PowerShell Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 91 129
Rank change year-on-year -61 +38 -53
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 970 1,102 1,016
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.16% 3.22% 1.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.96% 14.34% 6.68%
Number of salaries quoted 678 646 621
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,813 £41,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% +1.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £60,918
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £55,538 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.41% -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 12,185 7,684 15,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.59% 22.45% 27.61%
Number of salaries quoted 8,950 4,739 9,131
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,956 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,240 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,350 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -37 240 £52,500 -8.70% 201
North of England -73 238 £50,000 - 192
Midlands -55 158 £52,500 +5.00% 105
North West -69 141 £50,000 +6.95% 110
East of England -37 98 £57,500 +21.05% 63
South West -73 85 £55,000 +15.79% 90
West Midlands -64 80 £55,000 - 64
East Midlands -17 78 £42,500 +21.43% 41
Northern Ireland -20 70 £46,000 - 12
Yorkshire -44 61 £42,500 -17.68% 56
Scotland +5 45 £50,000 +17.65% 65
North East -34 36 £50,000 -9.09% 27
Wales -53 36 £38,500 -30.00% 19
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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
1 194 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 184 (18.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 48 (4.95%) IIS
4 22 (2.27%) Confluence
5 15 (1.55%) nginx
6 8 (0.82%) Apache
7 4 (0.41%) 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 39 (4.02%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 31 (3.20%) 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
1 567 (58.45%) Azure
2 402 (41.44%) Microsoft 365
3 285 (29.38%) Entra ID
4 149 (15.36%) AWS
5 148 (15.26%) SaaS
6 106 (10.93%) Azure DevOps
7 81 (8.35%) IaaS
8 79 (8.14%) Power Platform
9 73 (7.53%) OneDrive
10 65 (6.70%) GitHub
11 63 (6.49%) Power Automate
12 50 (5.15%) Azure Sentinel
13 49 (5.05%) PaaS
14 45 (4.64%) Azure AKS
14 45 (4.64%) Azure Key Vault
15 43 (4.43%) Azure Monitor
16 39 (4.02%) Microsoft Purview
17 38 (3.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 38 (3.92%) Microsoft Copilot
18 33 (3.40%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 272 (28.04%) DNS
2 249 (25.67%) Firewall
3 180 (18.56%) DHCP
4 169 (17.42%) VPN
5 114 (11.75%) TCP/IP
6 91 (9.38%) WAN
7 78 (8.04%) LAN
8 62 (6.39%) VLAN
9 45 (4.64%) Wireless
10 39 (4.02%) Wi-Fi
11 29 (2.99%) SAN
12 21 (2.16%) Network Security
13 20 (2.06%) SSL
14 18 (1.86%) HTTP
15 16 (1.65%) VSAN
16 15 (1.55%) Internet
16 15 (1.55%) VoIP
17 12 (1.24%) NAS
18 11 (1.13%) SD-WAN
19 10 (1.03%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (8.56%) SQL Server
2 48 (4.95%) Azure SQL Database
3 41 (4.23%) Power BI
4 22 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (1.34%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.13%) MongoDB
8 9 (0.93%) MySQL
9 8 (0.82%) InfluxDB
10 7 (0.72%) Data Lake
10 7 (0.72%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.52%) Metadata
12 5 (0.52%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.41%) Power Query
13 4 (0.41%) Redis
13 4 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.31%) Oracle Database
15 2 (0.21%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 2 (0.21%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 70 (7.22%) JIRA
2 68 (7.01%) Git
3 47 (4.85%) GitLab
4 38 (3.92%) Jenkins
5 20 (2.06%) Bitbucket
6 12 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
7 8 (0.82%) Robot Framework
7 8 (0.82%) 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 (0.41%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.31%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.31%) Postman
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%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 391 (40.31%) Social Skills
2 109 (11.24%) Finance
3 107 (11.03%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (9.38%) Law
5 90 (9.28%) Legal
6 49 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 45 (4.64%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (3.71%) Public Sector
8 36 (3.71%) Retail
9 32 (3.30%) Manufacturing
10 25 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
11 24 (2.47%) Aerospace
12 13 (1.34%) Legal Technology
13 8 (0.82%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.62%) Advertising
14 6 (0.62%) Police
15 5 (0.52%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.52%) Local Government
15 5 (0.52%) Military
16 4 (0.41%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 210 (21.65%) Senior
2 162 (16.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 125 (12.89%) Support Engineer
4 116 (11.96%) IT Engineer
5 110 (11.34%) Analyst
6 104 (10.72%) IT Support
7 88 (9.07%) Cloud Engineer
8 72 (7.42%) Azure Engineer
9 69 (7.11%) DevOps Engineer
10 64 (6.60%) IT Support Engineer
11 55 (5.67%) Senior Manager
11 55 (5.67%) Testing Manager
12 50 (5.15%) Administrator
13 45 (4.64%) Consultant
13 45 (4.64%) Lead
14 40 (4.12%) 2nd Line Support
14 40 (4.12%) Support Analyst
15 39 (4.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 38 (3.92%) Systems Engineer
17 36 (3.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (20.72%) Terraform
2 62 (6.39%) .NET
3 38 (3.92%) ARM Templates
4 37 (3.81%) Microsoft Graph
5 31 (3.20%) YAML
6 28 (2.89%) HTML
7 25 (2.58%) JSON
8 21 (2.16%) .NET Core
8 21 (2.16%) SPFx
9 19 (1.96%) CSS
10 17 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
11 16 (1.65%) HTML5 Canvas
11 16 (1.65%) REST
12 13 (1.34%) ASP.NET
12 13 (1.34%) ASP.NET Core
12 13 (1.34%) LDAP
13 12 (1.24%) Middleware
13 12 (1.24%) OAuth
13 12 (1.24%) OpenID
13 12 (1.24%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 81 (8.35%) Onboarding
2 63 (6.49%) Driving Licence
3 60 (6.19%) Virtual Team
4 48 (4.95%) Cloud Native
5 47 (4.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 39 (4.02%) Management Information System
7 36 (3.71%) Replication
8 34 (3.51%) Clustering
9 33 (3.40%) PKI
9 33 (3.40%) Security Operations Centre
10 31 (3.20%) Security Posture
11 28 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
12 25 (2.58%) Data Centre
13 22 (2.27%) Public Cloud
14 20 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (1.55%) Product Ownership
16 13 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
16 13 (1.34%) Private Cloud
17 12 (1.24%) CMDB
17 12 (1.24%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 478 (49.28%) Windows
2 250 (25.77%) Windows Server
3 232 (23.92%) Linux
4 57 (5.88%) Windows 10
5 38 (3.92%) Apple iOS
6 34 (3.51%) Ubuntu
7 31 (3.20%) Android
8 28 (2.89%) CentOS
9 27 (2.78%) Mac OS
10 25 (2.58%) Windows Server 2019
11 24 (2.47%) VMS
12 23 (2.37%) Windows Server 2016
13 22 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 9 (0.93%) Rocky
15 8 (0.82%) Debian
16 5 (0.52%) CoreOS
16 5 (0.52%) Unix
17 4 (0.41%) AIX
17 4 (0.41%) Windows 7
18 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (30.10%) Problem-Solving
2 276 (28.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 251 (25.88%) DevOps
4 240 (24.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 188 (19.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 188 (19.38%) ITIL
6 173 (17.84%) CI/CD
7 162 (16.70%) Mentoring
8 155 (15.98%) Cybersecurity
9 137 (14.12%) Disaster Recovery
9 137 (14.12%) Project Delivery
10 124 (12.78%) Agile
11 113 (11.65%) High Availability
12 111 (11.44%) Root Cause Analysis
13 101 (10.41%) AI
14 98 (10.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 94 (9.69%) Containerisation
16 92 (9.48%) Test Automation
17 85 (8.76%) Cloud Security
17 85 (8.76%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 325 (33.51%) Python
2 200 (20.62%) SQL
3 195 (20.10%) Bash
4 118 (12.16%) C#
5 113 (11.65%) JavaScript
6 84 (8.66%) Bicep
7 83 (8.56%) TypeScript
8 28 (2.89%) Kusto Query Language
9 16 (1.65%) Java
9 16 (1.65%) T-SQL
10 15 (1.55%) VBScript
11 14 (1.44%) C++
12 12 (1.24%) PHP
13 10 (1.03%) Perl
14 9 (0.93%) VB
15 6 (0.62%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.52%) Go
16 5 (0.52%) Korn
16 5 (0.52%) Ruby
17 4 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 155 (15.98%) Security Cleared
2 111 (11.44%) SC Cleared
3 109 (11.24%) Azure Certification
4 105 (10.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 103 (10.62%) Degree
6 51 (5.26%) DV Cleared
7 40 (4.12%) CompTIA Security+
8 36 (3.71%) Cisco Certification
8 36 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
9 32 (3.30%) CCNA
10 23 (2.37%) DBS Check
11 20 (2.06%) CEH
12 17 (1.75%) CISSP
13 12 (1.24%) GIAC
13 12 (1.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 11 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (1.13%) CISM
15 10 (1.03%) AWS Certification
15 10 (1.03%) CompTIA CySA+
16 9 (0.93%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (7.42%) QA
2 61 (6.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 60 (6.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 37 (3.81%) NIST
5 30 (3.09%) GDPR
5 30 (3.09%) SLA
6 13 (1.34%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.13%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.82%) NCSC
8 8 (0.82%) SOC 2
9 7 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.41%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.31%) ISAE 3402
12 2 (0.21%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.21%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.10%) DICOM
13 1 (0.10%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 344 (35.46%) Active Directory
2 195 (20.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 141 (14.54%) Hyper-V
4 93 (9.59%) Docker
5 59 (6.08%) vSphere
6 54 (5.57%) Virtual Machines
7 42 (4.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 22 (2.27%) VMware NSX
9 15 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.93%) BitLocker
11 8 (0.82%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.82%) KVM
12 7 (0.72%) Firmware
13 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.41%) Squid
13 4 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.10%) Ceph
14 1 (0.10%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 177 (18.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 150 (15.46%) Kubernetes
3 97 (10.00%) Ansible
4 45 (4.64%) Grafana
4 45 (4.64%) SCCM
5 27 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.47%) vCenter Server
7 22 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (1.65%) Proxmox
8 16 (1.65%) ZABBIX
9 15 (1.55%) Graylog
10 13 (1.34%) Argo
10 13 (1.34%) Jamf Pro
10 13 (1.34%) QRadar
11 12 (1.24%) Puppet
12 10 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.93%) Kibana
13 9 (0.93%) VxRail
14 8 (0.82%) Nessus
15 7 (0.72%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 624 (64.33%) Microsoft
2 219 (22.58%) VMware
3 83 (8.56%) Cisco
4 53 (5.46%) Veeam
5 49 (5.05%) Splunk
6 43 (4.43%) ServiceNow
7 36 (3.71%) Meraki
8 34 (3.51%) Red Hat
8 34 (3.51%) Sage
9 26 (2.68%) Dell
10 25 (2.58%) SAP
11 23 (2.37%) Citrix
12 20 (2.06%) Oracle
13 19 (1.96%) Sophos
14 18 (1.86%) Apple
14 18 (1.86%) Fortinet
15 17 (1.75%) Logitech
15 17 (1.75%) TOWER Software
16 16 (1.65%) Adobe
16 16 (1.65%) Google