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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 96 74
Rank change year-on-year -16 -22 +14
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,245 1,531 2,398
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.99% 2.90% 3.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.46% 8.62% 9.41%
Number of salaries quoted 934 1,061 2,079
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,700 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.27% +1.17% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%

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 11,901 17,758 25,480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.98% 33.63% 38.08%
Number of salaries quoted 8,610 10,323 20,911
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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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

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Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in the UK

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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 25 January 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 -23 1,044 £58,000 -7.20% 573
UK excluding London -13 728 £52,500 - 560
London -6 444 £70,000 -6.67% 151
Work from Home 0 397 £57,500 -11.54% 276
South East -34 181 £57,500 -4.17% 192
North of England -23 136 £48,445 -3.11% 111
Scotland +39 130 £62,250 +13.18% 41
South West +14 107 £55,000 +3.77% 80
Midlands -38 91 £52,500 +5.00% 69
East of England +17 70 £43,000 -18.10% 61
North West -21 63 £50,000 - 58
Yorkshire -24 61 £47,500 -9.52% 38
West Midlands -30 47 £52,000 +4.00% 24
East Midlands -5 43 £55,000 +8.91% 44
North East 0 12 £50,000 -11.50% 15
Wales +7 11 £55,000 +5.77% 23
Northern Ireland -12 3 £46,500 - 4

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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 (15.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 149 (11.97%) SharePoint
3 50 (4.02%) IIS
4 23 (1.85%) Confluence
5 22 (1.77%) Exchange Server 2003
6 14 (1.12%) Skype for Business
7 6 (0.48%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.40%) nginx
8 5 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.16%) CMS
9 2 (0.16%) WordPress
10 1 (0.080%) CICS
10 1 (0.080%) WebSphere
Applications
1 38 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.48%) Siemens NX
5 5 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.24%) CATIA
6 3 (0.24%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 3 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.24%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.64%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.48%) Markit EDM
3 6 (0.48%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.40%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.40%) PlanetPress Connect
4 5 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.080%) Actimize
7 1 (0.080%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.080%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.080%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 825 (66.27%) Azure
2 414 (33.25%) Microsoft 365
3 334 (26.83%) Entra ID
4 218 (17.51%) AWS
5 206 (16.55%) Azure DevOps
6 107 (8.59%) Power Platform
7 97 (7.79%) GitHub
8 81 (6.51%) GCP
9 75 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
9 75 (6.02%) PaaS
10 66 (5.30%) Azure Monitor
11 57 (4.58%) Google Workspace
12 56 (4.50%) IaaS
13 55 (4.42%) Power Automate
14 53 (4.26%) SaaS
15 47 (3.78%) OneDrive
16 43 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
17 40 (3.21%) AWS CloudFormation
18 39 (3.13%) Snowflake
19 36 (2.89%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 227 (18.23%) Firewall
2 210 (16.87%) DNS
3 161 (12.93%) DHCP
4 108 (8.67%) VPN
5 105 (8.43%) TCP/IP
6 83 (6.67%) WAN
7 68 (5.46%) LAN
8 44 (3.53%) Broadband
9 42 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (3.21%) VLAN
10 40 (3.21%) Wireless
11 31 (2.49%) SD-WAN
12 29 (2.33%) SAN
13 27 (2.17%) Network Security
14 20 (1.61%) Internet
15 19 (1.53%) VoIP
16 18 (1.45%) VSAN
17 14 (1.12%) Cisco IOS
17 14 (1.12%) Skype
18 12 (0.96%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (11.00%) SQL Server
2 75 (6.02%) Power BI
3 37 (2.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 32 (2.57%) Relational Database
5 31 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
6 30 (2.41%) Oracle Database
7 26 (2.09%) Oracle Database 10g
8 19 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
8 19 (1.53%) MySQL
9 18 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
10 14 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
11 12 (0.96%) MongoDB
12 11 (0.88%) Tableau
13 10 (0.80%) NoSQL
14 8 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
14 8 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (0.56%) DTS
16 6 (0.48%) Data Lake
16 6 (0.48%) InfluxDB
16 6 (0.48%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 101 (8.11%) JIRA
2 92 (7.39%) Jenkins
3 85 (6.83%) Git
4 37 (2.97%) GitLab
5 32 (2.57%) Octopus Deploy
6 24 (1.93%) TeamCity
7 17 (1.37%) Bitbucket
8 11 (0.88%) Burp Suite
8 11 (0.88%) Metasploit
9 9 (0.72%) Robot Framework
10 8 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (0.48%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.48%) TestRail
12 5 (0.40%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.40%) Vagrant
13 4 (0.32%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.32%) MLflow
13 4 (0.32%) MSI
13 4 (0.32%) Toad
General
1 443 (35.58%) Social Skills
2 327 (26.27%) Finance
3 124 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (4.74%) Organisational Skills
5 52 (4.18%) Law
6 48 (3.86%) Retail
7 47 (3.78%) Public Sector
8 38 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
9 37 (2.97%) Banking
10 36 (2.89%) Legal
11 34 (2.73%) Games
12 30 (2.41%) Manufacturing
12 30 (2.41%) Telecoms
13 26 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 17 (1.37%) Front Office
15 16 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (0.80%) Aerospace
18 9 (0.72%) Advertising
18 9 (0.72%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 189 (15.18%) Senior
2 155 (12.45%) Support Engineer
3 133 (10.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 110 (8.84%) Azure Engineer
5 92 (7.39%) DevOps Engineer
6 87 (6.99%) Analyst
7 86 (6.91%) Cloud Engineer
8 83 (6.67%) Developer
9 77 (6.18%) Security Engineer
10 72 (5.78%) IT Support
10 72 (5.78%) Lead
11 63 (5.06%) IT Engineer
12 59 (4.74%) 3rd Line Support
13 54 (4.34%) Platform Engineer
14 52 (4.18%) Applications Engineer
14 52 (4.18%) Applications Support
15 46 (3.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 44 (3.53%) IT Support Engineer
17 43 (3.45%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
18 38 (3.05%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (8.35%) REST
2 71 (5.70%) SOAP
3 70 (5.62%) .NET
4 66 (5.30%) OAuth
5 60 (4.82%) SAML
6 57 (4.58%) GraphQL
7 56 (4.50%) OpenID
8 55 (4.42%) LDAP
9 46 (3.69%) YAML
10 29 (2.33%) JSON
11 27 (2.17%) ARM Templates
12 22 (1.77%) React
13 20 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
14 18 (1.45%) Web Services
15 17 (1.37%) Microsoft Graph
16 16 (1.29%) AngularJS
17 13 (1.04%) Middleware
17 13 (1.04%) Node.js
18 11 (0.88%) FIX Protocol
18 11 (0.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 92 (7.39%) Onboarding
2 69 (5.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 62 (4.98%) Security Posture
4 50 (4.02%) Product Ownership
5 49 (3.94%) Cyber Threat
6 45 (3.61%) Cyberattack
7 44 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
8 42 (3.37%) Management Information System
9 37 (2.97%) Cloud Native
10 36 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
11 33 (2.65%) Data Centre
12 30 (2.41%) PKI
13 28 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
14 27 (2.17%) CMDB
14 27 (2.17%) Driving Licence
15 23 (1.85%) Virtual Team
16 20 (1.61%) Cyber Defence
16 20 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
17 19 (1.53%) Hedge funds
17 19 (1.53%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 538 (43.21%) Windows
2 291 (23.37%) Windows Server
3 213 (17.11%) Linux
4 72 (5.78%) Windows 10
5 48 (3.86%) Mac OS
6 43 (3.45%) Unix
7 38 (3.05%) Windows Server 2019
8 37 (2.97%) VMS
8 37 (2.97%) Windows Server 2016
9 31 (2.49%) Android
10 29 (2.33%) Windows Server 2008
11 25 (2.01%) Solaris
12 23 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 22 (1.77%) HPUX
13 22 (1.77%) Windows 7
13 22 (1.77%) Windows Server 2003
14 17 (1.37%) Apple iOS
14 17 (1.37%) CentOS
15 16 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
16 15 (1.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (30.52%) Problem-Solving
2 356 (28.59%) DevOps
3 271 (21.77%) CI/CD
4 246 (19.76%) ITIL
5 238 (19.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 222 (17.83%) Continuous Improvement
7 207 (16.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 201 (16.14%) Cybersecurity
9 185 (14.86%) Mentoring
10 183 (14.70%) Agile
11 156 (12.53%) Disaster Recovery
12 143 (11.49%) Roadmaps
13 130 (10.44%) Task Automation
14 118 (9.48%) Coaching
15 116 (9.32%) Root Cause Analysis
16 112 (9.00%) Asset Management
17 103 (8.27%) Cloud Security
17 103 (8.27%) Incident Response
17 103 (8.27%) Migration
18 91 (7.31%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 423 (33.98%) Python
2 288 (23.13%) Bash
3 283 (22.73%) SQL
4 102 (8.19%) C#
5 80 (6.43%) Bicep
6 66 (5.30%) JavaScript
6 66 (5.30%) T-SQL
7 27 (2.17%) Perl
8 25 (2.01%) Java
9 24 (1.93%) Go
10 22 (1.77%) Kusto Query Language
11 15 (1.20%) VB
12 11 (0.88%) VB.NET
12 11 (0.88%) VBScript
13 10 (0.80%) TypeScript
14 9 (0.72%) VBA
15 8 (0.64%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.48%) Groovy
17 5 (0.40%) C++
18 4 (0.32%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 169 (13.57%) Security Cleared
2 164 (13.17%) Degree
3 111 (8.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 108 (8.67%) SC Cleared
5 91 (7.31%) Azure Certification
6 60 (4.82%) DV Cleared
7 46 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 42 (3.37%) CISSP
9 39 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
10 35 (2.81%) AWS Certification
11 32 (2.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 30 (2.41%) CREST Certified
13 22 (1.77%) CEH
14 20 (1.61%) CCNA
15 17 (1.37%) DBS Check
15 17 (1.37%) SANS
16 16 (1.29%) Master's Degree
17 15 (1.20%) CompTIA CySA+
17 15 (1.20%) GIAC
18 14 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (12.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 143 (11.49%) NIST
3 69 (5.54%) GDPR
4 61 (4.90%) NCSC
5 54 (4.34%) SLA
6 46 (3.69%) Accessibility
7 29 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
8 17 (1.37%) QA
9 16 (1.29%) ISO 22301
10 14 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 12 (0.96%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.88%) Data Quality
13 7 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.48%) SOC 2
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%) DICOM
17 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
System Software
1 436 (35.02%) Active Directory
2 135 (10.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 113 (9.08%) Docker
4 94 (7.55%) Hyper-V
5 45 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
6 44 (3.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 32 (2.57%) vSphere
8 23 (1.85%) Firmware
9 15 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
10 14 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
11 9 (0.72%) XenApp
12 8 (0.64%) vCloud
13 7 (0.56%) XenDesktop
14 5 (0.40%) VMware NSX
15 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.32%) Postfix
15 4 (0.32%) Squid
16 3 (0.24%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.24%) Dovecot
17 2 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 284 (22.81%) Terraform
2 206 (16.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 169 (13.57%) Kubernetes
4 138 (11.08%) Ansible
5 60 (4.82%) SCCM
6 48 (3.86%) Grafana
6 48 (3.86%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (2.25%) Prometheus
8 19 (1.53%) Puppet
9 18 (1.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 16 (1.29%) SCOM
11 15 (1.20%) WSUS
12 11 (0.88%) Nessus
12 11 (0.88%) vCenter Server
13 9 (0.72%) FortiGate
13 9 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
13 9 (0.72%) ZABBIX
14 8 (0.64%) Nagios
14 8 (0.64%) SCVMM
15 7 (0.56%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 657 (52.77%) Microsoft
2 219 (17.59%) VMware
3 98 (7.87%) Cisco
4 75 (6.02%) ServiceNow
5 55 (4.42%) Oracle
6 46 (3.69%) Veeam
7 44 (3.53%) Splunk
8 42 (3.37%) Google
9 38 (3.05%) Atlassian
10 36 (2.89%) Citrix
11 35 (2.81%) Red Hat
12 30 (2.41%) Palo Alto
13 27 (2.17%) SolarWinds
14 26 (2.09%) CyberArk
15 24 (1.93%) Commvault
16 23 (1.85%) Fortinet
16 23 (1.85%) SAP
17 21 (1.69%) CrowdStrike
17 21 (1.69%) Dell
18 19 (1.53%) Meraki