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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 82 116
Rank change year-on-year -62 +34 -20
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,236 1,618 2,278
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.35% 3.67% 2.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.66% 11.58% 7.02%
Number of salaries quoted 912 1,031 1,921
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
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 16,137 13,972 32,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.60% 31.72% 33.45%
Number of salaries quoted 11,077 9,722 24,888
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £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 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

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 May 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 May 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 -69 1,110 £60,000 - 402
UK excluding London -85 692 £52,500 +5.00% 332
London -18 510 £70,000 -6.67% 130
Work from Home -48 399 £57,500 - 170
South East -77 161 £56,750 -1.30% 127
North of England -113 151 £47,500 -5.00% 79
Midlands -56 121 £52,500 +5.00% 34
South West -38 81 £55,000 +15.79% 45
Scotland +47 78 £50,000 -0.41% 18
North West -106 78 £50,750 +10.33% 47
East of England -33 75 £57,500 +21.05% 25
East Midlands -26 71 £55,000 +42.86% 22
Yorkshire -34 56 £47,500 -19.49% 18
West Midlands -79 49 £48,000 -4.00% 12
Wales -12 22 £55,000 +7.84% 9
North East -35 17 £48,445 -15.75% 14
Northern Ireland - 3 £46,000 - 3

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
1 172 (13.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 158 (12.78%) SharePoint
3 40 (3.24%) IIS
4 22 (1.78%) Confluence
5 3 (0.24%) Skype for Business
5 3 (0.24%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.16%) Apache
6 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.081%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.081%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.081%) Site Server
Applications
1 63 (5.10%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.081%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.081%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.57%) Markit EDM
2 5 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
3 3 (0.24%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.16%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.081%) Actimize
5 1 (0.081%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 809 (65.45%) Azure
2 441 (35.68%) Microsoft 365
3 339 (27.43%) Entra ID
4 210 (16.99%) AWS
5 125 (10.11%) Azure DevOps
6 104 (8.41%) Power Platform
7 92 (7.44%) GitHub
8 84 (6.80%) SaaS
9 80 (6.47%) OneDrive
10 74 (5.99%) IaaS
11 69 (5.58%) GitHub Actions
11 69 (5.58%) Google Workspace
12 63 (5.10%) GCP
13 55 (4.45%) Azure Sentinel
14 53 (4.29%) PaaS
15 52 (4.21%) Power Automate
16 50 (4.05%) Azure Monitor
17 49 (3.96%) Azure AKS
18 47 (3.80%) Azure Key Vault
19 45 (3.64%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 239 (19.34%) DNS
2 237 (19.17%) Firewall
3 148 (11.97%) DHCP
4 144 (11.65%) VPN
5 103 (8.33%) TCP/IP
6 74 (5.99%) WAN
7 68 (5.50%) LAN
8 64 (5.18%) Network Security
9 58 (4.69%) Broadband
10 47 (3.80%) VLAN
11 42 (3.40%) Wi-Fi
12 40 (3.24%) VoIP
13 33 (2.67%) SAN
14 21 (1.70%) Wireless
15 20 (1.62%) BGP
16 18 (1.46%) SD-WAN
17 15 (1.21%) Kerberos
17 15 (1.21%) VSAN
18 14 (1.13%) MPLS
19 13 (1.05%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (11.65%) SQL Server
2 79 (6.39%) Power BI
3 53 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 31 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
6 24 (1.94%) MySQL
7 22 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 20 (1.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 18 (1.46%) NoSQL
10 17 (1.38%) Relational Database
11 13 (1.05%) MongoDB
12 12 (0.97%) Tableau
13 10 (0.81%) Data Lake
13 10 (0.81%) InfluxDB
14 6 (0.49%) Metadata
15 5 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
16 4 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 3 (0.24%) DynamoDB
18 2 (0.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 95 (7.69%) Git
2 67 (5.42%) JIRA
3 63 (5.10%) Jenkins
4 53 (4.29%) GitLab
5 28 (2.27%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.29%) Octopus Deploy
7 13 (1.05%) Metasploit
7 13 (1.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 12 (0.97%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.73%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.73%) Robot Framework
9 9 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
10 8 (0.65%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.65%) TestRail
11 4 (0.32%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.32%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.32%) MLflow
11 4 (0.32%) Selenium
12 3 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.24%) SonarQube
General
1 392 (31.72%) Social Skills
2 230 (18.61%) Finance
3 176 (14.24%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (6.23%) Organisational Skills
5 74 (5.99%) Law
6 53 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (3.56%) Legal
8 43 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
8 43 (3.48%) Retail
9 41 (3.32%) Public Sector
10 29 (2.35%) Games
11 25 (2.02%) Banking
11 25 (2.02%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.86%) Aerospace
13 18 (1.46%) Advertising
14 15 (1.21%) Telecoms
15 13 (1.05%) Front Office
16 6 (0.49%) Electronics
16 6 (0.49%) Police
17 5 (0.40%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 236 (19.09%) Senior
2 153 (12.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 141 (11.41%) Analyst
4 130 (10.52%) Azure Engineer
5 128 (10.36%) Support Engineer
6 111 (8.98%) IT Support
7 93 (7.52%) IT Engineer
8 88 (7.12%) Cloud Engineer
9 82 (6.63%) Security Engineer
10 81 (6.55%) DevOps Engineer
11 63 (5.10%) IT Support Engineer
12 59 (4.77%) Developer
13 57 (4.61%) 2nd Line Support
14 56 (4.53%) Lead
15 53 (4.29%) Systems Engineer
16 46 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
17 44 (3.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 44 (3.56%) Architect
18 41 (3.32%) Security Analyst
18 41 (3.32%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (7.85%) OAuth
2 87 (7.04%) SAML
3 85 (6.88%) OpenID
4 83 (6.72%) .NET
4 83 (6.72%) REST
5 74 (5.99%) LDAP
6 62 (5.02%) SOAP
7 60 (4.85%) GraphQL
8 39 (3.16%) .NET Core
9 36 (2.91%) JSON
9 36 (2.91%) Microsoft Graph
10 35 (2.83%) YAML
11 32 (2.59%) ARM Templates
12 31 (2.51%) CSS
13 30 (2.43%) HTML
14 26 (2.10%) SPFx
15 19 (1.54%) HTML5 Canvas
15 19 (1.54%) React
16 18 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
17 16 (1.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 92 (7.44%) Onboarding
2 71 (5.74%) Cyber Threat
3 69 (5.58%) Hybrid Cloud
4 63 (5.10%) Cyberattack
5 57 (4.61%) Management Information System
6 56 (4.53%) Cloud Native
7 53 (4.29%) Security Posture
8 45 (3.64%) Cyber Defence
9 44 (3.56%) Security Operations Centre
10 40 (3.24%) Driving Licence
11 39 (3.16%) Data Centre
12 36 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
13 30 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
14 29 (2.35%) PKI
15 28 (2.27%) Public Cloud
16 25 (2.02%) CMDB
17 19 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
17 19 (1.54%) Replication
18 18 (1.46%) Low-Code
18 18 (1.46%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 573 (46.36%) Windows
2 272 (22.01%) Windows Server
3 271 (21.93%) Linux
4 77 (6.23%) Windows 10
5 49 (3.96%) Apple iOS
5 49 (3.96%) Mac OS
6 48 (3.88%) Android
7 34 (2.75%) Windows Server 2016
8 32 (2.59%) VMS
9 30 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 28 (2.27%) CentOS
11 25 (2.02%) Windows Server 2019
12 21 (1.70%) Ubuntu
13 18 (1.46%) Unix
14 9 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.40%) Debian
16 4 (0.32%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.32%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.24%) AIX
17 3 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (25.57%) Problem-Solving
2 270 (21.84%) Infrastructure as Code
3 269 (21.76%) Cybersecurity
4 265 (21.44%) CI/CD
5 254 (20.55%) DevOps
6 221 (17.88%) ITIL
7 213 (17.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 204 (16.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 185 (14.97%) Mentoring
10 162 (13.11%) Agile
11 157 (12.70%) Incident Response
12 145 (11.73%) Root Cause Analysis
13 139 (11.25%) Roadmaps
14 138 (11.17%) Disaster Recovery
15 126 (10.19%) SIEM
16 123 (9.95%) Containerisation
17 111 (8.98%) Cloud Security
18 106 (8.58%) Task Automation
19 104 (8.41%) High Availability
20 103 (8.33%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 483 (39.08%) Python
2 316 (25.57%) Bash
3 269 (21.76%) SQL
4 94 (7.61%) C#
5 75 (6.07%) T-SQL
6 73 (5.91%) JavaScript
7 69 (5.58%) Bicep
8 30 (2.43%) Kusto Query Language
9 25 (2.02%) Java
10 22 (1.78%) TypeScript
11 15 (1.21%) C++
12 13 (1.05%) Perl
13 12 (0.97%) VB
14 11 (0.89%) VB.NET
15 10 (0.81%) Go
16 9 (0.73%) PHP
16 9 (0.73%) VBA
16 9 (0.73%) VBScript
17 7 (0.57%) C
18 6 (0.49%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 158 (12.78%) Degree
2 147 (11.89%) Security Cleared
3 112 (9.06%) Microsoft Certification
4 106 (8.58%) Azure Certification
5 87 (7.04%) SC Cleared
6 50 (4.05%) CISSP
7 48 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (3.32%) Cisco Certification
8 41 (3.32%) DV Cleared
9 34 (2.75%) CompTIA Security+
10 30 (2.43%) CREST Certified
11 28 (2.27%) CCNA
12 27 (2.18%) OSCP
13 25 (2.02%) GIAC
14 23 (1.86%) AWS Certification
15 22 (1.78%) CEH
16 21 (1.70%) DBS Check
17 16 (1.29%) CompTIA CySA+
18 14 (1.13%) CCNP
19 12 (0.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (11.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 141 (11.41%) NIST
3 66 (5.34%) GDPR
4 54 (4.37%) NCSC
5 43 (3.48%) SLA
6 32 (2.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 23 (1.86%) Accessibility
8 19 (1.54%) Data Quality
9 18 (1.46%) ISO 22301
10 15 (1.21%) PCI DSS
10 15 (1.21%) QA
10 15 (1.21%) SOC 2
11 12 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
12 10 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.49%) DICOM
14 5 (0.40%) GRC
15 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.16%) COBIT
17 2 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 461 (37.30%) Active Directory
2 171 (13.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 132 (10.68%) Docker
4 110 (8.90%) Hyper-V
5 52 (4.21%) vSphere
6 33 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (1.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 21 (1.70%) BitLocker
8 21 (1.70%) VMware NSX
9 18 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
10 15 (1.21%) Firmware
11 10 (0.81%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 7 (0.57%) KVM
13 6 (0.49%) Squid
14 5 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.32%) iptables
15 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.32%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.32%) XenDesktop
16 2 (0.16%) Samba
Systems Management
1 272 (22.01%) Terraform
2 202 (16.34%) Kubernetes
3 188 (15.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 147 (11.89%) Ansible
5 57 (4.61%) Grafana
6 52 (4.21%) Single Sign-On
7 49 (3.96%) SCCM
8 36 (2.91%) Prometheus
9 25 (2.02%) Jamf Pro
10 23 (1.86%) vCenter Server
11 22 (1.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (1.21%) Nessus
12 15 (1.21%) VxRail
13 14 (1.13%) QRadar
14 13 (1.05%) Packer
14 13 (1.05%) ZABBIX
15 10 (0.81%) WSUS
16 9 (0.73%) Graylog
16 9 (0.73%) Nagios
16 9 (0.73%) Puppet
Vendors
1 703 (56.88%) Microsoft
2 221 (17.88%) VMware
3 101 (8.17%) Cisco
4 69 (5.58%) Splunk
5 57 (4.61%) Red Hat
6 53 (4.29%) ServiceNow
7 41 (3.32%) CrowdStrike
8 39 (3.16%) Veeam
9 31 (2.51%) Meraki
10 30 (2.43%) Dell
11 29 (2.35%) Citrix
11 29 (2.35%) Google
12 28 (2.27%) Commvault
13 26 (2.10%) Apple
13 26 (2.10%) Fortinet
13 26 (2.10%) Oracle
13 26 (2.10%) Palo Alto
14 23 (1.86%) CyberArk
14 23 (1.86%) Tenable
15 20 (1.62%) Databricks