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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 90 116
Rank change year-on-year -48 +26 -27
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,286 1,572 2,355
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.40% 3.55% 2.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.84% 11.22% 7.00%
Number of salaries quoted 950 988 1,905
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,925 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,563 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,050 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,500 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -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 16,402 14,006 33,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.84% 31.66% 31.89%
Number of salaries quoted 11,467 9,215 25,436
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £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 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £98,612
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -60 1,186 £59,000 -1.26% 366
UK excluding London -69 746 £51,500 +3.00% 295
London -16 514 £70,000 -6.67% 114
Work from Home -43 418 £60,000 +7.14% 173
South East -52 183 £55,000 -4.35% 128
North of England -98 181 £47,500 -5.71% 56
Midlands -38 133 £50,000 - 30
North West -88 94 £50,101 +8.33% 36
East of England -18 83 £57,500 +21.05% 27
South West -30 82 £55,000 +15.79% 45
East Midlands -11 75 £45,000 +28.57% 15
Yorkshire -28 59 £45,000 -14.29% 14
Scotland +39 57 £50,000 +6.95% 14
West Midlands -72 57 £52,500 - 15
North East -30 28 £45,000 -23.40% 6
Wales -19 24 £55,000 +4.76% 4
Northern Ireland -35 3 £46,000 +6.75% 3

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
1 189 (14.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 174 (13.53%) SharePoint
3 41 (3.19%) IIS
4 22 (1.71%) Confluence
5 3 (0.23%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.16%) Apache
7 1 (0.078%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.078%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.078%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.078%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.078%) Site Server
Applications
1 74 (5.75%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.078%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.078%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (0.39%) Markit EDM
1 5 (0.39%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.23%) Alphatax
2 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.16%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.078%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.078%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.078%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 842 (65.47%) Azure
2 470 (36.55%) Microsoft 365
3 348 (27.06%) Entra ID
4 215 (16.72%) AWS
5 135 (10.50%) Azure DevOps
6 115 (8.94%) Power Platform
7 96 (7.47%) GitHub
8 92 (7.15%) SaaS
9 86 (6.69%) IaaS
10 83 (6.45%) OneDrive
11 66 (5.13%) Azure Monitor
11 66 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
11 66 (5.13%) Google Workspace
12 57 (4.43%) Azure AKS
12 57 (4.43%) GCP
12 57 (4.43%) PaaS
13 56 (4.35%) Power Automate
14 55 (4.28%) Azure Sentinel
15 52 (4.04%) Azure Key Vault
16 45 (3.50%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 266 (20.68%) Firewall
2 259 (20.14%) DNS
3 163 (12.67%) VPN
4 162 (12.60%) DHCP
5 110 (8.55%) TCP/IP
6 85 (6.61%) WAN
7 80 (6.22%) LAN
8 68 (5.29%) Network Security
9 55 (4.28%) Broadband
10 53 (4.12%) VLAN
11 45 (3.50%) Wi-Fi
12 37 (2.88%) VoIP
13 34 (2.64%) SAN
14 25 (1.94%) Wireless
15 23 (1.79%) BGP
16 18 (1.40%) SD-WAN
17 16 (1.24%) Kerberos
17 16 (1.24%) VSAN
18 15 (1.17%) MPLS
19 14 (1.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (11.43%) SQL Server
2 84 (6.53%) Power BI
3 62 (4.82%) Azure SQL Database
4 39 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
5 30 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (2.02%) MySQL
7 23 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 18 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 17 (1.32%) Relational Database
10 15 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (1.17%) NoSQL
11 14 (1.09%) MongoDB
12 11 (0.86%) Tableau
13 9 (0.70%) Data Lake
13 9 (0.70%) InfluxDB
14 6 (0.47%) Metadata
15 5 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
15 5 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 4 (0.31%) Redis
17 3 (0.23%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 94 (7.31%) Git
2 64 (4.98%) Jenkins
2 64 (4.98%) JIRA
3 59 (4.59%) GitLab
4 31 (2.41%) Bitbucket
5 15 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
6 13 (1.01%) Metasploit
6 13 (1.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 13 (1.01%) TeamCity
7 10 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
8 9 (0.70%) Burp Suite
9 8 (0.62%) Robot Framework
10 7 (0.54%) TestRail
11 5 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.39%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.31%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.31%) MLflow
12 4 (0.31%) Selenium
13 3 (0.23%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.23%) Terragrunt
General
1 388 (30.17%) Social Skills
2 221 (17.19%) Finance
3 173 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (6.53%) Law
5 77 (5.99%) Organisational Skills
6 55 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
7 47 (3.65%) Legal
8 44 (3.42%) Retail
9 39 (3.03%) Public Sector
10 26 (2.02%) Aerospace
10 26 (2.02%) Banking
10 26 (2.02%) Games
11 23 (1.79%) Manufacturing
12 19 (1.48%) Advertising
13 15 (1.17%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.62%) Aviation
15 7 (0.54%) Front Office
15 7 (0.54%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 235 (18.27%) Senior
2 160 (12.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 147 (11.43%) Support Engineer
4 143 (11.12%) Analyst
5 135 (10.50%) Azure Engineer
6 130 (10.11%) IT Support
7 121 (9.41%) IT Engineer
8 101 (7.85%) Cloud Engineer
9 93 (7.23%) DevOps Engineer
10 83 (6.45%) Security Engineer
11 80 (6.22%) IT Support Engineer
12 60 (4.67%) 2nd Line Support
13 59 (4.59%) Platform Engineer
14 58 (4.51%) Developer
14 58 (4.51%) Systems Engineer
15 56 (4.35%) Lead
16 44 (3.42%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 42 (3.27%) Architect
18 41 (3.19%) Security Analyst
18 41 (3.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (7.00%) OAuth
2 88 (6.84%) SAML
3 87 (6.77%) .NET
4 86 (6.69%) REST
5 81 (6.30%) OpenID
6 75 (5.83%) LDAP
7 59 (4.59%) SOAP
8 52 (4.04%) GraphQL
9 42 (3.27%) YAML
10 41 (3.19%) JSON
11 40 (3.11%) ARM Templates
12 37 (2.88%) .NET Core
12 37 (2.88%) Microsoft Graph
13 36 (2.80%) HTML
14 34 (2.64%) CSS
15 25 (1.94%) SPFx
16 19 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
16 19 (1.48%) HTML5 Canvas
17 18 (1.40%) React
18 15 (1.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 98 (7.62%) Onboarding
2 71 (5.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 70 (5.44%) Cyber Threat
4 66 (5.13%) Cloud Native
5 59 (4.59%) Cyberattack
5 59 (4.59%) Management Information System
6 58 (4.51%) Security Posture
7 49 (3.81%) Driving Licence
8 43 (3.34%) Cyber Defence
9 42 (3.27%) Data Centre
9 42 (3.27%) Security Operations Centre
10 36 (2.80%) PKI
11 35 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
12 31 (2.41%) Public Cloud
13 27 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
14 25 (1.94%) CMDB
15 20 (1.56%) Private Cloud
15 20 (1.56%) Replication
16 19 (1.48%) Clustering
17 18 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 604 (46.97%) Windows
2 291 (22.63%) Windows Server
3 285 (22.16%) Linux
4 82 (6.38%) Windows 10
5 52 (4.04%) Mac OS
6 51 (3.97%) Apple iOS
7 47 (3.65%) Android
8 41 (3.19%) VMS
9 39 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
10 31 (2.41%) CentOS
10 31 (2.41%) Windows Server 2019
11 29 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 24 (1.87%) Ubuntu
13 17 (1.32%) Unix
14 6 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.39%) Debian
16 4 (0.31%) AIX
16 4 (0.31%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.31%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (24.57%) Problem-Solving
2 287 (22.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 286 (22.24%) CI/CD
4 278 (21.62%) Cybersecurity
5 266 (20.68%) DevOps
6 229 (17.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 218 (16.95%) ITIL
8 211 (16.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 185 (14.39%) Mentoring
10 159 (12.36%) Agile
11 157 (12.21%) Incident Response
12 152 (11.82%) Root Cause Analysis
13 150 (11.66%) Disaster Recovery
14 137 (10.65%) Roadmaps
15 131 (10.19%) High Availability
16 130 (10.11%) Containerisation
17 126 (9.80%) SIEM
18 110 (8.55%) Cloud Security
19 109 (8.48%) Task Automation
20 105 (8.16%) AI
Programming Languages
1 501 (38.96%) Python
2 338 (26.28%) Bash
3 273 (21.23%) SQL
4 94 (7.31%) C#
5 79 (6.14%) Bicep
6 78 (6.07%) T-SQL
7 72 (5.60%) JavaScript
8 32 (2.49%) Kusto Query Language
9 29 (2.26%) Java
10 24 (1.87%) TypeScript
11 17 (1.32%) C++
12 15 (1.17%) VBScript
13 14 (1.09%) Perl
14 11 (0.86%) PHP
14 11 (0.86%) VB
15 10 (0.78%) VBA
16 9 (0.70%) Go
16 9 (0.70%) VB.NET
17 7 (0.54%) C
18 6 (0.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 160 (12.44%) Security Cleared
2 157 (12.21%) Degree
3 128 (9.95%) Azure Certification
4 119 (9.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 102 (7.93%) SC Cleared
6 54 (4.20%) CISSP
7 50 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 49 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (3.42%) DV Cleared
10 37 (2.88%) CompTIA Security+
11 33 (2.57%) CCNA
12 29 (2.26%) CREST Certified
12 29 (2.26%) OSCP
13 26 (2.02%) AWS Certification
13 26 (2.02%) DBS Check
14 23 (1.79%) CEH
14 23 (1.79%) GIAC
15 17 (1.32%) CCNP
16 16 (1.24%) CompTIA CySA+
17 13 (1.01%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (11.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 131 (10.19%) NIST
3 54 (4.20%) GDPR
4 51 (3.97%) NCSC
5 45 (3.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 41 (3.19%) SLA
7 20 (1.56%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.24%) Accessibility
9 15 (1.17%) PCI DSS
10 14 (1.09%) ISO 22301
11 13 (1.01%) QA
11 13 (1.01%) SOC 2
12 11 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.47%) DICOM
14 6 (0.47%) PMO
15 4 (0.31%) GRC
16 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
16 3 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 493 (38.34%) Active Directory
2 189 (14.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 137 (10.65%) Docker
4 128 (9.95%) Hyper-V
5 61 (4.74%) vSphere
6 36 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
7 25 (1.94%) BitLocker
7 25 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
8 24 (1.87%) VMware NSX
9 15 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (0.78%) Firmware
10 10 (0.78%) KVM
11 8 (0.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.62%) Squid
12 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.31%) iptables
14 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.16%) Samba
Systems Management
1 296 (23.02%) Terraform
2 212 (16.49%) Kubernetes
3 199 (15.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 149 (11.59%) Ansible
5 61 (4.74%) Grafana
5 61 (4.74%) Single Sign-On
6 48 (3.73%) SCCM
7 45 (3.50%) Prometheus
8 27 (2.10%) Jamf Pro
9 24 (1.87%) vCenter Server
10 23 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 19 (1.48%) ZABBIX
12 18 (1.40%) Packer
13 17 (1.32%) Nessus
14 16 (1.24%) QRadar
15 15 (1.17%) VxRail
16 14 (1.09%) Proxmox
17 13 (1.01%) Argo
17 13 (1.01%) Graylog
18 12 (0.93%) Nagios
Vendors
1 749 (58.24%) Microsoft
2 240 (18.66%) VMware
3 102 (7.93%) Cisco
4 82 (6.38%) Splunk
5 63 (4.90%) ServiceNow
6 58 (4.51%) Red Hat
7 45 (3.50%) Veeam
8 36 (2.80%) Meraki
9 35 (2.72%) Oracle
10 34 (2.64%) CrowdStrike
11 30 (2.33%) Apple
12 29 (2.26%) Google
13 28 (2.18%) Dell
14 26 (2.02%) Citrix
14 26 (2.02%) Fortinet
15 25 (1.94%) Commvault
16 24 (1.87%) Sophos
16 24 (1.87%) Tenable
17 23 (1.79%) Palo Alto
18 22 (1.71%) SolarWinds