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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 88 131
Rank change year-on-year -56 +43 -43
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 875 1,113 1,471
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.24% 3.34% 1.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.72% 12.98% 6.74%
Number of salaries quoted 669 643 1,140
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,875 £39,665
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% - -2.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,650 £73,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -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 11,330 8,576 21,839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.06% 25.74% 29.38%
Number of salaries quoted 8,181 5,515 16,025
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,784
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +0.39% -0.39%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,751 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -30 242 £55,000 -4.35% 92
North of England -89 204 £47,500 -5.00% 60
Midlands -42 140 £50,000 - 30
North West -90 110 £50,051 +3.61% 37
East of England -23 98 £54,500 +9.00% 22
South West -55 92 £55,000 +15.79% 32
East Midlands -11 76 £45,000 +28.57% 14
West Midlands -68 63 £52,500 -4.55% 16
Yorkshire -36 58 £47,500 -9.52% 11
Scotland +29 47 £51,250 +28.13% 17
North East -21 36 £47,500 -20.83% 14
Wales -30 26 £53,085 -3.48% 6
Northern Ireland -36 26 £46,000 +6.75% 6
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UK

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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
1 163 (18.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 158 (18.06%) SharePoint
3 40 (4.57%) IIS
4 17 (1.94%) Confluence
5 4 (0.46%) nginx
6 2 (0.23%) Apache
6 2 (0.23%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.11%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 40 (4.57%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.69%) Raiser’s Edge
1 6 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (0.57%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.23%) Alphatax
3 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.23%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.23%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 548 (62.63%) Azure
2 353 (40.34%) Microsoft 365
3 215 (24.57%) Entra ID
4 146 (16.69%) AWS
5 102 (11.66%) Azure DevOps
6 83 (9.49%) IaaS
7 75 (8.57%) Power Platform
8 70 (8.00%) GitHub
9 69 (7.89%) SaaS
10 57 (6.51%) OneDrive
11 51 (5.83%) PaaS
12 49 (5.60%) Azure AKS
13 47 (5.37%) GitHub Actions
14 46 (5.26%) Power Automate
15 45 (5.14%) Azure Key Vault
16 43 (4.91%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 40 (4.57%) Azure Monitor
18 37 (4.23%) Azure Sentinel
19 31 (3.54%) Datadog
20 30 (3.43%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 243 (27.77%) DNS
2 224 (25.60%) Firewall
3 163 (18.63%) DHCP
4 159 (18.17%) VPN
5 97 (11.09%) TCP/IP
6 80 (9.14%) WAN
7 74 (8.46%) LAN
8 63 (7.20%) VLAN
9 36 (4.11%) Wi-Fi
10 35 (4.00%) VoIP
11 30 (3.43%) Broadband
11 30 (3.43%) SAN
11 30 (3.43%) Wireless
12 24 (2.74%) Network Security
13 18 (2.06%) BGP
14 16 (1.83%) SD-WAN
15 14 (1.60%) HTTP
15 14 (1.60%) SSL
16 12 (1.37%) MPLS
17 10 (1.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (10.29%) SQL Server
2 49 (5.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 46 (5.26%) Power BI
4 34 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (2.29%) MySQL
7 12 (1.37%) MongoDB
7 12 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (1.14%) InfluxDB
9 9 (1.03%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.69%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.57%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.57%) Electronic Patient Records
11 5 (0.57%) Metadata
12 4 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.46%) Redis
13 3 (0.34%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.23%) KNIME
14 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 70 (8.00%) Git
2 52 (5.94%) JIRA
3 47 (5.37%) GitLab
4 46 (5.26%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.83%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.60%) Octopus Deploy
7 8 (0.91%) Robot Framework
7 8 (0.91%) TestRail
8 7 (0.80%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.80%) Selenium
8 7 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.46%) CircleCI
9 4 (0.46%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.34%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.34%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.34%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.23%) MSI
11 2 (0.23%) Postman
11 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 290 (33.14%) Social Skills
2 97 (11.09%) Analytical Skills
3 94 (10.74%) Law
4 87 (9.94%) Finance
5 48 (5.49%) Organisational Skills
6 47 (5.37%) Documentation Skills
6 47 (5.37%) Legal
7 46 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 34 (3.89%) Retail
9 31 (3.54%) Public Sector
10 18 (2.06%) Games
11 17 (1.94%) Manufacturing
12 16 (1.83%) Aerospace
13 15 (1.71%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.69%) Advertising
14 6 (0.69%) Police
15 5 (0.57%) Aviation
15 5 (0.57%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.57%) Local Government
16 4 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 185 (21.14%) Senior
2 142 (16.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 115 (13.14%) Support Engineer
4 114 (13.03%) IT Engineer
5 113 (12.91%) IT Support
6 90 (10.29%) Analyst
7 84 (9.60%) Cloud Engineer
8 72 (8.23%) DevOps Engineer
9 71 (8.11%) IT Support Engineer
10 70 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
11 51 (5.83%) 2nd Line Support
12 49 (5.60%) Security Engineer
13 45 (5.14%) Developer
14 40 (4.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 38 (4.34%) Systems Engineer
16 36 (4.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 32 (3.66%) Administrator
18 29 (3.31%) Lead
19 26 (2.97%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 26 (2.97%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (7.31%) .NET
2 39 (4.46%) OAuth
3 38 (4.34%) ARM Templates
3 38 (4.34%) Microsoft Graph
3 38 (4.34%) SAML
4 37 (4.23%) JSON
5 32 (3.66%) LDAP
5 32 (3.66%) OpenID
6 31 (3.54%) REST
7 30 (3.43%) HTML
7 30 (3.43%) YAML
8 28 (3.20%) SOAP
9 24 (2.74%) .NET Core
9 24 (2.74%) GraphQL
9 24 (2.74%) SPFx
10 22 (2.51%) CSS
11 19 (2.17%) HTML5 Canvas
12 18 (2.06%) Elastic Stack
13 15 (1.71%) React
14 14 (1.60%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 63 (7.20%) Onboarding
2 55 (6.29%) Driving Licence
3 44 (5.03%) Cloud Native
4 40 (4.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 31 (3.54%) Cyberattack
5 31 (3.54%) PKI
6 30 (3.43%) Cyber Threat
6 30 (3.43%) Virtual Team
7 29 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
8 28 (3.20%) Security Posture
9 27 (3.09%) Security Operations Centre
10 26 (2.97%) Management Information System
11 25 (2.86%) Data Centre
12 24 (2.74%) Public Cloud
13 17 (1.94%) Clustering
14 16 (1.83%) Product Ownership
15 15 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (1.71%) Replication
16 14 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
17 12 (1.37%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 422 (48.23%) Windows
2 227 (25.94%) Windows Server
3 193 (22.06%) Linux
4 52 (5.94%) Windows 10
5 35 (4.00%) Apple iOS
6 33 (3.77%) CentOS
7 31 (3.54%) Mac OS
8 28 (3.20%) Android
9 27 (3.09%) Windows Server 2016
10 26 (2.97%) VMS
11 24 (2.74%) Windows Server 2019
12 22 (2.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 22 (2.51%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.91%) Debian
14 5 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.46%) AIX
15 4 (0.46%) Unix
16 3 (0.34%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.23%) Rocky
17 2 (0.23%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (27.77%) Problem-Solving
2 208 (23.77%) DevOps
3 190 (21.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 187 (21.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 186 (21.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 172 (19.66%) CI/CD
7 157 (17.94%) Cybersecurity
8 148 (16.91%) ITIL
9 133 (15.20%) Agile
10 132 (15.09%) Mentoring
11 116 (13.26%) Containerisation
12 103 (11.77%) Root Cause Analysis
13 98 (11.20%) Disaster Recovery
14 95 (10.86%) High Availability
15 91 (10.40%) Task Automation
16 87 (9.94%) Observability
17 83 (9.49%) Cloud Security
18 77 (8.80%) AI
19 75 (8.57%) Roadmaps
19 75 (8.57%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 307 (35.09%) Python
2 240 (27.43%) Bash
3 153 (17.49%) SQL
4 90 (10.29%) C#
5 74 (8.46%) Bicep
6 68 (7.77%) JavaScript
7 53 (6.06%) TypeScript
8 42 (4.80%) T-SQL
9 21 (2.40%) Kusto Query Language
10 13 (1.49%) C++
11 11 (1.26%) Java
11 11 (1.26%) PHP
12 10 (1.14%) VB
12 10 (1.14%) VBScript
13 8 (0.91%) Perl
14 6 (0.69%) Go
14 6 (0.69%) Korn
15 5 (0.57%) C
15 5 (0.57%) Ruby
16 2 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 132 (15.09%) Security Cleared
2 106 (12.11%) Azure Certification
3 99 (11.31%) Degree
4 88 (10.06%) SC Cleared
5 87 (9.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 40 (4.57%) DV Cleared
7 33 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
8 31 (3.54%) CompTIA Security+
8 31 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (3.20%) CCNA
10 26 (2.97%) DBS Check
11 19 (2.17%) CISSP
12 17 (1.94%) CEH
12 17 (1.94%) CREST Certified
13 16 (1.83%) AWS Certification
14 8 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.91%) CISM
14 8 (0.91%) GIAC
14 8 (0.91%) SANS
15 7 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 56 (6.40%) NIST
3 48 (5.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 43 (4.91%) GDPR
5 38 (4.34%) QA
6 28 (3.20%) SLA
7 24 (2.74%) NCSC
8 15 (1.71%) Data Quality
8 15 (1.71%) PCI DSS
9 12 (1.37%) Accessibility
10 9 (1.03%) SOC 2
11 7 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.69%) DICOM
13 5 (0.57%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.23%) ISAE 3402
14 2 (0.23%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.11%) COBIT
15 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
System Software
1 338 (38.63%) Active Directory
2 177 (20.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 134 (15.31%) Hyper-V
4 111 (12.69%) Docker
5 59 (6.74%) vSphere
6 40 (4.57%) Virtual Machines
7 31 (3.54%) Virtual Desktop
8 20 (2.29%) VMware NSX
9 12 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
10 11 (1.26%) BitLocker
11 10 (1.14%) KVM
12 8 (0.91%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 4 (0.46%) iptables
13 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.46%) Squid
13 4 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.23%) Samba
15 1 (0.11%) Firmware
15 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 193 (22.06%) Terraform
2 161 (18.40%) Kubernetes
3 125 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 96 (10.97%) Ansible
5 60 (6.86%) Grafana
6 38 (4.34%) Prometheus
7 28 (3.20%) SCCM
8 25 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
9 24 (2.74%) vCenter Server
10 19 (2.17%) Jamf Pro
11 16 (1.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 16 (1.83%) Proxmox
11 16 (1.83%) ZABBIX
12 14 (1.60%) Graylog
13 12 (1.37%) Argo
13 12 (1.37%) Nagios
13 12 (1.37%) QRadar
13 12 (1.37%) WSUS
14 8 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
14 8 (0.91%) Nessus
Vendors
1 532 (60.80%) Microsoft
2 199 (22.74%) VMware
3 73 (8.34%) Cisco
4 50 (5.71%) Splunk
5 47 (5.37%) Veeam
6 44 (5.03%) Red Hat
7 36 (4.11%) Meraki
8 22 (2.51%) Apple
9 21 (2.40%) Dell
10 20 (2.29%) ServiceNow
10 20 (2.29%) SolarWinds
11 19 (2.17%) Adobe
11 19 (2.17%) Logitech
12 17 (1.94%) CrowdStrike
13 15 (1.71%) Oracle
14 14 (1.60%) Dynatrace
14 14 (1.60%) Sophos
15 13 (1.49%) Fortinet
16 12 (1.37%) Google
16 12 (1.37%) HP