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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 76 106
Rank change year-on-year -55 +30 -22
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,232 1,527 2,243
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.47% 3.84% 2.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.03% 12.05% 7.67%
Number of salaries quoted 929 957 1,784
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,300 £35,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +6.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,500 £78,750 £75,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%

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 15,351 12,669 29,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.33% 31.84% 30.59%
Number of salaries quoted 11,084 8,509 23,334
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 20 June 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 June 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 -14 504 £70,000 -5.41% 93
South East -40 207 £55,000 -4.35% 126
North of England -81 197 £47,500 -6.40% 64
Midlands -42 139 £50,000 - 27
North West -83 103 £50,051 +7.64% 48
East of England -22 89 £54,000 +13.68% 25
South West -49 86 £55,000 +15.79% 28
East Midlands -15 78 £45,000 +24.14% 14
Yorkshire -24 61 £45,000 -21.74% 13
West Midlands -66 60 £52,500 -2.21% 13
North East -31 33 £47,500 -19.15% 4
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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
1 192 (15.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 174 (14.12%) SharePoint
3 42 (3.41%) IIS
4 23 (1.87%) Confluence
5 2 (0.16%) Apache
5 2 (0.16%) nginx
5 2 (0.16%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.081%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.081%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.081%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.081%) SAS
6 1 (0.081%) Site Server
Applications
1 75 (6.09%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.081%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.081%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.65%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.16%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.081%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.081%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.081%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.081%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 801 (65.02%) Azure
2 459 (37.26%) Microsoft 365
3 317 (25.73%) Entra ID
4 209 (16.96%) AWS
5 135 (10.96%) Azure DevOps
6 114 (9.25%) Power Platform
7 97 (7.87%) GitHub
8 88 (7.14%) IaaS
9 87 (7.06%) SaaS
10 82 (6.66%) OneDrive
11 74 (6.01%) Azure Monitor
12 62 (5.03%) GitHub Actions
13 60 (4.87%) PaaS
14 59 (4.79%) Azure Sentinel
14 59 (4.79%) Power Automate
15 58 (4.71%) Azure AKS
16 53 (4.30%) Azure Key Vault
16 53 (4.30%) GCP
17 45 (3.65%) Azure Logic Apps
17 45 (3.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 252 (20.45%) Firewall
2 244 (19.81%) DNS
3 161 (13.07%) VPN
4 154 (12.50%) DHCP
5 107 (8.69%) TCP/IP
6 74 (6.01%) LAN
6 74 (6.01%) Network Security
7 73 (5.93%) WAN
8 55 (4.46%) VLAN
9 45 (3.65%) Wi-Fi
10 32 (2.60%) SAN
11 31 (2.52%) VoIP
12 27 (2.19%) Broadband
12 27 (2.19%) Wireless
13 19 (1.54%) Kerberos
14 16 (1.30%) SSL
15 15 (1.22%) BGP
16 13 (1.06%) HTTP
16 13 (1.06%) Internet
16 13 (1.06%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (11.44%) SQL Server
2 77 (6.25%) Power BI
3 70 (5.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 39 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (2.03%) MySQL
7 23 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (1.38%) MongoDB
9 15 (1.22%) Relational Database
10 14 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 13 (1.06%) NoSQL
12 9 (0.73%) Data Lake
12 9 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.73%) Tableau
13 8 (0.65%) InfluxDB
13 8 (0.65%) Metadata
14 5 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 4 (0.32%) Redis
16 3 (0.24%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 97 (7.87%) Git
2 71 (5.76%) JIRA
3 62 (5.03%) GitLab
4 59 (4.79%) Jenkins
5 32 (2.60%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.30%) Octopus Deploy
7 15 (1.22%) TeamCity
8 13 (1.06%) Metasploit
8 13 (1.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 10 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
10 9 (0.73%) Burp Suite
11 7 (0.57%) Robot Framework
12 6 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.49%) TestRail
13 5 (0.41%) CircleCI
13 5 (0.41%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.41%) Selenium
14 4 (0.32%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.32%) SonarQube
15 3 (0.24%) Terragrunt
General
1 366 (29.71%) Social Skills
2 197 (15.99%) Finance
3 154 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (7.55%) Law
5 56 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
6 50 (4.06%) Documentation Skills
7 49 (3.98%) Legal
8 48 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 44 (3.57%) Retail
10 29 (2.35%) Public Sector
11 24 (1.95%) Aerospace
12 22 (1.79%) Banking
12 22 (1.79%) Manufacturing
13 19 (1.54%) Advertising
14 15 (1.22%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.65%) Aviation
16 7 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.49%) Front Office
17 6 (0.49%) Investment Banking
17 6 (0.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 205 (16.64%) Senior
2 155 (12.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 144 (11.69%) Analyst
4 142 (11.53%) Support Engineer
5 132 (10.71%) Azure Engineer
6 123 (9.98%) IT Support
7 118 (9.58%) IT Engineer
8 104 (8.44%) Cloud Engineer
9 90 (7.31%) DevOps Engineer
10 79 (6.41%) Security Engineer
11 76 (6.17%) IT Support Engineer
12 63 (5.11%) Platform Engineer
13 56 (4.55%) Developer
14 54 (4.38%) 2nd Line Support
15 52 (4.22%) Lead
16 46 (3.73%) Systems Engineer
17 44 (3.57%) Security Analyst
18 43 (3.49%) 3rd Line Engineer
19 36 (2.92%) Administrator
19 36 (2.92%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (6.57%) .NET
2 65 (5.28%) SAML
3 63 (5.11%) OAuth
4 62 (5.03%) REST
5 56 (4.55%) OpenID
6 53 (4.30%) LDAP
7 43 (3.49%) ARM Templates
8 41 (3.33%) JSON
8 41 (3.33%) YAML
9 38 (3.08%) HTML
10 36 (2.92%) .NET Core
10 36 (2.92%) Microsoft Graph
11 35 (2.84%) SOAP
12 33 (2.68%) CSS
13 27 (2.19%) SPFx
14 26 (2.11%) GraphQL
15 20 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
16 19 (1.54%) HTML5 Canvas
17 17 (1.38%) React
18 16 (1.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 101 (8.20%) Onboarding
2 74 (6.01%) Hybrid Cloud
3 68 (5.52%) Cloud Native
4 67 (5.44%) Security Posture
5 58 (4.71%) Driving Licence
6 56 (4.55%) Management Information System
7 45 (3.65%) Security Operations Centre
8 44 (3.57%) Cyber Defence
9 43 (3.49%) Cyber Threat
10 39 (3.17%) Data Centre
11 37 (3.00%) Public Cloud
12 35 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
12 35 (2.84%) PKI
13 33 (2.68%) Cyberattack
14 22 (1.79%) Replication
14 22 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
15 21 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
16 20 (1.62%) Private Cloud
17 19 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
18 15 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 584 (47.40%) Windows
2 286 (23.21%) Linux
3 275 (22.32%) Windows Server
4 76 (6.17%) Windows 10
5 51 (4.14%) Apple iOS
6 50 (4.06%) Mac OS
7 46 (3.73%) VMS
8 42 (3.41%) Android
9 36 (2.92%) Windows Server 2016
10 30 (2.44%) CentOS
11 28 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
12 27 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 25 (2.03%) Ubuntu
14 11 (0.89%) Unix
15 8 (0.65%) Debian
16 4 (0.32%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.32%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
17 3 (0.24%) AIX
18 2 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
2 291 (23.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 283 (22.97%) CI/CD
4 269 (21.83%) DevOps
5 266 (21.59%) Cybersecurity
6 225 (18.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 218 (17.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 209 (16.96%) ITIL
9 160 (12.99%) Incident Response
10 159 (12.91%) Agile
11 155 (12.58%) Mentoring
12 153 (12.42%) Root Cause Analysis
13 152 (12.34%) Disaster Recovery
14 128 (10.39%) Containerisation
15 124 (10.06%) High Availability
16 122 (9.90%) Cloud Security
17 119 (9.66%) SIEM
18 117 (9.50%) AI
19 107 (8.69%) Roadmaps
20 105 (8.52%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 491 (39.85%) Python
2 313 (25.41%) Bash
3 268 (21.75%) SQL
4 93 (7.55%) C#
5 84 (6.82%) Bicep
6 76 (6.17%) JavaScript
7 56 (4.55%) T-SQL
8 37 (3.00%) Kusto Query Language
9 30 (2.44%) Java
10 26 (2.11%) TypeScript
11 18 (1.46%) C++
12 15 (1.22%) VBScript
13 14 (1.14%) PHP
14 13 (1.06%) Perl
15 11 (0.89%) VB
16 10 (0.81%) VBA
17 9 (0.73%) Go
17 9 (0.73%) Ruby
18 8 (0.65%) C
19 6 (0.49%) Korn
Qualifications
1 148 (12.01%) Degree
2 144 (11.69%) Security Cleared
3 131 (10.63%) Azure Certification
4 119 (9.66%) Microsoft Certification
5 93 (7.55%) SC Cleared
6 51 (4.14%) CISSP
7 47 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
8 45 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 40 (3.25%) CompTIA Security+
10 34 (2.76%) CCNA
10 34 (2.76%) DV Cleared
11 28 (2.27%) DBS Check
11 28 (2.27%) OSCP
12 26 (2.11%) AWS Certification
13 25 (2.03%) CREST Certified
14 24 (1.95%) CEH
14 24 (1.95%) GIAC
15 17 (1.38%) CompTIA CySA+
16 14 (1.14%) CCNP
17 12 (0.97%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (11.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 102 (8.28%) NIST
3 56 (4.55%) GDPR
4 52 (4.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 37 (3.00%) SLA
6 25 (2.03%) NCSC
7 21 (1.70%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.38%) QA
9 16 (1.30%) PCI DSS
9 16 (1.30%) SOC 2
10 13 (1.06%) ISO 22301
11 12 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
13 9 (0.73%) Accessibility
14 6 (0.49%) DICOM
14 6 (0.49%) PMO
15 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.16%) EMIR
16 2 (0.16%) ISAE 3402
System Software
1 461 (37.42%) Active Directory
2 187 (15.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 135 (10.96%) Docker
4 129 (10.47%) Hyper-V
5 68 (5.52%) vSphere
6 38 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
7 32 (2.60%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.87%) BitLocker
9 16 (1.30%) VMware NSX
10 11 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.81%) KVM
12 8 (0.65%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.65%) Squid
13 5 (0.41%) Firmware
13 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.32%) iptables
15 3 (0.24%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.24%) Terminal Services
16 2 (0.16%) Samba
Systems Management
1 300 (24.35%) Terraform
2 211 (17.13%) Kubernetes
3 190 (15.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 145 (11.77%) Ansible
5 69 (5.60%) Grafana
6 55 (4.46%) Single Sign-On
7 50 (4.06%) Prometheus
8 47 (3.81%) SCCM
9 25 (2.03%) Jamf Pro
10 20 (1.62%) Packer
10 20 (1.62%) vCenter Server
11 19 (1.54%) Argo
12 18 (1.46%) ZABBIX
13 17 (1.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 17 (1.38%) Nessus
13 17 (1.38%) QRadar
14 14 (1.14%) Graylog
14 14 (1.14%) Proxmox
15 13 (1.06%) VxRail
16 12 (0.97%) Nagios
Vendors
1 740 (60.06%) Microsoft
2 236 (19.16%) VMware
3 95 (7.71%) Cisco
4 81 (6.57%) Splunk
5 67 (5.44%) ServiceNow
6 54 (4.38%) Red Hat
7 47 (3.81%) Veeam
8 37 (3.00%) Meraki
9 36 (2.92%) Oracle
10 31 (2.52%) Apple
11 30 (2.44%) CrowdStrike
12 28 (2.27%) Dell
13 27 (2.19%) Tenable
14 26 (2.11%) Google
15 25 (2.03%) Citrix
16 24 (1.95%) Fortinet
16 24 (1.95%) Sophos
17 23 (1.87%) Commvault
17 23 (1.87%) Palo Alto
18 22 (1.79%) SolarWinds