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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 86 116
Rank change year-on-year -57 +30 -25
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,300 1,570 2,334
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.40% 3.59% 2.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.91% 11.40% 7.06%
Number of salaries quoted 962 982 1,901
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,300 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,188 £43,421
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +6.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,500 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -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 16,440 13,774 33,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.66% 31.48% 32.74%
Number of salaries quoted 11,471 9,240 25,152
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -67 1,189 £58,250 -2.92% 272
UK excluding London -76 749 £51,500 +3.00% 238
London -9 523 £70,000 -6.67% 72
Work from Home -38 423 £60,000 +7.14% 104
North of England -105 183 £47,500 -5.00% 56
South East -65 179 £55,000 -4.35% 89
Midlands -49 127 £50,000 - 33
North West -99 94 £50,101 +8.92% 33
South West -35 86 £55,000 +15.79% 32
East of England -30 81 £57,500 +21.05% 24
East Midlands -12 76 £50,000 +42.86% 15
Scotland +43 67 £50,000 +11.11% 10
Yorkshire -22 61 £45,000 -21.74% 14
West Midlands -83 50 £48,000 -4.00% 18
North East -33 28 £45,000 -23.40% 9
Wales -19 23 £54,085 +8.17% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 £46,000 - 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
1 183 (14.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 171 (13.15%) SharePoint
3 41 (3.15%) IIS
4 22 (1.69%) Confluence
5 3 (0.23%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.15%) Apache
7 1 (0.077%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.077%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.077%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.077%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.077%) Site Server
Applications
1 72 (5.54%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.077%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.077%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.46%) Markit EDM
2 5 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (0.38%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.23%) Alphatax
3 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.15%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.077%) Actimize
5 1 (0.077%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.077%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 844 (64.92%) Azure
2 469 (36.08%) Microsoft 365
3 355 (27.31%) Entra ID
4 217 (16.69%) AWS
5 134 (10.31%) Azure DevOps
6 113 (8.69%) Power Platform
7 95 (7.31%) GitHub
8 88 (6.77%) SaaS
9 83 (6.38%) IaaS
9 83 (6.38%) OneDrive
10 69 (5.31%) Google Workspace
11 67 (5.15%) GitHub Actions
12 61 (4.69%) GCP
13 59 (4.54%) Azure Monitor
14 57 (4.38%) Azure AKS
15 56 (4.31%) Azure Sentinel
15 56 (4.31%) Power Automate
16 53 (4.08%) PaaS
17 51 (3.92%) Azure Key Vault
18 43 (3.31%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 258 (19.85%) Firewall
2 256 (19.69%) DNS
3 156 (12.00%) DHCP
4 153 (11.77%) VPN
5 109 (8.38%) TCP/IP
6 79 (6.08%) WAN
7 74 (5.69%) LAN
8 67 (5.15%) Network Security
9 58 (4.46%) Broadband
10 49 (3.77%) VLAN
11 44 (3.38%) Wi-Fi
12 40 (3.08%) VoIP
13 34 (2.62%) SAN
14 21 (1.62%) BGP
14 21 (1.62%) Wireless
15 16 (1.23%) Kerberos
15 16 (1.23%) SD-WAN
15 16 (1.23%) VSAN
16 14 (1.08%) MPLS
17 13 (1.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (11.46%) SQL Server
2 84 (6.46%) Power BI
3 58 (4.46%) Azure SQL Database
4 37 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
5 30 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (2.00%) MySQL
7 23 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 21 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 20 (1.54%) Relational Database
10 17 (1.31%) NoSQL
11 16 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
12 15 (1.15%) MongoDB
13 12 (0.92%) Tableau
14 9 (0.69%) Data Lake
14 9 (0.69%) InfluxDB
15 6 (0.46%) Metadata
16 5 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
16 5 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 3 (0.23%) RDBMS
17 3 (0.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 96 (7.38%) Git
2 69 (5.31%) JIRA
3 65 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 58 (4.46%) GitLab
5 32 (2.46%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
7 13 (1.00%) Metasploit
7 13 (1.00%) TeamCity
8 12 (0.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 10 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
10 9 (0.69%) Burp Suite
11 8 (0.62%) CircleCI
11 8 (0.62%) Robot Framework
12 7 (0.54%) TestRail
13 5 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.31%) Cypress.io
14 4 (0.31%) MLflow
14 4 (0.31%) Selenium
15 3 (0.23%) Artifactory
15 3 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 399 (30.69%) Social Skills
2 232 (17.85%) Finance
3 177 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (6.31%) Law
5 78 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
6 55 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (3.62%) Legal
8 45 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (3.46%) Retail
9 41 (3.15%) Public Sector
10 29 (2.23%) Games
11 28 (2.15%) Banking
12 27 (2.08%) Manufacturing
13 26 (2.00%) Aerospace
14 21 (1.62%) Advertising
15 14 (1.08%) Telecoms
16 8 (0.62%) Front Office
17 7 (0.54%) Aviation
17 7 (0.54%) Investment Banking
18 6 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 241 (18.54%) Senior
2 161 (12.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 146 (11.23%) Analyst
4 140 (10.77%) Support Engineer
5 136 (10.46%) Azure Engineer
6 126 (9.69%) IT Support
7 109 (8.38%) IT Engineer
8 104 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 93 (7.15%) DevOps Engineer
10 82 (6.31%) Security Engineer
11 74 (5.69%) IT Support Engineer
12 62 (4.77%) Developer
13 58 (4.46%) 2nd Line Support
14 57 (4.38%) Lead
14 57 (4.38%) Systems Engineer
15 54 (4.15%) Platform Engineer
16 44 (3.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 44 (3.38%) Support Analyst
17 43 (3.31%) Architect
17 43 (3.31%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (7.15%) OAuth
2 91 (7.00%) .NET
3 89 (6.85%) SAML
4 88 (6.77%) REST
5 83 (6.38%) OpenID
6 77 (5.92%) LDAP
7 62 (4.77%) SOAP
8 56 (4.31%) GraphQL
9 42 (3.23%) YAML
10 39 (3.00%) JSON
11 38 (2.92%) .NET Core
11 38 (2.92%) Microsoft Graph
12 37 (2.85%) ARM Templates
13 36 (2.77%) HTML
14 34 (2.62%) CSS
15 25 (1.92%) SPFx
16 20 (1.54%) React
17 19 (1.46%) HTML5 Canvas
18 17 (1.31%) Elastic Stack
19 15 (1.15%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 95 (7.31%) Onboarding
2 72 (5.54%) Cyber Threat
3 71 (5.46%) Hybrid Cloud
4 65 (5.00%) Cloud Native
5 63 (4.85%) Cyberattack
6 62 (4.77%) Management Information System
7 54 (4.15%) Security Posture
8 45 (3.46%) Driving Licence
9 44 (3.38%) Cyber Defence
10 43 (3.31%) Security Operations Centre
11 42 (3.23%) Data Centre
12 36 (2.77%) PKI
13 35 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
14 29 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
14 29 (2.23%) Public Cloud
15 26 (2.00%) CMDB
16 20 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
16 20 (1.54%) Replication
17 19 (1.46%) Private Cloud
18 18 (1.38%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 608 (46.77%) Windows
2 294 (22.62%) Windows Server
3 287 (22.08%) Linux
4 79 (6.08%) Windows 10
5 53 (4.08%) Mac OS
6 51 (3.92%) Apple iOS
7 50 (3.85%) Android
8 37 (2.85%) VMS
8 37 (2.85%) Windows Server 2016
9 29 (2.23%) CentOS
9 29 (2.23%) Windows Server 2019
10 28 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 23 (1.77%) Ubuntu
12 17 (1.31%) Unix
13 7 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (0.38%) Debian
15 4 (0.31%) CoreOS
15 4 (0.31%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.23%) AIX
16 3 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (24.54%) Problem-Solving
2 288 (22.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 285 (21.92%) CI/CD
4 284 (21.85%) Cybersecurity
5 269 (20.69%) DevOps
6 226 (17.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 226 (17.38%) ITIL
7 214 (16.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 189 (14.54%) Mentoring
9 164 (12.62%) Agile
10 161 (12.38%) Incident Response
11 149 (11.46%) Root Cause Analysis
12 148 (11.38%) Disaster Recovery
13 139 (10.69%) Roadmaps
14 134 (10.31%) Containerisation
15 131 (10.08%) SIEM
16 124 (9.54%) High Availability
17 114 (8.77%) Cloud Security
18 110 (8.46%) Task Automation
19 105 (8.08%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 506 (38.92%) Python
2 339 (26.08%) Bash
3 277 (21.31%) SQL
4 96 (7.38%) C#
5 79 (6.08%) T-SQL
6 77 (5.92%) JavaScript
7 74 (5.69%) Bicep
8 30 (2.31%) Kusto Query Language
9 29 (2.23%) Java
10 24 (1.85%) TypeScript
11 17 (1.31%) C++
12 14 (1.08%) Perl
13 12 (0.92%) VBScript
14 11 (0.85%) VB
14 11 (0.85%) VB.NET
14 11 (0.85%) VBA
15 10 (0.77%) PHP
16 9 (0.69%) Go
17 7 (0.54%) C
18 6 (0.46%) Korn
Qualifications
1 161 (12.38%) Degree
2 157 (12.08%) Security Cleared
3 124 (9.54%) Azure Certification
4 120 (9.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 99 (7.62%) SC Cleared
6 53 (4.08%) CISSP
7 51 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 47 (3.62%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (3.38%) DV Cleared
10 37 (2.85%) CompTIA Security+
11 32 (2.46%) CCNA
12 30 (2.31%) CREST Certified
13 29 (2.23%) OSCP
14 26 (2.00%) AWS Certification
15 25 (1.92%) CEH
15 25 (1.92%) GIAC
16 24 (1.85%) DBS Check
17 17 (1.31%) CompTIA CySA+
18 16 (1.23%) CCNP
19 13 (1.00%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (11.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 139 (10.69%) NIST
3 59 (4.54%) GDPR
4 54 (4.15%) NCSC
5 44 (3.38%) SLA
6 42 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 20 (1.54%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.31%) Accessibility
9 16 (1.23%) ISO 22301
10 15 (1.15%) SOC 2
11 14 (1.08%) PCI DSS
12 13 (1.00%) QA
13 12 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.46%) DICOM
16 5 (0.38%) GRC
16 5 (0.38%) PMO
17 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
17 3 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 2 (0.15%) COBIT
System Software
1 493 (37.92%) Active Directory
2 187 (14.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 139 (10.69%) Docker
4 128 (9.85%) Hyper-V
5 58 (4.46%) vSphere
6 38 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
7 26 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
8 24 (1.85%) VMware NSX
9 22 (1.69%) BitLocker
10 17 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
11 12 (0.92%) Firmware
12 10 (0.77%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 10 (0.77%) KVM
13 8 (0.62%) Squid
14 6 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
15 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.31%) iptables
16 4 (0.31%) Terminal Services
16 4 (0.31%) XenDesktop
17 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 293 (22.54%) Terraform
2 214 (16.46%) Kubernetes
3 197 (15.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 150 (11.54%) Ansible
5 62 (4.77%) Grafana
6 59 (4.54%) Single Sign-On
7 48 (3.69%) SCCM
8 43 (3.31%) Prometheus
9 25 (1.92%) Jamf Pro
10 23 (1.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 23 (1.77%) vCenter Server
11 19 (1.46%) ZABBIX
12 17 (1.31%) Packer
13 16 (1.23%) Nessus
13 16 (1.23%) QRadar
14 15 (1.15%) VxRail
15 13 (1.00%) Graylog
16 12 (0.92%) Proxmox
17 11 (0.85%) Argo
17 11 (0.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 748 (57.54%) Microsoft
2 238 (18.31%) VMware
3 106 (8.15%) Cisco
4 79 (6.08%) Splunk
5 58 (4.46%) ServiceNow
6 57 (4.38%) Red Hat
7 47 (3.62%) Veeam
8 37 (2.85%) CrowdStrike
9 34 (2.62%) Meraki
9 34 (2.62%) Oracle
10 30 (2.31%) Google
11 29 (2.23%) Citrix
11 29 (2.23%) Dell
12 27 (2.08%) Apple
12 27 (2.08%) Fortinet
13 26 (2.00%) Commvault
14 24 (1.85%) Tenable
15 23 (1.77%) Palo Alto
15 23 (1.77%) Sophos
16 21 (1.62%) SolarWinds