PowerShell Job Trends

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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 94 89
Rank change year-on-year -22 -5 +2
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,263 1,464 2,389
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.81% 3.08% 3.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.75% 8.92% 8.61%
Number of salaries quoted 932 1,054 2,080
10th Percentile £32,525 £37,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +9.65% -5.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,438 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,250 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.64% +10.00% -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 12,953 16,420 27,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.59% 34.49% 37.00%
Number of salaries quoted 9,192 10,086 22,656
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,375 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 26 February 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 26 February 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 -34 1,065 £57,500 -8.73% 275
UK excluding London -26 723 £50,250 -8.64% 212
London -4 469 £70,000 -9.68% 94
Work from Home +4 418 £55,000 -12.00% 109
South East -43 194 £56,750 -7.35% 61
North of England -29 145 £47,500 -9.52% 48
Scotland +59 134 £69,250 +15.42% 19
South West +3 101 £55,000 - 37
Midlands -49 84 £52,000 +4.00% 27
Yorkshire -36 67 £47,500 -9.52% 18
North West -34 61 £50,000 -2.44% 21
East of England -15 55 £40,000 -27.27% 22
East Midlands -26 42 £55,000 +8.91% 15
West Midlands -42 41 £47,500 -5.00% 12
North East +2 17 £47,500 -20.83% 9
Wales -2 10 £55,000 +5.77% 6
Northern Ireland -28 1 - - 1

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
1 192 (15.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 137 (10.85%) SharePoint
3 38 (3.01%) IIS
4 22 (1.74%) Exchange Server 2003
5 13 (1.03%) Confluence
6 6 (0.48%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.40%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.16%) CMS
8 2 (0.16%) nginx
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.16%) WordPress
9 1 (0.079%) Apache
9 1 (0.079%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.079%) CICS
9 1 (0.079%) Site Server
9 1 (0.079%) WebSphere
Applications
1 43 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.48%) Siemens NX
3 6 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.24%) CATIA
5 3 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.24%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.63%) Markit EDM
3 7 (0.55%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.48%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.48%) Workday HCM
5 5 (0.40%) PlanetPress Connect
6 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
7 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
8 2 (0.16%) NEC Housing
9 1 (0.079%) Actimize
9 1 (0.079%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.079%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 823 (65.16%) Azure
2 423 (33.49%) Microsoft 365
3 351 (27.79%) Entra ID
4 218 (17.26%) AWS
5 172 (13.62%) Azure DevOps
6 118 (9.34%) Power Platform
7 97 (7.68%) GitHub
8 83 (6.57%) GCP
9 79 (6.25%) PaaS
10 77 (6.10%) Google Workspace
11 75 (5.94%) GitHub Actions
12 71 (5.62%) SaaS
13 67 (5.30%) Azure Monitor
14 63 (4.99%) IaaS
15 50 (3.96%) Power Automate
16 48 (3.80%) OneDrive
17 42 (3.33%) Snowflake
18 37 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
18 37 (2.93%) dbt
19 36 (2.85%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 225 (17.81%) Firewall
2 221 (17.50%) DNS
3 179 (14.17%) DHCP
4 130 (10.29%) VPN
5 108 (8.55%) TCP/IP
6 80 (6.33%) WAN
7 72 (5.70%) LAN
8 64 (5.07%) Broadband
9 51 (4.04%) VLAN
10 50 (3.96%) Wi-Fi
11 36 (2.85%) Network Security
11 36 (2.85%) Wireless
12 34 (2.69%) SAN
13 33 (2.61%) SD-WAN
14 30 (2.38%) VoIP
15 17 (1.35%) VSAN
16 14 (1.11%) MPLS
16 14 (1.11%) NAS
17 12 (0.95%) BGP
17 12 (0.95%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (11.56%) SQL Server
2 91 (7.21%) Power BI
3 32 (2.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 31 (2.45%) Relational Database
5 30 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (2.38%) Oracle Database
6 27 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (2.06%) MySQL
7 26 (2.06%) Oracle Database 10g
8 17 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
9 16 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (1.19%) Tableau
11 14 (1.11%) NoSQL
11 14 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.63%) InfluxDB
12 8 (0.63%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.48%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
14 5 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.40%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 93 (7.36%) JIRA
2 88 (6.97%) Jenkins
3 77 (6.10%) Git
4 39 (3.09%) GitLab
5 29 (2.30%) Octopus Deploy
6 21 (1.66%) TeamCity
7 20 (1.58%) Bitbucket
8 15 (1.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 13 (1.03%) Metasploit
10 11 (0.87%) Burp Suite
11 9 (0.71%) CircleCI
11 9 (0.71%) Robot Framework
12 6 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.48%) TestRail
13 5 (0.40%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.32%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.32%) MLflow
15 3 (0.24%) Balsamiq
15 3 (0.24%) Eclipse
15 3 (0.24%) JMeter
General
1 443 (35.08%) Social Skills
2 316 (25.02%) Finance
3 141 (11.16%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
5 47 (3.72%) Retail
6 44 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
7 43 (3.40%) Law
8 37 (2.93%) Games
8 37 (2.93%) Public Sector
9 34 (2.69%) Banking
10 33 (2.61%) Legal
11 29 (2.30%) Telecoms
12 28 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 26 (2.06%) Manufacturing
14 15 (1.19%) Front Office
15 14 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
16 13 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (0.63%) Advertising
17 8 (0.63%) Aerospace
18 6 (0.48%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 193 (15.28%) Senior
2 151 (11.96%) Support Engineer
3 148 (11.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 113 (8.95%) Azure Engineer
5 105 (8.31%) Analyst
6 92 (7.28%) IT Support
7 83 (6.57%) Developer
7 83 (6.57%) DevOps Engineer
7 83 (6.57%) Security Engineer
8 80 (6.33%) Cloud Engineer
9 74 (5.86%) IT Engineer
10 67 (5.30%) Lead
11 60 (4.75%) 3rd Line Support
12 56 (4.43%) IT Support Engineer
13 49 (3.88%) Platform Engineer
14 44 (3.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 42 (3.33%) Applications Support
16 41 (3.25%) Support Analyst
17 40 (3.17%) Applications Engineer
17 40 (3.17%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (8.63%) REST
2 90 (7.13%) OAuth
3 82 (6.49%) SAML
4 76 (6.02%) OpenID
4 76 (6.02%) SOAP
5 73 (5.78%) GraphQL
6 69 (5.46%) .NET
7 65 (5.15%) LDAP
8 36 (2.85%) YAML
9 33 (2.61%) JSON
10 27 (2.14%) ARM Templates
11 21 (1.66%) React
12 19 (1.50%) Elastic Stack
12 19 (1.50%) Web Services
13 17 (1.35%) Microsoft Graph
14 15 (1.19%) .NET Core
14 15 (1.19%) Middleware
15 14 (1.11%) Node.js
16 13 (1.03%) AngularJS
17 12 (0.95%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 91 (7.21%) Onboarding
2 77 (6.10%) Hybrid Cloud
3 68 (5.38%) Cyber Threat
4 62 (4.91%) Security Posture
5 61 (4.83%) Cyberattack
6 49 (3.88%) Management Information System
7 41 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
7 41 (3.25%) Product Ownership
8 39 (3.09%) Driving Licence
9 36 (2.85%) Cloud Native
10 34 (2.69%) Data Centre
11 32 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
12 30 (2.38%) Cyber Defence
13 28 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
14 26 (2.06%) PKI
15 24 (1.90%) CMDB
16 21 (1.66%) Security Operations Centre
17 19 (1.50%) Virtual Team
18 18 (1.43%) Hedge funds
19 17 (1.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 548 (43.39%) Windows
2 294 (23.28%) Windows Server
3 228 (18.05%) Linux
4 69 (5.46%) Windows 10
5 54 (4.28%) Mac OS
6 42 (3.33%) Unix
7 35 (2.77%) Windows Server 2016
7 35 (2.77%) Windows Server 2019
8 33 (2.61%) Android
9 30 (2.38%) VMS
10 28 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 26 (2.06%) Apple iOS
11 26 (2.06%) CentOS
11 26 (2.06%) Windows Server 2008
12 25 (1.98%) Solaris
13 22 (1.74%) HPUX
13 22 (1.74%) Windows 7
13 22 (1.74%) Windows Server 2003
14 17 (1.35%) Ubuntu
15 16 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (29.93%) Problem-Solving
2 326 (25.81%) DevOps
3 261 (20.67%) CI/CD
4 242 (19.16%) ITIL
5 236 (18.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 227 (17.97%) Cybersecurity
7 219 (17.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 216 (17.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 196 (15.52%) Mentoring
10 179 (14.17%) Agile
11 170 (13.46%) Disaster Recovery
12 158 (12.51%) Roadmaps
13 124 (9.82%) Root Cause Analysis
14 118 (9.34%) Incident Response
15 117 (9.26%) Task Automation
16 109 (8.63%) Coaching
17 107 (8.47%) Asset Management
18 102 (8.08%) Cloud Security
18 102 (8.08%) Migration
19 100 (7.92%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 440 (34.84%) Python
2 321 (25.42%) Bash
3 285 (22.57%) SQL
4 91 (7.21%) C#
5 86 (6.81%) T-SQL
6 70 (5.54%) Bicep
7 69 (5.46%) JavaScript
8 25 (1.98%) Perl
9 24 (1.90%) Kusto Query Language
10 21 (1.66%) Go
10 21 (1.66%) Java
11 11 (0.87%) VB.NET
12 9 (0.71%) VBA
13 8 (0.63%) VB
14 7 (0.55%) PHP
14 7 (0.55%) VBScript
15 6 (0.48%) C++
15 6 (0.48%) Delphi
15 6 (0.48%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.40%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 172 (13.62%) Degree
2 159 (12.59%) Security Cleared
3 112 (8.87%) Microsoft Certification
4 98 (7.76%) SC Cleared
5 90 (7.13%) Azure Certification
6 60 (4.75%) DV Cleared
7 52 (4.12%) CISSP
8 43 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 36 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
9 36 (2.85%) CREST Certified
10 32 (2.53%) AWS Certification
11 31 (2.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 24 (1.90%) CEH
13 21 (1.66%) CCNA
13 21 (1.66%) GIAC
13 21 (1.66%) SANS
14 19 (1.50%) CompTIA CySA+
15 17 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
15 17 (1.35%) DBS Check
15 17 (1.35%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (13.46%) NIST
2 165 (13.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 74 (5.86%) NCSC
4 65 (5.15%) GDPR
5 55 (4.35%) SLA
6 49 (3.88%) Accessibility
7 31 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials
8 20 (1.58%) ISO 22301
9 17 (1.35%) Data Quality
9 17 (1.35%) QA
10 15 (1.19%) PCI DSS
11 14 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.55%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.40%) DICOM
14 5 (0.40%) GRC
15 3 (0.24%) HL7
15 3 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.16%) COBIT
16 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
System Software
1 466 (36.90%) Active Directory
2 146 (11.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 112 (8.87%) Docker
4 109 (8.63%) Hyper-V
5 47 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
6 40 (3.17%) vSphere
7 37 (2.93%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (1.43%) Firmware
9 16 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
10 13 (1.03%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.63%) vCloud
11 8 (0.63%) VMware NSX
11 8 (0.63%) XenApp
12 6 (0.48%) XenDesktop
13 5 (0.40%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.24%) iptables
15 3 (0.24%) KVM
16 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 274 (21.69%) Terraform
2 190 (15.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 163 (12.91%) Kubernetes
4 144 (11.40%) Ansible
5 50 (3.96%) Grafana
6 46 (3.64%) SCCM
7 43 (3.40%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (2.06%) Prometheus
9 20 (1.58%) Puppet
10 18 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (1.03%) vCenter Server
12 12 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
13 11 (0.87%) Nessus
14 10 (0.79%) SCOM
15 9 (0.71%) FortiGate
15 9 (0.71%) VxRail
16 8 (0.63%) Nagios
16 8 (0.63%) Progress Chef
16 8 (0.63%) SCVMM
17 7 (0.55%) Control-M
Vendors
1 641 (50.75%) Microsoft
2 236 (18.69%) VMware
3 100 (7.92%) Cisco
4 62 (4.91%) ServiceNow
5 52 (4.12%) Splunk
6 51 (4.04%) Oracle
7 50 (3.96%) Veeam
8 42 (3.33%) Google
8 42 (3.33%) Red Hat
9 34 (2.69%) Atlassian
10 32 (2.53%) Palo Alto
11 31 (2.45%) Citrix
11 31 (2.45%) Commvault
12 27 (2.14%) CyberArk
12 27 (2.14%) Fortinet
13 26 (2.06%) SolarWinds
14 24 (1.90%) Dell
15 23 (1.82%) CrowdStrike
16 22 (1.74%) Meraki
17 20 (1.58%) Tenable