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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 93 64
Rank change year-on-year -20 -29 +19
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,023 1,467 1,999
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.95% 3.04% 4.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.00% 8.95% 10.81%
Number of salaries quoted 858 1,032 1,710
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,000 £39,380
25th Percentile £43,592 £47,500 £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 £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 10,235 16,387 18,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.47% 33.95% 38.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,731 9,626 15,531
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £82,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 9 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 9 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 -10 434 £74,000 -1.33% 166
South East -44 177 £58,000 -1.90% 223
North of England -20 132 £50,000 - 138
South West +20 105 £52,500 -4.55% 102
Midlands -18 90 £52,500 +10.53% 97
East of England +18 72 £43,085 -17.93% 108
North West -11 62 £50,000 - 58
Yorkshire -19 59 £47,500 -9.52% 60
West Midlands -24 50 £52,500 +23.53% 31
East Midlands -6 40 £54,500 +7.92% 65
North East +6 11 £62,500 +25.00% 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
1 177 (17.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 138 (13.49%) SharePoint
3 44 (4.30%) IIS
4 27 (2.64%) Confluence
5 22 (2.15%) Exchange Server 2003
6 17 (1.66%) Skype for Business
7 6 (0.59%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.49%) nginx
8 5 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.20%) CMS
9 2 (0.20%) WordPress
10 1 (0.098%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 34 (3.32%) 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 9 (0.88%) 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
5 2 (0.20%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.20%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.098%) Actimize
6 1 (0.098%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 651 (63.64%) Azure
2 358 (35.00%) Microsoft 365
3 244 (23.85%) Entra ID
4 189 (18.48%) AWS
5 153 (14.96%) Azure DevOps
6 101 (9.87%) Power Platform
7 74 (7.23%) GCP
8 72 (7.04%) GitHub
9 64 (6.26%) PaaS
10 58 (5.67%) Power Automate
11 52 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
12 49 (4.79%) Azure Monitor
13 44 (4.30%) Azure Sentinel
13 44 (4.30%) SaaS
14 41 (4.01%) IaaS
15 38 (3.71%) OneDrive
16 31 (3.03%) Serverless
17 30 (2.93%) PowerApps
18 29 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
19 27 (2.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 209 (20.43%) Firewall
2 197 (19.26%) DNS
3 151 (14.76%) DHCP
4 98 (9.58%) TCP/IP
5 88 (8.60%) VPN
6 74 (7.23%) WAN
7 60 (5.87%) LAN
8 41 (4.01%) VLAN
9 38 (3.71%) Wi-Fi
10 33 (3.23%) SAN
11 31 (3.03%) Wireless
12 26 (2.54%) Internet
13 25 (2.44%) SD-WAN
14 24 (2.35%) Network Security
15 18 (1.76%) VoIP
16 17 (1.66%) Skype
17 16 (1.56%) Cisco IOS
17 16 (1.56%) NAS
18 15 (1.47%) VSAN
19 11 (1.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (10.95%) SQL Server
2 65 (6.35%) Power BI
3 32 (3.13%) Relational Database
4 30 (2.93%) Oracle Database
5 26 (2.54%) Oracle Database 10g
5 26 (2.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 21 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (1.37%) MySQL
10 12 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (1.08%) NoSQL
11 11 (1.08%) Tableau
12 9 (0.88%) DTS
13 8 (0.78%) MongoDB
14 7 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
15 6 (0.59%) Data Mining
15 6 (0.59%) Metadata
16 4 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
16 4 (0.39%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 84 (8.21%) JIRA
2 77 (7.53%) Git
3 72 (7.04%) Jenkins
4 38 (3.71%) GitLab
5 22 (2.15%) Octopus Deploy
6 15 (1.47%) TeamCity
7 13 (1.27%) Bitbucket
8 9 (0.88%) Burp Suite
8 9 (0.88%) Metasploit
9 7 (0.68%) Vagrant
10 6 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.49%) MSI
12 4 (0.39%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.39%) MLflow
12 4 (0.39%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.39%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.39%) Toad
13 3 (0.29%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 381 (37.24%) Social Skills
2 226 (22.09%) Finance
3 99 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (6.16%) Law
5 43 (4.20%) Retail
6 42 (4.11%) Legal
7 39 (3.81%) Banking
8 36 (3.52%) Public Sector
9 34 (3.32%) Manufacturing
10 30 (2.93%) Telecoms
11 29 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
12 24 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 19 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
14 18 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (1.17%) Marketing
17 10 (0.98%) Advertising
17 10 (0.98%) Front Office
18 9 (0.88%) Electronics
18 9 (0.88%) Games
Job Titles
1 145 (14.17%) Support Engineer
2 126 (12.32%) Senior
3 108 (10.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 85 (8.31%) DevOps Engineer
5 80 (7.82%) Analyst
5 80 (7.82%) Azure Engineer
6 69 (6.74%) Developer
6 69 (6.74%) Lead
7 64 (6.26%) IT Support
7 64 (6.26%) Security Engineer
8 62 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
9 58 (5.67%) 3rd Line Support
10 53 (5.18%) IT Engineer
11 52 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
12 47 (4.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 42 (4.11%) Applications Engineer
13 42 (4.11%) Applications Support
14 39 (3.81%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
15 37 (3.62%) IT Support Engineer
16 35 (3.42%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (5.96%) REST
2 59 (5.77%) .NET
3 46 (4.50%) YAML
4 30 (2.93%) ARM Templates
5 29 (2.83%) JSON
6 28 (2.74%) SOAP
7 24 (2.35%) LDAP
8 20 (1.96%) React
9 17 (1.66%) Microsoft Graph
9 17 (1.66%) OpenID
10 16 (1.56%) OAuth
11 15 (1.47%) AngularJS
11 15 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (1.37%) SAML
13 13 (1.27%) Middleware
14 12 (1.17%) Node.js
15 11 (1.08%) Web Services
16 10 (0.98%) Razor View Engine
17 9 (0.88%) .NET Framework
18 8 (0.78%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 85 (8.31%) Onboarding
2 59 (5.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 51 (4.99%) Security Posture
4 39 (3.81%) Management Information System
5 38 (3.71%) Enterprise Software
6 30 (2.93%) Cloud Native
7 29 (2.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 29 (2.83%) Data Centre
8 25 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
9 24 (2.35%) PKI
10 22 (2.15%) CMDB
11 21 (2.05%) Hedge funds
12 20 (1.96%) Private Cloud
12 20 (1.96%) Video Conferencing
13 19 (1.86%) Driving Licence
14 17 (1.66%) Public Cloud
14 17 (1.66%) Virtual Team
15 15 (1.47%) Replication
16 14 (1.37%) Product Ownership
16 14 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 450 (43.99%) Windows
2 246 (24.05%) Windows Server
3 179 (17.50%) Linux
4 68 (6.65%) Windows 10
5 43 (4.20%) Mac OS
6 42 (4.11%) Unix
7 39 (3.81%) Windows Server 2019
8 32 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 31 (3.03%) Windows Server 2008
10 30 (2.93%) Android
11 27 (2.64%) VMS
12 25 (2.44%) Solaris
13 22 (2.15%) HPUX
13 22 (2.15%) Windows 7
13 22 (2.15%) Windows Server 2003
14 19 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 17 (1.66%) Windows Server 2012
16 14 (1.37%) Apple iOS
17 12 (1.17%) Ubuntu
18 10 (0.98%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (29.72%) Problem-Solving
2 286 (27.96%) DevOps
3 219 (21.41%) CI/CD
4 182 (17.79%) ITIL
5 171 (16.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 167 (16.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 157 (15.35%) Infrastructure as Code
8 146 (14.27%) Cybersecurity
9 127 (12.41%) Disaster Recovery
10 117 (11.44%) Task Automation
11 112 (10.95%) Mentoring
12 110 (10.75%) Agile
13 95 (9.29%) Migration
14 93 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
15 88 (8.60%) Cloud Security
15 88 (8.60%) Incident Management
16 81 (7.92%) Computer Science
17 76 (7.43%) Incident Response
17 76 (7.43%) ITSM
18 75 (7.33%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 327 (31.96%) Python
2 206 (20.14%) SQL
3 189 (18.48%) Bash
4 86 (8.41%) C#
5 59 (5.77%) Bicep
6 51 (4.99%) JavaScript
7 29 (2.83%) Perl
8 28 (2.74%) T-SQL
9 23 (2.25%) Go
9 23 (2.25%) Java
10 21 (2.05%) Kusto Query Language
11 15 (1.47%) VB
12 11 (1.08%) TypeScript
12 11 (1.08%) VBScript
13 10 (0.98%) Groovy
14 9 (0.88%) VB.NET
15 7 (0.68%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.49%) C++
16 5 (0.49%) Ruby
17 4 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 149 (14.57%) Degree
2 144 (14.08%) Security Cleared
3 92 (8.99%) SC Cleared
4 87 (8.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 75 (7.33%) Azure Certification
6 51 (4.99%) DV Cleared
7 41 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 39 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (3.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 28 (2.74%) CISSP
11 24 (2.35%) AWS Certification
12 21 (2.05%) CCNA
13 17 (1.66%) CEH
13 17 (1.66%) Master's Degree
14 16 (1.56%) CREST Certified
15 13 (1.27%) CCNP
16 12 (1.17%) CompTIA CySA+
17 11 (1.08%) GIAC
17 11 (1.08%) MCP
17 11 (1.08%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (13.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 102 (9.97%) NIST
3 54 (5.28%) SLA
4 48 (4.69%) GDPR
5 31 (3.03%) NCSC
6 26 (2.54%) Cyber Essentials
7 24 (2.35%) Accessibility
8 14 (1.37%) QA
9 13 (1.27%) ISO 22301
10 12 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (0.98%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.68%) Data Quality
13 6 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.49%) GRC
14 5 (0.49%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.29%) HL7
15 3 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
17 1 (0.098%) COBIT
17 1 (0.098%) NIST 800
System Software
1 358 (35.00%) Active Directory
2 130 (12.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 91 (8.90%) Docker
4 78 (7.62%) Hyper-V
5 36 (3.52%) Virtual Machines
6 30 (2.93%) Virtual Desktop
7 27 (2.64%) vSphere
8 23 (2.25%) Firmware
9 15 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.78%) XenApp
10 8 (0.78%) XenDesktop
11 5 (0.49%) Postfix
11 5 (0.49%) Squid
12 4 (0.39%) DFS Replication
12 4 (0.39%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.29%) vCloud
13 3 (0.29%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.20%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 2 (0.20%) KVM
Systems Management
1 204 (19.94%) Terraform
2 180 (17.60%) Microsoft Intune
3 141 (13.78%) Kubernetes
4 112 (10.95%) Ansible
5 56 (5.47%) SCCM
6 35 (3.42%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (3.13%) Grafana
8 28 (2.74%) Prometheus
9 18 (1.76%) WSUS
10 17 (1.66%) SCOM
11 13 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 12 (1.17%) vCenter Server
13 11 (1.08%) ZABBIX
14 10 (0.98%) Nessus
14 10 (0.98%) Puppet
15 9 (0.88%) FortiGate
15 9 (0.88%) Nagios
16 7 (0.68%) Autotask
16 7 (0.68%) Progress Chef
17 6 (0.59%) VxRail
Vendors
1 583 (56.99%) Microsoft
2 211 (20.63%) VMware
3 94 (9.19%) Cisco
4 64 (6.26%) ServiceNow
5 54 (5.28%) Oracle
6 44 (4.30%) Veeam
7 39 (3.81%) Atlassian
7 39 (3.81%) Citrix
8 35 (3.42%) Google
9 31 (3.03%) Red Hat
10 30 (2.93%) Splunk
11 29 (2.83%) Palo Alto
12 27 (2.64%) SolarWinds
13 23 (2.25%) SAP
14 22 (2.15%) Commvault
15 21 (2.05%) CrowdStrike
16 20 (1.96%) Dell
16 20 (1.96%) Fortinet
17 18 (1.76%) Meraki
18 17 (1.66%) CyberArk