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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 89 105
Rank change year-on-year -59 +16 -39
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,495 1,623 1,823
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.29% 3.29% 2.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.96% 12.43% 7.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,016 1,079 1,196
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £80,313
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £96,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,349 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.24% +2.70% -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 18,783 13,053 24,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.16% 26.48% 30.89%
Number of salaries quoted 13,281 8,437 15,009
10th Percentile £38,920 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
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 20 September 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 September 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 1,301 £59,000 +2.61% 1,128
UK excluding London -66 977 £52,500 +2.24% 692
Work from Home -35 520 £60,500 +3.42% 486
London -39 472 £70,000 -3.45% 516
South East -40 240 £52,500 -8.70% 198
North of England -85 239 £50,000 - 177
Midlands -54 160 £52,500 +5.00% 94
North West -72 144 £50,000 +5.26% 99
East of England -43 99 £57,500 +21.05% 62
South West -69 86 £55,000 +15.79% 78
West Midlands -71 81 £55,000 +1.21% 50
East Midlands -21 79 £42,500 +21.43% 44
Northern Ireland -24 70 £46,000 - 17
Yorkshire -38 59 £42,500 -17.68% 50
Scotland +7 46 £51,250 +3.10% 55
Wales -48 37 £38,500 -30.00% 23
North East -36 36 £51,500 -6.36% 30

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
1 248 (16.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 244 (16.32%) SharePoint
3 54 (3.61%) IIS
4 41 (2.74%) Confluence
5 15 (1.00%) nginx
6 8 (0.54%) Apache
7 6 (0.40%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.067%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.067%) WebSphere
Applications
1 66 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (2.41%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.40%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.33%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.067%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 892 (59.67%) Azure
2 562 (37.59%) Microsoft 365
3 464 (31.04%) Entra ID
4 260 (17.39%) AWS
5 186 (12.44%) SaaS
6 178 (11.91%) Azure DevOps
7 120 (8.03%) Power Platform
8 118 (7.89%) GitHub
9 115 (7.69%) OneDrive
10 110 (7.36%) IaaS
11 90 (6.02%) Azure Monitor
12 83 (5.55%) Azure Sentinel
13 80 (5.35%) PaaS
13 80 (5.35%) Power Automate
14 77 (5.15%) Azure AKS
15 72 (4.82%) GCP
16 70 (4.68%) Azure Key Vault
16 70 (4.68%) GitHub Actions
17 58 (3.88%) Microsoft Purview
18 54 (3.61%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 329 (22.01%) Firewall
2 328 (21.94%) DNS
3 223 (14.92%) DHCP
4 219 (14.65%) VPN
5 146 (9.77%) TCP/IP
6 101 (6.76%) WAN
7 87 (5.82%) LAN
8 74 (4.95%) VLAN
9 60 (4.01%) Network Security
10 57 (3.81%) Wireless
11 48 (3.21%) Wi-Fi
12 36 (2.41%) SAN
13 31 (2.07%) Kerberos
14 25 (1.67%) SSL
15 22 (1.47%) NAS
16 21 (1.40%) HTTP
17 17 (1.14%) Internet
17 17 (1.14%) VoIP
18 16 (1.07%) VSAN
19 13 (0.87%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (10.10%) SQL Server
2 89 (5.95%) Azure SQL Database
3 64 (4.28%) Power BI
4 27 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.47%) MongoDB
6 18 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (1.14%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 13 (0.87%) MySQL
11 11 (0.74%) NoSQL
12 9 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (0.54%) Data Lake
13 8 (0.54%) InfluxDB
13 8 (0.54%) Redis
14 7 (0.47%) Power Query
15 6 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.40%) Metadata
16 5 (0.33%) Db2
16 5 (0.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 104 (6.96%) JIRA
2 100 (6.69%) Git
3 77 (5.15%) GitLab
4 67 (4.48%) Jenkins
5 28 (1.87%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 12 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
7 10 (0.67%) TeamCity
8 9 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (0.54%) Robot Framework
9 8 (0.54%) TestRail
10 7 (0.47%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.40%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.40%) Postman
11 6 (0.40%) Selenium
12 5 (0.33%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.27%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
13 4 (0.27%) MSI
14 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 568 (37.99%) Social Skills
2 252 (16.86%) Finance
3 194 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (7.89%) Law
4 118 (7.89%) Legal
5 73 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 56 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
7 47 (3.14%) Retail
8 45 (3.01%) Banking
9 43 (2.88%) Public Sector
10 37 (2.47%) Manufacturing
10 37 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
11 36 (2.41%) Aerospace
12 15 (1.00%) Legal Technology
13 12 (0.80%) Advertising
13 12 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (0.74%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.60%) Front Office
15 9 (0.60%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 295 (19.73%) Senior
2 211 (14.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 165 (11.04%) Analyst
4 144 (9.63%) Azure Engineer
5 140 (9.36%) Support Engineer
6 136 (9.10%) Cloud Engineer
7 134 (8.96%) IT Engineer
8 112 (7.49%) IT Support
9 110 (7.36%) DevOps Engineer
10 83 (5.55%) Platform Engineer
11 74 (4.95%) Lead
12 73 (4.88%) Consultant
13 70 (4.68%) Support Analyst
14 68 (4.55%) IT Support Engineer
15 65 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
16 61 (4.08%) Security Engineer
17 58 (3.88%) Administrator
18 57 (3.81%) Testing Manager
19 56 (3.75%) Developer
20 55 (3.68%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 377 (25.22%) Terraform
2 74 (4.95%) .NET
3 56 (3.75%) ARM Templates
3 56 (3.75%) REST
4 45 (3.01%) Microsoft Graph
4 45 (3.01%) SAML
5 44 (2.94%) YAML
6 41 (2.74%) LDAP
7 40 (2.68%) OAuth
7 40 (2.68%) OpenID
8 36 (2.41%) HTML
9 29 (1.94%) JSON
10 27 (1.81%) CSS
11 26 (1.74%) SPFx
12 23 (1.54%) .NET Core
13 21 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
14 16 (1.07%) SOAP
15 15 (1.00%) HTML5 Canvas
16 14 (0.94%) ASP.NET
16 14 (0.94%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 131 (8.76%) Onboarding
2 91 (6.09%) Cloud Native
3 81 (5.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 76 (5.08%) Driving Licence
5 75 (5.02%) Management Information System
6 69 (4.62%) Security Posture
7 61 (4.08%) Virtual Team
8 51 (3.41%) Data Centre
8 51 (3.41%) PKI
9 49 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
10 48 (3.21%) Replication
11 45 (3.01%) Public Cloud
12 42 (2.81%) Security Operations Centre
13 36 (2.41%) Clustering
14 34 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
15 26 (1.74%) Private Cloud
16 23 (1.54%) Cyber Defence
16 23 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
17 22 (1.47%) CMDB
18 19 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 707 (47.29%) Windows
2 348 (23.28%) Linux
3 342 (22.88%) Windows Server
4 92 (6.15%) Windows 10
5 54 (3.61%) Apple iOS
6 46 (3.08%) Ubuntu
7 42 (2.81%) Android
8 41 (2.74%) VMS
9 40 (2.68%) Mac OS
10 34 (2.27%) CentOS
10 34 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 31 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 27 (1.81%) Windows Server 2019
13 22 (1.47%) Unix
14 16 (1.07%) Rocky
15 8 (0.54%) Debian
15 8 (0.54%) Solaris
16 5 (0.33%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.27%) Kali Linux
17 4 (0.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (28.43%) Problem-Solving
2 391 (26.15%) DevOps
3 378 (25.28%) Continuous Improvement
4 356 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 332 (22.21%) CI/CD
6 320 (21.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 283 (18.93%) ITIL
8 255 (17.06%) Cybersecurity
9 234 (15.65%) Mentoring
10 203 (13.58%) Disaster Recovery
11 173 (11.57%) Agile
12 172 (11.51%) AI
13 165 (11.04%) Root Cause Analysis
14 163 (10.90%) High Availability
15 155 (10.37%) Project Delivery
16 149 (9.97%) Platform Engineering
17 143 (9.57%) Cloud Security
18 140 (9.36%) Incident Response
19 132 (8.83%) Migration
19 132 (8.83%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 587 (39.26%) Python
2 311 (20.80%) Bash
3 307 (20.54%) SQL
4 142 (9.50%) JavaScript
5 134 (8.96%) C#
6 125 (8.36%) Bicep
7 85 (5.69%) TypeScript
8 51 (3.41%) Kusto Query Language
9 37 (2.47%) T-SQL
10 36 (2.41%) Java
11 23 (1.54%) VBScript
12 20 (1.34%) C++
13 19 (1.27%) Perl
14 13 (0.87%) PHP
14 13 (0.87%) Ruby
15 10 (0.67%) VB
15 10 (0.67%) VBA
16 9 (0.60%) Go
17 7 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 6 (0.40%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 212 (14.18%) Security Cleared
2 170 (11.37%) Degree
3 162 (10.84%) Azure Certification
4 161 (10.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 145 (9.70%) SC Cleared
6 63 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 63 (4.21%) DV Cleared
7 57 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
8 56 (3.75%) CISSP
9 53 (3.55%) CompTIA Security+
10 43 (2.88%) CCNA
11 28 (1.87%) CEH
12 25 (1.67%) AWS Certification
13 22 (1.47%) DBS Check
14 21 (1.40%) CISM
15 20 (1.34%) OSCP
16 18 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 17 (1.14%) GIAC
18 16 (1.07%) CCNP
18 16 (1.07%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (6.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 80 (5.35%) QA
3 71 (4.75%) Cyber Essentials
4 63 (4.21%) NIST
5 47 (3.14%) GDPR
6 46 (3.08%) SLA
7 19 (1.27%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.27%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.00%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (0.54%) NCSC
9 8 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.47%) PMO
11 5 (0.33%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.27%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
14 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.13%) EMIR
14 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 539 (36.05%) Active Directory
2 247 (16.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 157 (10.50%) Hyper-V
4 145 (9.70%) Docker
5 82 (5.48%) vSphere
6 75 (5.02%) Virtual Machines
7 57 (3.81%) Virtual Desktop
8 26 (1.74%) VMware NSX
9 19 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
10 18 (1.20%) BitLocker
11 10 (0.67%) Firmware
12 8 (0.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.54%) KVM
12 8 (0.54%) Squid
13 5 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.20%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.067%) Ceph
16 1 (0.067%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 263 (17.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 229 (15.32%) Kubernetes
3 176 (11.77%) Ansible
4 82 (5.48%) Grafana
5 77 (5.15%) SCCM
6 56 (3.75%) Single Sign-On
7 46 (3.08%) Prometheus
8 25 (1.67%) ZABBIX
9 24 (1.61%) Argo
9 24 (1.61%) vCenter Server
10 20 (1.34%) Proxmox
10 20 (1.34%) Puppet
10 20 (1.34%) QRadar
11 18 (1.20%) Packer
12 17 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
13 15 (1.00%) FortiGate
13 15 (1.00%) Graylog
14 13 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 11 (0.74%) VxRail
16 10 (0.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 934 (62.47%) Microsoft
2 282 (18.86%) VMware
3 111 (7.42%) Cisco
4 105 (7.02%) ServiceNow
5 90 (6.02%) Splunk
6 66 (4.41%) Veeam
7 52 (3.48%) Oracle
7 52 (3.48%) Red Hat
8 43 (2.88%) Citrix
9 40 (2.68%) Meraki
10 34 (2.27%) Sage
11 32 (2.14%) Dell
12 31 (2.07%) Dynatrace
13 29 (1.94%) Sophos
14 28 (1.87%) CyberArk
14 28 (1.87%) SAP
15 27 (1.81%) Tenable
16 26 (1.74%) Apple
16 26 (1.74%) Fortinet
17 24 (1.61%) Google