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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 92 67
Rank change year-on-year -25 -25 +18
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,025 1,444 2,095
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.90% 3.03% 3.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.87% 8.98% 10.35%
Number of salaries quoted 839 1,013 1,823
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,350 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £46,250 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £92,000
UK median annual salary £58,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.20% +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 10,382 16,074 20,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.29% 33.76% 37.66%
Number of salaries quoted 7,790 9,419 17,098
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £106,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +7.44% -6.92%

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

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Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in England

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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 20 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
London -6 444 £72,500 -3.33% 145
South East -43 173 £58,000 -3.33% 188
North of England -27 130 £50,000 - 118
South West +25 108 £52,500 -2.78% 87
Midlands -20 88 £52,500 +10.53% 75
East of England +20 69 £43,085 -17.93% 75
North West -16 61 £50,500 +1.00% 65
Yorkshire -23 58 £47,500 -9.52% 42
West Midlands -26 47 £52,500 +23.53% 25
East Midlands -10 41 £55,000 +15.79% 50
North East +7 11 £62,500 +10.62% 12
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UK

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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
1 168 (16.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 134 (13.07%) SharePoint
3 42 (4.10%) IIS
4 24 (2.34%) Confluence
5 22 (2.15%) Exchange Server 2003
6 14 (1.37%) Skype for Business
7 6 (0.59%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.49%) nginx
8 5 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.20%) CMS
9 2 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 35 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.59%) Siemens NX
4 5 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.39%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 3 (0.29%) CATIA
6 3 (0.29%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.29%) Windchill
7 2 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.59%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.49%) NEC Housing
3 5 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.29%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.20%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.20%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.098%) Actimize
6 1 (0.098%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 645 (62.93%) Azure
2 347 (33.85%) Microsoft 365
3 249 (24.29%) Entra ID
4 187 (18.24%) AWS
5 151 (14.73%) Azure DevOps
6 102 (9.95%) Power Platform
7 72 (7.02%) GitHub
8 71 (6.93%) GCP
9 61 (5.95%) PaaS
10 57 (5.56%) Power Automate
11 53 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
12 46 (4.49%) Azure Monitor
13 42 (4.10%) IaaS
14 40 (3.90%) Azure Sentinel
14 40 (3.90%) OneDrive
15 39 (3.80%) SaaS
16 30 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
16 30 (2.93%) PowerApps
17 27 (2.63%) Google Workspace
17 27 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 199 (19.41%) Firewall
2 192 (18.73%) DNS
3 145 (14.15%) DHCP
4 98 (9.56%) TCP/IP
5 90 (8.78%) VPN
6 72 (7.02%) WAN
7 62 (6.05%) LAN
8 38 (3.71%) Wi-Fi
9 37 (3.61%) VLAN
10 33 (3.22%) Wireless
11 31 (3.02%) SAN
12 25 (2.44%) SD-WAN
13 22 (2.15%) Internet
14 21 (2.05%) Network Security
15 18 (1.76%) VSAN
16 16 (1.56%) VoIP
17 15 (1.46%) Cisco IOS
18 14 (1.37%) Broadband
18 14 (1.37%) Skype
19 13 (1.27%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (11.12%) SQL Server
2 69 (6.73%) Power BI
3 33 (3.22%) Relational Database
4 30 (2.93%) Oracle Database
5 29 (2.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 26 (2.54%) Oracle Database 10g
7 21 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (1.56%) MySQL
8 16 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (1.17%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.07%) Tableau
11 9 (0.88%) MongoDB
12 7 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
12 7 (0.68%) DTS
13 6 (0.59%) Data Mining
13 6 (0.59%) Metadata
14 5 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (0.39%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 84 (8.20%) Git
2 81 (7.90%) JIRA
3 74 (7.22%) Jenkins
4 37 (3.61%) GitLab
5 24 (2.34%) Octopus Deploy
6 17 (1.66%) Bitbucket
7 16 (1.56%) TeamCity
8 12 (1.17%) Burp Suite
8 12 (1.17%) Metasploit
9 6 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (0.59%) Robot Framework
9 6 (0.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 6 (0.59%) Vagrant
10 5 (0.49%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.49%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.39%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.39%) MLflow
11 4 (0.39%) MSI
11 4 (0.39%) Toad
12 3 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 375 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 231 (22.54%) Finance
3 100 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (5.46%) Law
5 46 (4.49%) Retail
6 39 (3.80%) Legal
7 38 (3.71%) Banking
8 37 (3.61%) Public Sector
9 30 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
9 30 (2.93%) Manufacturing
10 29 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
10 29 (2.83%) Telecoms
11 22 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (0.98%) Front Office
14 10 (0.98%) Marketing
15 9 (0.88%) Advertising
16 8 (0.78%) Electronics
16 8 (0.78%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 138 (13.46%) Support Engineer
2 134 (13.07%) Senior
3 107 (10.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 83 (8.10%) DevOps Engineer
5 81 (7.90%) Analyst
6 80 (7.80%) Azure Engineer
7 72 (7.02%) Developer
8 66 (6.44%) Lead
9 63 (6.15%) IT Support
9 63 (6.15%) Security Engineer
10 60 (5.85%) Cloud Engineer
11 53 (5.17%) 3rd Line Support
12 52 (5.07%) IT Engineer
13 50 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
14 45 (4.39%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 42 (4.10%) Applications Support
16 41 (4.00%) Applications Engineer
17 38 (3.71%) IT Support Engineer
18 35 (3.41%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
19 33 (3.22%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (6.54%) REST
2 59 (5.76%) .NET
3 41 (4.00%) YAML
4 34 (3.32%) SOAP
5 29 (2.83%) LDAP
6 27 (2.63%) JSON
6 27 (2.63%) OpenID
7 26 (2.54%) ARM Templates
7 26 (2.54%) OAuth
8 24 (2.34%) SAML
9 21 (2.05%) React
10 17 (1.66%) Elastic Stack
10 17 (1.66%) Microsoft Graph
11 15 (1.46%) AngularJS
11 15 (1.46%) GraphQL
12 13 (1.27%) Middleware
13 11 (1.07%) Node.js
13 11 (1.07%) Web Services
14 10 (0.98%) Razor View Engine
15 9 (0.88%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 81 (7.90%) Onboarding
2 57 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 55 (5.37%) Security Posture
4 38 (3.71%) Management Information System
5 36 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
6 31 (3.02%) Cloud Native
7 27 (2.63%) Data Centre
8 26 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
8 26 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
9 23 (2.24%) Driving Licence
9 23 (2.24%) PKI
10 21 (2.05%) CMDB
11 20 (1.95%) Cyber Defence
11 20 (1.95%) Hedge funds
12 19 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
12 19 (1.85%) Private Cloud
13 18 (1.76%) Video Conferencing
14 17 (1.66%) Public Cloud
15 16 (1.56%) Replication
16 15 (1.46%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 455 (44.39%) Windows
2 243 (23.71%) Windows Server
3 185 (18.05%) Linux
4 67 (6.54%) Windows 10
5 44 (4.29%) Mac OS
6 41 (4.00%) Unix
7 38 (3.71%) Windows Server 2019
8 34 (3.32%) Windows Server 2016
9 29 (2.83%) Android
9 29 (2.83%) Windows Server 2008
10 28 (2.73%) VMS
11 25 (2.44%) Solaris
12 22 (2.15%) HPUX
12 22 (2.15%) Windows 7
12 22 (2.15%) Windows Server 2003
13 21 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 15 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
15 14 (1.37%) Apple iOS
15 14 (1.37%) CentOS
16 13 (1.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (31.02%) Problem-Solving
2 279 (27.22%) DevOps
3 217 (21.17%) CI/CD
4 188 (18.34%) ITIL
5 167 (16.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 165 (16.10%) Continuous Improvement
7 160 (15.61%) Infrastructure as Code
8 150 (14.63%) Cybersecurity
9 130 (12.68%) Disaster Recovery
10 121 (11.80%) Mentoring
11 115 (11.22%) Agile
11 115 (11.22%) Task Automation
12 98 (9.56%) Root Cause Analysis
13 87 (8.49%) Cloud Security
14 86 (8.39%) Computer Science
14 86 (8.39%) Migration
15 84 (8.20%) Incident Management
16 83 (8.10%) Incident Response
17 79 (7.71%) Business Intelligence
17 79 (7.71%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 338 (32.98%) Python
2 211 (20.59%) SQL
3 204 (19.90%) Bash
4 87 (8.49%) C#
5 58 (5.66%) Bicep
6 51 (4.98%) JavaScript
7 36 (3.51%) T-SQL
8 27 (2.63%) Perl
9 22 (2.15%) Go
10 21 (2.05%) Java
11 19 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
12 14 (1.37%) VB
13 11 (1.07%) TypeScript
13 11 (1.07%) VBScript
14 10 (0.98%) VB.NET
15 7 (0.68%) Groovy
15 7 (0.68%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.39%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.39%) R
16 4 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 153 (14.93%) Degree
2 145 (14.15%) Security Cleared
3 91 (8.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 88 (8.59%) SC Cleared
5 78 (7.61%) Azure Certification
6 53 (5.17%) DV Cleared
7 42 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (3.22%) CISSP
10 32 (3.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 27 (2.63%) AWS Certification
12 20 (1.95%) CREST Certified
13 17 (1.66%) CCNA
13 17 (1.66%) CEH
14 16 (1.56%) Master's Degree
15 13 (1.27%) CompTIA CySA+
15 13 (1.27%) DBS Check
16 12 (1.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 12 (1.17%) GIAC
16 12 (1.17%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (14.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 109 (10.63%) NIST
3 53 (5.17%) GDPR
3 53 (5.17%) SLA
4 34 (3.32%) NCSC
5 27 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 25 (2.44%) Accessibility
7 15 (1.46%) QA
8 14 (1.37%) ISO 22301
9 13 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 10 (0.98%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.78%) Data Quality
12 7 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.49%) GRC
13 5 (0.49%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.29%) HL7
14 3 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
16 1 (0.098%) COBIT
16 1 (0.098%) DICOM
System Software
1 363 (35.41%) Active Directory
2 122 (11.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 95 (9.27%) Docker
4 77 (7.51%) Hyper-V
5 35 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (2.73%) vSphere
7 27 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (2.24%) Firmware
9 14 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.68%) XenApp
11 7 (0.68%) XenDesktop
12 5 (0.49%) Postfix
12 5 (0.49%) Squid
13 4 (0.39%) DFS Replication
13 4 (0.39%) Dovecot
13 4 (0.39%) VMware NSX
14 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.29%) vCloud
15 2 (0.20%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 203 (19.80%) Terraform
2 175 (17.07%) Microsoft Intune
3 141 (13.76%) Kubernetes
4 118 (11.51%) Ansible
5 52 (5.07%) SCCM
6 37 (3.61%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (3.12%) Grafana
8 26 (2.54%) Prometheus
9 16 (1.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 16 (1.56%) SCOM
10 15 (1.46%) WSUS
11 14 (1.37%) Nessus
12 11 (1.07%) Puppet
12 11 (1.07%) vCenter Server
13 9 (0.88%) FortiGate
13 9 (0.88%) ZABBIX
14 8 (0.78%) Nagios
14 8 (0.78%) Progress Chef
14 8 (0.78%) SCVMM
15 7 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 570 (55.61%) Microsoft
2 204 (19.90%) VMware
3 87 (8.49%) Cisco
4 62 (6.05%) ServiceNow
5 55 (5.37%) Oracle
6 45 (4.39%) Veeam
7 39 (3.80%) Atlassian
8 37 (3.61%) Google
9 33 (3.22%) Citrix
10 31 (3.02%) Red Hat
10 31 (3.02%) Splunk
11 28 (2.73%) Palo Alto
12 22 (2.15%) Commvault
12 22 (2.15%) SAP
13 21 (2.05%) CrowdStrike
13 21 (2.05%) Dell
13 21 (2.05%) SolarWinds
14 19 (1.85%) Fortinet
15 18 (1.76%) Meraki
16 17 (1.66%) CyberArk