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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 81 135
Rank change year-on-year -64 +54 -55
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 936 1,149 1,104
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.22% 3.32% 1.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.72% 13.63% 6.75%
Number of salaries quoted 682 672 810
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,813 £37,750 £40,926
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,063 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £73,300
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 12,130 8,430 16,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.77% 24.34% 27.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8,805 5,349 11,201
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,565 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £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 10 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 10 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 -33 245 £55,000 -4.35% 150
North of England -84 219 £50,000 +5.26% 111
Midlands -33 157 £50,000 - 54
North West -83 121 £52,500 +14.13% 74
East of England -46 96 £57,500 +9.52% 41
South West -72 85 £55,000 +15.79% 62
East Midlands -8 82 £42,500 +21.43% 21
West Midlands -60 75 £54,344 -1.19% 33
Northern Ireland -14 63 £46,000 +2.12% 9
Yorkshire -48 62 £42,500 -17.68% 26
Scotland +24 41 £50,000 +25.00% 27
North East -31 36 £50,000 -16.67% 13
Wales -33 30 £53,000 -3.64% 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
1 181 (19.34%) SharePoint
2 178 (19.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 45 (4.81%) IIS
4 20 (2.14%) Confluence
5 10 (1.07%) nginx
6 5 (0.53%) Apache
7 4 (0.43%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.11%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 37 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.64%) NetSuite
1 6 (0.64%) Raiser’s Edge
2 5 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.32%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.21%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 574 (61.32%) Azure
2 389 (41.56%) Microsoft 365
3 245 (26.18%) Entra ID
4 151 (16.13%) AWS
5 120 (12.82%) SaaS
6 109 (11.65%) Azure DevOps
7 88 (9.40%) IaaS
8 75 (8.01%) Power Platform
9 69 (7.37%) OneDrive
10 65 (6.94%) GitHub
11 55 (5.88%) Power Automate
12 49 (5.24%) Azure AKS
12 49 (5.24%) Azure Sentinel
12 49 (5.24%) PaaS
13 47 (5.02%) Azure Key Vault
14 43 (4.59%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 39 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
16 35 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
16 35 (3.74%) PowerApps
17 31 (3.31%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 261 (27.88%) DNS
2 235 (25.11%) Firewall
3 173 (18.48%) DHCP
4 160 (17.09%) VPN
5 109 (11.65%) TCP/IP
6 88 (9.40%) WAN
7 77 (8.23%) LAN
8 62 (6.62%) VLAN
9 38 (4.06%) Wireless
10 33 (3.53%) SAN
10 33 (3.53%) Wi-Fi
11 25 (2.67%) VoIP
12 23 (2.46%) Network Security
13 21 (2.24%) SSL
14 18 (1.92%) HTTP
15 15 (1.60%) VSAN
16 14 (1.50%) NAS
17 13 (1.39%) Internet
18 12 (1.28%) BGP
18 12 (1.28%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (9.72%) SQL Server
2 51 (5.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 41 (4.38%) Power BI
4 26 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (1.28%) MySQL
6 12 (1.28%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.18%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.85%) InfluxDB
8 8 (0.85%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.53%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.53%) Metadata
10 5 (0.53%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.43%) Power Query
11 4 (0.43%) Redis
12 3 (0.32%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.21%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.21%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 74 (7.91%) Git
2 62 (6.62%) JIRA
3 44 (4.70%) GitLab
4 36 (3.85%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.60%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.39%) Octopus Deploy
7 7 (0.75%) Robot Framework
7 7 (0.75%) TestRail
8 6 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (0.64%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.64%) Selenium
9 4 (0.43%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (0.43%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.32%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.32%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.21%) Apache Ivy
11 2 (0.21%) git-flow
11 2 (0.21%) IBM UrbanCode
11 2 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 332 (35.47%) Social Skills
2 102 (10.90%) Analytical Skills
3 99 (10.58%) Law
4 97 (10.36%) Finance
5 87 (9.29%) Legal
6 49 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 41 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
8 39 (4.17%) Retail
9 37 (3.95%) Public Sector
10 26 (2.78%) Manufacturing
11 25 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (2.14%) Aerospace
13 11 (1.18%) Telecoms
14 9 (0.96%) Legal Technology
15 6 (0.64%) Advertising
15 6 (0.64%) Military
15 6 (0.64%) Police
16 5 (0.53%) Aviation
16 5 (0.53%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 209 (22.33%) Senior
2 155 (16.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 113 (12.07%) Support Engineer
4 111 (11.86%) IT Engineer
5 110 (11.75%) IT Support
6 96 (10.26%) Analyst
7 93 (9.94%) Cloud Engineer
8 74 (7.91%) Azure Engineer
9 72 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
10 65 (6.94%) IT Support Engineer
11 52 (5.56%) Senior Manager
11 52 (5.56%) Testing Manager
12 50 (5.34%) 2nd Line Support
13 47 (5.02%) Administrator
14 41 (4.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 41 (4.38%) Developer
14 41 (4.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 40 (4.27%) Security Engineer
16 39 (4.17%) Lead
17 37 (3.95%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (7.05%) .NET
2 40 (4.27%) ARM Templates
2 40 (4.27%) Microsoft Graph
3 33 (3.53%) YAML
4 31 (3.31%) HTML
5 29 (3.10%) JSON
6 25 (2.67%) .NET Core
7 24 (2.56%) SPFx
8 22 (2.35%) CSS
9 19 (2.03%) HTML5 Canvas
10 17 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
11 16 (1.71%) OAuth
11 16 (1.71%) SAML
12 14 (1.50%) REST
13 13 (1.39%) ASP.NET
13 13 (1.39%) ASP.NET Core
14 12 (1.28%) Middleware
14 12 (1.28%) React
15 11 (1.18%) LDAP
15 11 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 66 (7.05%) Onboarding
2 57 (6.09%) Virtual Team
3 51 (5.45%) Driving Licence
4 47 (5.02%) Cloud Native
5 42 (4.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 36 (3.85%) Management Information System
7 31 (3.31%) Clustering
7 31 (3.31%) Security Posture
8 30 (3.21%) Security Operations Centre
9 29 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
10 28 (2.99%) PKI
10 28 (2.99%) Replication
11 24 (2.56%) Data Centre
11 24 (2.56%) Public Cloud
12 15 (1.60%) Product Ownership
13 14 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
15 12 (1.28%) Enterprise Storage
15 12 (1.28%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 456 (48.72%) Windows
2 242 (25.85%) Windows Server
3 216 (23.08%) Linux
4 55 (5.88%) Windows 10
5 35 (3.74%) Apple iOS
6 34 (3.63%) CentOS
6 34 (3.63%) Mac OS
7 29 (3.10%) Android
8 28 (2.99%) Ubuntu
9 25 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 24 (2.56%) VMS
10 24 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
10 24 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.64%) Debian
12 5 (0.53%) CoreOS
12 5 (0.53%) Unix
13 4 (0.43%) AIX
13 4 (0.43%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.32%) Solaris
14 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (26.50%) Problem-Solving
2 245 (26.18%) DevOps
3 235 (25.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 214 (22.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 184 (19.66%) Infrastructure as Code
6 175 (18.70%) CI/CD
7 174 (18.59%) ITIL
8 147 (15.71%) Mentoring
9 142 (15.17%) Cybersecurity
10 129 (13.78%) Agile
11 121 (12.93%) Disaster Recovery
12 119 (12.71%) High Availability
13 109 (11.65%) Containerisation
14 107 (11.43%) Root Cause Analysis
15 102 (10.90%) Project Delivery
16 91 (9.72%) AI
16 91 (9.72%) Observability
17 86 (9.19%) Task Automation
18 85 (9.08%) Test Automation
19 84 (8.97%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 323 (34.51%) Python
2 211 (22.54%) Bash
3 165 (17.63%) SQL
4 120 (12.82%) C#
5 95 (10.15%) JavaScript
6 81 (8.65%) Bicep
6 81 (8.65%) TypeScript
7 27 (2.88%) Kusto Query Language
8 17 (1.82%) T-SQL
9 16 (1.71%) Java
10 13 (1.39%) C++
10 13 (1.39%) VBScript
11 12 (1.28%) PHP
12 9 (0.96%) Perl
12 9 (0.96%) VB
13 6 (0.64%) Korn
14 5 (0.53%) C
14 5 (0.53%) Go
14 5 (0.53%) Ruby
15 4 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 148 (15.81%) Security Cleared
2 110 (11.75%) Azure Certification
3 106 (11.32%) SC Cleared
4 103 (11.00%) Degree
5 96 (10.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 46 (4.91%) DV Cleared
7 38 (4.06%) CompTIA Security+
7 38 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (3.63%) Cisco Certification
9 29 (3.10%) CCNA
10 25 (2.67%) DBS Check
11 18 (1.92%) CEH
12 16 (1.71%) CISSP
13 13 (1.39%) AWS Certification
14 11 (1.18%) CREST Certified
15 10 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (1.07%) GIAC
15 10 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 9 (0.96%) CISM
17 8 (0.85%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (7.37%) QA
2 64 (6.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 57 (6.09%) Cyber Essentials
4 39 (4.17%) GDPR
5 36 (3.85%) NIST
6 31 (3.31%) SLA
7 13 (1.39%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.18%) Data Quality
9 9 (0.96%) SOC 2
10 7 (0.75%) NCSC
11 6 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.53%) Accessibility
13 3 (0.32%) ISAE 3402
13 3 (0.32%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.21%) DICOM
14 2 (0.21%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
System Software
1 336 (35.90%) Active Directory
2 184 (19.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 145 (15.49%) Hyper-V
4 107 (11.43%) Docker
5 54 (5.77%) vSphere
6 46 (4.91%) Virtual Machines
7 35 (3.74%) Virtual Desktop
8 22 (2.35%) VMware NSX
9 12 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
10 11 (1.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 10 (1.07%) BitLocker
12 9 (0.96%) KVM
13 6 (0.64%) Firmware
14 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.43%) Squid
14 4 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.21%) iptables
15 2 (0.21%) Samba
16 1 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 206 (22.01%) Terraform
2 166 (17.74%) Kubernetes
3 161 (17.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 101 (10.79%) Ansible
5 54 (5.77%) Grafana
6 40 (4.27%) SCCM
7 35 (3.74%) Prometheus
8 23 (2.46%) vCenter Server
9 19 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
10 17 (1.82%) Jamf Pro
10 17 (1.82%) Proxmox
11 16 (1.71%) ZABBIX
12 14 (1.50%) Graylog
13 12 (1.28%) Argo
13 12 (1.28%) QRadar
14 11 (1.18%) Nagios
14 11 (1.18%) Puppet
15 10 (1.07%) Nessus
16 8 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
16 8 (0.85%) Kibana
Vendors
1 593 (63.35%) Microsoft
2 205 (21.90%) VMware
3 91 (9.72%) Cisco
4 52 (5.56%) Veeam
5 51 (5.45%) Splunk
6 45 (4.81%) Red Hat
7 44 (4.70%) Meraki
8 42 (4.49%) ServiceNow
9 25 (2.67%) Dell
10 23 (2.46%) Apple
11 19 (2.03%) Adobe
12 18 (1.92%) Logitech
12 18 (1.92%) Oracle
12 18 (1.92%) Sophos
13 17 (1.82%) Citrix
14 16 (1.71%) CrowdStrike
15 15 (1.60%) Fortinet
16 14 (1.50%) Dynatrace
16 14 (1.50%) SolarWinds
17 13 (1.39%) Zerto