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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 89 110
Rank change year-on-year -57 +21 -36
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,464 1,601 1,800
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.33% 3.26% 2.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.92% 12.28% 7.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,025 1,061 1,259
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £36,450
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,250 £76,250 £80,000
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 18,482 13,035 24,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.75% 26.57% 30.43%
Number of salaries quoted 13,182 8,419 16,033
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 4 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 4 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 -64 1,286 £57,500 - 870
UK excluding London -58 967 £52,500 +5.00% 554
Work from Home -35 506 £62,500 +4.17% 374
London -33 459 £70,000 -3.45% 412
South East -29 244 £52,500 -8.70% 166
North of England -80 231 £50,000 +2.04% 123
Midlands -35 160 £52,500 +5.00% 84
North West -78 135 £50,000 +8.70% 74
East of England -27 101 £57,500 +21.05% 60
South West -75 84 £55,000 +22.22% 74
East Midlands -15 82 £42,500 +21.43% 30
West Midlands -56 78 £55,000 - 54
Northern Ireland -26 69 £46,000 - 18
Yorkshire -41 60 £42,500 -17.68% 31
Scotland +10 44 £50,000 +25.00% 35
North East -36 36 £50,000 - 19
Wales -52 34 £38,500 -30.00% 11

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
1 242 (16.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 239 (16.33%) SharePoint
3 57 (3.89%) IIS
4 37 (2.53%) Confluence
5 14 (0.96%) nginx
6 7 (0.48%) Apache
7 6 (0.41%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
9 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.068%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.068%) WebSphere
Applications
1 69 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 29 (1.98%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.41%) Raiser’s Edge
4 4 (0.27%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.068%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 885 (60.45%) Azure
2 548 (37.43%) Microsoft 365
3 427 (29.17%) Entra ID
4 259 (17.69%) AWS
5 178 (12.16%) SaaS
6 173 (11.82%) Azure DevOps
7 114 (7.79%) OneDrive
8 112 (7.65%) Power Platform
9 111 (7.58%) GitHub
10 105 (7.17%) IaaS
11 84 (5.74%) Azure Monitor
11 84 (5.74%) Azure Sentinel
12 79 (5.40%) Power Automate
13 73 (4.99%) PaaS
14 71 (4.85%) Azure AKS
15 69 (4.71%) GCP
16 67 (4.58%) Azure Key Vault
17 64 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
18 52 (3.55%) Datadog
19 49 (3.35%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 321 (21.93%) Firewall
2 317 (21.65%) DNS
3 214 (14.62%) DHCP
4 207 (14.14%) VPN
5 139 (9.49%) TCP/IP
6 98 (6.69%) WAN
7 84 (5.74%) LAN
8 74 (5.05%) VLAN
9 62 (4.23%) Network Security
10 55 (3.76%) Wireless
11 44 (3.01%) Wi-Fi
12 37 (2.53%) SAN
13 29 (1.98%) Kerberos
14 22 (1.50%) NAS
14 22 (1.50%) SSL
15 21 (1.43%) VoIP
16 19 (1.30%) Internet
17 18 (1.23%) HTTP
18 17 (1.16%) BGP
18 17 (1.16%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (9.97%) SQL Server
2 83 (5.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 60 (4.10%) Power BI
4 26 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.50%) MongoDB
6 18 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.09%) Relational Database
8 15 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 12 (0.82%) MySQL
10 12 (0.82%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.61%) InfluxDB
11 9 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.48%) Redis
13 6 (0.41%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.41%) Power Query
14 5 (0.34%) Metadata
14 5 (0.34%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.27%) Db2
Development Applications
1 104 (7.10%) Git
2 102 (6.97%) JIRA
3 73 (4.99%) GitLab
4 61 (4.17%) Jenkins
5 27 (1.84%) Bitbucket
6 13 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
7 12 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 11 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
9 9 (0.61%) Robot Framework
9 9 (0.61%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.61%) TestRail
10 7 (0.48%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.48%) Selenium
11 6 (0.41%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.34%) Postman
13 4 (0.27%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
14 3 (0.20%) JMeter
14 3 (0.20%) MSI
14 3 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 552 (37.70%) Social Skills
2 237 (16.19%) Finance
3 190 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (8.54%) Law
5 120 (8.20%) Legal
6 65 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 52 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
8 44 (3.01%) Retail
9 43 (2.94%) Public Sector
10 40 (2.73%) Banking
11 37 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
12 35 (2.39%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.84%) Aerospace
14 15 (1.02%) Legal Technology
15 14 (0.96%) Advertising
16 11 (0.75%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.61%) Aviation
17 9 (0.61%) Front Office
17 9 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 290 (19.81%) Senior
2 206 (14.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 159 (10.86%) Analyst
4 140 (9.56%) Support Engineer
5 136 (9.29%) IT Engineer
6 135 (9.22%) Azure Engineer
7 132 (9.02%) Cloud Engineer
8 121 (8.27%) IT Support
9 104 (7.10%) DevOps Engineer
10 77 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
11 71 (4.85%) Lead
12 70 (4.78%) IT Support Engineer
13 66 (4.51%) Security Engineer
14 63 (4.30%) Consultant
14 63 (4.30%) Systems Engineer
15 60 (4.10%) Support Analyst
16 58 (3.96%) Developer
16 58 (3.96%) Testing Manager
17 56 (3.83%) Administrator
18 55 (3.76%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 360 (24.59%) Terraform
2 79 (5.40%) .NET
3 51 (3.48%) ARM Templates
3 51 (3.48%) REST
4 46 (3.14%) YAML
5 43 (2.94%) SAML
6 42 (2.87%) Microsoft Graph
7 39 (2.66%) HTML
7 39 (2.66%) OAuth
8 38 (2.60%) LDAP
8 38 (2.60%) OpenID
9 31 (2.12%) JSON
10 30 (2.05%) CSS
11 28 (1.91%) .NET Core
12 27 (1.84%) SPFx
13 21 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
14 18 (1.23%) HTML5 Canvas
15 16 (1.09%) SOAP
16 14 (0.96%) ASP.NET
16 14 (0.96%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 124 (8.47%) Onboarding
2 88 (6.01%) Cloud Native
3 74 (5.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 72 (4.92%) Security Posture
5 71 (4.85%) Management Information System
6 69 (4.71%) Driving Licence
7 60 (4.10%) Virtual Team
8 51 (3.48%) Data Centre
9 47 (3.21%) Public Cloud
10 46 (3.14%) PKI
10 46 (3.14%) Replication
11 44 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
12 41 (2.80%) Security Operations Centre
13 36 (2.46%) Clustering
13 36 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
14 29 (1.98%) Private Cloud
15 25 (1.71%) CMDB
16 24 (1.64%) Cyber Defence
16 24 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
17 18 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 694 (47.40%) Windows
2 340 (23.22%) Linux
3 327 (22.34%) Windows Server
4 82 (5.60%) Windows 10
5 57 (3.89%) Apple iOS
6 45 (3.07%) Android
7 43 (2.94%) Mac OS
8 42 (2.87%) Ubuntu
9 40 (2.73%) VMS
10 36 (2.46%) Windows Server 2016
11 33 (2.25%) CentOS
12 29 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 27 (1.84%) Windows Server 2019
14 15 (1.02%) Unix
15 14 (0.96%) Rocky
16 8 (0.55%) Debian
17 7 (0.48%) Solaris
18 5 (0.34%) CoreOS
19 4 (0.27%) AIX
19 4 (0.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (27.73%) Problem-Solving
2 373 (25.48%) DevOps
3 363 (24.80%) Continuous Improvement
4 340 (23.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 323 (22.06%) CI/CD
6 309 (21.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 290 (19.81%) ITIL
8 246 (16.80%) Cybersecurity
9 229 (15.64%) Mentoring
10 196 (13.39%) Disaster Recovery
11 167 (11.41%) High Availability
12 165 (11.27%) Root Cause Analysis
13 163 (11.13%) Agile
14 158 (10.79%) AI
15 147 (10.04%) Incident Response
16 145 (9.90%) Project Delivery
17 138 (9.43%) Platform Engineering
18 133 (9.08%) Cloud Security
19 132 (9.02%) Containerisation
20 131 (8.95%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 569 (38.87%) Python
2 304 (20.77%) Bash
3 292 (19.95%) SQL
4 143 (9.77%) JavaScript
5 140 (9.56%) C#
6 112 (7.65%) Bicep
7 86 (5.87%) TypeScript
8 49 (3.35%) Kusto Query Language
9 37 (2.53%) Java
9 37 (2.53%) T-SQL
10 23 (1.57%) VBScript
11 19 (1.30%) C++
11 19 (1.30%) Perl
12 13 (0.89%) PHP
13 12 (0.82%) Ruby
14 10 (0.68%) VB
14 10 (0.68%) VBA
15 9 (0.61%) Go
16 6 (0.41%) C
16 6 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 199 (13.59%) Security Cleared
2 165 (11.27%) Degree
3 158 (10.79%) Azure Certification
4 150 (10.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 139 (9.49%) SC Cleared
6 64 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 61 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
8 55 (3.76%) DV Cleared
9 53 (3.62%) CompTIA Security+
10 51 (3.48%) CISSP
11 44 (3.01%) CCNA
12 27 (1.84%) CEH
13 23 (1.57%) DBS Check
13 23 (1.57%) OSCP
14 22 (1.50%) AWS Certification
15 19 (1.30%) CCNP
15 19 (1.30%) GIAC
15 19 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 18 (1.23%) CISM
17 16 (1.09%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (7.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 79 (5.40%) QA
3 69 (4.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 67 (4.58%) NIST
5 49 (3.35%) GDPR
6 45 (3.07%) SLA
7 19 (1.30%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.16%) PCI DSS
9 16 (1.09%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.48%) NCSC
11 7 (0.48%) PMO
12 5 (0.34%) ISO 22301
12 5 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.27%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.14%) EMIR
15 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 528 (36.07%) Active Directory
2 247 (16.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 162 (11.07%) Hyper-V
4 139 (9.49%) Docker
5 80 (5.46%) vSphere
6 65 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
7 53 (3.62%) Virtual Desktop
8 28 (1.91%) VMware NSX
9 22 (1.50%) BitLocker
10 18 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.55%) KVM
11 8 (0.55%) Squid
12 7 (0.48%) Firmware
13 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.20%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.068%) Ceph
16 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 262 (17.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 223 (15.23%) Kubernetes
3 176 (12.02%) Ansible
4 80 (5.46%) Grafana
5 77 (5.26%) SCCM
6 52 (3.55%) Single Sign-On
7 42 (2.87%) Prometheus
8 26 (1.78%) vCenter Server
9 25 (1.71%) ZABBIX
10 22 (1.50%) Jamf Pro
11 21 (1.43%) Argo
11 21 (1.43%) QRadar
12 20 (1.37%) Packer
12 20 (1.37%) Proxmox
13 18 (1.23%) Puppet
14 15 (1.02%) Graylog
15 14 (0.96%) FortiGate
16 13 (0.89%) VxRail
17 12 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 10 (0.68%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 908 (62.02%) Microsoft
2 283 (19.33%) VMware
3 122 (8.33%) Cisco
4 107 (7.31%) ServiceNow
5 90 (6.15%) Splunk
6 64 (4.37%) Veeam
7 54 (3.69%) Red Hat
8 48 (3.28%) Oracle
9 44 (3.01%) Meraki
10 41 (2.80%) Citrix
11 35 (2.39%) Dynatrace
12 33 (2.25%) Sophos
13 32 (2.19%) Dell
14 28 (1.91%) Tenable
15 27 (1.84%) Apple
15 27 (1.84%) CyberArk
15 27 (1.84%) Sage
16 26 (1.78%) CrowdStrike
17 25 (1.71%) Fortinet
18 23 (1.57%) Google