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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 85 115
Rank change year-on-year -54 +30 -38
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,406 1,678 2,024
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.40% 3.42% 2.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.83% 11.70% 7.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,014 1,104 1,606
10th Percentile £32,000 £35,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.54% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £77,500
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 17,963 14,344 27,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.83% 29.20% 30.91%
Number of salaries quoted 12,792 9,520 20,263
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
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 25 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 25 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 -56 1,261 £57,500 - 362
UK excluding London -57 899 £52,500 +5.00% 271
Work from Home -43 501 £60,000 +4.35% 172
London -29 473 £70,000 -6.67% 128
South East -40 244 £53,000 -7.83% 97
North of England -87 211 £48,445 +0.29% 67
Midlands -42 146 £50,000 - 34
North West -88 114 £51,500 +10.75% 38
East of England -23 92 £55,000 +4.76% 28
South West -74 82 £55,000 +15.79% 35
East Midlands -15 75 £42,500 +21.43% 16
West Midlands -60 71 £52,500 -4.55% 18
Yorkshire -47 57 £47,500 -5.71% 20
Northern Ireland -23 53 £46,000 +6.75% 4
Scotland +34 42 £51,250 +28.13% 10
North East -19 40 £48,445 -19.26% 11
Wales -34 29 £53,000 -3.64% 10

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
1 222 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 201 (14.30%) SharePoint
3 52 (3.70%) IIS
4 26 (1.85%) Confluence
5 7 (0.50%) nginx
6 6 (0.43%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.28%) Apache
7 4 (0.28%) SAS
8 3 (0.21%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.071%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.071%) Site Server
9 1 (0.071%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.071%) WebSphere
Applications
1 80 (5.69%) 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 4 (0.28%) 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
Cloud Services
1 880 (62.59%) Azure
2 506 (35.99%) Microsoft 365
3 377 (26.81%) Entra ID
4 244 (17.35%) AWS
5 155 (11.02%) Azure DevOps
6 152 (10.81%) SaaS
7 119 (8.46%) Power Platform
8 113 (8.04%) GitHub
9 104 (7.40%) IaaS
10 94 (6.69%) OneDrive
11 84 (5.97%) Azure Monitor
12 77 (5.48%) PaaS
13 70 (4.98%) GitHub Actions
14 68 (4.84%) Azure Sentinel
15 66 (4.69%) Azure AKS
15 66 (4.69%) Power Automate
16 61 (4.34%) Azure Key Vault
17 58 (4.13%) GCP
18 52 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
19 49 (3.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 309 (21.98%) Firewall
2 296 (21.05%) DNS
3 201 (14.30%) VPN
4 199 (14.15%) DHCP
5 131 (9.32%) TCP/IP
6 93 (6.61%) WAN
7 85 (6.05%) LAN
8 73 (5.19%) Network Security
9 69 (4.91%) VLAN
10 48 (3.41%) Wi-Fi
11 41 (2.92%) Wireless
12 36 (2.56%) SAN
13 33 (2.35%) Kerberos
13 33 (2.35%) VoIP
14 26 (1.85%) Broadband
15 21 (1.49%) BGP
16 18 (1.28%) NAS
16 18 (1.28%) SSL
17 16 (1.14%) Internet
18 15 (1.07%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (10.95%) SQL Server
2 81 (5.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 78 (5.55%) Power BI
4 41 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (1.56%) MySQL
7 21 (1.49%) MongoDB
7 21 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (1.07%) NoSQL
9 15 (1.07%) Relational Database
10 9 (0.64%) InfluxDB
11 7 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.43%) Redis
12 6 (0.43%) Tableau
13 5 (0.36%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.36%) Metadata
13 5 (0.36%) Power Query
14 4 (0.28%) Big Data
14 4 (0.28%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 106 (7.54%) Git
2 81 (5.76%) JIRA
3 68 (4.84%) GitLab
4 63 (4.48%) Jenkins
5 30 (2.13%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (0.78%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (0.71%) Metasploit
9 9 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 9 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
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%) Terragrunt
General
1 472 (33.57%) Social Skills
2 216 (15.36%) Finance
3 173 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (8.96%) Law
5 101 (7.18%) Legal
6 59 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 51 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
9 40 (2.84%) Retail
10 35 (2.49%) Public Sector
11 28 (1.99%) Manufacturing
12 26 (1.85%) Banking
13 21 (1.49%) Aerospace
14 17 (1.21%) Advertising
15 13 (0.92%) Telecoms
16 10 (0.71%) Financial Institution
16 10 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.64%) Games
18 7 (0.50%) Front Office
18 7 (0.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 283 (20.13%) Senior
2 172 (12.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 159 (11.31%) Analyst
4 149 (10.60%) Support Engineer
5 138 (9.82%) IT Support
6 135 (9.60%) IT Engineer
7 132 (9.39%) Azure Engineer
8 120 (8.53%) Cloud Engineer
9 103 (7.33%) DevOps Engineer
10 82 (5.83%) IT Support Engineer
11 78 (5.55%) Security Engineer
12 69 (4.91%) Platform Engineer
13 64 (4.55%) Developer
14 61 (4.34%) 2nd Line Support
15 60 (4.27%) Lead
16 59 (4.20%) Systems Engineer
17 52 (3.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 52 (3.70%) Testing Manager
18 49 (3.49%) Senior Manager
19 48 (3.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (6.26%) .NET
2 65 (4.62%) SAML
3 63 (4.48%) REST
4 62 (4.41%) OAuth
5 55 (3.91%) ARM Templates
5 55 (3.91%) OpenID
6 52 (3.70%) LDAP
7 45 (3.20%) YAML
8 44 (3.13%) HTML
9 41 (2.92%) JSON
9 41 (2.92%) Microsoft Graph
10 36 (2.56%) .NET Core
11 33 (2.35%) CSS
12 30 (2.13%) SOAP
13 25 (1.78%) SPFx
14 21 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
14 21 (1.49%) GraphQL
15 19 (1.35%) HTML5 Canvas
16 17 (1.21%) RESTful
17 16 (1.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 107 (7.61%) Onboarding
2 85 (6.05%) Cloud Native
3 74 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 70 (4.98%) Security Posture
5 65 (4.62%) Management Information System
6 59 (4.20%) Driving Licence
7 54 (3.84%) Virtual Team
8 52 (3.70%) Data Centre
9 45 (3.20%) Public Cloud
10 44 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
11 41 (2.92%) PKI
12 39 (2.77%) Cyber Threat
13 37 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
14 36 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
15 33 (2.35%) Cyber Defence
16 26 (1.85%) Cyberattack
17 25 (1.78%) Clustering
17 25 (1.78%) Private Cloud
18 24 (1.71%) Replication
19 21 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 657 (46.73%) Windows
2 318 (22.62%) Linux
3 316 (22.48%) Windows Server
4 78 (5.55%) Windows 10
5 54 (3.84%) Apple iOS
6 47 (3.34%) VMS
7 44 (3.13%) Mac OS
8 41 (2.92%) Android
9 38 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
10 34 (2.42%) CentOS
11 32 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 27 (1.92%) Ubuntu
13 26 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
14 14 (1.00%) Unix
15 7 (0.50%) Debian
15 7 (0.50%) Kali Linux
16 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.28%) AIX
17 4 (0.28%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.28%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (25.11%) DevOps
2 352 (25.04%) Problem-Solving
3 322 (22.90%) CI/CD
4 315 (22.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 298 (21.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 258 (18.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 256 (18.21%) Cybersecurity
8 242 (17.21%) ITIL
9 213 (15.15%) Mentoring
10 170 (12.09%) Agile
10 170 (12.09%) Disaster Recovery
11 160 (11.38%) Incident Response
11 160 (11.38%) Root Cause Analysis
12 152 (10.81%) High Availability
13 138 (9.82%) Containerisation
14 136 (9.67%) SIEM
15 131 (9.32%) Cloud Security
16 128 (9.10%) AI
17 125 (8.89%) Roadmaps
18 120 (8.53%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 566 (40.26%) Python
2 324 (23.04%) Bash
3 276 (19.63%) SQL
4 145 (10.31%) C#
5 127 (9.03%) JavaScript
6 105 (7.47%) Bicep
7 78 (5.55%) TypeScript
8 52 (3.70%) T-SQL
9 49 (3.49%) Kusto Query Language
10 34 (2.42%) Java
11 20 (1.42%) VBScript
12 18 (1.28%) C++
13 17 (1.21%) PHP
14 12 (0.85%) Perl
15 10 (0.71%) Go
15 10 (0.71%) VB
15 10 (0.71%) VBA
16 8 (0.57%) C
16 8 (0.57%) Ruby
17 6 (0.43%) Korn
Qualifications
1 174 (12.38%) Security Cleared
2 170 (12.09%) Degree
3 156 (11.10%) Azure Certification
4 134 (9.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 120 (8.53%) SC Cleared
6 62 (4.41%) Cisco Certification
7 58 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 57 (4.05%) CISSP
9 48 (3.41%) CompTIA Security+
10 44 (3.13%) CCNA
10 44 (3.13%) DV Cleared
11 24 (1.71%) CEH
11 24 (1.71%) DBS Check
11 24 (1.71%) GIAC
11 24 (1.71%) OSCP
12 23 (1.64%) AWS Certification
13 22 (1.56%) CCNP
13 22 (1.56%) CREST Certified
14 17 (1.21%) CISM
15 15 (1.07%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (9.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 97 (6.90%) NIST
3 73 (5.19%) QA
4 59 (4.20%) Cyber Essentials
4 59 (4.20%) GDPR
5 43 (3.06%) SLA
6 20 (1.42%) Data Quality
6 20 (1.42%) NCSC
6 20 (1.42%) PCI DSS
7 18 (1.28%) SOC 2
8 10 (0.71%) ISO 22301
9 7 (0.50%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.43%) PMO
11 4 (0.28%) DICOM
11 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.21%) ISAE 3402
13 2 (0.14%) EMIR
13 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 513 (36.49%) Active Directory
2 232 (16.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 155 (11.02%) Hyper-V
4 140 (9.96%) Docker
5 80 (5.69%) vSphere
6 55 (3.91%) Virtual Machines
7 43 (3.06%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (1.92%) 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
13 4 (0.28%) 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
1 335 (23.83%) Terraform
2 232 (16.50%) Kubernetes
3 224 (15.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 165 (11.74%) Ansible
5 78 (5.55%) Grafana
6 62 (4.41%) SCCM
7 52 (3.70%) Prometheus
8 51 (3.63%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (1.85%) Jamf Pro
10 25 (1.78%) vCenter Server
10 25 (1.78%) ZABBIX
11 21 (1.49%) Argo
12 20 (1.42%) Packer
13 19 (1.35%) QRadar
14 17 (1.21%) Proxmox
15 15 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 14 (1.00%) Graylog
17 13 (0.92%) VxRail
18 12 (0.85%) Nessus
19 11 (0.78%) Nagios
Vendors
1 835 (59.39%) Microsoft
2 277 (19.70%) VMware
3 117 (8.32%) Cisco
4 94 (6.69%) ServiceNow
5 90 (6.40%) Splunk
6 58 (4.13%) Red Hat
7 52 (3.70%) Veeam
8 42 (2.99%) Meraki
9 40 (2.84%) Oracle
10 31 (2.20%) Citrix
10 31 (2.20%) Sophos
11 29 (2.06%) Apple
11 29 (2.06%) Tenable
12 28 (1.99%) CrowdStrike
12 28 (1.99%) Dell
12 28 (1.99%) Fortinet
13 26 (1.85%) Dynatrace
14 24 (1.71%) Palo Alto
15 21 (1.49%) CyberArk
15 21 (1.49%) SolarWinds