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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 95 76
Rank change year-on-year -17 -19 +12
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,236 1,519 2,415
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.97% 2.89% 3.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.43% 8.59% 9.39%
Number of salaries quoted 925 1,049 2,097
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,780 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,350 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% +2.25% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%

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 11,854 17,686 25,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.91% 33.60% 38.03%
Number of salaries quoted 8,567 10,262 21,124
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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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

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Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell over the 6 months to 26 January 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in the UK

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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 26 January 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 -24 1,036 £58,000 -7.20% 654
UK excluding London -11 721 £52,500 - 640
London -12 443 £70,000 -6.67% 159
Work from Home +1 397 £57,500 -11.54% 281
South East -36 181 £57,750 -3.75% 212
North of England -16 135 £48,445 -3.11% 129
Scotland +51 130 £62,250 +18.57% 43
South West +17 104 £53,750 -2.27% 90
Midlands -36 90 £52,500 +5.00% 82
East of England +9 68 £43,000 -18.10% 73
North West -8 62 £50,000 - 65
Yorkshire -14 61 £47,500 -5.00% 47
West Midlands -29 46 £51,500 +3.00% 25
East Midlands -14 43 £55,000 +8.91% 56
North East -1 12 £50,000 -12.28% 17
Wales +9 11 £55,000 +5.77% 27
Northern Ireland -15 3 £46,500 - 6

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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
1 191 (15.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 147 (11.89%) SharePoint
3 50 (4.05%) IIS
4 23 (1.86%) Confluence
5 22 (1.78%) Exchange Server 2003
6 13 (1.05%) Skype for Business
7 6 (0.49%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.40%) nginx
8 5 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.16%) CMS
9 2 (0.16%) WordPress
10 1 (0.081%) CICS
10 1 (0.081%) WebSphere
Applications
1 38 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.49%) Siemens NX
5 5 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.24%) CATIA
6 3 (0.24%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 3 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.24%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.65%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.49%) Markit EDM
3 6 (0.49%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.40%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.40%) PlanetPress Connect
5 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.081%) Actimize
7 1 (0.081%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.081%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.081%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 819 (66.26%) Azure
2 409 (33.09%) Microsoft 365
3 332 (26.86%) Entra ID
4 216 (17.48%) AWS
5 204 (16.50%) Azure DevOps
6 107 (8.66%) Power Platform
7 96 (7.77%) GitHub
8 80 (6.47%) GCP
9 75 (6.07%) PaaS
10 74 (5.99%) GitHub Actions
11 66 (5.34%) Azure Monitor
12 58 (4.69%) Google Workspace
13 56 (4.53%) IaaS
14 55 (4.45%) Power Automate
15 53 (4.29%) SaaS
16 46 (3.72%) OneDrive
17 42 (3.40%) Azure Sentinel
18 40 (3.24%) AWS CloudFormation
19 39 (3.16%) Snowflake
20 36 (2.91%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 224 (18.12%) Firewall
2 209 (16.91%) DNS
3 160 (12.94%) DHCP
4 107 (8.66%) VPN
5 104 (8.41%) TCP/IP
6 83 (6.72%) WAN
7 68 (5.50%) LAN
8 45 (3.64%) Broadband
9 41 (3.32%) Wi-Fi
10 39 (3.16%) VLAN
10 39 (3.16%) Wireless
11 31 (2.51%) SD-WAN
12 29 (2.35%) SAN
13 26 (2.10%) Network Security
14 20 (1.62%) Internet
15 19 (1.54%) VoIP
16 17 (1.38%) VSAN
17 13 (1.05%) Cisco IOS
17 13 (1.05%) Skype
18 12 (0.97%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (11.00%) SQL Server
2 75 (6.07%) Power BI
3 37 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 32 (2.59%) Relational Database
5 31 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
6 30 (2.43%) Oracle Database
7 26 (2.10%) Oracle Database 10g
8 19 (1.54%) MySQL
9 18 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (0.97%) MongoDB
13 11 (0.89%) Tableau
14 10 (0.81%) NoSQL
15 8 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
15 8 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 7 (0.57%) DTS
17 6 (0.49%) Data Lake
17 6 (0.49%) InfluxDB
17 6 (0.49%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 101 (8.17%) JIRA
2 91 (7.36%) Jenkins
3 85 (6.88%) Git
4 36 (2.91%) GitLab
5 32 (2.59%) Octopus Deploy
6 24 (1.94%) TeamCity
7 16 (1.29%) Bitbucket
8 11 (0.89%) Burp Suite
8 11 (0.89%) Metasploit
9 9 (0.73%) Robot Framework
10 8 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (0.49%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.49%) TestRail
12 5 (0.40%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.40%) Vagrant
13 4 (0.32%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.32%) MLflow
13 4 (0.32%) MSI
13 4 (0.32%) Toad
General
1 440 (35.60%) Social Skills
2 326 (26.38%) Finance
3 123 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (4.85%) Organisational Skills
5 52 (4.21%) Law
6 48 (3.88%) Retail
7 46 (3.72%) Public Sector
8 38 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
9 37 (2.99%) Banking
10 35 (2.83%) Legal
11 33 (2.67%) Games
12 30 (2.43%) Manufacturing
13 29 (2.35%) Telecoms
14 26 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 17 (1.38%) Front Office
16 16 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
18 10 (0.81%) Aerospace
19 9 (0.73%) Advertising
19 9 (0.73%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 188 (15.21%) Senior
2 154 (12.46%) Support Engineer
3 132 (10.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 110 (8.90%) Azure Engineer
5 90 (7.28%) DevOps Engineer
6 86 (6.96%) Analyst
6 86 (6.96%) Cloud Engineer
7 84 (6.80%) Developer
8 77 (6.23%) Security Engineer
9 71 (5.74%) Lead
10 70 (5.66%) IT Support
11 63 (5.10%) IT Engineer
12 59 (4.77%) 3rd Line Support
13 54 (4.37%) Platform Engineer
14 52 (4.21%) Applications Engineer
14 52 (4.21%) Applications Support
15 45 (3.64%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 44 (3.56%) IT Support Engineer
17 42 (3.40%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
18 38 (3.07%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (8.50%) REST
2 72 (5.83%) SOAP
3 70 (5.66%) .NET
4 67 (5.42%) OAuth
5 61 (4.94%) SAML
6 58 (4.69%) GraphQL
7 57 (4.61%) OpenID
8 56 (4.53%) LDAP
9 46 (3.72%) YAML
10 29 (2.35%) JSON
11 27 (2.18%) ARM Templates
12 22 (1.78%) React
13 20 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
14 18 (1.46%) Web Services
15 17 (1.38%) Microsoft Graph
16 16 (1.29%) AngularJS
17 13 (1.05%) Middleware
17 13 (1.05%) Node.js
18 11 (0.89%) FIX Protocol
18 11 (0.89%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 92 (7.44%) Onboarding
2 69 (5.58%) Hybrid Cloud
3 62 (5.02%) Security Posture
4 50 (4.05%) Cyber Threat
4 50 (4.05%) Product Ownership
5 46 (3.72%) Cyberattack
6 44 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
7 42 (3.40%) Management Information System
8 37 (2.99%) Cloud Native
9 36 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
10 33 (2.67%) Data Centre
11 29 (2.35%) PKI
12 28 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
13 27 (2.18%) CMDB
13 27 (2.18%) Driving Licence
14 23 (1.86%) Virtual Team
15 20 (1.62%) Cyber Defence
15 20 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
16 19 (1.54%) Hedge funds
16 19 (1.54%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 533 (43.12%) Windows
2 287 (23.22%) Windows Server
3 210 (16.99%) Linux
4 70 (5.66%) Windows 10
5 48 (3.88%) Mac OS
6 43 (3.48%) Unix
7 37 (2.99%) VMS
7 37 (2.99%) Windows Server 2016
7 37 (2.99%) Windows Server 2019
8 30 (2.43%) Android
9 29 (2.35%) Windows Server 2008
10 25 (2.02%) Solaris
11 22 (1.78%) HPUX
11 22 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 22 (1.78%) Windows 7
11 22 (1.78%) Windows Server 2003
12 17 (1.38%) Apple iOS
12 17 (1.38%) CentOS
13 16 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
14 15 (1.21%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (30.42%) Problem-Solving
2 352 (28.48%) DevOps
3 269 (21.76%) CI/CD
4 244 (19.74%) ITIL
5 235 (19.01%) Infrastructure as Code
6 220 (17.80%) Continuous Improvement
7 206 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 199 (16.10%) Cybersecurity
9 184 (14.89%) Mentoring
10 182 (14.72%) Agile
11 156 (12.62%) Disaster Recovery
12 144 (11.65%) Roadmaps
13 129 (10.44%) Task Automation
14 118 (9.55%) Coaching
15 116 (9.39%) Root Cause Analysis
16 112 (9.06%) Asset Management
17 103 (8.33%) Incident Response
18 102 (8.25%) Migration
19 101 (8.17%) Cloud Security
20 90 (7.28%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 420 (33.98%) Python
2 287 (23.22%) Bash
3 284 (22.98%) SQL
4 102 (8.25%) C#
5 78 (6.31%) Bicep
6 67 (5.42%) T-SQL
7 66 (5.34%) JavaScript
8 27 (2.18%) Perl
9 25 (2.02%) Java
10 24 (1.94%) Go
11 22 (1.78%) Kusto Query Language
12 15 (1.21%) VB
13 11 (0.89%) VB.NET
13 11 (0.89%) VBScript
14 10 (0.81%) TypeScript
15 9 (0.73%) VBA
16 8 (0.65%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.49%) Groovy
18 5 (0.40%) C++
19 4 (0.32%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 168 (13.59%) Security Cleared
2 163 (13.19%) Degree
3 109 (8.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 108 (8.74%) SC Cleared
5 89 (7.20%) Azure Certification
6 59 (4.77%) DV Cleared
7 46 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 42 (3.40%) CISSP
9 38 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
10 34 (2.75%) AWS Certification
11 31 (2.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 30 (2.43%) CREST Certified
13 22 (1.78%) CEH
14 19 (1.54%) CCNA
15 17 (1.38%) SANS
16 16 (1.29%) DBS Check
16 16 (1.29%) Master's Degree
17 15 (1.21%) CompTIA CySA+
17 15 (1.21%) GIAC
18 14 (1.13%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (12.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 143 (11.57%) NIST
3 69 (5.58%) GDPR
4 62 (5.02%) NCSC
5 53 (4.29%) SLA
6 45 (3.64%) Accessibility
7 29 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 17 (1.38%) QA
9 16 (1.29%) ISO 22301
10 14 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 12 (0.97%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.89%) Data Quality
13 7 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.49%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.40%) GRC
16 3 (0.24%) HL7
16 3 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.16%) COBIT
17 2 (0.16%) DICOM
17 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
System Software
1 430 (34.79%) Active Directory
2 134 (10.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 111 (8.98%) Docker
4 94 (7.61%) Hyper-V
5 44 (3.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 44 (3.56%) Virtual Machines
6 31 (2.51%) vSphere
7 23 (1.86%) Firmware
8 15 (1.21%) Virtual Servers
9 14 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.73%) XenApp
11 8 (0.65%) vCloud
12 7 (0.57%) XenDesktop
13 5 (0.40%) VMware NSX
14 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.32%) Postfix
14 4 (0.32%) Squid
15 3 (0.24%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.24%) Dovecot
16 2 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 282 (22.82%) Terraform
2 201 (16.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 168 (13.59%) Kubernetes
4 136 (11.00%) Ansible
5 58 (4.69%) SCCM
6 47 (3.80%) Grafana
6 47 (3.80%) Single Sign-On
7 27 (2.18%) Prometheus
8 18 (1.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 18 (1.46%) Puppet
9 15 (1.21%) SCOM
10 14 (1.13%) WSUS
11 11 (0.89%) vCenter Server
12 10 (0.81%) Nessus
13 9 (0.73%) FortiGate
13 9 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
13 9 (0.73%) ZABBIX
14 8 (0.65%) Nagios
14 8 (0.65%) SCVMM
15 7 (0.57%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 649 (52.51%) Microsoft
2 217 (17.56%) VMware
3 96 (7.77%) Cisco
4 74 (5.99%) ServiceNow
5 55 (4.45%) Oracle
6 46 (3.72%) Veeam
7 43 (3.48%) Splunk
8 41 (3.32%) Google
9 38 (3.07%) Atlassian
10 36 (2.91%) Citrix
11 34 (2.75%) Red Hat
12 30 (2.43%) Palo Alto
13 27 (2.18%) SolarWinds
14 26 (2.10%) CyberArk
15 24 (1.94%) Commvault
16 23 (1.86%) Fortinet
16 23 (1.86%) SAP
17 21 (1.70%) Dell
18 20 (1.62%) CrowdStrike
19 19 (1.54%) Meraki