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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 110 134
Rank change year-on-year -59 +24 -25
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 688 863 1,439
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.05% 3.00% 2.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.94% 10.36% 6.59%
Number of salaries quoted 540 582 1,194
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 £74,625
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 9,915 8,329 21,844
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.15% 28.98% 31.77%
Number of salaries quoted 6,764 5,702 16,375
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 £71,500 £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 12 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 12 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 -76 158 £55,000 -4.35% 125
North of England -56 152 £47,500 -3.36% 72
Midlands -52 120 £51,250 +2.50% 37
South West -39 81 £55,000 +15.79% 38
Scotland +46 80 £50,000 -3.69% 17
North West -59 75 £51,500 +11.96% 43
East of England -26 73 £57,500 +17.95% 23
East Midlands -16 70 £55,000 +37.50% 19
Yorkshire -35 57 £47,500 -14.41% 17
West Midlands -71 49 £48,000 -4.00% 18
Wales -11 21 £55,000 +10.00% 8
North East -30 20 £48,445 -15.75% 12
Northern Ireland - 3 £46,000 - 4
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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 (17.15%) SharePoint
2 116 (16.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (3.78%) IIS
4 8 (1.16%) Confluence
5 2 (0.29%) Apache
6 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 31 (4.51%) 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
1 450 (65.41%) Azure
2 282 (40.99%) Microsoft 365
3 165 (23.98%) Entra ID
4 117 (17.01%) AWS
5 77 (11.19%) Azure DevOps
6 56 (8.14%) OneDrive
7 54 (7.85%) IaaS
8 53 (7.70%) Power Platform
9 48 (6.98%) GitHub
10 43 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
11 42 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
11 42 (6.10%) Google Workspace
12 35 (5.09%) Azure AKS
13 34 (4.94%) Azure Data Factory
13 34 (4.94%) SaaS
14 31 (4.51%) Power Automate
15 30 (4.36%) Azure Sentinel
16 29 (4.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 29 (4.22%) Azure Logic Apps
16 29 (4.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 177 (25.73%) DNS
2 156 (22.67%) Firewall
3 110 (15.99%) DHCP
4 101 (14.68%) VPN
5 66 (9.59%) TCP/IP
6 56 (8.14%) WAN
7 49 (7.12%) LAN
8 41 (5.96%) VLAN
9 40 (5.81%) Broadband
10 38 (5.52%) VoIP
11 29 (4.22%) Wi-Fi
12 27 (3.92%) SAN
13 18 (2.62%) Network Security
14 17 (2.47%) BGP
15 16 (2.33%) SD-WAN
16 13 (1.89%) MPLS
17 12 (1.74%) Wireless
18 10 (1.45%) HTTP
19 9 (1.31%) SSL
19 9 (1.31%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (10.90%) SQL Server
2 40 (5.81%) Power BI
3 34 (4.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 23 (3.34%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (3.34%) 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%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.02%) InfluxDB
10 5 (0.73%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (0.73%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.44%) Metadata
11 3 (0.44%) 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 (0.15%) BusinessObjects
13 1 (0.15%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 45 (6.54%) Git
2 44 (6.40%) JIRA
3 38 (5.52%) Jenkins
4 26 (3.78%) GitLab
5 10 (1.45%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.31%) Octopus Deploy
7 7 (1.02%) CircleCI
8 5 (0.73%) Robot Framework
8 5 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 5 (0.73%) TestRail
9 4 (0.58%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.58%) Selenium
10 3 (0.44%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.44%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.44%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.15%) Balsamiq
11 1 (0.15%) git-flow
General
1 210 (30.52%) Social Skills
2 100 (14.53%) Finance
3 95 (13.81%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (7.56%) Organisational Skills
5 45 (6.54%) Law
6 38 (5.52%) Retail
7 31 (4.51%) Documentation Skills
8 30 (4.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 30 (4.36%) Public Sector
9 29 (4.22%) Games
10 17 (2.47%) Manufacturing
11 14 (2.03%) Legal
12 12 (1.74%) Aerospace
13 11 (1.60%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.16%) Advertising
15 7 (1.02%) Front Office
16 6 (0.87%) Police
17 4 (0.58%) Military
18 3 (0.44%) Banking
18 3 (0.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 160 (23.26%) Senior
2 113 (16.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 84 (12.21%) IT Support
4 82 (11.92%) Support Engineer
5 68 (9.88%) Azure Engineer
6 67 (9.74%) Cloud Engineer
7 64 (9.30%) IT Engineer
8 50 (7.27%) Security Engineer
9 49 (7.12%) Analyst
10 47 (6.83%) DevOps Engineer
11 45 (6.54%) Developer
11 45 (6.54%) IT Support Engineer
12 43 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
13 31 (4.51%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 28 (4.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 28 (4.07%) Systems Engineer
15 24 (3.49%) Senior Developer
16 22 (3.20%) Lead
17 21 (3.05%) Applications Engineer
18 20 (2.91%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (8.43%) OAuth
2 49 (7.12%) SAML
3 45 (6.54%) .NET
4 44 (6.40%) GraphQL
4 44 (6.40%) OpenID
5 43 (6.25%) REST
6 40 (5.81%) LDAP
7 38 (5.52%) SOAP
8 35 (5.09%) Microsoft Graph
9 32 (4.65%) JSON
10 26 (3.78%) YAML
11 24 (3.49%) .NET Core
12 23 (3.34%) SPFx
13 21 (3.05%) ARM Templates
14 20 (2.91%) HTML
15 19 (2.76%) CSS
15 19 (2.76%) HTML5 Canvas
16 15 (2.18%) React
17 12 (1.74%) Node.js
18 10 (1.45%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 52 (7.56%) Onboarding
2 45 (6.54%) Cyberattack
3 39 (5.67%) Cyber Threat
4 33 (4.80%) Cloud Native
5 29 (4.22%) Driving Licence
6 25 (3.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 24 (3.49%) Management Information System
8 21 (3.05%) Security Operations Centre
9 20 (2.91%) Data Centre
10 18 (2.62%) PKI
11 16 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
12 15 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (1.89%) Public Cloud
13 13 (1.89%) Security Posture
14 12 (1.74%) Product Ownership
14 12 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
15 11 (1.60%) Replication
16 10 (1.45%) Clustering
16 10 (1.45%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 296 (43.02%) Windows
2 162 (23.55%) Windows Server
3 128 (18.60%) Linux
4 42 (6.10%) Windows 10
5 29 (4.22%) Apple iOS
5 29 (4.22%) Mac OS
6 24 (3.49%) Android
7 21 (3.05%) CentOS
7 21 (3.05%) Windows Server 2016
8 16 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (2.03%) Ubuntu
9 14 (2.03%) Windows Server 2019
10 13 (1.89%) VMS
11 6 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.73%) Debian
13 4 (0.58%) Unix
14 3 (0.44%) AIX
15 2 (0.29%) CoreOS
16 1 (0.15%) OpenBSD
16 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (28.05%) Problem-Solving
2 154 (22.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 144 (20.93%) DevOps
4 139 (20.20%) Cybersecurity
5 135 (19.62%) CI/CD
6 133 (19.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 130 (18.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 123 (17.88%) ITIL
9 108 (15.70%) Agile
10 102 (14.83%) Mentoring
11 92 (13.37%) Containerisation
12 81 (11.77%) Roadmaps
13 75 (10.90%) Root Cause Analysis
14 66 (9.59%) Disaster Recovery
14 66 (9.59%) High Availability
15 63 (9.16%) Cloud Security
15 63 (9.16%) SIEM
16 61 (8.87%) Task Automation
17 52 (7.56%) Identity Access Management
18 51 (7.41%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 219 (31.83%) Python
2 198 (28.78%) Bash
3 132 (19.19%) SQL
4 56 (8.14%) C#
5 48 (6.98%) T-SQL
6 45 (6.54%) Bicep
7 39 (5.67%) JavaScript
8 22 (3.20%) TypeScript
9 10 (1.45%) VB
10 6 (0.87%) C++
10 6 (0.87%) Korn
10 6 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (0.73%) Java
11 5 (0.73%) Perl
12 4 (0.58%) Go
13 2 (0.29%) Delphi
13 2 (0.29%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.29%) PHP
13 2 (0.29%) VB6
13 2 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 91 (13.23%) Security Cleared
2 85 (12.35%) Degree
3 60 (8.72%) Azure Certification
4 57 (8.28%) SC Cleared
5 55 (7.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 32 (4.65%) DV Cleared
7 30 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
9 19 (2.76%) CompTIA Security+
10 17 (2.47%) CREST Certified
10 17 (2.47%) DBS Check
11 15 (2.18%) CCNA
12 13 (1.89%) AWS Certification
13 12 (1.74%) CISSP
14 10 (1.45%) CEH
14 10 (1.45%) SANS
15 9 (1.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 8 (1.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 7 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
18 5 (0.73%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 57 (8.28%) NIST
3 42 (6.10%) GDPR
4 36 (5.23%) NCSC
5 23 (3.34%) Accessibility
5 23 (3.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 22 (3.20%) SLA
7 11 (1.60%) Data Quality
8 10 (1.45%) PCI DSS
9 9 (1.31%) SOC 2
10 8 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (1.02%) ISO 22301
11 7 (1.02%) QA
12 6 (0.87%) DICOM
13 2 (0.29%) COBIT
13 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.15%) HL7
System Software
1 266 (38.66%) Active Directory
2 101 (14.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 87 (12.65%) Docker
4 82 (11.92%) Hyper-V
5 26 (3.78%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (3.49%) vSphere
7 16 (2.33%) VMware NSX
8 13 (1.89%) 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
14 2 (0.29%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.15%) Squid
Systems Management
1 154 (22.38%) Terraform
2 113 (16.42%) Kubernetes
3 96 (13.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 78 (11.34%) Ansible
5 44 (6.40%) Grafana
6 23 (3.34%) Prometheus
7 19 (2.76%) Jamf Pro
7 19 (2.76%) vCenter Server
8 17 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (2.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 13 (1.89%) SCCM
11 9 (1.31%) WSUS
12 8 (1.16%) Nagios
13 7 (1.02%) Graylog
13 7 (1.02%) QRadar
13 7 (1.02%) VxRail
14 6 (0.87%) ZABBIX
15 5 (0.73%) FortiGate
15 5 (0.73%) Kibana
15 5 (0.73%) Nessus
Vendors
1 395 (57.41%) Microsoft
2 124 (18.02%) VMware
3 53 (7.70%) Cisco
4 38 (5.52%) Veeam
5 36 (5.23%) Red Hat
6 35 (5.09%) Splunk
7 28 (4.07%) Meraki
8 23 (3.34%) CrowdStrike
9 21 (3.05%) Dell
10 19 (2.76%) Adobe
10 19 (2.76%) Apple
11 16 (2.33%) Dynatrace
12 15 (2.18%) Logitech
13 14 (2.03%) SolarWinds
14 13 (1.89%) ServiceNow
15 12 (1.74%) HP
16 11 (1.60%) Atlassian
16 11 (1.60%) Citrix
16 11 (1.60%) Yealink
17 10 (1.45%) Oracle