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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 101 86
Rank change year-on-year +2 -15 +34
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 60 78 124
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.27% 2.34% 2.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.30% 6.75% 8.26%
Number of salaries quoted 51 52 90
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,000 £24,525
25th Percentile £30,500 £46,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +23.53% -26.09%
75th Percentile £46,750 £64,438 £66,875
90th Percentile £65,000 £74,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -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 531 1,156 1,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 11.26% 34.75% 33.36%
Number of salaries quoted 396 586 1,225
10th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £66,100 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.79% +20.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,125 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 16 February 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 February 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 -10 30 £43,000 -28.33% 18
Cambridgeshire +9 10 £56,250 +7.14% 5
Suffolk +4 9 £32,500 - 1
Bedfordshire +15 5 £31,000 -38.00% 2
Essex -1 5 £40,000 - 5
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 7 (11.67%) SharePoint
2 5 (8.33%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (6.67%) NEC Housing
2 3 (5.00%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (70.00%) Microsoft 365
2 36 (60.00%) Azure
3 11 (18.33%) Entra ID
4 9 (15.00%) Power Platform
5 7 (11.67%) IaaS
5 7 (11.67%) PaaS
6 6 (10.00%) Google Workspace
7 5 (8.33%) AWS
8 4 (6.67%) Power Automate
8 4 (6.67%) PowerApps
9 3 (5.00%) GCP
9 3 (5.00%) SaaS
10 2 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (3.33%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (3.33%) OneDrive
11 1 (1.67%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.67%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 21 (35.00%) Firewall
2 19 (31.67%) DHCP
3 18 (30.00%) DNS
4 17 (28.33%) TCP/IP
5 14 (23.33%) VLAN
6 9 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (13.33%) VPN
8 7 (11.67%) LAN
9 6 (10.00%) Wireless
10 4 (6.67%) IP Telephony
11 3 (5.00%) WAN
12 2 (3.33%) Internet
12 2 (3.33%) SD-WAN
12 2 (3.33%) Wireshark
13 1 (1.67%) Cisco IOS
13 1 (1.67%) IPv4
13 1 (1.67%) IPv6
13 1 (1.67%) MPLS
13 1 (1.67%) Network Security
13 1 (1.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.33%) Power BI
2 4 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (6.67%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (6.67%) MS Access
2 4 (6.67%) SAP Data Services
2 4 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) JIRA
1 4 (6.67%) Toad
2 1 (1.67%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.33%) Finance
4 5 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 4 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (6.67%) Local Government
5 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.67%) Retail
6 2 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Automotive
7 1 (1.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (35.00%) IT Support
1 21 (35.00%) Support Engineer
2 17 (28.33%) IT Engineer
3 14 (23.33%) IT Support Engineer
4 9 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (11.67%) Applications Engineer
5 7 (11.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (11.67%) Senior
6 6 (10.00%) IT Support Technician
6 6 (10.00%) IT Technician
6 6 (10.00%) Support Technician
7 5 (8.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Administrator
7 5 (8.33%) Analyst
8 4 (6.67%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 4 (6.67%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support
8 4 (6.67%) Senior Applications Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Senior Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.33%) Web Services
2 1 (1.67%) EDI
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (8.33%) Driving Licence
3 4 (6.67%) Security Posture
4 3 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.00%) iPad
5 2 (3.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.67%) Clustering
6 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) IoT
6 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 49 (81.67%) Windows
2 36 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 18 (30.00%) Windows 10
4 7 (11.67%) Apple iOS
4 7 (11.67%) Linux
5 6 (10.00%) Android
5 6 (10.00%) Mac OS
5 6 (10.00%) VMS
6 5 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (6.67%) Unix
7 4 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.67%) Windows 2000
8 1 (1.67%) Windows 8
8 1 (1.67%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (38.33%) ITIL
2 21 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
4 14 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (16.67%) Service Delivery
6 9 (15.00%) ITSM
6 9 (15.00%) Workflow
7 8 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (13.33%) ERP
7 8 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (11.67%) Collaborative Working
9 6 (10.00%) Change Management
9 6 (10.00%) Project Delivery
9 6 (10.00%) Runbook
9 6 (10.00%) User Experience
10 5 (8.33%) Customer Service
10 5 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (8.33%) Migration
10 5 (8.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.00%) Python
1 9 (15.00%) SQL
1 9 (15.00%) VB
2 6 (10.00%) VBScript
3 4 (6.67%) Bash
3 4 (6.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.67%) Bicep
4 1 (1.67%) C#
4 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (13.33%) DBS Check
2 8 (13.33%) Degree
3 7 (11.67%) MCSA
4 6 (10.00%) Azure Certification
5 5 (8.33%) CCNA
5 5 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (3.33%) A+ Certification
6 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.33%) CEH
6 2 (3.33%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (3.33%) GIAC
6 2 (3.33%) GREM
6 2 (3.33%) GSEC
6 2 (3.33%) OSCP
7 1 (1.67%) CCNP
7 1 (1.67%) MCDST
7 1 (1.67%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.33%) GDPR
2 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.67%) Docker
3 4 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 4 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (6.67%) vSphere
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (11.67%) SCCM
2 4 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.67%) SolarWinds Orion
2 4 (6.67%) Terraform
2 4 (6.67%) vCenter Server
3 2 (3.33%) Ansible
3 2 (3.33%) Computer Incident Response Team
3 2 (3.33%) QRadar
4 1 (1.67%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (1.67%) Grafana
4 1 (1.67%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 38 (63.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.33%) Apple
2 8 (13.33%) SAP
2 8 (13.33%) VMware
3 7 (11.67%) ServiceNow
4 6 (10.00%) Google
5 5 (8.33%) Cisco
5 5 (8.33%) Oracle
6 4 (6.67%) NEC
6 4 (6.67%) SolarWinds
7 3 (5.00%) Remedy
8 2 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (3.33%) Splunk
8 2 (3.33%) Veeam
9 1 (1.67%) Aruba
9 1 (1.67%) Dell
9 1 (1.67%) Epicor
9 1 (1.67%) HP
9 1 (1.67%) Okta
9 1 (1.67%) Palo Alto