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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 85 113
Rank change year-on-year -57 +28 -33
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,410 1,683 1,991
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.39% 3.41% 2.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.80% 11.76% 7.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,018 1,107 1,575
10th Percentile £32,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £57,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% +3.60% -7.50%
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 18,083 14,309 27,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.79% 29.02% 30.70%
Number of salaries quoted 12,873 9,476 19,695
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -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 28 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 28 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 -58 1,262 £57,500 - 395
UK excluding London -55 907 £52,500 +5.00% 287
Work from Home -41 502 £60,000 +4.35% 189
London -31 468 £70,000 -6.67% 147
South East -21 248 £53,000 -7.83% 99
North of England -94 211 £48,445 +1.13% 69
Midlands -41 146 £50,000 - 37
North West -86 114 £51,500 +11.35% 40
East of England -33 92 £55,000 +4.76% 31
South West -65 84 £55,000 +15.79% 41
East Midlands -11 74 £42,500 +21.43% 16
West Midlands -53 72 £52,500 -4.55% 21
Yorkshire -48 57 £47,500 -5.00% 17
Northern Ireland -22 53 £46,000 +6.75% 4
Scotland +32 43 £52,500 +31.25% 14
North East -16 40 £48,445 -19.26% 14
Wales -39 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
1 224 (15.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 206 (14.61%) SharePoint
3 49 (3.48%) IIS
4 27 (1.91%) Confluence
5 7 (0.50%) 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 (5.67%) 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 4 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.21%) Alphatax
4 3 (0.21%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.14%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.071%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.071%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 881 (62.48%) Azure
2 508 (36.03%) Microsoft 365
3 379 (26.88%) Entra ID
4 245 (17.38%) AWS
5 157 (11.13%) Azure DevOps
6 155 (10.99%) SaaS
7 120 (8.51%) Power Platform
8 114 (8.09%) GitHub
9 107 (7.59%) IaaS
10 95 (6.74%) OneDrive
11 83 (5.89%) Azure Monitor
12 78 (5.53%) PaaS
13 71 (5.04%) GitHub Actions
14 70 (4.96%) Azure Sentinel
15 68 (4.82%) Azure AKS
16 67 (4.75%) Power Automate
17 62 (4.40%) Azure Key Vault
18 57 (4.04%) GCP
19 52 (3.69%) Azure Logic Apps
20 49 (3.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 313 (22.20%) Firewall
2 297 (21.06%) DNS
3 202 (14.33%) VPN
4 201 (14.26%) DHCP
5 132 (9.36%) TCP/IP
6 94 (6.67%) WAN
7 86 (6.10%) LAN
8 73 (5.18%) Network Security
9 69 (4.89%) VLAN
10 48 (3.40%) Wi-Fi
11 40 (2.84%) Wireless
12 36 (2.55%) SAN
13 34 (2.41%) Kerberos
14 33 (2.34%) VoIP
15 23 (1.63%) Broadband
16 21 (1.49%) BGP
17 19 (1.35%) SSL
18 18 (1.28%) NAS
19 16 (1.13%) Internet
20 15 (1.06%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (10.85%) SQL Server
2 83 (5.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 78 (5.53%) Power BI
4 40 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (1.56%) MongoDB
7 21 (1.49%) MySQL
7 21 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (1.13%) Relational Database
10 13 (0.92%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.64%) InfluxDB
11 9 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.43%) Redis
13 5 (0.35%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.35%) Metadata
13 5 (0.35%) Power Query
13 5 (0.35%) Tableau
14 4 (0.28%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 105 (7.45%) Git
2 82 (5.82%) JIRA
3 69 (4.89%) GitLab
4 64 (4.54%) Jenkins
5 30 (2.13%) Bitbucket
6 14 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (0.78%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
8 9 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (0.64%) Metasploit
8 9 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 7 (0.50%) Robot Framework
9 7 (0.50%) TestRail
10 6 (0.43%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.43%) Selenium
11 5 (0.35%) Burp Suite
11 5 (0.35%) Postman
12 4 (0.28%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.21%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.21%) CircleCI
General
1 475 (33.69%) Social Skills
2 214 (15.18%) Finance
3 177 (12.55%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (8.94%) Law
5 102 (7.23%) Legal
6 60 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 52 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
8 46 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
9 43 (3.05%) Retail
10 38 (2.70%) Public Sector
11 30 (2.13%) Manufacturing
12 26 (1.84%) Banking
13 23 (1.63%) Aerospace
14 17 (1.21%) Advertising
15 14 (0.99%) Telecoms
16 11 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (0.71%) Financial Institution
18 7 (0.50%) Front Office
18 7 (0.50%) Games
18 7 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 278 (19.72%) Senior
2 174 (12.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 156 (11.06%) Analyst
4 149 (10.57%) Support Engineer
5 137 (9.72%) IT Support
6 135 (9.57%) IT Engineer
7 133 (9.43%) Azure Engineer
8 120 (8.51%) Cloud Engineer
9 102 (7.23%) DevOps Engineer
10 81 (5.74%) IT Support Engineer
11 76 (5.39%) Security Engineer
12 69 (4.89%) Platform Engineer
13 63 (4.47%) Developer
14 61 (4.33%) Lead
15 60 (4.26%) 2nd Line Support
15 60 (4.26%) Systems Engineer
16 52 (3.69%) Testing Manager
17 50 (3.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 49 (3.48%) Senior Manager
19 48 (3.40%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (6.24%) .NET
2 62 (4.40%) SAML
3 61 (4.33%) REST
4 59 (4.18%) OAuth
5 56 (3.97%) ARM Templates
6 52 (3.69%) OpenID
7 49 (3.48%) LDAP
8 44 (3.12%) HTML
8 44 (3.12%) YAML
9 41 (2.91%) Microsoft Graph
10 40 (2.84%) JSON
11 35 (2.48%) .NET Core
12 33 (2.34%) CSS
13 26 (1.84%) SOAP
14 25 (1.77%) SPFx
15 21 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
16 19 (1.35%) HTML5 Canvas
17 17 (1.21%) GraphQL
17 17 (1.21%) RESTful
18 16 (1.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 107 (7.59%) Onboarding
2 85 (6.03%) Cloud Native
3 73 (5.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 69 (4.89%) Security Posture
5 65 (4.61%) Management Information System
6 59 (4.18%) Driving Licence
7 54 (3.83%) Virtual Team
8 52 (3.69%) Data Centre
9 45 (3.19%) Public Cloud
10 42 (2.98%) Security Operations Centre
11 41 (2.91%) PKI
12 39 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
13 37 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
14 35 (2.48%) Cyber Threat
15 31 (2.20%) Cyber Defence
16 26 (1.84%) Replication
17 25 (1.77%) Clustering
17 25 (1.77%) Private Cloud
18 22 (1.56%) Cyberattack
19 21 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 657 (46.60%) Windows
2 319 (22.62%) Linux
3 315 (22.34%) Windows Server
4 79 (5.60%) Windows 10
5 55 (3.90%) Apple iOS
6 48 (3.40%) VMS
7 43 (3.05%) Mac OS
8 42 (2.98%) Android
9 39 (2.77%) Windows Server 2016
10 35 (2.48%) CentOS
11 34 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 28 (1.99%) Ubuntu
13 27 (1.91%) Windows Server 2019
14 14 (0.99%) Unix
15 7 (0.50%) Debian
15 7 (0.50%) Kali Linux
16 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
17 5 (0.35%) CoreOS
18 4 (0.28%) AIX
18 4 (0.28%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (25.25%) DevOps
2 352 (24.96%) Problem-Solving
3 326 (23.12%) CI/CD
4 312 (22.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 300 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 258 (18.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 250 (17.73%) Cybersecurity
8 245 (17.38%) ITIL
9 209 (14.82%) Mentoring
10 173 (12.27%) Disaster Recovery
11 170 (12.06%) Agile
12 160 (11.35%) Root Cause Analysis
13 158 (11.21%) Incident Response
14 156 (11.06%) High Availability
15 139 (9.86%) Containerisation
16 134 (9.50%) SIEM
17 131 (9.29%) AI
17 131 (9.29%) Cloud Security
18 124 (8.79%) Platform Engineering
19 121 (8.58%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 569 (40.35%) Python
2 318 (22.55%) Bash
3 278 (19.72%) SQL
4 146 (10.35%) C#
5 129 (9.15%) JavaScript
6 105 (7.45%) Bicep
7 79 (5.60%) TypeScript
8 50 (3.55%) T-SQL
9 49 (3.48%) Kusto Query Language
10 34 (2.41%) Java
11 20 (1.42%) VBScript
12 18 (1.28%) C++
12 18 (1.28%) PHP
13 13 (0.92%) Perl
14 10 (0.71%) Go
14 10 (0.71%) VB
14 10 (0.71%) VBA
15 8 (0.57%) C
15 8 (0.57%) Ruby
16 6 (0.43%) Korn
Qualifications
1 176 (12.48%) Security Cleared
2 170 (12.06%) Degree
3 156 (11.06%) Azure Certification
4 138 (9.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 121 (8.58%) SC Cleared
6 62 (4.40%) Cisco Certification
7 59 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 56 (3.97%) CISSP
9 48 (3.40%) CompTIA Security+
10 46 (3.26%) DV Cleared
11 44 (3.12%) CCNA
12 24 (1.70%) CEH
12 24 (1.70%) DBS Check
13 23 (1.63%) AWS Certification
13 23 (1.63%) OSCP
14 22 (1.56%) CCNP
14 22 (1.56%) GIAC
15 21 (1.49%) CREST Certified
16 17 (1.21%) CISM
17 14 (0.99%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (8.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 90 (6.38%) NIST
3 73 (5.18%) QA
4 62 (4.40%) Cyber Essentials
5 58 (4.11%) GDPR
6 41 (2.91%) 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 10 (0.71%) 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
1 512 (36.31%) Active Directory
2 232 (16.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 157 (11.13%) Hyper-V
4 140 (9.93%) Docker
5 80 (5.67%) vSphere
6 57 (4.04%) Virtual Machines
7 43 (3.05%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (1.91%) BitLocker
9 23 (1.63%) VMware NSX
10 16 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.71%) KVM
12 8 (0.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.57%) Squid
13 4 (0.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 4 (0.28%) Firmware
14 3 (0.21%) iptables
14 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.21%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.14%) Samba
Systems Management
1 336 (23.83%) Terraform
2 233 (16.52%) Kubernetes
3 228 (16.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 166 (11.77%) Ansible
5 77 (5.46%) Grafana
6 64 (4.54%) SCCM
7 52 (3.69%) Prometheus
8 51 (3.62%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (1.84%) Jamf Pro
10 25 (1.77%) ZABBIX
11 24 (1.70%) vCenter Server
12 21 (1.49%) Argo
13 20 (1.42%) Packer
14 19 (1.35%) QRadar
15 17 (1.21%) Proxmox
16 15 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 14 (0.99%) Graylog
18 12 (0.85%) Nagios
18 12 (0.85%) VxRail
19 11 (0.78%) Nessus
Vendors
1 837 (59.36%) Microsoft
2 276 (19.57%) VMware
3 118 (8.37%) Cisco
4 97 (6.88%) ServiceNow
5 91 (6.45%) Splunk
6 60 (4.26%) Red Hat
7 53 (3.76%) Veeam
8 42 (2.98%) Meraki
8 42 (2.98%) Oracle
9 32 (2.27%) Sophos
10 31 (2.20%) Citrix
11 30 (2.13%) Apple
12 28 (1.99%) Dell
12 28 (1.99%) Fortinet
12 28 (1.99%) Tenable
13 26 (1.84%) CrowdStrike
13 26 (1.84%) Dynatrace
14 24 (1.70%) Palo Alto
15 22 (1.56%) CyberArk
15 22 (1.56%) SolarWinds