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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 89 108
Rank change year-on-year -59 +19 -39
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,503 1,628 1,821
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.29% 3.29% 2.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.98% 12.43% 7.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,024 1,079 1,200
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £80,313
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -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 18,840 13,102 24,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.23% 26.51% 30.89%
Number of salaries quoted 13,336 8,465 15,075
10th Percentile £38,772 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,231
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
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 19 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 19 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 1,308 £58,500 +1.74% 1,102
UK excluding London -66 982 £52,500 +2.44% 689
Work from Home -39 519 £60,500 +3.42% 473
London -36 475 £70,000 -3.45% 494
South East -38 241 £52,500 -8.70% 194
North of England -88 241 £50,000 - 180
Midlands -52 160 £52,500 +5.00% 90
North West -64 145 £50,000 +5.26% 101
East of England -40 99 £57,500 +21.05% 62
South West -71 87 £55,000 +15.79% 79
West Midlands -71 81 £55,000 +1.21% 47
East Midlands -25 79 £42,500 +21.43% 43
Northern Ireland -15 70 £46,000 - 20
Yorkshire -43 60 £45,000 -12.83% 53
Scotland +1 46 £51,250 +3.10% 51
Wales -52 38 £38,500 -30.00% 23
North East -43 36 £51,500 -6.36% 28

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
1 251 (16.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 246 (16.37%) SharePoint
3 54 (3.59%) IIS
4 41 (2.73%) Confluence
5 15 (1.00%) nginx
6 8 (0.53%) Apache
7 6 (0.40%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.067%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.067%) WebSphere
Applications
1 67 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (2.40%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.40%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.33%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.067%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 894 (59.48%) Azure
2 567 (37.72%) Microsoft 365
3 463 (30.81%) Entra ID
4 263 (17.50%) AWS
5 186 (12.38%) SaaS
6 178 (11.84%) Azure DevOps
7 120 (7.98%) Power Platform
8 118 (7.85%) GitHub
9 116 (7.72%) OneDrive
10 110 (7.32%) IaaS
11 91 (6.05%) Azure Monitor
12 83 (5.52%) Azure Sentinel
13 80 (5.32%) PaaS
13 80 (5.32%) Power Automate
14 77 (5.12%) Azure AKS
15 72 (4.79%) GCP
16 70 (4.66%) Azure Key Vault
17 69 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
18 58 (3.86%) Microsoft Purview
19 54 (3.59%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 330 (21.96%) DNS
1 330 (21.96%) Firewall
2 223 (14.84%) DHCP
3 220 (14.64%) VPN
4 146 (9.71%) TCP/IP
5 102 (6.79%) WAN
6 88 (5.85%) LAN
7 73 (4.86%) VLAN
8 61 (4.06%) Network Security
9 56 (3.73%) Wireless
10 49 (3.26%) Wi-Fi
11 36 (2.40%) SAN
12 31 (2.06%) Kerberos
13 25 (1.66%) SSL
14 22 (1.46%) NAS
15 21 (1.40%) HTTP
16 18 (1.20%) Internet
16 18 (1.20%) VoIP
17 16 (1.06%) VSAN
18 14 (0.93%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (10.11%) SQL Server
2 89 (5.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 64 (4.26%) Power BI
4 27 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.46%) MongoDB
6 18 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (1.13%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 13 (0.86%) MySQL
11 11 (0.73%) NoSQL
12 9 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (0.53%) Data Lake
13 8 (0.53%) InfluxDB
13 8 (0.53%) Redis
14 7 (0.47%) Power Query
15 6 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.40%) Metadata
16 5 (0.33%) Db2
16 5 (0.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 104 (6.92%) JIRA
2 100 (6.65%) Git
3 77 (5.12%) GitLab
4 66 (4.39%) Jenkins
5 28 (1.86%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 12 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
7 10 (0.67%) TeamCity
8 9 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (0.53%) Robot Framework
9 8 (0.53%) TestRail
10 7 (0.47%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.40%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.40%) Postman
11 6 (0.40%) Selenium
12 5 (0.33%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.27%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
13 4 (0.27%) MSI
14 3 (0.20%) Artifactory
General
1 571 (37.99%) Social Skills
2 253 (16.83%) Finance
3 194 (12.91%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (7.85%) Law
4 118 (7.85%) Legal
5 73 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 57 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
7 47 (3.13%) Retail
8 45 (2.99%) Banking
8 45 (2.99%) Public Sector
9 38 (2.53%) Manufacturing
10 37 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
11 36 (2.40%) Aerospace
12 15 (1.00%) Legal Technology
13 12 (0.80%) Advertising
13 12 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (0.73%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.60%) Front Office
15 9 (0.60%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 296 (19.69%) Senior
2 213 (14.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 167 (11.11%) Analyst
4 143 (9.51%) Azure Engineer
5 141 (9.38%) Support Engineer
6 136 (9.05%) Cloud Engineer
6 136 (9.05%) IT Engineer
7 114 (7.58%) IT Support
8 111 (7.39%) DevOps Engineer
9 83 (5.52%) Platform Engineer
10 73 (4.86%) Consultant
10 73 (4.86%) Lead
11 71 (4.72%) Support Analyst
12 69 (4.59%) IT Support Engineer
13 65 (4.32%) Systems Engineer
14 64 (4.26%) Security Engineer
15 58 (3.86%) Administrator
16 57 (3.79%) Testing Manager
17 56 (3.73%) Developer
18 55 (3.66%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 378 (25.15%) Terraform
2 74 (4.92%) .NET
3 56 (3.73%) REST
4 55 (3.66%) ARM Templates
5 45 (2.99%) Microsoft Graph
5 45 (2.99%) SAML
6 44 (2.93%) YAML
7 41 (2.73%) LDAP
8 40 (2.66%) OAuth
8 40 (2.66%) OpenID
9 36 (2.40%) HTML
10 29 (1.93%) JSON
11 27 (1.80%) CSS
12 26 (1.73%) SPFx
13 23 (1.53%) .NET Core
14 21 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
15 16 (1.06%) SOAP
16 15 (1.00%) HTML5 Canvas
17 14 (0.93%) ASP.NET
17 14 (0.93%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 131 (8.72%) Onboarding
2 91 (6.05%) Cloud Native
3 81 (5.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 77 (5.12%) Driving Licence
5 74 (4.92%) Management Information System
6 71 (4.72%) Security Posture
7 61 (4.06%) Virtual Team
8 52 (3.46%) PKI
9 51 (3.39%) Data Centre
10 49 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
11 48 (3.19%) Replication
12 46 (3.06%) Public Cloud
13 43 (2.86%) Security Operations Centre
14 36 (2.40%) Clustering
14 36 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
15 26 (1.73%) Private Cloud
16 24 (1.60%) Cyber Defence
17 23 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
18 21 (1.40%) CMDB
19 19 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 711 (47.31%) Windows
2 349 (23.22%) Linux
3 342 (22.75%) Windows Server
4 93 (6.19%) Windows 10
5 54 (3.59%) Apple iOS
6 46 (3.06%) Ubuntu
7 42 (2.79%) Android
8 41 (2.73%) VMS
9 40 (2.66%) Mac OS
10 34 (2.26%) CentOS
10 34 (2.26%) Windows Server 2016
11 31 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 27 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
13 23 (1.53%) Unix
14 16 (1.06%) Rocky
15 8 (0.53%) Debian
15 8 (0.53%) Solaris
16 5 (0.33%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.27%) Kali Linux
17 4 (0.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (28.28%) Problem-Solving
2 392 (26.08%) DevOps
3 381 (25.35%) Continuous Improvement
4 358 (23.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 333 (22.16%) CI/CD
6 322 (21.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 288 (19.16%) ITIL
8 258 (17.17%) Cybersecurity
9 234 (15.57%) Mentoring
10 203 (13.51%) Disaster Recovery
11 174 (11.58%) Agile
12 172 (11.44%) AI
13 166 (11.04%) Root Cause Analysis
14 164 (10.91%) High Availability
15 155 (10.31%) Project Delivery
16 148 (9.85%) Platform Engineering
17 145 (9.65%) Cloud Security
18 143 (9.51%) Incident Response
19 133 (8.85%) Migration
20 132 (8.78%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 588 (39.12%) Python
2 312 (20.76%) Bash
3 308 (20.49%) SQL
4 142 (9.45%) JavaScript
5 134 (8.92%) C#
6 124 (8.25%) Bicep
7 85 (5.66%) TypeScript
8 51 (3.39%) Kusto Query Language
9 37 (2.46%) T-SQL
10 36 (2.40%) Java
11 23 (1.53%) VBScript
12 20 (1.33%) C++
13 19 (1.26%) Perl
14 13 (0.86%) Ruby
15 12 (0.80%) PHP
16 10 (0.67%) VB
16 10 (0.67%) VBA
17 9 (0.60%) Go
18 7 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 6 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 212 (14.11%) Security Cleared
2 171 (11.38%) Degree
3 162 (10.78%) Azure Certification
4 161 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 146 (9.71%) SC Cleared
6 64 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 63 (4.19%) DV Cleared
8 57 (3.79%) Cisco Certification
9 56 (3.73%) CISSP
10 53 (3.53%) CompTIA Security+
11 43 (2.86%) CCNA
12 28 (1.86%) CEH
13 26 (1.73%) AWS Certification
14 22 (1.46%) DBS Check
15 21 (1.40%) CISM
16 20 (1.33%) OSCP
17 18 (1.20%) GIAC
17 18 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 16 (1.06%) CCNP
18 16 (1.06%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (6.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 80 (5.32%) QA
3 71 (4.72%) Cyber Essentials
4 64 (4.26%) NIST
5 47 (3.13%) GDPR
6 46 (3.06%) SLA
7 19 (1.26%) Data Quality
8 18 (1.20%) PCI DSS
9 15 (1.00%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.53%) NCSC
10 8 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.47%) PMO
12 5 (0.33%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.27%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.13%) EMIR
15 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 542 (36.06%) Active Directory
2 249 (16.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 159 (10.58%) Hyper-V
4 145 (9.65%) Docker
5 83 (5.52%) vSphere
6 75 (4.99%) Virtual Machines
7 57 (3.79%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (1.80%) VMware NSX
9 20 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
10 18 (1.20%) BitLocker
11 10 (0.67%) Firmware
12 8 (0.53%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.53%) KVM
12 8 (0.53%) Squid
13 5 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.20%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.067%) Microsoft App-V
16 1 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 266 (17.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 229 (15.24%) Kubernetes
3 177 (11.78%) Ansible
4 82 (5.46%) Grafana
5 77 (5.12%) SCCM
6 56 (3.73%) Single Sign-On
7 46 (3.06%) Prometheus
8 25 (1.66%) vCenter Server
8 25 (1.66%) ZABBIX
9 24 (1.60%) Argo
10 22 (1.46%) QRadar
11 20 (1.33%) Proxmox
11 20 (1.33%) Puppet
12 18 (1.20%) Packer
13 17 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
14 15 (1.00%) FortiGate
14 15 (1.00%) Graylog
15 13 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 11 (0.73%) VxRail
17 10 (0.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 941 (62.61%) Microsoft
2 284 (18.90%) VMware
3 112 (7.45%) Cisco
4 108 (7.19%) ServiceNow
5 91 (6.05%) Splunk
6 66 (4.39%) Veeam
7 52 (3.46%) Oracle
7 52 (3.46%) Red Hat
8 43 (2.86%) Citrix
9 40 (2.66%) Meraki
10 34 (2.26%) Sage
11 32 (2.13%) Dell
12 31 (2.06%) Dynatrace
12 31 (2.06%) Sophos
13 28 (1.86%) CyberArk
13 28 (1.86%) SAP
14 26 (1.73%) Apple
14 26 (1.73%) Fortinet
14 26 (1.73%) Tenable
15 24 (1.60%) Google