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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 72 113
Rank change year-on-year -24 +41 -13
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 97 124 119
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.47% 3.58% 1.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.34% 14.14% 7.08%
Number of salaries quoted 82 90 90
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,650 £22,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £42,500 £33,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £48,750 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +11.79% - +1.56%
75th Percentile £79,563 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £65,125 £68,075
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -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 938 877 1,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 14.21% 25.34% 26.05%
Number of salaries quoted 659 715 1,372
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,950 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,230 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £77,500 £81,125
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 11 July 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 11 July 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
Essex -14 33 £90,000 +89.47% 5
Hertfordshire -38 31 £52,500 -8.70% 13
Norfolk -16 10 £37,500 -
Cambridgeshire -40 9 £54,000 -6.09% 1
Suffolk +23 7 £40,000 -36.00%
Bedfordshire -1 7 £40,000 -23.81% 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 31 (31.96%) SharePoint
2 16 (16.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.03%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (8.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 61 (62.89%) Microsoft 365
2 57 (58.76%) Azure
3 29 (29.90%) Entra ID
4 23 (23.71%) OneDrive
4 23 (23.71%) Power Platform
5 20 (20.62%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (19.59%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 19 (19.59%) Azure Logic Apps
6 19 (19.59%) Power Automate
6 19 (19.59%) PowerApps
7 14 (14.43%) IaaS
8 9 (9.28%) Azure AKS
8 9 (9.28%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 9 (9.28%) Azure Key Vault
8 9 (9.28%) Azure Storage
9 5 (5.15%) Google Workspace
9 5 (5.15%) PaaS
10 3 (3.09%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (2.06%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 39 (40.21%) Firewall
2 32 (32.99%) DNS
3 19 (19.59%) DHCP
3 19 (19.59%) TCP/IP
4 18 (18.56%) VPN
5 15 (15.46%) LAN
5 15 (15.46%) VLAN
6 13 (13.40%) WAN
7 9 (9.28%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (9.28%) Wireless
8 6 (6.19%) FTP
8 6 (6.19%) HTTP
8 6 (6.19%) SMTP
9 4 (4.12%) Internet
10 3 (3.09%) SAN
11 2 (2.06%) Network Security
12 1 (1.03%) Cisco ISE
12 1 (1.03%) Cisco Nexus
12 1 (1.03%) NAS
12 1 (1.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (23.71%) Power BI
2 20 (20.62%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (6.19%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.06%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
General
1 42 (43.30%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (11.34%) Documentation Skills
3 9 (9.28%) Law
3 9 (9.28%) Retail
4 6 (6.19%) Aerospace
5 5 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (5.15%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.09%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.06%) Finance
Job Titles
1 24 (24.74%) Senior
2 21 (21.65%) IT Engineer
3 20 (20.62%) IT Support
4 15 (15.46%) Developer
4 15 (15.46%) Senior Developer
5 14 (14.43%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (13.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (13.40%) IT Support Engineer
6 13 (13.40%) Support Engineer
7 11 (11.34%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (9.28%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 9 (9.28%) Administrator
8 9 (9.28%) Analyst
9 8 (8.25%) Consultant
9 8 (8.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (7.22%) Microsoft 365 Developer
10 7 (7.22%) Microsoft Developer
10 7 (7.22%) Senior Microsoft Developer
10 7 (7.22%) Systems Administrator
11 6 (6.19%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (19.59%) .NET
1 19 (19.59%) .NET Core
1 19 (19.59%) CSS
1 19 (19.59%) HTML
1 19 (19.59%) HTML5 Canvas
1 19 (19.59%) JSON
1 19 (19.59%) Microsoft Graph
1 19 (19.59%) SPFx
2 6 (6.19%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.43%) Driving Licence
2 6 (6.19%) Client/Server
2 6 (6.19%) Onboarding
2 6 (6.19%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (4.12%) Social Network
4 3 (3.09%) FMCG
4 3 (3.09%) Replication
5 2 (2.06%) Clustering
5 2 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.03%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.03%) PKI
6 1 (1.03%) SCADA
6 1 (1.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 43 (44.33%) Windows
2 33 (34.02%) Windows Server
3 12 (12.37%) Linux
4 10 (10.31%) Windows 10
5 5 (5.15%) Apple iOS
5 5 (5.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (4.12%) VMS
6 4 (4.12%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.06%) CentOS
7 2 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.06%) Rocky
8 1 (1.03%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (29.90%) Cybersecurity
2 27 (27.84%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (24.74%) User Experience
4 23 (23.71%) Business Intelligence
5 21 (21.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (21.65%) Machine Learning
6 20 (20.62%) Root Cause Analysis
6 20 (20.62%) Technical Leadership
7 19 (19.59%) Document Management
7 19 (19.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 19 (19.59%) Project Management
7 19 (19.59%) Web Design
8 18 (18.56%) ITIL
9 13 (13.40%) Containerisation
10 12 (12.37%) High Availability
11 10 (10.31%) Agile
11 10 (10.31%) AI
12 9 (9.28%) Asset Management
12 9 (9.28%) Load Balancing
12 9 (9.28%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 28 (28.87%) SQL
2 20 (20.62%) C#
3 19 (19.59%) JavaScript
3 19 (19.59%) TypeScript
4 13 (13.40%) Python
5 11 (11.34%) Bash
6 6 (6.19%) C++
6 6 (6.19%) Perl
6 6 (6.19%) VB
7 1 (1.03%) Bicep
7 1 (1.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (14.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (13.40%) Azure Certification
3 9 (9.28%) CEH
4 8 (8.25%) CompTIA Security+
4 8 (8.25%) DBS Check
4 8 (8.25%) Degree
4 8 (8.25%) SC Cleared
4 8 (8.25%) Security Cleared
5 7 (7.22%) CCNA
5 7 (7.22%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (6.19%) CREST Certified
7 4 (4.12%) Network+ Certification
8 3 (3.09%) CCNP
8 3 (3.09%) MCDST
8 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (2.06%) CISA
9 2 (2.06%) CISM
10 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.03%) GIAC
10 1 (1.03%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.09%) GDPR
2 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.06%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (34.02%) Active Directory
2 16 (16.49%) Hyper-V
3 11 (11.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (7.22%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (5.15%) Docker
6 4 (4.12%) vSphere
7 3 (3.09%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (1.03%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (17.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (12.37%) Kubernetes
3 7 (7.22%) Proxmox
3 7 (7.22%) QRadar
3 7 (7.22%) Terraform
4 5 (5.15%) Ansible
5 4 (4.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (4.12%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (4.12%) vCenter Server
6 2 (2.06%) NetBackup
7 1 (1.03%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (1.03%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.03%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 72 (74.23%) Microsoft
2 19 (19.59%) Adobe
3 11 (11.34%) VMware
4 7 (7.22%) Splunk
5 5 (5.15%) Apple
5 5 (5.15%) ConnectWise
5 5 (5.15%) Google
5 5 (5.15%) SolarWinds
6 3 (3.09%) Draytek
6 3 (3.09%) Fortinet
6 3 (3.09%) Meraki
6 3 (3.09%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.09%) SonicWALL
6 3 (3.09%) Sophos
6 3 (3.09%) Ubiquiti
6 3 (3.09%) Veeam
7 2 (2.06%) NetApp
8 1 (1.03%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.03%) Cisco
8 1 (1.03%) Commvault