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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 90 110
Rank change year-on-year -54 +20 -36
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,465 1,630 1,817
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.33% 3.28% 2.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.93% 12.06% 7.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,027 1,089 1,277
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £59,125
Median % change year-on-year - -2.75% -1.46%
75th Percentile £73,250 £76,000 £80,000
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 18,480 13,519 24,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.79% 27.17% 30.42%
Number of salaries quoted 13,179 8,839 16,455
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,675
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 £83,750 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £103,750
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 3 September 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 3 September 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 1,291 £57,500 - 872
UK excluding London -61 966 £52,500 +5.00% 550
Work from Home -36 504 £62,500 +8.70% 378
London -37 463 £70,000 -3.45% 416
South East -19 246 £52,500 -8.70% 168
North of England -73 231 £50,000 +5.26% 117
Midlands -38 158 £52,500 +5.00% 84
North West -71 135 £50,000 +8.70% 70
East of England -38 101 £57,500 +21.05% 66
South West -81 85 £55,000 +19.57% 72
East Midlands -8 81 £42,500 +21.43% 31
West Midlands -58 77 £55,000 - 53
Northern Ireland -28 69 £46,000 - 17
Yorkshire -55 60 £42,500 -16.26% 31
Scotland +16 44 £50,000 +4.17% 33
North East -30 36 £50,000 -6.98% 17
Wales -43 32 £45,750 -16.82% 11

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
1 244 (16.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 239 (16.31%) SharePoint
3 57 (3.89%) IIS
4 37 (2.53%) Confluence
5 14 (0.96%) nginx
6 7 (0.48%) Apache
7 6 (0.41%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
9 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.068%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.068%) WebSphere
Applications
1 70 (4.78%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 29 (1.98%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.41%) Raiser’s Edge
4 4 (0.27%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.068%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 886 (60.48%) Azure
2 548 (37.41%) Microsoft 365
3 425 (29.01%) Entra ID
4 260 (17.75%) AWS
5 179 (12.22%) SaaS
6 173 (11.81%) Azure DevOps
7 114 (7.78%) OneDrive
8 111 (7.58%) GitHub
8 111 (7.58%) Power Platform
9 105 (7.17%) IaaS
10 84 (5.73%) Azure Monitor
10 84 (5.73%) Azure Sentinel
11 78 (5.32%) Power Automate
12 73 (4.98%) PaaS
13 72 (4.91%) Azure AKS
14 69 (4.71%) GCP
15 66 (4.51%) Azure Key Vault
16 64 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
17 52 (3.55%) Datadog
18 48 (3.28%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 321 (21.91%) Firewall
2 318 (21.71%) DNS
3 214 (14.61%) DHCP
4 207 (14.13%) VPN
5 140 (9.56%) TCP/IP
6 98 (6.69%) WAN
7 84 (5.73%) LAN
8 74 (5.05%) VLAN
9 63 (4.30%) Network Security
10 54 (3.69%) Wireless
11 44 (3.00%) Wi-Fi
12 37 (2.53%) SAN
13 29 (1.98%) Kerberos
14 22 (1.50%) NAS
14 22 (1.50%) SSL
15 21 (1.43%) VoIP
16 19 (1.30%) Internet
17 18 (1.23%) HTTP
18 17 (1.16%) BGP
18 17 (1.16%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (10.03%) SQL Server
2 83 (5.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 60 (4.10%) Power BI
4 26 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.50%) MongoDB
6 19 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.09%) Relational Database
8 15 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 12 (0.82%) MySQL
10 12 (0.82%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.61%) InfluxDB
11 9 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
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
1 103 (7.03%) Git
2 101 (6.89%) JIRA
3 73 (4.98%) GitLab
4 62 (4.23%) Jenkins
5 28 (1.91%) Bitbucket
6 13 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
7 12 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 11 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
9 9 (0.61%) Robot Framework
9 9 (0.61%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.61%) TestRail
10 7 (0.48%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.48%) Selenium
11 6 (0.41%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.34%) Postman
13 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
14 3 (0.20%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.20%) Burp Suite
14 3 (0.20%) MSI
14 3 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 548 (37.41%) Social Skills
2 239 (16.31%) Finance
3 189 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (8.53%) Law
5 120 (8.19%) Legal
6 63 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 52 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
8 44 (3.00%) Public Sector
8 44 (3.00%) Retail
9 40 (2.73%) Banking
10 36 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
11 34 (2.32%) Manufacturing
12 27 (1.84%) Aerospace
13 15 (1.02%) Legal Technology
14 14 (0.96%) Advertising
15 11 (0.75%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (0.61%) Aviation
16 9 (0.61%) Front Office
16 9 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 289 (19.73%) Senior
2 207 (14.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 159 (10.85%) Analyst
4 140 (9.56%) Support Engineer
5 137 (9.35%) IT Engineer
6 135 (9.22%) Azure Engineer
7 133 (9.08%) Cloud Engineer
8 120 (8.19%) IT Support
9 105 (7.17%) DevOps Engineer
10 76 (5.19%) Platform Engineer
11 70 (4.78%) IT Support Engineer
12 69 (4.71%) Lead
13 66 (4.51%) Security Engineer
14 64 (4.37%) Systems Engineer
15 63 (4.30%) Consultant
16 60 (4.10%) Support Analyst
17 58 (3.96%) Developer
17 58 (3.96%) Testing Manager
18 56 (3.82%) Administrator
19 55 (3.75%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (24.71%) Terraform
2 79 (5.39%) .NET
3 51 (3.48%) ARM Templates
3 51 (3.48%) REST
4 46 (3.14%) YAML
5 43 (2.94%) SAML
6 42 (2.87%) Microsoft Graph
7 39 (2.66%) HTML
7 39 (2.66%) OAuth
8 38 (2.59%) LDAP
8 38 (2.59%) OpenID
9 31 (2.12%) JSON
10 30 (2.05%) CSS
11 28 (1.91%) .NET Core
12 27 (1.84%) SPFx
13 21 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
14 18 (1.23%) HTML5 Canvas
15 16 (1.09%) SOAP
16 14 (0.96%) ASP.NET
16 14 (0.96%) React
Miscellaneous
1 123 (8.40%) Onboarding
2 88 (6.01%) Cloud Native
3 74 (5.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 71 (4.85%) Management Information System
4 71 (4.85%) Security Posture
5 69 (4.71%) Driving Licence
6 60 (4.10%) Virtual Team
7 52 (3.55%) Data Centre
8 47 (3.21%) Public Cloud
9 46 (3.14%) PKI
9 46 (3.14%) Replication
10 43 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
11 41 (2.80%) Security Operations Centre
12 36 (2.46%) Clustering
12 36 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
13 29 (1.98%) Private Cloud
14 25 (1.71%) CMDB
14 25 (1.71%) Cyber Defence
15 22 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
16 18 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 695 (47.44%) Windows
2 341 (23.28%) Linux
3 328 (22.39%) Windows Server
4 82 (5.60%) Windows 10
5 57 (3.89%) Apple iOS
6 45 (3.07%) Android
7 43 (2.94%) Mac OS
8 42 (2.87%) Ubuntu
9 40 (2.73%) VMS
10 36 (2.46%) Windows Server 2016
11 33 (2.25%) CentOS
12 29 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 27 (1.84%) Windows Server 2019
14 16 (1.09%) Unix
15 14 (0.96%) Rocky
16 8 (0.55%) Debian
17 7 (0.48%) Solaris
18 5 (0.34%) CoreOS
19 4 (0.27%) AIX
19 4 (0.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 405 (27.65%) Problem-Solving
2 374 (25.53%) DevOps
3 362 (24.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 341 (23.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 325 (22.18%) CI/CD
6 309 (21.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 292 (19.93%) ITIL
8 245 (16.72%) Cybersecurity
9 227 (15.49%) Mentoring
10 197 (13.45%) Disaster Recovery
11 168 (11.47%) High Availability
12 164 (11.19%) Root Cause Analysis
13 162 (11.06%) Agile
14 157 (10.72%) AI
15 148 (10.10%) Incident Response
16 146 (9.97%) Project Delivery
17 137 (9.35%) Platform Engineering
18 134 (9.15%) Containerisation
19 133 (9.08%) Cloud Security
20 132 (9.01%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 572 (39.04%) Python
2 306 (20.89%) Bash
3 292 (19.93%) SQL
4 144 (9.83%) JavaScript
5 140 (9.56%) C#
6 111 (7.58%) Bicep
7 86 (5.87%) TypeScript
8 49 (3.34%) Kusto Query Language
9 37 (2.53%) Java
9 37 (2.53%) T-SQL
10 23 (1.57%) VBScript
11 19 (1.30%) C++
11 19 (1.30%) Perl
12 13 (0.89%) PHP
13 12 (0.82%) Ruby
14 10 (0.68%) VB
14 10 (0.68%) VBA
15 9 (0.61%) Go
16 6 (0.41%) C
16 6 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 198 (13.52%) Security Cleared
2 165 (11.26%) Degree
3 158 (10.78%) Azure Certification
4 150 (10.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 138 (9.42%) SC Cleared
6 64 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 61 (4.16%) Cisco Certification
8 55 (3.75%) DV Cleared
9 53 (3.62%) CompTIA Security+
10 51 (3.48%) CISSP
11 44 (3.00%) CCNA
12 27 (1.84%) CEH
13 23 (1.57%) AWS Certification
13 23 (1.57%) DBS Check
14 22 (1.50%) OSCP
15 19 (1.30%) CCNP
15 19 (1.30%) GIAC
15 19 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 18 (1.23%) CISM
17 15 (1.02%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (7.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 79 (5.39%) QA
3 69 (4.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 67 (4.57%) NIST
5 48 (3.28%) GDPR
6 44 (3.00%) SLA
7 19 (1.30%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 16 (1.09%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (0.48%) NCSC
10 7 (0.48%) PMO
11 5 (0.34%) ISO 22301
11 5 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.27%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
14 2 (0.14%) EMIR
14 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 527 (35.97%) Active Directory
2 247 (16.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 164 (11.19%) Hyper-V
4 140 (9.56%) Docker
5 80 (5.46%) vSphere
6 66 (4.51%) Virtual Machines
7 53 (3.62%) Virtual Desktop
8 28 (1.91%) VMware NSX
9 22 (1.50%) BitLocker
10 18 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.55%) KVM
11 8 (0.55%) Squid
12 7 (0.48%) Firmware
13 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.20%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.068%) Ceph
16 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 260 (17.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 225 (15.36%) Kubernetes
3 178 (12.15%) Ansible
4 81 (5.53%) Grafana
5 77 (5.26%) SCCM
6 52 (3.55%) Single Sign-On
7 43 (2.94%) Prometheus
8 26 (1.77%) vCenter Server
9 25 (1.71%) ZABBIX
10 21 (1.43%) Argo
10 21 (1.43%) QRadar
11 20 (1.37%) Jamf Pro
11 20 (1.37%) Packer
11 20 (1.37%) Proxmox
12 19 (1.30%) Puppet
13 15 (1.02%) Graylog
14 14 (0.96%) FortiGate
15 13 (0.89%) VxRail
16 12 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 10 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 907 (61.91%) Microsoft
2 283 (19.32%) VMware
3 122 (8.33%) Cisco
4 107 (7.30%) ServiceNow
5 90 (6.14%) Splunk
6 64 (4.37%) Veeam
7 54 (3.69%) Red Hat
8 48 (3.28%) Oracle
9 44 (3.00%) Meraki
10 41 (2.80%) Citrix
11 35 (2.39%) Dynatrace
12 33 (2.25%) Sophos
13 32 (2.18%) Dell
14 28 (1.91%) Tenable
15 27 (1.84%) CyberArk
15 27 (1.84%) Sage
16 26 (1.77%) CrowdStrike
17 25 (1.71%) Apple
17 25 (1.71%) Fortinet
18 23 (1.57%) Google