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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 84 134
Rank change year-on-year -62 +50 -53
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 964 1,133 1,095
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.23% 3.27% 1.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.95% 13.86% 6.73%
Number of salaries quoted 692 671 769
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,000 £34,750
25th Percentile £37,875 £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 £65,000 £63,750 £60,250
90th Percentile £77,375 £77,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - - -4.17%

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 12,129 8,176 16,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.42% 23.58% 27.29%
Number of salaries quoted 8,845 5,172 10,918
10th Percentile £35,302 £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 £74,985 £69,000 £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 22 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 22 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 -26 251 £52,500 -8.70% 113
North of England -86 225 £50,000 +5.26% 58
Midlands -39 159 £52,500 +5.00% 48
North West -84 127 £50,801 +10.44% 42
East of England -37 101 £57,500 +13.86% 33
East Midlands -5 84 £42,500 +21.43% 18
South West -80 83 £55,000 +19.57% 39
West Midlands -56 75 £55,000 - 30
Northern Ireland -24 70 £46,000 - 1
Yorkshire -39 62 £42,500 -17.68% 11
Scotland +20 44 £50,000 +25.00% 6
North East -23 36 £50,000 +5.26% 6
Wales -38 31 £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
1 191 (19.81%) SharePoint
2 181 (18.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 48 (4.98%) IIS
4 19 (1.97%) Confluence
5 13 (1.35%) nginx
6 8 (0.83%) 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 38 (3.94%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (1.45%) 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
1 590 (61.20%) Azure
2 399 (41.39%) Microsoft 365
3 264 (27.39%) Entra ID
4 149 (15.46%) AWS
5 134 (13.90%) SaaS
6 108 (11.20%) Azure DevOps
7 87 (9.02%) IaaS
8 77 (7.99%) Power Platform
9 74 (7.68%) OneDrive
10 67 (6.95%) GitHub
11 60 (6.22%) Power Automate
12 51 (5.29%) Azure Sentinel
13 49 (5.08%) Azure AKS
13 49 (5.08%) PaaS
14 47 (4.88%) Azure Key Vault
15 45 (4.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 39 (4.05%) Azure Monitor
17 36 (3.73%) PowerApps
18 33 (3.42%) Azure Storage
18 33 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 271 (28.11%) DNS
2 248 (25.73%) Firewall
3 178 (18.46%) DHCP
4 163 (16.91%) VPN
5 115 (11.93%) TCP/IP
6 91 (9.44%) WAN
7 78 (8.09%) LAN
8 59 (6.12%) VLAN
9 40 (4.15%) Wireless
10 33 (3.42%) Wi-Fi
11 31 (3.22%) SAN
12 25 (2.59%) Network Security
13 20 (2.07%) SSL
14 19 (1.97%) VoIP
15 18 (1.87%) HTTP
16 16 (1.66%) VSAN
17 14 (1.45%) Internet
18 13 (1.35%) NAS
19 12 (1.24%) BGP
19 12 (1.24%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (9.02%) SQL Server
2 51 (5.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 42 (4.36%) Power BI
4 24 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (1.35%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.14%) MongoDB
8 10 (1.04%) MySQL
9 8 (0.83%) NoSQL
10 7 (0.73%) InfluxDB
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%) Geospatial Data
15 2 (0.21%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 73 (7.57%) Git
2 68 (7.05%) JIRA
3 47 (4.88%) GitLab
4 36 (3.73%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.66%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
7 7 (0.73%) Robot Framework
7 7 (0.73%) TestRail
8 6 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (0.62%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.62%) Selenium
8 6 (0.62%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.41%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.31%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.31%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.21%) Apache Ivy
11 2 (0.21%) git-flow
11 2 (0.21%) IBM UrbanCode
11 2 (0.21%) Postman
11 2 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 361 (37.45%) Social Skills
2 106 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
3 104 (10.79%) Finance
4 102 (10.58%) Law
5 93 (9.65%) Legal
6 49 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 41 (4.25%) Documentation Skills
8 37 (3.84%) Public Sector
9 36 (3.73%) Retail
10 27 (2.80%) Manufacturing
11 25 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (2.28%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.35%) Legal Technology
14 9 (0.93%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.62%) Advertising
15 6 (0.62%) Military
15 6 (0.62%) Police
16 5 (0.52%) Aviation
16 5 (0.52%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.52%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 212 (21.99%) Senior
2 158 (16.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 117 (12.14%) Support Engineer
4 116 (12.03%) IT Engineer
5 112 (11.62%) IT Support
6 103 (10.68%) Analyst
7 93 (9.65%) Cloud Engineer
8 77 (7.99%) Azure Engineer
9 72 (7.47%) DevOps Engineer
10 64 (6.64%) IT Support Engineer
11 55 (5.71%) Senior Manager
11 55 (5.71%) Testing Manager
12 52 (5.39%) Administrator
13 47 (4.88%) 2nd Line Support
14 41 (4.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 41 (4.25%) Developer
15 40 (4.15%) Lead
16 39 (4.05%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 39 (4.05%) Systems Engineer
17 35 (3.63%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (21.58%) Terraform
2 66 (6.85%) .NET
3 40 (4.15%) Microsoft Graph
4 39 (4.05%) ARM Templates
5 33 (3.42%) YAML
6 31 (3.22%) HTML
7 28 (2.90%) JSON
8 25 (2.59%) .NET Core
9 24 (2.49%) SPFx
10 22 (2.28%) CSS
11 19 (1.97%) HTML5 Canvas
12 16 (1.66%) Elastic Stack
12 16 (1.66%) OAuth
12 16 (1.66%) SAML
13 15 (1.56%) REST
14 13 (1.35%) ASP.NET
14 13 (1.35%) ASP.NET Core
14 13 (1.35%) LDAP
15 12 (1.24%) Middleware
15 12 (1.24%) React
Miscellaneous
1 73 (7.57%) Onboarding
2 60 (6.22%) Virtual Team
3 57 (5.91%) Driving Licence
4 46 (4.77%) Cloud Native
5 43 (4.46%) Hybrid Cloud
6 37 (3.84%) Management Information System
7 35 (3.63%) Clustering
8 33 (3.42%) Replication
8 33 (3.42%) Security Operations Centre
9 31 (3.22%) PKI
10 30 (3.11%) Security Posture
11 29 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
12 25 (2.59%) Data Centre
13 22 (2.28%) Public Cloud
14 15 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (1.56%) Product Ownership
15 14 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (1.35%) CMDB
16 13 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (1.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 473 (49.07%) Windows
2 248 (25.73%) Windows Server
3 226 (23.44%) Linux
4 54 (5.60%) Windows 10
5 36 (3.73%) Apple iOS
6 31 (3.22%) Android
6 31 (3.22%) Ubuntu
7 30 (3.11%) Mac OS
8 28 (2.90%) CentOS
9 24 (2.49%) VMS
10 23 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 23 (2.39%) Windows Server 2016
10 23 (2.39%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.73%) Debian
12 5 (0.52%) CoreOS
12 5 (0.52%) Unix
13 4 (0.41%) AIX
13 4 (0.41%) Rocky
13 4 (0.41%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.31%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (27.90%) Problem-Solving
2 257 (26.66%) Continuous Improvement
3 253 (26.24%) DevOps
4 230 (23.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 190 (19.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 187 (19.40%) ITIL
7 179 (18.57%) CI/CD
8 155 (16.08%) Mentoring
9 145 (15.04%) Cybersecurity
10 131 (13.59%) Disaster Recovery
11 126 (13.07%) Agile
11 126 (13.07%) High Availability
12 118 (12.24%) Project Delivery
13 112 (11.62%) Root Cause Analysis
14 109 (11.31%) Containerisation
15 95 (9.85%) AI
16 90 (9.34%) Test Automation
17 87 (9.02%) Observability
17 87 (9.02%) Task Automation
18 86 (8.92%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 326 (33.82%) Python
2 204 (21.16%) Bash
3 179 (18.57%) SQL
4 122 (12.66%) C#
5 103 (10.68%) JavaScript
6 86 (8.92%) TypeScript
7 83 (8.61%) Bicep
8 28 (2.90%) Kusto Query Language
9 17 (1.76%) T-SQL
10 16 (1.66%) Java
11 14 (1.45%) C++
12 13 (1.35%) VBScript
13 12 (1.24%) PHP
14 10 (1.04%) Perl
15 8 (0.83%) VB
16 5 (0.52%) C
16 5 (0.52%) Go
16 5 (0.52%) Korn
16 5 (0.52%) Ruby
17 4 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 153 (15.87%) Security Cleared
2 112 (11.62%) Azure Certification
3 110 (11.41%) SC Cleared
4 105 (10.89%) Degree
5 100 (10.37%) Microsoft Certification
6 50 (5.19%) DV Cleared
7 40 (4.15%) CompTIA Security+
8 39 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 37 (3.84%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (3.32%) CCNA
11 24 (2.49%) DBS Check
12 20 (2.07%) CEH
13 15 (1.56%) CISSP
14 12 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (1.24%) GIAC
14 12 (1.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 11 (1.14%) AWS Certification
16 10 (1.04%) CompTIA CySA+
17 9 (0.93%) CISM
17 9 (0.93%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (7.47%) QA
2 66 (6.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 58 (6.02%) Cyber Essentials
4 38 (3.94%) NIST
5 33 (3.42%) GDPR
5 33 (3.42%) SLA
6 12 (1.24%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.14%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.83%) SOC 2
9 7 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (0.73%) NCSC
10 4 (0.41%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.31%) ISAE 3402
12 2 (0.21%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.21%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.10%) DICOM
System Software
1 345 (35.79%) Active Directory
2 192 (19.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 148 (15.35%) Hyper-V
4 104 (10.79%) Docker
5 57 (5.91%) vSphere
6 50 (5.19%) Virtual Machines
7 39 (4.05%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (2.39%) VMware NSX
9 14 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (1.04%) BitLocker
10 10 (1.04%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.83%) Firmware
11 8 (0.83%) KVM
12 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.41%) Squid
12 4 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.21%) Samba
14 1 (0.10%) Ceph
14 1 (0.10%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 1 (0.10%) iptables
Systems Management
1 170 (17.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 165 (17.12%) Kubernetes
3 103 (10.68%) Ansible
4 50 (5.19%) Grafana
5 43 (4.46%) SCCM
6 33 (3.42%) Prometheus
7 24 (2.49%) vCenter Server
8 19 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (1.66%) Proxmox
9 16 (1.66%) ZABBIX
10 15 (1.56%) 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%) Nagios
14 9 (0.93%) VxRail
15 8 (0.83%) Kibana
15 8 (0.83%) Nessus
Vendors
1 614 (63.69%) Microsoft
2 213 (22.10%) VMware
3 93 (9.65%) Cisco
4 51 (5.29%) Veeam
5 50 (5.19%) Splunk
6 44 (4.56%) Meraki
7 43 (4.46%) ServiceNow
8 40 (4.15%) Red Hat
9 26 (2.70%) Dell
10 21 (2.18%) Citrix
11 20 (2.07%) Sophos
12 19 (1.97%) Adobe
12 19 (1.97%) Oracle
13 18 (1.87%) Apple
14 17 (1.76%) Logitech
14 17 (1.76%) Sage
15 16 (1.66%) CrowdStrike
15 16 (1.66%) Fortinet
16 15 (1.56%) SolarWinds
16 15 (1.56%) TOWER Software