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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 89 114
Rank change year-on-year -52 +25 -38
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,467 1,655 1,856
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.37% 3.32% 2.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.90% 12.00% 7.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,041 1,110 1,388
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,813 £45,000
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 £88,750 £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 18,570 13,795 25,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.29% 27.64% 30.36%
Number of salaries quoted 13,176 9,044 17,566
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,000 £46,250 £46,250
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 £102,500
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 19 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 19 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 -59 1,299 £60,000 +4.35% 625
UK excluding London -56 954 £52,500 +5.00% 402
Work from Home -39 500 £62,500 +7.76% 259
London -23 481 £71,500 -3.87% 307
South East -26 247 £52,750 -8.26% 154
North of England -88 222 £50,000 +5.26% 85
Midlands -35 159 £52,500 +5.00% 51
North West -86 125 £51,500 +11.96% 53
East of England -37 100 £57,500 +13.86% 39
East Midlands -5 84 £42,500 +21.43% 21
South West -70 84 £55,000 +19.57% 53
West Midlands -60 75 £55,000 - 30
Northern Ireland -24 70 £46,000 - 7
Yorkshire -29 61 £42,500 -16.26% 22
Scotland +10 42 £50,000 +25.00% 21
North East -30 36 £50,000 -16.67% 11
Wales -40 30 £53,000 -3.64% 9

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
1 241 (16.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 228 (15.54%) SharePoint
3 55 (3.75%) IIS
4 32 (2.18%) Confluence
5 12 (0.82%) nginx
6 7 (0.48%) Apache
7 6 (0.41%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
9 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.068%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.068%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (5.25%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 17 (1.16%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.41%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.20%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.20%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.068%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.068%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.068%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 906 (61.76%) Azure
2 539 (36.74%) Microsoft 365
3 409 (27.88%) Entra ID
4 262 (17.86%) AWS
5 175 (11.93%) SaaS
6 167 (11.38%) Azure DevOps
7 114 (7.77%) GitHub
8 109 (7.43%) IaaS
8 109 (7.43%) Power Platform
9 108 (7.36%) OneDrive
10 81 (5.52%) Azure Monitor
11 79 (5.39%) Azure Sentinel
12 76 (5.18%) PaaS
13 71 (4.84%) Power Automate
14 69 (4.70%) Azure AKS
14 69 (4.70%) GCP
15 66 (4.50%) Azure Key Vault
16 64 (4.36%) GitHub Actions
17 51 (3.48%) Datadog
18 49 (3.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 323 (22.02%) Firewall
2 314 (21.40%) DNS
3 210 (14.31%) DHCP
4 204 (13.91%) VPN
5 142 (9.68%) TCP/IP
6 98 (6.68%) WAN
7 86 (5.86%) LAN
8 70 (4.77%) Network Security
9 68 (4.64%) VLAN
10 47 (3.20%) Wireless
11 44 (3.00%) Wi-Fi
12 41 (2.79%) SAN
13 31 (2.11%) Kerberos
14 24 (1.64%) VoIP
15 23 (1.57%) NAS
16 22 (1.50%) SSL
17 18 (1.23%) HTTP
17 18 (1.23%) Internet
18 17 (1.16%) BGP
18 17 (1.16%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (10.57%) SQL Server
2 83 (5.66%) Azure SQL Database
3 63 (4.29%) Power BI
4 30 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.57%) MongoDB
6 19 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (1.16%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (1.02%) MySQL
9 15 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 13 (0.89%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.48%) InfluxDB
12 7 (0.48%) Redis
13 6 (0.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.41%) Power Query
14 5 (0.34%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.34%) Metadata
14 5 (0.34%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 109 (7.43%) Git
2 96 (6.54%) JIRA
3 71 (4.84%) GitLab
4 61 (4.16%) Jenkins
5 30 (2.04%) Bitbucket
6 13 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.75%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
8 7 (0.48%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.48%) TestRail
9 6 (0.41%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.41%) Metasploit
9 6 (0.41%) Selenium
9 6 (0.41%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.34%) Postman
11 3 (0.20%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.20%) Burp Suite
11 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 523 (35.65%) Social Skills
2 239 (16.29%) Finance
3 190 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (8.93%) Law
5 121 (8.25%) Legal
6 65 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 46 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (3.07%) Retail
9 43 (2.93%) Public Sector
10 38 (2.59%) Banking
11 33 (2.25%) Manufacturing
11 33 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
12 27 (1.84%) Aerospace
13 16 (1.09%) Advertising
14 15 (1.02%) Legal Technology
15 12 (0.82%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (0.75%) Telecoms
17 9 (0.61%) Front Office
17 9 (0.61%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 288 (19.63%) Senior
2 196 (13.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 156 (10.63%) Analyst
4 141 (9.61%) Support Engineer
5 138 (9.41%) Azure Engineer
6 135 (9.20%) IT Engineer
7 129 (8.79%) Cloud Engineer
7 129 (8.79%) IT Support
8 107 (7.29%) DevOps Engineer
9 72 (4.91%) IT Support Engineer
9 72 (4.91%) Platform Engineer
10 70 (4.77%) Security Engineer
11 68 (4.64%) Lead
12 63 (4.29%) Systems Engineer
13 62 (4.23%) Developer
14 58 (3.95%) Testing Manager
15 55 (3.75%) 2nd Line Support
15 55 (3.75%) Senior Manager
16 54 (3.68%) Administrator
17 51 (3.48%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (5.86%) .NET
2 53 (3.61%) ARM Templates
3 50 (3.41%) REST
4 47 (3.20%) YAML
5 46 (3.14%) SAML
6 43 (2.93%) Microsoft Graph
7 42 (2.86%) HTML
7 42 (2.86%) OAuth
8 39 (2.66%) LDAP
9 38 (2.59%) OpenID
10 33 (2.25%) .NET Core
11 32 (2.18%) CSS
11 32 (2.18%) JSON
12 25 (1.70%) SPFx
13 20 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (1.30%) HTML5 Canvas
15 16 (1.09%) SOAP
16 15 (1.02%) ASP.NET
16 15 (1.02%) React
17 14 (0.95%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 117 (7.98%) Onboarding
2 87 (5.93%) Cloud Native
3 75 (5.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 71 (4.84%) Management Information System
5 69 (4.70%) Security Posture
6 65 (4.43%) Driving Licence
7 60 (4.09%) Virtual Team
8 52 (3.54%) Data Centre
9 45 (3.07%) Public Cloud
10 43 (2.93%) PKI
10 43 (2.93%) Security Operations Centre
11 42 (2.86%) Replication
12 41 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
13 37 (2.52%) Clustering
13 37 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
14 28 (1.91%) Cyber Defence
14 28 (1.91%) Private Cloud
15 26 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
16 25 (1.70%) CMDB
17 21 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 693 (47.24%) Windows
2 343 (23.38%) Linux
3 328 (22.36%) Windows Server
4 79 (5.39%) Windows 10
5 54 (3.68%) Apple iOS
6 47 (3.20%) Mac OS
7 43 (2.93%) Android
8 42 (2.86%) VMS
9 37 (2.52%) Ubuntu
10 36 (2.45%) Windows Server 2016
11 34 (2.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 32 (2.18%) CentOS
13 25 (1.70%) Windows Server 2019
14 17 (1.16%) Unix
15 7 (0.48%) Rocky
16 6 (0.41%) Debian
16 6 (0.41%) Kali Linux
16 6 (0.41%) Solaris
17 5 (0.34%) CoreOS
18 4 (0.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (26.04%) Problem-Solving
2 378 (25.77%) DevOps
3 348 (23.72%) Continuous Improvement
4 343 (23.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 337 (22.97%) CI/CD
6 298 (20.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 287 (19.56%) ITIL
8 242 (16.50%) Cybersecurity
9 217 (14.79%) Mentoring
10 191 (13.02%) Disaster Recovery
11 177 (12.07%) High Availability
12 171 (11.66%) Root Cause Analysis
13 166 (11.32%) Incident Response
14 162 (11.04%) Agile
15 145 (9.88%) AI
16 138 (9.41%) Containerisation
17 136 (9.27%) SIEM
18 130 (8.86%) Cloud Security
18 130 (8.86%) Platform Engineering
18 130 (8.86%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 586 (39.95%) Python
2 310 (21.13%) Bash
3 286 (19.50%) SQL
4 147 (10.02%) C#
5 140 (9.54%) JavaScript
6 113 (7.70%) Bicep
7 87 (5.93%) TypeScript
8 51 (3.48%) Kusto Query Language
9 40 (2.73%) Java
10 36 (2.45%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.43%) VBScript
12 19 (1.30%) C++
13 18 (1.23%) Perl
14 14 (0.95%) PHP
15 11 (0.75%) Ruby
16 10 (0.68%) VBA
17 9 (0.61%) Go
17 9 (0.61%) VB
18 8 (0.55%) C
19 6 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 197 (13.43%) Security Cleared
2 178 (12.13%) Degree
3 162 (11.04%) Azure Certification
4 150 (10.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 140 (9.54%) SC Cleared
6 65 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 64 (4.36%) Cisco Certification
8 55 (3.75%) CompTIA Security+
9 53 (3.61%) DV Cleared
10 52 (3.54%) CISSP
11 47 (3.20%) CCNA
12 28 (1.91%) CEH
13 24 (1.64%) DBS Check
13 24 (1.64%) OSCP
14 23 (1.57%) AWS Certification
15 22 (1.50%) GIAC
16 21 (1.43%) CCNP
17 18 (1.23%) CISM
17 18 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 15 (1.02%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (7.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 81 (5.52%) QA
3 73 (4.98%) NIST
4 68 (4.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 53 (3.61%) GDPR
6 47 (3.20%) SLA
7 19 (1.30%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.16%) PCI DSS
9 16 (1.09%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.48%) ISO 22301
11 7 (0.48%) PMO
12 6 (0.41%) NCSC
13 5 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.27%) Accessibility
14 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
16 2 (0.14%) EMIR
16 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 526 (35.86%) Active Directory
2 242 (16.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 163 (11.11%) Hyper-V
4 145 (9.88%) Docker
5 84 (5.73%) vSphere
6 60 (4.09%) Virtual Machines
7 50 (3.41%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (1.84%) VMware NSX
9 23 (1.57%) BitLocker
10 18 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
11 11 (0.75%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.55%) KVM
12 8 (0.55%) Squid
13 7 (0.48%) Firmware
14 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.20%) Terminal Services
17 2 (0.14%) Samba
18 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 364 (24.81%) Terraform
2 252 (17.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 242 (16.50%) Kubernetes
4 183 (12.47%) Ansible
5 80 (5.45%) Grafana
6 74 (5.04%) SCCM
7 51 (3.48%) Single Sign-On
8 47 (3.20%) Prometheus
9 26 (1.77%) vCenter Server
10 25 (1.70%) ZABBIX
11 23 (1.57%) Jamf Pro
12 21 (1.43%) Argo
12 21 (1.43%) QRadar
13 20 (1.36%) Packer
13 20 (1.36%) Proxmox
14 19 (1.30%) Puppet
15 15 (1.02%) Graylog
16 13 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 13 (0.89%) VxRail
17 11 (0.75%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 898 (61.21%) Microsoft
2 283 (19.29%) VMware
3 129 (8.79%) Cisco
4 109 (7.43%) ServiceNow
5 95 (6.48%) Splunk
6 60 (4.09%) Red Hat
7 57 (3.89%) Veeam
8 50 (3.41%) Oracle
9 49 (3.34%) Meraki
10 40 (2.73%) Citrix
11 35 (2.39%) Dynatrace
12 33 (2.25%) Sophos
13 32 (2.18%) Dell
14 30 (2.04%) Tenable
15 29 (1.98%) CrowdStrike
16 27 (1.84%) Apple
17 25 (1.70%) Fortinet
18 24 (1.64%) CyberArk
19 22 (1.50%) Okta
20 21 (1.43%) Palo Alto