PowerShell Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Windows PowerShell
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring PowerShell skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 130 74
Rank change year-on-year +43 -56 +36
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,121 1,038 1,362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.26% 1.87% 3.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.39% 6.77% 10.55%
Number of salaries quoted 656 621 1,028
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,500 £41,797
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,349 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 7,789 15,342 12,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.63% 27.68% 37.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4,834 9,089 10,136
10th Percentile £30,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the UK excluding London

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Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in the UK excluding London

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Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. 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
North of England +40 387 £50,000 - 90
North West +70 316 £47,500 -5.00% 45
South East +18 264 £57,500 +13.86% 192
Midlands +55 191 £50,000 +1.21% 84
East of England +15 127 £47,500 -9.52% 69
West Midlands +40 122 £55,000 +22.22% 44
South West +34 89 £47,500 -5.94% 61
East Midlands +51 69 £35,000 -30.00% 37
Yorkshire -12 61 £51,625 -4.40% 31
Scotland +22 52 £49,707 -6.21% 32
Wales +26 17 £55,000 +5.77% 11
North East +3 10 £60,000 +35.52% 15
Northern Ireland +12 3 £46,000 +15.00% 9
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 184 (16.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 135 (12.04%) SharePoint
3 64 (5.71%) IIS
4 56 (5.00%) Confluence
5 17 (1.52%) Skype for Business
6 13 (1.16%) nginx
7 11 (0.98%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.36%) Apache
10 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.18%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) CMS
11 2 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.089%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 50 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.71%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (0.18%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.089%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.089%) Autodesk Inventor
5 1 (0.089%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.54%) Workday HCM
3 4 (0.36%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.089%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.089%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.089%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 488 (43.53%) Azure
2 329 (29.35%) Microsoft 365
3 183 (16.32%) AWS
4 156 (13.92%) Entra ID
5 110 (9.81%) Azure DevOps
6 86 (7.67%) Power Platform
7 70 (6.24%) Power Automate
8 67 (5.98%) SaaS
9 53 (4.73%) Amazon EC2
10 51 (4.55%) PaaS
11 50 (4.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 49 (4.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 49 (4.37%) Azure Monitor
12 49 (4.37%) IaaS
13 48 (4.28%) Amazon S3
14 43 (3.84%) GCP
15 42 (3.75%) Amazon ELB
15 42 (3.75%) AWS KMS
16 33 (2.94%) Amazon Glacier
17 29 (2.59%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 403 (35.95%) VPN
2 268 (23.91%) Cisco IOS
3 223 (19.89%) Firewall
4 201 (17.93%) DNS
5 150 (13.38%) DHCP
6 132 (11.78%) TCP/IP
7 59 (5.26%) WAN
8 48 (4.28%) SAN
9 44 (3.93%) VLAN
10 43 (3.84%) SMTP
11 37 (3.30%) Wireless
12 34 (3.03%) LAN
13 33 (2.94%) FTP
13 33 (2.94%) Internet
14 29 (2.59%) HTTP
15 27 (2.41%) NAS
16 25 (2.23%) Network Security
16 25 (2.23%) SSH
17 23 (2.05%) IP Telephony
18 21 (1.87%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (10.26%) SQL Server
2 88 (7.85%) Amazon RDS
3 48 (4.28%) Power BI
4 28 (2.50%) MySQL
5 25 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 20 (1.78%) Relational Database
7 19 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (1.25%) Data Lake
8 14 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 12 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (0.71%) DTS
11 8 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (0.71%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.45%) Big Data
12 5 (0.45%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (0.45%) FileMaker
13 4 (0.36%) DB2
13 4 (0.36%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 83 (7.40%) Git
2 79 (7.05%) JIRA
3 71 (6.33%) Jenkins
4 62 (5.53%) Cucumber
4 62 (5.53%) Robot Framework
5 41 (3.66%) Vagrant
6 27 (2.41%) MSI
7 22 (1.96%) Octopus Deploy
8 17 (1.52%) GitLab
9 16 (1.43%) TeamCity
10 12 (1.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 10 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.45%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.36%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.36%) Metasploit
13 4 (0.36%) Toad
14 3 (0.27%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.27%) SonarQube
15 1 (0.089%) Maven
15 1 (0.089%) MSBuild
General
1 355 (31.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 319 (28.46%) Social Skills
3 302 (26.94%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (8.92%) Finance
5 82 (7.31%) Telecoms
6 54 (4.82%) Public Sector
7 43 (3.84%) Law
8 27 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
9 24 (2.14%) Retail
10 23 (2.05%) Manufacturing
11 17 (1.52%) Legal
12 15 (1.34%) Automotive
12 15 (1.34%) Local Government
13 14 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (1.16%) Marketing
15 11 (0.98%) Advertising
16 9 (0.80%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.80%) Czech Language
17 6 (0.54%) Games
Job Titles
1 393 (35.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 161 (14.36%) Support Engineer
3 102 (9.10%) Senior
4 90 (8.03%) IT Support
5 72 (6.42%) DevOps Engineer
6 65 (5.80%) Analyst
6 65 (5.80%) Infrastructure Support
6 65 (5.80%) IT Engineer
7 62 (5.53%) Test Automation Engineer
7 62 (5.53%) Test Engineer
8 60 (5.35%) 3rd Line Support
8 60 (5.35%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 54 (4.82%) Azure Engineer
10 47 (4.19%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 46 (4.10%) Architect
12 44 (3.93%) Applications Support
13 43 (3.84%) IT Support Engineer
14 42 (3.75%) Administrator
15 39 (3.48%) Applications Engineer
16 38 (3.39%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 266 (23.73%) Elastic Stack
2 50 (4.46%) REST
3 49 (4.37%) .NET
4 37 (3.30%) SOAP
5 31 (2.77%) LDAP
6 26 (2.32%) ARM Templates
7 24 (2.14%) JSON
8 14 (1.25%) XML
9 13 (1.16%) YAML
10 12 (1.07%) Web Services
11 10 (0.89%) SAML
12 8 (0.71%) AngularJS
12 8 (0.71%) React
13 7 (0.62%) .NET Framework
13 7 (0.62%) Razor View Engine
14 6 (0.54%) Blazor
14 6 (0.54%) FHIR
15 5 (0.45%) Entity Framework
15 5 (0.45%) Middleware
16 4 (0.36%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 262 (23.37%) Cyberattack
2 76 (6.78%) Onboarding
3 73 (6.51%) Linux Command Line
4 39 (3.48%) Product Ownership
5 38 (3.39%) Data Centre
6 37 (3.30%) PKI
7 34 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 31 (2.77%) Replication
9 29 (2.59%) Security Posture
10 27 (2.41%) Clustering
11 19 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
12 17 (1.52%) Cloud Native
13 16 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
14 14 (1.25%) IoT
14 14 (1.25%) NHS
14 14 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
14 14 (1.25%) Virtual Team
15 13 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
16 11 (0.98%) Driving Licence
17 8 (0.71%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 760 (67.80%) Windows
2 500 (44.60%) Linux
3 266 (23.73%) Android
4 235 (20.96%) Windows Server
5 70 (6.24%) VMS
6 60 (5.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 51 (4.55%) Windows 10
8 37 (3.30%) Mac OS
9 32 (2.85%) Windows Server 2016
10 26 (2.32%) Amazon Linux
11 25 (2.23%) Unix
12 19 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 18 (1.61%) Ubuntu
14 10 (0.89%) Apple iOS
15 9 (0.80%) Windows Server 2008
16 8 (0.71%) CentOS
17 6 (0.54%) Windows 7
17 6 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
18 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
19 3 (0.27%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 534 (47.64%) DevOps
2 512 (45.67%) Problem-Solving
3 408 (36.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 356 (31.76%) Task Automation
5 309 (27.56%) Platform Engineering
6 279 (24.89%) Storage Management
7 264 (23.55%) Risk Management
8 262 (23.37%) Line Management
8 262 (23.37%) Mathematics
9 156 (13.92%) Mentoring
10 147 (13.11%) Agile
11 141 (12.58%) ITIL
12 135 (12.04%) CI/CD
13 125 (11.15%) Coaching
14 97 (8.65%) Cybersecurity
15 96 (8.56%) Infrastructure as Code
16 94 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
17 92 (8.21%) Test Automation
18 83 (7.40%) Migration
19 78 (6.96%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 546 (48.71%) Python
2 444 (39.61%) Bash
3 183 (16.32%) SQL
4 89 (7.94%) JavaScript
5 63 (5.62%) C#
6 53 (4.73%) Java
7 49 (4.37%) Bicep
8 40 (3.57%) Groovy
9 24 (2.14%) VB
10 18 (1.61%) Perl
10 18 (1.61%) T-SQL
11 14 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
12 9 (0.80%) VBA
13 7 (0.62%) TypeScript
14 6 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.54%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.54%) VBScript
15 2 (0.18%) C++
15 2 (0.18%) R
15 2 (0.18%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 187 (16.68%) Security Cleared
2 178 (15.88%) Degree
3 104 (9.28%) SC Cleared
4 76 (6.78%) DV Cleared
5 69 (6.16%) Azure Certification
6 62 (5.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 43 (3.84%) AWS Certification
8 32 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
9 29 (2.59%) CCNA
10 27 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
11 25 (2.23%) DBS Check
12 19 (1.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 15 (1.34%) CISSP
13 15 (1.34%) CompTIA Security+
14 13 (1.16%) CEH
15 11 (0.98%) CISM
15 11 (0.98%) OSCP
16 9 (0.80%) HND
16 9 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
17 8 (0.71%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (6.16%) QA
2 51 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 40 (3.57%) GDPR
4 31 (2.77%) NIST
5 29 (2.59%) SLA
6 19 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (0.80%) HIPAA
7 9 (0.80%) NCSC
8 7 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.54%) HL7
10 5 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.36%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.089%) COBIT
12 1 (0.089%) GRC
12 1 (0.089%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 389 (34.70%) Hyper-V
2 363 (32.38%) Docker
3 330 (29.44%) Active Directory
4 289 (25.78%) vSphere
5 260 (23.19%) VMware NSX
6 163 (14.54%) VMware Infrastructure
7 44 (3.93%) Virtual Machines
8 34 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
9 29 (2.59%) DFS Replication
10 27 (2.41%) Virtual Desktop
11 19 (1.69%) Terminal Services
12 10 (0.89%) Squid
13 9 (0.80%) Dovecot
13 9 (0.80%) Postfix
14 8 (0.71%) BitLocker
14 8 (0.71%) Microsoft App-V
15 6 (0.54%) Firmware
15 6 (0.54%) XenApp
16 5 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
17 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 429 (38.27%) Terraform
2 354 (31.58%) Ansible
3 180 (16.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 84 (7.49%) Kubernetes
5 61 (5.44%) Grafana
6 60 (5.35%) Prometheus
7 55 (4.91%) SCCM
8 38 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
8 38 (3.39%) WSUS
9 30 (2.68%) WMI
10 29 (2.59%) vCenter Server
11 19 (1.69%) Puppet
12 16 (1.43%) SCOM
13 15 (1.34%) Backup Exec
14 14 (1.25%) Nagios
14 14 (1.25%) vMotion
15 12 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
15 12 (1.07%) Proxmox
16 11 (0.98%) Autotask
17 9 (0.80%) QRadar
Vendors
1 519 (46.30%) Microsoft
2 321 (28.64%) Cisco
3 280 (24.98%) Splunk
4 276 (24.62%) Juniper
5 260 (23.19%) 3PAR
6 190 (16.95%) VMware
7 67 (5.98%) ServiceNow
8 44 (3.93%) Citrix
9 43 (3.84%) Veeam
10 35 (3.12%) Oracle
11 32 (2.85%) Meraki
12 31 (2.77%) Apple
13 28 (2.50%) Red Hat
14 27 (2.41%) Google
14 27 (2.41%) HP
15 24 (2.14%) Sophos
16 20 (1.78%) SolarWinds
17 18 (1.61%) SAP
18 17 (1.52%) Atlassian
19 16 (1.43%) Datto