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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 82 135
Rank change year-on-year -88 +53 -29
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 701 1,042 1,434
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.05% 3.55% 2.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.00% 12.57% 6.56%
Number of salaries quoted 551 573 1,171
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,679 £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 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £73,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 10,013 8,292 21,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.01% 28.28% 31.53%
Number of salaries quoted 6,882 5,472 16,331
10th Percentile £34,500 £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%

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

PowerShell
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

PowerShell
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 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 20 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 -78 164 £56,750 -1.30% 115
North of England -103 160 £47,500 -5.00% 81
Midlands -50 121 £52,500 +5.00% 36
North West -102 82 £50,000 +8.70% 51
South West -54 81 £55,000 +15.79% 39
Scotland +46 77 £50,000 -0.41% 14
East of England -29 74 £57,500 +21.05% 24
East Midlands -21 71 £55,000 +42.86% 20
Yorkshire -28 58 £45,000 -23.73% 18
West Midlands -78 49 £48,000 -4.00% 16
Wales -10 21 £54,085 +6.05% 1
North East -33 20 £48,445 -15.75% 12
Northern Ireland - 3 £46,000 - 2
PowerShell
UK

PowerShell
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
1 121 (17.26%) SharePoint
2 119 (16.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (3.85%) IIS
4 11 (1.57%) Confluence
5 2 (0.29%) Apache
5 2 (0.29%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 37 (5.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.57%) 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
1 459 (65.48%) Azure
2 290 (41.37%) Microsoft 365
3 170 (24.25%) Entra ID
4 116 (16.55%) AWS
5 78 (11.13%) Azure DevOps
6 58 (8.27%) IaaS
7 54 (7.70%) OneDrive
8 52 (7.42%) Power Platform
9 47 (6.70%) GitHub
10 44 (6.28%) Azure Key Vault
11 42 (5.99%) Google Workspace
12 40 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
13 39 (5.56%) Azure AKS
14 37 (5.28%) SaaS
15 33 (4.71%) Azure Data Factory
16 31 (4.42%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 30 (4.28%) Azure Sentinel
17 30 (4.28%) Power Automate
18 29 (4.14%) Azure Storage
18 29 (4.14%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 191 (27.25%) DNS
2 163 (23.25%) Firewall
3 117 (16.69%) DHCP
4 105 (14.98%) VPN
5 72 (10.27%) TCP/IP
6 61 (8.70%) WAN
7 54 (7.70%) LAN
8 41 (5.85%) VLAN
9 40 (5.71%) Broadband
10 38 (5.42%) VoIP
11 30 (4.28%) Wi-Fi
12 27 (3.85%) SAN
13 19 (2.71%) Network Security
14 17 (2.43%) BGP
15 16 (2.28%) SD-WAN
16 13 (1.85%) MPLS
17 12 (1.71%) HTTP
18 11 (1.57%) Wireless
19 10 (1.43%) NAS
19 10 (1.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (10.27%) SQL Server
2 38 (5.42%) Power BI
3 33 (4.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 25 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
4 25 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (3.14%) MySQL
6 12 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (1.71%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (1.00%) InfluxDB
9 5 (0.71%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
9 5 (0.71%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.57%) Relational Database
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%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.29%) Star Schema
13 1 (0.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 47 (6.70%) Git
2 44 (6.28%) JIRA
3 38 (5.42%) Jenkins
4 28 (3.99%) GitLab
5 10 (1.43%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
7 7 (1.00%) CircleCI
8 5 (0.71%) Robot Framework
8 5 (0.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 5 (0.71%) TestRail
9 4 (0.57%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.57%) Selenium
10 2 (0.29%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.29%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.29%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.29%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.14%) Balsamiq
11 1 (0.14%) DBeaver
11 1 (0.14%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 210 (29.96%) Social Skills
2 99 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
3 94 (13.41%) Finance
4 53 (7.56%) Organisational Skills
5 48 (6.85%) Law
6 35 (4.99%) Retail
7 33 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
8 31 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 29 (4.14%) Games
9 29 (4.14%) Public Sector
10 15 (2.14%) Aerospace
10 15 (2.14%) Legal
10 15 (2.14%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.57%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.28%) Advertising
13 6 (0.86%) Front Office
13 6 (0.86%) Police
14 4 (0.57%) Military
15 3 (0.43%) Billing
15 3 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 161 (22.97%) Senior
2 119 (16.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 89 (12.70%) IT Support
4 87 (12.41%) Support Engineer
5 70 (9.99%) Cloud Engineer
5 70 (9.99%) IT Engineer
6 68 (9.70%) Azure Engineer
7 54 (7.70%) Analyst
8 50 (7.13%) IT Support Engineer
9 49 (6.99%) DevOps Engineer
9 49 (6.99%) Security Engineer
10 45 (6.42%) 2nd Line Support
10 45 (6.42%) Developer
11 33 (4.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 31 (4.42%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 29 (4.14%) Systems Engineer
14 24 (3.42%) Senior Developer
15 23 (3.28%) Lead
16 21 (3.00%) Consultant
16 21 (3.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (8.13%) OAuth
2 50 (7.13%) SAML
3 46 (6.56%) .NET
4 44 (6.28%) OpenID
5 42 (5.99%) GraphQL
5 42 (5.99%) LDAP
6 41 (5.85%) REST
7 38 (5.42%) SOAP
8 37 (5.28%) Microsoft Graph
9 33 (4.71%) JSON
10 28 (3.99%) YAML
11 24 (3.42%) .NET Core
12 23 (3.28%) ARM Templates
12 23 (3.28%) SPFx
13 22 (3.14%) HTML
14 20 (2.85%) CSS
15 19 (2.71%) HTML5 Canvas
16 15 (2.14%) React
17 12 (1.71%) Node.js
18 10 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.28%) Onboarding
2 45 (6.42%) Cyberattack
3 39 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
4 32 (4.56%) Cloud Native
4 32 (4.56%) Driving Licence
5 26 (3.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 24 (3.42%) Management Information System
7 23 (3.28%) Security Operations Centre
8 21 (3.00%) Data Centre
9 20 (2.85%) PKI
10 16 (2.28%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (2.00%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.71%) Clustering
13 12 (1.71%) Product Ownership
13 12 (1.71%) Public Cloud
13 12 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.57%) Replication
15 10 (1.43%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 310 (44.22%) Windows
2 169 (24.11%) Windows Server
3 135 (19.26%) Linux
4 44 (6.28%) Windows 10
5 30 (4.28%) Apple iOS
5 30 (4.28%) Mac OS
6 25 (3.57%) Android
7 24 (3.42%) CentOS
8 23 (3.28%) Windows Server 2016
9 18 (2.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 17 (2.43%) Windows Server 2019
11 16 (2.28%) Ubuntu
12 13 (1.85%) VMS
13 6 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (0.71%) Debian
15 4 (0.57%) Unix
16 3 (0.43%) AIX
16 3 (0.43%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.29%) Windows 7
18 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (27.10%) Problem-Solving
2 154 (21.97%) Infrastructure as Code
3 147 (20.97%) Cybersecurity
4 143 (20.40%) DevOps
5 138 (19.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 134 (19.12%) Continuous Improvement
7 133 (18.97%) CI/CD
8 126 (17.97%) ITIL
9 111 (15.83%) Agile
10 101 (14.41%) Mentoring
11 92 (13.12%) Containerisation
12 79 (11.27%) Roadmaps
12 79 (11.27%) Root Cause Analysis
13 70 (9.99%) High Availability
14 69 (9.84%) Disaster Recovery
15 65 (9.27%) SIEM
16 64 (9.13%) Cloud Security
17 63 (8.99%) Task Automation
18 52 (7.42%) Identity Access Management
18 52 (7.42%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 224 (31.95%) Python
2 205 (29.24%) Bash
3 129 (18.40%) SQL
4 56 (7.99%) C#
5 47 (6.70%) T-SQL
6 44 (6.28%) Bicep
7 39 (5.56%) JavaScript
8 23 (3.28%) TypeScript
9 10 (1.43%) VB
10 8 (1.14%) C++
11 7 (1.00%) Perl
12 6 (0.86%) Java
12 6 (0.86%) Korn
13 5 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.57%) Go
14 4 (0.57%) VBScript
15 3 (0.43%) PHP
16 2 (0.29%) C
16 2 (0.29%) Google Apps Script
17 1 (0.14%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 98 (13.98%) Security Cleared
2 85 (12.13%) Degree
3 66 (9.42%) Azure Certification
4 62 (8.84%) SC Cleared
5 58 (8.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 32 (4.56%) DV Cleared
7 27 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (3.14%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (3.14%) CompTIA Security+
9 19 (2.71%) DBS Check
10 17 (2.43%) CCNA
10 17 (2.43%) CREST Certified
11 14 (2.00%) AWS Certification
12 12 (1.71%) CEH
13 11 (1.57%) CISSP
14 9 (1.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 9 (1.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 8 (1.14%) SANS
16 7 (1.00%) Network+ Certification
17 5 (0.71%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 60 (8.56%) NIST
3 40 (5.71%) GDPR
4 36 (5.14%) NCSC
5 25 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 24 (3.42%) SLA
7 20 (2.85%) Accessibility
8 12 (1.71%) Data Quality
9 11 (1.57%) PCI DSS
10 9 (1.28%) SOC 2
11 7 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (1.00%) ISO 22301
12 6 (0.86%) DICOM
12 6 (0.86%) 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
1 278 (39.66%) Active Directory
2 109 (15.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 88 (12.55%) Docker
4 87 (12.41%) Hyper-V
5 27 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (3.71%) vSphere
7 17 (2.43%) VMware NSX
8 13 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (1.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 8 (1.14%) KVM
11 7 (1.00%) BitLocker
12 5 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.57%) iptables
13 4 (0.57%) 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
1 156 (22.25%) Terraform
2 118 (16.83%) Kubernetes
3 101 (14.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 79 (11.27%) Ansible
5 44 (6.28%) Grafana
6 24 (3.42%) Prometheus
7 21 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (2.85%) vCenter Server
9 19 (2.71%) Jamf Pro
10 17 (2.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 15 (2.14%) SCCM
12 10 (1.43%) Graylog
12 10 (1.43%) WSUS
12 10 (1.43%) ZABBIX
13 9 (1.28%) Nagios
13 9 (1.28%) QRadar
14 8 (1.14%) VxRail
15 7 (1.00%) Proxmox
16 6 (0.86%) Nessus
17 5 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 411 (58.63%) Microsoft
2 133 (18.97%) VMware
3 54 (7.70%) Cisco
4 41 (5.85%) Veeam
5 38 (5.42%) Red Hat
5 38 (5.42%) Splunk
6 30 (4.28%) Meraki
7 22 (3.14%) CrowdStrike
7 22 (3.14%) Dell
8 20 (2.85%) Apple
9 19 (2.71%) Adobe
10 15 (2.14%) Dynatrace
10 15 (2.14%) Logitech
10 15 (2.14%) SolarWinds
11 13 (1.85%) HP
11 13 (1.85%) ServiceNow
12 11 (1.57%) Oracle
12 11 (1.57%) Yealink
13 10 (1.43%) Citrix
13 10 (1.43%) Commvault