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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 93 58
Rank change year-on-year 0 -35 +36
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,581 1,790 2,532
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.16% 2.63% 4.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.79% 8.30% 11.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,087 1,173 2,054
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,550 £37,500
25th Percentile £44,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,250 £93,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,750 £54,000
% change year-on-year +1.45% -4.17% +2.86%

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 12,366 21,555 22,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.75% 31.68% 40.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,263 12,885 18,282
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 30 October 2025.

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 30 October 2025. 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 +5 1,436 £58,000 -7.94% 595
UK excluding London +30 1,098 £52,500 +1.45% 492
Work from Home -7 639 £60,000 -11.11% 267
London -25 414 £75,000 - 242
North of England +52 400 £50,000 - 76
North West +78 318 £51,000 +2.00% 54
South East -4 240 £58,000 +3.11% 223
Midlands +32 151 £52,500 +10.53% 47
West Midlands +33 109 £56,250 +25.00% 35
East of England +30 109 £47,500 -9.52% 37
South West +18 106 £50,000 -0.99% 79
Scotland -11 74 £57,500 +9.52% 31
Yorkshire -15 73 £49,000 -10.09% 13
East Midlands +6 42 £38,500 -18.95% 13
Wales +19 17 £55,000 +10.55% 6
North East -2 9 £60,000 +35.52% 9
Northern Ireland +4 4 £46,000 +15.00% 2

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
1 250 (15.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 179 (11.32%) SharePoint
3 68 (4.30%) IIS
4 62 (3.92%) Confluence
5 21 (1.33%) Exchange Server 2003
6 19 (1.20%) Skype for Business
7 14 (0.89%) nginx
8 8 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.38%) Apache
9 6 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.13%) CICS
11 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.063%) CMS
12 1 (0.063%) SharePoint Server
12 1 (0.063%) WordPress
Applications
1 54 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.51%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 7 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.25%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.25%) Siemens NX
7 3 (0.19%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.13%) Revit
8 2 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.063%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.063%) CATIA
9 1 (0.063%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.51%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.32%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.32%) PlanetPress Connect
5 4 (0.25%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.19%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.19%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.063%) Eikon
7 1 (0.063%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.063%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.063%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 854 (54.02%) Azure
2 456 (28.84%) Microsoft 365
3 290 (18.34%) Entra ID
4 275 (17.39%) AWS
5 223 (14.10%) Azure DevOps
6 126 (7.97%) Power Platform
7 117 (7.40%) PaaS
8 113 (7.15%) SaaS
9 101 (6.39%) Azure Monitor
10 94 (5.95%) IaaS
11 88 (5.57%) Power Automate
12 84 (5.31%) GitHub
13 72 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 70 (4.43%) GCP
15 59 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
16 54 (3.42%) Amazon S3
16 54 (3.42%) Serverless
17 53 (3.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 52 (3.29%) Amazon EC2
18 52 (3.29%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 387 (24.48%) VPN
2 320 (20.24%) Firewall
3 283 (17.90%) DNS
4 271 (17.14%) Cisco IOS
5 206 (13.03%) DHCP
6 118 (7.46%) TCP/IP
6 118 (7.46%) WAN
7 77 (4.87%) LAN
8 55 (3.48%) VLAN
9 51 (3.23%) SAN
10 49 (3.10%) Wireless
11 46 (2.91%) SD-WAN
12 37 (2.34%) Internet
13 36 (2.28%) Network Security
13 36 (2.28%) SMTP
14 34 (2.15%) Wi-Fi
15 31 (1.96%) HTTP
16 27 (1.71%) FTP
17 25 (1.58%) SSH
18 24 (1.52%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (9.42%) SQL Server
2 76 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
3 73 (4.62%) Power BI
4 34 (2.15%) MySQL
5 31 (1.96%) Relational Database
6 30 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 27 (1.71%) Oracle Database
8 26 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (1.52%) Oracle Database 10g
10 17 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (0.95%) Data Lake
12 13 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (0.70%) NoSQL
14 9 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
14 9 (0.57%) DTS
14 9 (0.57%) MongoDB
14 9 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
15 7 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (0.38%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 132 (8.35%) JIRA
2 131 (8.29%) Git
3 117 (7.40%) Jenkins
4 41 (2.59%) GitLab
4 41 (2.59%) Vagrant
5 36 (2.28%) Octopus Deploy
6 24 (1.52%) TeamCity
7 21 (1.33%) MSI
8 15 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
9 12 (0.76%) Burp Suite
9 12 (0.76%) Metasploit
10 10 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 7 (0.44%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.25%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.25%) Toad
13 3 (0.19%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.19%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
14 2 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 2 (0.13%) Robot Framework
General
1 450 (28.46%) Social Skills
2 336 (21.25%) Analytical Skills
3 292 (18.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 277 (17.52%) Finance
5 75 (4.74%) Law
6 66 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 40 (2.53%) Banking
8 38 (2.40%) Legal
9 35 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
10 34 (2.15%) Retail
11 33 (2.09%) Manufacturing
12 31 (1.96%) Telecoms
13 30 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
14 25 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
15 19 (1.20%) Marketing
16 17 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
17 14 (0.89%) Automotive
17 14 (0.89%) Games
18 13 (0.82%) Advertising
19 12 (0.76%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 430 (27.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 207 (13.09%) Support Engineer
3 145 (9.17%) Senior
4 122 (7.72%) DevOps Engineer
5 111 (7.02%) Azure Engineer
6 99 (6.26%) Analyst
7 98 (6.20%) IT Support
8 92 (5.82%) 3rd Line Support
9 89 (5.63%) Cloud Engineer
10 85 (5.38%) IT Engineer
11 76 (4.81%) Lead
12 72 (4.55%) Security Engineer
13 70 (4.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 67 (4.24%) Developer
15 66 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
16 58 (3.67%) Applications Support
17 55 (3.48%) IT Support Engineer
18 54 (3.42%) Infrastructure Support
19 52 (3.29%) Administrator
20 51 (3.23%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (17.33%) Elastic Stack
2 85 (5.38%) .NET
3 73 (4.62%) REST
4 71 (4.49%) YAML
5 40 (2.53%) JSON
6 39 (2.47%) SOAP
7 34 (2.15%) ARM Templates
8 32 (2.02%) LDAP
9 20 (1.27%) SAML
9 20 (1.27%) Web Services
10 17 (1.08%) AngularJS
10 17 (1.08%) Microsoft Graph
11 16 (1.01%) React
12 15 (0.95%) XML
13 13 (0.82%) .NET Framework
13 13 (0.82%) Node.js
14 12 (0.76%) OAuth
15 10 (0.63%) Razor View Engine
16 9 (0.57%) Middleware
17 8 (0.51%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 266 (16.82%) Cyberattack
2 97 (6.14%) Onboarding
3 64 (4.05%) Security Posture
4 58 (3.67%) Product Ownership
5 57 (3.61%) Data Centre
6 55 (3.48%) Hybrid Cloud
7 44 (2.78%) PKI
8 41 (2.59%) Cloud Native
9 37 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
9 37 (2.34%) Replication
10 35 (2.21%) Management Information System
11 30 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
12 29 (1.83%) Virtual Team
13 28 (1.77%) Driving Licence
13 28 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
14 26 (1.64%) Public Cloud
15 24 (1.52%) Private Cloud
16 20 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
16 20 (1.27%) Clustering
17 19 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 877 (55.47%) Windows
2 525 (33.21%) Linux
3 344 (21.76%) Windows Server
4 278 (17.58%) Android
5 81 (5.12%) VMS
6 73 (4.62%) Windows Server 2019
7 70 (4.43%) Windows 10
8 56 (3.54%) Unix
9 47 (2.97%) Windows Server 2016
10 43 (2.72%) Mac OS
11 32 (2.02%) Windows Server 2008
12 26 (1.64%) Amazon Linux
13 25 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 24 (1.52%) Solaris
15 23 (1.45%) Windows Server 2012
16 22 (1.39%) Ubuntu
17 21 (1.33%) HPUX
17 21 (1.33%) Windows 7
17 21 (1.33%) Windows Server 2003
18 12 (0.76%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 686 (43.39%) DevOps
2 584 (36.94%) Problem-Solving
3 492 (31.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 403 (25.49%) Task Automation
5 349 (22.07%) Platform Engineering
6 307 (19.42%) CI/CD
7 299 (18.91%) Storage Management
8 286 (18.09%) Risk Management
9 265 (16.76%) Mathematics
10 264 (16.70%) Line Management
11 232 (14.67%) ITIL
12 225 (14.23%) Infrastructure as Code
13 207 (13.09%) Agile
14 188 (11.89%) Continuous Improvement
15 159 (10.06%) Mentoring
16 149 (9.42%) Cybersecurity
17 131 (8.29%) Disaster Recovery
17 131 (8.29%) Migration
18 126 (7.97%) Cloud Security
19 112 (7.08%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 686 (43.39%) Python
2 505 (31.94%) Bash
3 279 (17.65%) SQL
4 108 (6.83%) C#
5 84 (5.31%) Bicep
6 63 (3.98%) Java
7 58 (3.67%) JavaScript
8 43 (2.72%) Groovy
9 40 (2.53%) Perl
10 26 (1.64%) Go
11 24 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
11 24 (1.52%) VB
12 17 (1.08%) T-SQL
13 15 (0.95%) Shell Script
13 15 (0.95%) TypeScript
14 13 (0.82%) VBA
15 11 (0.70%) VBScript
16 8 (0.51%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.44%) Ruby
18 6 (0.38%) C++
Qualifications
1 224 (14.17%) Security Cleared
2 178 (11.26%) Degree
3 150 (9.49%) SC Cleared
4 127 (8.03%) Azure Certification
5 106 (6.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 74 (4.68%) DV Cleared
7 56 (3.54%) Cisco Certification
8 54 (3.42%) AWS Certification
9 51 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 37 (2.34%) CCNA
11 28 (1.77%) CISSP
12 27 (1.71%) DBS Check
13 26 (1.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 25 (1.58%) Master's Degree
15 20 (1.27%) CCNP
15 20 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 18 (1.14%) CREST Certified
16 18 (1.14%) OSCP
17 14 (0.89%) CEH
18 13 (0.82%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (8.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 99 (6.26%) NIST
3 62 (3.92%) SLA
4 61 (3.86%) GDPR
5 36 (2.28%) NCSC
6 30 (1.90%) Accessibility
7 29 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
8 16 (1.01%) QA
9 10 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 9 (0.57%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.44%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.32%) GRC
13 4 (0.25%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.19%) HL7
14 3 (0.19%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.063%) Disclosure Scotland
15 1 (0.063%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.063%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 480 (30.36%) Active Directory
2 411 (26.00%) Hyper-V
3 390 (24.67%) Docker
4 297 (18.79%) vSphere
5 265 (16.76%) VMware NSX
6 222 (14.04%) VMware Infrastructure
7 72 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
8 47 (2.97%) Virtual Desktop
9 29 (1.83%) DFS Replication
10 28 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
11 14 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
11 14 (0.89%) XenApp
12 13 (0.82%) Firmware
13 10 (0.63%) Postfix
13 10 (0.63%) Squid
14 9 (0.57%) Dovecot
14 9 (0.57%) Terminal Services
15 7 (0.44%) vCloud
16 6 (0.38%) XenDesktop
17 4 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 564 (35.67%) Terraform
2 415 (26.25%) Ansible
3 252 (15.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 181 (11.45%) Kubernetes
5 90 (5.69%) Grafana
6 81 (5.12%) SCCM
7 75 (4.74%) Prometheus
8 68 (4.30%) Single Sign-On
9 35 (2.21%) WSUS
10 26 (1.64%) SCOM
11 22 (1.39%) vCenter Server
12 21 (1.33%) WMI
13 17 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 17 (1.08%) Autotask
14 16 (1.01%) Backup Exec
14 16 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
14 16 (1.01%) Puppet
15 13 (0.82%) Nessus
15 13 (0.82%) Progress Chef
15 13 (0.82%) QRadar
Vendors
1 746 (47.19%) Microsoft
2 382 (24.16%) Cisco
3 315 (19.92%) Splunk
4 291 (18.41%) VMware
5 284 (17.96%) Juniper
6 262 (16.57%) 3PAR
7 111 (7.02%) ServiceNow
8 73 (4.62%) Oracle
9 60 (3.80%) Veeam
10 55 (3.48%) Citrix
11 43 (2.72%) Meraki
12 42 (2.66%) Red Hat
13 38 (2.40%) Google
14 37 (2.34%) Atlassian
15 31 (1.96%) SolarWinds
16 27 (1.71%) Palo Alto
16 27 (1.71%) SAP
17 26 (1.64%) Apple
18 24 (1.52%) Sophos
19 22 (1.39%) HP