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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 88 137
Rank change year-on-year -64 +49 -43
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 771 1,046 1,501
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.15% 3.51% 1.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.36% 12.66% 6.48%
Number of salaries quoted 612 569 1,153
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,560 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.12% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,313 £66,250 £60,025
90th Percentile £78,000 £78,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £58,250 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.30% +4.55% -8.33%

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 10,476 8,264 23,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.61% 27.76% 29.40%
Number of salaries quoted 7,477 5,236 17,075
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,439 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £87,350 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 June 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 June 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 -45 195 £56,750 -1.30% 141
North of England -91 192 £47,500 -5.00% 85
Midlands -33 134 £50,000 - 44
North West -83 100 £51,500 +11.35% 60
East of England -24 85 £55,000 +15.79% 28
South West -37 85 £55,000 +15.79% 38
East Midlands -11 76 £45,000 +24.14% 24
Yorkshire -24 60 £45,000 -14.29% 18
West Midlands -71 57 £50,000 -6.87% 20
Scotland +30 54 £50,000 +6.95% 18
North East -27 32 £47,500 -19.15% 8
Wales -25 23 £54,085 +3.02% 4
Northern Ireland -30 3 £46,000 +6.75% 15
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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
1 141 (18.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 140 (18.16%) SharePoint
3 31 (4.02%) IIS
4 16 (2.08%) Confluence
5 2 (0.26%) Apache
5 2 (0.26%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.13%) nginx
6 1 (0.13%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 38 (4.93%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.65%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.26%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.13%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.13%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.13%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 504 (65.37%) Azure
2 330 (42.80%) Microsoft 365
3 195 (25.29%) Entra ID
4 128 (16.60%) AWS
5 87 (11.28%) Azure DevOps
6 70 (9.08%) IaaS
7 62 (8.04%) Power Platform
8 59 (7.65%) GitHub
9 58 (7.52%) OneDrive
10 45 (5.84%) Azure AKS
11 44 (5.71%) SaaS
12 42 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
13 41 (5.32%) Azure Key Vault
14 40 (5.19%) Google Workspace
15 37 (4.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 37 (4.80%) PaaS
16 35 (4.54%) Power Automate
17 34 (4.41%) Azure Sentinel
18 33 (4.28%) Azure Monitor
19 30 (3.89%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 216 (28.02%) DNS
2 191 (24.77%) Firewall
3 139 (18.03%) DHCP
4 128 (16.60%) VPN
5 85 (11.02%) TCP/IP
6 70 (9.08%) WAN
7 64 (8.30%) LAN
8 49 (6.36%) VLAN
9 37 (4.80%) Broadband
10 35 (4.54%) VoIP
11 31 (4.02%) Wi-Fi
12 27 (3.50%) SAN
13 24 (3.11%) Network Security
14 18 (2.33%) BGP
15 16 (2.08%) SD-WAN
15 16 (2.08%) Wireless
16 13 (1.69%) HTTP
16 13 (1.69%) SSL
17 12 (1.56%) MPLS
18 10 (1.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (10.38%) SQL Server
2 40 (5.19%) Azure SQL Database
2 40 (5.19%) Power BI
3 32 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
5 22 (2.85%) MySQL
6 9 (1.17%) NoSQL
6 9 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (1.04%) InfluxDB
8 7 (0.91%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.65%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
9 5 (0.65%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.52%) Metadata
10 4 (0.52%) Redis
11 3 (0.39%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.26%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 56 (7.26%) Git
2 47 (6.10%) JIRA
3 40 (5.19%) Jenkins
4 37 (4.80%) GitLab
5 14 (1.82%) Bitbucket
6 11 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
7 6 (0.78%) Robot Framework
7 6 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 6 (0.78%) TestRail
8 5 (0.65%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.65%) Selenium
9 4 (0.52%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.39%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.39%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.39%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.39%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.26%) MSI
12 1 (0.13%) Balsamiq
12 1 (0.13%) Eclipse
General
1 226 (29.31%) Social Skills
2 96 (12.45%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (9.73%) Finance
4 61 (7.91%) Law
5 52 (6.74%) Organisational Skills
6 41 (5.32%) Documentation Skills
7 39 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (4.54%) Retail
9 29 (3.76%) Public Sector
10 25 (3.24%) Games
11 18 (2.33%) Aerospace
12 17 (2.20%) Legal
13 16 (2.08%) Manufacturing
14 13 (1.69%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.04%) Advertising
16 6 (0.78%) Police
17 5 (0.65%) Aviation
18 4 (0.52%) Financial Institution
18 4 (0.52%) Local Government
18 4 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 160 (20.75%) Senior
2 136 (17.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 105 (13.62%) Support Engineer
4 104 (13.49%) IT Support
5 93 (12.06%) IT Engineer
6 80 (10.38%) Cloud Engineer
7 68 (8.82%) Analyst
8 67 (8.69%) Azure Engineer
9 65 (8.43%) IT Support Engineer
10 61 (7.91%) DevOps Engineer
11 50 (6.49%) Security Engineer
12 49 (6.36%) 2nd Line Support
13 44 (5.71%) Developer
14 38 (4.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 33 (4.28%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 32 (4.15%) Systems Engineer
17 29 (3.76%) Administrator
18 25 (3.24%) Senior Developer
19 24 (3.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 24 (3.11%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (7.13%) .NET
2 49 (6.36%) OAuth
3 47 (6.10%) SAML
4 41 (5.32%) LDAP
4 41 (5.32%) OpenID
5 40 (5.19%) REST
6 37 (4.80%) Microsoft Graph
7 36 (4.67%) JSON
7 36 (4.67%) SOAP
8 34 (4.41%) GraphQL
9 30 (3.89%) YAML
10 28 (3.63%) ARM Templates
11 25 (3.24%) HTML
12 23 (2.98%) SPFx
13 22 (2.85%) .NET Core
14 20 (2.59%) CSS
15 19 (2.46%) HTML5 Canvas
16 16 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
17 14 (1.82%) React
18 11 (1.43%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 57 (7.39%) Onboarding
2 45 (5.84%) Driving Licence
3 40 (5.19%) Cyberattack
4 38 (4.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 37 (4.80%) Cyber Threat
6 35 (4.54%) Cloud Native
7 26 (3.37%) PKI
7 26 (3.37%) Security Operations Centre
8 23 (2.98%) Data Centre
8 23 (2.98%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.72%) Security Posture
10 18 (2.33%) Public Cloud
11 16 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.95%) Clustering
13 14 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (1.69%) Product Ownership
14 13 (1.69%) Replication
15 12 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
16 11 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 372 (48.25%) Windows
2 201 (26.07%) Windows Server
3 167 (21.66%) Linux
4 51 (6.61%) Windows 10
5 34 (4.41%) Apple iOS
6 32 (4.15%) Mac OS
7 29 (3.76%) CentOS
8 28 (3.63%) Android
9 27 (3.50%) Windows Server 2016
10 24 (3.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 21 (2.72%) Ubuntu
12 20 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 20 (2.59%) VMS
13 7 (0.91%) Debian
14 5 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.52%) AIX
15 4 (0.52%) Unix
16 3 (0.39%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.26%) Windows 7
18 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (26.46%) Problem-Solving
2 167 (21.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 166 (21.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 161 (20.88%) Cybersecurity
5 155 (20.10%) DevOps
6 147 (19.07%) Continuous Improvement
7 145 (18.81%) CI/CD
8 133 (17.25%) ITIL
9 119 (15.43%) Agile
10 102 (13.23%) Mentoring
11 101 (13.10%) Containerisation
12 92 (11.93%) Root Cause Analysis
13 86 (11.15%) Disaster Recovery
14 84 (10.89%) High Availability
15 79 (10.25%) Roadmaps
16 77 (9.99%) Task Automation
17 75 (9.73%) Observability
18 72 (9.34%) Cloud Security
19 68 (8.82%) SIEM
20 61 (7.91%) AI
Programming Languages
1 247 (32.04%) Python
2 229 (29.70%) Bash
3 132 (17.12%) SQL
4 59 (7.65%) C#
5 57 (7.39%) Bicep
6 47 (6.10%) T-SQL
7 38 (4.93%) JavaScript
8 25 (3.24%) TypeScript
9 11 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
10 10 (1.30%) C++
10 10 (1.30%) VB
11 9 (1.17%) Java
12 8 (1.04%) Perl
12 8 (1.04%) VBScript
13 7 (0.91%) PHP
14 6 (0.78%) Korn
15 4 (0.52%) Go
15 4 (0.52%) Ruby
16 3 (0.39%) C
17 2 (0.26%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 115 (14.92%) Security Cleared
2 91 (11.80%) Azure Certification
3 87 (11.28%) Degree
4 79 (10.25%) SC Cleared
5 68 (8.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 35 (4.54%) DV Cleared
7 27 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
8 26 (3.37%) CompTIA Security+
9 24 (3.11%) DBS Check
10 21 (2.72%) CCNA
11 17 (2.20%) CREST Certified
12 16 (2.08%) AWS Certification
13 15 (1.95%) CISSP
14 14 (1.82%) CEH
15 8 (1.04%) SANS
16 7 (0.91%) Network+ Certification
17 6 (0.78%) CISM
17 6 (0.78%) RHCE
17 6 (0.78%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (8.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 58 (7.52%) NIST
3 40 (5.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 37 (4.80%) GDPR
5 33 (4.28%) NCSC
6 26 (3.37%) SLA
7 14 (1.82%) Accessibility
8 13 (1.69%) Data Quality
9 12 (1.56%) PCI DSS
10 9 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (1.04%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.91%) QA
13 6 (0.78%) DICOM
13 6 (0.78%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.26%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.13%) COBIT
15 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
15 1 (0.13%) HL7
15 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 317 (41.12%) Active Directory
2 143 (18.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 112 (14.53%) Hyper-V
4 98 (12.71%) Docker
5 41 (5.32%) vSphere
6 31 (4.02%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (2.98%) Virtual Desktop
8 20 (2.59%) VMware NSX
9 11 (1.43%) BitLocker
9 11 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (1.30%) KVM
11 8 (1.04%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.52%) iptables
13 4 (0.52%) Squid
14 2 (0.26%) Samba
15 1 (0.13%) Firmware
15 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 172 (22.31%) Terraform
2 138 (17.90%) Kubernetes
3 116 (15.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 85 (11.02%) Ansible
5 53 (6.87%) Grafana
6 34 (4.41%) Prometheus
7 25 (3.24%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (2.85%) vCenter Server
9 19 (2.46%) Jamf Pro
9 19 (2.46%) SCCM
10 17 (2.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 15 (1.95%) ZABBIX
12 14 (1.82%) Graylog
12 14 (1.82%) Proxmox
13 12 (1.56%) Nagios
14 11 (1.43%) QRadar
14 11 (1.43%) WSUS
15 10 (1.30%) Argo
16 8 (1.04%) Docker Swarm
16 8 (1.04%) Nessus
Vendors
1 469 (60.83%) Microsoft
2 170 (22.05%) VMware
3 61 (7.91%) Cisco
4 45 (5.84%) Splunk
5 44 (5.71%) Veeam
6 42 (5.45%) Red Hat
7 35 (4.54%) Meraki
8 21 (2.72%) Apple
9 20 (2.59%) Dell
10 19 (2.46%) Adobe
11 18 (2.33%) Logitech
11 18 (2.33%) ServiceNow
11 18 (2.33%) SolarWinds
12 17 (2.20%) CrowdStrike
13 16 (2.08%) Oracle
14 14 (1.82%) Dynatrace
15 12 (1.56%) Google
15 12 (1.56%) HP
15 12 (1.56%) Sophos
16 11 (1.43%) Yealink