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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 87 135
Rank change year-on-year -51 +48 -47
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 894 1,122 1,284
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.23% 3.31% 1.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.71% 13.08% 6.72%
Number of salaries quoted 670 650 986
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £39,555
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £71,250
UK median annual salary £56,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.74% +4.55% -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 11,602 8,580 19,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.96% 25.33% 28.64%
Number of salaries quoted 8,449 5,514 13,713
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.78% +7.50% -7.69%

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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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -28 245 £54,000 -6.09% 93
North of England -93 207 £48,445 +0.29% 62
Midlands -40 147 £50,000 - 32
North West -87 110 £51,500 +11.35% 35
East of England -24 92 £55,000 +8.91% 27
South West -69 83 £55,000 +15.79% 34
East Midlands -13 76 £42,500 +21.43% 13
West Midlands -64 71 £52,500 -4.55% 19
Yorkshire -37 58 £47,500 -5.71% 16
Northern Ireland -26 50 £46,000 +6.75% 1
Scotland +35 41 £51,250 +28.13% 11
North East -25 39 £48,445 -19.26% 12
Wales -31 29 £53,000 -3.64% 6
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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
1 166 (18.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 161 (18.01%) SharePoint
3 41 (4.59%) IIS
4 16 (1.79%) Confluence
5 6 (0.67%) nginx
6 3 (0.34%) Apache
6 3 (0.34%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.11%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 40 (4.47%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.67%) NetSuite
1 6 (0.67%) Raiser’s Edge
1 6 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.34%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.22%) Alphatax
4 2 (0.22%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 550 (61.52%) Azure
2 365 (40.83%) Microsoft 365
3 226 (25.28%) Entra ID
4 151 (16.89%) AWS
5 103 (11.52%) Azure DevOps
6 97 (10.85%) SaaS
7 83 (9.28%) IaaS
8 77 (8.61%) Power Platform
9 62 (6.94%) GitHub
10 59 (6.60%) OneDrive
11 49 (5.48%) Azure AKS
11 49 (5.48%) Power Automate
12 48 (5.37%) PaaS
13 46 (5.15%) Azure Key Vault
14 43 (4.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 43 (4.81%) Azure Sentinel
15 40 (4.47%) Azure Monitor
15 40 (4.47%) GitHub Actions
16 31 (3.47%) PowerApps
17 30 (3.36%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 245 (27.40%) DNS
2 225 (25.17%) Firewall
3 163 (18.23%) DHCP
4 158 (17.67%) VPN
5 100 (11.19%) TCP/IP
6 81 (9.06%) WAN
7 73 (8.17%) LAN
8 60 (6.71%) VLAN
9 33 (3.69%) Wi-Fi
10 32 (3.58%) VoIP
10 32 (3.58%) Wireless
11 31 (3.47%) SAN
12 20 (2.24%) Broadband
12 20 (2.24%) Network Security
13 16 (1.79%) BGP
14 15 (1.68%) SSL
15 14 (1.57%) HTTP
15 14 (1.57%) SD-WAN
16 12 (1.34%) NAS
17 11 (1.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (9.73%) SQL Server
2 51 (5.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 47 (5.26%) Power BI
4 32 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (2.01%) MySQL
7 12 (1.34%) MongoDB
8 11 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (1.01%) InfluxDB
10 8 (0.89%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.89%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.56%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.56%) Metadata
12 4 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.45%) Redis
13 3 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
13 3 (0.34%) Power Query
13 3 (0.34%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 67 (7.49%) Git
2 54 (6.04%) JIRA
3 45 (5.03%) GitLab
4 38 (4.25%) Jenkins
5 14 (1.57%) Bitbucket
5 14 (1.57%) Octopus Deploy
6 7 (0.78%) Robot Framework
6 7 (0.78%) TestRail
7 6 (0.67%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.67%) Selenium
7 6 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.45%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.34%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.34%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.34%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.22%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.22%) MSI
10 2 (0.22%) Postman
10 2 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 312 (34.90%) Social Skills
2 97 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
3 96 (10.74%) Law
4 83 (9.28%) Finance
5 71 (7.94%) Legal
6 46 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 43 (4.81%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
9 33 (3.69%) Public Sector
9 33 (3.69%) Retail
10 19 (2.13%) Manufacturing
11 16 (1.79%) Aerospace
12 13 (1.45%) Telecoms
13 8 (0.89%) Games
14 6 (0.67%) Advertising
14 6 (0.67%) Police
15 5 (0.56%) Aviation
15 5 (0.56%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.56%) Local Government
15 5 (0.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 203 (22.71%) Senior
2 140 (15.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 113 (12.64%) Support Engineer
4 112 (12.53%) IT Engineer
5 111 (12.42%) IT Support
6 99 (11.07%) Analyst
7 85 (9.51%) Cloud Engineer
8 73 (8.17%) Azure Engineer
8 73 (8.17%) DevOps Engineer
9 68 (7.61%) IT Support Engineer
10 54 (6.04%) 2nd Line Support
11 49 (5.48%) Senior Manager
11 49 (5.48%) Testing Manager
12 44 (4.92%) Security Engineer
13 42 (4.70%) Developer
14 40 (4.47%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 39 (4.36%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 35 (3.91%) Systems Engineer
17 34 (3.80%) Administrator
18 33 (3.69%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (7.38%) .NET
2 41 (4.59%) ARM Templates
3 38 (4.25%) Microsoft Graph
4 37 (4.14%) JSON
5 31 (3.47%) HTML
5 31 (3.47%) YAML
6 27 (3.02%) OAuth
6 27 (3.02%) SAML
7 24 (2.68%) .NET Core
7 24 (2.68%) SPFx
8 22 (2.46%) CSS
9 21 (2.35%) REST
10 20 (2.24%) LDAP
10 20 (2.24%) OpenID
11 19 (2.13%) HTML5 Canvas
12 17 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
12 17 (1.90%) SOAP
13 14 (1.57%) GraphQL
13 14 (1.57%) React
14 12 (1.34%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 66 (7.38%) Onboarding
2 54 (6.04%) Virtual Team
3 51 (5.70%) Driving Licence
4 45 (5.03%) Cloud Native
5 40 (4.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 31 (3.47%) PKI
7 29 (3.24%) Security Operations Centre
7 29 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
8 28 (3.13%) Management Information System
8 28 (3.13%) Security Posture
9 25 (2.80%) Data Centre
10 24 (2.68%) Public Cloud
11 19 (2.13%) Cyberattack
12 18 (2.01%) Clustering
12 18 (2.01%) Cyber Threat
13 15 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.68%) Product Ownership
13 15 (1.68%) Replication
14 13 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
15 12 (1.34%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 421 (47.09%) Windows
2 226 (25.28%) Windows Server
3 190 (21.25%) Linux
4 53 (5.93%) Windows 10
5 35 (3.91%) Apple iOS
6 32 (3.58%) CentOS
7 30 (3.36%) Mac OS
8 28 (3.13%) Android
9 25 (2.80%) VMS
10 23 (2.57%) Ubuntu
10 23 (2.57%) Windows Server 2016
11 22 (2.46%) Windows Server 2019
12 21 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 7 (0.78%) Debian
14 5 (0.56%) Unix
14 5 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.45%) AIX
16 3 (0.34%) Windows 7
17 2 (0.22%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.22%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (26.73%) Problem-Solving
2 230 (25.73%) DevOps
3 212 (23.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 192 (21.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 180 (20.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 169 (18.90%) CI/CD
7 151 (16.89%) ITIL
8 150 (16.78%) Cybersecurity
9 147 (16.44%) Mentoring
10 132 (14.77%) Agile
11 109 (12.19%) Containerisation
12 102 (11.41%) Disaster Recovery
13 100 (11.19%) Root Cause Analysis
14 99 (11.07%) High Availability
15 92 (10.29%) Project Delivery
16 89 (9.96%) Task Automation
17 87 (9.73%) Observability
18 85 (9.51%) Cloud Security
19 83 (9.28%) AI
20 81 (9.06%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 321 (35.91%) Python
2 221 (24.72%) Bash
3 153 (17.11%) SQL
4 117 (13.09%) C#
5 92 (10.29%) JavaScript
6 77 (8.61%) TypeScript
7 76 (8.50%) Bicep
8 29 (3.24%) T-SQL
9 26 (2.91%) Kusto Query Language
10 13 (1.45%) C++
11 12 (1.34%) Java
11 12 (1.34%) VBScript
12 11 (1.23%) PHP
13 9 (1.01%) VB
14 8 (0.89%) Perl
15 6 (0.67%) Go
15 6 (0.67%) Korn
16 5 (0.56%) C
16 5 (0.56%) Ruby
17 3 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 131 (14.65%) Security Cleared
2 104 (11.63%) Azure Certification
3 100 (11.19%) Degree
4 93 (10.40%) SC Cleared
5 85 (9.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 39 (4.36%) DV Cleared
7 35 (3.91%) CompTIA Security+
8 33 (3.69%) Cisco Certification
8 33 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (3.13%) CCNA
10 24 (2.68%) DBS Check
11 18 (2.01%) CEH
12 17 (1.90%) CISSP
13 14 (1.57%) AWS Certification
14 13 (1.45%) CREST Certified
15 9 (1.01%) GIAC
16 8 (0.89%) CISM
16 8 (0.89%) CompTIA CySA+
17 7 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 7 (0.78%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (7.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 63 (7.05%) QA
3 51 (5.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 47 (5.26%) NIST
5 40 (4.47%) GDPR
6 30 (3.36%) SLA
7 15 (1.68%) Data Quality
7 15 (1.68%) NCSC
7 15 (1.68%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.12%) SOC 2
9 7 (0.78%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.45%) DICOM
11 4 (0.45%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.22%) ISAE 3402
12 2 (0.22%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.11%) COBIT
13 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
System Software
1 333 (37.25%) Active Directory
2 177 (19.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 136 (15.21%) Hyper-V
4 106 (11.86%) Docker
5 56 (6.26%) vSphere
6 42 (4.70%) Virtual Machines
7 31 (3.47%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (2.01%) VMware NSX
9 12 (1.34%) BitLocker
10 10 (1.12%) KVM
10 10 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.45%) Squid
13 3 (0.34%) iptables
13 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.22%) Firmware
14 2 (0.22%) Samba
15 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 191 (21.36%) Terraform
2 159 (17.79%) Kubernetes
3 136 (15.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 92 (10.29%) Ansible
5 58 (6.49%) Grafana
6 38 (4.25%) Prometheus
7 33 (3.69%) SCCM
8 21 (2.35%) vCenter Server
9 20 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
10 18 (2.01%) Jamf Pro
11 16 (1.79%) Proxmox
11 16 (1.79%) ZABBIX
12 14 (1.57%) Graylog
13 12 (1.34%) Argo
14 11 (1.23%) Nagios
14 11 (1.23%) QRadar
15 10 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 10 (1.12%) WSUS
16 8 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
16 8 (0.89%) Nessus
Vendors
1 551 (61.63%) Microsoft
2 200 (22.37%) VMware
3 79 (8.84%) Cisco
4 48 (5.37%) Splunk
5 45 (5.03%) Veeam
6 42 (4.70%) Red Hat
7 37 (4.14%) Meraki
8 28 (3.13%) ServiceNow
9 21 (2.35%) Apple
9 21 (2.35%) Dell
10 19 (2.13%) Adobe
11 18 (2.01%) Logitech
12 17 (1.90%) SolarWinds
13 16 (1.79%) CrowdStrike
13 16 (1.79%) Fortinet
14 15 (1.68%) Sophos
15 14 (1.57%) Dynatrace
15 14 (1.57%) Oracle
16 13 (1.45%) Citrix
16 13 (1.45%) Zerto