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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 91 110
Rank change year-on-year -56 +19 -15
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,227 1,357 2,371
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.36% 3.21% 2.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.86% 9.89% 7.29%
Number of salaries quoted 893 1,052 2,011
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,989 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £74,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +1.50% -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 15,606 13,723 32,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.35% 32.44% 33.92%
Number of salaries quoted 10,612 10,085 25,040
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,420 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,635
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.54% -2.48%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -59 1,090 £59,000 -1.67% 334
UK excluding London -65 678 £52,500 +3.45% 282
London -18 512 £70,000 -9.68% 112
Work from Home -21 395 £60,000 +4.35% 140
South East -87 159 £55,000 -4.35% 116
North of England -44 141 £48,445 -1.44% 57
Midlands -65 112 £50,000 - 31
Scotland +28 88 £51,875 -2.96% 20
South West -47 84 £55,000 +15.79% 31
East of England -36 71 £57,500 +15.00% 26
North West -38 69 £53,750 +16.85% 34
East Midlands -35 65 £55,000 +37.50% 14
Yorkshire -37 58 £47,500 -14.03% 12
West Midlands -72 46 £47,500 -5.00% 17
Wales -13 20 £58,248 +15.22% 10
North East -37 14 £45,000 -21.74% 11
Northern Ireland -37 3 £46,000 - 4

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
1 167 (13.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 158 (12.88%) SharePoint
3 40 (3.26%) IIS
4 16 (1.30%) Confluence
5 5 (0.41%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.16%) Apache
6 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.081%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.081%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.081%) CMS
7 1 (0.081%) Site Server
7 1 (0.081%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.081%) WordPress
Applications
1 53 (4.32%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) CATIA
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.16%) Siemens NX
3 2 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.16%) Windchill
4 1 (0.081%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.57%) Markit EDM
2 5 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
4 3 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.16%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.081%) Actimize
6 1 (0.081%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.081%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.081%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 792 (64.55%) Azure
2 432 (35.21%) Microsoft 365
3 336 (27.38%) Entra ID
4 214 (17.44%) AWS
5 125 (10.19%) Azure DevOps
6 106 (8.64%) Power Platform
7 92 (7.50%) GitHub
8 79 (6.44%) OneDrive
9 77 (6.28%) SaaS
10 73 (5.95%) Google Workspace
11 70 (5.70%) GitHub Actions
12 69 (5.62%) GCP
13 56 (4.56%) IaaS
14 52 (4.24%) Power Automate
15 51 (4.16%) Azure Sentinel
16 48 (3.91%) Azure Data Factory
17 47 (3.83%) Azure Logic Apps
17 47 (3.83%) PaaS
18 44 (3.59%) Azure Monitor
19 40 (3.26%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 224 (18.26%) DNS
1 224 (18.26%) Firewall
2 146 (11.90%) DHCP
3 135 (11.00%) VPN
4 102 (8.31%) TCP/IP
5 68 (5.54%) WAN
6 64 (5.22%) LAN
7 61 (4.97%) Broadband
8 60 (4.89%) Network Security
9 47 (3.83%) VLAN
10 42 (3.42%) Wi-Fi
11 40 (3.26%) VoIP
12 36 (2.93%) SAN
13 27 (2.20%) Wireless
14 20 (1.63%) BGP
15 18 (1.47%) SD-WAN
16 16 (1.30%) MPLS
17 14 (1.14%) VSAN
18 13 (1.06%) Kerberos
19 12 (0.98%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (11.33%) SQL Server
2 87 (7.09%) Power BI
3 47 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
4 30 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
7 25 (2.04%) MySQL
8 23 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 20 (1.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 17 (1.39%) Relational Database
11 16 (1.30%) NoSQL
12 14 (1.14%) Tableau
13 11 (0.90%) InfluxDB
14 10 (0.81%) Data Lake
14 10 (0.81%) MongoDB
15 8 (0.65%) Metadata
16 5 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
17 4 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 3 (0.24%) Power Query
18 3 (0.24%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 94 (7.66%) Git
2 69 (5.62%) JIRA
3 68 (5.54%) Jenkins
4 48 (3.91%) GitLab
5 28 (2.28%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.30%) Octopus Deploy
7 13 (1.06%) Metasploit
7 13 (1.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 11 (0.90%) Robot Framework
8 11 (0.90%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.73%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.73%) TestRail
9 9 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
10 8 (0.65%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.33%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.33%) MLflow
12 4 (0.33%) Selenium
13 3 (0.24%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.24%) SonarQube
General
1 411 (33.50%) Social Skills
2 243 (19.80%) Finance
3 170 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (6.44%) Organisational Skills
5 66 (5.38%) Law
6 48 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 46 (3.75%) Retail
8 44 (3.59%) Legal
9 43 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
10 41 (3.34%) Public Sector
11 31 (2.53%) Games
12 29 (2.36%) Manufacturing
13 28 (2.28%) Banking
14 18 (1.47%) Front Office
15 17 (1.39%) Advertising
15 17 (1.39%) Aerospace
16 16 (1.30%) Telecoms
17 7 (0.57%) Electronics
18 6 (0.49%) Military
18 6 (0.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 228 (18.58%) Senior
2 145 (11.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 137 (11.17%) Analyst
4 129 (10.51%) Support Engineer
5 123 (10.02%) Azure Engineer
6 105 (8.56%) IT Support
7 87 (7.09%) Security Engineer
8 84 (6.85%) IT Engineer
9 82 (6.68%) Cloud Engineer
10 73 (5.95%) DevOps Engineer
11 71 (5.79%) Developer
12 64 (5.22%) Lead
13 57 (4.65%) IT Support Engineer
14 54 (4.40%) 2nd Line Support
15 46 (3.75%) Platform Engineer
15 46 (3.75%) Systems Engineer
16 44 (3.59%) Architect
17 42 (3.42%) Support Analyst
18 40 (3.26%) Security Analyst
19 38 (3.10%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (8.07%) OAuth
2 89 (7.25%) REST
3 86 (7.01%) SAML
4 85 (6.93%) OpenID
5 81 (6.60%) .NET
6 71 (5.79%) LDAP
7 65 (5.30%) GraphQL
7 65 (5.30%) SOAP
8 39 (3.18%) .NET Core
9 35 (2.85%) JSON
10 33 (2.69%) Microsoft Graph
11 32 (2.61%) CSS
12 31 (2.53%) YAML
13 30 (2.44%) HTML
14 29 (2.36%) ARM Templates
14 29 (2.36%) SPFx
15 20 (1.63%) React
16 19 (1.55%) HTML5 Canvas
17 17 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
18 16 (1.30%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 93 (7.58%) Onboarding
2 74 (6.03%) Cyber Threat
3 72 (5.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 65 (5.30%) Cyberattack
5 59 (4.81%) Management Information System
6 55 (4.48%) Security Posture
7 53 (4.32%) Cloud Native
8 43 (3.50%) Cyber Defence
8 43 (3.50%) Security Operations Centre
9 39 (3.18%) Driving Licence
9 39 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
10 35 (2.85%) Data Centre
11 31 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
12 29 (2.36%) Public Cloud
13 25 (2.04%) PKI
14 24 (1.96%) CMDB
15 17 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
15 17 (1.39%) Low-Code
16 16 (1.30%) Private Cloud
16 16 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 553 (45.07%) Windows
2 274 (22.33%) Windows Server
3 261 (21.27%) Linux
4 76 (6.19%) Windows 10
5 51 (4.16%) Mac OS
6 47 (3.83%) Apple iOS
7 45 (3.67%) Android
8 36 (2.93%) Windows Server 2016
9 29 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 26 (2.12%) VMS
11 25 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
12 24 (1.96%) CentOS
13 17 (1.39%) Ubuntu
13 17 (1.39%) Unix
14 10 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.41%) Debian
16 4 (0.33%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.24%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.24%) Solaris
18 2 (0.16%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (26.81%) Problem-Solving
2 263 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
3 257 (20.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 256 (20.86%) CI/CD
4 256 (20.86%) DevOps
5 224 (18.26%) ITIL
6 210 (17.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 201 (16.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 192 (15.65%) Mentoring
9 158 (12.88%) Agile
10 156 (12.71%) Incident Response
11 138 (11.25%) Disaster Recovery
12 136 (11.08%) Roadmaps
13 131 (10.68%) Root Cause Analysis
14 124 (10.11%) SIEM
15 116 (9.45%) Containerisation
16 114 (9.29%) Cloud Security
17 103 (8.39%) Task Automation
18 101 (8.23%) Security Operations
19 99 (8.07%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 478 (38.96%) Python
2 312 (25.43%) Bash
3 272 (22.17%) SQL
4 93 (7.58%) C#
5 82 (6.68%) T-SQL
6 80 (6.52%) JavaScript
7 68 (5.54%) Bicep
8 33 (2.69%) Kusto Query Language
9 23 (1.87%) Java
9 23 (1.87%) TypeScript
10 11 (0.90%) C++
10 11 (0.90%) Go
10 11 (0.90%) VB.NET
11 9 (0.73%) Perl
11 9 (0.73%) VB
11 9 (0.73%) VBA
12 7 (0.57%) C
12 7 (0.57%) PHP
13 6 (0.49%) Delphi
13 6 (0.49%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 164 (13.37%) Degree
2 139 (11.33%) Security Cleared
3 106 (8.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 89 (7.25%) Azure Certification
5 81 (6.60%) SC Cleared
6 52 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 51 (4.16%) CISSP
8 45 (3.67%) DV Cleared
9 37 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
10 33 (2.69%) CompTIA Security+
11 31 (2.53%) CREST Certified
12 25 (2.04%) CCNA
12 25 (2.04%) OSCP
13 23 (1.87%) CEH
13 23 (1.87%) GIAC
14 22 (1.79%) CompTIA CySA+
15 21 (1.71%) AWS Certification
16 17 (1.39%) DBS Check
17 14 (1.14%) CCNP
17 14 (1.14%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (12.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 148 (12.06%) NIST
3 66 (5.38%) GDPR
4 60 (4.89%) NCSC
5 41 (3.34%) SLA
6 29 (2.36%) Cyber Essentials
7 27 (2.20%) Accessibility
8 20 (1.63%) Data Quality
8 20 (1.63%) ISO 22301
9 17 (1.39%) QA
10 14 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (1.14%) SOC 2
11 13 (1.06%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.49%) DICOM
14 5 (0.41%) GRC
15 4 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.16%) COBIT
17 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 455 (37.08%) Active Directory
2 159 (12.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 130 (10.59%) Docker
4 102 (8.31%) Hyper-V
5 45 (3.67%) vSphere
6 32 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (1.87%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (1.55%) VMware NSX
9 18 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
10 15 (1.22%) BitLocker
10 15 (1.22%) Firmware
11 10 (0.81%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 5 (0.41%) Terminal Services
13 4 (0.33%) iptables
13 4 (0.33%) Squid
13 4 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.33%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.24%) KVM
14 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.16%) Samba
Systems Management
1 264 (21.52%) Terraform
2 187 (15.24%) Kubernetes
3 176 (14.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 145 (11.82%) Ansible
5 55 (4.48%) Grafana
6 45 (3.67%) Single Sign-On
7 44 (3.59%) SCCM
8 34 (2.77%) Prometheus
9 24 (1.96%) Jamf Pro
10 21 (1.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 21 (1.71%) vCenter Server
11 14 (1.14%) VxRail
12 13 (1.06%) Nessus
13 11 (0.90%) Puppet
14 10 (0.81%) Packer
14 10 (0.81%) QRadar
15 9 (0.73%) FortiGate
15 9 (0.73%) WSUS
16 8 (0.65%) logstash
17 7 (0.57%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 681 (55.50%) Microsoft
2 213 (17.36%) VMware
3 102 (8.31%) Cisco
4 64 (5.22%) Splunk
5 56 (4.56%) ServiceNow
6 55 (4.48%) Red Hat
7 42 (3.42%) CrowdStrike
8 36 (2.93%) Veeam
9 33 (2.69%) Google
10 31 (2.53%) Commvault
10 31 (2.53%) Dell
11 27 (2.20%) Meraki
12 26 (2.12%) Citrix
12 26 (2.12%) Fortinet
12 26 (2.12%) Palo Alto
13 24 (1.96%) Apple
13 24 (1.96%) Oracle
14 23 (1.87%) CyberArk
15 20 (1.63%) Tenable
16 19 (1.55%) Dynatrace