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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 90 115
Rank change year-on-year -51 +25 -27
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,291 1,567 2,375
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.39% 3.53% 2.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.80% 11.22% 6.98%
Number of salaries quoted 956 983 1,913
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,800 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,619 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.24% - -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 16,544 13,968 34,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.84% 31.45% 31.69%
Number of salaries quoted 11,653 9,191 25,656
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,250 £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 £98,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.92% -0.91%

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 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 13 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 -54 1,196 £59,250 +1.98% 359
UK excluding London -68 761 £51,619 +3.24% 300
London -11 505 £70,000 -6.35% 102
Work from Home -45 413 £60,000 +9.09% 154
South East -48 193 £56,750 -1.30% 129
North of England -95 188 £47,500 -5.00% 67
Midlands -40 133 £50,000 - 37
North West -84 98 £51,500 +11.96% 47
East of England -21 84 £56,250 +18.42% 25
South West -40 83 £55,000 +15.79% 36
East Midlands -6 76 £47,500 +31.03% 20
Yorkshire -22 60 £45,000 -14.29% 13
West Midlands -72 56 £51,250 -4.54% 17
Scotland +42 54 £50,000 +6.95% 13
North East -24 30 £46,500 -20.85% 8
Wales -26 23 £54,085 +3.02% 3
Northern Ireland -28 3 £46,000 +6.75% 5

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
1 196 (15.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 179 (13.87%) SharePoint
3 42 (3.25%) IIS
4 23 (1.78%) Confluence
5 3 (0.23%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.15%) Apache
6 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.077%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.077%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.077%) nginx
7 1 (0.077%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.077%) Site Server
Applications
1 74 (5.73%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.077%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.077%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (0.39%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.23%) Alphatax
2 3 (0.23%) Markit EDM
2 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.15%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.077%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.077%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.077%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 845 (65.45%) Azure
2 476 (36.87%) Microsoft 365
3 355 (27.50%) Entra ID
4 218 (16.89%) AWS
5 137 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
6 114 (8.83%) Power Platform
7 101 (7.82%) GitHub
8 93 (7.20%) SaaS
9 88 (6.82%) IaaS
10 84 (6.51%) OneDrive
11 72 (5.58%) Azure Monitor
12 69 (5.34%) GitHub Actions
13 68 (5.27%) Google Workspace
14 60 (4.65%) Power Automate
15 59 (4.57%) PaaS
16 58 (4.49%) Azure AKS
17 56 (4.34%) Azure Sentinel
18 55 (4.26%) GCP
19 52 (4.03%) Azure Key Vault
20 45 (3.49%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 264 (20.45%) Firewall
2 262 (20.29%) DNS
3 168 (13.01%) DHCP
4 166 (12.86%) VPN
5 112 (8.68%) TCP/IP
6 84 (6.51%) WAN
7 79 (6.12%) LAN
8 68 (5.27%) Network Security
9 56 (4.34%) VLAN
10 55 (4.26%) Broadband
11 45 (3.49%) Wi-Fi
12 38 (2.94%) VoIP
13 34 (2.63%) SAN
14 25 (1.94%) Wireless
15 23 (1.78%) BGP
16 18 (1.39%) SD-WAN
17 17 (1.32%) Kerberos
18 16 (1.24%) VSAN
19 15 (1.16%) MPLS
19 15 (1.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (11.39%) SQL Server
2 81 (6.27%) Power BI
3 65 (5.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 40 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (2.01%) MySQL
7 22 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (1.24%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (1.16%) MongoDB
9 15 (1.16%) NoSQL
10 11 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (0.70%) Data Lake
11 9 (0.70%) InfluxDB
11 9 (0.70%) Tableau
12 7 (0.54%) Metadata
13 5 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (0.39%) Redis
13 5 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 3 (0.23%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 96 (7.44%) Git
2 67 (5.19%) JIRA
3 66 (5.11%) Jenkins
4 61 (4.73%) GitLab
5 31 (2.40%) Bitbucket
6 17 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
7 16 (1.24%) TeamCity
8 13 (1.01%) Metasploit
9 12 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 10 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
11 9 (0.70%) Burp Suite
12 8 (0.62%) Robot Framework
13 7 (0.54%) TestRail
14 5 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (0.39%) CircleCI
14 5 (0.39%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.39%) Selenium
15 4 (0.31%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.31%) SonarQube
16 3 (0.23%) MLflow
General
1 388 (30.05%) Social Skills
2 216 (16.73%) Finance
3 166 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (6.66%) Law
5 79 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
6 56 (4.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
8 46 (3.56%) Legal
9 44 (3.41%) Retail
10 38 (2.94%) Public Sector
11 26 (2.01%) Aerospace
12 25 (1.94%) Games
13 23 (1.78%) Banking
13 23 (1.78%) Manufacturing
14 18 (1.39%) Advertising
15 15 (1.16%) Telecoms
16 9 (0.70%) Aviation
17 7 (0.54%) Front Office
18 6 (0.46%) Investment Banking
18 6 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 237 (18.36%) Senior
2 163 (12.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 146 (11.31%) Analyst
4 145 (11.23%) Support Engineer
5 134 (10.38%) Azure Engineer
6 132 (10.22%) IT Support
7 121 (9.37%) IT Engineer
8 104 (8.06%) Cloud Engineer
9 94 (7.28%) DevOps Engineer
10 82 (6.35%) Security Engineer
11 80 (6.20%) IT Support Engineer
12 63 (4.88%) Developer
12 63 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
13 59 (4.57%) 2nd Line Support
13 59 (4.57%) Systems Engineer
14 56 (4.34%) Lead
15 43 (3.33%) Security Analyst
15 43 (3.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 42 (3.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 42 (3.25%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (7.05%) SAML
2 90 (6.97%) OAuth
3 88 (6.82%) REST
4 86 (6.66%) .NET
5 82 (6.35%) OpenID
6 78 (6.04%) LDAP
7 61 (4.73%) SOAP
8 53 (4.11%) GraphQL
9 43 (3.33%) YAML
10 41 (3.18%) JSON
11 40 (3.10%) ARM Templates
12 38 (2.94%) Microsoft Graph
13 36 (2.79%) .NET Core
13 36 (2.79%) HTML
14 33 (2.56%) CSS
15 26 (2.01%) SPFx
16 22 (1.70%) Elastic Stack
17 19 (1.47%) HTML5 Canvas
18 18 (1.39%) React
19 15 (1.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 101 (7.82%) Onboarding
2 73 (5.65%) Hybrid Cloud
3 69 (5.34%) Cloud Native
3 69 (5.34%) Cyber Threat
4 61 (4.73%) Security Posture
5 59 (4.57%) Management Information System
6 58 (4.49%) Cyberattack
7 53 (4.11%) Driving Licence
8 45 (3.49%) Cyber Defence
9 44 (3.41%) Security Operations Centre
10 43 (3.33%) Data Centre
11 35 (2.71%) PKI
12 34 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
13 33 (2.56%) Public Cloud
14 24 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
15 23 (1.78%) CMDB
16 20 (1.55%) Private Cloud
16 20 (1.55%) Replication
17 19 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
17 19 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 605 (46.86%) Windows
2 293 (22.70%) Linux
3 292 (22.62%) Windows Server
4 80 (6.20%) Windows 10
5 50 (3.87%) Apple iOS
5 50 (3.87%) Mac OS
6 44 (3.41%) Android
7 42 (3.25%) VMS
8 38 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
9 31 (2.40%) CentOS
10 30 (2.32%) Windows Server 2019
11 29 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 25 (1.94%) Ubuntu
13 17 (1.32%) Unix
14 6 (0.46%) Debian
14 6 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.31%) AIX
15 4 (0.31%) CoreOS
15 4 (0.31%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (24.48%) Problem-Solving
2 291 (22.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 290 (22.46%) CI/CD
4 284 (22.00%) Cybersecurity
5 268 (20.76%) DevOps
6 233 (18.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 219 (16.96%) ITIL
8 215 (16.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 187 (14.48%) Mentoring
10 160 (12.39%) Agile
11 157 (12.16%) Incident Response
12 151 (11.70%) Root Cause Analysis
13 149 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
14 137 (10.61%) Roadmaps
15 133 (10.30%) Containerisation
16 131 (10.15%) High Availability
17 129 (9.99%) SIEM
18 116 (8.99%) Cloud Security
19 110 (8.52%) Task Automation
20 107 (8.29%) AI
Programming Languages
1 504 (39.04%) Python
2 346 (26.80%) Bash
3 272 (21.07%) SQL
4 94 (7.28%) C#
5 80 (6.20%) Bicep
5 80 (6.20%) T-SQL
6 74 (5.73%) JavaScript
7 35 (2.71%) Kusto Query Language
8 31 (2.40%) Java
9 25 (1.94%) TypeScript
10 17 (1.32%) C++
11 15 (1.16%) VBScript
12 14 (1.08%) Perl
13 12 (0.93%) PHP
14 11 (0.85%) VB
15 10 (0.77%) VBA
16 9 (0.70%) Go
17 7 (0.54%) C
17 7 (0.54%) Ruby
17 7 (0.54%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 162 (12.55%) Degree
1 162 (12.55%) Security Cleared
2 131 (10.15%) Azure Certification
3 118 (9.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 106 (8.21%) SC Cleared
5 55 (4.26%) CISSP
6 53 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 51 (3.95%) Cisco Certification
8 42 (3.25%) DV Cleared
9 39 (3.02%) CompTIA Security+
10 34 (2.63%) CCNA
11 29 (2.25%) CREST Certified
11 29 (2.25%) OSCP
12 27 (2.09%) DBS Check
13 26 (2.01%) AWS Certification
14 24 (1.86%) CEH
15 23 (1.78%) GIAC
16 17 (1.32%) CCNP
17 16 (1.24%) CompTIA CySA+
18 14 (1.08%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (11.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 130 (10.07%) NIST
3 54 (4.18%) GDPR
4 50 (3.87%) NCSC
5 49 (3.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 40 (3.10%) SLA
7 20 (1.55%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.24%) PCI DSS
9 15 (1.16%) Accessibility
10 14 (1.08%) ISO 22301
10 14 (1.08%) QA
11 13 (1.01%) SOC 2
12 11 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 10 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.46%) DICOM
14 6 (0.46%) PMO
15 4 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.23%) GRC
16 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.15%) EMIR
System Software
1 501 (38.81%) Active Directory
2 199 (15.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 142 (11.00%) Docker
4 131 (10.15%) Hyper-V
5 66 (5.11%) vSphere
6 39 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
7 28 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 25 (1.94%) BitLocker
9 24 (1.86%) VMware NSX
10 16 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.77%) KVM
12 8 (0.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.62%) Squid
13 7 (0.54%) Firmware
14 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.31%) iptables
16 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
17 2 (0.15%) Samba
Systems Management
1 302 (23.39%) Terraform
2 213 (16.50%) Kubernetes
3 200 (15.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 151 (11.70%) Ansible
5 67 (5.19%) Grafana
6 60 (4.65%) Single Sign-On
7 49 (3.80%) Prometheus
8 47 (3.64%) SCCM
9 27 (2.09%) Jamf Pro
10 25 (1.94%) vCenter Server
11 23 (1.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 20 (1.55%) Packer
13 19 (1.47%) Argo
13 19 (1.47%) ZABBIX
14 17 (1.32%) Nessus
14 17 (1.32%) QRadar
15 15 (1.16%) VxRail
16 14 (1.08%) Graylog
16 14 (1.08%) Proxmox
17 12 (0.93%) Nagios
Vendors
1 752 (58.25%) Microsoft
2 251 (19.44%) VMware
3 104 (8.06%) Cisco
4 83 (6.43%) Splunk
5 66 (5.11%) ServiceNow
6 58 (4.49%) Red Hat
7 46 (3.56%) Veeam
8 37 (2.87%) Oracle
9 36 (2.79%) Meraki
10 32 (2.48%) CrowdStrike
11 31 (2.40%) Google
12 30 (2.32%) Apple
13 28 (2.17%) Dell
14 27 (2.09%) Citrix
15 25 (1.94%) Commvault
15 25 (1.94%) Tenable
16 24 (1.86%) Fortinet
16 24 (1.86%) Sophos
17 22 (1.70%) Palo Alto
18 21 (1.63%) Logitech