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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 88 137
Rank change year-on-year -78 +49 -38
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 750 1,025 1,469
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.12% 3.51% 1.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.30% 12.52% 6.55%
Number of salaries quoted 594 550 1,153
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,564 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,375 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,051 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,000 £78,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.71% +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 10,267 8,190 22,422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.35% 28.07% 30.26%
Number of salaries quoted 7,192 5,215 16,649
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 £72,000 £70,000 £66,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -7.69%

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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 4 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 4 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
North of England -107 186 £47,500 -5.71% 66
South East -63 183 £55,000 -4.35% 131
Midlands -59 125 £49,000 -2.00% 38
North West -92 95 £50,051 +8.81% 40
South West -33 83 £55,000 +15.79% 48
East of England -34 82 £57,500 +21.05% 34
East Midlands -10 73 £47,500 +35.71% 17
Scotland +44 65 £50,000 +6.95% 15
Yorkshire -23 63 £45,000 -21.74% 15
West Midlands -82 51 £48,000 -5.37% 21
North East -23 28 £45,000 -23.40% 11
Wales -18 23 £54,085 +8.17% 3
Northern Ireland -36 3 £46,000 +6.75% 11
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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
1 131 (17.47%) SharePoint
2 128 (17.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 28 (3.73%) IIS
4 16 (2.13%) Confluence
5 2 (0.27%) Apache
5 2 (0.27%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.13%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 38 (5.07%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.67%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.40%) Markit EDM
2 3 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.27%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.13%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 484 (64.53%) Azure
2 321 (42.80%) Microsoft 365
3 183 (24.40%) Entra ID
4 119 (15.87%) AWS
5 81 (10.80%) Azure DevOps
6 65 (8.67%) IaaS
7 60 (8.00%) Power Platform
8 55 (7.33%) OneDrive
9 51 (6.80%) GitHub
10 42 (5.60%) Azure AKS
10 42 (5.60%) Azure Key Vault
10 42 (5.60%) Google Workspace
11 40 (5.33%) SaaS
12 39 (5.20%) GitHub Actions
13 33 (4.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 32 (4.27%) Power Automate
15 31 (4.13%) PaaS
16 30 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
16 30 (4.00%) Azure Storage
17 29 (3.87%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 206 (27.47%) DNS
2 182 (24.27%) Firewall
3 128 (17.07%) DHCP
4 114 (15.20%) VPN
5 78 (10.40%) TCP/IP
6 65 (8.67%) WAN
7 59 (7.87%) LAN
8 42 (5.60%) VLAN
9 39 (5.20%) Broadband
10 36 (4.80%) VoIP
11 31 (4.13%) Wi-Fi
12 27 (3.60%) SAN
13 21 (2.80%) Network Security
14 17 (2.27%) BGP
15 14 (1.87%) SD-WAN
16 13 (1.73%) HTTP
17 12 (1.60%) MPLS
17 12 (1.60%) Wireless
18 11 (1.47%) SSL
19 10 (1.33%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (10.13%) SQL Server
2 41 (5.47%) Power BI
3 35 (4.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 30 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (2.93%) MySQL
7 10 (1.33%) NoSQL
8 9 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (0.93%) InfluxDB
10 7 (0.93%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.67%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.67%) Electronic Patient Records
11 5 (0.67%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.40%) Metadata
13 3 (0.40%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.40%) Redis
14 2 (0.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 50 (6.67%) Git
2 49 (6.53%) JIRA
3 39 (5.20%) Jenkins
4 35 (4.67%) GitLab
5 14 (1.87%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (0.67%) CircleCI
7 5 (0.67%) Robot Framework
7 5 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (0.67%) TestRail
8 4 (0.53%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.53%) Selenium
9 3 (0.40%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.27%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.27%) MSI
10 2 (0.27%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.27%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.13%) Balsamiq
11 1 (0.13%) Eclipse
General
1 219 (29.20%) Social Skills
2 102 (13.60%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (11.33%) Finance
4 56 (7.47%) Law
5 53 (7.07%) Organisational Skills
6 36 (4.80%) Documentation Skills
6 36 (4.80%) Retail
7 34 (4.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 29 (3.87%) Public Sector
9 28 (3.73%) Games
10 18 (2.40%) Aerospace
11 16 (2.13%) Legal
11 16 (2.13%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.33%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.20%) Advertising
14 6 (0.80%) Police
15 4 (0.53%) Aviation
15 4 (0.53%) Military
16 3 (0.40%) Front Office
16 3 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 159 (21.20%) Senior
2 131 (17.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 103 (13.73%) IT Support
4 101 (13.47%) Support Engineer
5 86 (11.47%) IT Engineer
6 77 (10.27%) Cloud Engineer
7 67 (8.93%) Azure Engineer
8 63 (8.40%) IT Support Engineer
9 61 (8.13%) Analyst
10 56 (7.47%) DevOps Engineer
11 49 (6.53%) Security Engineer
12 47 (6.27%) 2nd Line Support
13 44 (5.87%) Developer
14 35 (4.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 34 (4.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 30 (4.00%) Systems Engineer
17 25 (3.33%) Administrator
17 25 (3.33%) Senior Developer
18 23 (3.07%) Consultant
19 22 (2.93%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (7.07%) OAuth
2 52 (6.93%) .NET
3 49 (6.53%) SAML
4 43 (5.73%) LDAP
4 43 (5.73%) OpenID
5 41 (5.47%) REST
6 38 (5.07%) GraphQL
6 38 (5.07%) SOAP
7 37 (4.93%) Microsoft Graph
8 35 (4.67%) JSON
9 29 (3.87%) YAML
10 26 (3.47%) ARM Templates
11 24 (3.20%) HTML
12 23 (3.07%) .NET Core
13 22 (2.93%) SPFx
14 20 (2.67%) CSS
15 19 (2.53%) HTML5 Canvas
16 14 (1.87%) React
17 12 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
18 10 (1.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 50 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 44 (5.87%) Cyberattack
3 39 (5.20%) Cyber Threat
4 38 (5.07%) Driving Licence
5 34 (4.53%) Cloud Native
5 34 (4.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 26 (3.47%) PKI
7 23 (3.07%) Management Information System
7 23 (3.07%) Security Operations Centre
8 22 (2.93%) Data Centre
9 16 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
9 16 (2.13%) Security Posture
10 14 (1.87%) Clustering
10 14 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.87%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.73%) Replication
11 13 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.47%) Low-Code
13 11 (1.47%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 357 (47.60%) Windows
2 199 (26.53%) Windows Server
3 155 (20.67%) Linux
4 49 (6.53%) Windows 10
5 31 (4.13%) Apple iOS
5 31 (4.13%) Mac OS
6 28 (3.73%) CentOS
6 28 (3.73%) Windows Server 2016
7 26 (3.47%) Android
8 24 (3.20%) Windows Server 2019
9 20 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 20 (2.67%) Ubuntu
10 16 (2.13%) VMS
11 6 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.67%) Debian
13 4 (0.53%) Unix
14 3 (0.40%) AIX
14 3 (0.40%) CoreOS
15 2 (0.27%) Windows 7
16 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 162 (21.60%) Infrastructure as Code
3 159 (21.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 154 (20.53%) Cybersecurity
5 150 (20.00%) DevOps
6 144 (19.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 139 (18.53%) CI/CD
8 133 (17.73%) ITIL
9 116 (15.47%) Agile
10 103 (13.73%) Mentoring
11 98 (13.07%) Containerisation
12 87 (11.60%) Root Cause Analysis
13 80 (10.67%) Disaster Recovery
14 79 (10.53%) High Availability
14 79 (10.53%) Roadmaps
15 70 (9.33%) Task Automation
16 65 (8.67%) SIEM
17 63 (8.40%) Cloud Security
18 62 (8.27%) Observability
19 57 (7.60%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 236 (31.47%) Python
2 220 (29.33%) Bash
3 129 (17.20%) SQL
4 57 (7.60%) C#
5 49 (6.53%) Bicep
6 48 (6.40%) T-SQL
7 37 (4.93%) JavaScript
8 24 (3.20%) TypeScript
9 10 (1.33%) VB
10 9 (1.20%) C++
11 8 (1.07%) Java
11 8 (1.07%) Perl
12 6 (0.80%) Korn
12 6 (0.80%) VBScript
13 5 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (0.67%) PHP
14 4 (0.53%) Go
15 2 (0.27%) C
15 2 (0.27%) Google Apps Script
16 1 (0.13%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 111 (14.80%) Security Cleared
2 85 (11.33%) Degree
3 82 (10.93%) Azure Certification
4 75 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 64 (8.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 37 (4.93%) DV Cleared
7 28 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (2.93%) CompTIA Security+
9 22 (2.93%) DBS Check
10 20 (2.67%) CCNA
11 18 (2.40%) CREST Certified
12 16 (2.13%) AWS Certification
13 13 (1.73%) CEH
13 13 (1.73%) CISSP
14 8 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 8 (1.07%) SANS
15 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
16 6 (0.80%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (8.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 61 (8.13%) NIST
3 39 (5.20%) GDPR
4 36 (4.80%) NCSC
5 35 (4.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 24 (3.20%) SLA
7 16 (2.13%) Accessibility
8 12 (1.60%) Data Quality
9 11 (1.47%) PCI DSS
10 9 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (1.07%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.93%) ISO 22301
13 6 (0.80%) DICOM
13 6 (0.80%) QA
14 2 (0.27%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.13%) COBIT
15 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
15 1 (0.13%) HL7
15 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 309 (41.20%) Active Directory
2 129 (17.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 105 (14.00%) Hyper-V
4 93 (12.40%) Docker
5 34 (4.53%) vSphere
6 30 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (2.67%) VMware NSX
8 17 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (1.33%) KVM
9 10 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (1.20%) BitLocker
11 8 (1.07%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 6 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.53%) iptables
14 4 (0.53%) Squid
15 2 (0.27%) Firmware
15 2 (0.27%) Samba
16 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
16 1 (0.13%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 165 (22.00%) Terraform
2 131 (17.47%) Kubernetes
3 110 (14.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 82 (10.93%) Ansible
5 46 (6.13%) Grafana
6 28 (3.73%) Prometheus
7 25 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (2.80%) vCenter Server
9 19 (2.53%) Jamf Pro
10 17 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 17 (2.27%) SCCM
11 15 (2.00%) ZABBIX
12 13 (1.73%) Graylog
12 13 (1.73%) Proxmox
13 12 (1.60%) Nagios
14 11 (1.47%) WSUS
15 10 (1.33%) QRadar
16 8 (1.07%) Nessus
17 7 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
17 7 (0.93%) VxRail
Vendors
1 447 (59.60%) Microsoft
2 156 (20.80%) VMware
3 58 (7.73%) Cisco
4 47 (6.27%) Veeam
5 43 (5.73%) Splunk
6 42 (5.60%) Red Hat
7 32 (4.27%) Meraki
8 21 (2.80%) Dell
9 20 (2.67%) Apple
10 19 (2.53%) Adobe
11 18 (2.40%) CrowdStrike
11 18 (2.40%) SolarWinds
12 17 (2.27%) Logitech
13 15 (2.00%) Oracle
14 14 (1.87%) Dynatrace
14 14 (1.87%) ServiceNow
15 13 (1.73%) HP
16 11 (1.47%) Sophos
16 11 (1.47%) Yealink
17 10 (1.33%) Zerto