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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 94 114
Rank change year-on-year -53 +20 -16
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,243 1,450 2,306
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.37% 3.30% 2.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.78% 10.25% 7.10%
Number of salaries quoted 916 1,050 1,951
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,700 £35,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 15,986 14,142 32,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.68% 32.21% 33.60%
Number of salaries quoted 10,965 10,080 24,976
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,195
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 £85,253 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -58 1,110 £60,000 - 376
UK excluding London -65 693 £52,500 +5.00% 306
London -12 512 £70,000 -8.50% 126
Work from Home -31 397 £57,500 - 167
South East -85 158 £55,000 -4.35% 122
North of England -67 151 £47,500 -5.00% 66
Midlands -54 121 £52,500 +5.00% 37
Scotland +46 83 £50,000 -3.69% 18
South West -41 83 £55,000 +15.79% 31
North West -61 74 £51,500 +11.96% 39
East of England -27 73 £57,500 +17.95% 26
East Midlands -15 71 £55,000 +41.94% 19
Yorkshire -31 57 £47,500 -14.41% 17
West Midlands -71 49 £48,000 -4.00% 18
Wales -13 21 £55,000 +10.00% 9
North East -37 20 £48,445 -15.75% 10
Northern Ireland - 3 £46,000 - 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
1 170 (13.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 160 (12.87%) SharePoint
3 40 (3.22%) IIS
4 19 (1.53%) Confluence
5 4 (0.32%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.16%) Apache
6 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.16%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.080%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.080%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.080%) Site Server
Applications
1 60 (4.83%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.080%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.080%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.56%) Markit EDM
2 5 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.24%) Alphatax
3 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.16%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.16%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.080%) Actimize
5 1 (0.080%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.080%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 808 (65.00%) Azure
2 440 (35.40%) Microsoft 365
3 335 (26.95%) Entra ID
4 216 (17.38%) AWS
5 123 (9.90%) Azure DevOps
6 106 (8.53%) Power Platform
7 93 (7.48%) GitHub
8 82 (6.60%) OneDrive
9 80 (6.44%) SaaS
10 71 (5.71%) GCP
11 70 (5.63%) Google Workspace
12 69 (5.55%) GitHub Actions
12 69 (5.55%) IaaS
13 55 (4.42%) Azure Sentinel
14 52 (4.18%) Power Automate
15 48 (3.86%) Azure AKS
15 48 (3.86%) Azure Key Vault
16 47 (3.78%) Azure Data Factory
16 47 (3.78%) PaaS
17 45 (3.62%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 239 (19.23%) Firewall
2 238 (19.15%) DNS
3 148 (11.91%) DHCP
4 146 (11.75%) VPN
5 104 (8.37%) TCP/IP
6 72 (5.79%) WAN
7 66 (5.31%) LAN
8 63 (5.07%) Network Security
9 58 (4.67%) Broadband
10 47 (3.78%) VLAN
11 43 (3.46%) Wi-Fi
12 40 (3.22%) VoIP
13 34 (2.74%) SAN
14 22 (1.77%) Wireless
15 21 (1.69%) BGP
16 18 (1.45%) SD-WAN
17 15 (1.21%) MPLS
17 15 (1.21%) VSAN
18 14 (1.13%) Internet
19 13 (1.05%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (11.75%) SQL Server
2 84 (6.76%) Power BI
3 52 (4.18%) Azure SQL Database
4 30 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
7 24 (1.93%) MySQL
8 23 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 20 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 17 (1.37%) NoSQL
10 17 (1.37%) Relational Database
11 13 (1.05%) Tableau
12 12 (0.97%) MongoDB
13 11 (0.88%) Data Lake
14 10 (0.80%) InfluxDB
15 7 (0.56%) Metadata
16 5 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
17 4 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 3 (0.24%) Power Query
18 3 (0.24%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 94 (7.56%) Git
2 67 (5.39%) JIRA
3 66 (5.31%) Jenkins
4 52 (4.18%) GitLab
5 29 (2.33%) Bitbucket
6 17 (1.37%) Octopus Deploy
7 13 (1.05%) Metasploit
7 13 (1.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 13 (1.05%) TeamCity
8 9 (0.72%) Burp Suite
8 9 (0.72%) Robot Framework
8 9 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (0.64%) CircleCI
9 8 (0.64%) TestRail
10 5 (0.40%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.32%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.32%) MLflow
11 4 (0.32%) Selenium
11 4 (0.32%) SonarQube
General
1 401 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 238 (19.15%) Finance
3 173 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (6.11%) Organisational Skills
5 74 (5.95%) Law
6 50 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
8 43 (3.46%) Legal
8 43 (3.46%) Retail
9 42 (3.38%) Public Sector
10 29 (2.33%) Games
11 28 (2.25%) Manufacturing
12 26 (2.09%) Banking
13 21 (1.69%) Aerospace
14 18 (1.45%) Advertising
15 16 (1.29%) Telecoms
16 15 (1.21%) Front Office
17 7 (0.56%) Electronics
18 6 (0.48%) Military
18 6 (0.48%) Police
Job Titles
1 233 (18.74%) Senior
2 154 (12.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 140 (11.26%) Analyst
4 133 (10.70%) Azure Engineer
5 130 (10.46%) Support Engineer
6 108 (8.69%) IT Support
7 89 (7.16%) Cloud Engineer
8 88 (7.08%) IT Engineer
9 86 (6.92%) Security Engineer
10 79 (6.36%) DevOps Engineer
11 61 (4.91%) Developer
12 60 (4.83%) IT Support Engineer
13 59 (4.75%) Lead
14 55 (4.42%) 2nd Line Support
15 51 (4.10%) Systems Engineer
16 47 (3.78%) Platform Engineer
17 44 (3.54%) 3rd Line Engineer
18 43 (3.46%) Architect
19 42 (3.38%) Support Analyst
20 40 (3.22%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (7.64%) OAuth
2 84 (6.76%) REST
2 84 (6.76%) SAML
3 83 (6.68%) .NET
3 83 (6.68%) OpenID
4 71 (5.71%) LDAP
5 61 (4.91%) GraphQL
5 61 (4.91%) SOAP
6 39 (3.14%) .NET Core
7 37 (2.98%) Microsoft Graph
8 36 (2.90%) JSON
9 32 (2.57%) CSS
10 31 (2.49%) ARM Templates
10 31 (2.49%) HTML
10 31 (2.49%) YAML
11 28 (2.25%) SPFx
12 20 (1.61%) React
13 19 (1.53%) HTML5 Canvas
14 18 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
15 16 (1.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 95 (7.64%) Onboarding
2 72 (5.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 71 (5.71%) Cyber Threat
4 62 (4.99%) Cyberattack
5 57 (4.59%) Management Information System
6 54 (4.34%) Cloud Native
7 52 (4.18%) Security Posture
8 45 (3.62%) Security Operations Centre
9 44 (3.54%) Cyber Defence
10 38 (3.06%) Data Centre
10 38 (3.06%) Driving Licence
11 36 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
12 30 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
12 30 (2.41%) Public Cloud
13 28 (2.25%) PKI
14 25 (2.01%) CMDB
15 19 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
15 19 (1.53%) Private Cloud
16 17 (1.37%) Low-Code
16 17 (1.37%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 572 (46.02%) Windows
2 273 (21.96%) Windows Server
3 271 (21.80%) Linux
4 78 (6.28%) Windows 10
5 48 (3.86%) Apple iOS
5 48 (3.86%) Mac OS
6 46 (3.70%) Android
7 36 (2.90%) Windows Server 2016
8 31 (2.49%) VMS
9 29 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 26 (2.09%) Windows Server 2019
11 25 (2.01%) CentOS
12 19 (1.53%) Ubuntu
13 18 (1.45%) Unix
14 10 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.40%) Debian
16 4 (0.32%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.24%) AIX
17 3 (0.24%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (25.82%) Problem-Solving
2 269 (21.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 268 (21.56%) Cybersecurity
4 264 (21.24%) CI/CD
5 257 (20.68%) DevOps
6 222 (17.86%) ITIL
7 210 (16.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 207 (16.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 187 (15.04%) Mentoring
10 162 (13.03%) Agile
11 157 (12.63%) Incident Response
12 143 (11.50%) Root Cause Analysis
13 138 (11.10%) Disaster Recovery
14 137 (11.02%) Roadmaps
15 128 (10.30%) SIEM
16 125 (10.06%) Containerisation
17 113 (9.09%) Cloud Security
18 107 (8.61%) Task Automation
19 104 (8.37%) Security Operations
20 102 (8.21%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 485 (39.02%) Python
2 318 (25.58%) Bash
3 272 (21.88%) SQL
4 96 (7.72%) C#
5 76 (6.11%) T-SQL
6 74 (5.95%) JavaScript
7 69 (5.55%) Bicep
8 31 (2.49%) Kusto Query Language
9 25 (2.01%) Java
10 23 (1.85%) TypeScript
11 14 (1.13%) C++
12 12 (0.97%) Perl
13 11 (0.88%) VB
13 11 (0.88%) VB.NET
14 10 (0.80%) Go
14 10 (0.80%) VBA
15 8 (0.64%) PHP
16 7 (0.56%) C
16 7 (0.56%) VBScript
17 6 (0.48%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 161 (12.95%) Degree
2 146 (11.75%) Security Cleared
3 109 (8.77%) Microsoft Certification
4 103 (8.29%) Azure Certification
5 85 (6.84%) SC Cleared
6 51 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 50 (4.02%) CISSP
8 46 (3.70%) DV Cleared
9 40 (3.22%) Cisco Certification
10 33 (2.65%) CompTIA Security+
10 33 (2.65%) CREST Certified
11 27 (2.17%) CCNA
12 26 (2.09%) OSCP
13 24 (1.93%) GIAC
14 23 (1.85%) CEH
15 22 (1.77%) AWS Certification
16 20 (1.61%) DBS Check
17 17 (1.37%) CompTIA CySA+
18 14 (1.13%) CCNP
19 12 (0.97%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (11.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 141 (11.34%) NIST
3 65 (5.23%) GDPR
4 54 (4.34%) NCSC
5 42 (3.38%) SLA
6 32 (2.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 26 (2.09%) Accessibility
8 20 (1.61%) Data Quality
9 19 (1.53%) ISO 22301
10 17 (1.37%) QA
11 16 (1.29%) SOC 2
12 14 (1.13%) PCI DSS
13 13 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.48%) DICOM
16 5 (0.40%) GRC
17 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
19 2 (0.16%) COBIT
19 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 457 (36.77%) Active Directory
2 167 (13.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 133 (10.70%) Docker
4 109 (8.77%) Hyper-V
5 51 (4.10%) vSphere
6 33 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (1.93%) Virtual Desktop
8 20 (1.61%) VMware NSX
9 18 (1.45%) BitLocker
9 18 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
10 15 (1.21%) Firmware
11 10 (0.80%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 6 (0.48%) KVM
13 5 (0.40%) Squid
13 5 (0.40%) Terminal Services
13 5 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.32%) iptables
14 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.32%) XenDesktop
15 2 (0.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 274 (22.04%) Terraform
2 202 (16.25%) Kubernetes
3 187 (15.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 149 (11.99%) Ansible
5 57 (4.59%) Grafana
6 49 (3.94%) SCCM
7 48 (3.86%) Single Sign-On
8 35 (2.82%) Prometheus
9 25 (2.01%) Jamf Pro
10 22 (1.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 22 (1.77%) vCenter Server
11 15 (1.21%) QRadar
12 14 (1.13%) Nessus
12 14 (1.13%) VxRail
13 12 (0.97%) Packer
14 11 (0.88%) Puppet
15 10 (0.80%) ZABBIX
16 9 (0.72%) WSUS
17 8 (0.64%) logstash
17 8 (0.64%) Nagios
Vendors
1 700 (56.32%) Microsoft
2 220 (17.70%) VMware
3 102 (8.21%) Cisco
4 68 (5.47%) Splunk
5 56 (4.51%) Red Hat
6 55 (4.42%) ServiceNow
7 42 (3.38%) CrowdStrike
8 38 (3.06%) Veeam
9 32 (2.57%) Google
10 29 (2.33%) Citrix
10 29 (2.33%) Dell
10 29 (2.33%) Meraki
11 28 (2.25%) Commvault
12 27 (2.17%) Palo Alto
13 26 (2.09%) Fortinet
14 25 (2.01%) Apple
15 24 (1.93%) Oracle
16 23 (1.85%) CyberArk
17 21 (1.69%) Tenable
18 20 (1.61%) Sophos