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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 85 117
Rank change year-on-year -60 +32 -25
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,294 1,546 2,321
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.39% 3.62% 2.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.86% 11.64% 7.09%
Number of salaries quoted 951 965 1,905
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +6.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,500 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £90,000
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 16,455 13,284 32,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.65% 31.10% 32.90%
Number of salaries quoted 11,420 8,949 25,017
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
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 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £99,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,704
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.41% -2.36%

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 28 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 28 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 -69 1,175 £59,500 -0.83% 310
UK excluding London -74 743 £52,500 +5.00% 254
London -15 522 £70,000 -6.67% 95
Work from Home -40 427 £60,000 +7.14% 119
South East -68 177 £55,875 -2.83% 85
North of England -104 176 £47,500 -6.40% 66
Midlands -48 126 £50,000 - 34
North West -96 93 £50,801 +10.44% 43
South West -42 84 £55,000 +15.79% 35
East of England -33 80 £57,500 +21.05% 24
East Midlands -16 75 £52,500 +50.00% 17
Scotland +47 74 £50,000 +11.11% 13
Yorkshire -34 58 £45,000 -28.00% 13
West Midlands -77 50 £48,000 -4.00% 17
North East -33 25 £47,472 -17.44% 10
Wales -20 23 £54,085 +8.17% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 £46,000 - 3

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
1 179 (13.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 167 (12.91%) SharePoint
3 42 (3.25%) IIS
4 21 (1.62%) Confluence
5 3 (0.23%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.15%) Apache
6 2 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.077%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.077%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.077%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.077%) Site Server
7 1 (0.077%) Tomcat
Applications
1 72 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.077%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.077%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.54%) Markit EDM
2 5 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (0.39%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.23%) Alphatax
4 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.15%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.077%) Actimize
6 1 (0.077%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 841 (64.99%) Azure
2 458 (35.39%) Microsoft 365
3 349 (26.97%) Entra ID
4 218 (16.85%) AWS
5 137 (10.59%) Azure DevOps
6 112 (8.66%) Power Platform
7 97 (7.50%) GitHub
8 89 (6.88%) SaaS
9 82 (6.34%) IaaS
10 81 (6.26%) OneDrive
11 69 (5.33%) GitHub Actions
11 69 (5.33%) Google Workspace
12 60 (4.64%) GCP
13 57 (4.40%) Azure AKS
13 57 (4.40%) Azure Monitor
13 57 (4.40%) Azure Sentinel
13 57 (4.40%) Power Automate
14 54 (4.17%) PaaS
15 53 (4.10%) Azure Key Vault
16 44 (3.40%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 253 (19.55%) Firewall
2 250 (19.32%) DNS
3 152 (11.75%) VPN
4 151 (11.67%) DHCP
5 107 (8.27%) TCP/IP
6 77 (5.95%) WAN
7 72 (5.56%) LAN
8 68 (5.26%) Network Security
9 58 (4.48%) Broadband
10 49 (3.79%) VLAN
11 44 (3.40%) Wi-Fi
12 40 (3.09%) VoIP
13 34 (2.63%) SAN
14 21 (1.62%) BGP
14 21 (1.62%) Wireless
15 16 (1.24%) Kerberos
15 16 (1.24%) SD-WAN
15 16 (1.24%) VSAN
16 14 (1.08%) MPLS
17 13 (1.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (11.59%) SQL Server
2 82 (6.34%) Power BI
3 56 (4.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 37 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
5 30 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (2.01%) MySQL
7 23 (1.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 22 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 20 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
9 20 (1.55%) Relational Database
10 17 (1.31%) NoSQL
11 15 (1.16%) MongoDB
12 12 (0.93%) Tableau
13 9 (0.70%) Data Lake
13 9 (0.70%) InfluxDB
14 6 (0.46%) Metadata
15 5 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
15 5 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 3 (0.23%) DynamoDB
16 3 (0.23%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 97 (7.50%) Git
2 70 (5.41%) JIRA
3 64 (4.95%) Jenkins
4 57 (4.40%) GitLab
5 30 (2.32%) Bitbucket
6 17 (1.31%) Octopus Deploy
7 14 (1.08%) TeamCity
8 13 (1.00%) Metasploit
8 13 (1.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 10 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
10 9 (0.70%) Burp Suite
11 8 (0.62%) CircleCI
11 8 (0.62%) Robot Framework
12 7 (0.54%) TestRail
13 4 (0.31%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.31%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.31%) MLflow
13 4 (0.31%) Selenium
14 3 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 398 (30.76%) Social Skills
2 237 (18.32%) Finance
3 180 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (6.18%) Law
5 78 (6.03%) Organisational Skills
6 54 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (3.63%) Legal
8 45 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (3.48%) Retail
9 41 (3.17%) Public Sector
10 29 (2.24%) Games
11 28 (2.16%) Banking
12 27 (2.09%) Manufacturing
13 26 (2.01%) Aerospace
14 19 (1.47%) Advertising
15 14 (1.08%) Telecoms
16 10 (0.77%) Front Office
17 7 (0.54%) Aviation
17 7 (0.54%) Investment Banking
18 6 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 245 (18.93%) Senior
2 159 (12.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 146 (11.28%) Analyst
4 138 (10.66%) Azure Engineer
5 137 (10.59%) Support Engineer
6 124 (9.58%) IT Support
7 106 (8.19%) IT Engineer
8 103 (7.96%) Cloud Engineer
9 93 (7.19%) DevOps Engineer
10 82 (6.34%) Security Engineer
11 72 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
12 63 (4.87%) Developer
13 58 (4.48%) 2nd Line Support
14 57 (4.40%) Systems Engineer
15 56 (4.33%) Lead
16 52 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
17 44 (3.40%) 3rd Line Engineer
18 43 (3.32%) Architect
18 43 (3.32%) Security Analyst
18 43 (3.32%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (7.42%) OAuth
2 90 (6.96%) .NET
2 90 (6.96%) SAML
3 88 (6.80%) REST
4 84 (6.49%) OpenID
5 77 (5.95%) LDAP
6 62 (4.79%) SOAP
7 58 (4.48%) GraphQL
8 42 (3.25%) YAML
9 39 (3.01%) Microsoft Graph
10 38 (2.94%) .NET Core
11 37 (2.86%) JSON
12 36 (2.78%) ARM Templates
13 34 (2.63%) CSS
13 34 (2.63%) HTML
14 26 (2.01%) SPFx
15 20 (1.55%) React
16 19 (1.47%) HTML5 Canvas
17 17 (1.31%) Elastic Stack
18 15 (1.16%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 93 (7.19%) Onboarding
2 72 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
3 67 (5.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 66 (5.10%) Cloud Native
5 63 (4.87%) Cyberattack
6 62 (4.79%) Management Information System
7 54 (4.17%) Security Posture
8 45 (3.48%) Cyber Defence
9 44 (3.40%) Security Operations Centre
10 43 (3.32%) Driving Licence
11 41 (3.17%) Data Centre
12 35 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
13 34 (2.63%) PKI
14 29 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
14 29 (2.24%) Public Cloud
15 26 (2.01%) CMDB
16 20 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
16 20 (1.55%) Replication
17 19 (1.47%) Private Cloud
18 18 (1.39%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 600 (46.37%) Windows
2 287 (22.18%) Windows Server
3 286 (22.10%) Linux
4 78 (6.03%) Windows 10
5 53 (4.10%) Mac OS
6 50 (3.86%) Apple iOS
7 49 (3.79%) Android
8 37 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
9 35 (2.70%) VMS
10 29 (2.24%) CentOS
11 28 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 27 (2.09%) Windows Server 2019
13 23 (1.78%) Ubuntu
14 17 (1.31%) Unix
15 7 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
16 5 (0.39%) Debian
17 4 (0.31%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.31%) Kali Linux
18 3 (0.23%) AIX
18 3 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (24.65%) Problem-Solving
2 288 (22.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 287 (22.18%) CI/CD
4 282 (21.79%) Cybersecurity
5 274 (21.17%) DevOps
6 224 (17.31%) ITIL
7 221 (17.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 215 (16.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 189 (14.61%) Mentoring
10 170 (13.14%) Agile
11 163 (12.60%) Incident Response
12 150 (11.59%) Root Cause Analysis
13 144 (11.13%) Disaster Recovery
14 139 (10.74%) Roadmaps
15 132 (10.20%) Containerisation
15 132 (10.20%) SIEM
16 120 (9.27%) High Availability
17 115 (8.89%) Cloud Security
18 109 (8.42%) Task Automation
19 106 (8.19%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 511 (39.49%) Python
2 339 (26.20%) Bash
3 280 (21.64%) SQL
4 96 (7.42%) C#
5 79 (6.11%) T-SQL
6 77 (5.95%) JavaScript
7 75 (5.80%) Bicep
8 30 (2.32%) Kusto Query Language
9 28 (2.16%) Java
10 24 (1.85%) TypeScript
11 17 (1.31%) C++
12 14 (1.08%) Perl
13 12 (0.93%) VBScript
14 11 (0.85%) VB
14 11 (0.85%) VB.NET
14 11 (0.85%) VBA
15 10 (0.77%) PHP
16 9 (0.70%) Go
17 7 (0.54%) C
18 6 (0.46%) Korn
Qualifications
1 161 (12.44%) Degree
2 158 (12.21%) Security Cleared
3 119 (9.20%) Azure Certification
3 119 (9.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 99 (7.65%) SC Cleared
5 53 (4.10%) CISSP
6 51 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 46 (3.55%) Cisco Certification
8 43 (3.32%) DV Cleared
9 37 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
10 31 (2.40%) CCNA
11 30 (2.32%) CREST Certified
12 28 (2.16%) OSCP
13 26 (2.01%) GIAC
14 25 (1.93%) AWS Certification
14 25 (1.93%) CEH
15 24 (1.85%) DBS Check
16 17 (1.31%) CompTIA CySA+
17 16 (1.24%) CCNP
18 13 (1.00%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (11.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 141 (10.90%) NIST
3 60 (4.64%) GDPR
4 53 (4.10%) NCSC
5 44 (3.40%) SLA
6 39 (3.01%) Cyber Essentials
7 20 (1.55%) Accessibility
7 20 (1.55%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.24%) ISO 22301
9 15 (1.16%) SOC 2
10 14 (1.08%) PCI DSS
10 14 (1.08%) QA
11 12 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.46%) DICOM
14 5 (0.39%) GRC
14 5 (0.39%) PMO
15 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 485 (37.48%) Active Directory
2 183 (14.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 140 (10.82%) Docker
4 122 (9.43%) Hyper-V
5 56 (4.33%) vSphere
6 37 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
8 22 (1.70%) BitLocker
8 22 (1.70%) VMware NSX
9 17 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
10 12 (0.93%) Firmware
11 10 (0.77%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 10 (0.77%) KVM
12 7 (0.54%) Squid
13 6 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.31%) iptables
15 4 (0.31%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.31%) XenDesktop
16 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 296 (22.87%) Terraform
2 214 (16.54%) Kubernetes
3 194 (14.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 149 (11.51%) Ansible
5 61 (4.71%) Grafana
6 58 (4.48%) Single Sign-On
7 48 (3.71%) SCCM
8 42 (3.25%) Prometheus
9 25 (1.93%) Jamf Pro
10 24 (1.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 23 (1.78%) vCenter Server
12 18 (1.39%) ZABBIX
13 16 (1.24%) Nessus
13 16 (1.24%) Packer
13 16 (1.24%) QRadar
14 15 (1.16%) VxRail
15 13 (1.00%) Graylog
16 11 (0.85%) Argo
16 11 (0.85%) Proxmox
16 11 (0.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 742 (57.34%) Microsoft
2 233 (18.01%) VMware
3 102 (7.88%) Cisco
4 77 (5.95%) Splunk
5 57 (4.40%) ServiceNow
6 56 (4.33%) Red Hat
7 45 (3.48%) Veeam
8 38 (2.94%) CrowdStrike
9 33 (2.55%) Meraki
9 33 (2.55%) Oracle
10 30 (2.32%) Google
11 29 (2.24%) Citrix
11 29 (2.24%) Dell
12 27 (2.09%) Apple
12 27 (2.09%) Fortinet
13 26 (2.01%) Commvault
14 24 (1.85%) Tenable
15 23 (1.78%) Palo Alto
16 22 (1.70%) Sophos
17 21 (1.62%) SolarWinds