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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 88 102
Rank change year-on-year -59 +14 -35
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,508 1,612 1,779
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.29% 3.29% 2.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.00% 12.45% 7.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,020 1,071 1,164
10th Percentile £33,750 £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 £73,250 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £99,542
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -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 18,845 12,949 23,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.15% 26.44% 30.77%
Number of salaries quoted 13,326 8,349 14,448
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £47,496
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £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 23 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 23 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 1,310 £59,000 +2.61% 1,056
UK excluding London -69 980 £52,500 +1.94% 725
Work from Home -37 525 £60,000 +2.56% 495
London -30 479 £70,000 -3.45% 405
North of England -84 241 £50,000 - 187
South East -40 238 £52,500 -8.70% 194
Midlands -66 160 £52,500 +5.00% 109
North West -77 147 £50,000 +5.26% 105
East of England -46 99 £57,500 +21.05% 67
South West -70 89 £55,000 +15.79% 75
West Midlands -68 81 £55,000 +2.44% 61
East Midlands -24 79 £42,500 +21.43% 48
Northern Ireland -26 70 £46,000 - 27
Yorkshire -40 58 £45,472 -11.92% 56
Scotland +5 46 £51,250 +3.10% 54
Wales -57 37 £38,500 -30.00% 24
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
1 252 (16.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 244 (16.18%) SharePoint
3 55 (3.65%) IIS
4 43 (2.85%) Confluence
5 15 (0.99%) nginx
6 8 (0.53%) 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 (0.066%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.066%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.066%) WebSphere
Applications
1 65 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.46%) 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 (2.39%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.40%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.33%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.066%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 896 (59.42%) Azure
2 567 (37.60%) Microsoft 365
3 472 (31.30%) Entra ID
4 264 (17.51%) AWS
5 187 (12.40%) SaaS
6 181 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
7 120 (7.96%) GitHub
7 120 (7.96%) Power Platform
8 116 (7.69%) OneDrive
9 108 (7.16%) IaaS
10 90 (5.97%) Azure Monitor
11 85 (5.64%) Azure Sentinel
12 82 (5.44%) PaaS
13 80 (5.31%) Power Automate
14 73 (4.84%) Azure AKS
14 73 (4.84%) GCP
15 70 (4.64%) GitHub Actions
16 69 (4.58%) Azure Key Vault
17 62 (4.11%) Microsoft Purview
18 55 (3.65%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 327 (21.68%) DNS
1 327 (21.68%) Firewall
2 225 (14.92%) DHCP
3 220 (14.59%) VPN
4 148 (9.81%) TCP/IP
5 100 (6.63%) WAN
6 86 (5.70%) LAN
7 75 (4.97%) VLAN
8 61 (4.05%) Network Security
9 57 (3.78%) Wireless
10 47 (3.12%) Wi-Fi
11 36 (2.39%) SAN
12 32 (2.12%) Kerberos
13 27 (1.79%) SSL
14 22 (1.46%) HTTP
14 22 (1.46%) NAS
15 17 (1.13%) Internet
16 16 (1.06%) VoIP
16 16 (1.06%) VSAN
17 12 (0.80%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (9.95%) SQL Server
2 87 (5.77%) Azure SQL Database
3 63 (4.18%) Power BI
4 27 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.46%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (1.13%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (0.86%) MySQL
8 13 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (0.73%) NoSQL
10 10 (0.66%) Data Lake
11 8 (0.53%) InfluxDB
11 8 (0.53%) Power Query
11 8 (0.53%) Redis
11 8 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.40%) Metadata
13 5 (0.33%) Db2
13 5 (0.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 105 (6.96%) JIRA
2 100 (6.63%) Git
3 79 (5.24%) GitLab
4 69 (4.58%) Jenkins
5 28 (1.86%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
8 10 (0.66%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
10 8 (0.53%) Robot Framework
10 8 (0.53%) TestRail
11 7 (0.46%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.40%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.40%) Postman
12 6 (0.40%) Selenium
13 5 (0.33%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.33%) Visual Studio
14 4 (0.27%) Burp Suite
14 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
14 4 (0.27%) MSI
General
1 575 (38.13%) Social Skills
2 252 (16.71%) Finance
3 198 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (7.69%) Legal
5 114 (7.56%) Law
6 74 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (3.98%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (3.25%) Retail
9 46 (3.05%) Banking
10 44 (2.92%) Public Sector
11 37 (2.45%) Manufacturing
11 37 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
12 36 (2.39%) Aerospace
13 14 (0.93%) Legal Technology
14 13 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.80%) Advertising
16 11 (0.73%) Financial Institution
17 10 (0.66%) Investment Banking
18 9 (0.60%) Aviation
18 9 (0.60%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 293 (19.43%) Senior
2 213 (14.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 171 (11.34%) Analyst
4 141 (9.35%) Azure Engineer
5 137 (9.08%) Support Engineer
6 132 (8.75%) Cloud Engineer
7 131 (8.69%) IT Engineer
8 113 (7.49%) DevOps Engineer
9 109 (7.23%) IT Support
10 86 (5.70%) Platform Engineer
11 77 (5.11%) Consultant
12 75 (4.97%) Lead
13 71 (4.71%) Support Analyst
14 66 (4.38%) IT Support Engineer
15 65 (4.31%) Systems Engineer
16 62 (4.11%) Security Engineer
17 58 (3.85%) Administrator
18 57 (3.78%) Testing Manager
19 55 (3.65%) Senior Manager
20 54 (3.58%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 385 (25.53%) Terraform
2 72 (4.77%) .NET
3 58 (3.85%) REST
4 56 (3.71%) ARM Templates
5 46 (3.05%) SAML
6 44 (2.92%) Microsoft Graph
7 43 (2.85%) LDAP
7 43 (2.85%) YAML
8 41 (2.72%) OAuth
8 41 (2.72%) OpenID
9 35 (2.32%) HTML
10 29 (1.92%) JSON
11 26 (1.72%) CSS
12 25 (1.66%) SPFx
13 23 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
14 21 (1.39%) .NET Core
15 16 (1.06%) SOAP
16 14 (0.93%) ASP.NET
16 14 (0.93%) HTML5 Canvas
16 14 (0.93%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 131 (8.69%) Onboarding
2 92 (6.10%) Cloud Native
3 80 (5.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 77 (5.11%) Driving Licence
5 76 (5.04%) Management Information System
6 73 (4.84%) Security Posture
7 61 (4.05%) Virtual Team
8 52 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
9 51 (3.38%) PKI
10 49 (3.25%) Data Centre
10 49 (3.25%) Replication
11 45 (2.98%) Public Cloud
12 43 (2.85%) Security Operations Centre
13 36 (2.39%) Clustering
14 33 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
15 26 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
15 26 (1.72%) Private Cloud
16 23 (1.53%) Cyber Defence
17 21 (1.39%) CMDB
18 19 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 713 (47.28%) Windows
2 354 (23.47%) Linux
3 342 (22.68%) Windows Server
4 95 (6.30%) Windows 10
5 53 (3.51%) Apple iOS
6 46 (3.05%) Ubuntu
7 41 (2.72%) Android
8 40 (2.65%) Mac OS
8 40 (2.65%) VMS
9 34 (2.25%) CentOS
9 34 (2.25%) Windows Server 2016
10 31 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 27 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
12 24 (1.59%) Unix
13 16 (1.06%) Rocky
14 8 (0.53%) Debian
14 8 (0.53%) Solaris
15 5 (0.33%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.33%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.27%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (28.32%) Problem-Solving
2 396 (26.26%) DevOps
3 382 (25.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 362 (24.01%) Infrastructure as Code
5 337 (22.35%) CI/CD
6 325 (21.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 280 (18.57%) ITIL
8 260 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
9 234 (15.52%) Mentoring
10 203 (13.46%) Disaster Recovery
11 177 (11.74%) AI
12 173 (11.47%) Agile
13 166 (11.01%) Root Cause Analysis
14 159 (10.54%) High Availability
15 157 (10.41%) Project Delivery
16 154 (10.21%) Platform Engineering
17 147 (9.75%) Cloud Security
18 142 (9.42%) Incident Response
19 137 (9.08%) Migration
20 133 (8.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 596 (39.52%) Python
2 316 (20.95%) Bash
3 309 (20.49%) SQL
4 141 (9.35%) JavaScript
5 133 (8.82%) C#
6 129 (8.55%) Bicep
7 84 (5.57%) TypeScript
8 50 (3.32%) Kusto Query Language
9 39 (2.59%) Java
10 37 (2.45%) T-SQL
11 23 (1.53%) VBScript
12 21 (1.39%) C++
13 19 (1.26%) Perl
14 13 (0.86%) PHP
14 13 (0.86%) Ruby
15 11 (0.73%) VBA
16 10 (0.66%) VB
17 9 (0.60%) Go
18 7 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 6 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 218 (14.46%) Security Cleared
2 174 (11.54%) Degree
3 162 (10.74%) Azure Certification
3 162 (10.74%) Microsoft Certification
4 146 (9.68%) SC Cleared
5 65 (4.31%) DV Cleared
6 62 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 58 (3.85%) CISSP
8 55 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
9 53 (3.51%) CompTIA Security+
10 43 (2.85%) CCNA
11 28 (1.86%) CEH
12 26 (1.72%) AWS Certification
13 22 (1.46%) CISM
13 22 (1.46%) DBS Check
14 21 (1.39%) OSCP
15 18 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 17 (1.13%) CREST Certified
16 17 (1.13%) GIAC
17 15 (0.99%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 82 (5.44%) QA
3 73 (4.84%) Cyber Essentials
4 61 (4.05%) NIST
5 49 (3.25%) GDPR
6 46 (3.05%) SLA
7 19 (1.26%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.26%) PCI DSS
8 15 (0.99%) SOC 2
9 9 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.53%) NCSC
11 7 (0.46%) PMO
12 5 (0.33%) 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
1 549 (36.41%) Active Directory
2 249 (16.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 158 (10.48%) Hyper-V
4 146 (9.68%) Docker
5 82 (5.44%) vSphere
6 76 (5.04%) Virtual Machines
7 59 (3.91%) Virtual Desktop
8 28 (1.86%) VMware NSX
9 22 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
10 18 (1.19%) BitLocker
11 11 (0.73%) Firmware
12 8 (0.53%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.53%) KVM
12 8 (0.53%) Squid
13 5 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.20%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.066%) Microsoft App-V
16 1 (0.066%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 266 (17.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 230 (15.25%) Kubernetes
3 178 (11.80%) Ansible
4 83 (5.50%) Grafana
5 77 (5.11%) SCCM
6 58 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
7 47 (3.12%) Prometheus
8 27 (1.79%) vCenter Server
9 25 (1.66%) ZABBIX
10 24 (1.59%) Argo
11 23 (1.53%) Puppet
12 20 (1.33%) Proxmox
12 20 (1.33%) QRadar
13 18 (1.19%) Packer
14 17 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
15 15 (0.99%) FortiGate
15 15 (0.99%) Graylog
16 13 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 11 (0.73%) VxRail
18 10 (0.66%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 947 (62.80%) Microsoft
2 284 (18.83%) VMware
3 109 (7.23%) Cisco
4 106 (7.03%) ServiceNow
5 91 (6.03%) Splunk
6 66 (4.38%) Veeam
7 52 (3.45%) Oracle
7 52 (3.45%) Red Hat
8 43 (2.85%) Citrix
9 39 (2.59%) Meraki
10 34 (2.25%) Sage
11 32 (2.12%) Dell
12 31 (2.06%) Dynatrace
13 29 (1.92%) CyberArk
13 29 (1.92%) SAP
13 29 (1.92%) Sophos
14 27 (1.79%) Tenable
15 26 (1.72%) Apple
15 26 (1.72%) Fortinet
16 25 (1.66%) Google