Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

powershell

386 live US technical postings name powershell in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 386 postings naming powershell that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer51.3%
  2. 2Security Engineer23.8%
  3. 3Software Engineer19.7%
  4. 4Data Engineer2.1%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where powershell is named
n = 203
10th
$105k
25th
$130k
Median
$152k
75th
$180k
90th
$200k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote10.1%
  2. 2Washington, DC7.5%
  3. 3New York, NY5.4%
  4. 4Chicago, IL3.1%
  5. 5San Diego, CA3.1%
  6. 6San Francisco, CA3.1%
  7. 7Austin, TX2.8%
  8. 8Los Angeles, CA2.8%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.