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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 93 100
Rank change year-on-year -40 +7 -8
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,226 1,293 2,456
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.54% 3.16% 2.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.51% 9.42% 7.81%
Number of salaries quoted 914 1,058 2,125
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £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 £77,188 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £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 14,407 13,724 31,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.05% 33.56% 34.95%
Number of salaries quoted 9,999 10,208 24,719
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,508
25th Percentile £46,276 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,310 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,050 £56,750 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.23% +5.09% -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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -48 1,086 £57,500 -4.72% 384
UK excluding London -57 681 £52,500 - 315
London -11 498 £70,000 -12.50% 123
Work from Home -20 380 £60,000 +2.56% 176
South East -56 189 £57,125 -4.79% 97
North of England -69 131 £47,500 -9.52% 66
Midlands -50 97 £52,500 +5.00% 45
Scotland +36 94 £71,500 +19.17% 14
South West -18 94 £55,000 +15.79% 60
East of England -36 65 £40,000 -27.27% 34
Yorkshire -36 59 £47,500 -9.52% 16
North West -46 59 £55,000 +13.86% 35
East Midlands -28 54 £55,000 +15.79% 16
West Midlands -59 42 £48,000 -4.00% 29
North East -27 13 £45,000 -21.74% 15
Wales -17 10 £63,248 +25.11% 10
Northern Ireland -38 2 - - 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
1 186 (15.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 136 (11.09%) SharePoint
3 32 (2.61%) IIS
4 21 (1.71%) Exchange Server 2003
5 13 (1.06%) Confluence
6 6 (0.49%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.16%) Apache
7 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.16%) CMS
7 2 (0.16%) WordPress
8 1 (0.082%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.082%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.082%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.082%) Site Server
8 1 (0.082%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 54 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.33%) Siemens NX
5 3 (0.24%) CATIA
5 3 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.24%) Windchill
6 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.082%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.082%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
1 7 (0.57%) Markit EDM
2 4 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.33%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
3 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.082%) Actimize
4 1 (0.082%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.082%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.082%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 792 (64.60%) Azure
2 413 (33.69%) Microsoft 365
3 321 (26.18%) Entra ID
4 209 (17.05%) AWS
5 127 (10.36%) Azure DevOps
6 99 (8.08%) Power Platform
7 95 (7.75%) GitHub
8 75 (6.12%) GCP
8 75 (6.12%) Google Workspace
9 71 (5.79%) GitHub Actions
10 70 (5.71%) SaaS
11 62 (5.06%) OneDrive
12 60 (4.89%) PaaS
13 56 (4.57%) IaaS
14 48 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
15 39 (3.18%) Power Automate
16 38 (3.10%) Nutanix
17 37 (3.02%) Azure Key Vault
17 37 (3.02%) Azure Logic Apps
18 36 (2.94%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 229 (18.68%) DNS
2 213 (17.37%) Firewall
3 178 (14.52%) DHCP
4 129 (10.52%) VPN
5 108 (8.81%) TCP/IP
6 64 (5.22%) WAN
7 63 (5.14%) Broadband
8 59 (4.81%) LAN
9 56 (4.57%) Network Security
10 50 (4.08%) VLAN
11 46 (3.75%) Wi-Fi
12 38 (3.10%) VoIP
13 32 (2.61%) Wireless
14 30 (2.45%) SAN
15 28 (2.28%) SD-WAN
16 17 (1.39%) MPLS
17 16 (1.31%) BGP
18 14 (1.14%) VSAN
19 12 (0.98%) Internet
19 12 (0.98%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (11.09%) SQL Server
2 86 (7.01%) Power BI
3 31 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 29 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (2.20%) Oracle Database
6 25 (2.04%) Oracle Database 10g
6 25 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 24 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
7 24 (1.96%) MySQL
8 22 (1.79%) Relational Database
9 21 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (1.39%) NoSQL
11 15 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 14 (1.14%) Tableau
13 10 (0.82%) InfluxDB
14 8 (0.65%) MongoDB
15 7 (0.57%) Data Lake
16 5 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
16 5 (0.41%) Metadata
17 4 (0.33%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 82 (6.69%) Git
2 75 (6.12%) JIRA
3 74 (6.04%) Jenkins
4 45 (3.67%) GitLab
5 25 (2.04%) Bitbucket
6 20 (1.63%) Octopus Deploy
7 14 (1.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 13 (1.06%) Metasploit
8 13 (1.06%) TeamCity
9 11 (0.90%) Robot Framework
10 9 (0.73%) Burp Suite
10 9 (0.73%) CircleCI
11 8 (0.65%) TestRail
12 7 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.33%) MLflow
14 4 (0.33%) SonarQube
15 3 (0.24%) Artifactory
15 3 (0.24%) Balsamiq
15 3 (0.24%) Cypress.io
General
1 426 (34.75%) Social Skills
2 259 (21.13%) Finance
3 152 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (6.53%) Organisational Skills
5 70 (5.71%) Law
6 41 (3.34%) Documentation Skills
7 39 (3.18%) Legal
7 39 (3.18%) Retail
8 34 (2.77%) Public Sector
9 33 (2.69%) Games
10 32 (2.61%) Banking
10 32 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (1.96%) Telecoms
12 23 (1.88%) Manufacturing
13 16 (1.31%) Front Office
14 15 (1.22%) Advertising
15 9 (0.73%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.49%) Investment Banking
18 5 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 202 (16.48%) Senior
2 148 (12.07%) Support Engineer
3 147 (11.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 125 (10.20%) Azure Engineer
5 111 (9.05%) Analyst
5 111 (9.05%) IT Support
6 84 (6.85%) IT Engineer
6 84 (6.85%) Security Engineer
7 80 (6.53%) Cloud Engineer
8 70 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
9 65 (5.30%) IT Support Engineer
10 62 (5.06%) Developer
11 61 (4.98%) 3rd Line Support
12 58 (4.73%) Lead
13 53 (4.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 51 (4.16%) 2nd Line Support
15 46 (3.75%) Architect
16 41 (3.34%) Platform Engineer
17 37 (3.02%) Systems Engineer
18 36 (2.94%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (7.42%) OAuth
2 88 (7.18%) REST
3 77 (6.28%) SAML
4 74 (6.04%) OpenID
5 70 (5.71%) GraphQL
6 65 (5.30%) LDAP
7 64 (5.22%) SOAP
8 63 (5.14%) .NET
9 34 (2.77%) YAML
10 30 (2.45%) JSON
11 29 (2.37%) .NET Core
12 23 (1.88%) ARM Templates
13 20 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (1.55%) Microsoft Graph
15 16 (1.31%) CSS
15 16 (1.31%) Node.js
15 16 (1.31%) React
16 15 (1.22%) SPFx
17 14 (1.14%) HTML
18 13 (1.06%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 89 (7.26%) Onboarding
2 73 (5.95%) Cyber Threat
3 70 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 62 (5.06%) Cyberattack
5 61 (4.98%) Security Posture
6 48 (3.92%) Management Information System
7 43 (3.51%) Driving Licence
7 43 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (3.26%) Cloud Native
9 37 (3.02%) Cyber Defence
10 33 (2.69%) Data Centre
11 31 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
12 29 (2.37%) Security Operations Centre
13 27 (2.20%) Public Cloud
14 26 (2.12%) PKI
15 24 (1.96%) CMDB
15 24 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
16 19 (1.55%) Replication
17 17 (1.39%) Low-Code
17 17 (1.39%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 561 (45.76%) Windows
2 288 (23.49%) Windows Server
3 252 (20.55%) Linux
4 71 (5.79%) Windows 10
5 54 (4.40%) Mac OS
6 42 (3.43%) Unix
7 37 (3.02%) Windows Server 2016
8 36 (2.94%) Android
9 35 (2.85%) Apple iOS
10 31 (2.53%) Windows Server 2019
11 26 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 25 (2.04%) CentOS
13 24 (1.96%) Solaris
14 23 (1.88%) VMS
15 21 (1.71%) HPUX
15 21 (1.71%) Windows 7
15 21 (1.71%) Windows Server 2003
15 21 (1.71%) Windows Server 2008
16 19 (1.55%) Ubuntu
17 12 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (28.71%) Problem-Solving
2 271 (22.10%) DevOps
3 247 (20.15%) CI/CD
4 238 (19.41%) Cybersecurity
5 235 (19.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 234 (19.09%) ITIL
7 211 (17.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 207 (16.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 190 (15.50%) Mentoring
10 159 (12.97%) Agile
11 154 (12.56%) Disaster Recovery
12 146 (11.91%) Incident Response
13 139 (11.34%) Roadmaps
14 128 (10.44%) Root Cause Analysis
15 108 (8.81%) Task Automation
16 104 (8.48%) SIEM
17 101 (8.24%) Cloud Security
17 101 (8.24%) Containerisation
18 100 (8.16%) Identity Access Management
19 94 (7.67%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 440 (35.89%) Python
2 301 (24.55%) Bash
3 264 (21.53%) SQL
4 82 (6.69%) T-SQL
5 78 (6.36%) C#
6 69 (5.63%) JavaScript
7 63 (5.14%) Bicep
8 29 (2.37%) Kusto Query Language
9 28 (2.28%) Perl
10 20 (1.63%) Java
11 13 (1.06%) Go
12 10 (0.82%) TypeScript
12 10 (0.82%) VB.NET
13 9 (0.73%) C++
14 7 (0.57%) C
14 7 (0.57%) PHP
14 7 (0.57%) VB
15 6 (0.49%) Delphi
15 6 (0.49%) Ruby
16 5 (0.41%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 166 (13.54%) Degree
2 155 (12.64%) Security Cleared
3 103 (8.40%) Microsoft Certification
4 95 (7.75%) SC Cleared
5 93 (7.59%) Azure Certification
6 68 (5.55%) DV Cleared
7 55 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 51 (4.16%) CISSP
9 36 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
10 34 (2.77%) CREST Certified
11 26 (2.12%) AWS Certification
11 26 (2.12%) CEH
12 25 (2.04%) GIAC
13 23 (1.88%) OSCP
14 22 (1.79%) CCNA
14 22 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
15 20 (1.63%) CompTIA CySA+
16 18 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 16 (1.31%) SANS
18 15 (1.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (13.78%) NIST
2 162 (13.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 70 (5.71%) NCSC
4 64 (5.22%) SLA
5 61 (4.98%) GDPR
6 33 (2.69%) Accessibility
7 28 (2.28%) Cyber Essentials
8 22 (1.79%) ISO 22301
9 18 (1.47%) Data Quality
10 17 (1.39%) QA
11 14 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
11 14 (1.14%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 9 (0.73%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.49%) DICOM
15 5 (0.41%) GRC
16 4 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.16%) COBIT
17 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.16%) HL7
System Software
1 462 (37.68%) Active Directory
2 150 (12.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 117 (9.54%) Docker
4 113 (9.22%) Hyper-V
5 47 (3.83%) vSphere
6 33 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
7 18 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (1.39%) Firmware
8 17 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (1.06%) VMware NSX
10 10 (0.82%) BitLocker
11 9 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.49%) XenApp
13 5 (0.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 5 (0.41%) vCloud
14 4 (0.33%) iptables
14 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.33%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.33%) XenDesktop
15 2 (0.16%) Samba
Systems Management
1 253 (20.64%) Terraform
2 174 (14.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 173 (14.11%) Kubernetes
4 147 (11.99%) Ansible
5 55 (4.49%) Grafana
6 41 (3.34%) SCCM
7 37 (3.02%) Single Sign-On
8 32 (2.61%) Prometheus
9 20 (1.63%) Jamf Pro
9 20 (1.63%) vCenter Server
10 19 (1.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 16 (1.31%) Puppet
12 13 (1.06%) Nessus
13 11 (0.90%) VxRail
14 8 (0.65%) FortiGate
14 8 (0.65%) Progress Chef
14 8 (0.65%) QRadar
15 7 (0.57%) logstash
16 6 (0.49%) SCVMM
16 6 (0.49%) WSUS
Vendors
1 652 (53.18%) Microsoft
2 244 (19.90%) VMware
3 114 (9.30%) Cisco
4 61 (4.98%) Splunk
5 55 (4.49%) ServiceNow
6 47 (3.83%) Oracle
6 47 (3.83%) Red Hat
7 46 (3.75%) Veeam
8 35 (2.85%) Google
9 34 (2.77%) Commvault
9 34 (2.77%) Palo Alto
10 30 (2.45%) CrowdStrike
11 28 (2.28%) Citrix
12 27 (2.20%) Fortinet
12 27 (2.20%) Meraki
13 26 (2.12%) CyberArk
14 25 (2.04%) Dell
15 24 (1.96%) Atlassian
16 22 (1.79%) Apple
17 20 (1.63%) Dynatrace