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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 79 108
Rank change year-on-year -49 +29 -24
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,212 1,520 2,248
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.45% 3.83% 2.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.96% 12.00% 7.71%
Number of salaries quoted 915 950 1,789
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.85% +6.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,500 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
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 15,227 12,662 29,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.27% 31.93% 30.64%
Number of salaries quoted 10,990 8,493 23,300
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 18 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 18 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 -14 505 £70,000 -6.67% 90
South East -47 197 £55,000 -4.35% 120
North of England -91 195 £47,500 -7.99% 61
Midlands -44 136 £50,000 - 32
North West -78 102 £51,500 +10.75% 45
East of England -23 85 £55,000 +15.79% 24
South West -48 84 £55,000 +15.79% 34
East Midlands -11 77 £45,000 +24.14% 18
Yorkshire -22 61 £45,000 -28.00% 13
West Midlands -74 58 £51,250 -4.54% 14
North East -30 32 £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
1 185 (15.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 167 (13.78%) SharePoint
3 40 (3.30%) IIS
4 23 (1.90%) Confluence
5 2 (0.17%) Apache
5 2 (0.17%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.083%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.083%) nginx
6 1 (0.083%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.083%) SAS
6 1 (0.083%) Site Server
Applications
1 73 (6.02%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.083%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.083%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.58%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.17%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.083%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.083%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.083%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.083%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 789 (65.10%) Azure
2 447 (36.88%) Microsoft 365
3 312 (25.74%) Entra ID
4 208 (17.16%) AWS
5 132 (10.89%) Azure DevOps
6 109 (8.99%) Power Platform
7 95 (7.84%) GitHub
8 86 (7.10%) IaaS
9 84 (6.93%) SaaS
10 78 (6.44%) OneDrive
11 70 (5.78%) Azure Monitor
12 62 (5.12%) GitHub Actions
13 58 (4.79%) PaaS
14 57 (4.70%) Azure AKS
14 57 (4.70%) Azure Sentinel
15 55 (4.54%) Power Automate
16 51 (4.21%) Azure Key Vault
16 51 (4.21%) GCP
17 44 (3.63%) Azure Logic Apps
18 43 (3.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 251 (20.71%) Firewall
2 240 (19.80%) DNS
3 156 (12.87%) VPN
4 150 (12.38%) DHCP
5 105 (8.66%) TCP/IP
6 73 (6.02%) Network Security
7 72 (5.94%) LAN
8 71 (5.86%) WAN
9 54 (4.46%) VLAN
10 45 (3.71%) Wi-Fi
11 32 (2.64%) SAN
12 31 (2.56%) VoIP
13 27 (2.23%) Broadband
14 26 (2.15%) Wireless
15 19 (1.57%) Kerberos
16 15 (1.24%) BGP
16 15 (1.24%) SSL
17 13 (1.07%) HTTP
17 13 (1.07%) Internet
17 13 (1.07%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (11.55%) SQL Server
2 76 (6.27%) Power BI
3 67 (5.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 38 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (2.06%) MySQL
7 22 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (1.24%) MongoDB
9 15 (1.24%) Relational Database
10 13 (1.07%) NoSQL
11 10 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.74%) Data Lake
12 9 (0.74%) Tableau
13 8 (0.66%) InfluxDB
13 8 (0.66%) Metadata
14 5 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 4 (0.33%) Redis
16 3 (0.25%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 94 (7.76%) Git
2 67 (5.53%) JIRA
3 60 (4.95%) GitLab
4 59 (4.87%) Jenkins
5 31 (2.56%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
7 15 (1.24%) TeamCity
8 13 (1.07%) Metasploit
9 12 (0.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 10 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
11 9 (0.74%) Burp Suite
12 7 (0.58%) Robot Framework
13 6 (0.50%) TestRail
14 5 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (0.41%) CircleCI
14 5 (0.41%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.41%) Selenium
15 4 (0.33%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.33%) SonarQube
16 3 (0.25%) Terragrunt
General
1 357 (29.46%) Social Skills
2 198 (16.34%) Finance
3 153 (12.62%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (7.34%) Law
5 54 (4.46%) Organisational Skills
6 49 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 48 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (3.71%) Legal
9 44 (3.63%) Retail
10 29 (2.39%) Public Sector
11 24 (1.98%) Aerospace
12 21 (1.73%) Manufacturing
13 20 (1.65%) Banking
14 18 (1.49%) Advertising
15 15 (1.24%) Telecoms
16 8 (0.66%) Aviation
17 7 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
18 6 (0.50%) Front Office
18 6 (0.50%) Investment Banking
18 6 (0.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 204 (16.83%) Senior
2 152 (12.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 140 (11.55%) Analyst
4 138 (11.39%) Support Engineer
5 130 (10.73%) Azure Engineer
6 119 (9.82%) IT Support
7 112 (9.24%) IT Engineer
8 102 (8.42%) Cloud Engineer
9 88 (7.26%) DevOps Engineer
10 76 (6.27%) Security Engineer
11 72 (5.94%) IT Support Engineer
12 61 (5.03%) Platform Engineer
13 54 (4.46%) 2nd Line Support
13 54 (4.46%) Developer
13 54 (4.46%) Lead
14 43 (3.55%) Security Analyst
14 43 (3.55%) Systems Engineer
15 42 (3.47%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 37 (3.05%) Architect
17 34 (2.81%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (6.60%) .NET
2 65 (5.36%) SAML
3 63 (5.20%) OAuth
4 62 (5.12%) REST
5 56 (4.62%) OpenID
6 53 (4.37%) LDAP
7 42 (3.47%) ARM Templates
8 41 (3.38%) YAML
9 40 (3.30%) JSON
10 37 (3.05%) HTML
11 36 (2.97%) Microsoft Graph
12 35 (2.89%) .NET Core
12 35 (2.89%) SOAP
13 33 (2.72%) CSS
14 27 (2.23%) SPFx
15 26 (2.15%) GraphQL
16 20 (1.65%) Elastic Stack
17 19 (1.57%) HTML5 Canvas
18 18 (1.49%) React
19 15 (1.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 99 (8.17%) Onboarding
2 73 (6.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 66 (5.45%) Cloud Native
4 64 (5.28%) Security Posture
5 55 (4.54%) Management Information System
6 54 (4.46%) Driving Licence
7 45 (3.71%) Security Operations Centre
8 44 (3.63%) Cyber Defence
9 42 (3.47%) Cyber Threat
10 38 (3.14%) Data Centre
11 35 (2.89%) Public Cloud
12 34 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
13 33 (2.72%) Cyberattack
14 32 (2.64%) PKI
15 22 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
16 21 (1.73%) Replication
17 20 (1.65%) Private Cloud
17 20 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
18 17 (1.40%) CMDB
18 17 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 573 (47.28%) Windows
2 279 (23.02%) Linux
3 272 (22.44%) Windows Server
4 76 (6.27%) Windows 10
5 51 (4.21%) Apple iOS
6 48 (3.96%) Mac OS
7 44 (3.63%) Android
7 44 (3.63%) VMS
8 36 (2.97%) Windows Server 2016
9 30 (2.48%) CentOS
10 28 (2.31%) Windows Server 2019
11 27 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 24 (1.98%) Ubuntu
13 11 (0.91%) Unix
14 7 (0.58%) Debian
15 4 (0.33%) CoreOS
15 4 (0.33%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.25%) AIX
17 2 (0.17%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (25.83%) Problem-Solving
2 286 (23.60%) Infrastructure as Code
3 279 (23.02%) CI/CD
4 262 (21.62%) DevOps
5 259 (21.37%) Cybersecurity
6 219 (18.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 208 (17.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 204 (16.83%) ITIL
9 156 (12.87%) Incident Response
10 155 (12.79%) Mentoring
11 153 (12.62%) Agile
12 149 (12.29%) Disaster Recovery
12 149 (12.29%) Root Cause Analysis
13 126 (10.40%) Containerisation
14 124 (10.23%) High Availability
15 119 (9.82%) SIEM
16 116 (9.57%) Cloud Security
17 111 (9.16%) AI
18 107 (8.83%) Roadmaps
19 100 (8.25%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 486 (40.10%) Python
2 308 (25.41%) Bash
3 262 (21.62%) SQL
4 91 (7.51%) C#
5 82 (6.77%) Bicep
6 74 (6.11%) JavaScript
7 54 (4.46%) T-SQL
8 36 (2.97%) Kusto Query Language
9 29 (2.39%) Java
10 26 (2.15%) TypeScript
11 17 (1.40%) C++
12 15 (1.24%) VBScript
13 13 (1.07%) Perl
13 13 (1.07%) PHP
14 11 (0.91%) VB
15 10 (0.83%) VBA
16 9 (0.74%) Go
17 8 (0.66%) Ruby
18 7 (0.58%) C
19 6 (0.50%) Korn
Qualifications
1 144 (11.88%) Degree
2 143 (11.80%) Security Cleared
3 128 (10.56%) Azure Certification
4 115 (9.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 92 (7.59%) SC Cleared
6 50 (4.13%) CISSP
7 45 (3.71%) Cisco Certification
8 44 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 40 (3.30%) CompTIA Security+
10 34 (2.81%) DV Cleared
11 32 (2.64%) CCNA
12 28 (2.31%) OSCP
13 27 (2.23%) DBS Check
14 26 (2.15%) AWS Certification
15 25 (2.06%) CREST Certified
16 23 (1.90%) CEH
16 23 (1.90%) GIAC
17 17 (1.40%) CompTIA CySA+
18 13 (1.07%) CCNP
19 12 (0.99%) CCSAM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (11.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 99 (8.17%) NIST
3 56 (4.62%) GDPR
4 49 (4.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 38 (3.14%) SLA
6 25 (2.06%) NCSC
7 20 (1.65%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.32%) PCI DSS
9 14 (1.16%) QA
9 14 (1.16%) SOC 2
10 13 (1.07%) ISO 22301
11 11 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
13 9 (0.74%) Accessibility
14 6 (0.50%) DICOM
14 6 (0.50%) PMO
15 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.17%) ISAE 3402
16 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 454 (37.46%) Active Directory
2 182 (15.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 134 (11.06%) Docker
4 128 (10.56%) Hyper-V
5 64 (5.28%) vSphere
6 36 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
7 30 (2.48%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.90%) BitLocker
9 16 (1.32%) VMware NSX
10 11 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.83%) KVM
12 8 (0.66%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.66%) Squid
13 6 (0.50%) Firmware
14 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 5 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.33%) iptables
16 3 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 3 (0.25%) Terminal Services
17 2 (0.17%) Samba
Systems Management
1 293 (24.17%) Terraform
2 208 (17.16%) Kubernetes
3 188 (15.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 143 (11.80%) Ansible
5 67 (5.53%) Grafana
6 55 (4.54%) Single Sign-On
7 49 (4.04%) Prometheus
8 46 (3.80%) SCCM
9 25 (2.06%) Jamf Pro
10 20 (1.65%) Packer
10 20 (1.65%) vCenter Server
11 18 (1.49%) Argo
11 18 (1.49%) ZABBIX
12 17 (1.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 17 (1.40%) Nessus
12 17 (1.40%) QRadar
13 14 (1.16%) Graylog
13 14 (1.16%) Proxmox
14 13 (1.07%) VxRail
15 12 (0.99%) Nagios
Vendors
1 723 (59.65%) Microsoft
2 232 (19.14%) VMware
3 96 (7.92%) Cisco
4 79 (6.52%) Splunk
5 65 (5.36%) ServiceNow
6 54 (4.46%) Red Hat
7 46 (3.80%) Veeam
8 37 (3.05%) Meraki
9 36 (2.97%) Oracle
10 31 (2.56%) Apple
10 31 (2.56%) CrowdStrike
11 27 (2.23%) Dell
12 26 (2.15%) Google
12 26 (2.15%) Tenable
13 25 (2.06%) Citrix
13 25 (2.06%) Fortinet
14 24 (1.98%) Sophos
15 23 (1.90%) Commvault
15 23 (1.90%) Palo Alto
16 21 (1.73%) SolarWinds