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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 87 139
Rank change year-on-year -85 +52 -34
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 698 1,046 1,415
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.05% 3.56% 2.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.99% 12.54% 6.49%
Number of salaries quoted 549 577 1,170
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,599 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £73,875
UK median annual salary £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.67% +9.09% -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 9,982 8,338 21,818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.05% 28.40% 31.53%
Number of salaries quoted 6,860 5,517 16,327
10th Percentile £33,975 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -77 163 £56,750 -1.30% 131
North of England -114 154 £47,500 -5.00% 82
Midlands -53 121 £52,500 +5.00% 34
South West -49 81 £55,000 +15.79% 42
Scotland +46 79 £50,000 -0.41% 19
North West -105 79 £50,000 +8.70% 52
East of England -30 75 £57,500 +21.05% 24
East Midlands -27 71 £55,000 +42.86% 20
Yorkshire -27 56 £47,500 -19.49% 16
West Midlands -69 49 £48,000 -4.00% 14
Wales -11 22 £55,000 +7.84% 7
North East -31 19 £53,722 -6.57% 14
Northern Ireland - 3 £46,000 - 1
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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
1 119 (17.05%) SharePoint
2 117 (16.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (3.87%) IIS
4 12 (1.72%) Confluence
5 2 (0.29%) Apache
5 2 (0.29%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 35 (5.01%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.72%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.57%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.29%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.14%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 456 (65.33%) Azure
2 289 (41.40%) Microsoft 365
3 169 (24.21%) Entra ID
4 116 (16.62%) AWS
5 78 (11.17%) Azure DevOps
6 57 (8.17%) IaaS
7 54 (7.74%) OneDrive
8 52 (7.45%) Power Platform
9 48 (6.88%) GitHub
10 42 (6.02%) Azure Key Vault
10 42 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
10 42 (6.02%) Google Workspace
11 38 (5.44%) Azure AKS
12 36 (5.16%) SaaS
13 33 (4.73%) Azure Data Factory
14 30 (4.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 30 (4.30%) Azure Sentinel
14 30 (4.30%) Power Automate
15 29 (4.15%) Datadog
16 28 (4.01%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 188 (26.93%) DNS
2 160 (22.92%) Firewall
3 117 (16.76%) DHCP
4 104 (14.90%) VPN
5 71 (10.17%) TCP/IP
6 60 (8.60%) WAN
7 53 (7.59%) LAN
8 41 (5.87%) VLAN
9 40 (5.73%) Broadband
10 38 (5.44%) VoIP
11 29 (4.15%) Wi-Fi
12 26 (3.72%) SAN
13 19 (2.72%) Network Security
14 17 (2.44%) BGP
15 16 (2.29%) SD-WAN
16 13 (1.86%) MPLS
17 12 (1.72%) Wireless
18 11 (1.58%) HTTP
19 10 (1.43%) SSL
19 10 (1.43%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (10.32%) SQL Server
2 38 (5.44%) Power BI
3 33 (4.73%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (3.44%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (3.01%) MySQL
6 12 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (1.72%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (1.00%) InfluxDB
9 6 (0.86%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.72%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (0.72%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.43%) Metadata
11 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.29%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.29%) Star Schema
13 1 (0.14%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 48 (6.88%) Git
2 46 (6.59%) JIRA
3 39 (5.59%) Jenkins
4 28 (4.01%) GitLab
5 10 (1.43%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
7 7 (1.00%) CircleCI
8 5 (0.72%) Robot Framework
8 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 5 (0.72%) TestRail
9 4 (0.57%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.57%) Selenium
10 2 (0.29%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.29%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.29%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.14%) Balsamiq
11 1 (0.14%) git-flow
11 1 (0.14%) MSI
General
1 209 (29.94%) Social Skills
2 99 (14.18%) Analytical Skills
3 97 (13.90%) Finance
4 53 (7.59%) Organisational Skills
5 47 (6.73%) Law
6 37 (5.30%) Retail
7 32 (4.58%) Documentation Skills
8 31 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (4.30%) Public Sector
10 29 (4.15%) Games
11 15 (2.15%) Legal
11 15 (2.15%) Manufacturing
12 14 (2.01%) Aerospace
13 11 (1.58%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.15%) Advertising
15 6 (0.86%) Front Office
15 6 (0.86%) Police
16 4 (0.57%) Military
17 3 (0.43%) Banking
17 3 (0.43%) Billing
Job Titles
1 161 (23.07%) Senior
2 118 (16.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 87 (12.46%) IT Support
4 85 (12.18%) Support Engineer
5 68 (9.74%) Cloud Engineer
5 68 (9.74%) IT Engineer
6 66 (9.46%) Azure Engineer
7 53 (7.59%) Analyst
8 50 (7.16%) Security Engineer
9 49 (7.02%) DevOps Engineer
10 48 (6.88%) IT Support Engineer
11 45 (6.45%) 2nd Line Support
11 45 (6.45%) Developer
12 32 (4.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 31 (4.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 29 (4.15%) Systems Engineer
15 24 (3.44%) Senior Developer
16 22 (3.15%) Lead
17 21 (3.01%) Senior DevOps
17 21 (3.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (8.31%) OAuth
2 50 (7.16%) SAML
3 47 (6.73%) .NET
4 45 (6.45%) OpenID
5 43 (6.16%) GraphQL
6 42 (6.02%) REST
7 41 (5.87%) LDAP
8 39 (5.59%) SOAP
9 36 (5.16%) Microsoft Graph
10 32 (4.58%) JSON
11 28 (4.01%) YAML
12 24 (3.44%) .NET Core
13 23 (3.30%) SPFx
14 22 (3.15%) ARM Templates
15 20 (2.87%) HTML
16 19 (2.72%) CSS
16 19 (2.72%) HTML5 Canvas
17 15 (2.15%) React
18 12 (1.72%) Node.js
19 10 (1.43%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.16%) Onboarding
2 45 (6.45%) Cyberattack
3 39 (5.59%) Cyber Threat
4 32 (4.58%) Cloud Native
5 31 (4.44%) Driving Licence
6 25 (3.58%) Hybrid Cloud
7 24 (3.44%) Management Information System
8 22 (3.15%) Security Operations Centre
9 21 (3.01%) Data Centre
10 20 (2.87%) PKI
11 16 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
12 15 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (1.86%) Security Posture
14 12 (1.72%) Clustering
14 12 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (1.72%) Product Ownership
14 12 (1.72%) Public Cloud
14 12 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (1.58%) Low-Code
15 11 (1.58%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 309 (44.27%) Windows
2 168 (24.07%) Windows Server
3 134 (19.20%) Linux
4 44 (6.30%) Windows 10
5 30 (4.30%) Apple iOS
5 30 (4.30%) Mac OS
6 25 (3.58%) Android
7 24 (3.44%) CentOS
8 22 (3.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 18 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 16 (2.29%) Ubuntu
11 15 (2.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 13 (1.86%) VMS
13 6 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (0.72%) Debian
15 4 (0.57%) Unix
16 3 (0.43%) AIX
16 3 (0.43%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.29%) Windows 7
18 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (27.51%) Problem-Solving
2 155 (22.21%) Infrastructure as Code
3 143 (20.49%) Cybersecurity
3 143 (20.49%) DevOps
4 138 (19.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 134 (19.20%) CI/CD
5 134 (19.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 125 (17.91%) ITIL
7 112 (16.05%) Agile
8 102 (14.61%) Mentoring
9 92 (13.18%) Containerisation
10 81 (11.60%) Roadmaps
11 79 (11.32%) Root Cause Analysis
12 68 (9.74%) High Availability
13 67 (9.60%) Disaster Recovery
14 64 (9.17%) SIEM
15 63 (9.03%) Cloud Security
15 63 (9.03%) Task Automation
16 52 (7.45%) Identity Access Management
16 52 (7.45%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 225 (32.23%) Python
2 206 (29.51%) Bash
3 128 (18.34%) SQL
4 56 (8.02%) C#
5 47 (6.73%) T-SQL
6 44 (6.30%) Bicep
7 39 (5.59%) JavaScript
8 22 (3.15%) TypeScript
9 11 (1.58%) VB
10 7 (1.00%) C++
11 6 (0.86%) Korn
11 6 (0.86%) Perl
12 5 (0.72%) Java
12 5 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.57%) Go
13 4 (0.57%) VBScript
14 3 (0.43%) PHP
15 2 (0.29%) C
15 2 (0.29%) Delphi
15 2 (0.29%) VB6
Qualifications
1 97 (13.90%) Security Cleared
2 85 (12.18%) Degree
3 63 (9.03%) Azure Certification
4 62 (8.88%) SC Cleared
5 56 (8.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 31 (4.44%) DV Cleared
7 28 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (3.01%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (3.01%) CompTIA Security+
9 19 (2.72%) DBS Check
10 18 (2.58%) CREST Certified
11 16 (2.29%) CCNA
12 14 (2.01%) AWS Certification
13 13 (1.86%) CISSP
14 11 (1.58%) CEH
15 10 (1.43%) SANS
16 9 (1.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 9 (1.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 7 (1.00%) Network+ Certification
18 5 (0.72%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (8.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 59 (8.45%) NIST
3 42 (6.02%) GDPR
4 36 (5.16%) NCSC
5 23 (3.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 23 (3.30%) SLA
6 22 (3.15%) Accessibility
7 11 (1.58%) Data Quality
7 11 (1.58%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.29%) SOC 2
9 7 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (1.00%) ISO 22301
10 6 (0.86%) DICOM
10 6 (0.86%) QA
11 2 (0.29%) COBIT
11 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.14%) HL7
System Software
1 276 (39.54%) Active Directory
2 110 (15.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 88 (12.61%) Docker
4 86 (12.32%) Hyper-V
5 26 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (3.72%) vSphere
6 17 (2.44%) VMware NSX
7 13 (1.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (1.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 8 (1.15%) KVM
10 7 (1.00%) BitLocker
11 5 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.57%) iptables
12 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.29%) Firmware
13 2 (0.29%) Samba
13 2 (0.29%) Squid
14 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.14%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 155 (22.21%) Terraform
2 118 (16.91%) Kubernetes
3 97 (13.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 79 (11.32%) Ansible
5 44 (6.30%) Grafana
6 24 (3.44%) Prometheus
7 21 (3.01%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (2.87%) vCenter Server
9 19 (2.72%) Jamf Pro
10 17 (2.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 15 (2.15%) SCCM
12 10 (1.43%) Graylog
12 10 (1.43%) WSUS
12 10 (1.43%) ZABBIX
13 9 (1.29%) Nagios
14 8 (1.15%) QRadar
14 8 (1.15%) VxRail
15 7 (1.00%) Proxmox
16 6 (0.86%) Nessus
17 5 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 407 (58.31%) Microsoft
2 132 (18.91%) VMware
3 54 (7.74%) Cisco
4 40 (5.73%) Veeam
5 38 (5.44%) Red Hat
6 37 (5.30%) Splunk
7 29 (4.15%) Meraki
8 22 (3.15%) CrowdStrike
8 22 (3.15%) Dell
9 20 (2.87%) Apple
10 19 (2.72%) Adobe
11 16 (2.29%) Dynatrace
12 15 (2.15%) Logitech
13 14 (2.01%) SolarWinds
14 13 (1.86%) HP
14 13 (1.86%) ServiceNow
15 11 (1.58%) Oracle
15 11 (1.58%) Yealink
16 10 (1.43%) Atlassian
16 10 (1.43%) Citrix