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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 91 107
Rank change year-on-year -58 +16 -37
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,479 1,602 1,813
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.30% 3.25% 2.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.97% 12.26% 7.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,015 1,056 1,198
10th Percentile £33,200 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £80,938
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £96,075
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.96% +1.00% -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 18,557 13,072 24,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.26% 26.48% 30.93%
Number of salaries quoted 13,190 8,425 15,033
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -64 1,290 £57,500 - 1,303
UK excluding London -60 974 £52,500 +3.96% 809
Work from Home -35 515 £60,000 - 571
London -32 463 £70,000 -3.45% 593
South East -35 239 £52,500 -8.70% 218
North of England -80 239 £50,000 - 205
Midlands -39 158 £52,500 +5.00% 117
North West -64 143 £50,000 +8.70% 113
East of England -38 100 £57,500 +21.05% 75
South West -69 86 £55,000 +15.79% 100
West Midlands -66 80 £55,000 - 68
East Midlands -23 78 £42,500 +21.43% 49
Northern Ireland -17 70 £46,000 - 14
Yorkshire -32 60 £45,000 -12.83% 63
Scotland +7 45 £50,000 +17.65% 70
Wales -56 37 £38,500 -30.00% 24
North East -36 36 £50,000 -9.09% 31

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
1 246 (16.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 244 (16.50%) SharePoint
3 55 (3.72%) IIS
4 41 (2.77%) Confluence
5 15 (1.01%) nginx
6 8 (0.54%) Apache
7 6 (0.41%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.068%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.068%) WebSphere
Applications
1 68 (4.60%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (2.43%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.41%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.34%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.068%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 874 (59.09%) Azure
2 558 (37.73%) Microsoft 365
3 446 (30.16%) Entra ID
4 257 (17.38%) AWS
5 184 (12.44%) SaaS
6 173 (11.70%) Azure DevOps
7 117 (7.91%) Power Platform
8 115 (7.78%) OneDrive
9 109 (7.37%) GitHub
10 106 (7.17%) IaaS
11 88 (5.95%) Azure Monitor
12 82 (5.54%) Azure Sentinel
13 80 (5.41%) Power Automate
14 75 (5.07%) PaaS
15 72 (4.87%) GCP
16 71 (4.80%) Azure AKS
17 66 (4.46%) Azure Key Vault
18 63 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
19 58 (3.92%) Microsoft Purview
20 54 (3.65%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 323 (21.84%) Firewall
2 322 (21.77%) DNS
3 218 (14.74%) DHCP
4 216 (14.60%) VPN
5 142 (9.60%) TCP/IP
6 99 (6.69%) WAN
7 85 (5.75%) LAN
8 72 (4.87%) VLAN
9 61 (4.12%) Network Security
10 55 (3.72%) Wireless
11 46 (3.11%) Wi-Fi
12 35 (2.37%) SAN
13 30 (2.03%) Kerberos
14 24 (1.62%) SSL
15 22 (1.49%) NAS
16 20 (1.35%) HTTP
17 19 (1.28%) Internet
18 18 (1.22%) VoIP
19 16 (1.08%) VSAN
20 14 (0.95%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (10.14%) SQL Server
2 83 (5.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 62 (4.19%) Power BI
4 27 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.49%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.15%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 13 (0.88%) MySQL
10 12 (0.81%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.54%) Data Lake
12 8 (0.54%) InfluxDB
12 8 (0.54%) Redis
13 7 (0.47%) Power Query
14 6 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.41%) Metadata
15 5 (0.34%) Db2
15 5 (0.34%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 106 (7.17%) JIRA
2 101 (6.83%) Git
3 74 (5.00%) GitLab
4 64 (4.33%) Jenkins
5 28 (1.89%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 12 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
7 10 (0.68%) TeamCity
8 9 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (0.54%) Robot Framework
9 8 (0.54%) TestRail
10 6 (0.41%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.41%) Postman
10 6 (0.41%) Selenium
10 6 (0.41%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.34%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.27%) Burp Suite
12 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
13 3 (0.20%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 566 (38.27%) Social Skills
2 247 (16.70%) Finance
3 192 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (8.05%) Law
5 118 (7.98%) Legal
6 68 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 56 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (3.04%) Banking
8 45 (3.04%) Public Sector
9 44 (2.97%) Retail
10 37 (2.50%) Manufacturing
10 37 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
11 32 (2.16%) Aerospace
12 15 (1.01%) Legal Technology
13 12 (0.81%) Advertising
13 12 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (0.74%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.61%) Aviation
15 9 (0.61%) Front Office
15 9 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 293 (19.81%) Senior
2 209 (14.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 167 (11.29%) Analyst
4 140 (9.47%) Support Engineer
5 135 (9.13%) Azure Engineer
6 134 (9.06%) IT Engineer
7 131 (8.86%) Cloud Engineer
8 113 (7.64%) IT Support
9 106 (7.17%) DevOps Engineer
10 78 (5.27%) Platform Engineer
11 72 (4.87%) Consultant
12 71 (4.80%) Lead
13 70 (4.73%) Support Analyst
14 68 (4.60%) IT Support Engineer
15 66 (4.46%) Systems Engineer
16 64 (4.33%) Security Engineer
17 58 (3.92%) Administrator
17 58 (3.92%) Testing Manager
18 57 (3.85%) Developer
19 55 (3.72%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (24.48%) Terraform
2 76 (5.14%) .NET
3 54 (3.65%) REST
4 52 (3.52%) ARM Templates
5 45 (3.04%) Microsoft Graph
5 45 (3.04%) YAML
6 41 (2.77%) SAML
7 40 (2.70%) LDAP
8 38 (2.57%) OpenID
9 37 (2.50%) HTML
9 37 (2.50%) OAuth
10 29 (1.96%) JSON
11 28 (1.89%) CSS
12 27 (1.83%) SPFx
13 25 (1.69%) .NET Core
14 21 (1.42%) Elastic Stack
15 16 (1.08%) HTML5 Canvas
15 16 (1.08%) SOAP
16 14 (0.95%) ASP.NET
16 14 (0.95%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 128 (8.65%) Onboarding
2 90 (6.09%) Cloud Native
3 76 (5.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 75 (5.07%) Driving Licence
5 73 (4.94%) Management Information System
6 72 (4.87%) Security Posture
7 61 (4.12%) Virtual Team
8 51 (3.45%) Data Centre
9 48 (3.25%) PKI
10 47 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
10 47 (3.18%) Replication
11 45 (3.04%) Public Cloud
12 41 (2.77%) Security Operations Centre
13 36 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
14 35 (2.37%) Clustering
15 26 (1.76%) Private Cloud
16 24 (1.62%) Cyber Defence
17 23 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
18 22 (1.49%) CMDB
19 19 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 697 (47.13%) Windows
2 344 (23.26%) Linux
3 333 (22.52%) Windows Server
4 87 (5.88%) Windows 10
5 54 (3.65%) Apple iOS
6 45 (3.04%) Ubuntu
7 42 (2.84%) Android
8 40 (2.70%) Mac OS
8 40 (2.70%) VMS
9 34 (2.30%) CentOS
9 34 (2.30%) Windows Server 2016
10 30 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 26 (1.76%) Windows Server 2019
12 22 (1.49%) Unix
13 16 (1.08%) Rocky
14 8 (0.54%) Debian
14 8 (0.54%) Solaris
15 5 (0.34%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.27%) AIX
16 4 (0.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
2 379 (25.63%) DevOps
3 372 (25.15%) Continuous Improvement
4 343 (23.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 323 (21.84%) CI/CD
6 317 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 287 (19.41%) ITIL
8 252 (17.04%) Cybersecurity
9 231 (15.62%) Mentoring
10 198 (13.39%) Disaster Recovery
11 170 (11.49%) AI
12 167 (11.29%) Agile
13 165 (11.16%) Root Cause Analysis
14 161 (10.89%) High Availability
15 154 (10.41%) Project Delivery
16 142 (9.60%) Incident Response
17 141 (9.53%) Platform Engineering
18 140 (9.47%) Cloud Security
19 131 (8.86%) Observability
19 131 (8.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 577 (39.01%) Python
2 304 (20.55%) Bash
3 302 (20.42%) SQL
4 143 (9.67%) JavaScript
5 137 (9.26%) C#
6 114 (7.71%) Bicep
7 85 (5.75%) TypeScript
8 49 (3.31%) Kusto Query Language
9 37 (2.50%) Java
9 37 (2.50%) T-SQL
10 23 (1.56%) VBScript
11 20 (1.35%) C++
12 19 (1.28%) Perl
13 14 (0.95%) Ruby
14 12 (0.81%) PHP
15 10 (0.68%) Go
15 10 (0.68%) VB
15 10 (0.68%) VBA
16 7 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 207 (14.00%) Security Cleared
2 170 (11.49%) Degree
3 158 (10.68%) Microsoft Certification
4 155 (10.48%) Azure Certification
5 143 (9.67%) SC Cleared
6 64 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 60 (4.06%) DV Cleared
8 59 (3.99%) Cisco Certification
9 53 (3.58%) CISSP
9 53 (3.58%) CompTIA Security+
10 44 (2.97%) CCNA
11 27 (1.83%) CEH
12 23 (1.56%) AWS Certification
13 22 (1.49%) DBS Check
14 21 (1.42%) OSCP
15 20 (1.35%) CISM
16 18 (1.22%) GIAC
16 18 (1.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 17 (1.15%) CCNP
17 17 (1.15%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (6.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 79 (5.34%) QA
3 69 (4.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 64 (4.33%) NIST
5 46 (3.11%) GDPR
6 45 (3.04%) SLA
7 20 (1.35%) Data Quality
8 18 (1.22%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.95%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.54%) NCSC
11 7 (0.47%) PMO
11 7 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.34%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.27%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.14%) EMIR
15 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 532 (35.97%) Active Directory
2 248 (16.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 158 (10.68%) Hyper-V
4 139 (9.40%) Docker
5 83 (5.61%) vSphere
6 72 (4.87%) Virtual Machines
7 55 (3.72%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (1.83%) VMware NSX
9 20 (1.35%) BitLocker
10 19 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
11 9 (0.61%) Firmware
12 8 (0.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.54%) KVM
12 8 (0.54%) Squid
13 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.20%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.068%) Ceph
16 1 (0.068%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 261 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 220 (14.87%) Kubernetes
3 170 (11.49%) Ansible
4 78 (5.27%) Grafana
5 76 (5.14%) SCCM
6 54 (3.65%) Single Sign-On
7 42 (2.84%) Prometheus
8 25 (1.69%) vCenter Server
8 25 (1.69%) ZABBIX
9 24 (1.62%) Argo
10 21 (1.42%) QRadar
11 20 (1.35%) Proxmox
12 18 (1.22%) Jamf Pro
12 18 (1.22%) Packer
12 18 (1.22%) Puppet
13 15 (1.01%) FortiGate
13 15 (1.01%) Graylog
14 13 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 11 (0.74%) VxRail
16 10 (0.68%) Kibana
Vendors
1 921 (62.27%) Microsoft
2 282 (19.07%) VMware
3 113 (7.64%) Cisco
4 106 (7.17%) ServiceNow
5 90 (6.09%) Splunk
6 64 (4.33%) Veeam
7 52 (3.52%) Oracle
7 52 (3.52%) Red Hat
8 43 (2.91%) Citrix
9 39 (2.64%) Meraki
10 34 (2.30%) Sage
11 31 (2.10%) Dell
11 31 (2.10%) Dynatrace
11 31 (2.10%) Sophos
12 27 (1.83%) CyberArk
12 27 (1.83%) Fortinet
12 27 (1.83%) SAP
12 27 (1.83%) Tenable
13 25 (1.69%) Apple
14 23 (1.56%) Google