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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 86 112
Rank change year-on-year -58 +26 -34
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,448 1,668 1,878
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.36% 3.34% 2.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.83% 11.98% 7.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,029 1,108 1,427
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,938 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £77,625
90th Percentile £88,750 £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 18,493 13,928 25,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.39% 27.90% 30.47%
Number of salaries quoted 13,084 9,127 17,762
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
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 14 August 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 August 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 -64 1,284 £59,000 +2.61% 529
UK excluding London -60 938 £52,500 +5.00% 355
Work from Home -37 495 £62,500 +8.23% 231
London -27 476 £70,000 -6.67% 240
South East -34 244 £53,000 -7.83% 132
North of England -84 219 £50,000 +5.26% 87
Midlands -34 156 £52,500 +5.00% 45
North West -82 123 £52,500 +14.13% 58
East of England -29 98 £57,500 +13.86% 35
East Midlands -8 82 £42,500 +21.43% 18
South West -74 82 £55,000 +15.79% 41
West Midlands -58 74 £55,000 - 27
Northern Ireland -12 68 £46,000 - 7
Yorkshire -44 60 £42,500 -17.68% 20
Scotland +17 41 £50,000 +25.00% 17
North East -34 36 £50,000 -16.67% 11
Wales -42 30 £53,000 -3.64% 10

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
1 238 (16.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 223 (15.40%) SharePoint
3 54 (3.73%) IIS
4 32 (2.21%) Confluence
5 11 (0.76%) nginx
6 6 (0.41%) Apache
6 6 (0.41%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.28%) SAS
8 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.069%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.069%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (5.32%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (0.83%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.41%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.21%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.21%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.14%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.069%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 895 (61.81%) Azure
2 531 (36.67%) Microsoft 365
3 397 (27.42%) Entra ID
4 258 (17.82%) AWS
5 169 (11.67%) SaaS
6 165 (11.40%) Azure DevOps
7 111 (7.67%) GitHub
8 110 (7.60%) IaaS
9 109 (7.53%) Power Platform
10 105 (7.25%) OneDrive
11 78 (5.39%) Azure Monitor
12 76 (5.25%) Azure Sentinel
12 76 (5.25%) PaaS
13 70 (4.83%) Power Automate
14 68 (4.70%) Azure AKS
14 68 (4.70%) GCP
15 64 (4.42%) Azure Key Vault
16 62 (4.28%) GitHub Actions
17 52 (3.59%) Datadog
18 47 (3.25%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 320 (22.10%) Firewall
2 308 (21.27%) DNS
3 206 (14.23%) DHCP
4 200 (13.81%) VPN
5 139 (9.60%) TCP/IP
6 97 (6.70%) WAN
7 86 (5.94%) LAN
8 69 (4.77%) Network Security
9 68 (4.70%) VLAN
10 45 (3.11%) Wi-Fi
11 44 (3.04%) Wireless
12 38 (2.62%) SAN
13 32 (2.21%) Kerberos
14 26 (1.80%) VoIP
15 22 (1.52%) SSL
16 20 (1.38%) NAS
17 18 (1.24%) HTTP
18 17 (1.17%) BGP
18 17 (1.17%) Internet
19 16 (1.10%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (10.84%) SQL Server
2 81 (5.59%) Azure SQL Database
3 64 (4.42%) Power BI
4 31 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.59%) MongoDB
6 19 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (1.17%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 15 (1.04%) MySQL
10 13 (0.90%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.48%) InfluxDB
12 7 (0.48%) Redis
13 6 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.41%) Power Query
14 5 (0.35%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.35%) Metadata
14 5 (0.35%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.28%) Db2
Development Applications
1 110 (7.60%) Git
2 91 (6.28%) JIRA
3 66 (4.56%) GitLab
4 57 (3.94%) Jenkins
5 29 (2.00%) Bitbucket
6 13 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.76%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
8 7 (0.48%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.48%) TestRail
9 6 (0.41%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.41%) Metasploit
9 6 (0.41%) Selenium
10 5 (0.35%) Postman
10 5 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.28%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.21%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.21%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.21%) Terragrunt
General
1 510 (35.22%) Social Skills
2 234 (16.16%) Finance
3 186 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (8.91%) Law
5 116 (8.01%) Legal
6 65 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 48 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
8 47 (3.25%) Retail
9 42 (2.90%) Public Sector
10 38 (2.62%) Banking
11 34 (2.35%) Manufacturing
12 33 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
13 25 (1.73%) Aerospace
14 16 (1.10%) Advertising
15 13 (0.90%) Legal Technology
16 12 (0.83%) Telecoms
17 11 (0.76%) Financial Institution
17 11 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
18 8 (0.55%) Front Office
18 8 (0.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 280 (19.34%) Senior
2 196 (13.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 152 (10.50%) Analyst
4 142 (9.81%) Support Engineer
5 137 (9.46%) IT Engineer
6 134 (9.25%) Azure Engineer
7 130 (8.98%) IT Support
8 129 (8.91%) Cloud Engineer
9 104 (7.18%) DevOps Engineer
10 75 (5.18%) IT Support Engineer
11 72 (4.97%) Security Engineer
12 70 (4.83%) Platform Engineer
13 68 (4.70%) Lead
14 62 (4.28%) Developer
14 62 (4.28%) Systems Engineer
15 58 (4.01%) Testing Manager
16 57 (3.94%) 2nd Line Support
17 55 (3.80%) Senior Manager
18 53 (3.66%) Administrator
19 52 (3.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (5.94%) .NET
2 52 (3.59%) ARM Templates
3 50 (3.45%) REST
4 49 (3.38%) SAML
5 47 (3.25%) YAML
6 45 (3.11%) OAuth
7 43 (2.97%) Microsoft Graph
8 42 (2.90%) HTML
9 40 (2.76%) OpenID
10 39 (2.69%) LDAP
11 33 (2.28%) .NET Core
12 32 (2.21%) CSS
12 32 (2.21%) JSON
13 25 (1.73%) SPFx
14 20 (1.38%) Elastic Stack
15 19 (1.31%) HTML5 Canvas
16 16 (1.10%) SOAP
17 15 (1.04%) ASP.NET
17 15 (1.04%) Middleware
17 15 (1.04%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 115 (7.94%) Onboarding
2 88 (6.08%) Cloud Native
3 74 (5.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 69 (4.77%) Management Information System
4 69 (4.77%) Security Posture
5 62 (4.28%) Driving Licence
6 60 (4.14%) Virtual Team
7 51 (3.52%) Data Centre
8 46 (3.18%) Public Cloud
9 42 (2.90%) Security Operations Centre
10 40 (2.76%) PKI
10 40 (2.76%) Replication
11 39 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
12 37 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
13 34 (2.35%) Clustering
14 27 (1.86%) Cyber Defence
15 26 (1.80%) Private Cloud
16 25 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
17 24 (1.66%) CMDB
18 21 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 684 (47.24%) Windows
2 341 (23.55%) Linux
3 324 (22.38%) Windows Server
4 80 (5.52%) Windows 10
5 54 (3.73%) Apple iOS
6 47 (3.25%) Mac OS
7 43 (2.97%) Android
7 43 (2.97%) VMS
8 37 (2.56%) Ubuntu
9 36 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 36 (2.49%) Windows Server 2016
10 35 (2.42%) CentOS
11 24 (1.66%) Windows Server 2019
12 17 (1.17%) Unix
13 7 (0.48%) Debian
13 7 (0.48%) Rocky
14 6 (0.41%) Kali Linux
14 6 (0.41%) Solaris
15 5 (0.35%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.28%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (25.62%) DevOps
1 371 (25.62%) Problem-Solving
2 335 (23.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 334 (23.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 330 (22.79%) CI/CD
5 291 (20.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 278 (19.20%) ITIL
7 242 (16.71%) Cybersecurity
8 212 (14.64%) Mentoring
9 186 (12.85%) Disaster Recovery
10 171 (11.81%) High Availability
11 170 (11.74%) Root Cause Analysis
12 165 (11.40%) Incident Response
13 160 (11.05%) Agile
14 141 (9.74%) AI
15 136 (9.39%) Containerisation
16 133 (9.19%) SIEM
17 131 (9.05%) Observability
18 129 (8.91%) Platform Engineering
19 127 (8.77%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 581 (40.12%) Python
2 309 (21.34%) Bash
3 280 (19.34%) SQL
4 147 (10.15%) C#
5 136 (9.39%) JavaScript
6 109 (7.53%) Bicep
7 85 (5.87%) TypeScript
8 51 (3.52%) Kusto Query Language
9 40 (2.76%) Java
10 36 (2.49%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.45%) VBScript
12 18 (1.24%) C++
13 17 (1.17%) Perl
14 14 (0.97%) PHP
15 11 (0.76%) Ruby
16 10 (0.69%) VBA
17 9 (0.62%) Go
17 9 (0.62%) VB
18 8 (0.55%) C
19 6 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 193 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 175 (12.09%) Degree
3 160 (11.05%) Azure Certification
4 144 (9.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 137 (9.46%) SC Cleared
6 65 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 62 (4.28%) Cisco Certification
8 54 (3.73%) CompTIA Security+
9 53 (3.66%) CISSP
10 49 (3.38%) DV Cleared
11 45 (3.11%) CCNA
12 28 (1.93%) CEH
13 24 (1.66%) DBS Check
13 24 (1.66%) OSCP
14 23 (1.59%) AWS Certification
15 22 (1.52%) GIAC
16 21 (1.45%) CCNP
17 18 (1.24%) CISM
18 16 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 15 (1.04%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (7.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 81 (5.59%) QA
3 74 (5.11%) NIST
4 66 (4.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 56 (3.87%) GDPR
6 46 (3.18%) SLA
7 18 (1.24%) Data Quality
7 18 (1.24%) PCI DSS
8 17 (1.17%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (0.55%) ISO 22301
10 7 (0.48%) PMO
11 6 (0.41%) NCSC
12 5 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.21%) Accessibility
14 3 (0.21%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.14%) EMIR
15 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 517 (35.70%) Active Directory
2 236 (16.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 159 (10.98%) Hyper-V
4 142 (9.81%) Docker
5 80 (5.52%) vSphere
6 56 (3.87%) Virtual Machines
7 47 (3.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (1.86%) VMware NSX
9 23 (1.59%) BitLocker
10 17 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
11 11 (0.76%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 9 (0.62%) KVM
13 8 (0.55%) Squid
14 6 (0.41%) Firmware
15 5 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
16 4 (0.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 3 (0.21%) Terminal Services
18 2 (0.14%) Samba
19 1 (0.069%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 358 (24.72%) Terraform
2 246 (16.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 239 (16.51%) Kubernetes
4 181 (12.50%) Ansible
5 81 (5.59%) Grafana
6 72 (4.97%) SCCM
7 53 (3.66%) Single Sign-On
8 48 (3.31%) Prometheus
9 25 (1.73%) vCenter Server
9 25 (1.73%) ZABBIX
10 23 (1.59%) Jamf Pro
11 21 (1.45%) Argo
12 20 (1.38%) Packer
12 20 (1.38%) Proxmox
12 20 (1.38%) QRadar
13 15 (1.04%) Puppet
14 14 (0.97%) Graylog
15 13 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 12 (0.83%) Nagios
16 12 (0.83%) VxRail
Vendors
1 886 (61.19%) Microsoft
2 278 (19.20%) VMware
3 127 (8.77%) Cisco
4 107 (7.39%) ServiceNow
5 93 (6.42%) Splunk
6 64 (4.42%) Red Hat
7 58 (4.01%) Veeam
8 50 (3.45%) Oracle
9 48 (3.31%) Meraki
10 38 (2.62%) Citrix
11 36 (2.49%) Dynatrace
12 33 (2.28%) Sophos
13 31 (2.14%) Dell
14 29 (2.00%) Tenable
15 28 (1.93%) CrowdStrike
16 27 (1.86%) Apple
17 25 (1.73%) Fortinet
18 24 (1.66%) CyberArk
19 22 (1.52%) Okta
20 21 (1.45%) Palo Alto