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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 95 58
Rank change year-on-year -11 -37 +33
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,312 1,769 2,450
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.46% 2.63% 4.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.06% 8.14% 11.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,077 1,219 2,035
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £38,210
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +2.38% -2.78% +2.86%

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 11,860 21,726 21,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.23% 32.33% 40.85%
Number of salaries quoted 8,585 12,992 17,368
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,645
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £84,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025. 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 -13 1,149 £58,000 -7.20% 430
UK excluding London +9 817 £53,750 +2.38% 422
London -29 423 £75,250 +0.33% 141
Work from Home -15 371 £61,496 -8.89% 226
South East -13 226 £58,000 +2.61% 158
North of England -1 156 £50,000 - 53
Midlands +13 118 £52,500 +10.53% 64
South West +32 112 £52,500 - 50
East of England +30 99 £47,500 -9.52% 33
West Midlands +24 88 £55,000 +17.27% 30
Scotland +16 88 £67,000 +26.42% 57
Yorkshire +7 75 £47,500 -10.38% 18
North West +5 69 £52,500 +5.00% 28
East Midlands +14 30 £50,000 +5.26% 33
Wales +19 17 £55,000 +8.80% 17
North East +15 12 £60,000 +27.29% 7
Northern Ireland -1 4 £46,000 +15.00% 2

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
1 231 (17.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 177 (13.49%) SharePoint
3 61 (4.65%) IIS
4 55 (4.19%) Confluence
5 22 (1.68%) Exchange Server 2003
6 19 (1.45%) Skype for Business
7 12 (0.91%) nginx
8 6 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.38%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.15%) CMS
10 2 (0.15%) WordPress
11 1 (0.076%) CICS
11 1 (0.076%) WebSphere
Applications
1 48 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 6 (0.46%) Siemens NX
5 4 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.30%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.23%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.23%) CATIA
6 3 (0.23%) Windchill
7 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.15%) Revit
8 1 (0.076%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 12 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.61%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.46%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.38%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.38%) PlanetPress Connect
5 3 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.23%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.15%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.076%) Eikon
7 1 (0.076%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.076%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.076%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.076%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.076%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 862 (65.70%) Azure
2 457 (34.83%) Microsoft 365
3 286 (21.80%) Entra ID
4 251 (19.13%) AWS
5 220 (16.77%) Azure DevOps
6 115 (8.77%) Power Platform
7 102 (7.77%) PaaS
8 96 (7.32%) GitHub
9 92 (7.01%) SaaS
10 90 (6.86%) Azure Monitor
11 87 (6.63%) GCP
12 75 (5.72%) IaaS
13 70 (5.34%) GitHub Actions
14 69 (5.26%) Power Automate
15 63 (4.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 56 (4.27%) Azure Sentinel
17 52 (3.96%) Serverless
18 42 (3.20%) PowerApps
19 41 (3.13%) Amazon S3
20 39 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 293 (22.33%) Firewall
2 256 (19.51%) DNS
3 200 (15.24%) DHCP
4 115 (8.77%) TCP/IP
5 108 (8.23%) VPN
6 100 (7.62%) WAN
7 77 (5.87%) LAN
8 52 (3.96%) VLAN
9 51 (3.89%) Wireless
10 45 (3.43%) SAN
11 38 (2.90%) Internet
12 36 (2.74%) Wi-Fi
13 34 (2.59%) Network Security
14 32 (2.44%) SD-WAN
15 24 (1.83%) HTTP
16 22 (1.68%) SMTP
17 20 (1.52%) FTP
17 20 (1.52%) NAS
17 20 (1.52%) VoIP
18 19 (1.45%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (10.67%) SQL Server
2 65 (4.95%) Power BI
3 53 (4.04%) Amazon RDS
4 31 (2.36%) Relational Database
5 30 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 29 (2.21%) Oracle Database
7 26 (1.98%) Oracle Database 10g
8 22 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
9 18 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (1.22%) MySQL
11 15 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (0.99%) NoSQL
13 10 (0.76%) MongoDB
14 9 (0.69%) DTS
15 8 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
16 7 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
16 7 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 6 (0.46%) Data Mining
17 6 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
18 5 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 135 (10.29%) JIRA
2 114 (8.69%) Jenkins
3 107 (8.16%) Git
4 45 (3.43%) GitLab
5 37 (2.82%) Octopus Deploy
6 29 (2.21%) Vagrant
7 24 (1.83%) TeamCity
8 14 (1.07%) MSI
9 12 (0.91%) Bitbucket
9 12 (0.91%) Burp Suite
9 12 (0.91%) Metasploit
10 10 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (0.46%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 5 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.30%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.30%) Robot Framework
13 4 (0.30%) Toad
14 3 (0.23%) Balsamiq
14 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 461 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 303 (23.09%) Finance
3 88 (6.71%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (5.79%) Law
5 56 (4.27%) Public Sector
6 41 (3.13%) Legal
7 39 (2.97%) Banking
7 39 (2.97%) Retail
8 36 (2.74%) Manufacturing
9 34 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
10 32 (2.44%) Telecoms
11 26 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
13 23 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 17 (1.30%) Marketing
15 16 (1.22%) Games
15 16 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
16 13 (0.99%) Automotive
16 13 (0.99%) Front Office
17 10 (0.76%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 200 (15.24%) Support Engineer
2 154 (11.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 154 (11.74%) Senior
3 118 (8.99%) Azure Engineer
3 118 (8.99%) DevOps Engineer
4 96 (7.32%) Analyst
5 93 (7.09%) 3rd Line Support
5 93 (7.09%) Cloud Engineer
6 84 (6.40%) IT Support
7 82 (6.25%) Security Engineer
8 79 (6.02%) Lead
9 77 (5.87%) Developer
10 73 (5.56%) IT Engineer
11 68 (5.18%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 66 (5.03%) Platform Engineer
13 50 (3.81%) Applications Support
14 49 (3.73%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
15 48 (3.66%) Applications Engineer
16 47 (3.58%) IT Support Engineer
17 44 (3.35%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (5.95%) .NET
2 74 (5.64%) REST
3 68 (5.18%) YAML
4 39 (2.97%) ARM Templates
4 39 (2.97%) SOAP
5 34 (2.59%) JSON
6 33 (2.52%) LDAP
7 21 (1.60%) Web Services
8 20 (1.52%) SAML
9 19 (1.45%) OAuth
10 18 (1.37%) AngularJS
11 17 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
11 17 (1.30%) Microsoft Graph
12 16 (1.22%) React
13 15 (1.14%) GraphQL
14 14 (1.07%) OpenID
15 12 (0.91%) Node.js
16 11 (0.84%) .NET Framework
16 11 (0.84%) Middleware
17 10 (0.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 97 (7.39%) Onboarding
2 66 (5.03%) Security Posture
3 64 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 57 (4.34%) Product Ownership
5 40 (3.05%) Cloud Native
5 40 (3.05%) Data Centre
5 40 (3.05%) PKI
6 37 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
6 37 (2.82%) Management Information System
7 31 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
8 29 (2.21%) Replication
9 28 (2.13%) Driving Licence
10 27 (2.06%) Public Cloud
10 27 (2.06%) Virtual Team
11 24 (1.83%) Private Cloud
11 24 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
12 22 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
12 22 (1.68%) Video Conferencing
13 17 (1.30%) Hedge funds
13 17 (1.30%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 594 (45.27%) Windows
2 342 (26.07%) Windows Server
3 250 (19.05%) Linux
4 75 (5.72%) Windows 10
5 70 (5.34%) Windows Server 2019
6 63 (4.80%) VMS
7 45 (3.43%) Unix
7 45 (3.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 42 (3.20%) Mac OS
9 31 (2.36%) Windows Server 2008
10 26 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 25 (1.91%) Solaris
12 22 (1.68%) HPUX
12 22 (1.68%) Windows 7
12 22 (1.68%) Windows Server 2003
13 20 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
14 19 (1.45%) Amazon Linux
14 19 (1.45%) Ubuntu
15 17 (1.30%) Android
16 12 (0.91%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (31.33%) DevOps
2 350 (26.68%) Problem-Solving
3 297 (22.64%) CI/CD
4 233 (17.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 232 (17.68%) ITIL
6 228 (17.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 209 (15.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 187 (14.25%) Agile
9 165 (12.58%) Mentoring
10 159 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
11 140 (10.67%) Disaster Recovery
12 138 (10.52%) Task Automation
13 127 (9.68%) Cloud Security
14 116 (8.84%) Migration
15 102 (7.77%) Roadmaps
16 100 (7.62%) Coaching
17 97 (7.39%) Change Management
17 97 (7.39%) Containerisation
18 95 (7.24%) ITSM
19 90 (6.86%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 442 (33.69%) Python
2 261 (19.89%) SQL
3 260 (19.82%) Bash
4 108 (8.23%) C#
5 77 (5.87%) Bicep
6 59 (4.50%) JavaScript
7 44 (3.35%) Java
8 36 (2.74%) Perl
9 32 (2.44%) Groovy
10 28 (2.13%) Go
11 27 (2.06%) Kusto Query Language
12 25 (1.91%) T-SQL
13 24 (1.83%) VB
14 14 (1.07%) TypeScript
15 13 (0.99%) Shell Script
16 12 (0.91%) VBScript
17 8 (0.61%) Ruby
17 8 (0.61%) VBA
18 5 (0.38%) C++
19 4 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 199 (15.17%) Security Cleared
2 180 (13.72%) Degree
3 135 (10.29%) SC Cleared
4 107 (8.16%) Azure Certification
5 102 (7.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 67 (5.11%) DV Cleared
7 54 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
8 51 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 48 (3.66%) AWS Certification
10 35 (2.67%) CCNA
11 34 (2.59%) CISSP
12 30 (2.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 25 (1.91%) Master's Degree
14 24 (1.83%) CREST Certified
15 19 (1.45%) CCNP
15 19 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 18 (1.37%) CEH
17 17 (1.30%) OSCP
18 13 (0.99%) Network+ Certification
18 13 (0.99%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (10.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 113 (8.61%) NIST
3 68 (5.18%) GDPR
4 56 (4.27%) SLA
5 39 (2.97%) NCSC
6 37 (2.82%) Accessibility
7 30 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 19 (1.45%) QA
9 10 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 9 (0.69%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.53%) ISO 22301
12 6 (0.46%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.38%) GRC
14 4 (0.30%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.15%) HL7
16 1 (0.076%) Data Quality
16 1 (0.076%) Disclosure Scotland
16 1 (0.076%) NIST 800
16 1 (0.076%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 458 (34.91%) Active Directory
2 194 (14.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 135 (10.29%) Hyper-V
4 128 (9.76%) Docker
5 55 (4.19%) Virtual Machines
6 49 (3.73%) Virtual Desktop
7 34 (2.59%) vSphere
8 21 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
9 20 (1.52%) DFS Replication
10 15 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
11 14 (1.07%) Firmware
12 12 (0.91%) XenApp
13 8 (0.61%) Postfix
13 8 (0.61%) Squid
13 8 (0.61%) vCloud
14 7 (0.53%) Dovecot
15 6 (0.46%) XenDesktop
16 5 (0.38%) Terminal Services
17 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 3 (0.23%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 307 (23.40%) Terraform
2 231 (17.61%) Microsoft Intune
3 182 (13.87%) Kubernetes
4 151 (11.51%) Ansible
5 79 (6.02%) Grafana
6 77 (5.87%) SCCM
7 64 (4.88%) Prometheus
8 43 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
9 32 (2.44%) WSUS
10 23 (1.75%) SCOM
11 18 (1.37%) vCenter Server
12 16 (1.22%) Puppet
13 15 (1.14%) Autotask
14 14 (1.07%) WMI
15 13 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 13 (0.99%) Backup Exec
15 13 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
15 13 (0.99%) QRadar
16 11 (0.84%) Nessus
16 11 (0.84%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 742 (56.55%) Microsoft
2 267 (20.35%) VMware
3 115 (8.77%) Cisco
4 105 (8.00%) ServiceNow
5 66 (5.03%) Oracle
6 54 (4.12%) Splunk
6 54 (4.12%) Veeam
7 46 (3.51%) Citrix
7 46 (3.51%) Red Hat
8 45 (3.43%) Atlassian
9 39 (2.97%) Google
10 33 (2.52%) SolarWinds
11 28 (2.13%) Palo Alto
12 24 (1.83%) SAP
13 22 (1.68%) Meraki
13 22 (1.68%) Sophos
14 19 (1.45%) Apple
14 19 (1.45%) Juniper
14 19 (1.45%) SonicWALL
15 18 (1.37%) Salesforce