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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 80 136
Rank change year-on-year -65 +56 -55
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 941 1,148 1,091
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.21% 3.30% 1.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.75% 13.87% 6.69%
Number of salaries quoted 679 678 785
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £34,750
25th Percentile £38,875 £37,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,525
% change year-on-year - -0.04% -4.13%

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 12,143 8,275 16,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.63% 23.81% 27.45%
Number of salaries quoted 8,815 5,244 11,056
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £73,875 £69,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 16 August 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 16 August 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 -29 248 £53,000 -7.83% 133
North of England -89 220 £50,000 +5.26% 87
Midlands -37 156 £52,500 +5.00% 46
North West -80 123 £52,500 +14.13% 59
East of England -44 96 £57,500 +13.86% 37
South West -86 83 £55,000 +17.65% 45
East Midlands -5 82 £42,500 +21.43% 18
West Midlands -60 74 £55,000 - 28
Northern Ireland -13 68 £46,000 - 9
Yorkshire -35 62 £42,500 -17.68% 19
Scotland +15 41 £50,000 +25.00% 17
North East -39 35 £50,810 -15.32% 11
Wales -44 29 £53,000 -3.64% 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
1 182 (19.34%) SharePoint
2 177 (18.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 45 (4.78%) IIS
4 19 (2.02%) Confluence
5 11 (1.17%) nginx
6 6 (0.64%) Apache
7 4 (0.43%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.11%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 36 (3.83%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (0.96%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.64%) Raiser’s Edge
3 3 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.32%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.21%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 578 (61.42%) Azure
2 390 (41.45%) Microsoft 365
3 249 (26.46%) Entra ID
4 149 (15.83%) AWS
5 128 (13.60%) SaaS
6 109 (11.58%) Azure DevOps
7 88 (9.35%) IaaS
8 75 (7.97%) Power Platform
9 71 (7.55%) OneDrive
10 66 (7.01%) GitHub
11 57 (6.06%) Power Automate
12 50 (5.31%) Azure Sentinel
13 49 (5.21%) Azure AKS
13 49 (5.21%) PaaS
14 47 (4.99%) Azure Key Vault
15 43 (4.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 38 (4.04%) Azure Monitor
17 35 (3.72%) PowerApps
18 34 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
19 31 (3.29%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 263 (27.95%) DNS
2 241 (25.61%) Firewall
3 173 (18.38%) DHCP
4 161 (17.11%) VPN
5 111 (11.80%) TCP/IP
6 89 (9.46%) WAN
7 77 (8.18%) LAN
8 59 (6.27%) VLAN
9 36 (3.83%) Wireless
10 33 (3.51%) Wi-Fi
11 32 (3.40%) SAN
12 23 (2.44%) Network Security
13 22 (2.34%) VoIP
14 20 (2.13%) SSL
15 19 (2.02%) HTTP
16 14 (1.49%) VSAN
17 13 (1.38%) Internet
17 13 (1.38%) NAS
18 12 (1.28%) BGP
18 12 (1.28%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (9.35%) SQL Server
2 51 (5.42%) Azure SQL Database
3 40 (4.25%) Power BI
4 25 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (1.38%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.17%) MongoDB
7 11 (1.17%) MySQL
8 8 (0.85%) NoSQL
9 7 (0.74%) InfluxDB
10 6 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.53%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.53%) Metadata
11 5 (0.53%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.43%) Power Query
12 4 (0.43%) Redis
12 4 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.32%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.21%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.21%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 74 (7.86%) Git
2 63 (6.70%) JIRA
3 45 (4.78%) GitLab
4 34 (3.61%) Jenkins
5 14 (1.49%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.38%) Octopus Deploy
7 7 (0.74%) Robot Framework
7 7 (0.74%) TestRail
8 6 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (0.64%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.64%) Selenium
9 4 (0.43%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.43%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.32%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.32%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.21%) Apache Ivy
11 2 (0.21%) git-flow
11 2 (0.21%) IBM UrbanCode
11 2 (0.21%) Postman
General
1 340 (36.13%) Social Skills
2 103 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
3 100 (10.63%) Law
4 99 (10.52%) Finance
5 91 (9.67%) Legal
6 50 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
8 38 (4.04%) Retail
9 36 (3.83%) Public Sector
10 27 (2.87%) Manufacturing
11 25 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
12 21 (2.23%) Aerospace
13 11 (1.17%) Legal Technology
14 10 (1.06%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.64%) Advertising
15 6 (0.64%) Military
15 6 (0.64%) Police
16 5 (0.53%) Aviation
16 5 (0.53%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 211 (22.42%) Senior
2 156 (16.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 112 (11.90%) IT Engineer
4 111 (11.80%) Support Engineer
5 110 (11.69%) IT Support
6 100 (10.63%) Analyst
7 93 (9.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 75 (7.97%) Azure Engineer
9 72 (7.65%) DevOps Engineer
10 63 (6.70%) IT Support Engineer
11 55 (5.84%) Senior Manager
11 55 (5.84%) Testing Manager
12 50 (5.31%) 2nd Line Support
13 49 (5.21%) Administrator
14 41 (4.36%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 41 (4.36%) Developer
15 40 (4.25%) Lead
15 40 (4.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 38 (4.04%) Systems Engineer
17 37 (3.93%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (7.01%) .NET
2 40 (4.25%) ARM Templates
2 40 (4.25%) Microsoft Graph
3 33 (3.51%) YAML
4 31 (3.29%) HTML
5 28 (2.98%) JSON
6 25 (2.66%) .NET Core
7 24 (2.55%) SPFx
8 22 (2.34%) CSS
9 19 (2.02%) HTML5 Canvas
10 16 (1.70%) Elastic Stack
10 16 (1.70%) OAuth
10 16 (1.70%) SAML
11 13 (1.38%) ASP.NET
11 13 (1.38%) ASP.NET Core
11 13 (1.38%) REST
12 12 (1.28%) LDAP
12 12 (1.28%) Middleware
12 12 (1.28%) React
13 11 (1.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 70 (7.44%) Onboarding
2 60 (6.38%) Virtual Team
3 51 (5.42%) Driving Licence
4 47 (4.99%) Cloud Native
5 42 (4.46%) Hybrid Cloud
6 35 (3.72%) Management Information System
7 32 (3.40%) Security Operations Centre
8 31 (3.29%) Clustering
8 31 (3.29%) Replication
8 31 (3.29%) Security Posture
9 29 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
10 27 (2.87%) PKI
11 24 (2.55%) Data Centre
11 24 (2.55%) Public Cloud
12 15 (1.59%) Product Ownership
13 14 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (1.38%) CMDB
14 13 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
15 12 (1.28%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 456 (48.46%) Windows
2 239 (25.40%) Windows Server
3 223 (23.70%) Linux
4 52 (5.53%) Windows 10
5 34 (3.61%) Apple iOS
6 32 (3.40%) CentOS
7 31 (3.29%) Mac OS
8 30 (3.19%) Android
8 30 (3.19%) Ubuntu
9 25 (2.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 25 (2.66%) Windows Server 2016
10 24 (2.55%) VMS
11 22 (2.34%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.64%) Debian
13 5 (0.53%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.53%) Unix
14 4 (0.43%) AIX
14 4 (0.43%) Rocky
14 4 (0.43%) Windows 7
15 3 (0.32%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (26.99%) Problem-Solving
2 249 (26.46%) DevOps
3 246 (26.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 222 (23.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 186 (19.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 179 (19.02%) ITIL
7 177 (18.81%) CI/CD
8 150 (15.94%) Mentoring
9 142 (15.09%) Cybersecurity
10 124 (13.18%) Agile
11 123 (13.07%) Disaster Recovery
12 122 (12.96%) High Availability
13 108 (11.48%) Containerisation
13 108 (11.48%) Project Delivery
14 107 (11.37%) Root Cause Analysis
15 91 (9.67%) AI
16 89 (9.46%) Observability
17 88 (9.35%) Test Automation
18 87 (9.25%) Incident Response
19 84 (8.93%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 325 (34.54%) Python
2 209 (22.21%) Bash
3 169 (17.96%) SQL
4 122 (12.96%) C#
5 99 (10.52%) JavaScript
6 84 (8.93%) TypeScript
7 81 (8.61%) Bicep
8 28 (2.98%) Kusto Query Language
9 16 (1.70%) Java
9 16 (1.70%) T-SQL
10 14 (1.49%) C++
11 13 (1.38%) VBScript
12 12 (1.28%) PHP
13 10 (1.06%) Perl
14 7 (0.74%) VB
15 6 (0.64%) Korn
16 5 (0.53%) C
16 5 (0.53%) Go
16 5 (0.53%) Ruby
17 4 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 152 (16.15%) Security Cleared
2 110 (11.69%) SC Cleared
3 109 (11.58%) Azure Certification
4 103 (10.95%) Degree
5 96 (10.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 48 (5.10%) DV Cleared
7 39 (4.14%) CompTIA Security+
7 39 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (3.72%) Cisco Certification
9 30 (3.19%) CCNA
10 23 (2.44%) DBS Check
11 19 (2.02%) CEH
12 15 (1.59%) CISSP
13 11 (1.17%) AWS Certification
13 11 (1.17%) GIAC
14 10 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (1.06%) CompTIA CySA+
14 10 (1.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 9 (0.96%) CISM
15 9 (0.96%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (7.65%) QA
2 64 (6.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 58 (6.16%) Cyber Essentials
4 36 (3.83%) GDPR
5 35 (3.72%) NIST
6 32 (3.40%) SLA
7 13 (1.38%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.17%) Data Quality
9 9 (0.96%) SOC 2
10 7 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.64%) NCSC
12 3 (0.32%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.32%) ISAE 3402
13 2 (0.21%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.21%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.11%) DICOM
14 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
System Software
1 335 (35.60%) Active Directory
2 184 (19.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 145 (15.41%) Hyper-V
4 105 (11.16%) Docker
5 54 (5.74%) vSphere
6 45 (4.78%) Virtual Machines
7 35 (3.72%) Virtual Desktop
8 22 (2.34%) VMware NSX
9 12 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
10 11 (1.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 10 (1.06%) BitLocker
12 9 (0.96%) KVM
13 6 (0.64%) Firmware
14 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.43%) Squid
14 4 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.21%) Samba
16 1 (0.11%) Ceph
16 1 (0.11%) iptables
16 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 207 (22.00%) Terraform
2 166 (17.64%) Kubernetes
3 164 (17.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 103 (10.95%) Ansible
5 51 (5.42%) Grafana
6 41 (4.36%) SCCM
7 34 (3.61%) Prometheus
8 23 (2.44%) vCenter Server
9 19 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
10 17 (1.81%) Proxmox
11 16 (1.70%) ZABBIX
12 15 (1.59%) Jamf Pro
13 14 (1.49%) Graylog
14 13 (1.38%) QRadar
15 12 (1.28%) Argo
16 11 (1.17%) Puppet
17 10 (1.06%) Nagios
17 10 (1.06%) Nessus
18 8 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 8 (0.85%) Kibana
Vendors
1 602 (63.97%) Microsoft
2 206 (21.89%) VMware
3 92 (9.78%) Cisco
4 50 (5.31%) Splunk
4 50 (5.31%) Veeam
5 45 (4.78%) Red Hat
6 43 (4.57%) Meraki
7 42 (4.46%) ServiceNow
8 25 (2.66%) Dell
9 19 (2.02%) Adobe
9 19 (2.02%) Citrix
9 19 (2.02%) Oracle
9 19 (2.02%) Sophos
10 18 (1.91%) Apple
11 17 (1.81%) Logitech
12 16 (1.70%) CrowdStrike
12 16 (1.70%) Fortinet
13 14 (1.49%) SolarWinds
13 14 (1.49%) TOWER Software
14 13 (1.38%) Atlassian