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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 106 69
Rank change year-on-year -10 -37 +33
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 739 931 1,223
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.74% 2.48% 3.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.11% 8.06% 10.59%
Number of salaries quoted 565 629 992
10th Percentile £32,200 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.32%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,650 £78,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -

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 6,650 11,546 11,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.69% 30.79% 37.35%
Number of salaries quoted 5,005 6,343 8,945
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,625 £42,500 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £69,800
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +2.36% -2.31%

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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 28 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 28 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 -32 193 £58,000 -1.90% 228
North of England -28 132 £50,000 - 179
Scotland +33 117 £57,500 +4.55% 42
South West +29 112 £50,000 -9.09% 100
Midlands -21 90 £52,500 +10.53% 143
East of England +27 78 £43,607 -16.94% 100
North West -21 64 £50,000 - 88
Yorkshire -22 58 £47,500 -9.52% 74
West Midlands -15 53 £52,500 +31.25% 78
East Midlands -9 37 £54,000 +13.68% 61
Wales +8 15 £55,000 +5.77% 19
North East +9 10 £50,000 - 20
Northern Ireland -11 3 £46,500 +16.25% 16
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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
1 143 (19.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 109 (14.75%) SharePoint
3 36 (4.87%) IIS
4 22 (2.98%) Exchange Server 2003
5 19 (2.57%) Confluence
6 17 (2.30%) Skype for Business
7 6 (0.81%) nginx
8 5 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.27%) CMS
9 2 (0.27%) WordPress
10 1 (0.14%) CICS
10 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 35 (4.74%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.81%) Siemens NX
3 5 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.54%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 3 (0.41%) CATIA
5 3 (0.41%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.41%) Windchill
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.08%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.81%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.68%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.54%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 487 (65.90%) Azure
2 277 (37.48%) Microsoft 365
3 170 (23.00%) Entra ID
4 129 (17.46%) AWS
5 111 (15.02%) Azure DevOps
6 57 (7.71%) Power Platform
7 47 (6.36%) GitHub
8 41 (5.55%) GCP
9 39 (5.28%) SaaS
10 38 (5.14%) GitHub Actions
11 36 (4.87%) Azure Key Vault
12 34 (4.60%) Azure Monitor
13 33 (4.47%) Snowflake
14 32 (4.33%) Power Automate
15 29 (3.92%) dbt
15 29 (3.92%) OneDrive
15 29 (3.92%) PaaS
16 26 (3.52%) Azure Sentinel
17 25 (3.38%) IaaS
18 24 (3.25%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 158 (21.38%) DNS
2 139 (18.81%) Firewall
3 124 (16.78%) DHCP
4 70 (9.47%) TCP/IP
5 56 (7.58%) VPN
6 51 (6.90%) WAN
7 40 (5.41%) LAN
8 37 (5.01%) VLAN
9 35 (4.74%) Wireless
10 22 (2.98%) Internet
11 19 (2.57%) SAN
12 17 (2.30%) Broadband
12 17 (2.30%) Skype
13 16 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
14 15 (2.03%) SD-WAN
15 13 (1.76%) Kerberos
15 13 (1.76%) VoIP
16 12 (1.62%) HTTP
17 11 (1.49%) Network Security
17 11 (1.49%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (9.88%) SQL Server
2 30 (4.06%) Power BI
3 29 (3.92%) Oracle Database
4 26 (3.52%) Oracle Database 10g
5 23 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (2.98%) Relational Database
7 19 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (1.22%) DTS
11 8 (1.08%) BusinessObjects
12 7 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (0.95%) MySQL
13 4 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.54%) MS Access
13 4 (0.54%) Oracle Database 11g
13 4 (0.54%) Oracle Database 12c
13 4 (0.54%) SAP Data Services
14 3 (0.41%) Data Mining
14 3 (0.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 72 (9.74%) JIRA
2 52 (7.04%) Jenkins
3 39 (5.28%) Git
4 18 (2.44%) Octopus Deploy
5 15 (2.03%) GitLab
6 13 (1.76%) TeamCity
7 9 (1.22%) Vagrant
8 8 (1.08%) MSI
9 5 (0.68%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.54%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.54%) Toad
11 3 (0.41%) Balsamiq
11 3 (0.41%) Burp Suite
11 3 (0.41%) Metasploit
12 2 (0.27%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.27%) git-flow
12 2 (0.27%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.27%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.27%) TestRail
13 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 256 (34.64%) Social Skills
2 188 (25.44%) Finance
3 65 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (5.01%) Retail
5 32 (4.33%) Law
6 27 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
7 26 (3.52%) Manufacturing
7 26 (3.52%) Public Sector
8 20 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
8 20 (2.71%) Games
9 15 (2.03%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.35%) Legal
10 10 (1.35%) Marketing
11 9 (1.22%) Advertising
12 8 (1.08%) Automotive
12 8 (1.08%) Front Office
13 7 (0.95%) Electronics
13 7 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (0.95%) Local Government
14 6 (0.81%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 120 (16.24%) Senior
2 109 (14.75%) Support Engineer
3 81 (10.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 61 (8.25%) Developer
5 55 (7.44%) 3rd Line Support
5 55 (7.44%) Azure Engineer
6 51 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
6 51 (6.90%) IT Support
7 49 (6.63%) Applications Engineer
8 45 (6.09%) IT Engineer
9 41 (5.55%) Analyst
9 41 (5.55%) Cloud Engineer
10 38 (5.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 38 (5.14%) Applications Support
11 37 (5.01%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 36 (4.87%) Lead
13 35 (4.74%) Security Engineer
14 32 (4.33%) Applications Support Engineer
14 32 (4.33%) IT Support Engineer
15 29 (3.92%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (8.93%) REST
2 45 (6.09%) SOAP
3 34 (4.60%) .NET
3 34 (4.60%) LDAP
4 33 (4.47%) OAuth
5 30 (4.06%) GraphQL
6 29 (3.92%) SAML
7 28 (3.79%) ARM Templates
8 22 (2.98%) OpenID
9 19 (2.57%) YAML
10 17 (2.30%) Web Services
11 16 (2.17%) JSON
12 14 (1.89%) React
13 12 (1.62%) AngularJS
14 11 (1.49%) OpenAPI
14 11 (1.49%) Swagger
15 10 (1.35%) Microsoft Graph
15 10 (1.35%) Razor View Engine
16 8 (1.08%) FIX Protocol
17 7 (0.95%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 70 (9.47%) Onboarding
2 50 (6.77%) Product Ownership
3 28 (3.79%) Security Posture
4 27 (3.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 20 (2.71%) Cloud Native
6 19 (2.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 19 (2.57%) Data Centre
6 19 (2.57%) PKI
7 18 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
7 18 (2.44%) Cyberattack
7 18 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.89%) Replication
10 12 (1.62%) Clustering
10 12 (1.62%) Driving Licence
10 12 (1.62%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.49%) Video Conferencing
11 11 (1.49%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.35%) CMDB
12 10 (1.35%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 331 (44.79%) Windows
2 199 (26.93%) Windows Server
3 103 (13.94%) Linux
4 48 (6.50%) Windows 10
5 32 (4.33%) Mac OS
6 31 (4.19%) Windows Server 2008
6 31 (4.19%) Windows Server 2019
7 30 (4.06%) Unix
8 28 (3.79%) Windows Server 2016
9 23 (3.11%) VMS
10 22 (2.98%) HPUX
10 22 (2.98%) Solaris
10 22 (2.98%) Windows 7
10 22 (2.98%) Windows Server 2003
11 17 (2.30%) Android
12 12 (1.62%) Apple iOS
13 9 (1.22%) Amazon Linux
13 9 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 8 (1.08%) Ubuntu
15 6 (0.81%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (34.37%) Problem-Solving
2 195 (26.39%) DevOps
3 179 (24.22%) ITIL
4 167 (22.60%) Continuous Improvement
5 128 (17.32%) CI/CD
6 118 (15.97%) Infrastructure as Code
7 116 (15.70%) Agile
8 111 (15.02%) Mentoring
9 109 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 105 (14.21%) Asset Management
11 97 (13.13%) Cybersecurity
12 96 (12.99%) Coaching
13 90 (12.18%) Roadmaps
14 75 (10.15%) Incident Management
15 73 (9.88%) Disaster Recovery
16 71 (9.61%) Root Cause Analysis
17 68 (9.20%) Task Automation
18 67 (9.07%) Change Management
18 67 (9.07%) ITSM
19 57 (7.71%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 201 (27.20%) Python
2 165 (22.33%) SQL
3 139 (18.81%) Bash
4 63 (8.53%) C#
5 43 (5.82%) Bicep
6 40 (5.41%) JavaScript
7 27 (3.65%) Perl
8 22 (2.98%) T-SQL
9 18 (2.44%) VB
10 16 (2.17%) Java
11 12 (1.62%) Kusto Query Language
12 10 (1.35%) VBScript
13 9 (1.22%) Groovy
14 8 (1.08%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.95%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.54%) Go
17 3 (0.41%) Tcl
18 2 (0.27%) VBA
19 1 (0.14%) C++
19 1 (0.14%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 120 (16.24%) Security Cleared
2 90 (12.18%) Degree
3 74 (10.01%) SC Cleared
4 62 (8.39%) Microsoft Certification
5 48 (6.50%) DV Cleared
6 38 (5.14%) Azure Certification
7 33 (4.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 30 (4.06%) Cisco Certification
9 23 (3.11%) CCNA
10 21 (2.84%) AWS Certification
11 20 (2.71%) CISSP
12 17 (2.30%) CREST Certified
13 16 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
14 12 (1.62%) SANS
15 11 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 10 (1.35%) DBS Check
16 10 (1.35%) MCP
17 9 (1.22%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (1.22%) MCSA
18 8 (1.08%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (6.36%) SLA
2 45 (6.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 43 (5.82%) NIST
4 35 (4.74%) GDPR
5 26 (3.52%) Accessibility
6 22 (2.98%) NCSC
7 17 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (0.95%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.41%) HL7
10 3 (0.41%) QA
11 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.14%) COBIT
12 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 272 (36.81%) Active Directory
2 94 (12.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (9.47%) Hyper-V
4 61 (8.25%) Docker
5 36 (4.87%) Virtual Desktop
6 31 (4.19%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (2.30%) vSphere
8 14 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.95%) Firmware
9 7 (0.95%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.68%) DFS Replication
10 5 (0.68%) Squid
11 4 (0.54%) Dovecot
11 4 (0.54%) Postfix
11 4 (0.54%) XenApp
12 3 (0.41%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.27%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.14%) RACF
14 1 (0.14%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 151 (20.43%) Terraform
2 134 (18.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 63 (8.53%) Kubernetes
4 43 (5.82%) Ansible
5 41 (5.55%) SCCM
6 26 (3.52%) Grafana
7 21 (2.84%) Prometheus
7 21 (2.84%) WSUS
8 16 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (1.89%) vCenter Server
10 10 (1.35%) SCOM
10 10 (1.35%) ZABBIX
11 9 (1.22%) Nagios
11 9 (1.22%) WMI
12 6 (0.81%) Autotask
12 6 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.68%) MaaS360
13 5 (0.68%) Proxmox
13 5 (0.68%) SCVMM
14 4 (0.54%) Nessus
Vendors
1 448 (60.62%) Microsoft
2 136 (18.40%) VMware
3 57 (7.71%) Cisco
4 44 (5.95%) Oracle
4 44 (5.95%) ServiceNow
5 39 (5.28%) Veeam
6 33 (4.47%) Atlassian
7 26 (3.52%) SolarWinds
8 23 (3.11%) Citrix
8 23 (3.11%) Red Hat
9 19 (2.57%) SAP
9 19 (2.57%) Splunk
10 17 (2.30%) Sophos
11 16 (2.17%) Google
12 14 (1.89%) Apple
13 12 (1.62%) IBM
13 12 (1.62%) Trend Micro
14 11 (1.49%) Datto
14 11 (1.49%) HP
14 11 (1.49%) MuleSoft