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

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	158	89	120
Rank change year-on-year	-69	+31	-55
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell	971	1,079	1,021
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London	1.11%	3.16%	2.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category	8.10%	15.04%	7.36%
Number of salaries quoted	646	660	591
10^th Percentile	£31,250	£31,250	£34,750
25^th Percentile	£38,000	£39,250	£42,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£52,500	£52,500	£50,500
Median % change year-on-year	-	+3.96%	-6.48%
75^th Percentile	£64,125	£65,000	£63,750
90^th Percentile	£77,500	£77,500	£77,500
UK median annual salary	£56,500	£57,500	£62,500
% change year-on-year	-1.74%	-8.00%	+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.

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills	11,990	7,175	13,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London	13.74%	21.04%	27.89%
Number of salaries quoted	8,975	4,675	7,684
10^th Percentile	£36,500	£30,000	£34,075
25^th Percentile	£46,250	£38,750	£42,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£60,000	£55,000	£55,000
Median % change year-on-year	+9.09%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£75,000	£68,750	£70,000
90^th Percentile	£90,000	£80,000	£82,500
UK median annual salary	£65,000	£62,500	£65,000
% change year-on-year	+4.00%	-3.85%	-

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 Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PowerShell.

PowerShell Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 October 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in the UK excluding London

PowerShell 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 16 October 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	-38	239	£52,500	-8.70%	165
North of England	-92	233	£50,000	-	152
Midlands	-29	162	£52,500	+1.94%	84
North West	-92	137	£50,000	-	74
East of England	-45	96	£57,500	+21.05%	52
South West	-67	93	£55,000	+13.40%	78
East Midlands	-6	82	£42,500	+15.65%	32
West Midlands	-68	80	£55,000	-	52
Northern Ireland	-26	70	£46,000	-	22
Yorkshire	-52	57	£48,445	-3.11%	53
Scotland	-14	46	£52,500	+10.53%	44
North East	-41	39	£51,500	-14.17%	26
Wales	-61	32	£35,000	-36.36%	16
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PowerShell Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 October 2026, job vacancies citing PowerShell also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region with a requirement for PowerShell.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Microsoft	66.0%	641
2	Azure	58.6%	569
3	Windows	52.4%	509
4	Microsoft 365	42.8%	416
5	Active Directory	37.3%	362
6	Python	33.2%	322
7	Entra ID	32.6%	317
8	Problem-Solving	32.3%	314
9	Continuous Improvement	29.4%	285
10	DNS	27.6%	268
11	Infrastructure Engineering	27.1%	263
12	Windows Server	26.8%	260
13	DevOps	25.8%	251
14	Linux	25.4%	247
15	Firewall	24.7%	240
16	VMware	22.7%	220
17	Terraform	20.6%	200
18	Bash	19.9%	193
19	Infrastructure as Code	19.6%	190
19	SQL	19.6%	190
19	VMware Infrastructure	19.6%	190
22	DHCP	19.5%	189
22	Microsoft Exchange	19.5%	189
24	Microsoft Intune	19.4%	188
24	SharePoint	19.4%	188
26	ITIL	18.5%	180
27	VPN	18.4%	179
28	CI/CD	17.6%	171
29	Mentoring	17.2%	167
30	Disaster Recovery	16.6%	161

PowerShell Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Python	33.2%	322
2	Bash	19.9%	193
3	SQL	19.6%	190
4	C#	11.2%	109
5	JavaScript	10.6%	103
6	Bicep	9.3%	90
7	TypeScript	7.9%	77
8	Kusto Query Language	3.7%	36
9	Java	2.7%	26
10	T-SQL	1.6%	16
11	VBScript	1.5%	15
12	C++	1.4%	14
13	PHP	1.3%	13
14	Perl	0.9%	9
14	VB	0.9%	9
16	PL/SQL	0.6%	6
17	Ruby	0.5%	5
18	C	0.4%	4
18	Data Analysis Expressions	0.4%	4
18	Go	0.4%	4