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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 90 114
Rank change year-on-year -51 +24 -36
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,460 1,675 1,851
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.37% 3.35% 2.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.84% 12.06% 7.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,040 1,118 1,399
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,525
Median % change year-on-year - -0.04% -4.13%
75th Percentile £74,500 £77,500 £78,250
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 18,617 13,892 25,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.42% 27.77% 30.42%
Number of salaries quoted 13,173 9,121 17,625
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 16 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 16 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 1,297 £60,000 +4.35% 346
UK excluding London -65 941 £52,500 +5.00% 284
Work from Home -38 501 £62,500 +8.23% 141
London -28 485 £70,000 -6.67% 117
South East -29 248 £53,000 -7.83% 113
North of England -89 220 £50,000 +5.26% 67
Midlands -37 156 £52,500 +5.00% 37
North West -80 123 £52,500 +14.13% 45
East of England -44 96 £57,500 +13.86% 32
South West -86 83 £55,000 +17.65% 39
East Midlands -5 82 £42,500 +21.43% 15
West Midlands -60 74 £55,000 - 22
Northern Ireland -13 68 £46,000 - 2
Yorkshire -35 62 £42,500 -17.68% 13
Scotland +15 41 £50,000 +25.00% 7
North East -39 35 £50,810 -15.32% 11
Wales -44 29 £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 (16.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 223 (15.27%) SharePoint
3 54 (3.70%) IIS
4 32 (2.19%) Confluence
5 11 (0.75%) nginx
6 6 (0.41%) Apache
6 6 (0.41%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.27%) SAS
8 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.068%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.068%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (5.27%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (0.96%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.41%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.21%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.21%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.14%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.068%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.068%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 902 (61.78%) Azure
2 529 (36.23%) Microsoft 365
3 401 (27.47%) Entra ID
4 261 (17.88%) AWS
5 173 (11.85%) SaaS
6 167 (11.44%) Azure DevOps
7 113 (7.74%) GitHub
8 110 (7.53%) IaaS
9 109 (7.47%) Power Platform
10 106 (7.26%) OneDrive
11 79 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
12 77 (5.27%) PaaS
13 76 (5.21%) Azure Sentinel
14 70 (4.79%) Azure AKS
15 69 (4.73%) GCP
15 69 (4.73%) Power Automate
16 65 (4.45%) Azure Key Vault
17 64 (4.38%) GitHub Actions
18 52 (3.56%) Datadog
19 47 (3.22%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 320 (21.92%) Firewall
2 307 (21.03%) DNS
3 205 (14.04%) DHCP
4 202 (13.84%) VPN
5 140 (9.59%) TCP/IP
6 99 (6.78%) WAN
7 87 (5.96%) LAN
8 69 (4.73%) Network Security
9 68 (4.66%) VLAN
10 45 (3.08%) Wi-Fi
11 44 (3.01%) Wireless
12 40 (2.74%) SAN
13 32 (2.19%) Kerberos
14 25 (1.71%) VoIP
15 22 (1.51%) NAS
15 22 (1.51%) SSL
16 19 (1.30%) HTTP
17 17 (1.16%) BGP
17 17 (1.16%) Internet
18 16 (1.10%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (10.68%) SQL Server
2 83 (5.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 64 (4.38%) Power BI
4 31 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.58%) MongoDB
6 19 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
7 18 (1.23%) Relational Database
8 17 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 15 (1.03%) MySQL
11 13 (0.89%) NoSQL
12 9 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (0.48%) InfluxDB
13 7 (0.48%) Redis
14 6 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.41%) Power Query
15 5 (0.34%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.34%) Metadata
15 5 (0.34%) RDBMS
16 4 (0.27%) Db2
Development Applications
1 111 (7.60%) Git
2 92 (6.30%) JIRA
3 69 (4.73%) GitLab
4 59 (4.04%) Jenkins
5 29 (1.99%) Bitbucket
6 13 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.75%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
8 7 (0.48%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.48%) TestRail
9 6 (0.41%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.41%) Metasploit
9 6 (0.41%) Selenium
10 5 (0.34%) Postman
11 4 (0.27%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.21%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.21%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.21%) JMeter
General
1 514 (35.21%) Social Skills
2 236 (16.16%) Finance
3 188 (12.88%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (8.84%) Law
5 119 (8.15%) Legal
6 66 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (3.22%) Documentation Skills
8 46 (3.15%) Retail
9 42 (2.88%) Public Sector
10 38 (2.60%) Banking
11 34 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
12 33 (2.26%) Manufacturing
13 26 (1.78%) Aerospace
14 16 (1.10%) Advertising
15 13 (0.89%) Legal Technology
16 11 (0.75%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (0.75%) Telecoms
17 8 (0.55%) Front Office
17 8 (0.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 287 (19.66%) Senior
2 196 (13.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 157 (10.75%) Analyst
4 137 (9.38%) Support Engineer
5 136 (9.32%) Azure Engineer
6 133 (9.11%) IT Engineer
7 131 (8.97%) Cloud Engineer
8 128 (8.77%) IT Support
9 106 (7.26%) DevOps Engineer
10 72 (4.93%) Security Engineer
11 71 (4.86%) IT Support Engineer
11 71 (4.86%) Platform Engineer
12 69 (4.73%) Lead
13 62 (4.25%) Developer
13 62 (4.25%) Systems Engineer
14 58 (3.97%) Testing Manager
15 56 (3.84%) 2nd Line Support
16 55 (3.77%) Senior Manager
17 53 (3.63%) Administrator
17 53 (3.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (5.89%) .NET
2 54 (3.70%) ARM Templates
3 50 (3.42%) REST
4 49 (3.36%) SAML
5 47 (3.22%) YAML
6 45 (3.08%) OAuth
7 42 (2.88%) HTML
7 42 (2.88%) Microsoft Graph
8 40 (2.74%) LDAP
8 40 (2.74%) OpenID
9 33 (2.26%) .NET Core
10 32 (2.19%) CSS
10 32 (2.19%) JSON
11 25 (1.71%) SPFx
12 20 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
13 19 (1.30%) HTML5 Canvas
14 16 (1.10%) SOAP
15 15 (1.03%) ASP.NET
15 15 (1.03%) Middleware
15 15 (1.03%) React
Miscellaneous
1 117 (8.01%) Onboarding
2 89 (6.10%) Cloud Native
3 75 (5.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 69 (4.73%) Security Posture
5 68 (4.66%) Management Information System
6 62 (4.25%) Driving Licence
7 60 (4.11%) Virtual Team
8 52 (3.56%) Data Centre
9 46 (3.15%) Public Cloud
10 43 (2.95%) Security Operations Centre
11 40 (2.74%) PKI
11 40 (2.74%) Replication
12 39 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
13 37 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
14 34 (2.33%) Clustering
15 28 (1.92%) Cyber Defence
16 26 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
16 26 (1.78%) Private Cloud
17 25 (1.71%) CMDB
18 21 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 686 (46.99%) Windows
2 343 (23.49%) Linux
3 322 (22.05%) Windows Server
4 78 (5.34%) Windows 10
5 54 (3.70%) Apple iOS
6 47 (3.22%) Mac OS
7 44 (3.01%) Android
8 43 (2.95%) VMS
9 37 (2.53%) Ubuntu
9 37 (2.53%) Windows Server 2016
10 36 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 35 (2.40%) CentOS
12 24 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
13 17 (1.16%) Unix
14 7 (0.48%) Rocky
15 6 (0.41%) Debian
15 6 (0.41%) Kali Linux
15 6 (0.41%) Solaris
16 5 (0.34%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (25.75%) DevOps
2 374 (25.62%) Problem-Solving
3 339 (23.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 339 (23.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 337 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 296 (20.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 282 (19.32%) ITIL
7 243 (16.64%) Cybersecurity
8 214 (14.66%) Mentoring
9 189 (12.95%) Disaster Recovery
10 172 (11.78%) High Availability
11 170 (11.64%) Root Cause Analysis
12 167 (11.44%) Incident Response
13 160 (10.96%) Agile
14 142 (9.73%) AI
15 138 (9.45%) Containerisation
16 133 (9.11%) SIEM
17 132 (9.04%) Observability
17 132 (9.04%) Platform Engineering
18 129 (8.84%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 587 (40.21%) Python
2 313 (21.44%) Bash
3 283 (19.38%) SQL
4 147 (10.07%) C#
5 138 (9.45%) JavaScript
6 110 (7.53%) Bicep
7 85 (5.82%) TypeScript
8 51 (3.49%) Kusto Query Language
9 40 (2.74%) Java
10 36 (2.47%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.44%) VBScript
12 19 (1.30%) C++
13 18 (1.23%) Perl
14 15 (1.03%) PHP
15 11 (0.75%) Ruby
16 10 (0.68%) VBA
17 9 (0.62%) Go
18 8 (0.55%) C
18 8 (0.55%) VB
19 6 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 197 (13.49%) Security Cleared
2 176 (12.05%) Degree
3 159 (10.89%) Azure Certification
4 145 (9.93%) Microsoft Certification
5 140 (9.59%) SC Cleared
6 66 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 62 (4.25%) Cisco Certification
8 55 (3.77%) CompTIA Security+
9 53 (3.63%) CISSP
10 52 (3.56%) DV Cleared
11 45 (3.08%) CCNA
12 28 (1.92%) CEH
13 24 (1.64%) OSCP
14 23 (1.58%) AWS Certification
14 23 (1.58%) DBS Check
15 22 (1.51%) GIAC
16 21 (1.44%) CCNP
17 18 (1.23%) CISM
18 16 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 15 (1.03%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (7.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 81 (5.55%) QA
3 74 (5.07%) NIST
4 67 (4.59%) Cyber Essentials
5 55 (3.77%) GDPR
6 46 (3.15%) SLA
7 19 (1.30%) Data Quality
8 18 (1.23%) PCI DSS
9 17 (1.16%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.55%) ISO 22301
11 7 (0.48%) PMO
12 6 (0.41%) NCSC
13 5 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.21%) Accessibility
15 3 (0.21%) ISAE 3402
16 2 (0.14%) EMIR
16 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 518 (35.48%) Active Directory
2 238 (16.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 161 (11.03%) Hyper-V
4 144 (9.86%) Docker
5 81 (5.55%) vSphere
6 57 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
7 47 (3.22%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (1.85%) VMware NSX
9 23 (1.58%) BitLocker
10 17 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
11 11 (0.75%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 9 (0.62%) KVM
13 8 (0.55%) Squid
14 6 (0.41%) Firmware
15 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
16 4 (0.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 3 (0.21%) Terminal Services
18 2 (0.14%) Samba
19 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 365 (25.00%) Terraform
2 247 (16.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 243 (16.64%) Kubernetes
4 184 (12.60%) Ansible
5 81 (5.55%) Grafana
6 72 (4.93%) SCCM
7 53 (3.63%) Single Sign-On
8 48 (3.29%) Prometheus
9 25 (1.71%) vCenter Server
9 25 (1.71%) ZABBIX
10 24 (1.64%) Jamf Pro
11 21 (1.44%) Argo
11 21 (1.44%) Proxmox
11 21 (1.44%) QRadar
12 20 (1.37%) Packer
13 17 (1.16%) Puppet
14 14 (0.96%) Graylog
15 13 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 12 (0.82%) Nagios
16 12 (0.82%) VxRail
Vendors
1 892 (61.10%) Microsoft
2 281 (19.25%) VMware
3 128 (8.77%) Cisco
4 109 (7.47%) ServiceNow
5 94 (6.44%) Splunk
6 64 (4.38%) Red Hat
7 57 (3.90%) Veeam
8 50 (3.42%) Oracle
9 49 (3.36%) Meraki
10 38 (2.60%) Citrix
11 36 (2.47%) Dynatrace
12 33 (2.26%) Sophos
13 31 (2.12%) Dell
14 29 (1.99%) Tenable
15 28 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
16 26 (1.78%) Apple
17 25 (1.71%) Fortinet
18 24 (1.64%) CyberArk
19 22 (1.51%) Okta
20 21 (1.44%) Palo Alto