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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 87 139
Rank change year-on-year -76 +52 -39
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 747 1,025 1,474
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.11% 3.50% 2.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.28% 12.51% 6.59%
Number of salaries quoted 592 551 1,157
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,625 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £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 10,257 8,195 22,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.18% 28.01% 30.56%
Number of salaries quoted 7,212 5,250 16,599
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 £71,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 1 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 1 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 -105 184 £47,500 -5.00% 70
South East -67 179 £55,000 -4.35% 103
Midlands -51 126 £50,000 - 37
North West -101 95 £50,051 +8.81% 42
South West -35 84 £55,000 +15.79% 42
East of England -29 81 £57,500 +21.05% 30
East Midlands -23 75 £50,000 +42.86% 16
Scotland +41 67 £50,000 +11.11% 12
Yorkshire -33 61 £45,000 -21.74% 17
West Midlands -83 50 £48,000 -5.37% 21
North East -30 28 £45,000 -23.40% 11
Wales -18 23 £54,085 +8.17% 2
Northern Ireland - 3 £46,000 - 6
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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 (17.54%) SharePoint
2 126 (16.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (3.88%) IIS
4 15 (2.01%) Confluence
5 2 (0.27%) Apache
5 2 (0.27%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.13%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 38 (5.09%) 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
1 481 (64.39%) Azure
2 318 (42.57%) Microsoft 365
3 183 (24.50%) Entra ID
4 120 (16.06%) AWS
5 79 (10.58%) Azure DevOps
6 63 (8.43%) IaaS
7 59 (7.90%) Power Platform
8 57 (7.63%) OneDrive
9 48 (6.43%) GitHub
10 42 (5.62%) Azure AKS
10 42 (5.62%) Google Workspace
11 40 (5.35%) Azure Key Vault
12 39 (5.22%) GitHub Actions
12 39 (5.22%) SaaS
13 31 (4.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 31 (4.15%) Power Automate
14 30 (4.02%) Azure Sentinel
14 30 (4.02%) Azure Storage
15 29 (3.88%) Azure Data Factory
15 29 (3.88%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 207 (27.71%) DNS
2 180 (24.10%) Firewall
3 127 (17.00%) DHCP
4 111 (14.86%) VPN
5 78 (10.44%) TCP/IP
6 64 (8.57%) WAN
7 58 (7.76%) LAN
8 42 (5.62%) VLAN
9 40 (5.35%) Broadband
10 38 (5.09%) VoIP
11 32 (4.28%) Wi-Fi
12 27 (3.61%) SAN
13 21 (2.81%) Network Security
14 17 (2.28%) BGP
15 14 (1.87%) SD-WAN
16 13 (1.74%) HTTP
17 12 (1.61%) MPLS
17 12 (1.61%) Wireless
18 11 (1.47%) SSL
19 10 (1.34%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (10.31%) SQL Server
2 41 (5.49%) Power BI
3 33 (4.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 30 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (2.95%) MySQL
7 11 (1.47%) NoSQL
8 9 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (0.94%) InfluxDB
10 7 (0.94%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.67%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.67%) Electronic Patient Records
11 5 (0.67%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.54%) 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 48 (6.43%) Git
1 48 (6.43%) JIRA
2 39 (5.22%) Jenkins
3 34 (4.55%) GitLab
4 14 (1.87%) Bitbucket
5 9 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (0.67%) CircleCI
6 5 (0.67%) Robot Framework
6 5 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.67%) TestRail
7 4 (0.54%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.54%) Selenium
8 3 (0.40%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.27%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.27%) MSI
9 2 (0.27%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.27%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.13%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 217 (29.05%) Social Skills
2 100 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
3 86 (11.51%) Finance
4 54 (7.23%) Law
4 54 (7.23%) Organisational Skills
5 36 (4.82%) Retail
6 35 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 30 (4.02%) Public Sector
9 29 (3.88%) Games
10 18 (2.41%) Aerospace
11 17 (2.28%) Manufacturing
12 16 (2.14%) Legal
13 11 (1.47%) Advertising
13 11 (1.47%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.80%) Police
15 4 (0.54%) Aviation
15 4 (0.54%) Military
16 3 (0.40%) Local Government
16 3 (0.40%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 159 (21.29%) Senior
2 130 (17.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 101 (13.52%) IT Support
4 99 (13.25%) Support Engineer
5 84 (11.24%) IT Engineer
6 78 (10.44%) Cloud Engineer
7 67 (8.97%) Azure Engineer
8 61 (8.17%) IT Support Engineer
9 57 (7.63%) Analyst
9 57 (7.63%) DevOps Engineer
10 49 (6.56%) Security Engineer
11 47 (6.29%) 2nd Line Support
12 45 (6.02%) Developer
13 35 (4.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 34 (4.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 30 (4.02%) Systems Engineer
16 25 (3.35%) Administrator
16 25 (3.35%) Senior Developer
17 23 (3.08%) Consultant
18 22 (2.95%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (7.10%) OAuth
2 52 (6.96%) .NET
3 49 (6.56%) SAML
4 43 (5.76%) LDAP
4 43 (5.76%) OpenID
5 42 (5.62%) REST
6 39 (5.22%) GraphQL
6 39 (5.22%) SOAP
7 37 (4.95%) Microsoft Graph
8 35 (4.69%) JSON
9 30 (4.02%) YAML
10 24 (3.21%) .NET Core
10 24 (3.21%) ARM Templates
10 24 (3.21%) HTML
11 22 (2.95%) SPFx
12 20 (2.68%) CSS
13 19 (2.54%) HTML5 Canvas
14 15 (2.01%) React
15 11 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
15 11 (1.47%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 50 (6.69%) Onboarding
2 45 (6.02%) Cyberattack
3 40 (5.35%) Cyber Threat
4 37 (4.95%) Driving Licence
5 35 (4.69%) Cloud Native
6 34 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 26 (3.48%) PKI
8 24 (3.21%) Management Information System
9 23 (3.08%) Security Operations Centre
10 22 (2.95%) Data Centre
11 16 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.87%) Clustering
12 14 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.87%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.74%) Replication
14 12 (1.61%) Public Cloud
14 12 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (1.47%) Low-Code
15 11 (1.47%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 353 (47.26%) Windows
2 196 (26.24%) Windows Server
3 154 (20.62%) Linux
4 51 (6.83%) Windows 10
5 33 (4.42%) Apple iOS
6 32 (4.28%) Mac OS
7 28 (3.75%) Android
8 26 (3.48%) CentOS
8 26 (3.48%) Windows Server 2016
9 22 (2.95%) Windows Server 2019
10 19 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 18 (2.41%) Ubuntu
12 14 (1.87%) VMS
13 6 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (0.67%) Debian
15 4 (0.54%) Unix
16 3 (0.40%) AIX
16 3 (0.40%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.27%) Windows 7
18 1 (0.13%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (26.51%) Problem-Solving
2 160 (21.42%) Infrastructure as Code
3 158 (21.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 154 (20.62%) Cybersecurity
5 148 (19.81%) DevOps
6 143 (19.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 137 (18.34%) CI/CD
8 132 (17.67%) ITIL
9 113 (15.13%) Agile
10 102 (13.65%) Mentoring
11 99 (13.25%) Containerisation
12 85 (11.38%) Root Cause Analysis
13 80 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
14 79 (10.58%) High Availability
15 78 (10.44%) Roadmaps
16 68 (9.10%) Task Automation
17 65 (8.70%) SIEM
18 63 (8.43%) Cloud Security
19 59 (7.90%) Observability
20 55 (7.36%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 236 (31.59%) Python
2 220 (29.45%) Bash
3 127 (17.00%) SQL
4 57 (7.63%) C#
5 48 (6.43%) T-SQL
6 46 (6.16%) Bicep
7 39 (5.22%) JavaScript
8 24 (3.21%) TypeScript
9 10 (1.34%) 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 4 (0.54%) Go
13 4 (0.54%) PHP
14 3 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.27%) C
15 2 (0.27%) Google Apps Script
16 1 (0.13%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 109 (14.59%) Security Cleared
2 86 (11.51%) Degree
3 79 (10.58%) Azure Certification
4 74 (9.91%) SC Cleared
5 61 (8.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 36 (4.82%) DV Cleared
7 28 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (2.95%) CompTIA Security+
9 22 (2.95%) DBS Check
10 19 (2.54%) CCNA
11 18 (2.41%) CREST Certified
12 16 (2.14%) AWS Certification
13 13 (1.74%) CEH
13 13 (1.74%) CISSP
14 9 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 8 (1.07%) SANS
16 7 (0.94%) Network+ Certification
17 6 (0.80%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (8.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 62 (8.30%) NIST
3 39 (5.22%) GDPR
4 37 (4.95%) NCSC
5 34 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 24 (3.21%) SLA
7 16 (2.14%) Accessibility
8 12 (1.61%) Data Quality
9 11 (1.47%) PCI DSS
10 9 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (1.07%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.94%) 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
1 306 (40.96%) Active Directory
2 126 (16.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 105 (14.06%) Hyper-V
4 94 (12.58%) Docker
5 31 (4.15%) vSphere
6 30 (4.02%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (2.68%) VMware NSX
8 15 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (1.34%) KVM
9 10 (1.34%) 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 (0.54%) iptables
14 4 (0.54%) 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
1 161 (21.55%) Terraform
2 131 (17.54%) Kubernetes
3 109 (14.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 81 (10.84%) Ansible
5 46 (6.16%) Grafana
6 28 (3.75%) Prometheus
7 24 (3.21%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (2.68%) vCenter Server
9 19 (2.54%) Jamf Pro
10 17 (2.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 17 (2.28%) SCCM
11 15 (2.01%) ZABBIX
12 13 (1.74%) Graylog
12 13 (1.74%) Proxmox
13 11 (1.47%) Nagios
13 11 (1.47%) WSUS
14 10 (1.34%) QRadar
15 7 (0.94%) Argo
15 7 (0.94%) Nessus
15 7 (0.94%) VxRail
Vendors
1 443 (59.30%) Microsoft
2 152 (20.35%) VMware
3 59 (7.90%) Cisco
4 46 (6.16%) Veeam
5 42 (5.62%) Splunk
6 41 (5.49%) Red Hat
7 32 (4.28%) Meraki
8 21 (2.81%) Dell
9 20 (2.68%) Apple
10 19 (2.54%) Adobe
10 19 (2.54%) CrowdStrike
11 18 (2.41%) SolarWinds
12 17 (2.28%) Logitech
13 15 (2.01%) Oracle
14 14 (1.87%) Dynatrace
15 13 (1.74%) HP
15 13 (1.74%) ServiceNow
16 11 (1.47%) Sophos
16 11 (1.47%) Yealink
17 10 (1.34%) Atlassian