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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 86 137
Rank change year-on-year -61 +51 -43
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 813 1,070 1,488
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.19% 3.51% 1.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.51% 12.83% 6.48%
Number of salaries quoted 642 592 1,153
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £60,025
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.43% +5.00% -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 10,823 8,342 22,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 27.38% 29.53%
Number of salaries quoted 7,791 5,310 17,031
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,318 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £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 25 June 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 June 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 -43 216 £55,000 -4.35% 120
North of England -88 200 £47,500 -9.52% 64
Midlands -38 141 £50,000 - 33
North West -84 105 £50,000 +5.26% 41
South West -42 92 £55,000 +15.79% 25
East of England -20 91 £54,000 +13.68% 27
East Midlands -15 79 £45,000 +28.57% 16
Yorkshire -23 61 £45,000 -21.74% 14
West Midlands -66 61 £51,250 -4.54% 17
Scotland +27 45 £50,000 +3.09% 10
North East -27 34 £47,500 -19.15% 12
Wales -25 25 £53,171 +1.28% 7
Northern Ireland -33 3 £46,000 +6.75% 4
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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
1 152 (18.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 151 (18.57%) SharePoint
3 37 (4.55%) IIS
4 16 (1.97%) Confluence
5 2 (0.25%) Apache
5 2 (0.25%) nginx
5 2 (0.25%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.12%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 41 (5.04%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.62%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.25%) Alphatax
4 2 (0.25%) Raiser’s Edge
4 2 (0.25%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.12%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 526 (64.70%) Azure
2 344 (42.31%) Microsoft 365
3 203 (24.97%) Entra ID
4 135 (16.61%) AWS
5 97 (11.93%) Azure DevOps
6 79 (9.72%) IaaS
7 70 (8.61%) Power Platform
8 66 (8.12%) GitHub
9 58 (7.13%) OneDrive
10 47 (5.78%) Azure AKS
10 47 (5.78%) SaaS
11 46 (5.66%) PaaS
12 45 (5.54%) Azure Key Vault
13 43 (5.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 43 (5.29%) GitHub Actions
14 42 (5.17%) Power Automate
15 40 (4.92%) Azure Monitor
16 35 (4.31%) Azure Sentinel
16 35 (4.31%) Google Workspace
17 30 (3.69%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 231 (28.41%) DNS
2 204 (25.09%) Firewall
3 153 (18.82%) DHCP
4 147 (18.08%) VPN
5 92 (11.32%) TCP/IP
6 74 (9.10%) WAN
7 69 (8.49%) LAN
8 57 (7.01%) VLAN
9 35 (4.31%) VoIP
10 34 (4.18%) Wi-Fi
11 33 (4.06%) Broadband
12 26 (3.20%) SAN
13 25 (3.08%) Network Security
14 20 (2.46%) Wireless
15 18 (2.21%) BGP
16 16 (1.97%) SD-WAN
17 14 (1.72%) HTTP
17 14 (1.72%) SSL
18 12 (1.48%) MPLS
19 10 (1.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (10.82%) SQL Server
2 47 (5.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 43 (5.29%) Power BI
4 36 (4.43%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (2.58%) MySQL
7 12 (1.48%) MongoDB
7 12 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (1.11%) InfluxDB
8 9 (1.11%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.74%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.62%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.62%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (0.62%) Metadata
11 4 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.49%) Redis
12 3 (0.37%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.25%) KNIME
13 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 68 (8.36%) Git
2 50 (6.15%) JIRA
3 42 (5.17%) Jenkins
4 41 (5.04%) GitLab
5 16 (1.97%) Bitbucket
6 11 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
7 7 (0.86%) Robot Framework
7 7 (0.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 7 (0.86%) TestRail
8 6 (0.74%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.74%) Selenium
9 4 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.49%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.37%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.37%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.37%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.37%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.25%) MSI
11 2 (0.25%) Postman
11 2 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 245 (30.14%) Social Skills
2 96 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
3 76 (9.35%) Finance
4 69 (8.49%) Law
5 49 (6.03%) Organisational Skills
6 45 (5.54%) Documentation Skills
6 45 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 36 (4.43%) Retail
8 31 (3.81%) Public Sector
9 22 (2.71%) Legal
10 20 (2.46%) Games
11 18 (2.21%) Aerospace
11 18 (2.21%) Manufacturing
12 15 (1.85%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.86%) Advertising
14 6 (0.74%) Police
15 5 (0.62%) Aviation
15 5 (0.62%) Local Government
16 4 (0.49%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 163 (20.05%) Senior
2 140 (17.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 112 (13.78%) Support Engineer
4 111 (13.65%) IT Support
5 104 (12.79%) IT Engineer
6 84 (10.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 79 (9.72%) Analyst
8 70 (8.61%) IT Support Engineer
9 67 (8.24%) Azure Engineer
10 66 (8.12%) DevOps Engineer
11 51 (6.27%) Security Engineer
12 50 (6.15%) 2nd Line Support
13 47 (5.78%) Developer
14 40 (4.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 35 (4.31%) Systems Engineer
16 34 (4.18%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 32 (3.94%) Administrator
18 26 (3.20%) Lead
19 25 (3.08%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 25 (3.08%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (7.50%) .NET
2 42 (5.17%) OAuth
3 41 (5.04%) SAML
4 38 (4.67%) Microsoft Graph
5 37 (4.55%) JSON
6 36 (4.43%) LDAP
6 36 (4.43%) REST
7 35 (4.31%) OpenID
8 32 (3.94%) SOAP
9 30 (3.69%) ARM Templates
9 30 (3.69%) YAML
10 28 (3.44%) GraphQL
10 28 (3.44%) HTML
11 24 (2.95%) .NET Core
11 24 (2.95%) SPFx
12 22 (2.71%) CSS
13 19 (2.34%) HTML5 Canvas
14 17 (2.09%) Elastic Stack
15 15 (1.85%) React
16 14 (1.72%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 61 (7.50%) Onboarding
2 54 (6.64%) Driving Licence
3 40 (4.92%) Cloud Native
3 40 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 35 (4.31%) Cyberattack
5 33 (4.06%) Cyber Threat
6 29 (3.57%) PKI
6 29 (3.57%) Security Posture
7 26 (3.20%) Security Operations Centre
8 25 (3.08%) Management Information System
9 24 (2.95%) Public Cloud
10 23 (2.83%) Data Centre
10 23 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.97%) Clustering
12 15 (1.85%) Product Ownership
13 14 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
13 14 (1.72%) Replication
14 13 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (1.48%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 404 (49.69%) Windows
2 214 (26.32%) Windows Server
3 182 (22.39%) Linux
4 52 (6.40%) Windows 10
5 34 (4.18%) Apple iOS
6 33 (4.06%) Mac OS
7 30 (3.69%) CentOS
8 28 (3.44%) Android
9 27 (3.32%) Windows Server 2016
10 26 (3.20%) VMS
11 24 (2.95%) Windows Server 2019
12 22 (2.71%) Ubuntu
13 20 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 8 (0.98%) Debian
15 5 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.49%) AIX
16 4 (0.49%) Unix
17 3 (0.37%) CoreOS
18 2 (0.25%) Windows 7
19 1 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (27.55%) Problem-Solving
2 179 (22.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 177 (21.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 171 (21.03%) DevOps
5 160 (19.68%) Continuous Improvement
6 159 (19.56%) CI/CD
6 159 (19.56%) Cybersecurity
7 144 (17.71%) ITIL
8 130 (15.99%) Agile
9 107 (13.16%) Containerisation
10 104 (12.79%) Mentoring
11 101 (12.42%) Root Cause Analysis
12 94 (11.56%) Disaster Recovery
13 91 (11.19%) High Availability
14 87 (10.70%) Task Automation
15 86 (10.58%) Observability
16 82 (10.09%) Cloud Security
17 77 (9.47%) Roadmaps
18 73 (8.98%) AI
19 70 (8.61%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 263 (32.35%) Python
2 239 (29.40%) Bash
3 146 (17.96%) SQL
4 66 (8.12%) Bicep
5 63 (7.75%) C#
6 46 (5.66%) T-SQL
7 42 (5.17%) JavaScript
8 27 (3.32%) TypeScript
9 18 (2.21%) Kusto Query Language
10 12 (1.48%) C++
11 11 (1.35%) Java
12 10 (1.23%) VB
12 10 (1.23%) VBScript
13 8 (0.98%) Perl
13 8 (0.98%) PHP
14 6 (0.74%) Korn
15 5 (0.62%) Go
15 5 (0.62%) Ruby
16 4 (0.49%) C
17 2 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 122 (15.01%) Security Cleared
2 101 (12.42%) Azure Certification
3 92 (11.32%) Degree
4 83 (10.21%) SC Cleared
5 80 (9.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 36 (4.43%) DV Cleared
7 28 (3.44%) Cisco Certification
7 28 (3.44%) CompTIA Security+
7 28 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (3.32%) DBS Check
9 23 (2.83%) CCNA
10 17 (2.09%) CISSP
10 17 (2.09%) CREST Certified
11 16 (1.97%) AWS Certification
12 15 (1.85%) CEH
13 8 (0.98%) SANS
14 7 (0.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (0.86%) CISM
14 7 (0.86%) Network+ Certification
15 6 (0.74%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (8.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 56 (6.89%) NIST
3 45 (5.54%) Cyber Essentials
4 42 (5.17%) GDPR
5 28 (3.44%) NCSC
5 28 (3.44%) SLA
6 15 (1.85%) Data Quality
7 12 (1.48%) Accessibility
7 12 (1.48%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.35%) QA
9 9 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (1.11%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.74%) DICOM
10 6 (0.74%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.25%) ISAE 3402
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.12%) COBIT
12 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
System Software
1 329 (40.47%) Active Directory
2 164 (20.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 124 (15.25%) Hyper-V
4 104 (12.79%) Docker
5 53 (6.52%) vSphere
6 36 (4.43%) Virtual Machines
7 30 (3.69%) Virtual Desktop
8 20 (2.46%) VMware NSX
9 11 (1.35%) BitLocker
9 11 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (1.23%) KVM
11 8 (0.98%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.49%) iptables
13 4 (0.49%) Squid
14 2 (0.25%) Samba
15 1 (0.12%) Firmware
15 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 183 (22.51%) Terraform
2 149 (18.33%) Kubernetes
3 118 (14.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 88 (10.82%) Ansible
5 56 (6.89%) Grafana
6 36 (4.43%) Prometheus
7 24 (2.95%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (2.71%) vCenter Server
9 21 (2.58%) SCCM
10 19 (2.34%) Jamf Pro
11 16 (1.97%) ZABBIX
12 15 (1.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (1.85%) Proxmox
13 14 (1.72%) Graylog
14 12 (1.48%) Argo
14 12 (1.48%) Nagios
15 11 (1.35%) QRadar
15 11 (1.35%) WSUS
16 8 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
16 8 (0.98%) Nessus
Vendors
1 507 (62.36%) Microsoft
2 187 (23.00%) VMware
3 66 (8.12%) Cisco
4 47 (5.78%) Splunk
5 45 (5.54%) Veeam
6 43 (5.29%) Red Hat
7 36 (4.43%) Meraki
8 21 (2.58%) Apple
9 20 (2.46%) Dell
10 19 (2.34%) Adobe
10 19 (2.34%) Logitech
10 19 (2.34%) ServiceNow
10 19 (2.34%) SolarWinds
11 17 (2.09%) CrowdStrike
11 17 (2.09%) Oracle
12 14 (1.72%) Dynatrace
13 13 (1.60%) Google
13 13 (1.60%) Sophos
14 12 (1.48%) HP
14 12 (1.48%) ScienceLogic