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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 85 136
Rank change year-on-year -57 +51 -50
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 902 1,126 1,179
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.22% 3.30% 1.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.65% 13.24% 6.80%
Number of salaries quoted 665 653 893
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year - +2.68% -6.67%

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 11,785 8,504 17,350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.98% 24.89% 27.74%
Number of salaries quoted 8,557 5,447 12,291
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -7.69%

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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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -30 246 £55,000 -4.35% 99
North of England -97 209 £49,222 +1.90% 69
Midlands -43 147 £50,000 - 42
North West -89 113 £51,500 +10.75% 39
East of England -36 90 £56,250 +7.14% 29
South West -67 84 £55,000 +15.79% 40
East Midlands -11 75 £42,500 +21.43% 20
West Midlands -66 72 £52,500 -4.55% 22
Yorkshire -39 57 £47,500 -5.00% 18
Northern Ireland -22 53 £46,000 +2.12% 6
Scotland +30 43 £52,500 +31.25% 13
North East -22 39 £49,222 -17.96% 14
Wales -35 30 £46,500 -15.45% 6
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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 (18.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 164 (18.18%) SharePoint
3 40 (4.43%) IIS
4 17 (1.88%) Confluence
5 8 (0.89%) nginx
6 4 (0.44%) Apache
6 4 (0.44%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.11%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 40 (4.43%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.67%) NetSuite
1 6 (0.67%) Raiser’s Edge
1 6 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.33%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.22%) Alphatax
3 2 (0.22%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 556 (61.64%) Azure
2 362 (40.13%) Microsoft 365
3 228 (25.28%) Entra ID
4 151 (16.74%) AWS
5 107 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
6 105 (11.64%) SaaS
7 87 (9.65%) IaaS
8 77 (8.54%) Power Platform
9 65 (7.21%) GitHub
10 61 (6.76%) OneDrive
11 51 (5.65%) Power Automate
12 50 (5.54%) Azure AKS
12 50 (5.54%) PaaS
13 47 (5.21%) Azure Key Vault
14 45 (4.99%) Azure Sentinel
15 43 (4.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 40 (4.43%) GitHub Actions
17 39 (4.32%) Azure Monitor
18 32 (3.55%) PowerApps
19 30 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 249 (27.61%) DNS
2 225 (24.94%) Firewall
3 165 (18.29%) DHCP
4 156 (17.29%) VPN
5 103 (11.42%) TCP/IP
6 84 (9.31%) WAN
7 75 (8.31%) LAN
8 58 (6.43%) VLAN
9 33 (3.66%) Wi-Fi
10 32 (3.55%) Wireless
11 31 (3.44%) SAN
12 30 (3.33%) VoIP
13 20 (2.22%) Network Security
14 17 (1.88%) Broadband
14 17 (1.88%) SSL
15 16 (1.77%) BGP
16 15 (1.66%) HTTP
17 14 (1.55%) SD-WAN
18 12 (1.33%) NAS
18 12 (1.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (9.76%) SQL Server
2 52 (5.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 46 (5.10%) Power BI
4 31 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (1.88%) MySQL
7 12 (1.33%) MongoDB
8 10 (1.11%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.00%) InfluxDB
9 9 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (0.89%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.55%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.55%) Metadata
12 4 (0.44%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.44%) Redis
13 3 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
13 3 (0.33%) Power Query
14 2 (0.22%) KNIME
14 2 (0.22%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 72 (7.98%) Git
2 56 (6.21%) JIRA
3 46 (5.10%) GitLab
4 38 (4.21%) Jenkins
5 14 (1.55%) Bitbucket
5 14 (1.55%) Octopus Deploy
6 7 (0.78%) Robot Framework
6 7 (0.78%) TestRail
7 6 (0.67%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.67%) Selenium
7 6 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 5 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.44%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.44%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.33%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.33%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.22%) MSI
11 2 (0.22%) Postman
11 2 (0.22%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 316 (35.03%) Social Skills
2 100 (11.09%) Analytical Skills
3 97 (10.75%) Law
4 90 (9.98%) Finance
5 74 (8.20%) Legal
6 47 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 42 (4.66%) Documentation Skills
8 34 (3.77%) Retail
9 31 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (3.44%) Public Sector
10 21 (2.33%) Manufacturing
11 18 (2.00%) Aerospace
12 12 (1.33%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.78%) Games
14 6 (0.67%) Advertising
14 6 (0.67%) Military
14 6 (0.67%) Police
15 5 (0.55%) Aviation
15 5 (0.55%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 200 (22.17%) Senior
2 140 (15.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 111 (12.31%) Support Engineer
4 110 (12.20%) IT Support
5 108 (11.97%) IT Engineer
6 98 (10.86%) Analyst
7 88 (9.76%) Cloud Engineer
8 73 (8.09%) Azure Engineer
8 73 (8.09%) DevOps Engineer
9 66 (7.32%) IT Support Engineer
10 53 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support
11 49 (5.43%) Senior Manager
11 49 (5.43%) Testing Manager
12 42 (4.66%) Developer
12 42 (4.66%) Security Engineer
13 39 (4.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 39 (4.32%) Administrator
13 39 (4.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 34 (3.77%) Lead
14 34 (3.77%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (7.32%) .NET
2 42 (4.66%) ARM Templates
3 39 (4.32%) Microsoft Graph
4 35 (3.88%) JSON
5 31 (3.44%) HTML
5 31 (3.44%) YAML
6 24 (2.66%) .NET Core
6 24 (2.66%) SPFx
7 23 (2.55%) OAuth
7 23 (2.55%) SAML
8 22 (2.44%) CSS
9 19 (2.11%) HTML5 Canvas
10 18 (2.00%) REST
11 17 (1.88%) Elastic Stack
12 16 (1.77%) LDAP
12 16 (1.77%) OpenID
13 13 (1.44%) React
13 13 (1.44%) SOAP
14 12 (1.33%) Middleware
14 12 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 62 (6.87%) Onboarding
2 54 (5.99%) Virtual Team
3 47 (5.21%) Driving Licence
4 46 (5.10%) Cloud Native
5 41 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 31 (3.44%) Management Information System
6 31 (3.44%) PKI
7 29 (3.22%) Security Operations Centre
7 29 (3.22%) Self-Motivation
8 28 (3.10%) Security Posture
9 24 (2.66%) Data Centre
9 24 (2.66%) Public Cloud
10 23 (2.55%) Clustering
11 18 (2.00%) Replication
12 15 (1.66%) Cyberattack
12 15 (1.66%) Product Ownership
13 14 (1.55%) Cyber Threat
14 13 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (1.33%) Enterprise Storage
15 12 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 428 (47.45%) Windows
2 227 (25.17%) Windows Server
3 198 (21.95%) Linux
4 52 (5.76%) Windows 10
5 35 (3.88%) Apple iOS
5 35 (3.88%) CentOS
6 29 (3.22%) Android
6 29 (3.22%) Mac OS
7 25 (2.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 25 (2.77%) VMS
7 25 (2.77%) Windows Server 2016
8 24 (2.66%) Ubuntu
8 24 (2.66%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.78%) Debian
10 5 (0.55%) CoreOS
10 5 (0.55%) Unix
10 5 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.44%) AIX
11 4 (0.44%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.22%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (26.61%) Problem-Solving
2 237 (26.27%) DevOps
3 216 (23.95%) Continuous Improvement
4 192 (21.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 179 (19.84%) Infrastructure as Code
6 174 (19.29%) CI/CD
7 156 (17.29%) ITIL
8 142 (15.74%) Cybersecurity
9 140 (15.52%) Mentoring
10 133 (14.75%) Agile
11 110 (12.20%) Containerisation
12 109 (12.08%) Disaster Recovery
13 107 (11.86%) High Availability
14 101 (11.20%) Root Cause Analysis
15 94 (10.42%) Project Delivery
16 90 (9.98%) Observability
17 86 (9.53%) Task Automation
18 85 (9.42%) AI
18 85 (9.42%) Cloud Security
19 81 (8.98%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 325 (36.03%) Python
2 216 (23.95%) Bash
3 158 (17.52%) SQL
4 117 (12.97%) C#
5 94 (10.42%) JavaScript
6 79 (8.76%) Bicep
7 78 (8.65%) TypeScript
8 26 (2.88%) Kusto Query Language
9 25 (2.77%) T-SQL
10 13 (1.44%) C++
10 13 (1.44%) Java
10 13 (1.44%) VBScript
11 12 (1.33%) PHP
12 9 (1.00%) VB
13 8 (0.89%) Perl
14 6 (0.67%) Go
14 6 (0.67%) Korn
15 5 (0.55%) C
15 5 (0.55%) Ruby
16 3 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 135 (14.97%) Security Cleared
2 107 (11.86%) Azure Certification
3 101 (11.20%) Degree
4 95 (10.53%) SC Cleared
5 88 (9.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 42 (4.66%) DV Cleared
7 36 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (3.77%) CompTIA Security+
9 33 (3.66%) Cisco Certification
10 28 (3.10%) CCNA
11 24 (2.66%) DBS Check
12 17 (1.88%) CEH
12 17 (1.88%) CISSP
13 14 (1.55%) AWS Certification
14 13 (1.44%) CREST Certified
15 9 (1.00%) GIAC
16 8 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (0.89%) CISM
17 7 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 7 (0.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (7.21%) QA
2 63 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 52 (5.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 42 (4.66%) NIST
5 40 (4.43%) GDPR
6 30 (3.33%) SLA
7 14 (1.55%) Data Quality
7 14 (1.55%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.33%) NCSC
9 9 (1.00%) SOC 2
10 7 (0.78%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.44%) DICOM
13 3 (0.33%) ISAE 3402
13 3 (0.33%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.22%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
System Software
1 328 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 179 (19.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 138 (15.30%) Hyper-V
4 105 (11.64%) Docker
5 56 (6.21%) vSphere
6 45 (4.99%) Virtual Machines
7 31 (3.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (2.11%) VMware NSX
9 13 (1.44%) BitLocker
10 11 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (1.11%) KVM
12 9 (1.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 4 (0.44%) Squid
14 3 (0.33%) Firmware
14 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.22%) iptables
15 2 (0.22%) Samba
16 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 195 (21.62%) Terraform
2 161 (17.85%) Kubernetes
3 141 (15.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 93 (10.31%) Ansible
5 56 (6.21%) Grafana
6 37 (4.10%) Prometheus
7 36 (3.99%) SCCM
8 21 (2.33%) vCenter Server
9 18 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
10 17 (1.88%) Jamf Pro
11 16 (1.77%) Proxmox
11 16 (1.77%) ZABBIX
12 14 (1.55%) Graylog
13 12 (1.33%) Argo
14 11 (1.22%) Nagios
14 11 (1.22%) QRadar
15 10 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 9 (1.00%) Nessus
16 9 (1.00%) WSUS
17 8 (0.89%) Kibana
Vendors
1 555 (61.53%) Microsoft
2 199 (22.06%) VMware
3 82 (9.09%) Cisco
4 48 (5.32%) Splunk
5 47 (5.21%) Veeam
6 46 (5.10%) Red Hat
7 39 (4.32%) Meraki
8 33 (3.66%) ServiceNow
9 22 (2.44%) Dell
10 21 (2.33%) Apple
11 19 (2.11%) Adobe
12 18 (2.00%) Logitech
13 16 (1.77%) Fortinet
13 16 (1.77%) Oracle
13 16 (1.77%) SolarWinds
13 16 (1.77%) Sophos
14 15 (1.66%) CrowdStrike
15 14 (1.55%) Dynatrace
16 13 (1.44%) Citrix
17 12 (1.33%) Atlassian