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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 85 136
Rank change year-on-year -58 +51 -50
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 903 1,131 1,222
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.23% 3.32% 1.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.69% 13.18% 6.75%
Number of salaries quoted 670 659 932
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £39,742
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £73,625
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 11,745 8,579 18,091
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.05% 25.17% 28.26%
Number of salaries quoted 8,513 5,517 12,880
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -32 244 £54,000 -6.09% 91
North of England -95 212 £48,445 +0.29% 72
Midlands -43 147 £50,000 - 37
North West -87 115 £51,500 +10.75% 41
East of England -30 92 £55,000 +4.76% 29
South West -74 83 £55,000 +15.79% 43
East Midlands -14 76 £42,500 +21.43% 16
West Midlands -58 71 £52,500 -4.55% 21
Yorkshire -47 57 £47,500 -5.71% 20
Northern Ireland -19 53 £46,000 +6.75% 3
Scotland +36 42 £51,250 +28.13% 10
North East -19 40 £48,445 -19.26% 13
Wales -35 30 £46,500 -15.45% 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
1 163 (18.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 160 (17.72%) SharePoint
3 43 (4.76%) IIS
4 16 (1.77%) Confluence
5 7 (0.78%) nginx
6 4 (0.44%) Apache
6 4 (0.44%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.11%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 40 (4.43%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.66%) NetSuite
1 6 (0.66%) Raiser’s Edge
1 6 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.33%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.22%) Alphatax
4 2 (0.22%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 555 (61.46%) Azure
2 363 (40.20%) Microsoft 365
3 225 (24.92%) Entra ID
4 154 (17.05%) AWS
5 105 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
6 102 (11.30%) SaaS
7 85 (9.41%) IaaS
8 77 (8.53%) Power Platform
9 65 (7.20%) GitHub
10 59 (6.53%) OneDrive
11 50 (5.54%) Power Automate
12 49 (5.43%) Azure AKS
12 49 (5.43%) PaaS
13 46 (5.09%) Azure Key Vault
14 43 (4.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 42 (4.65%) Azure Sentinel
16 40 (4.43%) Azure Monitor
16 40 (4.43%) GitHub Actions
17 31 (3.43%) PowerApps
18 30 (3.32%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 251 (27.80%) DNS
2 226 (25.03%) Firewall
3 167 (18.49%) DHCP
4 156 (17.28%) VPN
5 105 (11.63%) TCP/IP
6 85 (9.41%) WAN
7 77 (8.53%) LAN
8 60 (6.64%) VLAN
9 34 (3.77%) Wi-Fi
10 33 (3.65%) Wireless
11 32 (3.54%) SAN
12 30 (3.32%) VoIP
13 21 (2.33%) Network Security
14 18 (1.99%) Broadband
15 16 (1.77%) BGP
15 16 (1.77%) SSL
16 14 (1.55%) HTTP
16 14 (1.55%) SD-WAN
17 13 (1.44%) NAS
18 12 (1.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (9.97%) SQL Server
2 51 (5.65%) Azure SQL Database
3 47 (5.20%) Power BI
4 32 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (1.99%) MySQL
7 12 (1.33%) MongoDB
8 10 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (1.00%) InfluxDB
9 9 (1.00%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.00%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.55%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.55%) Metadata
11 4 (0.44%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.44%) Redis
12 3 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
12 3 (0.33%) Power Query
13 2 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (0.22%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 71 (7.86%) Git
2 54 (5.98%) JIRA
3 45 (4.98%) GitLab
4 38 (4.21%) Jenkins
5 14 (1.55%) Bitbucket
5 14 (1.55%) Octopus Deploy
6 7 (0.78%) Robot Framework
6 7 (0.78%) TestRail
7 6 (0.66%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.66%) Selenium
7 6 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.44%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.44%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.33%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.33%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.22%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.22%) Postman
10 2 (0.22%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 314 (34.77%) Social Skills
2 101 (11.18%) Analytical Skills
3 96 (10.63%) Law
4 89 (9.86%) Finance
5 73 (8.08%) Legal
6 46 (5.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 43 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
8 34 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
9 33 (3.65%) Retail
10 32 (3.54%) Public Sector
11 19 (2.10%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.99%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.44%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.00%) Games
15 6 (0.66%) Advertising
15 6 (0.66%) Military
15 6 (0.66%) Police
16 5 (0.55%) Aviation
16 5 (0.55%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 205 (22.70%) Senior
2 141 (15.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 114 (12.62%) Support Engineer
4 111 (12.29%) IT Engineer
4 111 (12.29%) IT Support
5 98 (10.85%) Analyst
6 86 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
7 74 (8.19%) DevOps Engineer
8 73 (8.08%) Azure Engineer
9 68 (7.53%) IT Support Engineer
10 53 (5.87%) 2nd Line Support
11 49 (5.43%) Senior Manager
11 49 (5.43%) Testing Manager
12 43 (4.76%) Developer
12 43 (4.76%) Security Engineer
13 40 (4.43%) Administrator
13 40 (4.43%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 39 (4.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 35 (3.88%) Systems Engineer
16 34 (3.77%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (7.31%) .NET
2 41 (4.54%) ARM Templates
3 39 (4.32%) Microsoft Graph
4 36 (3.99%) JSON
5 32 (3.54%) YAML
6 31 (3.43%) HTML
7 25 (2.77%) OAuth
7 25 (2.77%) SAML
8 24 (2.66%) .NET Core
8 24 (2.66%) SPFx
9 22 (2.44%) CSS
10 19 (2.10%) HTML5 Canvas
10 19 (2.10%) REST
11 18 (1.99%) LDAP
11 18 (1.99%) OpenID
12 17 (1.88%) Elastic Stack
13 15 (1.66%) SOAP
14 14 (1.55%) React
15 12 (1.33%) GraphQL
15 12 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 63 (6.98%) Onboarding
2 54 (5.98%) Virtual Team
3 48 (5.32%) Driving Licence
4 46 (5.09%) Cloud Native
5 40 (4.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 31 (3.43%) PKI
7 30 (3.32%) Management Information System
8 29 (3.21%) Security Operations Centre
8 29 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
9 28 (3.10%) Security Posture
10 25 (2.77%) Data Centre
11 24 (2.66%) Public Cloud
12 23 (2.55%) Clustering
13 17 (1.88%) Cyberattack
13 17 (1.88%) Replication
14 16 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
15 15 (1.66%) Product Ownership
16 13 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
17 12 (1.33%) Enterprise Storage
17 12 (1.33%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 427 (47.29%) Windows
2 231 (25.58%) Windows Server
3 198 (21.93%) Linux
4 53 (5.87%) Windows 10
5 35 (3.88%) Apple iOS
5 35 (3.88%) CentOS
6 29 (3.21%) Android
6 29 (3.21%) Mac OS
7 26 (2.88%) VMS
7 26 (2.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 24 (2.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 24 (2.66%) Ubuntu
8 24 (2.66%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.78%) Debian
10 5 (0.55%) CoreOS
10 5 (0.55%) Unix
10 5 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.44%) AIX
11 4 (0.44%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.22%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (26.80%) Problem-Solving
2 235 (26.02%) DevOps
3 216 (23.92%) Continuous Improvement
4 193 (21.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 183 (20.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 172 (19.05%) CI/CD
7 156 (17.28%) ITIL
8 147 (16.28%) Cybersecurity
9 144 (15.95%) Mentoring
10 133 (14.73%) Agile
11 110 (12.18%) Containerisation
12 107 (11.85%) Disaster Recovery
13 105 (11.63%) High Availability
14 102 (11.30%) Root Cause Analysis
15 92 (10.19%) Project Delivery
16 89 (9.86%) Observability
17 86 (9.52%) Task Automation
18 84 (9.30%) AI
18 84 (9.30%) Cloud Security
19 83 (9.19%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 323 (35.77%) Python
2 221 (24.47%) Bash
3 156 (17.28%) SQL
4 117 (12.96%) C#
5 93 (10.30%) JavaScript
6 78 (8.64%) Bicep
7 77 (8.53%) TypeScript
8 28 (3.10%) T-SQL
9 26 (2.88%) Kusto Query Language
10 13 (1.44%) C++
10 13 (1.44%) VBScript
11 12 (1.33%) Java
12 11 (1.22%) PHP
13 9 (1.00%) VB
14 8 (0.89%) Perl
15 6 (0.66%) Go
15 6 (0.66%) Korn
16 5 (0.55%) C
16 5 (0.55%) Ruby
17 3 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 133 (14.73%) Security Cleared
2 106 (11.74%) Azure Certification
3 99 (10.96%) Degree
4 94 (10.41%) SC Cleared
5 85 (9.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 41 (4.54%) DV Cleared
7 35 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (3.77%) CompTIA Security+
9 33 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
10 28 (3.10%) CCNA
11 24 (2.66%) DBS Check
12 17 (1.88%) CEH
12 17 (1.88%) CISSP
13 14 (1.55%) AWS Certification
14 13 (1.44%) CREST Certified
15 9 (1.00%) GIAC
16 8 (0.89%) CISM
17 7 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 7 (0.78%) CCNP
17 7 (0.78%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (7.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 64 (7.09%) QA
2 50 (5.54%) Cyber Essentials
3 44 (4.87%) NIST
4 39 (4.32%) GDPR
5 30 (3.32%) SLA
6 14 (1.55%) Data Quality
6 14 (1.55%) PCI DSS
7 13 (1.44%) NCSC
8 9 (1.00%) SOC 2
9 7 (0.78%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.44%) DICOM
12 3 (0.33%) ISAE 3402
12 3 (0.33%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.22%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
System Software
1 331 (36.66%) Active Directory
2 180 (19.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 140 (15.50%) Hyper-V
4 107 (11.85%) Docker
5 57 (6.31%) vSphere
6 46 (5.09%) Virtual Machines
7 31 (3.43%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (2.10%) VMware NSX
9 13 (1.44%) BitLocker
10 11 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (1.11%) KVM
12 8 (0.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 4 (0.44%) Squid
14 3 (0.33%) Firmware
14 3 (0.33%) iptables
14 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.22%) Samba
16 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 195 (21.59%) Terraform
2 161 (17.83%) Kubernetes
3 136 (15.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 93 (10.30%) Ansible
5 59 (6.53%) Grafana
6 38 (4.21%) Prometheus
7 34 (3.77%) SCCM
8 22 (2.44%) vCenter Server
9 18 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
10 17 (1.88%) Jamf Pro
11 16 (1.77%) Proxmox
11 16 (1.77%) ZABBIX
12 14 (1.55%) Graylog
13 12 (1.33%) Argo
14 11 (1.22%) Nagios
14 11 (1.22%) QRadar
15 10 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 10 (1.11%) WSUS
16 9 (1.00%) Nessus
17 8 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 556 (61.57%) Microsoft
2 202 (22.37%) VMware
3 79 (8.75%) Cisco
4 47 (5.20%) Splunk
5 46 (5.09%) Veeam
6 45 (4.98%) Red Hat
7 38 (4.21%) Meraki
8 31 (3.43%) ServiceNow
9 22 (2.44%) Dell
10 21 (2.33%) Apple
11 19 (2.10%) Adobe
12 18 (1.99%) Logitech
13 17 (1.88%) SolarWinds
14 16 (1.77%) CrowdStrike
14 16 (1.77%) Fortinet
14 16 (1.77%) Sophos
15 15 (1.66%) Dynatrace
15 15 (1.66%) Oracle
16 13 (1.44%) Citrix
16 13 (1.44%) Zerto