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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 76 98
Rank change year-on-year -22 +22 -2
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 89 113 138
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.41% 3.68% 1.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.52% 14.05% 7.46%
Number of salaries quoted 77 79 99
10th Percentile £29,800 £26,250 £24,300
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.68% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £82,500 £63,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £66,750 £68,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.71% +6.36% -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 846 804 1,849
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 13.40% 26.16% 26.56%
Number of salaries quoted 575 653 1,513
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,850 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,253 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £78,750 £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 20 June 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 20 June 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 32 £90,000 +89.47% 6
Hertfordshire -40 27 £50,000 -13.04% 14
Cambridgeshire -37 9 £54,000 +8.00%
Norfolk -14 8 £37,500 - 1
Suffolk +26 7 £40,000 -22.71% 1
Bedfordshire +3 6 £40,000 -23.81% 3
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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 30 (33.71%) SharePoint
2 13 (14.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.12%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (8.99%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.62%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 56 (62.92%) Microsoft 365
2 52 (58.43%) Azure
3 25 (28.09%) Entra ID
4 23 (25.84%) Power Platform
5 22 (24.72%) OneDrive
6 20 (22.47%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (21.35%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 19 (21.35%) Azure Logic Apps
7 19 (21.35%) Power Automate
7 19 (21.35%) PowerApps
8 14 (15.73%) IaaS
9 9 (10.11%) Azure AKS
9 9 (10.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 9 (10.11%) Azure Key Vault
9 9 (10.11%) Azure Storage
10 5 (5.62%) Google Workspace
10 5 (5.62%) PaaS
11 3 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (2.25%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 33 (37.08%) Firewall
2 30 (33.71%) DNS
3 17 (19.10%) DHCP
3 17 (19.10%) TCP/IP
4 16 (17.98%) VPN
5 13 (14.61%) LAN
5 13 (14.61%) VLAN
6 11 (12.36%) WAN
7 9 (10.11%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (7.87%) Wireless
9 6 (6.74%) FTP
9 6 (6.74%) HTTP
9 6 (6.74%) SMTP
10 4 (4.49%) Internet
11 1 (1.12%) NAS
11 1 (1.12%) Network Security
11 1 (1.12%) SAN
11 1 (1.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (25.84%) Power BI
2 20 (22.47%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (6.74%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.25%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
General
1 38 (42.70%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.11%) Documentation Skills
3 9 (10.11%) Law
3 9 (10.11%) Retail
4 6 (6.74%) Aerospace
5 5 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.62%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.49%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.37%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.12%) Finance
Job Titles
1 23 (25.84%) Senior
2 20 (22.47%) IT Support
3 18 (20.22%) IT Engineer
4 15 (16.85%) Developer
4 15 (16.85%) Senior Developer
5 13 (14.61%) Cloud Engineer
5 13 (14.61%) IT Support Engineer
5 13 (14.61%) Support Engineer
6 11 (12.36%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (10.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 9 (10.11%) Administrator
7 9 (10.11%) Analyst
8 8 (8.99%) Consultant
8 8 (8.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (7.87%) Microsoft 365 Developer
9 7 (7.87%) Microsoft Developer
9 7 (7.87%) Senior Microsoft Developer
9 7 (7.87%) Systems Administrator
10 6 (6.74%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (6.74%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (21.35%) .NET
1 19 (21.35%) .NET Core
1 19 (21.35%) CSS
1 19 (21.35%) HTML
1 19 (21.35%) HTML5 Canvas
1 19 (21.35%) JSON
1 19 (21.35%) Microsoft Graph
1 19 (21.35%) SPFx
2 6 (6.74%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.61%) Driving Licence
2 6 (6.74%) Client/Server
2 6 (6.74%) Onboarding
2 6 (6.74%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (4.49%) Social Network
4 2 (2.25%) Clustering
4 2 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.25%) FMCG
4 2 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.12%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.12%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.12%) PKI
5 1 (1.12%) Replication
5 1 (1.12%) SCADA
5 1 (1.12%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 38 (42.70%) Windows
2 28 (31.46%) Windows Server
3 10 (11.24%) Windows 10
4 8 (8.99%) Linux
5 5 (5.62%) Apple iOS
5 5 (5.62%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (4.49%) VMS
6 4 (4.49%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (30.34%) Cybersecurity
2 24 (26.97%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (26.97%) User Experience
3 23 (25.84%) Business Intelligence
4 21 (23.60%) Machine Learning
5 20 (22.47%) Technical Leadership
6 19 (21.35%) Document Management
6 19 (21.35%) Project Management
6 19 (21.35%) Root Cause Analysis
6 19 (21.35%) Web Design
7 18 (20.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (19.10%) ITIL
9 13 (14.61%) Containerisation
9 13 (14.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 11 (12.36%) High Availability
11 10 (11.24%) Agile
11 10 (11.24%) AI
12 9 (10.11%) Asset Management
12 9 (10.11%) Load Balancing
12 9 (10.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 27 (30.34%) SQL
2 20 (22.47%) C#
3 19 (21.35%) JavaScript
3 19 (21.35%) TypeScript
4 12 (13.48%) Python
5 11 (12.36%) Bash
6 6 (6.74%) C++
6 6 (6.74%) Perl
6 6 (6.74%) VB
7 1 (1.12%) Bicep
7 1 (1.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (14.61%) Azure Certification
2 12 (13.48%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (10.11%) CEH
4 8 (8.99%) CompTIA Security+
4 8 (8.99%) DBS Check
5 7 (7.87%) Degree
6 6 (6.74%) CREST Certified
6 6 (6.74%) SC Cleared
6 6 (6.74%) Security Cleared
7 5 (5.62%) CCNA
7 5 (5.62%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (4.49%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (3.37%) MCDST
9 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (2.25%) CCNP
10 2 (2.25%) CISA
10 2 (2.25%) CISM
11 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (1.12%) GIAC
11 1 (1.12%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.37%) GDPR
2 2 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.25%) NIST
System Software
1 30 (33.71%) Active Directory
2 13 (14.61%) Hyper-V
3 10 (11.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (6.74%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (5.62%) Docker
6 4 (4.49%) vSphere
7 2 (2.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (16.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (13.48%) Kubernetes
3 7 (7.87%) QRadar
3 7 (7.87%) Terraform
4 5 (5.62%) Proxmox
5 4 (4.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (4.49%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (4.49%) vCenter Server
6 3 (3.37%) Ansible
7 1 (1.12%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (1.12%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.12%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 67 (75.28%) Microsoft
2 19 (21.35%) Adobe
3 10 (11.24%) VMware
4 7 (7.87%) Splunk
5 5 (5.62%) Apple
5 5 (5.62%) Google
5 5 (5.62%) SolarWinds
6 4 (4.49%) ConnectWise
7 3 (3.37%) Meraki
7 3 (3.37%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.37%) Sophos
8 2 (2.25%) Ubiquiti
9 1 (1.12%) Commvault
9 1 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (1.12%) Databricks
9 1 (1.12%) Draytek
9 1 (1.12%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.12%) SAP
9 1 (1.12%) SonicWALL
9 1 (1.12%) Veeam