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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 90 112
Rank change year-on-year -55 +22 -37
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,466 1,657 1,859
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.35% 3.31% 2.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.92% 12.06% 7.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,037 1,108 1,356
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,688 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year - -0.86% -3.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £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 18,515 13,740 25,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.07% 27.45% 30.26%
Number of salaries quoted 13,176 9,007 17,342
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -64 1,296 £59,000 +2.61% 350
UK excluding London -58 959 £52,500 +5.00% 282
Work from Home -41 502 £62,500 +8.70% 159
London -31 476 £70,000 -3.45% 120
South East -26 248 £52,500 -8.70% 108
North of England -82 226 £50,000 +5.26% 61
Midlands -37 157 £52,500 +5.00% 48
North West -83 127 £50,801 +10.44% 44
East of England -38 101 £57,500 +13.86% 31
East Midlands -6 83 £42,500 +21.43% 17
South West -78 83 £55,000 +19.57% 35
West Midlands -52 74 £55,000 - 31
Northern Ireland -19 70 £46,000 - 2
Yorkshire -28 63 £42,500 -17.68% 12
Scotland +18 44 £50,000 +25.00% 4
North East -27 36 £50,000 +5.26% 6
Wales -40 30 £53,000 -3.64% 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
1 238 (16.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 230 (15.69%) SharePoint
3 57 (3.89%) IIS
4 34 (2.32%) Confluence
5 13 (0.89%) nginx
6 7 (0.48%) Apache
7 6 (0.41%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
9 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.068%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.068%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (5.25%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 20 (1.36%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.41%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.20%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.20%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.068%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 897 (61.19%) Azure
2 539 (36.77%) Microsoft 365
3 418 (28.51%) Entra ID
4 257 (17.53%) AWS
5 176 (12.01%) SaaS
6 166 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
7 110 (7.50%) GitHub
8 109 (7.44%) Power Platform
9 108 (7.37%) OneDrive
10 107 (7.30%) IaaS
11 79 (5.39%) Azure Monitor
11 79 (5.39%) Azure Sentinel
12 74 (5.05%) PaaS
12 74 (5.05%) Power Automate
13 70 (4.77%) Azure AKS
13 70 (4.77%) GCP
14 66 (4.50%) Azure Key Vault
15 62 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
16 52 (3.55%) Datadog
17 49 (3.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 323 (22.03%) Firewall
2 314 (21.42%) DNS
3 209 (14.26%) DHCP
4 205 (13.98%) VPN
5 143 (9.75%) TCP/IP
6 98 (6.68%) WAN
7 85 (5.80%) LAN
8 69 (4.71%) Network Security
8 69 (4.71%) VLAN
9 49 (3.34%) Wireless
10 44 (3.00%) Wi-Fi
11 36 (2.46%) SAN
12 30 (2.05%) Kerberos
13 22 (1.50%) NAS
13 22 (1.50%) SSL
13 22 (1.50%) VoIP
14 18 (1.23%) HTTP
14 18 (1.23%) Internet
15 17 (1.16%) BGP
15 17 (1.16%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (10.16%) SQL Server
2 83 (5.66%) Azure SQL Database
3 62 (4.23%) Power BI
4 28 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.50%) MongoDB
6 19 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (1.16%) Relational Database
8 15 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 13 (0.89%) MySQL
10 13 (0.89%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.48%) InfluxDB
12 7 (0.48%) Redis
13 6 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.41%) Power Query
14 5 (0.34%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.34%) Metadata
14 5 (0.34%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.27%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 105 (7.16%) Git
2 99 (6.75%) JIRA
3 67 (4.57%) GitLab
4 59 (4.02%) Jenkins
5 29 (1.98%) Bitbucket
6 13 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (0.68%) TeamCity
9 7 (0.48%) Robot Framework
9 7 (0.48%) TestRail
10 6 (0.41%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.41%) Selenium
10 6 (0.41%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.34%) Metasploit
11 5 (0.34%) Postman
12 3 (0.20%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.20%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.20%) MSI
12 3 (0.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 532 (36.29%) Social Skills
2 241 (16.44%) Finance
3 190 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (8.94%) Law
5 122 (8.32%) Legal
6 63 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 49 (3.34%) Documentation Skills
8 44 (3.00%) Retail
9 43 (2.93%) Public Sector
10 39 (2.66%) Banking
11 34 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
12 33 (2.25%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.84%) Aerospace
14 16 (1.09%) Advertising
15 15 (1.02%) Legal Technology
16 12 (0.82%) Financial Institution
17 11 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
18 10 (0.68%) Telecoms
19 9 (0.61%) Front Office
20 8 (0.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 286 (19.51%) Senior
2 197 (13.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 160 (10.91%) Analyst
4 140 (9.55%) Support Engineer
5 136 (9.28%) Azure Engineer
6 135 (9.21%) IT Engineer
7 132 (9.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 128 (8.73%) IT Support
9 103 (7.03%) DevOps Engineer
10 73 (4.98%) Platform Engineer
11 71 (4.84%) IT Support Engineer
11 71 (4.84%) Security Engineer
12 68 (4.64%) Lead
13 64 (4.37%) Systems Engineer
14 62 (4.23%) Developer
15 58 (3.96%) Testing Manager
16 57 (3.89%) Support Analyst
17 55 (3.75%) Administrator
17 55 (3.75%) Senior Manager
18 53 (3.62%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 360 (24.56%) Terraform
2 84 (5.73%) .NET
3 52 (3.55%) ARM Templates
3 52 (3.55%) REST
4 47 (3.21%) YAML
5 45 (3.07%) SAML
6 42 (2.86%) HTML
6 42 (2.86%) Microsoft Graph
7 41 (2.80%) OAuth
8 39 (2.66%) LDAP
8 39 (2.66%) OpenID
9 32 (2.18%) CSS
9 32 (2.18%) JSON
10 31 (2.11%) .NET Core
11 25 (1.71%) SPFx
12 19 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
12 19 (1.30%) HTML5 Canvas
13 18 (1.23%) SOAP
14 15 (1.02%) ASP.NET
14 15 (1.02%) React
Miscellaneous
1 121 (8.25%) Onboarding
2 87 (5.93%) Cloud Native
3 72 (4.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 70 (4.77%) Management Information System
4 70 (4.77%) Security Posture
5 68 (4.64%) Driving Licence
6 60 (4.09%) Virtual Team
7 51 (3.48%) Data Centre
8 44 (3.00%) PKI
8 44 (3.00%) Public Cloud
9 43 (2.93%) Security Operations Centre
10 41 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
10 41 (2.80%) Replication
11 37 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
12 36 (2.46%) Clustering
13 28 (1.91%) Private Cloud
14 26 (1.77%) Cyber Defence
15 25 (1.71%) CMDB
16 24 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
17 19 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 693 (47.27%) Windows
2 342 (23.33%) Linux
3 326 (22.24%) Windows Server
4 80 (5.46%) Windows 10
5 55 (3.75%) Apple iOS
6 47 (3.21%) Mac OS
7 44 (3.00%) Android
8 39 (2.66%) VMS
9 38 (2.59%) Ubuntu
10 35 (2.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 30 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 29 (1.98%) CentOS
13 25 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
14 17 (1.16%) Unix
15 8 (0.55%) Rocky
16 7 (0.48%) Debian
17 6 (0.41%) Solaris
18 5 (0.34%) CoreOS
18 5 (0.34%) Kali Linux
19 4 (0.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (26.40%) Problem-Solving
2 372 (25.38%) DevOps
3 351 (23.94%) Continuous Improvement
4 339 (23.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 329 (22.44%) CI/CD
6 298 (20.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 291 (19.85%) ITIL
8 244 (16.64%) Cybersecurity
9 216 (14.73%) Mentoring
10 189 (12.89%) Disaster Recovery
11 175 (11.94%) High Availability
12 173 (11.80%) Root Cause Analysis
13 162 (11.05%) Incident Response
14 160 (10.91%) Agile
15 148 (10.10%) AI
16 135 (9.21%) Containerisation
17 134 (9.14%) Project Delivery
17 134 (9.14%) SIEM
18 131 (8.94%) Cloud Security
19 130 (8.87%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 582 (39.70%) Python
2 305 (20.80%) Bash
3 290 (19.78%) SQL
4 144 (9.82%) C#
5 141 (9.62%) JavaScript
6 112 (7.64%) Bicep
7 87 (5.93%) TypeScript
8 51 (3.48%) Kusto Query Language
9 40 (2.73%) Java
10 37 (2.52%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.43%) VBScript
12 19 (1.30%) C++
13 18 (1.23%) Perl
14 14 (0.95%) PHP
15 11 (0.75%) Ruby
16 10 (0.68%) VBA
17 9 (0.61%) Go
17 9 (0.61%) VB
18 7 (0.48%) C
19 6 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 194 (13.23%) Security Cleared
2 174 (11.87%) Degree
3 163 (11.12%) Azure Certification
4 149 (10.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 137 (9.35%) SC Cleared
6 66 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 63 (4.30%) Cisco Certification
8 55 (3.75%) CompTIA Security+
8 55 (3.75%) DV Cleared
9 53 (3.62%) CISSP
10 46 (3.14%) CCNA
11 28 (1.91%) CEH
12 24 (1.64%) DBS Check
12 24 (1.64%) OSCP
13 23 (1.57%) AWS Certification
14 22 (1.50%) GIAC
15 20 (1.36%) CCNP
16 18 (1.23%) CISM
16 18 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 15 (1.02%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (7.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 80 (5.46%) QA
3 75 (5.12%) NIST
4 67 (4.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 52 (3.55%) GDPR
6 46 (3.14%) SLA
7 19 (1.30%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.16%) PCI DSS
9 16 (1.09%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.48%) NCSC
11 7 (0.48%) PMO
12 6 (0.41%) ISO 22301
13 5 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.27%) Accessibility
14 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
16 2 (0.14%) EMIR
16 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 529 (36.08%) Active Directory
2 242 (16.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 161 (10.98%) Hyper-V
4 138 (9.41%) Docker
5 82 (5.59%) vSphere
6 61 (4.16%) Virtual Machines
7 51 (3.48%) Virtual Desktop
8 28 (1.91%) VMware NSX
9 23 (1.57%) BitLocker
10 18 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
11 9 (0.61%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.55%) Firmware
12 8 (0.55%) KVM
12 8 (0.55%) Squid
13 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.20%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
16 1 (0.068%) Samba
Systems Management
1 251 (17.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 232 (15.83%) Kubernetes
3 179 (12.21%) Ansible
4 80 (5.46%) Grafana
5 75 (5.12%) SCCM
6 51 (3.48%) Single Sign-On
7 44 (3.00%) Prometheus
8 26 (1.77%) vCenter Server
9 25 (1.71%) ZABBIX
10 23 (1.57%) Jamf Pro
11 21 (1.43%) Argo
11 21 (1.43%) QRadar
12 20 (1.36%) Packer
12 20 (1.36%) Proxmox
13 19 (1.30%) Puppet
14 15 (1.02%) Graylog
15 14 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 13 (0.89%) VxRail
17 11 (0.75%) FortiGate
18 10 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 900 (61.39%) Microsoft
2 279 (19.03%) VMware
3 126 (8.59%) Cisco
4 109 (7.44%) ServiceNow
5 92 (6.28%) Splunk
6 58 (3.96%) Veeam
7 54 (3.68%) Red Hat
8 49 (3.34%) Meraki
8 49 (3.34%) Oracle
9 41 (2.80%) Citrix
10 36 (2.46%) Dynatrace
11 33 (2.25%) Sophos
12 31 (2.11%) Dell
13 30 (2.05%) Tenable
14 29 (1.98%) CrowdStrike
15 27 (1.84%) CyberArk
16 26 (1.77%) Apple
17 24 (1.64%) Fortinet
18 22 (1.50%) Palo Alto
19 21 (1.43%) Okta