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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 89 134
Rank change year-on-year -54 +45 -52
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 961 1,131 1,096
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.21% 3.25% 1.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.93% 13.85% 6.73%
Number of salaries quoted 689 672 758
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,000 £34,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £60,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year - -0.86% -3.33%

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 12,121 8,164 16,292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.26% 23.49% 27.17%
Number of salaries quoted 8,887 5,168 10,866
10th Percentile £35,500 £31,250 £34,404
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,975 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -32 249 £52,500 -8.70% 104
North of England -85 227 £50,000 +3.63% 89
Midlands -29 157 £52,500 +5.00% 63
North West -80 129 £50,801 +10.44% 59
East of England -33 100 £57,500 +13.86% 35
South West -77 85 £55,000 +19.57% 59
East Midlands -9 83 £42,500 +21.43% 24
West Midlands -69 74 £55,000 - 39
Northern Ireland -21 70 £46,000 - 8
Yorkshire -44 62 £42,500 -17.68% 20
Scotland +13 43 £50,000 +25.00% 16
North East -26 36 £50,000 +5.26% 11
Wales -49 30 £53,000 -3.64% 7
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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
1 191 (19.88%) SharePoint
2 180 (18.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 48 (4.99%) IIS
4 19 (1.98%) Confluence
5 13 (1.35%) nginx
6 7 (0.73%) Apache
7 4 (0.42%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.10%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 37 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (1.77%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.62%) Raiser’s Edge
3 3 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.31%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.21%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 584 (60.77%) Azure
2 397 (41.31%) Microsoft 365
3 264 (27.47%) Entra ID
4 149 (15.50%) AWS
5 137 (14.26%) SaaS
6 107 (11.13%) Azure DevOps
7 86 (8.95%) IaaS
8 77 (8.01%) Power Platform
9 74 (7.70%) OneDrive
10 66 (6.87%) GitHub
11 60 (6.24%) Power Automate
12 52 (5.41%) Azure Sentinel
13 50 (5.20%) Azure AKS
14 48 (4.99%) Azure Key Vault
14 48 (4.99%) PaaS
15 45 (4.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 40 (4.16%) Azure Monitor
17 36 (3.75%) PowerApps
18 33 (3.43%) Azure Storage
19 32 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 271 (28.20%) DNS
2 246 (25.60%) Firewall
3 178 (18.52%) DHCP
4 164 (17.07%) VPN
5 115 (11.97%) TCP/IP
6 89 (9.26%) WAN
7 77 (8.01%) LAN
8 61 (6.35%) VLAN
9 41 (4.27%) Wireless
10 33 (3.43%) Wi-Fi
11 29 (3.02%) SAN
12 24 (2.50%) Network Security
13 20 (2.08%) SSL
13 20 (2.08%) VoIP
14 18 (1.87%) HTTP
15 16 (1.66%) VSAN
16 15 (1.56%) Internet
17 12 (1.25%) BGP
17 12 (1.25%) NAS
17 12 (1.25%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (8.95%) SQL Server
2 51 (5.31%) Azure SQL Database
3 42 (4.37%) Power BI
4 23 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (1.35%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.14%) MongoDB
8 9 (0.94%) MySQL
9 8 (0.83%) InfluxDB
9 8 (0.83%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.52%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.52%) Metadata
11 5 (0.52%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.42%) Power Query
12 4 (0.42%) Redis
12 4 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.31%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.21%) Spotfire
14 2 (0.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 70 (7.28%) Git
2 66 (6.87%) JIRA
3 45 (4.68%) GitLab
4 37 (3.85%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.66%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
7 8 (0.83%) Robot Framework
7 8 (0.83%) TestRail
8 6 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (0.62%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.62%) Selenium
8 6 (0.62%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.42%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.31%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.31%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.21%) Apache Ivy
11 2 (0.21%) git-flow
11 2 (0.21%) IBM UrbanCode
11 2 (0.21%) Postman
11 2 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 360 (37.46%) Social Skills
2 103 (10.72%) Analytical Skills
2 103 (10.72%) Finance
3 101 (10.51%) Law
4 93 (9.68%) Legal
5 48 (4.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (4.16%) Documentation Skills
7 37 (3.85%) Public Sector
8 36 (3.75%) Retail
9 27 (2.81%) Manufacturing
10 24 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
11 22 (2.29%) Aerospace
12 13 (1.35%) Legal Technology
13 9 (0.94%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.62%) Advertising
14 6 (0.62%) Military
14 6 (0.62%) Police
15 5 (0.52%) Aviation
15 5 (0.52%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.52%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 210 (21.85%) Senior
2 157 (16.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 117 (12.17%) Support Engineer
4 115 (11.97%) IT Engineer
5 111 (11.55%) IT Support
6 103 (10.72%) Analyst
7 93 (9.68%) Cloud Engineer
8 77 (8.01%) Azure Engineer
9 71 (7.39%) DevOps Engineer
10 64 (6.66%) IT Support Engineer
11 55 (5.72%) Senior Manager
11 55 (5.72%) Testing Manager
12 52 (5.41%) Administrator
13 46 (4.79%) 2nd Line Support
14 41 (4.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 41 (4.27%) Developer
14 41 (4.27%) Lead
15 39 (4.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 39 (4.06%) Systems Engineer
16 35 (3.64%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (21.33%) Terraform
2 66 (6.87%) .NET
3 40 (4.16%) Microsoft Graph
4 38 (3.95%) ARM Templates
5 33 (3.43%) YAML
6 31 (3.23%) HTML
7 28 (2.91%) JSON
8 25 (2.60%) .NET Core
9 24 (2.50%) SPFx
10 22 (2.29%) CSS
11 19 (1.98%) HTML5 Canvas
12 17 (1.77%) Elastic Stack
13 15 (1.56%) REST
14 14 (1.46%) OAuth
14 14 (1.46%) SAML
15 13 (1.35%) ASP.NET
15 13 (1.35%) ASP.NET Core
15 13 (1.35%) LDAP
16 12 (1.25%) Middleware
16 12 (1.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 74 (7.70%) Onboarding
2 60 (6.24%) Virtual Team
3 56 (5.83%) Driving Licence
4 46 (4.79%) Cloud Native
5 41 (4.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 37 (3.85%) Management Information System
7 35 (3.64%) Clustering
8 34 (3.54%) Replication
9 33 (3.43%) Security Operations Centre
10 30 (3.12%) PKI
10 30 (3.12%) Security Posture
11 29 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
12 25 (2.60%) Data Centre
13 22 (2.29%) Public Cloud
14 16 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (1.56%) Product Ownership
16 13 (1.35%) CMDB
16 13 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (1.35%) Private Cloud
17 12 (1.25%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 470 (48.91%) Windows
2 244 (25.39%) Windows Server
3 226 (23.52%) Linux
4 53 (5.52%) Windows 10
5 36 (3.75%) Apple iOS
6 31 (3.23%) Android
6 31 (3.23%) Mac OS
6 31 (3.23%) Ubuntu
7 27 (2.81%) CentOS
8 24 (2.50%) VMS
9 23 (2.39%) Windows Server 2016
9 23 (2.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 21 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.73%) Debian
12 5 (0.52%) CoreOS
12 5 (0.52%) Rocky
12 5 (0.52%) Unix
13 4 (0.42%) AIX
13 4 (0.42%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.31%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
2 256 (26.64%) Continuous Improvement
3 251 (26.12%) DevOps
4 230 (23.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 188 (19.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 186 (19.35%) ITIL
7 177 (18.42%) CI/CD
8 154 (16.02%) Mentoring
9 146 (15.19%) Cybersecurity
10 130 (13.53%) Disaster Recovery
11 126 (13.11%) Agile
12 124 (12.90%) High Availability
13 122 (12.70%) Project Delivery
14 111 (11.55%) Root Cause Analysis
15 108 (11.24%) Containerisation
16 95 (9.89%) AI
17 92 (9.57%) Test Automation
18 87 (9.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 86 (8.95%) Incident Response
19 86 (8.95%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 326 (33.92%) Python
2 202 (21.02%) Bash
3 182 (18.94%) SQL
4 122 (12.70%) C#
5 106 (11.03%) JavaScript
6 86 (8.95%) TypeScript
7 83 (8.64%) Bicep
8 28 (2.91%) Kusto Query Language
9 17 (1.77%) T-SQL
10 16 (1.66%) Java
11 14 (1.46%) C++
12 13 (1.35%) VBScript
13 12 (1.25%) PHP
14 10 (1.04%) Perl
15 8 (0.83%) VB
16 5 (0.52%) Go
16 5 (0.52%) Korn
16 5 (0.52%) Ruby
17 4 (0.42%) C
17 4 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 152 (15.82%) Security Cleared
2 112 (11.65%) Azure Certification
3 109 (11.34%) SC Cleared
4 104 (10.82%) Degree
5 99 (10.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 51 (5.31%) DV Cleared
7 40 (4.16%) CompTIA Security+
8 39 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 36 (3.75%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (3.23%) CCNA
11 23 (2.39%) DBS Check
12 20 (2.08%) CEH
13 15 (1.56%) CISSP
14 13 (1.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 12 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (1.25%) GIAC
16 11 (1.14%) AWS Certification
17 10 (1.04%) CompTIA CySA+
18 9 (0.94%) CISM
18 9 (0.94%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (7.49%) QA
2 66 (6.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 58 (6.04%) Cyber Essentials
4 38 (3.95%) NIST
5 33 (3.43%) GDPR
6 31 (3.23%) SLA
7 12 (1.25%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.14%) Data Quality
9 8 (0.83%) SOC 2
10 7 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (0.73%) NCSC
11 4 (0.42%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.31%) ISAE 3402
13 2 (0.21%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.21%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.10%) DICOM
System Software
1 341 (35.48%) Active Directory
2 189 (19.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 146 (15.19%) Hyper-V
4 102 (10.61%) Docker
5 57 (5.93%) vSphere
6 50 (5.20%) Virtual Machines
7 39 (4.06%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (2.39%) VMware NSX
9 14 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (1.04%) BitLocker
11 9 (0.94%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.83%) Firmware
12 8 (0.83%) KVM
13 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.42%) Squid
13 4 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.10%) Ceph
14 1 (0.10%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 1 (0.10%) iptables
14 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 169 (17.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 163 (16.96%) Kubernetes
3 101 (10.51%) Ansible
4 49 (5.10%) Grafana
5 43 (4.47%) SCCM
6 31 (3.23%) Prometheus
7 24 (2.50%) vCenter Server
8 19 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (1.66%) Proxmox
9 16 (1.66%) ZABBIX
10 15 (1.56%) Graylog
11 14 (1.46%) Jamf Pro
12 13 (1.35%) Puppet
12 13 (1.35%) QRadar
13 12 (1.25%) Argo
14 9 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 9 (0.94%) VxRail
15 8 (0.83%) Kibana
15 8 (0.83%) Nagios
15 8 (0.83%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 612 (63.68%) Microsoft
2 211 (21.96%) VMware
3 92 (9.57%) Cisco
4 51 (5.31%) Veeam
5 50 (5.20%) Splunk
6 43 (4.47%) ServiceNow
7 42 (4.37%) Meraki
8 38 (3.95%) Red Hat
9 26 (2.71%) Dell
10 21 (2.19%) Citrix
11 20 (2.08%) Sage
12 19 (1.98%) Adobe
12 19 (1.98%) Oracle
12 19 (1.98%) Sophos
13 18 (1.87%) Apple
14 17 (1.77%) Logitech
15 16 (1.66%) CrowdStrike
15 16 (1.66%) Fortinet
16 15 (1.56%) SolarWinds
16 15 (1.56%) TOWER Software