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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 83 118
Rank change year-on-year -63 +35 -24
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,241 1,619 2,269
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.35% 3.66% 2.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.72% 11.57% 6.99%
Number of salaries quoted 914 1,032 1,912
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
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 16,067 13,990 32,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.52% 31.65% 33.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,064 9,733 24,886
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -67 1,114 £60,000 - 411
UK excluding London -85 698 £52,500 +5.00% 336
London -15 509 £70,000 -6.67% 138
Work from Home -40 401 £57,500 - 169
South East -77 163 £56,750 -1.30% 130
North of England -114 154 £47,500 -5.00% 81
Midlands -53 121 £52,500 +5.00% 35
South West -49 81 £55,000 +15.79% 43
Scotland +46 79 £50,000 -0.41% 21
North West -105 79 £50,000 +8.70% 51
East of England -30 75 £57,500 +21.05% 24
East Midlands -27 71 £55,000 +42.86% 21
Yorkshire -27 56 £47,500 -19.49% 16
West Midlands -69 49 £48,000 -4.00% 14
Wales -11 22 £55,000 +7.84% 8
North East -31 19 £53,722 -6.57% 14
Northern Ireland - 3 £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
1 171 (13.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 158 (12.73%) SharePoint
3 40 (3.22%) IIS
4 22 (1.77%) Confluence
5 3 (0.24%) Skype for Business
5 3 (0.24%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.16%) Apache
6 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.081%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.081%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.081%) Site Server
Applications
1 65 (5.24%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.081%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.081%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.56%) Markit EDM
2 5 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
3 3 (0.24%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.16%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.081%) Actimize
5 1 (0.081%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 812 (65.43%) Azure
2 444 (35.78%) Microsoft 365
3 339 (27.32%) Entra ID
4 211 (17.00%) AWS
5 126 (10.15%) Azure DevOps
6 104 (8.38%) Power Platform
7 93 (7.49%) GitHub
8 84 (6.77%) SaaS
9 80 (6.45%) OneDrive
10 75 (6.04%) IaaS
11 69 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
11 69 (5.56%) Google Workspace
12 63 (5.08%) GCP
13 56 (4.51%) Azure Sentinel
14 52 (4.19%) PaaS
14 52 (4.19%) Power Automate
15 51 (4.11%) Azure AKS
16 50 (4.03%) Azure Monitor
17 48 (3.87%) Azure Key Vault
18 45 (3.63%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 242 (19.50%) DNS
2 240 (19.34%) Firewall
3 150 (12.09%) DHCP
4 145 (11.68%) VPN
5 104 (8.38%) TCP/IP
6 75 (6.04%) WAN
7 69 (5.56%) LAN
8 65 (5.24%) Network Security
9 58 (4.67%) Broadband
10 47 (3.79%) VLAN
11 42 (3.38%) Wi-Fi
12 40 (3.22%) VoIP
13 33 (2.66%) SAN
14 21 (1.69%) Wireless
15 20 (1.61%) BGP
16 18 (1.45%) SD-WAN
17 16 (1.29%) VSAN
18 15 (1.21%) Kerberos
19 14 (1.13%) MPLS
20 13 (1.05%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (11.60%) SQL Server
2 79 (6.37%) Power BI
3 53 (4.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 31 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
6 24 (1.93%) MySQL
7 22 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (1.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 20 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 18 (1.45%) NoSQL
10 17 (1.37%) Relational Database
11 13 (1.05%) MongoDB
12 12 (0.97%) Tableau
13 10 (0.81%) Data Lake
13 10 (0.81%) InfluxDB
14 6 (0.48%) Metadata
15 5 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
16 4 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 3 (0.24%) DynamoDB
18 2 (0.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 95 (7.66%) Git
2 67 (5.40%) JIRA
3 63 (5.08%) Jenkins
4 53 (4.27%) GitLab
5 28 (2.26%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.29%) Octopus Deploy
7 13 (1.05%) Metasploit
7 13 (1.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 12 (0.97%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.73%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.73%) Robot Framework
9 9 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
10 8 (0.64%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.64%) TestRail
11 4 (0.32%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.32%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.32%) MLflow
11 4 (0.32%) Selenium
12 3 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.24%) SonarQube
General
1 393 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 231 (18.61%) Finance
3 176 (14.18%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (6.20%) Organisational Skills
5 74 (5.96%) Law
6 53 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (3.55%) Legal
8 43 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
8 43 (3.46%) Retail
9 41 (3.30%) Public Sector
10 29 (2.34%) Games
11 25 (2.01%) Banking
11 25 (2.01%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.85%) Aerospace
13 18 (1.45%) Advertising
14 15 (1.21%) Telecoms
15 13 (1.05%) Front Office
16 6 (0.48%) Electronics
16 6 (0.48%) Police
17 5 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 238 (19.18%) Senior
2 155 (12.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 143 (11.52%) Analyst
4 132 (10.64%) Azure Engineer
5 127 (10.23%) Support Engineer
6 111 (8.94%) IT Support
7 93 (7.49%) IT Engineer
8 89 (7.17%) Cloud Engineer
9 82 (6.61%) DevOps Engineer
9 82 (6.61%) Security Engineer
10 63 (5.08%) IT Support Engineer
11 59 (4.75%) Developer
12 57 (4.59%) 2nd Line Support
12 57 (4.59%) Lead
13 54 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
14 47 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
15 44 (3.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 44 (3.55%) Architect
16 42 (3.38%) Security Analyst
16 42 (3.38%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (7.82%) OAuth
2 87 (7.01%) SAML
3 85 (6.85%) .NET
3 85 (6.85%) OpenID
4 83 (6.69%) REST
5 74 (5.96%) LDAP
6 62 (5.00%) SOAP
7 60 (4.83%) GraphQL
8 39 (3.14%) .NET Core
9 37 (2.98%) Microsoft Graph
10 35 (2.82%) JSON
10 35 (2.82%) YAML
11 33 (2.66%) ARM Templates
12 31 (2.50%) CSS
13 30 (2.42%) HTML
14 26 (2.10%) SPFx
15 19 (1.53%) HTML5 Canvas
15 19 (1.53%) React
16 18 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
17 16 (1.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 91 (7.33%) Onboarding
2 71 (5.72%) Cyber Threat
3 69 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 63 (5.08%) Cyberattack
5 57 (4.59%) Management Information System
6 56 (4.51%) Cloud Native
7 53 (4.27%) Security Posture
8 45 (3.63%) Cyber Defence
9 44 (3.55%) Security Operations Centre
10 40 (3.22%) Driving Licence
11 39 (3.14%) Data Centre
12 36 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
13 30 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
13 30 (2.42%) PKI
14 28 (2.26%) Public Cloud
15 25 (2.01%) CMDB
16 20 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
17 18 (1.45%) Low-Code
17 18 (1.45%) Private Cloud
17 18 (1.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 578 (46.58%) Windows
2 275 (22.16%) Windows Server
3 272 (21.92%) Linux
4 77 (6.20%) Windows 10
5 49 (3.95%) Apple iOS
5 49 (3.95%) Mac OS
6 48 (3.87%) Android
7 34 (2.74%) Windows Server 2016
8 32 (2.58%) VMS
9 30 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 28 (2.26%) CentOS
11 25 (2.01%) Windows Server 2019
12 21 (1.69%) Ubuntu
13 18 (1.45%) Unix
14 9 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.40%) Debian
16 4 (0.32%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.32%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.24%) AIX
17 3 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (25.46%) Problem-Solving
2 272 (21.92%) Infrastructure as Code
3 270 (21.76%) Cybersecurity
4 265 (21.35%) CI/CD
5 255 (20.55%) DevOps
6 223 (17.97%) ITIL
7 215 (17.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 205 (16.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 186 (14.99%) Mentoring
10 163 (13.13%) Agile
11 158 (12.73%) Incident Response
12 147 (11.85%) Root Cause Analysis
13 139 (11.20%) Roadmaps
14 138 (11.12%) Disaster Recovery
15 127 (10.23%) SIEM
16 124 (9.99%) Containerisation
17 111 (8.94%) Cloud Security
18 107 (8.62%) Task Automation
19 106 (8.54%) High Availability
20 102 (8.22%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 486 (39.16%) Python
2 319 (25.71%) Bash
3 268 (21.60%) SQL
4 96 (7.74%) C#
5 75 (6.04%) T-SQL
6 73 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 71 (5.72%) Bicep
8 30 (2.42%) Kusto Query Language
9 25 (2.01%) Java
10 22 (1.77%) TypeScript
11 15 (1.21%) C++
12 13 (1.05%) Perl
13 12 (0.97%) VB
14 11 (0.89%) VB.NET
15 10 (0.81%) Go
16 9 (0.73%) PHP
16 9 (0.73%) VBA
16 9 (0.73%) VBScript
17 7 (0.56%) C
18 6 (0.48%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 159 (12.81%) Degree
2 147 (11.85%) Security Cleared
3 112 (9.02%) Microsoft Certification
4 107 (8.62%) Azure Certification
5 87 (7.01%) SC Cleared
6 50 (4.03%) CISSP
7 48 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
8 41 (3.30%) DV Cleared
9 34 (2.74%) CompTIA Security+
10 30 (2.42%) CREST Certified
11 28 (2.26%) CCNA
12 27 (2.18%) OSCP
13 25 (2.01%) GIAC
14 23 (1.85%) AWS Certification
15 22 (1.77%) CEH
15 22 (1.77%) DBS Check
16 16 (1.29%) CompTIA CySA+
17 14 (1.13%) CCNP
18 12 (0.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 141 (11.36%) NIST
3 66 (5.32%) GDPR
4 53 (4.27%) NCSC
5 43 (3.46%) SLA
6 31 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 23 (1.85%) Accessibility
8 19 (1.53%) Data Quality
9 18 (1.45%) ISO 22301
10 15 (1.21%) PCI DSS
10 15 (1.21%) QA
10 15 (1.21%) SOC 2
11 12 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
12 9 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.48%) DICOM
14 5 (0.40%) GRC
15 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.16%) COBIT
17 2 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 464 (37.39%) Active Directory
2 175 (14.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 133 (10.72%) Docker
4 112 (9.02%) Hyper-V
5 53 (4.27%) vSphere
6 33 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
8 21 (1.69%) BitLocker
8 21 (1.69%) VMware NSX
9 18 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
10 15 (1.21%) Firmware
11 10 (0.81%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.64%) KVM
13 6 (0.48%) Squid
14 5 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.32%) iptables
15 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.32%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.32%) XenDesktop
16 2 (0.16%) Samba
Systems Management
1 274 (22.08%) Terraform
2 204 (16.44%) Kubernetes
3 188 (15.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 147 (11.85%) Ansible
5 57 (4.59%) Grafana
6 53 (4.27%) Single Sign-On
7 50 (4.03%) SCCM
8 36 (2.90%) Prometheus
9 25 (2.01%) Jamf Pro
10 23 (1.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 23 (1.85%) vCenter Server
11 15 (1.21%) Nessus
11 15 (1.21%) VxRail
12 14 (1.13%) QRadar
12 14 (1.13%) ZABBIX
13 13 (1.05%) Packer
14 10 (0.81%) Graylog
14 10 (0.81%) WSUS
15 9 (0.73%) Nagios
15 9 (0.73%) Puppet
Vendors
1 709 (57.13%) Microsoft
2 224 (18.05%) VMware
3 101 (8.14%) Cisco
4 69 (5.56%) Splunk
5 57 (4.59%) Red Hat
6 53 (4.27%) ServiceNow
7 41 (3.30%) CrowdStrike
8 40 (3.22%) Veeam
9 31 (2.50%) Meraki
10 30 (2.42%) Dell
11 29 (2.34%) Citrix
11 29 (2.34%) Google
12 28 (2.26%) Commvault
13 26 (2.10%) Apple
13 26 (2.10%) Fortinet
13 26 (2.10%) Oracle
13 26 (2.10%) Palo Alto
14 23 (1.85%) CyberArk
14 23 (1.85%) Tenable
15 20 (1.61%) Databricks