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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 96 82
Rank change year-on-year -21 -14 +8
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,243 1,493 2,486
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.90% 2.94% 3.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.14% 8.65% 8.94%
Number of salaries quoted 915 1,039 2,164
10th Percentile £33,150 £37,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,011
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,844 £51,500
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.55% -6.36%

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 12,260 17,251 27,816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.76% 34.02% 37.42%
Number of salaries quoted 8,810 10,137 22,938
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,250 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 -25 1,037 £57,500 -8.00% 390
UK excluding London -12 727 £52,500 -2.50% 354
London -8 445 £70,000 -8.50% 113
Work from Home +12 417 £57,500 -11.54% 175
South East -40 185 £57,500 -4.17% 121
Scotland +52 140 £69,250 +25.91% 20
North of England -28 132 £48,445 -7.72% 94
South West +14 104 £55,000 +1.85% 41
Midlands -37 88 £52,500 +5.00% 48
East of England +13 67 £40,250 -23.33% 29
Yorkshire -27 60 £47,500 -9.52% 29
North West -18 57 £50,000 -4.76% 52
West Midlands -42 45 £47,500 -5.00% 24
East Midlands -19 42 £55,000 +8.91% 25
North East +1 15 £47,972 -16.57% 13
Wales +3 10 £55,000 +5.77% 10
Northern Ireland -22 2 £46,000 - 2

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
1 184 (14.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 143 (11.50%) SharePoint
3 46 (3.70%) IIS
4 22 (1.77%) Exchange Server 2003
5 17 (1.37%) Confluence
6 8 (0.64%) Skype for Business
7 6 (0.48%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.24%) nginx
10 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.16%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) WordPress
11 1 (0.080%) CICS
11 1 (0.080%) WebSphere
Applications
1 42 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.48%) Siemens NX
5 5 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.24%) CATIA
6 3 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.24%) Windchill
7 1 (0.080%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 9 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.64%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.48%) Markit EDM
3 6 (0.48%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.40%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.40%) PlanetPress Connect
4 5 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
6 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.080%) Actimize
7 1 (0.080%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.080%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.080%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 823 (66.21%) Azure
2 412 (33.15%) Microsoft 365
3 344 (27.67%) Entra ID
4 212 (17.06%) AWS
5 194 (15.61%) Azure DevOps
6 117 (9.41%) Power Platform
7 94 (7.56%) GitHub
8 78 (6.28%) GCP
9 73 (5.87%) GitHub Actions
9 73 (5.87%) PaaS
10 71 (5.71%) Google Workspace
11 65 (5.23%) Azure Monitor
12 58 (4.67%) SaaS
13 55 (4.42%) IaaS
13 55 (4.42%) Power Automate
14 48 (3.86%) OneDrive
15 39 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
15 39 (3.14%) Snowflake
16 38 (3.06%) Azure Sentinel
17 36 (2.90%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 223 (17.94%) Firewall
2 210 (16.89%) DNS
3 167 (13.44%) DHCP
4 118 (9.49%) VPN
5 103 (8.29%) TCP/IP
6 79 (6.36%) WAN
7 67 (5.39%) LAN
8 61 (4.91%) Broadband
9 46 (3.70%) VLAN
10 45 (3.62%) Wi-Fi
11 39 (3.14%) Wireless
12 32 (2.57%) Network Security
12 32 (2.57%) SD-WAN
13 27 (2.17%) SAN
14 22 (1.77%) VoIP
15 16 (1.29%) Internet
16 15 (1.21%) VSAN
17 13 (1.05%) MPLS
18 12 (0.97%) Cisco IOS
18 12 (0.97%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (11.50%) SQL Server
2 85 (6.84%) Power BI
3 35 (2.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 34 (2.74%) Relational Database
5 30 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (2.41%) Oracle Database
6 26 (2.09%) Oracle Database 10g
7 25 (2.01%) MySQL
8 23 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
10 16 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (1.05%) NoSQL
12 12 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 12 (0.97%) Tableau
13 11 (0.88%) MongoDB
14 8 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
15 7 (0.56%) InfluxDB
16 6 (0.48%) Data Lake
17 5 (0.40%) Data Mining
17 5 (0.40%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 95 (7.64%) JIRA
2 88 (7.08%) Jenkins
3 76 (6.11%) Git
4 33 (2.65%) GitLab
5 30 (2.41%) Octopus Deploy
6 22 (1.77%) TeamCity
7 17 (1.37%) Bitbucket
8 12 (0.97%) Burp Suite
8 12 (0.97%) Metasploit
9 10 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 9 (0.72%) Robot Framework
11 8 (0.64%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.48%) TestRail
13 5 (0.40%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.32%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.32%) MLflow
14 4 (0.32%) Toad
15 3 (0.24%) JMeter
15 3 (0.24%) MSI
General
1 435 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 323 (25.99%) Finance
3 129 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (5.87%) Organisational Skills
5 47 (3.78%) Law
5 47 (3.78%) Retail
6 42 (3.38%) Public Sector
7 39 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (2.90%) Games
9 34 (2.74%) Banking
10 33 (2.65%) Legal
11 29 (2.33%) Telecoms
12 28 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 27 (2.17%) Manufacturing
14 16 (1.29%) Front Office
15 14 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (0.80%) Aerospace
18 8 (0.64%) Advertising
19 7 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 197 (15.85%) Senior
2 149 (11.99%) Support Engineer
3 136 (10.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 114 (9.17%) Azure Engineer
5 98 (7.88%) Analyst
6 87 (7.00%) Developer
7 86 (6.92%) Cloud Engineer
7 86 (6.92%) DevOps Engineer
8 79 (6.36%) IT Support
8 79 (6.36%) Security Engineer
9 68 (5.47%) IT Engineer
10 67 (5.39%) Lead
11 56 (4.51%) 3rd Line Support
12 51 (4.10%) Platform Engineer
13 49 (3.94%) IT Support Engineer
14 48 (3.86%) Applications Support
15 46 (3.70%) Applications Engineer
16 45 (3.62%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 41 (3.30%) Support Analyst
18 36 (2.90%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (9.01%) REST
2 79 (6.36%) OAuth
2 79 (6.36%) SOAP
3 73 (5.87%) .NET
3 73 (5.87%) SAML
4 70 (5.63%) GraphQL
5 69 (5.55%) OpenID
6 61 (4.91%) LDAP
7 43 (3.46%) YAML
8 36 (2.90%) JSON
9 25 (2.01%) React
10 24 (1.93%) ARM Templates
11 21 (1.69%) Web Services
12 19 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
13 17 (1.37%) AngularJS
13 17 (1.37%) Microsoft Graph
14 16 (1.29%) Node.js
15 14 (1.13%) Middleware
16 13 (1.05%) .NET Core
17 11 (0.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 88 (7.08%) Onboarding
2 72 (5.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 65 (5.23%) Security Posture
4 62 (4.99%) Cyber Threat
5 58 (4.67%) Cyberattack
6 50 (4.02%) Product Ownership
7 44 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
7 44 (3.54%) Management Information System
8 37 (2.98%) Cloud Native
9 35 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
10 33 (2.65%) Data Centre
11 30 (2.41%) Driving Licence
12 25 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
12 25 (2.01%) CMDB
12 25 (2.01%) Cyber Defence
13 24 (1.93%) PKI
14 21 (1.69%) Virtual Team
15 19 (1.53%) Hedge funds
15 19 (1.53%) Security Operations Centre
16 18 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 535 (43.04%) Windows
2 288 (23.17%) Windows Server
3 212 (17.06%) Linux
4 67 (5.39%) Windows 10
5 50 (4.02%) Mac OS
6 42 (3.38%) Unix
7 36 (2.90%) Windows Server 2016
8 35 (2.82%) Windows Server 2019
9 34 (2.74%) VMS
10 31 (2.49%) Android
11 26 (2.09%) Windows Server 2008
12 25 (2.01%) Solaris
13 22 (1.77%) HPUX
13 22 (1.77%) Windows 7
13 22 (1.77%) Windows Server 2003
14 21 (1.69%) Apple iOS
15 20 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 18 (1.45%) CentOS
17 17 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
18 13 (1.05%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (30.09%) Problem-Solving
2 340 (27.35%) DevOps
3 262 (21.08%) CI/CD
4 247 (19.87%) ITIL
5 235 (18.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 223 (17.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 219 (17.62%) Cybersecurity
8 207 (16.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 196 (15.77%) Mentoring
10 190 (15.29%) Agile
11 165 (13.27%) Disaster Recovery
12 160 (12.87%) Roadmaps
13 122 (9.81%) Task Automation
14 120 (9.65%) Coaching
15 118 (9.49%) Root Cause Analysis
16 114 (9.17%) Asset Management
16 114 (9.17%) Incident Response
17 104 (8.37%) Cloud Security
17 104 (8.37%) Migration
18 94 (7.56%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 429 (34.51%) Python
2 307 (24.70%) Bash
3 289 (23.25%) SQL
4 101 (8.13%) C#
5 83 (6.68%) T-SQL
6 75 (6.03%) Bicep
7 68 (5.47%) JavaScript
8 25 (2.01%) Perl
9 24 (1.93%) Go
10 22 (1.77%) Java
10 22 (1.77%) Kusto Query Language
11 12 (0.97%) VB
12 11 (0.88%) VB.NET
13 10 (0.80%) VBScript
14 9 (0.72%) VBA
15 8 (0.64%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.64%) TypeScript
16 6 (0.48%) C++
17 4 (0.32%) Google Apps Script
17 4 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 163 (13.11%) Degree
2 157 (12.63%) Security Cleared
3 110 (8.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 100 (8.05%) SC Cleared
5 90 (7.24%) Azure Certification
6 59 (4.75%) DV Cleared
7 46 (3.70%) CISSP
8 43 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 38 (3.06%) Cisco Certification
10 34 (2.74%) CREST Certified
11 32 (2.57%) AWS Certification
12 31 (2.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 23 (1.85%) CEH
14 20 (1.61%) CCNA
15 19 (1.53%) SANS
16 18 (1.45%) CompTIA CySA+
16 18 (1.45%) GIAC
17 16 (1.29%) DBS Check
17 16 (1.29%) OSCP
18 15 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (13.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 161 (12.95%) NIST
3 72 (5.79%) NCSC
4 68 (5.47%) GDPR
5 52 (4.18%) SLA
6 47 (3.78%) Accessibility
7 29 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
8 17 (1.37%) ISO 22301
9 16 (1.29%) QA
10 15 (1.21%) Data Quality
11 14 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 13 (1.05%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.56%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.40%) GRC
16 3 (0.24%) DICOM
16 3 (0.24%) HL7
16 3 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.16%) COBIT
18 1 (0.080%) HIPAA
System Software
1 447 (35.96%) Active Directory
2 137 (11.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 108 (8.69%) Docker
4 98 (7.88%) Hyper-V
5 47 (3.78%) Virtual Machines
6 43 (3.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 33 (2.65%) vSphere
8 20 (1.61%) Firmware
9 15 (1.21%) Virtual Servers
10 14 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.64%) vCloud
11 8 (0.64%) XenApp
12 6 (0.48%) VMware NSX
12 6 (0.48%) XenDesktop
13 5 (0.40%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 2 (0.16%) Postfix
15 2 (0.16%) Squid
15 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 272 (21.88%) Terraform
2 196 (15.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 160 (12.87%) Kubernetes
4 134 (10.78%) Ansible
5 52 (4.18%) SCCM
6 46 (3.70%) Grafana
7 45 (3.62%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.77%) Prometheus
9 19 (1.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 19 (1.53%) Puppet
10 12 (0.97%) SCOM
10 12 (0.97%) vCenter Server
11 10 (0.80%) Nessus
11 10 (0.80%) WSUS
12 9 (0.72%) FortiGate
13 8 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.64%) SCVMM
13 8 (0.64%) VxRail
14 7 (0.56%) McAfee ePO
14 7 (0.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 637 (51.25%) Microsoft
2 217 (17.46%) VMware
3 95 (7.64%) Cisco
4 67 (5.39%) ServiceNow
5 53 (4.26%) Oracle
6 47 (3.78%) Veeam
7 45 (3.62%) Splunk
8 38 (3.06%) Google
9 37 (2.98%) Atlassian
10 32 (2.57%) Citrix
10 32 (2.57%) Palo Alto
11 30 (2.41%) Red Hat
12 27 (2.17%) CyberArk
13 26 (2.09%) Commvault
14 25 (2.01%) Fortinet
14 25 (2.01%) SolarWinds
15 23 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
16 22 (1.77%) SAP
17 21 (1.69%) Dell
18 19 (1.53%) Tenable