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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 89 108
Rank change year-on-year -58 +19 -38
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,472 1,618 1,817
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.30% 3.26% 2.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.96% 12.36% 7.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,021 1,071 1,225
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,500 £37,200
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,125 £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 18,503 13,095 24,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.30% 26.41% 30.86%
Number of salaries quoted 13,149 8,447 15,323
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -4.62%
75th Percentile £85,000 £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 13 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 13 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 -66 1,286 £57,500 - 699
UK excluding London -62 968 £52,500 +5.00% 455
Work from Home -33 509 £60,000 - 471
London -32 461 £70,000 -3.45% 318
South East -37 240 £52,500 -8.70% 135
North of England -85 236 £50,000 - 120
Midlands -55 159 £52,500 +5.00% 70
North West -70 140 £50,000 +8.70% 72
East of England -40 100 £57,500 +21.05% 46
South West -69 84 £55,000 +15.79% 49
East Midlands -18 80 £42,500 +21.43% 29
West Midlands -70 79 £55,000 - 41
Northern Ireland -21 69 £46,000 - 6
Yorkshire -43 60 £42,500 -19.05% 31
Scotland +7 45 £50,000 +14.29% 30
North East -34 36 £50,000 - 18
Wales -56 35 £38,500 -30.00% 15

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
1 245 (16.64%) Microsoft Exchange
1 245 (16.64%) SharePoint
2 55 (3.74%) IIS
3 40 (2.72%) Confluence
4 15 (1.02%) nginx
5 8 (0.54%) Apache
6 6 (0.41%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.27%) SAS
8 3 (0.20%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.068%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.068%) WebSphere
Applications
1 70 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (2.45%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.41%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.34%) 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
1 876 (59.51%) Azure
2 557 (37.84%) Microsoft 365
3 439 (29.82%) Entra ID
4 254 (17.26%) AWS
5 184 (12.50%) SaaS
6 174 (11.82%) Azure DevOps
7 117 (7.95%) OneDrive
7 117 (7.95%) Power Platform
8 108 (7.34%) GitHub
8 108 (7.34%) IaaS
9 84 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
10 83 (5.64%) Azure Sentinel
11 80 (5.43%) Power Automate
12 74 (5.03%) PaaS
13 72 (4.89%) Azure AKS
14 69 (4.69%) Azure Key Vault
14 69 (4.69%) GCP
15 62 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
16 56 (3.80%) Microsoft Purview
17 51 (3.46%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 324 (22.01%) Firewall
2 321 (21.81%) DNS
3 215 (14.61%) DHCP
4 210 (14.27%) VPN
5 140 (9.51%) TCP/IP
6 99 (6.73%) WAN
7 85 (5.77%) LAN
8 71 (4.82%) VLAN
9 62 (4.21%) Network Security
10 55 (3.74%) Wireless
11 47 (3.19%) Wi-Fi
12 35 (2.38%) SAN
13 30 (2.04%) Kerberos
14 23 (1.56%) SSL
15 22 (1.49%) NAS
16 20 (1.36%) HTTP
17 19 (1.29%) Internet
18 18 (1.22%) VoIP
19 16 (1.09%) VSAN
20 15 (1.02%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (9.85%) SQL Server
2 81 (5.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 62 (4.21%) Power BI
4 25 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.49%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.15%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 13 (0.88%) NoSQL
10 11 (0.75%) MySQL
11 9 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.54%) InfluxDB
13 7 (0.48%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.48%) Power Query
13 7 (0.48%) Redis
14 6 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.41%) Metadata
15 5 (0.34%) RDBMS
16 4 (0.27%) Db2
Development Applications
1 105 (7.13%) JIRA
2 100 (6.79%) Git
3 72 (4.89%) GitLab
4 61 (4.14%) Jenkins
5 27 (1.83%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 12 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
7 10 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
8 9 (0.61%) TeamCity
9 8 (0.54%) Robot Framework
9 8 (0.54%) TestRail
10 6 (0.41%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.41%) Selenium
10 6 (0.41%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.34%) Postman
12 4 (0.27%) Burp Suite
12 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
12 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.20%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.20%) MSI
General
1 559 (37.98%) Social Skills
2 243 (16.51%) Finance
3 189 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (8.42%) Law
5 118 (8.02%) Legal
6 69 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 54 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
8 46 (3.13%) Public Sector
9 44 (2.99%) Retail
10 43 (2.92%) Banking
11 37 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
12 35 (2.38%) Manufacturing
13 29 (1.97%) Aerospace
14 15 (1.02%) Legal Technology
15 13 (0.88%) Advertising
16 12 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.75%) Financial Institution
18 9 (0.61%) Aviation
18 9 (0.61%) Telecoms
19 8 (0.54%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 288 (19.57%) Senior
2 206 (13.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 165 (11.21%) Analyst
4 142 (9.65%) Support Engineer
5 139 (9.44%) Azure Engineer
6 135 (9.17%) IT Engineer
7 133 (9.04%) Cloud Engineer
8 117 (7.95%) IT Support
9 105 (7.13%) DevOps Engineer
10 79 (5.37%) Platform Engineer
11 70 (4.76%) Consultant
11 70 (4.76%) Lead
12 69 (4.69%) IT Support Engineer
13 67 (4.55%) Support Analyst
14 65 (4.42%) Security Engineer
15 64 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
16 58 (3.94%) Developer
16 58 (3.94%) Testing Manager
17 56 (3.80%) Administrator
18 55 (3.74%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (24.59%) Terraform
2 77 (5.23%) .NET
3 51 (3.46%) ARM Templates
3 51 (3.46%) REST
4 45 (3.06%) Microsoft Graph
4 45 (3.06%) YAML
5 42 (2.85%) SAML
6 39 (2.65%) LDAP
6 39 (2.65%) OAuth
6 39 (2.65%) OpenID
7 38 (2.58%) HTML
8 29 (1.97%) CSS
9 28 (1.90%) JSON
9 28 (1.90%) SPFx
10 25 (1.70%) .NET Core
11 20 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
12 17 (1.15%) HTML5 Canvas
13 16 (1.09%) SOAP
14 15 (1.02%) ASP.NET
14 15 (1.02%) React
Miscellaneous
1 129 (8.76%) Onboarding
2 89 (6.05%) Cloud Native
3 75 (5.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 74 (5.03%) Driving Licence
5 73 (4.96%) Management Information System
6 70 (4.76%) Security Posture
7 60 (4.08%) Virtual Team
8 50 (3.40%) Data Centre
9 47 (3.19%) PKI
10 46 (3.13%) Public Cloud
11 45 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
12 44 (2.99%) Replication
13 40 (2.72%) Security Operations Centre
14 36 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
15 34 (2.31%) Clustering
16 27 (1.83%) Private Cloud
17 24 (1.63%) Cyber Defence
18 23 (1.56%) CMDB
18 23 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
19 19 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 693 (47.08%) Windows
2 341 (23.17%) Linux
3 326 (22.15%) Windows Server
4 87 (5.91%) Windows 10
5 56 (3.80%) Apple iOS
6 44 (2.99%) Android
6 44 (2.99%) Ubuntu
7 41 (2.79%) Mac OS
8 39 (2.65%) VMS
9 35 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
10 34 (2.31%) CentOS
11 29 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 27 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
13 18 (1.22%) Unix
14 16 (1.09%) Rocky
15 8 (0.54%) Debian
15 8 (0.54%) Solaris
16 5 (0.34%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.27%) Kali Linux
17 4 (0.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (27.99%) Problem-Solving
2 376 (25.54%) DevOps
3 370 (25.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 341 (23.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 324 (22.01%) CI/CD
6 312 (21.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 294 (19.97%) ITIL
8 248 (16.85%) Cybersecurity
9 229 (15.56%) Mentoring
10 194 (13.18%) Disaster Recovery
11 167 (11.35%) Agile
12 166 (11.28%) AI
13 165 (11.21%) High Availability
14 163 (11.07%) Root Cause Analysis
15 153 (10.39%) Project Delivery
16 141 (9.58%) Incident Response
16 141 (9.58%) Platform Engineering
17 137 (9.31%) Cloud Security
18 130 (8.83%) Containerisation
19 129 (8.76%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 568 (38.59%) Python
2 301 (20.45%) Bash
3 297 (20.18%) SQL
4 145 (9.85%) JavaScript
5 138 (9.38%) C#
6 115 (7.81%) Bicep
7 86 (5.84%) TypeScript
8 49 (3.33%) Kusto Query Language
9 37 (2.51%) Java
10 36 (2.45%) T-SQL
11 23 (1.56%) VBScript
12 20 (1.36%) C++
12 20 (1.36%) Perl
13 14 (0.95%) Ruby
14 12 (0.82%) PHP
15 10 (0.68%) Go
15 10 (0.68%) VB
15 10 (0.68%) VBA
16 7 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (0.41%) C
Qualifications
1 202 (13.72%) Security Cleared
2 168 (11.41%) Degree
3 157 (10.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 156 (10.60%) Azure Certification
5 139 (9.44%) SC Cleared
6 63 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 60 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
8 58 (3.94%) DV Cleared
9 52 (3.53%) CompTIA Security+
10 50 (3.40%) CISSP
11 45 (3.06%) CCNA
12 27 (1.83%) CEH
13 23 (1.56%) DBS Check
14 22 (1.49%) AWS Certification
15 21 (1.43%) OSCP
16 19 (1.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 18 (1.22%) GIAC
18 17 (1.15%) CCNP
18 17 (1.15%) CISM
18 17 (1.15%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (7.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 78 (5.30%) QA
3 69 (4.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 63 (4.28%) NIST
5 46 (3.13%) GDPR
5 46 (3.13%) SLA
6 20 (1.36%) Data Quality
7 17 (1.15%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.02%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (0.48%) NCSC
10 7 (0.48%) PMO
11 5 (0.34%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.27%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
14 2 (0.14%) EMIR
14 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 526 (35.73%) Active Directory
2 245 (16.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 157 (10.67%) Hyper-V
4 137 (9.31%) Docker
5 81 (5.50%) vSphere
6 68 (4.62%) Virtual Machines
7 54 (3.67%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (1.83%) VMware NSX
9 22 (1.49%) BitLocker
10 18 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.54%) KVM
11 8 (0.54%) Squid
12 7 (0.48%) Firmware
13 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.20%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.068%) Ceph
16 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 263 (17.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 221 (15.01%) Kubernetes
3 171 (11.62%) Ansible
4 78 (5.30%) Grafana
5 77 (5.23%) SCCM
6 52 (3.53%) Single Sign-On
7 41 (2.79%) Prometheus
8 25 (1.70%) vCenter Server
8 25 (1.70%) ZABBIX
9 22 (1.49%) Argo
10 21 (1.43%) QRadar
11 20 (1.36%) Jamf Pro
11 20 (1.36%) Proxmox
12 19 (1.29%) Packer
13 18 (1.22%) Puppet
14 15 (1.02%) FortiGate
14 15 (1.02%) Graylog
15 13 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 11 (0.75%) VxRail
17 9 (0.61%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 919 (62.43%) Microsoft
2 279 (18.95%) VMware
3 115 (7.81%) Cisco
4 106 (7.20%) ServiceNow
5 88 (5.98%) Splunk
6 62 (4.21%) Veeam
7 53 (3.60%) Red Hat
8 49 (3.33%) Oracle
9 43 (2.92%) Citrix
10 42 (2.85%) Meraki
11 34 (2.31%) Sage
12 33 (2.24%) Dynatrace
13 32 (2.17%) Sophos
14 31 (2.11%) Dell
15 27 (1.83%) CyberArk
15 27 (1.83%) SAP
15 27 (1.83%) Tenable
16 26 (1.77%) Apple
16 26 (1.77%) Fortinet
17 25 (1.70%) CrowdStrike