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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 86 114
Rank change year-on-year -52 +28 -35
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,407 1,691 1,990
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.39% 3.42% 2.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.80% 11.75% 7.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,016 1,115 1,574
10th Percentile £32,000 £34,400 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.60% -7.50%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -3.85%

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 18,034 14,390 27,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.80% 29.11% 30.73%
Number of salaries quoted 12,842 9,549 19,721
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -66 1,261 £57,500 - 373
UK excluding London -50 904 £52,500 +5.00% 273
Work from Home -40 501 £60,000 +4.35% 178
London -27 469 £70,000 -6.67% 131
South East -31 246 £54,000 -6.09% 95
North of England -89 212 £48,445 +0.29% 68
Midlands -43 146 £50,000 - 38
North West -86 115 £51,500 +10.75% 37
East of England -34 92 £55,000 +4.76% 30
South West -75 83 £55,000 +15.79% 38
East Midlands -12 75 £42,500 +21.43% 17
West Midlands -64 71 £52,500 -4.55% 21
Yorkshire -43 57 £47,500 -5.71% 20
Northern Ireland -19 53 £46,000 +6.75% 2
Scotland +29 42 £51,250 +28.13% 11
North East -20 40 £48,445 -19.26% 13
Wales -34 30 £46,500 -15.45% 6

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
1 224 (15.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 204 (14.50%) SharePoint
3 51 (3.62%) IIS
4 26 (1.85%) Confluence
5 7 (0.50%) nginx
6 6 (0.43%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.28%) Apache
7 4 (0.28%) SAS
8 3 (0.21%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.071%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.071%) Site Server
9 1 (0.071%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.071%) WebSphere
Applications
1 80 (5.69%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (0.78%) NetSuite
1 11 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.43%) Raiser’s Edge
3 4 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.21%) Alphatax
4 3 (0.21%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.14%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.071%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.071%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 882 (62.69%) Azure
2 508 (36.11%) Microsoft 365
3 378 (26.87%) Entra ID
4 245 (17.41%) AWS
5 156 (11.09%) Azure DevOps
6 154 (10.95%) SaaS
7 120 (8.53%) Power Platform
8 114 (8.10%) GitHub
9 106 (7.53%) IaaS
10 95 (6.75%) OneDrive
11 83 (5.90%) Azure Monitor
12 77 (5.47%) PaaS
13 71 (5.05%) GitHub Actions
14 69 (4.90%) Azure Sentinel
15 67 (4.76%) Azure AKS
15 67 (4.76%) Power Automate
16 61 (4.34%) Azure Key Vault
17 57 (4.05%) GCP
18 52 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
19 49 (3.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 310 (22.03%) Firewall
2 297 (21.11%) DNS
3 200 (14.21%) DHCP
3 200 (14.21%) VPN
4 132 (9.38%) TCP/IP
5 95 (6.75%) WAN
6 87 (6.18%) LAN
7 73 (5.19%) Network Security
8 69 (4.90%) VLAN
9 48 (3.41%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (2.84%) Wireless
11 36 (2.56%) SAN
12 33 (2.35%) Kerberos
12 33 (2.35%) VoIP
13 25 (1.78%) Broadband
14 21 (1.49%) BGP
15 18 (1.28%) NAS
15 18 (1.28%) SSL
16 16 (1.14%) Internet
17 15 (1.07%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (10.95%) SQL Server
2 82 (5.83%) Azure SQL Database
3 78 (5.54%) Power BI
4 41 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (1.56%) MySQL
7 21 (1.49%) MongoDB
7 21 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (1.14%) Relational Database
9 14 (1.00%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.64%) InfluxDB
11 7 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.43%) Redis
13 5 (0.36%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.36%) Metadata
13 5 (0.36%) Power Query
13 5 (0.36%) Tableau
14 4 (0.28%) Big Data
14 4 (0.28%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 107 (7.60%) Git
2 81 (5.76%) JIRA
3 69 (4.90%) GitLab
4 64 (4.55%) Jenkins
5 30 (2.13%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (0.78%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
8 9 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (0.64%) Metasploit
8 9 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 7 (0.50%) Robot Framework
9 7 (0.50%) TestRail
10 6 (0.43%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.43%) Selenium
11 5 (0.36%) Burp Suite
11 5 (0.36%) Postman
12 4 (0.28%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.21%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.21%) CircleCI
General
1 474 (33.69%) Social Skills
2 216 (15.35%) Finance
3 175 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (8.96%) Law
5 101 (7.18%) Legal
6 59 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 51 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
9 42 (2.99%) Retail
10 37 (2.63%) Public Sector
11 29 (2.06%) Manufacturing
12 26 (1.85%) Banking
13 23 (1.63%) Aerospace
14 17 (1.21%) Advertising
15 13 (0.92%) Telecoms
16 10 (0.71%) Financial Institution
16 10 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (0.57%) Games
18 7 (0.50%) Front Office
18 7 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 282 (20.04%) Senior
2 172 (12.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 158 (11.23%) Analyst
4 150 (10.66%) Support Engineer
5 138 (9.81%) IT Support
6 136 (9.67%) IT Engineer
7 132 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
8 119 (8.46%) Cloud Engineer
9 103 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
10 82 (5.83%) IT Support Engineer
11 76 (5.40%) Security Engineer
12 69 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
13 63 (4.48%) Developer
14 61 (4.34%) 2nd Line Support
14 61 (4.34%) Lead
15 60 (4.26%) Systems Engineer
16 52 (3.70%) Testing Manager
17 51 (3.62%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 49 (3.48%) Senior Manager
19 48 (3.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (6.18%) .NET
2 63 (4.48%) SAML
3 61 (4.34%) REST
4 60 (4.26%) OAuth
5 56 (3.98%) ARM Templates
6 53 (3.77%) OpenID
7 50 (3.55%) LDAP
8 45 (3.20%) YAML
9 44 (3.13%) HTML
10 41 (2.91%) JSON
10 41 (2.91%) Microsoft Graph
11 36 (2.56%) .NET Core
12 33 (2.35%) CSS
13 28 (1.99%) SOAP
14 25 (1.78%) SPFx
15 21 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
16 19 (1.35%) GraphQL
16 19 (1.35%) HTML5 Canvas
17 17 (1.21%) RESTful
18 16 (1.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 107 (7.60%) Onboarding
2 85 (6.04%) Cloud Native
3 73 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 70 (4.98%) Security Posture
5 65 (4.62%) Management Information System
6 59 (4.19%) Driving Licence
7 54 (3.84%) Virtual Team
8 52 (3.70%) Data Centre
9 45 (3.20%) Public Cloud
10 44 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
11 41 (2.91%) PKI
12 37 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
12 37 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
13 36 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
14 32 (2.27%) Cyber Defence
15 25 (1.78%) Clustering
15 25 (1.78%) Private Cloud
15 25 (1.78%) Replication
16 24 (1.71%) Cyberattack
17 21 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 659 (46.84%) Windows
2 318 (22.60%) Linux
3 316 (22.46%) Windows Server
4 79 (5.61%) Windows 10
5 55 (3.91%) Apple iOS
6 48 (3.41%) VMS
7 43 (3.06%) Mac OS
8 42 (2.99%) Android
9 39 (2.77%) Windows Server 2016
10 35 (2.49%) CentOS
11 33 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 27 (1.92%) Ubuntu
12 27 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
13 14 (1.00%) Unix
14 7 (0.50%) Debian
14 7 (0.50%) Kali Linux
15 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
16 5 (0.36%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.28%) AIX
17 4 (0.28%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (25.09%) DevOps
2 352 (25.02%) Problem-Solving
3 323 (22.96%) CI/CD
4 313 (22.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 301 (21.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 257 (18.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 252 (17.91%) Cybersecurity
8 245 (17.41%) ITIL
9 210 (14.93%) Mentoring
10 171 (12.15%) Disaster Recovery
11 168 (11.94%) Agile
12 161 (11.44%) Root Cause Analysis
13 160 (11.37%) Incident Response
14 154 (10.95%) High Availability
15 139 (9.88%) Containerisation
16 136 (9.67%) SIEM
17 131 (9.31%) Cloud Security
18 129 (9.17%) AI
19 123 (8.74%) Roadmaps
20 122 (8.67%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 565 (40.16%) Python
2 321 (22.81%) Bash
3 276 (19.62%) SQL
4 144 (10.23%) C#
5 128 (9.10%) JavaScript
6 104 (7.39%) Bicep
7 78 (5.54%) TypeScript
8 51 (3.62%) T-SQL
9 49 (3.48%) Kusto Query Language
10 34 (2.42%) Java
11 20 (1.42%) VBScript
12 18 (1.28%) C++
12 18 (1.28%) PHP
13 12 (0.85%) Perl
14 10 (0.71%) Go
14 10 (0.71%) VB
14 10 (0.71%) VBA
15 8 (0.57%) C
15 8 (0.57%) Ruby
16 6 (0.43%) Korn
Qualifications
1 176 (12.51%) Security Cleared
2 171 (12.15%) Degree
3 155 (11.02%) Azure Certification
4 136 (9.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 121 (8.60%) SC Cleared
6 62 (4.41%) Cisco Certification
7 59 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 56 (3.98%) CISSP
9 48 (3.41%) CompTIA Security+
10 46 (3.27%) DV Cleared
11 44 (3.13%) CCNA
12 24 (1.71%) CEH
12 24 (1.71%) DBS Check
12 24 (1.71%) GIAC
13 23 (1.63%) AWS Certification
13 23 (1.63%) OSCP
14 22 (1.56%) CCNP
15 21 (1.49%) CREST Certified
16 17 (1.21%) CISM
17 14 (1.00%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (9.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 94 (6.68%) NIST
3 73 (5.19%) QA
4 61 (4.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 59 (4.19%) GDPR
6 42 (2.99%) SLA
7 20 (1.42%) Data Quality
7 20 (1.42%) PCI DSS
8 18 (1.28%) NCSC
8 18 (1.28%) SOC 2
9 10 (0.71%) ISO 22301
10 7 (0.50%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.43%) PMO
12 4 (0.28%) DICOM
12 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.21%) ISAE 3402
14 2 (0.14%) EMIR
14 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
System Software
1 510 (36.25%) Active Directory
2 233 (16.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 157 (11.16%) Hyper-V
4 140 (9.95%) Docker
5 79 (5.61%) vSphere
6 57 (4.05%) Virtual Machines
7 43 (3.06%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (1.92%) BitLocker
9 23 (1.63%) VMware NSX
10 16 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.71%) KVM
12 8 (0.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.57%) Squid
13 4 (0.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 4 (0.28%) Firmware
14 3 (0.21%) iptables
14 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.21%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.14%) Samba
Systems Management
1 335 (23.81%) Terraform
2 233 (16.56%) Kubernetes
3 226 (16.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 166 (11.80%) Ansible
5 77 (5.47%) Grafana
6 62 (4.41%) SCCM
7 52 (3.70%) Prometheus
8 51 (3.62%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (1.85%) Jamf Pro
10 25 (1.78%) ZABBIX
11 24 (1.71%) vCenter Server
12 21 (1.49%) Argo
13 20 (1.42%) Packer
14 19 (1.35%) QRadar
15 17 (1.21%) Proxmox
16 15 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 14 (1.00%) Graylog
18 13 (0.92%) VxRail
19 11 (0.78%) Nagios
19 11 (0.78%) Nessus
Vendors
1 835 (59.35%) Microsoft
2 277 (19.69%) VMware
3 119 (8.46%) Cisco
4 96 (6.82%) ServiceNow
5 90 (6.40%) Splunk
6 59 (4.19%) Red Hat
7 54 (3.84%) Veeam
8 43 (3.06%) Meraki
9 41 (2.91%) Oracle
10 32 (2.27%) Sophos
11 31 (2.20%) Citrix
12 30 (2.13%) Apple
13 29 (2.06%) Dell
13 29 (2.06%) Tenable
14 28 (1.99%) Fortinet
15 27 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
16 25 (1.78%) Dynatrace
17 24 (1.71%) Palo Alto
18 21 (1.49%) CyberArk
18 21 (1.49%) SolarWinds