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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 98 96
Rank change year-on-year -54 -2 -35
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,502 1,546 1,805
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.27% 3.15% 2.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.13% 12.43% 8.08%
Number of salaries quoted 998 1,057 1,170
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £37,975
25th Percentile £41,750 £42,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,850 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £73,250 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £89,000 £88,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year - +3.96% -6.48%

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 18,479 12,433 22,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.62% 25.34% 31.29%
Number of salaries quoted 13,087 8,073 13,339
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.10% -0.77%
75th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -63 1,299 £57,500 - 1,054
UK excluding London -75 970 £52,500 - 622
Work from Home -38 522 £60,000 - 528
London -30 471 £70,000 - 471
South East -20 237 £52,500 -8.70% 166
North of England -96 233 £50,000 - 156
Midlands -40 161 £52,500 +1.94% 81
North West -82 139 £50,000 - 80
East of England -36 99 £56,250 +18.42% 56
South West -72 93 £55,000 +13.40% 83
East Midlands -1 83 £42,500 +15.65% 30
West Midlands -68 78 £55,000 - 51
Northern Ireland -22 70 £46,000 - 26
Yorkshire -48 57 £48,445 -3.11% 53
Scotland -10 46 £52,500 +23.53% 45
North East -41 37 £51,500 -14.17% 24
Wales -58 31 £35,000 -36.36% 18

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
1 265 (17.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 244 (16.25%) SharePoint
3 51 (3.40%) IIS
4 43 (2.86%) Confluence
5 15 (1.00%) nginx
6 8 (0.53%) Apache
7 5 (0.33%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.067%) FactoryTalk
10 1 (0.067%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.067%) WebSphere
Applications
1 65 (4.33%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.067%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 36 (2.40%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.40%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.33%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.067%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 1 (0.067%) Actimize
7 1 (0.067%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 903 (60.12%) Azure
2 587 (39.08%) Microsoft 365
3 509 (33.89%) Entra ID
4 262 (17.44%) AWS
5 187 (12.45%) SaaS
6 182 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
7 128 (8.52%) Power Platform
8 117 (7.79%) GitHub
9 115 (7.66%) OneDrive
10 108 (7.19%) IaaS
11 95 (6.32%) Azure Monitor
12 93 (6.19%) Azure Sentinel
13 79 (5.26%) PaaS
13 79 (5.26%) Power Automate
14 74 (4.93%) GCP
15 73 (4.86%) Azure AKS
16 71 (4.73%) Microsoft Purview
17 69 (4.59%) Azure Key Vault
18 64 (4.26%) Microsoft Copilot
19 63 (4.19%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 343 (22.84%) DNS
2 334 (22.24%) Firewall
3 243 (16.18%) DHCP
4 239 (15.91%) VPN
5 162 (10.79%) TCP/IP
6 96 (6.39%) WAN
7 85 (5.66%) LAN
7 85 (5.66%) VLAN
8 64 (4.26%) Network Security
9 60 (3.99%) Wireless
10 50 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
11 40 (2.66%) SAN
12 35 (2.33%) Kerberos
13 32 (2.13%) SSL
14 27 (1.80%) NAS
15 24 (1.60%) HTTP
16 17 (1.13%) VSAN
17 15 (1.00%) Internet
18 14 (0.93%) FTP
18 14 (0.93%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (10.05%) SQL Server
2 84 (5.59%) Azure SQL Database
3 64 (4.26%) Power BI
4 23 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.46%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (1.13%) Relational Database
7 13 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (0.80%) MySQL
9 11 (0.73%) NoSQL
9 11 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (0.67%) Data Lake
11 8 (0.53%) InfluxDB
11 8 (0.53%) Power Query
11 8 (0.53%) Redis
11 8 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.47%) Metadata
13 6 (0.40%) Db2
13 6 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 99 (6.59%) JIRA
2 91 (6.06%) Git
3 83 (5.53%) GitLab
4 67 (4.46%) Jenkins
5 25 (1.66%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
7 10 (0.67%) TeamCity
8 8 (0.53%) Robot Framework
8 8 (0.53%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.53%) TestRail
9 7 (0.47%) Postman
10 6 (0.40%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.40%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.40%) Selenium
11 5 (0.33%) Burp Suite
11 5 (0.33%) MSI
11 5 (0.33%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
General
1 578 (38.48%) Social Skills
2 250 (16.64%) Finance
3 202 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (7.86%) Legal
5 104 (6.92%) Law
6 78 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (3.99%) Documentation Skills
8 46 (3.06%) Retail
9 44 (2.93%) Banking
10 40 (2.66%) Public Sector
11 38 (2.53%) Aerospace
12 37 (2.46%) Manufacturing
13 36 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (0.93%) Legal Technology
15 13 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (0.80%) Financial Institution
17 10 (0.67%) Investment Banking
18 9 (0.60%) Advertising
18 9 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
18 9 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 287 (19.11%) Senior
2 227 (15.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 183 (12.18%) Analyst
4 134 (8.92%) Azure Engineer
5 132 (8.79%) IT Engineer
6 129 (8.59%) Cloud Engineer
7 127 (8.46%) Support Engineer
8 118 (7.86%) DevOps Engineer
9 106 (7.06%) IT Support
10 81 (5.39%) Consultant
11 80 (5.33%) Platform Engineer
12 72 (4.79%) Lead
12 72 (4.79%) Support Analyst
13 67 (4.46%) IT Support Engineer
14 60 (3.99%) Security Engineer
15 56 (3.73%) Systems Engineer
16 55 (3.66%) Administrator
16 55 (3.66%) Senior Manager
16 55 (3.66%) Testing Manager
17 49 (3.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (25.30%) Terraform
2 67 (4.46%) .NET
3 59 (3.93%) REST
4 56 (3.73%) SAML
5 54 (3.60%) ARM Templates
6 50 (3.33%) LDAP
7 44 (2.93%) Microsoft Graph
7 44 (2.93%) OpenID
8 42 (2.80%) OAuth
9 41 (2.73%) YAML
10 31 (2.06%) HTML
11 28 (1.86%) JSON
12 24 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
13 22 (1.46%) CSS
13 22 (1.46%) SPFx
14 16 (1.07%) .NET Core
14 16 (1.07%) Kafka
15 15 (1.00%) SOAP
16 14 (0.93%) ASP.NET
16 14 (0.93%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 129 (8.59%) Onboarding
2 93 (6.19%) Cloud Native
3 87 (5.79%) Driving Licence
4 80 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 76 (5.06%) Security Posture
6 69 (4.59%) Management Information System
7 61 (4.06%) Replication
8 60 (3.99%) Virtual Team
9 56 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
10 54 (3.60%) PKI
11 49 (3.26%) Data Centre
12 40 (2.66%) Security Operations Centre
13 38 (2.53%) Clustering
13 38 (2.53%) Public Cloud
14 30 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
15 29 (1.93%) Cyber Threat
16 23 (1.53%) Cyber Defence
17 22 (1.46%) Private Cloud
18 21 (1.40%) Enterprise Storage
19 19 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 723 (48.14%) Windows
2 355 (23.64%) Linux
3 351 (23.37%) Windows Server
4 100 (6.66%) Windows 10
5 50 (3.33%) Apple iOS
6 45 (3.00%) Ubuntu
7 42 (2.80%) Android
7 42 (2.80%) macOS
8 39 (2.60%) VMS
9 36 (2.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 34 (2.26%) Windows Server 2016
11 32 (2.13%) CentOS
12 26 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 22 (1.46%) Unix
14 18 (1.20%) Rocky
15 8 (0.53%) Debian
16 7 (0.47%) Kali Linux
16 7 (0.47%) Solaris
17 5 (0.33%) CoreOS
18 4 (0.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (28.96%) Problem-Solving
2 397 (26.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 397 (26.43%) DevOps
3 362 (24.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 342 (22.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 327 (21.77%) CI/CD
6 267 (17.78%) Cybersecurity
6 267 (17.78%) ITIL
7 236 (15.71%) Mentoring
8 230 (15.31%) Disaster Recovery
9 190 (12.65%) AI
10 170 (11.32%) Agile
11 169 (11.25%) Root Cause Analysis
12 167 (11.12%) Project Delivery
13 158 (10.52%) Platform Engineering
14 154 (10.25%) High Availability
15 152 (10.12%) Cloud Security
15 152 (10.12%) Migration
16 147 (9.79%) Incident Response
17 145 (9.65%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 583 (38.81%) Python
2 313 (20.84%) Bash
3 299 (19.91%) SQL
4 136 (9.05%) JavaScript
5 130 (8.66%) Bicep
6 125 (8.32%) C#
7 82 (5.46%) TypeScript
8 55 (3.66%) Kusto Query Language
9 43 (2.86%) Java
10 36 (2.40%) T-SQL
11 22 (1.46%) VBScript
12 21 (1.40%) C++
13 19 (1.26%) Perl
14 13 (0.87%) PHP
15 11 (0.73%) Ruby
16 10 (0.67%) VBA
17 8 (0.53%) VB
18 7 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 7 (0.47%) Go
19 6 (0.40%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 226 (15.05%) Security Cleared
2 169 (11.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 167 (11.12%) Degree
4 164 (10.92%) Azure Certification
5 143 (9.52%) SC Cleared
6 68 (4.53%) CISSP
6 68 (4.53%) DV Cleared
7 57 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 56 (3.73%) CompTIA Security+
9 48 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
10 39 (2.60%) CCNA
11 28 (1.86%) CEH
12 25 (1.66%) AWS Certification
12 25 (1.66%) DBS Check
13 22 (1.46%) CISM
14 19 (1.26%) OSCP
15 18 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
15 18 (1.20%) GIAC
15 18 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 17 (1.13%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (7.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 83 (5.53%) QA
3 81 (5.39%) Cyber Essentials
4 70 (4.66%) NIST
5 50 (3.33%) SLA
6 44 (2.93%) GDPR
7 22 (1.46%) PCI DSS
8 21 (1.40%) Data Quality
9 13 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 12 (0.80%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.67%) NCSC
12 9 (0.60%) Accessibility
12 9 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.53%) PMO
14 7 (0.47%) ISO 22301
15 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
16 2 (0.13%) EMIR
16 2 (0.13%) GRC
16 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 562 (37.42%) Active Directory
2 247 (16.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 169 (11.25%) Hyper-V
4 136 (9.05%) Docker
5 82 (5.46%) vSphere
6 79 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
7 62 (4.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 34 (2.26%) VMware ESXi
9 30 (2.00%) VMware NSX
10 17 (1.13%) BitLocker
11 15 (1.00%) Firmware
12 8 (0.53%) KVM
13 6 (0.40%) Squid
14 5 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 5 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.20%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 3 (0.20%) NFS
17 2 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 273 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 230 (15.31%) Kubernetes
3 172 (11.45%) Ansible
4 80 (5.33%) Grafana
5 79 (5.26%) SCCM
6 64 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
7 44 (2.93%) Prometheus
8 35 (2.33%) Puppet
9 30 (2.00%) vCenter Server
10 24 (1.60%) Argo
11 23 (1.53%) ZABBIX
12 21 (1.40%) QRadar
13 20 (1.33%) FortiGate
13 20 (1.33%) Proxmox
14 15 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 15 (1.00%) Graylog
15 14 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
15 14 (0.93%) Progress Chef
16 13 (0.87%) Packer
17 11 (0.73%) Kibana
Vendors
1 970 (64.58%) Microsoft
2 288 (19.17%) VMware
3 109 (7.26%) Cisco
4 95 (6.32%) ServiceNow
5 89 (5.93%) Splunk
6 71 (4.73%) Veeam
7 48 (3.20%) Oracle
8 42 (2.80%) Citrix
9 41 (2.73%) Red Hat
10 37 (2.46%) Meraki
11 34 (2.26%) Sage
12 32 (2.13%) SolarWinds
13 30 (2.00%) Dell
13 30 (2.00%) Dynatrace
14 29 (1.93%) CyberArk
14 29 (1.93%) SAP
14 29 (1.93%) Sophos
15 28 (1.86%) Google
16 27 (1.80%) Apple
16 27 (1.80%) Fortinet