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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 93 55
Rank change year-on-year -15 -38 +30
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,126 1,641 2,196
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.32% 2.92% 4.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.91% 8.67% 11.91%
Number of salaries quoted 972 1,162 1,857
10th Percentile £33,391 £37,500 £39,128
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 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.26% +3.33% -

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 10,325 18,925 18,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 21.24% 33.64% 41.06%
Number of salaries quoted 7,754 11,409 15,304
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 £110,695 £110,000
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 6 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 6 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 -22 431 £75,000 - 141
South East -18 215 £58,000 +2.61% 178
North of England -11 151 £50,000 - 122
South West +30 117 £51,250 -2.84% 73
Midlands -8 108 £52,500 +10.53% 96
East of England +32 92 £47,500 -9.52% 66
West Midlands -1 74 £53,750 +19.44% 50
Yorkshire -12 71 £47,500 -9.52% 37
North West -3 69 £52,500 +5.00% 71
East Midlands +1 34 £52,500 +10.53% 43
North East +5 11 £55,000 +16.68% 17
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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
1 201 (17.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 157 (13.94%) SharePoint
3 55 (4.88%) IIS
4 48 (4.26%) Confluence
5 22 (1.95%) Exchange Server 2003
6 17 (1.51%) Skype for Business
7 10 (0.89%) nginx
8 6 (0.53%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.18%) CMS
10 2 (0.18%) WordPress
11 1 (0.089%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 45 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.53%) Siemens NX
4 5 (0.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 4 (0.36%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.27%) CATIA
6 3 (0.27%) Windchill
7 2 (0.18%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.089%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.089%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 11 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.53%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.44%) 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
1 716 (63.59%) Azure
2 393 (34.90%) Microsoft 365
3 237 (21.05%) Entra ID
4 216 (19.18%) AWS
5 164 (14.56%) Azure DevOps
6 103 (9.15%) Power Platform
7 83 (7.37%) PaaS
8 77 (6.84%) GCP
9 74 (6.57%) GitHub
10 70 (6.22%) SaaS
11 64 (5.68%) Azure Monitor
11 64 (5.68%) Power Automate
12 58 (5.15%) IaaS
13 56 (4.97%) Azure Sentinel
14 53 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
15 47 (4.17%) Serverless
16 41 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 37 (3.29%) PowerApps
18 32 (2.84%) Amazon S3
18 32 (2.84%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 248 (22.02%) Firewall
2 230 (20.43%) DNS
3 185 (16.43%) DHCP
4 110 (9.77%) TCP/IP
5 90 (7.99%) VPN
6 84 (7.46%) WAN
7 68 (6.04%) LAN
8 48 (4.26%) VLAN
9 41 (3.64%) SAN
10 39 (3.46%) Wireless
11 38 (3.37%) Internet
12 35 (3.11%) Wi-Fi
13 34 (3.02%) Network Security
14 25 (2.22%) SD-WAN
15 21 (1.87%) HTTP
16 20 (1.78%) VoIP
17 19 (1.69%) NAS
18 17 (1.51%) Kerberos
18 17 (1.51%) Skype
18 17 (1.51%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (10.04%) SQL Server
2 59 (5.24%) Power BI
3 41 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (2.84%) Relational Database
5 30 (2.66%) Oracle Database
6 26 (2.31%) Oracle Database 10g
7 16 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (1.24%) NoSQL
8 14 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (1.15%) 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
13 6 (0.53%) Tableau
14 4 (0.36%) Oracle Database 12c
14 4 (0.36%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 109 (9.68%) JIRA
2 97 (8.61%) Git
3 85 (7.55%) Jenkins
4 42 (3.73%) GitLab
5 21 (1.87%) Octopus Deploy
5 21 (1.87%) Vagrant
6 14 (1.24%) MSI
7 12 (1.07%) Bitbucket
8 11 (0.98%) Burp Suite
8 11 (0.98%) Metasploit
9 10 (0.89%) TeamCity
10 8 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.44%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.44%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.36%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.36%) Robot Framework
13 4 (0.36%) Toad
14 3 (0.27%) Balsamiq
14 3 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 413 (36.68%) Social Skills
2 222 (19.72%) Finance
3 83 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (6.31%) Law
5 44 (3.91%) Public Sector
6 42 (3.73%) Banking
7 39 (3.46%) Legal
8 38 (3.37%) Retail
9 37 (3.29%) Manufacturing
10 32 (2.84%) Telecoms
11 31 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
12 24 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (1.15%) Marketing
17 12 (1.07%) Automotive
18 11 (0.98%) Front Office
19 10 (0.89%) Advertising
19 10 (0.89%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 177 (15.72%) Support Engineer
2 134 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 123 (10.92%) Senior
4 98 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 95 (8.44%) Azure Engineer
6 86 (7.64%) Analyst
7 85 (7.55%) 3rd Line Support
8 73 (6.48%) IT Support
8 73 (6.48%) Security Engineer
9 72 (6.39%) Cloud Engineer
10 70 (6.22%) Developer
11 69 (6.13%) Lead
12 65 (5.77%) IT Engineer
13 63 (5.60%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 60 (5.33%) Platform Engineer
15 43 (3.82%) Applications Support
16 42 (3.73%) IT Support Engineer
16 42 (3.73%) Support Analyst
17 41 (3.64%) Applications Engineer
17 41 (3.64%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (5.42%) YAML
2 59 (5.24%) .NET
3 53 (4.71%) REST
4 39 (3.46%) ARM Templates
5 29 (2.58%) JSON
6 25 (2.22%) LDAP
7 23 (2.04%) SOAP
8 18 (1.60%) Microsoft Graph
9 17 (1.51%) AngularJS
9 17 (1.51%) React
10 16 (1.42%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (1.07%) .NET Framework
11 12 (1.07%) Node.js
11 12 (1.07%) Web Services
12 10 (0.89%) Middleware
12 10 (0.89%) OpenID
12 10 (0.89%) Razor View Engine
13 9 (0.80%) OAuth
14 8 (0.71%) Jinja
14 8 (0.71%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 93 (8.26%) Onboarding
2 54 (4.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 53 (4.71%) Security Posture
4 41 (3.64%) Cloud Native
5 37 (3.29%) Management Information System
6 35 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
7 34 (3.02%) PKI
8 33 (2.93%) Data Centre
9 23 (2.04%) Replication
10 22 (1.95%) Driving Licence
10 22 (1.95%) Private Cloud
10 22 (1.95%) Public Cloud
11 21 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
12 20 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
13 18 (1.60%) Hedge funds
13 18 (1.60%) Video Conferencing
14 16 (1.42%) Product Ownership
15 14 (1.24%) Clustering
15 14 (1.24%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 520 (46.18%) Windows
2 298 (26.47%) Windows Server
3 220 (19.54%) Linux
4 72 (6.39%) Windows 10
5 66 (5.86%) Windows Server 2019
6 46 (4.09%) VMS
7 43 (3.82%) Windows Server 2016
8 42 (3.73%) Unix
9 40 (3.55%) Mac OS
10 31 (2.75%) Windows Server 2008
11 25 (2.22%) Solaris
12 24 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 22 (1.95%) HPUX
13 22 (1.95%) Windows 7
13 22 (1.95%) Windows Server 2003
14 21 (1.87%) Android
15 18 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
16 16 (1.42%) Amazon Linux
17 14 (1.24%) Apple iOS
17 14 (1.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (29.31%) DevOps
2 305 (27.09%) Problem-Solving
3 241 (21.40%) CI/CD
4 200 (17.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 187 (16.61%) ITIL
6 183 (16.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 165 (14.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 138 (12.26%) Cybersecurity
9 137 (12.17%) Agile
10 129 (11.46%) Mentoring
11 126 (11.19%) Task Automation
12 120 (10.66%) Disaster Recovery
13 111 (9.86%) Migration
14 110 (9.77%) Cloud Security
15 91 (8.08%) Containerisation
16 89 (7.90%) Incident Management
17 87 (7.73%) ITSM
18 85 (7.55%) Change Management
19 78 (6.93%) Platform Engineering
19 78 (6.93%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 359 (31.88%) Python
2 210 (18.65%) Bash
3 199 (17.67%) SQL
4 92 (8.17%) C#
5 63 (5.60%) Bicep
6 45 (4.00%) JavaScript
7 35 (3.11%) Perl
8 32 (2.84%) Java
9 26 (2.31%) Go
9 26 (2.31%) Kusto Query Language
10 24 (2.13%) Groovy
10 24 (2.13%) VB
11 17 (1.51%) T-SQL
12 14 (1.24%) TypeScript
13 12 (1.07%) VBScript
14 10 (0.89%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.62%) Ruby
16 4 (0.36%) C++
16 4 (0.36%) VB.NET
17 3 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 170 (15.10%) Security Cleared
2 165 (14.65%) Degree
3 108 (9.59%) SC Cleared
4 93 (8.26%) Azure Certification
5 84 (7.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 62 (5.51%) DV Cleared
7 48 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
8 43 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 39 (3.46%) AWS Certification
10 31 (2.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 29 (2.58%) CCNA
12 28 (2.49%) CISSP
13 22 (1.95%) Master's Degree
14 18 (1.60%) CEH
14 18 (1.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 15 (1.33%) CCNP
16 14 (1.24%) CREST Certified
17 13 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
17 13 (1.15%) OSCP
18 12 (1.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (11.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 107 (9.50%) NIST
3 57 (5.06%) SLA
4 54 (4.80%) GDPR
5 31 (2.75%) NCSC
6 30 (2.66%) Cyber Essentials
7 25 (2.22%) Accessibility
8 14 (1.24%) QA
9 9 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.71%) ISO 22301
10 8 (0.71%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.44%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.36%) GRC
12 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.18%) Data Quality
14 2 (0.18%) HL7
15 1 (0.089%) COBIT
15 1 (0.089%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.089%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 400 (35.52%) Active Directory
2 173 (15.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 113 (10.04%) Hyper-V
4 112 (9.95%) Docker
5 44 (3.91%) Virtual Machines
6 33 (2.93%) Virtual Desktop
7 30 (2.66%) vSphere
8 24 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (1.33%) Firmware
10 14 (1.24%) DFS Replication
11 9 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
11 9 (0.80%) XenApp
12 8 (0.71%) XenDesktop
13 7 (0.62%) Postfix
14 6 (0.53%) Dovecot
14 6 (0.53%) Squid
15 4 (0.36%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.36%) VMware NSX
16 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.27%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 225 (19.98%) Terraform
2 191 (16.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 155 (13.77%) Kubernetes
4 132 (11.72%) Ansible
5 66 (5.86%) SCCM
6 53 (4.71%) Grafana
7 48 (4.26%) Prometheus
8 35 (3.11%) Single Sign-On
9 31 (2.75%) WSUS
10 22 (1.95%) SCOM
11 19 (1.69%) vCenter Server
12 14 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 14 (1.24%) Autotask
12 14 (1.24%) WMI
13 11 (0.98%) Puppet
13 11 (0.98%) ZABBIX
14 10 (0.89%) Backup Exec
14 10 (0.89%) Nessus
14 10 (0.89%) QRadar
15 9 (0.80%) Nmap
Vendors
1 663 (58.88%) Microsoft
2 243 (21.58%) VMware
3 101 (8.97%) Cisco
4 79 (7.02%) ServiceNow
5 63 (5.60%) Oracle
6 49 (4.35%) Veeam
7 44 (3.91%) Red Hat
8 43 (3.82%) Atlassian
8 43 (3.82%) Citrix
9 40 (3.55%) Splunk
10 29 (2.58%) Google
10 29 (2.58%) Palo Alto
11 27 (2.40%) SolarWinds
12 22 (1.95%) 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