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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 85 117
Rank change year-on-year -57 +32 -30
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,293 1,560 2,329
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.40% 3.57% 2.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.89% 11.34% 7.02%
Number of salaries quoted 952 975 1,893
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +6.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,500 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,051 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.10% - -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 16,396 13,759 33,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.70% 31.50% 32.30%
Number of salaries quoted 11,408 9,148 25,214
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -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 4 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 4 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 -69 1,184 £57,500 -4.17% 437
UK excluding London -78 750 £50,051 +0.10% 337
London -10 515 £70,000 -6.67% 145
Work from Home -42 423 £60,000 +7.14% 181
North of England -107 186 £47,500 -5.71% 68
South East -63 183 £55,000 -4.35% 125
Midlands -59 125 £49,000 -2.00% 40
North West -92 95 £50,051 +8.81% 42
South West -33 83 £55,000 +15.79% 49
East of England -34 82 £57,500 +21.05% 36
East Midlands -10 73 £47,500 +35.71% 19
Scotland +44 65 £50,000 +6.95% 16
Yorkshire -23 63 £45,000 -21.74% 16
West Midlands -82 51 £48,000 -5.37% 21
North East -23 28 £45,000 -23.40% 10
Wales -18 23 £54,085 +8.17% 4
Northern Ireland -36 3 £46,000 +6.75% 11

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
1 187 (14.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 172 (13.30%) SharePoint
3 39 (3.02%) IIS
4 22 (1.70%) Confluence
5 3 (0.23%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.15%) Apache
7 1 (0.077%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.077%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.077%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.077%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.077%) Site Server
Applications
1 74 (5.72%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.077%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.077%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.46%) Markit EDM
2 5 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (0.39%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.23%) Alphatax
3 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.15%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.077%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.077%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 842 (65.12%) Azure
2 473 (36.58%) Microsoft 365
3 350 (27.07%) Entra ID
4 214 (16.55%) AWS
5 136 (10.52%) Azure DevOps
6 113 (8.74%) Power Platform
7 96 (7.42%) GitHub
8 90 (6.96%) SaaS
9 85 (6.57%) IaaS
10 82 (6.34%) OneDrive
11 69 (5.34%) Google Workspace
12 66 (5.10%) GitHub Actions
13 64 (4.95%) Azure Monitor
14 58 (4.49%) GCP
15 57 (4.41%) Azure AKS
16 56 (4.33%) Azure Sentinel
16 56 (4.33%) Power Automate
17 55 (4.25%) PaaS
18 54 (4.18%) Azure Key Vault
19 44 (3.40%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 260 (20.11%) Firewall
2 257 (19.88%) DNS
3 159 (12.30%) DHCP
4 158 (12.22%) VPN
5 110 (8.51%) TCP/IP
6 80 (6.19%) WAN
7 75 (5.80%) LAN
8 66 (5.10%) Network Security
9 57 (4.41%) Broadband
10 49 (3.79%) VLAN
11 44 (3.40%) Wi-Fi
12 38 (2.94%) VoIP
13 34 (2.63%) SAN
14 21 (1.62%) BGP
14 21 (1.62%) Wireless
15 16 (1.24%) Kerberos
15 16 (1.24%) SD-WAN
15 16 (1.24%) VSAN
16 14 (1.08%) MPLS
17 13 (1.01%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (11.21%) SQL Server
2 83 (6.42%) Power BI
3 61 (4.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 37 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
5 30 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (2.01%) MySQL
7 23 (1.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 19 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 17 (1.31%) Relational Database
10 16 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (1.16%) NoSQL
12 14 (1.08%) MongoDB
13 11 (0.85%) Tableau
14 9 (0.70%) Data Lake
14 9 (0.70%) InfluxDB
15 6 (0.46%) Metadata
16 5 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
16 5 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 3 (0.23%) RDBMS
17 3 (0.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 94 (7.27%) Git
2 69 (5.34%) JIRA
3 64 (4.95%) Jenkins
4 59 (4.56%) GitLab
5 32 (2.47%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
7 14 (1.08%) TeamCity
8 13 (1.01%) Metasploit
9 12 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 10 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
11 9 (0.70%) Burp Suite
12 8 (0.62%) Robot Framework
13 7 (0.54%) TestRail
14 6 (0.46%) CircleCI
15 5 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 4 (0.31%) Cypress.io
16 4 (0.31%) MLflow
16 4 (0.31%) Selenium
17 3 (0.23%) Artifactory
17 3 (0.23%) Terragrunt
General
1 393 (30.39%) Social Skills
2 227 (17.56%) Finance
3 177 (13.69%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (6.50%) Law
5 77 (5.96%) Organisational Skills
6 55 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 45 (3.48%) Legal
7 45 (3.48%) Retail
8 44 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
9 39 (3.02%) Public Sector
10 28 (2.17%) Games
11 26 (2.01%) Aerospace
11 26 (2.01%) Banking
11 26 (2.01%) Manufacturing
12 19 (1.47%) Advertising
13 13 (1.01%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.62%) Front Office
15 7 (0.54%) Aviation
15 7 (0.54%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 237 (18.33%) Senior
2 160 (12.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 145 (11.21%) Analyst
3 145 (11.21%) Support Engineer
4 136 (10.52%) Azure Engineer
5 130 (10.05%) IT Support
6 114 (8.82%) IT Engineer
7 100 (7.73%) Cloud Engineer
8 93 (7.19%) DevOps Engineer
9 82 (6.34%) Security Engineer
10 78 (6.03%) IT Support Engineer
11 61 (4.72%) Developer
12 58 (4.49%) 2nd Line Support
13 57 (4.41%) Systems Engineer
14 56 (4.33%) Platform Engineer
15 55 (4.25%) Lead
16 45 (3.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 42 (3.25%) Architect
17 42 (3.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 41 (3.17%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (7.19%) OAuth
2 90 (6.96%) SAML
3 88 (6.81%) .NET
4 87 (6.73%) REST
5 83 (6.42%) OpenID
6 77 (5.96%) LDAP
7 61 (4.72%) SOAP
8 55 (4.25%) GraphQL
9 42 (3.25%) YAML
10 40 (3.09%) ARM Templates
10 40 (3.09%) JSON
11 38 (2.94%) Microsoft Graph
12 37 (2.86%) .NET Core
13 36 (2.78%) HTML
14 34 (2.63%) CSS
15 25 (1.93%) SPFx
16 19 (1.47%) HTML5 Canvas
17 18 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
17 18 (1.39%) React
18 14 (1.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 95 (7.35%) Onboarding
2 72 (5.57%) Cyber Threat
3 70 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 65 (5.03%) Cloud Native
5 62 (4.80%) Cyberattack
6 60 (4.64%) Management Information System
7 56 (4.33%) Security Posture
8 47 (3.63%) Driving Licence
9 43 (3.33%) Cyber Defence
10 42 (3.25%) Data Centre
10 42 (3.25%) Security Operations Centre
11 36 (2.78%) PKI
12 35 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
13 31 (2.40%) Public Cloud
14 29 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
15 25 (1.93%) CMDB
16 20 (1.55%) Private Cloud
16 20 (1.55%) Replication
17 19 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
18 18 (1.39%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 608 (47.02%) Windows
2 293 (22.66%) Windows Server
3 286 (22.12%) Linux
4 79 (6.11%) Windows 10
5 52 (4.02%) Mac OS
6 49 (3.79%) Apple iOS
7 46 (3.56%) Android
8 41 (3.17%) VMS
9 39 (3.02%) Windows Server 2016
10 31 (2.40%) CentOS
10 31 (2.40%) Windows Server 2019
11 29 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 25 (1.93%) Ubuntu
13 17 (1.31%) Unix
14 7 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.39%) Debian
16 4 (0.31%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.31%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.23%) AIX
17 3 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (24.75%) Problem-Solving
2 288 (22.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 287 (22.20%) CI/CD
4 281 (21.73%) Cybersecurity
5 269 (20.80%) DevOps
6 228 (17.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 221 (17.09%) ITIL
8 214 (16.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 190 (14.69%) Mentoring
10 164 (12.68%) Agile
11 158 (12.22%) Incident Response
12 149 (11.52%) Root Cause Analysis
13 147 (11.37%) Disaster Recovery
14 138 (10.67%) Roadmaps
15 131 (10.13%) Containerisation
16 128 (9.90%) SIEM
17 125 (9.67%) High Availability
18 110 (8.51%) Cloud Security
19 107 (8.28%) AI
19 107 (8.28%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 503 (38.90%) Python
2 339 (26.22%) Bash
3 273 (21.11%) SQL
4 95 (7.35%) C#
5 79 (6.11%) T-SQL
6 78 (6.03%) Bicep
7 74 (5.72%) JavaScript
8 32 (2.47%) Kusto Query Language
9 29 (2.24%) Java
10 24 (1.86%) TypeScript
11 17 (1.31%) C++
12 14 (1.08%) Perl
13 13 (1.01%) VBScript
14 11 (0.85%) PHP
14 11 (0.85%) VB
14 11 (0.85%) VBA
15 9 (0.70%) Go
15 9 (0.70%) VB.NET
16 7 (0.54%) C
17 6 (0.46%) Korn
Qualifications
1 160 (12.37%) Degree
1 160 (12.37%) Security Cleared
2 127 (9.82%) Azure Certification
3 121 (9.36%) Microsoft Certification
4 101 (7.81%) SC Cleared
5 53 (4.10%) CISSP
6 52 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 49 (3.79%) Cisco Certification
8 45 (3.48%) DV Cleared
9 37 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
10 33 (2.55%) CCNA
11 30 (2.32%) CREST Certified
12 29 (2.24%) OSCP
13 25 (1.93%) AWS Certification
13 25 (1.93%) DBS Check
14 24 (1.86%) CEH
14 24 (1.86%) GIAC
15 16 (1.24%) CCNP
15 16 (1.24%) CompTIA CySA+
16 13 (1.01%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (11.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 135 (10.44%) NIST
3 58 (4.49%) GDPR
4 53 (4.10%) NCSC
5 43 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 40 (3.09%) SLA
7 19 (1.47%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.31%) Accessibility
9 16 (1.24%) ISO 22301
10 14 (1.08%) PCI DSS
10 14 (1.08%) SOC 2
11 13 (1.01%) QA
12 11 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.46%) DICOM
14 5 (0.39%) PMO
15 4 (0.31%) GRC
16 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
16 3 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 498 (38.52%) Active Directory
2 188 (14.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 137 (10.60%) Docker
4 127 (9.82%) Hyper-V
5 61 (4.72%) vSphere
6 38 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
7 26 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
8 24 (1.86%) VMware NSX
9 23 (1.78%) BitLocker
10 15 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
11 11 (0.85%) Firmware
12 10 (0.77%) KVM
13 8 (0.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 8 (0.62%) Squid
14 6 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
15 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.31%) iptables
16 4 (0.31%) Terminal Services
17 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
18 2 (0.15%) Samba
Systems Management
1 295 (22.82%) Terraform
2 211 (16.32%) Kubernetes
3 200 (15.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 150 (11.60%) Ansible
5 60 (4.64%) Grafana
5 60 (4.64%) Single Sign-On
6 47 (3.63%) SCCM
7 43 (3.33%) Prometheus
8 26 (2.01%) Jamf Pro
9 24 (1.86%) vCenter Server
10 23 (1.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 19 (1.47%) ZABBIX
12 18 (1.39%) Packer
13 17 (1.31%) Nessus
14 16 (1.24%) QRadar
15 15 (1.16%) VxRail
16 13 (1.01%) Argo
16 13 (1.01%) Graylog
16 13 (1.01%) Proxmox
17 12 (0.93%) Nagios
Vendors
1 744 (57.54%) Microsoft
2 241 (18.64%) VMware
3 103 (7.97%) Cisco
4 81 (6.26%) Splunk
5 59 (4.56%) ServiceNow
6 58 (4.49%) Red Hat
7 49 (3.79%) Veeam
8 35 (2.71%) CrowdStrike
9 34 (2.63%) Meraki
9 34 (2.63%) Oracle
10 29 (2.24%) Apple
10 29 (2.24%) Dell
10 29 (2.24%) Google
11 27 (2.09%) Citrix
11 27 (2.09%) Fortinet
12 26 (2.01%) Commvault
13 24 (1.86%) Tenable
14 23 (1.78%) Palo Alto
14 23 (1.78%) Sophos
15 21 (1.62%) SolarWinds