PowerShell Job Trends

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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 93 73
Rank change year-on-year -18 -20 +14
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,219 1,558 2,189
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.03% 2.91% 3.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.51% 8.63% 10.16%
Number of salaries quoted 934 1,082 1,873
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £38,800
25th Percentile £43,053 £46,250 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £93,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.38% - -4.55%

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 11,593 18,059 21,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.32% 33.75% 38.70%
Number of salaries quoted 8,500 10,546 17,601
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £83,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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

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Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in the UK

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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 14 January 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 -22 1,023 £58,000 -7.20% 481
UK excluding London -16 709 £53,750 +2.38% 447
London -9 439 £72,500 -3.33% 144
Work from Home -6 377 £60,000 -11.11% 282
South East -38 176 £58,000 -3.33% 148
North of England -35 129 £50,000 - 90
Scotland +49 123 £57,500 +4.55% 35
South West +25 107 £52,500 -4.55% 68
Midlands -25 89 £52,500 +10.53% 54
East of England +21 70 £43,085 -17.93% 50
North West -12 61 £51,750 +3.50% 48
Yorkshire -22 57 £47,500 -9.52% 30
West Midlands -29 49 £52,500 +27.27% 21
East Midlands -8 40 £54,000 +6.93% 32
Wales +12 13 £55,000 +5.77% 15
North East +8 11 £62,500 +25.00% 13
Northern Ireland -13 3 £46,500 +16.25% 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
1 192 (15.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 150 (12.31%) SharePoint
3 51 (4.18%) IIS
4 26 (2.13%) Confluence
5 22 (1.80%) Exchange Server 2003
6 16 (1.31%) Skype for Business
7 6 (0.49%) nginx
7 6 (0.49%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.16%) CMS
9 2 (0.16%) WordPress
10 1 (0.082%) CICS
10 1 (0.082%) WebSphere
Applications
1 36 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.49%) Siemens NX
5 5 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 3 (0.25%) CATIA
7 3 (0.25%) SOLIDWORKS
7 3 (0.25%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.66%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.49%) Markit EDM
3 6 (0.49%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.41%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.41%) PlanetPress Connect
4 5 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.25%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.25%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.082%) Actimize
7 1 (0.082%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.082%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 809 (66.37%) Azure
2 412 (33.80%) Microsoft 365
3 313 (25.68%) Entra ID
4 216 (17.72%) Azure DevOps
5 210 (17.23%) AWS
6 103 (8.45%) Power Platform
7 95 (7.79%) GitHub
8 81 (6.64%) GCP
9 76 (6.23%) PaaS
10 70 (5.74%) GitHub Actions
11 67 (5.50%) Azure Monitor
12 57 (4.68%) Power Automate
13 55 (4.51%) IaaS
14 53 (4.35%) SaaS
15 45 (3.69%) Google Workspace
15 45 (3.69%) OneDrive
16 42 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
17 40 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 40 (3.28%) Snowflake
18 37 (3.04%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 231 (18.95%) Firewall
2 210 (17.23%) DNS
3 158 (12.96%) DHCP
4 102 (8.37%) TCP/IP
4 102 (8.37%) VPN
5 82 (6.73%) WAN
6 64 (5.25%) LAN
7 41 (3.36%) Wi-Fi
8 39 (3.20%) VLAN
9 38 (3.12%) Wireless
10 34 (2.79%) Broadband
11 32 (2.63%) SAN
12 31 (2.54%) SD-WAN
13 27 (2.21%) Network Security
14 23 (1.89%) Internet
15 17 (1.39%) VoIP
16 16 (1.31%) Cisco IOS
16 16 (1.31%) Skype
17 15 (1.23%) VSAN
18 14 (1.15%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (10.75%) SQL Server
2 68 (5.58%) Power BI
3 38 (3.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 33 (2.71%) Relational Database
5 32 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
6 30 (2.46%) Oracle Database
7 26 (2.13%) Oracle Database 10g
8 22 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (1.23%) MySQL
11 13 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (0.90%) MongoDB
12 11 (0.90%) NoSQL
12 11 (0.90%) Tableau
13 8 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
13 8 (0.66%) DTS
14 6 (0.49%) Data Mining
14 6 (0.49%) Metadata
15 4 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (0.33%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 107 (8.78%) JIRA
2 88 (7.22%) Jenkins
3 83 (6.81%) Git
4 37 (3.04%) GitLab
5 34 (2.79%) Octopus Deploy
6 26 (2.13%) TeamCity
7 14 (1.15%) Bitbucket
8 9 (0.74%) Burp Suite
8 9 (0.74%) Metasploit
9 7 (0.57%) Vagrant
10 6 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (0.49%) Robot Framework
11 5 (0.41%) MSI
11 5 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.33%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.33%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.33%) MLflow
12 4 (0.33%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.33%) TestRail
12 4 (0.33%) Toad
General
1 435 (35.68%) Social Skills
2 327 (26.83%) Finance
3 116 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (4.84%) Law
5 46 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
6 45 (3.69%) Public Sector
7 44 (3.61%) Retail
8 41 (3.36%) Legal
9 40 (3.28%) Banking
10 34 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
10 34 (2.79%) Manufacturing
11 30 (2.46%) Games
11 30 (2.46%) Telecoms
12 27 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 18 (1.48%) Front Office
13 18 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.98%) Marketing
16 10 (0.82%) Advertising
17 9 (0.74%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 182 (14.93%) Senior
2 157 (12.88%) Support Engineer
3 119 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 109 (8.94%) Azure Engineer
5 98 (8.04%) DevOps Engineer
6 88 (7.22%) Cloud Engineer
7 84 (6.89%) Analyst
8 82 (6.73%) Developer
9 77 (6.32%) Lead
10 73 (5.99%) Security Engineer
11 69 (5.66%) IT Support
12 61 (5.00%) 3rd Line Support
13 56 (4.59%) Platform Engineer
14 55 (4.51%) IT Engineer
15 53 (4.35%) Applications Engineer
16 52 (4.27%) Applications Support
17 47 (3.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 47 (3.86%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
18 40 (3.28%) IT Support Engineer
19 37 (3.04%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (7.96%) REST
2 71 (5.82%) .NET
3 63 (5.17%) SOAP
4 54 (4.43%) YAML
5 53 (4.35%) OAuth
6 48 (3.94%) SAML
7 47 (3.86%) GraphQL
7 47 (3.86%) LDAP
8 43 (3.53%) OpenID
9 31 (2.54%) JSON
10 29 (2.38%) ARM Templates
11 21 (1.72%) React
12 19 (1.56%) Web Services
13 17 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
13 17 (1.39%) Microsoft Graph
14 16 (1.31%) AngularJS
15 13 (1.07%) Middleware
16 12 (0.98%) Node.js
17 11 (0.90%) FIX Protocol
17 11 (0.90%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 86 (7.05%) Onboarding
2 68 (5.58%) Hybrid Cloud
3 62 (5.09%) Security Posture
4 53 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 44 (3.61%) Management Information System
6 39 (3.20%) Cyber Threat
7 38 (3.12%) Enterprise Software
8 36 (2.95%) Cloud Native
9 35 (2.87%) Cyberattack
9 35 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
10 32 (2.63%) Data Centre
11 28 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
12 27 (2.21%) PKI
12 27 (2.21%) Virtual Team
13 26 (2.13%) CMDB
14 21 (1.72%) Hedge funds
14 21 (1.72%) Public Cloud
14 21 (1.72%) Video Conferencing
15 20 (1.64%) Private Cloud
16 19 (1.56%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 531 (43.56%) Windows
2 291 (23.87%) Windows Server
3 206 (16.90%) Linux
4 71 (5.82%) Windows 10
5 45 (3.69%) Mac OS
6 43 (3.53%) Unix
7 35 (2.87%) VMS
7 35 (2.87%) Windows Server 2019
8 32 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
9 30 (2.46%) Android
9 30 (2.46%) Windows Server 2008
10 26 (2.13%) Solaris
11 22 (1.80%) HPUX
11 22 (1.80%) Windows 7
11 22 (1.80%) Windows Server 2003
12 21 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 18 (1.48%) Windows Server 2012
14 16 (1.31%) Ubuntu
15 14 (1.15%) Apple iOS
16 12 (0.98%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (30.19%) DevOps
2 367 (30.11%) Problem-Solving
3 279 (22.89%) CI/CD
4 235 (19.28%) ITIL
5 223 (18.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 213 (17.47%) Continuous Improvement
7 192 (15.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 188 (15.42%) Cybersecurity
9 180 (14.77%) Agile
10 175 (14.36%) Mentoring
11 147 (12.06%) Disaster Recovery
12 130 (10.66%) Roadmaps
13 125 (10.25%) Task Automation
14 113 (9.27%) Coaching
15 110 (9.02%) Asset Management
16 106 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
17 105 (8.61%) Migration
18 103 (8.45%) Cloud Security
19 92 (7.55%) Incident Management
20 91 (7.47%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 403 (33.06%) Python
2 281 (23.05%) SQL
3 257 (21.08%) Bash
4 100 (8.20%) C#
5 75 (6.15%) Bicep
6 64 (5.25%) JavaScript
7 53 (4.35%) T-SQL
8 29 (2.38%) Perl
9 25 (2.05%) Java
10 24 (1.97%) Go
11 20 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
12 13 (1.07%) VB
13 11 (0.90%) TypeScript
13 11 (0.90%) VB.NET
13 11 (0.90%) VBScript
14 9 (0.74%) Groovy
14 9 (0.74%) VBA
15 8 (0.66%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.41%) C++
17 4 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 167 (13.70%) Security Cleared
2 157 (12.88%) Degree
3 112 (9.19%) SC Cleared
4 106 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 88 (7.22%) Azure Certification
6 57 (4.68%) DV Cleared
7 43 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 40 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
9 36 (2.95%) CISSP
10 34 (2.79%) AWS Certification
11 33 (2.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 24 (1.97%) CREST Certified
13 22 (1.80%) CCNA
14 19 (1.56%) CEH
15 17 (1.39%) Master's Degree
16 13 (1.07%) CCNP
16 13 (1.07%) CompTIA CySA+
16 13 (1.07%) GIAC
16 13 (1.07%) SANS
17 12 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (11.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 131 (10.75%) NIST
3 62 (5.09%) GDPR
4 56 (4.59%) NCSC
5 53 (4.35%) SLA
6 42 (3.45%) Accessibility
7 26 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
8 17 (1.39%) QA
9 13 (1.07%) ISO 22301
10 12 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (0.82%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.57%) Data Quality
13 5 (0.41%) GRC
13 5 (0.41%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.25%) HL7
14 3 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
16 1 (0.082%) COBIT
16 1 (0.082%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 416 (34.13%) Active Directory
2 140 (11.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 107 (8.78%) Docker
4 91 (7.47%) Hyper-V
5 47 (3.86%) Virtual Desktop
6 46 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
7 30 (2.46%) vSphere
8 23 (1.89%) Firmware
9 15 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
10 13 (1.07%) Virtual Servers
11 10 (0.82%) XenApp
12 8 (0.66%) vCloud
12 8 (0.66%) XenDesktop
13 5 (0.41%) Postfix
13 5 (0.41%) Squid
14 4 (0.33%) DFS Replication
14 4 (0.33%) Dovecot
15 3 (0.25%) VMware NSX
16 2 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 2 (0.16%) KVM
Systems Management
1 284 (23.30%) Terraform
2 212 (17.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 167 (13.70%) Kubernetes
4 131 (10.75%) Ansible
5 66 (5.41%) SCCM
6 48 (3.94%) Grafana
7 46 (3.77%) Single Sign-On
8 32 (2.63%) Prometheus
9 18 (1.48%) Puppet
10 17 (1.39%) SCOM
11 16 (1.31%) WSUS
12 15 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 11 (0.90%) Nessus
13 11 (0.90%) vCenter Server
14 10 (0.82%) ZABBIX
15 9 (0.74%) FortiGate
15 9 (0.74%) Nagios
16 8 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
16 8 (0.66%) Progress Chef
16 8 (0.66%) QRadar
Vendors
1 661 (54.22%) Microsoft
2 222 (18.21%) VMware
3 102 (8.37%) Cisco
4 80 (6.56%) ServiceNow
5 54 (4.43%) Oracle
6 46 (3.77%) Veeam
7 42 (3.45%) Google
8 40 (3.28%) Citrix
9 39 (3.20%) Splunk
10 38 (3.12%) Atlassian
11 32 (2.63%) Red Hat
12 29 (2.38%) Palo Alto
12 29 (2.38%) SolarWinds
13 26 (2.13%) SAP
14 24 (1.97%) Fortinet
15 22 (1.80%) Commvault
15 22 (1.80%) CrowdStrike
16 20 (1.64%) Dell
17 19 (1.56%) CyberArk
18 18 (1.48%) Meraki