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 19 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	159	86	119
Rank change year-on-year	-73	+33	-51
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell	972	1,077	1,023
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London	1.11%	3.16%	2.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category	8.03%	15.43%	7.47%
Number of salaries quoted	641	657	594
10^th Percentile	£31,500	£31,250	£34,750
25^th Percentile	£38,000	£39,500	£42,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£52,500	£52,500	£51,500
Median % change year-on-year	-	+1.94%	-4.63%
75^th Percentile	£64,500	£63,750	£64,563
90^th Percentile	£77,500	£77,500	£77,500
UK median annual salary	£57,200	£57,500	£62,500
% change year-on-year	-0.52%	-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.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills	12,103	6,979	13,699
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London	13.77%	20.48%	27.93%
Number of salaries quoted	8,994	4,622	7,595
10^th Percentile	£36,823	£29,750	£34,000
25^th Percentile	£46,250	£38,750	£42,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£60,000	£55,000	£55,000
Median % change year-on-year	+9.09%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£75,000	£68,750	£70,000
90^th Percentile	£90,000	£80,000	£82,500
UK median annual salary	£65,000	£62,500	£65,000
% change year-on-year	+4.00%	-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 Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

PowerShell Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 October 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in the UK excluding London

PowerShell 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 19 October 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
North of England	-99	239	£50,000	-	164
South East	-33	238	£52,500	-8.70%	173
Midlands	-37	161	£52,500	+1.94%	83
North West	-95	142	£50,000	-	88
East of England	-44	95	£56,250	+18.42%	58
South West	-80	95	£54,300	+11.96%	87
West Midlands	-62	81	£56,250	+2.27%	54
East Midlands	-3	80	£42,500	+10.39%	29
Northern Ireland	-23	70	£46,000	-	25
Yorkshire	-44	58	£49,222	-1.56%	52
Scotland	-8	45	£52,500	-	48
North East	-34	39	£50,913	-15.15%	25
Wales	-60	29	£35,000	-36.36%	18
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PowerShell Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 19 October 2026, job vacancies citing PowerShell also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region with a requirement for PowerShell.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Microsoft	65.8%	640
2	Azure	59.0%	573
3	Windows	52.2%	507
4	Microsoft 365	42.5%	413
5	Active Directory	37.1%	361
6	Python	32.9%	320
7	Problem-Solving	32.6%	317
8	Entra ID	32.5%	316
9	Continuous Improvement	29.1%	283
10	Infrastructure Engineering	27.4%	266
11	DNS	26.9%	261
12	Windows Server	26.5%	258
13	DevOps	26.4%	257
14	Linux	25.4%	247
15	Firewall	24.2%	235
16	VMware	22.4%	218
17	Terraform	20.9%	203
18	Infrastructure as Code	20.0%	194
19	Bash	19.5%	190
19	SQL	19.5%	190
21	SharePoint	19.3%	188
22	Microsoft Exchange	19.2%	187
22	VMware Infrastructure	19.2%	187
24	DHCP	19.0%	185
25	Microsoft Intune	18.9%	184
26	ITIL	18.3%	178
27	CI/CD	18.0%	175
27	VPN	18.0%	175
29	Mentoring	16.9%	164
30	Disaster Recovery	16.6%	161

PowerShell Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Python	32.9%	320
2	Bash	19.5%	190
2	SQL	19.5%	190
4	C#	11.6%	113
5	JavaScript	10.7%	104
6	Bicep	9.9%	96
7	TypeScript	8.0%	78
8	Kusto Query Language	3.7%	36
9	Java	2.8%	27
10	T-SQL	1.6%	16
10	VBScript	1.6%	16
12	C++	1.4%	14
13	PHP	1.3%	13
14	VB	1.0%	10
15	Perl	0.9%	9
16	PL/SQL	0.7%	7
17	Ruby	0.5%	5
18	C	0.4%	4
18	Data Analysis Expressions	0.4%	4
18	Go	0.4%	4