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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 87 137
Rank change year-on-year -76 +50 -35
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 724 1,008 1,466
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.08% 3.56% 2.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.15% 12.85% 6.66%
Number of salaries quoted 568 541 1,168
10th Percentile £31,025 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,938 £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 £66,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £73,750
UK median annual salary £58,500 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +6.36% -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 10,126 7,844 22,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.08% 27.71% 31.08%
Number of salaries quoted 7,027 5,002 16,445
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £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

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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 26 May 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 26 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 -72 171 £57,125 -0.65% 91
North of England -105 168 £47,500 -7.99% 73
Midlands -60 125 £50,000 +2.56% 30
North West -100 88 £50,101 +8.92% 47
South West -47 82 £55,000 +15.79% 37
East of England -32 79 £57,500 +21.05% 27
East Midlands -18 75 £52,500 +44.83% 17
Scotland +44 74 £50,000 +6.95% 16
Yorkshire -33 57 £45,000 -28.00% 16
West Midlands -88 49 £48,000 -4.00% 13
North East -32 23 £45,750 -20.43% 10
Wales -14 22 £53,171 +6.34% 2
Northern Ireland - 3 £46,000 - 2
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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
1 124 (17.13%) SharePoint
2 120 (16.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (4.01%) IIS
4 14 (1.93%) Confluence
5 2 (0.28%) Apache
5 2 (0.28%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.14%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 37 (5.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.55%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.28%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.14%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 470 (64.92%) Azure
2 301 (41.57%) Microsoft 365
3 173 (23.90%) Entra ID
4 122 (16.85%) AWS
5 79 (10.91%) Azure DevOps
6 58 (8.01%) IaaS
7 56 (7.73%) Power Platform
8 55 (7.60%) OneDrive
9 50 (6.91%) GitHub
10 43 (5.94%) Azure Key Vault
11 42 (5.80%) Google Workspace
12 41 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
13 40 (5.52%) Azure AKS
14 37 (5.11%) SaaS
15 32 (4.42%) Azure Data Factory
15 32 (4.42%) Azure Sentinel
16 31 (4.28%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 31 (4.28%) Datadog
17 30 (4.14%) Power Automate
18 29 (4.01%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 194 (26.80%) DNS
2 172 (23.76%) Firewall
3 118 (16.30%) DHCP
4 109 (15.06%) VPN
5 74 (10.22%) TCP/IP
6 61 (8.43%) WAN
7 55 (7.60%) LAN
8 41 (5.66%) VLAN
9 40 (5.52%) Broadband
10 38 (5.25%) VoIP
11 30 (4.14%) Wi-Fi
12 27 (3.73%) SAN
13 20 (2.76%) Network Security
14 17 (2.35%) BGP
15 14 (1.93%) SD-WAN
16 13 (1.80%) HTTP
17 12 (1.66%) MPLS
18 11 (1.52%) Wireless
19 10 (1.38%) NAS
19 10 (1.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (10.50%) SQL Server
2 40 (5.52%) Power BI
3 34 (4.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 26 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (3.04%) MySQL
7 12 (1.66%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.97%) InfluxDB
11 5 (0.69%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.69%) Electronic Patient Records
11 5 (0.69%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.69%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.41%) Metadata
13 3 (0.41%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.28%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.28%) Star Schema
15 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 48 (6.63%) Git
2 47 (6.49%) JIRA
3 40 (5.52%) Jenkins
4 33 (4.56%) GitLab
5 11 (1.52%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
7 7 (0.97%) CircleCI
8 5 (0.69%) Robot Framework
8 5 (0.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 5 (0.69%) TestRail
9 4 (0.55%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.55%) Selenium
10 2 (0.28%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.28%) MSI
10 2 (0.28%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.28%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.14%) DBeaver
11 1 (0.14%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 212 (29.28%) Social Skills
2 101 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
3 92 (12.71%) Finance
4 54 (7.46%) Organisational Skills
5 50 (6.91%) Law
6 36 (4.97%) Retail
7 33 (4.56%) Documentation Skills
8 32 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 29 (4.01%) Games
9 29 (4.01%) Public Sector
10 17 (2.35%) Aerospace
11 16 (2.21%) Legal
11 16 (2.21%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.52%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.24%) Advertising
14 6 (0.83%) Police
15 5 (0.69%) Front Office
16 4 (0.55%) Military
17 3 (0.41%) Local Government
17 3 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 164 (22.65%) Senior
2 126 (17.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 93 (12.85%) IT Support
4 92 (12.71%) Support Engineer
5 76 (10.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 76 (10.50%) IT Engineer
6 68 (9.39%) Azure Engineer
7 55 (7.60%) Analyst
8 54 (7.46%) IT Support Engineer
9 52 (7.18%) DevOps Engineer
10 49 (6.77%) Security Engineer
11 46 (6.35%) 2nd Line Support
12 45 (6.22%) Developer
13 34 (4.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 33 (4.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 29 (4.01%) Systems Engineer
16 24 (3.31%) Senior Developer
17 22 (3.04%) Consultant
17 22 (3.04%) Senior DevOps
17 22 (3.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (7.73%) OAuth
2 50 (6.91%) SAML
3 48 (6.63%) .NET
4 44 (6.08%) OpenID
5 43 (5.94%) LDAP
6 42 (5.80%) REST
7 41 (5.66%) GraphQL
8 39 (5.39%) SOAP
9 38 (5.25%) Microsoft Graph
10 33 (4.56%) JSON
11 30 (4.14%) YAML
12 24 (3.31%) .NET Core
13 23 (3.18%) ARM Templates
13 23 (3.18%) SPFx
14 22 (3.04%) HTML
15 20 (2.76%) CSS
16 19 (2.62%) HTML5 Canvas
17 15 (2.07%) React
18 12 (1.66%) Node.js
19 11 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 49 (6.77%) Onboarding
2 45 (6.22%) Cyberattack
3 40 (5.52%) Cyber Threat
4 35 (4.83%) Cloud Native
5 33 (4.56%) Driving Licence
6 29 (4.01%) Hybrid Cloud
7 24 (3.31%) Management Information System
7 24 (3.31%) PKI
7 24 (3.31%) Security Operations Centre
8 22 (3.04%) Data Centre
9 16 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (1.93%) Clustering
10 14 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.93%) Security Posture
11 13 (1.80%) Replication
12 12 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.66%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (1.52%) Low-Code
13 11 (1.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 332 (45.86%) Windows
2 182 (25.14%) Windows Server
3 144 (19.89%) Linux
4 47 (6.49%) Windows 10
5 32 (4.42%) Apple iOS
6 31 (4.28%) Mac OS
7 27 (3.73%) Android
8 26 (3.59%) CentOS
9 24 (3.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 19 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 18 (2.49%) Windows Server 2019
12 17 (2.35%) Ubuntu
13 13 (1.80%) VMS
14 6 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.69%) Debian
16 4 (0.55%) Unix
17 3 (0.41%) AIX
17 3 (0.41%) CoreOS
18 2 (0.28%) Windows 7
19 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (27.07%) Problem-Solving
2 162 (22.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 151 (20.86%) Cybersecurity
4 148 (20.44%) DevOps
4 148 (20.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 138 (19.06%) CI/CD
6 136 (18.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 129 (17.82%) ITIL
8 116 (16.02%) Agile
9 101 (13.95%) Mentoring
10 97 (13.40%) Containerisation
11 82 (11.33%) Root Cause Analysis
12 77 (10.64%) Roadmaps
13 75 (10.36%) High Availability
14 72 (9.94%) Disaster Recovery
15 69 (9.53%) SIEM
16 66 (9.12%) Task Automation
17 63 (8.70%) Cloud Security
18 54 (7.46%) Incident Response
19 53 (7.32%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 235 (32.46%) Python
2 215 (29.70%) Bash
3 131 (18.09%) SQL
4 56 (7.73%) C#
5 47 (6.49%) T-SQL
6 46 (6.35%) Bicep
7 38 (5.25%) JavaScript
8 23 (3.18%) TypeScript
9 10 (1.38%) VB
10 9 (1.24%) C++
11 8 (1.10%) Perl
12 7 (0.97%) Java
13 6 (0.83%) Korn
14 5 (0.69%) VBScript
15 4 (0.55%) Go
15 4 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.55%) PHP
16 2 (0.28%) C
16 2 (0.28%) Google Apps Script
17 1 (0.14%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 104 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 87 (12.02%) Degree
3 72 (9.94%) Azure Certification
4 68 (9.39%) SC Cleared
5 57 (7.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 33 (4.56%) DV Cleared
7 28 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (3.18%) CompTIA Security+
9 22 (3.04%) Cisco Certification
10 20 (2.76%) DBS Check
11 18 (2.49%) CREST Certified
12 17 (2.35%) CCNA
13 16 (2.21%) AWS Certification
14 14 (1.93%) CEH
15 12 (1.66%) CISSP
16 9 (1.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 9 (1.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 8 (1.10%) SANS
18 7 (0.97%) Network+ Certification
19 5 (0.69%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 62 (8.56%) NIST
3 40 (5.52%) GDPR
4 36 (4.97%) NCSC
5 28 (3.87%) Cyber Essentials
6 24 (3.31%) SLA
7 19 (2.62%) Accessibility
8 12 (1.66%) Data Quality
9 11 (1.52%) PCI DSS
10 9 (1.24%) SOC 2
11 8 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.97%) ISO 22301
13 6 (0.83%) DICOM
13 6 (0.83%) QA
14 2 (0.28%) COBIT
14 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
15 1 (0.14%) HL7
15 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 288 (39.78%) Active Directory
2 118 (16.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 95 (13.12%) Docker
3 95 (13.12%) Hyper-V
4 28 (3.87%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (3.87%) vSphere
5 17 (2.35%) VMware NSX
6 14 (1.93%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (1.38%) KVM
7 10 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (1.10%) BitLocker
8 8 (1.10%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 5 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.55%) iptables
10 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.41%) Squid
12 2 (0.28%) Firmware
12 2 (0.28%) Samba
13 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.14%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 162 (22.38%) Terraform
2 126 (17.40%) Kubernetes
3 103 (14.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 82 (11.33%) Ansible
5 48 (6.63%) Grafana
6 28 (3.87%) Prometheus
7 24 (3.31%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (2.76%) vCenter Server
9 19 (2.62%) Jamf Pro
10 18 (2.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 16 (2.21%) SCCM
12 13 (1.80%) Graylog
12 13 (1.80%) ZABBIX
13 11 (1.52%) Proxmox
14 10 (1.38%) Nagios
14 10 (1.38%) QRadar
14 10 (1.38%) WSUS
15 7 (0.97%) Nessus
15 7 (0.97%) VxRail
16 6 (0.83%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 425 (58.70%) Microsoft
2 142 (19.61%) VMware
3 54 (7.46%) Cisco
4 44 (6.08%) Veeam
5 42 (5.80%) Splunk
6 40 (5.52%) Red Hat
7 30 (4.14%) Meraki
8 21 (2.90%) CrowdStrike
8 21 (2.90%) Dell
9 20 (2.76%) Apple
10 19 (2.62%) Adobe
11 16 (2.21%) Logitech
11 16 (2.21%) SolarWinds
12 14 (1.93%) Dynatrace
13 13 (1.80%) HP
13 13 (1.80%) Oracle
13 13 (1.80%) ServiceNow
14 11 (1.52%) Yealink
15 10 (1.38%) Citrix
15 10 (1.38%) Zerto