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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 80 115
Rank change year-on-year -64 +35 -18
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,229 1,606 2,295
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.35% 3.69% 2.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.68% 11.52% 7.08%
Number of salaries quoted 906 1,018 1,941
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,600 £35,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
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 16,003 13,944 32,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.60% 32.04% 33.59%
Number of salaries quoted 10,964 9,705 24,890
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -68 1,104 £60,000 - 413
UK excluding London -84 686 £52,500 +5.00% 345
London -18 509 £70,000 -7.28% 138
Work from Home -46 398 £57,500 - 174
South East -84 160 £56,750 -1.30% 125
North of England -111 150 £47,500 -5.00% 82
Midlands -52 121 £52,500 +5.00% 34
South West -45 79 £55,000 +15.79% 46
Scotland +44 77 £50,000 -0.41% 26
North West -111 77 £51,500 +11.96% 52
East of England -23 74 £57,500 +21.05% 26
East Midlands -15 71 £55,000 +42.86% 21
Yorkshire -36 56 £47,500 -24.00% 16
West Midlands -73 49 £48,000 -4.00% 13
Wales -13 22 £55,000 +7.84% 11
North East -33 17 £48,445 -15.75% 14
Northern Ireland - 3 £46,000 - 2

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
1 171 (13.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 157 (12.77%) SharePoint
3 40 (3.25%) IIS
4 20 (1.63%) Confluence
5 3 (0.24%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.16%) Apache
6 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.16%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.081%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.081%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.081%) Site Server
Applications
1 61 (4.96%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.081%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.081%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.57%) Markit EDM
2 5 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
3 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.16%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.16%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.081%) Actimize
5 1 (0.081%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 804 (65.42%) Azure
2 438 (35.64%) Microsoft 365
3 336 (27.34%) Entra ID
4 207 (16.84%) AWS
5 125 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
6 103 (8.38%) Power Platform
7 92 (7.49%) GitHub
8 83 (6.75%) SaaS
9 80 (6.51%) OneDrive
10 73 (5.94%) IaaS
11 69 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
11 69 (5.61%) Google Workspace
12 63 (5.13%) GCP
13 54 (4.39%) Azure Sentinel
14 52 (4.23%) PaaS
14 52 (4.23%) Power Automate
15 50 (4.07%) Azure Monitor
16 49 (3.99%) Azure AKS
17 47 (3.82%) Azure Key Vault
18 45 (3.66%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 238 (19.37%) DNS
2 235 (19.12%) Firewall
3 147 (11.96%) DHCP
4 142 (11.55%) VPN
5 101 (8.22%) TCP/IP
6 72 (5.86%) WAN
7 66 (5.37%) LAN
8 64 (5.21%) Network Security
9 58 (4.72%) Broadband
10 47 (3.82%) VLAN
11 42 (3.42%) Wi-Fi
12 40 (3.25%) VoIP
13 33 (2.69%) SAN
14 21 (1.71%) Wireless
15 20 (1.63%) BGP
16 18 (1.46%) SD-WAN
17 15 (1.22%) Kerberos
18 14 (1.14%) MPLS
18 14 (1.14%) VSAN
19 13 (1.06%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (11.64%) SQL Server
2 79 (6.43%) Power BI
3 53 (4.31%) Azure SQL Database
4 31 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
6 24 (1.95%) MySQL
7 22 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 20 (1.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 18 (1.46%) NoSQL
10 17 (1.38%) Relational Database
11 13 (1.06%) MongoDB
12 12 (0.98%) Tableau
13 10 (0.81%) Data Lake
13 10 (0.81%) InfluxDB
14 6 (0.49%) Metadata
15 5 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
16 4 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 3 (0.24%) DynamoDB
18 2 (0.16%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 93 (7.57%) Git
2 65 (5.29%) JIRA
3 62 (5.04%) Jenkins
4 52 (4.23%) GitLab
5 27 (2.20%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.30%) Octopus Deploy
7 13 (1.06%) Metasploit
7 13 (1.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 12 (0.98%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.73%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.73%) Robot Framework
9 9 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
10 8 (0.65%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.65%) TestRail
11 4 (0.33%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.33%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.33%) MLflow
11 4 (0.33%) Selenium
12 3 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.24%) SonarQube
General
1 390 (31.73%) Social Skills
2 230 (18.71%) Finance
3 175 (14.24%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (6.18%) Organisational Skills
5 74 (6.02%) Law
6 52 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (3.58%) Legal
8 43 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
9 42 (3.42%) Retail
10 41 (3.34%) Public Sector
11 29 (2.36%) Games
12 25 (2.03%) Banking
12 25 (2.03%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.71%) Aerospace
14 18 (1.46%) Advertising
15 15 (1.22%) Telecoms
16 13 (1.06%) Front Office
17 6 (0.49%) Electronics
17 6 (0.49%) Police
18 5 (0.41%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 235 (19.12%) Senior
2 152 (12.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 140 (11.39%) Analyst
4 130 (10.58%) Azure Engineer
5 128 (10.41%) Support Engineer
6 110 (8.95%) IT Support
7 93 (7.57%) IT Engineer
8 87 (7.08%) Cloud Engineer
9 81 (6.59%) DevOps Engineer
10 80 (6.51%) Security Engineer
11 63 (5.13%) IT Support Engineer
12 59 (4.80%) Developer
13 57 (4.64%) 2nd Line Support
14 56 (4.56%) Lead
15 53 (4.31%) Systems Engineer
16 46 (3.74%) Platform Engineer
17 44 (3.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 44 (3.58%) Architect
18 41 (3.34%) Security Analyst
18 41 (3.34%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (7.89%) OAuth
2 87 (7.08%) SAML
3 85 (6.92%) OpenID
4 83 (6.75%) .NET
4 83 (6.75%) REST
5 73 (5.94%) LDAP
6 62 (5.04%) SOAP
7 60 (4.88%) GraphQL
8 39 (3.17%) .NET Core
9 36 (2.93%) JSON
9 36 (2.93%) Microsoft Graph
10 35 (2.85%) YAML
11 32 (2.60%) ARM Templates
12 31 (2.52%) CSS
13 30 (2.44%) HTML
14 26 (2.12%) SPFx
15 19 (1.55%) HTML5 Canvas
15 19 (1.55%) React
16 18 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
17 16 (1.30%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 92 (7.49%) Onboarding
2 71 (5.78%) Cyber Threat
3 68 (5.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 63 (5.13%) Cyberattack
5 57 (4.64%) Management Information System
6 56 (4.56%) Cloud Native
7 53 (4.31%) Security Posture
8 45 (3.66%) Cyber Defence
9 43 (3.50%) Security Operations Centre
10 40 (3.25%) Driving Licence
11 39 (3.17%) Data Centre
12 36 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
13 30 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
14 28 (2.28%) PKI
14 28 (2.28%) Public Cloud
15 25 (2.03%) CMDB
16 19 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
16 19 (1.55%) Replication
17 18 (1.46%) Low-Code
17 18 (1.46%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 568 (46.22%) Windows
2 270 (21.97%) Windows Server
3 268 (21.81%) Linux
4 76 (6.18%) Windows 10
5 48 (3.91%) Apple iOS
5 48 (3.91%) Mac OS
6 47 (3.82%) Android
7 33 (2.69%) Windows Server 2016
8 32 (2.60%) VMS
9 29 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 27 (2.20%) CentOS
11 24 (1.95%) Windows Server 2019
12 21 (1.71%) Ubuntu
13 18 (1.46%) Unix
14 9 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.41%) Debian
16 4 (0.33%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.24%) AIX
17 3 (0.24%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (25.63%) Problem-Solving
2 269 (21.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 268 (21.81%) Cybersecurity
4 264 (21.48%) CI/CD
5 254 (20.67%) DevOps
6 219 (17.82%) ITIL
7 210 (17.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 202 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 185 (15.05%) Mentoring
10 161 (13.10%) Agile
11 156 (12.69%) Incident Response
12 144 (11.72%) Root Cause Analysis
13 139 (11.31%) Roadmaps
14 137 (11.15%) Disaster Recovery
15 124 (10.09%) SIEM
16 122 (9.93%) Containerisation
17 110 (8.95%) Cloud Security
18 105 (8.54%) Task Automation
19 104 (8.46%) High Availability
20 102 (8.30%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 479 (38.97%) Python
2 312 (25.39%) Bash
3 268 (21.81%) SQL
4 94 (7.65%) C#
5 75 (6.10%) T-SQL
6 73 (5.94%) JavaScript
7 69 (5.61%) Bicep
8 30 (2.44%) Kusto Query Language
9 24 (1.95%) Java
10 22 (1.79%) TypeScript
11 14 (1.14%) C++
12 12 (0.98%) Perl
13 11 (0.90%) VB
13 11 (0.90%) VB.NET
14 10 (0.81%) Go
15 9 (0.73%) PHP
15 9 (0.73%) VBA
16 8 (0.65%) VBScript
17 7 (0.57%) C
18 6 (0.49%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 158 (12.86%) Degree
2 146 (11.88%) Security Cleared
3 111 (9.03%) Microsoft Certification
4 105 (8.54%) Azure Certification
5 87 (7.08%) SC Cleared
6 49 (3.99%) CISSP
7 48 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (3.34%) DV Cleared
9 40 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
10 33 (2.69%) CompTIA Security+
11 29 (2.36%) CREST Certified
12 27 (2.20%) CCNA
13 26 (2.12%) OSCP
14 25 (2.03%) GIAC
15 22 (1.79%) AWS Certification
16 21 (1.71%) CEH
16 21 (1.71%) DBS Check
17 16 (1.30%) CompTIA CySA+
18 14 (1.14%) CCNP
19 12 (0.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (11.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 140 (11.39%) NIST
3 65 (5.29%) GDPR
4 54 (4.39%) NCSC
5 43 (3.50%) SLA
6 32 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials
7 23 (1.87%) Accessibility
8 19 (1.55%) Data Quality
9 18 (1.46%) ISO 22301
10 15 (1.22%) PCI DSS
10 15 (1.22%) QA
10 15 (1.22%) SOC 2
11 12 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
12 10 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.49%) DICOM
14 5 (0.41%) GRC
15 4 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.16%) COBIT
17 2 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 458 (37.27%) Active Directory
2 168 (13.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 131 (10.66%) Docker
4 108 (8.79%) Hyper-V
5 51 (4.15%) vSphere
6 33 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
8 20 (1.63%) BitLocker
8 20 (1.63%) VMware NSX
9 18 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
10 15 (1.22%) Firmware
11 10 (0.81%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 6 (0.49%) KVM
13 5 (0.41%) Squid
13 5 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.33%) iptables
14 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.33%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.33%) XenDesktop
15 2 (0.16%) Samba
Systems Management
1 271 (22.05%) Terraform
2 201 (16.35%) Kubernetes
3 188 (15.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 146 (11.88%) Ansible
5 57 (4.64%) Grafana
6 52 (4.23%) Single Sign-On
7 48 (3.91%) SCCM
8 36 (2.93%) Prometheus
9 25 (2.03%) Jamf Pro
10 23 (1.87%) vCenter Server
11 22 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (1.22%) Nessus
12 15 (1.22%) VxRail
13 13 (1.06%) QRadar
14 12 (0.98%) Packer
15 11 (0.90%) ZABBIX
16 10 (0.81%) WSUS
17 9 (0.73%) Nagios
17 9 (0.73%) Puppet
18 8 (0.65%) Graylog
Vendors
1 696 (56.63%) Microsoft
2 219 (17.82%) VMware
3 101 (8.22%) Cisco
4 67 (5.45%) Splunk
5 55 (4.48%) Red Hat
6 53 (4.31%) ServiceNow
7 41 (3.34%) CrowdStrike
8 38 (3.09%) Veeam
9 31 (2.52%) Meraki
10 30 (2.44%) Dell
11 29 (2.36%) Citrix
11 29 (2.36%) Google
12 28 (2.28%) Commvault
13 26 (2.12%) Apple
13 26 (2.12%) Fortinet
13 26 (2.12%) Palo Alto
14 24 (1.95%) Oracle
15 23 (1.87%) CyberArk
15 23 (1.87%) Tenable
16 20 (1.63%) Databricks