PowerShell Job Trends in Wales

Windows PowerShell
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 56 90
Rank change year-on-year -34 +34 -47
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 27 8 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.16% 1.17% 0.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.28% 6.30% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 25 8 16
10th Percentile £25,000 £41,950 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £51,250 £41,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +22.22% +13.21%
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £55,125
90th Percentile £75,000 - £55,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%

All Programming Languages
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 326 127 516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 14.00% 18.57% 25.57%
Number of salaries quoted 232 115 422
10th Percentile £35,025 £43,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,000 £40,202
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £72,125 £73,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Wales

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Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Wales over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in Wales

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Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Wales region over the 6 months to 16 July 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 Wales -23 25 £53,000 -3.64% 4
West Wales - 2 £46,750 -
PowerShell
UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 7 (25.93%) SharePoint
2 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.70%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 13 (48.15%) Azure
2 10 (37.04%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (25.93%) AWS
3 7 (25.93%) Entra ID
4 6 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (11.11%) OneDrive
6 2 (7.41%) GitHub
6 2 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.70%) Datadog
7 1 (3.70%) GCP
7 1 (3.70%) IaaS
7 1 (3.70%) PaaS
7 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (74.07%) DNS
2 14 (51.85%) DHCP
2 14 (51.85%) WAN
3 10 (37.04%) LAN
4 8 (29.63%) BGP
4 8 (29.63%) Firewall
4 8 (29.63%) MPLS
4 8 (29.63%) VPN
5 7 (25.93%) TCP/IP
6 4 (14.81%) HSRP
6 4 (14.81%) SD-WAN
6 4 (14.81%) VoIP
6 4 (14.81%) VPLS
6 4 (14.81%) VRRP
7 3 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.70%) Redis
1 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) GitLab
2 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (40.74%) Public Sector
2 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 6 (22.22%) Finance
4 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.70%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Senior
2 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (29.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) IT Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) IT Support
3 6 (22.22%) IT Support Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) Support Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) Network Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) Senior Network Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 3 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Analyst
6 3 (11.11%) IT Support Analyst
6 3 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) .NET
1 4 (14.81%) ModSecurity
2 2 (7.41%) YAML
3 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.70%) Next.js
3 1 (3.70%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) CMDB
1 4 (14.81%) Data Centre
1 4 (14.81%) PKI
2 3 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (62.96%) Windows
2 13 (48.15%) Windows Server
3 6 (22.22%) Linux
4 4 (14.81%) Unix
5 3 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (40.74%) ITIL
3 8 (29.63%) Computer Science
3 8 (29.63%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (29.63%) SIEM
4 7 (25.93%) DevOps
4 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (25.93%) Service Management
5 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 6 (22.22%) Customer Service
5 6 (22.22%) High Availability
5 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (22.22%) Task Automation
6 5 (18.52%) Containerisation
6 5 (18.52%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (14.81%) Boundary Protection
7 4 (14.81%) Change Advisory Board
7 4 (14.81%) Customer-Centricity
7 4 (14.81%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (14.81%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Python
2 6 (22.22%) Bash
3 1 (3.70%) Bicep
3 1 (3.70%) C#
3 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (48.15%) Security Cleared
2 11 (40.74%) SC Cleared
3 8 (29.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (29.63%) Degree
3 8 (29.63%) DV Cleared
4 4 (14.81%) CCIE
4 4 (14.81%) CCNP
4 4 (14.81%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (14.81%) NIST
2 2 (7.41%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (59.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (44.44%) Active Directory
3 8 (29.63%) VMware NSX
4 6 (22.22%) Hyper-V
5 5 (18.52%) Docker
6 4 (14.81%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (14.81%) vSphere
7 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Ansible
2 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (22.22%) Terraform
4 4 (14.81%) vCenter Server
5 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
5 3 (11.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (7.41%) ZABBIX
7 1 (3.70%) Grafana
7 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 16 (59.26%) VMware
3 4 (14.81%) Cisco
3 4 (14.81%) Splunk
4 2 (7.41%) Citrix
5 1 (3.70%) Google