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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 89 107
Rank change year-on-year -63 +18 -38
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,466 1,611 1,813
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.29% 3.26% 2.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.94% 12.37% 7.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,013 1,064 1,218
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,630 £90,000 £95,000
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 18,457 13,026 24,048
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.25% 26.34% 30.85%
Number of salaries quoted 13,111 8,383 15,238
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,722
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £106,250
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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -66 1,278 £57,500 - 1,106
UK excluding London -62 966 £52,500 +5.00% 690
Work from Home -29 508 £60,000 - 594
London -28 457 £70,000 -3.45% 512
South East -39 240 £52,500 -8.70% 190
North of England -80 236 £50,000 +1.01% 179
Midlands -52 157 £52,500 +5.00% 103
North West -70 140 £50,000 +8.70% 107
East of England -38 98 £57,500 +21.05% 61
South West -76 84 £55,000 +15.79% 80
East Midlands -18 79 £42,500 +21.43% 43
West Midlands -65 78 £55,000 - 60
Northern Ireland -23 70 £46,000 - 12
Yorkshire -29 60 £42,500 -17.68% 50
Scotland +6 45 £50,000 +14.29% 62
North East -35 36 £50,000 - 23
Wales -53 36 £38,500 -30.00% 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
1 242 (16.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 241 (16.44%) SharePoint
3 55 (3.75%) IIS
4 40 (2.73%) Confluence
5 15 (1.02%) nginx
6 8 (0.55%) Apache
7 6 (0.41%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
9 3 (0.20%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.068%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.068%) WebSphere
Applications
1 70 (4.77%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (2.46%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.41%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.34%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.068%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 869 (59.28%) Azure
2 553 (37.72%) Microsoft 365
3 436 (29.74%) Entra ID
4 255 (17.39%) AWS
5 183 (12.48%) SaaS
6 173 (11.80%) Azure DevOps
7 116 (7.91%) Power Platform
8 113 (7.71%) OneDrive
9 108 (7.37%) GitHub
10 105 (7.16%) IaaS
11 84 (5.73%) Azure Monitor
12 83 (5.66%) Azure Sentinel
13 79 (5.39%) Power Automate
14 74 (5.05%) PaaS
15 70 (4.77%) GCP
16 69 (4.71%) Azure AKS
17 66 (4.50%) Azure Key Vault
18 62 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
19 56 (3.82%) Microsoft Purview
20 51 (3.48%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 323 (22.03%) Firewall
2 317 (21.62%) DNS
3 214 (14.60%) DHCP
4 210 (14.32%) VPN
5 141 (9.62%) TCP/IP
6 99 (6.75%) WAN
7 85 (5.80%) LAN
8 71 (4.84%) VLAN
9 62 (4.23%) Network Security
10 55 (3.75%) Wireless
11 46 (3.14%) Wi-Fi
12 35 (2.39%) SAN
13 30 (2.05%) Kerberos
14 23 (1.57%) SSL
15 22 (1.50%) NAS
16 20 (1.36%) HTTP
17 19 (1.30%) Internet
18 18 (1.23%) VoIP
19 16 (1.09%) VSAN
20 15 (1.02%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (9.96%) SQL Server
2 80 (5.46%) Azure SQL Database
3 62 (4.23%) Power BI
4 26 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.50%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.16%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 13 (0.89%) NoSQL
10 12 (0.82%) MySQL
11 9 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.55%) InfluxDB
13 7 (0.48%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.48%) Power Query
13 7 (0.48%) Redis
14 6 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.41%) Metadata
15 5 (0.34%) Db2
15 5 (0.34%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 106 (7.23%) JIRA
2 102 (6.96%) Git
3 72 (4.91%) GitLab
4 61 (4.16%) Jenkins
5 28 (1.91%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 12 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
7 10 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
8 9 (0.61%) TeamCity
9 8 (0.55%) Robot Framework
9 8 (0.55%) TestRail
10 6 (0.41%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.41%) Postman
10 6 (0.41%) Selenium
10 6 (0.41%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.27%) Burp Suite
11 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
11 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.20%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.20%) MSI
General
1 560 (38.20%) Social Skills
2 243 (16.58%) Finance
3 192 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (8.25%) Law
5 118 (8.05%) Legal
6 68 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 56 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
8 46 (3.14%) Public Sector
9 44 (3.00%) Retail
10 43 (2.93%) Banking
11 37 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
12 35 (2.39%) Manufacturing
13 31 (2.11%) Aerospace
14 15 (1.02%) Legal Technology
15 13 (0.89%) Advertising
16 12 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.75%) Financial Institution
18 9 (0.61%) Aviation
18 9 (0.61%) Telecoms
19 8 (0.55%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 289 (19.71%) Senior
2 206 (14.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 163 (11.12%) Analyst
4 142 (9.69%) Support Engineer
5 136 (9.28%) Azure Engineer
6 135 (9.21%) IT Engineer
7 129 (8.80%) Cloud Engineer
8 117 (7.98%) IT Support
9 105 (7.16%) DevOps Engineer
10 79 (5.39%) Platform Engineer
11 70 (4.77%) Consultant
11 70 (4.77%) Lead
12 69 (4.71%) IT Support Engineer
13 67 (4.57%) Support Analyst
14 65 (4.43%) Security Engineer
15 64 (4.37%) Systems Engineer
16 58 (3.96%) Testing Manager
17 57 (3.89%) Developer
18 56 (3.82%) Administrator
19 55 (3.75%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 361 (24.62%) Terraform
2 76 (5.18%) .NET
3 52 (3.55%) REST
4 50 (3.41%) ARM Templates
5 45 (3.07%) YAML
6 44 (3.00%) Microsoft Graph
7 42 (2.86%) SAML
8 39 (2.66%) LDAP
8 39 (2.66%) OAuth
8 39 (2.66%) OpenID
9 37 (2.52%) HTML
10 28 (1.91%) CSS
10 28 (1.91%) JSON
11 27 (1.84%) SPFx
12 24 (1.64%) .NET Core
13 20 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
14 16 (1.09%) HTML5 Canvas
14 16 (1.09%) SOAP
15 15 (1.02%) ASP.NET
15 15 (1.02%) React
Miscellaneous
1 128 (8.73%) Onboarding
2 89 (6.07%) Cloud Native
3 75 (5.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 74 (5.05%) Driving Licence
5 73 (4.98%) Management Information System
6 70 (4.77%) Security Posture
7 60 (4.09%) Virtual Team
8 50 (3.41%) Data Centre
9 48 (3.27%) PKI
10 46 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
10 46 (3.14%) Public Cloud
11 45 (3.07%) Replication
12 40 (2.73%) Security Operations Centre
13 36 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
14 35 (2.39%) Clustering
15 27 (1.84%) Private Cloud
16 24 (1.64%) Cyber Defence
17 23 (1.57%) CMDB
17 23 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
18 18 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 690 (47.07%) Windows
2 341 (23.26%) Linux
3 327 (22.31%) Windows Server
4 84 (5.73%) Windows 10
5 54 (3.68%) Apple iOS
6 44 (3.00%) Ubuntu
7 42 (2.86%) Android
8 40 (2.73%) Mac OS
9 39 (2.66%) VMS
10 35 (2.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 34 (2.32%) CentOS
12 29 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 27 (1.84%) Windows Server 2019
14 18 (1.23%) Unix
15 16 (1.09%) Rocky
16 8 (0.55%) Debian
16 8 (0.55%) Solaris
17 5 (0.34%) CoreOS
18 4 (0.27%) AIX
18 4 (0.27%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (28.17%) Problem-Solving
2 375 (25.58%) DevOps
3 371 (25.31%) Continuous Improvement
4 339 (23.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 322 (21.96%) CI/CD
6 312 (21.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 289 (19.71%) ITIL
8 249 (16.98%) Cybersecurity
9 231 (15.76%) Mentoring
10 192 (13.10%) Disaster Recovery
11 167 (11.39%) AI
12 165 (11.26%) Agile
13 162 (11.05%) Root Cause Analysis
14 161 (10.98%) High Availability
15 153 (10.44%) Project Delivery
16 141 (9.62%) Incident Response
16 141 (9.62%) Platform Engineering
17 138 (9.41%) Cloud Security
18 130 (8.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 129 (8.80%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 569 (38.81%) Python
2 300 (20.46%) Bash
3 299 (20.40%) SQL
4 144 (9.82%) JavaScript
5 137 (9.35%) C#
6 114 (7.78%) Bicep
7 85 (5.80%) TypeScript
8 49 (3.34%) Kusto Query Language
9 37 (2.52%) Java
10 36 (2.46%) T-SQL
11 23 (1.57%) VBScript
12 20 (1.36%) C++
13 19 (1.30%) Perl
14 14 (0.95%) Ruby
15 12 (0.82%) PHP
16 10 (0.68%) Go
16 10 (0.68%) VB
16 10 (0.68%) VBA
17 7 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 6 (0.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 201 (13.71%) Security Cleared
2 169 (11.53%) Degree
3 157 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 153 (10.44%) Azure Certification
5 138 (9.41%) SC Cleared
6 64 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 60 (4.09%) Cisco Certification
8 57 (3.89%) DV Cleared
9 52 (3.55%) CompTIA Security+
10 51 (3.48%) CISSP
11 45 (3.07%) CCNA
12 27 (1.84%) CEH
13 23 (1.57%) DBS Check
14 22 (1.50%) AWS Certification
15 21 (1.43%) OSCP
16 18 (1.23%) CISM
16 18 (1.23%) GIAC
16 18 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 17 (1.16%) CCNP
17 17 (1.16%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (7.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 79 (5.39%) QA
3 69 (4.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 64 (4.37%) NIST
5 46 (3.14%) GDPR
5 46 (3.14%) SLA
6 20 (1.36%) Data Quality
7 18 (1.23%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.02%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (0.55%) NCSC
10 7 (0.48%) PMO
11 6 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.34%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.27%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.14%) EMIR
15 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 524 (35.74%) Active Directory
2 246 (16.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 158 (10.78%) Hyper-V
4 137 (9.35%) Docker
5 81 (5.53%) vSphere
6 68 (4.64%) Virtual Machines
7 54 (3.68%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (1.84%) VMware NSX
9 20 (1.36%) BitLocker
10 18 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.55%) KVM
11 8 (0.55%) Squid
12 7 (0.48%) Firmware
13 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.20%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.068%) Ceph
16 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 260 (17.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 218 (14.87%) Kubernetes
3 170 (11.60%) Ansible
4 78 (5.32%) Grafana
5 74 (5.05%) SCCM
6 52 (3.55%) Single Sign-On
7 41 (2.80%) Prometheus
8 25 (1.71%) vCenter Server
8 25 (1.71%) ZABBIX
9 22 (1.50%) Argo
10 21 (1.43%) QRadar
11 20 (1.36%) Proxmox
12 19 (1.30%) Jamf Pro
12 19 (1.30%) Packer
13 18 (1.23%) Puppet
14 15 (1.02%) FortiGate
14 15 (1.02%) Graylog
15 13 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 11 (0.75%) VxRail
17 9 (0.61%) Kibana
Vendors
1 913 (62.28%) Microsoft
2 280 (19.10%) VMware
3 115 (7.84%) Cisco
4 106 (7.23%) ServiceNow
5 89 (6.07%) Splunk
6 62 (4.23%) Veeam
7 53 (3.62%) Red Hat
8 50 (3.41%) Oracle
9 43 (2.93%) Citrix
10 42 (2.86%) Meraki
11 34 (2.32%) Sage
12 33 (2.25%) Dynatrace
13 32 (2.18%) Sophos
14 31 (2.11%) Dell
15 27 (1.84%) CyberArk
15 27 (1.84%) Tenable
16 26 (1.77%) Fortinet
16 26 (1.77%) SAP
17 25 (1.71%) Apple
17 25 (1.71%) CrowdStrike