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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 71 93
Rank change year-on-year -38 +22 -7
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 100 127 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.25% 3.75% 1.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.12% 17.40% 7.52%
Number of salaries quoted 86 107 48
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £40,125
25th Percentile £36,563 £42,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -10.80% +11.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £95,000 - £68,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -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 1,097 730 1,091
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 13.75% 21.53% 24.53%
Number of salaries quoted 843 580 595
10th Percentile £35,250 £28,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £37,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% -16.25% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £89,900 £79,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% 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 16 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 16 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 £60,000 +38.85% 39
Essex -15 34 £73,000 +53.68% 12
Norfolk - 9 £48,750 - 7
Cambridgeshire -39 8 £54,000 -6.09% 16
Bedfordshire -17 7 £40,000 -32.77% 1
Suffolk +8 3 £66,370 +39.73%
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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 41 (41.00%) SharePoint
2 29 (29.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.00%) Confluence
4 1 (1.00%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 69 (69.00%) Microsoft 365
2 59 (59.00%) Azure
3 45 (45.00%) Entra ID
4 28 (28.00%) OneDrive
5 21 (21.00%) Power Platform
6 17 (17.00%) Power Automate
7 16 (16.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 16 (16.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 16 (16.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 16 (16.00%) PowerApps
8 11 (11.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 11 (11.00%) Azure Storage
9 8 (8.00%) IaaS
10 7 (7.00%) Azure AKS
10 7 (7.00%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (7.00%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (6.00%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (4.00%) ShareGate
13 3 (3.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 38 (38.00%) DNS
2 36 (36.00%) Firewall
3 27 (27.00%) DHCP
4 24 (24.00%) VPN
5 21 (21.00%) TCP/IP
6 11 (11.00%) LAN
6 11 (11.00%) WAN
6 11 (11.00%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (10.00%) Wireless
8 9 (9.00%) VLAN
9 7 (7.00%) SAN
10 6 (6.00%) FTP
10 6 (6.00%) HTTP
10 6 (6.00%) SMTP
11 4 (4.00%) Internet
12 3 (3.00%) NAS
12 3 (3.00%) Network Security
13 2 (2.00%) HTTPS
13 2 (2.00%) IP Telephony
13 2 (2.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (19.00%) Power BI
2 16 (16.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (3.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (3.00%) JIRA
General
1 41 (41.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (7.00%) Aerospace
3 7 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.00%) Law
4 4 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (4.00%) Retail
5 1 (1.00%) Finance
5 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 23 (23.00%) Senior
2 20 (20.00%) IT Engineer
3 17 (17.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (15.00%) IT Support
5 14 (14.00%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (13.00%) Analyst
6 13 (13.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (12.00%) Consultant
7 12 (12.00%) Developer
7 12 (12.00%) Senior Developer
8 11 (11.00%) IT Support Engineer
8 11 (11.00%) Support Engineer
9 7 (7.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 7 (7.00%) Administrator
9 7 (7.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (6.00%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
10 6 (6.00%) Microsoft 365 Developer
10 6 (6.00%) Senior Microsoft Developer
10 6 (6.00%) SOC Analyst
10 6 (6.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (21.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 17 (17.00%) JSON
3 16 (16.00%) .NET
3 16 (16.00%) .NET Core
3 16 (16.00%) CSS
3 16 (16.00%) HTML
3 16 (16.00%) HTML5 Canvas
3 16 (16.00%) SPFx
4 13 (13.00%) Terraform
5 7 (7.00%) LDAP
6 1 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.00%) REST
6 1 (1.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.00%) Driving Licence
2 6 (6.00%) Client/Server
2 6 (6.00%) Onboarding
2 6 (6.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.00%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.00%) Replication
4 4 (4.00%) Social Network
5 3 (3.00%) Clustering
5 3 (3.00%) FMCG
6 2 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.00%) PKI
7 1 (1.00%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.00%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Licensing
7 1 (1.00%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 49 (49.00%) Windows
2 35 (35.00%) Windows Server
3 15 (15.00%) Linux
4 8 (8.00%) Windows 10
5 4 (4.00%) CentOS
5 4 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.00%) Rocky
6 3 (3.00%) Apple iOS
6 3 (3.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (33.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (29.00%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (26.00%) Technical Leadership
4 25 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (24.00%) Cybersecurity
6 22 (22.00%) User Experience
7 19 (19.00%) Business Intelligence
8 18 (18.00%) Machine Learning
9 16 (16.00%) Document Management
9 16 (16.00%) Project Management
9 16 (16.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 16 (16.00%) Web Design
10 15 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 15 (15.00%) High Availability
10 15 (15.00%) ITIL
11 12 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (12.00%) Mentoring
12 11 (11.00%) Cloud Security
12 11 (11.00%) Service Delivery
12 11 (11.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 24 (24.00%) SQL
2 17 (17.00%) C#
3 16 (16.00%) JavaScript
3 16 (16.00%) TypeScript
4 14 (14.00%) Python
5 12 (12.00%) Bash
6 6 (6.00%) Bicep
6 6 (6.00%) C++
6 6 (6.00%) Perl
7 4 (4.00%) VB
8 1 (1.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (17.00%) Degree
2 16 (16.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 13 (13.00%) Azure Certification
4 12 (12.00%) Security Cleared
5 10 (10.00%) SC Cleared
6 9 (9.00%) CompTIA Security+
7 8 (8.00%) CEH
8 6 (6.00%) CREST Certified
9 5 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (4.00%) CCNA
10 4 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (3.00%) CCNP
11 3 (3.00%) DBS Check
11 3 (3.00%) MCSA
11 3 (3.00%) MCSE
12 2 (2.00%) CISA
12 2 (2.00%) CISM
12 2 (2.00%) DV Cleared
13 1 (1.00%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.00%) GDPR
1 3 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.00%) NIST
3 1 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.00%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 23 (23.00%) Hyper-V
3 15 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (12.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (4.00%) Docker
7 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (3.00%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (24.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (11.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (8.00%) Ansible
4 7 (7.00%) Proxmox
5 6 (6.00%) QRadar
6 4 (4.00%) NetBackup
6 4 (4.00%) SCCM
7 1 (1.00%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.00%) Kibana
7 1 (1.00%) logstash
7 1 (1.00%) Puppet
7 1 (1.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 77 (77.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.00%) Adobe
3 15 (15.00%) VMware
4 6 (6.00%) Splunk
5 5 (5.00%) Apple
5 5 (5.00%) Veeam
6 4 (4.00%) ConnectWise
6 4 (4.00%) Draytek
6 4 (4.00%) NetApp
6 4 (4.00%) SonicWALL
7 3 (3.00%) Cisco
7 3 (3.00%) Fortinet
7 3 (3.00%) Google
7 3 (3.00%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.00%) Ubiquiti
8 1 (1.00%) Aruba
8 1 (1.00%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.00%) Commvault
8 1 (1.00%) Meraki
8 1 (1.00%) WatchGuard