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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 84 140
Rank change year-on-year -68 +56 -47
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 803 1,064 1,497
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.18% 3.51% 1.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.48% 12.81% 6.41%
Number of salaries quoted 640 586 1,155
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,391 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £60,013
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%

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 10,732 8,304 23,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.76% 27.40% 29.29%
Number of salaries quoted 7,717 5,284 17,249
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 22 June 2026.

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 22 June 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
South East -41 212 £55,000 -4.35% 120
North of England -81 201 £47,500 -7.99% 71
Midlands -47 140 £50,000 - 29
North West -82 105 £50,000 +4.38% 48
East of England -21 89 £54,000 +13.68% 27
South West -52 85 £55,000 +15.79% 27
East Midlands -6 78 £45,000 +24.14% 15
Yorkshire -16 62 £45,000 -21.74% 15
West Midlands -67 61 £51,250 -4.54% 14
Scotland +35 49 £50,000 +3.09% 9
North East -31 34 £47,500 -19.15% 11
Wales -24 24 £54,085 +3.02% 8
Northern Ireland -33 3 £46,000 +6.75% 8
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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
1 151 (18.80%) SharePoint
2 149 (18.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 35 (4.36%) IIS
4 16 (1.99%) Confluence
5 2 (0.25%) Apache
5 2 (0.25%) nginx
5 2 (0.25%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.12%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 41 (5.11%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.62%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.25%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 521 (64.88%) Azure
2 342 (42.59%) Microsoft 365
3 205 (25.53%) Entra ID
4 129 (16.06%) AWS
5 92 (11.46%) Azure DevOps
6 74 (9.22%) IaaS
7 70 (8.72%) Power Platform
8 62 (7.72%) GitHub
9 60 (7.47%) OneDrive
10 47 (5.85%) Azure AKS
10 47 (5.85%) SaaS
11 43 (5.35%) GitHub Actions
12 42 (5.23%) Power Automate
13 41 (5.11%) Azure Key Vault
13 41 (5.11%) PaaS
14 39 (4.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 39 (4.86%) Google Workspace
15 37 (4.61%) Azure Monitor
16 35 (4.36%) Azure Sentinel
17 30 (3.74%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 224 (27.90%) DNS
2 197 (24.53%) Firewall
3 146 (18.18%) DHCP
4 138 (17.19%) VPN
5 88 (10.96%) TCP/IP
6 72 (8.97%) WAN
7 67 (8.34%) LAN
8 53 (6.60%) VLAN
9 37 (4.61%) Broadband
10 35 (4.36%) VoIP
11 31 (3.86%) Wi-Fi
12 26 (3.24%) SAN
13 25 (3.11%) Network Security
14 18 (2.24%) BGP
14 18 (2.24%) Wireless
15 16 (1.99%) SD-WAN
16 14 (1.74%) SSL
17 13 (1.62%) HTTP
18 12 (1.49%) MPLS
19 10 (1.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (10.46%) SQL Server
2 43 (5.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 43 (5.35%) Power BI
3 36 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
5 21 (2.62%) MySQL
6 12 (1.49%) MongoDB
7 11 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (1.12%) NoSQL
9 8 (1.00%) InfluxDB
10 5 (0.62%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.62%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (0.62%) Metadata
10 5 (0.62%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.50%) Redis
12 3 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.25%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 62 (7.72%) Git
2 50 (6.23%) JIRA
3 40 (4.98%) Jenkins
4 39 (4.86%) GitLab
5 16 (1.99%) Bitbucket
6 11 (1.37%) Octopus Deploy
7 7 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 6 (0.75%) Robot Framework
8 6 (0.75%) TestRail
9 5 (0.62%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.62%) Selenium
10 4 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.50%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.37%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.37%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.37%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.37%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.25%) MSI
12 2 (0.25%) Postman
13 1 (0.12%) DBeaver
General
1 240 (29.89%) Social Skills
2 95 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (9.34%) Finance
4 65 (8.09%) Law
5 54 (6.72%) Organisational Skills
6 43 (5.35%) Documentation Skills
7 41 (5.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 36 (4.48%) Retail
9 30 (3.74%) Public Sector
10 24 (2.99%) Games
11 22 (2.74%) Legal
12 18 (2.24%) Aerospace
12 18 (2.24%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.87%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.87%) Advertising
15 6 (0.75%) Police
16 5 (0.62%) Aviation
16 5 (0.62%) Local Government
17 4 (0.50%) Financial Institution
17 4 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 161 (20.05%) Senior
2 140 (17.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 110 (13.70%) IT Support
4 109 (13.57%) Support Engineer
5 99 (12.33%) IT Engineer
6 84 (10.46%) Cloud Engineer
7 74 (9.22%) Analyst
8 69 (8.59%) IT Support Engineer
9 67 (8.34%) Azure Engineer
10 66 (8.22%) DevOps Engineer
11 52 (6.48%) Security Engineer
12 49 (6.10%) 2nd Line Support
13 47 (5.85%) Developer
14 40 (4.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 36 (4.48%) Systems Engineer
16 34 (4.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 32 (3.99%) Administrator
18 26 (3.24%) Lead
19 24 (2.99%) Consultant
19 24 (2.99%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (7.47%) .NET
2 46 (5.73%) OAuth
3 45 (5.60%) SAML
4 40 (4.98%) LDAP
5 39 (4.86%) OpenID
6 38 (4.73%) Microsoft Graph
6 38 (4.73%) REST
7 36 (4.48%) JSON
8 35 (4.36%) SOAP
9 32 (3.99%) GraphQL
10 30 (3.74%) ARM Templates
10 30 (3.74%) YAML
11 28 (3.49%) HTML
12 24 (2.99%) .NET Core
12 24 (2.99%) SPFx
13 22 (2.74%) CSS
14 19 (2.37%) HTML5 Canvas
15 16 (1.99%) Elastic Stack
16 15 (1.87%) React
17 13 (1.62%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 61 (7.60%) Onboarding
2 53 (6.60%) Driving Licence
3 40 (4.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 39 (4.86%) Cloud Native
4 39 (4.86%) Cyberattack
5 37 (4.61%) Cyber Threat
6 29 (3.61%) PKI
7 26 (3.24%) Security Operations Centre
8 25 (3.11%) Management Information System
8 25 (3.11%) Security Posture
9 22 (2.74%) Data Centre
10 20 (2.49%) Public Cloud
11 19 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
12 16 (1.99%) Clustering
13 15 (1.87%) Replication
14 14 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
15 13 (1.62%) Product Ownership
16 11 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 392 (48.82%) Windows
2 209 (26.03%) Windows Server
3 179 (22.29%) Linux
4 51 (6.35%) Windows 10
5 33 (4.11%) Apple iOS
5 33 (4.11%) Mac OS
6 29 (3.61%) CentOS
7 27 (3.36%) Android
7 27 (3.36%) Windows Server 2016
8 24 (2.99%) Windows Server 2019
9 22 (2.74%) Ubuntu
9 22 (2.74%) VMS
10 20 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 8 (1.00%) Debian
12 5 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.50%) AIX
13 4 (0.50%) Unix
14 3 (0.37%) CoreOS
15 2 (0.25%) Windows 7
16 1 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
2 176 (21.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 171 (21.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 165 (20.55%) Cybersecurity
4 165 (20.55%) DevOps
5 159 (19.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 152 (18.93%) CI/CD
7 141 (17.56%) ITIL
8 123 (15.32%) Agile
9 106 (13.20%) Containerisation
10 104 (12.95%) Mentoring
11 97 (12.08%) Root Cause Analysis
12 92 (11.46%) Disaster Recovery
13 89 (11.08%) High Availability
14 82 (10.21%) Task Automation
15 81 (10.09%) Observability
16 79 (9.84%) Roadmaps
17 78 (9.71%) Cloud Security
18 70 (8.72%) SIEM
19 68 (8.47%) AI
Programming Languages
1 257 (32.00%) Python
2 237 (29.51%) Bash
3 139 (17.31%) SQL
4 63 (7.85%) C#
5 61 (7.60%) Bicep
6 49 (6.10%) T-SQL
7 41 (5.11%) JavaScript
8 26 (3.24%) TypeScript
9 14 (1.74%) Kusto Query Language
10 11 (1.37%) C++
11 10 (1.25%) Java
11 10 (1.25%) VB
12 9 (1.12%) VBScript
13 8 (1.00%) Perl
13 8 (1.00%) PHP
14 6 (0.75%) Korn
15 5 (0.62%) Ruby
16 4 (0.50%) C
16 4 (0.50%) Go
17 2 (0.25%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 119 (14.82%) Security Cleared
2 96 (11.96%) Azure Certification
3 92 (11.46%) Degree
4 83 (10.34%) SC Cleared
5 76 (9.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 36 (4.48%) DV Cleared
7 28 (3.49%) Cisco Certification
7 28 (3.49%) CompTIA Security+
7 28 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (3.36%) DBS Check
9 23 (2.86%) CCNA
10 17 (2.12%) CISSP
10 17 (2.12%) CREST Certified
11 16 (1.99%) AWS Certification
12 15 (1.87%) CEH
13 8 (1.00%) SANS
14 7 (0.87%) CISM
14 7 (0.87%) Network+ Certification
15 6 (0.75%) CCNP
15 6 (0.75%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (9.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 60 (7.47%) NIST
3 45 (5.60%) Cyber Essentials
4 40 (4.98%) GDPR
5 32 (3.99%) NCSC
6 28 (3.49%) SLA
7 14 (1.74%) Data Quality
8 12 (1.49%) Accessibility
8 12 (1.49%) PCI DSS
9 10 (1.25%) QA
10 9 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 9 (1.12%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.75%) DICOM
11 6 (0.75%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.25%) ISAE 3402
12 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.12%) COBIT
13 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
System Software
1 327 (40.72%) Active Directory
2 153 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 117 (14.57%) Hyper-V
4 102 (12.70%) Docker
5 47 (5.85%) vSphere
6 35 (4.36%) Virtual Machines
7 25 (3.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 20 (2.49%) VMware NSX
9 11 (1.37%) BitLocker
9 11 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (1.25%) KVM
11 8 (1.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.50%) iptables
13 4 (0.50%) Squid
14 2 (0.25%) Samba
15 1 (0.12%) Firmware
15 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 177 (22.04%) Terraform
2 147 (18.31%) Kubernetes
3 119 (14.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 87 (10.83%) Ansible
5 55 (6.85%) Grafana
6 36 (4.48%) Prometheus
7 24 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (2.62%) SCCM
8 21 (2.62%) vCenter Server
9 19 (2.37%) Jamf Pro
10 16 (1.99%) ZABBIX
11 15 (1.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 14 (1.74%) Graylog
12 14 (1.74%) Proxmox
13 12 (1.49%) Argo
13 12 (1.49%) Nagios
14 11 (1.37%) QRadar
14 11 (1.37%) WSUS
15 8 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
15 8 (1.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 493 (61.39%) Microsoft
2 178 (22.17%) VMware
3 66 (8.22%) Cisco
4 46 (5.73%) Splunk
5 45 (5.60%) Veeam
6 42 (5.23%) Red Hat
7 36 (4.48%) Meraki
8 21 (2.62%) Apple
9 20 (2.49%) Dell
10 19 (2.37%) Adobe
10 19 (2.37%) ServiceNow
10 19 (2.37%) SolarWinds
11 18 (2.24%) Logitech
12 17 (2.12%) CrowdStrike
12 17 (2.12%) Oracle
13 14 (1.74%) Dynatrace
14 12 (1.49%) Google
14 12 (1.49%) HP
14 12 (1.49%) Sophos
15 11 (1.37%) Zerto