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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 92 61
Rank change year-on-year -22 -31 +23
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,023 1,459 2,037
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.94% 3.03% 4.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.95% 8.95% 10.78%
Number of salaries quoted 848 1,026 1,747
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,000 £38,400
25th Percentile £43,967 £47,500 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,938 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.20% +4.17% -

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 10,278 16,307 18,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.45% 33.88% 38.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,772 9,582 15,892
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,500 £38,130
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,250 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,125 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

PowerShell
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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -9 439 £72,500 -3.33% 144
South East -38 176 £58,000 -3.33% 148
North of England -35 129 £50,000 - 90
South West +25 107 £52,500 -4.55% 68
Midlands -25 89 £52,500 +10.53% 54
East of England +21 70 £43,085 -17.93% 50
North West -12 61 £51,750 +3.50% 48
Yorkshire -22 57 £47,500 -9.52% 30
West Midlands -29 49 £52,500 +27.27% 21
East Midlands -8 40 £54,000 +6.93% 32
North East +8 11 £62,500 +25.00% 13
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UK

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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 (16.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 133 (13.00%) SharePoint
3 42 (4.11%) IIS
4 26 (2.54%) Confluence
5 22 (2.15%) Exchange Server 2003
6 16 (1.56%) Skype for Business
7 6 (0.59%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.49%) nginx
8 5 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.20%) CMS
9 2 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 33 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.59%) Siemens NX
4 5 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.39%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 3 (0.29%) CATIA
6 3 (0.29%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.29%) Windchill
7 2 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.59%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.49%) NEC Housing
3 5 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.29%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.20%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.20%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.098%) Actimize
6 1 (0.098%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 646 (63.15%) Azure
2 353 (34.51%) Microsoft 365
3 246 (24.05%) Entra ID
4 185 (18.08%) AWS
5 152 (14.86%) Azure DevOps
6 99 (9.68%) Power Platform
7 73 (7.14%) GitHub
8 72 (7.04%) GCP
9 62 (6.06%) PaaS
10 56 (5.47%) Power Automate
11 52 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
12 47 (4.59%) Azure Monitor
13 41 (4.01%) Azure Sentinel
13 41 (4.01%) IaaS
14 40 (3.91%) SaaS
15 38 (3.71%) OneDrive
16 29 (2.83%) PowerApps
17 28 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
17 28 (2.74%) Serverless
18 27 (2.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 206 (20.14%) Firewall
2 193 (18.87%) DNS
3 145 (14.17%) DHCP
4 95 (9.29%) TCP/IP
5 90 (8.80%) VPN
6 72 (7.04%) WAN
7 60 (5.87%) LAN
8 39 (3.81%) Wi-Fi
9 38 (3.71%) VLAN
10 32 (3.13%) SAN
11 30 (2.93%) Wireless
12 25 (2.44%) Network Security
12 25 (2.44%) SD-WAN
13 23 (2.25%) Internet
14 17 (1.66%) VoIP
15 16 (1.56%) Cisco IOS
15 16 (1.56%) Skype
16 15 (1.47%) VSAN
17 14 (1.37%) NAS
18 12 (1.17%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (11.05%) SQL Server
2 65 (6.35%) Power BI
3 33 (3.23%) Relational Database
4 30 (2.93%) Oracle Database
5 28 (2.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 26 (2.54%) Oracle Database 10g
7 22 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
10 14 (1.37%) MySQL
11 12 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (1.08%) NoSQL
12 11 (1.08%) Tableau
13 8 (0.78%) DTS
13 8 (0.78%) MongoDB
14 7 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
15 6 (0.59%) Data Mining
15 6 (0.59%) Metadata
16 4 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
16 4 (0.39%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 84 (8.21%) JIRA
2 80 (7.82%) Git
3 71 (6.94%) Jenkins
4 37 (3.62%) GitLab
5 24 (2.35%) Octopus Deploy
6 16 (1.56%) TeamCity
7 14 (1.37%) Bitbucket
8 9 (0.88%) Burp Suite
8 9 (0.88%) Metasploit
9 7 (0.68%) Vagrant
10 6 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.49%) MSI
11 5 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.39%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.39%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.39%) MLflow
12 4 (0.39%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.39%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.39%) Toad
13 3 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 375 (36.66%) Social Skills
2 229 (22.39%) Finance
3 100 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (5.77%) Law
5 44 (4.30%) Retail
6 40 (3.91%) Legal
7 39 (3.81%) Banking
7 39 (3.81%) Public Sector
8 32 (3.13%) Manufacturing
9 30 (2.93%) Telecoms
10 29 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
11 25 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 24 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.17%) Marketing
16 10 (0.98%) Advertising
16 10 (0.98%) Front Office
17 9 (0.88%) Electronics
18 8 (0.78%) Games
Job Titles
1 143 (13.98%) Support Engineer
2 129 (12.61%) Senior
3 106 (10.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 84 (8.21%) DevOps Engineer
5 81 (7.92%) Azure Engineer
6 78 (7.62%) Analyst
7 71 (6.94%) Developer
8 68 (6.65%) Lead
9 65 (6.35%) Security Engineer
10 63 (6.16%) Cloud Engineer
10 63 (6.16%) IT Support
11 55 (5.38%) 3rd Line Support
12 53 (5.18%) IT Engineer
13 52 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
14 46 (4.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 42 (4.11%) Applications Engineer
15 42 (4.11%) Applications Support
16 38 (3.71%) IT Support Engineer
16 38 (3.71%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
17 33 (3.23%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (6.45%) REST
2 59 (5.77%) .NET
3 44 (4.30%) YAML
4 33 (3.23%) SOAP
5 28 (2.74%) ARM Templates
5 28 (2.74%) JSON
6 27 (2.64%) LDAP
7 23 (2.25%) OpenID
8 22 (2.15%) OAuth
9 20 (1.96%) React
9 20 (1.96%) SAML
10 17 (1.66%) Microsoft Graph
11 15 (1.47%) AngularJS
11 15 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (1.27%) GraphQL
12 13 (1.27%) Middleware
13 11 (1.08%) Node.js
13 11 (1.08%) Web Services
14 10 (0.98%) Razor View Engine
15 8 (0.78%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 83 (8.11%) Onboarding
2 58 (5.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 53 (5.18%) Security Posture
4 40 (3.91%) Management Information System
5 37 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
6 30 (2.93%) Cloud Native
7 28 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 28 (2.74%) Data Centre
8 25 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
9 22 (2.15%) PKI
10 21 (2.05%) CMDB
10 21 (2.05%) Hedge funds
11 20 (1.96%) Private Cloud
12 19 (1.86%) Driving Licence
12 19 (1.86%) Video Conferencing
13 17 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
13 17 (1.66%) Public Cloud
13 17 (1.66%) Virtual Team
14 16 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
15 15 (1.47%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 454 (44.38%) Windows
2 245 (23.95%) Windows Server
3 181 (17.69%) Linux
4 67 (6.55%) Windows 10
5 44 (4.30%) Mac OS
6 42 (4.11%) Unix
7 34 (3.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 30 (2.93%) Windows Server 2008
8 30 (2.93%) Windows Server 2016
9 29 (2.83%) Android
10 27 (2.64%) VMS
11 25 (2.44%) Solaris
12 22 (2.15%) HPUX
12 22 (2.15%) Windows 7
12 22 (2.15%) Windows Server 2003
13 19 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 16 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
15 13 (1.27%) Apple iOS
15 13 (1.27%) Ubuntu
16 10 (0.98%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (30.21%) Problem-Solving
2 283 (27.66%) DevOps
3 218 (21.31%) CI/CD
4 184 (17.99%) ITIL
5 168 (16.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 162 (15.84%) Continuous Improvement
7 158 (15.44%) Infrastructure as Code
8 150 (14.66%) Cybersecurity
9 129 (12.61%) Disaster Recovery
10 119 (11.63%) Mentoring
11 115 (11.24%) Task Automation
12 111 (10.85%) Agile
13 93 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
14 92 (8.99%) Migration
15 88 (8.60%) Cloud Security
16 86 (8.41%) Incident Management
17 82 (8.02%) Computer Science
18 80 (7.82%) Incident Response
19 78 (7.62%) ITSM
20 76 (7.43%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 328 (32.06%) Python
2 212 (20.72%) SQL
3 192 (18.77%) Bash
4 85 (8.31%) C#
5 58 (5.67%) Bicep
6 50 (4.89%) JavaScript
7 33 (3.23%) T-SQL
8 29 (2.83%) Perl
9 23 (2.25%) Go
10 22 (2.15%) Java
11 19 (1.86%) Kusto Query Language
12 13 (1.27%) VB
13 11 (1.08%) TypeScript
13 11 (1.08%) VBScript
14 10 (0.98%) VB.NET
15 9 (0.88%) Groovy
16 7 (0.68%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.39%) C++
17 4 (0.39%) Ruby
17 4 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 150 (14.66%) Degree
2 145 (14.17%) Security Cleared
3 93 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 88 (8.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 75 (7.33%) Azure Certification
6 52 (5.08%) DV Cleared
7 41 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (3.62%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (3.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 30 (2.93%) CISSP
11 25 (2.44%) AWS Certification
12 19 (1.86%) CCNA
13 17 (1.66%) CEH
13 17 (1.66%) Master's Degree
14 16 (1.56%) CREST Certified
15 13 (1.27%) CompTIA CySA+
16 12 (1.17%) CCNP
16 12 (1.17%) DBS Check
16 12 (1.17%) GIAC
17 11 (1.08%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (14.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 107 (10.46%) NIST
3 53 (5.18%) SLA
4 50 (4.89%) GDPR
5 34 (3.32%) NCSC
6 26 (2.54%) Cyber Essentials
7 24 (2.35%) Accessibility
8 15 (1.47%) QA
9 13 (1.27%) ISO 22301
10 12 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (0.98%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.68%) Data Quality
13 5 (0.49%) GRC
13 5 (0.49%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.29%) HL7
14 3 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
16 1 (0.098%) COBIT
16 1 (0.098%) NIST 800
System Software
1 360 (35.19%) Active Directory
2 127 (12.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 92 (8.99%) Docker
4 77 (7.53%) Hyper-V
5 35 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (2.83%) Virtual Desktop
7 27 (2.64%) vSphere
8 23 (2.25%) Firmware
9 15 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.78%) XenApp
10 8 (0.78%) XenDesktop
11 5 (0.49%) Postfix
11 5 (0.49%) Squid
12 4 (0.39%) DFS Replication
12 4 (0.39%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.29%) vCloud
13 3 (0.29%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.20%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 2 (0.20%) KVM
Systems Management
1 204 (19.94%) Terraform
2 177 (17.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 141 (13.78%) Kubernetes
4 113 (11.05%) Ansible
5 56 (5.47%) SCCM
6 38 (3.71%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (3.13%) Grafana
8 28 (2.74%) Prometheus
9 17 (1.66%) SCOM
10 16 (1.56%) WSUS
11 14 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 11 (1.08%) Nessus
12 11 (1.08%) Puppet
12 11 (1.08%) vCenter Server
13 10 (0.98%) ZABBIX
14 9 (0.88%) FortiGate
14 9 (0.88%) Nagios
15 8 (0.78%) Progress Chef
16 6 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
16 6 (0.59%) vRealize
Vendors
1 578 (56.50%) Microsoft
2 209 (20.43%) VMware
3 92 (8.99%) Cisco
4 64 (6.26%) ServiceNow
5 54 (5.28%) Oracle
6 45 (4.40%) Veeam
7 38 (3.71%) Atlassian
7 38 (3.71%) Citrix
8 37 (3.62%) Google
9 29 (2.83%) Palo Alto
9 29 (2.83%) Red Hat
9 29 (2.83%) Splunk
10 25 (2.44%) SolarWinds
11 24 (2.35%) SAP
12 22 (2.15%) Commvault
13 21 (2.05%) CrowdStrike
14 20 (1.96%) Dell
14 20 (1.96%) Fortinet
15 18 (1.76%) Meraki
16 17 (1.66%) CyberArk