PowerShell Jobs in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring PowerShell skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PowerShell over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 134 94
Rank change year-on-year +16 -40 +4
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,025 1,536 1,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.58% 2.05% 3.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.77% 6.70% 8.84%
Number of salaries quoted 551 1,157 1,205
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,300 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £74,331 £85,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% -8.33% +2.56%

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 10,486 22,929 22,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.42% 30.62% 39.08%
Number of salaries quoted 6,796 16,578 13,040
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,810 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% -2.16% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,307 £67,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the UK excluding London

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Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for PowerShell in the UK excluding London

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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 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 2025. 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
North of England +30 378 £50,000 - 135
North West +47 321 £46,000 -12.38% 79
South East +13 281 £57,500 +9.52% 142
Midlands +6 172 £50,000 +7.53% 87
West Midlands +22 113 £50,000 +5.26% 57
East of England +7 104 £47,500 - 94
South West -26 67 £47,500 -5.00% 55
East Midlands +27 59 £35,000 -22.22% 29
Yorkshire -22 42 £57,500 +21.05% 47
Scotland +88 25 £45,000 -30.77% 32
North East +20 15 £58,750 +26.34% 11
Wales +27 4 £50,000 +11.11% 23
Isle of Man - 2 £34,500 -
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 158 (15.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 97 (9.46%) SharePoint
3 41 (4.00%) IIS
4 20 (1.95%) Confluence
5 11 (1.07%) Tomcat
6 8 (0.78%) Apache
7 6 (0.59%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.29%) nginx
8 3 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
9 2 (0.20%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.20%) CMS
9 2 (0.20%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.098%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.098%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.098%) CICS
10 1 (0.098%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.098%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.098%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.098%) WebSphere
Applications
1 49 (4.78%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.29%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 3 (0.29%) Sage 50
2 2 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.098%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.098%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.098%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.098%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 380 (37.07%) Azure
2 248 (24.20%) Microsoft 365
3 151 (14.73%) AWS
4 115 (11.22%) Entra ID
5 84 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
6 78 (7.61%) Power Platform
7 71 (6.93%) IaaS
8 62 (6.05%) Power Automate
9 56 (5.46%) PaaS
10 45 (4.39%) SaaS
11 33 (3.22%) GCP
12 31 (3.02%) Azure Monitor
13 29 (2.83%) PowerApps
14 28 (2.73%) OneDrive
15 25 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
16 24 (2.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 24 (2.34%) Azure Key Vault
17 23 (2.24%) GitHub
18 21 (2.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 20 (1.95%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 418 (40.78%) VPN
2 261 (25.46%) Cisco IOS
3 210 (20.49%) Firewall
4 150 (14.63%) DNS
5 119 (11.61%) TCP/IP
6 111 (10.83%) DHCP
7 68 (6.63%) WAN
8 51 (4.98%) SAN
9 49 (4.78%) VLAN
10 39 (3.80%) LAN
10 39 (3.80%) Network Security
11 34 (3.32%) SD-WAN
12 32 (3.12%) VSAN
13 31 (3.02%) SMTP
14 30 (2.93%) NAS
15 26 (2.54%) VoIP
15 26 (2.54%) Wi-Fi
16 22 (2.15%) FTP
17 20 (1.95%) Wireless
18 19 (1.85%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (9.37%) SQL Server
2 58 (5.66%) Power BI
3 55 (5.37%) Amazon RDS
4 26 (2.54%) MySQL
5 20 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (1.95%) Relational Database
5 20 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 19 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
7 18 (1.76%) Data Lake
8 17 (1.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 12 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (0.78%) Big Data
11 7 (0.68%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 4 (0.39%) FileMaker
14 3 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
15 2 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
15 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
15 2 (0.20%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 62 (6.05%) Cucumber
1 62 (6.05%) Robot Framework
2 41 (4.00%) Git
3 37 (3.61%) Jenkins
4 28 (2.73%) JIRA
5 17 (1.66%) Vagrant
6 15 (1.46%) MSI
7 11 (1.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 9 (0.88%) GitLab
9 6 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.39%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.29%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.29%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.29%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.20%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.098%) gulp
13 1 (0.098%) Oracle Forms
13 1 (0.098%) Subversion
13 1 (0.098%) Yeoman
General
1 369 (36.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 291 (28.39%) Analytical Skills
3 267 (26.05%) Social Skills
4 75 (7.32%) Telecoms
5 72 (7.02%) Finance
6 27 (2.63%) Public Sector
7 26 (2.54%) Automotive
8 23 (2.24%) Retail
9 22 (2.15%) Legal
10 18 (1.76%) Advertising
11 16 (1.56%) Law
12 15 (1.46%) Electronics
12 15 (1.46%) German Language
12 15 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (1.27%) Local Government
15 11 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (0.98%) Manufacturing
17 9 (0.88%) Czech Language
18 6 (0.59%) Games
Job Titles
1 377 (36.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 102 (9.95%) Support Engineer
3 84 (8.20%) IT Support
4 73 (7.12%) Senior
5 70 (6.83%) Analyst
6 64 (6.24%) IT Engineer
7 62 (6.05%) Test Automation Engineer
7 62 (6.05%) Test Engineer
8 60 (5.85%) Lead
9 49 (4.78%) Cloud Engineer
10 45 (4.39%) Infrastructure Support
11 43 (4.20%) 3rd Line Support
12 42 (4.10%) Administrator
12 42 (4.10%) Azure Engineer
12 42 (4.10%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 38 (3.71%) Architect
14 37 (3.61%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 36 (3.51%) Systems Engineer
16 31 (3.02%) DevOps Engineer
16 31 (3.02%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 268 (26.15%) Elastic Stack
2 28 (2.73%) YAML
3 21 (2.05%) .NET
4 20 (1.95%) JSON
5 18 (1.76%) XML
6 16 (1.56%) LDAP
7 15 (1.46%) REST
7 15 (1.46%) SailPoint
8 13 (1.27%) ARM Templates
8 13 (1.27%) SOAP
9 7 (0.68%) Pandas
10 6 (0.59%) CSS
10 6 (0.59%) Web Services
11 5 (0.49%) FHIR
11 5 (0.49%) HTML
11 5 (0.49%) React
12 4 (0.39%) .NET Framework
12 4 (0.39%) ASP.NET
12 4 (0.39%) SPFx
13 3 (0.29%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 260 (25.37%) Cyberattack
2 68 (6.63%) Linux Command Line
3 58 (5.66%) Management Information System
4 45 (4.39%) Data Centre
5 38 (3.71%) Onboarding
6 31 (3.02%) Clustering
7 30 (2.93%) Security Posture
8 27 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (1.95%) Replication
10 18 (1.76%) Virtual Team
11 16 (1.56%) IoT
11 16 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.46%) NHS
12 15 (1.46%) PKI
13 14 (1.37%) Private Cloud
13 14 (1.37%) Public Cloud
14 13 (1.27%) Driving Licence
15 12 (1.17%) Security Operations Centre
16 11 (1.07%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 706 (68.88%) Windows
2 506 (49.37%) Linux
3 265 (25.85%) Android
4 186 (18.15%) Windows Server
5 50 (4.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 42 (4.10%) Windows Server 2016
7 39 (3.80%) Windows 10
8 34 (3.32%) VMS
9 33 (3.22%) Mac OS
10 28 (2.73%) Ubuntu
11 26 (2.54%) Unix
12 14 (1.37%) Apple iOS
13 12 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 11 (1.07%) Mac OS X
14 11 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
15 9 (0.88%) Amazon Linux
16 8 (0.78%) CentOS
17 6 (0.59%) Windows 7
18 5 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
19 4 (0.39%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 491 (47.90%) Problem-Solving
2 489 (47.71%) DevOps
3 394 (38.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 313 (30.54%) Task Automation
5 290 (28.29%) Platform Engineering
6 286 (27.90%) Risk Management
7 276 (26.93%) Line Management
8 275 (26.83%) Storage Management
9 261 (25.46%) Mathematics
10 153 (14.93%) Mentoring
11 131 (12.78%) ITIL
12 126 (12.29%) CI/CD
13 113 (11.02%) Agile
14 97 (9.46%) Coaching
15 96 (9.37%) Cybersecurity
16 91 (8.88%) Infrastructure as Code
17 89 (8.68%) Test Automation
18 78 (7.61%) Disaster Recovery
19 75 (7.32%) Computer Science
19 75 (7.32%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 561 (54.73%) Python
2 443 (43.22%) Bash
3 178 (17.37%) SQL
4 93 (9.07%) JavaScript
5 48 (4.68%) Java
6 45 (4.39%) C#
7 31 (3.02%) Bicep
8 20 (1.95%) T-SQL
9 17 (1.66%) Groovy
10 14 (1.37%) Perl
11 13 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (0.88%) C++
12 9 (0.88%) VBA
13 8 (0.78%) TypeScript
14 6 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (0.59%) R
15 5 (0.49%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.39%) VBScript
17 3 (0.29%) Go
18 2 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 230 (22.44%) Degree
2 153 (14.93%) Security Cleared
3 99 (9.66%) DV Cleared
4 85 (8.29%) Azure Certification
5 74 (7.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 68 (6.63%) SC Cleared
7 55 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (2.73%) AWS Certification
9 26 (2.54%) CompTIA Security+
10 23 (2.24%) HND
11 20 (1.95%) Network+ Certification
12 19 (1.85%) MCSE
13 18 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (1.76%) DBS Check
14 16 (1.56%) CCNA
15 15 (1.46%) Master's Degree
16 14 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 13 (1.27%) CISSP
18 12 (1.17%) CEH
19 11 (1.07%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (6.73%) QA
2 62 (6.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 47 (4.59%) GDPR
4 31 (3.02%) NIST
5 17 (1.66%) NCSC
6 16 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
7 15 (1.46%) HIPAA
8 12 (1.17%) SLA
9 11 (1.07%) COBIT
9 11 (1.07%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.78%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.49%) HL7
11 5 (0.49%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.098%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.098%) GRC
13 1 (0.098%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 360 (35.12%) Hyper-V
2 323 (31.51%) vSphere
3 321 (31.32%) Docker
4 293 (28.59%) Active Directory
5 285 (27.80%) VMware NSX
6 174 (16.98%) VMware Infrastructure
7 48 (4.68%) Virtual Machines
8 28 (2.73%) VMware ESXi
9 21 (2.05%) Virtual Desktop
10 16 (1.56%) XenApp
11 15 (1.46%) Terminal Services
12 13 (1.27%) DFS Replication
13 9 (0.88%) BitLocker
13 9 (0.88%) Microsoft App-V
14 6 (0.59%) Dovecot
14 6 (0.59%) Postfix
15 5 (0.49%) Squid
16 4 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
17 1 (0.098%) RHEV
17 1 (0.098%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 373 (36.39%) Terraform
2 347 (33.85%) Ansible
3 133 (12.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 61 (5.95%) Kubernetes
5 41 (4.00%) SCCM
6 31 (3.02%) Puppet
7 29 (2.83%) Grafana
8 28 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
9 25 (2.44%) Prometheus
10 19 (1.85%) vCenter Server
11 17 (1.66%) WMI
12 14 (1.37%) vMotion
13 13 (1.27%) WSUS
14 12 (1.17%) QRadar
14 12 (1.17%) SCOM
15 10 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
16 8 (0.78%) PowerCLI
16 8 (0.78%) vRealize
17 7 (0.68%) FortiGate
17 7 (0.68%) Nagios
Vendors
1 422 (41.17%) Microsoft
2 322 (31.41%) Cisco
3 276 (26.93%) Splunk
4 270 (26.34%) Juniper
5 260 (25.37%) 3PAR
6 213 (20.78%) VMware
7 53 (5.17%) Citrix
8 44 (4.29%) Meraki
9 33 (3.22%) Veeam
10 31 (3.02%) Apple
11 30 (2.93%) Google
12 29 (2.83%) Databricks
13 27 (2.63%) Okta
14 25 (2.44%) HP
14 25 (2.44%) ServiceNow
15 24 (2.34%) Oracle
16 23 (2.24%) Fortinet
17 20 (1.95%) SonicWALL
18 19 (1.85%) CheckPoint
19 16 (1.56%) Salesforce