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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 88 112
Rank change year-on-year -50 +24 -28
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,345 1,613 2,370
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.42% 3.55% 2.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.89% 11.50% 7.04%
Number of salaries quoted 993 1,030 1,905
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,750 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £75,625
90th Percentile £87,050 £90,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% -2.91%

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 17,049 14,021 33,678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.95% 30.87% 31.70%
Number of salaries quoted 12,093 9,273 25,419
10th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £78,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -52 1,256 £57,500 -1.71% 327
UK excluding London -61 814 £50,000 -1.48% 272
London -11 503 £70,000 -3.45% 107
Work from Home -45 435 £60,000 +7.14% 150
South East -42 217 £53,000 -7.83% 117
North of England -83 202 £47,500 -9.52% 66
Midlands -41 139 £50,000 - 33
North West -79 106 £50,000 +5.26% 42
South West -45 92 £55,000 +15.79% 26
East of England -29 91 £54,000 +10.77% 26
East Midlands -6 77 £45,000 +28.57% 16
Yorkshire -30 62 £45,000 -14.29% 15
West Midlands -70 61 £51,250 -4.54% 17
Scotland +26 45 £50,000 +3.09% 11
North East -25 34 £47,500 -20.83% 12
Wales -27 25 £53,171 +1.28% 7
Northern Ireland -33 3 £46,000 +6.75% 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
1 213 (15.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 193 (14.35%) SharePoint
3 46 (3.42%) IIS
4 25 (1.86%) Confluence
5 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.22%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.15%) Apache
6 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.15%) nginx
6 2 (0.15%) SAS
7 1 (0.074%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.074%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.074%) Site Server
7 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
Applications
1 77 (5.72%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.074%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.074%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.59%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.22%) Alphatax
4 3 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.22%) Raiser’s Edge
5 2 (0.15%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.074%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.074%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.074%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 877 (65.20%) Azure
2 494 (36.73%) Microsoft 365
3 364 (27.06%) Entra ID
4 229 (17.03%) AWS
5 152 (11.30%) Azure DevOps
6 123 (9.14%) Power Platform
7 114 (8.48%) GitHub
8 101 (7.51%) IaaS
9 97 (7.21%) SaaS
10 89 (6.62%) OneDrive
11 82 (6.10%) Azure Monitor
12 73 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
13 72 (5.35%) PaaS
14 65 (4.83%) Power Automate
15 62 (4.61%) Azure AKS
16 61 (4.54%) Azure Sentinel
17 58 (4.31%) Azure Key Vault
17 58 (4.31%) GCP
18 55 (4.09%) Google Workspace
19 51 (3.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 286 (21.26%) Firewall
2 280 (20.82%) DNS
3 194 (14.42%) VPN
4 187 (13.90%) DHCP
5 121 (9.00%) TCP/IP
6 87 (6.47%) WAN
7 84 (6.25%) LAN
8 77 (5.72%) Network Security
9 67 (4.98%) VLAN
10 51 (3.79%) Wi-Fi
11 46 (3.42%) Broadband
12 38 (2.83%) VoIP
13 33 (2.45%) SAN
14 32 (2.38%) Wireless
15 23 (1.71%) BGP
16 22 (1.64%) Kerberos
17 17 (1.26%) SD-WAN
18 16 (1.19%) SSL
19 15 (1.12%) MPLS
20 14 (1.04%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (11.67%) SQL Server
2 84 (6.25%) Power BI
3 76 (5.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 45 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (1.86%) MySQL
6 25 (1.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 21 (1.56%) MongoDB
8 17 (1.26%) Relational Database
9 15 (1.12%) NoSQL
9 15 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 14 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (0.74%) InfluxDB
12 9 (0.67%) Data Lake
12 9 (0.67%) Tableau
13 6 (0.45%) Metadata
14 5 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.37%) Redis
14 5 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 4 (0.30%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 111 (8.25%) Git
2 75 (5.58%) JIRA
3 69 (5.13%) Jenkins
4 64 (4.76%) GitLab
5 33 (2.45%) Bitbucket
6 15 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
7 14 (1.04%) Metasploit
7 14 (1.04%) TeamCity
8 13 (0.97%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 11 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
10 10 (0.74%) Burp Suite
11 9 (0.67%) Robot Framework
12 8 (0.59%) TestRail
13 7 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (0.45%) Cypress.io
14 6 (0.45%) Selenium
15 5 (0.37%) CircleCI
16 4 (0.30%) Artifactory
16 4 (0.30%) SonarQube
17 3 (0.22%) Terragrunt
General
1 413 (30.71%) Social Skills
2 216 (16.06%) Finance
3 166 (12.34%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (7.14%) Law
5 71 (5.28%) Organisational Skills
6 59 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 51 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (3.64%) Legal
9 44 (3.27%) Retail
10 38 (2.83%) Public Sector
11 26 (1.93%) Manufacturing
12 25 (1.86%) Aerospace
13 24 (1.78%) Banking
14 20 (1.49%) Games
15 18 (1.34%) Advertising
16 17 (1.26%) Telecoms
17 9 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
18 8 (0.59%) Aviation
19 6 (0.45%) Investment Banking
19 6 (0.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 247 (18.36%) Senior
2 171 (12.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 156 (11.60%) Analyst
4 153 (11.38%) Support Engineer
5 140 (10.41%) IT Support
6 134 (9.96%) IT Engineer
7 132 (9.81%) Azure Engineer
8 110 (8.18%) Cloud Engineer
9 101 (7.51%) DevOps Engineer
10 86 (6.39%) IT Support Engineer
10 86 (6.39%) Security Engineer
11 70 (5.20%) Platform Engineer
12 65 (4.83%) Developer
13 60 (4.46%) 2nd Line Support
13 60 (4.46%) Systems Engineer
14 53 (3.94%) Lead
15 50 (3.72%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 44 (3.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 43 (3.20%) Architect
17 43 (3.20%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (6.69%) .NET
2 82 (6.10%) SAML
3 80 (5.95%) OAuth
3 80 (5.95%) REST
4 73 (5.43%) OpenID
5 71 (5.28%) LDAP
6 52 (3.87%) SOAP
7 44 (3.27%) ARM Templates
7 44 (3.27%) YAML
8 42 (3.12%) GraphQL
8 42 (3.12%) JSON
9 40 (2.97%) HTML
10 39 (2.90%) Microsoft Graph
11 37 (2.75%) .NET Core
12 34 (2.53%) CSS
13 25 (1.86%) SPFx
14 23 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
15 19 (1.41%) HTML5 Canvas
16 17 (1.26%) React
16 17 (1.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 103 (7.66%) Onboarding
2 77 (5.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 76 (5.65%) Cloud Native
4 75 (5.58%) Security Posture
5 63 (4.68%) Driving Licence
6 61 (4.54%) Management Information System
7 60 (4.46%) Cyber Threat
8 48 (3.57%) Cyberattack
9 46 (3.42%) Data Centre
10 45 (3.35%) Security Operations Centre
11 44 (3.27%) Public Cloud
12 43 (3.20%) Cyber Defence
13 41 (3.05%) PKI
14 38 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
15 30 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
16 22 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
16 22 (1.64%) Private Cloud
17 21 (1.56%) Replication
18 20 (1.49%) Clustering
19 18 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 642 (47.73%) Windows
2 310 (23.05%) Windows Server
3 308 (22.90%) Linux
4 79 (5.87%) Windows 10
5 53 (3.94%) Apple iOS
6 51 (3.79%) Mac OS
7 50 (3.72%) VMS
8 41 (3.05%) Android
9 38 (2.83%) Windows Server 2016
10 32 (2.38%) CentOS
11 30 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 28 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
13 25 (1.86%) Ubuntu
14 15 (1.12%) Unix
15 8 (0.59%) Debian
16 6 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
17 5 (0.37%) Kali Linux
18 4 (0.30%) AIX
18 4 (0.30%) CoreOS
19 2 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
2 313 (23.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 309 (22.97%) CI/CD
4 290 (21.56%) DevOps
5 283 (21.04%) Cybersecurity
6 246 (18.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 237 (17.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 229 (17.03%) ITIL
9 185 (13.75%) Mentoring
10 179 (13.31%) Agile
11 164 (12.19%) Incident Response
12 163 (12.12%) Root Cause Analysis
13 161 (11.97%) Disaster Recovery
14 142 (10.56%) High Availability
15 138 (10.26%) Containerisation
16 136 (10.11%) Roadmaps
17 132 (9.81%) Cloud Security
18 130 (9.67%) SIEM
19 124 (9.22%) AI
20 122 (9.07%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 526 (39.11%) Python
2 354 (26.32%) Bash
3 282 (20.97%) SQL
4 97 (7.21%) Bicep
4 97 (7.21%) C#
5 78 (5.80%) JavaScript
6 75 (5.58%) T-SQL
7 42 (3.12%) Kusto Query Language
8 33 (2.45%) Java
9 27 (2.01%) TypeScript
10 19 (1.41%) C++
11 17 (1.26%) VBScript
12 14 (1.04%) PHP
13 13 (0.97%) Perl
14 11 (0.82%) VB
15 10 (0.74%) Go
15 10 (0.74%) VBA
16 9 (0.67%) Ruby
17 8 (0.59%) C
18 6 (0.45%) Korn
Qualifications
1 168 (12.49%) Security Cleared
2 165 (12.27%) Degree
3 145 (10.78%) Azure Certification
4 129 (9.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 110 (8.18%) SC Cleared
6 57 (4.24%) Cisco Certification
6 57 (4.24%) CISSP
7 54 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 43 (3.20%) DV Cleared
9 41 (3.05%) CompTIA Security+
10 39 (2.90%) CCNA
11 30 (2.23%) CREST Certified
12 29 (2.16%) DBS Check
12 29 (2.16%) OSCP
13 27 (2.01%) AWS Certification
14 24 (1.78%) GIAC
15 23 (1.71%) CEH
16 20 (1.49%) CCNP
17 16 (1.19%) CompTIA CySA+
18 15 (1.12%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (10.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 123 (9.14%) NIST
3 64 (4.76%) GDPR
4 55 (4.09%) Cyber Essentials
5 40 (2.97%) NCSC
5 40 (2.97%) SLA
6 22 (1.64%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.41%) QA
8 17 (1.26%) PCI DSS
8 17 (1.26%) SOC 2
9 13 (0.97%) Accessibility
10 12 (0.89%) ISO 22301
11 11 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 9 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.45%) DICOM
13 6 (0.45%) PMO
14 4 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.22%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.15%) EMIR
16 2 (0.15%) ISAE 3402
System Software
1 518 (38.51%) Active Directory
2 222 (16.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 145 (10.78%) Hyper-V
4 144 (10.71%) Docker
5 79 (5.87%) vSphere
6 47 (3.49%) Virtual Machines
7 40 (2.97%) Virtual Desktop
8 25 (1.86%) BitLocker
9 24 (1.78%) VMware NSX
10 16 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.74%) KVM
12 8 (0.59%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.59%) Squid
13 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.30%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.30%) Firmware
14 4 (0.30%) iptables
15 3 (0.22%) Terminal Services
16 2 (0.15%) Samba
Systems Management
1 322 (23.94%) Terraform
2 224 (16.65%) Kubernetes
3 205 (15.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 159 (11.82%) Ansible
5 72 (5.35%) Grafana
6 59 (4.39%) Single Sign-On
7 50 (3.72%) Prometheus
8 48 (3.57%) SCCM
9 27 (2.01%) Jamf Pro
10 25 (1.86%) vCenter Server
11 21 (1.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 21 (1.56%) Argo
11 21 (1.56%) ZABBIX
12 20 (1.49%) Packer
13 18 (1.34%) QRadar
14 17 (1.26%) Nessus
15 15 (1.12%) Proxmox
16 14 (1.04%) Graylog
16 14 (1.04%) VxRail
17 12 (0.89%) Nagios
Vendors
1 798 (59.33%) Microsoft
2 269 (20.00%) VMware
3 105 (7.81%) Cisco
4 89 (6.62%) Splunk
5 71 (5.28%) ServiceNow
6 58 (4.31%) Red Hat
7 49 (3.64%) Veeam
8 41 (3.05%) Meraki
9 40 (2.97%) Oracle
10 30 (2.23%) Apple
10 30 (2.23%) CrowdStrike
11 29 (2.16%) Tenable
12 28 (2.08%) Dell
12 28 (2.08%) Google
13 27 (2.01%) Sophos
14 26 (1.93%) Citrix
14 26 (1.93%) Palo Alto
15 25 (1.86%) Fortinet
16 23 (1.71%) SolarWinds
17 22 (1.64%) Commvault