
9 33 (2.67%) YAML
10 31 (2.51%) .NET Core
11 28 (2.26%) ARM Templates
11 28 (2.26%) JSON
12 22 (1.78%) Microsoft Graph
13 20 (1.62%) CSS
13 20 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
14 18 (1.46%) HTML
14 18 (1.46%) SPFx
15 17 (1.37%) React
16 16 (1.29%) Node.js
17 13 (1.05%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 92 (7.44%) Onboarding
2 73 (5.90%) Cyber Threat
3 70 (5.66%) Hybrid Cloud
4 66 (5.34%) Cyberattack
5 59 (4.77%) Security Posture
6 55 (4.45%) Management Information System
7 44 (3.56%) Cloud Native
8 43 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
9 40 (3.23%) Driving Licence
10 38 (3.07%) Cyber Defence
11 36 (2.91%) Data Centre
12 33 (2.67%) Security Operations Centre
13 31 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
14 30 (2.43%) Public Cloud
15 26 (2.10%) PKI
16 24 (1.94%) CMDB
17 21 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
18 18 (1.46%) Low-Code
18 18 (1.46%) Replication
19 17 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 568 (45.92%) Windows
2 288 (23.28%) Windows Server
3 258 (20.86%) Linux
4 70 (5.66%) Windows 10
5 54 (4.37%) Mac OS
6 42 (3.40%) Apple iOS
6 42 (3.40%) Unix
7 41 (3.31%) Android
8 39 (3.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 30 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 30 (2.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 24 (1.94%) CentOS
11 23 (1.86%) Solaris
12 22 (1.78%) VMS
13 19 (1.54%) HPUX
13 19 (1.54%) Windows 7
13 19 (1.54%) Windows Server 2003
13 19 (1.54%) Windows Server 2008
14 18 (1.46%) Ubuntu
15 12 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
2 267 (21.58%) DevOps
3 256 (20.70%) CI/CD
4 250 (20.21%) Cybersecurity
5 247 (19.97%) Infrastructure as Code
6 231 (18.67%) ITIL
7 214 (17.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 202 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 190 (15.36%) Mentoring
10 160 (12.93%) Agile
11 149 (12.05%) Incident Response
12 147 (11.88%) Disaster Recovery
13 140 (11.32%) Roadmaps
14 129 (10.43%) Root Cause Analysis
15 113 (9.14%) SIEM
16 108 (8.73%) Containerisation
16 108 (8.73%) Task Automation
17 107 (8.65%) Cloud Security
18 105 (8.49%) Identity Access Management
19 93 (7.52%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 461 (37.27%) Python
2 314 (25.38%) Bash
3 265 (21.42%) SQL
4 84 (6.79%) T-SQL
5 82 (6.63%) C#
6 69 (5.58%) JavaScript
7 65 (5.25%) Bicep
8 31 (2.51%) Kusto Query Language
9 26 (2.10%) Perl
10 22 (1.78%) Java
11 13 (1.05%) TypeScript
12 12 (0.97%) Go
13 10 (0.81%) VB.NET
14 9 (0.73%) C++
14 9 (0.73%) VB
15 7 (0.57%) C
15 7 (0.57%) PHP
16 6 (0.49%) Delphi
16 6 (0.49%) Ruby
16 6 (0.49%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 167 (13.50%) Degree
2 155 (12.53%) Security Cleared
3 101 (8.16%) Microsoft Certification
4 95 (7.68%) SC Cleared
5 86 (6.95%) Azure Certification
6 67 (5.42%) DV Cleared
7 59 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (4.37%) CISSP
9 40 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
10 34 (2.75%) CREST Certified
11 26 (2.10%) OSCP
12 25 (2.02%) CompTIA Security+
12 25 (2.02%) GIAC
13 24 (1.94%) CCNA
14 23 (1.86%) CEH
15 22 (1.78%) AWS Certification
16 21 (1.70%) CompTIA CySA+
17 17 (1.37%) DBS Check
18 16 (1.29%) SANS
19 15 (1.21%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (13.18%) NIST
2 161 (13.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 67 (5.42%) GDPR
4 66 (5.34%) NCSC
5 60 (4.85%) SLA
6 32 (2.59%) Accessibility
7 29 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials
8 19 (1.54%) ISO 22301
9 18 (1.46%) Data Quality
10 17 (1.37%) QA
11 15 (1.21%) PCI DSS
12 14 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 13 (1.05%) SOC 2
14 11 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.49%) DICOM
16 5 (0.40%) GRC
17 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
19 2 (0.16%) COBIT
19 2 (0.16%) HL7
System Software
1 469 (37.91%) Active Directory
2 155 (12.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 127 (10.27%) Docker
4 109 (8.81%) Hyper-V
5 48 (3.88%) vSphere
6 34 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (1.62%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (1.37%) VMware NSX
10 16 (1.29%) Firmware
11 11 (0.89%) BitLocker
12 8 (0.65%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.40%) XenApp
14 4 (0.32%) iptables
14 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.32%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.32%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.24%) vCloud
16 2 (0.16%) KVM
Systems Management
1 264 (21.34%) Terraform
2 182 (14.71%) Kubernetes
3 178 (14.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 151 (12.21%) Ansible
5 56 (4.53%) Grafana
6 46 (3.72%) SCCM
7 42 (3.40%) Single Sign-On
8 35 (2.83%) Prometheus
9 23 (1.86%) Jamf Pro
10 20 (1.62%) vCenter Server
11 19 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 14 (1.13%) Puppet
13 13 (1.05%) Nessus
14 12 (0.97%) VxRail
15 10 (0.81%) FortiGate
16 9 (0.73%) QRadar
17 8 (0.65%) Progress Chef
18 7 (0.57%) logstash
18 7 (0.57%) Packer
18 7 (0.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 678 (54.81%) Microsoft
2 241 (19.48%) VMware
3 111 (8.97%) Cisco
4 66 (5.34%) Splunk
5 56 (4.53%) ServiceNow
6 54 (4.37%) Red Hat
7 47 (3.80%) Oracle
8 44 (3.56%) Veeam
9 37 (2.99%) CrowdStrike
10 36 (2.91%) Google
11 33 (2.67%) Commvault
11 33 (2.67%) Palo Alto
12 28 (2.26%) CyberArk
12 28 (2.26%) Dell
13 27 (2.18%) Citrix
13 27 (2.18%) Fortinet
13 27 (2.18%) Meraki
14 23 (1.86%) Apple
15 21 (1.70%) Dynatrace
16 19 (1.54%) Tenable