PowerShell Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 83 137
Rank change year-on-year -85 +54 -29
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 689 1,041 1,432
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.05% 3.64% 2.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.93% 12.40% 6.57%
Number of salaries quoted 540 572 1,188
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £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 £66,250 £60,025
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £59,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.77% +8.64% -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 9,938 8,397 21,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.16% 29.34% 31.76%
Number of salaries quoted 6,772 5,597 16,317
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £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 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £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 14 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 14 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 -85 161 £56,750 -1.30% 123
North of England -107 150 £47,500 -5.00% 78
Midlands -60 120 £51,250 +2.50% 32
Scotland +45 80 £50,000 -3.69% 21
South West -40 79 £55,000 +15.79% 42
North West -109 76 £51,500 +11.96% 49
East of England -28 74 £57,500 +17.95% 27
East Midlands -22 70 £55,000 +40.13% 19
Yorkshire -46 56 £47,500 -24.00% 16
West Midlands -73 49 £48,000 -4.00% 13
Wales -12 22 £55,000 +7.84% 9
North East -31 18 £48,445 -15.75% 13
Northern Ireland - 3 £46,000 - 2
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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
1 118 (17.13%) SharePoint
2 115 (16.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (3.92%) IIS
4 10 (1.45%) Confluence
5 2 (0.29%) Apache
6 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 32 (4.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.73%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.58%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.29%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.15%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 452 (65.60%) Azure
2 281 (40.78%) Microsoft 365
3 166 (24.09%) Entra ID
4 115 (16.69%) AWS
5 79 (11.47%) Azure DevOps
6 55 (7.98%) IaaS
7 54 (7.84%) OneDrive
7 54 (7.84%) Power Platform
8 48 (6.97%) GitHub
9 43 (6.24%) Azure Key Vault
10 42 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
10 42 (6.10%) Google Workspace
11 37 (5.37%) Azure AKS
12 35 (5.08%) SaaS
13 34 (4.93%) Azure Data Factory
14 31 (4.50%) Power Automate
15 29 (4.21%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 29 (4.21%) Azure Logic Apps
15 29 (4.21%) Azure Sentinel
15 29 (4.21%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 183 (26.56%) DNS
2 155 (22.50%) Firewall
3 113 (16.40%) DHCP
4 100 (14.51%) VPN
5 68 (9.87%) TCP/IP
6 57 (8.27%) WAN
7 50 (7.26%) LAN
8 41 (5.95%) VLAN
9 40 (5.81%) Broadband
10 38 (5.52%) VoIP
11 29 (4.21%) Wi-Fi
12 27 (3.92%) SAN
13 18 (2.61%) Network Security
14 17 (2.47%) BGP
15 16 (2.32%) SD-WAN
16 13 (1.89%) MPLS
17 12 (1.74%) Wireless
18 10 (1.45%) HTTP
18 10 (1.45%) SSL
19 9 (1.31%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (10.60%) SQL Server
2 40 (5.81%) Power BI
3 33 (4.79%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (3.05%) MySQL
6 13 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (1.74%) NoSQL
8 8 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (1.02%) InfluxDB
10 6 (0.87%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.73%) Electronic Patient Records
11 5 (0.73%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.44%) Metadata
12 3 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.29%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.29%) Star Schema
14 1 (0.15%) BusinessObjects
14 1 (0.15%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 46 (6.68%) Git
1 46 (6.68%) JIRA
2 38 (5.52%) Jenkins
3 27 (3.92%) GitLab
4 10 (1.45%) Bitbucket
5 9 (1.31%) Octopus Deploy
6 7 (1.02%) CircleCI
7 5 (0.73%) Robot Framework
7 5 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (0.73%) TestRail
8 4 (0.58%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.58%) Selenium
9 3 (0.44%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.44%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.44%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.15%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.15%) git-flow
10 1 (0.15%) MSI
General
1 211 (30.62%) Social Skills
2 100 (14.51%) Finance
3 98 (14.22%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (7.55%) Organisational Skills
5 45 (6.53%) Law
6 37 (5.37%) Retail
7 32 (4.64%) Documentation Skills
8 31 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (4.35%) Public Sector
10 29 (4.21%) Games
11 16 (2.32%) Manufacturing
12 14 (2.03%) Legal
13 12 (1.74%) Aerospace
14 11 (1.60%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.16%) Advertising
16 7 (1.02%) Front Office
17 6 (0.87%) Police
18 4 (0.58%) Military
19 3 (0.44%) Banking
19 3 (0.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 160 (23.22%) Senior
2 114 (16.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 85 (12.34%) IT Support
4 84 (12.19%) Support Engineer
5 67 (9.72%) Azure Engineer
6 66 (9.58%) Cloud Engineer
7 65 (9.43%) IT Engineer
8 50 (7.26%) Analyst
9 49 (7.11%) DevOps Engineer
9 49 (7.11%) Security Engineer
10 46 (6.68%) IT Support Engineer
11 45 (6.53%) Developer
12 44 (6.39%) 2nd Line Support
13 31 (4.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 29 (4.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 28 (4.06%) Systems Engineer
16 24 (3.48%) Senior Developer
17 22 (3.19%) Lead
18 21 (3.05%) Senior DevOps
18 21 (3.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (8.42%) OAuth
2 49 (7.11%) SAML
3 45 (6.53%) .NET
4 44 (6.39%) GraphQL
4 44 (6.39%) OpenID
4 44 (6.39%) REST
5 40 (5.81%) LDAP
6 39 (5.66%) SOAP
7 35 (5.08%) Microsoft Graph
8 32 (4.64%) JSON
9 28 (4.06%) YAML
10 24 (3.48%) .NET Core
11 23 (3.34%) SPFx
12 21 (3.05%) ARM Templates
13 20 (2.90%) HTML
14 19 (2.76%) CSS
14 19 (2.76%) HTML5 Canvas
15 15 (2.18%) React
16 12 (1.74%) Node.js
17 11 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.26%) Onboarding
2 45 (6.53%) Cyberattack
3 39 (5.66%) Cyber Threat
4 32 (4.64%) Cloud Native
5 30 (4.35%) Driving Licence
6 24 (3.48%) Hybrid Cloud
6 24 (3.48%) Management Information System
7 21 (3.05%) Data Centre
7 21 (3.05%) Security Operations Centre
8 18 (2.61%) PKI
9 16 (2.32%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (1.89%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.74%) Product Ownership
12 12 (1.74%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.60%) Low-Code
13 11 (1.60%) Replication
14 10 (1.45%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 300 (43.54%) Windows
2 164 (23.80%) Windows Server
3 131 (19.01%) Linux
4 41 (5.95%) Windows 10
5 30 (4.35%) Apple iOS
5 30 (4.35%) Mac OS
6 25 (3.63%) Android
7 23 (3.34%) CentOS
8 21 (3.05%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 16 (2.32%) Ubuntu
11 14 (2.03%) Windows Server 2019
12 13 (1.89%) VMS
13 6 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (0.73%) Debian
15 4 (0.58%) Unix
16 3 (0.44%) AIX
17 2 (0.29%) CoreOS
18 1 (0.15%) Solaris
18 1 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (28.01%) Problem-Solving
2 156 (22.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 145 (21.04%) DevOps
4 141 (20.46%) Cybersecurity
5 136 (19.74%) CI/CD
6 133 (19.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 131 (19.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 123 (17.85%) ITIL
9 111 (16.11%) Agile
10 102 (14.80%) Mentoring
11 91 (13.21%) Containerisation
12 81 (11.76%) Roadmaps
13 77 (11.18%) Root Cause Analysis
14 67 (9.72%) Disaster Recovery
15 65 (9.43%) High Availability
16 62 (9.00%) Cloud Security
16 62 (9.00%) SIEM
17 61 (8.85%) Task Automation
18 51 (7.40%) Identity Access Management
18 51 (7.40%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 222 (32.22%) Python
2 201 (29.17%) Bash
3 132 (19.16%) SQL
4 56 (8.13%) C#
5 47 (6.82%) T-SQL
6 43 (6.24%) Bicep
7 39 (5.66%) JavaScript
8 22 (3.19%) TypeScript
9 10 (1.45%) VB
10 6 (0.87%) C++
10 6 (0.87%) Korn
11 5 (0.73%) Java
11 5 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (0.73%) Perl
12 4 (0.58%) Go
13 3 (0.44%) PHP
14 2 (0.29%) C
14 2 (0.29%) Delphi
14 2 (0.29%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.29%) VB6
Qualifications
1 94 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 85 (12.34%) Degree
3 61 (8.85%) Azure Certification
4 60 (8.71%) SC Cleared
5 55 (7.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 31 (4.50%) DV Cleared
7 29 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (2.90%) CompTIA Security+
9 17 (2.47%) CREST Certified
9 17 (2.47%) DBS Check
10 15 (2.18%) CCNA
11 13 (1.89%) AWS Certification
12 12 (1.74%) CISSP
13 10 (1.45%) CEH
13 10 (1.45%) SANS
14 9 (1.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 9 (1.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
16 5 (0.73%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 57 (8.27%) NIST
3 41 (5.95%) GDPR
4 36 (5.22%) NCSC
5 23 (3.34%) Accessibility
5 23 (3.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 23 (3.34%) SLA
6 11 (1.60%) Data Quality
7 10 (1.45%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.31%) SOC 2
9 8 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (1.02%) ISO 22301
11 6 (0.87%) DICOM
11 6 (0.87%) QA
12 2 (0.29%) COBIT
12 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.15%) HL7
System Software
1 268 (38.90%) Active Directory
2 103 (14.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 88 (12.77%) Docker
4 82 (11.90%) Hyper-V
5 26 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (3.63%) vSphere
7 16 (2.32%) VMware NSX
8 12 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (1.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 6 (0.87%) KVM
12 5 (0.73%) BitLocker
12 5 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.58%) iptables
13 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.29%) Firmware
14 2 (0.29%) Samba
15 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.15%) Squid
15 1 (0.15%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 156 (22.64%) Terraform
2 116 (16.84%) Kubernetes
3 96 (13.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 79 (11.47%) Ansible
5 45 (6.53%) Grafana
6 24 (3.48%) Prometheus
7 20 (2.90%) vCenter Server
8 19 (2.76%) Jamf Pro
8 19 (2.76%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (2.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 12 (1.74%) SCCM
11 10 (1.45%) WSUS
12 9 (1.31%) Nagios
13 8 (1.16%) Graylog
13 8 (1.16%) VxRail
14 7 (1.02%) QRadar
14 7 (1.02%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.87%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (0.87%) Nessus
16 5 (0.73%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 397 (57.62%) Microsoft
2 126 (18.29%) VMware
3 54 (7.84%) Cisco
4 38 (5.52%) Veeam
5 36 (5.22%) Red Hat
6 35 (5.08%) Splunk
7 29 (4.21%) Meraki
8 22 (3.19%) CrowdStrike
8 22 (3.19%) Dell
9 20 (2.90%) Apple
10 19 (2.76%) Adobe
11 16 (2.32%) Dynatrace
12 15 (2.18%) Logitech
13 14 (2.03%) SolarWinds
14 13 (1.89%) HP
15 12 (1.74%) ServiceNow
16 11 (1.60%) Atlassian
16 11 (1.60%) Yealink
17 10 (1.45%) Citrix
17 10 (1.45%) Oracle