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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 86 141
Rank change year-on-year -68 +55 -47
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 761 1,039 1,495
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.14% 3.51% 1.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.33% 12.56% 6.50%
Number of salaries quoted 609 563 1,160
10th Percentile £31,100 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £39,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,619 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.24% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £60,006
90th Percentile £78,400 £78,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.61% +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 10,383 8,275 23,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.58% 27.95% 29.53%
Number of salaries quoted 7,406 5,236 16,984
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £67,313
90th Percentile £86,250 £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 13 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 13 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
South East -48 193 £56,750 -1.30% 129
North of England -95 188 £47,500 -5.00% 69
Midlands -40 133 £50,000 - 37
North West -84 98 £51,500 +11.96% 49
East of England -21 84 £56,250 +18.42% 27
South West -40 83 £55,000 +15.79% 48
East Midlands -6 76 £47,500 +31.03% 20
Yorkshire -22 60 £45,000 -14.29% 13
West Midlands -72 56 £51,250 -4.54% 17
Scotland +42 54 £50,000 +6.95% 13
North East -24 30 £46,500 -20.85% 8
Wales -26 23 £54,085 +3.02% 6
Northern Ireland -28 3 £46,000 +6.75% 5
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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
1 137 (18.00%) SharePoint
2 135 (17.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (4.07%) IIS
4 16 (2.10%) Confluence
5 2 (0.26%) Apache
5 2 (0.26%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.13%) nginx
6 1 (0.13%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 38 (4.99%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.66%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.26%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.13%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.13%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.13%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 495 (65.05%) Azure
2 326 (42.84%) Microsoft 365
3 190 (24.97%) Entra ID
4 126 (16.56%) AWS
5 84 (11.04%) Azure DevOps
6 68 (8.94%) IaaS
7 62 (8.15%) Power Platform
8 57 (7.49%) GitHub
9 56 (7.36%) OneDrive
10 44 (5.78%) Azure AKS
11 43 (5.65%) SaaS
12 42 (5.52%) GitHub Actions
13 40 (5.26%) Google Workspace
14 39 (5.12%) Azure Key Vault
15 35 (4.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 35 (4.60%) PaaS
15 35 (4.60%) Power Automate
16 32 (4.20%) Azure Sentinel
17 31 (4.07%) Azure Monitor
18 30 (3.94%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 214 (28.12%) DNS
2 190 (24.97%) Firewall
3 137 (18.00%) DHCP
4 124 (16.29%) VPN
5 82 (10.78%) TCP/IP
6 69 (9.07%) WAN
7 63 (8.28%) LAN
8 48 (6.31%) VLAN
9 37 (4.86%) Broadband
10 35 (4.60%) VoIP
11 31 (4.07%) Wi-Fi
12 27 (3.55%) SAN
13 22 (2.89%) Network Security
14 18 (2.37%) BGP
15 16 (2.10%) SD-WAN
15 16 (2.10%) Wireless
16 13 (1.71%) HTTP
16 13 (1.71%) SSL
17 12 (1.58%) MPLS
18 10 (1.31%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (10.51%) SQL Server
2 40 (5.26%) Power BI
3 38 (4.99%) Azure SQL Database
4 32 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (2.89%) MySQL
7 10 (1.31%) NoSQL
8 9 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (1.05%) InfluxDB
10 7 (0.92%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.66%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.66%) Electronic Patient Records
11 5 (0.66%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.53%) Metadata
12 4 (0.53%) Redis
13 3 (0.39%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.26%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 55 (7.23%) Git
2 47 (6.18%) JIRA
3 40 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 37 (4.86%) GitLab
5 14 (1.84%) Bitbucket
6 11 (1.45%) Octopus Deploy
7 6 (0.79%) Robot Framework
7 6 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 6 (0.79%) TestRail
8 5 (0.66%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.66%) Selenium
9 4 (0.53%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.39%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.39%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.39%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.39%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.26%) MSI
12 1 (0.13%) Balsamiq
12 1 (0.13%) Eclipse
General
1 220 (28.91%) Social Skills
2 97 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
3 76 (9.99%) Finance
4 59 (7.75%) Law
5 52 (6.83%) Organisational Skills
6 40 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
7 37 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (4.60%) Retail
9 29 (3.81%) Public Sector
10 25 (3.29%) Games
11 18 (2.37%) Aerospace
11 18 (2.37%) Legal
12 15 (1.97%) Manufacturing
13 12 (1.58%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.05%) Advertising
15 6 (0.79%) Police
16 5 (0.66%) Aviation
17 4 (0.53%) Financial Institution
17 4 (0.53%) Local Government
17 4 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 158 (20.76%) Senior
2 134 (17.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 103 (13.53%) IT Support
3 103 (13.53%) Support Engineer
4 92 (12.09%) IT Engineer
5 79 (10.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 68 (8.94%) Azure Engineer
7 67 (8.80%) Analyst
8 64 (8.41%) IT Support Engineer
9 60 (7.88%) DevOps Engineer
10 50 (6.57%) Security Engineer
11 49 (6.44%) 2nd Line Support
12 44 (5.78%) Developer
13 36 (4.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 33 (4.34%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 32 (4.20%) Systems Engineer
16 28 (3.68%) Administrator
17 25 (3.29%) Senior Developer
18 24 (3.15%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 24 (3.15%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (7.10%) .NET
2 49 (6.44%) OAuth
3 47 (6.18%) SAML
4 41 (5.39%) LDAP
4 41 (5.39%) OpenID
5 40 (5.26%) REST
6 37 (4.86%) Microsoft Graph
7 36 (4.73%) JSON
7 36 (4.73%) SOAP
8 34 (4.47%) GraphQL
9 29 (3.81%) YAML
10 27 (3.55%) ARM Templates
11 24 (3.15%) HTML
12 23 (3.02%) .NET Core
12 23 (3.02%) SPFx
13 20 (2.63%) CSS
14 19 (2.50%) HTML5 Canvas
15 16 (2.10%) Elastic Stack
16 15 (1.97%) React
17 11 (1.45%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 56 (7.36%) Onboarding
2 44 (5.78%) Driving Licence
3 40 (5.26%) Cyberattack
4 38 (4.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 37 (4.86%) Cyber Threat
6 35 (4.60%) Cloud Native
7 26 (3.42%) PKI
8 25 (3.29%) Security Operations Centre
9 23 (3.02%) Data Centre
9 23 (3.02%) Management Information System
10 20 (2.63%) Security Posture
11 16 (2.10%) Public Cloud
12 15 (1.97%) Clustering
12 15 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (1.71%) Product Ownership
14 13 (1.71%) Replication
15 11 (1.45%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 365 (47.96%) Windows
2 199 (26.15%) Windows Server
3 166 (21.81%) Linux
4 51 (6.70%) Windows 10
5 32 (4.20%) Apple iOS
6 30 (3.94%) Mac OS
7 29 (3.81%) CentOS
8 27 (3.55%) Windows Server 2016
9 26 (3.42%) Android
10 24 (3.15%) Windows Server 2019
11 20 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 20 (2.63%) Ubuntu
12 18 (2.37%) VMS
13 6 (0.79%) Debian
14 5 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.53%) AIX
15 4 (0.53%) Unix
16 3 (0.39%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.26%) Windows 7
18 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
2 165 (21.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 163 (21.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 158 (20.76%) Cybersecurity
5 151 (19.84%) DevOps
6 147 (19.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 143 (18.79%) CI/CD
8 132 (17.35%) ITIL
9 116 (15.24%) Agile
10 101 (13.27%) Containerisation
11 99 (13.01%) Mentoring
12 91 (11.96%) Root Cause Analysis
13 84 (11.04%) Disaster Recovery
14 83 (10.91%) High Availability
15 78 (10.25%) Roadmaps
16 75 (9.86%) Task Automation
17 71 (9.33%) Observability
18 69 (9.07%) Cloud Security
19 68 (8.94%) SIEM
20 57 (7.49%) AI
Programming Languages
1 244 (32.06%) Python
2 225 (29.57%) Bash
3 129 (16.95%) SQL
4 58 (7.62%) C#
5 53 (6.96%) Bicep
6 47 (6.18%) T-SQL
7 38 (4.99%) JavaScript
8 25 (3.29%) TypeScript
9 10 (1.31%) C++
9 10 (1.31%) VB
10 9 (1.18%) Java
10 9 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
11 8 (1.05%) Perl
11 8 (1.05%) VBScript
12 6 (0.79%) Korn
12 6 (0.79%) PHP
13 4 (0.53%) Go
14 3 (0.39%) C
14 3 (0.39%) Ruby
15 2 (0.26%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 115 (15.11%) Security Cleared
2 88 (11.56%) Azure Certification
3 87 (11.43%) Degree
4 79 (10.38%) SC Cleared
5 65 (8.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 35 (4.60%) DV Cleared
7 27 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (3.42%) Cisco Certification
8 26 (3.42%) CompTIA Security+
9 24 (3.15%) DBS Check
10 21 (2.76%) CCNA
11 17 (2.23%) CREST Certified
12 16 (2.10%) AWS Certification
13 15 (1.97%) CISSP
14 14 (1.84%) CEH
15 8 (1.05%) SANS
16 7 (0.92%) Network+ Certification
17 6 (0.79%) CISM
17 6 (0.79%) RHCE
17 6 (0.79%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (9.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 58 (7.62%) NIST
3 40 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 36 (4.73%) GDPR
5 33 (4.34%) NCSC
6 26 (3.42%) SLA
7 14 (1.84%) Accessibility
8 13 (1.71%) Data Quality
9 12 (1.58%) PCI DSS
10 9 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (1.05%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.92%) QA
13 6 (0.79%) DICOM
13 6 (0.79%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.26%) 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
1 312 (41.00%) Active Directory
2 139 (18.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 110 (14.45%) Hyper-V
4 99 (13.01%) Docker
5 39 (5.12%) vSphere
6 30 (3.94%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (2.63%) VMware NSX
8 19 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (1.45%) BitLocker
9 11 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (1.31%) KVM
11 8 (1.05%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.53%) iptables
13 4 (0.53%) Squid
14 2 (0.26%) Samba
15 1 (0.13%) Firmware
15 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 169 (22.21%) Terraform
2 137 (18.00%) Kubernetes
3 113 (14.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 84 (11.04%) Ansible
5 53 (6.96%) Grafana
6 34 (4.47%) Prometheus
7 25 (3.29%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (2.89%) vCenter Server
9 19 (2.50%) Jamf Pro
9 19 (2.50%) SCCM
10 17 (2.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 15 (1.97%) ZABBIX
12 14 (1.84%) Graylog
12 14 (1.84%) Proxmox
13 12 (1.58%) Nagios
14 11 (1.45%) QRadar
14 11 (1.45%) WSUS
15 10 (1.31%) Argo
16 8 (1.05%) Docker Swarm
16 8 (1.05%) Nessus
Vendors
1 461 (60.58%) Microsoft
2 166 (21.81%) VMware
3 60 (7.88%) Cisco
4 45 (5.91%) Splunk
5 44 (5.78%) Veeam
6 42 (5.52%) Red Hat
7 34 (4.47%) Meraki
8 20 (2.63%) Apple
8 20 (2.63%) Dell
9 19 (2.50%) Adobe
10 18 (2.37%) CrowdStrike
10 18 (2.37%) Logitech
10 18 (2.37%) ServiceNow
10 18 (2.37%) SolarWinds
11 16 (2.10%) Oracle
12 14 (1.84%) Dynatrace
13 12 (1.58%) Google
13 12 (1.58%) HP
13 12 (1.58%) Sophos
14 11 (1.45%) Yealink