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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 86 116
Rank change year-on-year -54 +30 -28
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,286 1,566 2,357
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.40% 3.54% 2.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.83% 11.21% 6.98%
Number of salaries quoted 948 982 1,910
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,775 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,500 £78,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,060 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.12% - -3.85%

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 16,420 13,971 33,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.90% 31.60% 31.73%
Number of salaries quoted 11,482 9,186 25,567
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,625 £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 10 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 10 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 -55 1,185 £59,000 +0.85% 389
UK excluding London -66 751 £52,060 +4.12% 308
London -9 509 £70,000 -6.67% 123
Work from Home -37 416 £60,000 +9.09% 171
South East -51 185 £55,000 -4.35% 130
North of England -89 183 £47,500 -6.40% 62
Midlands -40 133 £50,000 - 36
North West -90 95 £50,801 +10.44% 41
South West -40 83 £55,000 +15.79% 43
East of England -25 82 £57,500 +21.05% 30
East Midlands -9 75 £45,000 +24.14% 18
Yorkshire -30 59 £45,000 -21.74% 15
Scotland +46 58 £50,000 +6.95% 15
West Midlands -69 57 £52,500 - 18
North East -26 29 £45,750 -22.13% 6
Wales -23 24 £55,000 +4.76% 3
Northern Ireland -30 3 £46,000 +6.75% 3

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 (14.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 173 (13.45%) SharePoint
3 41 (3.19%) IIS
4 22 (1.71%) Confluence
5 3 (0.23%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.16%) Apache
7 1 (0.078%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.078%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.078%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.078%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.078%) Site Server
Applications
1 74 (5.75%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.078%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.078%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (0.39%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.31%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.23%) Alphatax
3 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.16%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.078%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.078%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.078%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 842 (65.47%) Azure
2 469 (36.47%) Microsoft 365
3 351 (27.29%) Entra ID
4 216 (16.80%) AWS
5 136 (10.58%) Azure DevOps
6 112 (8.71%) Power Platform
7 97 (7.54%) GitHub
8 91 (7.08%) SaaS
9 88 (6.84%) IaaS
10 83 (6.45%) OneDrive
11 69 (5.37%) Google Workspace
12 67 (5.21%) Azure Monitor
13 66 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
14 59 (4.59%) PaaS
15 57 (4.43%) Azure AKS
15 57 (4.43%) GCP
16 56 (4.35%) Power Automate
17 54 (4.20%) Azure Key Vault
17 54 (4.20%) Azure Sentinel
18 44 (3.42%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 263 (20.45%) Firewall
2 257 (19.98%) DNS
3 165 (12.83%) VPN
4 162 (12.60%) DHCP
5 109 (8.48%) TCP/IP
6 85 (6.61%) WAN
7 80 (6.22%) LAN
8 68 (5.29%) Network Security
9 55 (4.28%) Broadband
10 53 (4.12%) VLAN
11 45 (3.50%) Wi-Fi
12 37 (2.88%) VoIP
13 34 (2.64%) SAN
14 25 (1.94%) Wireless
15 23 (1.79%) BGP
16 18 (1.40%) SD-WAN
17 16 (1.24%) Kerberos
17 16 (1.24%) VSAN
18 15 (1.17%) MPLS
19 14 (1.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (11.28%) SQL Server
2 81 (6.30%) Power BI
3 64 (4.98%) Azure SQL Database
4 39 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (2.02%) MySQL
7 22 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (1.24%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (1.17%) NoSQL
10 14 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (1.09%) MongoDB
11 10 (0.78%) Tableau
12 9 (0.70%) Data Lake
12 9 (0.70%) InfluxDB
13 6 (0.47%) Metadata
14 5 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 4 (0.31%) Redis
16 3 (0.23%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 94 (7.31%) Git
2 65 (5.05%) Jenkins
2 65 (5.05%) JIRA
3 59 (4.59%) GitLab
4 32 (2.49%) Bitbucket
5 16 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
6 15 (1.17%) TeamCity
7 13 (1.01%) Metasploit
8 12 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 10 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
10 9 (0.70%) Burp Suite
11 8 (0.62%) Robot Framework
12 7 (0.54%) TestRail
13 5 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.39%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.31%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.31%) Cypress.io
14 4 (0.31%) MLflow
14 4 (0.31%) Selenium
14 4 (0.31%) SonarQube
General
1 388 (30.17%) Social Skills
2 221 (17.19%) Finance
3 171 (13.30%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (6.69%) Law
5 80 (6.22%) Organisational Skills
6 57 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (3.65%) Legal
8 46 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
9 44 (3.42%) Retail
10 39 (3.03%) Public Sector
11 26 (2.02%) Aerospace
11 26 (2.02%) Games
12 23 (1.79%) Banking
12 23 (1.79%) Manufacturing
13 19 (1.48%) Advertising
14 15 (1.17%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.62%) Aviation
16 7 (0.54%) Front Office
17 6 (0.47%) Investment Banking
17 6 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 237 (18.43%) Senior
2 160 (12.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 146 (11.35%) Support Engineer
4 144 (11.20%) Analyst
5 134 (10.42%) Azure Engineer
6 130 (10.11%) IT Support
7 120 (9.33%) IT Engineer
8 102 (7.93%) Cloud Engineer
9 94 (7.31%) DevOps Engineer
10 83 (6.45%) Security Engineer
11 80 (6.22%) IT Support Engineer
12 61 (4.74%) Developer
13 60 (4.67%) 2nd Line Support
13 60 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
14 58 (4.51%) Systems Engineer
15 56 (4.35%) Lead
16 43 (3.34%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 42 (3.27%) Architect
17 42 (3.27%) Security Analyst
18 41 (3.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (7.23%) OAuth
2 92 (7.15%) SAML
3 89 (6.92%) REST
4 84 (6.53%) .NET
4 84 (6.53%) OpenID
5 78 (6.07%) LDAP
6 62 (4.82%) SOAP
7 55 (4.28%) GraphQL
8 42 (3.27%) YAML
9 41 (3.19%) JSON
10 40 (3.11%) ARM Templates
11 37 (2.88%) Microsoft Graph
12 36 (2.80%) .NET Core
12 36 (2.80%) HTML
13 34 (2.64%) CSS
14 25 (1.94%) SPFx
15 20 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
16 19 (1.48%) HTML5 Canvas
17 18 (1.40%) React
18 15 (1.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 99 (7.70%) Onboarding
2 71 (5.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 69 (5.37%) Cyber Threat
4 66 (5.13%) Cloud Native
5 60 (4.67%) Management Information System
5 60 (4.67%) Security Posture
6 59 (4.59%) Cyberattack
7 49 (3.81%) Driving Licence
8 44 (3.42%) Cyber Defence
9 42 (3.27%) Data Centre
9 42 (3.27%) Security Operations Centre
10 36 (2.80%) PKI
11 35 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
12 33 (2.57%) Public Cloud
13 26 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
14 25 (1.94%) CMDB
15 20 (1.56%) Private Cloud
15 20 (1.56%) Replication
16 19 (1.48%) Clustering
17 18 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 601 (46.73%) Windows
2 287 (22.32%) Windows Server
3 286 (22.24%) Linux
4 82 (6.38%) Windows 10
5 52 (4.04%) Mac OS
6 51 (3.97%) Apple iOS
7 47 (3.65%) Android
8 42 (3.27%) VMS
9 39 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
10 31 (2.41%) CentOS
10 31 (2.41%) Windows Server 2019
11 29 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 24 (1.87%) Ubuntu
13 17 (1.32%) Unix
14 6 (0.47%) 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
1 315 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
2 290 (22.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 289 (22.47%) CI/CD
4 282 (21.93%) Cybersecurity
5 268 (20.84%) DevOps
6 229 (17.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 216 (16.80%) ITIL
8 210 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 185 (14.39%) Mentoring
10 161 (12.52%) Agile
11 158 (12.29%) Incident Response
12 151 (11.74%) Root Cause Analysis
13 148 (11.51%) Disaster Recovery
14 138 (10.73%) Roadmaps
15 131 (10.19%) High Availability
16 130 (10.11%) Containerisation
17 127 (9.88%) SIEM
18 113 (8.79%) Cloud Security
19 109 (8.48%) Task Automation
20 108 (8.40%) AI
Programming Languages
1 500 (38.88%) Python
2 343 (26.67%) Bash
3 274 (21.31%) SQL
4 94 (7.31%) C#
5 81 (6.30%) Bicep
5 81 (6.30%) T-SQL
6 72 (5.60%) JavaScript
7 33 (2.57%) Kusto Query Language
8 30 (2.33%) Java
9 24 (1.87%) TypeScript
10 16 (1.24%) C++
11 15 (1.17%) VBScript
12 14 (1.09%) Perl
13 11 (0.86%) PHP
13 11 (0.86%) VB
14 10 (0.78%) VBA
15 9 (0.70%) Go
16 7 (0.54%) VB.NET
17 6 (0.47%) C
17 6 (0.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 159 (12.36%) Degree
1 159 (12.36%) Security Cleared
2 130 (10.11%) Azure Certification
3 120 (9.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 102 (7.93%) SC Cleared
5 54 (4.20%) CISSP
6 51 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 49 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
8 44 (3.42%) DV Cleared
9 37 (2.88%) CompTIA Security+
10 33 (2.57%) CCNA
11 29 (2.26%) CREST Certified
11 29 (2.26%) OSCP
12 26 (2.02%) AWS Certification
12 26 (2.02%) DBS Check
13 23 (1.79%) CEH
14 22 (1.71%) GIAC
15 17 (1.32%) CCNP
16 16 (1.24%) CompTIA CySA+
17 13 (1.01%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (11.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 133 (10.34%) NIST
3 54 (4.20%) GDPR
4 51 (3.97%) NCSC
5 45 (3.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 41 (3.19%) SLA
7 20 (1.56%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.24%) Accessibility
9 15 (1.17%) PCI DSS
10 14 (1.09%) ISO 22301
11 13 (1.01%) QA
11 13 (1.01%) SOC 2
12 11 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.47%) DICOM
14 6 (0.47%) PMO
15 4 (0.31%) GRC
16 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
16 3 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 495 (38.49%) Active Directory
2 191 (14.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 139 (10.81%) Docker
4 126 (9.80%) Hyper-V
5 64 (4.98%) vSphere
6 36 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
7 27 (2.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 25 (1.94%) BitLocker
9 24 (1.87%) VMware NSX
10 15 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.78%) KVM
12 8 (0.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.62%) Firmware
12 8 (0.62%) Squid
13 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.31%) iptables
15 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
16 2 (0.16%) Samba
Systems Management
1 300 (23.33%) Terraform
2 213 (16.56%) Kubernetes
3 198 (15.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 150 (11.66%) Ansible
5 62 (4.82%) Grafana
6 61 (4.74%) Single Sign-On
7 48 (3.73%) SCCM
8 45 (3.50%) Prometheus
9 27 (2.10%) Jamf Pro
10 24 (1.87%) vCenter Server
11 23 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 19 (1.48%) Packer
12 19 (1.48%) ZABBIX
13 17 (1.32%) Nessus
13 17 (1.32%) QRadar
14 15 (1.17%) VxRail
15 14 (1.09%) Argo
15 14 (1.09%) Proxmox
16 13 (1.01%) Graylog
17 12 (0.93%) Nagios
Vendors
1 750 (58.32%) Microsoft
2 242 (18.82%) VMware
3 102 (7.93%) Cisco
4 83 (6.45%) Splunk
5 63 (4.90%) ServiceNow
6 58 (4.51%) Red Hat
7 45 (3.50%) Veeam
8 36 (2.80%) Meraki
9 35 (2.72%) Oracle
10 33 (2.57%) CrowdStrike
11 32 (2.49%) Google
12 30 (2.33%) Apple
13 28 (2.18%) Dell
14 26 (2.02%) Citrix
15 25 (1.94%) Commvault
16 24 (1.87%) Fortinet
16 24 (1.87%) Sophos
16 24 (1.87%) Tenable
17 23 (1.79%) Palo Alto
18 22 (1.71%) SolarWinds