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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 111 61
Rank change year-on-year -2 -50 +48
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 794 1,005 1,298
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.00% 2.35% 4.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.03% 7.77% 11.53%
Number of salaries quoted 636 667 1,046
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £52,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -1.87% +1.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £64,688
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.26% +3.33% -

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 6,599 12,940 11,261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.62% 30.24% 38.74%
Number of salaries quoted 4,980 7,228 8,862
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,646 £35,137
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £43,031
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,300 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025. 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 -17 216 £58,000 +0.87% 146
North of England -10 152 £50,000 - 79
South West +33 117 £51,250 -2.84% 54
Midlands -11 106 £52,500 +10.53% 64
Scotland +18 99 £57,500 +8.49% 50
East of England +25 88 £47,500 -9.52% 41
West Midlands -4 72 £52,500 +20.00% 32
Yorkshire -15 72 £47,500 -9.52% 19
North West -4 69 £51,000 +2.00% 52
East Midlands +1 34 £52,500 +10.53% 31
Wales +12 16 £55,000 +5.77% 21
North East +5 11 £55,000 +10.00% 11
Northern Ireland -7 3 £46,500 +16.25% 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
1 155 (19.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 119 (14.99%) SharePoint
3 42 (5.29%) IIS
4 33 (4.16%) Confluence
5 22 (2.77%) Exchange Server 2003
6 17 (2.14%) Skype for Business
7 10 (1.26%) nginx
8 5 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.25%) CMS
9 2 (0.25%) WordPress
10 1 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.13%) CICS
10 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 41 (5.16%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.76%) Siemens NX
4 5 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.63%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 4 (0.50%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.38%) CATIA
6 3 (0.38%) Windchill
7 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.13%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.01%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.76%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.63%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.25%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 514 (64.74%) Azure
2 297 (37.41%) Microsoft 365
3 165 (20.78%) Entra ID
4 152 (19.14%) AWS
5 121 (15.24%) Azure DevOps
6 62 (7.81%) Power Platform
7 51 (6.42%) SaaS
8 48 (6.05%) GitHub
9 47 (5.92%) GCP
10 46 (5.79%) Azure Monitor
11 40 (5.04%) GitHub Actions
12 37 (4.66%) PaaS
12 37 (4.66%) Power Automate
13 35 (4.41%) IaaS
14 34 (4.28%) Azure Key Vault
15 33 (4.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 29 (3.65%) Azure Sentinel
17 27 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
17 27 (3.40%) Snowflake
18 26 (3.27%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 182 (22.92%) DNS
2 163 (20.53%) Firewall
3 146 (18.39%) DHCP
4 79 (9.95%) TCP/IP
5 56 (7.05%) VPN
6 54 (6.80%) WAN
7 44 (5.54%) LAN
8 41 (5.16%) VLAN
9 39 (4.91%) Wireless
10 29 (3.65%) Internet
11 25 (3.15%) SAN
12 19 (2.39%) HTTP
13 17 (2.14%) Kerberos
13 17 (2.14%) Skype
13 17 (2.14%) SMTP
14 16 (2.02%) FTP
14 16 (2.02%) SSH
15 15 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
16 14 (1.76%) SD-WAN
17 13 (1.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (10.33%) SQL Server
2 39 (4.91%) Amazon RDS
3 29 (3.65%) Oracle Database
4 28 (3.53%) Power BI
5 26 (3.27%) Oracle Database 10g
6 22 (2.77%) Relational Database
7 15 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 12 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (1.13%) DTS
11 8 (1.01%) BusinessObjects
11 8 (1.01%) MySQL
12 6 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.50%) MS Access
13 4 (0.50%) Oracle Database 11g
13 4 (0.50%) Oracle Database 12c
13 4 (0.50%) SAP Data Services
14 3 (0.38%) Data Mining
14 3 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 89 (11.21%) JIRA
2 64 (8.06%) Jenkins
3 55 (6.93%) Git
4 24 (3.02%) Octopus Deploy
5 20 (2.52%) Vagrant
6 16 (2.02%) GitLab
6 16 (2.02%) TeamCity
7 13 (1.64%) MSI
8 5 (0.63%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.50%) Burp Suite
9 4 (0.50%) Metasploit
9 4 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.50%) Toad
10 3 (0.38%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.38%) Balsamiq
10 3 (0.38%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.25%) git-flow
11 2 (0.25%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.25%) TestRail
General
1 266 (33.50%) Social Skills
2 176 (22.17%) Finance
3 58 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (4.91%) Law
5 37 (4.66%) Retail
6 35 (4.41%) Public Sector
7 28 (3.53%) Manufacturing
8 24 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
9 16 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (1.89%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.51%) Games
11 12 (1.51%) Legal
12 11 (1.39%) Automotive
13 10 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (1.26%) Marketing
14 9 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.01%) Advertising
15 8 (1.01%) Aerospace
15 8 (1.01%) Local Government
16 7 (0.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 122 (15.37%) Support Engineer
2 111 (13.98%) Senior
3 95 (11.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 66 (8.31%) 3rd Line Support
4 66 (8.31%) DevOps Engineer
5 62 (7.81%) Azure Engineer
6 58 (7.30%) Developer
7 54 (6.80%) IT Support
8 51 (6.42%) IT Engineer
9 48 (6.05%) Analyst
10 47 (5.92%) Applications Engineer
11 45 (5.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 42 (5.29%) Cloud Engineer
13 39 (4.91%) Lead
14 38 (4.79%) Applications Support
14 38 (4.79%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
14 38 (4.79%) Security Engineer
15 36 (4.53%) IT Support Engineer
16 31 (3.90%) Applications Support Engineer
17 30 (3.78%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (7.05%) REST
2 42 (5.29%) .NET
3 35 (4.41%) ARM Templates
3 35 (4.41%) SOAP
4 29 (3.65%) LDAP
5 20 (2.52%) OAuth
6 18 (2.27%) GraphQL
6 18 (2.27%) SAML
7 17 (2.14%) Web Services
8 16 (2.02%) YAML
9 15 (1.89%) JSON
10 13 (1.64%) React
11 12 (1.51%) AngularJS
12 11 (1.39%) Microsoft Graph
12 11 (1.39%) OpenID
13 10 (1.26%) Razor View Engine
14 9 (1.13%) OpenAPI
14 9 (1.13%) Swagger
15 7 (0.88%) .NET Framework
16 6 (0.76%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 78 (9.82%) Onboarding
2 51 (6.42%) Product Ownership
3 31 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 30 (3.78%) Security Posture
5 25 (3.15%) PKI
6 24 (3.02%) Cloud Native
7 21 (2.64%) Replication
8 19 (2.39%) Data Centre
8 19 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
10 16 (2.02%) Driving Licence
11 14 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.51%) Clustering
12 12 (1.51%) Virtual Team
13 11 (1.39%) IoT
14 10 (1.26%) CMDB
14 10 (1.26%) Management Information System
14 10 (1.26%) Operational Technology
14 10 (1.26%) Video Conferencing
15 9 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 370 (46.60%) Windows
2 221 (27.83%) Windows Server
3 127 (15.99%) Linux
4 50 (6.30%) Windows 10
5 44 (5.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 38 (4.79%) VMS
7 33 (4.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 31 (3.90%) Mac OS
8 31 (3.90%) Windows Server 2008
9 30 (3.78%) Unix
10 22 (2.77%) HPUX
10 22 (2.77%) Solaris
10 22 (2.77%) Windows 7
10 22 (2.77%) Windows Server 2003
11 16 (2.02%) Amazon Linux
12 15 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 13 (1.64%) Android
14 10 (1.26%) Ubuntu
15 9 (1.13%) Apple iOS
16 7 (0.88%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (31.74%) Problem-Solving
2 215 (27.08%) DevOps
3 181 (22.80%) ITIL
4 163 (20.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 136 (17.13%) CI/CD
6 128 (16.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 126 (15.87%) Agile
8 121 (15.24%) Infrastructure as Code
9 112 (14.11%) Mentoring
10 91 (11.46%) Asset Management
11 90 (11.34%) Cybersecurity
12 89 (11.21%) Coaching
13 79 (9.95%) Roadmaps
14 77 (9.70%) Incident Management
15 73 (9.19%) Task Automation
16 72 (9.07%) Change Management
17 69 (8.69%) Disaster Recovery
18 67 (8.44%) Cloud Security
19 64 (8.06%) ITSM
19 64 (8.06%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 228 (28.72%) Python
2 165 (20.78%) SQL
3 139 (17.51%) Bash
4 68 (8.56%) C#
5 48 (6.05%) Bicep
6 38 (4.79%) JavaScript
7 33 (4.16%) Perl
8 25 (3.15%) Java
9 23 (2.90%) VB
10 20 (2.52%) Groovy
11 14 (1.76%) Kusto Query Language
12 11 (1.39%) T-SQL
13 10 (1.26%) VBScript
14 9 (1.13%) Shell Script
15 8 (1.01%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.50%) Go
17 3 (0.38%) Tcl
18 1 (0.13%) C++
18 1 (0.13%) Delphi
18 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 143 (18.01%) Security Cleared
2 100 (12.59%) Degree
3 93 (11.71%) SC Cleared
4 59 (7.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 54 (6.80%) DV Cleared
6 49 (6.17%) Azure Certification
7 35 (4.41%) AWS Certification
8 33 (4.16%) Cisco Certification
9 31 (3.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 26 (3.27%) CCNA
11 23 (2.90%) CISSP
12 17 (2.14%) CREST Certified
13 15 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
14 13 (1.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 12 (1.51%) CompTIA Security+
15 12 (1.51%) SANS
16 11 (1.39%) CEH
17 10 (1.26%) DBS Check
17 10 (1.26%) OSCP
18 9 (1.13%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (6.42%) SLA
2 45 (5.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (4.79%) NIST
4 37 (4.66%) GDPR
5 23 (2.90%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (1.51%) NCSC
8 6 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (0.76%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.63%) QA
10 4 (0.50%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.25%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) COBIT
12 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 297 (37.41%) Active Directory
2 116 (14.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 90 (11.34%) Hyper-V
4 78 (9.82%) Docker
5 36 (4.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 34 (4.28%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (2.52%) vSphere
8 16 (2.02%) VMware ESXi
9 13 (1.64%) DFS Replication
10 9 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.76%) Dovecot
11 6 (0.76%) Firmware
11 6 (0.76%) Postfix
11 6 (0.76%) Squid
12 4 (0.50%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.50%) XenApp
13 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 1 (0.13%) KVM
Systems Management
1 172 (21.66%) Terraform
2 144 (18.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 73 (9.19%) Kubernetes
4 54 (6.80%) Ansible
5 50 (6.30%) SCCM
6 41 (5.16%) Grafana
7 38 (4.79%) Prometheus
8 31 (3.90%) WSUS
9 17 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (1.89%) SCOM
10 15 (1.89%) vCenter Server
11 14 (1.76%) WMI
12 10 (1.26%) ZABBIX
13 9 (1.13%) Nagios
14 8 (1.01%) Autotask
15 7 (0.88%) QRadar
16 6 (0.76%) Backup Exec
16 6 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
16 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 6 (0.76%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 494 (62.22%) Microsoft
2 153 (19.27%) VMware
3 63 (7.93%) Cisco
4 54 (6.80%) ServiceNow
5 52 (6.55%) Oracle
6 39 (4.91%) Veeam
7 36 (4.53%) Atlassian
8 29 (3.65%) Red Hat
9 26 (3.27%) SolarWinds
10 24 (3.02%) Splunk
11 22 (2.77%) Citrix
12 19 (2.39%) Sophos
13 17 (2.14%) Google
13 17 (2.14%) SAP
14 16 (2.02%) Apple
15 14 (1.76%) Datto
16 12 (1.51%) HP
16 12 (1.51%) Trend Micro
17 11 (1.39%) MuleSoft
18 10 (1.26%) Dynatrace