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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 87 114
Rank change year-on-year -56 +27 -37
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,450 1,681 1,887
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.37% 3.38% 2.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.81% 11.98% 7.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,035 1,115 1,438
10th Percentile £31,550 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £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 18,574 14,028 25,469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.50% 28.18% 30.49%
Number of salaries quoted 13,152 9,204 17,821
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -62 1,291 £59,000 +2.61% 549
UK excluding London -62 936 £52,500 +5.00% 358
Work from Home -44 498 £61,500 +6.49% 236
London -27 479 £70,000 -6.35% 246
South East -42 244 £53,000 -7.83% 123
North of England -87 219 £50,000 +5.26% 91
Midlands -38 158 £52,500 +5.00% 43
North West -81 122 £52,500 +14.13% 62
East of England -49 96 £57,500 +9.52% 41
South West -82 85 £55,000 +15.79% 48
East Midlands -7 82 £42,500 +21.43% 18
West Midlands -67 76 £55,000 - 25
Northern Ireland -16 63 £46,000 +2.12% 5
Yorkshire -41 61 £42,500 -17.68% 21
Scotland +26 41 £51,250 +28.13% 15
North East -31 36 £50,000 -16.67% 10
Wales -39 30 £53,000 -3.64% 8

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
1 239 (16.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 223 (15.38%) SharePoint
3 55 (3.79%) IIS
4 32 (2.21%) Confluence
5 11 (0.76%) nginx
6 6 (0.41%) Apache
6 6 (0.41%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.28%) SAS
8 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.069%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.069%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (5.31%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (0.76%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.41%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.21%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.21%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.14%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.069%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 898 (61.93%) Azure
2 532 (36.69%) Microsoft 365
3 400 (27.59%) Entra ID
4 258 (17.79%) AWS
5 169 (11.66%) SaaS
6 164 (11.31%) Azure DevOps
7 111 (7.66%) GitHub
7 111 (7.66%) Power Platform
8 109 (7.52%) IaaS
9 104 (7.17%) OneDrive
10 80 (5.52%) Azure Monitor
11 77 (5.31%) PaaS
12 76 (5.24%) Azure Sentinel
13 69 (4.76%) Azure AKS
13 69 (4.76%) Power Automate
14 66 (4.55%) GCP
15 64 (4.41%) Azure Key Vault
15 64 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
16 49 (3.38%) Datadog
17 48 (3.31%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 319 (22.00%) Firewall
2 308 (21.24%) DNS
3 206 (14.21%) DHCP
4 200 (13.79%) VPN
5 139 (9.59%) TCP/IP
6 97 (6.69%) WAN
7 86 (5.93%) LAN
8 72 (4.97%) Network Security
9 69 (4.76%) VLAN
10 46 (3.17%) Wi-Fi
11 44 (3.03%) Wireless
12 40 (2.76%) SAN
13 35 (2.41%) Kerberos
14 27 (1.86%) VoIP
15 23 (1.59%) SSL
16 21 (1.45%) NAS
17 18 (1.24%) HTTP
18 17 (1.17%) BGP
18 17 (1.17%) Internet
18 17 (1.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (10.97%) SQL Server
2 81 (5.59%) Azure SQL Database
3 67 (4.62%) Power BI
4 32 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.59%) MongoDB
6 21 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (1.17%) Relational Database
7 17 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (1.10%) MySQL
9 13 (0.90%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (0.55%) InfluxDB
12 7 (0.48%) Redis
13 6 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.41%) Power Query
14 5 (0.34%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.34%) Metadata
14 5 (0.34%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.28%) Db2
Development Applications
1 110 (7.59%) Git
2 90 (6.21%) JIRA
3 66 (4.55%) GitLab
4 60 (4.14%) Jenkins
5 31 (2.14%) Bitbucket
6 13 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.76%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
8 7 (0.48%) Metasploit
8 7 (0.48%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.48%) TestRail
9 6 (0.41%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.41%) Selenium
9 6 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 5 (0.34%) Postman
11 4 (0.28%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.21%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.21%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.21%) MSI
General
1 503 (34.69%) Social Skills
2 231 (15.93%) Finance
3 185 (12.76%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (8.83%) Law
5 113 (7.79%) Legal
6 66 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 48 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
8 47 (3.24%) Retail
9 42 (2.90%) Public Sector
10 36 (2.48%) Banking
11 34 (2.34%) Manufacturing
12 33 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
13 25 (1.72%) Aerospace
14 17 (1.17%) Advertising
15 12 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.83%) Telecoms
16 11 (0.76%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.76%) Legal Technology
17 8 (0.55%) Front Office
17 8 (0.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 282 (19.45%) Senior
2 192 (13.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 152 (10.48%) Analyst
4 143 (9.86%) Support Engineer
5 136 (9.38%) IT Engineer
6 132 (9.10%) Azure Engineer
7 131 (9.03%) IT Support
8 129 (8.90%) Cloud Engineer
9 105 (7.24%) DevOps Engineer
10 76 (5.24%) IT Support Engineer
11 75 (5.17%) Security Engineer
12 69 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
13 68 (4.69%) Lead
14 62 (4.28%) Developer
15 61 (4.21%) Systems Engineer
16 56 (3.86%) 2nd Line Support
17 55 (3.79%) Testing Manager
18 53 (3.66%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
19 52 (3.59%) Senior Manager
20 51 (3.52%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (6.00%) .NET
2 53 (3.66%) ARM Templates
2 53 (3.66%) REST
3 52 (3.59%) SAML
4 48 (3.31%) OAuth
5 47 (3.24%) YAML
6 43 (2.97%) OpenID
7 42 (2.90%) HTML
7 42 (2.90%) LDAP
7 42 (2.90%) Microsoft Graph
8 34 (2.34%) .NET Core
9 33 (2.28%) JSON
10 32 (2.21%) CSS
11 25 (1.72%) SPFx
12 21 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
13 19 (1.31%) HTML5 Canvas
14 16 (1.10%) RESTful
14 16 (1.10%) SOAP
15 15 (1.03%) ASP.NET
15 15 (1.03%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 115 (7.93%) Onboarding
2 88 (6.07%) Cloud Native
3 74 (5.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 72 (4.97%) Management Information System
5 70 (4.83%) Security Posture
6 61 (4.21%) Driving Licence
7 57 (3.93%) Virtual Team
8 52 (3.59%) Data Centre
9 46 (3.17%) Public Cloud
10 42 (2.90%) Security Operations Centre
11 41 (2.83%) PKI
12 40 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
13 37 (2.55%) Replication
13 37 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
14 33 (2.28%) Clustering
15 28 (1.93%) Cyber Defence
16 26 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
16 26 (1.79%) Private Cloud
17 24 (1.66%) CMDB
18 21 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 687 (47.38%) Windows
2 341 (23.52%) Linux
3 328 (22.62%) Windows Server
4 80 (5.52%) Windows 10
5 54 (3.72%) Apple iOS
6 49 (3.38%) Mac OS
7 44 (3.03%) VMS
8 43 (2.97%) Android
9 37 (2.55%) Windows Server 2016
10 36 (2.48%) CentOS
10 36 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 35 (2.41%) Ubuntu
12 25 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
13 18 (1.24%) Unix
14 7 (0.48%) Kali Linux
15 6 (0.41%) Debian
15 6 (0.41%) Rocky
15 6 (0.41%) Solaris
16 5 (0.34%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.28%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (25.31%) DevOps
2 364 (25.10%) Problem-Solving
3 330 (22.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 329 (22.69%) CI/CD
4 329 (22.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 286 (19.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 277 (19.10%) ITIL
7 244 (16.83%) Cybersecurity
8 211 (14.55%) Mentoring
9 186 (12.83%) Disaster Recovery
10 169 (11.66%) Root Cause Analysis
11 167 (11.52%) High Availability
11 167 (11.52%) Incident Response
12 162 (11.17%) Agile
13 141 (9.72%) AI
14 138 (9.52%) Containerisation
15 134 (9.24%) SIEM
16 130 (8.97%) Observability
16 130 (8.97%) Platform Engineering
17 127 (8.76%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 580 (40.00%) Python
2 311 (21.45%) Bash
3 279 (19.24%) SQL
4 147 (10.14%) C#
5 133 (9.17%) JavaScript
6 109 (7.52%) Bicep
7 82 (5.66%) TypeScript
8 51 (3.52%) Kusto Query Language
9 40 (2.76%) Java
10 37 (2.55%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.45%) VBScript
12 18 (1.24%) C++
13 17 (1.17%) Perl
14 14 (0.97%) PHP
15 11 (0.76%) Ruby
16 10 (0.69%) VBA
17 9 (0.62%) Go
17 9 (0.62%) VB
18 8 (0.55%) C
19 6 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 195 (13.45%) Security Cleared
2 177 (12.21%) Degree
3 162 (11.17%) Azure Certification
4 145 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 138 (9.52%) SC Cleared
6 64 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 62 (4.28%) Cisco Certification
8 58 (4.00%) CISSP
9 54 (3.72%) CompTIA Security+
10 51 (3.52%) DV Cleared
11 45 (3.10%) CCNA
12 27 (1.86%) CEH
13 24 (1.66%) AWS Certification
13 24 (1.66%) DBS Check
14 23 (1.59%) OSCP
15 22 (1.52%) GIAC
16 21 (1.45%) CCNP
17 18 (1.24%) CISM
18 17 (1.17%) CREST Certified
19 16 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (8.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 78 (5.38%) QA
3 76 (5.24%) NIST
4 66 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 58 (4.00%) GDPR
6 45 (3.10%) SLA
7 19 (1.31%) Data Quality
8 18 (1.24%) PCI DSS
9 17 (1.17%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.62%) ISO 22301
11 8 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.48%) PMO
13 6 (0.41%) NCSC
14 5 (0.34%) Accessibility
14 5 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.21%) ISAE 3402
16 2 (0.14%) DICOM
16 2 (0.14%) EMIR
16 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
System Software
1 520 (35.86%) Active Directory
2 238 (16.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 160 (11.03%) Hyper-V
4 144 (9.93%) Docker
5 81 (5.59%) vSphere
6 58 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
7 47 (3.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (1.86%) VMware NSX
9 23 (1.59%) BitLocker
10 18 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
11 11 (0.76%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 9 (0.62%) KVM
13 8 (0.55%) Squid
14 6 (0.41%) Firmware
15 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
16 4 (0.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 3 (0.21%) Terminal Services
18 2 (0.14%) iptables
18 2 (0.14%) Samba
Systems Management
1 355 (24.48%) Terraform
2 246 (16.97%) Microsoft Intune
3 241 (16.62%) Kubernetes
4 179 (12.34%) Ansible
5 81 (5.59%) Grafana
6 72 (4.97%) SCCM
7 54 (3.72%) Single Sign-On
8 49 (3.38%) Prometheus
9 25 (1.72%) Jamf Pro
9 25 (1.72%) vCenter Server
9 25 (1.72%) ZABBIX
10 21 (1.45%) Argo
11 20 (1.38%) Packer
11 20 (1.38%) Proxmox
11 20 (1.38%) QRadar
12 16 (1.10%) Puppet
13 14 (0.97%) Graylog
14 13 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 13 (0.90%) VxRail
15 12 (0.83%) Nagios
Vendors
1 885 (61.03%) Microsoft
2 280 (19.31%) VMware
3 128 (8.83%) Cisco
4 109 (7.52%) ServiceNow
5 94 (6.48%) Splunk
6 65 (4.48%) Red Hat
7 59 (4.07%) Veeam
8 49 (3.38%) Meraki
8 49 (3.38%) Oracle
9 37 (2.55%) Citrix
10 34 (2.34%) Dynatrace
11 32 (2.21%) Sophos
12 31 (2.14%) Dell
13 30 (2.07%) Apple
13 30 (2.07%) Tenable
14 28 (1.93%) CrowdStrike
15 25 (1.72%) Fortinet
16 24 (1.66%) CyberArk
17 22 (1.52%) Okta
18 21 (1.45%) Palo Alto