PowerShell Job Trends

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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 96 76
Rank change year-on-year -17 -20 +14
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,253 1,491 2,484
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.94% 2.92% 3.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.29% 8.63% 9.02%
Number of salaries quoted 933 1,040 2,164
10th Percentile £33,000 £37,500 £37,027
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,188 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £51,944
% change year-on-year - +1.07% -5.56%

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 12,176 17,282 27,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.85% 33.86% 37.65%
Number of salaries quoted 8,772 10,141 22,714
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,574 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% +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 4 February 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 4 February 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 -27 1,050 £57,500 -8.00% 387
UK excluding London -13 736 £52,500 - 362
London -12 444 £70,000 -6.67% 110
Work from Home +8 410 £57,500 -11.54% 175
South East -33 188 £57,500 -4.17% 132
North of England -24 136 £50,000 -4.76% 95
Scotland +43 135 £67,000 +27.62% 21
South West +12 106 £55,000 - 39
Midlands -38 90 £52,500 +5.00% 47
East of England +14 70 £42,276 -19.48% 27
Yorkshire -11 64 £48,445 -7.72% 29
North West -20 58 £50,000 - 53
West Midlands -32 45 £49,250 -1.50% 21
East Midlands -3 44 £55,000 +8.91% 26
North East -3 14 £48,445 -15.75% 13
Wales -3 10 £55,000 +5.77% 8
Northern Ireland -18 2 £46,000 - 2

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
1 186 (14.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 145 (11.57%) SharePoint
3 50 (3.99%) IIS
4 22 (1.76%) Exchange Server 2003
5 18 (1.44%) Confluence
6 11 (0.88%) Skype for Business
7 6 (0.48%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.24%) nginx
10 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.16%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) WordPress
11 1 (0.080%) CICS
11 1 (0.080%) WebSphere
Applications
1 43 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.48%) Siemens NX
5 5 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.24%) CATIA
6 3 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.24%) Windchill
7 1 (0.080%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 10 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.64%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.48%) Markit EDM
3 6 (0.48%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.40%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.40%) PlanetPress Connect
4 5 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
6 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.080%) Actimize
7 1 (0.080%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.080%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.080%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 827 (66.00%) Azure
2 414 (33.04%) Microsoft 365
3 339 (27.06%) Entra ID
4 216 (17.24%) AWS
5 201 (16.04%) Azure DevOps
6 115 (9.18%) Power Platform
7 96 (7.66%) GitHub
8 78 (6.23%) GCP
9 75 (5.99%) GitHub Actions
10 74 (5.91%) PaaS
11 67 (5.35%) Azure Monitor
12 63 (5.03%) Google Workspace
13 57 (4.55%) SaaS
14 55 (4.39%) IaaS
14 55 (4.39%) Power Automate
15 46 (3.67%) OneDrive
16 40 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
17 39 (3.11%) Azure Sentinel
17 39 (3.11%) Snowflake
18 36 (2.87%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 226 (18.04%) Firewall
2 214 (17.08%) DNS
3 168 (13.41%) DHCP
4 115 (9.18%) VPN
5 105 (8.38%) TCP/IP
6 83 (6.62%) WAN
7 69 (5.51%) LAN
8 52 (4.15%) Broadband
9 44 (3.51%) VLAN
9 44 (3.51%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (3.19%) Wireless
11 32 (2.55%) SD-WAN
12 28 (2.23%) Network Security
13 27 (2.15%) SAN
14 21 (1.68%) VoIP
15 18 (1.44%) Internet
16 17 (1.36%) VSAN
17 13 (1.04%) MPLS
18 12 (0.96%) Cisco IOS
18 12 (0.96%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (11.57%) SQL Server
2 83 (6.62%) Power BI
3 36 (2.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 34 (2.71%) Relational Database
5 30 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (2.39%) Oracle Database
6 26 (2.08%) Oracle Database 10g
7 24 (1.92%) MySQL
8 22 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
10 13 (1.04%) NoSQL
11 12 (0.96%) MongoDB
11 12 (0.96%) Tableau
12 11 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
14 6 (0.48%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.48%) InfluxDB
15 5 (0.40%) DTS
15 5 (0.40%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 95 (7.58%) JIRA
2 91 (7.26%) Jenkins
3 80 (6.38%) Git
4 36 (2.87%) GitLab
5 31 (2.47%) Octopus Deploy
6 23 (1.84%) TeamCity
7 17 (1.36%) Bitbucket
8 13 (1.04%) Burp Suite
8 13 (1.04%) Metasploit
9 10 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 9 (0.72%) Robot Framework
11 7 (0.56%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.48%) TestRail
13 5 (0.40%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.32%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.32%) MLflow
14 4 (0.32%) MSI
14 4 (0.32%) Toad
15 3 (0.24%) JMeter
General
1 439 (35.04%) Social Skills
2 327 (26.10%) Finance
3 129 (10.30%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
5 51 (4.07%) Law
6 48 (3.83%) Retail
7 44 (3.51%) Public Sector
8 40 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
9 35 (2.79%) Banking
9 35 (2.79%) Legal
10 33 (2.63%) Games
11 29 (2.31%) Telecoms
12 27 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 27 (2.15%) Manufacturing
13 16 (1.28%) Front Office
14 14 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (0.80%) Aerospace
17 9 (0.72%) Advertising
18 7 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 195 (15.56%) Senior
2 153 (12.21%) Support Engineer
3 138 (11.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 115 (9.18%) Azure Engineer
5 97 (7.74%) Analyst
6 90 (7.18%) DevOps Engineer
7 86 (6.86%) Cloud Engineer
8 85 (6.78%) Developer
9 82 (6.54%) Security Engineer
10 78 (6.23%) IT Support
11 70 (5.59%) Lead
12 68 (5.43%) IT Engineer
13 58 (4.63%) 3rd Line Support
14 53 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
15 50 (3.99%) Applications Support
16 49 (3.91%) Applications Engineer
17 48 (3.83%) IT Support Engineer
18 46 (3.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
19 42 (3.35%) Support Analyst
20 37 (2.95%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (8.46%) REST
2 73 (5.83%) .NET
2 73 (5.83%) SOAP
3 71 (5.67%) OAuth
4 65 (5.19%) SAML
5 62 (4.95%) GraphQL
6 61 (4.87%) OpenID
7 57 (4.55%) LDAP
8 46 (3.67%) YAML
9 35 (2.79%) JSON
10 25 (2.00%) ARM Templates
10 25 (2.00%) React
11 21 (1.68%) Web Services
12 19 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
13 17 (1.36%) AngularJS
13 17 (1.36%) Microsoft Graph
14 16 (1.28%) Node.js
15 14 (1.12%) Middleware
16 13 (1.04%) .NET Core
17 11 (0.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 92 (7.34%) Onboarding
2 72 (5.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 65 (5.19%) Security Posture
4 54 (4.31%) Cyber Threat
5 50 (3.99%) Cyberattack
5 50 (3.99%) Product Ownership
6 45 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
7 44 (3.51%) Management Information System
8 37 (2.95%) Cloud Native
9 36 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
10 33 (2.63%) Data Centre
11 31 (2.47%) Driving Licence
12 28 (2.23%) PKI
13 27 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
14 26 (2.08%) CMDB
15 23 (1.84%) Cyber Defence
16 22 (1.76%) Virtual Team
17 21 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
18 20 (1.60%) Hedge funds
19 18 (1.44%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 541 (43.18%) Windows
2 291 (23.22%) Windows Server
3 215 (17.16%) Linux
4 68 (5.43%) Windows 10
5 50 (3.99%) Mac OS
6 42 (3.35%) Unix
7 37 (2.95%) Windows Server 2016
7 37 (2.95%) Windows Server 2019
8 36 (2.87%) VMS
9 31 (2.47%) Android
10 27 (2.15%) Windows Server 2008
11 25 (2.00%) Solaris
12 22 (1.76%) HPUX
12 22 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 22 (1.76%) Windows 7
12 22 (1.76%) Windows Server 2003
13 21 (1.68%) Apple iOS
14 18 (1.44%) CentOS
14 18 (1.44%) Windows Server 2012
15 13 (1.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (30.49%) Problem-Solving
2 350 (27.93%) DevOps
3 266 (21.23%) CI/CD
4 246 (19.63%) ITIL
5 237 (18.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 223 (17.80%) Continuous Improvement
7 211 (16.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 209 (16.68%) Cybersecurity
9 194 (15.48%) Mentoring
10 189 (15.08%) Agile
11 161 (12.85%) Disaster Recovery
12 151 (12.05%) Roadmaps
13 126 (10.06%) Task Automation
14 122 (9.74%) Coaching
15 117 (9.34%) Root Cause Analysis
16 113 (9.02%) Asset Management
17 109 (8.70%) Incident Response
18 104 (8.30%) Migration
19 103 (8.22%) Cloud Security
20 93 (7.42%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 431 (34.40%) Python
2 305 (24.34%) Bash
3 290 (23.14%) SQL
4 103 (8.22%) C#
5 77 (6.15%) Bicep
6 74 (5.91%) T-SQL
7 68 (5.43%) JavaScript
8 26 (2.08%) Perl
9 25 (2.00%) Java
10 24 (1.92%) Go
11 23 (1.84%) Kusto Query Language
12 15 (1.20%) VB
13 11 (0.88%) VB.NET
14 10 (0.80%) TypeScript
14 10 (0.80%) VBScript
15 9 (0.72%) VBA
16 8 (0.64%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.48%) C++
18 4 (0.32%) Google Apps Script
18 4 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 163 (13.01%) Degree
1 163 (13.01%) Security Cleared
2 110 (8.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 104 (8.30%) SC Cleared
4 89 (7.10%) Azure Certification
5 61 (4.87%) DV Cleared
6 47 (3.75%) CISSP
7 44 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 39 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
9 34 (2.71%) AWS Certification
9 34 (2.71%) CREST Certified
10 31 (2.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 23 (1.84%) CEH
12 20 (1.60%) CCNA
13 19 (1.52%) SANS
14 17 (1.36%) CompTIA CySA+
14 17 (1.36%) DBS Check
14 17 (1.36%) GIAC
15 15 (1.20%) Master's Degree
15 15 (1.20%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (12.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 151 (12.05%) NIST
3 69 (5.51%) GDPR
4 65 (5.19%) NCSC
5 56 (4.47%) SLA
6 47 (3.75%) Accessibility
7 29 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials
8 17 (1.36%) ISO 22301
8 17 (1.36%) QA
9 15 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 14 (1.12%) Data Quality
11 13 (1.04%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.48%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.40%) GRC
15 3 (0.24%) DICOM
15 3 (0.24%) HL7
15 3 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.16%) COBIT
17 1 (0.080%) HIPAA
System Software
1 446 (35.59%) Active Directory
2 134 (10.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 110 (8.78%) Docker
4 97 (7.74%) Hyper-V
5 46 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
6 44 (3.51%) Virtual Desktop
7 34 (2.71%) vSphere
8 22 (1.76%) Firmware
9 15 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
10 14 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.64%) vCloud
11 8 (0.64%) XenApp
12 6 (0.48%) VMware NSX
12 6 (0.48%) XenDesktop
13 4 (0.32%) BitLocker
13 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 2 (0.16%) iptables
14 2 (0.16%) KVM
14 2 (0.16%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 276 (22.03%) Terraform
2 200 (15.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 165 (13.17%) Kubernetes
4 138 (11.01%) Ansible
5 54 (4.31%) SCCM
6 46 (3.67%) Single Sign-On
7 45 (3.59%) Grafana
8 23 (1.84%) Prometheus
9 19 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 19 (1.52%) Puppet
10 15 (1.20%) WSUS
11 14 (1.12%) SCOM
12 11 (0.88%) vCenter Server
13 10 (0.80%) Nessus
14 9 (0.72%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
15 8 (0.64%) SCVMM
16 7 (0.56%) McAfee ePO
16 7 (0.56%) Progress Chef
16 7 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 650 (51.88%) Microsoft
2 216 (17.24%) VMware
3 97 (7.74%) Cisco
4 69 (5.51%) ServiceNow
5 53 (4.23%) Oracle
6 46 (3.67%) Veeam
7 43 (3.43%) Splunk
8 40 (3.19%) Google
9 37 (2.95%) Atlassian
10 33 (2.63%) Citrix
10 33 (2.63%) Red Hat
11 32 (2.55%) Palo Alto
12 27 (2.15%) CyberArk
13 26 (2.08%) Commvault
14 25 (2.00%) SolarWinds
15 24 (1.92%) Fortinet
16 22 (1.76%) CrowdStrike
16 22 (1.76%) SAP
17 21 (1.68%) Dell
18 20 (1.60%) Meraki