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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 86 114
Rank change year-on-year -49 +28 -31
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,400 1,666 2,329
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.43% 3.40% 2.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.94% 11.55% 7.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,026 1,088 1,868
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,938 £77,500 £75,063
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -2.91%

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 17,623 14,419 32,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.00% 29.46% 31.74%
Number of salaries quoted 12,522 9,595 24,220
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -54 1,285 £57,500 - 348
UK excluding London -54 872 £51,500 +3.00% 290
London -19 496 £70,000 -4.44% 123
Work from Home -38 477 £60,000 +6.19% 164
South East -32 242 £55,000 -4.35% 104
North of England -93 205 £47,972 -4.06% 63
Midlands -46 142 £50,000 - 32
North West -85 111 £50,000 +3.51% 38
East of England -18 97 £54,500 +11.79% 25
South West -49 90 £55,000 +15.79% 49
East Midlands -6 76 £45,000 +28.57% 14
West Midlands -62 65 £52,500 -4.55% 18
Yorkshire -33 58 £47,500 -9.52% 12
Scotland +33 44 £52,500 +31.25% 20
North East -22 36 £47,500 -20.83% 15
Wales -28 26 £53,085 -3.48% 6
Northern Ireland -36 26 £46,000 +6.75% 8

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
1 223 (15.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 199 (14.21%) SharePoint
3 49 (3.50%) IIS
4 25 (1.79%) Confluence
5 4 (0.29%) nginx
5 4 (0.29%) SAS
6 3 (0.21%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.21%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.14%) Apache
7 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.071%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.071%) Site Server
8 1 (0.071%) Tomcat
Applications
1 79 (5.64%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (0.71%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.43%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.21%) Alphatax
6 2 (0.14%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.14%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.071%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 891 (63.64%) Azure
2 502 (35.86%) Microsoft 365
3 371 (26.50%) Entra ID
4 244 (17.43%) AWS
5 151 (10.79%) Azure DevOps
6 123 (8.79%) Power Platform
7 120 (8.57%) SaaS
8 117 (8.36%) GitHub
9 104 (7.43%) IaaS
10 91 (6.50%) OneDrive
11 84 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
12 79 (5.64%) PaaS
13 76 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
14 65 (4.64%) Azure AKS
14 65 (4.64%) Power Automate
15 64 (4.57%) Azure Sentinel
16 59 (4.21%) GCP
17 58 (4.14%) Azure Key Vault
18 51 (3.64%) Azure Logic Apps
18 51 (3.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 308 (22.00%) Firewall
2 291 (20.79%) DNS
3 206 (14.71%) VPN
4 196 (14.00%) DHCP
5 126 (9.00%) TCP/IP
6 92 (6.57%) WAN
7 87 (6.21%) LAN
8 77 (5.50%) Network Security
9 71 (5.07%) VLAN
10 51 (3.64%) Wi-Fi
11 39 (2.79%) Wireless
12 38 (2.71%) VoIP
13 36 (2.57%) Broadband
14 34 (2.43%) SAN
15 27 (1.93%) Kerberos
16 23 (1.64%) BGP
17 17 (1.21%) SD-WAN
18 16 (1.14%) SSL
19 15 (1.07%) MPLS
19 15 (1.07%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (11.14%) SQL Server
2 83 (5.93%) Power BI
3 79 (5.64%) Azure SQL Database
4 43 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (1.79%) MySQL
6 25 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 21 (1.50%) MongoDB
8 15 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (1.07%) NoSQL
8 15 (1.07%) Relational Database
9 11 (0.79%) InfluxDB
9 11 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (0.50%) Data Lake
10 7 (0.50%) Tableau
11 5 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
11 5 (0.36%) Metadata
11 5 (0.36%) Redis
11 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (0.29%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 110 (7.86%) Git
2 78 (5.57%) JIRA
3 74 (5.29%) Jenkins
4 70 (5.00%) GitLab
5 34 (2.43%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
7 12 (0.86%) Metasploit
7 12 (0.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 11 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
9 10 (0.71%) Robot Framework
9 10 (0.71%) TeamCity
10 9 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (0.64%) TestRail
11 8 (0.57%) Burp Suite
12 7 (0.50%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.50%) Selenium
13 5 (0.36%) CircleCI
13 5 (0.36%) Postman
13 5 (0.36%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 449 (32.07%) Social Skills
2 225 (16.07%) Finance
3 169 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (8.93%) Law
5 74 (5.29%) Legal
6 63 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
7 57 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 55 (3.93%) Documentation Skills
9 41 (2.93%) Retail
10 38 (2.71%) Public Sector
11 25 (1.79%) Banking
11 25 (1.79%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.64%) Aerospace
13 17 (1.21%) Advertising
14 16 (1.14%) Telecoms
15 14 (1.00%) Games
16 9 (0.64%) Financial Institution
16 9 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.50%) Aviation
17 7 (0.50%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 267 (19.07%) Senior
2 175 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 159 (11.36%) Analyst
4 154 (11.00%) Support Engineer
5 141 (10.07%) IT Engineer
6 140 (10.00%) IT Support
7 133 (9.50%) Azure Engineer
8 115 (8.21%) Cloud Engineer
9 103 (7.36%) DevOps Engineer
10 86 (6.14%) Security Engineer
11 85 (6.07%) IT Support Engineer
12 70 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
13 63 (4.50%) Developer
14 61 (4.36%) 2nd Line Support
14 61 (4.36%) Systems Engineer
15 57 (4.07%) Lead
16 51 (3.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 46 (3.29%) Architect
18 45 (3.21%) 3rd Line Engineer
18 45 (3.21%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (6.21%) .NET
2 75 (5.36%) SAML
3 73 (5.21%) OAuth
4 68 (4.86%) REST
5 66 (4.71%) OpenID
6 61 (4.36%) LDAP
7 52 (3.71%) ARM Templates
8 44 (3.14%) YAML
9 42 (3.00%) HTML
9 42 (3.00%) JSON
10 41 (2.93%) SOAP
11 39 (2.79%) Microsoft Graph
12 37 (2.64%) .NET Core
13 32 (2.29%) CSS
14 31 (2.21%) GraphQL
15 24 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
15 24 (1.71%) SPFx
16 19 (1.36%) HTML5 Canvas
17 17 (1.21%) XML
18 15 (1.07%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 108 (7.71%) Onboarding
2 84 (6.00%) Cloud Native
3 78 (5.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 73 (5.21%) Security Posture
5 65 (4.64%) Driving Licence
6 61 (4.36%) Management Information System
7 51 (3.64%) Cyber Threat
8 50 (3.57%) Data Centre
9 45 (3.21%) Security Operations Centre
10 44 (3.14%) Public Cloud
11 43 (3.07%) PKI
12 39 (2.79%) Cyber Defence
12 39 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
13 37 (2.64%) Cyberattack
13 37 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
14 30 (2.14%) Virtual Team
15 24 (1.71%) Private Cloud
16 22 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
16 22 (1.57%) Replication
17 21 (1.50%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 657 (46.93%) Windows
2 318 (22.71%) Windows Server
3 317 (22.64%) Linux
4 77 (5.50%) Windows 10
5 54 (3.86%) Apple iOS
6 50 (3.57%) VMS
7 47 (3.36%) Mac OS
8 40 (2.86%) Android
8 40 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
9 35 (2.50%) CentOS
10 32 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 27 (1.93%) Windows Server 2019
12 25 (1.79%) Ubuntu
13 14 (1.00%) Unix
14 8 (0.57%) Debian
15 6 (0.43%) Kali Linux
15 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.29%) AIX
16 4 (0.29%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
2 328 (23.43%) DevOps
3 327 (23.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 325 (23.21%) CI/CD
5 275 (19.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 272 (19.43%) Cybersecurity
7 256 (18.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 236 (16.86%) ITIL
9 203 (14.50%) Mentoring
10 180 (12.86%) Agile
11 167 (11.93%) Root Cause Analysis
12 165 (11.79%) Incident Response
13 164 (11.71%) Disaster Recovery
14 148 (10.57%) Containerisation
15 147 (10.50%) High Availability
16 137 (9.79%) SIEM
17 135 (9.64%) Cloud Security
18 133 (9.50%) Roadmaps
19 124 (8.86%) Task Automation
20 122 (8.71%) AI
Programming Languages
1 566 (40.43%) Python
2 351 (25.07%) Bash
3 279 (19.93%) SQL
4 122 (8.71%) C#
5 103 (7.36%) Bicep
5 103 (7.36%) JavaScript
6 65 (4.64%) T-SQL
7 53 (3.79%) TypeScript
8 47 (3.36%) Kusto Query Language
9 35 (2.50%) Java
10 19 (1.36%) C++
11 17 (1.21%) PHP
11 17 (1.21%) VBScript
12 12 (0.86%) Perl
13 11 (0.79%) Go
13 11 (0.79%) VB
14 10 (0.71%) VBA
15 9 (0.64%) Ruby
16 8 (0.57%) C
17 6 (0.43%) Korn
Qualifications
1 177 (12.64%) Security Cleared
2 169 (12.07%) Degree
3 154 (11.00%) Azure Certification
4 135 (9.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 115 (8.21%) SC Cleared
6 61 (4.36%) Cisco Certification
7 59 (4.21%) CISSP
8 56 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 46 (3.29%) DV Cleared
10 44 (3.14%) CompTIA Security+
11 43 (3.07%) CCNA
12 28 (2.00%) CREST Certified
13 27 (1.93%) AWS Certification
13 27 (1.93%) DBS Check
13 27 (1.93%) OSCP
14 25 (1.79%) CEH
14 25 (1.79%) GIAC
15 21 (1.50%) CCNP
16 16 (1.14%) CISM
16 16 (1.14%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 116 (8.29%) NIST
3 65 (4.64%) GDPR
4 57 (4.07%) Cyber Essentials
5 47 (3.36%) QA
6 42 (3.00%) SLA
7 29 (2.07%) NCSC
8 21 (1.50%) Data Quality
9 20 (1.43%) PCI DSS
10 18 (1.29%) SOC 2
11 13 (0.93%) Accessibility
11 13 (0.93%) ISO 22301
12 9 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.43%) DICOM
14 6 (0.43%) PMO
15 3 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.14%) EMIR
16 2 (0.14%) ISAE 3402
16 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 519 (37.07%) Active Directory
2 228 (16.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 154 (11.00%) Hyper-V
4 149 (10.64%) Docker
5 81 (5.79%) vSphere
6 50 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
7 42 (3.00%) Virtual Desktop
8 25 (1.79%) BitLocker
9 24 (1.71%) VMware NSX
10 17 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.71%) KVM
12 8 (0.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.57%) Squid
13 4 (0.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 4 (0.29%) iptables
13 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.21%) Firmware
14 3 (0.21%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.14%) Samba
Systems Management
1 335 (23.93%) Terraform
2 237 (16.93%) Kubernetes
3 213 (15.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 171 (12.21%) Ansible
5 78 (5.57%) Grafana
6 61 (4.36%) Single Sign-On
7 57 (4.07%) SCCM
8 52 (3.71%) Prometheus
9 27 (1.93%) Jamf Pro
9 27 (1.93%) vCenter Server
10 23 (1.64%) ZABBIX
11 21 (1.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 21 (1.50%) Argo
12 20 (1.43%) Packer
13 19 (1.36%) QRadar
14 16 (1.14%) Proxmox
15 14 (1.00%) Graylog
15 14 (1.00%) Nessus
16 12 (0.86%) Nagios
16 12 (0.86%) WSUS
Vendors
1 821 (58.64%) Microsoft
2 276 (19.71%) VMware
3 110 (7.86%) Cisco
4 94 (6.71%) Splunk
5 77 (5.50%) ServiceNow
6 59 (4.21%) Red Hat
7 52 (3.71%) Veeam
8 41 (2.93%) Meraki
8 41 (2.93%) Oracle
9 31 (2.21%) Tenable
10 30 (2.14%) Apple
11 29 (2.07%) CrowdStrike
12 28 (2.00%) Citrix
12 28 (2.00%) Sophos
13 27 (1.93%) Dell
13 27 (1.93%) Palo Alto
14 26 (1.86%) Fortinet
15 25 (1.79%) Google
16 24 (1.71%) SolarWinds
17 23 (1.64%) Dynatrace