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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 96 78
Rank change year-on-year -19 -18 +11
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,256 1,517 2,436
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.98% 2.91% 3.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.45% 8.58% 9.20%
Number of salaries quoted 939 1,046 2,118
10th Percentile £33,000 £37,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +5.08% -1.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £75,188
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%

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 12,016 17,677 26,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.94% 33.86% 38.11%
Number of salaries quoted 8,682 10,275 21,755
10th Percentile £33,000 £37,500 £36,365
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,500 £46,250
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 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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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

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Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in the UK

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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 30 January 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 -20 1,055 £58,000 -7.20% 589
UK excluding London -9 733 £52,500 - 577
London -5 450 £70,000 -6.67% 160
Work from Home +2 406 £57,500 -11.54% 281
South East -41 184 £57,500 -4.17% 190
North of England -16 136 £48,445 -7.72% 124
Scotland +45 132 £62,250 +24.50% 44
South West +19 106 £55,000 - 76
Midlands -29 93 £52,500 +5.00% 70
East of England +22 70 £43,000 -18.10% 62
Yorkshire -21 62 £47,972 -4.06% 41
North West -9 61 £50,000 - 67
West Midlands -37 47 £51,500 +3.00% 25
East Midlands -8 45 £55,000 +8.91% 45
North East 0 13 £49,222 -13.65% 16
Wales +3 11 £55,000 +5.77% 23
Northern Ireland -16 2 £46,000 - 4

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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 (15.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 147 (11.70%) SharePoint
3 52 (4.14%) IIS
4 23 (1.83%) Confluence
5 22 (1.75%) Exchange Server 2003
6 12 (0.96%) Skype for Business
7 6 (0.48%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.40%) nginx
8 5 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.16%) CMS
9 2 (0.16%) WordPress
10 1 (0.080%) CICS
10 1 (0.080%) WebSphere
Applications
1 38 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.11%) 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%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 3 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.24%) Windchill
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
5 4 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
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
1 834 (66.40%) Azure
2 414 (32.96%) Microsoft 365
3 336 (26.75%) Entra ID
4 221 (17.60%) AWS
5 206 (16.40%) Azure DevOps
6 109 (8.68%) Power Platform
7 98 (7.80%) GitHub
8 81 (6.45%) GCP
9 76 (6.05%) GitHub Actions
10 75 (5.97%) PaaS
11 67 (5.33%) Azure Monitor
12 61 (4.86%) Google Workspace
13 56 (4.46%) IaaS
13 56 (4.46%) Power Automate
14 53 (4.22%) SaaS
15 46 (3.66%) OneDrive
16 41 (3.26%) Azure Sentinel
17 40 (3.18%) AWS CloudFormation
18 39 (3.11%) Snowflake
19 36 (2.87%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 227 (18.07%) Firewall
2 213 (16.96%) DNS
3 163 (12.98%) DHCP
4 109 (8.68%) VPN
5 106 (8.44%) TCP/IP
6 82 (6.53%) WAN
7 68 (5.41%) LAN
8 48 (3.82%) Broadband
9 42 (3.34%) Wi-Fi
10 41 (3.26%) VLAN
11 40 (3.18%) Wireless
12 31 (2.47%) SD-WAN
13 30 (2.39%) SAN
14 28 (2.23%) Network Security
15 19 (1.51%) Internet
15 19 (1.51%) VoIP
16 17 (1.35%) VSAN
17 13 (1.04%) Cisco IOS
18 12 (0.96%) Skype
18 12 (0.96%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (11.23%) SQL Server
2 76 (6.05%) Power BI
3 37 (2.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 33 (2.63%) Relational Database
5 31 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
6 30 (2.39%) Oracle Database
7 26 (2.07%) Oracle Database 10g
8 21 (1.67%) MySQL
9 20 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
9 20 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
11 12 (0.96%) MongoDB
11 12 (0.96%) NoSQL
11 12 (0.96%) Tableau
12 9 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
14 6 (0.48%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.48%) DTS
14 6 (0.48%) InfluxDB
14 6 (0.48%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 101 (8.04%) JIRA
2 93 (7.40%) Jenkins
3 87 (6.93%) Git
4 36 (2.87%) GitLab
5 32 (2.55%) Octopus Deploy
6 24 (1.91%) TeamCity
7 17 (1.35%) Bitbucket
8 11 (0.88%) Burp Suite
8 11 (0.88%) Metasploit
9 9 (0.72%) Robot Framework
10 8 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 7 (0.56%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.48%) TestRail
13 5 (0.40%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.40%) Vagrant
14 4 (0.32%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.32%) MLflow
14 4 (0.32%) MSI
14 4 (0.32%) Toad
General
1 443 (35.27%) Social Skills
2 326 (25.96%) Finance
3 127 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (5.10%) Organisational Skills
5 52 (4.14%) Law
6 48 (3.82%) Public Sector
6 48 (3.82%) Retail
7 39 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (2.87%) Banking
9 35 (2.79%) Games
10 34 (2.71%) Legal
11 30 (2.39%) Telecoms
12 29 (2.31%) Manufacturing
13 27 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 17 (1.35%) Front Office
15 16 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (0.80%) Aerospace
18 9 (0.72%) Advertising
19 8 (0.64%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 195 (15.53%) Senior
2 155 (12.34%) Support Engineer
3 138 (10.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 113 (9.00%) Azure Engineer
5 93 (7.40%) DevOps Engineer
6 90 (7.17%) Analyst
7 87 (6.93%) Cloud Engineer
8 85 (6.77%) Developer
9 78 (6.21%) Security Engineer
10 72 (5.73%) IT Support
11 70 (5.57%) Lead
12 66 (5.25%) IT Engineer
13 58 (4.62%) 3rd Line Support
14 55 (4.38%) Platform Engineer
15 52 (4.14%) Applications Support
16 50 (3.98%) Applications Engineer
17 47 (3.74%) 3rd Line Engineer
18 46 (3.66%) IT Support Engineer
19 41 (3.26%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
20 38 (3.03%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (8.68%) REST
2 75 (5.97%) SOAP
3 73 (5.81%) .NET
4 70 (5.57%) OAuth
5 64 (5.10%) SAML
6 61 (4.86%) GraphQL
7 60 (4.78%) OpenID
8 58 (4.62%) LDAP
9 47 (3.74%) YAML
10 31 (2.47%) JSON
11 27 (2.15%) ARM Templates
12 24 (1.91%) React
13 20 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
14 18 (1.43%) Web Services
15 17 (1.35%) Microsoft Graph
16 16 (1.27%) AngularJS
16 16 (1.27%) Node.js
17 14 (1.11%) Middleware
18 11 (0.88%) .NET Core
18 11 (0.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 92 (7.32%) Onboarding
2 72 (5.73%) Hybrid Cloud
3 63 (5.02%) Security Posture
4 53 (4.22%) Cyber Threat
5 50 (3.98%) Product Ownership
6 49 (3.90%) Cyberattack
7 44 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (3.42%) Management Information System
9 39 (3.11%) Cloud Native
10 37 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
11 34 (2.71%) Data Centre
12 28 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
12 28 (2.23%) Driving Licence
12 28 (2.23%) PKI
13 26 (2.07%) CMDB
14 23 (1.83%) Virtual Team
15 21 (1.67%) Cyber Defence
15 21 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
16 19 (1.51%) Hedge funds
17 18 (1.43%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 542 (43.15%) Windows
2 292 (23.25%) Windows Server
3 218 (17.36%) Linux
4 68 (5.41%) Windows 10
5 49 (3.90%) Mac OS
6 43 (3.42%) Unix
7 38 (3.03%) VMS
8 37 (2.95%) Windows Server 2016
9 36 (2.87%) Windows Server 2019
10 30 (2.39%) Android
11 28 (2.23%) Windows Server 2008
12 25 (1.99%) Solaris
13 22 (1.75%) HPUX
13 22 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 22 (1.75%) Windows 7
13 22 (1.75%) Windows Server 2003
14 17 (1.35%) Apple iOS
14 17 (1.35%) CentOS
15 15 (1.19%) Ubuntu
15 15 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (30.33%) Problem-Solving
2 358 (28.50%) DevOps
3 274 (21.82%) CI/CD
4 248 (19.75%) ITIL
5 246 (19.59%) Infrastructure as Code
6 223 (17.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 214 (17.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 208 (16.56%) Cybersecurity
9 190 (15.13%) Mentoring
10 183 (14.57%) Agile
11 161 (12.82%) Disaster Recovery
12 149 (11.86%) Roadmaps
13 130 (10.35%) Task Automation
14 118 (9.39%) Coaching
14 118 (9.39%) Root Cause Analysis
15 113 (9.00%) Asset Management
16 108 (8.60%) Incident Response
17 105 (8.36%) Cloud Security
17 105 (8.36%) Migration
18 90 (7.17%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 430 (34.24%) Python
2 299 (23.81%) Bash
3 287 (22.85%) SQL
4 105 (8.36%) C#
5 79 (6.29%) Bicep
6 71 (5.65%) T-SQL
7 67 (5.33%) JavaScript
8 27 (2.15%) Perl
9 25 (1.99%) Java
10 24 (1.91%) Go
11 22 (1.75%) Kusto Query Language
12 14 (1.11%) 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%) Groovy
18 5 (0.40%) C++
19 4 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 168 (13.38%) Security Cleared
2 164 (13.06%) Degree
3 111 (8.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 108 (8.60%) SC Cleared
5 91 (7.25%) Azure Certification
6 59 (4.70%) DV Cleared
7 46 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 44 (3.50%) CISSP
9 38 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
10 35 (2.79%) AWS Certification
11 31 (2.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 30 (2.39%) CREST Certified
13 23 (1.83%) CEH
14 19 (1.51%) CCNA
15 17 (1.35%) GIAC
15 17 (1.35%) SANS
16 16 (1.27%) CompTIA CySA+
16 16 (1.27%) DBS Check
16 16 (1.27%) Master's Degree
17 14 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (12.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 149 (11.86%) NIST
3 71 (5.65%) GDPR
4 64 (5.10%) NCSC
5 54 (4.30%) SLA
6 45 (3.58%) Accessibility
7 29 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials
8 17 (1.35%) ISO 22301
8 17 (1.35%) QA
9 14 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 13 (1.04%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.96%) Data Quality
12 8 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.48%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.40%) GRC
15 3 (0.24%) HL7
15 3 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.16%) COBIT
16 2 (0.16%) DICOM
16 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
System Software
1 440 (35.03%) Active Directory
2 135 (10.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 115 (9.16%) Docker
4 96 (7.64%) Hyper-V
5 45 (3.58%) Virtual Machines
6 43 (3.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 33 (2.63%) vSphere
8 22 (1.75%) Firmware
9 15 (1.19%) Virtual Servers
9 15 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.72%) XenApp
11 8 (0.64%) vCloud
12 7 (0.56%) XenDesktop
13 5 (0.40%) VMware NSX
14 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.32%) Postfix
14 4 (0.32%) Squid
15 3 (0.24%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.24%) Dovecot
16 2 (0.16%) iptables
Systems Management
1 288 (22.93%) Terraform
2 202 (16.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 171 (13.61%) Kubernetes
4 141 (11.23%) Ansible
5 56 (4.46%) SCCM
6 50 (3.98%) Grafana
7 47 (3.74%) Single Sign-On
8 28 (2.23%) Prometheus
9 19 (1.51%) Puppet
10 18 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 15 (1.19%) SCOM
12 14 (1.11%) WSUS
13 12 (0.96%) vCenter Server
14 10 (0.80%) Nessus
15 9 (0.72%) FortiGate
16 8 (0.64%) SCVMM
16 8 (0.64%) ZABBIX
17 7 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
17 7 (0.56%) McAfee ePO
17 7 (0.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 656 (52.23%) Microsoft
2 221 (17.60%) VMware
3 97 (7.72%) Cisco
4 74 (5.89%) ServiceNow
5 55 (4.38%) Oracle
6 47 (3.74%) Veeam
7 43 (3.42%) Splunk
8 41 (3.26%) Google
9 38 (3.03%) Atlassian
10 36 (2.87%) Citrix
11 33 (2.63%) Red Hat
12 30 (2.39%) Palo Alto
13 27 (2.15%) CyberArk
13 27 (2.15%) SolarWinds
14 26 (2.07%) Commvault
15 23 (1.83%) Fortinet
15 23 (1.83%) SAP
16 22 (1.75%) CrowdStrike
16 22 (1.75%) Dell
17 20 (1.59%) Meraki