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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 97 88
Rank change year-on-year -25 -9 +1
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,262 1,413 2,439
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.77% 3.10% 3.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.60% 9.03% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 926 1,044 2,119
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +10.62% -5.83%
75th Percentile £76,188 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 13,144 15,642 28,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.44% 34.33% 36.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,295 9,952 23,261
10th Percentile £34,850 £37,574 £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 £83,750 £85,294 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -1.82%

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 March 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 March 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 -32 1,075 £57,500 -8.00% 460
UK excluding London -31 721 £50,000 -9.09% 395
London -5 473 £70,000 -9.68% 138
Work from Home +7 408 £55,000 -12.00% 228
South East -44 197 £56,750 -5.42% 155
North of England -40 141 £47,500 -9.52% 70
Scotland +60 126 £74,500 +35.45% 23
South West +1 102 £55,000 +3.77% 53
Midlands -53 91 £52,500 +5.00% 44
Yorkshire -25 65 £47,500 -9.52% 27
North West -28 60 £50,000 -2.44% 29
East of England -18 54 £40,000 -27.27% 51
East Midlands -26 47 £55,000 +8.91% 21
West Midlands -46 43 £47,500 -5.00% 23
North East -11 16 £47,500 -20.83% 15
Wales -5 9 £55,000 +5.77% 10
Northern Ireland -30 2 - - 3

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
1 194 (15.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 138 (10.94%) SharePoint
3 38 (3.01%) IIS
4 22 (1.74%) Exchange Server 2003
5 13 (1.03%) Confluence
6 6 (0.48%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.40%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.16%) Apache
8 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.16%) CMS
8 2 (0.16%) nginx
8 2 (0.16%) WordPress
9 1 (0.079%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.079%) CICS
9 1 (0.079%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.079%) Site Server
9 1 (0.079%) WebSphere
Applications
1 50 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.48%) Siemens NX
4 5 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.24%) CATIA
5 3 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.24%) Windchill
6 1 (0.079%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.63%) Markit EDM
3 7 (0.55%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.48%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.32%) PlanetPress Connect
7 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
7 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
8 1 (0.079%) Actimize
8 1 (0.079%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.079%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.079%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 815 (64.58%) Azure
2 423 (33.52%) Microsoft 365
3 349 (27.65%) Entra ID
4 210 (16.64%) AWS
5 166 (13.15%) Azure DevOps
6 115 (9.11%) Power Platform
7 95 (7.53%) GitHub
8 82 (6.50%) GCP
9 78 (6.18%) PaaS
10 77 (6.10%) Google Workspace
11 73 (5.78%) GitHub Actions
12 72 (5.71%) SaaS
13 66 (5.23%) Azure Monitor
14 65 (5.15%) IaaS
15 49 (3.88%) OneDrive
16 48 (3.80%) Power Automate
17 40 (3.17%) Snowflake
18 37 (2.93%) Azure Logic Apps
18 37 (2.93%) dbt
19 35 (2.77%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 228 (18.07%) DNS
1 228 (18.07%) Firewall
2 183 (14.50%) DHCP
3 134 (10.62%) VPN
4 112 (8.87%) TCP/IP
5 79 (6.26%) WAN
6 72 (5.71%) LAN
7 64 (5.07%) Broadband
8 53 (4.20%) VLAN
9 49 (3.88%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (3.17%) Network Security
11 36 (2.85%) Wireless
12 34 (2.69%) SAN
13 33 (2.61%) VoIP
14 32 (2.54%) SD-WAN
15 17 (1.35%) VSAN
16 14 (1.11%) MPLS
17 13 (1.03%) NAS
18 12 (0.95%) BGP
18 12 (0.95%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (11.49%) SQL Server
2 89 (7.05%) Power BI
3 31 (2.46%) Relational Database
3 31 (2.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 30 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (2.30%) Oracle Database
6 28 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (2.06%) MySQL
7 26 (2.06%) Oracle Database 10g
8 18 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
9 16 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (1.19%) NoSQL
10 15 (1.19%) Tableau
11 14 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.63%) InfluxDB
12 8 (0.63%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.48%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.40%) Metadata
15 4 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 91 (7.21%) JIRA
2 82 (6.50%) Jenkins
3 78 (6.18%) Git
4 37 (2.93%) GitLab
5 28 (2.22%) Octopus Deploy
6 22 (1.74%) Bitbucket
7 20 (1.58%) TeamCity
8 15 (1.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 13 (1.03%) Metasploit
10 10 (0.79%) Burp Suite
11 9 (0.71%) CircleCI
11 9 (0.71%) Robot Framework
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
15 3 (0.24%) Balsamiq
15 3 (0.24%) Eclipse
15 3 (0.24%) JMeter
General
1 447 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 311 (24.64%) Finance
3 144 (11.41%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (6.34%) Organisational Skills
5 47 (3.72%) Law
5 47 (3.72%) Retail
6 43 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
7 36 (2.85%) Games
7 36 (2.85%) Public Sector
8 34 (2.69%) Banking
9 33 (2.61%) Legal
10 29 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (2.30%) Telecoms
11 25 (1.98%) Manufacturing
12 15 (1.19%) Front Office
13 12 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (0.63%) Advertising
15 8 (0.63%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.48%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 194 (15.37%) Senior
2 152 (12.04%) Support Engineer
3 146 (11.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 117 (9.27%) Azure Engineer
5 107 (8.48%) Analyst
6 95 (7.53%) IT Support
7 84 (6.66%) Developer
8 82 (6.50%) DevOps Engineer
9 81 (6.42%) Security Engineer
10 79 (6.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 75 (5.94%) IT Engineer
12 65 (5.15%) Lead
13 61 (4.83%) 3rd Line Support
14 57 (4.52%) IT Support Engineer
15 49 (3.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 47 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
17 41 (3.25%) Architect
17 41 (3.25%) Support Analyst
18 40 (3.17%) Applications Support
19 39 (3.09%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (8.72%) REST
2 92 (7.29%) OAuth
3 83 (6.58%) SAML
4 77 (6.10%) OpenID
4 77 (6.10%) SOAP
5 73 (5.78%) GraphQL
6 70 (5.55%) .NET
7 66 (5.23%) LDAP
8 36 (2.85%) YAML
9 33 (2.61%) JSON
10 25 (1.98%) ARM Templates
11 22 (1.74%) React
12 19 (1.51%) Elastic Stack
12 19 (1.51%) Web Services
13 17 (1.35%) .NET Core
13 17 (1.35%) Microsoft Graph
14 15 (1.19%) Node.js
15 13 (1.03%) AngularJS
15 13 (1.03%) Middleware
16 12 (0.95%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 97 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 78 (6.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 70 (5.55%) Cyber Threat
4 61 (4.83%) Cyberattack
5 60 (4.75%) Security Posture
6 47 (3.72%) Management Information System
7 41 (3.25%) Driving Licence
7 41 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
8 37 (2.93%) Product Ownership
9 35 (2.77%) Cloud Native
10 34 (2.69%) Data Centre
11 33 (2.61%) Cyber Defence
12 32 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
13 29 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
14 26 (2.06%) PKI
15 23 (1.82%) CMDB
16 22 (1.74%) Security Operations Centre
17 18 (1.43%) Virtual Team
18 17 (1.35%) Hedge funds
18 17 (1.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 555 (43.98%) Windows
2 297 (23.53%) Windows Server
3 233 (18.46%) Linux
4 69 (5.47%) Windows 10
5 56 (4.44%) Mac OS
6 41 (3.25%) Unix
7 35 (2.77%) Windows Server 2016
7 35 (2.77%) Windows Server 2019
8 33 (2.61%) Android
9 30 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 28 (2.22%) VMS
11 27 (2.14%) CentOS
12 26 (2.06%) Apple iOS
12 26 (2.06%) Windows Server 2008
13 25 (1.98%) Solaris
14 22 (1.74%) HPUX
14 22 (1.74%) Windows 7
14 22 (1.74%) Windows Server 2003
15 18 (1.43%) Ubuntu
16 15 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
2 317 (25.12%) DevOps
3 257 (20.36%) CI/CD
4 240 (19.02%) ITIL
5 232 (18.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 228 (18.07%) Cybersecurity
7 217 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 210 (16.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 195 (15.45%) Mentoring
10 177 (14.03%) Agile
11 169 (13.39%) Disaster Recovery
12 156 (12.36%) Roadmaps
13 130 (10.30%) Root Cause Analysis
14 124 (9.83%) Incident Response
15 115 (9.11%) Task Automation
16 103 (8.16%) Coaching
17 102 (8.08%) Asset Management
18 100 (7.92%) Cloud Security
19 99 (7.84%) Migration
20 98 (7.77%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 433 (34.31%) Python
2 313 (24.80%) Bash
3 285 (22.58%) SQL
4 92 (7.29%) C#
5 86 (6.81%) T-SQL
6 71 (5.63%) JavaScript
7 67 (5.31%) Bicep
8 25 (1.98%) Perl
9 24 (1.90%) Kusto Query Language
10 21 (1.66%) Java
11 18 (1.43%) Go
12 11 (0.87%) VB.NET
13 7 (0.55%) PHP
13 7 (0.55%) VB
13 7 (0.55%) VBA
13 7 (0.55%) VBScript
14 6 (0.48%) C++
14 6 (0.48%) Delphi
15 5 (0.40%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 171 (13.55%) Degree
2 157 (12.44%) Security Cleared
3 112 (8.87%) Microsoft Certification
4 95 (7.53%) SC Cleared
5 92 (7.29%) Azure Certification
6 59 (4.68%) DV Cleared
7 52 (4.12%) CISSP
8 44 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 36 (2.85%) CREST Certified
10 33 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
11 31 (2.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 28 (2.22%) AWS Certification
13 24 (1.90%) CEH
14 22 (1.74%) GIAC
15 21 (1.66%) SANS
16 20 (1.58%) CCNA
17 19 (1.51%) CompTIA CySA+
18 18 (1.43%) CompTIA Security+
18 18 (1.43%) OSCP
19 16 (1.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (13.47%) NIST
2 162 (12.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 74 (5.86%) NCSC
4 63 (4.99%) GDPR
5 60 (4.75%) SLA
6 47 (3.72%) Accessibility
7 32 (2.54%) Cyber Essentials
8 20 (1.58%) ISO 22301
9 17 (1.35%) Data Quality
9 17 (1.35%) QA
10 15 (1.19%) PCI DSS
11 14 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.55%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.40%) DICOM
14 5 (0.40%) GRC
15 3 (0.24%) HL7
15 3 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.16%) COBIT
16 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
System Software
1 470 (37.24%) Active Directory
2 144 (11.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 115 (9.11%) Docker
4 112 (8.87%) Hyper-V
5 44 (3.49%) Virtual Machines
6 42 (3.33%) vSphere
7 34 (2.69%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (1.51%) Firmware
9 17 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
10 12 (0.95%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.63%) vCloud
11 8 (0.63%) VMware NSX
11 8 (0.63%) XenApp
12 6 (0.48%) XenDesktop
13 5 (0.40%) BitLocker
13 5 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.24%) iptables
16 2 (0.16%) KVM
16 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 267 (21.16%) Terraform
2 187 (14.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 164 (13.00%) Kubernetes
4 141 (11.17%) Ansible
5 50 (3.96%) Grafana
6 43 (3.41%) SCCM
7 41 (3.25%) Single Sign-On
8 27 (2.14%) Prometheus
9 20 (1.58%) Puppet
10 17 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 14 (1.11%) Jamf Pro
11 14 (1.11%) vCenter Server
12 11 (0.87%) Nessus
13 10 (0.79%) SCOM
14 9 (0.71%) FortiGate
14 9 (0.71%) Nagios
14 9 (0.71%) VxRail
15 8 (0.63%) Progress Chef
15 8 (0.63%) SCVMM
16 7 (0.55%) Control-M
Vendors
1 649 (51.43%) Microsoft
2 236 (18.70%) VMware
3 99 (7.84%) Cisco
4 57 (4.52%) ServiceNow
5 56 (4.44%) Splunk
6 50 (3.96%) Oracle
7 49 (3.88%) Veeam
8 45 (3.57%) Red Hat
9 41 (3.25%) Google
10 34 (2.69%) Atlassian
11 31 (2.46%) Commvault
11 31 (2.46%) Palo Alto
12 30 (2.38%) Citrix
13 27 (2.14%) Fortinet
14 26 (2.06%) CyberArk
15 24 (1.90%) CrowdStrike
16 23 (1.82%) Dell
16 23 (1.82%) SolarWinds
17 22 (1.74%) Apple
17 22 (1.74%) Meraki