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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 88 113
Rank change year-on-year -59 +25 -36
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,443 1,670 1,886
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.36% 3.35% 2.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.80% 11.92% 7.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,033 1,109 1,438
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 £88,750 £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 18,503 14,008 25,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.45% 28.13% 30.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13,140 9,185 17,818
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,600 £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 £84,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -

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 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 12 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 -66 1,283 £59,000 +2.61% 815
UK excluding London -65 933 £52,500 +5.00% 473
Work from Home -39 495 £61,500 +6.49% 352
London -32 475 £70,000 -6.35% 429
South East -38 243 £53,000 -7.83% 160
North of England -88 219 £50,000 +5.26% 113
Midlands -20 156 £51,250 +2.50% 55
North West -86 122 £52,500 +14.13% 71
East of England -43 97 £57,500 +11.65% 42
South West -74 83 £55,000 +15.79% 69
East Midlands -3 81 £42,500 +21.43% 24
West Midlands -54 75 £54,344 -1.19% 31
Northern Ireland -15 63 £46,000 +2.12% 10
Yorkshire -36 61 £42,500 -17.68% 29
Scotland +30 42 £50,000 +25.00% 28
North East -29 36 £50,000 -16.67% 15
Wales -36 30 £53,000 -3.64% 12

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
1 239 (16.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 223 (15.45%) SharePoint
3 55 (3.81%) IIS
4 32 (2.22%) Confluence
5 11 (0.76%) nginx
6 6 (0.42%) Apache
6 6 (0.42%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.28%) SAS
8 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.069%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.069%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (5.34%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.28%) 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 (0.76%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.42%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.21%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.21%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
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
1 896 (62.09%) Azure
2 530 (36.73%) Microsoft 365
3 396 (27.44%) Entra ID
4 256 (17.74%) AWS
5 167 (11.57%) SaaS
6 164 (11.37%) Azure DevOps
7 111 (7.69%) GitHub
8 110 (7.62%) Power Platform
9 109 (7.55%) IaaS
10 105 (7.28%) OneDrive
11 79 (5.47%) Azure Monitor
12 76 (5.27%) Azure Sentinel
12 76 (5.27%) PaaS
13 69 (4.78%) Power Automate
14 68 (4.71%) Azure AKS
15 65 (4.50%) GCP
16 64 (4.44%) Azure Key Vault
16 64 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
17 49 (3.40%) Datadog
18 48 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 318 (22.04%) Firewall
2 308 (21.34%) DNS
3 207 (14.35%) DHCP
4 200 (13.86%) VPN
5 139 (9.63%) TCP/IP
6 97 (6.72%) WAN
7 86 (5.96%) LAN
8 69 (4.78%) Network Security
9 68 (4.71%) VLAN
10 45 (3.12%) Wi-Fi
11 44 (3.05%) Wireless
12 40 (2.77%) SAN
13 32 (2.22%) Kerberos
14 27 (1.87%) VoIP
15 22 (1.52%) SSL
16 21 (1.46%) NAS
17 18 (1.25%) HTTP
18 17 (1.18%) BGP
18 17 (1.18%) Internet
19 16 (1.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (10.88%) SQL Server
2 81 (5.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 66 (4.57%) Power BI
4 32 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.59%) MongoDB
6 20 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (1.18%) Relational Database
7 17 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (1.11%) MySQL
9 13 (0.90%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (0.55%) InfluxDB
12 7 (0.49%) Redis
13 6 (0.42%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.42%) Power Query
14 5 (0.35%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.35%) Metadata
14 5 (0.35%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.28%) Db2
Development Applications
1 110 (7.62%) Git
2 90 (6.24%) JIRA
3 66 (4.57%) GitLab
4 59 (4.09%) Jenkins
5 30 (2.08%) Bitbucket
6 13 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.76%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
8 7 (0.49%) Metasploit
8 7 (0.49%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.49%) TestRail
9 6 (0.42%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.42%) Selenium
9 6 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 5 (0.35%) Postman
11 4 (0.28%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.21%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.21%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.21%) Terragrunt
General
1 502 (34.79%) Social Skills
2 230 (15.94%) Finance
3 184 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (8.87%) Law
5 112 (7.76%) Legal
6 66 (4.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 48 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
8 46 (3.19%) Retail
9 41 (2.84%) Public Sector
10 36 (2.49%) Banking
11 34 (2.36%) Manufacturing
12 33 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
13 25 (1.73%) Aerospace
14 16 (1.11%) Advertising
15 12 (0.83%) Telecoms
16 11 (0.76%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (0.76%) Legal Technology
17 8 (0.55%) Front Office
17 8 (0.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 279 (19.33%) Senior
2 193 (13.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 153 (10.60%) Analyst
4 143 (9.91%) Support Engineer
5 137 (9.49%) IT Engineer
6 133 (9.22%) Azure Engineer
7 130 (9.01%) IT Support
8 128 (8.87%) Cloud Engineer
9 104 (7.21%) DevOps Engineer
10 76 (5.27%) IT Support Engineer
11 74 (5.13%) Security Engineer
12 69 (4.78%) Platform Engineer
13 68 (4.71%) Lead
14 62 (4.30%) Developer
14 62 (4.30%) Systems Engineer
15 56 (3.88%) 2nd Line Support
16 55 (3.81%) Testing Manager
17 53 (3.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 52 (3.60%) Senior Manager
19 51 (3.53%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (6.03%) .NET
2 52 (3.60%) ARM Templates
3 50 (3.47%) REST
4 49 (3.40%) SAML
5 47 (3.26%) YAML
6 45 (3.12%) OAuth
7 42 (2.91%) HTML
7 42 (2.91%) Microsoft Graph
8 40 (2.77%) OpenID
9 39 (2.70%) LDAP
10 34 (2.36%) .NET Core
11 33 (2.29%) JSON
12 32 (2.22%) CSS
13 25 (1.73%) SPFx
14 20 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
15 19 (1.32%) HTML5 Canvas
16 16 (1.11%) SOAP
17 15 (1.04%) ASP.NET
17 15 (1.04%) Middleware
17 15 (1.04%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 115 (7.97%) Onboarding
2 88 (6.10%) Cloud Native
3 74 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 69 (4.78%) Management Information System
4 69 (4.78%) Security Posture
5 62 (4.30%) Driving Licence
6 57 (3.95%) Virtual Team
7 52 (3.60%) Data Centre
8 46 (3.19%) Public Cloud
9 42 (2.91%) Security Operations Centre
10 39 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
10 39 (2.70%) PKI
11 37 (2.56%) Replication
11 37 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
12 32 (2.22%) Clustering
13 28 (1.94%) Cyber Defence
14 26 (1.80%) Cyber Threat
14 26 (1.80%) Private Cloud
15 24 (1.66%) CMDB
16 21 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 685 (47.47%) Windows
2 338 (23.42%) Linux
3 328 (22.73%) Windows Server
4 80 (5.54%) Windows 10
5 53 (3.67%) Apple iOS
6 47 (3.26%) Mac OS
7 44 (3.05%) VMS
8 42 (2.91%) Android
9 37 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
10 36 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 36 (2.49%) Ubuntu
11 35 (2.43%) CentOS
12 25 (1.73%) Windows Server 2019
13 18 (1.25%) Unix
14 7 (0.49%) Debian
14 7 (0.49%) Kali Linux
15 6 (0.42%) Rocky
15 6 (0.42%) Solaris
16 5 (0.35%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.28%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (25.29%) DevOps
1 365 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
2 329 (22.80%) CI/CD
2 329 (22.80%) Infrastructure as Code
3 328 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
4 288 (19.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 276 (19.13%) ITIL
6 240 (16.63%) Cybersecurity
7 209 (14.48%) Mentoring
8 187 (12.96%) Disaster Recovery
9 168 (11.64%) High Availability
9 168 (11.64%) Root Cause Analysis
10 166 (11.50%) Incident Response
11 160 (11.09%) Agile
12 139 (9.63%) AI
13 136 (9.42%) Containerisation
14 134 (9.29%) SIEM
15 129 (8.94%) Observability
16 128 (8.87%) Platform Engineering
17 127 (8.80%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 578 (40.06%) Python
2 309 (21.41%) Bash
3 278 (19.27%) SQL
4 145 (10.05%) C#
5 132 (9.15%) JavaScript
6 108 (7.48%) Bicep
7 82 (5.68%) TypeScript
8 51 (3.53%) Kusto Query Language
9 40 (2.77%) Java
10 37 (2.56%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.46%) VBScript
12 18 (1.25%) C++
13 17 (1.18%) Perl
14 14 (0.97%) PHP
15 11 (0.76%) Ruby
16 10 (0.69%) VBA
17 9 (0.62%) Go
17 9 (0.62%) VB
18 8 (0.55%) C
19 6 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 194 (13.44%) Security Cleared
2 176 (12.20%) Degree
3 161 (11.16%) Azure Certification
4 144 (9.98%) Microsoft Certification
5 138 (9.56%) SC Cleared
6 63 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 62 (4.30%) Cisco Certification
8 54 (3.74%) CISSP
9 53 (3.67%) CompTIA Security+
10 50 (3.47%) DV Cleared
11 45 (3.12%) CCNA
12 27 (1.87%) CEH
13 24 (1.66%) DBS Check
14 23 (1.59%) AWS Certification
14 23 (1.59%) OSCP
15 22 (1.52%) GIAC
16 21 (1.46%) CCNP
17 18 (1.25%) CISM
18 17 (1.18%) CREST Certified
19 16 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (8.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 77 (5.34%) QA
3 74 (5.13%) NIST
4 66 (4.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 57 (3.95%) GDPR
6 45 (3.12%) SLA
7 19 (1.32%) Data Quality
8 18 (1.25%) PCI DSS
9 17 (1.18%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.55%) ISO 22301
11 7 (0.49%) PMO
12 6 (0.42%) NCSC
13 5 (0.35%) Accessibility
13 5 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.21%) ISAE 3402
16 2 (0.14%) EMIR
16 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 517 (35.83%) Active Directory
2 238 (16.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 160 (11.09%) Hyper-V
4 142 (9.84%) Docker
5 81 (5.61%) vSphere
6 56 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
7 47 (3.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (1.87%) VMware NSX
9 23 (1.59%) BitLocker
10 18 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
11 11 (0.76%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 9 (0.62%) KVM
13 8 (0.55%) Squid
14 6 (0.42%) Firmware
15 5 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
16 4 (0.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 3 (0.21%) Terminal Services
18 2 (0.14%) Samba
19 1 (0.069%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 354 (24.53%) Terraform
2 247 (17.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 240 (16.63%) Kubernetes
4 178 (12.34%) Ansible
5 79 (5.47%) Grafana
6 72 (4.99%) SCCM
7 52 (3.60%) Single Sign-On
8 48 (3.33%) Prometheus
9 25 (1.73%) vCenter Server
9 25 (1.73%) ZABBIX
10 24 (1.66%) Jamf Pro
11 21 (1.46%) Argo
12 20 (1.39%) Packer
12 20 (1.39%) Proxmox
12 20 (1.39%) QRadar
13 15 (1.04%) Puppet
14 14 (0.97%) Graylog
15 13 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 13 (0.90%) VxRail
16 12 (0.83%) Nagios
Vendors
1 881 (61.05%) Microsoft
2 279 (19.33%) VMware
3 128 (8.87%) Cisco
4 108 (7.48%) ServiceNow
5 93 (6.44%) Splunk
6 64 (4.44%) Red Hat
7 58 (4.02%) Veeam
8 49 (3.40%) Oracle
9 48 (3.33%) Meraki
10 38 (2.63%) Citrix
11 34 (2.36%) Dynatrace
12 32 (2.22%) Sophos
13 31 (2.15%) Dell
14 30 (2.08%) Tenable
15 28 (1.94%) Apple
15 28 (1.94%) CrowdStrike
16 25 (1.73%) Fortinet
17 24 (1.66%) CyberArk
18 22 (1.52%) Okta
19 21 (1.46%) Palo Alto