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 citing PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 28 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	166	85	114
Rank change year-on-year	-81	+29	-50
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell	967	1,087	1,017
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London	1.08%	3.16%	2.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category	7.94%	15.28%	7.55%
Number of salaries quoted	628	665	593
10^th Percentile	£32,000	£31,450	£33,950
25^th Percentile	£38,672	£40,500	£42,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£52,500	£52,500	£51,500
Median % change year-on-year	-	+1.94%	-4.63%
75^th Percentile	£65,000	£63,750	£64,563
90^th Percentile	£77,500	£77,500	£77,500
UK median annual salary	£56,850	£57,500	£62,500
% change year-on-year	-1.13%	-8.00%	+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 citing coding skills in the UK excluding London.

	6 months to 28 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing coding skills	12,179	7,112	13,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London	13.58%	20.70%	28.09%
Number of salaries quoted	9,049	4,743	7,447
10^th Percentile	£37,500	£29,000	£34,000
25^th Percentile	£46,250	£38,750	£42,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£60,000	£55,000	£55,000
Median % change year-on-year	+9.09%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£75,000	£68,750	£70,000
90^th Percentile	£90,000	£80,000	£82,500
UK median annual salary	£65,000	£62,500	£65,000
% change year-on-year	+4.00%	-3.85%	-

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 Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PowerShell.

PowerShell Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 October 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in the UK excluding London

PowerShell 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 28 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
North of England	-98	243	£50,000	-	71
South East	-45	239	£52,500	-9.48%	87
Midlands	-49	159	£52,500	-	49
North West	-92	145	£50,000	-	34
South West	-73	98	£55,000	+10.00%	53
East of England	-49	88	£55,000	+15.79%	24
West Midlands	-60	81	£56,250	-	28
East Midlands	-5	78	£42,500	+10.39%	21
Northern Ireland	-22	71	£46,000	-	4
Yorkshire	-49	59	£50,000	+2.04%	27
Scotland	-18	44	£52,500	-8.70%	15
North East	-37	39	£50,913	-15.15%	10
Wales	-56	27	£35,000	-36.36%	9
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PowerShell Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 October 2026, job vacancies citing PowerShell also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region citing PowerShell.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Microsoft	66.0%	638
2	Azure	58.8%	569
3	Windows	52.6%	509
4	Microsoft 365	42.4%	410
5	Active Directory	37.6%	364
6	Entra ID	33.2%	321
7	Python	33.0%	319
8	Problem-Solving	32.5%	314
9	Infrastructure Engineering	28.6%	277
10	Continuous Improvement	28.3%	274
11	Windows Server	27.4%	265
12	DevOps	27.0%	261
13	DNS	26.7%	258
14	Linux	25.5%	247
15	Firewall	24.3%	235
16	VMware	23.3%	225
17	Terraform	21.5%	208
18	Infrastructure as Code	20.5%	198
19	Bash	19.9%	192
19	VMware Infrastructure	19.9%	192
21	Microsoft Exchange	19.5%	189
22	DHCP	19.4%	188
23	SharePoint	19.0%	184
24	Microsoft Intune	18.9%	183
25	SQL	18.6%	180
26	VPN	18.4%	178
27	CI/CD	18.2%	176
28	ITIL	18.0%	174
29	Mentoring	17.7%	171
30	Disaster Recovery	17.2%	166

PowerShell Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Python	33.0%	319
2	Bash	19.9%	192
3	SQL	18.6%	180
4	C#	11.0%	106
5	Bicep	10.2%	99
5	JavaScript	10.2%	99
7	TypeScript	7.5%	73
8	Kusto Query Language	3.7%	36
9	Java	3.1%	30
10	T-SQL	1.7%	16
10	VBScript	1.7%	16
12	C++	1.3%	13
12	PHP	1.3%	13
14	VB	1.1%	11
15	Perl	0.8%	8
16	PL/SQL	0.7%	7
17	Ruby	0.5%	5
18	C	0.4%	4
18	Data Analysis Expressions	0.4%	4
18	Scala	0.4%	4