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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 107 74
Rank change year-on-year +15 -33 +45
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 69 75 111
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.57% 2.16% 2.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.87% 6.48% 8.80%
Number of salaries quoted 61 55 77
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,700 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £43,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +10.53% -17.39%
75th Percentile £55,000 £61,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £76,000 £78,500
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 536 1,157 1,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 12.17% 33.28% 33.82%
Number of salaries quoted 415 543 1,016
10th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,250 £80,000 £84,750
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 29 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 29 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 +6 35 £43,085 -21.66% 18
Cambridgeshire +13 12 £57,500 +9.52% 9
Suffolk 0 8 £32,500 - 7
Essex 0 7 £25,500 - 17
Bedfordshire +18 6 £31,000 -38.00% 3
Norfolk - 1 £28,500 - 5
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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 10 (14.49%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (14.49%) SharePoint
2 5 (7.25%) Confluence
2 5 (7.25%) Oracle Workflow
2 5 (7.25%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 12 (17.39%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.80%) NEC Housing
1 4 (5.80%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.45%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 45 (65.22%) Azure
2 39 (56.52%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (17.39%) Power Platform
4 11 (15.94%) Entra ID
5 7 (10.14%) Power Automate
5 7 (10.14%) PowerApps
6 6 (8.70%) AWS
6 6 (8.70%) IaaS
6 6 (8.70%) PaaS
7 4 (5.80%) SaaS
7 4 (5.80%) Serverless
8 3 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (4.35%) GCP
8 3 (4.35%) Google Workspace
9 2 (2.90%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.90%) Cohesity
9 2 (2.90%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (2.90%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (33.33%) Firewall
2 20 (28.99%) TCP/IP
3 17 (24.64%) DHCP
4 16 (23.19%) DNS
5 11 (15.94%) VLAN
6 7 (10.14%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (8.70%) IP Telephony
7 6 (8.70%) Wireless
8 5 (7.25%) Internet
8 5 (7.25%) Skype
8 5 (7.25%) VPN
8 5 (7.25%) WAN
9 4 (5.80%) LAN
10 2 (2.90%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (2.90%) Network Security
10 2 (2.90%) SD-WAN
10 2 (2.90%) VSAN
10 2 (2.90%) Wireshark
11 1 (1.45%) NGFW
11 1 (1.45%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 8 (11.59%) Power BI
3 4 (5.80%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (5.80%) MS Access
3 4 (5.80%) SAP Data Services
4 3 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (11.59%) JIRA
2 4 (5.80%) Toad
3 2 (2.90%) GitLab
4 1 (1.45%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.45%) Git
4 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (28.99%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.70%) Finance
3 6 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.80%) Automotive
4 4 (5.80%) Local Government
5 3 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.35%) Retail
6 2 (2.90%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.90%) Legal
6 2 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.45%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 16 (23.19%) IT Support
2 15 (21.74%) Support Engineer
3 11 (15.94%) IT Engineer
4 8 (11.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (11.59%) IT Support Engineer
4 8 (11.59%) Senior
5 7 (10.14%) Applications Engineer
5 7 (10.14%) IT Support Technician
5 7 (10.14%) IT Technician
5 7 (10.14%) Support Technician
6 6 (8.70%) Administrator
7 5 (7.25%) Analyst
7 5 (7.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Wintel Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Applications Support
8 4 (5.80%) Applications Support Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) IT Administrator
8 4 (5.80%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Senior Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.90%) Web Services
2 1 (1.45%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.45%) EDI
2 1 (1.45%) LDAP
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.45%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.14%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (5.80%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.80%) Driving Licence
2 4 (5.80%) IoT
2 4 (5.80%) Security Posture
3 3 (4.35%) iPad
4 2 (2.90%) Blackberry
4 2 (2.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (2.90%) PKI
4 2 (2.90%) RSA SecurID
5 1 (1.45%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.45%) Clustering
5 1 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 54 (78.26%) Windows
2 37 (53.62%) Windows Server
3 14 (20.29%) Windows 10
4 10 (14.49%) Linux
5 7 (10.14%) Android
6 6 (8.70%) Mac OS
7 5 (7.25%) VMS
8 4 (5.80%) Apple iOS
8 4 (5.80%) Unix
9 3 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (2.90%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (1.45%) Windows 2000
11 1 (1.45%) Windows 8
11 1 (1.45%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (37.68%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (34.78%) ITIL
3 16 (23.19%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (21.74%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (14.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (14.49%) ITSM
6 9 (13.04%) Workflow
7 8 (11.59%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (11.59%) Collaborative Working
7 8 (11.59%) Customer Service
7 8 (11.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (10.14%) DevOps
8 7 (10.14%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (10.14%) Service Delivery
8 7 (10.14%) Task Automation
8 7 (10.14%) User Experience
9 6 (8.70%) Agile
9 6 (8.70%) SIEM
10 5 (7.25%) Change Management
10 5 (7.25%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.94%) Python
2 9 (13.04%) SQL
3 7 (10.14%) VBScript
4 6 (8.70%) Bash
4 6 (8.70%) VB
5 4 (5.80%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.45%) Bicep
6 1 (1.45%) C#
6 1 (1.45%) Go
6 1 (1.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (26.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (13.04%) CCNA
2 9 (13.04%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (13.04%) Degree
3 8 (11.59%) DBS Check
3 8 (11.59%) MCSA
4 6 (8.70%) Security Cleared
5 5 (7.25%) Azure Certification
5 5 (7.25%) Network+ Certification
5 5 (7.25%) SC Cleared
6 3 (4.35%) A+ Certification
6 3 (4.35%) CEH
6 3 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (4.35%) MCDST
7 2 (2.90%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.90%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.90%) GREM
7 2 (2.90%) GSEC
7 2 (2.90%) MCP
7 2 (2.90%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.35%) GDPR
2 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.90%) SLA
3 1 (1.45%) NIST
3 1 (1.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (55.07%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (7.25%) vSphere
3 4 (5.80%) Docker
3 4 (5.80%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (1.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
1 9 (13.04%) SCCM
2 5 (7.25%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.25%) SCOM
2 5 (7.25%) Terraform
2 5 (7.25%) WSUS
3 4 (5.80%) Ansible
4 3 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (4.35%) SolarWinds Orion
4 3 (4.35%) vCenter Server
5 2 (2.90%) Computer Incident Response Team
5 2 (2.90%) QRadar
6 1 (1.45%) CSIRT
6 1 (1.45%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.45%) Grafana
6 1 (1.45%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 49 (71.01%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.04%) VMware
3 8 (11.59%) SAP
3 8 (11.59%) ServiceNow
4 7 (10.14%) Cisco
5 6 (8.70%) Apple
6 5 (7.25%) Oracle
7 4 (5.80%) Atlassian
7 4 (5.80%) NEC
7 4 (5.80%) Remedy
8 3 (4.35%) Google
8 3 (4.35%) HP
8 3 (4.35%) SolarWinds
9 2 (2.90%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (2.90%) Meraki
9 2 (2.90%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.90%) Sophos
9 2 (2.90%) Splunk
9 2 (2.90%) Veeam
10 1 (1.45%) Okta