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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 85 115
Rank change year-on-year -53 +30 -26
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,295 1,562 2,350
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.40% 3.56% 2.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.91% 11.33% 7.03%
Number of salaries quoted 956 979 1,899
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,750 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,100 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.03% +5.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,500 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 16,378 13,788 33,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.75% 31.39% 32.21%
Number of salaries quoted 11,443 9,168 25,305
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £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 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £98,750
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 June 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 June 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 1,190 £57,500 -4.17% 430
UK excluding London -71 751 £51,500 +3.00% 331
London -10 516 £70,000 -6.67% 140
Work from Home -38 423 £60,000 +7.14% 193
North of England -95 185 £47,500 -7.99% 62
South East -61 183 £55,000 -4.35% 132
Midlands -43 131 £50,000 - 36
North West -97 95 £50,101 +8.33% 40
South West -37 83 £55,000 +15.79% 49
East of England -29 82 £57,500 +21.05% 32
East Midlands -15 75 £47,500 +35.71% 15
Yorkshire -19 62 £45,000 -21.74% 14
Scotland +39 61 £50,000 +6.95% 17
West Midlands -82 55 £50,000 -4.31% 21
North East -28 28 £45,000 -23.40% 8
Wales -23 23 £54,085 +3.02% 4
Northern Ireland -35 3 £46,000 +6.75% 10

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
1 190 (14.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 175 (13.51%) SharePoint
3 40 (3.09%) IIS
4 22 (1.70%) Confluence
5 3 (0.23%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.15%) Apache
7 1 (0.077%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.077%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.077%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.077%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.077%) Site Server
Applications
1 74 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.077%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.077%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (0.39%) Markit EDM
1 5 (0.39%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.23%) Alphatax
2 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.15%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.077%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.077%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 845 (65.25%) Azure
2 477 (36.83%) Microsoft 365
3 351 (27.10%) Entra ID
4 216 (16.68%) AWS
5 135 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
6 114 (8.80%) Power Platform
7 96 (7.41%) GitHub
8 92 (7.10%) SaaS
9 86 (6.64%) IaaS
10 85 (6.56%) OneDrive
11 69 (5.33%) Google Workspace
12 66 (5.10%) GitHub Actions
13 65 (5.02%) Azure Monitor
14 58 (4.48%) GCP
15 57 (4.40%) Azure AKS
16 56 (4.32%) Azure Sentinel
16 56 (4.32%) PaaS
16 56 (4.32%) Power Automate
17 52 (4.02%) Azure Key Vault
18 44 (3.40%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 265 (20.46%) Firewall
2 261 (20.15%) DNS
3 163 (12.59%) DHCP
3 163 (12.59%) VPN
4 112 (8.65%) TCP/IP
5 83 (6.41%) WAN
6 77 (5.95%) LAN
7 68 (5.25%) Network Security
8 57 (4.40%) Broadband
9 53 (4.09%) VLAN
10 45 (3.47%) Wi-Fi
11 38 (2.93%) VoIP
12 34 (2.63%) SAN
13 23 (1.78%) BGP
13 23 (1.78%) Wireless
14 18 (1.39%) SD-WAN
15 16 (1.24%) Kerberos
15 16 (1.24%) VSAN
16 15 (1.16%) MPLS
17 14 (1.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (11.35%) SQL Server
2 83 (6.41%) Power BI
3 61 (4.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 39 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
5 30 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (2.01%) MySQL
7 23 (1.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 19 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 17 (1.31%) Relational Database
10 15 (1.16%) NoSQL
11 14 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
11 14 (1.08%) MongoDB
12 11 (0.85%) Tableau
13 9 (0.69%) Data Lake
13 9 (0.69%) InfluxDB
14 6 (0.46%) Metadata
15 5 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
15 5 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 4 (0.31%) Redis
17 3 (0.23%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 95 (7.34%) Git
2 68 (5.25%) JIRA
3 64 (4.94%) Jenkins
4 59 (4.56%) GitLab
5 32 (2.47%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
7 14 (1.08%) TeamCity
8 13 (1.00%) Metasploit
8 13 (1.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 10 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
10 9 (0.69%) Burp Suite
11 8 (0.62%) Robot Framework
12 7 (0.54%) TestRail
13 6 (0.46%) CircleCI
14 5 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (0.31%) Cypress.io
15 4 (0.31%) MLflow
15 4 (0.31%) Selenium
16 3 (0.23%) Artifactory
16 3 (0.23%) Terragrunt
General
1 397 (30.66%) Social Skills
2 223 (17.22%) Finance
3 175 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (6.49%) Law
5 78 (6.02%) Organisational Skills
6 55 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 46 (3.55%) Legal
8 45 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
9 44 (3.40%) Retail
10 39 (3.01%) Public Sector
11 28 (2.16%) Games
12 27 (2.08%) Manufacturing
13 26 (2.01%) Aerospace
13 26 (2.01%) Banking
14 19 (1.47%) Advertising
15 15 (1.16%) Telecoms
16 8 (0.62%) Aviation
17 7 (0.54%) Front Office
17 7 (0.54%) Investment Banking
18 6 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 237 (18.30%) Senior
2 161 (12.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 148 (11.43%) Support Engineer
4 145 (11.20%) Analyst
5 134 (10.35%) Azure Engineer
6 132 (10.19%) IT Support
7 118 (9.11%) IT Engineer
8 101 (7.80%) Cloud Engineer
9 94 (7.26%) DevOps Engineer
10 82 (6.33%) Security Engineer
11 80 (6.18%) IT Support Engineer
12 60 (4.63%) Developer
13 59 (4.56%) 2nd Line Support
14 57 (4.40%) Systems Engineer
15 56 (4.32%) Lead
15 56 (4.32%) Platform Engineer
16 45 (3.47%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 42 (3.24%) Architect
17 42 (3.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 41 (3.17%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (7.10%) OAuth
2 90 (6.95%) SAML
3 88 (6.80%) .NET
4 87 (6.72%) REST
5 83 (6.41%) OpenID
6 77 (5.95%) LDAP
7 61 (4.71%) SOAP
8 54 (4.17%) GraphQL
9 42 (3.24%) YAML
10 40 (3.09%) ARM Templates
10 40 (3.09%) JSON
11 37 (2.86%) .NET Core
11 37 (2.86%) Microsoft Graph
12 36 (2.78%) HTML
13 34 (2.63%) CSS
14 25 (1.93%) SPFx
15 19 (1.47%) HTML5 Canvas
16 18 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
16 18 (1.39%) React
17 14 (1.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 100 (7.72%) Onboarding
2 72 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
2 72 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 64 (4.94%) Cloud Native
4 62 (4.79%) Cyberattack
5 60 (4.63%) Management Information System
6 57 (4.40%) Security Posture
7 47 (3.63%) Driving Licence
8 43 (3.32%) Cyber Defence
9 42 (3.24%) Data Centre
9 42 (3.24%) Security Operations Centre
10 36 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
10 36 (2.78%) PKI
11 31 (2.39%) Public Cloud
12 29 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
13 25 (1.93%) CMDB
14 20 (1.54%) Private Cloud
14 20 (1.54%) Replication
15 19 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
16 18 (1.39%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 612 (47.26%) Windows
2 295 (22.78%) Windows Server
3 287 (22.16%) Linux
4 80 (6.18%) Windows 10
5 53 (4.09%) Mac OS
6 50 (3.86%) Apple iOS
7 47 (3.63%) Android
8 41 (3.17%) VMS
9 39 (3.01%) Windows Server 2016
10 31 (2.39%) CentOS
10 31 (2.39%) Windows Server 2019
11 29 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 25 (1.93%) Ubuntu
13 17 (1.31%) Unix
14 7 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.39%) Debian
16 4 (0.31%) AIX
16 4 (0.31%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.31%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (24.79%) Problem-Solving
2 288 (22.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 285 (22.01%) CI/CD
4 281 (21.70%) Cybersecurity
5 267 (20.62%) DevOps
6 229 (17.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 221 (17.07%) ITIL
8 212 (16.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 189 (14.59%) Mentoring
10 160 (12.36%) Agile
11 159 (12.28%) Incident Response
12 153 (11.81%) Root Cause Analysis
13 148 (11.43%) Disaster Recovery
14 139 (10.73%) Roadmaps
15 131 (10.12%) Containerisation
16 128 (9.88%) High Availability
16 128 (9.88%) SIEM
17 110 (8.49%) Cloud Security
18 108 (8.34%) Task Automation
19 107 (8.26%) AI
Programming Languages
1 504 (38.92%) Python
2 341 (26.33%) Bash
3 272 (21.00%) SQL
4 94 (7.26%) C#
5 80 (6.18%) T-SQL
6 78 (6.02%) Bicep
7 73 (5.64%) JavaScript
8 32 (2.47%) Kusto Query Language
9 29 (2.24%) Java
10 24 (1.85%) TypeScript
11 17 (1.31%) C++
12 14 (1.08%) Perl
13 13 (1.00%) VBScript
14 11 (0.85%) PHP
14 11 (0.85%) VB
14 11 (0.85%) VBA
15 9 (0.69%) Go
15 9 (0.69%) VB.NET
16 7 (0.54%) C
17 6 (0.46%) Korn
Qualifications
1 162 (12.51%) Security Cleared
2 160 (12.36%) Degree
3 127 (9.81%) Azure Certification
4 123 (9.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 103 (7.95%) SC Cleared
6 54 (4.17%) CISSP
7 52 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 49 (3.78%) Cisco Certification
9 45 (3.47%) DV Cleared
10 38 (2.93%) CompTIA Security+
11 33 (2.55%) CCNA
12 30 (2.32%) CREST Certified
13 29 (2.24%) OSCP
14 26 (2.01%) AWS Certification
14 26 (2.01%) DBS Check
15 24 (1.85%) CEH
15 24 (1.85%) GIAC
16 16 (1.24%) CCNP
16 16 (1.24%) CompTIA CySA+
17 13 (1.00%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (11.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 134 (10.35%) NIST
3 55 (4.25%) GDPR
4 53 (4.09%) NCSC
5 46 (3.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 41 (3.17%) SLA
7 19 (1.47%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.24%) Accessibility
8 16 (1.24%) ISO 22301
9 15 (1.16%) PCI DSS
10 14 (1.08%) SOC 2
11 13 (1.00%) QA
12 11 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.46%) DICOM
14 5 (0.39%) PMO
15 4 (0.31%) GRC
16 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
16 3 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 498 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 190 (14.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 138 (10.66%) Docker
4 129 (9.96%) Hyper-V
5 61 (4.71%) vSphere
6 37 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
7 26 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
8 24 (1.85%) BitLocker
8 24 (1.85%) VMware NSX
9 15 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
10 11 (0.85%) Firmware
11 10 (0.77%) KVM
12 8 (0.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.62%) Squid
13 6 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.31%) iptables
15 4 (0.31%) Terminal Services
16 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 2 (0.15%) Samba
Systems Management
1 295 (22.78%) Terraform
2 212 (16.37%) Kubernetes
3 202 (15.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 151 (11.66%) Ansible
5 61 (4.71%) Grafana
5 61 (4.71%) Single Sign-On
6 47 (3.63%) SCCM
7 44 (3.40%) Prometheus
8 27 (2.08%) Jamf Pro
9 24 (1.85%) vCenter Server
10 23 (1.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 19 (1.47%) ZABBIX
12 18 (1.39%) Packer
13 17 (1.31%) Nessus
14 16 (1.24%) QRadar
15 15 (1.16%) VxRail
16 13 (1.00%) Argo
16 13 (1.00%) Graylog
16 13 (1.00%) Proxmox
17 12 (0.93%) Nagios
Vendors
1 749 (57.84%) Microsoft
2 243 (18.76%) VMware
3 104 (8.03%) Cisco
4 81 (6.25%) Splunk
5 61 (4.71%) ServiceNow
6 58 (4.48%) Red Hat
7 48 (3.71%) Veeam
8 35 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
8 35 (2.70%) Meraki
8 35 (2.70%) Oracle
9 31 (2.39%) Apple
10 29 (2.24%) Dell
10 29 (2.24%) Google
11 27 (2.08%) Citrix
11 27 (2.08%) Fortinet
12 26 (2.01%) Commvault
13 24 (1.85%) Tenable
14 23 (1.78%) Palo Alto
14 23 (1.78%) Sophos
15 22 (1.70%) SolarWinds