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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 96 90
Rank change year-on-year -27 -6 +2
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,255 1,429 2,488
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.74% 3.15% 3.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.52% 9.04% 8.38%
Number of salaries quoted 925 1,084 2,156
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,350 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% +9.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £88,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -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 13,188 15,799 29,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.28% 34.82% 35.94%
Number of salaries quoted 9,313 10,365 24,082
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,133
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,790 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.42% +3.31% -1.82%

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 8 March 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 8 March 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 -33 1,078 £57,500 -8.00% 382
UK excluding London -29 712 £52,500 -4.55% 316
London -5 478 £70,000 -11.95% 139
Work from Home -7 405 £55,000 -6.98% 154
South East -47 194 £56,750 -5.42% 127
North of England -39 140 £47,500 -9.52% 64
Scotland +52 121 £74,500 +41.90% 22
South West -1 103 £55,000 +4.76% 40
Midlands -43 92 £52,500 +5.00% 33
Yorkshire -24 67 £47,500 -9.52% 20
North West -29 58 £51,000 -0.49% 30
East of England -20 54 £40,000 -27.27% 34
East Midlands -17 46 £55,000 +8.91% 17
West Midlands -49 45 £48,000 -4.00% 16
North East -11 15 £46,250 -22.92% 15
Wales -6 7 £55,000 +5.77% 5
Northern Ireland -32 2 - - 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
1 193 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 139 (11.08%) SharePoint
3 37 (2.95%) IIS
4 22 (1.75%) Exchange Server 2003
5 13 (1.04%) Confluence
6 6 (0.48%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.32%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.16%) Apache
8 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.16%) CMS
8 2 (0.16%) nginx
8 2 (0.16%) WordPress
9 1 (0.080%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.080%) CICS
9 1 (0.080%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.080%) Site Server
9 1 (0.080%) WebSphere
Applications
1 51 (4.06%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.48%) Siemens NX
4 5 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.24%) CATIA
6 3 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.24%) Windchill
7 1 (0.080%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.64%) Markit EDM
2 7 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (0.48%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.32%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
5 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.24%) PlanetPress Connect
6 1 (0.080%) Actimize
6 1 (0.080%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.080%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.080%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 813 (64.78%) Azure
2 420 (33.47%) Microsoft 365
3 349 (27.81%) Entra ID
4 211 (16.81%) AWS
5 156 (12.43%) Azure DevOps
6 107 (8.53%) Power Platform
7 94 (7.49%) GitHub
8 82 (6.53%) GCP
9 79 (6.29%) PaaS
10 77 (6.14%) Google Workspace
11 74 (5.90%) SaaS
12 72 (5.74%) GitHub Actions
13 66 (5.26%) IaaS
14 65 (5.18%) Azure Monitor
15 51 (4.06%) OneDrive
16 44 (3.51%) Power Automate
17 39 (3.11%) Snowflake
18 38 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
19 37 (2.95%) Azure Logic Apps
20 36 (2.87%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 225 (17.93%) DNS
1 225 (17.93%) Firewall
2 180 (14.34%) DHCP
3 135 (10.76%) VPN
4 112 (8.92%) TCP/IP
5 74 (5.90%) WAN
6 67 (5.34%) LAN
7 65 (5.18%) Broadband
8 51 (4.06%) VLAN
9 47 (3.75%) Wi-Fi
10 44 (3.51%) Network Security
11 36 (2.87%) Wireless
12 33 (2.63%) VoIP
13 32 (2.55%) SAN
14 31 (2.47%) SD-WAN
15 17 (1.35%) VSAN
16 14 (1.12%) MPLS
17 12 (0.96%) NAS
17 12 (0.96%) WinSCP
18 11 (0.88%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (11.55%) SQL Server
2 86 (6.85%) Power BI
3 30 (2.39%) Relational Database
4 29 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 28 (2.23%) Oracle Database
5 28 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (2.07%) MySQL
6 26 (2.07%) Oracle Database 10g
7 19 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
8 17 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (1.20%) NoSQL
9 15 (1.20%) Tableau
10 14 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (0.64%) InfluxDB
11 8 (0.64%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.48%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (0.40%) Metadata
14 4 (0.32%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 90 (7.17%) JIRA
2 83 (6.61%) Jenkins
3 77 (6.14%) Git
4 37 (2.95%) GitLab
5 27 (2.15%) Octopus Deploy
6 25 (1.99%) Bitbucket
7 20 (1.59%) TeamCity
8 15 (1.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 14 (1.12%) Metasploit
10 10 (0.80%) Burp Suite
11 9 (0.72%) CircleCI
11 9 (0.72%) Robot Framework
12 6 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.48%) TestRail
13 5 (0.40%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.32%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.32%) MLflow
15 3 (0.24%) Balsamiq
15 3 (0.24%) Eclipse
15 3 (0.24%) JMeter
General
1 444 (35.38%) Social Skills
2 305 (24.30%) Finance
3 144 (11.47%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (6.37%) Organisational Skills
5 50 (3.98%) Law
6 45 (3.59%) Retail
7 42 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
8 37 (2.95%) Public Sector
9 36 (2.87%) Games
10 34 (2.71%) Banking
11 32 (2.55%) Legal
12 29 (2.31%) Telecoms
13 28 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 25 (1.99%) Manufacturing
15 15 (1.20%) Front Office
16 10 (0.80%) Advertising
16 10 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
18 8 (0.64%) Aerospace
19 7 (0.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 192 (15.30%) Senior
2 149 (11.87%) Support Engineer
3 143 (11.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 117 (9.32%) Azure Engineer
5 110 (8.76%) Analyst
6 98 (7.81%) IT Support
7 83 (6.61%) DevOps Engineer
8 82 (6.53%) Security Engineer
9 80 (6.37%) Developer
10 77 (6.14%) Cloud Engineer
11 75 (5.98%) IT Engineer
12 64 (5.10%) Lead
13 61 (4.86%) 3rd Line Support
14 57 (4.54%) IT Support Engineer
15 48 (3.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 46 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
17 43 (3.43%) Architect
18 42 (3.35%) Support Analyst
19 38 (3.03%) 2nd Line Support
20 37 (2.95%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (8.45%) REST
2 92 (7.33%) OAuth
3 82 (6.53%) SAML
4 77 (6.14%) OpenID
5 74 (5.90%) SOAP
6 73 (5.82%) GraphQL
7 66 (5.26%) .NET
7 66 (5.26%) LDAP
8 36 (2.87%) YAML
9 32 (2.55%) JSON
10 25 (1.99%) ARM Templates
11 21 (1.67%) React
12 19 (1.51%) Elastic Stack
12 19 (1.51%) Microsoft Graph
13 18 (1.43%) .NET Core
13 18 (1.43%) Web Services
14 15 (1.20%) Node.js
15 12 (0.96%) AngularJS
15 12 (0.96%) Middleware
15 12 (0.96%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 95 (7.57%) Onboarding
2 78 (6.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 72 (5.74%) Cyber Threat
4 61 (4.86%) Cyberattack
5 59 (4.70%) Security Posture
6 45 (3.59%) Management Information System
7 42 (3.35%) Driving Licence
8 40 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
9 37 (2.95%) Cloud Native
10 35 (2.79%) Cyber Defence
11 34 (2.71%) Data Centre
12 31 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
13 29 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
14 28 (2.23%) Product Ownership
15 25 (1.99%) PKI
16 23 (1.83%) Security Operations Centre
17 21 (1.67%) CMDB
18 17 (1.35%) Virtual Team
19 16 (1.27%) Hedge funds
19 16 (1.27%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 557 (44.38%) Windows
2 296 (23.59%) Windows Server
3 237 (18.88%) Linux
4 69 (5.50%) Windows 10
5 56 (4.46%) Mac OS
6 41 (3.27%) Unix
7 35 (2.79%) Windows Server 2016
7 35 (2.79%) Windows Server 2019
8 32 (2.55%) Android
9 30 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 27 (2.15%) CentOS
11 26 (2.07%) Apple iOS
11 26 (2.07%) VMS
12 25 (1.99%) Solaris
12 25 (1.99%) Windows Server 2008
13 22 (1.75%) HPUX
13 22 (1.75%) Windows 7
13 22 (1.75%) Windows Server 2003
14 18 (1.43%) Ubuntu
15 14 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (29.96%) Problem-Solving
2 308 (24.54%) DevOps
3 259 (20.64%) CI/CD
4 241 (19.20%) ITIL
5 236 (18.80%) Infrastructure as Code
6 228 (18.17%) Cybersecurity
7 216 (17.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 209 (16.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 191 (15.22%) Mentoring
10 167 (13.31%) Agile
11 166 (13.23%) Disaster Recovery
12 151 (12.03%) Roadmaps
13 132 (10.52%) Incident Response
14 129 (10.28%) Root Cause Analysis
15 111 (8.84%) Task Automation
16 103 (8.21%) Cloud Security
17 98 (7.81%) Migration
18 97 (7.73%) Asset Management
19 96 (7.65%) Computer Science
19 96 (7.65%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 436 (34.74%) Python
2 311 (24.78%) Bash
3 278 (22.15%) SQL
4 86 (6.85%) T-SQL
5 85 (6.77%) C#
6 71 (5.66%) JavaScript
7 69 (5.50%) Bicep
8 27 (2.15%) Kusto Query Language
9 25 (1.99%) Perl
10 22 (1.75%) Java
11 16 (1.27%) Go
12 11 (0.88%) VB.NET
13 7 (0.56%) C++
13 7 (0.56%) PHP
13 7 (0.56%) VB
14 6 (0.48%) Delphi
14 6 (0.48%) VBA
14 6 (0.48%) VBScript
15 5 (0.40%) Google Apps Script
15 5 (0.40%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 171 (13.63%) Degree
2 155 (12.35%) Security Cleared
3 114 (9.08%) Microsoft Certification
4 95 (7.57%) SC Cleared
5 93 (7.41%) Azure Certification
6 61 (4.86%) DV Cleared
7 52 (4.14%) CISSP
8 45 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 36 (2.87%) CREST Certified
10 31 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (2.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 29 (2.31%) AWS Certification
12 25 (1.99%) CEH
13 23 (1.83%) GIAC
14 21 (1.67%) SANS
15 19 (1.51%) CCNA
15 19 (1.51%) CompTIA CySA+
15 19 (1.51%) CompTIA Security+
15 19 (1.51%) OSCP
16 16 (1.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (13.71%) NIST
2 163 (12.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 74 (5.90%) NCSC
4 64 (5.10%) GDPR
5 61 (4.86%) SLA
6 45 (3.59%) Accessibility
7 32 (2.55%) Cyber Essentials
8 21 (1.67%) ISO 22301
9 18 (1.43%) QA
10 17 (1.35%) Data Quality
11 15 (1.20%) PCI DSS
12 14 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 10 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.56%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.40%) DICOM
15 5 (0.40%) GRC
16 3 (0.24%) HL7
16 3 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.16%) COBIT
17 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
System Software
1 473 (37.69%) Active Directory
2 143 (11.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 115 (9.16%) Docker
4 114 (9.08%) Hyper-V
5 42 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
5 42 (3.35%) vSphere
6 30 (2.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (1.51%) Firmware
8 17 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.64%) vCloud
10 8 (0.64%) VMware NSX
11 7 (0.56%) XenApp
12 6 (0.48%) BitLocker
13 5 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 5 (0.40%) XenDesktop
14 4 (0.32%) iptables
14 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.16%) Samba
15 2 (0.16%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 267 (21.27%) Terraform
2 185 (14.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 166 (13.23%) Kubernetes
4 140 (11.16%) Ansible
5 51 (4.06%) Grafana
6 42 (3.35%) SCCM
7 40 (3.19%) Single Sign-On
8 28 (2.23%) Prometheus
9 21 (1.67%) Puppet
10 18 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 16 (1.27%) Jamf Pro
12 14 (1.12%) vCenter Server
13 11 (0.88%) Nessus
14 10 (0.80%) SCOM
15 9 (0.72%) Progress Chef
15 9 (0.72%) VxRail
16 8 (0.64%) FortiGate
16 8 (0.64%) Nagios
16 8 (0.64%) SCVMM
17 7 (0.56%) Control-M
Vendors
1 653 (52.03%) Microsoft
2 235 (18.73%) VMware
3 98 (7.81%) Cisco
4 56 (4.46%) Splunk
5 52 (4.14%) ServiceNow
6 49 (3.90%) Oracle
7 48 (3.82%) Veeam
8 44 (3.51%) Red Hat
9 40 (3.19%) Google
10 34 (2.71%) Atlassian
11 32 (2.55%) Commvault
12 30 (2.39%) Palo Alto
13 29 (2.31%) Citrix
14 26 (2.07%) CrowdStrike
14 26 (2.07%) CyberArk
15 25 (1.99%) Fortinet
16 24 (1.91%) Meraki
17 22 (1.75%) Dell
18 21 (1.67%) Apple
18 21 (1.67%) SolarWinds