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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 89 113
Rank change year-on-year -54 +24 -38
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,474 1,645 1,863
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.35% 3.29% 2.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.96% 12.02% 7.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,041 1,100 1,356
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year - -0.86% -3.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,063 £80,000
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 18,524 13,683 25,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.00% 27.38% 30.19%
Number of salaries quoted 13,186 8,960 17,340
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,250 £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 £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
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 26 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 26 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 1,302 £59,000 +2.61% 354
UK excluding London -55 965 £52,500 +5.00% 258
Work from Home -25 506 £62,500 +8.70% 147
London -29 477 £70,000 -3.45% 118
South East -31 249 £52,500 -8.70% 72
North of England -85 225 £50,000 +5.26% 65
Midlands -36 158 £52,500 +5.00% 49
North West -79 129 £50,051 +8.81% 50
East of England -35 103 £57,500 +14.43% 32
South West -82 85 £55,000 +19.57% 41
East Midlands -6 83 £42,500 +21.43% 21
West Midlands -61 75 £55,000 - 28
Northern Ireland -22 70 £46,000 - 3
Yorkshire -40 60 £42,500 -16.26% 11
Scotland +15 44 £50,000 +25.00% 4
North East -34 36 £50,000 +5.26% 5
Wales -41 31 £53,000 -3.64% 5

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
1 240 (16.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 234 (15.88%) SharePoint
3 56 (3.80%) IIS
4 35 (2.37%) Confluence
5 13 (0.88%) nginx
6 7 (0.47%) Apache
7 6 (0.41%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
9 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.068%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.068%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (5.22%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 23 (1.56%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.41%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.20%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.20%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.068%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 897 (60.85%) Azure
2 543 (36.84%) Microsoft 365
3 420 (28.49%) Entra ID
4 260 (17.64%) AWS
5 178 (12.08%) SaaS
6 168 (11.40%) Azure DevOps
7 112 (7.60%) GitHub
8 111 (7.53%) OneDrive
9 109 (7.39%) Power Platform
10 106 (7.19%) IaaS
11 81 (5.50%) Azure Sentinel
12 80 (5.43%) Azure Monitor
13 74 (5.02%) Power Automate
14 73 (4.95%) PaaS
15 72 (4.88%) Azure AKS
16 70 (4.75%) GCP
17 67 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
18 63 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
19 53 (3.60%) Datadog
20 49 (3.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 322 (21.85%) Firewall
2 316 (21.44%) DNS
3 211 (14.31%) DHCP
4 205 (13.91%) VPN
5 141 (9.57%) TCP/IP
6 97 (6.58%) WAN
7 83 (5.63%) LAN
8 71 (4.82%) VLAN
9 69 (4.68%) Network Security
10 51 (3.46%) Wireless
11 43 (2.92%) Wi-Fi
12 37 (2.51%) SAN
13 30 (2.04%) Kerberos
14 23 (1.56%) VoIP
15 22 (1.49%) NAS
15 22 (1.49%) SSL
16 19 (1.29%) Internet
17 18 (1.22%) HTTP
18 17 (1.15%) BGP
18 17 (1.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (10.04%) SQL Server
2 83 (5.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 61 (4.14%) Power BI
4 27 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.49%) MongoDB
6 19 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.09%) Relational Database
8 15 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 13 (0.88%) MySQL
10 13 (0.88%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.54%) InfluxDB
13 7 (0.47%) Redis
14 6 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.41%) Power Query
15 5 (0.34%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.34%) Metadata
15 5 (0.34%) RDBMS
16 4 (0.27%) Db2
Development Applications
1 107 (7.26%) Git
2 99 (6.72%) JIRA
3 69 (4.68%) GitLab
4 61 (4.14%) Jenkins
5 30 (2.04%) Bitbucket
6 13 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
7 12 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 11 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
9 10 (0.68%) TeamCity
10 8 (0.54%) Robot Framework
10 8 (0.54%) TestRail
11 6 (0.41%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.41%) Selenium
11 6 (0.41%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.34%) Metasploit
12 5 (0.34%) Postman
13 3 (0.20%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.20%) Burp Suite
13 3 (0.20%) MSI
13 3 (0.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 541 (36.70%) Social Skills
2 241 (16.35%) Finance
3 190 (12.89%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (8.75%) Law
5 121 (8.21%) Legal
6 63 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 50 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
8 44 (2.99%) Retail
9 43 (2.92%) Public Sector
10 39 (2.65%) Banking
11 35 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
12 32 (2.17%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.83%) Aerospace
14 16 (1.09%) Advertising
15 15 (1.02%) Legal Technology
16 12 (0.81%) Financial Institution
17 11 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
18 10 (0.68%) Telecoms
19 9 (0.61%) Front Office
20 8 (0.54%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 290 (19.67%) Senior
2 197 (13.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 159 (10.79%) Analyst
4 141 (9.57%) Support Engineer
5 137 (9.29%) Azure Engineer
5 137 (9.29%) IT Engineer
6 132 (8.96%) Cloud Engineer
7 125 (8.48%) IT Support
8 105 (7.12%) DevOps Engineer
9 73 (4.95%) Platform Engineer
10 71 (4.82%) IT Support Engineer
11 70 (4.75%) Security Engineer
12 66 (4.48%) Lead
13 64 (4.34%) Systems Engineer
14 61 (4.14%) Developer
15 58 (3.93%) Consultant
15 58 (3.93%) Testing Manager
16 57 (3.87%) Administrator
16 57 (3.87%) Support Analyst
17 55 (3.73%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (24.56%) Terraform
2 84 (5.70%) .NET
3 52 (3.53%) ARM Templates
3 52 (3.53%) REST
4 47 (3.19%) YAML
5 45 (3.05%) SAML
6 42 (2.85%) HTML
6 42 (2.85%) Microsoft Graph
7 41 (2.78%) OAuth
8 39 (2.65%) LDAP
8 39 (2.65%) OpenID
9 32 (2.17%) CSS
9 32 (2.17%) JSON
10 31 (2.10%) .NET Core
11 26 (1.76%) SPFx
12 20 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
13 19 (1.29%) HTML5 Canvas
14 18 (1.22%) SOAP
15 15 (1.02%) ASP.NET
15 15 (1.02%) React
Miscellaneous
1 122 (8.28%) Onboarding
2 88 (5.97%) Cloud Native
3 71 (4.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 70 (4.75%) Management Information System
5 69 (4.68%) Security Posture
6 67 (4.55%) Driving Licence
7 60 (4.07%) Virtual Team
8 51 (3.46%) Data Centre
9 45 (3.05%) PKI
9 45 (3.05%) Public Cloud
10 43 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
10 43 (2.92%) Replication
10 43 (2.92%) Security Operations Centre
11 37 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
12 36 (2.44%) Clustering
13 29 (1.97%) Private Cloud
14 27 (1.83%) Cyber Defence
15 25 (1.70%) CMDB
16 24 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
17 19 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 700 (47.49%) Windows
2 344 (23.34%) Linux
3 331 (22.46%) Windows Server
4 81 (5.50%) Windows 10
5 55 (3.73%) Apple iOS
6 48 (3.26%) Mac OS
7 44 (2.99%) Android
8 39 (2.65%) Ubuntu
8 39 (2.65%) VMS
9 35 (2.37%) Windows Server 2016
10 31 (2.10%) CentOS
11 30 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 26 (1.76%) Windows Server 2019
13 17 (1.15%) Unix
14 10 (0.68%) Rocky
15 8 (0.54%) Debian
16 6 (0.41%) Solaris
17 5 (0.34%) CoreOS
17 5 (0.34%) Kali Linux
18 4 (0.27%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (26.66%) Problem-Solving
2 375 (25.44%) DevOps
3 358 (24.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 340 (23.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 331 (22.46%) CI/CD
6 301 (20.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 293 (19.88%) ITIL
8 245 (16.62%) Cybersecurity
9 221 (14.99%) Mentoring
10 191 (12.96%) Disaster Recovery
11 174 (11.80%) High Availability
12 172 (11.67%) Root Cause Analysis
13 163 (11.06%) Agile
14 160 (10.85%) Incident Response
15 152 (10.31%) AI
16 139 (9.43%) Project Delivery
17 138 (9.36%) Containerisation
18 133 (9.02%) SIEM
19 132 (8.96%) Platform Engineering
20 131 (8.89%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 581 (39.42%) Python
2 307 (20.83%) Bash
3 291 (19.74%) SQL
4 144 (9.77%) C#
5 143 (9.70%) JavaScript
6 113 (7.67%) Bicep
7 87 (5.90%) TypeScript
8 51 (3.46%) Kusto Query Language
9 40 (2.71%) Java
10 37 (2.51%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.42%) VBScript
12 19 (1.29%) C++
13 18 (1.22%) Perl
14 13 (0.88%) PHP
15 11 (0.75%) Ruby
16 10 (0.68%) VB
16 10 (0.68%) VBA
17 9 (0.61%) Go
18 7 (0.47%) C
19 6 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 197 (13.36%) Security Cleared
2 172 (11.67%) Degree
3 163 (11.06%) Azure Certification
4 150 (10.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 137 (9.29%) SC Cleared
6 66 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 62 (4.21%) Cisco Certification
8 56 (3.80%) DV Cleared
9 55 (3.73%) CompTIA Security+
10 52 (3.53%) CISSP
11 45 (3.05%) CCNA
12 28 (1.90%) CEH
13 24 (1.63%) DBS Check
13 24 (1.63%) OSCP
14 23 (1.56%) AWS Certification
15 21 (1.42%) GIAC
16 20 (1.36%) CCNP
17 19 (1.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 18 (1.22%) CISM
19 15 (1.02%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (7.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 80 (5.43%) QA
3 73 (4.95%) NIST
4 67 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 51 (3.46%) GDPR
6 46 (3.12%) SLA
7 19 (1.29%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 16 (1.09%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (0.47%) NCSC
10 7 (0.47%) PMO
11 6 (0.41%) ISO 22301
12 5 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.27%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.14%) EMIR
15 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 534 (36.23%) Active Directory
2 242 (16.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 166 (11.26%) Hyper-V
4 141 (9.57%) Docker
5 81 (5.50%) vSphere
6 62 (4.21%) Virtual Machines
7 51 (3.46%) Virtual Desktop
8 28 (1.90%) VMware NSX
9 23 (1.56%) BitLocker
10 18 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
11 9 (0.61%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.54%) Firmware
12 8 (0.54%) KVM
12 8 (0.54%) Squid
13 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.20%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
16 1 (0.068%) Samba
Systems Management
1 254 (17.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 234 (15.88%) Kubernetes
3 180 (12.21%) Ansible
4 81 (5.50%) Grafana
5 78 (5.29%) SCCM
6 51 (3.46%) Single Sign-On
7 44 (2.99%) Prometheus
8 26 (1.76%) vCenter Server
9 25 (1.70%) ZABBIX
10 23 (1.56%) Jamf Pro
11 21 (1.42%) Argo
11 21 (1.42%) QRadar
12 20 (1.36%) Packer
12 20 (1.36%) Proxmox
13 19 (1.29%) Puppet
14 15 (1.02%) Graylog
15 14 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 13 (0.88%) FortiGate
16 13 (0.88%) VxRail
17 10 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 908 (61.60%) Microsoft
2 277 (18.79%) VMware
3 124 (8.41%) Cisco
4 109 (7.39%) ServiceNow
5 93 (6.31%) Splunk
6 61 (4.14%) Veeam
7 55 (3.73%) Red Hat
8 49 (3.32%) Oracle
9 46 (3.12%) Meraki
10 41 (2.78%) Citrix
11 36 (2.44%) Dynatrace
12 34 (2.31%) Sophos
13 31 (2.10%) Dell
14 30 (2.04%) Tenable
15 29 (1.97%) CrowdStrike
16 27 (1.83%) Apple
16 27 (1.83%) CyberArk
17 24 (1.63%) Fortinet
18 22 (1.49%) Palo Alto
18 22 (1.49%) SolarWinds