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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 113 59
Rank change year-on-year +9 -54 +50
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 817 1,025 1,337
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.20% 2.17% 4.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.18% 7.47% 11.72%
Number of salaries quoted 663 656 1,065
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £64,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.26% +3.33% -

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 6,706 13,727 11,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.09% 29.12% 38.40%
Number of salaries quoted 5,090 7,620 9,046
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £35,187
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,025 £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 25 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 25 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 -13 226 £58,000 +2.61% 162
North of England -1 156 £50,000 - 54
Midlands +13 118 £52,500 +10.53% 65
South West +32 112 £52,500 - 50
East of England +30 99 £47,500 -9.52% 33
West Midlands +24 88 £55,000 +17.27% 30
Scotland +16 88 £67,000 +26.42% 58
Yorkshire +7 75 £47,500 -10.38% 18
North West +5 69 £52,500 +5.00% 29
East Midlands +14 30 £50,000 +5.26% 34
Wales +19 17 £55,000 +8.80% 17
North East +15 12 £60,000 +27.29% 7
Northern Ireland -1 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
1 165 (20.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 121 (14.81%) SharePoint
3 44 (5.39%) Confluence
4 41 (5.02%) IIS
5 22 (2.69%) Exchange Server 2003
6 17 (2.08%) Skype for Business
7 11 (1.35%) nginx
8 6 (0.73%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.24%) CMS
9 2 (0.24%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 42 (5.14%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.73%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 6 (0.73%) Siemens NX
4 5 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.49%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.37%) CATIA
6 3 (0.37%) Windchill
7 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.12%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.98%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.73%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.61%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 524 (64.14%) Azure
2 308 (37.70%) Microsoft 365
3 167 (20.44%) Entra ID
4 163 (19.95%) AWS
5 119 (14.57%) Azure DevOps
6 70 (8.57%) Power Platform
7 56 (6.85%) SaaS
8 49 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
9 47 (5.75%) GitHub
10 45 (5.51%) GCP
11 42 (5.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 42 (5.14%) PaaS
12 41 (5.02%) Power Automate
13 39 (4.77%) GitHub Actions
14 38 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
14 38 (4.65%) IaaS
15 36 (4.41%) Amazon S3
15 36 (4.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 30 (3.67%) Amazon ELB
16 30 (3.67%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 186 (22.77%) DNS
2 178 (21.79%) Firewall
3 148 (18.12%) DHCP
4 79 (9.67%) TCP/IP
5 59 (7.22%) VPN
6 54 (6.61%) WAN
7 45 (5.51%) LAN
8 42 (5.14%) VLAN
9 41 (5.02%) Wireless
10 31 (3.79%) Internet
11 29 (3.55%) SAN
12 22 (2.69%) HTTP
13 21 (2.57%) SMTP
14 19 (2.33%) FTP
14 19 (2.33%) SSH
15 17 (2.08%) Kerberos
15 17 (2.08%) Skype
16 15 (1.84%) Network Security
17 14 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
18 13 (1.59%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (11.26%) SQL Server
2 52 (6.36%) Amazon RDS
3 32 (3.92%) Power BI
4 29 (3.55%) Oracle Database
5 26 (3.18%) Oracle Database 10g
6 23 (2.82%) Relational Database
7 18 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (1.10%) DTS
9 9 (1.10%) MySQL
10 8 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (0.98%) BusinessObjects
11 7 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.49%) Oracle Database 11g
14 4 (0.49%) Oracle Database 12c
14 4 (0.49%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.49%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 99 (12.12%) JIRA
2 75 (9.18%) Jenkins
3 65 (7.96%) Git
4 29 (3.55%) Vagrant
5 27 (3.30%) Octopus Deploy
6 18 (2.20%) TeamCity
7 17 (2.08%) GitLab
8 13 (1.59%) MSI
9 6 (0.73%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.61%) 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%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.49%) Toad
12 3 (0.37%) Balsamiq
13 2 (0.24%) git-flow
13 2 (0.24%) Robot Framework
13 2 (0.24%) TestRail
General
1 272 (33.29%) Social Skills
2 167 (20.44%) Finance
3 54 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 42 (5.14%) Law
6 37 (4.53%) Retail
7 27 (3.30%) Manufacturing
8 22 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (1.71%) Legal
10 14 (1.71%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.59%) 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 (1.10%) Aerospace
14 8 (0.98%) Local Government
14 8 (0.98%) Military
15 6 (0.73%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 137 (16.77%) Support Engineer
2 105 (12.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 105 (12.85%) Senior
3 72 (8.81%) 3rd Line Support
3 72 (8.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 65 (7.96%) Azure Engineer
5 59 (7.22%) Developer
6 57 (6.98%) IT Engineer
6 57 (6.98%) IT Support
7 55 (6.73%) Analyst
8 53 (6.49%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 45 (5.51%) Applications Engineer
10 41 (5.02%) Lead
11 40 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
12 39 (4.77%) IT Support Engineer
12 39 (4.77%) Security Engineer
13 38 (4.65%) Infrastructure Support
13 38 (4.65%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
14 37 (4.53%) Applications Support
15 34 (4.16%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (7.22%) REST
2 48 (5.88%) .NET
3 36 (4.41%) SOAP
4 34 (4.16%) ARM Templates
5 32 (3.92%) LDAP
6 18 (2.20%) Web Services
7 17 (2.08%) SAML
8 16 (1.96%) JSON
8 16 (1.96%) OAuth
9 14 (1.71%) GraphQL
10 13 (1.59%) YAML
11 12 (1.47%) AngularJS
12 11 (1.35%) React
13 10 (1.22%) OpenID
13 10 (1.22%) Razor View Engine
14 9 (1.10%) Microsoft Graph
15 7 (0.86%) .NET Framework
15 7 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
16 6 (0.73%) OpenAPI
16 6 (0.73%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 81 (9.91%) Onboarding
2 50 (6.12%) Product Ownership
3 32 (3.92%) Security Posture
4 31 (3.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (3.43%) Replication
6 25 (3.06%) PKI
7 21 (2.57%) Data Centre
8 20 (2.45%) Cloud Native
9 19 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
10 18 (2.20%) Driving Licence
10 18 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (1.59%) IoT
12 13 (1.59%) Virtual Team
13 11 (1.35%) Clustering
14 10 (1.22%) CMDB
14 10 (1.22%) Operational Technology
14 10 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
15 9 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.10%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 389 (47.61%) Windows
2 231 (28.27%) Windows Server
3 140 (17.14%) Linux
4 52 (6.36%) Windows Server 2019
5 48 (5.88%) Windows 10
6 47 (5.75%) VMS
7 35 (4.28%) Windows Server 2016
8 33 (4.04%) Mac OS
9 31 (3.79%) Unix
9 31 (3.79%) Windows Server 2008
10 22 (2.69%) HPUX
10 22 (2.69%) Solaris
10 22 (2.69%) Windows 7
10 22 (2.69%) Windows Server 2003
11 19 (2.33%) Amazon Linux
12 17 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 13 (1.59%) Ubuntu
14 11 (1.35%) Android
15 7 (0.86%) Apple iOS
15 7 (0.86%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (29.74%) Problem-Solving
2 221 (27.05%) DevOps
3 185 (22.64%) ITIL
4 155 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
5 138 (16.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 133 (16.28%) CI/CD
7 120 (14.69%) Agile
8 112 (13.71%) Infrastructure as Code
9 110 (13.46%) Mentoring
10 89 (10.89%) Cybersecurity
11 82 (10.04%) Task Automation
12 81 (9.91%) Coaching
13 79 (9.67%) Roadmaps
14 77 (9.42%) Asset Management
14 77 (9.42%) Change Management
15 72 (8.81%) Incident Management
16 71 (8.69%) Cloud Security
17 69 (8.45%) Disaster Recovery
18 66 (8.08%) ITSM
19 64 (7.83%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 243 (29.74%) Python
2 163 (19.95%) SQL
3 140 (17.14%) Bash
4 71 (8.69%) C#
5 48 (5.88%) Bicep
6 37 (4.53%) JavaScript
7 35 (4.28%) Perl
8 33 (4.04%) Java
9 29 (3.55%) Groovy
10 24 (2.94%) VB
11 14 (1.71%) Kusto Query Language
12 12 (1.47%) T-SQL
13 10 (1.22%) VBScript
14 9 (1.10%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.98%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.49%) Go
17 3 (0.37%) Tcl
18 2 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 2 (0.24%) VB.NET
19 1 (0.12%) VB6
Qualifications
1 153 (18.73%) Security Cleared
2 107 (13.10%) Degree
3 104 (12.73%) SC Cleared
4 62 (7.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 54 (6.61%) DV Cleared
6 53 (6.49%) Azure Certification
7 35 (4.28%) AWS Certification
7 35 (4.28%) Cisco Certification
8 29 (3.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 28 (3.43%) CCNA
10 23 (2.82%) CISSP
11 20 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
12 17 (2.08%) CREST Certified
13 14 (1.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 12 (1.47%) SANS
15 11 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
16 10 (1.22%) CEH
16 10 (1.22%) DBS Check
16 10 (1.22%) Network+ Certification
16 10 (1.22%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (6.24%) SLA
2 47 (5.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (4.77%) GDPR
4 38 (4.65%) NIST
5 19 (2.33%) Accessibility
6 14 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (1.59%) NCSC
8 7 (0.86%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (0.73%) QA
10 5 (0.61%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.24%) HL7
12 1 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 311 (38.07%) Active Directory
2 126 (15.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 101 (12.36%) Hyper-V
4 81 (9.91%) Docker
5 35 (4.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 34 (4.16%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (2.69%) vSphere
8 20 (2.45%) DFS Replication
9 16 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.98%) Squid
12 7 (0.86%) Dovecot
12 7 (0.86%) Postfix
13 6 (0.73%) Firmware
14 5 (0.61%) Terminal Services
14 5 (0.61%) XenApp
15 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 1 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 1 (0.12%) KVM
16 1 (0.12%) RACF
Systems Management
1 175 (21.42%) Terraform
2 147 (17.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 74 (9.06%) Kubernetes
4 58 (7.10%) Ansible
5 53 (6.49%) SCCM
6 51 (6.24%) Grafana
7 49 (6.00%) Prometheus
8 32 (3.92%) WSUS
9 16 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (1.84%) SCOM
10 15 (1.84%) vCenter Server
11 14 (1.71%) WMI
12 12 (1.47%) Backup Exec
13 10 (1.22%) ZABBIX
14 9 (1.10%) Autotask
14 9 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (1.10%) Nagios
15 7 (0.86%) Nessus
15 7 (0.86%) Proxmox
15 7 (0.86%) QRadar
Vendors
1 506 (61.93%) Microsoft
2 165 (20.20%) VMware
3 65 (7.96%) Cisco
3 65 (7.96%) ServiceNow
4 54 (6.61%) Oracle
5 44 (5.39%) Veeam
6 37 (4.53%) Atlassian
7 31 (3.79%) Red Hat
8 26 (3.18%) SolarWinds
9 25 (3.06%) Splunk
10 23 (2.82%) Citrix
11 21 (2.57%) Google
12 19 (2.33%) Sophos
13 17 (2.08%) Apple
13 17 (2.08%) SAP
14 15 (1.84%) Datto
15 14 (1.71%) HP
16 12 (1.47%) Juniper
16 12 (1.47%) Trend Micro
17 11 (1.35%) Meraki