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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 73 103
Rank change year-on-year -38 +30 -9
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 94 127 83
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.14% 3.79% 1.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.58% 18.14% 7.24%
Number of salaries quoted 77 107 48
10th Percentile £31,700 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £36,000 £42,000 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £60,625
90th Percentile £95,000 £64,250 £68,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.61% -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 1,096 700 1,147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 13.35% 20.87% 25.47%
Number of salaries quoted 845 551 571
10th Percentile £35,250 £28,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,760 £37,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% -15.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,800 £79,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

PowerShell
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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -36 39 £58,750 +16.92% 26
Essex -18 29 £62,500 +31.58% 8
Bedfordshire -19 8 £37,000 -37.82% 1
Norfolk - 8 £60,000 - 4
Cambridgeshire -54 7 £54,000 -6.09% 10
Suffolk +3 3 £66,370 +104.21% 1
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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 36 (38.30%) SharePoint
2 28 (29.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.19%) Confluence
4 2 (2.13%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 63 (67.02%) Microsoft 365
2 54 (57.45%) Azure
3 45 (47.87%) Entra ID
4 24 (25.53%) OneDrive
5 16 (17.02%) Power Platform
6 13 (13.83%) Power Automate
7 12 (12.77%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 12 (12.77%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (12.77%) Azure Logic Apps
7 12 (12.77%) PowerApps
8 9 (9.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 9 (9.57%) Azure Storage
9 7 (7.45%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (7.45%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (5.32%) Azure AKS
11 5 (5.32%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (5.32%) IaaS
11 5 (5.32%) ShareGate
12 3 (3.19%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 35 (37.23%) DNS
1 35 (37.23%) Firewall
2 27 (28.72%) DHCP
3 24 (25.53%) VPN
4 21 (22.34%) TCP/IP
5 11 (11.70%) LAN
5 11 (11.70%) WAN
6 10 (10.64%) VLAN
6 10 (10.64%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (10.64%) Wireless
7 7 (7.45%) HTTP
8 6 (6.38%) FTP
8 6 (6.38%) SAN
8 6 (6.38%) SMTP
9 3 (3.19%) Internet
9 3 (3.19%) Network Security
10 2 (2.13%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (2.13%) HTTPS
10 2 (2.13%) NAS
10 2 (2.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.89%) Power BI
2 12 (12.77%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (3.19%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (3.19%) JIRA
General
1 35 (37.23%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (8.51%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (7.45%) Aerospace
4 5 (5.32%) Law
5 4 (4.26%) Retail
6 3 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Back Office
7 1 (1.06%) Finance
7 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 20 (21.28%) IT Engineer
2 19 (20.21%) Senior
3 18 (19.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (14.89%) Analyst
4 14 (14.89%) IT Support
5 13 (13.83%) Consultant
6 12 (12.77%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (12.77%) Support Engineer
7 11 (11.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (11.70%) IT Support Engineer
8 8 (8.51%) Developer
8 8 (8.51%) Senior Developer
9 7 (7.45%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (7.45%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
9 7 (7.45%) Microsoft Consultant
9 7 (7.45%) SOC Analyst
10 6 (6.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 6 (6.38%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 5 (5.32%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (19.15%) Microsoft Graph
2 14 (14.89%) JSON
3 12 (12.77%) .NET
3 12 (12.77%) .NET Core
3 12 (12.77%) CSS
3 12 (12.77%) HTML
3 12 (12.77%) HTML5 Canvas
3 12 (12.77%) SPFx
3 12 (12.77%) Terraform
4 8 (8.51%) LDAP
5 1 (1.06%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.06%) Regular Expression
5 1 (1.06%) REST
5 1 (1.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.64%) Driving Licence
2 7 (7.45%) Security Operations Centre
3 6 (6.38%) Client/Server
4 5 (5.32%) Mobile App
5 4 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.26%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.26%) Replication
6 3 (3.19%) Clustering
6 3 (3.19%) FMCG
6 3 (3.19%) Social Network
7 2 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.13%) PKI
8 1 (1.06%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.06%) CMDB
8 1 (1.06%) CSOC
8 1 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Licensing
8 1 (1.06%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.06%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 51 (54.26%) Windows
2 36 (38.30%) Windows Server
3 15 (15.96%) Linux
4 10 (10.64%) Windows 10
5 4 (4.26%) Apple iOS
5 4 (4.26%) CentOS
5 4 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.26%) Rocky
6 3 (3.19%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.06%) Android
7 1 (1.06%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (38.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (25.53%) Cybersecurity
4 23 (24.47%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (23.40%) Technical Leadership
6 16 (17.02%) User Experience
7 15 (15.96%) Disaster Recovery
7 15 (15.96%) ITIL
7 15 (15.96%) Machine Learning
7 15 (15.96%) Root Cause Analysis
8 14 (14.89%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (13.83%) High Availability
10 12 (12.77%) AI
10 12 (12.77%) Cloud Security
10 12 (12.77%) Document Management
10 12 (12.77%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (12.77%) Mentoring
10 12 (12.77%) Project Management
10 12 (12.77%) SIEM
10 12 (12.77%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 20 (21.28%) SQL
2 15 (15.96%) Python
3 13 (13.83%) C#
4 12 (12.77%) Bash
4 12 (12.77%) JavaScript
4 12 (12.77%) TypeScript
5 6 (6.38%) C++
5 6 (6.38%) Perl
6 5 (5.32%) Bicep
7 4 (4.26%) VB
8 1 (1.06%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (18.09%) Degree
2 16 (17.02%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (12.77%) Security Cleared
4 11 (11.70%) Azure Certification
5 10 (10.64%) SC Cleared
6 9 (9.57%) CompTIA Security+
7 8 (8.51%) CEH
8 6 (6.38%) CREST Certified
9 5 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (4.26%) CCNA
10 4 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (3.19%) CCNP
11 3 (3.19%) DBS Check
11 3 (3.19%) MCSA
11 3 (3.19%) MCSE
12 2 (2.13%) CISA
12 2 (2.13%) CISM
12 2 (2.13%) DV Cleared
13 1 (1.06%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (1.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.19%) GDPR
1 3 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.13%) NIST
3 1 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (43.62%) Active Directory
2 23 (24.47%) Hyper-V
3 15 (15.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (13.83%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (9.57%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (3.19%) Docker
6 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (3.19%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.06%) NFS
7 1 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.06%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (24.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (9.57%) Kubernetes
3 7 (7.45%) Ansible
3 7 (7.45%) Proxmox
4 6 (6.38%) QRadar
4 6 (6.38%) SCCM
5 4 (4.26%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.06%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.06%) Kibana
6 1 (1.06%) logstash
6 1 (1.06%) Nessus
6 1 (1.06%) Puppet
6 1 (1.06%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 73 (77.66%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.96%) VMware
3 12 (12.77%) Adobe
4 6 (6.38%) Apple
4 6 (6.38%) Splunk
5 4 (4.26%) Cisco
5 4 (4.26%) ConnectWise
5 4 (4.26%) Draytek
5 4 (4.26%) NetApp
5 4 (4.26%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.26%) SonicWALL
5 4 (4.26%) Veeam
6 3 (3.19%) Fortinet
6 3 (3.19%) Google
6 3 (3.19%) Ubiquiti
7 1 (1.06%) Acronis
7 1 (1.06%) Aruba
7 1 (1.06%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.06%) Meraki
7 1 (1.06%) WatchGuard