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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 93 59
Rank change year-on-year -22 -34 +23
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,054 1,509 2,044
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.01% 3.03% 4.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.23% 8.88% 11.37%
Number of salaries quoted 892 1,077 1,738
10th Percentile £32,525 £37,300 £39,380
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £91,250 £95,000 £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 10,301 16,996 17,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.66% 34.09% 39.30%
Number of salaries quoted 7,776 10,133 15,001
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,150 £39,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £110,556 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +2.36% -2.31%

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 28 December 2025.

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 28 December 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 -13 436 £74,000 -1.33% 293
South East -32 193 £58,000 -1.90% 229
North of England -28 132 £50,000 - 178
South West +29 112 £50,000 -9.09% 99
Midlands -21 90 £52,500 +10.53% 140
East of England +27 78 £43,607 -16.94% 99
North West -21 64 £50,000 - 86
Yorkshire -22 58 £47,500 -9.52% 74
West Midlands -15 53 £52,500 +31.25% 76
East Midlands -9 37 £54,000 +13.68% 60
North East +9 10 £50,000 - 21
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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
1 184 (17.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 142 (13.47%) SharePoint
3 51 (4.84%) IIS
4 30 (2.85%) Confluence
5 22 (2.09%) Exchange Server 2003
6 17 (1.61%) Skype for Business
7 6 (0.57%) nginx
7 6 (0.57%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.19%) CMS
9 2 (0.19%) WordPress
10 1 (0.095%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 34 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.57%) Siemens NX
4 4 (0.38%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 3 (0.28%) CATIA
5 3 (0.28%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.28%) Windchill
6 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.57%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.47%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.28%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.28%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.19%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.095%) Actimize
6 1 (0.095%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.095%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 673 (63.85%) Azure
2 370 (35.10%) Microsoft 365
3 244 (23.15%) Entra ID
4 197 (18.69%) AWS
5 152 (14.42%) Azure DevOps
6 101 (9.58%) Power Platform
7 76 (7.21%) GCP
8 74 (7.02%) GitHub
9 70 (6.64%) PaaS
10 58 (5.50%) Power Automate
11 52 (4.93%) GitHub Actions
12 51 (4.84%) SaaS
13 49 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
14 48 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
15 46 (4.36%) IaaS
16 35 (3.32%) OneDrive
17 34 (3.23%) Serverless
18 31 (2.94%) PowerApps
19 30 (2.85%) AWS CloudFormation
20 27 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 222 (21.06%) Firewall
2 209 (19.83%) DNS
3 162 (15.37%) DHCP
4 103 (9.77%) TCP/IP
5 88 (8.35%) VPN
6 83 (7.87%) WAN
7 65 (6.17%) LAN
8 43 (4.08%) VLAN
9 36 (3.42%) Wi-Fi
10 34 (3.23%) SAN
10 34 (3.23%) Wireless
11 30 (2.85%) Internet
12 27 (2.56%) SD-WAN
13 25 (2.37%) Network Security
14 22 (2.09%) VoIP
15 18 (1.71%) Cisco IOS
15 18 (1.71%) NAS
16 17 (1.61%) Skype
17 14 (1.33%) VSAN
18 13 (1.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (10.44%) SQL Server
2 64 (6.07%) Power BI
3 33 (3.13%) Relational Database
4 30 (2.85%) Oracle Database
5 26 (2.47%) Oracle Database 10g
6 25 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
7 24 (2.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 17 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
10 13 (1.23%) NoSQL
10 13 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (1.14%) MySQL
12 9 (0.85%) DTS
12 9 (0.85%) Tableau
13 8 (0.76%) MongoDB
14 7 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
15 6 (0.57%) Data Mining
16 5 (0.47%) Metadata
16 5 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 4 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 87 (8.25%) JIRA
2 81 (7.69%) Git
3 74 (7.02%) Jenkins
4 40 (3.80%) GitLab
5 20 (1.90%) Octopus Deploy
6 13 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 12 (1.14%) TeamCity
8 9 (0.85%) Burp Suite
8 9 (0.85%) Metasploit
8 9 (0.85%) MSI
8 9 (0.85%) Vagrant
9 6 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (0.57%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.38%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.38%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.38%) Toad
11 3 (0.28%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.28%) Balsamiq
11 3 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 397 (37.67%) Social Skills
2 230 (21.82%) Finance
3 96 (9.11%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (6.36%) Law
5 41 (3.89%) Banking
5 41 (3.89%) Legal
6 40 (3.80%) Retail
7 36 (3.42%) Public Sector
8 34 (3.23%) Manufacturing
9 32 (3.04%) Telecoms
10 29 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
11 26 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
14 16 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.23%) Marketing
16 11 (1.04%) Advertising
17 10 (0.95%) Electronics
17 10 (0.95%) Front Office
18 9 (0.85%) Games
Job Titles
1 156 (14.80%) Support Engineer
2 127 (12.05%) Senior
3 113 (10.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 85 (8.06%) DevOps Engineer
5 82 (7.78%) Azure Engineer
6 81 (7.69%) Analyst
7 70 (6.64%) Lead
8 68 (6.45%) Developer
8 68 (6.45%) Security Engineer
9 67 (6.36%) 3rd Line Support
9 67 (6.36%) Cloud Engineer
9 67 (6.36%) IT Support
10 58 (5.50%) IT Engineer
11 52 (4.93%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 52 (4.93%) Platform Engineer
12 43 (4.08%) Applications Engineer
12 43 (4.08%) Applications Support
13 40 (3.80%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
14 39 (3.70%) IT Support Engineer
15 38 (3.61%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (5.69%) REST
2 58 (5.50%) .NET
3 53 (5.03%) YAML
4 32 (3.04%) ARM Templates
5 29 (2.75%) JSON
6 28 (2.66%) SOAP
7 25 (2.37%) LDAP
8 19 (1.80%) React
9 17 (1.61%) Microsoft Graph
10 16 (1.52%) OpenID
11 15 (1.42%) AngularJS
11 15 (1.42%) Elastic Stack
11 15 (1.42%) OAuth
12 13 (1.23%) SAML
13 12 (1.14%) Middleware
13 12 (1.14%) Node.js
13 12 (1.14%) Web Services
14 10 (0.95%) Razor View Engine
15 9 (0.85%) .NET Framework
16 8 (0.76%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 88 (8.35%) Onboarding
2 58 (5.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 51 (4.84%) Security Posture
4 41 (3.89%) Management Information System
5 39 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
6 33 (3.13%) Cloud Native
7 30 (2.85%) Data Centre
8 28 (2.66%) Analytical Mindset
8 28 (2.66%) PKI
9 23 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
10 21 (1.99%) CMDB
10 21 (1.99%) Private Cloud
10 21 (1.99%) Video Conferencing
11 20 (1.90%) Hedge funds
12 19 (1.80%) Public Cloud
13 17 (1.61%) Driving Licence
14 16 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
15 15 (1.42%) Product Ownership
15 15 (1.42%) Virtual Team
16 14 (1.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 472 (44.78%) Windows
2 266 (25.24%) Windows Server
3 190 (18.03%) Linux
4 69 (6.55%) Windows 10
5 49 (4.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 45 (4.27%) Mac OS
7 43 (4.08%) Unix
8 38 (3.61%) Windows Server 2016
9 31 (2.94%) Android
9 31 (2.94%) Windows Server 2008
10 29 (2.75%) VMS
11 26 (2.47%) Solaris
12 22 (2.09%) HPUX
12 22 (2.09%) Windows 7
12 22 (2.09%) Windows Server 2003
13 19 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 18 (1.71%) Windows Server 2012
15 16 (1.52%) Apple iOS
16 13 (1.23%) Ubuntu
17 10 (0.95%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (28.46%) Problem-Solving
2 294 (27.89%) DevOps
3 226 (21.44%) CI/CD
4 184 (17.46%) ITIL
5 176 (16.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 168 (15.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 164 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 144 (13.66%) Cybersecurity
9 125 (11.86%) Disaster Recovery
10 120 (11.39%) Task Automation
11 117 (11.10%) Agile
11 117 (11.10%) Mentoring
12 104 (9.87%) Migration
13 94 (8.92%) Cloud Security
14 91 (8.63%) Root Cause Analysis
15 87 (8.25%) Incident Management
16 83 (7.87%) ITSM
17 82 (7.78%) Computer Science
18 80 (7.59%) Change Management
19 79 (7.50%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 331 (31.40%) Python
2 203 (19.26%) SQL
3 196 (18.60%) Bash
4 86 (8.16%) C#
5 59 (5.60%) Bicep
6 49 (4.65%) JavaScript
7 30 (2.85%) Perl
8 25 (2.37%) Go
8 25 (2.37%) T-SQL
9 24 (2.28%) Java
9 24 (2.28%) Kusto Query Language
10 18 (1.71%) VB
11 12 (1.14%) VBScript
12 11 (1.04%) Groovy
12 11 (1.04%) TypeScript
13 9 (0.85%) VB.NET
14 7 (0.66%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.57%) Ruby
16 4 (0.38%) C++
16 4 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 157 (14.90%) Degree
2 149 (14.14%) Security Cleared
3 95 (9.01%) Microsoft Certification
4 92 (8.73%) SC Cleared
5 78 (7.40%) Azure Certification
6 56 (5.31%) DV Cleared
7 44 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 42 (3.98%) Cisco Certification
9 34 (3.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 29 (2.75%) CISSP
11 25 (2.37%) AWS Certification
12 23 (2.18%) CCNA
13 20 (1.90%) Master's Degree
14 18 (1.71%) CEH
15 15 (1.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 14 (1.33%) CREST Certified
17 13 (1.23%) CCNP
17 13 (1.23%) MCSA
18 12 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 12 (1.14%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (13.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 107 (10.15%) NIST
3 59 (5.60%) SLA
4 50 (4.74%) GDPR
5 33 (3.13%) NCSC
6 29 (2.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 26 (2.47%) Accessibility
8 13 (1.23%) QA
9 12 (1.14%) ISO 22301
10 11 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 9 (0.85%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.57%) GRC
13 5 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.47%) Data Quality
13 5 (0.47%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.28%) HL7
15 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 1 (0.095%) COBIT
16 1 (0.095%) NIST 800
System Software
1 364 (34.54%) Active Directory
2 145 (13.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 98 (9.30%) Docker
4 89 (8.44%) Hyper-V
5 41 (3.89%) Virtual Machines
6 32 (3.04%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (2.47%) vSphere
8 22 (2.09%) Firmware
9 21 (1.99%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.85%) XenApp
11 8 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.76%) XenDesktop
12 5 (0.47%) DFS Replication
12 5 (0.47%) Postfix
12 5 (0.47%) Squid
13 4 (0.38%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.28%) Terminal Server
14 3 (0.28%) vCloud
14 3 (0.28%) VMware NSX
15 2 (0.19%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 207 (19.64%) Terraform
2 186 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 147 (13.95%) Kubernetes
4 114 (10.82%) Ansible
5 59 (5.60%) SCCM
6 36 (3.42%) Grafana
7 32 (3.04%) Single Sign-On
8 30 (2.85%) Prometheus
9 21 (1.99%) WSUS
10 17 (1.61%) SCOM
10 17 (1.61%) vCenter Server
11 13 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 11 (1.04%) ZABBIX
13 10 (0.95%) Autotask
13 10 (0.95%) Puppet
14 9 (0.85%) FortiGate
14 9 (0.85%) Nagios
14 9 (0.85%) WMI
15 8 (0.76%) Nessus
15 8 (0.76%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 608 (57.69%) Microsoft
2 224 (21.25%) VMware
3 101 (9.58%) Cisco
4 67 (6.36%) ServiceNow
5 54 (5.12%) Oracle
6 47 (4.46%) Veeam
7 42 (3.98%) Citrix
8 40 (3.80%) Atlassian
9 34 (3.23%) Red Hat
10 33 (3.13%) Google
10 33 (3.13%) Splunk
11 29 (2.75%) Palo Alto
12 27 (2.56%) SolarWinds
13 23 (2.18%) SAP
14 20 (1.90%) Commvault
14 20 (1.90%) CrowdStrike
14 20 (1.90%) Meraki
15 19 (1.80%) Dell
15 19 (1.80%) Fortinet
16 17 (1.61%) Apple