PowerShell Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 114 63
Rank change year-on-year +4 -51 +45
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 812 1,031 1,323
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.17% 2.21% 4.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.07% 7.53% 11.71%
Number of salaries quoted 661 663 1,058
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £52,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +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 6,728 13,695 11,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.97% 29.35% 38.45%
Number of salaries quoted 5,116 7,585 8,967
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,750 £35,733
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £69,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

PowerShell job vacancy trend 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 28 November 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 28 November 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
South East -19 226 £58,000 +2.86% 137
North of England -8 153 £50,000 - 52
Midlands +17 117 £52,500 +10.53% 65
South West +16 112 £52,500 - 55
East of England +35 97 £47,500 -9.52% 34
Scotland +22 89 £62,250 +17.45% 30
West Midlands +21 87 £55,000 +17.27% 30
Yorkshire +2 72 £47,500 -10.38% 19
North West +4 69 £52,500 +5.00% 28
East Midlands +5 30 £50,000 +5.26% 34
Wales +17 17 £55,000 +8.80% 13
North East +9 12 £60,000 +27.29% 5
Northern Ireland -3 4 £46,000 +15.00% 2
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 166 (20.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 121 (14.90%) SharePoint
3 43 (5.30%) Confluence
4 41 (5.05%) IIS
5 22 (2.71%) Exchange Server 2003
6 17 (2.09%) Skype for Business
7 11 (1.35%) nginx
8 6 (0.74%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.25%) CMS
9 2 (0.25%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 42 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.74%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 6 (0.74%) Siemens NX
4 5 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.49%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.37%) CATIA
6 3 (0.37%) Windchill
7 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.12%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.99%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.74%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.62%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 524 (64.53%) Azure
2 308 (37.93%) Microsoft 365
3 168 (20.69%) Entra ID
4 161 (19.83%) AWS
5 118 (14.53%) Azure DevOps
6 68 (8.37%) Power Platform
7 55 (6.77%) SaaS
8 49 (6.03%) Azure Monitor
9 47 (5.79%) GitHub
10 45 (5.54%) GCP
11 41 (5.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 41 (5.05%) PaaS
12 40 (4.93%) Power Automate
13 39 (4.80%) GitHub Actions
14 38 (4.68%) IaaS
15 35 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
16 34 (4.19%) Amazon S3
16 34 (4.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 29 (3.57%) Amazon ELB
17 29 (3.57%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 185 (22.78%) DNS
2 177 (21.80%) Firewall
3 149 (18.35%) DHCP
4 79 (9.73%) TCP/IP
5 59 (7.27%) VPN
6 55 (6.77%) WAN
7 45 (5.54%) LAN
8 42 (5.17%) VLAN
9 41 (5.05%) Wireless
10 31 (3.82%) Internet
11 30 (3.69%) SAN
12 21 (2.59%) HTTP
13 20 (2.46%) SMTP
14 18 (2.22%) FTP
14 18 (2.22%) SSH
15 17 (2.09%) Kerberos
15 17 (2.09%) Skype
16 14 (1.72%) Network Security
16 14 (1.72%) SD-WAN
16 14 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (11.08%) SQL Server
2 48 (5.91%) Amazon RDS
3 31 (3.82%) Power BI
4 29 (3.57%) Oracle Database
5 26 (3.20%) Oracle Database 10g
6 22 (2.71%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.11%) DTS
10 9 (1.11%) MySQL
11 8 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (0.99%) BusinessObjects
12 7 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.49%) MS Access
14 4 (0.49%) Oracle Database 11g
14 4 (0.49%) Oracle Database 12c
14 4 (0.49%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 97 (11.95%) JIRA
2 73 (8.99%) Jenkins
3 64 (7.88%) Git
4 28 (3.45%) Vagrant
5 27 (3.33%) Octopus Deploy
6 18 (2.22%) TeamCity
7 16 (1.97%) GitLab
8 13 (1.60%) MSI
9 6 (0.74%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.49%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.49%) Burp Suite
11 4 (0.49%) Metasploit
11 4 (0.49%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.49%) Toad
12 3 (0.37%) Balsamiq
12 3 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 2 (0.25%) git-flow
13 2 (0.25%) Robot Framework
13 2 (0.25%) TestRail
General
1 271 (33.37%) Social Skills
2 166 (20.44%) Finance
3 55 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (5.17%) Law
5 41 (5.05%) Public Sector
6 38 (4.68%) Retail
7 27 (3.33%) Manufacturing
8 23 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (1.72%) Legal
10 14 (1.72%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.60%) Automotive
12 11 (1.35%) Games
12 11 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.35%) Marketing
12 11 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.11%) Aerospace
14 8 (0.99%) Local Government
14 8 (0.99%) Military
15 6 (0.74%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 136 (16.75%) Support Engineer
2 105 (12.93%) Senior
3 104 (12.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 72 (8.87%) 3rd Line Support
5 70 (8.62%) DevOps Engineer
6 64 (7.88%) Azure Engineer
7 58 (7.14%) Developer
8 57 (7.02%) IT Engineer
8 57 (7.02%) IT Support
9 54 (6.65%) Analyst
10 52 (6.40%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 45 (5.54%) Applications Engineer
12 40 (4.93%) Cloud Engineer
12 40 (4.93%) Lead
13 39 (4.80%) IT Support Engineer
13 39 (4.80%) Security Engineer
14 38 (4.68%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
15 37 (4.56%) Applications Support
15 37 (4.56%) Infrastructure Support
16 33 (4.06%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (7.27%) REST
2 47 (5.79%) .NET
3 35 (4.31%) ARM Templates
3 35 (4.31%) SOAP
4 31 (3.82%) LDAP
5 18 (2.22%) Web Services
6 17 (2.09%) SAML
7 16 (1.97%) JSON
7 16 (1.97%) OAuth
8 14 (1.72%) GraphQL
9 12 (1.48%) AngularJS
9 12 (1.48%) YAML
10 11 (1.35%) React
11 10 (1.23%) OpenID
11 10 (1.23%) Razor View Engine
12 9 (1.11%) Microsoft Graph
13 7 (0.86%) .NET Framework
13 7 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
14 6 (0.74%) OpenAPI
14 6 (0.74%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 81 (9.98%) Onboarding
2 51 (6.28%) Product Ownership
3 31 (3.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 31 (3.82%) Security Posture
4 28 (3.45%) Replication
5 25 (3.08%) PKI
6 22 (2.71%) Data Centre
7 20 (2.46%) Cloud Native
8 19 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (2.22%) Driving Licence
9 18 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (1.60%) IoT
12 12 (1.48%) Clustering
12 12 (1.48%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.23%) CMDB
13 10 (1.23%) Operational Technology
13 10 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
14 9 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (1.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 388 (47.78%) Windows
2 232 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 139 (17.12%) Linux
4 51 (6.28%) Windows Server 2019
5 48 (5.91%) Windows 10
6 46 (5.67%) VMS
7 35 (4.31%) Windows Server 2016
8 32 (3.94%) Mac OS
9 31 (3.82%) Windows Server 2008
10 30 (3.69%) Unix
11 22 (2.71%) HPUX
11 22 (2.71%) Solaris
11 22 (2.71%) Windows 7
11 22 (2.71%) Windows Server 2003
12 18 (2.22%) Amazon Linux
13 17 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 13 (1.60%) Ubuntu
15 11 (1.35%) Android
16 7 (0.86%) Apple iOS
16 7 (0.86%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
2 217 (26.72%) DevOps
3 185 (22.78%) ITIL
4 157 (19.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 137 (16.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 131 (16.13%) CI/CD
7 118 (14.53%) Agile
8 112 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 108 (13.30%) Mentoring
10 88 (10.84%) Cybersecurity
11 81 (9.98%) Task Automation
12 80 (9.85%) Roadmaps
13 79 (9.73%) Coaching
14 78 (9.61%) Change Management
15 77 (9.48%) Asset Management
16 73 (8.99%) Incident Management
17 71 (8.74%) Cloud Security
18 69 (8.50%) Disaster Recovery
19 65 (8.00%) ITSM
19 65 (8.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 240 (29.56%) Python
2 162 (19.95%) SQL
3 136 (16.75%) Bash
4 69 (8.50%) C#
5 49 (6.03%) Bicep
6 37 (4.56%) JavaScript
7 34 (4.19%) Perl
8 31 (3.82%) Java
9 28 (3.45%) Groovy
10 24 (2.96%) VB
11 15 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
12 12 (1.48%) T-SQL
13 10 (1.23%) VBScript
14 9 (1.11%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.99%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.49%) Go
17 3 (0.37%) Tcl
18 2 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 2 (0.25%) VB.NET
19 1 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 151 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 105 (12.93%) Degree
3 102 (12.56%) SC Cleared
4 62 (7.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 54 (6.65%) DV Cleared
6 52 (6.40%) Azure Certification
7 35 (4.31%) AWS Certification
7 35 (4.31%) Cisco Certification
8 29 (3.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 28 (3.45%) CCNA
10 23 (2.83%) CISSP
11 18 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
12 17 (2.09%) CREST Certified
13 14 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 12 (1.48%) SANS
15 11 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
16 10 (1.23%) CEH
16 10 (1.23%) DBS Check
16 10 (1.23%) Network+ Certification
16 10 (1.23%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (6.28%) SLA
2 45 (5.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (4.68%) GDPR
4 37 (4.56%) NIST
5 19 (2.34%) Accessibility
6 14 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (1.48%) NCSC
8 6 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.62%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.62%) QA
10 2 (0.25%) HL7
11 1 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 311 (38.30%) Active Directory
2 125 (15.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 100 (12.32%) Hyper-V
4 80 (9.85%) Docker
5 35 (4.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 34 (4.19%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (2.71%) vSphere
8 20 (2.46%) DFS Replication
9 17 (2.09%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.86%) Dovecot
11 7 (0.86%) Postfix
11 7 (0.86%) Squid
12 6 (0.74%) Firmware
13 5 (0.62%) Terminal Services
13 5 (0.62%) XenApp
14 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
16 1 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 1 (0.12%) KVM
Systems Management
1 175 (21.55%) Terraform
2 147 (18.10%) Microsoft Intune
3 74 (9.11%) Kubernetes
4 57 (7.02%) Ansible
5 53 (6.53%) SCCM
6 50 (6.16%) Grafana
7 48 (5.91%) Prometheus
8 32 (3.94%) WSUS
9 16 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (1.97%) vCenter Server
10 15 (1.85%) SCOM
11 14 (1.72%) WMI
12 11 (1.35%) Backup Exec
13 10 (1.23%) ZABBIX
14 9 (1.11%) Autotask
14 9 (1.11%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (1.11%) Nagios
15 7 (0.86%) Nessus
15 7 (0.86%) Proxmox
15 7 (0.86%) QRadar
Vendors
1 505 (62.19%) Microsoft
2 165 (20.32%) VMware
3 66 (8.13%) Cisco
4 65 (8.00%) ServiceNow
5 53 (6.53%) Oracle
6 45 (5.54%) Veeam
7 37 (4.56%) Atlassian
8 31 (3.82%) Red Hat
9 26 (3.20%) SolarWinds
9 26 (3.20%) Splunk
10 24 (2.96%) Citrix
11 21 (2.59%) Google
12 19 (2.34%) Sophos
13 17 (2.09%) Apple
13 17 (2.09%) SAP
14 15 (1.85%) Datto
15 14 (1.72%) HP
16 12 (1.48%) Juniper
16 12 (1.48%) Trend Micro
17 11 (1.35%) Meraki