PowerShell Jobs in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring PowerShell skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PowerShell over the 6 months leading up to 14 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 132 86
Rank change year-on-year +18 -46 +23
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,120 1,488 1,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.60% 1.98% 3.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.83% 6.78% 10.06%
Number of salaries quoted 649 1,110 1,151
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,625 £83,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +3.96%

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 10,346 21,944 18,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.03% 29.16% 37.15%
Number of salaries quoted 6,619 15,681 12,405
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the UK excluding London

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Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for PowerShell in the UK excluding London

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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 14 July 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 14 July 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
North of England +29 407 £49,500 -1.00% 121
North West +59 332 £47,500 -9.52% 59
South East -7 280 £57,500 +9.52% 174
Midlands +40 193 £50,000 +7.53% 114
West Midlands +34 133 £55,000 +12.70% 69
East of England +24 127 £50,000 +2.56% 86
South West +1 87 £47,500 -5.00% 65
Yorkshire -18 63 £51,625 +8.68% 50
East Midlands +27 60 £35,000 -22.22% 42
Scotland +58 26 £40,000 -28.89% 38
North East +5 12 £60,000 +35.52% 12
Wales +19 7 £55,000 +22.22% 28
Isle of Man - 2 £34,500 - 1
Northern Ireland +32 1 £43,092 +7.73% 12
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 197 (17.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 123 (10.98%) SharePoint
3 59 (5.27%) IIS
4 43 (3.84%) Confluence
5 12 (1.07%) Tomcat
6 8 (0.71%) Apache
6 8 (0.71%) nginx
7 6 (0.54%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.27%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.18%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.18%) CMS
10 1 (0.089%) CICS
10 1 (0.089%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.089%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.089%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.089%) WebSphere
Applications
1 52 (4.64%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.36%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (0.18%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.089%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.089%) Autodesk Inventor
5 1 (0.089%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 5 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.27%) Sage 50
3 2 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.089%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.089%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 456 (40.71%) Azure
2 308 (27.50%) Microsoft 365
3 186 (16.61%) AWS
4 134 (11.96%) Entra ID
5 95 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
6 77 (6.88%) Power Platform
7 73 (6.52%) IaaS
8 68 (6.07%) PaaS
9 67 (5.98%) Power Automate
10 63 (5.63%) SaaS
11 44 (3.93%) Azure Monitor
12 43 (3.84%) Amazon EC2
13 41 (3.66%) GCP
14 39 (3.48%) Amazon S3
14 39 (3.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 37 (3.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 34 (3.04%) Amazon ELB
16 34 (3.04%) AWS KMS
17 31 (2.77%) OneDrive
18 30 (2.68%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 423 (37.77%) VPN
2 263 (23.48%) Cisco IOS
3 240 (21.43%) Firewall
4 186 (16.61%) DNS
5 143 (12.77%) DHCP
6 130 (11.61%) TCP/IP
7 76 (6.79%) WAN
8 57 (5.09%) SAN
9 51 (4.55%) VLAN
10 44 (3.93%) LAN
11 42 (3.75%) SMTP
12 41 (3.66%) Network Security
13 35 (3.13%) NAS
13 35 (3.13%) SD-WAN
14 32 (2.86%) FTP
14 32 (2.86%) Wireless
15 29 (2.59%) Internet
16 28 (2.50%) VoIP
17 25 (2.23%) HTTP
18 24 (2.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (9.20%) SQL Server
2 83 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
3 48 (4.29%) Power BI
4 28 (2.50%) MySQL
5 22 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 21 (1.88%) Relational Database
7 17 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (1.43%) Data Lake
9 13 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
10 12 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (0.71%) Big Data
11 8 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (0.71%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.36%) FileMaker
14 3 (0.27%) DB2
15 2 (0.18%) EDMS
15 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 2 (0.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 64 (5.71%) Git
2 62 (5.54%) Cucumber
2 62 (5.54%) Robot Framework
3 59 (5.27%) Jenkins
4 58 (5.18%) JIRA
5 34 (3.04%) Vagrant
6 24 (2.14%) MSI
7 13 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
8 12 (1.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 10 (0.89%) GitLab
9 10 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (0.71%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.36%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.36%) Burp Suite
11 4 (0.36%) Metasploit
12 3 (0.27%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.27%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.089%) gulp
13 1 (0.089%) MSBuild
13 1 (0.089%) Yeoman
General
1 364 (32.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 295 (26.34%) Analytical Skills
3 291 (25.98%) Social Skills
4 79 (7.05%) Telecoms
5 73 (6.52%) Finance
6 43 (3.84%) Public Sector
7 30 (2.68%) Law
8 24 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
9 23 (2.05%) Legal
10 20 (1.79%) Automotive
10 20 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (1.61%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.52%) Advertising
13 15 (1.34%) German Language
13 15 (1.34%) Retail
14 14 (1.25%) Local Government
15 12 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (0.80%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.80%) Czech Language
17 6 (0.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 404 (36.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 135 (12.05%) Support Engineer
3 93 (8.30%) IT Support
4 81 (7.23%) Analyst
5 77 (6.88%) Senior
6 72 (6.43%) IT Engineer
7 69 (6.16%) Infrastructure Support
8 67 (5.98%) 3rd Line Support
9 62 (5.54%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 62 (5.54%) Test Automation Engineer
9 62 (5.54%) Test Engineer
10 60 (5.36%) Azure Engineer
11 53 (4.73%) Lead
12 51 (4.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 51 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
13 48 (4.29%) Cloud Engineer
14 47 (4.20%) Administrator
15 46 (4.11%) Architect
16 41 (3.66%) IT Support Engineer
17 40 (3.57%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 268 (23.93%) Elastic Stack
2 32 (2.86%) .NET
3 27 (2.41%) LDAP
4 25 (2.23%) ARM Templates
4 25 (2.23%) YAML
5 18 (1.61%) JSON
6 17 (1.52%) REST
7 15 (1.34%) SailPoint
7 15 (1.34%) XML
8 13 (1.16%) SOAP
9 7 (0.63%) .NET Framework
9 7 (0.63%) Web Services
10 6 (0.54%) Pandas
11 5 (0.45%) Blazor
11 5 (0.45%) FHIR
12 4 (0.36%) Entity Framework
12 4 (0.36%) Loki
12 4 (0.36%) RabbitMQ
13 3 (0.27%) RESTful
13 3 (0.27%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 261 (23.30%) Cyberattack
2 68 (6.07%) Linux Command Line
3 56 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 47 (4.20%) Management Information System
5 45 (4.02%) Data Centre
6 36 (3.21%) Security Posture
7 35 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 33 (2.95%) Clustering
9 32 (2.86%) Replication
10 26 (2.32%) PKI
11 20 (1.79%) Virtual Team
12 16 (1.43%) Cloud Native
13 15 (1.34%) Driving Licence
13 15 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.25%) Client/Server
14 14 (1.25%) NHS
14 14 (1.25%) Private Cloud
15 13 (1.16%) Public Cloud
15 13 (1.16%) Security Operations Centre
15 13 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 771 (68.84%) Windows
2 521 (46.52%) Linux
3 266 (23.75%) Android
4 230 (20.54%) Windows Server
5 70 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
6 55 (4.91%) VMS
7 46 (4.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 42 (3.75%) Windows 10
9 40 (3.57%) Mac OS
10 25 (2.23%) Ubuntu
11 21 (1.88%) Unix
12 19 (1.70%) Amazon Linux
13 17 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 15 (1.34%) Apple iOS
15 11 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
16 9 (0.80%) CentOS
17 6 (0.54%) Windows 7
18 5 (0.45%) Mac OS X
18 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
19 4 (0.36%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 516 (46.07%) DevOps
2 502 (44.82%) Problem-Solving
3 420 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 326 (29.11%) Task Automation
5 298 (26.61%) Platform Engineering
6 285 (25.45%) Risk Management
7 279 (24.91%) Storage Management
8 276 (24.64%) Line Management
9 261 (23.30%) Mathematics
10 169 (15.09%) Mentoring
11 143 (12.77%) ITIL
12 136 (12.14%) CI/CD
13 127 (11.34%) Agile
14 110 (9.82%) Cybersecurity
15 99 (8.84%) Coaching
16 96 (8.57%) Test Automation
17 93 (8.30%) Infrastructure as Code
18 86 (7.68%) Disaster Recovery
19 83 (7.41%) Migration
20 72 (6.43%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 567 (50.63%) Python
2 447 (39.91%) Bash
3 162 (14.46%) SQL
4 89 (7.95%) JavaScript
5 55 (4.91%) Java
6 43 (3.84%) C#
7 39 (3.48%) Bicep
8 34 (3.04%) Groovy
9 23 (2.05%) Perl
10 19 (1.70%) T-SQL
11 13 (1.16%) VB
12 12 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (0.80%) VBA
14 8 (0.71%) C++
15 6 (0.54%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.45%) R
16 5 (0.45%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.27%) VBScript
18 2 (0.18%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 221 (19.73%) Degree
2 179 (15.98%) Security Cleared
3 97 (8.66%) DV Cleared
4 94 (8.39%) SC Cleared
5 90 (8.04%) Azure Certification
6 79 (7.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 45 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 44 (3.93%) AWS Certification
9 26 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (2.05%) CCNA
11 21 (1.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 20 (1.79%) DBS Check
13 19 (1.70%) CompTIA Security+
14 18 (1.61%) HND
15 16 (1.43%) CISSP
15 16 (1.43%) Master's Degree
16 14 (1.25%) CEH
16 14 (1.25%) MCSE
16 14 (1.25%) Network+ Certification
17 12 (1.07%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (6.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 70 (6.25%) QA
3 51 (4.55%) GDPR
4 44 (3.93%) NIST
5 21 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 20 (1.79%) SLA
7 18 (1.61%) HIPAA
7 18 (1.61%) NCSC
8 13 (1.16%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.80%) COBIT
10 5 (0.45%) HL7
10 5 (0.45%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.089%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.089%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.089%) GRC
13 1 (0.089%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 402 (35.89%) Hyper-V
2 359 (32.05%) Active Directory
3 350 (31.25%) Docker
4 306 (27.32%) vSphere
5 275 (24.55%) VMware NSX
6 203 (18.13%) VMware Infrastructure
7 55 (4.91%) Virtual Machines
8 35 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
9 25 (2.23%) DFS Replication
10 23 (2.05%) Virtual Desktop
11 19 (1.70%) Terminal Services
12 13 (1.16%) XenApp
13 9 (0.80%) BitLocker
13 9 (0.80%) Microsoft App-V
14 8 (0.71%) Dovecot
14 8 (0.71%) Postfix
14 8 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
15 6 (0.54%) Squid
16 2 (0.18%) Firmware
16 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 405 (36.16%) Terraform
2 351 (31.34%) Ansible
3 162 (14.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 81 (7.23%) Kubernetes
5 52 (4.64%) Grafana
6 51 (4.55%) SCCM
7 50 (4.46%) Prometheus
8 29 (2.59%) Single Sign-On
9 28 (2.50%) WSUS
10 27 (2.41%) vCenter Server
11 26 (2.32%) WMI
12 20 (1.79%) Puppet
13 16 (1.43%) QRadar
13 16 (1.43%) SCOM
14 15 (1.34%) Backup Exec
15 14 (1.25%) vMotion
16 10 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
17 8 (0.71%) Nagios
17 8 (0.71%) PowerCLI
17 8 (0.71%) vRealize
Vendors
1 509 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 329 (29.38%) Cisco
3 285 (25.45%) Splunk
4 277 (24.73%) Juniper
5 260 (23.21%) 3PAR
6 240 (21.43%) VMware
7 51 (4.55%) Citrix
8 44 (3.93%) Veeam
9 42 (3.75%) ServiceNow
10 41 (3.66%) Meraki
11 32 (2.86%) Apple
12 31 (2.77%) Oracle
13 27 (2.41%) Okta
14 26 (2.32%) Google
14 26 (2.32%) HP
15 23 (2.05%) Red Hat
16 18 (1.61%) Salesforce
17 17 (1.52%) Databricks
17 17 (1.52%) SonicWALL
18 16 (1.43%) Fortinet