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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 80 86
Rank change year-on-year -34 +6 +19
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 80 97 147
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.27% 3.42% 2.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.11% 13.53% 8.41%
Number of salaries quoted 69 63 100
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £24,525
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,875 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% - -17.39%
75th Percentile £95,000 £63,500 £62,500
90th Percentile - £70,750 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%

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 791 717 1,747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 12.55% 25.27% 27.67%
Number of salaries quoted 528 568 1,454
10th Percentile £33,250 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,438 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £66,254 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £78,750 £79,625
England 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 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -41 28 £50,000 -13.04% 10
Essex -21 27 £90,000 +100.00% 8
Cambridgeshire -43 9 £54,000 +96.36% 3
Suffolk +22 7 £40,000 -22.71%
Norfolk -17 5 £37,500 - 1
Bedfordshire +3 4 £40,000 -23.81% 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 26 (32.50%) SharePoint
2 9 (11.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.25%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 48 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 45 (56.25%) Azure
3 22 (27.50%) Power Platform
4 20 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 20 (25.00%) OneDrive
5 19 (23.75%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 19 (23.75%) Azure Logic Apps
5 19 (23.75%) Power Automate
5 19 (23.75%) PowerApps
6 14 (17.50%) Entra ID
6 14 (17.50%) IaaS
7 9 (11.25%) Azure AKS
7 9 (11.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 9 (11.25%) Azure Key Vault
7 9 (11.25%) Azure Storage
8 5 (6.25%) Google Workspace
8 5 (6.25%) PaaS
9 2 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.25%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 28 (35.00%) Firewall
2 23 (28.75%) DNS
3 13 (16.25%) TCP/IP
4 11 (13.75%) LAN
4 11 (13.75%) VPN
5 10 (12.50%) DHCP
6 9 (11.25%) VLAN
6 9 (11.25%) WAN
6 9 (11.25%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (7.50%) FTP
7 6 (7.50%) HTTP
7 6 (7.50%) SMTP
8 5 (6.25%) Wireless
9 4 (5.00%) Internet
10 1 (1.25%) NAS
10 1 (1.25%) Network Security
10 1 (1.25%) SAN
10 1 (1.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (27.50%) Power BI
2 20 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.25%) CircleCI
1 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
General
1 36 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (11.25%) Documentation Skills
3 9 (11.25%) Law
3 9 (11.25%) Retail
4 6 (7.50%) Aerospace
4 6 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 22 (27.50%) Senior
2 20 (25.00%) IT Support
3 16 (20.00%) IT Engineer
4 15 (18.75%) Developer
4 15 (18.75%) Senior Developer
5 13 (16.25%) IT Support Engineer
5 13 (16.25%) Support Engineer
6 10 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (11.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 8 (10.00%) Consultant
9 7 (8.75%) Administrator
9 7 (8.75%) Microsoft 365 Developer
9 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Developer
9 7 (8.75%) Senior Microsoft Developer
10 6 (7.50%) Analyst
10 6 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (7.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (7.50%) SOC Analyst
11 5 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (23.75%) .NET
1 19 (23.75%) .NET Core
1 19 (23.75%) CSS
1 19 (23.75%) HTML
1 19 (23.75%) HTML5 Canvas
1 19 (23.75%) JSON
1 19 (23.75%) Microsoft Graph
1 19 (23.75%) SPFx
2 6 (7.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.00%) Driving Licence
2 6 (7.50%) Client/Server
2 6 (7.50%) Onboarding
2 6 (7.50%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (5.00%) Social Network
4 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.50%) Clustering
6 1 (1.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.25%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.25%) PKI
6 1 (1.25%) Replication
6 1 (1.25%) SCADA
6 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 29 (36.25%) Windows
2 22 (27.50%) Windows Server
3 10 (12.50%) Windows 10
4 6 (7.50%) Linux
5 5 (6.25%) Apple iOS
5 5 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (5.00%) VMS
6 4 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (30.00%) User Experience
2 23 (28.75%) Cybersecurity
3 22 (27.50%) Business Intelligence
4 21 (26.25%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 20 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
6 19 (23.75%) Document Management
6 19 (23.75%) Project Management
6 19 (23.75%) Web Design
7 16 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 15 (18.75%) ITIL
9 13 (16.25%) Containerisation
9 13 (16.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (13.75%) Agile
10 11 (13.75%) High Availability
11 10 (12.50%) SIEM
12 9 (11.25%) Asset Management
12 9 (11.25%) Load Balancing
13 8 (10.00%) AI
13 8 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 25 (31.25%) SQL
2 20 (25.00%) C#
3 19 (23.75%) JavaScript
3 19 (23.75%) TypeScript
4 12 (15.00%) Python
5 11 (13.75%) Bash
6 6 (7.50%) C++
6 6 (7.50%) Perl
6 6 (7.50%) VB
7 1 (1.25%) Bicep
7 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (16.25%) Azure Certification
2 12 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (11.25%) CEH
4 8 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 8 (10.00%) DBS Check
5 6 (7.50%) CREST Certified
5 6 (7.50%) SC Cleared
5 6 (7.50%) Security Cleared
6 5 (6.25%) Degree
7 4 (5.00%) Network+ Certification
8 3 (3.75%) CCNA
8 3 (3.75%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (3.75%) MCDST
8 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (2.50%) CISA
9 2 (2.50%) CISM
10 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.25%) GIAC
10 1 (1.25%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.75%) GDPR
2 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.50%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (28.75%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.25%) Docker
2 5 (6.25%) Hyper-V
2 5 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (5.00%) vSphere
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (15.00%) Kubernetes
1 12 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (8.75%) QRadar
3 6 (7.50%) Terraform
4 4 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (5.00%) SolarWinds Orion
4 4 (5.00%) vCenter Server
5 3 (3.75%) Ansible
6 2 (2.50%) Proxmox
7 1 (1.25%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (1.25%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.25%) Grafana
7 1 (1.25%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 58 (72.50%) Microsoft
2 19 (23.75%) Adobe
3 7 (8.75%) Splunk
4 5 (6.25%) Apple
4 5 (6.25%) Google
4 5 (6.25%) SolarWinds
4 5 (6.25%) VMware
5 3 (3.75%) Meraki
5 3 (3.75%) Sophos
6 2 (2.50%) ConnectWise
6 2 (2.50%) SAP
7 1 (1.25%) Commvault
7 1 (1.25%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.25%) Databricks
7 1 (1.25%) Draytek
7 1 (1.25%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.25%) SonicWALL
7 1 (1.25%) Veeam