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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 99 96
Rank change year-on-year -26 -3 -6
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,229 1,344 2,471
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.64% 3.14% 2.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.08% 9.23% 8.21%
Number of salaries quoted 909 1,071 2,147
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £35,000
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 £75,000 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,250 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.64% +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 13,540 14,554 30,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.10% 34.02% 35.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,499 10,215 24,198
10th Percentile £35,000 £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 £56,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% +3.70% -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 18 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 18 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 1,070 £57,500 -7.26% 346
UK excluding London -45 690 £50,250 -8.64% 279
London -12 480 £70,000 -12.50% 118
Work from Home -16 389 £57,500 -2.75% 155
South East -46 188 £56,623 -5.63% 96
North of England -49 138 £47,500 -9.52% 52
Scotland +45 107 £71,500 +24.35% 18
South West -7 97 £55,000 +5.77% 41
Midlands -49 93 £52,500 +5.00% 44
Yorkshire -28 67 £47,500 -9.52% 13
East of England -35 59 £40,000 -27.27% 36
North West -41 56 £51,000 +5.58% 27
East Midlands -22 50 £55,000 +15.79% 20
West Midlands -49 42 £48,250 -3.50% 24
North East -18 15 £45,750 -23.75% 13
Wales -17 7 £55,000 +5.77% 3
Northern Ireland -32 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
1 192 (15.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 140 (11.39%) SharePoint
3 37 (3.01%) IIS
4 22 (1.79%) Exchange Server 2003
5 13 (1.06%) Confluence
6 6 (0.49%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.16%) Apache
7 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.16%) CMS
7 2 (0.16%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.16%) WordPress
8 1 (0.081%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.081%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.081%) Site Server
Applications
1 50 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.49%) Siemens NX
4 3 (0.24%) CATIA
4 3 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
4 3 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.24%) Windchill
5 1 (0.081%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.65%) Markit EDM
2 7 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (0.49%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
5 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.16%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.081%) Actimize
7 1 (0.081%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.081%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.081%) PlanetPress Connect
7 1 (0.081%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 796 (64.77%) Azure
2 410 (33.36%) Microsoft 365
3 329 (26.77%) Entra ID
4 203 (16.52%) AWS
5 145 (11.80%) Azure DevOps
6 107 (8.71%) Power Platform
7 97 (7.89%) GitHub
8 77 (6.27%) Google Workspace
9 75 (6.10%) GCP
10 72 (5.86%) GitHub Actions
10 72 (5.86%) PaaS
11 71 (5.78%) SaaS
12 62 (5.04%) IaaS
13 58 (4.72%) OneDrive
14 54 (4.39%) Azure Monitor
15 45 (3.66%) Power Automate
16 38 (3.09%) Azure Logic Apps
17 37 (3.01%) Snowflake
18 35 (2.85%) Nutanix
19 34 (2.77%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 222 (18.06%) DNS
2 218 (17.74%) Firewall
3 178 (14.48%) DHCP
4 132 (10.74%) VPN
5 109 (8.87%) TCP/IP
6 67 (5.45%) WAN
7 64 (5.21%) Broadband
8 60 (4.88%) LAN
9 52 (4.23%) VLAN
10 50 (4.07%) Network Security
11 45 (3.66%) Wi-Fi
12 36 (2.93%) VoIP
13 33 (2.69%) Wireless
14 32 (2.60%) SAN
15 30 (2.44%) SD-WAN
16 16 (1.30%) VSAN
17 14 (1.14%) MPLS
18 13 (1.06%) BGP
19 12 (0.98%) Internet
19 12 (0.98%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (11.80%) SQL Server
2 91 (7.40%) Power BI
3 29 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (2.28%) Oracle Database
4 28 (2.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 27 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
6 26 (2.12%) Oracle Database 10g
7 25 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 24 (1.95%) MySQL
8 24 (1.95%) Relational Database
9 19 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (1.38%) NoSQL
11 15 (1.22%) Tableau
12 14 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (0.73%) InfluxDB
14 6 (0.49%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.49%) MongoDB
15 5 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
15 5 (0.41%) Metadata
16 4 (0.33%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 87 (7.08%) JIRA
2 77 (6.27%) Git
2 77 (6.27%) Jenkins
3 42 (3.42%) GitLab
4 26 (2.12%) Octopus Deploy
5 25 (2.03%) Bitbucket
6 18 (1.46%) TeamCity
7 15 (1.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 13 (1.06%) Metasploit
9 10 (0.81%) Robot Framework
10 9 (0.73%) Burp Suite
10 9 (0.73%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.57%) TestRail
12 5 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.33%) MLflow
13 4 (0.33%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
14 3 (0.24%) Balsamiq
14 3 (0.24%) Eclipse
14 3 (0.24%) JMeter
General
1 433 (35.23%) Social Skills
2 278 (22.62%) Finance
3 142 (11.55%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (6.43%) Organisational Skills
5 56 (4.56%) Law
6 40 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (3.09%) Retail
8 35 (2.85%) Public Sector
9 34 (2.77%) Games
10 33 (2.69%) Legal
11 32 (2.60%) Banking
12 30 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 27 (2.20%) Telecoms
14 22 (1.79%) Manufacturing
15 15 (1.22%) Front Office
16 12 (0.98%) Advertising
17 9 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
18 8 (0.65%) Aerospace
18 8 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
19 7 (0.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 195 (15.87%) Senior
2 141 (11.47%) Support Engineer
3 139 (11.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 114 (9.28%) Azure Engineer
5 111 (9.03%) Analyst
6 101 (8.22%) IT Support
7 80 (6.51%) DevOps Engineer
7 80 (6.51%) Security Engineer
8 76 (6.18%) Cloud Engineer
9 75 (6.10%) IT Engineer
10 74 (6.02%) Developer
11 62 (5.04%) 3rd Line Support
12 60 (4.88%) Lead
13 59 (4.80%) IT Support Engineer
14 50 (4.07%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 44 (3.58%) Architect
16 42 (3.42%) 2nd Line Support
16 42 (3.42%) Platform Engineer
17 38 (3.09%) Support Analyst
18 33 (2.69%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (7.65%) REST
2 93 (7.57%) OAuth
3 81 (6.59%) SAML
4 76 (6.18%) OpenID
5 71 (5.78%) GraphQL
6 67 (5.45%) SOAP
7 65 (5.29%) .NET
7 65 (5.29%) LDAP
8 38 (3.09%) YAML
9 30 (2.44%) JSON
10 24 (1.95%) .NET Core
10 24 (1.95%) ARM Templates
11 20 (1.63%) Microsoft Graph
12 19 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
13 18 (1.46%) React
14 16 (1.30%) Node.js
14 16 (1.30%) Web Services
15 13 (1.06%) Swagger
16 12 (0.98%) CSS
16 12 (0.98%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 86 (7.00%) Onboarding
2 72 (5.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 71 (5.78%) Cyber Threat
4 60 (4.88%) Cyberattack
5 58 (4.72%) Security Posture
6 42 (3.42%) Driving Licence
6 42 (3.42%) Management Information System
7 38 (3.09%) Cloud Native
7 38 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
8 37 (3.01%) Cyber Defence
9 33 (2.69%) Data Centre
10 30 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
10 30 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
11 27 (2.20%) PKI
12 24 (1.95%) Security Operations Centre
13 21 (1.71%) CMDB
14 18 (1.46%) Product Ownership
15 17 (1.38%) Replication
16 16 (1.30%) Public Cloud
16 16 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 550 (44.75%) Windows
2 289 (23.52%) Windows Server
3 240 (19.53%) Linux
4 67 (5.45%) Windows 10
5 57 (4.64%) Mac OS
6 42 (3.42%) Unix
7 35 (2.85%) Android
7 35 (2.85%) Windows Server 2016
8 34 (2.77%) Windows Server 2019
9 30 (2.44%) Apple iOS
10 26 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 25 (2.03%) Solaris
11 25 (2.03%) VMS
12 24 (1.95%) CentOS
13 23 (1.87%) Windows Server 2008
14 22 (1.79%) HPUX
14 22 (1.79%) Windows 7
14 22 (1.79%) Windows Server 2003
15 17 (1.38%) Ubuntu
16 12 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (29.70%) Problem-Solving
2 292 (23.76%) DevOps
3 254 (20.67%) CI/CD
4 239 (19.45%) ITIL
5 234 (19.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 230 (18.71%) Cybersecurity
7 212 (17.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 204 (16.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 190 (15.46%) Mentoring
10 163 (13.26%) Disaster Recovery
11 160 (13.02%) Agile
12 141 (11.47%) Incident Response
13 140 (11.39%) Roadmaps
14 121 (9.85%) Root Cause Analysis
15 106 (8.62%) Task Automation
16 104 (8.46%) Cloud Security
17 99 (8.06%) Identity Access Management
18 98 (7.97%) Business Intelligence
18 98 (7.97%) Computer Science
19 97 (7.89%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 428 (34.83%) Python
2 304 (24.74%) Bash
3 270 (21.97%) SQL
4 86 (7.00%) T-SQL
5 74 (6.02%) C#
5 74 (6.02%) JavaScript
6 63 (5.13%) Bicep
7 29 (2.36%) Kusto Query Language
8 26 (2.12%) Perl
9 18 (1.46%) Java
10 13 (1.06%) Go
11 10 (0.81%) VB.NET
12 7 (0.57%) PHP
12 7 (0.57%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.57%) VB
13 6 (0.49%) Delphi
14 5 (0.41%) C++
14 5 (0.41%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.33%) C
15 4 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 171 (13.91%) Degree
2 145 (11.80%) Security Cleared
3 106 (8.62%) Microsoft Certification
4 89 (7.24%) SC Cleared
5 88 (7.16%) Azure Certification
6 60 (4.88%) DV Cleared
7 50 (4.07%) CISSP
8 48 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 34 (2.77%) Cisco Certification
10 33 (2.69%) CREST Certified
11 32 (2.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 27 (2.20%) AWS Certification
13 26 (2.12%) CEH
14 23 (1.87%) GIAC
15 22 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
16 21 (1.71%) CCNA
17 20 (1.63%) CompTIA CySA+
17 20 (1.63%) OSCP
18 18 (1.46%) SANS
19 16 (1.30%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (14.08%) NIST
2 168 (13.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 73 (5.94%) NCSC
4 64 (5.21%) GDPR
4 64 (5.21%) SLA
5 40 (3.25%) Accessibility
6 30 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (1.79%) ISO 22301
8 19 (1.55%) QA
9 17 (1.38%) Data Quality
10 15 (1.22%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.65%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.41%) DICOM
14 5 (0.41%) GRC
15 3 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.16%) COBIT
16 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.16%) HL7
System Software
1 457 (37.18%) Active Directory
2 138 (11.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 117 (9.52%) Docker
4 112 (9.11%) Hyper-V
5 42 (3.42%) vSphere
6 35 (2.85%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (1.87%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (1.55%) Firmware
9 16 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
11 9 (0.73%) BitLocker
11 9 (0.73%) VMware NSX
12 8 (0.65%) vCloud
13 7 (0.57%) XenApp
14 5 (0.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 5 (0.41%) XenDesktop
15 4 (0.33%) iptables
15 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.16%) Samba
16 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 254 (20.67%) Terraform
2 176 (14.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 165 (13.43%) Kubernetes
4 135 (10.98%) Ansible
5 52 (4.23%) Grafana
6 42 (3.42%) SCCM
7 39 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
8 30 (2.44%) Prometheus
9 20 (1.63%) Jamf Pro
10 19 (1.55%) Puppet
11 17 (1.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (1.22%) vCenter Server
13 11 (0.90%) Nessus
13 11 (0.90%) VxRail
14 8 (0.65%) FortiGate
14 8 (0.65%) Progress Chef
15 7 (0.57%) Nagios
16 6 (0.49%) logstash
16 6 (0.49%) SCVMM
16 6 (0.49%) WSUS
Vendors
1 644 (52.40%) Microsoft
2 232 (18.88%) VMware
3 109 (8.87%) Cisco
4 58 (4.72%) Splunk
5 49 (3.99%) Oracle
5 49 (3.99%) ServiceNow
6 48 (3.91%) Veeam
7 43 (3.50%) Red Hat
8 38 (3.09%) Google
9 34 (2.77%) Atlassian
10 33 (2.69%) Commvault
11 32 (2.60%) Palo Alto
12 30 (2.44%) CrowdStrike
13 26 (2.12%) Citrix
13 26 (2.12%) CyberArk
13 26 (2.12%) Meraki
14 25 (2.03%) Fortinet
15 24 (1.95%) Dell
16 22 (1.79%) Apple
17 21 (1.71%) Dynatrace