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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 96 57
Rank change year-on-year -12 -39 +29
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,123 1,629 2,191
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.37% 2.86% 4.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.88% 8.57% 11.91%
Number of salaries quoted 970 1,149 1,849
10th Percentile £33,729 £37,500 £38,226
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
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 £90,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £61,425 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.39% +2.38% -

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 10,318 19,012 18,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 21.74% 33.44% 41.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,719 11,438 15,245
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £108,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025. 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 -26 426 £75,000 - 141
South East -15 218 £58,000 +2.86% 140
North of England -14 150 £50,000 - 82
South West +22 114 £52,500 - 57
Midlands +8 109 £52,500 +10.53% 65
East of England +45 94 £47,500 -9.52% 40
West Midlands +12 77 £55,000 +22.22% 35
Yorkshire -11 70 £47,500 -9.95% 19
North West -2 69 £52,500 +5.00% 53
East Midlands +1 32 £51,250 +7.89% 29
North East +9 11 £55,000 +16.68% 13
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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
1 200 (17.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 156 (13.89%) SharePoint
3 54 (4.81%) IIS
4 50 (4.45%) Confluence
5 22 (1.96%) Exchange Server 2003
6 18 (1.60%) Skype for Business
7 10 (0.89%) nginx
8 6 (0.53%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.18%) CMS
10 2 (0.18%) WordPress
11 1 (0.089%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 45 (4.01%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.53%) Siemens NX
4 5 (0.45%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 4 (0.36%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.27%) CATIA
6 3 (0.27%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.27%) Windchill
7 2 (0.18%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.089%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.089%) Revit
Business Applications
1 11 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.53%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.45%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.27%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.18%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.089%) Actimize
6 1 (0.089%) Eikon
6 1 (0.089%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.089%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 715 (63.67%) Azure
2 390 (34.73%) Microsoft 365
3 230 (20.48%) Entra ID
4 220 (19.59%) AWS
5 164 (14.60%) Azure DevOps
6 103 (9.17%) Power Platform
7 84 (7.48%) PaaS
8 77 (6.86%) GCP
9 74 (6.59%) GitHub
10 72 (6.41%) SaaS
11 65 (5.79%) Azure Monitor
12 63 (5.61%) Power Automate
13 59 (5.25%) IaaS
14 56 (4.99%) Azure Sentinel
15 52 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
16 47 (4.19%) Serverless
17 43 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 36 (3.21%) PowerApps
19 34 (3.03%) Amazon S3
20 31 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 255 (22.71%) Firewall
2 231 (20.57%) DNS
3 185 (16.47%) DHCP
4 110 (9.80%) TCP/IP
5 90 (8.01%) VPN
6 87 (7.75%) WAN
7 70 (6.23%) LAN
8 48 (4.27%) VLAN
9 41 (3.65%) SAN
10 39 (3.47%) Wireless
11 38 (3.38%) Internet
12 34 (3.03%) Network Security
13 33 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
14 26 (2.32%) SD-WAN
15 22 (1.96%) HTTP
16 19 (1.69%) NAS
16 19 (1.69%) VoIP
17 18 (1.60%) Skype
17 18 (1.60%) SMTP
18 17 (1.51%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (10.06%) SQL Server
2 59 (5.25%) Power BI
3 43 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (2.85%) Relational Database
5 30 (2.67%) Oracle Database
6 26 (2.32%) Oracle Database 10g
7 16 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (1.25%) NoSQL
8 14 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (1.16%) MySQL
10 9 (0.80%) DTS
11 8 (0.71%) MongoDB
12 7 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
13 6 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (0.53%) Data Mining
14 5 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (0.45%) Tableau
15 4 (0.36%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 110 (9.80%) JIRA
2 98 (8.73%) Git
3 89 (7.93%) Jenkins
4 43 (3.83%) GitLab
5 23 (2.05%) Vagrant
6 21 (1.87%) Octopus Deploy
7 14 (1.25%) MSI
8 12 (1.07%) Bitbucket
9 11 (0.98%) Burp Suite
9 11 (0.98%) Metasploit
10 10 (0.89%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.45%) CircleCI
13 5 (0.45%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.36%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.36%) Robot Framework
14 4 (0.36%) Toad
15 3 (0.27%) Balsamiq
15 3 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 413 (36.78%) Social Skills
2 221 (19.68%) Finance
3 82 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (6.41%) Law
5 44 (3.92%) Public Sector
6 42 (3.74%) Banking
7 39 (3.47%) Retail
8 37 (3.29%) Legal
9 36 (3.21%) Manufacturing
10 31 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
10 31 (2.76%) Telecoms
11 24 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
12 18 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (1.16%) Marketing
16 12 (1.07%) Automotive
17 11 (0.98%) Front Office
18 10 (0.89%) Aerospace
19 9 (0.80%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 180 (16.03%) Support Engineer
2 134 (11.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 123 (10.95%) Senior
4 99 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
5 94 (8.37%) Azure Engineer
6 86 (7.66%) 3rd Line Support
7 84 (7.48%) Analyst
8 73 (6.50%) IT Support
8 73 (6.50%) Security Engineer
9 71 (6.32%) Cloud Engineer
10 69 (6.14%) Developer
11 68 (6.06%) Lead
12 65 (5.79%) IT Engineer
13 64 (5.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 60 (5.34%) Platform Engineer
15 42 (3.74%) Applications Support
15 42 (3.74%) IT Support Engineer
16 41 (3.65%) Applications Engineer
16 41 (3.65%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
17 40 (3.56%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (5.52%) YAML
2 58 (5.16%) .NET
3 53 (4.72%) REST
4 39 (3.47%) ARM Templates
5 29 (2.58%) JSON
6 26 (2.32%) LDAP
7 23 (2.05%) SOAP
8 18 (1.60%) Microsoft Graph
9 17 (1.51%) AngularJS
10 16 (1.42%) Elastic Stack
10 16 (1.42%) React
11 12 (1.07%) Web Services
12 11 (0.98%) .NET Framework
12 11 (0.98%) Node.js
13 10 (0.89%) Middleware
13 10 (0.89%) OpenID
13 10 (0.89%) Razor View Engine
14 9 (0.80%) OAuth
15 8 (0.71%) Jinja
15 8 (0.71%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 92 (8.19%) Onboarding
2 54 (4.81%) Security Posture
3 53 (4.72%) Hybrid Cloud
4 40 (3.56%) Cloud Native
5 35 (3.12%) Enterprise Software
5 35 (3.12%) Management Information System
6 34 (3.03%) Data Centre
6 34 (3.03%) PKI
7 24 (2.14%) Replication
8 23 (2.05%) Private Cloud
8 23 (2.05%) Public Cloud
9 22 (1.96%) Driving Licence
10 21 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
12 19 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
12 19 (1.69%) Video Conferencing
13 17 (1.51%) Hedge funds
13 17 (1.51%) Product Ownership
14 15 (1.34%) IoT
15 14 (1.25%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 516 (45.95%) Windows
2 298 (26.54%) Windows Server
3 220 (19.59%) Linux
4 70 (6.23%) Windows 10
5 68 (6.06%) Windows Server 2019
6 48 (4.27%) VMS
7 44 (3.92%) Windows Server 2016
8 43 (3.83%) Unix
9 37 (3.29%) Mac OS
10 31 (2.76%) Windows Server 2008
11 25 (2.23%) Solaris
12 24 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 22 (1.96%) HPUX
13 22 (1.96%) Windows 7
13 22 (1.96%) Windows Server 2003
14 19 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
15 17 (1.51%) Amazon Linux
15 17 (1.51%) Android
16 14 (1.25%) Ubuntu
17 12 (1.07%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (29.56%) DevOps
2 302 (26.89%) Problem-Solving
3 244 (21.73%) CI/CD
4 200 (17.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 183 (16.30%) ITIL
6 181 (16.12%) Infrastructure as Code
7 164 (14.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 137 (12.20%) Agile
9 136 (12.11%) Cybersecurity
10 129 (11.49%) Mentoring
11 124 (11.04%) Task Automation
12 119 (10.60%) Disaster Recovery
13 109 (9.71%) Cloud Security
14 106 (9.44%) Migration
15 91 (8.10%) Containerisation
16 89 (7.93%) Incident Management
17 86 (7.66%) Change Management
17 86 (7.66%) ITSM
18 80 (7.12%) Platform Engineering
19 77 (6.86%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 360 (32.06%) Python
2 211 (18.79%) Bash
3 199 (17.72%) SQL
4 92 (8.19%) C#
5 62 (5.52%) Bicep
6 43 (3.83%) JavaScript
7 36 (3.21%) Perl
8 34 (3.03%) Java
9 27 (2.40%) Kusto Query Language
10 26 (2.32%) Go
10 26 (2.32%) Groovy
11 24 (2.14%) VB
12 17 (1.51%) T-SQL
13 14 (1.25%) TypeScript
14 12 (1.07%) VBScript
15 11 (0.98%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.62%) Ruby
17 4 (0.36%) C++
18 3 (0.27%) Tcl
18 3 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 170 (15.14%) Security Cleared
2 165 (14.69%) Degree
3 108 (9.62%) SC Cleared
4 91 (8.10%) Azure Certification
5 82 (7.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 62 (5.52%) DV Cleared
7 48 (4.27%) Cisco Certification
8 44 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 39 (3.47%) AWS Certification
10 30 (2.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 29 (2.58%) CCNA
12 27 (2.40%) CISSP
13 23 (2.05%) Master's Degree
14 19 (1.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 18 (1.60%) CEH
16 15 (1.34%) CCNP
17 14 (1.25%) CREST Certified
18 13 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
18 13 (1.16%) OSCP
19 12 (1.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (11.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 105 (9.35%) NIST
3 55 (4.90%) GDPR
3 55 (4.90%) SLA
4 32 (2.85%) NCSC
5 30 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 25 (2.23%) Accessibility
7 15 (1.34%) QA
8 9 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 9 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.71%) ISO 22301
10 6 (0.53%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.27%) GRC
13 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.18%) Data Quality
13 2 (0.18%) HL7
14 1 (0.089%) COBIT
14 1 (0.089%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.089%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 402 (35.80%) Active Directory
2 171 (15.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 113 (10.06%) Docker
4 111 (9.88%) Hyper-V
5 44 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
6 31 (2.76%) Virtual Desktop
7 30 (2.67%) vSphere
8 22 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (1.34%) DFS Replication
10 14 (1.25%) Firmware
11 9 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
11 9 (0.80%) XenApp
12 7 (0.62%) Postfix
13 6 (0.53%) Dovecot
13 6 (0.53%) Squid
13 6 (0.53%) XenDesktop
14 4 (0.36%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.36%) VMware NSX
15 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.27%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 227 (20.21%) Terraform
2 189 (16.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 156 (13.89%) Kubernetes
4 132 (11.75%) Ansible
5 65 (5.79%) SCCM
6 56 (4.99%) Grafana
7 50 (4.45%) Prometheus
8 35 (3.12%) Single Sign-On
9 31 (2.76%) WSUS
10 23 (2.05%) SCOM
11 19 (1.69%) vCenter Server
12 14 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 14 (1.25%) Autotask
12 14 (1.25%) WMI
13 11 (0.98%) Backup Exec
13 11 (0.98%) Puppet
13 11 (0.98%) ZABBIX
14 10 (0.89%) Nessus
14 10 (0.89%) QRadar
15 9 (0.80%) Nmap
Vendors
1 659 (58.68%) Microsoft
2 242 (21.55%) VMware
3 101 (8.99%) Cisco
4 81 (7.21%) ServiceNow
5 64 (5.70%) Oracle
6 51 (4.54%) Veeam
7 44 (3.92%) Red Hat
8 42 (3.74%) Atlassian
9 41 (3.65%) Citrix
9 41 (3.65%) Splunk
10 29 (2.58%) Palo Alto
11 28 (2.49%) Google
11 28 (2.49%) SolarWinds
12 21 (1.87%) SAP
13 20 (1.78%) Meraki
13 20 (1.78%) Sophos
14 18 (1.60%) Apple
15 17 (1.51%) Bloomberg
15 17 (1.51%) Dell
15 17 (1.51%) Tenable