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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 87 111
Rank change year-on-year -53 +24 -32
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,406 1,678 1,960
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.38% 3.40% 2.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.79% 11.76% 7.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,008 1,102 1,547
10th Percentile £31,775 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +2.68% -6.67%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £92,500
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 18,046 14,265 26,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.74% 28.91% 30.50%
Number of salaries quoted 12,843 9,435 19,251
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -63 1,257 £57,500 - 395
UK excluding London -57 902 £52,500 +5.00% 283
Work from Home -45 499 £60,000 +4.35% 186
London -32 469 £70,000 -6.67% 151
South East -30 246 £55,000 -4.35% 97
North of England -97 209 £49,222 +1.90% 68
Midlands -43 147 £50,000 - 39
North West -89 113 £51,500 +10.75% 39
East of England -36 90 £56,250 +7.14% 30
South West -67 84 £55,000 +15.79% 41
East Midlands -11 75 £42,500 +21.43% 18
West Midlands -66 72 £52,500 -4.55% 21
Yorkshire -39 57 £47,500 -5.00% 17
Northern Ireland -22 53 £46,000 +2.12% 2
Scotland +30 43 £52,500 +31.25% 14
North East -22 39 £49,222 -17.96% 14
Wales -35 30 £46,500 -15.45% 6

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
1 225 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 204 (14.51%) SharePoint
3 49 (3.49%) IIS
4 29 (2.06%) Confluence
5 8 (0.57%) nginx
6 6 (0.43%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.28%) Apache
7 4 (0.28%) SAS
8 3 (0.21%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.071%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.071%) Site Server
9 1 (0.071%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.071%) WebSphere
Applications
1 80 (5.69%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (0.78%) NetSuite
1 11 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.43%) Raiser’s Edge
3 3 (0.21%) Alphatax
3 3 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.21%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.14%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.071%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.071%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 881 (62.66%) Azure
2 506 (35.99%) Microsoft 365
3 381 (27.10%) Entra ID
4 245 (17.43%) AWS
5 158 (11.24%) Azure DevOps
6 157 (11.17%) SaaS
7 119 (8.46%) Power Platform
8 112 (7.97%) GitHub
9 107 (7.61%) IaaS
10 96 (6.83%) OneDrive
11 83 (5.90%) Azure Monitor
12 77 (5.48%) PaaS
13 71 (5.05%) Azure Sentinel
14 69 (4.91%) GitHub Actions
15 68 (4.84%) Azure AKS
16 66 (4.69%) Power Automate
17 62 (4.41%) Azure Key Vault
18 58 (4.13%) GCP
19 51 (3.63%) Azure Logic Apps
20 48 (3.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 310 (22.05%) Firewall
2 294 (20.91%) DNS
3 202 (14.37%) VPN
4 198 (14.08%) DHCP
5 131 (9.32%) TCP/IP
6 94 (6.69%) WAN
7 85 (6.05%) LAN
8 72 (5.12%) Network Security
9 67 (4.77%) VLAN
10 47 (3.34%) Wi-Fi
11 40 (2.84%) Wireless
12 36 (2.56%) SAN
13 34 (2.42%) Kerberos
14 33 (2.35%) VoIP
15 23 (1.64%) Broadband
16 21 (1.49%) BGP
17 19 (1.35%) SSL
18 18 (1.28%) NAS
19 16 (1.14%) Internet
20 15 (1.07%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (10.95%) SQL Server
2 83 (5.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 78 (5.55%) Power BI
4 40 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.64%) MongoDB
6 22 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (1.49%) MySQL
7 21 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (1.14%) Relational Database
10 14 (1.00%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.64%) InfluxDB
11 9 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.43%) Redis
13 5 (0.36%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.36%) Metadata
13 5 (0.36%) Power Query
13 5 (0.36%) Tableau
14 4 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 108 (7.68%) Git
2 85 (6.05%) JIRA
3 69 (4.91%) GitLab
4 63 (4.48%) Jenkins
5 30 (2.13%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (0.78%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 9 (0.64%) Metasploit
9 9 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 7 (0.50%) Robot Framework
10 7 (0.50%) TestRail
11 6 (0.43%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.43%) Selenium
12 5 (0.36%) Burp Suite
12 5 (0.36%) Postman
13 4 (0.28%) SonarQube
14 3 (0.21%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.21%) Terragrunt
General
1 477 (33.93%) Social Skills
2 215 (15.29%) Finance
3 179 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (8.96%) Law
5 102 (7.25%) Legal
6 60 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 50 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
9 42 (2.99%) Retail
10 36 (2.56%) Public Sector
11 30 (2.13%) Manufacturing
12 27 (1.92%) Banking
13 23 (1.64%) Aerospace
14 17 (1.21%) Advertising
15 13 (0.92%) Telecoms
16 11 (0.78%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (0.57%) Front Office
17 8 (0.57%) Investment Banking
18 7 (0.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 276 (19.63%) Senior
2 171 (12.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 155 (11.02%) Analyst
4 146 (10.38%) Support Engineer
5 137 (9.74%) IT Support
6 133 (9.46%) Azure Engineer
6 133 (9.46%) IT Engineer
7 121 (8.61%) Cloud Engineer
8 103 (7.33%) DevOps Engineer
9 80 (5.69%) IT Support Engineer
10 76 (5.41%) Security Engineer
11 69 (4.91%) Platform Engineer
12 63 (4.48%) Developer
13 61 (4.34%) Lead
14 60 (4.27%) 2nd Line Support
15 59 (4.20%) Systems Engineer
16 52 (3.70%) Testing Manager
17 50 (3.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 49 (3.49%) Senior Manager
19 47 (3.34%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (6.26%) .NET
2 62 (4.41%) SAML
3 61 (4.34%) REST
4 59 (4.20%) OAuth
5 56 (3.98%) ARM Templates
6 52 (3.70%) OpenID
7 50 (3.56%) LDAP
8 45 (3.20%) YAML
9 43 (3.06%) HTML
10 41 (2.92%) Microsoft Graph
11 39 (2.77%) JSON
12 35 (2.49%) .NET Core
13 32 (2.28%) CSS
14 27 (1.92%) SOAP
15 25 (1.78%) SPFx
16 21 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
17 19 (1.35%) HTML5 Canvas
18 17 (1.21%) GraphQL
19 16 (1.14%) RESTful
20 15 (1.07%) React
Miscellaneous
1 106 (7.54%) Onboarding
2 85 (6.05%) Cloud Native
3 72 (5.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 69 (4.91%) Security Posture
5 66 (4.69%) Management Information System
6 58 (4.13%) Driving Licence
7 54 (3.84%) Virtual Team
8 52 (3.70%) Data Centre
9 45 (3.20%) Public Cloud
10 42 (2.99%) Security Operations Centre
11 41 (2.92%) PKI
12 38 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
13 37 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
14 35 (2.49%) Cyber Threat
15 31 (2.20%) Cyber Defence
16 27 (1.92%) Replication
17 26 (1.85%) Clustering
18 25 (1.78%) Private Cloud
19 22 (1.56%) Cyberattack
20 21 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 658 (46.80%) Windows
2 320 (22.76%) Linux
3 312 (22.19%) Windows Server
4 78 (5.55%) Windows 10
5 56 (3.98%) Apple iOS
6 47 (3.34%) VMS
7 44 (3.13%) Mac OS
8 43 (3.06%) Android
9 38 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
10 35 (2.49%) CentOS
10 35 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 28 (1.99%) Ubuntu
12 27 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
13 14 (1.00%) Unix
14 7 (0.50%) Debian
14 7 (0.50%) Kali Linux
15 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
16 5 (0.36%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.28%) AIX
17 4 (0.28%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (25.25%) DevOps
2 354 (25.18%) Problem-Solving
3 325 (23.12%) CI/CD
4 309 (21.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 301 (21.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 254 (18.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 247 (17.57%) Cybersecurity
8 244 (17.35%) ITIL
9 208 (14.79%) Mentoring
10 173 (12.30%) Disaster Recovery
11 171 (12.16%) Agile
12 160 (11.38%) Root Cause Analysis
13 157 (11.17%) Incident Response
14 156 (11.10%) High Availability
15 138 (9.82%) Containerisation
16 134 (9.53%) SIEM
17 131 (9.32%) Cloud Security
18 130 (9.25%) AI
19 124 (8.82%) Platform Engineering
20 121 (8.61%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 568 (40.40%) Python
2 318 (22.62%) Bash
3 278 (19.77%) SQL
4 146 (10.38%) C#
5 128 (9.10%) JavaScript
6 105 (7.47%) Bicep
7 79 (5.62%) TypeScript
8 50 (3.56%) T-SQL
9 49 (3.49%) Kusto Query Language
10 35 (2.49%) Java
11 20 (1.42%) VBScript
12 18 (1.28%) C++
13 17 (1.21%) PHP
14 13 (0.92%) Perl
15 10 (0.71%) Go
15 10 (0.71%) VB
15 10 (0.71%) VBA
16 8 (0.57%) C
16 8 (0.57%) Ruby
17 6 (0.43%) Korn
Qualifications
1 179 (12.73%) Security Cleared
2 171 (12.16%) Degree
3 156 (11.10%) Azure Certification
4 137 (9.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 123 (8.75%) SC Cleared
6 62 (4.41%) Cisco Certification
7 59 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 56 (3.98%) CISSP
9 48 (3.41%) CompTIA Security+
10 46 (3.27%) DV Cleared
11 44 (3.13%) CCNA
12 24 (1.71%) DBS Check
13 23 (1.64%) AWS Certification
13 23 (1.64%) CEH
13 23 (1.64%) OSCP
14 22 (1.56%) CCNP
14 22 (1.56%) GIAC
15 21 (1.49%) CREST Certified
16 17 (1.21%) CISM
17 14 (1.00%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 89 (6.33%) NIST
3 74 (5.26%) QA
4 62 (4.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 58 (4.13%) GDPR
6 41 (2.92%) SLA
7 21 (1.49%) Data Quality
8 19 (1.35%) PCI DSS
9 18 (1.28%) SOC 2
10 17 (1.21%) NCSC
11 9 (0.64%) ISO 22301
12 7 (0.50%) Accessibility
12 7 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.43%) PMO
14 4 (0.28%) DICOM
14 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.21%) ISAE 3402
16 2 (0.14%) EMIR
16 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
System Software
1 511 (36.34%) Active Directory
2 232 (16.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 155 (11.02%) Hyper-V
4 140 (9.96%) Docker
5 80 (5.69%) vSphere
6 56 (3.98%) Virtual Machines
7 43 (3.06%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (1.92%) BitLocker
9 23 (1.64%) VMware NSX
10 16 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.71%) KVM
12 9 (0.64%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 8 (0.57%) Squid
14 4 (0.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.28%) Firmware
15 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.21%) Terminal Services
15 3 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
16 2 (0.14%) iptables
16 2 (0.14%) Samba
Systems Management
1 335 (23.83%) Terraform
2 233 (16.57%) Kubernetes
3 229 (16.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 165 (11.74%) Ansible
5 75 (5.33%) Grafana
6 65 (4.62%) SCCM
7 51 (3.63%) Prometheus
7 51 (3.63%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (1.85%) Jamf Pro
9 25 (1.78%) ZABBIX
10 23 (1.64%) vCenter Server
11 21 (1.49%) Argo
12 20 (1.42%) Packer
13 19 (1.35%) QRadar
14 18 (1.28%) Proxmox
15 15 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 14 (1.00%) Graylog
17 13 (0.92%) Nagios
18 12 (0.85%) VxRail
19 11 (0.78%) Nessus
Vendors
1 835 (59.39%) Microsoft
2 273 (19.42%) VMware
3 120 (8.53%) Cisco
4 97 (6.90%) ServiceNow
5 92 (6.54%) Splunk
6 61 (4.34%) Red Hat
7 53 (3.77%) Veeam
8 43 (3.06%) Meraki
8 43 (3.06%) Oracle
9 32 (2.28%) Citrix
9 32 (2.28%) Sophos
10 30 (2.13%) Apple
11 28 (1.99%) Dell
11 28 (1.99%) Fortinet
11 28 (1.99%) Tenable
12 27 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
13 26 (1.85%) Dynatrace
14 24 (1.71%) Palo Alto
15 22 (1.56%) CyberArk
16 21 (1.49%) SolarWinds