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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 93 76
Rank change year-on-year -18 -17 +11
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,223 1,553 2,224
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.00% 2.91% 3.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.42% 8.66% 9.78%
Number of salaries quoted 925 1,079 1,921
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £38,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £46,250 £46,335
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,750 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.48% - -4.34%

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 11,737 17,940 22,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.24% 33.66% 38.28%
Number of salaries quoted 8,507 10,475 18,590
10th Percentile £32,594 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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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

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Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell over the 6 months to 18 January 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in the UK

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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 18 January 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 -23 1,025 £58,000 -7.20% 546
UK excluding London -14 710 £52,750 +0.48% 526
London -7 441 £72,500 -3.33% 139
Work from Home -9 382 £60,000 -11.11% 280
South East -33 172 £58,000 -3.33% 171
North of England -24 133 £50,000 - 104
Scotland +46 125 £57,500 +4.55% 39
South West +21 107 £52,500 -2.78% 77
Midlands -18 90 £52,500 +10.53% 64
East of England +20 69 £43,085 -17.93% 66
North West -24 63 £50,500 +1.00% 56
Yorkshire -16 59 £47,500 -9.52% 37
West Midlands -27 48 £52,500 +23.53% 20
East Midlands -10 42 £55,000 +15.79% 44
Wales +7 12 £55,000 +5.77% 19
North East +1 11 £62,500 +10.62% 12
Northern Ireland -10 3 £46,500 - 6

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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 (15.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 153 (12.51%) SharePoint
3 51 (4.17%) IIS
4 24 (1.96%) Confluence
5 22 (1.80%) Exchange Server 2003
6 15 (1.23%) Skype for Business
7 6 (0.49%) nginx
7 6 (0.49%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.16%) CMS
9 2 (0.16%) WordPress
10 1 (0.082%) CICS
10 1 (0.082%) WebSphere
Applications
1 38 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.49%) Siemens NX
5 5 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 3 (0.25%) CATIA
7 3 (0.25%) SOLIDWORKS
7 3 (0.25%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.65%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.49%) Markit EDM
3 6 (0.49%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.41%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.41%) PlanetPress Connect
4 5 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.25%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.25%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.082%) Actimize
7 1 (0.082%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.082%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 806 (65.90%) Azure
2 409 (33.44%) Microsoft 365
3 317 (25.92%) Entra ID
4 214 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
5 212 (17.33%) AWS
6 104 (8.50%) Power Platform
7 96 (7.85%) GitHub
8 80 (6.54%) GCP
9 76 (6.21%) PaaS
10 72 (5.89%) GitHub Actions
11 65 (5.31%) Azure Monitor
12 57 (4.66%) IaaS
12 57 (4.66%) Power Automate
13 52 (4.25%) SaaS
14 48 (3.92%) Google Workspace
15 46 (3.76%) OneDrive
16 42 (3.43%) Azure Sentinel
17 40 (3.27%) Snowflake
18 39 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 39 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 224 (18.32%) Firewall
2 207 (16.93%) DNS
3 156 (12.76%) DHCP
4 103 (8.42%) TCP/IP
5 102 (8.34%) VPN
6 79 (6.46%) WAN
7 63 (5.15%) LAN
8 40 (3.27%) Wi-Fi
9 39 (3.19%) Wireless
10 38 (3.11%) VLAN
11 36 (2.94%) Broadband
12 31 (2.53%) SAN
12 31 (2.53%) SD-WAN
13 23 (1.88%) Network Security
14 22 (1.80%) Internet
15 16 (1.31%) VoIP
16 15 (1.23%) Cisco IOS
16 15 (1.23%) Skype
16 15 (1.23%) VSAN
17 13 (1.06%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (10.63%) SQL Server
2 70 (5.72%) Power BI
3 38 (3.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 33 (2.70%) Relational Database
5 32 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
6 30 (2.45%) Oracle Database
7 26 (2.13%) Oracle Database 10g
8 21 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
9 18 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (1.39%) MySQL
11 13 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (0.98%) MongoDB
12 12 (0.98%) NoSQL
13 11 (0.90%) Tableau
14 8 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
14 8 (0.65%) DTS
15 6 (0.49%) Data Mining
15 6 (0.49%) InfluxDB
15 6 (0.49%) Metadata
16 5 (0.41%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 104 (8.50%) JIRA
2 94 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 84 (6.87%) Git
4 39 (3.19%) GitLab
5 33 (2.70%) Octopus Deploy
6 25 (2.04%) TeamCity
7 17 (1.39%) Bitbucket
8 11 (0.90%) Burp Suite
8 11 (0.90%) Metasploit
9 9 (0.74%) Robot Framework
10 6 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (0.49%) TestRail
10 6 (0.49%) Vagrant
11 5 (0.41%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.41%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.33%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.33%) MLflow
12 4 (0.33%) MSI
12 4 (0.33%) Toad
General
1 439 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 332 (27.15%) Finance
3 118 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (4.58%) Law
5 48 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
6 46 (3.76%) Retail
7 43 (3.52%) Public Sector
8 41 (3.35%) Legal
9 40 (3.27%) Banking
10 36 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
11 33 (2.70%) Manufacturing
12 30 (2.45%) Games
13 29 (2.37%) Telecoms
14 26 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 18 (1.47%) Front Office
16 17 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
18 11 (0.90%) Marketing
19 9 (0.74%) Advertising
19 9 (0.74%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 187 (15.29%) Senior
2 155 (12.67%) Support Engineer
3 121 (9.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 108 (8.83%) Azure Engineer
5 98 (8.01%) DevOps Engineer
6 86 (7.03%) Analyst
6 86 (7.03%) Cloud Engineer
7 82 (6.70%) Developer
8 75 (6.13%) Lead
9 72 (5.89%) Security Engineer
10 68 (5.56%) IT Support
11 60 (4.91%) 3rd Line Support
12 55 (4.50%) Applications Engineer
12 55 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
13 54 (4.42%) IT Engineer
14 53 (4.33%) Applications Support
15 46 (3.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 46 (3.76%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
16 40 (3.27%) IT Support Engineer
17 37 (3.03%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (8.01%) REST
2 70 (5.72%) .NET
3 64 (5.23%) SOAP
4 57 (4.66%) OAuth
5 52 (4.25%) SAML
5 52 (4.25%) YAML
6 49 (4.01%) GraphQL
6 49 (4.01%) LDAP
7 47 (3.84%) OpenID
8 30 (2.45%) JSON
9 27 (2.21%) ARM Templates
10 22 (1.80%) React
11 20 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
12 19 (1.55%) Web Services
13 17 (1.39%) Microsoft Graph
14 16 (1.31%) AngularJS
15 13 (1.06%) Middleware
15 13 (1.06%) Node.js
16 11 (0.90%) FIX Protocol
16 11 (0.90%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 87 (7.11%) Onboarding
2 66 (5.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 63 (5.15%) Security Posture
4 53 (4.33%) Product Ownership
5 42 (3.43%) Management Information System
6 41 (3.35%) Cyber Threat
7 37 (3.03%) Cloud Native
7 37 (3.03%) Cyberattack
7 37 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
8 35 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
9 31 (2.53%) Data Centre
10 28 (2.29%) PKI
11 27 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
11 27 (2.21%) CMDB
12 25 (2.04%) Virtual Team
13 23 (1.88%) Driving Licence
14 21 (1.72%) Public Cloud
14 21 (1.72%) Video Conferencing
15 20 (1.64%) Hedge funds
16 19 (1.55%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 532 (43.50%) Windows
2 287 (23.47%) Windows Server
3 209 (17.09%) Linux
4 71 (5.81%) Windows 10
5 45 (3.68%) Mac OS
6 42 (3.43%) Unix
7 36 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
8 35 (2.86%) VMS
9 33 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
10 30 (2.45%) Android
10 30 (2.45%) Windows Server 2008
11 26 (2.13%) Solaris
12 22 (1.80%) HPUX
12 22 (1.80%) Windows 7
12 22 (1.80%) Windows Server 2003
13 21 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 17 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
15 16 (1.31%) Ubuntu
16 15 (1.23%) Apple iOS
17 14 (1.14%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (30.25%) Problem-Solving
2 366 (29.93%) DevOps
3 281 (22.98%) CI/CD
4 236 (19.30%) ITIL
5 226 (18.48%) Infrastructure as Code
6 217 (17.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 192 (15.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 187 (15.29%) Cybersecurity
9 185 (15.13%) Agile
10 173 (14.15%) Mentoring
11 148 (12.10%) Disaster Recovery
12 131 (10.71%) Roadmaps
13 128 (10.47%) Task Automation
14 114 (9.32%) Coaching
15 111 (9.08%) Asset Management
16 108 (8.83%) Root Cause Analysis
17 101 (8.26%) Cloud Security
17 101 (8.26%) Migration
18 94 (7.69%) Incident Response
19 91 (7.44%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 411 (33.61%) Python
2 279 (22.81%) SQL
3 269 (22.00%) Bash
4 102 (8.34%) C#
5 75 (6.13%) Bicep
6 65 (5.31%) JavaScript
7 56 (4.58%) T-SQL
8 27 (2.21%) Perl
9 26 (2.13%) Java
10 23 (1.88%) Go
11 19 (1.55%) Kusto Query Language
12 14 (1.14%) VB
13 11 (0.90%) TypeScript
13 11 (0.90%) VB.NET
13 11 (0.90%) VBScript
14 9 (0.74%) VBA
15 8 (0.65%) Groovy
15 8 (0.65%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.41%) C++
17 4 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 170 (13.90%) Security Cleared
2 160 (13.08%) Degree
3 109 (8.91%) SC Cleared
4 108 (8.83%) Microsoft Certification
5 91 (7.44%) Azure Certification
6 59 (4.82%) DV Cleared
7 44 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 40 (3.27%) CISSP
9 39 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
10 36 (2.94%) AWS Certification
11 32 (2.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 28 (2.29%) CREST Certified
13 20 (1.64%) CCNA
14 19 (1.55%) CEH
15 16 (1.31%) Master's Degree
16 15 (1.23%) SANS
17 13 (1.06%) CompTIA CySA+
17 13 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
17 13 (1.06%) DBS Check
17 13 (1.06%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (12.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 133 (10.87%) NIST
3 64 (5.23%) GDPR
4 56 (4.58%) NCSC
5 53 (4.33%) SLA
6 44 (3.60%) Accessibility
7 27 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
8 17 (1.39%) QA
9 14 (1.14%) ISO 22301
10 13 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (0.82%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.65%) Data Quality
13 7 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.41%) GRC
14 5 (0.41%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.25%) HL7
15 3 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
17 1 (0.082%) Disclosure Scotland
17 1 (0.082%) NIST 800
System Software
1 417 (34.10%) Active Directory
2 137 (11.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 112 (9.16%) Docker
4 89 (7.28%) Hyper-V
5 46 (3.76%) Virtual Desktop
5 46 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
6 31 (2.53%) vSphere
7 23 (1.88%) Firmware
8 14 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
8 14 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.74%) XenApp
10 8 (0.65%) vCloud
11 7 (0.57%) XenDesktop
12 5 (0.41%) Postfix
12 5 (0.41%) Squid
13 4 (0.33%) DFS Replication
13 4 (0.33%) Dovecot
13 4 (0.33%) VMware NSX
14 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 284 (23.22%) Terraform
2 210 (17.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 171 (13.98%) Kubernetes
4 137 (11.20%) Ansible
5 63 (5.15%) SCCM
6 50 (4.09%) Grafana
7 45 (3.68%) Single Sign-On
8 31 (2.53%) Prometheus
9 19 (1.55%) Puppet
10 17 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 16 (1.31%) SCOM
12 15 (1.23%) WSUS
13 13 (1.06%) Nessus
14 11 (0.90%) vCenter Server
15 10 (0.82%) ZABBIX
16 9 (0.74%) FortiGate
16 9 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
16 9 (0.74%) Nagios
17 8 (0.65%) Progress Chef
18 7 (0.57%) QRadar
Vendors
1 657 (53.72%) Microsoft
2 219 (17.91%) VMware
3 97 (7.93%) Cisco
4 78 (6.38%) ServiceNow
5 55 (4.50%) Oracle
6 45 (3.68%) Veeam
7 42 (3.43%) Google
7 42 (3.43%) Splunk
8 39 (3.19%) Atlassian
9 36 (2.94%) Citrix
10 33 (2.70%) Red Hat
11 28 (2.29%) Palo Alto
12 26 (2.13%) SolarWinds
13 24 (1.96%) SAP
14 23 (1.88%) Fortinet
15 22 (1.80%) Commvault
15 22 (1.80%) CrowdStrike
16 21 (1.72%) Dell
17 19 (1.55%) CyberArk
18 18 (1.47%) Meraki