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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 100 110
Rank change year-on-year -50 +10 -12
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,231 1,355 2,336
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.35% 3.12% 2.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.81% 9.69% 7.21%
Number of salaries quoted 899 1,045 1,978
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,850 £35,750
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 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,099 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.74% +2.20% -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 15,758 13,986 32,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.26% 32.17% 33.82%
Number of salaries quoted 10,733 10,051 24,955
10th Percentile £35,404 £37,000 £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 £85,336 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -54 1,095 £60,000 - 406
UK excluding London -52 682 £52,500 +2.74% 347
London -15 511 £70,000 -9.68% 129
Work from Home -16 398 £57,500 - 164
South East -89 157 £55,812 -2.94% 139
North of England -38 143 £48,445 -3.11% 63
Midlands -54 115 £52,500 +5.00% 42
Scotland +41 87 £50,000 -6.47% 29
South West -41 86 £55,000 +15.79% 42
East of England -28 71 £57,500 +17.95% 30
North West -33 70 £52,500 +14.13% 33
East Midlands -28 67 £55,000 +37.50% 22
Yorkshire -29 57 £47,500 -14.41% 15
West Midlands -64 47 £48,000 -4.00% 20
Wales -13 20 £58,248 +15.22% 10
North East -28 16 £45,750 -20.43% 15
Northern Ireland -35 3 £46,000 - 4

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 (13.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 160 (13.00%) SharePoint
3 39 (3.17%) IIS
4 16 (1.30%) Confluence
5 4 (0.32%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.16%) Apache
6 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.081%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.081%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.081%) CMS
7 1 (0.081%) Site Server
7 1 (0.081%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.081%) WordPress
Applications
1 53 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.081%) CATIA
4 1 (0.081%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.081%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.081%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.081%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.081%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (0.57%) Markit EDM
2 5 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
4 3 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.16%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.081%) Actimize
6 1 (0.081%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.081%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.081%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.081%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 797 (64.74%) Azure
2 436 (35.42%) Microsoft 365
3 334 (27.13%) Entra ID
4 212 (17.22%) AWS
5 124 (10.07%) Azure DevOps
6 105 (8.53%) Power Platform
7 94 (7.64%) GitHub
8 81 (6.58%) OneDrive
9 80 (6.50%) SaaS
10 71 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
10 71 (5.77%) Google Workspace
11 68 (5.52%) GCP
12 62 (5.04%) IaaS
13 53 (4.31%) Power Automate
14 51 (4.14%) Azure Sentinel
15 48 (3.90%) Azure Data Factory
16 47 (3.82%) PaaS
17 46 (3.74%) Azure Logic Apps
18 43 (3.49%) Azure Monitor
19 42 (3.41%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 227 (18.44%) DNS
1 227 (18.44%) Firewall
2 145 (11.78%) DHCP
3 135 (10.97%) VPN
4 99 (8.04%) TCP/IP
5 66 (5.36%) WAN
6 62 (5.04%) LAN
7 59 (4.79%) Broadband
7 59 (4.79%) Network Security
8 46 (3.74%) VLAN
9 41 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (3.25%) VoIP
11 34 (2.76%) SAN
12 25 (2.03%) Wireless
13 20 (1.62%) BGP
14 18 (1.46%) SD-WAN
15 16 (1.30%) MPLS
16 14 (1.14%) VSAN
17 13 (1.06%) Kerberos
18 12 (0.97%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (11.54%) SQL Server
2 86 (6.99%) Power BI
3 48 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 30 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
7 25 (2.03%) MySQL
8 23 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 20 (1.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 16 (1.30%) NoSQL
10 16 (1.30%) Relational Database
11 14 (1.14%) Tableau
12 11 (0.89%) InfluxDB
12 11 (0.89%) MongoDB
13 10 (0.81%) Data Lake
14 7 (0.57%) Metadata
15 5 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
16 4 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 3 (0.24%) Power Query
17 3 (0.24%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 94 (7.64%) Git
2 69 (5.61%) JIRA
3 67 (5.44%) Jenkins
4 49 (3.98%) GitLab
5 27 (2.19%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.30%) Octopus Deploy
7 13 (1.06%) Metasploit
7 13 (1.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 11 (0.89%) Robot Framework
8 11 (0.89%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.73%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.73%) TestRail
9 9 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
10 8 (0.65%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.32%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.32%) MLflow
11 4 (0.32%) Selenium
12 3 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.24%) SonarQube
General
1 407 (33.06%) Social Skills
2 240 (19.50%) Finance
3 169 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (6.26%) Organisational Skills
5 68 (5.52%) Law
6 49 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 45 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
8 44 (3.57%) Legal
8 44 (3.57%) Retail
9 41 (3.33%) Public Sector
10 29 (2.36%) Games
11 28 (2.27%) Manufacturing
12 26 (2.11%) Banking
13 17 (1.38%) Advertising
13 17 (1.38%) Aerospace
14 16 (1.30%) Front Office
14 16 (1.30%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.57%) Electronics
15 7 (0.57%) Military
16 6 (0.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 234 (19.01%) Senior
2 149 (12.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 137 (11.13%) Analyst
4 127 (10.32%) Azure Engineer
5 126 (10.24%) Support Engineer
6 103 (8.37%) IT Support
7 85 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
7 85 (6.90%) Security Engineer
8 84 (6.82%) IT Engineer
9 75 (6.09%) DevOps Engineer
10 68 (5.52%) Developer
11 61 (4.96%) Lead
12 56 (4.55%) IT Support Engineer
13 54 (4.39%) 2nd Line Support
14 48 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
15 47 (3.82%) Systems Engineer
16 44 (3.57%) Architect
17 41 (3.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 41 (3.33%) Support Analyst
18 40 (3.25%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (7.88%) OAuth
2 85 (6.90%) REST
2 85 (6.90%) SAML
3 84 (6.82%) OpenID
4 81 (6.58%) .NET
5 69 (5.61%) LDAP
6 63 (5.12%) GraphQL
7 62 (5.04%) SOAP
8 39 (3.17%) .NET Core
9 35 (2.84%) Microsoft Graph
10 34 (2.76%) JSON
11 32 (2.60%) ARM Templates
11 32 (2.60%) CSS
12 30 (2.44%) HTML
12 30 (2.44%) YAML
13 29 (2.36%) SPFx
14 20 (1.62%) React
15 19 (1.54%) HTML5 Canvas
16 18 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
17 16 (1.30%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 93 (7.55%) Onboarding
2 72 (5.85%) Cyber Threat
2 72 (5.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 63 (5.12%) Cyberattack
4 58 (4.71%) Management Information System
5 53 (4.31%) Security Posture
6 52 (4.22%) Cloud Native
7 43 (3.49%) Cyber Defence
7 43 (3.49%) Security Operations Centre
8 38 (3.09%) Driving Licence
8 38 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (2.92%) Data Centre
10 30 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
10 30 (2.44%) Public Cloud
11 26 (2.11%) PKI
12 25 (2.03%) CMDB
13 19 (1.54%) Private Cloud
14 18 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
15 17 (1.38%) Low-Code
16 16 (1.30%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 555 (45.09%) Windows
2 273 (22.18%) Windows Server
3 264 (21.45%) Linux
4 76 (6.17%) Windows 10
5 51 (4.14%) Mac OS
6 48 (3.90%) Apple iOS
7 46 (3.74%) Android
8 36 (2.92%) Windows Server 2016
9 29 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 27 (2.19%) VMS
11 26 (2.11%) CentOS
12 25 (2.03%) Windows Server 2019
13 19 (1.54%) Ubuntu
14 17 (1.38%) Unix
15 9 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
16 5 (0.41%) Debian
17 4 (0.32%) Kali Linux
18 3 (0.24%) CoreOS
18 3 (0.24%) Solaris
19 2 (0.16%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (26.24%) Problem-Solving
2 265 (21.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 261 (21.20%) Cybersecurity
4 260 (21.12%) CI/CD
5 258 (20.96%) DevOps
6 223 (18.12%) ITIL
7 213 (17.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 206 (16.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 187 (15.19%) Mentoring
10 162 (13.16%) Agile
11 156 (12.67%) Incident Response
12 137 (11.13%) Roadmaps
13 136 (11.05%) Root Cause Analysis
14 135 (10.97%) Disaster Recovery
15 124 (10.07%) SIEM
16 120 (9.75%) Containerisation
17 113 (9.18%) Cloud Security
18 104 (8.45%) Task Automation
19 101 (8.20%) Security Operations
20 96 (7.80%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 479 (38.91%) Python
2 313 (25.43%) Bash
3 273 (22.18%) SQL
4 94 (7.64%) C#
5 78 (6.34%) JavaScript
5 78 (6.34%) T-SQL
6 69 (5.61%) Bicep
7 33 (2.68%) Kusto Query Language
8 23 (1.87%) TypeScript
9 22 (1.79%) Java
10 11 (0.89%) C++
10 11 (0.89%) Go
10 11 (0.89%) VB.NET
11 10 (0.81%) VB
11 10 (0.81%) VBA
12 9 (0.73%) Perl
13 8 (0.65%) PHP
14 7 (0.57%) C
15 6 (0.49%) Delphi
15 6 (0.49%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 167 (13.57%) Degree
2 144 (11.70%) Security Cleared
3 107 (8.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 95 (7.72%) Azure Certification
5 82 (6.66%) SC Cleared
6 51 (4.14%) CISSP
6 51 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 47 (3.82%) DV Cleared
8 36 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (2.68%) CompTIA Security+
10 31 (2.52%) CREST Certified
11 25 (2.03%) OSCP
12 24 (1.95%) CCNA
13 23 (1.87%) GIAC
14 22 (1.79%) CEH
14 22 (1.79%) CompTIA CySA+
15 21 (1.71%) AWS Certification
16 18 (1.46%) DBS Check
17 14 (1.14%) CISA
18 13 (1.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (12.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 145 (11.78%) NIST
3 66 (5.36%) GDPR
4 56 (4.55%) NCSC
5 41 (3.33%) SLA
6 28 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 27 (2.19%) Accessibility
8 20 (1.62%) Data Quality
9 19 (1.54%) ISO 22301
10 16 (1.30%) QA
11 15 (1.22%) SOC 2
12 14 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
13 13 (1.06%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.49%) DICOM
16 5 (0.41%) GRC
17 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
19 2 (0.16%) COBIT
19 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 449 (36.47%) Active Directory
2 160 (13.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 131 (10.64%) Docker
4 104 (8.45%) Hyper-V
5 47 (3.82%) vSphere
6 32 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (1.95%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (1.54%) VMware NSX
9 18 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
10 16 (1.30%) BitLocker
11 15 (1.22%) Firmware
12 10 (0.81%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 5 (0.41%) Terminal Services
13 5 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.32%) iptables
14 4 (0.32%) KVM
14 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.32%) Squid
14 4 (0.32%) XenDesktop
15 2 (0.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 273 (22.18%) Terraform
2 194 (15.76%) Kubernetes
3 179 (14.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 149 (12.10%) Ansible
5 56 (4.55%) Grafana
6 47 (3.82%) Single Sign-On
7 45 (3.66%) SCCM
8 35 (2.84%) Prometheus
9 25 (2.03%) Jamf Pro
10 22 (1.79%) vCenter Server
11 21 (1.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 14 (1.14%) Nessus
12 14 (1.14%) VxRail
13 11 (0.89%) Packer
13 11 (0.89%) Puppet
14 10 (0.81%) QRadar
15 9 (0.73%) FortiGate
15 9 (0.73%) WSUS
16 8 (0.65%) logstash
16 8 (0.65%) Nagios
Vendors
1 682 (55.40%) Microsoft
2 213 (17.30%) VMware
3 104 (8.45%) Cisco
4 65 (5.28%) Splunk
5 57 (4.63%) ServiceNow
6 55 (4.47%) Red Hat
7 43 (3.49%) CrowdStrike
8 35 (2.84%) Veeam
9 33 (2.68%) Google
10 29 (2.36%) Commvault
10 29 (2.36%) Dell
11 28 (2.27%) Meraki
12 27 (2.19%) Citrix
12 27 (2.19%) Fortinet
12 27 (2.19%) Palo Alto
13 24 (1.95%) Apple
14 23 (1.87%) CyberArk
14 23 (1.87%) Oracle
15 20 (1.62%) SolarWinds
15 20 (1.62%) Tenable