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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 84 118
Rank change year-on-year -67 +34 -23
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,241 1,606 2,290
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.35% 3.64% 2.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.70% 11.55% 7.05%
Number of salaries quoted 913 1,019 1,912
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £89,000 £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 16,117 13,903 32,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.47% 31.53% 33.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,092 9,655 24,888
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 20 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 20 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 -72 1,118 £60,000 - 368
UK excluding London -88 701 £52,500 +5.00% 303
London -18 508 £70,000 -6.67% 120
Work from Home -47 403 £57,500 - 140
South East -78 164 £56,750 -1.30% 120
North of England -103 160 £47,500 -5.00% 74
Midlands -50 121 £52,500 +5.00% 34
North West -102 82 £50,000 +8.70% 44
South West -54 81 £55,000 +15.79% 40
Scotland +46 77 £50,000 -0.41% 17
East of England -29 74 £57,500 +21.05% 20
East Midlands -21 71 £55,000 +42.86% 20
Yorkshire -28 58 £45,000 -23.73% 18
West Midlands -78 49 £48,000 -4.00% 14
Wales -10 21 £54,085 +6.05% 3
North East -33 20 £48,445 -15.75% 12
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
1 173 (13.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 160 (12.89%) SharePoint
3 39 (3.14%) IIS
4 20 (1.61%) 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 (0.081%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.081%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.081%) Site Server
Applications
1 67 (5.40%) 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
2 446 (35.94%) Microsoft 365
3 341 (27.48%) Entra ID
4 210 (16.92%) AWS
5 125 (10.07%) Azure DevOps
6 104 (8.38%) Power Platform
7 91 (7.33%) GitHub
8 87 (7.01%) SaaS
9 80 (6.45%) OneDrive
10 76 (6.12%) IaaS
11 69 (5.56%) Google Workspace
12 66 (5.32%) GitHub Actions
13 60 (4.83%) GCP
14 55 (4.43%) Azure Sentinel
15 53 (4.27%) Power Automate
16 52 (4.19%) Azure AKS
17 51 (4.11%) PaaS
18 50 (4.03%) Azure Key Vault
18 50 (4.03%) Azure Monitor
19 45 (3.63%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 243 (19.58%) DNS
2 241 (19.42%) Firewall
3 150 (12.09%) DHCP
4 147 (11.85%) VPN
5 104 (8.38%) TCP/IP
6 76 (6.12%) WAN
7 70 (5.64%) LAN
8 66 (5.32%) Network Security
9 58 (4.67%) Broadband
10 47 (3.79%) VLAN
11 43 (3.46%) Wi-Fi
12 40 (3.22%) VoIP
13 34 (2.74%) SAN
14 20 (1.61%) BGP
14 20 (1.61%) Wireless
15 18 (1.45%) SD-WAN
16 16 (1.29%) Kerberos
16 16 (1.29%) VSAN
17 14 (1.13%) MPLS
18 13 (1.05%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (11.44%) SQL Server
2 79 (6.37%) Power BI
3 52 (4.19%) Azure SQL Database
4 32 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
5 30 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (2.01%) MySQL
7 22 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (1.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 20 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 19 (1.53%) Relational Database
10 17 (1.37%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.05%) MongoDB
12 12 (0.97%) Tableau
13 10 (0.81%) InfluxDB
14 9 (0.73%) Data Lake
15 6 (0.48%) Metadata
16 5 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
17 4 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 3 (0.24%) DynamoDB
19 2 (0.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 94 (7.57%) Git
2 65 (5.24%) JIRA
3 60 (4.83%) Jenkins
4 51 (4.11%) GitLab
5 27 (2.18%) 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 10 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
10 9 (0.73%) Burp Suite
10 9 (0.73%) Robot Framework
11 8 (0.64%) CircleCI
11 8 (0.64%) TestRail
12 4 (0.32%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.32%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.32%) MLflow
12 4 (0.32%) Selenium
13 3 (0.24%) SonarQube
14 2 (0.16%) Terragrunt
General
1 391 (31.51%) Social Skills
2 227 (18.29%) Finance
3 174 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (6.20%) Organisational Skills
5 75 (6.04%) Law
6 53 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (3.55%) Legal
8 43 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
9 41 (3.30%) Retail
10 40 (3.22%) Public Sector
11 29 (2.34%) Games
12 25 (2.01%) Manufacturing
13 24 (1.93%) Aerospace
13 24 (1.93%) Banking
14 19 (1.53%) Advertising
15 14 (1.13%) Telecoms
16 13 (1.05%) Front Office
17 6 (0.48%) Electronics
17 6 (0.48%) Police
18 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
5 129 (10.39%) Support Engineer
6 113 (9.11%) IT Support
7 96 (7.74%) IT Engineer
8 91 (7.33%) Cloud Engineer
9 82 (6.61%) DevOps Engineer
10 81 (6.53%) Security Engineer
11 65 (5.24%) IT Support Engineer
12 59 (4.75%) Developer
13 57 (4.59%) 2nd Line Support
13 57 (4.59%) Lead
14 55 (4.43%) Systems Engineer
15 45 (3.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 45 (3.63%) Architect
15 45 (3.63%) Platform Engineer
16 42 (3.38%) Support Analyst
17 41 (3.30%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (7.82%) OAuth
2 88 (7.09%) SAML
3 85 (6.85%) OpenID
4 84 (6.77%) .NET
5 83 (6.69%) REST
6 76 (6.12%) LDAP
7 61 (4.92%) SOAP
8 59 (4.75%) GraphQL
9 39 (3.14%) .NET Core
10 38 (3.06%) Microsoft Graph
11 36 (2.90%) JSON
12 35 (2.82%) YAML
13 34 (2.74%) ARM Templates
14 32 (2.58%) CSS
14 32 (2.58%) HTML
15 26 (2.10%) SPFx
16 19 (1.53%) HTML5 Canvas
16 19 (1.53%) React
17 17 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
18 16 (1.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 92 (7.41%) Onboarding
2 71 (5.72%) Cyber Threat
3 67 (5.40%) Hybrid Cloud
4 63 (5.08%) Cyberattack
5 58 (4.67%) Management Information System
6 57 (4.59%) Cloud Native
7 53 (4.27%) Security Posture
8 44 (3.55%) Cyber Defence
9 43 (3.46%) Security Operations Centre
10 41 (3.30%) Driving Licence
11 39 (3.14%) Data Centre
12 36 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
13 30 (2.42%) PKI
14 29 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
15 28 (2.26%) Public Cloud
16 25 (2.01%) CMDB
17 19 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
18 18 (1.45%) Private Cloud
18 18 (1.45%) Replication
19 17 (1.37%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 574 (46.25%) Windows
2 274 (22.08%) Windows Server
3 269 (21.68%) Linux
4 77 (6.20%) Windows 10
5 50 (4.03%) Mac OS
6 49 (3.95%) Apple iOS
7 48 (3.87%) Android
8 34 (2.74%) Windows Server 2016
9 32 (2.58%) VMS
10 29 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 28 (2.26%) CentOS
12 26 (2.10%) Windows Server 2019
13 21 (1.69%) Ubuntu
14 17 (1.37%) Unix
15 8 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
16 5 (0.40%) Debian
17 4 (0.32%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.32%) Kali Linux
18 3 (0.24%) AIX
18 3 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (25.14%) Problem-Solving
2 272 (21.92%) Cybersecurity
3 268 (21.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 264 (21.27%) CI/CD
5 252 (20.31%) DevOps
6 222 (17.89%) ITIL
7 213 (17.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 204 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 185 (14.91%) Mentoring
10 161 (12.97%) Agile
11 155 (12.49%) Incident Response
12 144 (11.60%) Root Cause Analysis
13 139 (11.20%) Roadmaps
14 136 (10.96%) Disaster Recovery
15 127 (10.23%) SIEM
16 123 (9.91%) Containerisation
17 111 (8.94%) Cloud Security
18 108 (8.70%) High Availability
19 105 (8.46%) Task Automation
20 102 (8.22%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 482 (38.84%) Python
2 316 (25.46%) Bash
3 268 (21.60%) SQL
4 96 (7.74%) C#
5 75 (6.04%) T-SQL
6 73 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 70 (5.64%) Bicep
8 31 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
9 26 (2.10%) Java
10 23 (1.85%) TypeScript
11 16 (1.29%) C++
12 14 (1.13%) Perl
13 11 (0.89%) VB
13 11 (0.89%) VB.NET
14 10 (0.81%) Go
15 9 (0.73%) PHP
15 9 (0.73%) VBA
15 9 (0.73%) VBScript
16 7 (0.56%) C
17 6 (0.48%) Korn
Qualifications
1 159 (12.81%) Degree
2 148 (11.93%) Security Cleared
3 115 (9.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 111 (8.94%) Azure Certification
5 87 (7.01%) SC Cleared
6 49 (3.95%) CISSP
7 48 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 42 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
8 42 (3.38%) DV Cleared
9 35 (2.82%) CompTIA Security+
10 29 (2.34%) CCNA
10 29 (2.34%) CREST Certified
11 27 (2.18%) OSCP
12 24 (1.93%) GIAC
13 23 (1.85%) AWS Certification
13 23 (1.85%) CEH
14 22 (1.77%) DBS Check
15 16 (1.29%) CompTIA CySA+
16 14 (1.13%) CCNP
17 12 (0.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (11.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 138 (11.12%) NIST
3 63 (5.08%) GDPR
4 53 (4.27%) NCSC
5 44 (3.55%) SLA
6 33 (2.66%) Cyber Essentials
7 21 (1.69%) Accessibility
8 20 (1.61%) Data Quality
9 17 (1.37%) ISO 22301
10 15 (1.21%) QA
10 15 (1.21%) SOC 2
11 14 (1.13%) PCI DSS
12 12 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
13 9 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.48%) DICOM
15 5 (0.40%) GRC
16 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
17 3 (0.24%) PMO
18 2 (0.16%) COBIT
System Software
1 467 (37.63%) Active Directory
2 172 (13.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 131 (10.56%) Docker
4 111 (8.94%) Hyper-V
5 54 (4.35%) vSphere
6 35 (2.82%) 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 14 (1.13%) 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%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 274 (22.08%) Terraform
2 201 (16.20%) Kubernetes
3 191 (15.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 145 (11.68%) Ansible
5 56 (4.51%) Grafana
6 54 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
7 49 (3.95%) SCCM
8 35 (2.82%) 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%) QRadar
11 15 (1.21%) VxRail
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
16 8 (0.64%) logstash
Vendors
1 714 (57.53%) Microsoft
2 221 (17.81%) VMware
3 100 (8.06%) Cisco
4 70 (5.64%) Splunk
5 56 (4.51%) Red Hat
6 54 (4.35%) ServiceNow
7 41 (3.30%) Veeam
8 40 (3.22%) CrowdStrike
9 32 (2.58%) Meraki
10 30 (2.42%) Dell
11 29 (2.34%) Citrix
11 29 (2.34%) Google
12 27 (2.18%) Commvault
13 26 (2.10%) Apple
13 26 (2.10%) Fortinet
14 25 (2.01%) Oracle
14 25 (2.01%) Palo Alto
15 23 (1.85%) CyberArk
15 23 (1.85%) Tenable
16 20 (1.61%) Databricks