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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 108 66
Rank change year-on-year +20 -42 +55
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 70 74 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.67% 2.09% 3.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.11% 6.66% 10.38%
Number of salaries quoted 64 55 49
10th Percentile £29,069 £25,700 £27,850
25th Percentile £31,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,085 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.93% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £55,625 £61,875 £68,000
90th Percentile £66,750 £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 534 1,111 780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 12.71% 31.44% 32.34%
Number of salaries quoted 423 500 606
10th Percentile £30,000 £41,150 £33,750
25th Percentile £39,438 £46,625 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £58,425 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% -2.63% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,000 £74,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 15 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 15 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 +15 38 £43,085 -21.66% 19
Cambridgeshire +16 11 £57,500 +9.52% 10
Suffolk -17 7 £32,500 - 4
Essex - 7 £25,500 - 13
Bedfordshire +22 6 £31,000 -38.00% 4
Norfolk - 1 £28,500 - 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 14 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (17.14%) SharePoint
3 7 (10.00%) Confluence
3 7 (10.00%) Skype for Business
4 5 (7.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (5.71%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (68.57%) Azure
2 39 (55.71%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (21.43%) Power Platform
4 12 (17.14%) Entra ID
5 9 (12.86%) Power Automate
5 9 (12.86%) PowerApps
6 7 (10.00%) AWS
7 6 (8.57%) IaaS
7 6 (8.57%) Serverless
8 5 (7.14%) PaaS
9 4 (5.71%) SaaS
10 3 (4.29%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (4.29%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (4.29%) Cohesity
10 3 (4.29%) GCP
11 2 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (2.86%) Copilot Studio
11 2 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (2.86%) Google Workspace
11 2 (2.86%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 24 (34.29%) Firewall
2 18 (25.71%) TCP/IP
3 15 (21.43%) DHCP
4 14 (20.00%) DNS
5 8 (11.43%) VLAN
6 7 (10.00%) Internet
6 7 (10.00%) IP Telephony
6 7 (10.00%) Skype
6 7 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (8.57%) VPN
7 6 (8.57%) WAN
7 6 (8.57%) Wireless
8 3 (4.29%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (4.29%) LAN
8 3 (4.29%) SAN
8 3 (4.29%) SD-WAN
8 3 (4.29%) VSAN
9 2 (2.86%) Network Security
9 2 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (1.43%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.14%) SQL Server
2 8 (11.43%) Power BI
3 4 (5.71%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (5.71%) MS Access
3 4 (5.71%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (15.71%) JIRA
2 4 (5.71%) Toad
3 3 (4.29%) GitLab
4 1 (1.43%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.43%) Git
4 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (27.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.57%) Automotive
2 6 (8.57%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.14%) Finance
3 5 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (5.71%) Local Government
5 3 (4.29%) Aerospace
5 3 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.29%) Legal
6 2 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.86%) Retail
7 1 (1.43%) Advertising
7 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (18.57%) IT Support
2 12 (17.14%) Support Engineer
3 9 (12.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (12.86%) IT Engineer
3 9 (12.86%) Senior
4 7 (10.00%) Analyst
4 7 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
4 7 (10.00%) IT Support Technician
4 7 (10.00%) IT Technician
4 7 (10.00%) Support Technician
5 6 (8.57%) Administrator
6 5 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) IT Analyst
6 5 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) Wintel Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Senior Applications Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Senior Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.86%) Web Services
2 1 (1.43%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.43%) EDI
2 1 (1.43%) LDAP
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (8.57%) IoT
2 4 (5.71%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.29%) Blackberry
3 3 (4.29%) iPad
3 3 (4.29%) PKI
3 3 (4.29%) RSA SecurID
3 3 (4.29%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.86%) Clustering
4 2 (2.86%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.43%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 54 (77.14%) Windows
2 38 (54.29%) Windows Server
3 12 (17.14%) Windows 10
4 11 (15.71%) Linux
5 8 (11.43%) Android
6 6 (8.57%) Mac OS
7 4 (5.71%) Unix
8 3 (4.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (4.29%) VMS
9 2 (2.86%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.43%) Windows 2000
10 1 (1.43%) Windows 8
10 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (1.43%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (37.14%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (32.86%) ITIL
3 17 (24.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (17.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (17.14%) ITSM
5 11 (15.71%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (12.86%) Collaborative Working
7 8 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (11.43%) Customer Service
7 8 (11.43%) Task Automation
7 8 (11.43%) Workflow
8 7 (10.00%) DevOps
8 7 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (10.00%) User Experience
9 6 (8.57%) Agile
9 6 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (8.57%) Service Delivery
10 5 (7.14%) Migration
10 5 (7.14%) SIEM
11 4 (5.71%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.86%) Python
1 9 (12.86%) SQL
2 7 (10.00%) VBScript
3 5 (7.14%) Bash
4 4 (5.71%) Shell Script
4 4 (5.71%) VB
5 1 (1.43%) Bicep
5 1 (1.43%) C#
5 1 (1.43%) Go
5 1 (1.43%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (22.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (15.71%) CCNA
2 11 (15.71%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (14.29%) Degree
4 8 (11.43%) MCSA
4 8 (11.43%) Security Cleared
5 7 (10.00%) DBS Check
6 6 (8.57%) SC Cleared
7 5 (7.14%) Azure Certification
8 3 (4.29%) A+ Certification
8 3 (4.29%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (4.29%) DV Cleared
8 3 (4.29%) MCDST
8 3 (4.29%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (2.86%) AWS Certification
9 2 (2.86%) CEH
9 2 (2.86%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (2.86%) GSEC
9 2 (2.86%) MCP
10 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) GDPR
1 3 (4.29%) SLA
2 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.43%) NIST
3 1 (1.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (55.71%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.14%) Hyper-V
3 4 (5.71%) Docker
3 4 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.71%) vSphere
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.43%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (17.14%) Microsoft Intune
1 12 (17.14%) SCCM
2 7 (10.00%) SCOM
2 7 (10.00%) WSUS
3 5 (7.14%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.71%) Ansible
4 4 (5.71%) Terraform
5 2 (2.86%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (2.86%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.43%) Computer Incident Response Team
6 1 (1.43%) CSIRT
6 1 (1.43%) Grafana
6 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (1.43%) QRadar
6 1 (1.43%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (1.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 53 (75.71%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 9 (12.86%) VMware
4 8 (11.43%) Cisco
4 8 (11.43%) SAP
5 6 (8.57%) Atlassian
6 5 (7.14%) Apple
6 5 (7.14%) Oracle
6 5 (7.14%) Remedy
7 4 (5.71%) HP
7 4 (5.71%) NEC
8 3 (4.29%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.86%) Google
9 2 (2.86%) Meraki
9 2 (2.86%) Okta
9 2 (2.86%) Palo Alto
9 2 (2.86%) Sophos
9 2 (2.86%) Veeam
10 1 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (1.43%) Zscaler