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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 88 104
Rank change year-on-year -59 +16 -37
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,489 1,615 1,819
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.28% 3.29% 2.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.94% 12.44% 7.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,007 1,073 1,193
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £98,279
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,474 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.99% +2.95% -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 18,747 12,982 23,899
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.14% 26.43% 30.84%
Number of salaries quoted 13,231 8,387 14,929
10th Percentile £38,920 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -67 1,294 £57,500 - 1,287
UK excluding London -65 975 £52,500 +1.99% 776
Work from Home -40 519 £60,000 +2.56% 637
London -36 468 £70,000 -3.45% 599
North of England -83 240 £50,000 - 187
South East -39 238 £52,500 -8.70% 223
Midlands -58 159 £52,500 +5.00% 106
North West -76 145 £50,000 +5.26% 105
East of England -46 98 £57,500 +21.05% 74
South West -66 86 £55,000 +15.79% 95
West Midlands -72 81 £55,000 +2.44% 57
East Midlands -23 78 £42,500 +21.43% 49
Northern Ireland -24 70 £46,000 - 18
Yorkshire -39 59 £42,500 -17.68% 53
Scotland +8 46 £51,250 +3.10% 58
Wales -49 38 £38,500 -30.00% 27
North East -34 36 £51,500 -6.36% 31

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
1 248 (16.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 243 (16.32%) SharePoint
3 55 (3.69%) IIS
4 41 (2.75%) Confluence
5 15 (1.01%) nginx
6 8 (0.54%) Apache
7 6 (0.40%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.067%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.067%) WebSphere
Applications
1 66 (4.43%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (2.42%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.40%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.34%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.067%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 883 (59.30%) Azure
2 561 (37.68%) Microsoft 365
3 463 (31.09%) Entra ID
4 259 (17.39%) AWS
5 184 (12.36%) SaaS
6 178 (11.95%) Azure DevOps
7 120 (8.06%) Power Platform
8 118 (7.92%) GitHub
9 114 (7.66%) OneDrive
10 107 (7.19%) IaaS
11 89 (5.98%) Azure Monitor
12 83 (5.57%) Azure Sentinel
13 80 (5.37%) PaaS
13 80 (5.37%) Power Automate
14 73 (4.90%) Azure AKS
15 72 (4.84%) GCP
16 70 (4.70%) GitHub Actions
17 68 (4.57%) Azure Key Vault
18 59 (3.96%) Microsoft Purview
19 54 (3.63%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 328 (22.03%) Firewall
2 325 (21.83%) DNS
3 223 (14.98%) DHCP
4 219 (14.71%) VPN
5 146 (9.81%) TCP/IP
6 101 (6.78%) WAN
7 87 (5.84%) LAN
8 74 (4.97%) VLAN
9 60 (4.03%) Network Security
10 57 (3.83%) Wireless
11 48 (3.22%) Wi-Fi
12 36 (2.42%) SAN
13 31 (2.08%) Kerberos
14 25 (1.68%) SSL
15 22 (1.48%) HTTP
15 22 (1.48%) NAS
16 17 (1.14%) Internet
16 17 (1.14%) VoIP
17 16 (1.07%) VSAN
18 13 (0.87%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (10.01%) SQL Server
2 86 (5.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 63 (4.23%) Power BI
4 27 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.48%) MongoDB
6 18 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (1.14%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (0.87%) MySQL
9 13 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (0.74%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.60%) Data Lake
12 8 (0.54%) InfluxDB
12 8 (0.54%) Power Query
12 8 (0.54%) Redis
12 8 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.40%) Metadata
14 5 (0.34%) Db2
14 5 (0.34%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 104 (6.98%) JIRA
2 100 (6.72%) Git
3 77 (5.17%) GitLab
4 67 (4.50%) Jenkins
5 28 (1.88%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 12 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
7 10 (0.67%) TeamCity
8 9 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (0.54%) Robot Framework
9 8 (0.54%) TestRail
10 7 (0.47%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.40%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.40%) Postman
11 6 (0.40%) Selenium
12 5 (0.34%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.27%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
13 4 (0.27%) MSI
14 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 567 (38.08%) Social Skills
2 251 (16.86%) Finance
3 194 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (7.86%) Legal
5 115 (7.72%) Law
6 73 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (3.83%) Documentation Skills
8 47 (3.16%) Retail
9 45 (3.02%) Banking
10 43 (2.89%) Public Sector
11 37 (2.48%) Manufacturing
11 37 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
12 36 (2.42%) Aerospace
13 14 (0.94%) Legal Technology
14 12 (0.81%) Advertising
14 12 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (0.74%) Financial Institution
16 9 (0.60%) Front Office
16 9 (0.60%) Investment Banking
16 9 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 294 (19.74%) Senior
2 209 (14.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 167 (11.22%) Analyst
4 140 (9.40%) Azure Engineer
5 138 (9.27%) Support Engineer
6 132 (8.87%) IT Engineer
7 131 (8.80%) Cloud Engineer
8 111 (7.45%) IT Support
9 110 (7.39%) DevOps Engineer
10 84 (5.64%) Platform Engineer
11 74 (4.97%) Lead
12 73 (4.90%) Consultant
13 70 (4.70%) Support Analyst
14 67 (4.50%) IT Support Engineer
15 65 (4.37%) Systems Engineer
16 61 (4.10%) Security Engineer
17 58 (3.90%) Administrator
18 57 (3.83%) Testing Manager
19 55 (3.69%) Developer
19 55 (3.69%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 377 (25.32%) Terraform
2 71 (4.77%) .NET
3 56 (3.76%) ARM Templates
3 56 (3.76%) REST
4 45 (3.02%) SAML
5 44 (2.96%) Microsoft Graph
5 44 (2.96%) YAML
6 42 (2.82%) LDAP
7 40 (2.69%) OAuth
7 40 (2.69%) OpenID
8 35 (2.35%) HTML
9 29 (1.95%) JSON
10 26 (1.75%) CSS
11 25 (1.68%) SPFx
12 21 (1.41%) .NET Core
12 21 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
13 16 (1.07%) SOAP
14 14 (0.94%) ASP.NET
14 14 (0.94%) HTML5 Canvas
14 14 (0.94%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 131 (8.80%) Onboarding
2 91 (6.11%) Cloud Native
3 80 (5.37%) Hybrid Cloud
4 76 (5.10%) Driving Licence
5 75 (5.04%) Management Information System
6 69 (4.63%) Security Posture
7 61 (4.10%) Virtual Team
8 51 (3.43%) PKI
9 50 (3.36%) Data Centre
10 48 (3.22%) Enterprise Software
11 47 (3.16%) Replication
12 45 (3.02%) Public Cloud
13 43 (2.89%) Security Operations Centre
14 36 (2.42%) Clustering
15 33 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
16 26 (1.75%) Private Cloud
17 24 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
18 23 (1.54%) Cyber Defence
19 22 (1.48%) CMDB
20 19 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 704 (47.28%) Windows
2 346 (23.24%) Linux
3 339 (22.77%) Windows Server
4 92 (6.18%) Windows 10
5 54 (3.63%) Apple iOS
6 46 (3.09%) Ubuntu
7 42 (2.82%) Android
8 40 (2.69%) Mac OS
8 40 (2.69%) VMS
9 34 (2.28%) CentOS
9 34 (2.28%) Windows Server 2016
10 31 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 27 (1.81%) Windows Server 2019
12 22 (1.48%) Unix
13 16 (1.07%) Rocky
14 8 (0.54%) Debian
14 8 (0.54%) Solaris
15 5 (0.34%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.27%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (28.54%) Problem-Solving
2 392 (26.33%) DevOps
3 377 (25.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 355 (23.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 333 (22.36%) CI/CD
6 320 (21.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 281 (18.87%) ITIL
8 254 (17.06%) Cybersecurity
9 234 (15.72%) Mentoring
10 200 (13.43%) Disaster Recovery
11 174 (11.69%) AI
12 170 (11.42%) Agile
13 162 (10.88%) Root Cause Analysis
14 159 (10.68%) High Availability
15 155 (10.41%) Project Delivery
16 150 (10.07%) Platform Engineering
17 143 (9.60%) Cloud Security
18 139 (9.34%) Incident Response
19 131 (8.80%) Observability
19 131 (8.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 588 (39.49%) Python
2 311 (20.89%) Bash
3 305 (20.48%) SQL
4 141 (9.47%) JavaScript
5 131 (8.80%) C#
6 126 (8.46%) Bicep
7 84 (5.64%) TypeScript
8 50 (3.36%) Kusto Query Language
9 37 (2.48%) T-SQL
10 36 (2.42%) Java
11 23 (1.54%) VBScript
12 20 (1.34%) C++
13 19 (1.28%) Perl
14 13 (0.87%) PHP
14 13 (0.87%) Ruby
15 11 (0.74%) VBA
16 10 (0.67%) VB
17 9 (0.60%) Go
18 7 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 6 (0.40%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 212 (14.24%) Security Cleared
2 170 (11.42%) Degree
3 160 (10.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 159 (10.68%) Azure Certification
5 145 (9.74%) SC Cleared
6 63 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 63 (4.23%) DV Cleared
7 56 (3.76%) Cisco Certification
7 56 (3.76%) CISSP
8 53 (3.56%) CompTIA Security+
9 43 (2.89%) CCNA
10 28 (1.88%) CEH
11 25 (1.68%) AWS Certification
12 22 (1.48%) DBS Check
13 21 (1.41%) CISM
14 20 (1.34%) OSCP
15 18 (1.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 17 (1.14%) GIAC
17 16 (1.07%) CCNP
17 16 (1.07%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (6.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 81 (5.44%) QA
3 70 (4.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 62 (4.16%) NIST
5 47 (3.16%) GDPR
6 46 (3.09%) SLA
7 19 (1.28%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.28%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.01%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (0.54%) NCSC
9 8 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.47%) PMO
11 5 (0.34%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.27%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
14 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.13%) EMIR
14 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 538 (36.13%) Active Directory
2 246 (16.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 157 (10.54%) Hyper-V
4 145 (9.74%) Docker
5 82 (5.51%) vSphere
6 75 (5.04%) Virtual Machines
7 57 (3.83%) Virtual Desktop
8 26 (1.75%) VMware NSX
9 19 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
10 18 (1.21%) BitLocker
11 10 (0.67%) Firmware
12 8 (0.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.54%) KVM
12 8 (0.54%) Squid
13 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.20%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.067%) Ceph
16 1 (0.067%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 262 (17.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 225 (15.11%) Kubernetes
3 176 (11.82%) Ansible
4 82 (5.51%) Grafana
5 76 (5.10%) SCCM
6 56 (3.76%) Single Sign-On
7 46 (3.09%) Prometheus
8 25 (1.68%) ZABBIX
9 24 (1.61%) Argo
9 24 (1.61%) vCenter Server
10 20 (1.34%) Proxmox
10 20 (1.34%) Puppet
10 20 (1.34%) QRadar
11 18 (1.21%) Packer
12 17 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
13 15 (1.01%) FortiGate
13 15 (1.01%) Graylog
14 13 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 11 (0.74%) VxRail
16 10 (0.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 932 (62.59%) Microsoft
2 280 (18.80%) VMware
3 110 (7.39%) Cisco
4 105 (7.05%) ServiceNow
5 90 (6.04%) Splunk
6 66 (4.43%) Veeam
7 52 (3.49%) Oracle
7 52 (3.49%) Red Hat
8 43 (2.89%) Citrix
9 40 (2.69%) Meraki
10 34 (2.28%) Sage
11 32 (2.15%) Dell
12 31 (2.08%) Dynatrace
13 29 (1.95%) Sophos
14 28 (1.88%) CyberArk
14 28 (1.88%) SAP
15 27 (1.81%) Tenable
16 26 (1.75%) Apple
16 26 (1.75%) Fortinet
17 24 (1.61%) Google