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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 93 62
Rank change year-on-year -18 -31 +20
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,025 1,482 2,016
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.97% 3.04% 4.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.05% 8.96% 11.12%
Number of salaries quoted 861 1,043 1,723
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,250 £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 £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 10,196 16,541 18,135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.57% 33.95% 38.73%
Number of salaries quoted 7,688 9,726 15,182
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,625 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £110,000
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 5 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 5 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 -12 435 £74,000 -1.33% 349
South East -41 181 £58,000 -1.90% 274
North of England -25 127 £50,000 - 93
South West +25 106 £52,500 -4.55% 72
Midlands -19 89 £52,500 +13.51% 57
East of England +24 74 £43,085 -17.93% 60
North West -16 62 £50,000 - 39
Yorkshire -23 55 £47,500 -9.52% 25
West Midlands -23 50 £52,500 +31.25% 25
East Midlands -7 39 £54,000 +6.93% 32
North East +3 10 £50,000 - 30
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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 (17.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 138 (13.46%) SharePoint
3 44 (4.29%) IIS
4 27 (2.63%) 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 32 (3.12%) 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%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.59%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.49%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.29%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.29%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.20%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.098%) Actimize
6 1 (0.098%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.098%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 659 (64.29%) Azure
2 357 (34.83%) Microsoft 365
3 243 (23.71%) Entra ID
4 193 (18.83%) AWS
5 154 (15.02%) Azure DevOps
6 100 (9.76%) Power Platform
7 75 (7.32%) GCP
8 73 (7.12%) GitHub
9 67 (6.54%) PaaS
10 57 (5.56%) Power Automate
11 52 (5.07%) GitHub Actions
12 48 (4.68%) Azure Monitor
13 46 (4.49%) SaaS
14 44 (4.29%) Azure Sentinel
15 43 (4.20%) IaaS
16 37 (3.61%) OneDrive
17 32 (3.12%) Serverless
18 30 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
18 30 (2.93%) PowerApps
19 27 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 211 (20.59%) Firewall
2 198 (19.32%) DNS
3 152 (14.83%) DHCP
4 99 (9.66%) TCP/IP
5 86 (8.39%) VPN
6 76 (7.41%) WAN
7 60 (5.85%) LAN
8 40 (3.90%) VLAN
9 37 (3.61%) Wi-Fi
10 33 (3.22%) SAN
11 31 (3.02%) Wireless
12 27 (2.63%) SD-WAN
13 26 (2.54%) Internet
14 24 (2.34%) Network Security
15 18 (1.76%) VoIP
16 17 (1.66%) NAS
16 17 (1.66%) Skype
17 16 (1.56%) Cisco IOS
18 14 (1.37%) VSAN
19 11 (1.07%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (10.54%) SQL Server
2 64 (6.24%) Power BI
3 33 (3.22%) Relational Database
4 30 (2.93%) Oracle Database
5 26 (2.54%) Oracle Database 10g
6 25 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 21 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (1.27%) MySQL
11 12 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
11 12 (1.17%) NoSQL
12 11 (1.07%) Tableau
13 9 (0.88%) DTS
14 8 (0.78%) MongoDB
15 7 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
16 6 (0.59%) Data Mining
16 6 (0.59%) Metadata
17 4 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
17 4 (0.39%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 84 (8.20%) JIRA
2 77 (7.51%) Git
3 73 (7.12%) Jenkins
4 40 (3.90%) GitLab
5 21 (2.05%) Octopus Deploy
6 14 (1.37%) 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
10 6 (0.59%) MSI
11 5 (0.49%) 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%) Balsamiq
General
1 381 (37.17%) Social Skills
2 228 (22.24%) Finance
3 97 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (6.15%) Law
5 41 (4.00%) Legal
5 41 (4.00%) Retail
6 40 (3.90%) Banking
7 36 (3.51%) Public Sector
8 33 (3.22%) Manufacturing
9 30 (2.93%) Telecoms
10 29 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
11 25 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
13 19 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.17%) Marketing
16 11 (1.07%) Advertising
17 10 (0.98%) Front Office
18 9 (0.88%) Electronics
18 9 (0.88%) Games
Job Titles
1 146 (14.24%) Support Engineer
2 125 (12.20%) Senior
3 109 (10.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 84 (8.20%) DevOps Engineer
5 81 (7.90%) Azure Engineer
6 78 (7.61%) Analyst
7 71 (6.93%) Lead
8 68 (6.63%) Developer
9 66 (6.44%) Security Engineer
10 64 (6.24%) Cloud Engineer
10 64 (6.24%) IT Support
11 57 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support
12 55 (5.37%) IT Engineer
13 52 (5.07%) Platform Engineer
14 47 (4.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 43 (4.20%) Applications Engineer
15 43 (4.20%) Applications Support
16 39 (3.80%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
17 37 (3.61%) IT Support Engineer
18 36 (3.51%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (5.95%) REST
2 59 (5.76%) .NET
3 49 (4.78%) YAML
4 30 (2.93%) ARM Templates
5 29 (2.83%) JSON
5 29 (2.83%) SOAP
6 24 (2.34%) LDAP
7 20 (1.95%) React
8 17 (1.66%) Microsoft Graph
8 17 (1.66%) OpenID
9 16 (1.56%) OAuth
10 15 (1.46%) AngularJS
10 15 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
11 14 (1.37%) SAML
12 13 (1.27%) Middleware
13 12 (1.17%) Node.js
14 11 (1.07%) Web Services
15 10 (0.98%) Razor View Engine
16 9 (0.88%) .NET Framework
17 8 (0.78%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 86 (8.39%) Onboarding
2 58 (5.66%) Hybrid Cloud
3 52 (5.07%) Security Posture
4 40 (3.90%) Management Information System
5 39 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
6 31 (3.02%) Cloud Native
7 29 (2.83%) Data Centre
8 28 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
9 24 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
9 24 (2.34%) PKI
10 21 (2.05%) CMDB
10 21 (2.05%) Hedge funds
10 21 (2.05%) Video Conferencing
11 20 (1.95%) Private Cloud
12 18 (1.76%) Driving Licence
12 18 (1.76%) Public Cloud
13 17 (1.66%) Virtual Team
14 15 (1.46%) Product Ownership
15 14 (1.37%) Replication
15 14 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 448 (43.71%) Windows
2 247 (24.10%) Windows Server
3 181 (17.66%) Linux
4 67 (6.54%) Windows 10
5 43 (4.20%) Mac OS
5 43 (4.20%) Unix
6 40 (3.90%) Windows Server 2019
7 33 (3.22%) Windows Server 2016
8 31 (3.02%) Windows Server 2008
9 30 (2.93%) Android
10 27 (2.63%) VMS
11 26 (2.54%) Solaris
12 22 (2.15%) HPUX
12 22 (2.15%) Windows 7
12 22 (2.15%) Windows Server 2003
13 19 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 17 (1.66%) Windows Server 2012
15 15 (1.46%) Apple iOS
16 13 (1.27%) Ubuntu
17 10 (0.98%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
2 288 (28.10%) DevOps
3 223 (21.76%) CI/CD
4 182 (17.76%) ITIL
5 172 (16.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 165 (16.10%) Continuous Improvement
7 159 (15.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 145 (14.15%) Cybersecurity
9 125 (12.20%) Disaster Recovery
10 116 (11.32%) Task Automation
11 113 (11.02%) Mentoring
12 112 (10.93%) Agile
13 96 (9.37%) Migration
14 94 (9.17%) Root Cause Analysis
15 89 (8.68%) Cloud Security
16 87 (8.49%) Incident Management
17 82 (8.00%) Computer Science
18 78 (7.61%) ITSM
19 77 (7.51%) Change Management
20 76 (7.41%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 328 (32.00%) Python
2 205 (20.00%) SQL
3 191 (18.63%) Bash
4 86 (8.39%) C#
5 59 (5.76%) Bicep
6 50 (4.88%) JavaScript
7 29 (2.83%) Perl
8 27 (2.63%) T-SQL
9 24 (2.34%) Go
10 22 (2.15%) Java
11 21 (2.05%) Kusto Query Language
12 15 (1.46%) VB
13 11 (1.07%) TypeScript
13 11 (1.07%) VBScript
14 10 (0.98%) VB.NET
15 9 (0.88%) Groovy
16 7 (0.68%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.49%) Ruby
18 4 (0.39%) C++
18 4 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 152 (14.83%) Degree
2 145 (14.15%) Security Cleared
3 91 (8.88%) SC Cleared
4 90 (8.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 76 (7.41%) Azure Certification
6 52 (5.07%) DV Cleared
7 43 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 39 (3.80%) Cisco Certification
9 34 (3.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 28 (2.73%) CISSP
11 24 (2.34%) AWS Certification
12 21 (2.05%) CCNA
13 19 (1.85%) Master's Degree
14 17 (1.66%) CEH
15 15 (1.46%) CREST Certified
16 13 (1.27%) CCNP
17 12 (1.17%) CompTIA CySA+
17 12 (1.17%) MCP
17 12 (1.17%) MCSA
18 11 (1.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (13.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 105 (10.24%) NIST
3 56 (5.46%) SLA
4 47 (4.59%) GDPR
5 33 (3.22%) NCSC
6 25 (2.44%) Accessibility
6 25 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (1.27%) QA
8 12 (1.17%) ISO 22301
9 11 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 10 (0.98%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.68%) Data Quality
12 6 (0.59%) 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%) NIST 800
System Software
1 356 (34.73%) Active Directory
2 132 (12.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 92 (8.98%) Docker
4 79 (7.71%) Hyper-V
5 37 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
6 30 (2.93%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (2.54%) vSphere
8 22 (2.15%) Firmware
9 15 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.78%) XenApp
10 8 (0.78%) XenDesktop
11 7 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.49%) Postfix
12 5 (0.49%) Squid
13 4 (0.39%) DFS Replication
13 4 (0.39%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.29%) vCloud
14 3 (0.29%) VMware NSX
15 2 (0.20%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 2 (0.20%) KVM
Systems Management
1 206 (20.10%) Terraform
2 181 (17.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 143 (13.95%) Kubernetes
4 112 (10.93%) Ansible
5 57 (5.56%) SCCM
6 34 (3.32%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (3.12%) Grafana
8 28 (2.73%) Prometheus
9 18 (1.76%) WSUS
10 17 (1.66%) SCOM
11 13 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (1.27%) vCenter Server
12 11 (1.07%) ZABBIX
13 10 (0.98%) Puppet
14 9 (0.88%) FortiGate
14 9 (0.88%) Nagios
14 9 (0.88%) Nessus
15 7 (0.68%) Autotask
15 7 (0.68%) Progress Chef
16 6 (0.59%) CASB
Vendors
1 583 (56.88%) Microsoft
2 213 (20.78%) VMware
3 95 (9.27%) Cisco
4 65 (6.34%) ServiceNow
5 52 (5.07%) Oracle
6 43 (4.20%) Veeam
7 41 (4.00%) Citrix
8 39 (3.80%) Atlassian
9 36 (3.51%) Google
10 32 (3.12%) Red Hat
11 31 (3.02%) Splunk
12 29 (2.83%) Palo Alto
13 27 (2.63%) SolarWinds
14 22 (2.15%) SAP
15 21 (2.05%) Commvault
15 21 (2.05%) CrowdStrike
16 20 (1.95%) Dell
16 20 (1.95%) Fortinet
17 19 (1.85%) Meraki
18 17 (1.66%) CyberArk