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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 80 102
Rank change year-on-year -64 +22 -26
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,293 1,590 1,759
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.37% 3.64% 2.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.72% 12.66% 8.19%
Number of salaries quoted 967 1,051 1,327
10th Percentile £32,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,750 £44,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £74,750 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £89,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,525
% change year-on-year - -0.04% -4.13%

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 16,747 12,558 21,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.74% 28.73% 29.70%
Number of salaries quoted 12,162 8,379 15,828
10th Percentile £38,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +3.75% -5.84%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,563
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -27 482 £70,000 -6.67% 424
South East -27 247 £52,750 -8.26% 166
North of England -77 220 £50,000 +5.26% 114
Midlands -35 156 £52,500 +5.00% 61
North West -83 123 £52,500 +14.13% 73
East of England -33 96 £57,500 +9.52% 42
South West -85 83 £55,000 +15.79% 62
East Midlands -4 82 £42,500 +21.43% 23
West Midlands -59 74 £55,000 - 38
Yorkshire -36 61 £42,500 -17.68% 27
North East -33 36 £50,000 -16.67% 16
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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
1 219 (16.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 201 (15.55%) SharePoint
3 50 (3.87%) IIS
4 32 (2.47%) Confluence
5 11 (0.85%) nginx
6 6 (0.46%) Apache
7 5 (0.39%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.31%) SAS
9 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.077%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.077%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.077%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (5.96%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (1.01%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.46%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.23%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.23%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.15%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.077%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.077%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 830 (64.19%) Azure
2 486 (37.59%) Microsoft 365
3 350 (27.07%) Entra ID
4 244 (18.87%) AWS
5 152 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
6 101 (7.81%) IaaS
6 101 (7.81%) Power Platform
7 98 (7.58%) OneDrive
8 97 (7.50%) GitHub
9 94 (7.27%) SaaS
10 73 (5.65%) Azure Monitor
10 73 (5.65%) Azure Sentinel
11 68 (5.26%) PaaS
12 67 (5.18%) Azure AKS
13 64 (4.95%) Power Automate
14 63 (4.87%) GCP
15 62 (4.80%) Azure Key Vault
16 59 (4.56%) GitHub Actions
17 50 (3.87%) Datadog
18 46 (3.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 296 (22.89%) Firewall
2 273 (21.11%) DNS
3 181 (14.00%) VPN
4 178 (13.77%) DHCP
5 130 (10.05%) TCP/IP
6 79 (6.11%) WAN
7 71 (5.49%) LAN
8 69 (5.34%) Network Security
9 60 (4.64%) VLAN
10 40 (3.09%) SAN
10 40 (3.09%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (3.09%) Wireless
11 32 (2.47%) Kerberos
12 22 (1.70%) NAS
12 22 (1.70%) SSL
13 18 (1.39%) HTTP
14 17 (1.31%) Internet
14 17 (1.31%) VoIP
15 12 (0.93%) VSAN
16 10 (0.77%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (10.83%) SQL Server
2 82 (6.34%) Azure SQL Database
3 60 (4.64%) Power BI
4 28 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.78%) MongoDB
6 18 (1.39%) Relational Database
7 17 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 15 (1.16%) MySQL
10 14 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (0.93%) NoSQL
12 9 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (0.54%) InfluxDB
14 6 (0.46%) Power Query
14 6 (0.46%) Redis
15 5 (0.39%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.39%) Metadata
15 5 (0.39%) RDBMS
16 4 (0.31%) Db2
16 4 (0.31%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 107 (8.28%) Git
2 91 (7.04%) JIRA
3 64 (4.95%) GitLab
4 54 (4.18%) Jenkins
5 29 (2.24%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.85%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
8 7 (0.54%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.54%) TestRail
9 6 (0.46%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.46%) Selenium
10 5 (0.39%) Postman
10 5 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.31%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.23%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.23%) Metasploit
12 3 (0.23%) MSI
12 3 (0.23%) Terragrunt
General
1 422 (32.64%) Social Skills
2 214 (16.55%) Finance
3 177 (13.69%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (8.20%) Law
5 56 (4.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (4.33%) Legal
6 47 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (3.48%) Retail
8 36 (2.78%) Banking
9 33 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
10 32 (2.47%) Manufacturing
11 29 (2.24%) Public Sector
12 25 (1.93%) Aerospace
13 16 (1.24%) Advertising
14 11 (0.85%) Financial Institution
14 11 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.62%) Front Office
15 8 (0.62%) Investment Banking
15 8 (0.62%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.54%) Military
Job Titles
1 202 (15.62%) Senior
2 179 (13.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 139 (10.75%) Analyst
4 130 (10.05%) Azure Engineer
4 130 (10.05%) Support Engineer
5 127 (9.82%) Cloud Engineer
6 123 (9.51%) IT Engineer
7 115 (8.89%) IT Support
8 97 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
9 68 (5.26%) Security Engineer
10 66 (5.10%) Lead
11 65 (5.03%) IT Support Engineer
11 65 (5.03%) Platform Engineer
12 58 (4.49%) Developer
13 55 (4.25%) Systems Engineer
14 49 (3.79%) 2nd Line Support
15 47 (3.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 44 (3.40%) Support Analyst
17 42 (3.25%) Automation Engineer
18 41 (3.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (6.26%) .NET
2 53 (4.10%) ARM Templates
3 47 (3.63%) SAML
4 45 (3.48%) REST
4 45 (3.48%) YAML
5 43 (3.33%) OAuth
6 41 (3.17%) HTML
7 39 (3.02%) Microsoft Graph
8 38 (2.94%) OpenID
9 36 (2.78%) LDAP
10 33 (2.55%) .NET Core
11 32 (2.47%) JSON
12 31 (2.40%) CSS
13 24 (1.86%) SPFx
14 19 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (1.47%) HTML5 Canvas
15 15 (1.16%) Middleware
15 15 (1.16%) RESTful
16 14 (1.08%) ASP.NET
16 14 (1.08%) React
Miscellaneous
1 107 (8.28%) Onboarding
2 83 (6.42%) Cloud Native
3 72 (5.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 66 (5.10%) Security Posture
5 65 (5.03%) Management Information System
6 58 (4.49%) Driving Licence
7 48 (3.71%) Data Centre
8 44 (3.40%) Public Cloud
9 42 (3.25%) Security Operations Centre
10 38 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
11 36 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
12 35 (2.71%) PKI
13 28 (2.17%) Replication
14 27 (2.09%) Cyber Defence
15 26 (2.01%) Private Cloud
16 21 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
16 21 (1.62%) CMDB
17 20 (1.55%) Clustering
17 20 (1.55%) Cyber Threat
18 15 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 633 (48.96%) Windows
2 312 (24.13%) Linux
3 291 (22.51%) Windows Server
4 73 (5.65%) Windows 10
5 51 (3.94%) Apple iOS
6 44 (3.40%) Android
7 41 (3.17%) Mac OS
7 41 (3.17%) VMS
8 35 (2.71%) CentOS
8 35 (2.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 35 (2.71%) Windows Server 2016
9 34 (2.63%) Ubuntu
10 23 (1.78%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (1.01%) Unix
12 7 (0.54%) Rocky
13 5 (0.39%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.39%) Debian
13 5 (0.39%) Solaris
14 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
15 3 (0.23%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (27.38%) Problem-Solving
2 317 (24.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 315 (24.36%) CI/CD
4 292 (22.58%) DevOps
5 267 (20.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 260 (20.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 260 (20.11%) ITIL
7 234 (18.10%) Cybersecurity
8 174 (13.46%) Disaster Recovery
9 161 (12.45%) Incident Response
9 161 (12.45%) Root Cause Analysis
10 154 (11.91%) Agile
11 150 (11.60%) High Availability
12 146 (11.29%) Mentoring
13 134 (10.36%) AI
14 129 (9.98%) Containerisation
15 127 (9.82%) Observability
16 122 (9.44%) Cloud Security
16 122 (9.44%) SIEM
17 119 (9.20%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 506 (39.13%) Python
2 294 (22.74%) Bash
3 262 (20.26%) SQL
4 106 (8.20%) Bicep
5 92 (7.12%) C#
6 82 (6.34%) JavaScript
7 49 (3.79%) Kusto Query Language
8 40 (3.09%) Java
9 32 (2.47%) T-SQL
10 31 (2.40%) TypeScript
11 21 (1.62%) VBScript
12 18 (1.39%) C++
13 17 (1.31%) Perl
14 14 (1.08%) PHP
15 11 (0.85%) Ruby
16 10 (0.77%) VBA
17 9 (0.70%) Go
18 8 (0.62%) C
18 8 (0.62%) VB
19 6 (0.46%) Korn
Qualifications
1 167 (12.92%) Security Cleared
2 160 (12.37%) Degree
3 146 (11.29%) Azure Certification
4 130 (10.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 116 (8.97%) SC Cleared
6 55 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 54 (4.18%) Cisco Certification
7 54 (4.18%) CompTIA Security+
8 51 (3.94%) CISSP
9 42 (3.25%) DV Cleared
10 41 (3.17%) CCNA
11 28 (2.17%) CEH
12 23 (1.78%) DBS Check
13 22 (1.70%) AWS Certification
13 22 (1.70%) GIAC
14 21 (1.62%) OSCP
15 16 (1.24%) CCNP
15 16 (1.24%) CISM
15 16 (1.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 13 (1.01%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (7.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (4.95%) NIST
3 61 (4.72%) Cyber Essentials
4 51 (3.94%) GDPR
5 44 (3.40%) SLA
6 26 (2.01%) QA
7 19 (1.47%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.31%) SOC 2
9 15 (1.16%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.62%) ISO 22301
11 7 (0.54%) PMO
12 5 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.31%) NCSC
14 3 (0.23%) Accessibility
14 3 (0.23%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.15%) EMIR
15 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 469 (36.27%) Active Directory
2 209 (16.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 142 (10.98%) Hyper-V
4 134 (10.36%) Docker
5 75 (5.80%) vSphere
6 51 (3.94%) Virtual Machines
7 45 (3.48%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.78%) BitLocker
9 19 (1.47%) VMware NSX
10 13 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
11 11 (0.85%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 9 (0.70%) KVM
13 8 (0.62%) Squid
14 6 (0.46%) Firmware
15 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
16 4 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
18 2 (0.15%) Samba
19 1 (0.077%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 340 (26.30%) Terraform
2 231 (17.87%) Kubernetes
3 220 (17.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 168 (12.99%) Ansible
5 80 (6.19%) Grafana
6 61 (4.72%) SCCM
7 49 (3.79%) Single Sign-On
8 47 (3.63%) Prometheus
9 23 (1.78%) ZABBIX
10 21 (1.62%) Jamf Pro
10 21 (1.62%) Proxmox
10 21 (1.62%) vCenter Server
11 20 (1.55%) Argo
11 20 (1.55%) Packer
11 20 (1.55%) QRadar
12 16 (1.24%) Puppet
13 14 (1.08%) Graylog
14 12 (0.93%) VxRail
15 11 (0.85%) Nagios
16 10 (0.77%) Nessus
Vendors
1 822 (63.57%) Microsoft
2 252 (19.49%) VMware
3 117 (9.05%) Cisco
4 108 (8.35%) ServiceNow
5 88 (6.81%) Splunk
6 62 (4.80%) Red Hat
7 56 (4.33%) Veeam
8 46 (3.56%) Oracle
9 44 (3.40%) Meraki
10 36 (2.78%) Citrix
11 34 (2.63%) Dynatrace
12 33 (2.55%) Sophos
13 31 (2.40%) Dell
14 29 (2.24%) Tenable
15 28 (2.17%) CrowdStrike
16 24 (1.86%) Apple
16 24 (1.86%) Fortinet
17 22 (1.70%) Okta
18 21 (1.62%) CyberArk
18 21 (1.62%) Palo Alto