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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 90 96
Rank change year-on-year -61 +6 -33
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,485 1,618 1,813
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.26% 3.27% 2.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.07% 12.73% 8.01%
Number of salaries quoted 997 1,059 1,175
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,076 £57,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% -5.74% +1.67%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,125 £82,500
90th Percentile £89,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year - +3.96% -5.61%

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 18,408 12,709 22,645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.59% 25.71% 31.16%
Number of salaries quoted 13,012 8,137 13,582
10th Percentile £39,016 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -0.79% -3.08%
75th Percentile £83,813 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -68 1,283 £57,500 - 1,114
UK excluding London -70 961 £52,500 - 641
Work from Home -38 515 £60,000 +2.56% 529
London -27 465 £70,000 - 517
South East -41 235 £52,500 -8.70% 174
North of England -88 232 £50,000 - 158
Midlands -44 162 £52,500 +2.24% 85
North West -77 139 £50,000 - 80
East of England -48 95 £57,500 +21.05% 58
South West -70 89 £55,000 +13.40% 85
East Midlands -16 83 £42,500 +21.43% 33
West Midlands -70 79 £55,000 - 52
Northern Ireland -23 69 £46,000 - 22
Yorkshire -47 56 £45,472 -9.06% 55
Scotland -4 48 £52,500 +23.53% 52
North East -43 37 £51,500 -14.17% 24
Wales -63 31 £35,000 -36.36% 19

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
1 258 (17.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 239 (16.09%) SharePoint
3 51 (3.43%) IIS
4 43 (2.90%) Confluence
5 15 (1.01%) nginx
6 8 (0.54%) Apache
7 5 (0.34%) 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 65 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.067%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 36 (2.42%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.40%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.34%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.067%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 1 (0.067%) Actimize
7 1 (0.067%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 890 (59.93%) Azure
2 575 (38.72%) Microsoft 365
3 496 (33.40%) Entra ID
4 260 (17.51%) AWS
5 187 (12.59%) SaaS
6 182 (12.26%) Azure DevOps
7 126 (8.48%) Power Platform
8 118 (7.95%) GitHub
9 111 (7.47%) OneDrive
10 108 (7.27%) IaaS
11 93 (6.26%) Azure Monitor
12 91 (6.13%) Azure Sentinel
13 80 (5.39%) PaaS
14 78 (5.25%) Power Automate
15 72 (4.85%) Azure AKS
15 72 (4.85%) GCP
16 69 (4.65%) Azure Key Vault
17 68 (4.58%) Microsoft Purview
18 64 (4.31%) GitHub Actions
19 63 (4.24%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 334 (22.49%) DNS
2 327 (22.02%) Firewall
3 235 (15.82%) DHCP
4 232 (15.62%) VPN
5 156 (10.51%) TCP/IP
6 96 (6.46%) WAN
7 85 (5.72%) LAN
8 81 (5.45%) VLAN
9 62 (4.18%) Network Security
10 60 (4.04%) Wireless
11 50 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
12 37 (2.49%) SAN
13 34 (2.29%) Kerberos
14 32 (2.15%) SSL
15 25 (1.68%) HTTP
15 25 (1.68%) NAS
16 16 (1.08%) VSAN
17 15 (1.01%) Internet
18 14 (0.94%) FTP
18 14 (0.94%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (10.17%) SQL Server
2 84 (5.66%) Azure SQL Database
3 64 (4.31%) Power BI
4 23 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (1.41%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (1.14%) Relational Database
7 13 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (0.74%) MySQL
8 11 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (0.67%) Data Lake
9 10 (0.67%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.54%) InfluxDB
10 8 (0.54%) Power Query
10 8 (0.54%) Redis
10 8 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.40%) Metadata
12 5 (0.34%) Db2
12 5 (0.34%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 99 (6.67%) JIRA
2 91 (6.13%) Git
3 83 (5.59%) GitLab
4 68 (4.58%) Jenkins
5 26 (1.75%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
7 10 (0.67%) TeamCity
8 8 (0.54%) Robot Framework
8 8 (0.54%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.54%) TestRail
9 6 (0.40%) Artifactory
9 6 (0.40%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.40%) Postman
9 6 (0.40%) Selenium
10 5 (0.34%) Burp Suite
10 5 (0.34%) MSI
10 5 (0.34%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (0.27%) Claude Code
General
1 574 (38.65%) Social Skills
2 248 (16.70%) Finance
3 198 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (7.74%) Legal
5 103 (6.94%) Law
6 77 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (3.84%) Documentation Skills
8 47 (3.16%) Retail
9 45 (3.03%) Banking
10 38 (2.56%) Public Sector
11 37 (2.49%) Aerospace
11 37 (2.49%) Manufacturing
12 36 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (0.94%) Legal Technology
14 13 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.81%) Financial Institution
16 10 (0.67%) Investment Banking
17 9 (0.61%) Advertising
17 9 (0.61%) Aviation
17 9 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 281 (18.92%) Senior
2 216 (14.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 182 (12.26%) Analyst
4 134 (9.02%) Azure Engineer
5 130 (8.75%) IT Engineer
6 128 (8.62%) Cloud Engineer
7 126 (8.48%) Support Engineer
8 117 (7.88%) DevOps Engineer
9 105 (7.07%) IT Support
10 81 (5.45%) Consultant
10 81 (5.45%) Platform Engineer
11 74 (4.98%) Lead
12 71 (4.78%) Support Analyst
13 66 (4.44%) IT Support Engineer
14 59 (3.97%) Security Engineer
15 56 (3.77%) Systems Engineer
16 55 (3.70%) Administrator
16 55 (3.70%) Senior Manager
16 55 (3.70%) Testing Manager
17 47 (3.16%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 379 (25.52%) Terraform
2 67 (4.51%) .NET
3 57 (3.84%) REST
4 55 (3.70%) ARM Templates
5 53 (3.57%) SAML
6 49 (3.30%) LDAP
7 43 (2.90%) OpenID
8 42 (2.83%) Microsoft Graph
8 42 (2.83%) YAML
9 41 (2.76%) OAuth
10 31 (2.09%) HTML
11 27 (1.82%) JSON
12 24 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
13 22 (1.48%) CSS
14 21 (1.41%) SPFx
15 16 (1.08%) .NET Core
15 16 (1.08%) Kafka
16 15 (1.01%) SOAP
17 13 (0.88%) ADO
17 13 (0.88%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 125 (8.42%) Onboarding
2 93 (6.26%) Cloud Native
3 86 (5.79%) Driving Licence
4 80 (5.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 77 (5.19%) Security Posture
6 68 (4.58%) Management Information System
7 60 (4.04%) Virtual Team
8 58 (3.91%) Replication
9 54 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
9 54 (3.64%) PKI
10 46 (3.10%) Data Centre
11 41 (2.76%) Security Operations Centre
12 38 (2.56%) Public Cloud
13 37 (2.49%) Clustering
14 31 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
15 29 (1.95%) Cyber Threat
16 23 (1.55%) Cyber Defence
17 21 (1.41%) Enterprise Storage
17 21 (1.41%) Private Cloud
18 19 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 710 (47.81%) Windows
2 344 (23.16%) Linux
3 343 (23.10%) Windows Server
4 99 (6.67%) Windows 10
5 50 (3.37%) Apple iOS
6 44 (2.96%) Ubuntu
7 42 (2.83%) Android
7 42 (2.83%) Mac OS
8 38 (2.56%) VMS
9 34 (2.29%) Windows Server 2019
10 33 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 32 (2.15%) CentOS
12 27 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 22 (1.48%) Unix
14 17 (1.14%) Rocky
15 8 (0.54%) Debian
15 8 (0.54%) Solaris
16 7 (0.47%) Kali Linux
17 5 (0.34%) CoreOS
18 4 (0.27%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (28.96%) Problem-Solving
2 398 (26.80%) DevOps
3 393 (26.46%) Continuous Improvement
4 361 (24.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 332 (22.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 328 (22.09%) CI/CD
7 265 (17.85%) ITIL
8 262 (17.64%) Cybersecurity
9 233 (15.69%) Mentoring
10 227 (15.29%) Disaster Recovery
11 189 (12.73%) AI
12 171 (11.52%) Agile
13 167 (11.25%) Root Cause Analysis
14 163 (10.98%) Project Delivery
15 157 (10.57%) Platform Engineering
16 153 (10.30%) High Availability
17 151 (10.17%) Cloud Security
17 151 (10.17%) Migration
18 148 (9.97%) Incident Response
19 137 (9.23%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 583 (39.26%) Python
2 311 (20.94%) Bash
3 300 (20.20%) SQL
4 135 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 129 (8.69%) Bicep
6 125 (8.42%) C#
7 80 (5.39%) TypeScript
8 55 (3.70%) Kusto Query Language
9 40 (2.69%) Java
10 36 (2.42%) T-SQL
11 22 (1.48%) VBScript
12 20 (1.35%) C++
13 19 (1.28%) Perl
14 13 (0.88%) PHP
15 11 (0.74%) Ruby
16 10 (0.67%) VBA
17 8 (0.54%) VB
18 7 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 7 (0.47%) Go
19 6 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 220 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 166 (11.18%) Microsoft Certification
3 162 (10.91%) Azure Certification
3 162 (10.91%) Degree
4 140 (9.43%) SC Cleared
5 67 (4.51%) CISSP
6 64 (4.31%) DV Cleared
7 56 (3.77%) CompTIA Security+
8 55 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 49 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
10 40 (2.69%) CCNA
11 28 (1.89%) CEH
12 26 (1.75%) AWS Certification
13 25 (1.68%) DBS Check
14 22 (1.48%) CISM
15 20 (1.35%) OSCP
16 18 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
16 18 (1.21%) GIAC
16 18 (1.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 17 (1.14%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (7.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 82 (5.52%) QA
3 80 (5.39%) Cyber Essentials
4 69 (4.65%) NIST
5 50 (3.37%) SLA
6 42 (2.83%) GDPR
7 21 (1.41%) Data Quality
7 21 (1.41%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 12 (0.81%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.67%) NCSC
11 9 (0.61%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.54%) PMO
12 8 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.40%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.13%) EMIR
15 2 (0.13%) GRC
15 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 552 (37.17%) Active Directory
2 237 (15.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 164 (11.04%) Hyper-V
4 137 (9.23%) Docker
5 79 (5.32%) vSphere
6 78 (5.25%) Virtual Machines
7 61 (4.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 28 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
9 27 (1.82%) VMware NSX
10 17 (1.14%) BitLocker
11 15 (1.01%) Firmware
12 8 (0.54%) KVM
13 7 (0.47%) Squid
14 5 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 2 (0.13%) DFS Replication
17 2 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
17 2 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 265 (17.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 228 (15.35%) Kubernetes
3 168 (11.31%) Ansible
4 79 (5.32%) Grafana
5 76 (5.12%) SCCM
6 60 (4.04%) Single Sign-On
7 43 (2.90%) Prometheus
8 32 (2.15%) Puppet
9 27 (1.82%) vCenter Server
10 24 (1.62%) Argo
10 24 (1.62%) ZABBIX
11 21 (1.41%) QRadar
12 20 (1.35%) Proxmox
13 17 (1.14%) FortiGate
14 15 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 15 (1.01%) Graylog
15 14 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
15 14 (0.94%) Packer
15 14 (0.94%) Progress Chef
16 10 (0.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 954 (64.24%) Microsoft
2 277 (18.65%) VMware
3 107 (7.21%) Cisco
4 95 (6.40%) ServiceNow
5 88 (5.93%) Splunk
6 69 (4.65%) Veeam
7 49 (3.30%) Oracle
8 43 (2.90%) Red Hat
9 42 (2.83%) Citrix
10 36 (2.42%) Meraki
11 34 (2.29%) Sage
12 32 (2.15%) SolarWinds
13 31 (2.09%) Dynatrace
14 29 (1.95%) Dell
14 29 (1.95%) SAP
14 29 (1.95%) Sophos
15 28 (1.89%) CyberArk
16 27 (1.82%) Apple
16 27 (1.82%) Google
17 26 (1.75%) Fortinet