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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 50 73
Rank change year-on-year -14 +23 -13
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 16 11 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 1.49% 2.24% 1.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.48% 6.15% 5.49%
Number of salaries quoted 13 9 13
10th Percentile - £44,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% -4.43% +0.45%
75th Percentile £50,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,089 - -
North East median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -20.83% +26.32% -13.64%

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 214 179 273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 19.93% 36.38% 25.61%
Number of salaries quoted 173 115 248
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,400 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,375 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -3.59%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,889 £70,313
90th Percentile £79,800 £85,000 £80,000
North East median annual salary £50,500 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.62% +7.62% -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 4 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 4 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 -10 12 £45,000 -25.00% 7
Gateshead - 3 £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 (6.25%) IIS
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Teamcenter
2 1 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (93.75%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) AWS
3 5 (31.25%) IaaS
4 2 (12.50%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.25%) OCI
5 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
5 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) DMZ
1 5 (31.25%) Firewall
1 5 (31.25%) Reverse Proxy
1 5 (31.25%) STUN
1 5 (31.25%) VLAN
1 5 (31.25%) VoIP
1 5 (31.25%) VPN
2 3 (18.75%) SAN
3 1 (6.25%) DHCP
3 1 (6.25%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (12.50%) Artifactory
2 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (12.50%) SonarQube
2 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Law
4 1 (6.25%) Legal
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Support
2 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Support Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) VoIP Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) VoIP Support Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) Developer
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) DBA
5 1 (6.25%) Intapp Developer
5 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Server Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (18.75%) Itk
3 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (6.25%) .NET
4 1 (6.25%) REST
4 1 (6.25%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (6.25%) Low-Code
1 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
1 1 (6.25%) PKI
1 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (75.00%) Windows
2 9 (56.25%) Windows Server
3 7 (43.75%) Linux
4 5 (31.25%) Debian
5 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) DevOps
2 6 (37.50%) Computer Science
2 6 (37.50%) High Availability
2 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) CAD
4 3 (18.75%) Change Management
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (18.75%) ITIL
4 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
4 3 (18.75%) PLM
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 2 (12.50%) Coaching
5 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (6.25%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (6.25%) RBAC
6 1 (6.25%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Python
2 10 (62.50%) SQL
3 6 (37.50%) Bash
4 3 (18.75%) C#
4 3 (18.75%) Tcl
5 2 (12.50%) Java
6 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Azure Certification
2 3 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) HNC
2 3 (18.75%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (12.50%) Docker
4 2 (12.50%) vSphere
5 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Ansible
1 2 (12.50%) Control-M
1 2 (12.50%) Docker Swarm
1 2 (12.50%) Grafana
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (6.25%) SCCM
2 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (43.75%) VMware
3 5 (31.25%) Cisco
4 3 (18.75%) Siemens
5 2 (12.50%) Atlassian
6 1 (6.25%) Citrix
6 1 (6.25%) CyberArk
6 1 (6.25%) Google
6 1 (6.25%) Intapp
6 1 (6.25%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (6.25%) Veeam