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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 90 97
Rank change year-on-year -61 +7 -34
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,476 1,622 1,821
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.25% 3.26% 2.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.04% 12.69% 8.07%
Number of salaries quoted 993 1,061 1,180
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £37,725
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,959
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -5.67% +1.60%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £89,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year - +3.96% -5.16%

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 18,350 12,783 22,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.57% 25.68% 31.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,988 8,186 13,630
10th Percentile £39,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £63,264
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -1.21% -2.67%
75th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -71 1,273 £57,500 - 1,185
UK excluding London -74 955 £52,500 - 670
Work from Home -33 510 £60,000 +2.56% 540
London -28 463 £70,000 -0.71% 548
South East -41 233 £52,500 -8.70% 182
North of England -93 230 £50,000 - 173
Midlands -41 162 £52,500 +2.44% 83
North West -74 137 £50,000 - 88
East of England -51 93 £57,500 +21.05% 62
South West -75 88 £55,000 +13.40% 95
East Midlands -19 82 £42,500 +15.65% 32
West Midlands -67 80 £55,000 - 51
Northern Ireland -23 70 £46,000 - 19
Yorkshire -50 56 £45,472 -9.06% 60
Scotland -1 47 £52,500 +23.53% 45
North East -37 37 £51,500 -14.17% 26
Wales -60 32 £35,000 -36.36% 22

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
1 257 (17.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 238 (16.12%) SharePoint
3 51 (3.46%) IIS
4 43 (2.91%) Confluence
5 15 (1.02%) nginx
6 8 (0.54%) Apache
7 5 (0.34%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.068%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.068%) WebSphere
Applications
1 65 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.068%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 36 (2.44%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.41%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.34%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.068%) Actimize
7 1 (0.068%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 879 (59.55%) Azure
2 571 (38.69%) Microsoft 365
3 487 (32.99%) Entra ID
4 260 (17.62%) AWS
5 187 (12.67%) SaaS
6 179 (12.13%) Azure DevOps
7 124 (8.40%) Power Platform
8 117 (7.93%) GitHub
9 110 (7.45%) OneDrive
10 106 (7.18%) IaaS
11 93 (6.30%) Azure Monitor
12 90 (6.10%) Azure Sentinel
13 79 (5.35%) PaaS
14 76 (5.15%) Power Automate
15 72 (4.88%) GCP
16 71 (4.81%) Azure AKS
17 69 (4.67%) Azure Key Vault
18 66 (4.47%) Microsoft Purview
19 63 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
20 59 (4.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 331 (22.43%) DNS
2 324 (21.95%) Firewall
3 232 (15.72%) DHCP
4 230 (15.58%) VPN
5 156 (10.57%) TCP/IP
6 97 (6.57%) WAN
7 86 (5.83%) LAN
8 80 (5.42%) VLAN
9 61 (4.13%) Network Security
10 59 (4.00%) Wireless
11 50 (3.39%) Wi-Fi
12 37 (2.51%) SAN
13 33 (2.24%) Kerberos
14 31 (2.10%) SSL
15 25 (1.69%) HTTP
16 24 (1.63%) NAS
17 16 (1.08%) VSAN
18 15 (1.02%) Internet
19 14 (0.95%) FTP
19 14 (0.95%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (10.30%) SQL Server
2 84 (5.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 64 (4.34%) Power BI
4 24 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (1.42%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (1.15%) Relational Database
7 13 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (0.81%) MySQL
9 11 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (0.68%) Data Lake
10 10 (0.68%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.54%) InfluxDB
11 8 (0.54%) Power Query
11 8 (0.54%) Redis
11 8 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.34%) Db2
13 5 (0.34%) Metadata
13 5 (0.34%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 99 (6.71%) JIRA
2 91 (6.17%) Git
3 82 (5.56%) GitLab
4 67 (4.54%) Jenkins
5 26 (1.76%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
7 10 (0.68%) TeamCity
8 8 (0.54%) Robot Framework
8 8 (0.54%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.54%) TestRail
9 6 (0.41%) Artifactory
9 6 (0.41%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.41%) Postman
9 6 (0.41%) Selenium
10 5 (0.34%) Burp Suite
10 5 (0.34%) MSI
10 5 (0.34%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (0.27%) Claude Code
General
1 574 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 247 (16.73%) Finance
3 196 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (7.66%) Legal
5 104 (7.05%) Law
6 76 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (3.25%) Retail
9 45 (3.05%) Banking
10 37 (2.51%) Aerospace
10 37 (2.51%) Manufacturing
10 37 (2.51%) Public Sector
11 36 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (0.95%) Legal Technology
13 12 (0.81%) Financial Institution
13 12 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (0.68%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.61%) Aviation
15 9 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 280 (18.97%) Senior
2 212 (14.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 182 (12.33%) Analyst
4 133 (9.01%) Azure Engineer
5 129 (8.74%) IT Engineer
6 128 (8.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 125 (8.47%) Support Engineer
8 116 (7.86%) DevOps Engineer
9 104 (7.05%) IT Support
10 81 (5.49%) Platform Engineer
11 79 (5.35%) Consultant
12 73 (4.95%) Lead
13 71 (4.81%) Support Analyst
14 65 (4.40%) IT Support Engineer
15 61 (4.13%) Security Engineer
16 57 (3.86%) Systems Engineer
17 55 (3.73%) Senior Manager
17 55 (3.73%) Testing Manager
18 54 (3.66%) Administrator
19 46 (3.12%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 375 (25.41%) Terraform
2 64 (4.34%) .NET
3 56 (3.79%) REST
4 55 (3.73%) ARM Templates
5 51 (3.46%) SAML
6 48 (3.25%) LDAP
7 42 (2.85%) Microsoft Graph
7 42 (2.85%) YAML
8 41 (2.78%) OAuth
8 41 (2.78%) OpenID
9 31 (2.10%) HTML
10 27 (1.83%) JSON
11 23 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
12 22 (1.49%) CSS
13 20 (1.36%) SPFx
14 16 (1.08%) .NET Core
15 15 (1.02%) Kafka
15 15 (1.02%) SOAP
16 13 (0.88%) RESTful
17 12 (0.81%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 126 (8.54%) Onboarding
2 93 (6.30%) Cloud Native
3 83 (5.62%) Driving Licence
4 80 (5.42%) Hybrid Cloud
5 75 (5.08%) Security Posture
6 68 (4.61%) Management Information System
7 60 (4.07%) Virtual Team
8 57 (3.86%) Replication
9 52 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
9 52 (3.52%) PKI
10 46 (3.12%) Data Centre
11 42 (2.85%) Security Operations Centre
12 38 (2.57%) Public Cloud
13 37 (2.51%) Clustering
14 30 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
15 29 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
16 23 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
17 21 (1.42%) Private Cloud
18 20 (1.36%) Enterprise Storage
19 19 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 706 (47.83%) Windows
2 341 (23.10%) Linux
3 340 (23.04%) Windows Server
4 98 (6.64%) Windows 10
5 49 (3.32%) Apple iOS
6 44 (2.98%) Ubuntu
7 41 (2.78%) Android
8 40 (2.71%) Mac OS
9 38 (2.57%) VMS
10 34 (2.30%) Windows Server 2019
11 33 (2.24%) Windows Server 2016
12 32 (2.17%) CentOS
13 27 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 22 (1.49%) Unix
15 17 (1.15%) Rocky
16 8 (0.54%) Debian
16 8 (0.54%) Solaris
17 7 (0.47%) Kali Linux
18 5 (0.34%) CoreOS
19 4 (0.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (29.00%) Problem-Solving
2 394 (26.69%) DevOps
3 387 (26.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 357 (24.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 327 (22.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 323 (21.88%) CI/CD
7 264 (17.89%) ITIL
8 261 (17.68%) Cybersecurity
9 230 (15.58%) Mentoring
10 225 (15.24%) Disaster Recovery
11 184 (12.47%) AI
12 169 (11.45%) Agile
13 163 (11.04%) Root Cause Analysis
14 162 (10.98%) Project Delivery
15 154 (10.43%) High Availability
15 154 (10.43%) Platform Engineering
16 151 (10.23%) Cloud Security
17 150 (10.16%) Migration
18 146 (9.89%) Incident Response
19 135 (9.15%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 581 (39.36%) Python
2 309 (20.93%) Bash
3 300 (20.33%) SQL
4 134 (9.08%) JavaScript
5 126 (8.54%) Bicep
6 122 (8.27%) C#
7 79 (5.35%) TypeScript
8 55 (3.73%) Kusto Query Language
9 38 (2.57%) Java
10 36 (2.44%) T-SQL
11 22 (1.49%) VBScript
12 20 (1.36%) C++
13 19 (1.29%) Perl
14 13 (0.88%) PHP
15 11 (0.75%) Ruby
16 10 (0.68%) VBA
17 9 (0.61%) VB
18 8 (0.54%) Go
19 7 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 6 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 216 (14.63%) Security Cleared
2 164 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 163 (11.04%) Degree
4 159 (10.77%) Azure Certification
5 140 (9.49%) SC Cleared
6 65 (4.40%) CISSP
7 62 (4.20%) DV Cleared
8 57 (3.86%) CompTIA Security+
9 55 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
10 50 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
11 41 (2.78%) CCNA
12 28 (1.90%) CEH
13 26 (1.76%) AWS Certification
14 24 (1.63%) DBS Check
15 22 (1.49%) CISM
16 20 (1.36%) OSCP
17 18 (1.22%) GIAC
17 18 (1.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 17 (1.15%) CompTIA CySA+
19 15 (1.02%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (7.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 81 (5.49%) Cyber Essentials
2 81 (5.49%) QA
3 67 (4.54%) NIST
4 47 (3.18%) SLA
5 42 (2.85%) GDPR
6 21 (1.42%) Data Quality
6 21 (1.42%) PCI DSS
7 13 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 12 (0.81%) SOC 2
9 10 (0.68%) NCSC
10 8 (0.54%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.54%) PMO
10 8 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.41%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
13 2 (0.14%) EMIR
13 2 (0.14%) GRC
13 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 546 (36.99%) Active Directory
2 236 (15.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 163 (11.04%) Hyper-V
4 138 (9.35%) Docker
5 79 (5.35%) vSphere
6 78 (5.28%) Virtual Machines
7 61 (4.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (1.83%) VMware ESXi
9 26 (1.76%) VMware NSX
10 16 (1.08%) BitLocker
11 15 (1.02%) Firmware
12 8 (0.54%) KVM
13 7 (0.47%) Squid
14 6 (0.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
16 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
18 2 (0.14%) DFS Replication
18 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
18 2 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 263 (17.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 226 (15.31%) Kubernetes
3 166 (11.25%) Ansible
4 78 (5.28%) Grafana
5 76 (5.15%) SCCM
6 59 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
7 42 (2.85%) Prometheus
8 31 (2.10%) Puppet
9 26 (1.76%) vCenter Server
10 24 (1.63%) Argo
10 24 (1.63%) ZABBIX
11 21 (1.42%) QRadar
12 20 (1.36%) Proxmox
13 18 (1.22%) FortiGate
14 15 (1.02%) Graylog
14 15 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
15 14 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 14 (0.95%) Packer
15 14 (0.95%) Progress Chef
16 10 (0.68%) VxRail
Vendors
1 946 (64.09%) Microsoft
2 276 (18.70%) VMware
3 106 (7.18%) Cisco
4 95 (6.44%) ServiceNow
5 88 (5.96%) Splunk
6 69 (4.67%) Veeam
7 49 (3.32%) Oracle
8 44 (2.98%) Red Hat
9 42 (2.85%) Citrix
10 37 (2.51%) Meraki
11 34 (2.30%) Sage
12 32 (2.17%) SolarWinds
13 30 (2.03%) Dell
13 30 (2.03%) Dynatrace
14 29 (1.96%) SAP
14 29 (1.96%) Sophos
15 28 (1.90%) CyberArk
16 27 (1.83%) Apple
16 27 (1.83%) Google
17 26 (1.76%) Fortinet