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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 92 108
Rank change year-on-year -52 +16 -8
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,236 1,365 2,380
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.40% 3.26% 2.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.96% 9.81% 7.36%
Number of salaries quoted 905 1,065 2,030
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,200 £35,975
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £94,511 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -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 15,535 13,921 32,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.61% 33.25% 34.00%
Number of salaries quoted 10,556 10,220 25,042
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,464 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,069 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,565 £53,772
% change year-on-year +3.48% +3.33% -2.23%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -63 1,093 £57,500 -4.17% 300
UK excluding London -65 686 £52,500 +0.96% 268
London -15 511 £70,000 -9.68% 92
Work from Home -26 395 £60,000 +4.35% 144
South East -86 169 £55,000 -4.35% 95
North of England -47 139 £48,445 -1.44% 52
Midlands -66 105 £50,000 - 33
Scotland +33 94 £54,375 -1.14% 13
South West -46 86 £55,000 +15.79% 36
East of England -52 71 £47,500 -13.64% 29
North West -38 69 £55,000 +19.57% 32
East Midlands -53 60 £55,000 +37.50% 15
Yorkshire -42 56 £47,500 -13.64% 10
West Midlands -62 44 £47,500 -5.00% 18
Wales -12 19 £61,496 +21.65% 10
North East -36 14 £45,000 -21.74% 10
Northern Ireland -34 3 £46,000 - 12

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
1 178 (14.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 152 (12.30%) SharePoint
3 39 (3.16%) IIS
4 16 (1.29%) Confluence
5 9 (0.73%) Exchange Server 2003
6 6 (0.49%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.16%) Apache
7 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.16%) CMS
7 2 (0.16%) WordPress
8 1 (0.081%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.081%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.081%) Site Server
8 1 (0.081%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 52 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.24%) CATIA
3 3 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.24%) Siemens NX
3 3 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
3 3 (0.24%) Windchill
4 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.081%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.57%) Markit EDM
2 6 (0.49%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
4 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.24%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.081%) Actimize
5 1 (0.081%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 794 (64.24%) Azure
2 430 (34.79%) Microsoft 365
3 338 (27.35%) Entra ID
4 206 (16.67%) AWS
5 129 (10.44%) Azure DevOps
6 102 (8.25%) Power Platform
7 96 (7.77%) GitHub
8 76 (6.15%) OneDrive
8 76 (6.15%) SaaS
9 74 (5.99%) GitHub Actions
9 74 (5.99%) Google Workspace
10 70 (5.66%) GCP
11 56 (4.53%) IaaS
12 52 (4.21%) PaaS
13 48 (3.88%) Power Automate
14 47 (3.80%) Azure Logic Apps
15 45 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
15 45 (3.64%) Azure Monitor
15 45 (3.64%) Azure Sentinel
16 37 (2.99%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 228 (18.45%) DNS
2 226 (18.28%) Firewall
3 160 (12.94%) DHCP
4 135 (10.92%) VPN
5 104 (8.41%) TCP/IP
6 72 (5.83%) WAN
7 66 (5.34%) LAN
8 63 (5.10%) Broadband
9 60 (4.85%) Network Security
10 49 (3.96%) VLAN
11 46 (3.72%) Wi-Fi
12 39 (3.16%) VoIP
13 34 (2.75%) SAN
14 29 (2.35%) Wireless
15 23 (1.86%) SD-WAN
16 21 (1.70%) BGP
17 18 (1.46%) MPLS
18 13 (1.05%) Internet
18 13 (1.05%) VSAN
19 12 (0.97%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (11.00%) SQL Server
2 86 (6.96%) Power BI
3 43 (3.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 30 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
6 24 (1.94%) MySQL
7 23 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 19 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 17 (1.38%) Relational Database
10 15 (1.21%) NoSQL
11 14 (1.13%) Tableau
12 12 (0.97%) Oracle Database
13 11 (0.89%) InfluxDB
14 10 (0.81%) Oracle Database 10g
15 9 (0.73%) Data Lake
15 9 (0.73%) MongoDB
16 7 (0.57%) Metadata
17 5 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
18 4 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 95 (7.69%) Git
2 72 (5.83%) JIRA
3 71 (5.74%) Jenkins
4 47 (3.80%) GitLab
5 28 (2.27%) Bitbucket
6 17 (1.38%) Octopus Deploy
7 14 (1.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 13 (1.05%) Metasploit
9 11 (0.89%) Robot Framework
9 11 (0.89%) TeamCity
10 9 (0.73%) Burp Suite
10 9 (0.73%) TestRail
10 9 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
11 8 (0.65%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.32%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.32%) MLflow
13 4 (0.32%) Selenium
14 3 (0.24%) Balsamiq
14 3 (0.24%) SonarQube
General
1 416 (33.66%) Social Skills
2 249 (20.15%) Finance
3 168 (13.59%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (6.55%) Organisational Skills
5 62 (5.02%) Law
6 44 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 44 (3.56%) Retail
7 43 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
8 41 (3.32%) Legal
8 41 (3.32%) Public Sector
9 33 (2.67%) Games
10 29 (2.35%) Banking
11 26 (2.10%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.46%) Front Office
12 18 (1.46%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.38%) Aerospace
14 16 (1.29%) Advertising
15 7 (0.57%) Military
16 6 (0.49%) Electronics
16 6 (0.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 222 (17.96%) Senior
2 147 (11.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 137 (11.08%) Support Engineer
4 133 (10.76%) Analyst
5 127 (10.28%) Azure Engineer
6 107 (8.66%) IT Support
7 85 (6.88%) IT Engineer
8 83 (6.72%) Security Engineer
9 78 (6.31%) Cloud Engineer
10 70 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
11 69 (5.58%) Developer
12 65 (5.26%) Lead
13 60 (4.85%) IT Support Engineer
14 51 (4.13%) 2nd Line Support
15 46 (3.72%) 3rd Line Support
16 45 (3.64%) Architect
17 44 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
18 43 (3.48%) Systems Engineer
19 42 (3.40%) Support Analyst
20 41 (3.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (8.01%) OAuth
2 90 (7.28%) REST
3 84 (6.80%) SAML
4 83 (6.72%) OpenID
5 76 (6.15%) .NET
6 70 (5.66%) LDAP
7 69 (5.58%) GraphQL
8 67 (5.42%) SOAP
9 37 (2.99%) .NET Core
10 33 (2.67%) JSON
10 33 (2.67%) YAML
11 30 (2.43%) ARM Templates
12 28 (2.27%) CSS
12 28 (2.27%) Microsoft Graph
13 26 (2.10%) HTML
14 25 (2.02%) SPFx
15 18 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
15 18 (1.46%) React
16 16 (1.29%) HTML5 Canvas
16 16 (1.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 97 (7.85%) Onboarding
2 75 (6.07%) Cyber Threat
3 72 (5.83%) Hybrid Cloud
4 67 (5.42%) Cyberattack
5 59 (4.77%) Management Information System
6 57 (4.61%) Security Posture
7 48 (3.88%) Cloud Native
8 40 (3.24%) Cyber Defence
8 40 (3.24%) Driving Licence
9 39 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
9 39 (3.16%) Security Operations Centre
10 34 (2.75%) Data Centre
11 31 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
12 29 (2.35%) Public Cloud
13 25 (2.02%) PKI
14 24 (1.94%) CMDB
15 18 (1.46%) Low-Code
16 17 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
17 16 (1.29%) Product Ownership
17 16 (1.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 561 (45.39%) Windows
2 281 (22.73%) Windows Server
3 255 (20.63%) Linux
4 75 (6.07%) Windows 10
5 50 (4.05%) Mac OS
6 47 (3.80%) Apple iOS
7 46 (3.72%) Android
8 38 (3.07%) Windows Server 2016
9 30 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 28 (2.27%) Unix
10 28 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
11 24 (1.94%) CentOS
11 24 (1.94%) VMS
12 18 (1.46%) Ubuntu
13 13 (1.05%) Solaris
14 11 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
15 9 (0.73%) HPUX
15 9 (0.73%) Windows 7
15 9 (0.73%) Windows Server 2003
15 9 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (27.43%) Problem-Solving
2 261 (21.12%) DevOps
3 259 (20.95%) CI/CD
3 259 (20.95%) Cybersecurity
4 254 (20.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 225 (18.20%) ITIL
6 210 (16.99%) Continuous Improvement
7 203 (16.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 196 (15.86%) Mentoring
9 161 (13.03%) Agile
10 154 (12.46%) Incident Response
11 140 (11.33%) Disaster Recovery
12 138 (11.17%) Roadmaps
13 126 (10.19%) Root Cause Analysis
14 119 (9.63%) SIEM
15 110 (8.90%) Containerisation
16 109 (8.82%) Cloud Security
17 105 (8.50%) Task Automation
18 101 (8.17%) Identity Access Management
19 97 (7.85%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 474 (38.35%) Python
2 312 (25.24%) Bash
3 271 (21.93%) SQL
4 90 (7.28%) C#
5 84 (6.80%) T-SQL
6 77 (6.23%) JavaScript
7 69 (5.58%) Bicep
8 33 (2.67%) Kusto Query Language
9 23 (1.86%) Java
10 20 (1.62%) TypeScript
11 18 (1.46%) Perl
12 11 (0.89%) C++
13 10 (0.81%) Go
13 10 (0.81%) VB.NET
14 9 (0.73%) VB
15 8 (0.65%) VBA
16 7 (0.57%) C
16 7 (0.57%) PHP
16 7 (0.57%) VBScript
17 6 (0.49%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 164 (13.27%) Degree
2 144 (11.65%) Security Cleared
3 104 (8.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 87 (7.04%) SC Cleared
5 86 (6.96%) Azure Certification
6 55 (4.45%) DV Cleared
7 53 (4.29%) CISSP
7 53 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 39 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
9 34 (2.75%) CREST Certified
10 31 (2.51%) CompTIA Security+
11 25 (2.02%) CCNA
12 24 (1.94%) OSCP
13 23 (1.86%) CompTIA CySA+
13 23 (1.86%) GIAC
14 22 (1.78%) CEH
15 21 (1.70%) AWS Certification
16 17 (1.38%) DBS Check
17 15 (1.21%) CCNP
18 14 (1.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (12.62%) NIST
2 155 (12.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 67 (5.42%) GDPR
4 64 (5.18%) NCSC
5 51 (4.13%) SLA
6 29 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 28 (2.27%) Accessibility
8 20 (1.62%) Data Quality
9 19 (1.54%) ISO 22301
10 15 (1.21%) QA
11 14 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
12 13 (1.05%) PCI DSS
12 13 (1.05%) SOC 2
13 11 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.49%) DICOM
15 5 (0.40%) GRC
16 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
18 2 (0.16%) COBIT
19 1 (0.081%) HL7
System Software
1 462 (37.38%) Active Directory
2 158 (12.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 129 (10.44%) Docker
4 104 (8.41%) Hyper-V
5 44 (3.56%) vSphere
6 36 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (1.78%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (1.46%) VMware NSX
9 16 (1.29%) Firmware
10 14 (1.13%) BitLocker
11 9 (0.73%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 7 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.40%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.32%) iptables
14 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.32%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.24%) Squid
15 3 (0.24%) XenApp
16 2 (0.16%) Samba
Systems Management
1 261 (21.12%) Terraform
2 182 (14.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 180 (14.56%) Kubernetes
4 146 (11.81%) Ansible
5 55 (4.45%) Grafana
6 47 (3.80%) SCCM
7 43 (3.48%) Single Sign-On
8 34 (2.75%) Prometheus
9 22 (1.78%) Jamf Pro
10 21 (1.70%) vCenter Server
11 20 (1.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 13 (1.05%) Nessus
12 13 (1.05%) Puppet
12 13 (1.05%) VxRail
13 10 (0.81%) FortiGate
13 10 (0.81%) QRadar
14 9 (0.73%) Packer
15 8 (0.65%) logstash
15 8 (0.65%) Progress Chef
15 8 (0.65%) WSUS
Vendors
1 691 (55.91%) Microsoft
2 224 (18.12%) VMware
3 107 (8.66%) Cisco
4 64 (5.18%) Splunk
5 57 (4.61%) ServiceNow
6 55 (4.45%) Red Hat
7 41 (3.32%) Veeam
8 40 (3.24%) CrowdStrike
9 36 (2.91%) Oracle
10 34 (2.75%) Google
11 31 (2.51%) Commvault
11 31 (2.51%) Palo Alto
12 28 (2.27%) Dell
12 28 (2.27%) Meraki
13 27 (2.18%) Fortinet
14 26 (2.10%) CyberArk
15 25 (2.02%) Citrix
16 23 (1.86%) Apple
17 19 (1.54%) Atlassian
17 19 (1.54%) SolarWinds