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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 84 135
Rank change year-on-year -58 +51 -54
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 938 1,144 1,115
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.23% 3.32% 1.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.77% 13.53% 6.78%
Number of salaries quoted 689 668 823
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,700
25th Percentile £39,000 £37,750 £40,000
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 £72,000
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 12,067 8,453 16,442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.84% 24.56% 27.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8,778 5,372 11,283
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £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 7 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 7 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 -31 248 £54,000 -6.09% 127
North of England -94 217 £50,000 +5.26% 100
Midlands -37 156 £51,250 +2.50% 40
North West -83 120 £53,250 +15.76% 71
East of England -40 97 £57,500 +9.52% 38
South West -72 84 £55,000 +15.79% 46
East Midlands -8 81 £42,500 +21.43% 16
West Midlands -69 75 £54,344 -1.19% 24
Northern Ireland -18 63 £46,000 +2.12% 4
Yorkshire -31 60 £42,500 -16.26% 22
Scotland +32 42 £50,000 +25.00% 19
North East -25 37 £50,000 -16.67% 9
Wales -39 31 £53,000 -3.64% 8
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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
1 177 (18.87%) Microsoft Exchange
1 177 (18.87%) SharePoint
2 44 (4.69%) IIS
3 20 (2.13%) Confluence
4 10 (1.07%) nginx
5 5 (0.53%) Apache
6 4 (0.43%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.11%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 37 (3.94%) 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%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.32%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.21%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 575 (61.30%) Azure
2 389 (41.47%) Microsoft 365
3 245 (26.12%) Entra ID
4 153 (16.31%) AWS
5 118 (12.58%) SaaS
6 110 (11.73%) Azure DevOps
7 88 (9.38%) IaaS
8 74 (7.89%) Power Platform
9 68 (7.25%) GitHub
10 67 (7.14%) OneDrive
11 53 (5.65%) Power Automate
12 50 (5.33%) Azure AKS
13 49 (5.22%) Azure Sentinel
13 49 (5.22%) PaaS
14 47 (5.01%) Azure Key Vault
15 43 (4.58%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 40 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
17 37 (3.94%) GitHub Actions
18 33 (3.52%) PowerApps
19 31 (3.30%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 262 (27.93%) DNS
2 235 (25.05%) Firewall
3 174 (18.55%) DHCP
4 161 (17.16%) VPN
5 109 (11.62%) TCP/IP
6 90 (9.59%) WAN
7 80 (8.53%) LAN
8 62 (6.61%) VLAN
9 37 (3.94%) Wireless
10 34 (3.62%) SAN
10 34 (3.62%) Wi-Fi
11 27 (2.88%) VoIP
12 22 (2.35%) Network Security
13 20 (2.13%) SSL
14 18 (1.92%) HTTP
15 14 (1.49%) NAS
15 14 (1.49%) VSAN
16 13 (1.39%) BGP
16 13 (1.39%) SD-WAN
17 12 (1.28%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (9.81%) SQL Server
2 51 (5.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 42 (4.48%) Power BI
4 27 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (1.39%) MySQL
7 12 (1.28%) Relational Database
8 11 (1.17%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.85%) InfluxDB
10 7 (0.75%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.53%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.53%) Metadata
12 5 (0.53%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.43%) Power Query
13 4 (0.43%) Redis
14 3 (0.32%) Oracle Database
15 2 (0.21%) Electronic Patient Records
15 2 (0.21%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 74 (7.89%) Git
2 62 (6.61%) JIRA
3 46 (4.90%) GitLab
4 37 (3.94%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.60%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.49%) 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 5 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.43%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.43%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.32%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.32%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.21%) git-flow
12 2 (0.21%) IBM UrbanCode
12 2 (0.21%) Postman
12 2 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 331 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 101 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
3 99 (10.55%) Law
4 96 (10.23%) Finance
5 85 (9.06%) Legal
6 48 (5.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 41 (4.37%) Documentation Skills
8 38 (4.05%) Retail
9 35 (3.73%) Public Sector
10 26 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
11 24 (2.56%) Manufacturing
12 20 (2.13%) Aerospace
13 12 (1.28%) 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
1 207 (22.07%) Senior
2 154 (16.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 115 (12.26%) Support Engineer
4 114 (12.15%) IT Engineer
5 112 (11.94%) IT Support
6 97 (10.34%) Analyst
7 92 (9.81%) Cloud Engineer
8 75 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
9 73 (7.78%) DevOps Engineer
10 68 (7.25%) IT Support Engineer
11 52 (5.54%) 2nd Line Support
11 52 (5.54%) Senior Manager
11 52 (5.54%) Testing Manager
12 47 (5.01%) Administrator
13 42 (4.48%) Developer
14 41 (4.37%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 41 (4.37%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 40 (4.26%) Security Engineer
16 39 (4.16%) Lead
17 35 (3.73%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (6.93%) .NET
2 41 (4.37%) ARM Templates
3 40 (4.26%) Microsoft Graph
4 32 (3.41%) YAML
5 31 (3.30%) HTML
6 30 (3.20%) JSON
7 24 (2.56%) .NET Core
7 24 (2.56%) SPFx
8 22 (2.35%) CSS
9 19 (2.03%) HTML5 Canvas
10 18 (1.92%) OAuth
10 18 (1.92%) SAML
11 17 (1.81%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (1.49%) REST
13 12 (1.28%) ASP.NET
13 12 (1.28%) ASP.NET Core
13 12 (1.28%) LDAP
13 12 (1.28%) Middleware
13 12 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (1.28%) React
Miscellaneous
1 65 (6.93%) Onboarding
2 57 (6.08%) Virtual Team
3 50 (5.33%) Driving Licence
4 47 (5.01%) Cloud Native
5 43 (4.58%) Hybrid Cloud
6 35 (3.73%) Management Information System
7 30 (3.20%) Clustering
7 30 (3.20%) Security Operations Centre
7 30 (3.20%) Security Posture
8 29 (3.09%) PKI
8 29 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
9 28 (2.99%) Replication
10 24 (2.56%) Data Centre
10 24 (2.56%) Public Cloud
11 15 (1.60%) Product Ownership
12 14 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.28%) Enterprise Storage
14 12 (1.28%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 455 (48.51%) Windows
2 243 (25.91%) Windows Server
3 217 (23.13%) Linux
4 57 (6.08%) Windows 10
5 35 (3.73%) Apple iOS
6 34 (3.62%) CentOS
7 33 (3.52%) Mac OS
8 29 (3.09%) Android
9 28 (2.99%) Ubuntu
10 25 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 24 (2.56%) VMS
11 24 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
11 24 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.75%) Debian
13 5 (0.53%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.53%) Unix
14 4 (0.43%) AIX
14 4 (0.43%) Windows 7
15 3 (0.32%) Solaris
15 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (26.55%) Problem-Solving
2 247 (26.33%) DevOps
3 234 (24.95%) Continuous Improvement
4 213 (22.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 185 (19.72%) Infrastructure as Code
6 176 (18.76%) CI/CD
7 169 (18.02%) ITIL
8 149 (15.88%) Mentoring
9 144 (15.35%) Cybersecurity
10 128 (13.65%) Agile
11 119 (12.69%) Disaster Recovery
11 119 (12.69%) High Availability
12 109 (11.62%) Containerisation
12 109 (11.62%) Root Cause Analysis
13 100 (10.66%) Project Delivery
14 92 (9.81%) Observability
15 90 (9.59%) AI
16 87 (9.28%) Task Automation
17 85 (9.06%) Test Automation
18 84 (8.96%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 326 (34.75%) Python
2 214 (22.81%) Bash
3 166 (17.70%) SQL
4 119 (12.69%) C#
5 95 (10.13%) JavaScript
6 82 (8.74%) Bicep
7 81 (8.64%) TypeScript
8 27 (2.88%) Kusto Query Language
9 19 (2.03%) T-SQL
10 16 (1.71%) Java
11 13 (1.39%) C++
11 13 (1.39%) VBScript
12 12 (1.28%) PHP
13 9 (0.96%) Perl
13 9 (0.96%) VB
14 6 (0.64%) Korn
15 5 (0.53%) C
15 5 (0.53%) Go
15 5 (0.53%) Ruby
16 4 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 147 (15.67%) Security Cleared
2 112 (11.94%) Azure Certification
3 104 (11.09%) Degree
3 104 (11.09%) SC Cleared
4 95 (10.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 47 (5.01%) DV Cleared
6 38 (4.05%) CompTIA Security+
6 38 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 35 (3.73%) Cisco Certification
8 30 (3.20%) CCNA
9 25 (2.67%) DBS Check
10 18 (1.92%) CEH
11 16 (1.71%) CISSP
12 15 (1.60%) AWS Certification
13 11 (1.17%) CREST Certified
14 10 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (1.07%) GIAC
15 9 (0.96%) CISM
15 9 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 8 (0.85%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.25%) QA
2 65 (6.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 57 (6.08%) Cyber Essentials
4 39 (4.16%) GDPR
5 37 (3.94%) NIST
6 32 (3.41%) SLA
7 13 (1.39%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.28%) Data Quality
9 9 (0.96%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.85%) NCSC
11 6 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.53%) Accessibility
13 3 (0.32%) DICOM
13 3 (0.32%) ISAE 3402
13 3 (0.32%) ISO 22301
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
1 339 (36.14%) Active Directory
2 186 (19.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 147 (15.67%) Hyper-V
4 106 (11.30%) Docker
5 54 (5.76%) vSphere
6 46 (4.90%) Virtual Machines
7 34 (3.62%) Virtual Desktop
8 22 (2.35%) VMware NSX
9 12 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
10 11 (1.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 10 (1.07%) BitLocker
12 9 (0.96%) KVM
13 5 (0.53%) 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%) Ceph
16 1 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 207 (22.07%) Terraform
2 165 (17.59%) Kubernetes
3 156 (16.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 101 (10.77%) Ansible
5 55 (5.86%) Grafana
6 40 (4.26%) SCCM
7 37 (3.94%) Prometheus
8 22 (2.35%) vCenter Server
9 19 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
10 17 (1.81%) Jamf Pro
10 17 (1.81%) Proxmox
11 16 (1.71%) ZABBIX
12 14 (1.49%) Graylog
13 12 (1.28%) Argo
13 12 (1.28%) QRadar
14 11 (1.17%) Nagios
14 11 (1.17%) Puppet
15 10 (1.07%) Nessus
16 9 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 8 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 592 (63.11%) Microsoft
2 207 (22.07%) VMware
3 93 (9.91%) Cisco
4 52 (5.54%) Splunk
4 52 (5.54%) Veeam
5 46 (4.90%) Red Hat
6 44 (4.69%) Meraki
7 39 (4.16%) ServiceNow
8 24 (2.56%) Dell
9 23 (2.45%) Apple
10 19 (2.03%) Adobe
10 19 (2.03%) Oracle
11 18 (1.92%) Logitech
12 17 (1.81%) Citrix
12 17 (1.81%) Sophos
13 15 (1.60%) CrowdStrike
13 15 (1.60%) Fortinet
13 15 (1.60%) SolarWinds
14 14 (1.49%) Dynatrace
15 13 (1.39%) Zerto