PowerShell Job Trends in England

Windows PowerShell
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 93 57
Rank change year-on-year +5 -36 +31
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,417 1,680 2,339
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.29% 2.72% 4.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.14% 8.52% 11.43%
Number of salaries quoted 981 1,104 1,898
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,125 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -

All Programming Languages
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,781 19,722 20,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.06% 31.95% 41.11%
Number of salaries quoted 7,403 11,859 16,791
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,750 £48,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in England

PowerShell
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing PowerShell

PowerShell
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 24 October 2025.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in England

PowerShell
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the England region over the 6 months to 24 October 2025. 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
London -23 413 £75,000 - 279
North of England +55 398 £50,000 -2.91% 127
North West +78 314 £50,000 - 90
South East -11 228 £57,500 +2.22% 265
Midlands +31 155 £52,500 +10.53% 59
West Midlands +28 111 £55,000 +22.22% 44
East of England +29 107 £47,500 -9.52% 44
South West +32 102 £50,000 -0.99% 81
Yorkshire -13 75 £49,000 -8.41% 26
East Midlands +13 44 £38,500 -18.95% 16
North East +1 9 £60,000 +35.52% 12
PowerShell
UK

PowerShell
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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
1 221 (15.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 162 (11.43%) SharePoint
3 61 (4.30%) Confluence
4 56 (3.95%) IIS
5 21 (1.48%) Skype for Business
6 13 (0.92%) Exchange Server 2003
6 13 (0.92%) nginx
7 7 (0.49%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.42%) Apache
9 5 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.071%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 55 (3.88%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 4 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.21%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.21%) Siemens NX
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.14%) Revit
6 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.071%) Autodesk Inventor
7 1 (0.071%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 12 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.35%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.21%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.21%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.14%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.071%) Eikon
6 1 (0.071%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.071%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 716 (50.53%) Azure
2 404 (28.51%) Microsoft 365
3 251 (17.71%) AWS
4 241 (17.01%) Entra ID
5 165 (11.64%) Azure DevOps
6 121 (8.54%) Power Platform
7 100 (7.06%) PaaS
8 96 (6.77%) SaaS
9 90 (6.35%) Power Automate
10 79 (5.58%) IaaS
11 74 (5.22%) Azure Monitor
12 60 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 59 (4.16%) GCP
14 57 (4.02%) GitHub
15 53 (3.74%) Amazon S3
15 53 (3.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 52 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
17 50 (3.53%) Azure Sentinel
18 49 (3.46%) Serverless
19 47 (3.32%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 373 (26.32%) VPN
2 295 (20.82%) Firewall
3 270 (19.05%) Cisco IOS
4 258 (18.21%) DNS
5 186 (13.13%) DHCP
6 114 (8.05%) TCP/IP
7 108 (7.62%) WAN
8 73 (5.15%) LAN
9 54 (3.81%) SAN
9 54 (3.81%) VLAN
10 43 (3.03%) Wireless
11 39 (2.75%) SD-WAN
12 37 (2.61%) Network Security
12 37 (2.61%) SMTP
13 36 (2.54%) Internet
14 31 (2.19%) HTTP
15 28 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
16 26 (1.83%) FTP
17 25 (1.76%) SSH
18 24 (1.69%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (9.24%) SQL Server
2 78 (5.50%) Amazon RDS
3 70 (4.94%) Power BI
4 34 (2.40%) MySQL
5 32 (2.26%) Relational Database
6 26 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (1.34%) Oracle Database
7 19 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 16 (1.13%) Oracle Database 10g
9 15 (1.06%) Data Lake
10 13 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (0.78%) NoSQL
13 10 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 9 (0.64%) Amazon Aurora
14 9 (0.64%) DTS
15 6 (0.42%) BusinessObjects
15 6 (0.42%) MongoDB
15 6 (0.42%) RDBMS
16 5 (0.35%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 121 (8.54%) Git
2 118 (8.33%) JIRA
3 97 (6.85%) Jenkins
4 41 (2.89%) Vagrant
5 40 (2.82%) GitLab
6 22 (1.55%) MSI
7 20 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
8 15 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
9 12 (0.85%) Burp Suite
9 12 (0.85%) Metasploit
10 10 (0.71%) TeamCity
11 7 (0.49%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 4 (0.28%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.28%) Toad
14 3 (0.21%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.21%) CircleCI
14 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
15 2 (0.14%) MSBuild
15 2 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 409 (28.86%) Social Skills
2 335 (23.64%) Analytical Skills
3 289 (20.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 196 (13.83%) Finance
5 69 (4.87%) Law
6 60 (4.23%) Public Sector
7 39 (2.75%) Banking
8 37 (2.61%) Legal
8 37 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
9 33 (2.33%) Retail
10 32 (2.26%) Manufacturing
11 29 (2.05%) Telecoms
12 25 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
13 21 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
14 18 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (1.06%) Marketing
16 14 (0.99%) Automotive
17 13 (0.92%) Advertising
17 13 (0.92%) Front Office
18 10 (0.71%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 413 (29.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 193 (13.62%) Support Engineer
3 116 (8.19%) Senior
4 103 (7.27%) DevOps Engineer
5 92 (6.49%) Analyst
6 91 (6.42%) IT Support
7 89 (6.28%) Azure Engineer
8 80 (5.65%) 3rd Line Support
8 80 (5.65%) IT Engineer
9 68 (4.80%) Lead
10 66 (4.66%) Developer
11 65 (4.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 65 (4.59%) Cloud Engineer
12 64 (4.52%) Security Engineer
13 63 (4.45%) Platform Engineer
14 54 (3.81%) Infrastructure Support
15 50 (3.53%) Administrator
15 50 (3.53%) IT Support Engineer
15 50 (3.53%) Systems Engineer
16 49 (3.46%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (19.34%) Elastic Stack
2 67 (4.73%) YAML
3 63 (4.45%) .NET
4 60 (4.23%) REST
5 39 (2.75%) JSON
6 32 (2.26%) ARM Templates
7 31 (2.19%) SOAP
8 30 (2.12%) LDAP
9 17 (1.20%) Microsoft Graph
10 16 (1.13%) AngularJS
10 16 (1.13%) React
11 15 (1.06%) XML
12 12 (0.85%) .NET Framework
12 12 (0.85%) Node.js
12 12 (0.85%) Web Services
13 10 (0.71%) Razor View Engine
13 10 (0.71%) SAML
14 9 (0.64%) HTML
15 8 (0.56%) Jinja
15 8 (0.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 263 (18.56%) Cyberattack
2 90 (6.35%) Onboarding
3 57 (4.02%) Data Centre
4 50 (3.53%) Security Posture
5 44 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 39 (2.75%) PKI
7 38 (2.68%) Cloud Native
8 37 (2.61%) Replication
9 35 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
10 34 (2.40%) Management Information System
11 30 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
12 25 (1.76%) Driving Licence
13 24 (1.69%) Private Cloud
14 23 (1.62%) Clustering
14 23 (1.62%) Public Cloud
15 20 (1.41%) Product Ownership
16 19 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
16 19 (1.34%) Video Conferencing
17 18 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
17 18 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 807 (56.95%) Windows
2 506 (35.71%) Linux
3 313 (22.09%) Windows Server
4 275 (19.41%) Android
5 72 (5.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 71 (5.01%) VMS
7 65 (4.59%) Windows 10
8 46 (3.25%) Unix
9 45 (3.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 42 (2.96%) Mac OS
11 26 (1.83%) Amazon Linux
12 24 (1.69%) Windows Server 2008
13 21 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 21 (1.48%) Windows Server 2012
14 17 (1.20%) Ubuntu
15 15 (1.06%) Solaris
15 15 (1.06%) Windows Server 2003
16 13 (0.92%) HPUX
16 13 (0.92%) Windows 7
17 12 (0.85%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 607 (42.84%) DevOps
2 537 (37.90%) Problem-Solving
3 464 (32.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 395 (27.88%) Task Automation
5 345 (24.35%) Platform Engineering
6 291 (20.54%) Storage Management
7 282 (19.90%) Risk Management
8 265 (18.70%) Mathematics
9 263 (18.56%) Line Management
10 253 (17.85%) CI/CD
11 191 (13.48%) ITIL
12 171 (12.07%) Infrastructure as Code
13 161 (11.36%) Agile
14 143 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
15 131 (9.24%) Mentoring
16 126 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
17 119 (8.40%) Disaster Recovery
18 117 (8.26%) Migration
19 110 (7.76%) Cloud Security
20 96 (6.77%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 615 (43.40%) Python
2 453 (31.97%) Bash
3 232 (16.37%) SQL
4 98 (6.92%) C#
5 65 (4.59%) Bicep
6 59 (4.16%) Java
7 49 (3.46%) JavaScript
8 44 (3.11%) Groovy
9 32 (2.26%) Perl
10 24 (1.69%) Go
10 24 (1.69%) VB
11 23 (1.62%) Kusto Query Language
12 15 (1.06%) TypeScript
13 14 (0.99%) Shell Script
14 12 (0.85%) T-SQL
15 10 (0.71%) VBA
16 9 (0.64%) VBScript
17 8 (0.56%) PL/SQL
18 5 (0.35%) C++
18 5 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 202 (14.26%) Security Cleared
2 173 (12.21%) Degree
3 126 (8.89%) SC Cleared
4 106 (7.48%) Azure Certification
5 90 (6.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 69 (4.87%) DV Cleared
7 56 (3.95%) Cisco Certification
8 47 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 46 (3.25%) AWS Certification
10 39 (2.75%) CCNA
11 27 (1.91%) DBS Check
12 25 (1.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 24 (1.69%) Master's Degree
14 22 (1.55%) CISSP
14 22 (1.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 21 (1.48%) CCNP
16 17 (1.20%) OSCP
17 13 (0.92%) CEH
17 13 (0.92%) MCSA
18 12 (0.85%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (8.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 87 (6.14%) NIST
3 57 (4.02%) SLA
4 50 (3.53%) GDPR
5 31 (2.19%) NCSC
6 29 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials
7 21 (1.48%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.85%) QA
9 9 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (0.64%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.49%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.35%) GRC
12 4 (0.28%) HL7
12 4 (0.28%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.21%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.071%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.071%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.071%) WCAG
System Software
1 438 (30.91%) Active Directory
2 399 (28.16%) Hyper-V
3 369 (26.04%) Docker
4 295 (20.82%) vSphere
5 265 (18.70%) VMware NSX
6 206 (14.54%) VMware Infrastructure
7 58 (4.09%) Virtual Machines
8 31 (2.19%) VMware ESXi
9 29 (2.05%) DFS Replication
9 29 (2.05%) Virtual Desktop
10 11 (0.78%) Firmware
10 11 (0.78%) Terminal Services
10 11 (0.78%) XenApp
11 10 (0.71%) Postfix
11 10 (0.71%) Squid
12 9 (0.64%) Dovecot
13 6 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (0.42%) XenDesktop
14 5 (0.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 4 (0.28%) KVM
Systems Management
1 487 (34.37%) Terraform
2 403 (28.44%) Ansible
3 214 (15.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 152 (10.73%) Kubernetes
5 73 (5.15%) Grafana
6 72 (5.08%) SCCM
7 69 (4.87%) Prometheus
8 61 (4.30%) Single Sign-On
9 38 (2.68%) WSUS
10 29 (2.05%) SCOM
11 24 (1.69%) vCenter Server
12 22 (1.55%) WMI
13 17 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 17 (1.20%) Autotask
14 16 (1.13%) Backup Exec
14 16 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
15 13 (0.92%) Nessus
16 12 (0.85%) Progress Chef
16 12 (0.85%) QRadar
16 12 (0.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 681 (48.06%) Microsoft
2 377 (26.61%) Cisco
3 308 (21.74%) Splunk
4 283 (19.97%) Juniper
5 268 (18.91%) VMware
6 262 (18.49%) 3PAR
7 96 (6.77%) ServiceNow
8 65 (4.59%) Oracle
9 57 (4.02%) Citrix
10 56 (3.95%) Veeam
11 43 (3.03%) Meraki
12 38 (2.68%) Red Hat
13 35 (2.47%) Atlassian
14 34 (2.40%) Google
15 29 (2.05%) SolarWinds
16 26 (1.83%) Sophos
17 25 (1.76%) HP
18 24 (1.69%) Apple
18 24 (1.69%) Palo Alto
19 23 (1.62%) SAP