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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 109 58
Rank change year-on-year +24 -51 +44
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 77 74 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.86% 2.07% 3.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.70% 6.43% 11.93%
Number of salaries quoted 73 55 42
10th Percentile £30,500 £25,700 £28,575
25th Percentile £31,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,213 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.69% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £67,875
90th Percentile £64,750 £76,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £58,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.20% +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 562 1,150 679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 13.61% 32.10% 31.74%
Number of salaries quoted 443 536 502
10th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,250 £46,250 £44,668
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £76,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 1 January 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 1 January 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 +21 39 £43,085 -21.66% 32
Cambridgeshire +11 12 £57,500 +9.52% 6
Suffolk -13 10 £32,500 - 1
Essex - 9 £37,500 - 5
Bedfordshire +19 6 £31,000 -38.00% 8
Norfolk - 1 £28,500 - 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 19 (24.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (22.08%) SharePoint
3 9 (11.69%) Confluence
4 7 (9.09%) Skype for Business
5 5 (6.49%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (7.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (5.19%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 55 (71.43%) Azure
2 44 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (27.27%) Power Platform
4 13 (16.88%) Entra ID
5 12 (15.58%) PowerApps
6 11 (14.29%) Power Automate
7 8 (10.39%) Serverless
8 7 (9.09%) AWS
9 5 (6.49%) IaaS
10 4 (5.19%) PaaS
10 4 (5.19%) SaaS
11 3 (3.90%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (3.90%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (3.90%) Cohesity
11 3 (3.90%) GCP
12 2 (2.60%) Copilot Studio
12 2 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (2.60%) Google Workspace
12 2 (2.60%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 24 (31.17%) Firewall
2 17 (22.08%) TCP/IP
3 15 (19.48%) DHCP
4 14 (18.18%) DNS
5 9 (11.69%) Internet
6 8 (10.39%) Wireless
7 7 (9.09%) IP Telephony
7 7 (9.09%) Skype
7 7 (9.09%) VLAN
7 7 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (7.79%) VPN
8 6 (7.79%) WAN
9 3 (3.90%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (3.90%) LAN
9 3 (3.90%) SAN
9 3 (3.90%) SD-WAN
9 3 (3.90%) VSAN
10 2 (2.60%) Network Security
10 2 (2.60%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (1.30%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.58%) SQL Server
2 8 (10.39%) Power BI
3 4 (5.19%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (5.19%) MS Access
3 4 (5.19%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (16.88%) JIRA
2 4 (5.19%) Toad
3 3 (3.90%) GitLab
4 1 (1.30%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.30%) Git
4 1 (1.30%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.39%) Automotive
2 8 (10.39%) Finance
3 6 (7.79%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.19%) Legal
4 4 (5.19%) Local Government
5 3 (3.90%) Aerospace
5 3 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.60%) Retail
6 2 (2.60%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.30%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 14 (18.18%) IT Support
1 14 (18.18%) Support Engineer
2 13 (16.88%) Senior
3 12 (15.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (14.29%) IT Engineer
5 8 (10.39%) Analyst
6 7 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 7 (9.09%) IT Support Technician
6 7 (9.09%) IT Technician
6 7 (9.09%) Support Technician
7 6 (7.79%) Administrator
7 6 (7.79%) Applications Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) IT Support Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) IT Analyst
8 5 (6.49%) Senior Support Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Wintel Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.19%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.60%) Web Services
3 1 (1.30%) EDI
3 1 (1.30%) LDAP
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.30%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.39%) IoT
2 7 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 6 (7.79%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.19%) iPad
5 3 (3.90%) Blackberry
5 3 (3.90%) Driving Licence
5 3 (3.90%) PKI
5 3 (3.90%) RSA SecurID
5 3 (3.90%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.60%) Clustering
6 2 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.30%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 59 (76.62%) Windows
2 42 (54.55%) Windows Server
3 13 (16.88%) Windows 10
4 11 (14.29%) Linux
5 9 (11.69%) Android
6 7 (9.09%) Mac OS
7 4 (5.19%) Unix
8 3 (3.90%) Apple iOS
8 3 (3.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (3.90%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (2.60%) VMS
10 1 (1.30%) Windows 2000
10 1 (1.30%) Windows 8
10 1 (1.30%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (33.77%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (32.47%) ITIL
3 17 (22.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 16 (20.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (16.88%) ITSM
6 11 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (12.99%) Service Delivery
8 9 (11.69%) Collaborative Working
8 9 (11.69%) Task Automation
9 8 (10.39%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (10.39%) Customer Service
9 8 (10.39%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (10.39%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (10.39%) Migration
10 7 (9.09%) DevOps
10 7 (9.09%) User Experience
10 7 (9.09%) Workflow
11 6 (7.79%) Agile
12 5 (6.49%) SIEM
13 4 (5.19%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.58%) Python
2 11 (14.29%) SQL
3 7 (9.09%) VBScript
4 5 (6.49%) Bash
5 4 (5.19%) Shell Script
5 4 (5.19%) VB
6 1 (1.30%) Bicep
6 1 (1.30%) C#
6 1 (1.30%) Go
6 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (20.78%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (14.29%) CCNA
2 11 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (14.29%) Degree
3 8 (10.39%) DBS Check
3 8 (10.39%) MCSA
3 8 (10.39%) Security Cleared
4 6 (7.79%) SC Cleared
5 5 (6.49%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.90%) A+ Certification
6 3 (3.90%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (3.90%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.90%) MCDST
7 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.60%) CEH
7 2 (2.60%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (2.60%) GSEC
7 2 (2.60%) MCP
7 2 (2.60%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.19%) SLA
2 3 (3.90%) GDPR
3 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.30%) NIST
4 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (51.95%) Active Directory
2 10 (12.99%) Hyper-V
3 7 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (5.19%) Docker
5 3 (3.90%) vSphere
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (1.30%) Terminal Server
6 1 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (16.88%) SCCM
3 7 (9.09%) SCOM
3 7 (9.09%) Terraform
3 7 (9.09%) WSUS
4 5 (6.49%) Kubernetes
5 4 (5.19%) Ansible
6 2 (2.60%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (2.60%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.30%) Backup Exec
7 1 (1.30%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (1.30%) CSIRT
7 1 (1.30%) Grafana
7 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (1.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 59 (76.62%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.58%) VMware
3 11 (14.29%) ServiceNow
4 8 (10.39%) Atlassian
4 8 (10.39%) Cisco
5 7 (9.09%) SAP
6 6 (7.79%) Apple
6 6 (7.79%) Remedy
7 5 (6.49%) Oracle
8 4 (5.19%) HP
8 4 (5.19%) NEC
9 3 (3.90%) Red Hat
9 3 (3.90%) Veeam
10 2 (2.60%) Dell
10 2 (2.60%) Google
10 2 (2.60%) Meraki
10 2 (2.60%) Okta
10 2 (2.60%) Palo Alto
10 2 (2.60%) Sophos
11 1 (1.30%) CrowdStrike