PowerShell Job Trends

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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 97 80
Rank change year-on-year -18 -17 +6
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,237 1,505 2,503
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.94% 2.91% 3.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.27% 8.60% 9.05%
Number of salaries quoted 924 1,037 2,178
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +7.83% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,170
% change year-on-year - +0.63% -5.15%

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 12,041 17,510 27,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.84% 33.89% 37.85%
Number of salaries quoted 8,663 10,124 22,774
10th Percentile £33,025 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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

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Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell over the 6 months to 2 February 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in the UK

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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 2 February 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 -26 1,036 £57,500 -8.00% 510
UK excluding London -14 726 £52,500 - 481
London -4 437 £70,000 -6.67% 172
Work from Home +8 405 £57,500 -11.54% 311
South East -39 185 £57,500 -4.17% 164
North of England -26 134 £50,000 -4.76% 110
Scotland +47 132 £62,250 +18.57% 48
South West +7 103 £55,000 -1.12% 57
Midlands -39 91 £52,500 +5.00% 51
East of England +8 70 £42,276 -19.48% 44
Yorkshire -21 62 £48,445 -7.72% 30
North West -12 58 £50,000 - 66
East Midlands -5 45 £55,000 +8.91% 28
West Midlands -34 45 £50,000 - 23
North East 0 14 £48,445 -15.75% 14
Wales +3 10 £55,000 +5.77% 17
Northern Ireland -14 2 £46,000 - 1

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
1 185 (14.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 143 (11.56%) SharePoint
3 50 (4.04%) IIS
4 22 (1.78%) Exchange Server 2003
5 19 (1.54%) Confluence
6 12 (0.97%) Skype for Business
7 6 (0.49%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.32%) nginx
10 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.16%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) WordPress
11 1 (0.081%) CICS
11 1 (0.081%) WebSphere
Applications
1 39 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.49%) Siemens NX
5 5 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.24%) CATIA
6 3 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.24%) Windchill
7 2 (0.16%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 10 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.65%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.49%) Markit EDM
3 6 (0.49%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.40%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.40%) PlanetPress Connect
5 4 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.081%) Actimize
7 1 (0.081%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.081%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.081%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 819 (66.21%) Azure
2 409 (33.06%) Microsoft 365
3 335 (27.08%) Entra ID
4 218 (17.62%) AWS
5 199 (16.09%) Azure DevOps
6 110 (8.89%) Power Platform
7 94 (7.60%) GitHub
8 79 (6.39%) GCP
9 74 (5.98%) PaaS
10 73 (5.90%) GitHub Actions
11 65 (5.25%) Azure Monitor
12 62 (5.01%) Google Workspace
13 55 (4.45%) IaaS
13 55 (4.45%) Power Automate
13 55 (4.45%) SaaS
14 44 (3.56%) OneDrive
15 40 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
15 40 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
16 39 (3.15%) Snowflake
17 36 (2.91%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 223 (18.03%) Firewall
2 213 (17.22%) DNS
3 166 (13.42%) DHCP
4 111 (8.97%) VPN
5 106 (8.57%) TCP/IP
6 82 (6.63%) WAN
7 68 (5.50%) LAN
8 48 (3.88%) Broadband
9 44 (3.56%) Wi-Fi
10 41 (3.31%) VLAN
11 39 (3.15%) Wireless
12 32 (2.59%) SD-WAN
13 28 (2.26%) Network Security
14 27 (2.18%) SAN
15 21 (1.70%) VoIP
16 18 (1.46%) Internet
17 17 (1.37%) VSAN
18 13 (1.05%) MPLS
19 12 (0.97%) Skype
19 12 (0.97%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (11.40%) SQL Server
2 78 (6.31%) Power BI
3 36 (2.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 34 (2.75%) Relational Database
5 30 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (2.43%) Oracle Database
6 26 (2.10%) Oracle Database 10g
7 22 (1.78%) MySQL
8 21 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
11 12 (0.97%) NoSQL
12 11 (0.89%) MongoDB
12 11 (0.89%) Tableau
13 10 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
15 6 (0.49%) Data Lake
15 6 (0.49%) DTS
15 6 (0.49%) InfluxDB
16 5 (0.40%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 96 (7.76%) JIRA
2 90 (7.28%) Jenkins
3 81 (6.55%) Git
4 36 (2.91%) GitLab
5 31 (2.51%) Octopus Deploy
6 23 (1.86%) TeamCity
7 17 (1.37%) Bitbucket
8 11 (0.89%) Burp Suite
8 11 (0.89%) Metasploit
9 10 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 9 (0.73%) Robot Framework
11 7 (0.57%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.49%) TestRail
13 5 (0.40%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.32%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.32%) MLflow
14 4 (0.32%) MSI
14 4 (0.32%) Toad
15 3 (0.24%) JMeter
General
1 438 (35.41%) Social Skills
2 319 (25.79%) Finance
3 126 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
5 51 (4.12%) Law
6 49 (3.96%) Retail
7 45 (3.64%) Public Sector
8 40 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
9 35 (2.83%) Banking
10 34 (2.75%) Games
10 34 (2.75%) Legal
11 29 (2.34%) Telecoms
12 28 (2.26%) Manufacturing
13 27 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (1.29%) Front Office
15 15 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (0.81%) Aerospace
18 9 (0.73%) Advertising
19 7 (0.57%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 190 (15.36%) Senior
2 154 (12.45%) Support Engineer
3 137 (11.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 112 (9.05%) Azure Engineer
5 91 (7.36%) Analyst
6 89 (7.19%) DevOps Engineer
7 85 (6.87%) Cloud Engineer
8 84 (6.79%) Developer
9 78 (6.31%) Security Engineer
10 75 (6.06%) IT Support
11 70 (5.66%) Lead
12 68 (5.50%) IT Engineer
13 58 (4.69%) 3rd Line Support
14 53 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
15 50 (4.04%) Applications Support
16 48 (3.88%) IT Support Engineer
17 47 (3.80%) Applications Engineer
18 46 (3.72%) 3rd Line Engineer
19 39 (3.15%) Support Analyst
20 37 (2.99%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (8.49%) REST
2 72 (5.82%) .NET
2 72 (5.82%) SOAP
3 70 (5.66%) OAuth
4 64 (5.17%) SAML
5 61 (4.93%) GraphQL
6 60 (4.85%) OpenID
7 57 (4.61%) LDAP
8 46 (3.72%) YAML
9 32 (2.59%) JSON
10 25 (2.02%) ARM Templates
11 24 (1.94%) React
12 19 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
13 18 (1.46%) Web Services
14 17 (1.37%) Microsoft Graph
15 16 (1.29%) AngularJS
15 16 (1.29%) Node.js
16 14 (1.13%) Middleware
17 12 (0.97%) .NET Core
18 11 (0.89%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 92 (7.44%) Onboarding
2 71 (5.74%) Hybrid Cloud
3 63 (5.09%) Security Posture
4 53 (4.28%) Cyber Threat
5 50 (4.04%) Product Ownership
6 49 (3.96%) Cyberattack
7 44 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (3.48%) Management Information System
9 37 (2.99%) Cloud Native
10 36 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
11 32 (2.59%) Data Centre
12 31 (2.51%) Driving Licence
13 28 (2.26%) PKI
14 27 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
15 26 (2.10%) CMDB
16 22 (1.78%) Virtual Team
17 21 (1.70%) Cyber Defence
17 21 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
18 19 (1.54%) Hedge funds
19 18 (1.46%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 538 (43.49%) Windows
2 291 (23.52%) Windows Server
3 214 (17.30%) Linux
4 69 (5.58%) Windows 10
5 49 (3.96%) Mac OS
6 42 (3.40%) Unix
7 37 (2.99%) Windows Server 2016
7 37 (2.99%) Windows Server 2019
8 36 (2.91%) VMS
9 31 (2.51%) Android
10 28 (2.26%) Windows Server 2008
11 25 (2.02%) Solaris
12 22 (1.78%) HPUX
12 22 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 22 (1.78%) Windows 7
12 22 (1.78%) Windows Server 2003
13 18 (1.46%) Apple iOS
14 17 (1.37%) CentOS
15 15 (1.21%) Windows Server 2012
16 14 (1.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (30.72%) Problem-Solving
2 349 (28.21%) DevOps
3 267 (21.58%) CI/CD
4 245 (19.81%) ITIL
5 236 (19.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 221 (17.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 210 (16.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 207 (16.73%) Cybersecurity
9 189 (15.28%) Mentoring
10 182 (14.71%) Agile
11 158 (12.77%) Disaster Recovery
12 147 (11.88%) Roadmaps
13 125 (10.11%) Task Automation
14 117 (9.46%) Coaching
14 117 (9.46%) Root Cause Analysis
15 113 (9.14%) Asset Management
16 107 (8.65%) Incident Response
17 104 (8.41%) Cloud Security
18 101 (8.16%) Migration
19 90 (7.28%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 424 (34.28%) Python
2 297 (24.01%) Bash
3 286 (23.12%) SQL
4 102 (8.25%) C#
5 76 (6.14%) Bicep
6 72 (5.82%) T-SQL
7 66 (5.34%) JavaScript
8 26 (2.10%) Perl
9 24 (1.94%) Java
10 23 (1.86%) Go
11 22 (1.78%) Kusto Query Language
12 15 (1.21%) VB
13 11 (0.89%) VB.NET
14 10 (0.81%) TypeScript
14 10 (0.81%) VBScript
15 9 (0.73%) VBA
16 8 (0.65%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.40%) C++
18 4 (0.32%) PHP
18 4 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 164 (13.26%) Degree
2 163 (13.18%) Security Cleared
3 111 (8.97%) Microsoft Certification
4 104 (8.41%) SC Cleared
5 90 (7.28%) Azure Certification
6 60 (4.85%) DV Cleared
7 44 (3.56%) CISSP
7 44 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 39 (3.15%) Cisco Certification
9 35 (2.83%) AWS Certification
10 31 (2.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 30 (2.43%) CREST Certified
12 23 (1.86%) CEH
13 20 (1.62%) CCNA
14 17 (1.37%) DBS Check
14 17 (1.37%) GIAC
14 17 (1.37%) SANS
15 16 (1.29%) CompTIA CySA+
16 15 (1.21%) Master's Degree
17 14 (1.13%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (12.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 149 (12.05%) NIST
3 69 (5.58%) GDPR
4 64 (5.17%) NCSC
5 56 (4.53%) SLA
6 45 (3.64%) Accessibility
7 28 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 17 (1.37%) ISO 22301
8 17 (1.37%) QA
9 14 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 13 (1.05%) Data Quality
10 13 (1.05%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.49%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.40%) GRC
14 3 (0.24%) DICOM
14 3 (0.24%) HL7
14 3 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.16%) COBIT
16 1 (0.081%) HIPAA
System Software
1 441 (35.65%) Active Directory
2 133 (10.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 110 (8.89%) Docker
4 96 (7.76%) Hyper-V
5 45 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
6 42 (3.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 33 (2.67%) vSphere
8 22 (1.78%) Firmware
9 15 (1.21%) Virtual Servers
10 13 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.65%) vCloud
11 8 (0.65%) XenApp
12 6 (0.49%) VMware NSX
12 6 (0.49%) XenDesktop
13 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.24%) Postfix
14 3 (0.24%) Squid
15 2 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 2 (0.16%) DFS Replication
15 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 277 (22.39%) Terraform
2 197 (15.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 164 (13.26%) Kubernetes
4 137 (11.08%) Ansible
5 55 (4.45%) SCCM
6 46 (3.72%) Grafana
6 46 (3.72%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (1.94%) Prometheus
8 19 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 19 (1.54%) Puppet
9 15 (1.21%) WSUS
10 14 (1.13%) SCOM
11 10 (0.81%) vCenter Server
12 9 (0.73%) FortiGate
12 9 (0.73%) Nessus
13 8 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.65%) SCVMM
13 8 (0.65%) ZABBIX
14 7 (0.57%) McAfee ePO
14 7 (0.57%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 643 (51.98%) Microsoft
2 215 (17.38%) VMware
3 95 (7.68%) Cisco
4 69 (5.58%) ServiceNow
5 53 (4.28%) Oracle
6 46 (3.72%) Veeam
7 43 (3.48%) Splunk
8 41 (3.31%) Google
9 37 (2.99%) Atlassian
10 34 (2.75%) Citrix
11 33 (2.67%) Red Hat
12 30 (2.43%) Palo Alto
13 27 (2.18%) CyberArk
14 26 (2.10%) Commvault
14 26 (2.10%) SolarWinds
15 22 (1.78%) CrowdStrike
15 22 (1.78%) Fortinet
15 22 (1.78%) SAP
16 21 (1.70%) Dell
17 20 (1.62%) Meraki