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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 52 58
Rank change year-on-year -51 +6 -18
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 24 9 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.88% 1.36% 1.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.61% 7.14% 5.10%
Number of salaries quoted 19 8 9
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,599 £36,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,587 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £48,750 £44,274
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% +10.11% -5.47%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £46,311
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,250 £50,548
North East median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £44,274
% change year-on-year -6.36% +24.23% -5.47%

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 665 126 392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 24.30% 19.09% 36.98%
Number of salaries quoted 555 98 212
10th Percentile £42,500 £28,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £46,500 £39,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £51,875 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.48% +3.75% -9.09%
75th Percentile £90,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,250 £84,996
North East median annual salary £60,000 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -2.86% -4.55%

PowerShell
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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -58 17 £50,000 - 18
Sunderland - 5 £35,000 - 4
Prudhoe - 2 £42,500 -
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 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (66.67%) Azure
2 12 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (37.50%) AWS
4 8 (33.33%) OneDrive
5 7 (29.17%) GCP
6 5 (20.83%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (20.83%) Power Platform
7 4 (16.67%) Entra ID
7 4 (16.67%) OpenShift
7 4 (16.67%) Serverless
8 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (4.17%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (4.17%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (4.17%) Cloudflare
10 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (4.17%) GitHub
10 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (41.67%) DNS
2 9 (37.50%) DHCP
3 1 (4.17%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.50%) Power BI
3 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) SonarQube
2 4 (16.67%) GitLab
2 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.67%) TeamCity
3 3 (12.50%) Artifactory
3 3 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 3 (12.50%) JIRA
3 3 (12.50%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (4.17%) Git
4 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (20.83%) Finance
1 5 (20.83%) Law
1 5 (20.83%) Local Government
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Financial Institution
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Games
3 1 (4.17%) Legal
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 8 (33.33%) Senior
2 5 (20.83%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Administrator
3 4 (16.67%) Server Administrator
3 4 (16.67%) Windows Administrator
3 4 (16.67%) Windows Server Administrator
4 3 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Desktop Support
4 3 (12.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Support Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) Terraform
2 4 (16.67%) AWS CDK
2 4 (16.67%) Node.js
3 3 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (8.33%) .NET
5 1 (4.17%) OAuth
5 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
5 1 (4.17%) OpenID
5 1 (4.17%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Cyber Security Posture
1 5 (20.83%) IoT
1 5 (20.83%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (20.83%) PKI
2 4 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 3 (12.50%) Private Cloud
3 3 (12.50%) Web Conferencing
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (70.83%) Windows
2 10 (41.67%) Windows Server
3 3 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (41.67%) DevOps
3 8 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 6 (25.00%) Agile
4 6 (25.00%) IT Strategy
5 5 (20.83%) Cloud Security
5 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
5 5 (20.83%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (20.83%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (20.83%) Migration
5 5 (20.83%) Software Delivery
5 5 (20.83%) Test Automation
6 4 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (16.67%) ITIL
6 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (16.67%) Server Monitoring
7 3 (12.50%) AI
7 3 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (12.50%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) Python
2 6 (25.00%) Bash
2 6 (25.00%) C#
3 5 (20.83%) TypeScript
4 3 (12.50%) Java
4 3 (12.50%) SQL
5 1 (4.17%) Bicep
5 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Degree
2 5 (20.83%) DBS Check
3 4 (16.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 13 (54.17%) Active Directory
2 9 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (33.33%) Docker
3 8 (33.33%) vSphere
4 4 (16.67%) Hyper-V
5 3 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 6 (25.00%) Ansible
3 5 (20.83%) SCCM
4 4 (16.67%) Grafana
5 3 (12.50%) Control-M
5 3 (12.50%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (12.50%) Progress Chef
5 3 (12.50%) Puppet
5 3 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (4.17%) Fluentd
6 1 (4.17%) Kibana
6 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (50.00%) VMware
3 5 (20.83%) Aruba
4 4 (16.67%) Veeam
5 3 (12.50%) Atlassian
5 3 (12.50%) Cisco
6 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
6 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
6 1 (4.17%) Splunk