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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 87 111
Rank change year-on-year -51 +24 -27
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,351 1,617 2,374
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.41% 3.50% 2.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.87% 11.51% 7.07%
Number of salaries quoted 999 1,043 1,914
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,918
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,875 £77,500 £75,531
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,524 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +3.05% -3.85%

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 17,170 14,043 33,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.98% 30.37% 31.76%
Number of salaries quoted 12,189 9,299 25,323
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.92% -0.91%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 -55 1,262 £57,500 -1.71% 322
UK excluding London -64 821 £50,000 -2.96% 274
London -11 502 £70,000 -3.45% 104
Work from Home -47 438 £60,000 +6.19% 150
South East -36 222 £54,000 -6.09% 115
North of England -91 203 £47,500 -7.99% 62
Midlands -50 139 £50,000 - 31
North West -84 106 £50,000 +4.38% 39
East of England -15 92 £54,000 +8.00% 27
South West -52 92 £55,000 +15.79% 32
East Midlands -3 77 £45,000 +28.57% 15
Yorkshire -30 63 £45,000 -18.18% 14
West Midlands -69 61 £51,250 -5.69% 16
Scotland +39 45 £50,000 +12.99% 11
North East -25 34 £47,500 -20.83% 12
Wales -20 25 £53,171 -3.33% 8
Northern Ireland -30 3 £46,000 +6.75% 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
1 214 (15.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 195 (14.43%) SharePoint
3 47 (3.48%) IIS
4 25 (1.85%) Confluence
5 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.22%) nginx
5 3 (0.22%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.15%) Apache
6 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.15%) SAS
7 1 (0.074%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.074%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.074%) Site Server
7 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
Applications
1 78 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.074%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.074%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (0.67%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.30%) Raiser’s Edge
5 3 (0.22%) Alphatax
5 3 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.15%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.074%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.074%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.074%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 881 (65.21%) Azure
2 495 (36.64%) Microsoft 365
3 364 (26.94%) Entra ID
4 228 (16.88%) AWS
5 153 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
6 124 (9.18%) Power Platform
7 114 (8.44%) GitHub
8 103 (7.62%) IaaS
9 96 (7.11%) SaaS
10 90 (6.66%) OneDrive
11 83 (6.14%) Azure Monitor
12 74 (5.48%) PaaS
13 73 (5.40%) GitHub Actions
14 65 (4.81%) Power Automate
15 63 (4.66%) Azure AKS
16 61 (4.52%) Azure Sentinel
17 58 (4.29%) Azure Key Vault
17 58 (4.29%) GCP
18 55 (4.07%) Google Workspace
19 51 (3.77%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 291 (21.54%) Firewall
2 282 (20.87%) DNS
3 197 (14.58%) VPN
4 189 (13.99%) DHCP
5 122 (9.03%) TCP/IP
6 89 (6.59%) WAN
7 86 (6.37%) LAN
8 77 (5.70%) Network Security
9 69 (5.11%) VLAN
10 51 (3.77%) Wi-Fi
11 46 (3.40%) Broadband
12 37 (2.74%) VoIP
13 35 (2.59%) Wireless
14 33 (2.44%) SAN
15 23 (1.70%) BGP
16 22 (1.63%) Kerberos
17 17 (1.26%) SD-WAN
18 16 (1.18%) SSL
19 15 (1.11%) MPLS
20 14 (1.04%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (11.77%) SQL Server
2 84 (6.22%) Power BI
3 78 (5.77%) Azure SQL Database
4 45 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (1.85%) MySQL
6 25 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 21 (1.55%) MongoDB
8 16 (1.18%) Relational Database
9 15 (1.11%) NoSQL
10 14 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 13 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (0.74%) InfluxDB
13 9 (0.67%) Tableau
14 8 (0.59%) Data Lake
15 6 (0.44%) Metadata
16 5 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
16 5 (0.37%) Redis
16 5 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 4 (0.30%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 110 (8.14%) Git
2 75 (5.55%) JIRA
3 69 (5.11%) Jenkins
4 65 (4.81%) GitLab
5 33 (2.44%) Bitbucket
6 17 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
7 14 (1.04%) Metasploit
7 14 (1.04%) TeamCity
8 13 (0.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 11 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
10 10 (0.74%) Burp Suite
11 9 (0.67%) Robot Framework
12 8 (0.59%) TestRail
13 7 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (0.44%) Cypress.io
14 6 (0.44%) Selenium
15 5 (0.37%) CircleCI
16 4 (0.30%) Artifactory
16 4 (0.30%) SonarQube
17 3 (0.22%) Terragrunt
General
1 417 (30.87%) Social Skills
2 217 (16.06%) Finance
3 167 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (7.11%) Law
5 73 (5.40%) Organisational Skills
6 58 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 51 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (3.63%) Legal
9 44 (3.26%) Retail
10 38 (2.81%) Public Sector
11 26 (1.92%) Manufacturing
12 25 (1.85%) Aerospace
13 24 (1.78%) Banking
14 20 (1.48%) Games
15 17 (1.26%) Advertising
15 17 (1.26%) Telecoms
16 9 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (0.59%) Aviation
18 6 (0.44%) Investment Banking
18 6 (0.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 247 (18.28%) Senior
2 171 (12.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 156 (11.55%) Analyst
4 153 (11.32%) Support Engineer
5 141 (10.44%) IT Support
6 136 (10.07%) IT Engineer
7 133 (9.84%) Azure Engineer
8 111 (8.22%) Cloud Engineer
9 102 (7.55%) DevOps Engineer
10 86 (6.37%) IT Support Engineer
10 86 (6.37%) Security Engineer
11 70 (5.18%) Platform Engineer
12 65 (4.81%) Developer
13 61 (4.52%) Systems Engineer
14 60 (4.44%) 2nd Line Support
15 54 (4.00%) Lead
16 50 (3.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 45 (3.33%) Architect
18 44 (3.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
19 43 (3.18%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (6.66%) .NET
2 83 (6.14%) SAML
3 81 (6.00%) OAuth
4 80 (5.92%) REST
5 74 (5.48%) OpenID
6 71 (5.26%) LDAP
7 52 (3.85%) SOAP
8 47 (3.48%) ARM Templates
9 44 (3.26%) YAML
10 42 (3.11%) GraphQL
10 42 (3.11%) JSON
11 40 (2.96%) HTML
12 39 (2.89%) Microsoft Graph
13 37 (2.74%) .NET Core
14 33 (2.44%) CSS
15 25 (1.85%) SPFx
16 23 (1.70%) Elastic Stack
17 19 (1.41%) HTML5 Canvas
18 17 (1.26%) XML
19 16 (1.18%) React
Miscellaneous
1 103 (7.62%) Onboarding
2 78 (5.77%) Cloud Native
3 77 (5.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 74 (5.48%) Security Posture
5 64 (4.74%) Driving Licence
6 61 (4.52%) Management Information System
7 60 (4.44%) Cyber Threat
8 48 (3.55%) Cyberattack
9 46 (3.40%) Data Centre
10 45 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
11 44 (3.26%) Public Cloud
12 43 (3.18%) Cyber Defence
13 41 (3.03%) PKI
14 37 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
15 31 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
16 22 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
16 22 (1.63%) Private Cloud
17 21 (1.55%) Replication
18 20 (1.48%) Clustering
19 18 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 644 (47.67%) Windows
2 311 (23.02%) Linux
2 311 (23.02%) Windows Server
3 78 (5.77%) Windows 10
4 52 (3.85%) Apple iOS
5 50 (3.70%) Mac OS
5 50 (3.70%) VMS
6 40 (2.96%) Android
7 38 (2.81%) Windows Server 2016
8 32 (2.37%) CentOS
9 30 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 28 (2.07%) Windows Server 2019
11 25 (1.85%) Ubuntu
12 15 (1.11%) Unix
13 8 (0.59%) Debian
14 6 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.37%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.30%) AIX
16 4 (0.30%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (25.98%) Problem-Solving
2 313 (23.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 312 (23.09%) CI/CD
4 293 (21.69%) DevOps
5 283 (20.95%) Cybersecurity
6 248 (18.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 242 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 230 (17.02%) ITIL
9 186 (13.77%) Mentoring
10 179 (13.25%) Agile
11 164 (12.14%) Disaster Recovery
12 162 (11.99%) Incident Response
12 162 (11.99%) Root Cause Analysis
13 143 (10.58%) High Availability
14 140 (10.36%) Containerisation
15 138 (10.21%) Roadmaps
16 131 (9.70%) Cloud Security
17 130 (9.62%) SIEM
18 122 (9.03%) AI
18 122 (9.03%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 527 (39.01%) Python
2 355 (26.28%) Bash
3 283 (20.95%) SQL
4 99 (7.33%) Bicep
5 98 (7.25%) C#
6 77 (5.70%) JavaScript
7 75 (5.55%) T-SQL
8 42 (3.11%) Kusto Query Language
9 33 (2.44%) Java
10 27 (2.00%) TypeScript
11 19 (1.41%) C++
12 17 (1.26%) VBScript
13 15 (1.11%) PHP
14 13 (0.96%) Perl
15 11 (0.81%) Go
15 11 (0.81%) VB
16 10 (0.74%) VBA
17 9 (0.67%) Ruby
18 8 (0.59%) C
19 6 (0.44%) Korn
Qualifications
1 171 (12.66%) Security Cleared
2 166 (12.29%) Degree
3 147 (10.88%) Azure Certification
4 129 (9.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 111 (8.22%) SC Cleared
6 58 (4.29%) Cisco Certification
7 57 (4.22%) CISSP
8 55 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 45 (3.33%) DV Cleared
10 41 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
11 40 (2.96%) CCNA
12 30 (2.22%) CREST Certified
13 29 (2.15%) DBS Check
13 29 (2.15%) OSCP
14 27 (2.00%) AWS Certification
15 24 (1.78%) GIAC
16 23 (1.70%) CEH
17 21 (1.55%) CCNP
18 16 (1.18%) CompTIA CySA+
19 15 (1.11%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (10.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 124 (9.18%) NIST
3 65 (4.81%) GDPR
4 55 (4.07%) Cyber Essentials
5 40 (2.96%) NCSC
5 40 (2.96%) SLA
6 21 (1.55%) Data Quality
7 20 (1.48%) QA
8 18 (1.33%) PCI DSS
9 17 (1.26%) SOC 2
10 13 (0.96%) Accessibility
11 12 (0.89%) ISO 22301
12 11 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 9 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.44%) DICOM
14 6 (0.44%) PMO
15 4 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.22%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.15%) EMIR
17 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 520 (38.49%) Active Directory
2 223 (16.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 146 (10.81%) Hyper-V
4 145 (10.73%) Docker
5 81 (6.00%) vSphere
6 48 (3.55%) Virtual Machines
7 40 (2.96%) Virtual Desktop
8 25 (1.85%) BitLocker
9 24 (1.78%) VMware NSX
10 16 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.74%) KVM
12 8 (0.59%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.59%) Squid
13 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.30%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.30%) Firmware
14 4 (0.30%) iptables
15 3 (0.22%) Terminal Services
16 2 (0.15%) Samba
Systems Management
1 324 (23.98%) Terraform
2 226 (16.73%) Kubernetes
3 206 (15.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 160 (11.84%) Ansible
5 73 (5.40%) Grafana
6 60 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
7 51 (3.77%) Prometheus
8 48 (3.55%) SCCM
9 27 (2.00%) Jamf Pro
10 25 (1.85%) vCenter Server
11 22 (1.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 21 (1.55%) Argo
12 21 (1.55%) ZABBIX
13 20 (1.48%) Packer
14 18 (1.33%) QRadar
15 17 (1.26%) Nessus
16 15 (1.11%) Proxmox
17 14 (1.04%) Graylog
17 14 (1.04%) VxRail
18 12 (0.89%) Nagios
Vendors
1 804 (59.51%) Microsoft
2 270 (19.99%) VMware
3 106 (7.85%) Cisco
4 89 (6.59%) Splunk
5 71 (5.26%) ServiceNow
6 58 (4.29%) Red Hat
7 49 (3.63%) Veeam
8 41 (3.03%) Meraki
9 40 (2.96%) Oracle
10 30 (2.22%) Apple
11 29 (2.15%) CrowdStrike
11 29 (2.15%) Tenable
12 28 (2.07%) Dell
12 28 (2.07%) Google
13 27 (2.00%) Sophos
14 26 (1.92%) Citrix
15 25 (1.85%) Palo Alto
16 24 (1.78%) Fortinet
17 23 (1.70%) SolarWinds
18 22 (1.63%) Commvault