PowerShell Job Trends in Cambridge

Windows PowerShell
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 44 58
Rank change year-on-year -28 +14 -7
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 4 11 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 0.37% 3.11% 1.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.30% 8.94% 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 4 10 4
10th Percentile £35,750 - £53,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £26,250 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £27,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +90.91% -54.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £52,188 £62,500
90th Percentile - £66,750 -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £54,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% +29.73%

All Programming Languages
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 307 123 258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 28.69% 34.75% 41.21%
Number of salaries quoted 260 92 200
10th Percentile £46,250 £29,871 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £44,688 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -21.43% +1.82%
75th Percentile £80,000 £62,813 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,299 £75,000 £93,750
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +8.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Cambridge

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Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in Cambridge

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Cambridge over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in Cambridge

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (75.00%) OneDrive
3 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (25.00%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (50.00%) HTTPS
2 2 (50.00%) IP Telephony
2 2 (50.00%) NAS
2 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) SSL
2 2 (50.00%) VLAN
2 2 (50.00%) Wireless
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Head of IT
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Audit Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Audit Support
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (50.00%) Coaching
2 2 (50.00%) Contract Management
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Register
2 2 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Software Deployment
2 2 (50.00%) Storage Management
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Security Auditing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Apple
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco