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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 84 114
Rank change year-on-year -54 +30 -33
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,408 1,678 2,189
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.41% 3.40% 2.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.94% 11.63% 7.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,034 1,104 1,743
10th Percentile £32,000 £35,000 £35,050
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £75,956
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -2.91%

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 17,726 14,432 30,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.75% 29.26% 31.46%
Number of salaries quoted 12,703 9,594 22,361
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,280 £35,475
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -58 1,280 £57,500 - 291
UK excluding London -57 892 £52,500 +5.00% 228
Work from Home -36 496 £60,000 +7.14% 145
London -24 483 £70,000 -5.41% 94
South East -23 250 £53,000 -7.83% 89
North of England -85 209 £48,445 +0.29% 48
Midlands -45 145 £50,000 -1.43% 34
North West -88 109 £50,101 +8.92% 29
East of England -32 95 £55,000 +8.91% 25
South West -64 83 £55,000 +15.79% 29
East Midlands -8 75 £42,500 +13.33% 15
West Midlands -63 69 £52,500 -4.55% 19
Yorkshire -28 60 £47,500 -5.71% 11
Scotland +31 43 £52,500 +31.25% 11
North East -17 40 £48,445 -19.26% 9
Northern Ireland -27 38 £46,000 +6.75% 1
Wales -33 29 £53,000 -3.64% 4

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
1 224 (15.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 201 (14.28%) SharePoint
3 50 (3.55%) IIS
4 27 (1.92%) Confluence
5 6 (0.43%) nginx
6 4 (0.28%) SAS
7 3 (0.21%) Apache
7 3 (0.21%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.21%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.071%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.071%) Site Server
8 1 (0.071%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.071%) WebSphere
Applications
1 79 (5.61%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (0.78%) NetSuite
2 10 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.43%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.21%) Alphatax
5 3 (0.21%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.14%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.071%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 893 (63.42%) Azure
2 509 (36.15%) Microsoft 365
3 382 (27.13%) Entra ID
4 245 (17.40%) AWS
5 152 (10.80%) Azure DevOps
6 134 (9.52%) SaaS
7 120 (8.52%) Power Platform
8 112 (7.95%) GitHub
9 105 (7.46%) IaaS
10 92 (6.53%) OneDrive
11 84 (5.97%) Azure Monitor
12 79 (5.61%) PaaS
13 72 (5.11%) GitHub Actions
14 67 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
15 65 (4.62%) Azure AKS
15 65 (4.62%) Power Automate
16 60 (4.26%) GCP
17 59 (4.19%) Azure Key Vault
18 51 (3.62%) Azure Logic Apps
19 49 (3.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 315 (22.37%) Firewall
2 293 (20.81%) DNS
3 207 (14.70%) VPN
4 198 (14.06%) DHCP
5 124 (8.81%) TCP/IP
6 93 (6.61%) WAN
7 85 (6.04%) LAN
8 75 (5.33%) Network Security
9 72 (5.11%) VLAN
10 50 (3.55%) Wi-Fi
11 41 (2.91%) Wireless
12 37 (2.63%) VoIP
13 35 (2.49%) SAN
14 32 (2.27%) Kerberos
15 31 (2.20%) Broadband
16 22 (1.56%) BGP
17 17 (1.21%) NAS
17 17 (1.21%) SSL
18 16 (1.14%) Internet
18 16 (1.14%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (11.15%) SQL Server
2 82 (5.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 80 (5.68%) Power BI
4 42 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 23 (1.63%) MySQL
7 21 (1.49%) MongoDB
8 16 (1.14%) Relational Database
9 15 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (0.99%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.64%) InfluxDB
12 8 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.43%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.43%) Tableau
14 5 (0.36%) Metadata
14 5 (0.36%) Redis
15 4 (0.28%) Big Data
15 4 (0.28%) Power Query
15 4 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 103 (7.32%) Git
2 82 (5.82%) JIRA
3 69 (4.90%) GitLab
4 65 (4.62%) Jenkins
5 30 (2.13%) Bitbucket
6 14 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 11 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (0.71%) Metasploit
8 10 (0.71%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (0.50%) Robot Framework
10 7 (0.50%) TestRail
11 6 (0.43%) Burp Suite
11 6 (0.43%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.43%) Selenium
12 5 (0.36%) Postman
13 4 (0.28%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.28%) SonarQube
14 3 (0.21%) Artifactory
General
1 465 (33.03%) Social Skills
2 212 (15.06%) Finance
3 173 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (8.95%) Law
5 85 (6.04%) Legal
6 57 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 57 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
7 52 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
8 40 (2.84%) Public Sector
8 40 (2.84%) Retail
9 27 (1.92%) Manufacturing
10 26 (1.85%) Banking
11 21 (1.49%) Aerospace
12 17 (1.21%) Advertising
13 16 (1.14%) Telecoms
14 12 (0.85%) Games
15 10 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (0.64%) Financial Institution
17 7 (0.50%) Front Office
17 7 (0.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 272 (19.32%) Senior
2 179 (12.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 161 (11.43%) Analyst
4 155 (11.01%) Support Engineer
5 144 (10.23%) IT Engineer
6 143 (10.16%) IT Support
7 134 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
8 120 (8.52%) Cloud Engineer
9 101 (7.17%) DevOps Engineer
10 86 (6.11%) IT Support Engineer
11 84 (5.97%) Security Engineer
12 71 (5.04%) Platform Engineer
13 65 (4.62%) 2nd Line Support
14 63 (4.47%) Developer
15 62 (4.40%) Systems Engineer
16 61 (4.33%) Lead
17 52 (3.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 48 (3.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
18 48 (3.41%) Support Analyst
19 42 (2.98%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (6.25%) .NET
2 71 (5.04%) SAML
3 69 (4.90%) OAuth
4 65 (4.62%) REST
5 62 (4.40%) OpenID
6 58 (4.12%) LDAP
7 56 (3.98%) ARM Templates
8 45 (3.20%) YAML
9 43 (3.05%) HTML
9 43 (3.05%) JSON
10 39 (2.77%) Microsoft Graph
11 36 (2.56%) .NET Core
11 36 (2.56%) SOAP
12 32 (2.27%) CSS
13 26 (1.85%) GraphQL
14 24 (1.70%) SPFx
15 21 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
16 19 (1.35%) HTML5 Canvas
17 18 (1.28%) XML
18 17 (1.21%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 112 (7.95%) Onboarding
2 85 (6.04%) Cloud Native
3 77 (5.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 70 (4.97%) Security Posture
5 63 (4.47%) Driving Licence
6 61 (4.33%) Management Information System
7 54 (3.84%) Data Centre
8 46 (3.27%) Cyber Threat
9 45 (3.20%) Security Operations Centre
10 44 (3.13%) PKI
10 44 (3.13%) Public Cloud
11 43 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
12 42 (2.98%) Virtual Team
13 36 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
14 34 (2.41%) Cyber Defence
15 33 (2.34%) Cyberattack
16 24 (1.70%) Private Cloud
17 23 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
18 22 (1.56%) Replication
19 21 (1.49%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 656 (46.59%) Windows
2 317 (22.51%) Windows Server
3 315 (22.37%) Linux
4 79 (5.61%) Windows 10
5 55 (3.91%) Apple iOS
6 49 (3.48%) VMS
7 47 (3.34%) Mac OS
8 42 (2.98%) Android
9 37 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
10 31 (2.20%) CentOS
11 29 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 26 (1.85%) Ubuntu
13 24 (1.70%) Windows Server 2019
14 15 (1.07%) Unix
15 8 (0.57%) Debian
16 7 (0.50%) Kali Linux
17 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
18 4 (0.28%) AIX
19 2 (0.14%) Rocky
19 2 (0.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (25.43%) Problem-Solving
2 337 (23.93%) DevOps
3 321 (22.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 319 (22.66%) CI/CD
5 289 (20.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 269 (19.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 265 (18.82%) Cybersecurity
8 238 (16.90%) ITIL
9 210 (14.91%) Mentoring
10 171 (12.14%) Agile
10 171 (12.14%) Disaster Recovery
11 164 (11.65%) Incident Response
12 161 (11.43%) Root Cause Analysis
13 152 (10.80%) High Availability
14 140 (9.94%) Containerisation
14 140 (9.94%) SIEM
15 134 (9.52%) Cloud Security
16 130 (9.23%) Roadmaps
17 125 (8.88%) AI
18 120 (8.52%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 565 (40.13%) Python
2 336 (23.86%) Bash
3 278 (19.74%) SQL
4 134 (9.52%) C#
5 115 (8.17%) JavaScript
6 105 (7.46%) Bicep
7 65 (4.62%) TypeScript
8 60 (4.26%) T-SQL
9 48 (3.41%) Kusto Query Language
10 35 (2.49%) Java
11 19 (1.35%) C++
12 18 (1.28%) VBScript
13 17 (1.21%) PHP
14 12 (0.85%) Perl
15 11 (0.78%) Go
16 10 (0.71%) VB
16 10 (0.71%) VBA
17 9 (0.64%) Ruby
18 8 (0.57%) C
19 6 (0.43%) Korn
Qualifications
1 172 (12.22%) Degree
2 170 (12.07%) Security Cleared
3 156 (11.08%) Azure Certification
4 131 (9.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 115 (8.17%) SC Cleared
6 64 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
7 58 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 57 (4.05%) CISSP
9 47 (3.34%) CompTIA Security+
10 46 (3.27%) CCNA
11 45 (3.20%) DV Cleared
12 26 (1.85%) CEH
12 26 (1.85%) DBS Check
13 25 (1.78%) GIAC
13 25 (1.78%) OSCP
14 24 (1.70%) AWS Certification
14 24 (1.70%) CREST Certified
15 22 (1.56%) CCNP
16 17 (1.21%) CISM
17 16 (1.14%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (9.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 109 (7.74%) NIST
3 63 (4.47%) GDPR
4 61 (4.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 60 (4.26%) QA
6 43 (3.05%) SLA
7 25 (1.78%) NCSC
8 23 (1.63%) Data Quality
9 22 (1.56%) PCI DSS
10 19 (1.35%) SOC 2
11 12 (0.85%) ISO 22301
12 10 (0.71%) Accessibility
13 8 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.43%) PMO
16 5 (0.36%) DICOM
17 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 2 (0.14%) EMIR
18 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
18 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 523 (37.14%) Active Directory
2 233 (16.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 154 (10.94%) Hyper-V
4 141 (10.01%) Docker
5 81 (5.75%) vSphere
6 53 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
7 42 (2.98%) Virtual Desktop
8 25 (1.78%) BitLocker
9 23 (1.63%) VMware NSX
10 17 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.71%) KVM
12 8 (0.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.57%) Squid
13 4 (0.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.21%) iptables
14 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.21%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.14%) Firmware
15 2 (0.14%) Samba
Systems Management
1 332 (23.58%) Terraform
2 232 (16.48%) Kubernetes
3 223 (15.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 164 (11.65%) Ansible
5 77 (5.47%) Grafana
6 59 (4.19%) SCCM
7 56 (3.98%) Single Sign-On
8 52 (3.69%) Prometheus
9 26 (1.85%) Jamf Pro
10 25 (1.78%) vCenter Server
11 24 (1.70%) ZABBIX
12 21 (1.49%) Argo
13 20 (1.42%) Packer
13 20 (1.42%) QRadar
14 17 (1.21%) Proxmox
15 16 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 14 (0.99%) Graylog
17 12 (0.85%) VxRail
18 11 (0.78%) Nessus
18 11 (0.78%) WSUS
Vendors
1 830 (58.95%) Microsoft
2 280 (19.89%) VMware
3 118 (8.38%) Cisco
4 95 (6.75%) Splunk
5 85 (6.04%) ServiceNow
6 55 (3.91%) Red Hat
7 51 (3.62%) Veeam
8 42 (2.98%) Meraki
9 40 (2.84%) Oracle
10 32 (2.27%) Tenable
11 31 (2.20%) Sophos
12 30 (2.13%) Citrix
13 29 (2.06%) Apple
13 29 (2.06%) CrowdStrike
14 27 (1.92%) Dell
14 27 (1.92%) Fortinet
14 27 (1.92%) Palo Alto
15 24 (1.70%) CyberArk
15 24 (1.70%) Dynatrace
16 23 (1.63%) SolarWinds