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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 90 102
Rank change year-on-year -61 +12 -36
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,502 1,627 1,841
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.28% 3.29% 2.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.99% 12.50% 7.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,013 1,078 1,189
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,563 £46,250
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 £51,349 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.24% +2.70% -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 18,805 13,011 23,773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.04% 26.34% 30.92%
Number of salaries quoted 13,318 8,397 14,599
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,523 £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 25 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 25 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 -68 1,304 £59,000 +2.61% 1,133
UK excluding London -70 981 £52,500 +2.24% 724
Work from Home -32 523 £60,000 +2.56% 531
London -34 472 £70,000 -0.71% 484
North of England -79 242 £50,000 - 189
South East -43 239 £52,500 -8.70% 203
Midlands -50 160 £52,500 +5.00% 111
North West -73 148 £50,000 +8.11% 110
East of England -35 98 £57,500 +21.05% 60
South West -71 89 £55,000 +15.79% 80
West Midlands -70 81 £55,000 +2.44% 62
East Midlands -22 79 £42,500 +21.43% 49
Northern Ireland -33 70 £46,000 - 26
Yorkshire -37 58 £45,472 -11.92% 58
Scotland 0 46 £51,250 +7.89% 49
Wales -49 37 £38,500 -30.00% 21
North East -44 36 £51,500 -6.36% 24

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
1 252 (16.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 244 (16.25%) SharePoint
3 55 (3.66%) IIS
4 43 (2.86%) 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 (4.33%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (2.00%) 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
1 891 (59.32%) Azure
2 569 (37.88%) Microsoft 365
3 472 (31.42%) Entra ID
4 264 (17.58%) AWS
5 184 (12.25%) SaaS
6 182 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
7 119 (7.92%) Power Platform
8 118 (7.86%) GitHub
9 115 (7.66%) OneDrive
10 107 (7.12%) IaaS
11 90 (5.99%) Azure Monitor
12 87 (5.79%) Azure Sentinel
13 82 (5.46%) Power Automate
14 81 (5.39%) PaaS
15 74 (4.93%) GCP
16 72 (4.79%) Azure AKS
17 69 (4.59%) Azure Key Vault
18 68 (4.53%) GitHub Actions
19 63 (4.19%) Microsoft Purview
20 56 (3.73%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 327 (21.77%) Firewall
2 324 (21.57%) DNS
3 223 (14.85%) DHCP
4 221 (14.71%) VPN
5 147 (9.79%) TCP/IP
6 101 (6.72%) WAN
7 87 (5.79%) LAN
8 75 (4.99%) VLAN
9 61 (4.06%) Network Security
10 57 (3.79%) Wireless
11 48 (3.20%) Wi-Fi
12 36 (2.40%) SAN
13 33 (2.20%) Kerberos
14 26 (1.73%) SSL
15 22 (1.46%) HTTP
15 22 (1.46%) NAS
16 17 (1.13%) Internet
17 16 (1.07%) VoIP
17 16 (1.07%) VSAN
18 12 (0.80%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (9.92%) SQL Server
2 85 (5.66%) Azure SQL Database
3 61 (4.06%) Power BI
4 27 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (1.40%) 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
1 105 (6.99%) JIRA
2 98 (6.52%) Git
3 79 (5.26%) GitLab
4 68 (4.53%) Jenkins
5 28 (1.86%) 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
10 7 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.40%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.40%) Postman
11 6 (0.40%) Selenium
12 5 (0.33%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.33%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.27%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
13 4 (0.27%) MSI
General
1 573 (38.15%) Social Skills
2 250 (16.64%) Finance
3 195 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (7.59%) Legal
5 113 (7.52%) Law
6 75 (4.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 61 (4.06%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (3.33%) Retail
9 46 (3.06%) Banking
10 43 (2.86%) Public Sector
11 37 (2.46%) Aerospace
11 37 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
12 36 (2.40%) Manufacturing
13 14 (0.93%) Legal Technology
14 13 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (0.73%) Financial Institution
16 10 (0.67%) Investment Banking
17 9 (0.60%) Advertising
17 9 (0.60%) Aviation
17 9 (0.60%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 288 (19.17%) Senior
2 212 (14.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 172 (11.45%) Analyst
4 137 (9.12%) Azure Engineer
5 135 (8.99%) Support Engineer
6 131 (8.72%) Cloud Engineer
6 131 (8.72%) IT Engineer
7 111 (7.39%) DevOps Engineer
8 108 (7.19%) IT Support
9 85 (5.66%) Platform Engineer
10 76 (5.06%) Consultant
10 76 (5.06%) Lead
11 71 (4.73%) Support Analyst
12 65 (4.33%) IT Support Engineer
13 64 (4.26%) Systems Engineer
14 62 (4.13%) Security Engineer
15 57 (3.79%) Administrator
15 57 (3.79%) Testing Manager
16 55 (3.66%) Senior Manager
17 54 (3.60%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 381 (25.37%) Terraform
2 71 (4.73%) .NET
3 58 (3.86%) REST
4 56 (3.73%) ARM Templates
5 47 (3.13%) SAML
6 45 (3.00%) Microsoft Graph
7 44 (2.93%) LDAP
8 43 (2.86%) YAML
9 42 (2.80%) OAuth
9 42 (2.80%) OpenID
10 35 (2.33%) HTML
11 29 (1.93%) JSON
12 26 (1.73%) CSS
13 25 (1.66%) SPFx
14 23 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
15 20 (1.33%) .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
1 132 (8.79%) Onboarding
2 91 (6.06%) Cloud Native
3 81 (5.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 77 (5.13%) Driving Licence
5 76 (5.06%) Management Information System
6 74 (4.93%) Security Posture
7 60 (3.99%) Virtual Team
8 53 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
9 52 (3.46%) PKI
10 48 (3.20%) Data Centre
10 48 (3.20%) Replication
11 44 (2.93%) Security Operations Centre
12 42 (2.80%) Public Cloud
13 36 (2.40%) Clustering
14 32 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
15 26 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
16 23 (1.53%) Cyber Defence
16 23 (1.53%) Private Cloud
17 20 (1.33%) CMDB
18 19 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 709 (47.20%) Windows
2 347 (23.10%) Linux
3 336 (22.37%) Windows Server
4 96 (6.39%) Windows 10
5 54 (3.60%) Apple iOS
6 44 (2.93%) Ubuntu
7 42 (2.80%) Android
8 40 (2.66%) Mac OS
8 40 (2.66%) VMS
9 34 (2.26%) CentOS
9 34 (2.26%) Windows Server 2016
10 30 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 27 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
12 24 (1.60%) Unix
13 16 (1.07%) Rocky
14 8 (0.53%) Debian
14 8 (0.53%) Solaris
15 5 (0.33%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.33%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (28.23%) Problem-Solving
2 396 (26.36%) DevOps
3 381 (25.37%) Continuous Improvement
4 356 (23.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 333 (22.17%) CI/CD
6 325 (21.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 277 (18.44%) ITIL
8 263 (17.51%) Cybersecurity
9 231 (15.38%) Mentoring
10 202 (13.45%) Disaster Recovery
11 175 (11.65%) AI
12 174 (11.58%) Agile
13 164 (10.92%) Root Cause Analysis
14 159 (10.59%) High Availability
15 158 (10.52%) Project Delivery
16 152 (10.12%) Platform Engineering
17 147 (9.79%) Cloud Security
18 142 (9.45%) Incident Response
19 140 (9.32%) Migration
20 135 (8.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 592 (39.41%) Python
2 314 (20.91%) Bash
3 307 (20.44%) SQL
4 142 (9.45%) JavaScript
5 131 (8.72%) C#
6 128 (8.52%) Bicep
7 83 (5.53%) TypeScript
8 51 (3.40%) Kusto Query Language
9 39 (2.60%) Java
10 37 (2.46%) T-SQL
11 23 (1.53%) VBScript
12 21 (1.40%) C++
13 19 (1.26%) 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
1 216 (14.38%) Security Cleared
2 172 (11.45%) Degree
3 162 (10.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 159 (10.59%) Azure Certification
5 144 (9.59%) SC Cleared
6 64 (4.26%) DV Cleared
7 60 (3.99%) CISSP
7 60 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 55 (3.66%) Cisco Certification
9 53 (3.53%) CompTIA Security+
10 43 (2.86%) CCNA
11 28 (1.86%) CEH
12 25 (1.66%) AWS Certification
13 23 (1.53%) CISM
14 22 (1.46%) 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 15 (1.00%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (7.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 81 (5.39%) QA
3 74 (4.93%) Cyber Essentials
4 64 (4.26%) NIST
5 49 (3.26%) GDPR
6 46 (3.06%) SLA
7 20 (1.33%) PCI DSS
8 19 (1.26%) Data Quality
9 14 (0.93%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 9 (0.60%) NCSC
10 9 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.47%) PMO
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
1 546 (36.35%) Active Directory
2 246 (16.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 156 (10.39%) Hyper-V
4 143 (9.52%) Docker
5 83 (5.53%) vSphere
6 75 (4.99%) Virtual Machines
7 58 (3.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 28 (1.86%) VMware NSX
9 22 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
10 18 (1.20%) BitLocker
11 11 (0.73%) 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 1 (0.067%) Microsoft App-V
16 1 (0.067%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.067%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 267 (17.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 226 (15.05%) Kubernetes
3 173 (11.52%) Ansible
4 82 (5.46%) Grafana
5 77 (5.13%) SCCM
6 58 (3.86%) Single Sign-On
7 46 (3.06%) Prometheus
8 27 (1.80%) vCenter Server
9 25 (1.66%) ZABBIX
10 24 (1.60%) Argo
11 23 (1.53%) Puppet
12 20 (1.33%) Proxmox
12 20 (1.33%) QRadar
13 17 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
13 17 (1.13%) Packer
14 15 (1.00%) FortiGate
14 15 (1.00%) Graylog
15 12 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 11 (0.73%) VxRail
17 10 (0.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 943 (62.78%) Microsoft
2 281 (18.71%) VMware
3 106 (7.06%) Cisco
4 103 (6.86%) ServiceNow
5 91 (6.06%) Splunk
6 66 (4.39%) Veeam
7 52 (3.46%) Oracle
8 51 (3.40%) Red Hat
9 43 (2.86%) Citrix
10 39 (2.60%) Meraki
11 34 (2.26%) Sage
12 32 (2.13%) Dell
13 31 (2.06%) Dynatrace
14 30 (2.00%) Sophos
15 29 (1.93%) CyberArk
15 29 (1.93%) SAP
16 27 (1.80%) Fortinet
16 27 (1.80%) Tenable
17 26 (1.73%) Apple
17 26 (1.73%) Google