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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 97 96
Rank change year-on-year -57 -1 -33
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,495 1,548 1,817
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.27% 3.15% 2.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.13% 12.38% 8.07%
Number of salaries quoted 992 1,058 1,181
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £42,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £57,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -6.50% +2.50%
75th Percentile £73,250 £76,188 £82,500
90th Percentile £89,000 £88,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year - +3.96% -6.48%

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 18,379 12,501 22,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.58% 25.43% 31.28%
Number of salaries quoted 13,019 8,080 13,499
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,611 £45,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £63,112
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -0.97% -2.90%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £85,000
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 12 October 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 October 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 -65 1,293 £57,500 - 1,053
UK excluding London -68 965 £52,500 - 623
Work from Home -38 517 £60,000 - 528
London -31 471 £70,000 - 470
South East -28 236 £52,500 -8.70% 166
North of England -93 231 £50,000 - 155
Midlands -36 160 £52,500 +1.94% 79
North West -78 138 £50,000 - 75
East of England -37 98 £57,500 +21.05% 57
South West -70 92 £55,000 +13.40% 85
East Midlands +2 83 £42,500 +15.65% 30
West Midlands -67 77 £55,000 - 49
Northern Ireland -19 70 £46,000 - 27
Yorkshire -57 56 £45,472 -9.06% 55
Scotland -9 47 £52,500 +23.53% 50
North East -39 37 £51,500 -14.17% 26
Wales -54 31 £35,000 -36.36% 17

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
1 260 (17.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 239 (15.99%) SharePoint
3 51 (3.41%) IIS
4 43 (2.88%) Confluence
5 15 (1.00%) nginx
6 8 (0.54%) Apache
7 5 (0.33%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.067%) FactoryTalk
10 1 (0.067%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.067%) WebSphere
Applications
1 65 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.067%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 36 (2.41%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.60%) 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%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 1 (0.067%) Actimize
7 1 (0.067%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 896 (59.93%) Azure
2 579 (38.73%) Microsoft 365
3 503 (33.65%) Entra ID
4 260 (17.39%) AWS
5 187 (12.51%) SaaS
6 181 (12.11%) Azure DevOps
7 127 (8.49%) Power Platform
8 117 (7.83%) GitHub
9 113 (7.56%) OneDrive
10 109 (7.29%) IaaS
11 95 (6.35%) Azure Monitor
12 92 (6.15%) Azure Sentinel
13 80 (5.35%) PaaS
14 78 (5.22%) Power Automate
15 74 (4.95%) GCP
16 73 (4.88%) Azure AKS
17 70 (4.68%) Microsoft Purview
18 69 (4.62%) Azure Key Vault
19 64 (4.28%) Microsoft Copilot
20 63 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 338 (22.61%) DNS
2 330 (22.07%) Firewall
3 239 (15.99%) DHCP
4 236 (15.79%) VPN
5 159 (10.64%) TCP/IP
6 96 (6.42%) WAN
7 85 (5.69%) LAN
8 84 (5.62%) VLAN
9 63 (4.21%) Network Security
10 60 (4.01%) Wireless
11 50 (3.34%) Wi-Fi
12 39 (2.61%) SAN
13 35 (2.34%) Kerberos
14 32 (2.14%) SSL
15 26 (1.74%) NAS
16 24 (1.61%) HTTP
17 16 (1.07%) VSAN
18 15 (1.00%) Internet
19 14 (0.94%) FTP
19 14 (0.94%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (10.10%) SQL Server
2 84 (5.62%) Azure SQL Database
3 64 (4.28%) Power BI
4 24 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.47%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (1.14%) Relational Database
7 13 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (0.80%) MySQL
9 11 (0.74%) NoSQL
9 11 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (0.67%) Data Lake
11 8 (0.54%) InfluxDB
11 8 (0.54%) Power Query
11 8 (0.54%) Redis
11 8 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.40%) Db2
12 6 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.40%) Metadata
13 5 (0.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 99 (6.62%) JIRA
2 92 (6.15%) Git
3 84 (5.62%) GitLab
4 68 (4.55%) Jenkins
5 26 (1.74%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
7 10 (0.67%) TeamCity
8 8 (0.54%) Robot Framework
8 8 (0.54%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.54%) TestRail
9 7 (0.47%) Postman
10 6 (0.40%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.40%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.40%) Selenium
11 5 (0.33%) Burp Suite
11 5 (0.33%) MSI
11 5 (0.33%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.27%) Claude Code
General
1 574 (38.39%) Social Skills
2 248 (16.59%) Finance
3 202 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (7.76%) Legal
5 104 (6.96%) Law
6 78 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
8 47 (3.14%) Retail
9 45 (3.01%) Banking
10 39 (2.61%) Aerospace
10 39 (2.61%) Public Sector
11 38 (2.54%) Manufacturing
12 36 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (0.94%) Legal Technology
14 13 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.80%) Financial Institution
16 10 (0.67%) Investment Banking
17 9 (0.60%) Aviation
17 9 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 286 (19.13%) Senior
2 225 (15.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 181 (12.11%) Analyst
4 134 (8.96%) Azure Engineer
5 131 (8.76%) IT Engineer
6 128 (8.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 126 (8.43%) Support Engineer
8 118 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
9 104 (6.96%) IT Support
10 81 (5.42%) Consultant
11 80 (5.35%) Platform Engineer
12 73 (4.88%) Lead
13 70 (4.68%) Support Analyst
14 66 (4.41%) IT Support Engineer
15 59 (3.95%) Security Engineer
16 56 (3.75%) Systems Engineer
17 55 (3.68%) Administrator
17 55 (3.68%) Senior Manager
17 55 (3.68%) Testing Manager
18 48 (3.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 381 (25.48%) Terraform
2 66 (4.41%) .NET
3 58 (3.88%) REST
4 55 (3.68%) SAML
5 54 (3.61%) ARM Templates
6 50 (3.34%) LDAP
7 44 (2.94%) OpenID
8 43 (2.88%) Microsoft Graph
9 42 (2.81%) OAuth
10 41 (2.74%) YAML
11 31 (2.07%) HTML
12 28 (1.87%) JSON
13 24 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
14 22 (1.47%) CSS
15 21 (1.40%) SPFx
16 16 (1.07%) .NET Core
16 16 (1.07%) Kafka
17 15 (1.00%) SOAP
18 14 (0.94%) RESTful
19 13 (0.87%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 127 (8.49%) Onboarding
2 93 (6.22%) Cloud Native
3 86 (5.75%) Driving Licence
4 80 (5.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 76 (5.08%) Security Posture
6 68 (4.55%) Management Information System
7 61 (4.08%) Replication
8 60 (4.01%) Virtual Team
9 56 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
10 54 (3.61%) PKI
11 47 (3.14%) Data Centre
12 40 (2.68%) Security Operations Centre
13 38 (2.54%) Clustering
13 38 (2.54%) Public Cloud
14 31 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
15 29 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
16 23 (1.54%) Cyber Defence
17 22 (1.47%) Private Cloud
18 21 (1.40%) Enterprise Storage
19 19 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 719 (48.09%) Windows
2 354 (23.68%) Linux
3 347 (23.21%) Windows Server
4 100 (6.69%) Windows 10
5 49 (3.28%) Apple iOS
6 45 (3.01%) Ubuntu
7 41 (2.74%) Android
7 41 (2.74%) macOS
8 39 (2.61%) VMS
9 35 (2.34%) Windows Server 2019
10 34 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 32 (2.14%) CentOS
12 27 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 22 (1.47%) Unix
14 18 (1.20%) Rocky
15 8 (0.54%) Debian
15 8 (0.54%) Solaris
16 7 (0.47%) Kali Linux
17 5 (0.33%) CoreOS
18 4 (0.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (28.83%) Problem-Solving
2 396 (26.49%) DevOps
3 395 (26.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 363 (24.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 341 (22.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 327 (21.87%) CI/CD
7 268 (17.93%) ITIL
8 265 (17.73%) Cybersecurity
9 233 (15.59%) Mentoring
10 229 (15.32%) Disaster Recovery
11 189 (12.64%) AI
12 170 (11.37%) Agile
13 169 (11.30%) Root Cause Analysis
14 165 (11.04%) Project Delivery
15 158 (10.57%) Platform Engineering
16 154 (10.30%) High Availability
17 153 (10.23%) Migration
18 151 (10.10%) Cloud Security
19 146 (9.77%) Incident Response
20 144 (9.63%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 583 (39.00%) Python
2 315 (21.07%) Bash
3 300 (20.07%) SQL
4 135 (9.03%) JavaScript
5 130 (8.70%) Bicep
6 124 (8.29%) C#
7 81 (5.42%) TypeScript
8 55 (3.68%) Kusto Query Language
9 44 (2.94%) Java
10 36 (2.41%) T-SQL
11 22 (1.47%) VBScript
12 21 (1.40%) C++
13 19 (1.27%) Perl
14 13 (0.87%) PHP
15 11 (0.74%) Ruby
16 10 (0.67%) VBA
17 8 (0.54%) VB
18 7 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 7 (0.47%) Go
19 6 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 227 (15.18%) Security Cleared
2 168 (11.24%) Microsoft Certification
3 166 (11.10%) Degree
4 163 (10.90%) Azure Certification
5 143 (9.57%) SC Cleared
6 68 (4.55%) CISSP
6 68 (4.55%) DV Cleared
7 57 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 56 (3.75%) CompTIA Security+
9 49 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
10 40 (2.68%) CCNA
11 28 (1.87%) CEH
12 26 (1.74%) AWS Certification
13 25 (1.67%) DBS Check
14 22 (1.47%) CISM
15 20 (1.34%) OSCP
16 18 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
16 18 (1.20%) GIAC
16 18 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 17 (1.14%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (7.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 83 (5.55%) QA
3 80 (5.35%) Cyber Essentials
4 69 (4.62%) NIST
5 50 (3.34%) SLA
6 43 (2.88%) GDPR
7 22 (1.47%) PCI DSS
8 21 (1.40%) Data Quality
9 13 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 12 (0.80%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.67%) NCSC
12 9 (0.60%) Accessibility
12 9 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.54%) PMO
14 7 (0.47%) ISO 22301
15 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
16 2 (0.13%) EMIR
16 2 (0.13%) GRC
16 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 557 (37.26%) Active Directory
2 244 (16.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 166 (11.10%) Hyper-V
4 137 (9.16%) Docker
5 82 (5.48%) vSphere
6 78 (5.22%) Virtual Machines
7 61 (4.08%) Virtual Desktop
8 33 (2.21%) VMware ESXi
9 30 (2.01%) VMware NSX
10 17 (1.14%) BitLocker
11 15 (1.00%) Firmware
12 8 (0.54%) KVM
13 7 (0.47%) Squid
14 5 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 5 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.20%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 2 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
17 2 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 269 (17.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 231 (15.45%) Kubernetes
3 172 (11.51%) Ansible
4 80 (5.35%) Grafana
5 79 (5.28%) SCCM
6 63 (4.21%) Single Sign-On
7 44 (2.94%) Prometheus
8 35 (2.34%) Puppet
9 30 (2.01%) vCenter Server
10 24 (1.61%) Argo
10 24 (1.61%) ZABBIX
11 21 (1.40%) QRadar
12 20 (1.34%) Proxmox
13 19 (1.27%) FortiGate
14 15 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 15 (1.00%) Graylog
15 14 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
15 14 (0.94%) Packer
15 14 (0.94%) Progress Chef
16 11 (0.74%) Kibana
Vendors
1 963 (64.41%) Microsoft
2 285 (19.06%) VMware
3 108 (7.22%) Cisco
4 96 (6.42%) ServiceNow
5 90 (6.02%) Splunk
6 70 (4.68%) Veeam
7 50 (3.34%) Oracle
8 43 (2.88%) Red Hat
9 42 (2.81%) Citrix
10 37 (2.47%) Meraki
11 34 (2.27%) Sage
12 32 (2.14%) SolarWinds
13 31 (2.07%) Dynatrace
14 30 (2.01%) Dell
15 29 (1.94%) SAP
15 29 (1.94%) Sophos
16 28 (1.87%) CyberArk
16 28 (1.87%) Google
17 27 (1.81%) Apple
18 26 (1.74%) Fortinet