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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 90 115
Rank change year-on-year -56 +25 -38
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,464 1,650 1,850
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.36% 3.31% 2.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.89% 11.97% 7.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,039 1,108 1,382
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 £57,763
Median % change year-on-year - -0.45% -3.73%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,563 £78,750
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 18,548 13,784 25,163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.25% 27.62% 30.30%
Number of salaries quoted 13,164 9,048 17,496
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,175 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,250 £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 £85,000 £83,750 £80,063
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
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 20 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 20 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 -60 1,296 £59,500 +3.48% 442
UK excluding London -57 955 £52,500 +5.00% 320
Work from Home -35 500 £62,500 +8.23% 180
London -30 478 £70,000 -3.45% 183
South East -30 246 £52,500 -8.70% 130
North of England -77 224 £50,000 +5.26% 67
Midlands -32 159 £52,500 +5.00% 45
North West -81 126 £51,500 +11.96% 43
East of England -30 101 £57,500 +13.86% 34
East Midlands -8 84 £42,500 +21.43% 19
South West -78 83 £55,000 +17.65% 39
West Midlands -60 75 £55,000 - 26
Northern Ireland -20 70 £46,000 - 2
Yorkshire -36 62 £42,500 -16.26% 15
Scotland +12 42 £50,000 +25.00% 13
North East -33 36 £50,000 -16.67% 10
Wales -44 30 £53,000 -3.64% 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
1 240 (16.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 230 (15.71%) SharePoint
3 55 (3.76%) IIS
4 33 (2.25%) Confluence
5 12 (0.82%) nginx
6 7 (0.48%) Apache
7 6 (0.41%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
9 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.068%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.068%) WebSphere
Applications
1 76 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 17 (1.16%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.41%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.20%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.20%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.068%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.068%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 905 (61.82%) Azure
2 540 (36.89%) Microsoft 365
3 413 (28.21%) Entra ID
4 260 (17.76%) AWS
5 175 (11.95%) SaaS
6 167 (11.41%) Azure DevOps
7 113 (7.72%) GitHub
8 110 (7.51%) Power Platform
9 109 (7.45%) IaaS
10 108 (7.38%) OneDrive
11 80 (5.46%) Azure Monitor
12 79 (5.40%) Azure Sentinel
13 76 (5.19%) PaaS
14 73 (4.99%) Power Automate
15 70 (4.78%) GCP
16 69 (4.71%) Azure AKS
17 66 (4.51%) Azure Key Vault
18 64 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
19 52 (3.55%) Datadog
20 49 (3.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 321 (21.93%) Firewall
2 314 (21.45%) DNS
3 211 (14.41%) DHCP
4 204 (13.93%) VPN
5 142 (9.70%) TCP/IP
6 98 (6.69%) WAN
7 85 (5.81%) LAN
8 69 (4.71%) Network Security
9 68 (4.64%) VLAN
10 48 (3.28%) Wireless
11 43 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
12 39 (2.66%) SAN
13 31 (2.12%) Kerberos
14 24 (1.64%) VoIP
15 23 (1.57%) NAS
16 22 (1.50%) SSL
17 18 (1.23%) HTTP
17 18 (1.23%) Internet
18 17 (1.16%) BGP
18 17 (1.16%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (10.38%) SQL Server
2 82 (5.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 63 (4.30%) Power BI
4 29 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.57%) MongoDB
6 19 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (1.16%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 14 (0.96%) MySQL
11 13 (0.89%) NoSQL
12 9 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (0.48%) InfluxDB
13 7 (0.48%) Redis
14 6 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.41%) Power Query
15 5 (0.34%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.34%) Metadata
15 5 (0.34%) RDBMS
16 4 (0.27%) Db2
Development Applications
1 109 (7.45%) Git
2 97 (6.63%) JIRA
3 71 (4.85%) GitLab
4 61 (4.17%) Jenkins
5 29 (1.98%) Bitbucket
6 13 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.75%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
8 7 (0.48%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.48%) TestRail
9 6 (0.41%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.41%) Metasploit
9 6 (0.41%) Selenium
9 6 (0.41%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.34%) Postman
11 3 (0.20%) Burp Suite
11 3 (0.20%) MSI
11 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 525 (35.86%) Social Skills
2 240 (16.39%) Finance
3 191 (13.05%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (8.95%) Law
5 121 (8.27%) Legal
6 64 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
8 44 (3.01%) Retail
9 43 (2.94%) Public Sector
10 40 (2.73%) Banking
11 33 (2.25%) Manufacturing
11 33 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
12 27 (1.84%) Aerospace
13 16 (1.09%) Advertising
14 15 (1.02%) Legal Technology
15 12 (0.82%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (0.68%) Telecoms
18 9 (0.61%) Front Office
18 9 (0.61%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 286 (19.54%) Senior
2 194 (13.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 157 (10.72%) Analyst
4 139 (9.49%) Support Engineer
5 137 (9.36%) Azure Engineer
6 136 (9.29%) IT Engineer
7 131 (8.95%) Cloud Engineer
8 129 (8.81%) IT Support
9 107 (7.31%) DevOps Engineer
10 72 (4.92%) IT Support Engineer
10 72 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
11 70 (4.78%) Security Engineer
12 68 (4.64%) Lead
13 63 (4.30%) Systems Engineer
14 62 (4.23%) Developer
15 58 (3.96%) Testing Manager
16 55 (3.76%) Senior Manager
17 54 (3.69%) Administrator
18 53 (3.62%) 2nd Line Support
18 53 (3.62%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 364 (24.86%) Terraform
2 85 (5.81%) .NET
3 53 (3.62%) ARM Templates
4 50 (3.42%) REST
5 47 (3.21%) YAML
6 46 (3.14%) SAML
7 43 (2.94%) Microsoft Graph
8 42 (2.87%) HTML
8 42 (2.87%) OAuth
9 39 (2.66%) LDAP
10 38 (2.60%) OpenID
11 32 (2.19%) .NET Core
11 32 (2.19%) CSS
11 32 (2.19%) JSON
12 25 (1.71%) SPFx
13 20 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (1.30%) HTML5 Canvas
15 16 (1.09%) SOAP
16 15 (1.02%) ASP.NET
16 15 (1.02%) React
Miscellaneous
1 118 (8.06%) Onboarding
2 86 (5.87%) Cloud Native
3 75 (5.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 70 (4.78%) Management Information System
5 69 (4.71%) Security Posture
6 67 (4.58%) Driving Licence
7 60 (4.10%) Virtual Team
8 51 (3.48%) Data Centre
9 44 (3.01%) Public Cloud
10 43 (2.94%) PKI
10 43 (2.94%) Security Operations Centre
11 41 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
11 41 (2.80%) Replication
12 37 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
13 36 (2.46%) Clustering
14 28 (1.91%) Private Cloud
15 27 (1.84%) Cyber Defence
16 25 (1.71%) CMDB
16 25 (1.71%) Cyber Threat
17 21 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 693 (47.34%) Windows
2 339 (23.16%) Linux
3 328 (22.40%) Windows Server
4 79 (5.40%) Windows 10
5 53 (3.62%) Apple iOS
6 47 (3.21%) Mac OS
7 42 (2.87%) Android
8 40 (2.73%) VMS
9 36 (2.46%) Ubuntu
10 35 (2.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 33 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 31 (2.12%) CentOS
13 25 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
14 17 (1.16%) Unix
15 7 (0.48%) Rocky
16 6 (0.41%) Debian
16 6 (0.41%) Kali Linux
16 6 (0.41%) Solaris
17 5 (0.34%) CoreOS
18 4 (0.27%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (26.16%) Problem-Solving
2 377 (25.75%) DevOps
3 349 (23.84%) Continuous Improvement
4 342 (23.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 336 (22.95%) CI/CD
6 297 (20.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 288 (19.67%) ITIL
8 241 (16.46%) Cybersecurity
9 217 (14.82%) Mentoring
10 189 (12.91%) Disaster Recovery
11 176 (12.02%) High Availability
12 172 (11.75%) Root Cause Analysis
13 163 (11.13%) Incident Response
14 161 (11.00%) Agile
15 147 (10.04%) AI
16 138 (9.43%) Containerisation
17 134 (9.15%) SIEM
18 132 (9.02%) Project Delivery
19 130 (8.88%) Cloud Security
19 130 (8.88%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 584 (39.89%) Python
2 308 (21.04%) Bash
3 283 (19.33%) SQL
4 146 (9.97%) C#
5 139 (9.49%) JavaScript
6 113 (7.72%) Bicep
7 87 (5.94%) TypeScript
8 50 (3.42%) Kusto Query Language
9 40 (2.73%) Java
10 36 (2.46%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.43%) VBScript
12 19 (1.30%) C++
13 18 (1.23%) Perl
14 14 (0.96%) PHP
15 11 (0.75%) Ruby
16 10 (0.68%) VBA
17 9 (0.61%) Go
17 9 (0.61%) VB
18 8 (0.55%) C
19 6 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 195 (13.32%) Security Cleared
2 176 (12.02%) Degree
3 162 (11.07%) Azure Certification
4 149 (10.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 138 (9.43%) SC Cleared
6 66 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 63 (4.30%) Cisco Certification
8 54 (3.69%) CompTIA Security+
9 53 (3.62%) DV Cleared
10 52 (3.55%) CISSP
11 46 (3.14%) CCNA
12 28 (1.91%) CEH
13 24 (1.64%) DBS Check
14 23 (1.57%) AWS Certification
14 23 (1.57%) OSCP
15 22 (1.50%) GIAC
16 20 (1.37%) CCNP
17 18 (1.23%) CISM
17 18 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 15 (1.02%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (7.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 81 (5.53%) QA
3 73 (4.99%) NIST
4 68 (4.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 53 (3.62%) GDPR
6 47 (3.21%) SLA
7 19 (1.30%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.16%) PCI DSS
9 16 (1.09%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.48%) ISO 22301
11 7 (0.48%) PMO
12 6 (0.41%) NCSC
13 5 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.27%) Accessibility
14 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
16 2 (0.14%) EMIR
16 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 528 (36.07%) Active Directory
2 242 (16.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 164 (11.20%) Hyper-V
4 144 (9.84%) Docker
5 83 (5.67%) vSphere
6 61 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
7 51 (3.48%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (1.84%) VMware NSX
9 23 (1.57%) BitLocker
10 18 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.68%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.55%) KVM
12 8 (0.55%) Squid
13 7 (0.48%) Firmware
14 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.20%) Terminal Services
17 2 (0.14%) Samba
18 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 254 (17.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 239 (16.33%) Kubernetes
3 182 (12.43%) Ansible
4 81 (5.53%) Grafana
5 75 (5.12%) SCCM
6 51 (3.48%) Single Sign-On
7 47 (3.21%) Prometheus
8 25 (1.71%) vCenter Server
8 25 (1.71%) ZABBIX
9 23 (1.57%) Jamf Pro
10 21 (1.43%) Argo
10 21 (1.43%) QRadar
11 20 (1.37%) Packer
11 20 (1.37%) Proxmox
12 19 (1.30%) Puppet
13 15 (1.02%) Graylog
14 13 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 13 (0.89%) VxRail
15 11 (0.75%) FortiGate
15 11 (0.75%) Nagios
Vendors
1 897 (61.27%) Microsoft
2 283 (19.33%) VMware
3 127 (8.67%) Cisco
4 108 (7.38%) ServiceNow
5 94 (6.42%) Splunk
6 58 (3.96%) Red Hat
7 57 (3.89%) Veeam
8 50 (3.42%) Oracle
9 49 (3.35%) Meraki
10 40 (2.73%) Citrix
11 36 (2.46%) Dynatrace
12 32 (2.19%) Sophos
13 31 (2.12%) Dell
14 30 (2.05%) Tenable
15 29 (1.98%) CrowdStrike
16 27 (1.84%) Apple
17 25 (1.71%) CyberArk
18 24 (1.64%) Fortinet
19 21 (1.43%) Palo Alto
19 21 (1.43%) Qualys