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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 90 110
Rank change year-on-year -53 +20 -41
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,493 1,621 1,797
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.32% 3.26% 2.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.98% 12.34% 7.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,034 1,074 1,219
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £36,950
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 £73,063 £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 18,712 13,139 24,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.56% 26.45% 30.71%
Number of salaries quoted 13,335 8,501 15,343
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £46,250 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,400
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +0.16% -4.00%
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 10 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 10 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 -61 1,308 £57,500 - 509
UK excluding London -63 977 £52,500 +5.00% 380
Work from Home -32 514 £62,500 +4.17% 235
London -38 473 £70,000 -3.45% 193
South East -25 244 £52,500 -8.70% 115
North of England -77 234 £50,000 +2.04% 91
Midlands -38 161 £52,500 +5.00% 71
North West -68 138 £50,000 +8.70% 55
East of England -33 104 £57,500 +21.05% 43
South West -77 86 £55,000 +15.79% 39
East Midlands -12 82 £42,500 +21.43% 30
West Midlands -59 79 £55,000 - 41
Northern Ireland -21 69 £46,000 - 8
Yorkshire -46 60 £42,500 -19.05% 23
Scotland +10 44 £50,000 +14.29% 20
North East -33 36 £50,000 - 14
Wales -56 35 £38,500 -30.00% 7

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
1 247 (16.54%) SharePoint
2 246 (16.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 58 (3.88%) IIS
4 40 (2.68%) Confluence
5 15 (1.00%) nginx
6 8 (0.54%) Apache
7 6 (0.40%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
9 3 (0.20%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.067%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.067%) WebSphere
Applications
1 71 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.40%) 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 (2.41%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.54%) 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 (0.067%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 895 (59.95%) Azure
2 560 (37.51%) Microsoft 365
3 437 (29.27%) Entra ID
4 261 (17.48%) AWS
5 185 (12.39%) SaaS
6 175 (11.72%) Azure DevOps
7 120 (8.04%) Power Platform
8 117 (7.84%) OneDrive
9 112 (7.50%) GitHub
10 107 (7.17%) IaaS
11 86 (5.76%) Azure Monitor
12 84 (5.63%) Azure Sentinel
13 82 (5.49%) Power Automate
14 74 (4.96%) PaaS
15 72 (4.82%) Azure AKS
16 70 (4.69%) GCP
17 69 (4.62%) Azure Key Vault
18 64 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
19 53 (3.55%) Microsoft Purview
20 50 (3.35%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 329 (22.04%) Firewall
2 326 (21.84%) DNS
3 219 (14.67%) DHCP
4 212 (14.20%) VPN
5 144 (9.65%) TCP/IP
6 100 (6.70%) WAN
7 86 (5.76%) LAN
8 74 (4.96%) VLAN
9 65 (4.35%) Network Security
10 55 (3.68%) Wireless
11 45 (3.01%) Wi-Fi
12 37 (2.48%) SAN
13 29 (1.94%) Kerberos
14 23 (1.54%) SSL
15 22 (1.47%) NAS
16 21 (1.41%) VoIP
17 20 (1.34%) HTTP
18 19 (1.27%) Internet
19 17 (1.14%) BGP
19 17 (1.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (10.05%) SQL Server
2 85 (5.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 65 (4.35%) Power BI
4 27 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.47%) MongoDB
6 18 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (1.14%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 13 (0.87%) NoSQL
11 12 (0.80%) MySQL
12 9 (0.60%) InfluxDB
12 9 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (0.47%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.47%) Power Query
13 7 (0.47%) Redis
14 6 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.40%) Metadata
15 5 (0.33%) RDBMS
16 4 (0.27%) Db2
Development Applications
1 104 (6.97%) JIRA
2 102 (6.83%) Git
3 73 (4.89%) GitLab
4 62 (4.15%) Jenkins
5 27 (1.81%) Bitbucket
6 13 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
7 12 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 11 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
9 9 (0.60%) Robot Framework
9 9 (0.60%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.60%) TestRail
10 7 (0.47%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.47%) Selenium
11 6 (0.40%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.33%) Postman
13 4 (0.27%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
13 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.20%) JMeter
14 3 (0.20%) MSI
General
1 567 (37.98%) Social Skills
2 244 (16.34%) Finance
3 191 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (8.37%) Law
5 120 (8.04%) Legal
6 70 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 53 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (3.01%) Public Sector
9 44 (2.95%) Retail
10 43 (2.88%) Banking
11 38 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
12 35 (2.34%) Manufacturing
13 29 (1.94%) Aerospace
14 15 (1.00%) 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 (0.60%) Front Office
18 9 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 297 (19.89%) Senior
2 210 (14.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 168 (11.25%) Analyst
4 141 (9.44%) Azure Engineer
4 141 (9.44%) Support Engineer
5 136 (9.11%) IT Engineer
6 134 (8.98%) Cloud Engineer
7 120 (8.04%) IT Support
8 105 (7.03%) DevOps Engineer
9 79 (5.29%) Platform Engineer
10 71 (4.76%) Consultant
10 71 (4.76%) Lead
11 70 (4.69%) IT Support Engineer
12 67 (4.49%) Support Analyst
13 66 (4.42%) Security Engineer
14 64 (4.29%) Systems Engineer
15 59 (3.95%) Developer
16 58 (3.88%) Testing Manager
17 57 (3.82%) Administrator
18 55 (3.68%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 366 (24.51%) Terraform
2 80 (5.36%) .NET
3 53 (3.55%) REST
4 51 (3.42%) ARM Templates
5 46 (3.08%) YAML
6 45 (3.01%) Microsoft Graph
7 42 (2.81%) SAML
8 40 (2.68%) HTML
9 39 (2.61%) LDAP
9 39 (2.61%) OpenID
10 38 (2.55%) OAuth
11 31 (2.08%) CSS
11 31 (2.08%) JSON
12 29 (1.94%) SPFx
13 28 (1.88%) .NET Core
14 21 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
15 18 (1.21%) HTML5 Canvas
16 16 (1.07%) SOAP
17 15 (1.00%) ASP.NET
17 15 (1.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 127 (8.51%) Onboarding
2 91 (6.10%) Cloud Native
3 75 (5.02%) Hybrid Cloud
4 73 (4.89%) Driving Licence
5 72 (4.82%) Management Information System
6 71 (4.76%) Security Posture
7 60 (4.02%) Virtual Team
8 52 (3.48%) Data Centre
9 48 (3.22%) Public Cloud
10 47 (3.15%) PKI
10 47 (3.15%) Replication
11 45 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
12 41 (2.75%) Security Operations Centre
13 36 (2.41%) Clustering
13 36 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
14 29 (1.94%) Private Cloud
15 25 (1.67%) CMDB
15 25 (1.67%) Cyber Defence
16 24 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
17 20 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 703 (47.09%) Windows
2 349 (23.38%) Linux
3 330 (22.10%) Windows Server
4 86 (5.76%) Windows 10
5 56 (3.75%) Apple iOS
6 44 (2.95%) Android
6 44 (2.95%) Ubuntu
7 42 (2.81%) Mac OS
8 41 (2.75%) VMS
9 36 (2.41%) Windows Server 2016
10 35 (2.34%) CentOS
11 29 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 27 (1.81%) Windows Server 2019
13 19 (1.27%) Unix
14 16 (1.07%) Rocky
15 8 (0.54%) Debian
15 8 (0.54%) Solaris
16 5 (0.33%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.27%) Kali Linux
17 4 (0.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (27.93%) Problem-Solving
2 379 (25.39%) DevOps
3 374 (25.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 345 (23.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 329 (22.04%) CI/CD
6 316 (21.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 299 (20.03%) ITIL
8 248 (16.61%) Cybersecurity
9 234 (15.67%) Mentoring
10 198 (13.26%) Disaster Recovery
11 168 (11.25%) High Availability
12 167 (11.19%) Agile
12 167 (11.19%) AI
13 165 (11.05%) Root Cause Analysis
14 154 (10.31%) Project Delivery
15 146 (9.78%) Incident Response
16 140 (9.38%) Platform Engineering
17 138 (9.24%) Cloud Security
18 132 (8.84%) Containerisation
19 130 (8.71%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 580 (38.85%) Python
2 306 (20.50%) Bash
3 303 (20.29%) SQL
4 150 (10.05%) JavaScript
5 141 (9.44%) C#
6 115 (7.70%) Bicep
7 87 (5.83%) TypeScript
8 49 (3.28%) Kusto Query Language
9 37 (2.48%) Java
9 37 (2.48%) T-SQL
10 23 (1.54%) VBScript
11 20 (1.34%) C++
11 20 (1.34%) Perl
12 14 (0.94%) Ruby
13 13 (0.87%) PHP
14 10 (0.67%) VB
14 10 (0.67%) VBA
15 9 (0.60%) Go
16 7 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (0.40%) C
Qualifications
1 205 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 171 (11.45%) Degree
3 159 (10.65%) Azure Certification
4 155 (10.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 141 (9.44%) SC Cleared
6 66 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 61 (4.09%) Cisco Certification
8 59 (3.95%) DV Cleared
9 54 (3.62%) CompTIA Security+
10 51 (3.42%) CISSP
11 44 (2.95%) CCNA
12 27 (1.81%) CEH
13 23 (1.54%) DBS Check
13 23 (1.54%) OSCP
14 22 (1.47%) AWS Certification
15 19 (1.27%) GIAC
15 19 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 18 (1.21%) CCNP
16 18 (1.21%) CISM
17 17 (1.14%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (7.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 79 (5.29%) QA
3 69 (4.62%) Cyber Essentials
4 67 (4.49%) NIST
5 49 (3.28%) GDPR
6 47 (3.15%) SLA
7 20 (1.34%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.14%) PCI DSS
9 16 (1.07%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.47%) NCSC
11 7 (0.47%) PMO
12 5 (0.33%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.33%) ISO 22301
12 5 (0.33%) 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
1 532 (35.63%) Active Directory
2 249 (16.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 162 (10.85%) Hyper-V
4 139 (9.31%) Docker
5 81 (5.43%) vSphere
6 68 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
7 54 (3.62%) Virtual Desktop
8 28 (1.88%) VMware NSX
9 22 (1.47%) 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 (0.33%) 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
1 265 (17.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 224 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 177 (11.86%) Ansible
4 79 (5.29%) Grafana
5 78 (5.22%) SCCM
6 53 (3.55%) Single Sign-On
7 41 (2.75%) Prometheus
8 26 (1.74%) vCenter Server
9 25 (1.67%) ZABBIX
10 21 (1.41%) Argo
10 21 (1.41%) Jamf Pro
10 21 (1.41%) QRadar
11 20 (1.34%) Packer
11 20 (1.34%) Proxmox
12 18 (1.21%) Puppet
13 15 (1.00%) FortiGate
13 15 (1.00%) Graylog
14 13 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 12 (0.80%) VxRail
16 10 (0.67%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 931 (62.36%) Microsoft
2 285 (19.09%) VMware
3 123 (8.24%) Cisco
4 108 (7.23%) ServiceNow
5 88 (5.89%) Splunk
6 64 (4.29%) Veeam
7 54 (3.62%) Red Hat
8 49 (3.28%) Oracle
9 43 (2.88%) Citrix
9 43 (2.88%) Meraki
10 34 (2.28%) Sage
11 33 (2.21%) Dell
11 33 (2.21%) Dynatrace
12 32 (2.14%) Sophos
13 28 (1.88%) Tenable
14 27 (1.81%) Apple
14 27 (1.81%) CyberArk
14 27 (1.81%) SAP
15 26 (1.74%) CrowdStrike
15 26 (1.74%) Fortinet