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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 91 130
Rank change year-on-year -54 +39 -49
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 976 1,111 1,019
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.19% 3.22% 1.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.92% 14.33% 6.65%
Number of salaries quoted 688 653 632
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,320 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £64,063 £63,750 £60,375
90th Percentile £76,625 £77,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -

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 12,321 7,755 15,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.96% 22.45% 27.49%
Number of salaries quoted 9,047 4,820 9,284
10th Percentile £35,250 £30,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -4.62%

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 September 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 September 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 -18 246 £52,500 -8.70% 155
North of England -84 233 £50,000 +3.63% 114
Midlands -39 161 £52,500 +5.00% 78
North West -71 137 £50,000 +9.89% 66
East of England -36 103 £57,500 +21.05% 54
South West -70 85 £55,000 +15.79% 55
East Midlands -18 82 £42,500 +21.43% 32
West Midlands -62 79 £55,000 - 46
Northern Ireland -21 69 £46,000 - 7
Yorkshire -48 60 £42,500 -19.05% 31
Scotland +11 44 £50,000 +14.29% 39
North East -38 36 £50,000 - 18
Wales -51 35 £38,500 -30.00% 9
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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
1 197 (20.18%) SharePoint
2 186 (19.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 50 (5.12%) IIS
4 22 (2.25%) Confluence
5 15 (1.54%) nginx
6 8 (0.82%) Apache
7 4 (0.41%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.10%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 38 (3.89%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 30 (3.07%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.61%) Raiser’s Edge
3 3 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.31%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.20%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.20%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 580 (59.43%) Azure
2 404 (41.39%) Microsoft 365
3 280 (28.69%) Entra ID
4 150 (15.37%) AWS
5 148 (15.16%) SaaS
6 107 (10.96%) Azure DevOps
7 83 (8.50%) IaaS
8 80 (8.20%) Power Platform
9 75 (7.68%) OneDrive
10 66 (6.76%) GitHub
11 64 (6.56%) Power Automate
12 51 (5.23%) Azure Sentinel
13 48 (4.92%) Azure AKS
13 48 (4.92%) Azure Key Vault
13 48 (4.92%) PaaS
14 43 (4.41%) Azure Monitor
15 42 (4.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 36 (3.69%) Microsoft Copilot
16 36 (3.69%) Microsoft Purview
17 35 (3.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 278 (28.48%) DNS
2 250 (25.61%) Firewall
3 184 (18.85%) DHCP
4 169 (17.32%) VPN
5 116 (11.89%) TCP/IP
6 91 (9.32%) WAN
7 79 (8.09%) LAN
8 64 (6.56%) VLAN
9 45 (4.61%) Wireless
10 37 (3.79%) Wi-Fi
11 30 (3.07%) SAN
12 21 (2.15%) Network Security
13 20 (2.05%) SSL
14 18 (1.84%) HTTP
14 18 (1.84%) VoIP
15 16 (1.64%) VSAN
16 15 (1.54%) Internet
17 12 (1.23%) BGP
17 12 (1.23%) NAS
17 12 (1.23%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (8.61%) SQL Server
2 51 (5.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 43 (4.41%) Power BI
4 22 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (1.33%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.13%) MongoDB
8 9 (0.92%) InfluxDB
9 8 (0.82%) MySQL
10 7 (0.72%) Data Lake
10 7 (0.72%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.51%) Metadata
12 5 (0.51%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.41%) Power Query
13 4 (0.41%) Redis
13 4 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.31%) Oracle Database
15 2 (0.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 2 (0.20%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 70 (7.17%) Git
2 69 (7.07%) JIRA
3 47 (4.82%) GitLab
4 37 (3.79%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.84%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
7 9 (0.92%) Robot Framework
7 9 (0.92%) TestRail
8 7 (0.72%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.72%) Selenium
9 6 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (0.61%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.41%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.31%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.31%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.20%) Apache Ivy
12 2 (0.20%) git-flow
12 2 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
12 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 388 (39.75%) Social Skills
2 107 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
2 107 (10.96%) Finance
3 95 (9.73%) Law
4 92 (9.43%) Legal
5 49 (5.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 43 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
7 36 (3.69%) Public Sector
7 36 (3.69%) Retail
8 30 (3.07%) Manufacturing
9 24 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
10 22 (2.25%) Aerospace
11 13 (1.33%) Legal Technology
12 8 (0.82%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.61%) Advertising
13 6 (0.61%) Police
14 5 (0.51%) Aviation
14 5 (0.51%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.51%) Local Government
14 5 (0.51%) Military
Job Titles
1 212 (21.72%) Senior
2 164 (16.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 122 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 117 (11.99%) IT Engineer
5 108 (11.07%) Analyst
6 107 (10.96%) IT Support
7 91 (9.32%) Cloud Engineer
8 74 (7.58%) Azure Engineer
9 68 (6.97%) DevOps Engineer
10 65 (6.66%) IT Support Engineer
11 55 (5.64%) Senior Manager
11 55 (5.64%) Testing Manager
12 51 (5.23%) Administrator
13 45 (4.61%) Consultant
13 45 (4.61%) Lead
14 41 (4.20%) 2nd Line Support
15 40 (4.10%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 39 (4.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 39 (4.00%) Support Analyst
17 38 (3.89%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (20.70%) Terraform
2 64 (6.56%) .NET
3 38 (3.89%) ARM Templates
3 38 (3.89%) Microsoft Graph
4 32 (3.28%) YAML
5 30 (3.07%) HTML
6 27 (2.77%) JSON
7 23 (2.36%) .NET Core
7 23 (2.36%) SPFx
8 21 (2.15%) CSS
9 18 (1.84%) Elastic Stack
9 18 (1.84%) HTML5 Canvas
10 15 (1.54%) REST
11 13 (1.33%) ASP.NET
11 13 (1.33%) ASP.NET Core
11 13 (1.33%) LDAP
11 13 (1.33%) OAuth
11 13 (1.33%) SAML
12 12 (1.23%) Middleware
13 11 (1.13%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 78 (7.99%) Onboarding
2 60 (6.15%) Driving Licence
2 60 (6.15%) Virtual Team
3 47 (4.82%) Cloud Native
4 45 (4.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 38 (3.89%) Management Information System
5 38 (3.89%) Replication
6 35 (3.59%) Clustering
7 33 (3.38%) Security Operations Centre
8 31 (3.18%) PKI
8 31 (3.18%) Security Posture
9 28 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
10 26 (2.66%) Data Centre
11 22 (2.25%) Public Cloud
12 18 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (1.64%) Product Ownership
14 13 (1.33%) CMDB
14 13 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
14 13 (1.33%) Private Cloud
15 12 (1.23%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 482 (49.39%) Windows
2 251 (25.72%) Windows Server
3 235 (24.08%) Linux
4 56 (5.74%) Windows 10
5 38 (3.89%) Apple iOS
6 35 (3.59%) Ubuntu
7 31 (3.18%) Android
8 29 (2.97%) CentOS
9 28 (2.87%) Mac OS
10 25 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
11 24 (2.46%) VMS
11 24 (2.46%) Windows Server 2016
12 22 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 9 (0.92%) Rocky
14 8 (0.82%) Debian
15 5 (0.51%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.51%) Unix
16 4 (0.41%) AIX
16 4 (0.41%) Windows 7
17 3 (0.31%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (29.92%) Problem-Solving
2 276 (28.28%) Continuous Improvement
3 250 (25.61%) DevOps
4 242 (24.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 190 (19.47%) ITIL
6 189 (19.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 174 (17.83%) CI/CD
8 161 (16.50%) Mentoring
9 150 (15.37%) Cybersecurity
10 138 (14.14%) Disaster Recovery
11 137 (14.04%) Project Delivery
12 126 (12.91%) Agile
13 118 (12.09%) High Availability
14 110 (11.27%) Root Cause Analysis
15 102 (10.45%) AI
16 101 (10.35%) Containerisation
17 97 (9.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 93 (9.53%) Test Automation
19 85 (8.71%) Task Automation
20 83 (8.50%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 324 (33.20%) Python
2 198 (20.29%) Bash
2 198 (20.29%) SQL
3 120 (12.30%) C#
4 116 (11.89%) JavaScript
5 85 (8.71%) TypeScript
6 84 (8.61%) Bicep
7 27 (2.77%) Kusto Query Language
8 17 (1.74%) T-SQL
9 16 (1.64%) Java
10 15 (1.54%) VBScript
11 14 (1.43%) C++
12 12 (1.23%) PHP
13 10 (1.02%) Perl
14 9 (0.92%) VB
15 5 (0.51%) Go
15 5 (0.51%) Korn
15 5 (0.51%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.51%) Ruby
16 4 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 154 (15.78%) Security Cleared
2 110 (11.27%) SC Cleared
3 109 (11.17%) Azure Certification
4 102 (10.45%) Degree
4 102 (10.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 50 (5.12%) DV Cleared
6 40 (4.10%) CompTIA Security+
7 38 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (3.69%) Cisco Certification
9 31 (3.18%) CCNA
10 23 (2.36%) DBS Check
11 20 (2.05%) CEH
12 15 (1.54%) CISSP
13 13 (1.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 12 (1.23%) GIAC
15 11 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
16 10 (1.02%) AWS Certification
16 10 (1.02%) CompTIA CySA+
17 9 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 9 (0.92%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (7.38%) QA
2 64 (6.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 59 (6.05%) Cyber Essentials
4 37 (3.79%) NIST
5 31 (3.18%) GDPR
5 31 (3.18%) SLA
6 12 (1.23%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.13%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.82%) SOC 2
9 7 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (0.72%) NCSC
10 4 (0.41%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.31%) ISAE 3402
12 2 (0.20%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.20%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.10%) DICOM
System Software
1 344 (35.25%) Active Directory
2 197 (20.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 145 (14.86%) Hyper-V
4 97 (9.94%) Docker
5 58 (5.94%) vSphere
6 54 (5.53%) Virtual Machines
7 42 (4.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (2.36%) VMware NSX
9 15 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.92%) BitLocker
11 8 (0.82%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.82%) KVM
12 7 (0.72%) Firmware
13 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.41%) Squid
13 4 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.10%) Ceph
14 1 (0.10%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 178 (18.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 155 (15.88%) Kubernetes
3 102 (10.45%) Ansible
4 48 (4.92%) Grafana
5 45 (4.61%) SCCM
6 29 (2.97%) Prometheus
7 25 (2.56%) vCenter Server
8 20 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (1.64%) Proxmox
9 16 (1.64%) ZABBIX
10 15 (1.54%) Graylog
11 14 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
12 13 (1.33%) QRadar
13 12 (1.23%) Argo
13 12 (1.23%) Puppet
14 9 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 9 (0.92%) Kibana
14 9 (0.92%) VxRail
15 8 (0.82%) Nessus
16 7 (0.72%) Nagios
Vendors
1 625 (64.04%) Microsoft
2 221 (22.64%) VMware
3 89 (9.12%) Cisco
4 55 (5.64%) Veeam
5 50 (5.12%) Splunk
6 43 (4.41%) ServiceNow
7 38 (3.89%) Meraki
8 37 (3.79%) Red Hat
9 33 (3.38%) Sage
10 27 (2.77%) Dell
11 25 (2.56%) SAP
12 23 (2.36%) Citrix
13 19 (1.95%) Apple
13 19 (1.95%) Oracle
13 19 (1.95%) Sophos
14 18 (1.84%) Adobe
14 18 (1.84%) Fortinet
14 18 (1.84%) Logitech
15 17 (1.74%) TOWER Software
16 16 (1.64%) Google