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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 92 99
Rank change year-on-year -58 +7 -34
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,498 1,607 1,809
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.27% 3.26% 2.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.96% 12.58% 7.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,003 1,064 1,159
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £42,750 £47,013
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,914 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.13% +3.83% -5.21%

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 18,815 12,772 23,020
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.95% 25.90% 30.86%
Number of salaries quoted 13,284 8,206 14,000
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,375 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,126 £46,250 £47,500
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
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 30 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 30 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 1,296 £59,000 +2.61% 944
UK excluding London -71 970 £52,500 +1.13% 605
Work from Home -33 518 £60,000 - 464
London -36 475 £70,000 - 368
North of England -81 241 £50,000 - 172
South East -45 236 £52,500 -8.70% 139
Midlands -54 160 £52,500 +5.00% 99
North West -71 148 £50,000 +5.26% 96
East of England -46 94 £57,500 +21.05% 50
South West -71 86 £55,000 +15.79% 72
West Midlands -68 81 £55,000 - 58
East Midlands -26 79 £42,500 +21.43% 41
Northern Ireland -29 70 £46,000 - 22
Yorkshire -39 57 £48,445 -7.72% 52
Scotland +9 47 £52,500 +10.53% 40
North East -38 36 £51,500 -14.17% 26
Wales -55 36 £38,500 -30.00% 23

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
1 254 (16.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 244 (16.29%) SharePoint
3 56 (3.74%) IIS
4 44 (2.94%) 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 64 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 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%) Actimize
7 1 (0.067%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 891 (59.48%) Azure
2 570 (38.05%) Microsoft 365
3 483 (32.24%) Entra ID
4 266 (17.76%) AWS
5 185 (12.35%) Azure DevOps
5 185 (12.35%) SaaS
6 124 (8.28%) Power Platform
7 120 (8.01%) GitHub
8 116 (7.74%) OneDrive
9 106 (7.08%) IaaS
10 92 (6.14%) Azure Monitor
11 90 (6.01%) Azure Sentinel
12 81 (5.41%) PaaS
12 81 (5.41%) Power Automate
13 72 (4.81%) Azure AKS
13 72 (4.81%) GCP
14 70 (4.67%) Azure Key Vault
15 66 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
16 65 (4.34%) Microsoft Purview
17 56 (3.74%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 328 (21.90%) DNS
2 327 (21.83%) Firewall
3 227 (15.15%) DHCP
3 227 (15.15%) VPN
4 151 (10.08%) TCP/IP
5 101 (6.74%) WAN
6 88 (5.87%) LAN
7 78 (5.21%) VLAN
8 60 (4.01%) Network Security
9 58 (3.87%) Wireless
10 49 (3.27%) Wi-Fi
11 36 (2.40%) SAN
12 32 (2.14%) Kerberos
13 28 (1.87%) SSL
14 24 (1.60%) HTTP
15 21 (1.40%) NAS
16 16 (1.07%) Internet
16 16 (1.07%) VSAN
17 15 (1.00%) VoIP
18 13 (0.87%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (10.01%) SQL Server
2 87 (5.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 65 (4.34%) Power BI
4 27 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (1.40%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (1.13%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (0.87%) MySQL
9 12 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (0.73%) Data Lake
10 11 (0.73%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.53%) InfluxDB
11 8 (0.53%) Power Query
11 8 (0.53%) Redis
11 8 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.40%) Metadata
13 5 (0.33%) Db2
13 5 (0.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 104 (6.94%) JIRA
2 97 (6.48%) Git
3 81 (5.41%) GitLab
4 68 (4.54%) Jenkins
5 28 (1.87%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
8 10 (0.67%) TeamCity
9 8 (0.53%) Robot Framework
9 8 (0.53%) TestRail
10 7 (0.47%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.40%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.40%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.40%) Postman
11 6 (0.40%) Selenium
11 6 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.33%) MSI
12 5 (0.33%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.27%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
General
1 572 (38.18%) Social Skills
2 252 (16.82%) Finance
3 194 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (7.54%) Legal
5 107 (7.14%) Law
6 77 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (3.94%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (3.34%) Retail
9 46 (3.07%) Banking
10 43 (2.87%) Public Sector
11 39 (2.60%) Aerospace
12 37 (2.47%) Manufacturing
13 35 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (0.93%) Legal Technology
15 12 (0.80%) Financial Institution
15 12 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (0.67%) Investment Banking
17 9 (0.60%) Aviation
17 9 (0.60%) Front Office
17 9 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 292 (19.49%) Senior
2 213 (14.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 172 (11.48%) Analyst
4 135 (9.01%) Azure Engineer
5 134 (8.95%) Support Engineer
6 132 (8.81%) IT Engineer
7 130 (8.68%) Cloud Engineer
8 115 (7.68%) DevOps Engineer
9 107 (7.14%) IT Support
10 85 (5.67%) Platform Engineer
11 78 (5.21%) Consultant
12 77 (5.14%) Lead
13 69 (4.61%) Support Analyst
14 67 (4.47%) IT Support Engineer
15 64 (4.27%) Security Engineer
16 61 (4.07%) Systems Engineer
17 56 (3.74%) Testing Manager
18 55 (3.67%) Administrator
18 55 (3.67%) Senior Manager
19 54 (3.60%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 384 (25.63%) Terraform
2 71 (4.74%) .NET
3 59 (3.94%) REST
4 56 (3.74%) ARM Templates
5 48 (3.20%) SAML
6 46 (3.07%) LDAP
7 45 (3.00%) Microsoft Graph
8 44 (2.94%) YAML
9 43 (2.87%) OAuth
9 43 (2.87%) OpenID
10 34 (2.27%) HTML
11 29 (1.94%) JSON
12 25 (1.67%) CSS
13 24 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
13 24 (1.60%) SPFx
14 19 (1.27%) .NET Core
15 17 (1.13%) SOAP
16 15 (1.00%) Kafka
17 14 (0.93%) ASP.NET
18 13 (0.87%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 133 (8.88%) Onboarding
2 94 (6.28%) Cloud Native
3 82 (5.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 78 (5.21%) Management Information System
5 77 (5.14%) Driving Licence
6 74 (4.94%) Security Posture
7 60 (4.01%) Virtual Team
8 53 (3.54%) PKI
9 52 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
10 51 (3.40%) Replication
11 48 (3.20%) Data Centre
12 45 (3.00%) Security Operations Centre
13 40 (2.67%) Public Cloud
14 36 (2.40%) Clustering
15 31 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
16 28 (1.87%) Cyber Threat
17 23 (1.54%) Cyber Defence
18 22 (1.47%) Private Cloud
19 20 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
20 18 (1.20%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 712 (47.53%) Windows
2 346 (23.10%) Linux
3 337 (22.50%) Windows Server
4 97 (6.48%) Windows 10
5 53 (3.54%) Apple iOS
6 45 (3.00%) Ubuntu
7 42 (2.80%) Android
8 40 (2.67%) Mac OS
9 39 (2.60%) VMS
10 33 (2.20%) CentOS
10 33 (2.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 30 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 28 (1.87%) Windows Server 2019
13 24 (1.60%) Unix
14 17 (1.13%) Rocky
15 8 (0.53%) Debian
15 8 (0.53%) Solaris
16 6 (0.40%) Kali Linux
17 5 (0.33%) CoreOS
18 4 (0.27%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (28.44%) Problem-Solving
2 402 (26.84%) DevOps
3 382 (25.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 362 (24.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 335 (22.36%) CI/CD
6 329 (21.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 267 (17.82%) ITIL
8 265 (17.69%) Cybersecurity
9 230 (15.35%) Mentoring
10 210 (14.02%) Disaster Recovery
11 180 (12.02%) AI
12 175 (11.68%) Agile
13 165 (11.01%) Root Cause Analysis
14 158 (10.55%) High Availability
14 158 (10.55%) Project Delivery
15 154 (10.28%) Platform Engineering
16 149 (9.95%) Cloud Security
17 147 (9.81%) Migration
18 143 (9.55%) Incident Response
19 135 (9.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 590 (39.39%) Python
2 315 (21.03%) Bash
3 307 (20.49%) SQL
4 140 (9.35%) JavaScript
5 130 (8.68%) Bicep
6 129 (8.61%) C#
7 82 (5.47%) TypeScript
8 51 (3.40%) Kusto Query Language
9 38 (2.54%) T-SQL
10 37 (2.47%) Java
11 23 (1.54%) VBScript
12 21 (1.40%) C++
13 19 (1.27%) Perl
14 13 (0.87%) PHP
15 12 (0.80%) Ruby
16 11 (0.73%) VBA
17 10 (0.67%) VB
18 8 (0.53%) Go
19 7 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 6 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 215 (14.35%) Security Cleared
2 170 (11.35%) Degree
3 162 (10.81%) Microsoft Certification
4 157 (10.48%) Azure Certification
5 143 (9.55%) SC Cleared
6 62 (4.14%) DV Cleared
7 61 (4.07%) CISSP
8 57 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 54 (3.60%) CompTIA Security+
10 52 (3.47%) Cisco Certification
11 42 (2.80%) CCNA
12 28 (1.87%) CEH
13 27 (1.80%) AWS Certification
14 23 (1.54%) DBS Check
15 22 (1.47%) CISM
16 20 (1.34%) OSCP
17 18 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 16 (1.07%) CompTIA CySA+
18 16 (1.07%) CREST Certified
18 16 (1.07%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (7.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 81 (5.41%) QA
3 74 (4.94%) Cyber Essentials
4 62 (4.14%) NIST
5 48 (3.20%) GDPR
6 47 (3.14%) SLA
7 20 (1.34%) PCI DSS
8 19 (1.27%) Data Quality
9 14 (0.93%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 9 (0.60%) NCSC
11 8 (0.53%) PMO
11 8 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.33%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.27%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.13%) EMIR
15 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 551 (36.78%) Active Directory
2 241 (16.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 157 (10.48%) Hyper-V
4 146 (9.75%) Docker
5 81 (5.41%) vSphere
6 77 (5.14%) Virtual Machines
7 61 (4.07%) Virtual Desktop
8 26 (1.74%) VMware NSX
9 22 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
10 17 (1.13%) BitLocker
11 13 (0.87%) 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
16 2 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
16 2 (0.13%) Snort
16 2 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 267 (17.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 230 (15.35%) Kubernetes
3 170 (11.35%) Ansible
4 82 (5.47%) Grafana
5 76 (5.07%) SCCM
6 59 (3.94%) Single Sign-On
7 46 (3.07%) Prometheus
8 25 (1.67%) Puppet
8 25 (1.67%) vCenter Server
8 25 (1.67%) ZABBIX
9 24 (1.60%) Argo
10 21 (1.40%) QRadar
11 20 (1.34%) Proxmox
12 17 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
13 16 (1.07%) Packer
14 15 (1.00%) FortiGate
14 15 (1.00%) Graylog
15 12 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 12 (0.80%) Progress Chef
16 11 (0.73%) VxRail
Vendors
1 949 (63.35%) Microsoft
2 281 (18.76%) VMware
3 104 (6.94%) Cisco
4 99 (6.61%) ServiceNow
5 91 (6.07%) Splunk
6 68 (4.54%) Veeam
7 51 (3.40%) Oracle
8 49 (3.27%) Red Hat
9 43 (2.87%) Citrix
10 37 (2.47%) Meraki
11 34 (2.27%) Sage
12 33 (2.20%) Dell
13 31 (2.07%) Dynatrace
14 30 (2.00%) Sophos
15 29 (1.94%) SAP
16 28 (1.87%) CyberArk
16 28 (1.87%) Google
17 27 (1.80%) Fortinet
18 26 (1.74%) Apple
18 26 (1.74%) SolarWinds