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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 86 121
Rank change year-on-year -70 +35 -53
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 961 1,138 1,028
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.11% 3.29% 2.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.02% 15.04% 7.25%
Number of salaries quoted 647 654 593
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £37,750 £39,313 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.96% -5.61%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £56,076 £57,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year -2.48% -5.74% +1.67%

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 11,978 7,569 14,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.84% 21.89% 27.62%
Number of salaries quoted 8,851 4,672 7,914
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £46,000 £38,750 £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 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £81,425
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.79% -3.08%

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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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -41 235 £52,500 -8.70% 188
North of England -88 232 £50,000 - 167
Midlands -44 162 £52,500 +2.24% 87
North West -77 139 £50,000 - 83
East of England -48 95 £57,500 +21.05% 61
South West -70 89 £55,000 +13.40% 92
East Midlands -16 83 £42,500 +21.43% 33
West Midlands -70 79 £55,000 - 54
Northern Ireland -23 69 £46,000 - 22
Yorkshire -47 56 £45,472 -9.06% 60
Scotland -4 48 £52,500 +23.53% 53
North East -43 37 £51,500 -14.17% 25
Wales -63 31 £35,000 -36.36% 21
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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
1 185 (19.25%) SharePoint
2 183 (19.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 45 (4.68%) IIS
4 23 (2.39%) Confluence
5 15 (1.56%) nginx
6 8 (0.83%) Apache
7 4 (0.42%) 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 41 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 31 (3.23%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.62%) Raiser’s Edge
3 4 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.31%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.21%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.10%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 1 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 560 (58.27%) Azure
2 408 (42.46%) Microsoft 365
3 308 (32.05%) Entra ID
4 153 (15.92%) SaaS
5 150 (15.61%) AWS
6 101 (10.51%) Azure DevOps
7 80 (8.32%) IaaS
7 80 (8.32%) Power Platform
8 74 (7.70%) OneDrive
9 63 (6.56%) GitHub
10 60 (6.24%) Power Automate
11 52 (5.41%) Azure Sentinel
12 51 (5.31%) Azure Monitor
13 49 (5.10%) PaaS
14 46 (4.79%) Microsoft Purview
15 44 (4.58%) Microsoft Copilot
16 43 (4.47%) Azure Key Vault
17 39 (4.06%) Azure AKS
18 34 (3.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
19 30 (3.12%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 262 (27.26%) DNS
2 237 (24.66%) Firewall
3 181 (18.83%) DHCP
4 173 (18.00%) VPN
5 113 (11.76%) TCP/IP
6 85 (8.84%) WAN
7 76 (7.91%) LAN
8 67 (6.97%) VLAN
9 46 (4.79%) Wireless
10 36 (3.75%) Wi-Fi
11 26 (2.71%) SAN
12 23 (2.39%) SSL
13 22 (2.29%) Network Security
14 20 (2.08%) HTTP
15 16 (1.66%) VSAN
16 14 (1.46%) NAS
17 12 (1.25%) VoIP
18 11 (1.14%) Internet
19 10 (1.04%) FTP
19 10 (1.04%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (8.53%) SQL Server
2 42 (4.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 36 (3.75%) Power BI
4 18 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (1.46%) Relational Database
6 11 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (1.14%) MongoDB
7 9 (0.94%) Data Lake
8 8 (0.83%) InfluxDB
9 6 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.62%) MySQL
10 5 (0.52%) Metadata
10 5 (0.52%) Power Query
10 5 (0.52%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.42%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.42%) Redis
11 4 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.31%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.21%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.21%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 63 (6.56%) Git
2 62 (6.45%) JIRA
3 52 (5.41%) GitLab
4 40 (4.16%) Jenkins
5 20 (2.08%) Bitbucket
6 10 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
7 8 (0.83%) Robot Framework
7 8 (0.83%) 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 (0.42%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.42%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.31%) MSI
10 3 (0.31%) Postman
10 3 (0.31%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.21%) Ant
11 2 (0.21%) Maven
11 2 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 391 (40.69%) Social Skills
2 109 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
3 107 (11.13%) Finance
4 92 (9.57%) Legal
5 76 (7.91%) Law
6 48 (4.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 42 (4.37%) Documentation Skills
8 37 (3.85%) Retail
9 32 (3.33%) Manufacturing
10 29 (3.02%) Public Sector
11 25 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
12 24 (2.50%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.35%) Legal Technology
14 8 (0.83%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.52%) Advertising
15 5 (0.52%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.52%) Local Government
16 4 (0.42%) Aviation
17 3 (0.31%) Back Office
17 3 (0.31%) Military
Job Titles
1 194 (20.19%) Senior
2 168 (17.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 125 (13.01%) Analyst
4 116 (12.07%) IT Engineer
5 114 (11.86%) Support Engineer
6 94 (9.78%) IT Support
7 88 (9.16%) Cloud Engineer
8 71 (7.39%) Azure Engineer
9 68 (7.08%) DevOps Engineer
10 63 (6.56%) IT Support Engineer
11 55 (5.72%) Senior Manager
11 55 (5.72%) Testing Manager
12 47 (4.89%) Administrator
13 46 (4.79%) Consultant
14 42 (4.37%) Lead
15 40 (4.16%) Support Analyst
16 37 (3.85%) Systems Engineer
17 36 (3.75%) 3rd Line Engineer
18 29 (3.02%) 2nd Line Support
18 29 (3.02%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (20.50%) Terraform
2 54 (5.62%) .NET
3 42 (4.37%) ARM Templates
4 30 (3.12%) Microsoft Graph
5 27 (2.81%) YAML
6 21 (2.19%) HTML
6 21 (2.19%) JSON
7 20 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
8 18 (1.87%) REST
9 17 (1.77%) LDAP
10 15 (1.56%) SAML
11 14 (1.46%) SPFx
12 13 (1.35%) .NET Core
13 12 (1.25%) CSS
13 12 (1.25%) Middleware
13 12 (1.25%) OAuth
13 12 (1.25%) OpenID
14 11 (1.14%) ASP.NET
14 11 (1.14%) ASP.NET Core
14 11 (1.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 79 (8.22%) Onboarding
2 70 (7.28%) Driving Licence
3 59 (6.14%) Virtual Team
4 48 (4.99%) Cloud Native
5 44 (4.58%) Hybrid Cloud
6 41 (4.27%) Replication
7 37 (3.85%) Management Information System
8 36 (3.75%) Clustering
9 35 (3.64%) Security Posture
10 33 (3.43%) Security Operations Centre
11 32 (3.33%) PKI
12 26 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
13 24 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
14 22 (2.29%) Data Centre
15 17 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
16 15 (1.56%) Public Cloud
17 14 (1.46%) AI Agents
17 14 (1.46%) Enterprise Storage
17 14 (1.46%) Product Ownership
18 13 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 498 (51.82%) Windows
2 253 (26.33%) Windows Server
3 238 (24.77%) Linux
4 63 (6.56%) Windows 10
5 39 (4.06%) Apple iOS
6 34 (3.54%) Ubuntu
7 32 (3.33%) Android
8 28 (2.91%) Mac OS
8 28 (2.91%) Windows Server 2019
9 26 (2.71%) CentOS
10 23 (2.39%) VMS
11 22 (2.29%) Windows Server 2016
12 20 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 10 (1.04%) Rocky
14 8 (0.83%) Debian
15 5 (0.52%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.52%) Unix
16 4 (0.42%) AIX
16 4 (0.42%) Windows 7
17 3 (0.31%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (31.95%) Problem-Solving
2 282 (29.34%) Continuous Improvement
3 253 (26.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 251 (26.12%) DevOps
5 190 (19.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 180 (18.73%) ITIL
7 171 (17.79%) CI/CD
8 165 (17.17%) Mentoring
9 158 (16.44%) Disaster Recovery
10 157 (16.34%) Cybersecurity
11 143 (14.88%) Project Delivery
12 119 (12.38%) Agile
13 114 (11.86%) Root Cause Analysis
14 109 (11.34%) AI
15 104 (10.82%) High Availability
16 101 (10.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 92 (9.57%) Cloud Security
18 90 (9.37%) Technical Leadership
19 89 (9.26%) Containerisation
20 88 (9.16%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 327 (34.03%) Python
2 193 (20.08%) Bash
2 193 (20.08%) SQL
3 110 (11.45%) C#
4 106 (11.03%) JavaScript
5 87 (9.05%) Bicep
6 78 (8.12%) TypeScript
7 36 (3.75%) Kusto Query Language
8 23 (2.39%) Java
9 16 (1.66%) T-SQL
10 15 (1.56%) VBScript
11 14 (1.46%) C++
12 13 (1.35%) PHP
13 10 (1.04%) Perl
14 8 (0.83%) VB
15 6 (0.62%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.52%) Ruby
17 4 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 4 (0.42%) Go
18 3 (0.31%) C
Qualifications
1 152 (15.82%) Security Cleared
2 115 (11.97%) Azure Certification
3 109 (11.34%) Microsoft Certification
4 100 (10.41%) SC Cleared
5 95 (9.89%) Degree
6 48 (4.99%) DV Cleared
7 40 (4.16%) CompTIA Security+
8 30 (3.12%) CCNA
8 30 (3.12%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
10 24 (2.50%) DBS Check
11 22 (2.29%) CISSP
12 21 (2.19%) CEH
13 14 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (1.35%) AWS Certification
15 12 (1.25%) CISM
15 12 (1.25%) GIAC
15 12 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 12 (1.25%) MCSA
16 10 (1.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (7.70%) QA
2 68 (7.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 60 (6.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 42 (4.37%) NIST
5 29 (3.02%) SLA
6 26 (2.71%) GDPR
7 15 (1.56%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.04%) Data Quality
9 9 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (0.94%) NCSC
10 7 (0.73%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.62%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.31%) ISAE 3402
13 2 (0.21%) GRC
13 2 (0.21%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.21%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 1 (0.10%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 353 (36.73%) Active Directory
2 184 (19.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 139 (14.46%) Hyper-V
4 84 (8.74%) Docker
5 60 (6.24%) Virtual Machines
6 55 (5.72%) vSphere
7 47 (4.89%) Virtual Desktop
8 21 (2.19%) VMware NSX
9 18 (1.87%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.94%) BitLocker
11 8 (0.83%) Firmware
11 8 (0.83%) KVM
12 5 (0.52%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.42%) Squid
13 4 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.21%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.21%) NFS
14 2 (0.21%) Snort
14 2 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 181 (18.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 147 (15.30%) Kubernetes
3 88 (9.16%) Ansible
4 52 (5.41%) SCCM
5 41 (4.27%) Grafana
6 25 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (2.50%) Prometheus
7 24 (2.50%) vCenter Server
8 19 (1.98%) Puppet
9 16 (1.66%) Proxmox
9 16 (1.66%) ZABBIX
10 15 (1.56%) Graylog
11 14 (1.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 13 (1.35%) Argo
12 13 (1.35%) QRadar
13 10 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
13 10 (1.04%) Kibana
14 9 (0.94%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.83%) Progress Chef
15 8 (0.83%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 632 (65.76%) Microsoft
2 211 (21.96%) VMware
3 79 (8.22%) Cisco
4 54 (5.62%) Veeam
5 50 (5.20%) Splunk
6 43 (4.47%) ServiceNow
7 34 (3.54%) Sage
8 30 (3.12%) Meraki
9 27 (2.81%) Red Hat
10 25 (2.60%) SAP
11 23 (2.39%) Citrix
11 23 (2.39%) Dell
12 21 (2.19%) Fortinet
12 21 (2.19%) Google
12 21 (2.19%) SolarWinds
13 20 (2.08%) Sophos
14 19 (1.98%) Apple
14 19 (1.98%) CrowdStrike
14 19 (1.98%) Oracle
14 19 (1.98%) TOWER Software