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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 88 135
Rank change year-on-year -60 +47 -48
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 851 1,096 1,473
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.22% 3.38% 1.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.67% 12.90% 6.61%
Number of salaries quoted 663 626 1,145
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,594 £38,813 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £73,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 11,096 8,495 22,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.88% 26.21% 29.21%
Number of salaries quoted 8,006 5,448 16,449
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 £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 4 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 4 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 -29 235 £55,000 -4.35% 105
North of England -85 205 £47,500 -5.00% 73
Midlands -45 139 £50,000 - 34
North West -95 109 £50,000 +4.38% 46
East of England -24 96 £54,000 +8.00% 23
South West -58 91 £55,000 +15.79% 48
East Midlands -4 76 £45,000 +28.57% 12
West Midlands -71 62 £52,500 -3.39% 22
Yorkshire -25 61 £45,000 -14.29% 15
Scotland +36 47 £51,250 +15.82% 12
North East -22 35 £47,972 -20.05% 15
Wales -24 26 £53,085 -3.48% 11
Northern Ireland -37 12 £46,000 +6.75% 7
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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
1 160 (18.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 156 (18.33%) SharePoint
3 41 (4.82%) IIS
4 17 (2.00%) Confluence
5 4 (0.47%) nginx
6 2 (0.24%) Apache
6 2 (0.24%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.12%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 41 (4.82%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.59%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (0.59%) Raiser’s Edge
3 4 (0.47%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.24%) Alphatax
5 2 (0.24%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.12%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 542 (63.69%) Azure
2 352 (41.36%) Microsoft 365
3 211 (24.79%) Entra ID
4 141 (16.57%) AWS
5 102 (11.99%) Azure DevOps
6 83 (9.75%) IaaS
7 74 (8.70%) Power Platform
8 68 (7.99%) GitHub
9 57 (6.70%) OneDrive
10 54 (6.35%) SaaS
11 51 (5.99%) PaaS
12 49 (5.76%) Azure AKS
13 46 (5.41%) Power Automate
14 45 (5.29%) Azure Key Vault
14 45 (5.29%) GitHub Actions
15 43 (5.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 41 (4.82%) Azure Monitor
17 35 (4.11%) Azure Sentinel
18 31 (3.64%) Datadog
18 31 (3.64%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 240 (28.20%) DNS
2 221 (25.97%) Firewall
3 162 (19.04%) DHCP
4 160 (18.80%) VPN
5 96 (11.28%) TCP/IP
6 80 (9.40%) WAN
7 75 (8.81%) LAN
8 63 (7.40%) VLAN
9 37 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
10 35 (4.11%) VoIP
11 30 (3.53%) Broadband
12 29 (3.41%) SAN
13 28 (3.29%) Wireless
14 25 (2.94%) Network Security
15 18 (2.12%) BGP
16 16 (1.88%) SD-WAN
17 14 (1.65%) HTTP
17 14 (1.65%) SSL
18 12 (1.41%) MPLS
19 10 (1.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (10.93%) SQL Server
2 49 (5.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 44 (5.17%) Power BI
4 35 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (2.47%) MySQL
7 12 (1.41%) MongoDB
7 12 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (1.06%) InfluxDB
8 9 (1.06%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.71%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.59%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.59%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (0.59%) Metadata
11 4 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.47%) Redis
12 3 (0.35%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.24%) KNIME
13 2 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.24%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 69 (8.11%) Git
2 53 (6.23%) JIRA
3 44 (5.17%) GitLab
4 43 (5.05%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.88%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.65%) Octopus Deploy
7 7 (0.82%) Robot Framework
7 7 (0.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 7 (0.82%) TestRail
8 6 (0.71%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.71%) Selenium
9 4 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.47%) CircleCI
9 4 (0.47%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.35%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.35%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.35%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.24%) MSI
11 2 (0.24%) Postman
11 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 273 (32.08%) Social Skills
2 99 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (9.99%) Finance
4 79 (9.28%) Law
5 47 (5.52%) Documentation Skills
5 47 (5.52%) Organisational Skills
6 45 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 36 (4.23%) Retail
8 33 (3.88%) Legal
9 32 (3.76%) Public Sector
10 18 (2.12%) Games
10 18 (2.12%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.00%) Aerospace
12 16 (1.88%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.71%) Advertising
13 6 (0.71%) Police
14 5 (0.59%) Aviation
14 5 (0.59%) Local Government
15 4 (0.47%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 171 (20.09%) Senior
2 140 (16.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 117 (13.75%) Support Engineer
4 115 (13.51%) IT Support
5 113 (13.28%) IT Engineer
6 86 (10.11%) Analyst
7 84 (9.87%) Cloud Engineer
8 73 (8.58%) IT Support Engineer
9 72 (8.46%) DevOps Engineer
10 70 (8.23%) Azure Engineer
11 51 (5.99%) 2nd Line Support
12 50 (5.88%) Security Engineer
13 46 (5.41%) Developer
14 40 (4.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 37 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
16 36 (4.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 32 (3.76%) Administrator
18 28 (3.29%) Lead
19 26 (3.06%) 2nd Line Engineer
20 25 (2.94%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (7.52%) .NET
2 39 (4.58%) OAuth
3 38 (4.47%) Microsoft Graph
3 38 (4.47%) SAML
4 37 (4.35%) JSON
5 36 (4.23%) ARM Templates
6 32 (3.76%) LDAP
6 32 (3.76%) OpenID
6 32 (3.76%) REST
7 30 (3.53%) YAML
8 29 (3.41%) HTML
9 28 (3.29%) SOAP
10 24 (2.82%) .NET Core
10 24 (2.82%) GraphQL
10 24 (2.82%) SPFx
11 22 (2.59%) CSS
12 19 (2.23%) HTML5 Canvas
13 17 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
14 15 (1.76%) React
15 14 (1.65%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 63 (7.40%) Onboarding
2 56 (6.58%) Driving Licence
3 44 (5.17%) Cloud Native
4 40 (4.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 31 (3.64%) Cyberattack
6 30 (3.53%) Cyber Threat
6 30 (3.53%) PKI
7 28 (3.29%) Security Posture
7 28 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (3.06%) Management Information System
8 26 (3.06%) Security Operations Centre
9 25 (2.94%) Data Centre
10 24 (2.82%) Public Cloud
11 17 (2.00%) Clustering
12 15 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.76%) Product Ownership
12 15 (1.76%) Replication
12 15 (1.76%) Virtual Team
13 14 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 419 (49.24%) Windows
2 225 (26.44%) Windows Server
3 188 (22.09%) Linux
4 53 (6.23%) Windows 10
5 34 (4.00%) Apple iOS
6 32 (3.76%) Mac OS
7 31 (3.64%) CentOS
8 28 (3.29%) Android
9 27 (3.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 26 (3.06%) VMS
11 24 (2.82%) Windows Server 2019
12 22 (2.59%) Ubuntu
13 21 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 8 (0.94%) Debian
15 5 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.47%) AIX
16 4 (0.47%) Unix
17 3 (0.35%) CoreOS
18 2 (0.24%) Windows 7
19 1 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (28.67%) Problem-Solving
2 192 (22.56%) DevOps
3 186 (21.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 182 (21.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 178 (20.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 169 (19.86%) CI/CD
7 155 (18.21%) Cybersecurity
8 151 (17.74%) ITIL
9 133 (15.63%) Agile
10 118 (13.87%) Mentoring
11 113 (13.28%) Containerisation
12 103 (12.10%) Root Cause Analysis
13 99 (11.63%) Disaster Recovery
14 95 (11.16%) High Availability
15 92 (10.81%) Task Automation
16 87 (10.22%) Observability
17 82 (9.64%) Cloud Security
18 76 (8.93%) AI
19 74 (8.70%) Roadmaps
20 72 (8.46%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 288 (33.84%) Python
2 236 (27.73%) Bash
3 153 (17.98%) SQL
4 75 (8.81%) C#
5 74 (8.70%) Bicep
6 53 (6.23%) JavaScript
7 42 (4.94%) T-SQL
8 38 (4.47%) TypeScript
9 19 (2.23%) Kusto Query Language
10 13 (1.53%) C++
11 11 (1.29%) Java
12 10 (1.18%) VB
12 10 (1.18%) VBScript
13 9 (1.06%) PHP
14 8 (0.94%) Perl
15 6 (0.71%) Go
15 6 (0.71%) Korn
16 5 (0.59%) C
16 5 (0.59%) Ruby
17 2 (0.24%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 127 (14.92%) Security Cleared
2 105 (12.34%) Azure Certification
3 100 (11.75%) Degree
4 86 (10.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 86 (10.11%) SC Cleared
5 38 (4.47%) DV Cleared
6 33 (3.88%) Cisco Certification
7 31 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (3.41%) CompTIA Security+
9 28 (3.29%) CCNA
10 27 (3.17%) DBS Check
11 18 (2.12%) CISSP
12 17 (2.00%) CREST Certified
13 16 (1.88%) AWS Certification
13 16 (1.88%) CEH
14 8 (0.94%) CISM
14 8 (0.94%) SANS
15 7 (0.82%) CCNP
15 7 (0.82%) GIAC
15 7 (0.82%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (8.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 56 (6.58%) NIST
3 49 (5.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 44 (5.17%) GDPR
5 28 (3.29%) SLA
6 24 (2.82%) NCSC
6 24 (2.82%) QA
7 15 (1.76%) Data Quality
7 15 (1.76%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.41%) Accessibility
9 9 (1.06%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.71%) DICOM
11 6 (0.71%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.24%) ISAE 3402
12 2 (0.24%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.12%) COBIT
13 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
System Software
1 336 (39.48%) Active Directory
2 173 (20.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 132 (15.51%) Hyper-V
4 110 (12.93%) Docker
5 57 (6.70%) vSphere
6 39 (4.58%) Virtual Machines
7 30 (3.53%) Virtual Desktop
8 20 (2.35%) VMware NSX
9 11 (1.29%) BitLocker
9 11 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (1.18%) KVM
11 8 (0.94%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.47%) iptables
13 4 (0.47%) Squid
14 2 (0.24%) Samba
15 1 (0.12%) Firmware
15 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 190 (22.33%) Terraform
2 158 (18.57%) Kubernetes
3 122 (14.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 92 (10.81%) Ansible
5 59 (6.93%) Grafana
6 38 (4.47%) Prometheus
7 25 (2.94%) SCCM
7 25 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (2.59%) vCenter Server
9 19 (2.23%) Jamf Pro
10 16 (1.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 16 (1.88%) Proxmox
10 16 (1.88%) ZABBIX
11 14 (1.65%) Graylog
12 12 (1.41%) Argo
12 12 (1.41%) Nagios
13 11 (1.29%) QRadar
13 11 (1.29%) WSUS
14 8 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
14 8 (0.94%) Nessus
Vendors
1 529 (62.16%) Microsoft
2 195 (22.91%) VMware
3 69 (8.11%) Cisco
4 48 (5.64%) Splunk
5 47 (5.52%) Veeam
6 43 (5.05%) Red Hat
7 36 (4.23%) Meraki
8 21 (2.47%) Apple
8 21 (2.47%) Dell
9 20 (2.35%) Logitech
9 20 (2.35%) ServiceNow
9 20 (2.35%) SolarWinds
10 19 (2.23%) Adobe
11 17 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
11 17 (2.00%) Oracle
12 14 (1.65%) Dynatrace
12 14 (1.65%) Sophos
13 13 (1.53%) Google
14 12 (1.41%) HP
14 12 (1.41%) Zerto