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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 86 114
Rank change year-on-year -53 +28 -33
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,406 1,673 2,119
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.40% 3.40% 2.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.90% 11.64% 7.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,024 1,097 1,685
10th Percentile £32,000 £35,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £76,250
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% - -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 17,792 14,377 29,163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.76% 29.24% 31.16%
Number of salaries quoted 12,757 9,545 21,410
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,250 £35,525
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 22 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 22 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 -55 1,268 £57,500 - 362
UK excluding London -56 897 £52,500 +5.00% 265
Work from Home -31 504 £60,000 +5.26% 176
London -24 476 £70,000 -6.67% 132
South East -30 244 £55,000 -4.35% 98
North of England -87 209 £48,445 +0.29% 67
Midlands -41 147 £50,000 - 30
North West -89 110 £50,801 +9.84% 39
East of England -20 94 £55,000 +8.91% 26
South West -74 83 £55,000 +15.79% 36
East Midlands -11 76 £42,500 +21.43% 13
West Midlands -53 70 £52,500 -4.55% 17
Yorkshire -45 59 £47,500 -5.71% 17
Northern Ireland -24 50 £46,000 +6.75% 2
Scotland +31 41 £52,500 +31.25% 11
North East -22 40 £48,445 -19.26% 12
Wales -36 29 £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
1 223 (15.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 200 (14.22%) SharePoint
3 50 (3.56%) IIS
4 26 (1.85%) Confluence
5 6 (0.43%) nginx
6 4 (0.28%) SAS
6 4 (0.28%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.21%) Apache
7 3 (0.21%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.071%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.071%) Site Server
8 1 (0.071%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.071%) WebSphere
Applications
1 79 (5.62%) 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
1 11 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.43%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.21%) Alphatax
4 3 (0.21%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.14%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.071%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 883 (62.80%) Azure
2 507 (36.06%) Microsoft 365
3 380 (27.03%) Entra ID
4 246 (17.50%) AWS
5 150 (10.67%) Azure DevOps
6 148 (10.53%) SaaS
7 119 (8.46%) Power Platform
8 111 (7.89%) GitHub
9 102 (7.25%) IaaS
10 93 (6.61%) OneDrive
11 84 (5.97%) Azure Monitor
12 75 (5.33%) PaaS
13 71 (5.05%) GitHub Actions
14 70 (4.98%) Azure Sentinel
15 65 (4.62%) Azure AKS
15 65 (4.62%) Power Automate
16 59 (4.20%) Azure Key Vault
17 58 (4.13%) GCP
18 51 (3.63%) Azure Logic Apps
19 49 (3.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 311 (22.12%) Firewall
2 293 (20.84%) DNS
3 206 (14.65%) VPN
4 198 (14.08%) DHCP
5 125 (8.89%) TCP/IP
6 91 (6.47%) WAN
7 84 (5.97%) LAN
8 73 (5.19%) Network Security
9 71 (5.05%) VLAN
10 49 (3.49%) Wi-Fi
11 40 (2.84%) Wireless
12 37 (2.63%) VoIP
13 35 (2.49%) SAN
14 32 (2.28%) Kerberos
15 28 (1.99%) 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
1 153 (10.88%) SQL Server
2 81 (5.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 80 (5.69%) Power BI
4 42 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
5 23 (1.64%) MySQL
5 23 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 21 (1.49%) MongoDB
7 15 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (1.07%) Relational Database
8 14 (1.00%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.64%) InfluxDB
10 7 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.43%) Tableau
12 5 (0.36%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.36%) Metadata
12 5 (0.36%) Redis
13 4 (0.28%) Big Data
13 4 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
13 4 (0.28%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 101 (7.18%) Git
2 81 (5.76%) JIRA
3 69 (4.91%) GitLab
4 64 (4.55%) Jenkins
5 30 (2.13%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.00%) 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%) SonarQube
14 3 (0.21%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.21%) CircleCI
General
1 471 (33.50%) Social Skills
2 210 (14.94%) Finance
3 171 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (8.89%) Law
5 97 (6.90%) Legal
6 56 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 54 (3.84%) Organisational Skills
8 51 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
9 40 (2.84%) Public Sector
9 40 (2.84%) Retail
10 27 (1.92%) Manufacturing
11 25 (1.78%) Banking
12 21 (1.49%) Aerospace
13 17 (1.21%) Advertising
14 14 (1.00%) Telecoms
15 10 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (0.64%) Financial Institution
16 9 (0.64%) Games
17 7 (0.50%) Front Office
17 7 (0.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 283 (20.13%) Senior
2 176 (12.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 159 (11.31%) Analyst
4 152 (10.81%) Support Engineer
5 142 (10.10%) IT Engineer
6 140 (9.96%) IT Support
7 133 (9.46%) Azure Engineer
8 120 (8.53%) Cloud Engineer
9 101 (7.18%) DevOps Engineer
10 83 (5.90%) IT Support Engineer
11 82 (5.83%) Security Engineer
12 69 (4.91%) Platform Engineer
13 63 (4.48%) 2nd Line Support
13 63 (4.48%) Developer
14 61 (4.34%) Lead
15 60 (4.27%) Systems Engineer
16 52 (3.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 52 (3.70%) Testing Manager
17 49 (3.49%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 49 (3.49%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (6.19%) .NET
2 68 (4.84%) SAML
3 65 (4.62%) OAuth
4 62 (4.41%) REST
5 58 (4.13%) OpenID
6 55 (3.91%) ARM Templates
6 55 (3.91%) LDAP
7 45 (3.20%) YAML
8 43 (3.06%) HTML
8 43 (3.06%) JSON
9 39 (2.77%) Microsoft Graph
10 36 (2.56%) .NET Core
11 32 (2.28%) CSS
11 32 (2.28%) SOAP
12 24 (1.71%) SPFx
13 23 (1.64%) GraphQL
14 21 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
15 19 (1.35%) HTML5 Canvas
16 18 (1.28%) XML
17 17 (1.21%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 114 (8.11%) Onboarding
2 83 (5.90%) Cloud Native
3 76 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 70 (4.98%) Security Posture
5 62 (4.41%) Driving Licence
5 62 (4.41%) Management Information System
6 54 (3.84%) Data Centre
6 54 (3.84%) Virtual Team
7 45 (3.20%) Security Operations Centre
8 44 (3.13%) Public Cloud
9 43 (3.06%) Cyber Threat
9 43 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
9 43 (3.06%) PKI
10 36 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
11 33 (2.35%) Cyber Defence
12 30 (2.13%) Cyberattack
13 24 (1.71%) Private Cloud
14 22 (1.56%) Replication
15 21 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
16 20 (1.42%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 653 (46.44%) Windows
2 315 (22.40%) Linux
3 312 (22.19%) Windows Server
4 78 (5.55%) Windows 10
5 55 (3.91%) Apple iOS
6 48 (3.41%) VMS
7 46 (3.27%) Mac OS
8 41 (2.92%) Android
9 35 (2.49%) Windows Server 2016
10 31 (2.20%) CentOS
11 29 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 26 (1.85%) Ubuntu
13 24 (1.71%) 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
1 354 (25.18%) Problem-Solving
2 346 (24.61%) DevOps
3 316 (22.48%) CI/CD
4 314 (22.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 298 (21.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 264 (18.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 262 (18.63%) Cybersecurity
8 236 (16.79%) ITIL
9 221 (15.72%) Mentoring
10 169 (12.02%) Agile
11 168 (11.95%) Disaster Recovery
12 162 (11.52%) Incident Response
13 159 (11.31%) Root Cause Analysis
14 149 (10.60%) High Availability
15 138 (9.82%) Containerisation
15 138 (9.82%) SIEM
16 133 (9.46%) Cloud Security
17 128 (9.10%) Roadmaps
18 125 (8.89%) AI
19 119 (8.46%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 571 (40.61%) Python
2 331 (23.54%) Bash
3 277 (19.70%) SQL
4 145 (10.31%) C#
5 127 (9.03%) JavaScript
6 103 (7.33%) Bicep
7 77 (5.48%) TypeScript
8 57 (4.05%) T-SQL
9 49 (3.49%) 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 10 (0.71%) Go
15 10 (0.71%) VBA
16 9 (0.64%) VB
17 8 (0.57%) C
17 8 (0.57%) Ruby
18 6 (0.43%) Korn
Qualifications
1 171 (12.16%) Security Cleared
2 169 (12.02%) Degree
3 156 (11.10%) Azure Certification
4 131 (9.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 116 (8.25%) SC Cleared
6 63 (4.48%) Cisco Certification
7 58 (4.13%) CISSP
8 55 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 48 (3.41%) CompTIA Security+
10 45 (3.20%) CCNA
10 45 (3.20%) DV Cleared
11 26 (1.85%) CEH
12 25 (1.78%) GIAC
12 25 (1.78%) OSCP
13 24 (1.71%) AWS Certification
13 24 (1.71%) CREST Certified
13 24 (1.71%) DBS Check
14 22 (1.56%) CCNP
15 17 (1.21%) CISM
15 17 (1.21%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (9.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 102 (7.25%) NIST
3 72 (5.12%) QA
4 61 (4.34%) Cyber Essentials
4 61 (4.34%) GDPR
5 43 (3.06%) SLA
6 22 (1.56%) Data Quality
6 22 (1.56%) NCSC
7 21 (1.49%) PCI DSS
8 19 (1.35%) SOC 2
9 11 (0.78%) ISO 22301
10 10 (0.71%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.43%) PMO
14 5 (0.36%) DICOM
15 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.14%) EMIR
16 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.14%) ISAE 3402
System Software
1 521 (37.06%) Active Directory
2 230 (16.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 150 (10.67%) Hyper-V
4 139 (9.89%) Docker
5 80 (5.69%) vSphere
6 52 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
7 43 (3.06%) Virtual Desktop
8 25 (1.78%) BitLocker
9 23 (1.64%) 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%) Firmware
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%) Samba
Systems Management
1 329 (23.40%) Terraform
2 229 (16.29%) Kubernetes
3 223 (15.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 162 (11.52%) Ansible
5 76 (5.41%) Grafana
6 59 (4.20%) SCCM
7 56 (3.98%) Single Sign-On
8 52 (3.70%) Prometheus
9 26 (1.85%) Jamf Pro
10 25 (1.78%) ZABBIX
11 24 (1.71%) vCenter Server
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 (1.00%) Graylog
17 12 (0.85%) VxRail
18 11 (0.78%) Nessus
18 11 (0.78%) WSUS
Vendors
1 825 (58.68%) Microsoft
2 276 (19.63%) VMware
3 120 (8.53%) Cisco
4 94 (6.69%) Splunk
5 87 (6.19%) ServiceNow
6 55 (3.91%) Red Hat
7 50 (3.56%) Veeam
8 42 (2.99%) Meraki
9 40 (2.84%) Oracle
10 31 (2.20%) Citrix
10 31 (2.20%) Sophos
10 31 (2.20%) Tenable
11 29 (2.06%) Apple
11 29 (2.06%) CrowdStrike
12 28 (1.99%) Fortinet
13 27 (1.92%) Dell
14 25 (1.78%) CyberArk
14 25 (1.78%) Palo Alto
15 24 (1.71%) Dynatrace
16 21 (1.49%) SolarWinds