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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 87 115
Rank change year-on-year -56 +28 -37
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,459 1,686 1,876
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.39% 3.40% 2.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.86% 11.95% 7.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,044 1,114 1,445
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £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 18,554 14,111 25,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.63% 28.42% 30.47%
Number of salaries quoted 13,145 9,271 17,882
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -62 1,300 £58,250 +1.30% 557
UK excluding London -58 945 £52,500 +5.00% 367
Work from Home -37 503 £60,000 +4.35% 242
London -29 479 £70,000 -6.67% 242
South East -32 249 £54,000 -6.09% 123
North of England -86 222 £50,000 +5.26% 100
Midlands -28 158 £51,250 +2.50% 44
North West -80 123 £52,500 +14.13% 71
East of England -40 96 £57,500 +9.52% 40
South West -76 85 £55,000 +15.79% 46
East Midlands -5 83 £42,500 +21.43% 19
West Midlands -59 75 £54,344 -1.19% 25
Northern Ireland -16 63 £46,000 +2.12% 4
Yorkshire -43 62 £42,500 -17.68% 22
Scotland +28 42 £50,000 +25.00% 17
North East -24 37 £50,000 -16.67% 9
Wales -39 30 £53,000 -3.64% 9

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
1 240 (16.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 220 (15.08%) SharePoint
3 54 (3.70%) IIS
4 33 (2.26%) Confluence
5 10 (0.69%) nginx
6 6 (0.41%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.34%) Apache
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
9 3 (0.21%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.069%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.069%) Site Server
10 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.069%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (5.28%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (0.75%) NetSuite
2 10 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.41%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.21%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.14%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.14%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.069%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 903 (61.89%) Azure
2 534 (36.60%) Microsoft 365
3 402 (27.55%) Entra ID
4 259 (17.75%) AWS
5 172 (11.79%) SaaS
6 164 (11.24%) Azure DevOps
7 114 (7.81%) GitHub
7 114 (7.81%) Power Platform
8 110 (7.54%) IaaS
9 103 (7.06%) OneDrive
10 83 (5.69%) Azure Monitor
11 78 (5.35%) PaaS
12 75 (5.14%) Azure Sentinel
13 69 (4.73%) Azure AKS
13 69 (4.73%) Power Automate
14 68 (4.66%) GCP
15 65 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
16 62 (4.25%) Azure Key Vault
17 50 (3.43%) Datadog
18 47 (3.22%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 318 (21.80%) Firewall
2 311 (21.32%) DNS
3 208 (14.26%) DHCP
4 204 (13.98%) VPN
5 139 (9.53%) TCP/IP
6 98 (6.72%) WAN
7 87 (5.96%) LAN
8 72 (4.93%) Network Security
9 70 (4.80%) VLAN
10 46 (3.15%) Wi-Fi
11 44 (3.02%) Wireless
12 39 (2.67%) SAN
13 35 (2.40%) Kerberos
14 31 (2.12%) VoIP
15 23 (1.58%) SSL
16 20 (1.37%) NAS
17 18 (1.23%) BGP
17 18 (1.23%) HTTP
18 17 (1.17%) Internet
18 17 (1.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (11.10%) SQL Server
2 82 (5.62%) Azure SQL Database
3 70 (4.80%) Power BI
4 35 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.58%) MongoDB
6 22 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
7 18 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (1.23%) Relational Database
7 18 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (1.17%) MySQL
9 14 (0.96%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (0.55%) InfluxDB
12 6 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.41%) Power Query
12 6 (0.41%) Redis
13 5 (0.34%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.34%) Metadata
13 5 (0.34%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 112 (7.68%) Git
2 91 (6.24%) JIRA
3 69 (4.73%) GitLab
4 62 (4.25%) Jenkins
5 31 (2.12%) Bitbucket
6 14 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.75%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
8 7 (0.48%) Metasploit
8 7 (0.48%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 7 (0.48%) TestRail
9 6 (0.41%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.41%) Selenium
10 5 (0.34%) Postman
11 4 (0.27%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.21%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.21%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.21%) Terragrunt
General
1 505 (34.61%) Social Skills
2 232 (15.90%) Finance
3 189 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (8.77%) Law
5 114 (7.81%) Legal
6 62 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 50 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (3.29%) Retail
9 42 (2.88%) Public Sector
10 36 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
11 35 (2.40%) Banking
12 34 (2.33%) Manufacturing
13 25 (1.71%) Aerospace
14 17 (1.17%) Advertising
15 12 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.82%) Telecoms
16 11 (0.75%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.75%) Legal Technology
17 8 (0.55%) Front Office
17 8 (0.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 282 (19.33%) Senior
2 192 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 152 (10.42%) Analyst
4 145 (9.94%) Support Engineer
5 136 (9.32%) IT Engineer
6 134 (9.18%) Azure Engineer
6 134 (9.18%) IT Support
7 129 (8.84%) Cloud Engineer
8 106 (7.27%) DevOps Engineer
9 78 (5.35%) IT Support Engineer
10 77 (5.28%) Security Engineer
11 70 (4.80%) Platform Engineer
12 68 (4.66%) Lead
13 62 (4.25%) Developer
14 61 (4.18%) Systems Engineer
15 57 (3.91%) 2nd Line Support
16 55 (3.77%) Testing Manager
17 53 (3.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 52 (3.56%) Administrator
18 52 (3.56%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (5.96%) .NET
2 55 (3.77%) ARM Templates
2 55 (3.77%) SAML
3 54 (3.70%) REST
4 51 (3.50%) OAuth
5 47 (3.22%) YAML
6 45 (3.08%) OpenID
7 44 (3.02%) LDAP
8 43 (2.95%) HTML
9 42 (2.88%) Microsoft Graph
10 34 (2.33%) .NET Core
10 34 (2.33%) JSON
11 32 (2.19%) CSS
12 25 (1.71%) SPFx
13 21 (1.44%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (1.30%) HTML5 Canvas
15 18 (1.23%) SOAP
16 16 (1.10%) RESTful
17 15 (1.03%) ASP.NET
17 15 (1.03%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 113 (7.75%) Onboarding
2 88 (6.03%) Cloud Native
3 75 (5.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 71 (4.87%) Management Information System
4 71 (4.87%) Security Posture
5 62 (4.25%) Driving Licence
6 57 (3.91%) Virtual Team
7 52 (3.56%) Data Centre
8 45 (3.08%) Public Cloud
9 42 (2.88%) Security Operations Centre
10 40 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
10 40 (2.74%) PKI
11 37 (2.54%) Replication
11 37 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
12 34 (2.33%) Clustering
13 29 (1.99%) Cyber Defence
14 28 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
15 26 (1.78%) Private Cloud
16 24 (1.64%) CMDB
17 23 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 690 (47.29%) Windows
2 341 (23.37%) Linux
3 328 (22.48%) Windows Server
4 81 (5.55%) Windows 10
5 55 (3.77%) Apple iOS
6 50 (3.43%) Mac OS
7 45 (3.08%) VMS
8 43 (2.95%) Android
9 37 (2.54%) Windows Server 2016
10 36 (2.47%) CentOS
10 36 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 34 (2.33%) Ubuntu
12 27 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
13 16 (1.10%) Unix
14 7 (0.48%) Debian
14 7 (0.48%) Kali Linux
15 5 (0.34%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.34%) Rocky
15 5 (0.34%) Solaris
16 4 (0.27%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (25.36%) DevOps
2 366 (25.09%) Problem-Solving
3 333 (22.82%) CI/CD
4 331 (22.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 329 (22.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 282 (19.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 273 (18.71%) ITIL
8 246 (16.86%) Cybersecurity
9 214 (14.67%) Mentoring
10 183 (12.54%) Disaster Recovery
11 171 (11.72%) Root Cause Analysis
12 169 (11.58%) High Availability
13 165 (11.31%) Agile
13 165 (11.31%) Incident Response
14 140 (9.60%) AI
14 140 (9.60%) Containerisation
15 134 (9.18%) Observability
15 134 (9.18%) SIEM
16 131 (8.98%) Platform Engineering
17 130 (8.91%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 586 (40.16%) Python
2 316 (21.66%) Bash
3 285 (19.53%) SQL
4 147 (10.08%) C#
5 133 (9.12%) JavaScript
6 111 (7.61%) Bicep
7 82 (5.62%) TypeScript
8 51 (3.50%) Kusto Query Language
9 40 (2.74%) Java
9 40 (2.74%) T-SQL
10 21 (1.44%) VBScript
11 18 (1.23%) C++
12 16 (1.10%) Perl
12 16 (1.10%) PHP
13 10 (0.69%) Ruby
13 10 (0.69%) VB
13 10 (0.69%) VBA
14 9 (0.62%) Go
15 8 (0.55%) C
16 6 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 195 (13.37%) Security Cleared
2 176 (12.06%) Degree
3 162 (11.10%) Azure Certification
4 147 (10.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 135 (9.25%) SC Cleared
6 62 (4.25%) Cisco Certification
6 62 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 56 (3.84%) CISSP
8 53 (3.63%) CompTIA Security+
9 52 (3.56%) DV Cleared
10 44 (3.02%) CCNA
11 26 (1.78%) AWS Certification
11 26 (1.78%) CEH
12 25 (1.71%) DBS Check
13 22 (1.51%) GIAC
13 22 (1.51%) OSCP
14 20 (1.37%) CCNP
15 18 (1.23%) CISM
16 17 (1.17%) CREST Certified
17 16 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (8.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 80 (5.48%) NIST
3 78 (5.35%) QA
4 66 (4.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 59 (4.04%) GDPR
6 45 (3.08%) SLA
7 20 (1.37%) Data Quality
8 18 (1.23%) PCI DSS
9 17 (1.17%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.62%) ISO 22301
10 9 (0.62%) NCSC
11 7 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.48%) PMO
12 5 (0.34%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.21%) DICOM
13 3 (0.21%) ISAE 3402
14 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 524 (35.92%) Active Directory
2 240 (16.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 163 (11.17%) Hyper-V
4 146 (10.01%) Docker
5 82 (5.62%) vSphere
6 58 (3.98%) Virtual Machines
7 45 (3.08%) Virtual Desktop
8 28 (1.92%) VMware NSX
9 23 (1.58%) BitLocker
10 20 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
11 11 (0.75%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 9 (0.62%) KVM
13 8 (0.55%) Squid
14 7 (0.48%) Firmware
15 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
16 4 (0.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 3 (0.21%) Terminal Services
18 2 (0.14%) iptables
18 2 (0.14%) Samba
Systems Management
1 361 (24.74%) Terraform
2 244 (16.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 243 (16.66%) Kubernetes
4 183 (12.54%) Ansible
5 83 (5.69%) Grafana
6 70 (4.80%) SCCM
7 54 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
8 51 (3.50%) Prometheus
9 26 (1.78%) Jamf Pro
9 26 (1.78%) vCenter Server
10 25 (1.71%) ZABBIX
11 21 (1.44%) Argo
12 20 (1.37%) Packer
12 20 (1.37%) QRadar
13 19 (1.30%) Proxmox
14 16 (1.10%) Puppet
15 14 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 14 (0.96%) Graylog
16 13 (0.89%) Nagios
16 13 (0.89%) VxRail
Vendors
1 883 (60.52%) Microsoft
2 282 (19.33%) VMware
3 129 (8.84%) Cisco
4 109 (7.47%) ServiceNow
5 96 (6.58%) Splunk
6 64 (4.39%) Red Hat
7 60 (4.11%) Veeam
8 49 (3.36%) Oracle
9 48 (3.29%) Meraki
10 36 (2.47%) Citrix
11 35 (2.40%) Dynatrace
12 32 (2.19%) Apple
12 32 (2.19%) Sophos
13 31 (2.12%) Dell
14 30 (2.06%) Tenable
15 28 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
16 26 (1.78%) Fortinet
17 24 (1.64%) CyberArk
18 22 (1.51%) Okta
18 22 (1.51%) Palo Alto