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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 87 138
Rank change year-on-year -61 +51 -56
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 966 1,121 1,053
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.20% 3.23% 1.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.96% 13.89% 6.67%
Number of salaries quoted 686 666 695
10th Percentile £30,875 £32,000 £34,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £64,188 £63,750 £60,834
90th Percentile £76,875 £77,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £59,125
% change year-on-year - -2.75% -1.46%

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 12,136 8,072 15,792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.07% 23.26% 27.27%
Number of salaries quoted 8,929 5,106 10,205
10th Percentile £35,250 £31,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,870 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -19 246 £52,500 -8.70% 165
North of England -73 231 £50,000 +5.26% 118
Midlands -38 158 £52,500 +5.00% 85
North West -71 135 £50,000 +8.70% 69
East of England -38 101 £57,500 +21.05% 61
South West -81 85 £55,000 +19.57% 76
East Midlands -8 81 £42,500 +21.43% 30
West Midlands -58 77 £55,000 - 55
Northern Ireland -28 69 £46,000 - 18
Yorkshire -55 60 £42,500 -16.26% 31
Scotland +16 44 £50,000 +4.17% 34
North East -30 36 £50,000 -6.98% 19
Wales -43 32 £45,750 -16.82% 10
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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
1 193 (19.98%) SharePoint
2 184 (19.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 49 (5.07%) IIS
4 21 (2.17%) Confluence
5 14 (1.45%) nginx
6 7 (0.72%) Apache
7 4 (0.41%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.10%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 37 (3.83%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 24 (2.48%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.62%) Raiser’s Edge
3 3 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.31%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.21%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 578 (59.83%) Azure
2 399 (41.30%) Microsoft 365
3 273 (28.26%) Entra ID
4 151 (15.63%) AWS
5 143 (14.80%) SaaS
6 107 (11.08%) Azure DevOps
7 83 (8.59%) IaaS
8 77 (7.97%) Power Platform
9 74 (7.66%) OneDrive
10 66 (6.83%) GitHub
11 62 (6.42%) Power Automate
12 51 (5.28%) Azure Sentinel
13 48 (4.97%) Azure AKS
13 48 (4.97%) PaaS
14 46 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
15 43 (4.45%) Azure Monitor
16 42 (4.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 35 (3.62%) PowerApps
18 33 (3.42%) Microsoft Copilot
19 32 (3.31%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 276 (28.57%) DNS
2 249 (25.78%) Firewall
3 183 (18.94%) DHCP
4 168 (17.39%) VPN
5 116 (12.01%) TCP/IP
6 91 (9.42%) WAN
7 79 (8.18%) LAN
8 64 (6.63%) VLAN
9 45 (4.66%) Wireless
10 36 (3.73%) Wi-Fi
11 30 (3.11%) SAN
12 22 (2.28%) Network Security
13 20 (2.07%) SSL
14 18 (1.86%) HTTP
14 18 (1.86%) VoIP
15 16 (1.66%) VSAN
16 15 (1.55%) Internet
17 12 (1.24%) BGP
17 12 (1.24%) NAS
17 12 (1.24%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (8.80%) SQL Server
2 51 (5.28%) Azure SQL Database
3 42 (4.35%) Power BI
4 22 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (1.35%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.14%) MongoDB
8 9 (0.93%) InfluxDB
9 8 (0.83%) MySQL
10 7 (0.72%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.52%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.52%) Metadata
12 5 (0.52%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.41%) Power Query
13 4 (0.41%) Redis
13 4 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.31%) Oracle Database
15 2 (0.21%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 2 (0.21%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 69 (7.14%) Git
2 68 (7.04%) JIRA
3 47 (4.87%) GitLab
4 38 (3.93%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.86%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
7 9 (0.93%) Robot Framework
7 9 (0.93%) TestRail
8 7 (0.72%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.72%) Selenium
9 6 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (0.62%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.41%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.31%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.31%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.21%) Apache Ivy
12 2 (0.21%) git-flow
12 2 (0.21%) IBM UrbanCode
12 2 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 378 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 106 (10.97%) Finance
3 105 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (9.94%) Law
5 92 (9.52%) Legal
6 48 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 43 (4.45%) Documentation Skills
8 37 (3.83%) Public Sector
9 36 (3.73%) Retail
10 29 (3.00%) Manufacturing
11 23 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (2.28%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.35%) Legal Technology
14 8 (0.83%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.62%) Advertising
15 6 (0.62%) Police
16 5 (0.52%) Aviation
16 5 (0.52%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.52%) Local Government
16 5 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 209 (21.64%) Senior
2 165 (17.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 121 (12.53%) Support Engineer
4 118 (12.22%) IT Engineer
5 107 (11.08%) IT Support
6 106 (10.97%) Analyst
7 91 (9.42%) Cloud Engineer
8 72 (7.45%) Azure Engineer
9 69 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
10 65 (6.73%) IT Support Engineer
11 55 (5.69%) Senior Manager
11 55 (5.69%) Testing Manager
12 51 (5.28%) Administrator
13 44 (4.55%) Lead
14 42 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support
15 40 (4.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 39 (4.04%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 39 (4.04%) Consultant
16 39 (4.04%) Systems Engineer
17 37 (3.83%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (20.91%) Terraform
2 64 (6.63%) .NET
3 38 (3.93%) ARM Templates
4 37 (3.83%) Microsoft Graph
5 32 (3.31%) YAML
6 30 (3.11%) HTML
7 27 (2.80%) JSON
8 23 (2.38%) .NET Core
8 23 (2.38%) SPFx
9 21 (2.17%) CSS
10 18 (1.86%) Elastic Stack
10 18 (1.86%) HTML5 Canvas
11 15 (1.55%) REST
12 13 (1.35%) ASP.NET
12 13 (1.35%) ASP.NET Core
12 13 (1.35%) LDAP
12 13 (1.35%) OAuth
12 13 (1.35%) SAML
13 12 (1.24%) Middleware
14 11 (1.14%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 77 (7.97%) Onboarding
2 60 (6.21%) Virtual Team
3 59 (6.11%) Driving Licence
4 45 (4.66%) Cloud Native
4 45 (4.66%) Hybrid Cloud
5 38 (3.93%) Management Information System
5 38 (3.93%) Replication
6 35 (3.62%) Clustering
7 33 (3.42%) Security Operations Centre
8 31 (3.21%) PKI
8 31 (3.21%) Security Posture
9 28 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
10 26 (2.69%) Data Centre
11 22 (2.28%) Public Cloud
12 17 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (1.66%) Product Ownership
14 13 (1.35%) CMDB
14 13 (1.35%) Private Cloud
15 12 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
15 12 (1.24%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 480 (49.69%) Windows
2 249 (25.78%) Windows Server
3 234 (24.22%) Linux
4 55 (5.69%) Windows 10
5 39 (4.04%) Apple iOS
6 34 (3.52%) Ubuntu
7 32 (3.31%) Android
8 29 (3.00%) CentOS
8 29 (3.00%) Mac OS
9 25 (2.59%) Windows Server 2019
10 24 (2.48%) VMS
10 24 (2.48%) Windows Server 2016
11 22 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (0.93%) Rocky
13 8 (0.83%) Debian
14 5 (0.52%) CoreOS
14 5 (0.52%) Unix
15 4 (0.41%) AIX
15 4 (0.41%) Windows 7
16 3 (0.31%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (29.30%) Problem-Solving
2 267 (27.64%) Continuous Improvement
3 250 (25.88%) DevOps
4 240 (24.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 189 (19.57%) ITIL
6 188 (19.46%) Infrastructure as Code
7 174 (18.01%) CI/CD
8 159 (16.46%) Mentoring
9 149 (15.42%) Cybersecurity
10 137 (14.18%) Disaster Recovery
11 131 (13.56%) Project Delivery
12 125 (12.94%) Agile
13 119 (12.32%) High Availability
14 109 (11.28%) Root Cause Analysis
15 102 (10.56%) Containerisation
16 100 (10.35%) AI
17 93 (9.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 93 (9.63%) Test Automation
18 85 (8.80%) Task Automation
19 83 (8.59%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 325 (33.64%) Python
2 200 (20.70%) Bash
3 191 (19.77%) SQL
4 120 (12.42%) C#
5 111 (11.49%) JavaScript
6 85 (8.80%) TypeScript
7 82 (8.49%) Bicep
8 27 (2.80%) Kusto Query Language
9 17 (1.76%) T-SQL
10 16 (1.66%) Java
11 15 (1.55%) VBScript
12 14 (1.45%) C++
13 12 (1.24%) PHP
14 10 (1.04%) Perl
15 9 (0.93%) VB
16 5 (0.52%) Go
16 5 (0.52%) Korn
16 5 (0.52%) Ruby
17 4 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 4 (0.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 154 (15.94%) Security Cleared
2 110 (11.39%) SC Cleared
3 109 (11.28%) Azure Certification
4 101 (10.46%) Degree
5 100 (10.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 50 (5.18%) DV Cleared
7 40 (4.14%) CompTIA Security+
8 38 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 36 (3.73%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (3.21%) CCNA
11 23 (2.38%) DBS Check
12 20 (2.07%) CEH
13 15 (1.55%) CISSP
14 13 (1.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 12 (1.24%) GIAC
16 11 (1.14%) AWS Certification
16 11 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
17 10 (1.04%) CompTIA CySA+
18 9 (0.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 9 (0.93%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (7.45%) QA
2 65 (6.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 59 (6.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 37 (3.83%) NIST
5 31 (3.21%) GDPR
6 29 (3.00%) SLA
7 12 (1.24%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.14%) Data Quality
9 8 (0.83%) SOC 2
10 7 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (0.72%) NCSC
11 4 (0.41%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.31%) ISAE 3402
13 2 (0.21%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.21%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.10%) DICOM
System Software
1 342 (35.40%) Active Directory
2 196 (20.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 147 (15.22%) Hyper-V
4 98 (10.14%) Docker
5 58 (6.00%) vSphere
6 54 (5.59%) Virtual Machines
7 41 (4.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (2.38%) VMware NSX
9 15 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.93%) BitLocker
11 8 (0.83%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.83%) KVM
12 7 (0.72%) Firmware
13 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.41%) Squid
13 4 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.10%) Ceph
14 1 (0.10%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 1 (0.10%) iptables
14 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 175 (18.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 155 (16.05%) Kubernetes
3 103 (10.66%) Ansible
4 49 (5.07%) Grafana
5 44 (4.55%) SCCM
6 30 (3.11%) Prometheus
7 25 (2.59%) vCenter Server
8 20 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (1.66%) Proxmox
9 16 (1.66%) ZABBIX
10 15 (1.55%) Graylog
11 14 (1.45%) Jamf Pro
12 13 (1.35%) Puppet
12 13 (1.35%) QRadar
13 12 (1.24%) Argo
14 9 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 9 (0.93%) Kibana
14 9 (0.93%) VxRail
15 8 (0.83%) Nessus
15 8 (0.83%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 617 (63.87%) Microsoft
2 220 (22.77%) VMware
3 90 (9.32%) Cisco
4 55 (5.69%) Veeam
5 50 (5.18%) Splunk
6 43 (4.45%) ServiceNow
7 39 (4.04%) Meraki
8 37 (3.83%) Red Hat
9 27 (2.80%) Dell
9 27 (2.80%) Sage
10 22 (2.28%) Citrix
11 20 (2.07%) SAP
12 19 (1.97%) Oracle
12 19 (1.97%) Sophos
13 18 (1.86%) Adobe
13 18 (1.86%) Apple
13 18 (1.86%) Fortinet
13 18 (1.86%) Logitech
14 17 (1.76%) TOWER Software
15 16 (1.66%) Google