PowerShell Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 112 63
Rank change year-on-year +6 -49 +44
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 799 1,009 1,307
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.12% 2.27% 4.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.22% 7.64% 11.61%
Number of salaries quoted 646 661 1,049
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,875 £52,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% -1.87% +1.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £64,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £61,425 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.39% +2.38% -

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 6,541 13,208 11,258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.32% 29.73% 38.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4,938 7,327 8,905
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,404 £35,733
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,200 £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 2 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 2 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 -22 219 £58,000 +2.61% 145
North of England -8 150 £50,000 - 87
South West +22 114 £52,500 - 56
Midlands +5 109 £52,500 +10.53% 69
Scotland +23 95 £62,250 +17.45% 59
East of England +40 94 £47,500 -9.52% 36
West Midlands +16 77 £55,000 +22.22% 33
Yorkshire -12 70 £47,500 -9.95% 22
North West +5 69 £52,500 +5.00% 55
East Midlands +6 32 £51,250 +7.89% 34
Wales +16 17 £55,000 +5.77% 19
North East +7 11 £55,000 +16.68% 13
Northern Ireland -5 4 £46,000 +15.00% 1
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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
1 158 (19.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 118 (14.77%) SharePoint
3 42 (5.26%) IIS
4 37 (4.63%) Confluence
5 22 (2.75%) Exchange Server 2003
6 17 (2.13%) Skype for Business
7 10 (1.25%) nginx
8 5 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.25%) CMS
9 2 (0.25%) WordPress
10 1 (0.13%) CICS
10 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 41 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.75%) 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 12 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.00%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.75%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.63%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.13%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 517 (64.71%) Azure
2 297 (37.17%) Microsoft 365
3 164 (20.53%) Entra ID
4 156 (19.52%) AWS
5 123 (15.39%) Azure DevOps
6 64 (8.01%) Power Platform
7 53 (6.63%) SaaS
8 49 (6.13%) Azure Monitor
8 49 (6.13%) GitHub
9 47 (5.88%) GCP
10 41 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
11 39 (4.88%) PaaS
12 38 (4.76%) Power Automate
13 36 (4.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 36 (4.51%) IaaS
14 33 (4.13%) Azure Key Vault
15 30 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
16 29 (3.63%) Amazon S3
16 29 (3.63%) Azure Sentinel
16 29 (3.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 180 (22.53%) DNS
2 168 (21.03%) Firewall
3 145 (18.15%) DHCP
4 78 (9.76%) TCP/IP
5 56 (7.01%) VPN
6 54 (6.76%) WAN
7 44 (5.51%) LAN
8 41 (5.13%) VLAN
9 40 (5.01%) Wireless
10 30 (3.75%) Internet
11 25 (3.13%) SAN
12 20 (2.50%) HTTP
13 18 (2.25%) SMTP
14 17 (2.13%) FTP
14 17 (2.13%) Kerberos
14 17 (2.13%) Skype
14 17 (2.13%) SSH
15 14 (1.75%) Network Security
15 14 (1.75%) SD-WAN
16 13 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (10.51%) SQL Server
2 42 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
3 29 (3.63%) Oracle Database
3 29 (3.63%) Power BI
4 26 (3.25%) Oracle Database 10g
5 22 (2.75%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (1.13%) DTS
9 8 (1.00%) BusinessObjects
9 8 (1.00%) MySQL
10 6 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.50%) MS Access
11 4 (0.50%) Oracle Database 11g
11 4 (0.50%) Oracle Database 12c
11 4 (0.50%) SAP Data Services
11 4 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.38%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 90 (11.26%) JIRA
2 69 (8.64%) Jenkins
3 59 (7.38%) Git
4 25 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
5 23 (2.88%) Vagrant
6 17 (2.13%) TeamCity
7 16 (2.00%) GitLab
8 13 (1.63%) MSI
9 5 (0.63%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.50%) Burp Suite
10 4 (0.50%) Metasploit
10 4 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.50%) Toad
11 3 (0.38%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.38%) Balsamiq
11 3 (0.38%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.25%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.25%) TestRail
General
1 264 (33.04%) Social Skills
2 172 (21.53%) Finance
3 56 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (5.01%) Law
5 37 (4.63%) Public Sector
5 37 (4.63%) Retail
6 27 (3.38%) Manufacturing
7 24 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (1.75%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.50%) Automotive
10 12 (1.50%) Legal
11 11 (1.38%) Games
11 11 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (1.25%) Marketing
13 9 (1.13%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.00%) Local Government
14 8 (1.00%) Military
15 6 (0.75%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 129 (16.15%) Support Engineer
2 111 (13.89%) Senior
3 100 (12.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 69 (8.64%) 3rd Line Support
4 69 (8.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 65 (8.14%) Azure Engineer
6 57 (7.13%) Developer
7 55 (6.88%) IT Support
8 52 (6.51%) IT Engineer
9 49 (6.13%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 49 (6.13%) Analyst
10 46 (5.76%) Applications Engineer
11 41 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
12 40 (5.01%) Lead
13 39 (4.88%) Security Engineer
14 38 (4.76%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
15 37 (4.63%) Applications Support
15 37 (4.63%) IT Support Engineer
16 32 (4.01%) Infrastructure Support
17 30 (3.75%) Applications Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (7.01%) REST
2 45 (5.63%) .NET
3 35 (4.38%) ARM Templates
4 34 (4.26%) SOAP
5 30 (3.75%) LDAP
6 19 (2.38%) OAuth
7 18 (2.25%) SAML
8 17 (2.13%) Web Services
9 16 (2.00%) GraphQL
10 15 (1.88%) JSON
10 15 (1.88%) YAML
11 12 (1.50%) AngularJS
11 12 (1.50%) React
12 11 (1.38%) OpenID
13 10 (1.25%) Microsoft Graph
13 10 (1.25%) Razor View Engine
14 8 (1.00%) OpenAPI
14 8 (1.00%) Swagger
15 7 (0.88%) .NET Framework
16 6 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 79 (9.89%) Onboarding
2 51 (6.38%) Product Ownership
3 31 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 31 (3.88%) Security Posture
4 25 (3.13%) PKI
5 23 (2.88%) Replication
6 22 (2.75%) Cloud Native
7 20 (2.50%) Data Centre
8 18 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
10 16 (2.00%) Driving Licence
11 14 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.50%) Clustering
12 12 (1.50%) IoT
12 12 (1.50%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.25%) CMDB
13 10 (1.25%) Operational Technology
13 10 (1.25%) Video Conferencing
14 9 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (1.13%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 375 (46.93%) Windows
2 225 (28.16%) Windows Server
3 131 (16.40%) Linux
4 49 (6.13%) Windows Server 2019
5 48 (6.01%) Windows 10
6 41 (5.13%) VMS
7 34 (4.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 31 (3.88%) Windows Server 2008
9 30 (3.75%) Unix
10 29 (3.63%) Mac OS
11 22 (2.75%) HPUX
11 22 (2.75%) Solaris
11 22 (2.75%) Windows 7
11 22 (2.75%) Windows Server 2003
12 17 (2.13%) Amazon Linux
13 16 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 11 (1.38%) Android
14 11 (1.38%) Ubuntu
15 7 (0.88%) Apple iOS
15 7 (0.88%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (30.79%) Problem-Solving
2 219 (27.41%) DevOps
3 181 (22.65%) ITIL
4 159 (19.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 136 (17.02%) CI/CD
6 133 (16.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 123 (15.39%) Agile
8 119 (14.89%) Infrastructure as Code
9 109 (13.64%) Mentoring
10 89 (11.14%) Cybersecurity
11 86 (10.76%) Coaching
12 83 (10.39%) Asset Management
13 79 (9.89%) Roadmaps
14 77 (9.64%) Task Automation
15 74 (9.26%) Incident Management
16 72 (9.01%) Change Management
17 70 (8.76%) Cloud Security
18 68 (8.51%) Disaster Recovery
19 64 (8.01%) Migration
20 62 (7.76%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 233 (29.16%) Python
2 163 (20.40%) SQL
3 139 (17.40%) Bash
4 68 (8.51%) C#
5 49 (6.13%) Bicep
6 36 (4.51%) JavaScript
7 34 (4.26%) Perl
8 27 (3.38%) Java
9 24 (3.00%) VB
10 23 (2.88%) Groovy
11 15 (1.88%) Kusto Query Language
12 11 (1.38%) T-SQL
13 10 (1.25%) VBScript
14 9 (1.13%) Shell Script
15 8 (1.00%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.50%) Go
17 3 (0.38%) Tcl
18 2 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 1 (0.13%) C++
19 1 (0.13%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 146 (18.27%) Security Cleared
2 100 (12.52%) Degree
3 96 (12.02%) SC Cleared
4 61 (7.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 54 (6.76%) DV Cleared
6 50 (6.26%) Azure Certification
7 35 (4.38%) AWS Certification
8 34 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
9 29 (3.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 27 (3.38%) CCNA
11 23 (2.88%) CISSP
12 17 (2.13%) CREST Certified
13 16 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
14 14 (1.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 12 (1.50%) CompTIA Security+
15 12 (1.50%) SANS
16 11 (1.38%) CEH
17 10 (1.25%) DBS Check
17 10 (1.25%) Network+ Certification
17 10 (1.25%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (6.38%) SLA
2 45 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (4.76%) NIST
4 37 (4.63%) GDPR
5 22 (2.75%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (1.50%) NCSC
8 7 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.63%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.63%) QA
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
1 300 (37.55%) Active Directory
2 120 (15.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 92 (11.51%) Hyper-V
4 80 (10.01%) Docker
5 35 (4.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 34 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
7 21 (2.63%) vSphere
8 17 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (1.88%) DFS Replication
10 9 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.75%) Dovecot
11 6 (0.75%) Firmware
11 6 (0.75%) Postfix
11 6 (0.75%) 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
1 176 (22.03%) Terraform
2 141 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 75 (9.39%) Kubernetes
4 54 (6.76%) Ansible
5 50 (6.26%) SCCM
6 45 (5.63%) Grafana
7 42 (5.26%) Prometheus
8 31 (3.88%) WSUS
9 17 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (2.00%) vCenter Server
11 15 (1.88%) SCOM
12 14 (1.75%) WMI
13 10 (1.25%) Backup Exec
13 10 (1.25%) ZABBIX
14 9 (1.13%) Nagios
15 8 (1.00%) Autotask
16 7 (0.88%) QRadar
17 6 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
17 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
17 6 (0.75%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 499 (62.45%) Microsoft
2 157 (19.65%) VMware
3 63 (7.88%) Cisco
4 57 (7.13%) ServiceNow
5 52 (6.51%) Oracle
6 42 (5.26%) Veeam
7 35 (4.38%) Atlassian
8 30 (3.75%) Red Hat
9 26 (3.25%) SolarWinds
10 25 (3.13%) Splunk
11 22 (2.75%) Citrix
12 19 (2.38%) Sophos
13 17 (2.13%) Google
14 16 (2.00%) Apple
14 16 (2.00%) SAP
15 14 (1.75%) Datto
16 12 (1.50%) HP
16 12 (1.50%) Trend Micro
17 11 (1.38%) MuleSoft
18 10 (1.25%) Dynatrace