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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 85 135
Rank change year-on-year -55 +50 -48
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 926 1,136 1,153
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.24% 3.31% 1.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.77% 13.35% 6.83%
Number of salaries quoted 679 661 868
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £37,750 £40,000
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 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
% 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 11,918 8,508 16,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.94% 24.81% 27.36%
Number of salaries quoted 8,666 5,450 11,845
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £68,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -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 1 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 1 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 -30 248 £54,000 -6.09% 122
North of England -92 215 £50,000 +5.26% 83
Midlands -42 153 £50,000 - 43
North West -84 117 £52,500 +14.13% 51
East of England -33 91 £57,500 +11.65% 37
South West -80 85 £55,000 +15.79% 54
East Midlands -11 79 £42,500 +17.24% 21
West Midlands -60 74 £53,094 -3.47% 22
Yorkshire -38 60 £42,500 -15.00% 22
Northern Ireland -20 59 £46,000 +2.12% 13
Scotland +32 45 £52,500 +31.25% 13
North East -24 38 £50,000 -16.67% 12
Wales -41 30 £46,500 -15.45% 16
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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
1 173 (18.68%) SharePoint
2 170 (18.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 43 (4.64%) IIS
4 19 (2.05%) Confluence
5 9 (0.97%) nginx
6 5 (0.54%) Apache
7 4 (0.43%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.11%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 40 (4.32%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.65%) NetSuite
1 6 (0.65%) Raiser’s Edge
1 6 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.32%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.22%) Alphatax
3 2 (0.22%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 569 (61.45%) Azure
2 376 (40.60%) Microsoft 365
3 236 (25.49%) Entra ID
4 150 (16.20%) AWS
5 114 (12.31%) SaaS
6 108 (11.66%) Azure DevOps
7 87 (9.40%) IaaS
8 77 (8.32%) Power Platform
9 69 (7.45%) GitHub
10 66 (7.13%) OneDrive
11 53 (5.72%) Power Automate
12 51 (5.51%) PaaS
13 50 (5.40%) Azure AKS
14 47 (5.08%) Azure Key Vault
15 46 (4.97%) Azure Sentinel
16 43 (4.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 40 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
18 39 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
19 33 (3.56%) PowerApps
20 30 (3.24%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 258 (27.86%) DNS
2 230 (24.84%) Firewall
3 171 (18.47%) DHCP
4 159 (17.17%) VPN
5 107 (11.56%) TCP/IP
6 85 (9.18%) WAN
7 76 (8.21%) LAN
8 63 (6.80%) VLAN
9 35 (3.78%) Wireless
10 33 (3.56%) SAN
10 33 (3.56%) Wi-Fi
11 29 (3.13%) VoIP
12 21 (2.27%) Network Security
13 19 (2.05%) SSL
14 17 (1.84%) Broadband
15 16 (1.73%) HTTP
16 15 (1.62%) BGP
17 14 (1.51%) VSAN
18 13 (1.40%) NAS
18 13 (1.40%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (10.04%) SQL Server
2 52 (5.62%) Azure SQL Database
3 45 (4.86%) Power BI
4 30 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (1.73%) MySQL
7 12 (1.30%) MongoDB
8 10 (1.08%) Relational Database
9 9 (0.97%) InfluxDB
10 8 (0.86%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.54%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.54%) Metadata
12 4 (0.43%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.43%) Redis
13 3 (0.32%) Power Query
14 2 (0.22%) GIS
14 2 (0.22%) Spotfire
14 2 (0.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 72 (7.78%) Git
2 60 (6.48%) JIRA
3 46 (4.97%) GitLab
4 38 (4.10%) Jenkins
5 14 (1.51%) Bitbucket
5 14 (1.51%) Octopus Deploy
6 7 (0.76%) Robot Framework
6 7 (0.76%) TestRail
7 6 (0.65%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.65%) Selenium
8 5 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (0.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (0.43%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.43%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.32%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.32%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.22%) MSI
11 2 (0.22%) Postman
11 2 (0.22%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 327 (35.31%) Social Skills
2 102 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
3 99 (10.69%) Law
4 96 (10.37%) Finance
5 81 (8.75%) Legal
6 47 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 41 (4.43%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (3.89%) Retail
9 33 (3.56%) Public Sector
10 31 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
11 24 (2.59%) Manufacturing
12 19 (2.05%) Aerospace
13 12 (1.30%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.86%) Games
15 7 (0.76%) Legal Technology
16 6 (0.65%) Advertising
16 6 (0.65%) Military
16 6 (0.65%) Police
17 5 (0.54%) Financial Institution
17 5 (0.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 206 (22.25%) Senior
2 144 (15.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 112 (12.10%) IT Support
3 112 (12.10%) Support Engineer
4 108 (11.66%) IT Engineer
5 98 (10.58%) Analyst
6 90 (9.72%) Cloud Engineer
7 74 (7.99%) Azure Engineer
7 74 (7.99%) DevOps Engineer
8 65 (7.02%) IT Support Engineer
9 54 (5.83%) 2nd Line Support
10 50 (5.40%) Senior Manager
10 50 (5.40%) Testing Manager
11 44 (4.75%) Administrator
12 42 (4.54%) Developer
12 42 (4.54%) Security Engineer
13 40 (4.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 40 (4.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 37 (4.00%) Lead
15 36 (3.89%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (7.13%) .NET
2 42 (4.54%) ARM Templates
3 39 (4.21%) Microsoft Graph
4 34 (3.67%) JSON
5 31 (3.35%) HTML
5 31 (3.35%) YAML
6 24 (2.59%) .NET Core
6 24 (2.59%) SPFx
7 23 (2.48%) OAuth
7 23 (2.48%) SAML
8 22 (2.38%) CSS
9 19 (2.05%) HTML5 Canvas
9 19 (2.05%) REST
10 17 (1.84%) Elastic Stack
10 17 (1.84%) LDAP
11 16 (1.73%) OpenID
12 13 (1.40%) React
12 13 (1.40%) SOAP
13 12 (1.30%) ASP.NET
13 12 (1.30%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 63 (6.80%) Onboarding
2 55 (5.94%) Virtual Team
3 50 (5.40%) Driving Licence
4 46 (4.97%) Cloud Native
5 42 (4.54%) Hybrid Cloud
6 33 (3.56%) Management Information System
7 30 (3.24%) PKI
7 30 (3.24%) Security Operations Centre
8 29 (3.13%) Clustering
8 29 (3.13%) Security Posture
8 29 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
9 24 (2.59%) Data Centre
9 24 (2.59%) Public Cloud
10 23 (2.48%) Replication
11 15 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
11 15 (1.62%) Cyberattack
11 15 (1.62%) Product Ownership
12 13 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (1.30%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 440 (47.52%) Windows
2 235 (25.38%) Windows Server
3 207 (22.35%) Linux
4 54 (5.83%) Windows 10
5 35 (3.78%) Apple iOS
5 35 (3.78%) CentOS
6 32 (3.46%) Mac OS
7 28 (3.02%) Android
8 26 (2.81%) Ubuntu
9 25 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 25 (2.70%) VMS
9 25 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
10 24 (2.59%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.65%) Debian
12 5 (0.54%) CoreOS
12 5 (0.54%) Unix
12 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.43%) AIX
13 4 (0.43%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.22%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (26.46%) DevOps
2 241 (26.03%) Problem-Solving
3 224 (24.19%) Continuous Improvement
4 198 (21.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 183 (19.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 176 (19.01%) CI/CD
7 163 (17.60%) ITIL
8 147 (15.87%) Mentoring
9 146 (15.77%) Cybersecurity
10 133 (14.36%) Agile
11 112 (12.10%) Disaster Recovery
11 112 (12.10%) High Availability
12 111 (11.99%) Containerisation
13 104 (11.23%) Root Cause Analysis
14 98 (10.58%) Project Delivery
15 92 (9.94%) Observability
16 88 (9.50%) AI
17 87 (9.40%) Task Automation
18 84 (9.07%) Cloud Security
19 82 (8.86%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 325 (35.10%) Python
2 220 (23.76%) Bash
3 164 (17.71%) SQL
4 118 (12.74%) C#
5 95 (10.26%) JavaScript
6 82 (8.86%) Bicep
7 79 (8.53%) TypeScript
8 26 (2.81%) Kusto Query Language
9 24 (2.59%) T-SQL
10 14 (1.51%) C++
11 13 (1.40%) Java
11 13 (1.40%) VBScript
12 12 (1.30%) PHP
13 9 (0.97%) Perl
13 9 (0.97%) VB
14 6 (0.65%) Go
14 6 (0.65%) Korn
15 5 (0.54%) C
15 5 (0.54%) Ruby
16 3 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 140 (15.12%) Security Cleared
2 108 (11.66%) Azure Certification
3 103 (11.12%) Degree
4 100 (10.80%) SC Cleared
5 91 (9.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 44 (4.75%) DV Cleared
7 37 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (3.78%) CompTIA Security+
9 33 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
10 28 (3.02%) CCNA
11 25 (2.70%) DBS Check
12 17 (1.84%) CEH
12 17 (1.84%) CISSP
13 13 (1.40%) AWS Certification
13 13 (1.40%) CREST Certified
14 9 (0.97%) GIAC
15 8 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (0.86%) CISM
15 8 (0.86%) CompTIA CySA+
15 8 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (7.13%) QA
2 65 (7.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 54 (5.83%) Cyber Essentials
4 42 (4.54%) NIST
5 39 (4.21%) GDPR
6 31 (3.35%) SLA
7 14 (1.51%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.40%) Data Quality
9 12 (1.30%) NCSC
10 9 (0.97%) SOC 2
11 7 (0.76%) Accessibility
12 6 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.32%) DICOM
13 3 (0.32%) ISAE 3402
13 3 (0.32%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.22%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
System Software
1 334 (36.07%) Active Directory
2 181 (19.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 142 (15.33%) Hyper-V
4 107 (11.56%) Docker
5 56 (6.05%) vSphere
6 46 (4.97%) Virtual Machines
7 32 (3.46%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (2.05%) VMware NSX
9 13 (1.40%) BitLocker
10 10 (1.08%) KVM
10 10 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
11 9 (0.97%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.43%) Firmware
12 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.43%) Squid
12 4 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.22%) iptables
13 2 (0.22%) Samba
14 1 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 200 (21.60%) Terraform
2 163 (17.60%) Kubernetes
3 150 (16.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 97 (10.48%) Ansible
5 57 (6.16%) Grafana
6 37 (4.00%) Prometheus
6 37 (4.00%) SCCM
7 21 (2.27%) vCenter Server
8 18 (1.94%) Jamf Pro
8 18 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
9 17 (1.84%) Proxmox
10 16 (1.73%) ZABBIX
11 14 (1.51%) Graylog
12 12 (1.30%) Argo
12 12 (1.30%) QRadar
13 11 (1.19%) Nagios
14 10 (1.08%) Nessus
15 9 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 8 (0.86%) Docker Swarm
16 8 (0.86%) WSUS
Vendors
1 578 (62.42%) Microsoft
2 201 (21.71%) VMware
3 87 (9.40%) Cisco
4 48 (5.18%) Splunk
4 48 (5.18%) Veeam
5 46 (4.97%) Red Hat
6 42 (4.54%) Meraki
7 36 (3.89%) ServiceNow
8 23 (2.48%) Apple
8 23 (2.48%) Dell
9 19 (2.05%) Adobe
10 18 (1.94%) Logitech
11 17 (1.84%) Oracle
12 16 (1.73%) Fortinet
12 16 (1.73%) SolarWinds
12 16 (1.73%) Sophos
13 15 (1.62%) CrowdStrike
13 15 (1.62%) Dynatrace
14 14 (1.51%) Citrix
15 13 (1.40%) Zerto