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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 98 92
Rank change year-on-year -26 -6 -2
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,238 1,379 2,476
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.68% 3.16% 2.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.24% 9.14% 8.30%
Number of salaries quoted 913 1,075 2,149
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,750 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.73% +10.00% -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 13,393 15,089 29,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.21% 34.53% 35.64%
Number of salaries quoted 9,441 10,276 24,171
10th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,103
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +5.56% -1.82%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -34 1,069 £57,500 -7.26% 381
UK excluding London -42 697 £50,750 -7.73% 303
London -4 478 £70,000 -12.50% 137
Work from Home -14 395 £56,250 -4.86% 167
South East -50 192 £55,750 -7.08% 113
North of England -46 137 £47,500 -9.52% 55
Scotland +48 115 £74,500 +35.45% 20
South West -3 102 £55,000 +4.76% 44
Midlands -56 89 £52,500 +5.00% 38
Yorkshire -33 66 £47,500 -9.52% 18
North West -35 56 £51,000 +2.00% 26
East of England -25 54 £40,000 -27.27% 38
East Midlands -32 47 £55,000 +8.91% 18
West Midlands -49 41 £48,000 -4.00% 20
North East -15 15 £46,250 -22.92% 12
Wales -13 7 £55,000 +5.77% 5
Northern Ireland -27 2 - - 2

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
1 195 (15.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 141 (11.39%) SharePoint
3 38 (3.07%) IIS
4 22 (1.78%) Exchange Server 2003
5 13 (1.05%) Confluence
6 6 (0.48%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.24%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.16%) Apache
8 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.16%) CMS
8 2 (0.16%) WordPress
9 1 (0.081%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.081%) CICS
9 1 (0.081%) nginx
9 1 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.081%) Site Server
9 1 (0.081%) WebSphere
Applications
1 50 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.48%) Siemens NX
4 5 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.24%) CATIA
6 3 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.24%) Windchill
7 1 (0.081%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.65%) Markit EDM
2 7 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (0.48%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
5 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.24%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.16%) PlanetPress Connect
7 1 (0.081%) Actimize
7 1 (0.081%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.081%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.081%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 802 (64.78%) Azure
2 416 (33.60%) Microsoft 365
3 342 (27.63%) Entra ID
4 206 (16.64%) AWS
5 147 (11.87%) Azure DevOps
6 104 (8.40%) Power Platform
7 95 (7.67%) GitHub
8 80 (6.46%) GCP
9 77 (6.22%) PaaS
10 76 (6.14%) Google Workspace
11 73 (5.90%) GitHub Actions
12 72 (5.82%) SaaS
13 65 (5.25%) IaaS
14 62 (5.01%) Azure Monitor
15 53 (4.28%) OneDrive
16 42 (3.39%) Power Automate
17 38 (3.07%) Azure Sentinel
17 38 (3.07%) Snowflake
18 36 (2.91%) Azure Logic Apps
19 35 (2.83%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 225 (18.17%) Firewall
2 224 (18.09%) DNS
3 179 (14.46%) DHCP
4 138 (11.15%) VPN
5 110 (8.89%) TCP/IP
6 69 (5.57%) WAN
7 64 (5.17%) Broadband
8 62 (5.01%) LAN
9 52 (4.20%) VLAN
10 46 (3.72%) Network Security
11 45 (3.63%) Wi-Fi
12 35 (2.83%) VoIP
12 35 (2.83%) Wireless
13 34 (2.75%) SAN
14 31 (2.50%) SD-WAN
15 16 (1.29%) VSAN
16 14 (1.13%) MPLS
17 12 (0.97%) NAS
17 12 (0.97%) WinSCP
18 11 (0.89%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (11.79%) SQL Server
2 88 (7.11%) Power BI
3 29 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 28 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (2.26%) Oracle Database
5 26 (2.10%) Oracle Database 10g
5 26 (2.10%) Relational Database
6 25 (2.02%) MySQL
7 22 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (1.21%) NoSQL
9 15 (1.21%) Tableau
10 14 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (0.73%) InfluxDB
12 8 (0.65%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.48%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.40%) Metadata
15 4 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 90 (7.27%) JIRA
2 81 (6.54%) Jenkins
3 76 (6.14%) Git
4 39 (3.15%) GitLab
5 27 (2.18%) Octopus Deploy
6 25 (2.02%) Bitbucket
7 20 (1.62%) TeamCity
8 15 (1.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 14 (1.13%) Metasploit
10 10 (0.81%) Burp Suite
10 10 (0.81%) Robot Framework
11 9 (0.73%) CircleCI
12 7 (0.57%) TestRail
13 6 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (0.40%) SonarQube
15 4 (0.32%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.32%) MLflow
16 3 (0.24%) Balsamiq
16 3 (0.24%) Eclipse
16 3 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 444 (35.86%) Social Skills
2 292 (23.59%) Finance
3 143 (11.55%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (6.30%) Organisational Skills
5 52 (4.20%) Law
6 41 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
7 40 (3.23%) Retail
8 37 (2.99%) Public Sector
9 34 (2.75%) Banking
9 34 (2.75%) Games
10 33 (2.67%) Legal
11 29 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 29 (2.34%) Telecoms
12 24 (1.94%) Manufacturing
13 16 (1.29%) Front Office
14 10 (0.81%) Advertising
15 9 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.65%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 191 (15.43%) Senior
2 147 (11.87%) Support Engineer
3 143 (11.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 113 (9.13%) Azure Engineer
5 111 (8.97%) Analyst
6 98 (7.92%) IT Support
7 82 (6.62%) DevOps Engineer
8 81 (6.54%) Security Engineer
9 74 (5.98%) Developer
9 74 (5.98%) IT Engineer
10 72 (5.82%) Cloud Engineer
11 62 (5.01%) 3rd Line Support
11 62 (5.01%) Lead
12 58 (4.68%) IT Support Engineer
13 47 (3.80%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 45 (3.63%) Platform Engineer
15 44 (3.55%) Architect
16 42 (3.39%) Support Analyst
17 40 (3.23%) 2nd Line Support
18 35 (2.83%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (7.75%) REST
2 92 (7.43%) OAuth
3 82 (6.62%) SAML
4 76 (6.14%) OpenID
5 71 (5.74%) GraphQL
6 69 (5.57%) SOAP
7 65 (5.25%) LDAP
8 64 (5.17%) .NET
9 36 (2.91%) YAML
10 27 (2.18%) JSON
11 24 (1.94%) ARM Templates
12 20 (1.62%) .NET Core
12 20 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
13 19 (1.53%) Microsoft Graph
14 18 (1.45%) React
15 17 (1.37%) Web Services
16 14 (1.13%) Node.js
17 13 (1.05%) Swagger
18 11 (0.89%) FIX Protocol
18 11 (0.89%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 93 (7.51%) Onboarding
2 77 (6.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 71 (5.74%) Cyber Threat
4 60 (4.85%) Cyberattack
5 59 (4.77%) Security Posture
6 43 (3.47%) Driving Licence
6 43 (3.47%) Management Information System
7 38 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
8 36 (2.91%) Cloud Native
8 36 (2.91%) Cyber Defence
9 34 (2.75%) Data Centre
10 31 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
11 30 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
12 26 (2.10%) PKI
13 24 (1.94%) Product Ownership
13 24 (1.94%) Security Operations Centre
14 21 (1.70%) CMDB
15 17 (1.37%) Replication
15 17 (1.37%) Virtual Team
16 16 (1.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 556 (44.91%) Windows
2 292 (23.59%) Windows Server
3 239 (19.31%) Linux
4 66 (5.33%) Windows 10
5 57 (4.60%) Mac OS
6 41 (3.31%) Unix
7 34 (2.75%) Windows Server 2016
8 33 (2.67%) Windows Server 2019
9 32 (2.58%) Android
10 27 (2.18%) Apple iOS
10 27 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 26 (2.10%) VMS
12 25 (2.02%) CentOS
12 25 (2.02%) Solaris
13 24 (1.94%) Windows Server 2008
14 22 (1.78%) HPUX
14 22 (1.78%) Windows 7
14 22 (1.78%) Windows Server 2003
15 18 (1.45%) Ubuntu
16 13 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (30.13%) Problem-Solving
2 295 (23.83%) DevOps
3 254 (20.52%) CI/CD
4 240 (19.39%) ITIL
5 233 (18.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 229 (18.50%) Cybersecurity
7 211 (17.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 209 (16.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 192 (15.51%) Mentoring
10 166 (13.41%) Disaster Recovery
11 163 (13.17%) Agile
12 146 (11.79%) Roadmaps
13 137 (11.07%) Incident Response
14 124 (10.02%) Root Cause Analysis
15 105 (8.48%) Task Automation
16 102 (8.24%) Cloud Security
17 97 (7.84%) Business Intelligence
17 97 (7.84%) Identity Access Management
18 96 (7.75%) Computer Science
18 96 (7.75%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 434 (35.06%) Python
2 304 (24.56%) Bash
3 275 (22.21%) SQL
4 86 (6.95%) T-SQL
5 75 (6.06%) C#
6 73 (5.90%) JavaScript
7 66 (5.33%) Bicep
8 28 (2.26%) Kusto Query Language
9 25 (2.02%) Perl
10 21 (1.70%) Java
11 14 (1.13%) Go
12 11 (0.89%) VB.NET
13 7 (0.57%) C++
13 7 (0.57%) PHP
13 7 (0.57%) VB
14 6 (0.48%) Delphi
15 5 (0.40%) Google Apps Script
15 5 (0.40%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.40%) VBA
16 4 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 169 (13.65%) Degree
2 153 (12.36%) Security Cleared
3 111 (8.97%) Microsoft Certification
4 95 (7.67%) SC Cleared
5 90 (7.27%) Azure Certification
6 60 (4.85%) DV Cleared
7 52 (4.20%) CISSP
8 46 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 36 (2.91%) CREST Certified
10 31 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 30 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
12 27 (2.18%) AWS Certification
13 26 (2.10%) CEH
14 24 (1.94%) GIAC
15 21 (1.70%) SANS
16 20 (1.62%) CompTIA CySA+
16 20 (1.62%) CompTIA Security+
16 20 (1.62%) OSCP
17 19 (1.53%) CCNA
18 15 (1.21%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (13.97%) NIST
2 165 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 73 (5.90%) NCSC
4 64 (5.17%) GDPR
5 63 (5.09%) SLA
6 43 (3.47%) Accessibility
7 33 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
8 22 (1.78%) ISO 22301
9 19 (1.53%) QA
10 17 (1.37%) Data Quality
11 15 (1.21%) PCI DSS
12 13 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 10 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.57%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.40%) DICOM
15 5 (0.40%) GRC
16 3 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.16%) COBIT
17 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.16%) HL7
System Software
1 470 (37.96%) Active Directory
2 144 (11.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 117 (9.45%) Docker
4 116 (9.37%) Hyper-V
5 43 (3.47%) vSphere
6 41 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
7 26 (2.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (1.53%) Firmware
9 17 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
10 11 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.65%) vCloud
11 8 (0.65%) VMware NSX
12 7 (0.57%) XenApp
13 6 (0.48%) BitLocker
14 5 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 5 (0.40%) XenDesktop
15 4 (0.32%) iptables
15 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.16%) Samba
16 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 263 (21.24%) Terraform
2 182 (14.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 164 (13.25%) Kubernetes
4 138 (11.15%) Ansible
5 52 (4.20%) Grafana
6 40 (3.23%) SCCM
7 39 (3.15%) Single Sign-On
8 29 (2.34%) Prometheus
9 21 (1.70%) Puppet
10 18 (1.45%) Jamf Pro
11 17 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (1.21%) vCenter Server
13 11 (0.89%) Nessus
13 11 (0.89%) VxRail
14 10 (0.81%) SCOM
15 9 (0.73%) FortiGate
15 9 (0.73%) Progress Chef
16 8 (0.65%) Nagios
17 7 (0.57%) Control-M
18 6 (0.48%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 648 (52.34%) Microsoft
2 237 (19.14%) VMware
3 103 (8.32%) Cisco
4 59 (4.77%) Splunk
5 51 (4.12%) ServiceNow
6 49 (3.96%) Oracle
6 49 (3.96%) Veeam
7 44 (3.55%) Red Hat
8 39 (3.15%) Google
9 35 (2.83%) Atlassian
10 33 (2.67%) Commvault
11 30 (2.42%) Palo Alto
12 28 (2.26%) Citrix
13 27 (2.18%) CrowdStrike
14 26 (2.10%) CyberArk
15 24 (1.94%) Dell
15 24 (1.94%) Fortinet
15 24 (1.94%) Meraki
16 21 (1.70%) Apple
16 21 (1.70%) SolarWinds