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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 89 106
Rank change year-on-year -53 +17 -8
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,247 1,368 2,384
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.42% 3.26% 2.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.05% 9.79% 7.39%
Number of salaries quoted 916 1,068 2,033
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,750 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -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 15,499 13,980 32,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.65% 33.33% 34.10%
Number of salaries quoted 10,533 10,268 24,961
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £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 £53,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.80% -2.73%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -59 1,104 £58,000 -3.33% 357
UK excluding London -67 691 £52,500 +0.96% 314
London -12 517 £70,000 -9.68% 106
Work from Home -24 397 £60,000 +4.35% 157
South East -80 174 £56,687 -1.41% 102
North of England -48 138 £47,972 -2.40% 60
Midlands -72 105 £50,000 - 40
Scotland +40 95 £55,000 - 19
South West -43 88 £55,000 +15.79% 42
East of England -47 70 £46,250 -15.91% 40
North West -41 68 £55,000 +19.57% 30
East Midlands -43 60 £55,000 +29.41% 22
Yorkshire -40 56 £47,500 -13.64% 17
West Midlands -68 44 £47,500 -5.00% 18
Wales -6 19 £61,496 +21.65% 12
North East -43 14 £45,000 -21.74% 13
Northern Ireland -38 2 £46,000 - 13

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
1 180 (14.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 151 (12.11%) SharePoint
3 39 (3.13%) IIS
4 16 (1.28%) Confluence
5 12 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2003
6 6 (0.48%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.16%) Apache
7 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.16%) CMS
7 2 (0.16%) WordPress
8 1 (0.080%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.080%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.080%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.080%) Site Server
8 1 (0.080%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 53 (4.25%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.24%) CATIA
3 3 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.24%) Siemens NX
3 3 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
3 3 (0.24%) Windchill
4 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.080%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.56%) Markit EDM
2 6 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
4 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.24%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.080%) Actimize
5 1 (0.080%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 796 (63.83%) Azure
2 431 (34.56%) Microsoft 365
3 338 (27.11%) Entra ID
4 209 (16.76%) AWS
5 131 (10.51%) Azure DevOps
6 103 (8.26%) Power Platform
7 97 (7.78%) GitHub
8 75 (6.01%) GitHub Actions
8 75 (6.01%) SaaS
9 74 (5.93%) Google Workspace
10 73 (5.85%) OneDrive
11 71 (5.69%) GCP
12 56 (4.49%) IaaS
13 53 (4.25%) PaaS
14 47 (3.77%) Power Automate
15 46 (3.69%) Azure Logic Apps
15 46 (3.69%) Azure Monitor
16 44 (3.53%) Azure Data Factory
17 42 (3.37%) Azure Sentinel
18 37 (2.97%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 229 (18.36%) DNS
2 228 (18.28%) Firewall
3 165 (13.23%) DHCP
4 135 (10.83%) VPN
5 103 (8.26%) TCP/IP
6 73 (5.85%) WAN
7 66 (5.29%) LAN
8 63 (5.05%) Broadband
9 59 (4.73%) Network Security
10 50 (4.01%) VLAN
11 46 (3.69%) Wi-Fi
12 39 (3.13%) VoIP
13 34 (2.73%) SAN
14 31 (2.49%) Wireless
15 24 (1.92%) SD-WAN
16 21 (1.68%) BGP
17 18 (1.44%) MPLS
18 13 (1.04%) Internet
18 13 (1.04%) VSAN
19 12 (0.96%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (11.07%) SQL Server
2 87 (6.98%) Power BI
3 42 (3.37%) Azure SQL Database
4 31 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
6 24 (1.92%) MySQL
7 23 (1.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 19 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 18 (1.44%) Relational Database
10 16 (1.28%) NoSQL
10 16 (1.28%) Oracle Database
11 14 (1.12%) Oracle Database 10g
11 14 (1.12%) Tableau
12 11 (0.88%) InfluxDB
13 9 (0.72%) Data Lake
13 9 (0.72%) MongoDB
14 7 (0.56%) Metadata
15 5 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
16 4 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 96 (7.70%) Git
2 72 (5.77%) Jenkins
2 72 (5.77%) JIRA
3 48 (3.85%) GitLab
4 28 (2.25%) Bitbucket
5 17 (1.36%) Octopus Deploy
6 14 (1.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 13 (1.04%) Metasploit
8 11 (0.88%) Robot Framework
8 11 (0.88%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.72%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.72%) TestRail
9 9 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
10 8 (0.64%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.32%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.32%) MLflow
12 4 (0.32%) Selenium
13 3 (0.24%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.24%) Balsamiq
General
1 418 (33.52%) Social Skills
2 251 (20.13%) Finance
3 169 (13.55%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (6.50%) Organisational Skills
5 65 (5.21%) Law
6 44 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
6 44 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 44 (3.53%) Retail
7 41 (3.29%) Legal
7 41 (3.29%) Public Sector
8 33 (2.65%) Games
9 30 (2.41%) Banking
10 25 (2.00%) Manufacturing
11 19 (1.52%) Telecoms
12 18 (1.44%) Front Office
13 16 (1.28%) Advertising
13 16 (1.28%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.56%) Military
15 6 (0.48%) Electronics
15 6 (0.48%) Police
Job Titles
1 221 (17.72%) Senior
2 150 (12.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 139 (11.15%) Support Engineer
4 129 (10.34%) Analyst
5 128 (10.26%) Azure Engineer
6 108 (8.66%) IT Support
7 85 (6.82%) IT Engineer
8 84 (6.74%) Security Engineer
9 81 (6.50%) Cloud Engineer
10 71 (5.69%) DevOps Engineer
11 69 (5.53%) Developer
12 65 (5.21%) Lead
13 60 (4.81%) IT Support Engineer
14 53 (4.25%) 2nd Line Support
15 51 (4.09%) 3rd Line Support
16 45 (3.61%) Architect
16 45 (3.61%) Platform Engineer
17 44 (3.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
18 42 (3.37%) Support Analyst
18 42 (3.37%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (7.94%) OAuth
2 90 (7.22%) REST
3 84 (6.74%) SAML
4 83 (6.66%) OpenID
5 76 (6.09%) .NET
6 69 (5.53%) GraphQL
6 69 (5.53%) LDAP
7 67 (5.37%) SOAP
8 36 (2.89%) .NET Core
9 34 (2.73%) YAML
10 32 (2.57%) JSON
11 30 (2.41%) ARM Templates
12 27 (2.17%) CSS
12 27 (2.17%) Microsoft Graph
13 25 (2.00%) HTML
14 24 (1.92%) SPFx
15 19 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
16 18 (1.44%) React
17 16 (1.28%) Node.js
18 15 (1.20%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 97 (7.78%) Onboarding
2 73 (5.85%) Cyber Threat
3 72 (5.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 67 (5.37%) Cyberattack
5 61 (4.89%) Security Posture
6 58 (4.65%) Management Information System
7 48 (3.85%) Cloud Native
8 44 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
9 40 (3.21%) Driving Licence
10 38 (3.05%) Cyber Defence
11 37 (2.97%) Security Operations Centre
12 34 (2.73%) Data Centre
13 30 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
14 29 (2.33%) Public Cloud
15 25 (2.00%) PKI
16 23 (1.84%) CMDB
17 18 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
17 18 (1.44%) Low-Code
18 17 (1.36%) Replication
19 16 (1.28%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 567 (45.47%) Windows
2 285 (22.85%) Windows Server
3 258 (20.69%) Linux
4 74 (5.93%) Windows 10
5 53 (4.25%) Mac OS
6 46 (3.69%) Apple iOS
7 45 (3.61%) Android
8 38 (3.05%) Windows Server 2016
9 32 (2.57%) Unix
10 30 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 28 (2.25%) Windows Server 2019
12 24 (1.92%) CentOS
12 24 (1.92%) VMS
13 18 (1.44%) Ubuntu
14 16 (1.28%) Solaris
15 12 (0.96%) HPUX
15 12 (0.96%) Windows 7
15 12 (0.96%) Windows Server 2003
15 12 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
16 11 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
2 264 (21.17%) DevOps
3 261 (20.93%) CI/CD
4 259 (20.77%) Cybersecurity
5 255 (20.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 226 (18.12%) ITIL
7 209 (16.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 206 (16.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 197 (15.80%) Mentoring
10 162 (12.99%) Agile
11 154 (12.35%) Incident Response
12 143 (11.47%) Disaster Recovery
13 139 (11.15%) Roadmaps
14 128 (10.26%) Root Cause Analysis
15 119 (9.54%) SIEM
16 111 (8.90%) Containerisation
17 110 (8.82%) Cloud Security
18 106 (8.50%) Task Automation
19 102 (8.18%) Identity Access Management
20 96 (7.70%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 474 (38.01%) Python
2 312 (25.02%) Bash
3 272 (21.81%) SQL
4 89 (7.14%) C#
5 85 (6.82%) T-SQL
6 77 (6.17%) JavaScript
7 68 (5.45%) Bicep
8 32 (2.57%) Kusto Query Language
9 23 (1.84%) Java
10 20 (1.60%) Perl
11 19 (1.52%) TypeScript
12 10 (0.80%) C++
12 10 (0.80%) VB.NET
13 9 (0.72%) Go
13 9 (0.72%) VB
14 8 (0.64%) VBA
15 7 (0.56%) C
15 7 (0.56%) PHP
15 7 (0.56%) VBScript
16 6 (0.48%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 166 (13.31%) Degree
2 145 (11.63%) Security Cleared
3 104 (8.34%) Microsoft Certification
4 87 (6.98%) SC Cleared
5 86 (6.90%) Azure Certification
6 58 (4.65%) DV Cleared
7 56 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 53 (4.25%) CISSP
9 39 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (2.57%) CREST Certified
11 27 (2.17%) CompTIA Security+
11 27 (2.17%) OSCP
12 25 (2.00%) CCNA
12 25 (2.00%) GIAC
13 24 (1.92%) CEH
14 22 (1.76%) AWS Certification
14 22 (1.76%) CompTIA CySA+
15 17 (1.36%) DBS Check
16 15 (1.20%) CCNP
17 14 (1.12%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (12.59%) NIST
2 155 (12.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 67 (5.37%) GDPR
4 65 (5.21%) NCSC
5 55 (4.41%) SLA
6 29 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 28 (2.25%) Accessibility
8 20 (1.60%) Data Quality
9 18 (1.44%) ISO 22301
10 16 (1.28%) QA
11 14 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 13 (1.04%) PCI DSS
12 13 (1.04%) SOC 2
13 11 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.48%) DICOM
15 5 (0.40%) GRC
16 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
18 2 (0.16%) COBIT
19 1 (0.080%) HL7
System Software
1 466 (37.37%) Active Directory
2 157 (12.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 131 (10.51%) Docker
4 105 (8.42%) Hyper-V
5 45 (3.61%) vSphere
6 36 (2.89%) Virtual Machines
7 21 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (1.44%) VMware NSX
9 16 (1.28%) Firmware
10 13 (1.04%) BitLocker
11 9 (0.72%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 7 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.40%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.32%) iptables
14 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.32%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.24%) Squid
15 3 (0.24%) XenApp
16 2 (0.16%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 264 (21.17%) Terraform
2 181 (14.51%) Kubernetes
2 181 (14.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 149 (11.95%) Ansible
4 56 (4.49%) Grafana
5 46 (3.69%) SCCM
6 43 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
7 35 (2.81%) Prometheus
8 21 (1.68%) Jamf Pro
8 21 (1.68%) vCenter Server
9 20 (1.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 13 (1.04%) Nessus
10 13 (1.04%) Puppet
10 13 (1.04%) VxRail
11 12 (0.96%) FortiGate
11 12 (0.96%) QRadar
12 8 (0.64%) logstash
12 8 (0.64%) Packer
12 8 (0.64%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.64%) WSUS
Vendors
1 696 (55.81%) Microsoft
2 227 (18.20%) VMware
3 105 (8.42%) Cisco
4 66 (5.29%) Splunk
5 55 (4.41%) Red Hat
5 55 (4.41%) ServiceNow
6 42 (3.37%) CrowdStrike
7 41 (3.29%) Veeam
8 40 (3.21%) Oracle
9 34 (2.73%) Google
10 32 (2.57%) Commvault
11 29 (2.33%) Dell
11 29 (2.33%) Palo Alto
12 28 (2.25%) Meraki
13 27 (2.17%) CyberArk
13 27 (2.17%) Fortinet
14 24 (1.92%) Citrix
15 23 (1.84%) Apple
16 20 (1.60%) Dynatrace
17 19 (1.52%) Atlassian