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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 86 89
Rank change year-on-year -24 +3 +28
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 73 94 153
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.16% 3.15% 2.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.55% 11.18% 8.73%
Number of salaries quoted 64 60 106
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,950 £24,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £48,750 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +17.95% - -15.22%
75th Percentile £95,000 £63,500 £63,750
90th Percentile - £72,625 £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 764 841 1,753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 12.10% 28.20% 28.68%
Number of salaries quoted 495 662 1,462
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,438 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £80,000
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 9 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 9 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
Essex -11 27 £90,000 +100.00% 7
Hertfordshire -36 25 £50,000 -14.89% 9
Cambridgeshire -30 9 £55,000 +100.00% 6
Suffolk +13 6 £40,000 -22.71% 2
Bedfordshire +8 4 £40,000 -20.00% 2
Norfolk -17 2 £37,500 - 2
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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 (35.62%) SharePoint
2 9 (12.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (10.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (6.85%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 46 (63.01%) Microsoft 365
2 44 (60.27%) Azure
3 21 (28.77%) OneDrive
3 21 (28.77%) Power Platform
4 20 (27.40%) Azure Data Factory
4 20 (27.40%) Azure Logic Apps
5 19 (26.03%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 19 (26.03%) Power Automate
5 19 (26.03%) PowerApps
6 14 (19.18%) IaaS
7 10 (13.70%) Entra ID
8 8 (10.96%) Azure AKS
8 8 (10.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 8 (10.96%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (10.96%) Azure Storage
9 6 (8.22%) PaaS
10 5 (6.85%) Google Workspace
11 2 (2.74%) AWS
11 2 (2.74%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (1.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (35.62%) Firewall
2 23 (31.51%) DNS
3 11 (15.07%) DHCP
3 11 (15.07%) TCP/IP
4 10 (13.70%) LAN
4 10 (13.70%) VPN
5 9 (12.33%) VLAN
5 9 (12.33%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (10.96%) WAN
7 5 (6.85%) Wireless
8 4 (5.48%) FTP
8 4 (5.48%) HTTP
8 4 (5.48%) Internet
8 4 (5.48%) SMTP
9 1 (1.37%) IPv4
9 1 (1.37%) IPv6
9 1 (1.37%) MPLS
9 1 (1.37%) NAS
9 1 (1.37%) SAN
9 1 (1.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (28.77%) Power BI
2 20 (27.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (6.85%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.74%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.37%) CircleCI
1 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
General
1 34 (46.58%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (12.33%) Documentation Skills
2 9 (12.33%) Retail
3 8 (10.96%) Law
4 7 (9.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.85%) Telecoms
6 4 (5.48%) Aerospace
7 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Finance
Job Titles
1 21 (28.77%) Senior
2 18 (24.66%) IT Support
3 15 (20.55%) Developer
3 15 (20.55%) Senior Developer
4 14 (19.18%) IT Engineer
5 11 (15.07%) IT Support Engineer
5 11 (15.07%) Support Engineer
6 8 (10.96%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 8 (10.96%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (10.96%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (10.96%) Consultant
7 7 (9.59%) Microsoft 365 Developer
7 7 (9.59%) Microsoft Developer
7 7 (9.59%) Senior Microsoft Developer
8 6 (8.22%) Administrator
8 6 (8.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (8.22%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (6.85%) 1st/2nd Line Support
9 5 (6.85%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 5 (6.85%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (26.03%) .NET
1 19 (26.03%) .NET Core
1 19 (26.03%) CSS
1 19 (26.03%) HTML
1 19 (26.03%) HTML5 Canvas
1 19 (26.03%) JSON
1 19 (26.03%) Microsoft Graph
1 19 (26.03%) SPFx
2 4 (5.48%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.96%) Driving Licence
2 6 (8.22%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.48%) Client/Server
3 4 (5.48%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.48%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (5.48%) Social Network
4 2 (2.74%) Clustering
5 1 (1.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) PKI
5 1 (1.37%) Replication
5 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (38.36%) Windows
2 20 (27.40%) Windows Server
3 10 (13.70%) Windows 10
4 5 (6.85%) Apple iOS
4 5 (6.85%) Linux
4 5 (6.85%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (5.48%) VMS
5 4 (5.48%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.37%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (32.88%) User Experience
2 21 (28.77%) Business Intelligence
2 21 (28.77%) Cybersecurity
3 20 (27.40%) Technical Leadership
4 19 (26.03%) Document Management
4 19 (26.03%) Machine Learning
4 19 (26.03%) Project Management
4 19 (26.03%) Web Design
5 16 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (20.55%) ITIL
7 14 (19.18%) Root Cause Analysis
8 12 (16.44%) Containerisation
8 12 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (13.70%) Agile
9 10 (13.70%) High Availability
10 9 (12.33%) Asset Management
11 8 (10.96%) ERP
11 8 (10.96%) Load Balancing
11 8 (10.96%) SIEM
12 7 (9.59%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 24 (32.88%) SQL
2 20 (27.40%) C#
3 19 (26.03%) JavaScript
3 19 (26.03%) TypeScript
4 9 (12.33%) Bash
5 8 (10.96%) Python
6 6 (8.22%) VB
7 4 (5.48%) C++
7 4 (5.48%) Perl
8 1 (1.37%) Bicep
8 1 (1.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (16.44%) Azure Certification
1 12 (16.44%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (10.96%) DBS Check
3 7 (9.59%) CEH
4 6 (8.22%) CompTIA Security+
5 5 (6.85%) Degree
5 5 (6.85%) Security Cleared
6 4 (5.48%) CREST Certified
6 4 (5.48%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (5.48%) SC Cleared
7 3 (4.11%) CCNA
7 3 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (4.11%) MCDST
7 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (2.74%) CISA
8 2 (2.74%) CISM
9 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.37%) GIAC
9 1 (1.37%) GREM
9 1 (1.37%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.48%) GDPR
2 3 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.74%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (28.77%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.85%) Docker
2 5 (6.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.48%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (5.48%) vSphere
4 3 (4.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (1.37%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (15.07%) Kubernetes
1 11 (15.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (6.85%) QRadar
3 4 (5.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (5.48%) SolarWinds Orion
3 4 (5.48%) Terraform
3 4 (5.48%) vCenter Server
4 3 (4.11%) Ansible
5 1 (1.37%) Computer Incident Response Team
5 1 (1.37%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.37%) Grafana
5 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (1.37%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 53 (72.60%) Microsoft
2 19 (26.03%) Adobe
3 5 (6.85%) Apple
3 5 (6.85%) Google
3 5 (6.85%) SolarWinds
3 5 (6.85%) Splunk
3 5 (6.85%) VMware
4 3 (4.11%) Meraki
4 3 (4.11%) SAP
4 3 (4.11%) Sophos
5 1 (1.37%) Commvault
5 1 (1.37%) ConnectWise
5 1 (1.37%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.37%) Databricks
5 1 (1.37%) Draytek
5 1 (1.37%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.37%) SonicWALL
5 1 (1.37%) Veeam