PowerShell Jobs

Windows PowerShell
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring PowerShell skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PowerShell over the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 119 84
Rank change year-on-year +10 -35 +29
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,585 2,442 3,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.83% 2.19% 3.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.57% 6.97% 9.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,001 1,910 2,341
10th Percentile £34,000 £35,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +0.42%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,188 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%

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 16,558 35,027 38,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.52% 31.44% 41.98%
Number of salaries quoted 10,485 25,987 25,929
10th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £98,474 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the UK

PowerShell
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PowerShell.

Salary trend for PowerShell in the UK

PowerShell
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell over the 6 months to 19 June 2025.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in the UK

PowerShell
Top 18 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 19 June 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 +15 1,523 £58,100 +5.64% 3,668
UK excluding London +22 1,057 £50,000 - 2,628
Work from Home +17 699 £55,000 -5.17% 1,827
London -2 475 £73,250 -2.33% 1,285
North of England +42 387 £50,750 +1.50% 625
North West +64 324 £46,500 -11.43% 340
South East 0 271 £57,500 +9.52% 654
Midlands +53 189 £50,000 +7.53% 427
West Midlands +46 128 £53,688 +7.38% 252
East of England +19 114 £47,500 -5.00% 379
South West -15 73 £47,500 -5.00% 282
East Midlands +37 61 £36,250 -19.44% 175
Yorkshire -15 48 £57,500 +21.05% 241
Scotland +65 26 £48,500 -19.17% 165
North East +17 15 £58,750 +26.34% 45
Wales +28 4 £52,500 +16.67% 84
Isle of Man - 2 £34,500 -
Northern Ireland +36 1 £43,092 +23.12% 40

PowerShell
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 249 (15.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 180 (11.36%) SharePoint
3 49 (3.09%) IIS
4 37 (2.33%) Confluence
5 11 (0.69%) Tomcat
6 10 (0.63%) Apache
7 8 (0.50%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.32%) nginx
8 5 (0.32%) Skype for Business
9 4 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
10 3 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.19%) CMS
10 3 (0.19%) WordPress
11 2 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.063%) CICS
12 1 (0.063%) Office Communications Server
12 1 (0.063%) OpenEdge
12 1 (0.063%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.063%) WebSphere
Applications
1 80 (5.05%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.25%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 4 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.19%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.13%) Revit
6 1 (0.063%) 1Password
6 1 (0.063%) Autodesk Inventor
6 1 (0.063%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 10 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.32%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.25%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.19%) Sage 50
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.063%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.063%) Eikon
6 1 (0.063%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.063%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.063%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 762 (48.08%) Azure
2 419 (26.44%) Microsoft 365
3 258 (16.28%) AWS
4 237 (14.95%) Entra ID
5 148 (9.34%) Azure DevOps
6 135 (8.52%) Power Platform
7 116 (7.32%) SaaS
8 107 (6.75%) Power Automate
9 103 (6.50%) PaaS
10 101 (6.37%) IaaS
11 79 (4.98%) Azure Monitor
12 68 (4.29%) PowerApps
13 66 (4.16%) GitHub
14 60 (3.79%) OneDrive
15 58 (3.66%) GCP
16 40 (2.52%) Amazon EC2
16 40 (2.52%) Serverless
17 39 (2.46%) Azure Key Vault
18 36 (2.27%) Amazon S3
19 33 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 458 (28.90%) VPN
2 306 (19.31%) Firewall
3 263 (16.59%) Cisco IOS
4 232 (14.64%) DNS
5 169 (10.66%) DHCP
6 163 (10.28%) TCP/IP
7 114 (7.19%) WAN
8 74 (4.67%) LAN
9 71 (4.48%) VLAN
10 68 (4.29%) SAN
11 61 (3.85%) Network Security
12 47 (2.97%) SD-WAN
13 39 (2.46%) SMTP
14 35 (2.21%) VoIP
15 34 (2.15%) NAS
15 34 (2.15%) Wi-Fi
16 33 (2.08%) Wireless
17 29 (1.83%) FTP
18 28 (1.77%) VSAN
19 24 (1.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (9.97%) SQL Server
2 84 (5.30%) Power BI
3 73 (4.61%) Amazon RDS
4 35 (2.21%) MySQL
4 35 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 30 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
6 28 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 27 (1.70%) Data Lake
8 25 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
8 25 (1.58%) Relational Database
9 23 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (0.63%) Big Data
11 9 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (0.50%) RDBMS
13 6 (0.38%) MongoDB
14 5 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (0.25%) FileMaker
15 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 4 (0.25%) NoSQL
16 3 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 89 (5.62%) Git
2 75 (4.73%) Jenkins
3 67 (4.23%) JIRA
4 64 (4.04%) Cucumber
4 64 (4.04%) Robot Framework
5 29 (1.83%) Vagrant
6 19 (1.20%) GitLab
7 18 (1.14%) MSI
8 16 (1.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 11 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
9 11 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (0.44%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.38%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.32%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.32%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.25%) WiX
14 3 (0.19%) SonarQube
15 2 (0.13%) InstallShield
15 2 (0.13%) MSBuild
15 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 426 (26.88%) Social Skills
2 393 (24.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 337 (21.26%) Analytical Skills
4 245 (15.46%) Finance
5 84 (5.30%) Telecoms
6 56 (3.53%) Banking
7 54 (3.41%) Law
8 50 (3.15%) Legal
9 45 (2.84%) Public Sector
10 26 (1.64%) Advertising
11 25 (1.58%) Automotive
12 22 (1.39%) Retail
13 21 (1.32%) German Language
14 20 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
14 20 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
15 19 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
16 18 (1.14%) Electronics
16 18 (1.14%) Front Office
17 17 (1.07%) Back Office
18 16 (1.01%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 463 (29.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 146 (9.21%) Support Engineer
3 136 (8.58%) Senior
4 123 (7.76%) Analyst
5 117 (7.38%) IT Support
6 114 (7.19%) Lead
7 109 (6.88%) Azure Engineer
8 94 (5.93%) IT Engineer
9 89 (5.62%) Cloud Engineer
10 73 (4.61%) Developer
11 69 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
11 69 (4.35%) Infrastructure Support
12 65 (4.10%) Security Engineer
13 64 (4.04%) Test Automation Engineer
13 64 (4.04%) Test Engineer
14 61 (3.85%) Administrator
15 60 (3.79%) 3rd Line Support
16 59 (3.72%) Architect
17 56 (3.53%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
18 53 (3.34%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (17.35%) Elastic Stack
2 62 (3.91%) .NET
3 54 (3.41%) YAML
4 46 (2.90%) REST
5 33 (2.08%) ARM Templates
6 32 (2.02%) LDAP
7 29 (1.83%) JSON
8 26 (1.64%) SailPoint
8 26 (1.64%) SOAP
9 21 (1.32%) React
10 19 (1.20%) Web Services
11 18 (1.14%) .NET Framework
11 18 (1.14%) XML
12 16 (1.01%) HTML
12 16 (1.01%) SAML
13 14 (0.88%) RESTful
14 11 (0.69%) .NET Core
14 11 (0.69%) CSS
14 11 (0.69%) Pandas
15 10 (0.63%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 262 (16.53%) Cyberattack
2 83 (5.24%) Management Information System
3 77 (4.86%) Linux Command Line
4 63 (3.97%) Data Centre
5 62 (3.91%) Onboarding
6 49 (3.09%) Clustering
7 48 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 43 (2.71%) Security Posture
9 38 (2.40%) Cloud Native
10 37 (2.33%) Hedge funds
10 37 (2.33%) Replication
11 30 (1.89%) Virtual Team
12 27 (1.70%) PKI
13 24 (1.51%) Public Cloud
14 23 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
15 22 (1.39%) Driving Licence
15 22 (1.39%) IoT
16 19 (1.20%) Private Cloud
17 17 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
17 17 (1.07%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 959 (60.50%) Windows
2 618 (38.99%) Linux
3 329 (20.76%) Windows Server
4 274 (17.29%) Android
5 92 (5.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 84 (5.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 68 (4.29%) Windows 10
8 54 (3.41%) VMS
9 47 (2.97%) Mac OS
10 42 (2.65%) Unix
11 40 (2.52%) Windows Server 2012
12 31 (1.96%) Ubuntu
13 30 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 22 (1.39%) Apple iOS
15 15 (0.95%) Amazon Linux
16 12 (0.76%) CentOS
17 9 (0.57%) Mac OS X
18 7 (0.44%) Windows 7
18 7 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
19 5 (0.32%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 646 (40.76%) DevOps
2 594 (37.48%) Problem-Solving
3 494 (31.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 366 (23.09%) Task Automation
5 347 (21.89%) Platform Engineering
6 314 (19.81%) Risk Management
7 285 (17.98%) Storage Management
8 280 (17.67%) Line Management
9 264 (16.66%) CI/CD
9 264 (16.66%) Mathematics
10 204 (12.87%) ITIL
10 204 (12.87%) Mentoring
11 198 (12.49%) Infrastructure as Code
12 188 (11.86%) Agile
13 169 (10.66%) Cybersecurity
14 137 (8.64%) Disaster Recovery
15 124 (7.82%) Migration
16 116 (7.32%) Test Automation
17 114 (7.19%) Computer Science
18 108 (6.81%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 774 (48.83%) Python
2 526 (33.19%) Bash
3 287 (18.11%) SQL
4 127 (8.01%) JavaScript
5 99 (6.25%) C#
6 73 (4.61%) Java
7 47 (2.97%) Bicep
8 36 (2.27%) T-SQL
9 31 (1.96%) Perl
10 29 (1.83%) Groovy
11 27 (1.70%) TypeScript
12 18 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 14 (0.88%) Shell Script
15 13 (0.82%) C++
16 12 (0.76%) PL/SQL
17 11 (0.69%) VBA
18 9 (0.57%) Go
19 8 (0.50%) R
20 7 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 318 (20.06%) Degree
2 180 (11.36%) Security Cleared
3 145 (9.15%) Azure Certification
4 128 (8.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 96 (6.06%) DV Cleared
6 87 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 86 (5.43%) SC Cleared
8 44 (2.78%) AWS Certification
8 44 (2.78%) CompTIA Security+
9 38 (2.40%) CISSP
10 35 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
11 32 (2.02%) MCSE
12 29 (1.83%) CCNA
13 28 (1.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 26 (1.64%) CEH
14 26 (1.64%) DBS Check
15 25 (1.58%) Master's Degree
16 24 (1.51%) Network+ Certification
17 22 (1.39%) GCIH
17 22 (1.39%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 79 (4.98%) QA
3 76 (4.79%) GDPR
4 70 (4.42%) NIST
5 40 (2.52%) SLA
6 27 (1.70%) Cyber Essentials
7 24 (1.51%) NCSC
8 21 (1.32%) HIPAA
9 16 (1.01%) PCI DSS
9 16 (1.01%) SOC 2
10 11 (0.69%) COBIT
10 11 (0.69%) Data Quality
11 9 (0.57%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.38%) GRC
14 5 (0.32%) HL7
15 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 1 (0.063%) Actionable Recommendations
16 1 (0.063%) NIST 800
System Software
1 483 (30.47%) Active Directory
2 419 (26.44%) Hyper-V
3 375 (23.66%) Docker
4 332 (20.95%) vSphere
5 283 (17.85%) VMware NSX
6 267 (16.85%) VMware Infrastructure
7 72 (4.54%) Virtual Machines
8 56 (3.53%) VMware ESXi
9 32 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
10 21 (1.32%) DFS Replication
11 18 (1.14%) Terminal Services
12 16 (1.01%) XenApp
13 12 (0.76%) Microsoft App-V
14 10 (0.63%) BitLocker
15 8 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
16 7 (0.44%) Dovecot
16 7 (0.44%) Postfix
17 6 (0.38%) Firmware
17 6 (0.38%) Squid
18 5 (0.32%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 505 (31.86%) Terraform
2 425 (26.81%) Ansible
3 235 (14.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 158 (9.97%) Kubernetes
5 110 (6.94%) SCCM
6 63 (3.97%) Grafana
6 63 (3.97%) Single Sign-On
7 57 (3.60%) Prometheus
8 43 (2.71%) Puppet
9 30 (1.89%) SCOM
10 25 (1.58%) vCenter Server
11 24 (1.51%) Progress Chef
12 20 (1.26%) NetBackup
12 20 (1.26%) WSUS
13 18 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 18 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
13 18 (1.14%) WMI
14 17 (1.07%) QRadar
15 14 (0.88%) vMotion
16 12 (0.76%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 720 (45.43%) Microsoft
2 373 (23.53%) Cisco
3 331 (20.88%) VMware
4 311 (19.62%) Splunk
5 278 (17.54%) Juniper
6 262 (16.53%) 3PAR
7 87 (5.49%) Citrix
8 77 (4.86%) ServiceNow
9 58 (3.66%) Meraki
10 57 (3.60%) Veeam
11 52 (3.28%) Oracle
12 40 (2.52%) Okta
13 39 (2.46%) Google
14 36 (2.27%) Apple
15 32 (2.02%) SolarWinds
16 31 (1.96%) Red Hat
17 30 (1.89%) Databricks
17 30 (1.89%) HP
18 29 (1.83%) Fortinet
18 29 (1.83%) Palo Alto