PowerShell Job Trends

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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 98 93
Rank change year-on-year -28 -5 -4
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,238 1,373 2,471
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.68% 3.14% 2.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.21% 9.12% 8.29%
Number of salaries quoted 911 1,070 2,144
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,075
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,875 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -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 13,441 15,063 29,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.23% 34.50% 35.50%
Number of salaries quoted 9,485 10,257 24,142
10th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +5.56% -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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -32 1,069 £57,500 -7.26% 390
UK excluding London -42 697 £52,000 -5.45% 303
London -8 477 £70,000 -12.50% 140
Work from Home -15 395 £56,250 -4.86% 167
South East -46 193 £56,623 -5.63% 104
North of England -49 137 £47,500 -9.52% 58
Scotland +45 115 £74,500 +35.45% 18
South West +1 102 £55,000 +4.76% 49
Midlands -57 88 £52,500 +5.00% 42
Yorkshire -39 66 £47,500 -9.52% 18
North West -39 56 £51,000 +2.00% 27
East of England -29 54 £40,000 -27.27% 37
East Midlands -29 47 £55,000 +8.91% 20
West Midlands -57 40 £48,250 -3.50% 22
North East -20 15 £46,250 -22.92% 14
Wales -10 7 £55,000 +5.77% 4
Northern Ireland -29 2 - - 2

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
1 194 (15.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 141 (11.39%) SharePoint
3 37 (2.99%) IIS
4 22 (1.78%) Exchange Server 2003
5 13 (1.05%) Confluence
6 6 (0.48%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.24%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.16%) Apache
8 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.16%) CMS
8 2 (0.16%) WordPress
9 1 (0.081%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.081%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.081%) CICS
9 1 (0.081%) nginx
9 1 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.081%) Site Server
9 1 (0.081%) WebSphere
Applications
1 50 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.48%) Siemens NX
4 5 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.24%) CATIA
5 3 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.24%) Windchill
6 1 (0.081%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.65%) Markit EDM
2 7 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (0.48%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
5 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.24%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.16%) PlanetPress Connect
7 1 (0.081%) Actimize
7 1 (0.081%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.081%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.081%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 802 (64.78%) Azure
2 412 (33.28%) Microsoft 365
3 341 (27.54%) Entra ID
4 208 (16.80%) AWS
5 149 (12.04%) Azure DevOps
6 105 (8.48%) Power Platform
7 98 (7.92%) GitHub
8 80 (6.46%) GCP
9 78 (6.30%) PaaS
10 76 (6.14%) Google Workspace
11 74 (5.98%) GitHub Actions
12 71 (5.74%) SaaS
13 65 (5.25%) IaaS
14 62 (5.01%) Azure Monitor
15 53 (4.28%) OneDrive
16 43 (3.47%) Power Automate
17 38 (3.07%) Azure Sentinel
17 38 (3.07%) Snowflake
18 37 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
19 35 (2.83%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 226 (18.26%) DNS
2 224 (18.09%) Firewall
3 180 (14.54%) DHCP
4 137 (11.07%) VPN
5 110 (8.89%) TCP/IP
6 69 (5.57%) WAN
7 64 (5.17%) Broadband
8 63 (5.09%) LAN
9 52 (4.20%) VLAN
10 47 (3.80%) Network Security
11 45 (3.63%) Wi-Fi
12 36 (2.91%) VoIP
13 35 (2.83%) Wireless
14 34 (2.75%) SAN
15 31 (2.50%) SD-WAN
16 16 (1.29%) VSAN
17 15 (1.21%) MPLS
18 13 (1.05%) BGP
19 12 (0.97%) NAS
19 12 (0.97%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (11.79%) SQL Server
2 88 (7.11%) Power BI
3 30 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (2.26%) Oracle Database
4 28 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 26 (2.10%) MySQL
5 26 (2.10%) Oracle Database 10g
6 25 (2.02%) Relational Database
7 23 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
8 19 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (1.21%) NoSQL
9 15 (1.21%) Tableau
10 14 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (0.73%) InfluxDB
12 8 (0.65%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.48%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.40%) Metadata
15 4 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 90 (7.27%) JIRA
2 81 (6.54%) Jenkins
3 76 (6.14%) Git
4 40 (3.23%) GitLab
5 27 (2.18%) Octopus Deploy
6 26 (2.10%) Bitbucket
7 19 (1.53%) TeamCity
8 15 (1.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 14 (1.13%) Metasploit
10 10 (0.81%) Burp Suite
10 10 (0.81%) Robot Framework
11 9 (0.73%) CircleCI
12 7 (0.57%) TestRail
13 6 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (0.40%) SonarQube
15 4 (0.32%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.32%) MLflow
16 3 (0.24%) Balsamiq
16 3 (0.24%) Eclipse
16 3 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 441 (35.62%) Social Skills
2 290 (23.42%) Finance
3 145 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (6.30%) Organisational Skills
5 52 (4.20%) Law
6 41 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
7 39 (3.15%) Retail
8 36 (2.91%) Public Sector
9 34 (2.75%) Games
10 33 (2.67%) Banking
10 33 (2.67%) Legal
11 29 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 27 (2.18%) Telecoms
13 23 (1.86%) Manufacturing
14 16 (1.29%) Front Office
15 11 (0.89%) Advertising
16 9 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (0.65%) Aerospace
17 8 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
18 7 (0.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 193 (15.59%) Senior
2 146 (11.79%) Support Engineer
3 143 (11.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 113 (9.13%) Azure Engineer
5 111 (8.97%) Analyst
6 97 (7.84%) IT Support
7 82 (6.62%) Security Engineer
8 81 (6.54%) DevOps Engineer
9 74 (5.98%) IT Engineer
10 73 (5.90%) Developer
11 72 (5.82%) Cloud Engineer
12 62 (5.01%) Lead
13 61 (4.93%) 3rd Line Support
14 58 (4.68%) IT Support Engineer
15 46 (3.72%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 45 (3.63%) Platform Engineer
17 44 (3.55%) Architect
18 41 (3.31%) Support Analyst
19 40 (3.23%) 2nd Line Support
20 35 (2.83%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (7.75%) REST
2 92 (7.43%) OAuth
3 82 (6.62%) SAML
4 76 (6.14%) OpenID
5 71 (5.74%) GraphQL
6 69 (5.57%) SOAP
7 65 (5.25%) LDAP
8 64 (5.17%) .NET
9 37 (2.99%) YAML
10 28 (2.26%) JSON
11 24 (1.94%) ARM Templates
12 21 (1.70%) .NET Core
13 20 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (1.53%) Microsoft Graph
15 17 (1.37%) React
15 17 (1.37%) Web Services
16 15 (1.21%) Node.js
17 13 (1.05%) Swagger
18 12 (0.97%) Middleware
19 11 (0.89%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 91 (7.35%) Onboarding
2 76 (6.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 71 (5.74%) Cyber Threat
4 60 (4.85%) Cyberattack
5 59 (4.77%) Security Posture
6 43 (3.47%) Management Information System
7 42 (3.39%) Driving Licence
8 38 (3.07%) Cloud Native
8 38 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (2.91%) Cyber Defence
10 35 (2.83%) Data Centre
11 30 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
11 30 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
12 26 (2.10%) PKI
13 24 (1.94%) Product Ownership
13 24 (1.94%) Security Operations Centre
14 21 (1.70%) CMDB
15 17 (1.37%) Replication
16 16 (1.29%) Public Cloud
16 16 (1.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 553 (44.67%) Windows
2 291 (23.51%) Windows Server
3 239 (19.31%) Linux
4 66 (5.33%) Windows 10
5 57 (4.60%) Mac OS
6 42 (3.39%) Unix
7 34 (2.75%) Windows Server 2016
8 33 (2.67%) Windows Server 2019
9 32 (2.58%) Android
10 27 (2.18%) Apple iOS
10 27 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 26 (2.10%) VMS
12 25 (2.02%) CentOS
12 25 (2.02%) Solaris
13 24 (1.94%) Windows Server 2008
14 22 (1.78%) HPUX
14 22 (1.78%) Windows 7
14 22 (1.78%) Windows Server 2003
15 18 (1.45%) Ubuntu
16 13 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
2 299 (24.15%) DevOps
3 257 (20.76%) CI/CD
4 241 (19.47%) ITIL
5 238 (19.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 228 (18.42%) Cybersecurity
7 210 (16.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 209 (16.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 193 (15.59%) Mentoring
10 165 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
11 163 (13.17%) Agile
12 147 (11.87%) Roadmaps
13 138 (11.15%) Incident Response
14 122 (9.85%) Root Cause Analysis
15 105 (8.48%) Task Automation
16 103 (8.32%) Cloud Security
17 98 (7.92%) Computer Science
18 97 (7.84%) Identity Access Management
19 96 (7.75%) Business Intelligence
19 96 (7.75%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 435 (35.14%) Python
2 307 (24.80%) Bash
3 272 (21.97%) SQL
4 86 (6.95%) T-SQL
5 75 (6.06%) C#
6 74 (5.98%) JavaScript
7 67 (5.41%) Bicep
8 28 (2.26%) Kusto Query Language
9 25 (2.02%) Perl
10 20 (1.62%) Java
11 14 (1.13%) Go
12 11 (0.89%) VB.NET
13 8 (0.65%) PHP
14 7 (0.57%) C++
14 7 (0.57%) VB
15 6 (0.48%) Delphi
16 5 (0.40%) Google Apps Script
16 5 (0.40%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.40%) VBA
17 4 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 171 (13.81%) Degree
2 154 (12.44%) Security Cleared
3 111 (8.97%) Microsoft Certification
4 96 (7.75%) SC Cleared
5 90 (7.27%) Azure Certification
6 61 (4.93%) DV Cleared
7 51 (4.12%) CISSP
8 48 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 36 (2.91%) CREST Certified
10 31 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 27 (2.18%) AWS Certification
12 26 (2.10%) CEH
13 23 (1.86%) GIAC
14 21 (1.70%) CompTIA Security+
14 21 (1.70%) OSCP
15 20 (1.62%) CompTIA CySA+
15 20 (1.62%) SANS
16 19 (1.53%) CCNA
17 15 (1.21%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (13.97%) NIST
2 167 (13.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 73 (5.90%) NCSC
4 64 (5.17%) GDPR
5 63 (5.09%) SLA
6 43 (3.47%) Accessibility
7 32 (2.58%) Cyber Essentials
8 22 (1.78%) ISO 22301
9 19 (1.53%) QA
10 17 (1.37%) Data Quality
11 15 (1.21%) PCI DSS
12 13 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 10 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.57%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.40%) DICOM
15 5 (0.40%) GRC
16 3 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.16%) COBIT
17 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.16%) HL7
System Software
1 468 (37.80%) Active Directory
2 144 (11.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 118 (9.53%) Docker
4 115 (9.29%) Hyper-V
5 43 (3.47%) vSphere
6 41 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
7 26 (2.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (1.53%) Firmware
9 17 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
11 9 (0.73%) VMware NSX
12 8 (0.65%) vCloud
13 7 (0.57%) XenApp
14 6 (0.48%) BitLocker
15 5 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 5 (0.40%) XenDesktop
16 4 (0.32%) iptables
16 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 2 (0.16%) Samba
17 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 263 (21.24%) Terraform
2 179 (14.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 165 (13.33%) Kubernetes
4 139 (11.23%) Ansible
5 53 (4.28%) Grafana
6 40 (3.23%) SCCM
7 39 (3.15%) Single Sign-On
8 30 (2.42%) Prometheus
9 20 (1.62%) Puppet
10 18 (1.45%) Jamf Pro
11 17 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (1.21%) vCenter Server
13 11 (0.89%) Nessus
13 11 (0.89%) VxRail
14 10 (0.81%) SCOM
15 9 (0.73%) FortiGate
16 8 (0.65%) Nagios
16 8 (0.65%) Progress Chef
17 7 (0.57%) Control-M
18 6 (0.48%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 647 (52.26%) Microsoft
2 237 (19.14%) VMware
3 105 (8.48%) Cisco
4 59 (4.77%) Splunk
5 51 (4.12%) ServiceNow
6 49 (3.96%) Oracle
6 49 (3.96%) Veeam
7 44 (3.55%) Red Hat
8 39 (3.15%) Google
9 35 (2.83%) Atlassian
10 33 (2.67%) Commvault
11 31 (2.50%) Palo Alto
12 28 (2.26%) Citrix
13 27 (2.18%) CrowdStrike
14 26 (2.10%) CyberArk
15 25 (2.02%) Fortinet
16 24 (1.94%) Dell
16 24 (1.94%) Meraki
17 21 (1.70%) Apple
17 21 (1.70%) SolarWinds