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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 87 102
Rank change year-on-year -63 +15 -37
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,504 1,622 1,819
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.29% 3.29% 2.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.98% 12.45% 7.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,016 1,079 1,176
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,250 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £99,237
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -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 18,839 13,029 23,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.10% 26.45% 30.88%
Number of salaries quoted 13,310 8,426 14,516
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,644 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,886 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -68 1,306 £59,000 +2.61% 1,179
UK excluding London -69 983 £52,500 +1.94% 767
Work from Home -34 522 £60,000 +2.56% 529
London -31 472 £70,000 -3.45% 487
North of England -87 242 £50,000 - 200
South East -52 239 £52,500 -8.70% 212
Midlands -53 161 £52,500 +5.00% 115
North West -69 148 £50,000 +5.26% 110
East of England -43 99 £57,500 +21.05% 66
South West -72 89 £55,000 +15.79% 84
West Midlands -77 82 £55,000 +2.44% 65
East Midlands -17 79 £42,500 +21.43% 50
Northern Ireland -28 70 £46,000 - 25
Yorkshire -41 58 £45,472 -11.92% 66
Scotland -2 46 £51,250 +3.10% 54
Wales -56 37 £38,500 -30.00% 25
North East -39 36 £51,500 -6.36% 27

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
1 252 (16.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 244 (16.22%) SharePoint
3 55 (3.66%) IIS
4 43 (2.86%) Confluence
5 15 (1.00%) nginx
6 8 (0.53%) Apache
7 6 (0.40%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.066%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.066%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.066%) WebSphere
Applications
1 65 (4.32%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (2.39%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.53%) 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 (0.066%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 895 (59.51%) Azure
2 567 (37.70%) Microsoft 365
3 473 (31.45%) Entra ID
4 264 (17.55%) AWS
5 186 (12.37%) SaaS
6 181 (12.03%) Azure DevOps
7 119 (7.91%) Power Platform
8 118 (7.85%) GitHub
9 116 (7.71%) OneDrive
10 107 (7.11%) IaaS
11 90 (5.98%) Azure Monitor
12 86 (5.72%) Azure Sentinel
13 81 (5.39%) PaaS
14 80 (5.32%) Power Automate
15 74 (4.92%) GCP
16 72 (4.79%) Azure AKS
17 69 (4.59%) Azure Key Vault
18 68 (4.52%) GitHub Actions
19 63 (4.19%) Microsoft Purview
20 55 (3.66%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 327 (21.74%) Firewall
2 325 (21.61%) DNS
3 223 (14.83%) DHCP
4 220 (14.63%) VPN
5 147 (9.77%) TCP/IP
6 100 (6.65%) WAN
7 86 (5.72%) LAN
8 75 (4.99%) VLAN
9 61 (4.06%) Network Security
10 57 (3.79%) Wireless
11 47 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
12 36 (2.39%) SAN
13 33 (2.19%) Kerberos
14 26 (1.73%) SSL
15 22 (1.46%) HTTP
15 22 (1.46%) NAS
16 17 (1.13%) Internet
17 16 (1.06%) VoIP
17 16 (1.06%) VSAN
18 12 (0.80%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (9.91%) SQL Server
2 86 (5.72%) Azure SQL Database
3 62 (4.12%) Power BI
4 27 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (1.40%) MongoDB
6 16 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.06%) Relational Database
7 13 (0.86%) MySQL
8 12 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (0.66%) Data Lake
9 10 (0.66%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.53%) InfluxDB
10 8 (0.53%) Power Query
10 8 (0.53%) Redis
11 7 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.40%) Metadata
13 5 (0.33%) Db2
13 5 (0.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 105 (6.98%) JIRA
2 98 (6.52%) Git
3 79 (5.25%) GitLab
4 68 (4.52%) Jenkins
5 28 (1.86%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
8 10 (0.66%) TeamCity
9 8 (0.53%) Robot Framework
9 8 (0.53%) TestRail
10 7 (0.47%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.40%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.40%) Postman
11 6 (0.40%) Selenium
12 5 (0.33%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.33%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.27%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
13 4 (0.27%) MSI
General
1 574 (38.16%) Social Skills
2 251 (16.69%) Finance
3 196 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (7.58%) Legal
5 113 (7.51%) Law
6 74 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (3.99%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (3.32%) Retail
9 46 (3.06%) Banking
10 44 (2.93%) Public Sector
11 37 (2.46%) Aerospace
11 37 (2.46%) Manufacturing
12 36 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (0.93%) Legal Technology
14 13 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (0.73%) Financial Institution
16 10 (0.66%) Investment Banking
17 9 (0.60%) Aviation
17 9 (0.60%) Front Office
17 9 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 291 (19.35%) Senior
2 211 (14.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 171 (11.37%) Analyst
4 138 (9.18%) Azure Engineer
5 137 (9.11%) Support Engineer
6 131 (8.71%) Cloud Engineer
6 131 (8.71%) IT Engineer
7 112 (7.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 109 (7.25%) IT Support
9 85 (5.65%) Platform Engineer
10 77 (5.12%) Consultant
11 76 (5.05%) Lead
12 71 (4.72%) Support Analyst
13 66 (4.39%) IT Support Engineer
14 64 (4.26%) Systems Engineer
15 62 (4.12%) Security Engineer
16 58 (3.86%) Administrator
17 57 (3.79%) Testing Manager
18 55 (3.66%) Senior Manager
19 54 (3.59%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 382 (25.40%) Terraform
2 72 (4.79%) .NET
3 58 (3.86%) REST
4 56 (3.72%) ARM Templates
5 47 (3.13%) SAML
6 45 (2.99%) Microsoft Graph
7 44 (2.93%) LDAP
8 43 (2.86%) YAML
9 42 (2.79%) OAuth
9 42 (2.79%) OpenID
10 35 (2.33%) HTML
11 29 (1.93%) JSON
12 26 (1.73%) CSS
13 25 (1.66%) SPFx
14 23 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
15 21 (1.40%) .NET Core
16 16 (1.06%) SOAP
17 14 (0.93%) ASP.NET
17 14 (0.93%) HTML5 Canvas
17 14 (0.93%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 131 (8.71%) Onboarding
2 91 (6.05%) Cloud Native
3 81 (5.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 77 (5.12%) Driving Licence
5 75 (4.99%) Management Information System
6 74 (4.92%) Security Posture
7 61 (4.06%) Virtual Team
8 52 (3.46%) Enterprise Software
8 52 (3.46%) PKI
9 48 (3.19%) Data Centre
9 48 (3.19%) Replication
10 43 (2.86%) Public Cloud
10 43 (2.86%) Security Operations Centre
11 36 (2.39%) Clustering
12 33 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
13 26 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
14 24 (1.60%) Private Cloud
15 23 (1.53%) Cyber Defence
16 20 (1.33%) CMDB
17 19 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 708 (47.07%) Windows
2 348 (23.14%) Linux
3 336 (22.34%) Windows Server
4 95 (6.32%) Windows 10
5 53 (3.52%) Apple iOS
6 44 (2.93%) Ubuntu
7 41 (2.73%) Android
8 40 (2.66%) Mac OS
8 40 (2.66%) VMS
9 34 (2.26%) CentOS
9 34 (2.26%) Windows Server 2016
10 30 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 27 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
12 24 (1.60%) Unix
13 16 (1.06%) Rocky
14 8 (0.53%) Debian
14 8 (0.53%) Solaris
15 5 (0.33%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.33%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.27%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
2 396 (26.33%) DevOps
3 382 (25.40%) Continuous Improvement
4 360 (23.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 334 (22.21%) CI/CD
6 324 (21.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 279 (18.55%) ITIL
8 262 (17.42%) Cybersecurity
9 232 (15.43%) Mentoring
10 201 (13.36%) Disaster Recovery
11 176 (11.70%) AI
12 175 (11.64%) Agile
13 165 (10.97%) Root Cause Analysis
14 159 (10.57%) High Availability
15 158 (10.51%) Project Delivery
16 152 (10.11%) Platform Engineering
17 148 (9.84%) Cloud Security
18 142 (9.44%) Incident Response
19 139 (9.24%) Migration
20 134 (8.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 593 (39.43%) Python
2 316 (21.01%) Bash
3 309 (20.55%) SQL
4 142 (9.44%) JavaScript
5 132 (8.78%) C#
6 129 (8.58%) Bicep
7 84 (5.59%) TypeScript
8 50 (3.32%) Kusto Query Language
9 39 (2.59%) Java
10 37 (2.46%) T-SQL
11 23 (1.53%) VBScript
12 21 (1.40%) C++
13 19 (1.26%) Perl
14 13 (0.86%) PHP
14 13 (0.86%) Ruby
15 11 (0.73%) VBA
16 10 (0.66%) VB
17 9 (0.60%) Go
18 7 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 6 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 217 (14.43%) Security Cleared
2 173 (11.50%) Degree
3 163 (10.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 160 (10.64%) Azure Certification
5 145 (9.64%) SC Cleared
6 65 (4.32%) DV Cleared
7 61 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 59 (3.92%) CISSP
9 55 (3.66%) Cisco Certification
10 53 (3.52%) CompTIA Security+
11 43 (2.86%) CCNA
12 28 (1.86%) CEH
13 25 (1.66%) AWS Certification
14 23 (1.53%) CISM
15 22 (1.46%) DBS Check
16 21 (1.40%) OSCP
17 18 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 17 (1.13%) CREST Certified
18 17 (1.13%) GIAC
19 15 (1.00%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 82 (5.45%) QA
3 73 (4.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 63 (4.19%) NIST
5 49 (3.26%) GDPR
6 46 (3.06%) SLA
7 20 (1.33%) PCI DSS
8 19 (1.26%) Data Quality
9 15 (1.00%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 9 (0.60%) NCSC
10 9 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.47%) PMO
12 5 (0.33%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.27%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.13%) EMIR
15 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 548 (36.44%) Active Directory
2 247 (16.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 158 (10.51%) Hyper-V
4 144 (9.57%) Docker
5 82 (5.45%) vSphere
6 75 (4.99%) Virtual Machines
7 58 (3.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 28 (1.86%) VMware NSX
9 22 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
10 18 (1.20%) BitLocker
11 11 (0.73%) Firmware
12 8 (0.53%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.53%) KVM
12 8 (0.53%) Squid
13 5 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 1 (0.066%) Ceph
16 1 (0.066%) HDFS
16 1 (0.066%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 267 (17.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 227 (15.09%) Kubernetes
3 175 (11.64%) Ansible
4 83 (5.52%) Grafana
5 77 (5.12%) SCCM
6 59 (3.92%) Single Sign-On
7 47 (3.13%) Prometheus
8 27 (1.80%) vCenter Server
9 25 (1.66%) ZABBIX
10 24 (1.60%) Argo
11 23 (1.53%) Puppet
12 20 (1.33%) Proxmox
12 20 (1.33%) QRadar
13 17 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
13 17 (1.13%) Packer
14 15 (1.00%) FortiGate
14 15 (1.00%) Graylog
15 13 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 11 (0.73%) VxRail
17 10 (0.66%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 944 (62.77%) Microsoft
2 282 (18.75%) VMware
3 106 (7.05%) Cisco
4 103 (6.85%) ServiceNow
5 91 (6.05%) Splunk
6 66 (4.39%) Veeam
7 52 (3.46%) Oracle
8 51 (3.39%) Red Hat
9 43 (2.86%) Citrix
10 39 (2.59%) Meraki
11 34 (2.26%) Sage
12 32 (2.13%) Dell
13 31 (2.06%) Dynatrace
14 29 (1.93%) CyberArk
14 29 (1.93%) SAP
14 29 (1.93%) Sophos
15 27 (1.80%) Tenable
16 26 (1.73%) Apple
16 26 (1.73%) Fortinet
16 26 (1.73%) Google