PowerShell Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Windows PowerShell
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 44 77
Rank change year-on-year -27 +33 -9
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 13 11 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 1.07% 2.91% 1.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.24% 7.80% 6.43%
Number of salaries quoted 10 9 17
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,120 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +20.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £48,625 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £53,774 - £77,500
North East median annual salary £45,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +20.00% -9.09%

All Programming Languages
Tyne and Wear

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 in Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 248 141 311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 20.41% 37.30% 25.64%
Number of salaries quoted 199 120 284
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,660 £34,650
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,218 £41,976
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,333 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,875 £82,500
North East median annual salary £53,750 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

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Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 26 March 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in Tyne and Wear

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Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 26 March 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -17 11 £45,000 -25.00% 11
Gateshead - 1 £47,500 -
Prudhoe - 1 £40,000 -
PowerShell
North East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (7.69%) IIS
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) IaaS
3 4 (30.77%) AWS
4 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (15.38%) GCP
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
6 1 (7.69%) Mimecast
6 1 (7.69%) OCI
6 1 (7.69%) OneDrive
6 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) Firewall
2 5 (38.46%) DMZ
2 5 (38.46%) Reverse Proxy
2 5 (38.46%) STUN
2 5 (38.46%) VLAN
2 5 (38.46%) VoIP
2 5 (38.46%) VPN
3 2 (15.38%) SAN
4 1 (7.69%) DHCP
4 1 (7.69%) DNS
4 1 (7.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
2 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
2 1 (7.69%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Law
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Support
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Support Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) VoIP Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) VoIP Support Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Administrator
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) DBA
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Intapp Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Security Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Server Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) SQL DBA
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server DBA
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) FreeSWITCH
2 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.69%) Itk
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (7.69%) Low-Code
1 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
1 1 (7.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Windows
2 7 (53.85%) Windows Server
3 6 (46.15%) Linux
4 5 (38.46%) Debian
5 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) High Availability
1 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
3 3 (23.08%) ITIL
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Task Automation
5 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security
5 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
5 1 (7.69%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (7.69%) Incident Response
5 1 (7.69%) Privileged Access Management
5 1 (7.69%) RBAC
5 1 (7.69%) Secrets Management
5 1 (7.69%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 8 (61.54%) SQL
3 6 (46.15%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Azure Certification
2 3 (23.08%) Degree
3 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (7.69%) CCSP
4 1 (7.69%) CISA
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.69%) CISSP
4 1 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (7.69%) GSEC
4 1 (7.69%) HNC
4 1 (7.69%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
4 1 (7.69%) Docker
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) Control-M
1 1 (7.69%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (7.69%) Grafana
1 1 (7.69%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) SCCM
1 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft
2 6 (46.15%) Cisco
3 4 (30.77%) VMware
4 1 (7.69%) Atlassian
4 1 (7.69%) Citrix
4 1 (7.69%) CyberArk
4 1 (7.69%) Intapp
4 1 (7.69%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (7.69%) Proofpoint
4 1 (7.69%) Siemens
4 1 (7.69%) Veeam
4 1 (7.69%) Zscaler