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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 90 112
Rank change year-on-year -54 +22 -37
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,468 1,646 1,863
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.35% 3.30% 2.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.93% 12.04% 7.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,037 1,101 1,356
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £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 £76,250 £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 18,520 13,676 25,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.02% 27.39% 30.22%
Number of salaries quoted 13,186 8,953 17,344
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,373 £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 25 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 25 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 -65 1,298 £59,000 +2.61% 373
UK excluding London -54 961 £52,500 +5.00% 305
Work from Home -34 503 £62,500 +8.70% 173
London -31 475 £70,000 -3.45% 124
South East -32 249 £52,500 -8.70% 111
North of England -85 227 £50,000 +3.63% 66
Midlands -29 157 £52,500 +5.00% 54
North West -80 129 £50,801 +10.44% 48
East of England -33 100 £57,500 +13.86% 32
South West -77 85 £55,000 +19.57% 42
East Midlands -9 83 £42,500 +21.43% 19
West Midlands -69 74 £55,000 - 35
Northern Ireland -21 70 £46,000 - 3
Yorkshire -44 62 £42,500 -17.68% 13
Scotland +13 43 £50,000 +25.00% 4
North East -26 36 £50,000 +5.26% 6
Wales -49 30 £53,000 -3.64% 6

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
1 238 (16.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 232 (15.80%) SharePoint
3 56 (3.81%) IIS
4 34 (2.32%) Confluence
5 13 (0.89%) nginx
6 7 (0.48%) 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 76 (5.18%) 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 22 (1.50%) 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 (61.10%) Azure
2 539 (36.72%) Microsoft 365
3 418 (28.47%) Entra ID
4 259 (17.64%) AWS
5 177 (12.06%) SaaS
6 167 (11.38%) Azure DevOps
7 111 (7.56%) GitHub
8 110 (7.49%) OneDrive
9 109 (7.43%) Power Platform
10 106 (7.22%) IaaS
11 81 (5.52%) Azure Sentinel
12 80 (5.45%) Azure Monitor
13 74 (5.04%) Power Automate
14 73 (4.97%) PaaS
15 71 (4.84%) Azure AKS
16 70 (4.77%) GCP
17 67 (4.56%) Azure Key Vault
18 63 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
19 52 (3.54%) Datadog
20 49 (3.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 322 (21.93%) Firewall
2 314 (21.39%) DNS
3 209 (14.24%) DHCP
4 204 (13.90%) VPN
5 141 (9.60%) TCP/IP
6 97 (6.61%) WAN
7 83 (5.65%) LAN
8 71 (4.84%) VLAN
9 69 (4.70%) Network Security
10 50 (3.41%) Wireless
11 42 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
12 36 (2.45%) SAN
13 30 (2.04%) Kerberos
14 23 (1.57%) VoIP
15 22 (1.50%) NAS
15 22 (1.50%) SSL
16 19 (1.29%) Internet
17 18 (1.23%) HTTP
18 17 (1.16%) BGP
18 17 (1.16%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (10.15%) SQL Server
2 83 (5.65%) Azure SQL Database
3 62 (4.22%) Power BI
4 27 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.50%) 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 (0.89%) MySQL
10 13 (0.89%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.54%) InfluxDB
13 7 (0.48%) 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
1 106 (7.22%) Git
2 98 (6.68%) JIRA
3 69 (4.70%) GitLab
4 61 (4.16%) Jenkins
5 29 (1.98%) Bitbucket
6 13 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
7 12 (0.82%) 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
1 533 (36.31%) Social Skills
2 241 (16.42%) Finance
3 189 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (8.86%) Law
5 121 (8.24%) Legal
6 63 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 49 (3.34%) Documentation Skills
8 44 (3.00%) Retail
9 43 (2.93%) Public Sector
10 39 (2.66%) Banking
11 34 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
12 33 (2.25%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.84%) Aerospace
14 16 (1.09%) Advertising
15 15 (1.02%) Legal Technology
16 12 (0.82%) 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
1 288 (19.62%) Senior
2 197 (13.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 158 (10.76%) Analyst
4 139 (9.47%) Support Engineer
5 136 (9.26%) Azure Engineer
5 136 (9.26%) IT Engineer
6 132 (8.99%) Cloud Engineer
7 126 (8.58%) IT Support
8 105 (7.15%) DevOps Engineer
9 73 (4.97%) Platform Engineer
10 71 (4.84%) IT Support Engineer
10 71 (4.84%) Security Engineer
11 67 (4.56%) Lead
12 64 (4.36%) Systems Engineer
13 62 (4.22%) Developer
14 58 (3.95%) Testing Manager
15 57 (3.88%) Administrator
16 56 (3.81%) Support Analyst
17 55 (3.75%) Consultant
17 55 (3.75%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 361 (24.59%) Terraform
2 84 (5.72%) .NET
3 52 (3.54%) ARM Templates
4 51 (3.47%) REST
5 47 (3.20%) YAML
6 45 (3.07%) SAML
7 42 (2.86%) HTML
7 42 (2.86%) Microsoft Graph
8 41 (2.79%) OAuth
9 39 (2.66%) LDAP
9 39 (2.66%) OpenID
10 32 (2.18%) CSS
10 32 (2.18%) JSON
11 31 (2.11%) .NET Core
12 25 (1.70%) SPFx
13 20 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (1.29%) HTML5 Canvas
15 18 (1.23%) SOAP
16 15 (1.02%) ASP.NET
16 15 (1.02%) React
Miscellaneous
1 121 (8.24%) Onboarding
2 88 (5.99%) Cloud Native
3 72 (4.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 71 (4.84%) Management Information System
5 69 (4.70%) Security Posture
6 66 (4.50%) Driving Licence
7 60 (4.09%) Virtual Team
8 51 (3.47%) Data Centre
9 45 (3.07%) PKI
10 44 (3.00%) Public Cloud
11 43 (2.93%) Security Operations Centre
12 42 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
12 42 (2.86%) Replication
13 37 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
14 36 (2.45%) Clustering
15 29 (1.98%) Private Cloud
16 26 (1.77%) Cyber Defence
17 25 (1.70%) CMDB
18 24 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
19 18 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 695 (47.34%) Windows
2 342 (23.30%) Linux
3 328 (22.34%) Windows Server
4 80 (5.45%) Windows 10
5 54 (3.68%) Apple iOS
6 48 (3.27%) Mac OS
7 44 (3.00%) Android
8 39 (2.66%) VMS
9 38 (2.59%) Ubuntu
10 35 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 30 (2.04%) CentOS
12 29 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 25 (1.70%) Windows Server 2019
14 17 (1.16%) Unix
15 9 (0.61%) Rocky
16 7 (0.48%) Debian
17 6 (0.41%) Solaris
18 5 (0.34%) CoreOS
18 5 (0.34%) Kali Linux
19 4 (0.27%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (26.50%) Problem-Solving
2 374 (25.48%) DevOps
3 355 (24.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 339 (23.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 330 (22.48%) CI/CD
6 300 (20.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 291 (19.82%) ITIL
8 245 (16.69%) Cybersecurity
9 218 (14.85%) Mentoring
10 190 (12.94%) Disaster Recovery
11 174 (11.85%) High Availability
12 171 (11.65%) Root Cause Analysis
13 161 (10.97%) Agile
13 161 (10.97%) Incident Response
14 149 (10.15%) AI
15 138 (9.40%) Containerisation
16 137 (9.33%) Project Delivery
17 133 (9.06%) SIEM
18 131 (8.92%) Cloud Security
18 131 (8.92%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 581 (39.58%) Python
2 307 (20.91%) Bash
3 290 (19.75%) SQL
4 144 (9.81%) C#
5 142 (9.67%) JavaScript
6 113 (7.70%) Bicep
7 87 (5.93%) TypeScript
8 51 (3.47%) Kusto Query Language
9 40 (2.72%) Java
10 37 (2.52%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.43%) VBScript
12 19 (1.29%) C++
13 18 (1.23%) Perl
14 13 (0.89%) PHP
15 11 (0.75%) Ruby
16 10 (0.68%) VBA
17 9 (0.61%) Go
17 9 (0.61%) VB
18 7 (0.48%) C
19 6 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 196 (13.35%) Security Cleared
2 173 (11.78%) Degree
3 163 (11.10%) Azure Certification
4 149 (10.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 136 (9.26%) SC Cleared
6 66 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 62 (4.22%) Cisco Certification
8 56 (3.81%) DV Cleared
9 55 (3.75%) CompTIA Security+
10 52 (3.54%) CISSP
11 45 (3.07%) CCNA
12 28 (1.91%) CEH
13 24 (1.63%) OSCP
14 23 (1.57%) AWS Certification
14 23 (1.57%) DBS Check
15 21 (1.43%) GIAC
16 20 (1.36%) CCNP
17 19 (1.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 18 (1.23%) CISM
19 15 (1.02%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (7.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 80 (5.45%) QA
3 74 (5.04%) NIST
4 67 (4.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 51 (3.47%) GDPR
6 46 (3.13%) 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 (0.48%) NCSC
10 7 (0.48%) 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
1 532 (36.24%) Active Directory
2 241 (16.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 164 (11.17%) Hyper-V
4 141 (9.60%) Docker
5 81 (5.52%) vSphere
6 62 (4.22%) Virtual Machines
7 51 (3.47%) Virtual Desktop
8 28 (1.91%) VMware NSX
9 23 (1.57%) BitLocker
10 18 (1.23%) 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 (17.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 234 (15.94%) Kubernetes
3 179 (12.19%) Ansible
4 81 (5.52%) Grafana
5 78 (5.31%) SCCM
6 50 (3.41%) Single Sign-On
7 44 (3.00%) Prometheus
8 26 (1.77%) vCenter Server
9 25 (1.70%) ZABBIX
10 23 (1.57%) Jamf Pro
11 21 (1.43%) Argo
11 21 (1.43%) 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 (0.89%) FortiGate
16 13 (0.89%) VxRail
17 10 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 903 (61.51%) Microsoft
2 277 (18.87%) VMware
3 125 (8.51%) Cisco
4 109 (7.43%) ServiceNow
5 93 (6.34%) Splunk
6 60 (4.09%) Veeam
7 55 (3.75%) Red Hat
8 49 (3.34%) Oracle
9 47 (3.20%) Meraki
10 41 (2.79%) Citrix
11 36 (2.45%) Dynatrace
12 34 (2.32%) Sophos
13 31 (2.11%) Dell
14 30 (2.04%) Tenable
15 29 (1.98%) CrowdStrike
16 27 (1.84%) CyberArk
17 26 (1.77%) Apple
18 24 (1.63%) Fortinet
19 22 (1.50%) Palo Alto
19 22 (1.50%) SolarWinds