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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 87 119
Rank change year-on-year -57 +32 -41
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,432 1,696 1,872
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.38% 3.41% 2.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.81% 11.86% 7.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,025 1,117 1,462
10th Percentile £32,000 £34,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £44,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £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 18,346 14,298 25,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.70% 28.75% 30.38%
Number of salaries quoted 13,040 9,465 18,107
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,750 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
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 3 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 3 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 1,273 £59,000 +2.61% 502
UK excluding London -59 923 £52,500 +5.00% 380
Work from Home -41 499 £60,500 +5.22% 243
London -36 472 £70,000 -6.67% 198
South East -29 246 £54,000 -6.09% 123
North of England -95 213 £50,000 +5.26% 89
Midlands -33 152 £52,500 +3.70% 41
North West -84 117 £52,500 +14.13% 57
East of England -37 91 £57,500 +11.65% 37
South West -78 85 £55,000 +15.79% 55
East Midlands -4 78 £42,500 +17.24% 21
West Midlands -59 74 £53,688 -2.39% 20
Northern Ireland -20 63 £46,000 +2.12% 28
Yorkshire -43 58 £42,500 -15.00% 21
Scotland +26 43 £52,500 +31.25% 13
North East -26 38 £50,000 -16.67% 13
Wales -38 30 £46,500 -15.45% 7

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
1 227 (15.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 208 (14.53%) SharePoint
3 52 (3.63%) IIS
4 32 (2.23%) Confluence
5 9 (0.63%) nginx
6 6 (0.42%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.35%) Apache
8 4 (0.28%) SAS
9 3 (0.21%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.070%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.070%) Site Server
10 1 (0.070%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.070%) WebSphere
Applications
1 75 (5.24%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (0.77%) NetSuite
1 11 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.42%) Raiser’s Edge
3 3 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.21%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.14%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.070%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.070%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.070%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 891 (62.22%) Azure
2 513 (35.82%) Microsoft 365
3 389 (27.16%) Entra ID
4 253 (17.67%) AWS
5 168 (11.73%) SaaS
6 158 (11.03%) Azure DevOps
7 118 (8.24%) GitHub
8 113 (7.89%) Power Platform
9 107 (7.47%) IaaS
10 98 (6.84%) OneDrive
11 81 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
12 78 (5.45%) PaaS
13 74 (5.17%) Azure Sentinel
14 69 (4.82%) GitHub Actions
15 68 (4.75%) Azure AKS
16 67 (4.68%) Power Automate
17 65 (4.54%) GCP
18 62 (4.33%) Azure Key Vault
19 49 (3.42%) Azure Logic Apps
20 47 (3.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 313 (21.86%) Firewall
2 299 (20.88%) DNS
3 200 (13.97%) DHCP
3 200 (13.97%) VPN
4 135 (9.43%) TCP/IP
5 96 (6.70%) WAN
6 86 (6.01%) LAN
7 74 (5.17%) Network Security
8 69 (4.82%) VLAN
9 46 (3.21%) Wi-Fi
10 41 (2.86%) Wireless
11 39 (2.72%) SAN
12 35 (2.44%) Kerberos
13 31 (2.16%) VoIP
14 21 (1.47%) SSL
15 20 (1.40%) NAS
16 19 (1.33%) BGP
16 19 (1.33%) Broadband
17 17 (1.19%) Internet
18 16 (1.12%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (11.17%) SQL Server
2 83 (5.80%) Azure SQL Database
3 71 (4.96%) Power BI
4 37 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (1.68%) MongoDB
6 22 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (1.33%) MySQL
7 19 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (1.05%) Relational Database
10 14 (0.98%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.63%) InfluxDB
11 9 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.42%) Redis
13 5 (0.35%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.35%) Metadata
13 5 (0.35%) Power Query
14 4 (0.28%) Big Data
14 4 (0.28%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 108 (7.54%) Git
2 90 (6.28%) JIRA
3 69 (4.82%) GitLab
4 63 (4.40%) Jenkins
5 30 (2.09%) Bitbucket
6 14 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (0.77%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (0.49%) Metasploit
9 7 (0.49%) Robot Framework
9 7 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 7 (0.49%) TestRail
10 6 (0.42%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.42%) Selenium
11 5 (0.35%) Postman
12 4 (0.28%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.21%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.21%) Burp Suite
13 3 (0.21%) MSI
General
1 492 (34.36%) Social Skills
2 222 (15.50%) Finance
3 181 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (8.94%) Law
5 111 (7.75%) Legal
6 60 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 49 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
8 44 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
8 44 (3.07%) Retail
9 38 (2.65%) Public Sector
10 32 (2.23%) Manufacturing
11 30 (2.09%) Banking
12 24 (1.68%) Aerospace
13 17 (1.19%) Advertising
14 13 (0.91%) Telecoms
15 12 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (0.77%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.77%) Legal Technology
17 8 (0.56%) Front Office
17 8 (0.56%) Games
Job Titles
1 282 (19.69%) Senior
2 179 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 150 (10.47%) Analyst
4 145 (10.13%) Support Engineer
5 134 (9.36%) IT Support
6 133 (9.29%) IT Engineer
7 132 (9.22%) Azure Engineer
8 123 (8.59%) Cloud Engineer
9 103 (7.19%) DevOps Engineer
10 78 (5.45%) IT Support Engineer
11 76 (5.31%) Security Engineer
12 69 (4.82%) Platform Engineer
13 66 (4.61%) Lead
14 63 (4.40%) Developer
15 60 (4.19%) Systems Engineer
16 57 (3.98%) 2nd Line Support
17 55 (3.84%) Testing Manager
18 52 (3.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 52 (3.63%) Senior Manager
19 51 (3.56%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (6.15%) .NET
2 62 (4.33%) SAML
3 61 (4.26%) REST
4 59 (4.12%) OAuth
5 56 (3.91%) ARM Templates
6 52 (3.63%) LDAP
6 52 (3.63%) OpenID
7 45 (3.14%) YAML
8 43 (3.00%) HTML
9 41 (2.86%) Microsoft Graph
10 36 (2.51%) JSON
11 34 (2.37%) .NET Core
12 32 (2.23%) CSS
13 26 (1.82%) SOAP
14 25 (1.75%) SPFx
15 21 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
16 19 (1.33%) HTML5 Canvas
17 16 (1.12%) GraphQL
17 16 (1.12%) RESTful
18 15 (1.05%) React
Miscellaneous
1 106 (7.40%) Onboarding
2 85 (5.94%) Cloud Native
3 74 (5.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 70 (4.89%) Security Posture
5 68 (4.75%) Management Information System
6 58 (4.05%) Driving Licence
7 57 (3.98%) Virtual Team
8 52 (3.63%) Data Centre
9 45 (3.14%) Public Cloud
10 43 (3.00%) Security Operations Centre
11 40 (2.79%) PKI
12 39 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
13 37 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
14 35 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
14 35 (2.44%) Replication
15 34 (2.37%) Clustering
16 30 (2.09%) Cyber Defence
17 26 (1.82%) Private Cloud
18 22 (1.54%) CMDB
19 21 (1.47%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 666 (46.51%) Windows
2 333 (23.25%) Linux
3 321 (22.42%) Windows Server
4 78 (5.45%) Windows 10
5 52 (3.63%) Apple iOS
6 46 (3.21%) VMS
7 45 (3.14%) Mac OS
8 42 (2.93%) Android
9 38 (2.65%) Windows Server 2016
10 36 (2.51%) CentOS
10 36 (2.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 31 (2.16%) Ubuntu
12 26 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
13 15 (1.05%) Unix
14 7 (0.49%) Kali Linux
15 6 (0.42%) Debian
16 5 (0.35%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.28%) AIX
17 4 (0.28%) Windows 7
18 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (25.56%) DevOps
2 354 (24.72%) Problem-Solving
3 328 (22.91%) CI/CD
4 319 (22.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 315 (22.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 262 (18.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 257 (17.95%) ITIL
8 251 (17.53%) Cybersecurity
9 214 (14.94%) Mentoring
10 176 (12.29%) Disaster Recovery
11 167 (11.66%) Agile
12 166 (11.59%) Root Cause Analysis
13 164 (11.45%) Incident Response
14 163 (11.38%) High Availability
15 139 (9.71%) Containerisation
16 138 (9.64%) SIEM
17 134 (9.36%) AI
18 130 (9.08%) Cloud Security
19 128 (8.94%) Observability
19 128 (8.94%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 577 (40.29%) Python
2 321 (22.42%) Bash
3 282 (19.69%) SQL
4 148 (10.34%) C#
5 134 (9.36%) JavaScript
6 107 (7.47%) Bicep
7 82 (5.73%) TypeScript
8 50 (3.49%) Kusto Query Language
9 47 (3.28%) T-SQL
10 36 (2.51%) Java
11 21 (1.47%) VBScript
12 19 (1.33%) C++
13 16 (1.12%) PHP
14 15 (1.05%) Perl
15 10 (0.70%) Go
15 10 (0.70%) VBA
16 9 (0.63%) Ruby
16 9 (0.63%) VB
17 8 (0.56%) C
18 6 (0.42%) Korn
Qualifications
1 184 (12.85%) Security Cleared
2 173 (12.08%) Degree
3 157 (10.96%) Azure Certification
4 139 (9.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 128 (8.94%) SC Cleared
6 64 (4.47%) Cisco Certification
7 61 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 56 (3.91%) CISSP
9 50 (3.49%) CompTIA Security+
10 48 (3.35%) DV Cleared
11 45 (3.14%) CCNA
12 24 (1.68%) DBS Check
13 23 (1.61%) AWS Certification
13 23 (1.61%) CEH
14 22 (1.54%) CCNP
14 22 (1.54%) GIAC
15 21 (1.47%) OSCP
16 19 (1.33%) CREST Certified
17 18 (1.26%) CISM
18 14 (0.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (8.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 89 (6.22%) NIST
3 77 (5.38%) QA
4 64 (4.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 58 (4.05%) GDPR
6 41 (2.86%) SLA
7 20 (1.40%) Data Quality
8 19 (1.33%) PCI DSS
9 18 (1.26%) SOC 2
10 16 (1.12%) NCSC
11 9 (0.63%) ISO 22301
12 8 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (0.49%) Accessibility
14 6 (0.42%) PMO
15 5 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.21%) DICOM
16 3 (0.21%) ISAE 3402
17 2 (0.14%) EMIR
17 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
System Software
1 515 (35.96%) Active Directory
2 237 (16.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 158 (11.03%) Hyper-V
4 142 (9.92%) Docker
5 81 (5.66%) vSphere
6 57 (3.98%) Virtual Machines
7 41 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 24 (1.68%) BitLocker
9 23 (1.61%) VMware NSX
10 15 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
11 9 (0.63%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 9 (0.63%) KVM
12 8 (0.56%) Squid
13 5 (0.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 5 (0.35%) Firmware
14 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.21%) Terminal Services
16 2 (0.14%) iptables
16 2 (0.14%) Samba
Systems Management
1 345 (24.09%) Terraform
2 235 (16.41%) Kubernetes
3 234 (16.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 173 (12.08%) Ansible
5 81 (5.66%) Grafana
6 66 (4.61%) SCCM
7 51 (3.56%) Prometheus
7 51 (3.56%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (1.82%) Jamf Pro
9 25 (1.75%) ZABBIX
10 22 (1.54%) vCenter Server
11 21 (1.47%) Argo
12 20 (1.40%) Packer
12 20 (1.40%) QRadar
13 19 (1.33%) Proxmox
14 14 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 14 (0.98%) Graylog
15 13 (0.91%) Nagios
15 13 (0.91%) VxRail
16 10 (0.70%) Nessus
Vendors
1 857 (59.85%) Microsoft
2 278 (19.41%) VMware
3 125 (8.73%) Cisco
4 103 (7.19%) ServiceNow
5 95 (6.63%) Splunk
6 63 (4.40%) Red Hat
7 56 (3.91%) Veeam
8 46 (3.21%) Meraki
8 46 (3.21%) Oracle
9 33 (2.30%) Citrix
10 32 (2.23%) Dynatrace
10 32 (2.23%) Sophos
11 31 (2.16%) Tenable
12 30 (2.09%) Apple
13 29 (2.03%) Dell
14 28 (1.96%) CrowdStrike
14 28 (1.96%) Fortinet
15 24 (1.68%) CyberArk
16 23 (1.61%) Palo Alto
17 21 (1.47%) SolarWinds