PowerShell Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London citing PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 3 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	168	82	114
Rank change year-on-year	-86	+32	-50
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell	962	1,095	1,026
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London	1.06%	3.13%	2.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category	7.82%	15.38%	7.65%
Number of salaries quoted	619	672	604
10^th Percentile	£32,000	£31,888	£34,050
25^th Percentile	£38,719	£41,250	£42,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£52,500	£52,500	£51,750
Median % change year-on-year	-	+1.45%	-4.17%
75^th Percentile	£65,000	£63,750	£65,000
90^th Percentile	£77,500	£77,500	£77,500
UK median annual salary	£56,288	£57,500	£62,500
% change year-on-year	-2.11%	-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 citing coding skills in the UK excluding London.

	6 months to 3 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing coding skills	12,299	7,120	13,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London	13.58%	20.36%	28.02%
Number of salaries quoted	9,079	4,842	7,371
10^th Percentile	£37,500	£29,000	£34,000
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 3 November 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 3 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
North of England	-94	242	£50,000	-	90
South East	-52	235	£52,500	-9.48%	135
Midlands	-44	161	£52,231	-0.51%	64
North West	-88	145	£50,000	-1.96%	41
South West	-76	97	£55,000	+11.68%	55
East of England	-66	87	£54,000	+13.68%	37
East Midlands	-16	81	£45,000	+16.88%	25
West Midlands	-63	80	£55,000	-4.35%	39
Northern Ireland	-17	72	£46,000	-	11
Yorkshire	-49	59	£50,000	+3.63%	34
Scotland	-37	44	£52,500	-8.70%	12
North East	-43	38	£50,913	-15.15%	15
Wales	-68	27	£35,000	-36.36%	10
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PowerShell Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 November 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 citing PowerShell.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Microsoft	66.6%	641
2	Azure	58.2%	560
3	Windows	53.6%	516
4	Microsoft 365	42.1%	405
5	Active Directory	37.6%	362
6	Entra ID	33.9%	326
7	Python	33.3%	320
8	Problem-Solving	32.7%	315
9	Infrastructure Engineering	29.0%	279
10	Continuous Improvement	28.8%	277
11	Windows Server	28.0%	269
12	DevOps	26.7%	257
13	DNS	26.3%	253
14	Linux	25.5%	245
15	Firewall	24.1%	232
16	VMware	23.7%	228
17	Terraform	21.6%	208
18	Infrastructure as Code	20.4%	196
19	VMware Infrastructure	20.2%	194
20	Bash	19.5%	188
20	DHCP	19.5%	188
20	Microsoft Exchange	19.5%	188
23	Microsoft Intune	19.2%	185
24	SharePoint	18.8%	181
25	SQL	18.6%	179
25	VPN	18.6%	179
27	CI/CD	18.0%	173
28	ITIL	17.9%	172
28	Security Cleared	17.9%	172
30	Mentoring	17.8%	171

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	33.3%	320
2	Bash	19.5%	188
3	SQL	18.6%	179
4	C#	10.7%	103
5	Bicep	10.4%	100
6	JavaScript	10.1%	97
7	TypeScript	7.4%	71
8	Kusto Query Language	3.8%	37
9	Java	3.5%	34
10	T-SQL	1.9%	18
11	VBScript	1.7%	16
12	C++	1.5%	14
13	PHP	1.4%	13
14	VB	1.2%	12
15	Perl	0.8%	8
16	PL/SQL	0.7%	7
17	C	0.5%	5
17	Ruby	0.5%	5
19	Data Analysis Expressions	0.4%	4
19	Scala	0.4%	4