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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 87 94
Rank change year-on-year -52 +7 0
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,104 1,289 2,272
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.43% 3.47% 2.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.08% 10.24% 8.40%
Number of salaries quoted 853 1,000 1,939
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,750 £45,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 13,668 12,593 27,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.76% 33.88% 32.81%
Number of salaries quoted 9,605 9,329 22,594
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,475
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,683 £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 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £64,266 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.13% +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 April 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 April 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 -10 512 £70,000 -9.68% 113
South East -72 177 £56,750 -1.30% 100
North of England -52 140 £48,445 -3.11% 62
Midlands -61 103 £52,500 +5.00% 41
South West -36 91 £55,000 +15.79% 44
North West -35 71 £55,000 +18.28% 34
East of England -50 68 £43,000 -21.82% 40
East Midlands -43 58 £55,000 +22.22% 23
Yorkshire -47 56 £47,500 -13.64% 16
West Midlands -66 44 £48,000 -4.00% 18
North East -33 13 £45,000 -21.74% 12
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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
1 172 (15.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 135 (12.23%) SharePoint
3 36 (3.26%) IIS
4 16 (1.45%) Confluence
5 15 (1.36%) Exchange Server 2003
6 6 (0.54%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.18%) Apache
7 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.18%) CMS
7 2 (0.18%) WordPress
8 1 (0.091%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.091%) Site Server
Applications
1 46 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.27%) CATIA
4 3 (0.27%) Siemens NX
4 3 (0.27%) SOLIDWORKS
4 3 (0.27%) Windchill
5 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.091%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.27%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.27%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.18%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.091%) Actimize
5 1 (0.091%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.091%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 695 (62.95%) Azure
2 393 (35.60%) Microsoft 365
3 283 (25.63%) Entra ID
4 196 (17.75%) AWS
5 103 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
6 94 (8.51%) Power Platform
7 85 (7.70%) GitHub
8 67 (6.07%) GCP
8 67 (6.07%) SaaS
9 64 (5.80%) GitHub Actions
10 61 (5.53%) OneDrive
11 54 (4.89%) IaaS
12 52 (4.71%) PaaS
13 43 (3.89%) Azure Monitor
13 43 (3.89%) Google Workspace
14 42 (3.80%) Azure Logic Apps
14 42 (3.80%) Azure Sentinel
15 39 (3.53%) Power Automate
16 34 (3.08%) Datadog
16 34 (3.08%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 209 (18.93%) DNS
1 209 (18.93%) Firewall
2 150 (13.59%) DHCP
3 122 (11.05%) VPN
4 94 (8.51%) TCP/IP
5 59 (5.34%) Network Security
5 59 (5.34%) WAN
6 56 (5.07%) LAN
7 48 (4.35%) VLAN
8 45 (4.08%) Wi-Fi
9 34 (3.08%) SAN
9 34 (3.08%) VoIP
10 29 (2.63%) Wireless
11 28 (2.54%) Broadband
12 21 (1.90%) SD-WAN
13 13 (1.18%) Internet
13 13 (1.18%) VSAN
14 12 (1.09%) WinSCP
15 11 (1.00%) Kerberos
15 11 (1.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (11.32%) SQL Server
2 79 (7.16%) Power BI
3 35 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 28 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (2.36%) MySQL
6 23 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 19 (1.72%) Oracle Database
7 19 (1.72%) Relational Database
8 17 (1.54%) Oracle Database 10g
8 17 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 15 (1.36%) NoSQL
10 14 (1.27%) Tableau
11 12 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.82%) InfluxDB
13 8 (0.72%) MongoDB
14 7 (0.63%) Data Lake
14 7 (0.63%) Metadata
15 5 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
16 4 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 91 (8.24%) Git
2 64 (5.80%) Jenkins
3 61 (5.53%) JIRA
4 47 (4.26%) GitLab
5 29 (2.63%) Bitbucket
6 17 (1.54%) Octopus Deploy
7 14 (1.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 13 (1.18%) Metasploit
9 11 (1.00%) TeamCity
10 10 (0.91%) Robot Framework
11 9 (0.82%) Burp Suite
11 9 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
12 8 (0.72%) CircleCI
13 7 (0.63%) TestRail
14 6 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (0.36%) Balsamiq
15 4 (0.36%) Cypress.io
15 4 (0.36%) MLflow
15 4 (0.36%) Selenium
15 4 (0.36%) SonarQube
General
1 349 (31.61%) Social Skills
2 201 (18.21%) Finance
3 140 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (5.89%) Law
5 49 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
6 46 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
7 42 (3.80%) Retail
8 41 (3.71%) Legal
9 39 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 33 (2.99%) Public Sector
11 28 (2.54%) Banking
12 20 (1.81%) Telecoms
13 19 (1.72%) Manufacturing
14 15 (1.36%) Advertising
15 13 (1.18%) Aerospace
16 10 (0.91%) Front Office
17 8 (0.72%) Military
18 6 (0.54%) Electronics
18 6 (0.54%) Investment Banking
18 6 (0.54%) Police
Job Titles
1 168 (15.22%) Senior
2 140 (12.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 125 (11.32%) Support Engineer
4 121 (10.96%) Analyst
5 110 (9.96%) Azure Engineer
6 96 (8.70%) IT Support
7 77 (6.97%) Cloud Engineer
8 76 (6.88%) IT Engineer
8 76 (6.88%) Security Engineer
9 62 (5.62%) DevOps Engineer
10 61 (5.53%) Lead
11 53 (4.80%) Developer
12 52 (4.71%) IT Support Engineer
13 48 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support
13 48 (4.35%) 3rd Line Support
14 43 (3.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 42 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
16 39 (3.53%) Architect
17 36 (3.26%) Security Analyst
18 35 (3.17%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (6.07%) .NET
2 58 (5.25%) REST
3 57 (5.16%) OAuth
4 52 (4.71%) SAML
5 51 (4.62%) OpenID
6 38 (3.44%) LDAP
7 33 (2.99%) .NET Core
7 33 (2.99%) SOAP
8 30 (2.72%) JSON
9 27 (2.45%) ARM Templates
10 25 (2.26%) GraphQL
10 25 (2.26%) YAML
11 24 (2.17%) Microsoft Graph
12 22 (1.99%) CSS
13 21 (1.90%) SPFx
14 20 (1.81%) HTML
15 18 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
15 18 (1.63%) React
16 15 (1.36%) Node.js
17 12 (1.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 92 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 71 (6.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 59 (5.34%) Security Posture
4 47 (4.26%) Management Information System
5 43 (3.89%) Enterprise Software
6 42 (3.80%) Cloud Native
7 40 (3.62%) Cyber Threat
7 40 (3.62%) Driving Licence
8 38 (3.44%) Cyber Defence
9 34 (3.08%) Cyberattack
9 34 (3.08%) Security Operations Centre
10 31 (2.81%) Analytical Mindset
11 30 (2.72%) Data Centre
12 27 (2.45%) Public Cloud
13 20 (1.81%) PKI
14 19 (1.72%) CMDB
14 19 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
15 18 (1.63%) Low-Code
16 17 (1.54%) Replication
17 16 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 515 (46.65%) Windows
2 248 (22.46%) Windows Server
3 238 (21.56%) Linux
4 71 (6.43%) Windows 10
5 52 (4.71%) Mac OS
6 44 (3.99%) Android
7 43 (3.89%) Apple iOS
8 36 (3.26%) Windows Server 2016
9 31 (2.81%) Unix
10 28 (2.54%) Windows Server 2019
11 26 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 23 (2.08%) CentOS
13 22 (1.99%) VMS
14 17 (1.54%) Solaris
15 16 (1.45%) Ubuntu
16 15 (1.36%) HPUX
16 15 (1.36%) Windows 7
16 15 (1.36%) Windows Server 2003
16 15 (1.36%) Windows Server 2008
17 8 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (27.26%) Problem-Solving
2 228 (20.65%) DevOps
3 223 (20.20%) CI/CD
3 223 (20.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 217 (19.66%) Cybersecurity
5 201 (18.21%) ITIL
6 197 (17.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 184 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 148 (13.41%) Incident Response
9 140 (12.68%) Mentoring
10 134 (12.14%) Disaster Recovery
11 128 (11.59%) Agile
12 114 (10.33%) Root Cause Analysis
13 107 (9.69%) Cloud Security
14 106 (9.60%) SIEM
15 102 (9.24%) Containerisation
16 96 (8.70%) Task Automation
17 93 (8.42%) Roadmaps
18 89 (8.06%) Security Operations
19 88 (7.97%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 426 (38.59%) Python
2 260 (23.55%) Bash
3 226 (20.47%) SQL
4 74 (6.70%) JavaScript
5 72 (6.52%) C#
6 66 (5.98%) Bicep
7 52 (4.71%) T-SQL
8 31 (2.81%) Kusto Query Language
9 23 (2.08%) Perl
10 20 (1.81%) Java
11 16 (1.45%) TypeScript
12 11 (1.00%) Go
13 10 (0.91%) C++
14 9 (0.82%) VB
14 9 (0.82%) VB.NET
15 7 (0.63%) C
15 7 (0.63%) PHP
16 6 (0.54%) Delphi
16 6 (0.54%) VBA
16 6 (0.54%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 148 (13.41%) Degree
2 134 (12.14%) Security Cleared
3 98 (8.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 86 (7.79%) Azure Certification
5 77 (6.97%) SC Cleared
6 51 (4.62%) DV Cleared
7 49 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 47 (4.26%) CISSP
9 34 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (2.36%) OSCP
11 25 (2.26%) CompTIA Security+
12 24 (2.17%) CREST Certified
12 24 (2.17%) GIAC
13 22 (1.99%) AWS Certification
13 22 (1.99%) CCNA
13 22 (1.99%) CEH
13 22 (1.99%) CompTIA CySA+
14 17 (1.54%) DBS Check
15 12 (1.09%) CCSAM
15 12 (1.09%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (13.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 124 (11.23%) NIST
3 63 (5.71%) GDPR
4 58 (5.25%) SLA
5 33 (2.99%) NCSC
6 29 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
7 19 (1.72%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.72%) ISO 22301
8 16 (1.45%) QA
9 15 (1.36%) PCI DSS
10 14 (1.27%) Accessibility
10 14 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (1.18%) SOC 2
12 11 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.54%) DICOM
14 5 (0.45%) GRC
15 4 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.27%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.18%) COBIT
17 2 (0.18%) HL7
System Software
1 412 (37.32%) Active Directory
2 136 (12.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 120 (10.87%) Docker
4 100 (9.06%) Hyper-V
5 40 (3.62%) vSphere
6 33 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (1.45%) Firmware
9 14 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
10 11 (1.00%) BitLocker
11 10 (0.91%) VMware NSX
12 8 (0.72%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 7 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.45%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.36%) iptables
15 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.36%) XenDesktop
16 3 (0.27%) Squid
17 2 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 2 (0.18%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 233 (21.11%) Terraform
2 173 (15.67%) Kubernetes
3 165 (14.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 133 (12.05%) Ansible
5 51 (4.62%) Grafana
6 47 (4.26%) SCCM
7 43 (3.89%) Single Sign-On
8 31 (2.81%) Prometheus
9 22 (1.99%) Jamf Pro
10 18 (1.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (1.54%) vCenter Server
12 13 (1.18%) Nessus
12 13 (1.18%) VxRail
13 11 (1.00%) FortiGate
14 9 (0.82%) Puppet
14 9 (0.82%) QRadar
15 8 (0.72%) logstash
15 8 (0.72%) Packer
15 8 (0.72%) Progress Chef
15 8 (0.72%) WSUS
Vendors
1 625 (56.61%) Microsoft
2 215 (19.47%) VMware
3 94 (8.51%) Cisco
4 56 (5.07%) Splunk
5 54 (4.89%) ServiceNow
6 52 (4.71%) Red Hat
7 43 (3.89%) Oracle
8 41 (3.71%) Veeam
9 38 (3.44%) CrowdStrike
10 34 (3.08%) Commvault
10 34 (3.08%) Google
11 32 (2.90%) Palo Alto
12 29 (2.63%) Dell
13 27 (2.45%) Meraki
14 26 (2.36%) Fortinet
15 25 (2.26%) CyberArk
16 24 (2.17%) Citrix
17 23 (2.08%) Apple
18 20 (1.81%) Atlassian
19 19 (1.72%) Dynatrace