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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 85 139
Rank change year-on-year -85 +54 -33
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 692 1,046 1,418
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.04% 3.58% 2.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.90% 12.57% 6.50%
Number of salaries quoted 545 577 1,173
10th Percentile £30,800 £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 £60,025
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £74,750
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 10,023 8,323 21,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.12% 28.50% 31.56%
Number of salaries quoted 6,851 5,508 16,323
10th Percentile £33,750 £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 17 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 17 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 -77 161 £56,750 -1.30% 128
North of England -113 151 £47,500 -5.00% 79
Midlands -56 121 £52,500 +5.00% 33
South West -38 81 £55,000 +15.79% 44
Scotland +47 78 £50,000 -0.41% 18
North West -106 78 £50,750 +10.33% 47
East of England -33 75 £57,500 +21.05% 24
East Midlands -26 71 £55,000 +42.86% 21
Yorkshire -34 56 £47,500 -19.49% 18
West Midlands -79 49 £48,000 -4.00% 12
Wales -12 22 £55,000 +7.84% 9
North East -35 17 £48,445 -15.75% 14
Northern Ireland - 3 £46,000 - 3
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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 (17.20%) SharePoint
2 117 (16.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (3.90%) IIS
4 12 (1.73%) Confluence
5 2 (0.29%) Apache
5 2 (0.29%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 33 (4.77%) 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 (0.58%) 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
1 452 (65.32%) Azure
2 285 (41.18%) Microsoft 365
3 168 (24.28%) Entra ID
4 115 (16.62%) AWS
5 77 (11.13%) Azure DevOps
6 56 (8.09%) IaaS
7 54 (7.80%) OneDrive
8 52 (7.51%) Power Platform
9 48 (6.94%) GitHub
10 42 (6.07%) GitHub Actions
10 42 (6.07%) Google Workspace
11 41 (5.92%) Azure Key Vault
12 37 (5.35%) Azure AKS
13 36 (5.20%) SaaS
14 33 (4.77%) Azure Data Factory
15 30 (4.34%) Power Automate
16 29 (4.19%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 29 (4.19%) Azure Sentinel
16 29 (4.19%) Datadog
17 28 (4.05%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 185 (26.73%) DNS
2 157 (22.69%) Firewall
3 115 (16.62%) DHCP
4 103 (14.88%) VPN
5 70 (10.12%) TCP/IP
6 59 (8.53%) WAN
7 52 (7.51%) LAN
8 41 (5.92%) VLAN
9 40 (5.78%) Broadband
10 38 (5.49%) VoIP
11 29 (4.19%) Wi-Fi
12 26 (3.76%) SAN
13 18 (2.60%) Network Security
14 17 (2.46%) BGP
15 16 (2.31%) SD-WAN
16 13 (1.88%) MPLS
17 12 (1.73%) Wireless
18 11 (1.59%) HTTP
19 10 (1.45%) SSL
20 9 (1.30%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (10.40%) SQL Server
2 38 (5.49%) Power BI
3 33 (4.77%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (3.03%) MySQL
6 12 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (1.73%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (1.01%) InfluxDB
9 6 (0.87%) 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 (6.94%) Git
2 46 (6.65%) JIRA
3 39 (5.64%) Jenkins
4 28 (4.05%) GitLab
5 10 (1.45%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
7 7 (1.01%) CircleCI
8 5 (0.72%) Robot Framework
8 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 5 (0.72%) TestRail
9 4 (0.58%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.58%) 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 (30.20%) Social Skills
2 99 (14.31%) Analytical Skills
3 96 (13.87%) Finance
4 53 (7.66%) Organisational Skills
5 46 (6.65%) Law
6 37 (5.35%) Retail
7 32 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
8 31 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (4.34%) Public Sector
10 29 (4.19%) Games
11 15 (2.17%) Legal
11 15 (2.17%) Manufacturing
12 14 (2.02%) Aerospace
13 11 (1.59%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.16%) Advertising
15 6 (0.87%) Front Office
15 6 (0.87%) Police
16 4 (0.58%) Military
17 3 (0.43%) Banking
17 3 (0.43%) Billing
Job Titles
1 159 (22.98%) Senior
2 116 (16.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 87 (12.57%) IT Support
4 85 (12.28%) Support Engineer
5 68 (9.83%) IT Engineer
6 67 (9.68%) Cloud Engineer
7 65 (9.39%) Azure Engineer
8 51 (7.37%) Analyst
9 50 (7.23%) Security Engineer
10 48 (6.94%) DevOps Engineer
10 48 (6.94%) IT Support Engineer
11 45 (6.50%) 2nd Line Support
11 45 (6.50%) Developer
12 31 (4.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 30 (4.34%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 28 (4.05%) Systems Engineer
15 24 (3.47%) Senior Developer
16 22 (3.18%) Lead
17 21 (3.03%) Senior DevOps
17 21 (3.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (8.38%) OAuth
2 50 (7.23%) SAML
3 45 (6.50%) .NET
3 45 (6.50%) OpenID
4 43 (6.21%) GraphQL
5 42 (6.07%) REST
6 41 (5.92%) LDAP
7 39 (5.64%) SOAP
8 35 (5.06%) Microsoft Graph
9 32 (4.62%) JSON
10 27 (3.90%) YAML
11 24 (3.47%) .NET Core
12 23 (3.32%) SPFx
13 21 (3.03%) ARM Templates
14 20 (2.89%) HTML
15 19 (2.75%) CSS
15 19 (2.75%) HTML5 Canvas
16 15 (2.17%) React
17 12 (1.73%) Node.js
18 10 (1.45%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.23%) Onboarding
2 45 (6.50%) Cyberattack
3 39 (5.64%) Cyber Threat
4 32 (4.62%) Cloud Native
5 31 (4.48%) Driving Licence
6 25 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
7 24 (3.47%) Management Information System
8 22 (3.18%) Security Operations Centre
9 21 (3.03%) Data Centre
10 19 (2.75%) PKI
11 16 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
12 15 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (1.88%) Security Posture
14 12 (1.73%) Product Ownership
14 12 (1.73%) Public Cloud
14 12 (1.73%) Replication
14 12 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (1.59%) Clustering
15 11 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
15 11 (1.59%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 304 (43.93%) Windows
2 165 (23.84%) Windows Server
3 133 (19.22%) Linux
4 44 (6.36%) Windows 10
5 30 (4.34%) Apple iOS
5 30 (4.34%) Mac OS
6 25 (3.61%) Android
7 24 (3.47%) CentOS
8 22 (3.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 18 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 16 (2.31%) Ubuntu
11 15 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
12 13 (1.88%) VMS
13 6 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (0.72%) Debian
15 4 (0.58%) Unix
16 3 (0.43%) AIX
16 3 (0.43%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.29%) Windows 7
18 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (27.60%) Problem-Solving
2 154 (22.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 142 (20.52%) Cybersecurity
3 142 (20.52%) DevOps
4 136 (19.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 134 (19.36%) CI/CD
6 133 (19.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 123 (17.77%) ITIL
8 110 (15.90%) Agile
9 101 (14.60%) Mentoring
10 91 (13.15%) Containerisation
11 81 (11.71%) Roadmaps
12 78 (11.27%) Root Cause Analysis
13 67 (9.68%) Disaster Recovery
14 66 (9.54%) High Availability
15 63 (9.10%) SIEM
16 62 (8.96%) Cloud Security
16 62 (8.96%) Task Automation
17 52 (7.51%) Identity Access Management
17 52 (7.51%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 223 (32.23%) Python
2 204 (29.48%) Bash
3 129 (18.64%) SQL
4 54 (7.80%) C#
5 47 (6.79%) T-SQL
6 43 (6.21%) Bicep
7 39 (5.64%) JavaScript
8 22 (3.18%) TypeScript
9 11 (1.59%) VB
10 7 (1.01%) C++
11 6 (0.87%) Korn
11 6 (0.87%) Perl
12 5 (0.72%) Java
12 5 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.58%) Go
13 4 (0.58%) VBScript
14 3 (0.43%) PHP
15 2 (0.29%) C
15 2 (0.29%) Delphi
15 2 (0.29%) VB6
Qualifications
1 97 (14.02%) Security Cleared
2 84 (12.14%) Degree
3 62 (8.96%) Azure Certification
3 62 (8.96%) SC Cleared
4 56 (8.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 31 (4.48%) DV Cleared
6 28 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
8 18 (2.60%) CREST Certified
8 18 (2.60%) DBS Check
9 16 (2.31%) CCNA
10 14 (2.02%) AWS Certification
11 13 (1.88%) CISSP
12 11 (1.59%) CEH
13 10 (1.45%) SANS
14 9 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 9 (1.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (1.01%) Network+ Certification
16 5 (0.72%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (8.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 58 (8.38%) NIST
3 42 (6.07%) GDPR
4 36 (5.20%) NCSC
5 24 (3.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 23 (3.32%) SLA
7 22 (3.18%) Accessibility
8 11 (1.59%) Data Quality
8 11 (1.59%) PCI DSS
9 9 (1.30%) SOC 2
10 8 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (1.01%) ISO 22301
12 6 (0.87%) DICOM
12 6 (0.87%) QA
13 2 (0.29%) COBIT
13 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.14%) HL7
System Software
1 273 (39.45%) Active Directory
2 106 (15.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 88 (12.72%) Docker
4 84 (12.14%) Hyper-V
5 26 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (3.61%) vSphere
7 17 (2.46%) VMware NSX
8 13 (1.88%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (1.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 7 (1.01%) BitLocker
11 7 (1.01%) KVM
12 5 (0.72%) 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%) Squid
15 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.14%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 154 (22.25%) Terraform
2 116 (16.76%) Kubernetes
3 96 (13.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 79 (11.42%) Ansible
5 44 (6.36%) Grafana
6 24 (3.47%) Prometheus
7 20 (2.89%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (2.89%) vCenter Server
8 19 (2.75%) Jamf Pro
9 16 (2.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (2.02%) SCCM
11 10 (1.45%) WSUS
12 9 (1.30%) Graylog
12 9 (1.30%) Nagios
12 9 (1.30%) ZABBIX
13 8 (1.16%) QRadar
13 8 (1.16%) VxRail
14 6 (0.87%) Nessus
14 6 (0.87%) Proxmox
15 5 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 401 (57.95%) Microsoft
2 129 (18.64%) VMware
3 54 (7.80%) Cisco
4 39 (5.64%) Veeam
5 38 (5.49%) Red Hat
6 37 (5.35%) Splunk
7 29 (4.19%) Meraki
8 22 (3.18%) CrowdStrike
8 22 (3.18%) Dell
9 20 (2.89%) Apple
10 19 (2.75%) Adobe
11 16 (2.31%) Dynatrace
12 15 (2.17%) Logitech
13 14 (2.02%) SolarWinds
14 13 (1.88%) HP
14 13 (1.88%) ServiceNow
15 11 (1.59%) Oracle
15 11 (1.59%) Yealink
16 10 (1.45%) Atlassian
16 10 (1.45%) Citrix