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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 90 98
Rank change year-on-year -61 +8 -34
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,489 1,624 1,824
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.26% 3.28% 2.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.01% 12.66% 7.90%
Number of salaries quoted 999 1,068 1,176
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £42,500 £47,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -5.66%

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 18,581 12,828 23,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.72% 25.88% 30.98%
Number of salaries quoted 13,166 8,226 14,021
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,753 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
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 3 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 3 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 -62 1,287 £59,000 +2.61% 1,186
UK excluding London -73 965 £52,500 - 832
Work from Home -36 516 £60,250 +0.42% 647
London -30 471 £70,000 -0.71% 490
South East -41 237 £52,500 -8.70% 226
North of England -84 237 £50,000 - 199
Midlands -44 163 £52,500 +5.00% 107
North West -76 144 £50,000 +5.26% 106
East of England -55 93 £57,500 +21.05% 70
East Midlands -24 82 £42,500 +21.43% 46
South West -78 82 £57,500 +19.79% 100
West Midlands -67 81 £55,000 - 61
Northern Ireland -26 70 £46,000 - 33
Yorkshire -50 57 £48,445 -6.16% 63
Scotland -9 47 £52,500 +23.53% 73
North East -34 36 £51,500 -14.17% 32
Wales -54 36 £38,500 -30.00% 39

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
1 256 (17.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 241 (16.19%) SharePoint
3 56 (3.76%) IIS
4 44 (2.96%) Confluence
5 15 (1.01%) nginx
6 8 (0.54%) Apache
7 6 (0.40%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.067%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.067%) WebSphere
Applications
1 63 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (2.42%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.40%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.34%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.067%) Actimize
7 1 (0.067%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 888 (59.64%) Azure
2 568 (38.15%) Microsoft 365
3 482 (32.37%) Entra ID
4 264 (17.73%) AWS
5 186 (12.49%) Azure DevOps
6 184 (12.36%) SaaS
7 125 (8.39%) Power Platform
8 121 (8.13%) GitHub
9 112 (7.52%) OneDrive
10 109 (7.32%) IaaS
11 92 (6.18%) Azure Monitor
12 90 (6.04%) Azure Sentinel
13 83 (5.57%) PaaS
14 80 (5.37%) Power Automate
15 72 (4.84%) Azure AKS
16 71 (4.77%) GCP
17 70 (4.70%) Azure Key Vault
18 65 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
19 64 (4.30%) Microsoft Purview
20 57 (3.83%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 330 (22.16%) DNS
2 327 (21.96%) Firewall
3 230 (15.45%) VPN
4 229 (15.38%) DHCP
5 153 (10.28%) TCP/IP
6 103 (6.92%) WAN
7 89 (5.98%) LAN
8 78 (5.24%) VLAN
9 60 (4.03%) Network Security
10 58 (3.90%) Wireless
11 49 (3.29%) Wi-Fi
12 38 (2.55%) SAN
13 32 (2.15%) Kerberos
14 28 (1.88%) SSL
15 24 (1.61%) HTTP
16 21 (1.41%) NAS
17 16 (1.07%) Internet
17 16 (1.07%) VSAN
18 15 (1.01%) VoIP
19 13 (0.87%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (10.14%) SQL Server
2 86 (5.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 65 (4.37%) Power BI
4 26 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (1.41%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (1.14%) Relational Database
7 13 (0.87%) MySQL
8 12 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (0.74%) NoSQL
10 10 (0.67%) Data Lake
11 8 (0.54%) Power Query
11 8 (0.54%) Redis
11 8 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.47%) InfluxDB
13 6 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.40%) Metadata
14 5 (0.34%) Db2
14 5 (0.34%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 104 (6.98%) JIRA
2 97 (6.51%) Git
3 78 (5.24%) GitLab
4 66 (4.43%) Jenkins
5 28 (1.88%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
8 10 (0.67%) TeamCity
9 7 (0.47%) Robot Framework
9 7 (0.47%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.47%) TestRail
10 6 (0.40%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.40%) Postman
10 6 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
11 5 (0.34%) Burp Suite
11 5 (0.34%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.34%) MSI
11 5 (0.34%) Selenium
11 5 (0.34%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.27%) Claude Code
General
1 571 (38.35%) Social Skills
2 254 (17.06%) Finance
3 195 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (7.59%) Legal
5 104 (6.98%) Law
6 76 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (3.22%) Retail
9 45 (3.02%) Banking
10 43 (2.89%) Public Sector
11 38 (2.55%) Aerospace
12 37 (2.48%) Manufacturing
13 35 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (0.94%) Legal Technology
15 12 (0.81%) Financial Institution
15 12 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (0.67%) Investment Banking
17 9 (0.60%) Aviation
17 9 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 290 (19.48%) Senior
2 209 (14.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 176 (11.82%) Analyst
4 135 (9.07%) Azure Engineer
5 132 (8.87%) Support Engineer
6 130 (8.73%) Cloud Engineer
6 130 (8.73%) IT Engineer
7 116 (7.79%) DevOps Engineer
8 106 (7.12%) IT Support
9 85 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
10 78 (5.24%) Lead
11 76 (5.10%) Consultant
12 69 (4.63%) Support Analyst
13 66 (4.43%) IT Support Engineer
14 62 (4.16%) Security Engineer
15 59 (3.96%) Systems Engineer
16 55 (3.69%) Senior Manager
16 55 (3.69%) Testing Manager
17 54 (3.63%) Administrator
18 52 (3.49%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (25.52%) Terraform
2 70 (4.70%) .NET
3 59 (3.96%) REST
4 58 (3.90%) ARM Templates
5 49 (3.29%) SAML
6 46 (3.09%) LDAP
7 45 (3.02%) Microsoft Graph
7 45 (3.02%) YAML
8 43 (2.89%) OAuth
8 43 (2.89%) OpenID
9 33 (2.22%) HTML
10 29 (1.95%) JSON
11 24 (1.61%) CSS
12 23 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
12 23 (1.54%) SPFx
13 18 (1.21%) .NET Core
14 16 (1.07%) SOAP
15 15 (1.01%) Kafka
16 14 (0.94%) ASP.NET
17 13 (0.87%) React
Miscellaneous
1 130 (8.73%) Onboarding
2 93 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 83 (5.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 77 (5.17%) Driving Licence
5 74 (4.97%) Security Posture
6 72 (4.84%) Management Information System
7 60 (4.03%) Virtual Team
8 54 (3.63%) PKI
9 52 (3.49%) Replication
10 51 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
11 47 (3.16%) Data Centre
12 42 (2.82%) Security Operations Centre
13 41 (2.75%) Public Cloud
14 36 (2.42%) Clustering
15 30 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
16 27 (1.81%) Cyber Threat
17 23 (1.54%) Cyber Defence
18 22 (1.48%) Private Cloud
19 20 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
20 18 (1.21%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 710 (47.68%) Windows
2 343 (23.04%) Linux
3 340 (22.83%) Windows Server
4 98 (6.58%) Windows 10
5 53 (3.56%) Apple iOS
6 44 (2.96%) Ubuntu
7 42 (2.82%) Android
8 41 (2.75%) Mac OS
9 38 (2.55%) VMS
10 34 (2.28%) Windows Server 2016
11 32 (2.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 31 (2.08%) CentOS
13 30 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 24 (1.61%) Unix
15 17 (1.14%) 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%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (28.54%) Problem-Solving
2 402 (27.00%) DevOps
3 386 (25.92%) Continuous Improvement
4 361 (24.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 333 (22.36%) CI/CD
6 324 (21.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 268 (18.00%) ITIL
8 262 (17.60%) Cybersecurity
9 229 (15.38%) Mentoring
10 217 (14.57%) Disaster Recovery
11 181 (12.16%) AI
12 172 (11.55%) Agile
13 163 (10.95%) Root Cause Analysis
14 161 (10.81%) High Availability
15 157 (10.54%) Project Delivery
16 154 (10.34%) Platform Engineering
17 151 (10.14%) Cloud Security
18 148 (9.94%) Migration
19 143 (9.60%) Incident Response
20 135 (9.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 588 (39.49%) Python
2 311 (20.89%) Bash
3 306 (20.55%) SQL
4 136 (9.13%) JavaScript
5 131 (8.80%) Bicep
6 126 (8.46%) C#
7 81 (5.44%) TypeScript
8 52 (3.49%) Kusto Query Language
9 37 (2.48%) T-SQL
10 35 (2.35%) Java
11 23 (1.54%) VBScript
12 19 (1.28%) C++
13 18 (1.21%) Perl
14 13 (0.87%) PHP
15 11 (0.74%) Ruby
15 11 (0.74%) VBA
16 10 (0.67%) VB
17 7 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.47%) Go
18 6 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 210 (14.10%) Security Cleared
2 169 (11.35%) Degree
3 158 (10.61%) Microsoft Certification
4 156 (10.48%) Azure Certification
5 140 (9.40%) SC Cleared
6 61 (4.10%) CISSP
7 60 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 60 (4.03%) DV Cleared
8 56 (3.76%) CompTIA Security+
9 52 (3.49%) Cisco Certification
10 42 (2.82%) CCNA
11 28 (1.88%) CEH
12 26 (1.75%) AWS Certification
13 23 (1.54%) DBS Check
14 22 (1.48%) CISM
15 20 (1.34%) OSCP
16 18 (1.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 17 (1.14%) GIAC
18 16 (1.07%) CompTIA CySA+
19 15 (1.01%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (7.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 81 (5.44%) QA
3 76 (5.10%) Cyber Essentials
4 66 (4.43%) NIST
5 48 (3.22%) GDPR
6 47 (3.16%) SLA
7 22 (1.48%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.34%) Data Quality
9 14 (0.94%) SOC 2
10 11 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (0.67%) NCSC
12 8 (0.54%) PMO
12 8 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.47%) Accessibility
14 4 (0.27%) ISO 22301
15 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
16 2 (0.13%) EMIR
16 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 552 (37.07%) Active Directory
2 238 (15.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 157 (10.54%) Hyper-V
4 145 (9.74%) Docker
5 81 (5.44%) vSphere
6 79 (5.31%) Virtual Machines
7 61 (4.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 26 (1.75%) VMware NSX
9 24 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
10 17 (1.14%) BitLocker
11 14 (0.94%) Firmware
12 8 (0.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.54%) KVM
12 8 (0.54%) Squid
13 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
16 2 (0.13%) Snort
16 2 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 264 (17.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 228 (15.31%) Kubernetes
3 170 (11.42%) Ansible
4 80 (5.37%) Grafana
5 75 (5.04%) SCCM
6 59 (3.96%) Single Sign-On
7 45 (3.02%) Prometheus
8 27 (1.81%) Puppet
9 25 (1.68%) ZABBIX
10 24 (1.61%) Argo
11 23 (1.54%) vCenter Server
12 21 (1.41%) QRadar
13 20 (1.34%) Proxmox
14 17 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
15 16 (1.07%) FortiGate
15 16 (1.07%) Packer
16 15 (1.01%) Graylog
17 14 (0.94%) Progress Chef
18 11 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 11 (0.74%) VxRail
Vendors
1 950 (63.80%) Microsoft
2 279 (18.74%) VMware
3 104 (6.98%) Cisco
4 98 (6.58%) ServiceNow
5 90 (6.04%) Splunk
6 70 (4.70%) Veeam
7 50 (3.36%) Oracle
8 47 (3.16%) Red Hat
9 43 (2.89%) Citrix
10 37 (2.48%) Meraki
11 34 (2.28%) Dell
11 34 (2.28%) Sage
12 31 (2.08%) Dynatrace
12 31 (2.08%) Sophos
13 29 (1.95%) CyberArk
13 29 (1.95%) SAP
13 29 (1.95%) SolarWinds
14 27 (1.81%) Google
15 26 (1.75%) Apple
15 26 (1.75%) Fortinet