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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 84 117
Rank change year-on-year -58 +33 -38
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,430 1,688 1,890
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.38% 3.40% 2.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.81% 11.89% 7.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,026 1,112 1,461
10th Percentile £31,625 £33,775 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,750 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 18,318 14,191 25,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.68% 28.61% 30.45%
Number of salaries quoted 12,989 9,351 18,093
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,486 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -62 1,274 £57,500 - 589
UK excluding London -57 921 £52,500 +5.00% 406
Work from Home -37 498 £60,000 +4.35% 275
London -29 475 £70,000 -6.67% 245
South East -36 244 £53,000 -7.83% 126
North of England -96 215 £49,222 +3.63% 103
Midlands -48 152 £52,500 +5.00% 51
North West -88 117 £52,500 +14.13% 73
East of England -39 94 £57,500 +11.65% 41
South West -71 83 £55,000 +15.79% 58
East Midlands -2 79 £42,500 +21.43% 23
West Midlands -64 73 £53,688 -2.39% 28
Northern Ireland -17 63 £46,000 +2.12% 13
Yorkshire -41 60 £42,500 -15.63% 21
Scotland +21 40 £52,500 +31.25% 21
North East -24 38 £50,000 -16.67% 11
Wales -31 30 £46,500 -15.45% 8

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
1 230 (16.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 212 (14.83%) SharePoint
3 52 (3.64%) IIS
4 32 (2.24%) Confluence
5 9 (0.63%) nginx
6 6 (0.42%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.35%) Apache
8 4 (0.28%) SAS
9 3 (0.21%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.070%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.070%) Site Server
10 1 (0.070%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.070%) WebSphere
Applications
1 76 (5.31%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (0.77%) NetSuite
2 10 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.42%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.21%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.14%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.070%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.070%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 889 (62.17%) Azure
2 518 (36.22%) Microsoft 365
3 391 (27.34%) Entra ID
4 253 (17.69%) AWS
5 167 (11.68%) SaaS
6 160 (11.19%) Azure DevOps
7 116 (8.11%) GitHub
8 112 (7.83%) Power Platform
9 105 (7.34%) IaaS
10 101 (7.06%) OneDrive
11 82 (5.73%) Azure Monitor
12 76 (5.31%) Azure Sentinel
12 76 (5.31%) PaaS
13 69 (4.83%) Azure AKS
14 67 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
14 67 (4.69%) Power Automate
15 64 (4.48%) GCP
16 62 (4.34%) Azure Key Vault
17 48 (3.36%) Datadog
18 47 (3.29%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 314 (21.96%) Firewall
2 300 (20.98%) DNS
3 201 (14.06%) DHCP
4 199 (13.92%) VPN
5 136 (9.51%) TCP/IP
6 97 (6.78%) WAN
7 87 (6.08%) LAN
8 72 (5.03%) Network Security
9 68 (4.76%) VLAN
10 46 (3.22%) Wi-Fi
11 41 (2.87%) Wireless
12 39 (2.73%) SAN
13 35 (2.45%) Kerberos
14 30 (2.10%) VoIP
15 21 (1.47%) SSL
16 20 (1.40%) NAS
17 18 (1.26%) BGP
18 16 (1.12%) HTTP
18 16 (1.12%) Internet
18 16 (1.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (11.19%) SQL Server
2 82 (5.73%) Azure SQL Database
3 70 (4.90%) Power BI
4 36 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.61%) MongoDB
6 21 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 18 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
8 18 (1.26%) MySQL
8 18 (1.26%) Relational Database
9 13 (0.91%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.63%) InfluxDB
10 9 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.42%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.42%) Redis
12 5 (0.35%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.35%) Metadata
12 5 (0.35%) Power Query
12 5 (0.35%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.28%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 109 (7.62%) Git
2 89 (6.22%) JIRA
3 69 (4.83%) GitLab
4 61 (4.27%) Jenkins
5 30 (2.10%) Bitbucket
6 14 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (0.77%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (0.49%) Metasploit
9 7 (0.49%) Robot Framework
9 7 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 7 (0.49%) TestRail
10 6 (0.42%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.42%) Selenium
11 5 (0.35%) Postman
12 4 (0.28%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.21%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.21%) Burp Suite
13 3 (0.21%) Terragrunt
General
1 489 (34.20%) Social Skills
2 222 (15.52%) Finance
3 184 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (8.95%) Law
5 111 (7.76%) Legal
6 59 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 49 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
8 44 (3.08%) Retail
9 40 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
10 39 (2.73%) Public Sector
11 31 (2.17%) Banking
11 31 (2.17%) Manufacturing
12 25 (1.75%) Aerospace
13 17 (1.19%) Advertising
14 13 (0.91%) Telecoms
15 12 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (0.77%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.77%) Legal Technology
17 8 (0.56%) Front Office
17 8 (0.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 279 (19.51%) Senior
2 182 (12.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 152 (10.63%) Analyst
4 144 (10.07%) Support Engineer
5 134 (9.37%) IT Engineer
6 132 (9.23%) Azure Engineer
6 132 (9.23%) IT Support
7 122 (8.53%) Cloud Engineer
8 103 (7.20%) DevOps Engineer
9 78 (5.45%) IT Support Engineer
10 74 (5.17%) Security Engineer
11 70 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
12 68 (4.76%) Lead
13 63 (4.41%) Developer
14 58 (4.06%) Systems Engineer
15 57 (3.99%) 2nd Line Support
16 55 (3.85%) Testing Manager
17 52 (3.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 52 (3.64%) Senior Manager
18 51 (3.57%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (6.01%) .NET
2 58 (4.06%) SAML
3 57 (3.99%) REST
4 55 (3.85%) ARM Templates
4 55 (3.85%) OAuth
5 48 (3.36%) LDAP
5 48 (3.36%) OpenID
6 46 (3.22%) YAML
7 43 (3.01%) HTML
8 42 (2.94%) Microsoft Graph
9 35 (2.45%) JSON
10 33 (2.31%) .NET Core
11 32 (2.24%) CSS
12 25 (1.75%) SPFx
13 22 (1.54%) SOAP
14 21 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
15 19 (1.33%) HTML5 Canvas
16 16 (1.12%) RESTful
17 15 (1.05%) Middleware
18 14 (0.98%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 108 (7.55%) Onboarding
2 86 (6.01%) Cloud Native
3 76 (5.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 69 (4.83%) Security Posture
5 68 (4.76%) Management Information System
6 60 (4.20%) Driving Licence
7 57 (3.99%) Virtual Team
8 51 (3.57%) Data Centre
9 45 (3.15%) Public Cloud
10 42 (2.94%) Security Operations Centre
11 40 (2.80%) PKI
12 39 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
13 37 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
14 36 (2.52%) Replication
15 33 (2.31%) Clustering
16 31 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
17 29 (2.03%) Cyber Defence
18 26 (1.82%) Private Cloud
19 22 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
20 21 (1.47%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 670 (46.85%) Windows
2 330 (23.08%) Linux
3 325 (22.73%) Windows Server
4 81 (5.66%) Windows 10
5 53 (3.71%) Apple iOS
6 45 (3.15%) Mac OS
7 44 (3.08%) VMS
8 43 (3.01%) Android
9 37 (2.59%) Windows Server 2016
10 36 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 35 (2.45%) CentOS
12 31 (2.17%) Ubuntu
13 26 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
14 15 (1.05%) Unix
15 7 (0.49%) Kali Linux
16 6 (0.42%) Debian
17 5 (0.35%) CoreOS
18 4 (0.28%) AIX
18 4 (0.28%) Windows 7
19 3 (0.21%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (25.59%) DevOps
2 360 (25.17%) Problem-Solving
3 329 (23.01%) CI/CD
4 320 (22.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 317 (22.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 269 (18.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 261 (18.25%) ITIL
8 245 (17.13%) Cybersecurity
9 214 (14.97%) Mentoring
10 177 (12.38%) Disaster Recovery
11 164 (11.47%) Agile
11 164 (11.47%) High Availability
11 164 (11.47%) Root Cause Analysis
12 161 (11.26%) Incident Response
13 138 (9.65%) Containerisation
14 135 (9.44%) SIEM
15 132 (9.23%) AI
15 132 (9.23%) Cloud Security
16 130 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
17 129 (9.02%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 572 (40.00%) Python
2 313 (21.89%) Bash
3 285 (19.93%) SQL
4 146 (10.21%) C#
5 132 (9.23%) JavaScript
6 108 (7.55%) Bicep
7 82 (5.73%) TypeScript
8 49 (3.43%) Kusto Query Language
9 45 (3.15%) T-SQL
10 35 (2.45%) Java
11 21 (1.47%) VBScript
12 18 (1.26%) C++
13 16 (1.12%) PHP
14 15 (1.05%) Perl
15 10 (0.70%) VBA
16 9 (0.63%) Go
16 9 (0.63%) Ruby
16 9 (0.63%) VB
17 8 (0.56%) C
18 6 (0.42%) Korn
Qualifications
1 184 (12.87%) Security Cleared
2 172 (12.03%) Degree
3 159 (11.12%) Azure Certification
4 140 (9.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 128 (8.95%) SC Cleared
6 63 (4.41%) Cisco Certification
7 60 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (3.78%) CISSP
9 51 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
10 48 (3.36%) DV Cleared
11 44 (3.08%) CCNA
12 24 (1.68%) DBS Check
13 23 (1.61%) AWS Certification
13 23 (1.61%) CEH
14 21 (1.47%) CCNP
14 21 (1.47%) GIAC
14 21 (1.47%) OSCP
15 18 (1.26%) CISM
16 17 (1.19%) CREST Certified
17 14 (0.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (8.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 83 (5.80%) NIST
3 77 (5.38%) QA
4 64 (4.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 58 (4.06%) GDPR
6 43 (3.01%) SLA
7 21 (1.47%) Data Quality
8 18 (1.26%) PCI DSS
8 18 (1.26%) SOC 2
9 12 (0.84%) NCSC
10 9 (0.63%) ISO 22301
11 7 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.42%) PMO
13 5 (0.35%) Accessibility
13 5 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.21%) DICOM
14 3 (0.21%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 515 (36.01%) Active Directory
2 237 (16.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 161 (11.26%) Hyper-V
4 142 (9.93%) Docker
5 80 (5.59%) vSphere
6 58 (4.06%) Virtual Machines
7 45 (3.15%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.61%) BitLocker
8 23 (1.61%) VMware NSX
9 15 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.63%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 9 (0.63%) KVM
11 8 (0.56%) Squid
12 5 (0.35%) Firmware
13 4 (0.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.21%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.14%) iptables
15 2 (0.14%) Samba
Systems Management
1 348 (24.34%) Terraform
2 235 (16.43%) Kubernetes
2 235 (16.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 174 (12.17%) Ansible
4 81 (5.66%) Grafana
5 68 (4.76%) SCCM
6 51 (3.57%) Prometheus
6 51 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (1.82%) Jamf Pro
8 25 (1.75%) ZABBIX
9 21 (1.47%) Argo
9 21 (1.47%) vCenter Server
10 20 (1.40%) Packer
10 20 (1.40%) QRadar
11 19 (1.33%) Proxmox
12 14 (0.98%) Graylog
13 13 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 13 (0.91%) Nagios
14 12 (0.84%) VxRail
15 10 (0.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 861 (60.21%) Microsoft
2 278 (19.44%) VMware
3 125 (8.74%) Cisco
4 104 (7.27%) ServiceNow
5 94 (6.57%) Splunk
6 62 (4.34%) Red Hat
7 58 (4.06%) Veeam
8 48 (3.36%) Oracle
9 47 (3.29%) Meraki
10 34 (2.38%) Citrix
11 32 (2.24%) Dynatrace
11 32 (2.24%) Sophos
12 31 (2.17%) Tenable
13 30 (2.10%) Apple
14 29 (2.03%) Dell
15 28 (1.96%) CrowdStrike
16 27 (1.89%) Fortinet
17 24 (1.68%) CyberArk
18 22 (1.54%) Palo Alto
19 20 (1.40%) Okta