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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 85 114
Rank change year-on-year -54 +29 -33
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,401 1,674 2,094
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.40% 3.41% 2.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.85% 11.64% 7.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,015 1,099 1,669
10th Percentile £31,550 £35,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -3.85%

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 17,839 14,378 28,806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.78% 29.28% 31.11%
Number of salaries quoted 12,764 9,539 21,135
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,200 £35,534
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +7.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -59 1,262 £57,500 - 354
UK excluding London -51 894 £52,500 +5.00% 257
Work from Home -35 500 £60,000 +4.35% 172
London -18 474 £70,000 -6.67% 127
South East -28 245 £54,000 -6.09% 93
North of England -93 207 £48,445 +0.29% 64
Midlands -40 147 £50,000 - 33
North West -87 110 £51,500 +11.35% 36
East of England -24 92 £55,000 +8.91% 27
South West -69 83 £55,000 +15.79% 34
East Midlands -13 76 £42,500 +21.43% 13
West Midlands -64 71 £52,500 -4.55% 20
Yorkshire -37 58 £47,500 -5.71% 17
Northern Ireland -26 50 £46,000 +6.75% 1
Scotland +35 41 £51,250 +28.13% 11
North East -25 39 £48,445 -19.26% 13
Wales -31 29 £53,000 -3.64% 6

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
1 225 (16.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 202 (14.42%) SharePoint
3 50 (3.57%) IIS
4 26 (1.86%) Confluence
5 6 (0.43%) nginx
6 5 (0.36%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.29%) SAS
8 3 (0.21%) Apache
8 3 (0.21%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.071%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.071%) Site Server
9 1 (0.071%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.071%) WebSphere
Applications
1 80 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (0.79%) NetSuite
1 11 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.43%) Raiser’s Edge
3 4 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.21%) Alphatax
4 3 (0.21%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.14%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.071%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 878 (62.67%) Azure
2 510 (36.40%) Microsoft 365
3 378 (26.98%) Entra ID
4 244 (17.42%) AWS
5 151 (10.78%) Azure DevOps
6 149 (10.64%) SaaS
7 120 (8.57%) Power Platform
8 109 (7.78%) GitHub
9 102 (7.28%) IaaS
10 94 (6.71%) OneDrive
11 84 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
12 75 (5.35%) PaaS
13 69 (4.93%) Azure Sentinel
13 69 (4.93%) GitHub Actions
14 65 (4.64%) Azure AKS
14 65 (4.64%) Power Automate
15 59 (4.21%) Azure Key Vault
15 59 (4.21%) GCP
16 52 (3.71%) Azure Logic Apps
17 49 (3.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 309 (22.06%) Firewall
2 291 (20.77%) DNS
3 204 (14.56%) VPN
4 196 (13.99%) DHCP
5 128 (9.14%) TCP/IP
6 91 (6.50%) WAN
7 83 (5.92%) LAN
8 72 (5.14%) Network Security
9 69 (4.93%) VLAN
10 47 (3.35%) Wi-Fi
11 40 (2.86%) Wireless
12 35 (2.50%) SAN
12 35 (2.50%) VoIP
13 32 (2.28%) Kerberos
14 28 (2.00%) Broadband
15 21 (1.50%) BGP
16 17 (1.21%) NAS
16 17 (1.21%) SSL
17 16 (1.14%) Internet
18 15 (1.07%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (10.78%) SQL Server
2 81 (5.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 79 (5.64%) Power BI
4 41 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (1.57%) MySQL
6 22 (1.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 21 (1.50%) MongoDB
8 15 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (1.07%) Relational Database
9 14 (1.00%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.64%) InfluxDB
11 7 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.43%) Tableau
13 5 (0.36%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.36%) Metadata
13 5 (0.36%) Power Query
13 5 (0.36%) Redis
14 4 (0.29%) Big Data
15 3 (0.21%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 103 (7.35%) Git
2 82 (5.85%) JIRA
3 68 (4.85%) GitLab
4 63 (4.50%) Jenkins
5 30 (2.14%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (0.71%) Metasploit
8 10 (0.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 10 (0.71%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (0.50%) Robot Framework
10 7 (0.50%) TestRail
11 6 (0.43%) Burp Suite
11 6 (0.43%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.43%) Selenium
12 5 (0.36%) Postman
13 4 (0.29%) SonarQube
14 3 (0.21%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.21%) CircleCI
General
1 472 (33.69%) Social Skills
2 209 (14.92%) Finance
3 171 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (8.92%) Law
5 98 (7.00%) Legal
6 59 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 52 (3.71%) Organisational Skills
8 50 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
9 40 (2.86%) Retail
10 38 (2.71%) Public Sector
11 28 (2.00%) Manufacturing
12 26 (1.86%) Banking
13 22 (1.57%) Aerospace
14 17 (1.21%) Advertising
15 13 (0.93%) Telecoms
16 10 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.64%) Financial Institution
18 8 (0.57%) Games
19 7 (0.50%) Front Office
19 7 (0.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 282 (20.13%) Senior
2 171 (12.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 160 (11.42%) Analyst
4 150 (10.71%) Support Engineer
5 138 (9.85%) IT Engineer
5 138 (9.85%) IT Support
6 132 (9.42%) Azure Engineer
7 120 (8.57%) Cloud Engineer
8 101 (7.21%) DevOps Engineer
9 82 (5.85%) IT Support Engineer
10 79 (5.64%) Security Engineer
11 69 (4.93%) Platform Engineer
12 63 (4.50%) Developer
13 62 (4.43%) 2nd Line Support
14 61 (4.35%) Lead
15 59 (4.21%) Systems Engineer
16 52 (3.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 52 (3.71%) Testing Manager
17 49 (3.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 49 (3.50%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (6.28%) .NET
2 66 (4.71%) SAML
3 63 (4.50%) OAuth
4 62 (4.43%) REST
5 56 (4.00%) OpenID
6 55 (3.93%) ARM Templates
7 53 (3.78%) LDAP
8 45 (3.21%) YAML
9 44 (3.14%) HTML
10 42 (3.00%) JSON
11 40 (2.86%) Microsoft Graph
12 36 (2.57%) .NET Core
13 33 (2.36%) CSS
14 32 (2.28%) SOAP
15 25 (1.78%) SPFx
16 23 (1.64%) GraphQL
17 21 (1.50%) Elastic Stack
18 19 (1.36%) HTML5 Canvas
19 17 (1.21%) RESTful
19 17 (1.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 111 (7.92%) Onboarding
2 84 (6.00%) Cloud Native
3 75 (5.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 70 (5.00%) Security Posture
5 62 (4.43%) Driving Licence
5 62 (4.43%) Management Information System
6 54 (3.85%) Virtual Team
7 53 (3.78%) Data Centre
8 45 (3.21%) Security Operations Centre
9 44 (3.14%) Public Cloud
10 42 (3.00%) PKI
11 41 (2.93%) Cyber Threat
12 40 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
13 36 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
14 33 (2.36%) Cyber Defence
15 28 (2.00%) Cyberattack
16 24 (1.71%) Private Cloud
17 22 (1.57%) Replication
18 21 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
19 20 (1.43%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 653 (46.61%) Windows
2 313 (22.34%) Linux
3 311 (22.20%) Windows Server
4 79 (5.64%) Windows 10
5 55 (3.93%) Apple iOS
6 48 (3.43%) VMS
7 46 (3.28%) Mac OS
8 41 (2.93%) Android
9 36 (2.57%) Windows Server 2016
10 32 (2.28%) CentOS
11 30 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 26 (1.86%) Ubuntu
13 25 (1.78%) Windows Server 2019
14 15 (1.07%) Unix
15 7 (0.50%) Debian
15 7 (0.50%) Kali Linux
16 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.29%) AIX
18 3 (0.21%) Windows 7
19 2 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (25.20%) Problem-Solving
2 346 (24.70%) DevOps
3 317 (22.63%) CI/CD
4 312 (22.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 299 (21.34%) Continuous Improvement
6 259 (18.49%) Cybersecurity
7 258 (18.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 239 (17.06%) ITIL
9 218 (15.56%) Mentoring
10 170 (12.13%) Agile
11 167 (11.92%) Disaster Recovery
12 163 (11.63%) Incident Response
13 158 (11.28%) Root Cause Analysis
14 148 (10.56%) High Availability
15 138 (9.85%) Containerisation
15 138 (9.85%) SIEM
16 131 (9.35%) Cloud Security
17 126 (8.99%) AI
18 125 (8.92%) Roadmaps
19 119 (8.49%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 565 (40.33%) Python
2 326 (23.27%) Bash
3 274 (19.56%) SQL
4 146 (10.42%) C#
5 128 (9.14%) JavaScript
6 102 (7.28%) Bicep
7 78 (5.57%) TypeScript
8 54 (3.85%) T-SQL
9 51 (3.64%) Kusto Query Language
10 35 (2.50%) Java
11 19 (1.36%) C++
11 19 (1.36%) VBScript
12 17 (1.21%) PHP
13 12 (0.86%) Perl
14 10 (0.71%) Go
14 10 (0.71%) VB
14 10 (0.71%) VBA
15 8 (0.57%) C
15 8 (0.57%) Ruby
16 6 (0.43%) Korn
Qualifications
1 172 (12.28%) Security Cleared
2 169 (12.06%) Degree
3 154 (10.99%) Azure Certification
4 132 (9.42%) Microsoft Certification
5 118 (8.42%) SC Cleared
6 62 (4.43%) Cisco Certification
7 56 (4.00%) CISSP
8 55 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 49 (3.50%) CompTIA Security+
10 44 (3.14%) CCNA
10 44 (3.14%) DV Cleared
11 25 (1.78%) CEH
12 24 (1.71%) AWS Certification
12 24 (1.71%) DBS Check
12 24 (1.71%) GIAC
12 24 (1.71%) OSCP
13 22 (1.57%) CCNP
13 22 (1.57%) CREST Certified
14 17 (1.21%) CISM
14 17 (1.21%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (9.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 101 (7.21%) NIST
3 72 (5.14%) QA
4 61 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 60 (4.28%) GDPR
6 44 (3.14%) SLA
7 22 (1.57%) NCSC
8 21 (1.50%) Data Quality
8 21 (1.50%) PCI DSS
9 19 (1.36%) SOC 2
10 11 (0.79%) ISO 22301
11 8 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.50%) Accessibility
12 7 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.43%) PMO
14 4 (0.29%) DICOM
14 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.14%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 515 (36.76%) Active Directory
2 229 (16.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 151 (10.78%) Hyper-V
4 140 (9.99%) Docker
5 79 (5.64%) vSphere
6 53 (3.78%) Virtual Machines
7 43 (3.07%) Virtual Desktop
8 26 (1.86%) BitLocker
9 22 (1.57%) VMware NSX
10 16 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.71%) KVM
12 8 (0.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.57%) Squid
13 4 (0.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.21%) Firmware
14 3 (0.21%) iptables
14 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.21%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.14%) Samba
Systems Management
1 329 (23.48%) Terraform
2 230 (16.42%) Kubernetes
3 225 (16.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 163 (11.63%) Ansible
5 77 (5.50%) Grafana
6 61 (4.35%) SCCM
7 53 (3.78%) Single Sign-On
8 52 (3.71%) Prometheus
9 27 (1.93%) Jamf Pro
10 25 (1.78%) ZABBIX
11 24 (1.71%) vCenter Server
12 21 (1.50%) Argo
13 20 (1.43%) Packer
14 19 (1.36%) QRadar
15 17 (1.21%) Proxmox
16 15 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 14 (1.00%) Graylog
18 12 (0.86%) VxRail
19 11 (0.79%) Nagios
19 11 (0.79%) Nessus
Vendors
1 828 (59.10%) Microsoft
2 275 (19.63%) VMware
3 118 (8.42%) Cisco
4 92 (6.57%) Splunk
5 91 (6.50%) ServiceNow
6 56 (4.00%) Red Hat
7 50 (3.57%) Veeam
8 41 (2.93%) Meraki
9 40 (2.86%) Oracle
10 31 (2.21%) Citrix
10 31 (2.21%) Sophos
11 30 (2.14%) Apple
11 30 (2.14%) Tenable
12 28 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
12 28 (2.00%) Fortinet
13 27 (1.93%) Dell
14 25 (1.78%) Dynatrace
14 25 (1.78%) Palo Alto
15 23 (1.64%) CyberArk
16 21 (1.50%) SolarWinds