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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 86 105
Rank change year-on-year -59 +19 -38
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,501 1,611 1,797
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.29% 3.29% 2.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.00% 12.47% 7.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,014 1,072 1,175
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,688 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £81,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £98,084
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,447 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.05% +2.89% -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 18,764 12,915 23,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.15% 26.39% 30.83%
Number of salaries quoted 13,275 8,325 14,640
10th Percentile £38,986 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -66 1,304 £57,500 - 1,064
UK excluding London -70 978 £52,500 +2.05% 724
Work from Home -38 523 £60,000 +2.56% 494
London -38 474 £70,000 -3.45% 409
North of England -77 241 £50,000 - 190
South East -37 238 £52,500 -8.70% 194
Midlands -56 160 £52,500 +5.00% 110
North West -79 146 £50,000 +5.26% 111
East of England -40 98 £57,500 +21.05% 68
South West -71 88 £55,000 +15.79% 75
West Midlands -70 82 £55,000 +2.44% 62
East Midlands -20 78 £42,500 +21.43% 48
Northern Ireland -26 70 £46,000 - 19
Yorkshire -44 59 £42,500 -17.68% 54
Scotland +1 46 £51,250 +3.10% 55
Wales -53 37 £38,500 -30.00% 25
North East -38 36 £51,500 -6.36% 27

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
1 250 (16.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 243 (16.19%) SharePoint
3 55 (3.66%) IIS
4 42 (2.80%) Confluence
5 15 (1.00%) nginx
6 8 (0.53%) Apache
7 6 (0.40%) 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 66 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (2.40%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.40%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.33%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.067%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 891 (59.36%) Azure
2 564 (37.57%) Microsoft 365
3 469 (31.25%) Entra ID
4 261 (17.39%) AWS
5 187 (12.46%) SaaS
6 180 (11.99%) Azure DevOps
7 120 (7.99%) Power Platform
8 119 (7.93%) GitHub
9 114 (7.59%) OneDrive
10 108 (7.20%) IaaS
11 90 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
12 85 (5.66%) Azure Sentinel
13 81 (5.40%) PaaS
14 80 (5.33%) Power Automate
15 73 (4.86%) Azure AKS
15 73 (4.86%) GCP
16 70 (4.66%) GitHub Actions
17 68 (4.53%) Azure Key Vault
18 61 (4.06%) Microsoft Purview
19 54 (3.60%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 327 (21.79%) Firewall
2 326 (21.72%) DNS
3 224 (14.92%) DHCP
4 219 (14.59%) VPN
5 148 (9.86%) TCP/IP
6 100 (6.66%) WAN
7 86 (5.73%) LAN
8 75 (5.00%) VLAN
9 60 (4.00%) Network Security
10 57 (3.80%) Wireless
11 48 (3.20%) Wi-Fi
12 36 (2.40%) SAN
13 31 (2.07%) Kerberos
14 26 (1.73%) SSL
15 22 (1.47%) HTTP
15 22 (1.47%) NAS
16 17 (1.13%) Internet
17 16 (1.07%) VoIP
17 16 (1.07%) VSAN
18 12 (0.80%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (9.99%) SQL Server
2 86 (5.73%) Azure SQL Database
3 63 (4.20%) Power BI
4 27 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.47%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (1.13%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (0.87%) MySQL
8 13 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (0.73%) NoSQL
10 10 (0.67%) Data Lake
11 8 (0.53%) InfluxDB
11 8 (0.53%) Power Query
11 8 (0.53%) Redis
11 8 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.40%) Metadata
13 5 (0.33%) Db2
13 5 (0.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 105 (7.00%) JIRA
2 100 (6.66%) Git
3 78 (5.20%) GitLab
4 68 (4.53%) Jenkins
5 28 (1.87%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
8 10 (0.67%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
10 8 (0.53%) Robot Framework
10 8 (0.53%) TestRail
11 7 (0.47%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.40%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.40%) Postman
12 6 (0.40%) Selenium
13 5 (0.33%) Visual Studio
14 4 (0.27%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.27%) Burp Suite
14 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
14 4 (0.27%) MSI
General
1 575 (38.31%) Social Skills
2 252 (16.79%) Finance
3 198 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (7.73%) Legal
5 115 (7.66%) Law
6 74 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (3.93%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (3.26%) Retail
9 46 (3.06%) Banking
10 44 (2.93%) Public Sector
11 37 (2.47%) Manufacturing
11 37 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
12 36 (2.40%) Aerospace
13 14 (0.93%) Legal Technology
14 12 (0.80%) Advertising
14 12 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (0.73%) Financial Institution
16 10 (0.67%) Investment Banking
17 9 (0.60%) Aviation
17 9 (0.60%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 293 (19.52%) Senior
2 209 (13.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 171 (11.39%) Analyst
4 140 (9.33%) Azure Engineer
5 138 (9.19%) Support Engineer
6 132 (8.79%) IT Engineer
7 131 (8.73%) Cloud Engineer
8 112 (7.46%) DevOps Engineer
9 111 (7.40%) IT Support
10 85 (5.66%) Platform Engineer
11 76 (5.06%) Consultant
12 75 (5.00%) Lead
13 71 (4.73%) Support Analyst
14 67 (4.46%) IT Support Engineer
15 65 (4.33%) Systems Engineer
16 61 (4.06%) Security Engineer
17 58 (3.86%) Administrator
18 57 (3.80%) Testing Manager
19 55 (3.66%) Senior Manager
20 54 (3.60%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (25.32%) Terraform
2 72 (4.80%) .NET
3 57 (3.80%) REST
4 56 (3.73%) ARM Templates
5 45 (3.00%) SAML
6 43 (2.86%) Microsoft Graph
6 43 (2.86%) YAML
7 42 (2.80%) LDAP
8 40 (2.66%) OAuth
8 40 (2.66%) OpenID
9 35 (2.33%) HTML
10 29 (1.93%) JSON
11 26 (1.73%) CSS
12 25 (1.67%) SPFx
13 22 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
14 21 (1.40%) .NET Core
15 16 (1.07%) SOAP
16 14 (0.93%) ASP.NET
16 14 (0.93%) HTML5 Canvas
16 14 (0.93%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 131 (8.73%) Onboarding
2 92 (6.13%) Cloud Native
3 80 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 77 (5.13%) Driving Licence
5 76 (5.06%) Management Information System
6 71 (4.73%) Security Posture
7 61 (4.06%) Virtual Team
8 51 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
8 51 (3.40%) PKI
9 49 (3.26%) Data Centre
10 48 (3.20%) Replication
11 45 (3.00%) Public Cloud
12 43 (2.86%) Security Operations Centre
13 36 (2.40%) Clustering
14 33 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
15 26 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
15 26 (1.73%) Private Cloud
16 23 (1.53%) Cyber Defence
17 21 (1.40%) CMDB
18 19 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 709 (47.24%) Windows
2 349 (23.25%) Linux
3 341 (22.72%) Windows Server
4 94 (6.26%) Windows 10
5 54 (3.60%) Apple iOS
6 46 (3.06%) Ubuntu
7 42 (2.80%) Android
8 40 (2.66%) Mac OS
8 40 (2.66%) VMS
9 34 (2.27%) CentOS
9 34 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 31 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 27 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
12 23 (1.53%) Unix
13 16 (1.07%) Rocky
14 8 (0.53%) Debian
14 8 (0.53%) Solaris
15 5 (0.33%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.33%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.27%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (28.58%) Problem-Solving
2 395 (26.32%) DevOps
3 382 (25.45%) Continuous Improvement
4 357 (23.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 336 (22.39%) CI/CD
6 320 (21.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 280 (18.65%) ITIL
8 258 (17.19%) Cybersecurity
9 234 (15.59%) Mentoring
10 203 (13.52%) Disaster Recovery
11 177 (11.79%) AI
12 172 (11.46%) Agile
13 166 (11.06%) Root Cause Analysis
14 159 (10.59%) High Availability
15 156 (10.39%) Project Delivery
16 152 (10.13%) Platform Engineering
17 145 (9.66%) Cloud Security
18 141 (9.39%) Incident Response
19 134 (8.93%) Migration
20 133 (8.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 592 (39.44%) Python
2 312 (20.79%) Bash
3 309 (20.59%) SQL
4 142 (9.46%) JavaScript
5 133 (8.86%) C#
6 128 (8.53%) Bicep
7 84 (5.60%) TypeScript
8 50 (3.33%) Kusto Query Language
9 37 (2.47%) T-SQL
10 36 (2.40%) Java
11 23 (1.53%) VBScript
12 21 (1.40%) C++
13 19 (1.27%) Perl
14 13 (0.87%) PHP
14 13 (0.87%) Ruby
15 11 (0.73%) VBA
16 10 (0.67%) VB
17 9 (0.60%) Go
18 7 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 6 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 215 (14.32%) Security Cleared
2 172 (11.46%) Degree
3 162 (10.79%) Azure Certification
4 160 (10.66%) Microsoft Certification
5 146 (9.73%) SC Cleared
6 62 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 62 (4.13%) DV Cleared
7 57 (3.80%) CISSP
8 55 (3.66%) Cisco Certification
9 53 (3.53%) CompTIA Security+
10 43 (2.86%) CCNA
11 28 (1.87%) CEH
12 26 (1.73%) AWS Certification
13 22 (1.47%) CISM
13 22 (1.47%) DBS Check
14 21 (1.40%) OSCP
15 18 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 17 (1.13%) CREST Certified
16 17 (1.13%) GIAC
17 15 (1.00%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (6.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 82 (5.46%) QA
3 73 (4.86%) Cyber Essentials
4 61 (4.06%) NIST
5 49 (3.26%) GDPR
6 46 (3.06%) SLA
7 19 (1.27%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.27%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.00%) SOC 2
9 9 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.53%) NCSC
11 7 (0.47%) PMO
12 5 (0.33%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.27%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.13%) EMIR
15 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 546 (36.38%) Active Directory
2 246 (16.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 158 (10.53%) Hyper-V
4 145 (9.66%) Docker
5 82 (5.46%) vSphere
6 76 (5.06%) Virtual Machines
7 57 (3.80%) Virtual Desktop
8 25 (1.67%) VMware NSX
9 19 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
10 18 (1.20%) BitLocker
11 11 (0.73%) Firmware
12 8 (0.53%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.53%) KVM
12 8 (0.53%) Squid
13 5 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.20%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.067%) Microsoft App-V
16 1 (0.067%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 264 (17.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 226 (15.06%) Kubernetes
3 175 (11.66%) Ansible
4 82 (5.46%) Grafana
5 76 (5.06%) SCCM
6 58 (3.86%) Single Sign-On
7 46 (3.06%) Prometheus
8 25 (1.67%) ZABBIX
9 24 (1.60%) Argo
9 24 (1.60%) vCenter Server
10 20 (1.33%) Proxmox
10 20 (1.33%) Puppet
10 20 (1.33%) QRadar
11 18 (1.20%) Packer
12 17 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
13 15 (1.00%) FortiGate
13 15 (1.00%) Graylog
14 13 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 11 (0.73%) VxRail
16 10 (0.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 940 (62.62%) Microsoft
2 281 (18.72%) VMware
3 110 (7.33%) Cisco
4 106 (7.06%) ServiceNow
5 91 (6.06%) Splunk
6 66 (4.40%) Veeam
7 52 (3.46%) Oracle
7 52 (3.46%) Red Hat
8 43 (2.86%) Citrix
9 40 (2.66%) Meraki
10 34 (2.27%) Sage
11 32 (2.13%) Dell
12 31 (2.07%) Dynatrace
13 29 (1.93%) CyberArk
13 29 (1.93%) SAP
13 29 (1.93%) Sophos
14 27 (1.80%) Tenable
15 26 (1.73%) Apple
15 26 (1.73%) Fortinet
16 25 (1.67%) Google