PowerShell Job Trends

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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 95 57
Rank change year-on-year -13 -38 +32
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,316 1,807 2,478
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.48% 2.63% 4.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.14% 8.19% 11.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,080 1,245 2,043
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £38,183
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,750 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +0.48% -2.78% +2.86%

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 11,812 22,075 21,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.23% 32.11% 40.86%
Number of salaries quoted 8,568 13,279 17,480
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,658
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 -11 1,154 £58,000 -7.20% 394
UK excluding London +6 821 £52,750 +0.48% 383
London -27 423 £75,250 +0.33% 116
Work from Home -20 371 £61,500 -8.89% 218
South East -14 230 £58,000 +2.61% 141
North of England -10 156 £50,000 - 51
Midlands +18 119 £52,500 +7.58% 55
South West +23 112 £52,500 - 49
East of England +37 99 £47,500 -9.52% 33
West Midlands +25 89 £55,000 +12.70% 29
Scotland +24 87 £70,750 +34.12% 51
Yorkshire -1 75 £47,500 -10.38% 16
North West -1 69 £52,500 +5.00% 28
East Midlands +13 30 £50,000 +2.56% 25
Wales +18 17 £55,000 +8.80% 14
North East +10 12 £60,000 +35.52% 7
Northern Ireland +3 4 £46,000 +15.00% 2

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
1 232 (17.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 177 (13.45%) SharePoint
3 62 (4.71%) IIS
4 56 (4.26%) Confluence
5 22 (1.67%) Exchange Server 2003
6 19 (1.44%) Skype for Business
7 12 (0.91%) nginx
8 6 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.38%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.15%) Apache
10 2 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.15%) CMS
10 2 (0.15%) WordPress
11 1 (0.076%) CICS
11 1 (0.076%) WebSphere
Applications
1 47 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 6 (0.46%) Siemens NX
5 4 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.30%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.23%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.23%) CATIA
6 3 (0.23%) Windchill
7 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.15%) Revit
8 1 (0.076%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 12 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.61%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.46%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.38%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.38%) PlanetPress Connect
5 3 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.23%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.15%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.076%) Eikon
7 1 (0.076%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.076%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.076%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.076%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.076%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 861 (65.43%) Azure
2 452 (34.35%) Microsoft 365
3 282 (21.43%) Entra ID
4 253 (19.22%) AWS
5 220 (16.72%) Azure DevOps
6 115 (8.74%) Power Platform
7 102 (7.75%) PaaS
8 96 (7.29%) GitHub
9 91 (6.91%) SaaS
10 88 (6.69%) Azure Monitor
11 85 (6.46%) GCP
12 75 (5.70%) IaaS
13 70 (5.32%) GitHub Actions
14 69 (5.24%) Power Automate
15 64 (4.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 55 (4.18%) Azure Sentinel
17 52 (3.95%) Serverless
18 42 (3.19%) Amazon S3
18 42 (3.19%) PowerApps
19 40 (3.04%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 294 (22.34%) Firewall
2 258 (19.60%) DNS
3 201 (15.27%) DHCP
4 117 (8.89%) TCP/IP
5 107 (8.13%) VPN
6 100 (7.60%) WAN
7 77 (5.85%) LAN
8 52 (3.95%) VLAN
9 51 (3.88%) Wireless
10 46 (3.50%) SAN
11 38 (2.89%) Internet
12 36 (2.74%) Wi-Fi
13 34 (2.58%) Network Security
14 31 (2.36%) SD-WAN
15 24 (1.82%) HTTP
16 23 (1.75%) SMTP
17 21 (1.60%) NAS
18 20 (1.52%) FTP
18 20 (1.52%) VoIP
19 19 (1.44%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 65 (4.94%) Power BI
3 55 (4.18%) Amazon RDS
4 31 (2.36%) Relational Database
5 30 (2.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 29 (2.20%) Oracle Database
7 26 (1.98%) Oracle Database 10g
8 22 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
9 18 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
10 16 (1.22%) MySQL
11 13 (0.99%) NoSQL
12 10 (0.76%) MongoDB
13 9 (0.68%) DTS
14 8 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
15 7 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
15 7 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 6 (0.46%) Data Mining
16 6 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
17 5 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 136 (10.33%) JIRA
2 115 (8.74%) Jenkins
3 107 (8.13%) Git
4 45 (3.42%) GitLab
5 37 (2.81%) Octopus Deploy
6 30 (2.28%) Vagrant
7 24 (1.82%) TeamCity
8 15 (1.14%) MSI
9 12 (0.91%) Bitbucket
9 12 (0.91%) Burp Suite
9 12 (0.91%) Metasploit
10 10 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (0.46%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 5 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.30%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.30%) Robot Framework
13 4 (0.30%) Toad
14 3 (0.23%) Balsamiq
14 3 (0.23%) CircleCI
General
1 457 (34.73%) Social Skills
2 303 (23.02%) Finance
3 87 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (5.70%) Law
5 57 (4.33%) Public Sector
6 41 (3.12%) Legal
7 40 (3.04%) Banking
7 40 (3.04%) Retail
8 36 (2.74%) Manufacturing
9 33 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
10 32 (2.43%) Telecoms
11 26 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
13 23 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 17 (1.29%) Marketing
15 16 (1.22%) Games
15 16 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (1.06%) Front Office
17 13 (0.99%) Automotive
18 10 (0.76%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 202 (15.35%) Support Engineer
2 157 (11.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 154 (11.70%) Senior
4 119 (9.04%) Azure Engineer
5 118 (8.97%) DevOps Engineer
6 95 (7.22%) Analyst
7 92 (6.99%) 3rd Line Support
7 92 (6.99%) Cloud Engineer
8 86 (6.53%) IT Support
9 82 (6.23%) Security Engineer
10 78 (5.93%) Lead
11 77 (5.85%) Developer
12 75 (5.70%) IT Engineer
13 67 (5.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 67 (5.09%) Platform Engineer
14 51 (3.88%) Applications Support
15 49 (3.72%) IT Support Engineer
15 49 (3.72%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
16 48 (3.65%) Applications Engineer
17 44 (3.34%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (5.93%) .NET
2 74 (5.62%) REST
3 69 (5.24%) YAML
4 39 (2.96%) ARM Templates
4 39 (2.96%) SOAP
5 34 (2.58%) JSON
6 33 (2.51%) LDAP
7 22 (1.67%) SAML
8 21 (1.60%) Web Services
9 20 (1.52%) OAuth
10 18 (1.37%) AngularJS
10 18 (1.37%) Microsoft Graph
11 17 (1.29%) Elastic Stack
12 16 (1.22%) React
13 15 (1.14%) GraphQL
14 14 (1.06%) OpenID
15 11 (0.84%) .NET Framework
15 11 (0.84%) Middleware
15 11 (0.84%) Node.js
16 10 (0.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 96 (7.29%) Onboarding
2 66 (5.02%) Security Posture
3 64 (4.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 57 (4.33%) Product Ownership
5 41 (3.12%) PKI
6 40 (3.04%) Data Centre
7 39 (2.96%) Cloud Native
8 36 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
8 36 (2.74%) Management Information System
9 30 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
9 30 (2.28%) Replication
10 28 (2.13%) Driving Licence
11 27 (2.05%) Public Cloud
11 27 (2.05%) Virtual Team
12 24 (1.82%) Private Cloud
12 24 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
14 21 (1.60%) Video Conferencing
15 17 (1.29%) Hedge funds
15 17 (1.29%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 599 (45.52%) Windows
2 343 (26.06%) Windows Server
3 251 (19.07%) Linux
4 75 (5.70%) Windows 10
5 71 (5.40%) Windows Server 2019
6 65 (4.94%) VMS
7 47 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
8 45 (3.42%) Unix
9 43 (3.27%) Mac OS
10 31 (2.36%) Windows Server 2008
11 27 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 25 (1.90%) Solaris
13 22 (1.67%) HPUX
13 22 (1.67%) Windows 7
13 22 (1.67%) Windows Server 2003
14 21 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
15 19 (1.44%) Amazon Linux
16 18 (1.37%) Ubuntu
17 17 (1.29%) Android
18 12 (0.91%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (31.38%) DevOps
2 347 (26.37%) Problem-Solving
3 297 (22.57%) CI/CD
4 232 (17.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 231 (17.55%) ITIL
6 230 (17.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 209 (15.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 188 (14.29%) Agile
9 165 (12.54%) Mentoring
10 159 (12.08%) Cybersecurity
11 140 (10.64%) Disaster Recovery
12 138 (10.49%) Task Automation
13 128 (9.73%) Cloud Security
14 116 (8.81%) Migration
15 101 (7.67%) Coaching
16 99 (7.52%) Roadmaps
17 97 (7.37%) Containerisation
18 96 (7.29%) Change Management
19 93 (7.07%) ITSM
20 91 (6.91%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 442 (33.59%) Python
2 263 (19.98%) SQL
3 259 (19.68%) Bash
4 108 (8.21%) C#
5 77 (5.85%) Bicep
6 59 (4.48%) JavaScript
7 44 (3.34%) Java
8 36 (2.74%) Perl
9 33 (2.51%) Groovy
10 27 (2.05%) Go
11 26 (1.98%) Kusto Query Language
12 25 (1.90%) T-SQL
13 24 (1.82%) VB
14 14 (1.06%) TypeScript
15 13 (0.99%) Shell Script
16 12 (0.91%) VBScript
17 8 (0.61%) VBA
18 7 (0.53%) Ruby
19 5 (0.38%) C++
20 4 (0.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 202 (15.35%) Security Cleared
2 180 (13.68%) Degree
3 136 (10.33%) SC Cleared
4 107 (8.13%) Azure Certification
5 102 (7.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 70 (5.32%) DV Cleared
7 53 (4.03%) Cisco Certification
8 51 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 48 (3.65%) AWS Certification
10 34 (2.58%) CCNA
10 34 (2.58%) CISSP
11 30 (2.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 24 (1.82%) CREST Certified
12 24 (1.82%) Master's Degree
13 19 (1.44%) CCNP
13 19 (1.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 18 (1.37%) CEH
15 17 (1.29%) OSCP
16 13 (0.99%) Network+ Certification
16 13 (0.99%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (10.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 113 (8.59%) NIST
3 66 (5.02%) GDPR
4 57 (4.33%) SLA
5 39 (2.96%) NCSC
6 37 (2.81%) Accessibility
7 30 (2.28%) Cyber Essentials
8 19 (1.44%) QA
9 10 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 9 (0.68%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.53%) ISO 22301
12 6 (0.46%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.38%) GRC
14 4 (0.30%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.15%) HL7
16 1 (0.076%) Data Quality
16 1 (0.076%) Disclosure Scotland
16 1 (0.076%) NIST 800
16 1 (0.076%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 462 (35.11%) Active Directory
2 200 (15.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 136 (10.33%) Hyper-V
4 128 (9.73%) Docker
5 56 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
6 49 (3.72%) Virtual Desktop
7 34 (2.58%) vSphere
8 22 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
9 21 (1.60%) DFS Replication
10 15 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
11 14 (1.06%) Firmware
12 12 (0.91%) XenApp
13 8 (0.61%) Postfix
13 8 (0.61%) Squid
13 8 (0.61%) vCloud
14 7 (0.53%) Dovecot
15 6 (0.46%) Terminal Services
15 6 (0.46%) XenDesktop
16 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 309 (23.48%) Terraform
2 230 (17.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 182 (13.83%) Kubernetes
4 152 (11.55%) Ansible
5 80 (6.08%) Grafana
6 78 (5.93%) SCCM
7 65 (4.94%) Prometheus
8 44 (3.34%) Single Sign-On
9 32 (2.43%) WSUS
10 24 (1.82%) SCOM
11 18 (1.37%) vCenter Server
12 16 (1.22%) Puppet
13 15 (1.14%) Autotask
13 15 (1.14%) WMI
14 14 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 13 (0.99%) Backup Exec
15 13 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
15 13 (0.99%) QRadar
16 11 (0.84%) Nessus
16 11 (0.84%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 743 (56.46%) Microsoft
2 274 (20.82%) VMware
3 114 (8.66%) Cisco
4 107 (8.13%) ServiceNow
5 66 (5.02%) Oracle
6 56 (4.26%) Veeam
7 54 (4.10%) Splunk
8 46 (3.50%) Citrix
8 46 (3.50%) Red Hat
9 45 (3.42%) Atlassian
10 38 (2.89%) Google
11 34 (2.58%) SolarWinds
12 28 (2.13%) Palo Alto
13 23 (1.75%) SAP
14 22 (1.67%) Meraki
14 22 (1.67%) Sophos
15 20 (1.52%) Apple
15 20 (1.52%) Juniper
16 19 (1.44%) SonicWALL
17 18 (1.37%) Bloomberg