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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 90 101
Rank change year-on-year -64 +11 -37
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,494 1,615 1,823
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.26% 3.26% 2.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.01% 12.57% 7.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,002 1,064 1,175
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £42,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -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 18,653 12,844 23,219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.79% 25.90% 30.97%
Number of salaries quoted 13,227 8,240 14,152
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £47,500
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £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 2 October 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 2 October 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 1,292 £59,000 +2.61% 1,243
UK excluding London -70 966 £52,500 +1.94% 759
Work from Home -39 517 £60,000 - 563
London -30 475 £70,000 -0.71% 564
North of England -79 240 £50,000 - 191
South East -42 238 £52,500 -8.70% 223
Midlands -55 159 £52,500 +5.00% 102
North West -67 147 £50,000 +5.26% 107
East of England -53 93 £57,500 +21.05% 67
South West -70 83 £57,500 +21.05% 95
West Midlands -71 80 £55,000 - 56
East Midlands -25 79 £42,500 +21.43% 46
Northern Ireland -26 70 £46,000 - 19
Yorkshire -41 57 £48,445 -6.16% 56
Scotland -4 47 £52,500 +40.00% 47
North East -35 36 £51,500 -14.17% 29
Wales -56 36 £38,500 -30.00% 28

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
1 255 (17.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 241 (16.13%) SharePoint
3 56 (3.75%) IIS
4 44 (2.95%) Confluence
5 15 (1.00%) 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 63 (4.22%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (2.41%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.40%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.33%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.067%) Actimize
7 1 (0.067%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 893 (59.77%) Azure
2 566 (37.88%) Microsoft 365
3 484 (32.40%) Entra ID
4 265 (17.74%) AWS
5 187 (12.52%) Azure DevOps
6 185 (12.38%) SaaS
7 125 (8.37%) Power Platform
8 120 (8.03%) GitHub
9 113 (7.56%) OneDrive
10 109 (7.30%) IaaS
11 92 (6.16%) Azure Monitor
12 91 (6.09%) Azure Sentinel
13 83 (5.56%) PaaS
14 80 (5.35%) Power Automate
15 72 (4.82%) Azure AKS
15 72 (4.82%) GCP
16 70 (4.69%) Azure Key Vault
17 66 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
18 63 (4.22%) Microsoft Purview
19 56 (3.75%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 328 (21.95%) DNS
2 327 (21.89%) Firewall
3 230 (15.39%) VPN
4 227 (15.19%) DHCP
5 152 (10.17%) TCP/IP
6 102 (6.83%) WAN
7 88 (5.89%) LAN
8 78 (5.22%) VLAN
9 61 (4.08%) Network Security
10 58 (3.88%) Wireless
11 49 (3.28%) Wi-Fi
12 36 (2.41%) SAN
13 33 (2.21%) Kerberos
14 28 (1.87%) SSL
15 24 (1.61%) HTTP
16 21 (1.41%) NAS
17 16 (1.07%) Internet
17 16 (1.07%) VSAN
18 15 (1.00%) VoIP
19 13 (0.87%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (9.97%) SQL Server
2 86 (5.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 65 (4.35%) Power BI
4 26 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (1.41%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (1.14%) Relational Database
7 13 (0.87%) MySQL
8 12 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (0.74%) NoSQL
10 10 (0.67%) Data Lake
11 8 (0.54%) InfluxDB
11 8 (0.54%) Power Query
11 8 (0.54%) Redis
11 8 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.40%) Metadata
13 5 (0.33%) Db2
13 5 (0.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 104 (6.96%) JIRA
2 98 (6.56%) Git
3 80 (5.35%) GitLab
4 68 (4.55%) Jenkins
5 28 (1.87%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
8 10 (0.67%) TeamCity
9 8 (0.54%) Robot Framework
9 8 (0.54%) TestRail
10 7 (0.47%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.40%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.40%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.40%) Postman
11 6 (0.40%) Selenium
11 6 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.33%) MSI
12 5 (0.33%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.27%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
General
1 571 (38.22%) Social Skills
2 253 (16.93%) Finance
3 195 (13.05%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (7.63%) Legal
5 106 (7.10%) Law
6 76 (5.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (3.35%) Retail
9 45 (3.01%) Banking
10 43 (2.88%) Public Sector
11 39 (2.61%) Aerospace
12 37 (2.48%) Manufacturing
13 35 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (0.94%) Legal Technology
15 13 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (0.80%) Financial Institution
17 10 (0.67%) Investment Banking
18 9 (0.60%) Aviation
18 9 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
18 9 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 290 (19.41%) Senior
2 211 (14.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 175 (11.71%) Analyst
4 136 (9.10%) Azure Engineer
5 132 (8.84%) Cloud Engineer
5 132 (8.84%) Support Engineer
6 130 (8.70%) IT Engineer
7 116 (7.76%) DevOps Engineer
8 106 (7.10%) IT Support
9 85 (5.69%) Platform Engineer
10 78 (5.22%) Lead
11 76 (5.09%) Consultant
12 69 (4.62%) Support Analyst
13 66 (4.42%) IT Support Engineer
14 65 (4.35%) Security Engineer
15 60 (4.02%) Systems Engineer
16 55 (3.68%) Senior Manager
16 55 (3.68%) Testing Manager
17 54 (3.61%) Administrator
18 52 (3.48%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 385 (25.77%) Terraform
2 70 (4.69%) .NET
3 60 (4.02%) REST
4 59 (3.95%) ARM Templates
5 50 (3.35%) SAML
6 47 (3.15%) LDAP
7 45 (3.01%) Microsoft Graph
7 45 (3.01%) YAML
8 44 (2.95%) OAuth
8 44 (2.95%) OpenID
9 33 (2.21%) HTML
10 29 (1.94%) JSON
11 24 (1.61%) CSS
11 24 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
12 23 (1.54%) SPFx
13 18 (1.20%) .NET Core
14 16 (1.07%) SOAP
15 15 (1.00%) Kafka
16 14 (0.94%) ASP.NET
17 13 (0.87%) React
Miscellaneous
1 132 (8.84%) Onboarding
2 95 (6.36%) Cloud Native
3 82 (5.49%) Hybrid Cloud
4 77 (5.15%) Driving Licence
5 75 (5.02%) Management Information System
6 74 (4.95%) Security Posture
7 60 (4.02%) Virtual Team
8 53 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
8 53 (3.55%) PKI
9 50 (3.35%) Replication
10 47 (3.15%) Data Centre
11 44 (2.95%) Security Operations Centre
12 39 (2.61%) Public Cloud
13 36 (2.41%) Clustering
14 30 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
15 27 (1.81%) Cyber Threat
16 23 (1.54%) Cyber Defence
17 22 (1.47%) Private Cloud
18 20 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
19 18 (1.20%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 710 (47.52%) Windows
2 346 (23.16%) Linux
3 338 (22.62%) Windows Server
4 97 (6.49%) Windows 10
5 52 (3.48%) Apple iOS
6 45 (3.01%) Ubuntu
7 41 (2.74%) Android
8 40 (2.68%) Mac OS
9 38 (2.54%) VMS
10 35 (2.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 33 (2.21%) CentOS
12 30 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 30 (2.01%) Windows Server 2019
13 24 (1.61%) Unix
14 17 (1.14%) Rocky
15 8 (0.54%) Debian
15 8 (0.54%) Solaris
16 6 (0.40%) Kali Linux
17 5 (0.33%) CoreOS
18 4 (0.27%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (28.51%) Problem-Solving
2 403 (26.97%) DevOps
3 385 (25.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 364 (24.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 336 (22.49%) CI/CD
6 327 (21.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 267 (17.87%) Cybersecurity
7 267 (17.87%) ITIL
8 230 (15.39%) Mentoring
9 214 (14.32%) Disaster Recovery
10 179 (11.98%) AI
11 174 (11.65%) Agile
12 165 (11.04%) Root Cause Analysis
13 159 (10.64%) High Availability
14 156 (10.44%) Platform Engineering
14 156 (10.44%) Project Delivery
15 151 (10.11%) Cloud Security
16 147 (9.84%) Migration
17 143 (9.57%) Incident Response
18 135 (9.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 591 (39.56%) Python
2 314 (21.02%) Bash
3 305 (20.41%) SQL
4 138 (9.24%) JavaScript
5 131 (8.77%) Bicep
6 127 (8.50%) C#
7 81 (5.42%) TypeScript
8 51 (3.41%) Kusto Query Language
9 37 (2.48%) T-SQL
10 36 (2.41%) Java
11 23 (1.54%) VBScript
12 20 (1.34%) C++
13 18 (1.20%) Perl
14 13 (0.87%) PHP
15 11 (0.74%) Ruby
15 11 (0.74%) VBA
16 10 (0.67%) VB
17 7 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.47%) Go
18 6 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 214 (14.32%) Security Cleared
2 169 (11.31%) Degree
3 160 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 156 (10.44%) Azure Certification
5 142 (9.50%) SC Cleared
6 62 (4.15%) CISSP
7 61 (4.08%) DV Cleared
8 60 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 56 (3.75%) CompTIA Security+
10 52 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
11 42 (2.81%) CCNA
12 28 (1.87%) CEH
13 27 (1.81%) AWS Certification
14 23 (1.54%) DBS Check
15 22 (1.47%) CISM
16 20 (1.34%) OSCP
17 18 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 17 (1.14%) GIAC
19 16 (1.07%) CompTIA CySA+
20 15 (1.00%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (7.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 81 (5.42%) QA
3 74 (4.95%) Cyber Essentials
4 66 (4.42%) NIST
5 48 (3.21%) GDPR
6 47 (3.15%) SLA
7 22 (1.47%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.34%) Data Quality
9 14 (0.94%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 9 (0.60%) NCSC
11 8 (0.54%) PMO
11 8 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.33%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.27%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.20%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.13%) EMIR
15 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 553 (37.01%) Active Directory
2 238 (15.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 157 (10.51%) Hyper-V
4 148 (9.91%) Docker
5 80 (5.35%) vSphere
6 78 (5.22%) Virtual Machines
7 61 (4.08%) Virtual Desktop
8 26 (1.74%) VMware NSX
9 22 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
10 17 (1.14%) BitLocker
11 14 (0.94%) Firmware
12 8 (0.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.54%) KVM
12 8 (0.54%) Squid
13 5 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
16 2 (0.13%) Snort
16 2 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 266 (17.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 232 (15.53%) Kubernetes
3 170 (11.38%) Ansible
4 82 (5.49%) Grafana
5 76 (5.09%) SCCM
6 60 (4.02%) Single Sign-On
7 46 (3.08%) Prometheus
8 25 (1.67%) Puppet
8 25 (1.67%) vCenter Server
8 25 (1.67%) ZABBIX
9 24 (1.61%) Argo
10 21 (1.41%) QRadar
11 20 (1.34%) Proxmox
12 17 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
13 16 (1.07%) FortiGate
13 16 (1.07%) Packer
14 15 (1.00%) Graylog
15 12 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 12 (0.80%) Progress Chef
16 11 (0.74%) VxRail
Vendors
1 951 (63.65%) Microsoft
2 279 (18.67%) VMware
3 104 (6.96%) Cisco
4 98 (6.56%) ServiceNow
5 91 (6.09%) Splunk
6 68 (4.55%) Veeam
7 50 (3.35%) Oracle
8 49 (3.28%) Red Hat
9 42 (2.81%) Citrix
10 37 (2.48%) Meraki
11 34 (2.28%) Sage
12 33 (2.21%) Dell
13 31 (2.07%) Dynatrace
14 30 (2.01%) Sophos
15 29 (1.94%) CyberArk
15 29 (1.94%) SAP
16 28 (1.87%) Google
17 27 (1.81%) Fortinet
17 27 (1.81%) SolarWinds
18 26 (1.74%) Apple