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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 88 115
Rank change year-on-year -54 +27 -30
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,300 1,576 2,386
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.39% 3.54% 2.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.80% 11.30% 6.97%
Number of salaries quoted 955 992 1,909
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -3.85%

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 16,664 13,950 34,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.82% 31.30% 31.58%
Number of salaries quoted 11,760 9,193 25,782
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,379 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.92% -0.91%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -51 1,206 £59,000 +0.85% 354
UK excluding London -68 772 £51,500 +3.00% 308
London -14 503 £70,000 -6.67% 104
Work from Home -42 418 £60,000 +9.09% 146
South East -44 194 £55,875 -2.83% 119
North of England -87 193 £47,500 -5.00% 68
Midlands -44 136 £50,000 - 41
North West -84 101 £50,801 +9.84% 52
East of England -21 85 £55,000 +15.79% 23
South West -40 85 £55,000 +15.79% 37
East Midlands -16 77 £45,000 +24.14% 23
Yorkshire -28 60 £45,000 -21.74% 13
West Midlands -68 58 £51,250 -4.54% 18
Scotland +33 52 £50,000 +3.09% 14
North East -30 32 £47,500 -19.15% 4
Wales -22 24 £54,085 +3.02% 6
Northern Ireland -28 3 £46,000 +6.75% 14

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
1 200 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 182 (14.00%) SharePoint
3 43 (3.31%) IIS
4 23 (1.77%) Confluence
5 3 (0.23%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.15%) Apache
6 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.077%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.077%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.077%) nginx
7 1 (0.077%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.077%) SAS
7 1 (0.077%) Site Server
Applications
1 73 (5.62%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.077%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.077%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (0.38%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.23%) Alphatax
3 3 (0.23%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.15%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.077%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.077%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.077%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 853 (65.62%) Azure
2 478 (36.77%) Microsoft 365
3 357 (27.46%) Entra ID
4 219 (16.85%) AWS
5 140 (10.77%) Azure DevOps
6 113 (8.69%) Power Platform
7 104 (8.00%) GitHub
8 94 (7.23%) SaaS
9 90 (6.92%) IaaS
10 87 (6.69%) OneDrive
11 74 (5.69%) Azure Monitor
12 70 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
13 66 (5.08%) Google Workspace
14 62 (4.77%) PaaS
15 59 (4.54%) Azure AKS
15 59 (4.54%) Power Automate
16 58 (4.46%) Azure Sentinel
17 54 (4.15%) Azure Key Vault
18 53 (4.08%) GCP
19 46 (3.54%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 267 (20.54%) DNS
1 267 (20.54%) Firewall
2 171 (13.15%) DHCP
2 171 (13.15%) VPN
3 115 (8.85%) TCP/IP
4 83 (6.38%) WAN
5 80 (6.15%) LAN
6 73 (5.62%) Network Security
7 58 (4.46%) VLAN
8 54 (4.15%) Broadband
9 45 (3.46%) Wi-Fi
10 38 (2.92%) VoIP
11 33 (2.54%) SAN
12 26 (2.00%) Wireless
13 23 (1.77%) BGP
14 19 (1.46%) Kerberos
15 17 (1.31%) SD-WAN
16 15 (1.15%) MPLS
16 15 (1.15%) SSL
16 15 (1.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (11.38%) SQL Server
2 80 (6.15%) Power BI
3 67 (5.15%) Azure SQL Database
4 41 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (1.92%) MySQL
7 22 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (1.15%) MongoDB
9 15 (1.15%) Relational Database
10 14 (1.08%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.69%) Data Lake
12 9 (0.69%) InfluxDB
12 9 (0.69%) Tableau
13 7 (0.54%) Metadata
14 5 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.38%) Redis
14 5 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 3 (0.23%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 98 (7.54%) Git
2 68 (5.23%) JIRA
3 66 (5.08%) Jenkins
4 61 (4.69%) GitLab
5 31 (2.38%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
7 15 (1.15%) TeamCity
8 13 (1.00%) Metasploit
9 12 (0.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 10 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
11 9 (0.69%) Burp Suite
12 8 (0.62%) Robot Framework
13 7 (0.54%) TestRail
14 5 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (0.38%) CircleCI
14 5 (0.38%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.38%) Selenium
15 4 (0.31%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.31%) SonarQube
16 3 (0.23%) Terragrunt
General
1 395 (30.38%) Social Skills
2 213 (16.38%) Finance
3 165 (12.69%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (6.85%) Law
5 78 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
6 56 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 49 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
8 44 (3.38%) Legal
8 44 (3.38%) Retail
9 37 (2.85%) Public Sector
10 26 (2.00%) Aerospace
11 25 (1.92%) Manufacturing
12 24 (1.85%) Games
13 23 (1.77%) Banking
14 18 (1.38%) Advertising
15 16 (1.23%) Telecoms
16 9 (0.69%) Aviation
17 7 (0.54%) Front Office
17 7 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
18 6 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 238 (18.31%) Senior
2 166 (12.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 147 (11.31%) Support Engineer
4 145 (11.15%) Analyst
5 133 (10.23%) Azure Engineer
6 132 (10.15%) IT Support
7 121 (9.31%) IT Engineer
8 105 (8.08%) Cloud Engineer
9 95 (7.31%) DevOps Engineer
10 83 (6.38%) Security Engineer
11 80 (6.15%) IT Support Engineer
12 64 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
13 62 (4.77%) Developer
14 59 (4.54%) 2nd Line Support
14 59 (4.54%) Systems Engineer
15 54 (4.15%) Lead
16 45 (3.46%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 43 (3.31%) Security Analyst
18 42 (3.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
18 42 (3.23%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (7.00%) SAML
2 90 (6.92%) OAuth
3 87 (6.69%) REST
4 86 (6.62%) .NET
5 82 (6.31%) OpenID
6 78 (6.00%) LDAP
7 60 (4.62%) SOAP
8 52 (4.00%) GraphQL
9 44 (3.38%) YAML
10 41 (3.15%) ARM Templates
11 40 (3.08%) JSON
12 38 (2.92%) Microsoft Graph
13 37 (2.85%) HTML
14 35 (2.69%) .NET Core
15 33 (2.54%) CSS
16 26 (2.00%) SPFx
17 22 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
18 19 (1.46%) HTML5 Canvas
19 17 (1.31%) React
20 15 (1.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 101 (7.77%) Onboarding
2 74 (5.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 70 (5.38%) Cloud Native
4 67 (5.15%) Cyber Threat
5 64 (4.92%) Security Posture
6 58 (4.46%) Management Information System
7 57 (4.38%) Cyberattack
8 54 (4.15%) Driving Licence
9 45 (3.46%) Security Operations Centre
10 44 (3.38%) Cyber Defence
11 42 (3.23%) Data Centre
12 36 (2.77%) PKI
13 35 (2.69%) Public Cloud
14 34 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
15 22 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
16 21 (1.62%) CMDB
16 21 (1.62%) Replication
16 21 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
17 20 (1.54%) Clustering
17 20 (1.54%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 614 (47.23%) Windows
2 297 (22.85%) Windows Server
3 296 (22.77%) Linux
4 79 (6.08%) Windows 10
5 53 (4.08%) Apple iOS
6 51 (3.92%) Mac OS
7 44 (3.38%) Android
7 44 (3.38%) VMS
8 39 (3.00%) Windows Server 2016
9 31 (2.38%) CentOS
10 30 (2.31%) Windows Server 2019
11 29 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 26 (2.00%) Ubuntu
13 17 (1.31%) Unix
14 7 (0.54%) Debian
15 6 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.31%) AIX
16 4 (0.31%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.31%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (24.85%) Problem-Solving
2 294 (22.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 292 (22.46%) CI/CD
4 285 (21.92%) Cybersecurity
5 273 (21.00%) DevOps
6 236 (18.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 217 (16.69%) ITIL
8 216 (16.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 186 (14.31%) Mentoring
10 164 (12.62%) Agile
11 158 (12.15%) Incident Response
12 153 (11.77%) Root Cause Analysis
13 151 (11.62%) Disaster Recovery
14 138 (10.62%) Roadmaps
15 136 (10.46%) High Availability
16 134 (10.31%) Containerisation
17 128 (9.85%) SIEM
18 119 (9.15%) Cloud Security
19 112 (8.62%) Task Automation
20 109 (8.38%) AI
Programming Languages
1 507 (39.00%) Python
2 350 (26.92%) Bash
3 275 (21.15%) SQL
4 95 (7.31%) C#
5 84 (6.46%) Bicep
6 79 (6.08%) T-SQL
7 73 (5.62%) JavaScript
8 37 (2.85%) Kusto Query Language
9 31 (2.38%) Java
10 25 (1.92%) TypeScript
11 17 (1.31%) C++
12 15 (1.15%) VBScript
13 13 (1.00%) Perl
13 13 (1.00%) PHP
14 11 (0.85%) VB
15 10 (0.77%) VBA
16 9 (0.69%) Go
17 8 (0.62%) Ruby
18 7 (0.54%) C
18 7 (0.54%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 162 (12.46%) Security Cleared
2 160 (12.31%) Degree
3 135 (10.38%) Azure Certification
4 120 (9.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 106 (8.15%) SC Cleared
6 56 (4.31%) CISSP
7 53 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 50 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
9 43 (3.31%) DV Cleared
10 40 (3.08%) CompTIA Security+
11 33 (2.54%) CCNA
12 29 (2.23%) CREST Certified
13 28 (2.15%) OSCP
14 26 (2.00%) AWS Certification
14 26 (2.00%) DBS Check
15 23 (1.77%) CEH
15 23 (1.77%) GIAC
16 17 (1.31%) CCNP
16 17 (1.31%) CompTIA CySA+
17 13 (1.00%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (11.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 129 (9.92%) NIST
3 55 (4.23%) GDPR
4 50 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 49 (3.77%) NCSC
6 39 (3.00%) SLA
7 20 (1.54%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.23%) PCI DSS
9 15 (1.15%) Accessibility
10 14 (1.08%) QA
10 14 (1.08%) SOC 2
11 13 (1.00%) ISO 22301
12 11 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 10 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.46%) DICOM
14 6 (0.46%) PMO
15 4 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.15%) EMIR
17 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 508 (39.08%) Active Directory
2 206 (15.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 142 (10.92%) Docker
4 135 (10.38%) Hyper-V
5 68 (5.23%) vSphere
6 40 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
7 33 (2.54%) Virtual Desktop
8 25 (1.92%) BitLocker
8 25 (1.92%) VMware NSX
9 16 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (0.77%) KVM
11 8 (0.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.62%) Squid
12 6 (0.46%) Firmware
13 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.31%) iptables
15 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
16 2 (0.15%) Samba
Systems Management
1 303 (23.31%) Terraform
2 215 (16.54%) Kubernetes
3 203 (15.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 154 (11.85%) Ansible
5 68 (5.23%) Grafana
6 60 (4.62%) Single Sign-On
7 50 (3.85%) Prometheus
8 48 (3.69%) SCCM
9 27 (2.08%) Jamf Pro
10 25 (1.92%) vCenter Server
11 22 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 20 (1.54%) Packer
12 20 (1.54%) ZABBIX
13 19 (1.46%) Argo
14 17 (1.31%) Nessus
14 17 (1.31%) QRadar
15 14 (1.08%) Graylog
15 14 (1.08%) Proxmox
15 14 (1.08%) VxRail
16 12 (0.92%) Nagios
Vendors
1 759 (58.38%) Microsoft
2 257 (19.77%) VMware
3 104 (8.00%) Cisco
4 84 (6.46%) Splunk
5 65 (5.00%) ServiceNow
6 58 (4.46%) Red Hat
7 47 (3.62%) Veeam
8 38 (2.92%) Meraki
9 37 (2.85%) Oracle
10 31 (2.38%) Apple
10 31 (2.38%) CrowdStrike
11 30 (2.31%) Google
12 28 (2.15%) Citrix
12 28 (2.15%) Dell
13 26 (2.00%) Tenable
14 25 (1.92%) Fortinet
15 24 (1.85%) Sophos
16 23 (1.77%) Commvault
16 23 (1.77%) Palo Alto
17 21 (1.62%) Logitech