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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 78 116
Rank change year-on-year -70 +38 -21
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,268 1,545 2,306
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.37% 3.62% 2.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.80% 11.65% 7.09%
Number of salaries quoted 935 964 1,906
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,250 £35,125
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.52% +8.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,500 £78,969 £75,000
90th Percentile £89,000 £91,775 £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 16,262 13,258 32,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.53% 31.10% 33.37%
Number of salaries quoted 11,226 8,942 24,877
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 £86,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 23 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 23 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 -70 1,147 £60,000 - 357
UK excluding London -74 719 £52,500 +5.00% 300
London -11 517 £70,000 -6.67% 99
Work from Home -47 412 £59,500 +6.25% 141
South East -67 172 £56,750 -1.30% 96
North of England -115 164 £47,500 -6.40% 85
Midlands -50 125 £50,000 +2.56% 40
North West -98 85 £50,750 +10.33% 55
South West -43 81 £55,000 +15.79% 39
East of England -21 78 £57,500 +15.00% 28
Scotland +51 74 £50,000 +6.95% 15
East Midlands -20 73 £52,500 +44.83% 22
Yorkshire -24 57 £45,000 -28.00% 18
West Midlands -78 51 £48,250 -3.50% 18
Wales -16 22 £53,171 +6.34% 1
North East -33 22 £46,500 -19.13% 12
Northern Ireland - 3 £46,000 - 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
1 180 (14.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 163 (12.85%) SharePoint
3 43 (3.39%) IIS
4 21 (1.66%) Confluence
5 3 (0.24%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.16%) Apache
6 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.079%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.079%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.079%) Site Server
Applications
1 70 (5.52%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.079%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.079%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.55%) Markit EDM
2 5 (0.39%) 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 (0.079%) Actimize
5 1 (0.079%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 826 (65.14%) Azure
2 459 (36.20%) Microsoft 365
3 350 (27.60%) Entra ID
4 214 (16.88%) AWS
5 129 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
6 109 (8.60%) Power Platform
7 94 (7.41%) GitHub
8 88 (6.94%) SaaS
9 82 (6.47%) OneDrive
10 78 (6.15%) IaaS
11 69 (5.44%) Google Workspace
12 68 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
13 59 (4.65%) GCP
14 55 (4.34%) Azure Sentinel
15 54 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
16 53 (4.18%) Power Automate
17 52 (4.10%) Azure AKS
17 52 (4.10%) PaaS
18 51 (4.02%) Azure Key Vault
19 44 (3.47%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 248 (19.56%) Firewall
2 247 (19.48%) DNS
3 152 (11.99%) DHCP
4 150 (11.83%) VPN
5 105 (8.28%) TCP/IP
6 77 (6.07%) WAN
7 71 (5.60%) LAN
8 66 (5.21%) Network Security
9 58 (4.57%) Broadband
10 48 (3.79%) VLAN
11 44 (3.47%) Wi-Fi
12 40 (3.15%) VoIP
13 35 (2.76%) SAN
14 20 (1.58%) BGP
14 20 (1.58%) Wireless
15 18 (1.42%) SD-WAN
16 16 (1.26%) Kerberos
16 16 (1.26%) VSAN
17 14 (1.10%) MPLS
18 13 (1.03%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (11.59%) SQL Server
2 82 (6.47%) Power BI
3 56 (4.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 32 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (2.05%) MySQL
7 22 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 21 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 20 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (1.50%) Relational Database
11 17 (1.34%) NoSQL
12 13 (1.03%) MongoDB
13 12 (0.95%) Tableau
14 10 (0.79%) InfluxDB
15 9 (0.71%) Data Lake
16 6 (0.47%) Metadata
17 5 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
18 4 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 3 (0.24%) DynamoDB
20 2 (0.16%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 96 (7.57%) Git
2 67 (5.28%) JIRA
3 63 (4.97%) Jenkins
4 56 (4.42%) GitLab
5 29 (2.29%) Bitbucket
6 17 (1.34%) Octopus Deploy
7 13 (1.03%) Metasploit
7 13 (1.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 13 (1.03%) TeamCity
8 10 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
9 9 (0.71%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.71%) Robot Framework
10 8 (0.63%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.63%) 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
1 396 (31.23%) Social Skills
2 232 (18.30%) Finance
3 178 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (6.15%) Law
4 78 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
5 53 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 47 (3.71%) Legal
7 44 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
8 42 (3.31%) Retail
9 40 (3.15%) Public Sector
10 29 (2.29%) Games
11 26 (2.05%) Manufacturing
12 25 (1.97%) Aerospace
12 25 (1.97%) Banking
13 19 (1.50%) Advertising
14 14 (1.10%) Telecoms
15 11 (0.87%) Front Office
16 6 (0.47%) Electronics
16 6 (0.47%) Police
17 5 (0.39%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 239 (18.85%) Senior
2 160 (12.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 143 (11.28%) Analyst
4 134 (10.57%) Azure Engineer
5 132 (10.41%) Support Engineer
6 116 (9.15%) IT Support
7 101 (7.97%) IT Engineer
8 98 (7.73%) Cloud Engineer
9 85 (6.70%) DevOps Engineer
10 80 (6.31%) Security Engineer
11 67 (5.28%) IT Support Engineer
12 62 (4.89%) Developer
13 58 (4.57%) 2nd Line Support
14 56 (4.42%) Lead
14 56 (4.42%) Systems Engineer
15 49 (3.86%) Platform Engineer
16 45 (3.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 45 (3.55%) Architect
17 42 (3.31%) Support Analyst
18 41 (3.23%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (7.57%) OAuth
2 89 (7.02%) SAML
3 86 (6.78%) .NET
4 85 (6.70%) REST
5 84 (6.62%) OpenID
6 76 (5.99%) LDAP
7 62 (4.89%) SOAP
8 58 (4.57%) GraphQL
9 39 (3.08%) .NET Core
9 39 (3.08%) YAML
10 38 (3.00%) Microsoft Graph
11 36 (2.84%) JSON
12 35 (2.76%) ARM Templates
13 34 (2.68%) CSS
13 34 (2.68%) HTML
14 26 (2.05%) SPFx
15 19 (1.50%) HTML5 Canvas
15 19 (1.50%) React
16 18 (1.42%) Elastic Stack
17 16 (1.26%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 94 (7.41%) Onboarding
2 72 (5.68%) Cyber Threat
3 68 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
4 63 (4.97%) Cyberattack
5 61 (4.81%) Cloud Native
5 61 (4.81%) Management Information System
6 53 (4.18%) Security Posture
7 45 (3.55%) Cyber Defence
8 44 (3.47%) Security Operations Centre
9 42 (3.31%) Driving Licence
10 41 (3.23%) Data Centre
11 36 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
12 31 (2.44%) PKI
13 29 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
14 28 (2.21%) Public Cloud
15 25 (1.97%) CMDB
16 20 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
17 19 (1.50%) Private Cloud
18 18 (1.42%) Clustering
18 18 (1.42%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 593 (46.77%) Windows
2 288 (22.71%) Windows Server
3 280 (22.08%) Linux
4 77 (6.07%) Windows 10
5 51 (4.02%) Mac OS
6 50 (3.94%) Apple iOS
7 49 (3.86%) Android
8 36 (2.84%) Windows Server 2016
9 34 (2.68%) VMS
10 30 (2.37%) CentOS
10 30 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 26 (2.05%) Windows Server 2019
12 23 (1.81%) Ubuntu
13 17 (1.34%) Unix
14 8 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.39%) Debian
16 4 (0.32%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.32%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.24%) AIX
17 3 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 279 (22.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 276 (21.77%) Cybersecurity
4 275 (21.69%) CI/CD
5 259 (20.43%) DevOps
6 223 (17.59%) ITIL
7 222 (17.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 208 (16.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 186 (14.67%) Mentoring
10 166 (13.09%) Agile
11 157 (12.38%) Incident Response
12 146 (11.51%) Root Cause Analysis
13 140 (11.04%) Disaster Recovery
14 139 (10.96%) Roadmaps
15 128 (10.09%) Containerisation
15 128 (10.09%) SIEM
16 113 (8.91%) High Availability
17 110 (8.68%) Cloud Security
18 109 (8.60%) Task Automation
19 103 (8.12%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 492 (38.80%) Python
2 324 (25.55%) Bash
3 276 (21.77%) SQL
4 95 (7.49%) C#
5 77 (6.07%) T-SQL
6 72 (5.68%) JavaScript
7 71 (5.60%) Bicep
8 30 (2.37%) Kusto Query Language
9 28 (2.21%) Java
10 23 (1.81%) TypeScript
11 16 (1.26%) C++
12 14 (1.10%) Perl
13 12 (0.95%) VBScript
14 11 (0.87%) VB
14 11 (0.87%) VB.NET
14 11 (0.87%) VBA
15 10 (0.79%) Go
15 10 (0.79%) PHP
16 7 (0.55%) C
17 6 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 163 (12.85%) Degree
2 154 (12.15%) Security Cleared
3 116 (9.15%) Azure Certification
4 115 (9.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 93 (7.33%) SC Cleared
6 50 (3.94%) CISSP
6 50 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 43 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
8 42 (3.31%) DV Cleared
9 35 (2.76%) CompTIA Security+
10 30 (2.37%) CCNA
11 29 (2.29%) CREST Certified
12 28 (2.21%) OSCP
13 25 (1.97%) AWS Certification
13 25 (1.97%) GIAC
14 24 (1.89%) CEH
15 22 (1.74%) DBS Check
16 16 (1.26%) CompTIA CySA+
17 14 (1.10%) CCNP
18 12 (0.95%) CCSAM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (11.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 138 (10.88%) NIST
3 62 (4.89%) GDPR
4 53 (4.18%) NCSC
5 44 (3.47%) SLA
6 35 (2.76%) Cyber Essentials
7 20 (1.58%) Accessibility
7 20 (1.58%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.34%) ISO 22301
9 15 (1.18%) QA
9 15 (1.18%) SOC 2
10 14 (1.10%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
12 10 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.47%) DICOM
14 5 (0.39%) GRC
15 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
16 3 (0.24%) PMO
17 2 (0.16%) COBIT
System Software
1 478 (37.70%) Active Directory
2 176 (13.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 138 (10.88%) Docker
4 116 (9.15%) Hyper-V
5 55 (4.34%) vSphere
6 36 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
8 22 (1.74%) BitLocker
8 22 (1.74%) VMware NSX
9 18 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (1.10%) Firmware
11 10 (0.79%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.63%) KVM
13 7 (0.55%) Squid
14 5 (0.39%) 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
1 282 (22.24%) Terraform
2 208 (16.40%) Kubernetes
3 194 (15.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 149 (11.75%) Ansible
5 61 (4.81%) Grafana
6 57 (4.50%) Single Sign-On
7 50 (3.94%) SCCM
8 40 (3.15%) Prometheus
9 25 (1.97%) Jamf Pro
10 24 (1.89%) vCenter Server
11 23 (1.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 16 (1.26%) Nessus
13 15 (1.18%) Packer
13 15 (1.18%) QRadar
13 15 (1.18%) VxRail
13 15 (1.18%) ZABBIX
14 11 (0.87%) Graylog
15 10 (0.79%) Nagios
15 10 (0.79%) WSUS
16 9 (0.71%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 726 (57.26%) Microsoft
2 226 (17.82%) VMware
3 102 (8.04%) Cisco
4 75 (5.91%) Splunk
5 58 (4.57%) Red Hat
6 55 (4.34%) ServiceNow
7 42 (3.31%) Veeam
8 39 (3.08%) CrowdStrike
9 32 (2.52%) Meraki
10 30 (2.37%) Citrix
10 30 (2.37%) Dell
10 30 (2.37%) Google
11 28 (2.21%) Oracle
12 27 (2.13%) Commvault
13 26 (2.05%) Apple
13 26 (2.05%) Fortinet
14 25 (1.97%) Palo Alto
15 23 (1.81%) Tenable
16 22 (1.74%) CyberArk
17 21 (1.66%) Sophos