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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 90 102
Rank change year-on-year -60 +12 -36
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,498 1,624 1,841
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.27% 3.27% 2.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.00% 12.55% 7.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,005 1,077 1,184
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,780 £46,975
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £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 18,721 12,944 23,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.93% 26.08% 30.96%
Number of salaries quoted 13,256 8,345 14,347
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £47,500
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 27 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 27 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 -67 1,298 £59,000 +2.61% 1,035
UK excluding London -70 973 £52,500 - 694
Work from Home -38 518 £60,000 - 464
London -30 474 £70,000 -2.44% 415
North of England -77 239 £50,000 - 184
South East -46 236 £52,500 -8.70% 190
Midlands -53 161 £52,500 +5.00% 108
North West -70 147 £50,000 +5.26% 103
East of England -45 98 £57,500 +21.05% 57
South West -79 86 £55,000 +15.79% 79
West Midlands -66 81 £55,000 - 60
East Midlands -23 80 £42,500 +21.43% 48
Northern Ireland -25 70 £46,000 - 27
Yorkshire -38 56 £45,472 -13.39% 57
Scotland +5 46 £51,250 +7.89% 45
Wales -51 37 £38,500 -30.00% 19
North East -36 36 £51,500 -14.17% 27

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
1 253 (16.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 244 (16.29%) SharePoint
3 55 (3.67%) IIS
4 42 (2.80%) Confluence
5 15 (1.00%) nginx
6 8 (0.53%) Apache
7 6 (0.40%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.067%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.067%) WebSphere
Applications
1 65 (4.34%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (2.40%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.53%) 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%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 887 (59.21%) Azure
2 568 (37.92%) Microsoft 365
3 476 (31.78%) Entra ID
4 266 (17.76%) AWS
5 183 (12.22%) SaaS
6 182 (12.15%) Azure DevOps
7 123 (8.21%) Power Platform
8 117 (7.81%) GitHub
9 114 (7.61%) OneDrive
10 107 (7.14%) IaaS
11 91 (6.07%) Azure Monitor
12 90 (6.01%) Azure Sentinel
13 82 (5.47%) Power Automate
14 81 (5.41%) PaaS
15 73 (4.87%) Azure AKS
15 73 (4.87%) GCP
16 71 (4.74%) Azure Key Vault
17 66 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
18 64 (4.27%) Microsoft Purview
19 56 (3.74%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 329 (21.96%) DNS
2 327 (21.83%) Firewall
3 226 (15.09%) DHCP
4 224 (14.95%) VPN
5 148 (9.88%) TCP/IP
6 103 (6.88%) WAN
7 89 (5.94%) LAN
8 76 (5.07%) VLAN
9 62 (4.14%) Network Security
10 57 (3.81%) Wireless
11 49 (3.27%) Wi-Fi
12 37 (2.47%) SAN
13 32 (2.14%) Kerberos
14 26 (1.74%) SSL
15 23 (1.54%) HTTP
16 22 (1.47%) NAS
17 17 (1.13%) Internet
18 16 (1.07%) VoIP
18 16 (1.07%) VSAN
19 13 (0.87%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (10.01%) SQL Server
2 88 (5.87%) Azure SQL Database
3 65 (4.34%) Power BI
4 27 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (1.34%) MongoDB
6 16 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.07%) Relational Database
7 13 (0.87%) MySQL
8 12 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (0.67%) Data Lake
9 10 (0.67%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.53%) InfluxDB
10 8 (0.53%) Power Query
10 8 (0.53%) Redis
11 7 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.40%) Metadata
13 5 (0.33%) Db2
13 5 (0.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 103 (6.88%) JIRA
2 96 (6.41%) Git
3 80 (5.34%) GitLab
4 67 (4.47%) Jenkins
5 28 (1.87%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
8 10 (0.67%) TeamCity
9 8 (0.53%) Robot Framework
9 8 (0.53%) TestRail
10 7 (0.47%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.40%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.40%) Postman
11 6 (0.40%) Selenium
11 6 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.33%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.33%) MSI
12 5 (0.33%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.27%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
General
1 571 (38.12%) Social Skills
2 254 (16.96%) Finance
3 194 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (7.61%) Legal
5 111 (7.41%) Law
6 77 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (4.01%) Documentation Skills
8 51 (3.40%) Retail
9 46 (3.07%) Banking
10 44 (2.94%) Public Sector
11 39 (2.60%) Aerospace
12 37 (2.47%) Manufacturing
13 36 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (0.93%) Legal Technology
15 12 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (0.73%) Financial Institution
17 10 (0.67%) Investment Banking
18 9 (0.60%) Aviation
18 9 (0.60%) Front Office
18 9 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 291 (19.43%) Senior
2 210 (14.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 171 (11.42%) Analyst
4 136 (9.08%) Azure Engineer
5 133 (8.88%) Support Engineer
6 131 (8.74%) Cloud Engineer
7 130 (8.68%) IT Engineer
8 113 (7.54%) DevOps Engineer
9 107 (7.14%) IT Support
10 84 (5.61%) Platform Engineer
11 77 (5.14%) Consultant
12 76 (5.07%) Lead
13 69 (4.61%) Support Analyst
14 65 (4.34%) IT Support Engineer
15 62 (4.14%) Security Engineer
15 62 (4.14%) Systems Engineer
16 57 (3.81%) Administrator
16 57 (3.81%) Testing Manager
17 55 (3.67%) Senior Manager
18 54 (3.60%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (25.37%) Terraform
2 71 (4.74%) .NET
3 58 (3.87%) REST
4 56 (3.74%) ARM Templates
5 47 (3.14%) SAML
6 46 (3.07%) Microsoft Graph
7 44 (2.94%) LDAP
8 43 (2.87%) YAML
9 42 (2.80%) OAuth
9 42 (2.80%) OpenID
10 35 (2.34%) HTML
11 29 (1.94%) JSON
12 26 (1.74%) CSS
13 25 (1.67%) SPFx
14 23 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
15 20 (1.34%) .NET Core
16 16 (1.07%) SOAP
17 14 (0.93%) ASP.NET
17 14 (0.93%) Kafka
18 13 (0.87%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 133 (8.88%) Onboarding
2 92 (6.14%) Cloud Native
3 82 (5.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 76 (5.07%) Driving Licence
4 76 (5.07%) Management Information System
5 73 (4.87%) Security Posture
6 60 (4.01%) Virtual Team
7 55 (3.67%) PKI
8 53 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
9 49 (3.27%) Data Centre
9 49 (3.27%) Replication
10 45 (3.00%) Security Operations Centre
11 42 (2.80%) Public Cloud
12 36 (2.40%) Clustering
13 32 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
14 27 (1.80%) Cyber Threat
15 24 (1.60%) Cyber Defence
16 22 (1.47%) Private Cloud
17 19 (1.27%) CMDB
17 19 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 710 (47.40%) Windows
2 345 (23.03%) Linux
3 337 (22.50%) Windows Server
4 96 (6.41%) Windows 10
5 53 (3.54%) Apple iOS
6 44 (2.94%) Ubuntu
7 42 (2.80%) Android
8 40 (2.67%) Mac OS
9 39 (2.60%) VMS
10 33 (2.20%) CentOS
10 33 (2.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 30 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 28 (1.87%) Windows Server 2019
13 24 (1.60%) Unix
14 16 (1.07%) Rocky
15 8 (0.53%) Debian
15 8 (0.53%) Solaris
16 5 (0.33%) CoreOS
16 5 (0.33%) Kali Linux
17 4 (0.27%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
2 397 (26.50%) DevOps
3 382 (25.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 358 (23.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 331 (22.10%) CI/CD
6 321 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 274 (18.29%) ITIL
8 263 (17.56%) Cybersecurity
9 231 (15.42%) Mentoring
10 206 (13.75%) Disaster Recovery
11 176 (11.75%) AI
12 175 (11.68%) Agile
13 164 (10.95%) Root Cause Analysis
14 160 (10.68%) High Availability
15 158 (10.55%) Project Delivery
16 151 (10.08%) Platform Engineering
17 147 (9.81%) Cloud Security
18 144 (9.61%) Migration
19 142 (9.48%) Incident Response
20 134 (8.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 590 (39.39%) Python
2 314 (20.96%) Bash
3 308 (20.56%) SQL
4 142 (9.48%) JavaScript
5 131 (8.74%) C#
6 129 (8.61%) Bicep
7 83 (5.54%) TypeScript
8 51 (3.40%) Kusto Query Language
9 38 (2.54%) Java
10 37 (2.47%) T-SQL
11 23 (1.54%) VBScript
12 22 (1.47%) C++
13 20 (1.34%) Perl
14 13 (0.87%) PHP
14 13 (0.87%) Ruby
15 11 (0.73%) VBA
16 10 (0.67%) VB
17 9 (0.60%) Go
18 7 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 6 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 217 (14.49%) Security Cleared
2 171 (11.42%) Degree
3 160 (10.68%) Microsoft Certification
4 157 (10.48%) Azure Certification
5 145 (9.68%) SC Cleared
6 64 (4.27%) DV Cleared
7 61 (4.07%) CISSP
8 60 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 54 (3.60%) CompTIA Security+
10 53 (3.54%) Cisco Certification
11 42 (2.80%) CCNA
12 28 (1.87%) CEH
13 27 (1.80%) AWS Certification
14 22 (1.47%) CISM
14 22 (1.47%) DBS Check
15 21 (1.40%) OSCP
16 18 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 17 (1.13%) CREST Certified
17 17 (1.13%) GIAC
18 16 (1.07%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (7.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 81 (5.41%) QA
3 74 (4.94%) Cyber Essentials
4 63 (4.21%) NIST
5 48 (3.20%) GDPR
6 45 (3.00%) SLA
7 20 (1.34%) PCI DSS
8 19 (1.27%) Data Quality
9 14 (0.93%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 9 (0.60%) NCSC
11 8 (0.53%) PMO
11 8 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.33%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.27%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.13%) EMIR
15 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 545 (36.38%) Active Directory
2 244 (16.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 157 (10.48%) Hyper-V
4 145 (9.68%) Docker
5 82 (5.47%) vSphere
6 76 (5.07%) Virtual Machines
7 59 (3.94%) Virtual Desktop
8 28 (1.87%) VMware NSX
9 23 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
10 17 (1.13%) BitLocker
11 13 (0.87%) Firmware
12 8 (0.53%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.53%) KVM
12 8 (0.53%) Squid
13 5 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
17 1 (0.067%) NFS
17 1 (0.067%) Snort
Systems Management
1 265 (17.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 228 (15.22%) Kubernetes
3 172 (11.48%) Ansible
4 81 (5.41%) Grafana
5 76 (5.07%) SCCM
6 59 (3.94%) Single Sign-On
7 45 (3.00%) Prometheus
8 26 (1.74%) vCenter Server
9 25 (1.67%) ZABBIX
10 24 (1.60%) Argo
10 24 (1.60%) Puppet
11 21 (1.40%) QRadar
12 20 (1.34%) Proxmox
13 17 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
14 16 (1.07%) Packer
15 15 (1.00%) FortiGate
15 15 (1.00%) Graylog
16 12 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 11 (0.73%) Progress Chef
17 11 (0.73%) VxRail
Vendors
1 944 (63.02%) Microsoft
2 280 (18.69%) VMware
3 105 (7.01%) Cisco
4 100 (6.68%) ServiceNow
5 91 (6.07%) Splunk
6 68 (4.54%) Veeam
7 51 (3.40%) Oracle
8 49 (3.27%) Red Hat
9 43 (2.87%) Citrix
10 38 (2.54%) Meraki
11 34 (2.27%) Sage
12 32 (2.14%) Dell
13 31 (2.07%) Dynatrace
14 30 (2.00%) Sophos
15 29 (1.94%) SAP
16 28 (1.87%) CyberArk
17 26 (1.74%) Apple
17 26 (1.74%) Fortinet
17 26 (1.74%) Google
17 26 (1.74%) SolarWinds