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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 90 111
Rank change year-on-year -55 +21 -34
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,463 1,654 1,857
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.36% 3.32% 2.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.90% 12.02% 7.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,038 1,107 1,374
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £78,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £95,000
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 18,516 13,765 25,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.20% 27.60% 30.28%
Number of salaries quoted 13,147 9,018 17,418
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -64 1,293 £59,000 +2.61% 362
UK excluding London -57 958 £52,500 +5.00% 286
Work from Home -40 500 £62,500 +7.76% 159
London -33 474 £70,000 -3.45% 126
South East -25 247 £52,500 -8.70% 116
North of England -85 225 £50,000 +5.26% 63
Midlands -40 158 £52,500 +5.00% 44
North West -85 127 £51,500 +11.96% 45
East of England -35 101 £57,500 +13.86% 33
East Midlands -4 84 £42,500 +21.43% 16
South West -76 83 £55,000 +19.57% 33
West Midlands -65 74 £55,000 - 28
Northern Ireland -19 70 £46,000 - 1
Yorkshire -42 62 £42,500 -17.68% 12
Scotland +23 44 £50,000 +25.00% 5
North East -26 36 £50,000 +5.26% 7
Wales -37 30 £53,000 -3.64% 6

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
1 240 (16.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 231 (15.79%) SharePoint
3 55 (3.76%) IIS
4 34 (2.32%) Confluence
5 12 (0.82%) nginx
6 7 (0.48%) Apache
7 6 (0.41%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
9 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.068%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.068%) WebSphere
Applications
1 76 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 17 (1.16%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.41%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.21%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.21%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.068%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 901 (61.59%) Azure
2 539 (36.84%) Microsoft 365
3 414 (28.30%) Entra ID
4 259 (17.70%) AWS
5 173 (11.83%) SaaS
6 167 (11.41%) Azure DevOps
7 112 (7.66%) GitHub
8 109 (7.45%) OneDrive
9 108 (7.38%) IaaS
9 108 (7.38%) Power Platform
10 79 (5.40%) Azure Monitor
10 79 (5.40%) Azure Sentinel
11 75 (5.13%) PaaS
12 73 (4.99%) Power Automate
13 70 (4.78%) GCP
14 69 (4.72%) Azure AKS
15 66 (4.51%) Azure Key Vault
16 64 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
17 52 (3.55%) Datadog
18 49 (3.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 321 (21.94%) Firewall
2 314 (21.46%) DNS
3 212 (14.49%) DHCP
4 205 (14.01%) VPN
5 142 (9.71%) TCP/IP
6 98 (6.70%) WAN
7 85 (5.81%) LAN
8 69 (4.72%) Network Security
9 68 (4.65%) VLAN
10 48 (3.28%) Wireless
11 43 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
12 38 (2.60%) SAN
13 31 (2.12%) Kerberos
14 24 (1.64%) VoIP
15 23 (1.57%) NAS
16 22 (1.50%) SSL
17 18 (1.23%) HTTP
17 18 (1.23%) Internet
18 17 (1.16%) BGP
19 16 (1.09%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (10.25%) SQL Server
2 82 (5.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 61 (4.17%) Power BI
4 29 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.57%) MongoDB
6 19 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (1.16%) Relational Database
8 15 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (0.96%) MySQL
9 14 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 13 (0.89%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.48%) InfluxDB
12 7 (0.48%) Redis
13 6 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.41%) Power Query
14 5 (0.34%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.34%) Metadata
14 5 (0.34%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.27%) Db2
Development Applications
1 109 (7.45%) Git
2 98 (6.70%) JIRA
3 71 (4.85%) GitLab
4 61 (4.17%) Jenkins
5 28 (1.91%) Bitbucket
6 13 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.75%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
8 7 (0.48%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.48%) TestRail
9 6 (0.41%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.41%) Selenium
9 6 (0.41%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.34%) Metasploit
10 5 (0.34%) Postman
11 3 (0.21%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.21%) Burp Suite
11 3 (0.21%) MSI
11 3 (0.21%) Terragrunt
General
1 528 (36.09%) Social Skills
2 238 (16.27%) Finance
3 192 (13.12%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (8.95%) Law
5 121 (8.27%) Legal
6 64 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
8 44 (3.01%) Retail
9 43 (2.94%) Public Sector
10 40 (2.73%) Banking
11 34 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
12 33 (2.26%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.85%) Aerospace
14 16 (1.09%) Advertising
15 15 (1.03%) Legal Technology
16 12 (0.82%) Financial Institution
17 11 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
18 10 (0.68%) Telecoms
19 9 (0.62%) Front Office
19 9 (0.62%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 286 (19.55%) Senior
2 193 (13.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 158 (10.80%) Analyst
4 139 (9.50%) Support Engineer
5 135 (9.23%) Azure Engineer
5 135 (9.23%) IT Engineer
6 131 (8.95%) Cloud Engineer
7 128 (8.75%) IT Support
8 106 (7.25%) DevOps Engineer
9 72 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
10 71 (4.85%) IT Support Engineer
11 70 (4.78%) Security Engineer
12 67 (4.58%) Lead
13 63 (4.31%) Developer
13 63 (4.31%) Systems Engineer
14 58 (3.96%) Testing Manager
15 55 (3.76%) Administrator
15 55 (3.76%) Senior Manager
15 55 (3.76%) Support Analyst
16 53 (3.62%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 363 (24.81%) Terraform
2 84 (5.74%) .NET
3 53 (3.62%) ARM Templates
4 52 (3.55%) REST
5 47 (3.21%) SAML
5 47 (3.21%) YAML
6 43 (2.94%) Microsoft Graph
6 43 (2.94%) OAuth
7 42 (2.87%) HTML
8 40 (2.73%) LDAP
9 39 (2.67%) OpenID
10 32 (2.19%) CSS
10 32 (2.19%) JSON
11 31 (2.12%) .NET Core
12 25 (1.71%) SPFx
13 20 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (1.30%) HTML5 Canvas
15 18 (1.23%) SOAP
16 15 (1.03%) ASP.NET
16 15 (1.03%) React
Miscellaneous
1 120 (8.20%) Onboarding
2 86 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 75 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 70 (4.78%) Management Information System
5 69 (4.72%) Security Posture
6 68 (4.65%) Driving Licence
7 60 (4.10%) Virtual Team
8 51 (3.49%) Data Centre
9 44 (3.01%) Public Cloud
10 43 (2.94%) PKI
10 43 (2.94%) Security Operations Centre
11 41 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
11 41 (2.80%) Replication
12 37 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
13 36 (2.46%) Clustering
14 28 (1.91%) Private Cloud
15 26 (1.78%) Cyber Defence
16 25 (1.71%) CMDB
17 24 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
18 21 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 693 (47.37%) Windows
2 340 (23.24%) Linux
3 328 (22.42%) Windows Server
4 81 (5.54%) Windows 10
5 53 (3.62%) Apple iOS
6 47 (3.21%) Mac OS
7 42 (2.87%) Android
8 39 (2.67%) VMS
9 37 (2.53%) Ubuntu
10 35 (2.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 33 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 31 (2.12%) CentOS
13 25 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
14 17 (1.16%) Unix
15 7 (0.48%) Debian
15 7 (0.48%) Rocky
16 6 (0.41%) Solaris
17 5 (0.34%) CoreOS
17 5 (0.34%) Kali Linux
18 4 (0.27%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (26.25%) Problem-Solving
2 376 (25.70%) DevOps
3 348 (23.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 340 (23.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 333 (22.76%) CI/CD
6 296 (20.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 288 (19.69%) ITIL
8 242 (16.54%) Cybersecurity
9 217 (14.83%) Mentoring
10 189 (12.92%) Disaster Recovery
11 176 (12.03%) High Availability
12 171 (11.69%) Root Cause Analysis
13 161 (11.00%) Agile
13 161 (11.00%) Incident Response
14 147 (10.05%) AI
15 137 (9.36%) Containerisation
16 133 (9.09%) SIEM
17 132 (9.02%) Project Delivery
18 130 (8.89%) Cloud Security
18 130 (8.89%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 582 (39.78%) Python
2 309 (21.12%) Bash
3 284 (19.41%) SQL
4 145 (9.91%) C#
5 139 (9.50%) JavaScript
6 113 (7.72%) Bicep
7 87 (5.95%) TypeScript
8 49 (3.35%) Kusto Query Language
9 40 (2.73%) Java
10 37 (2.53%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.44%) VBScript
12 19 (1.30%) C++
13 18 (1.23%) Perl
14 14 (0.96%) PHP
15 11 (0.75%) Ruby
16 10 (0.68%) VBA
17 9 (0.62%) Go
17 9 (0.62%) VB
18 8 (0.55%) C
19 6 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 195 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 176 (12.03%) Degree
3 162 (11.07%) Azure Certification
4 149 (10.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 138 (9.43%) SC Cleared
6 66 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 63 (4.31%) Cisco Certification
8 55 (3.76%) DV Cleared
9 54 (3.69%) CompTIA Security+
10 52 (3.55%) CISSP
11 46 (3.14%) CCNA
12 28 (1.91%) CEH
13 24 (1.64%) DBS Check
14 23 (1.57%) AWS Certification
14 23 (1.57%) OSCP
15 22 (1.50%) GIAC
16 20 (1.37%) CCNP
17 18 (1.23%) CISM
17 18 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 15 (1.03%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 81 (5.54%) QA
3 75 (5.13%) NIST
4 68 (4.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 53 (3.62%) GDPR
6 47 (3.21%) SLA
7 19 (1.30%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.16%) PCI DSS
9 16 (1.09%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.48%) ISO 22301
11 7 (0.48%) NCSC
11 7 (0.48%) PMO
12 5 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.27%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.21%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.14%) EMIR
15 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 531 (36.30%) Active Directory
2 241 (16.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 163 (11.14%) Hyper-V
4 143 (9.77%) Docker
5 82 (5.60%) vSphere
6 61 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
7 51 (3.49%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (1.85%) VMware NSX
9 23 (1.57%) BitLocker
10 18 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.68%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.55%) KVM
12 8 (0.55%) Squid
13 7 (0.48%) Firmware
14 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.21%) Terminal Services
17 2 (0.14%) Samba
18 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 252 (17.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 237 (16.20%) Kubernetes
3 181 (12.37%) Ansible
4 81 (5.54%) Grafana
5 75 (5.13%) SCCM
6 50 (3.42%) Single Sign-On
7 47 (3.21%) Prometheus
8 25 (1.71%) vCenter Server
8 25 (1.71%) ZABBIX
9 23 (1.57%) Jamf Pro
10 21 (1.44%) Argo
10 21 (1.44%) QRadar
11 20 (1.37%) Packer
11 20 (1.37%) Proxmox
12 19 (1.30%) Puppet
13 15 (1.03%) Graylog
14 13 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 12 (0.82%) VxRail
16 11 (0.75%) FortiGate
16 11 (0.75%) Nagios
Vendors
1 896 (61.24%) Microsoft
2 280 (19.14%) VMware
3 126 (8.61%) Cisco
4 108 (7.38%) ServiceNow
5 94 (6.43%) Splunk
6 58 (3.96%) Red Hat
7 57 (3.90%) Veeam
8 50 (3.42%) Oracle
9 49 (3.35%) Meraki
10 40 (2.73%) Citrix
11 36 (2.46%) Dynatrace
12 32 (2.19%) Sophos
13 30 (2.05%) Dell
13 30 (2.05%) Tenable
14 29 (1.98%) CrowdStrike
15 27 (1.85%) Apple
16 26 (1.78%) CyberArk
17 24 (1.64%) Fortinet
18 21 (1.44%) Palo Alto
18 21 (1.44%) Qualys