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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 91 110
Rank change year-on-year -53 +19 -40
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,485 1,623 1,816
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.31% 3.27% 2.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.94% 12.35% 7.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,029 1,073 1,229
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £80,000
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 18,697 13,140 24,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.47% 26.45% 30.78%
Number of salaries quoted 13,324 8,484 15,406
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 11 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 11 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 -65 1,299 £57,500 - 512
UK excluding London -67 971 £52,500 +5.00% 384
Work from Home -29 512 £62,500 +4.17% 223
London -33 469 £70,000 -3.45% 198
South East -36 242 £52,500 -8.70% 116
North of England -79 234 £50,000 +2.04% 94
Midlands -45 159 £52,500 +5.00% 68
North West -73 138 £50,000 +9.89% 59
East of England -41 103 £57,500 +21.05% 43
South West -77 85 £55,000 +15.79% 38
East Midlands -22 80 £42,500 +21.43% 30
West Midlands -61 79 £55,000 - 38
Northern Ireland -21 69 £46,000 - 6
Yorkshire -47 60 £42,500 -19.05% 22
Scotland +7 44 £50,000 +14.29% 23
North East -30 36 £50,000 - 14
Wales -49 35 £38,500 -30.00% 10

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
1 246 (16.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 246 (16.57%) SharePoint
2 58 (3.91%) IIS
3 40 (2.69%) Confluence
4 15 (1.01%) nginx
5 8 (0.54%) Apache
6 6 (0.40%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.27%) SAS
8 3 (0.20%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.067%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.067%) WebSphere
Applications
1 71 (4.78%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (2.42%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.40%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.34%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.067%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 889 (59.87%) Azure
2 557 (37.51%) Microsoft 365
3 436 (29.36%) Entra ID
4 259 (17.44%) AWS
5 185 (12.46%) SaaS
6 175 (11.78%) Azure DevOps
7 119 (8.01%) Power Platform
8 117 (7.88%) OneDrive
9 111 (7.47%) GitHub
10 107 (7.21%) IaaS
11 86 (5.79%) Azure Monitor
12 83 (5.59%) Azure Sentinel
13 81 (5.45%) Power Automate
14 74 (4.98%) PaaS
15 72 (4.85%) Azure AKS
16 70 (4.71%) GCP
17 69 (4.65%) Azure Key Vault
18 63 (4.24%) GitHub Actions
19 53 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
20 50 (3.37%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 328 (22.09%) Firewall
2 323 (21.75%) DNS
3 216 (14.55%) DHCP
4 210 (14.14%) VPN
5 142 (9.56%) TCP/IP
6 100 (6.73%) WAN
7 86 (5.79%) LAN
8 72 (4.85%) VLAN
9 65 (4.38%) Network Security
10 55 (3.70%) Wireless
11 45 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
12 37 (2.49%) SAN
13 30 (2.02%) Kerberos
14 23 (1.55%) SSL
15 22 (1.48%) NAS
16 20 (1.35%) HTTP
17 19 (1.28%) Internet
17 19 (1.28%) VoIP
18 17 (1.14%) BGP
18 17 (1.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (10.10%) SQL Server
2 84 (5.66%) Azure SQL Database
3 64 (4.31%) Power BI
4 27 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.48%) MongoDB
6 18 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (1.14%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 13 (0.88%) NoSQL
11 12 (0.81%) MySQL
12 9 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (0.54%) InfluxDB
14 7 (0.47%) Data Lake
14 7 (0.47%) Power Query
14 7 (0.47%) Redis
15 6 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.40%) Metadata
16 5 (0.34%) RDBMS
17 4 (0.27%) Db2
Development Applications
1 104 (7.00%) JIRA
2 100 (6.73%) Git
3 73 (4.92%) GitLab
4 61 (4.11%) Jenkins
5 27 (1.82%) Bitbucket
6 13 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
7 12 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 10 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
9 9 (0.61%) TeamCity
10 8 (0.54%) Robot Framework
10 8 (0.54%) TestRail
11 6 (0.40%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.40%) Selenium
11 6 (0.40%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.34%) Postman
13 4 (0.27%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
13 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.20%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.20%) MSI
General
1 562 (37.85%) Social Skills
2 243 (16.36%) Finance
3 190 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (8.35%) Law
5 119 (8.01%) Legal
6 70 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 53 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (3.03%) Public Sector
9 44 (2.96%) Retail
10 43 (2.90%) Banking
11 37 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
12 35 (2.36%) Manufacturing
13 29 (1.95%) Aerospace
14 15 (1.01%) Legal Technology
15 14 (0.94%) Advertising
16 11 (0.74%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (0.67%) Aviation
18 9 (0.61%) Telecoms
19 8 (0.54%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 295 (19.87%) Senior
2 210 (14.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 168 (11.31%) Analyst
4 140 (9.43%) Azure Engineer
4 140 (9.43%) Support Engineer
5 136 (9.16%) IT Engineer
6 134 (9.02%) Cloud Engineer
7 118 (7.95%) IT Support
8 105 (7.07%) DevOps Engineer
9 77 (5.19%) Platform Engineer
10 71 (4.78%) Lead
11 70 (4.71%) Consultant
11 70 (4.71%) IT Support Engineer
12 67 (4.51%) Support Analyst
13 66 (4.44%) Security Engineer
14 64 (4.31%) Systems Engineer
15 58 (3.91%) Developer
15 58 (3.91%) Testing Manager
16 57 (3.84%) Administrator
17 55 (3.70%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 364 (24.51%) Terraform
2 79 (5.32%) .NET
3 53 (3.57%) REST
4 51 (3.43%) ARM Templates
5 46 (3.10%) YAML
6 44 (2.96%) Microsoft Graph
7 42 (2.83%) SAML
8 39 (2.63%) HTML
8 39 (2.63%) LDAP
8 39 (2.63%) OAuth
8 39 (2.63%) OpenID
9 30 (2.02%) CSS
9 30 (2.02%) JSON
10 28 (1.89%) SPFx
11 27 (1.82%) .NET Core
12 20 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
13 17 (1.14%) HTML5 Canvas
14 16 (1.08%) SOAP
15 15 (1.01%) ASP.NET
15 15 (1.01%) React
Miscellaneous
1 127 (8.55%) Onboarding
2 91 (6.13%) Cloud Native
3 75 (5.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 73 (4.92%) Driving Licence
4 73 (4.92%) Management Information System
5 71 (4.78%) Security Posture
6 60 (4.04%) Virtual Team
7 52 (3.50%) Data Centre
8 48 (3.23%) PKI
9 47 (3.16%) Replication
10 46 (3.10%) Public Cloud
11 45 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
12 41 (2.76%) Security Operations Centre
13 36 (2.42%) Clustering
13 36 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
14 27 (1.82%) Private Cloud
15 25 (1.68%) Cyber Defence
16 24 (1.62%) CMDB
16 24 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
17 20 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 699 (47.07%) Windows
2 346 (23.30%) Linux
3 328 (22.09%) Windows Server
4 85 (5.72%) Windows 10
5 56 (3.77%) Apple iOS
6 44 (2.96%) Android
6 44 (2.96%) Ubuntu
7 41 (2.76%) Mac OS
7 41 (2.76%) VMS
8 36 (2.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 34 (2.29%) CentOS
10 29 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 27 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
12 19 (1.28%) Unix
13 16 (1.08%) Rocky
14 8 (0.54%) Debian
14 8 (0.54%) Solaris
15 5 (0.34%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.27%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (27.95%) Problem-Solving
2 379 (25.52%) DevOps
3 371 (24.98%) Continuous Improvement
4 344 (23.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 327 (22.02%) CI/CD
6 316 (21.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 299 (20.13%) ITIL
8 248 (16.70%) Cybersecurity
9 230 (15.49%) Mentoring
10 197 (13.27%) Disaster Recovery
11 168 (11.31%) High Availability
12 166 (11.18%) Agile
13 165 (11.11%) AI
13 165 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
14 155 (10.44%) Project Delivery
15 147 (9.90%) Incident Response
16 139 (9.36%) Cloud Security
17 138 (9.29%) Platform Engineering
18 131 (8.82%) Containerisation
19 130 (8.75%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 576 (38.79%) Python
2 305 (20.54%) Bash
3 300 (20.20%) SQL
4 148 (9.97%) JavaScript
5 140 (9.43%) C#
6 115 (7.74%) Bicep
7 86 (5.79%) TypeScript
8 50 (3.37%) Kusto Query Language
9 37 (2.49%) Java
9 37 (2.49%) T-SQL
10 23 (1.55%) VBScript
11 20 (1.35%) C++
11 20 (1.35%) Perl
12 14 (0.94%) Ruby
13 13 (0.88%) PHP
14 10 (0.67%) VB
14 10 (0.67%) VBA
15 9 (0.61%) Go
16 7 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (0.40%) C
Qualifications
1 204 (13.74%) Security Cleared
2 169 (11.38%) Degree
3 156 (10.51%) Azure Certification
4 154 (10.37%) Microsoft Certification
5 141 (9.49%) SC Cleared
6 65 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 62 (4.18%) Cisco Certification
8 59 (3.97%) DV Cleared
9 54 (3.64%) CompTIA Security+
10 51 (3.43%) CISSP
11 45 (3.03%) CCNA
12 28 (1.89%) CEH
13 23 (1.55%) DBS Check
13 23 (1.55%) OSCP
14 22 (1.48%) AWS Certification
15 19 (1.28%) GIAC
15 19 (1.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 18 (1.21%) CCNP
16 18 (1.21%) CISM
17 17 (1.14%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (7.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 78 (5.25%) QA
3 68 (4.58%) Cyber Essentials
4 67 (4.51%) NIST
5 48 (3.23%) GDPR
6 47 (3.16%) SLA
7 20 (1.35%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.14%) PCI DSS
9 16 (1.08%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.47%) NCSC
11 7 (0.47%) PMO
12 5 (0.34%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.34%) ISO 22301
12 5 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.13%) EMIR
15 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 529 (35.62%) Active Directory
2 248 (16.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 161 (10.84%) Hyper-V
4 138 (9.29%) Docker
5 82 (5.52%) vSphere
6 68 (4.58%) Virtual Machines
7 54 (3.64%) Virtual Desktop
8 28 (1.89%) VMware NSX
9 22 (1.48%) BitLocker
10 18 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.54%) KVM
11 8 (0.54%) Squid
12 7 (0.47%) Firmware
13 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.20%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.067%) Ceph
16 1 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 264 (17.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 221 (14.88%) Kubernetes
3 174 (11.72%) Ansible
4 78 (5.25%) Grafana
5 77 (5.19%) SCCM
6 53 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
7 41 (2.76%) Prometheus
8 25 (1.68%) vCenter Server
8 25 (1.68%) ZABBIX
9 21 (1.41%) Argo
9 21 (1.41%) QRadar
10 20 (1.35%) Jamf Pro
10 20 (1.35%) Proxmox
11 19 (1.28%) Packer
12 18 (1.21%) Puppet
13 16 (1.08%) FortiGate
14 15 (1.01%) Graylog
15 13 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 12 (0.81%) VxRail
17 10 (0.67%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 925 (62.29%) Microsoft
2 284 (19.12%) VMware
3 122 (8.22%) Cisco
4 106 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 87 (5.86%) Splunk
6 64 (4.31%) Veeam
7 53 (3.57%) Red Hat
8 49 (3.30%) Oracle
9 43 (2.90%) Citrix
10 42 (2.83%) Meraki
11 34 (2.29%) Sage
12 33 (2.22%) Dell
12 33 (2.22%) Dynatrace
13 32 (2.15%) Sophos
14 28 (1.89%) Tenable
15 27 (1.82%) CyberArk
15 27 (1.82%) SAP
16 26 (1.75%) Apple
16 26 (1.75%) CrowdStrike
16 26 (1.75%) Fortinet