PowerShell Job Trends in the East of England

Windows PowerShell
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 68 104
Rank change year-on-year -48 +36 -14
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 95 123 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.14% 3.69% 1.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.58% 18.20% 6.80%
Number of salaries quoted 75 103 46
10th Percentile £31,550 £31,250 £41,875
25th Percentile £36,000 £42,000 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -9.52% +8.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £95,000 - £68,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,107 676 1,147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 13.24% 20.26% 26.59%
Number of salaries quoted 864 532 534
10th Percentile £36,250 £28,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £37,500 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in the East of England

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Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the East of England over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in the East of England

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Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the East of England region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
Hertfordshire -32 41 £58,750 +16.34% 25
Essex -21 27 £45,500 -4.21% 6
Norfolk - 9 £69,599 - 4
Cambridgeshire -43 7 £54,000 -6.09% 19
Bedfordshire -19 6 £34,000 -42.86% 2
Suffolk +4 5 £67,663 +108.19% 3
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 33 (34.74%) SharePoint
2 28 (29.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.16%) Confluence
3 3 (3.16%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 61 (64.21%) Microsoft 365
2 53 (55.79%) Azure
3 45 (47.37%) Entra ID
4 22 (23.16%) OneDrive
5 15 (15.79%) Power Platform
6 11 (11.58%) Power Automate
7 10 (10.53%) PowerApps
8 9 (9.47%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 9 (9.47%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (9.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 9 (9.47%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (9.47%) Azure Storage
9 8 (8.42%) Microsoft Copilot
9 8 (8.42%) Microsoft Purview
10 7 (7.37%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (6.32%) IaaS
12 5 (5.26%) Azure AKS
12 5 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (5.26%) ShareGate
13 3 (3.16%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 34 (35.79%) DNS
1 34 (35.79%) Firewall
2 28 (29.47%) DHCP
3 24 (25.26%) VPN
4 22 (23.16%) TCP/IP
5 11 (11.58%) LAN
5 11 (11.58%) WAN
6 10 (10.53%) VLAN
6 10 (10.53%) Wireless
7 8 (8.42%) HTTP
7 8 (8.42%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (6.32%) FTP
8 6 (6.32%) SAN
8 6 (6.32%) SMTP
9 3 (3.16%) Network Security
10 2 (2.11%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (2.11%) HTTPS
10 2 (2.11%) IP Telephony
10 2 (2.11%) NAS
10 2 (2.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.58%) Power BI
2 9 (9.47%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (4.21%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (3.16%) JIRA
2 1 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 33 (34.74%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.37%) Aerospace
4 6 (6.32%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (5.26%) Law
6 3 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Back Office
7 2 (2.11%) Retail
8 1 (1.05%) Electronics
8 1 (1.05%) Finance
8 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.05%) Legal
8 1 (1.05%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (21.05%) IT Engineer
2 19 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 17 (17.89%) Senior
4 16 (16.84%) Analyst
5 13 (13.68%) Consultant
5 13 (13.68%) IT Support
6 12 (12.63%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (12.63%) Support Engineer
7 11 (11.58%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (11.58%) IT Support Engineer
8 8 (8.42%) SOC Analyst
9 7 (7.37%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (7.37%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
9 7 (7.37%) Microsoft Consultant
10 6 (6.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 6 (6.32%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 5 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
11 5 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support
11 5 (5.26%) IT Analyst
11 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.79%) Microsoft Graph
2 14 (14.74%) Terraform
3 12 (12.63%) JSON
4 10 (10.53%) .NET
5 9 (9.47%) .NET Core
5 9 (9.47%) CSS
5 9 (9.47%) HTML
5 9 (9.47%) HTML5 Canvas
5 9 (9.47%) LDAP
5 9 (9.47%) SPFx
6 2 (2.11%) Regular Expression
7 1 (1.05%) ADO
7 1 (1.05%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.05%) REST
7 1 (1.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.53%) Driving Licence
2 8 (8.42%) Security Operations Centre
3 6 (6.32%) Client/Server
4 5 (5.26%) Mobile App
5 4 (4.21%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.21%) Replication
6 3 (3.16%) AI Agents
6 3 (3.16%) Clustering
6 3 (3.16%) FMCG
7 2 (2.11%) CSOC
7 2 (2.11%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.11%) PKI
8 1 (1.05%) CMDB
8 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Licensing
8 1 (1.05%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.05%) SCADA
8 1 (1.05%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 54 (56.84%) Windows
2 37 (38.95%) Windows Server
3 16 (16.84%) Linux
4 10 (10.53%) Windows 10
5 4 (4.21%) Apple iOS
5 4 (4.21%) CentOS
5 4 (4.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.21%) Rocky
6 3 (3.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.05%) Android
7 1 (1.05%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (30.53%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (24.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 23 (24.21%) Cybersecurity
4 21 (22.11%) Technical Leadership
5 16 (16.84%) Root Cause Analysis
6 15 (15.79%) AI
6 15 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
7 14 (14.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (13.68%) High Availability
8 13 (13.68%) ITIL
8 13 (13.68%) Machine Learning
8 13 (13.68%) SIEM
9 12 (12.63%) Cloud Security
9 12 (12.63%) Mentoring
10 11 (11.58%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (11.58%) Service Delivery
10 11 (11.58%) User Experience
11 9 (9.47%) Migration
11 9 (9.47%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 18 (18.95%) Python
2 17 (17.89%) SQL
3 13 (13.68%) Bash
4 11 (11.58%) C#
5 9 (9.47%) JavaScript
5 9 (9.47%) TypeScript
6 6 (6.32%) Bicep
6 6 (6.32%) C++
6 6 (6.32%) Perl
7 4 (4.21%) VB
8 2 (2.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (15.79%) Degree
1 15 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (14.74%) Security Cleared
3 11 (11.58%) Azure Certification
4 10 (10.53%) SC Cleared
5 9 (9.47%) CompTIA Security+
6 8 (8.42%) CEH
7 6 (6.32%) CREST Certified
8 5 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (4.21%) CCNA
9 4 (4.21%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (3.16%) CCNP
10 3 (3.16%) DBS Check
10 3 (3.16%) DV Cleared
10 3 (3.16%) MCSA
10 3 (3.16%) MCSE
11 2 (2.11%) CISA
11 2 (2.11%) CISM
12 1 (1.05%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.16%) GDPR
1 3 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.11%) NIST
3 1 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.05%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.05%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (45.26%) Active Directory
2 24 (25.26%) Hyper-V
3 17 (17.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (14.74%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (3.16%) Docker
6 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (3.16%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (2.11%) NFS
7 2 (2.11%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (2.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (23.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 8 (8.42%) Ansible
4 7 (7.37%) Proxmox
5 6 (6.32%) QRadar
5 6 (6.32%) SCCM
6 4 (4.21%) NetBackup
7 2 (2.11%) Puppet
7 2 (2.11%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.05%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.05%) Kibana
8 1 (1.05%) logstash
8 1 (1.05%) Nessus
Vendors
1 73 (76.84%) Microsoft
2 17 (17.89%) VMware
3 9 (9.47%) Adobe
4 6 (6.32%) Apple
4 6 (6.32%) Splunk
5 4 (4.21%) Cisco
5 4 (4.21%) ConnectWise
5 4 (4.21%) Draytek
5 4 (4.21%) NetApp
5 4 (4.21%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.21%) SonicWALL
5 4 (4.21%) Veeam
6 3 (3.16%) Fortinet
6 3 (3.16%) Google
6 3 (3.16%) Ubiquiti
7 1 (1.05%) Acronis
7 1 (1.05%) Aruba
7 1 (1.05%) F5
7 1 (1.05%) Meraki
7 1 (1.05%) WatchGuard