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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 89 97
Rank change year-on-year -56 +8 -2
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,089 1,290 2,194
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.35% 3.36% 2.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.73% 10.27% 8.11%
Number of salaries quoted 831 993 1,846
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £88,750
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 14,084 12,556 27,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.40% 32.67% 32.42%
Number of salaries quoted 9,885 9,192 22,430
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,750 £35,238
25th Percentile £48,500 £47,663 £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 £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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -13 510 £70,000 -9.68% 129
South East -94 157 £55,812 -2.94% 137
North of England -49 142 £48,445 -3.11% 62
Midlands -54 113 £50,000 - 41
South West -38 85 £55,000 +15.79% 42
East of England -29 70 £57,500 +17.95% 32
North West -35 69 £53,750 +16.85% 33
East Midlands -30 67 £55,000 +37.50% 21
Yorkshire -39 58 £47,500 -14.41% 14
West Midlands -71 45 £47,500 -5.00% 20
North East -31 15 £45,000 -21.74% 15
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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
1 158 (14.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 142 (13.04%) SharePoint
3 38 (3.49%) IIS
4 17 (1.56%) Confluence
5 5 (0.46%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.18%) Apache
6 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.092%) CMS
7 1 (0.092%) Site Server
7 1 (0.092%) WordPress
Applications
1 47 (4.32%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.092%) CATIA
4 1 (0.092%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.092%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.092%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.092%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.28%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.092%) Actimize
5 1 (0.092%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.092%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.092%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.092%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.092%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.092%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 697 (64.00%) Azure
2 398 (36.55%) Microsoft 365
3 283 (25.99%) Entra ID
4 198 (18.18%) AWS
5 100 (9.18%) Azure DevOps
6 96 (8.82%) Power Platform
7 82 (7.53%) GitHub
8 73 (6.70%) SaaS
9 70 (6.43%) OneDrive
10 64 (5.88%) GCP
11 61 (5.60%) GitHub Actions
12 57 (5.23%) IaaS
13 51 (4.68%) Azure Sentinel
14 46 (4.22%) Power Automate
15 44 (4.04%) Azure Logic Apps
16 43 (3.95%) PaaS
17 42 (3.86%) Azure Monitor
17 42 (3.86%) Google Workspace
18 40 (3.67%) Azure AKS
19 35 (3.21%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 206 (18.92%) Firewall
2 204 (18.73%) DNS
3 124 (11.39%) DHCP
4 119 (10.93%) VPN
5 89 (8.17%) TCP/IP
6 59 (5.42%) Network Security
7 52 (4.78%) LAN
7 52 (4.78%) WAN
8 43 (3.95%) VLAN
9 41 (3.76%) Wi-Fi
10 35 (3.21%) SAN
11 34 (3.12%) VoIP
12 28 (2.57%) Broadband
13 23 (2.11%) Wireless
14 14 (1.29%) SD-WAN
15 13 (1.19%) Kerberos
15 13 (1.19%) VSAN
16 12 (1.10%) Internet
16 12 (1.10%) WinSCP
17 10 (0.92%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (12.12%) SQL Server
2 80 (7.35%) Power BI
3 47 (4.32%) Azure SQL Database
4 28 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (2.30%) MySQL
7 23 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 20 (1.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 16 (1.47%) Relational Database
10 15 (1.38%) NoSQL
11 14 (1.29%) Tableau
12 13 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (1.01%) MongoDB
14 9 (0.83%) Data Lake
15 8 (0.73%) InfluxDB
16 7 (0.64%) Metadata
17 5 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
18 4 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 3 (0.28%) Power Query
19 3 (0.28%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 88 (8.08%) Git
2 58 (5.33%) Jenkins
2 58 (5.33%) JIRA
3 49 (4.50%) GitLab
4 28 (2.57%) Bitbucket
5 16 (1.47%) Octopus Deploy
6 13 (1.19%) Metasploit
6 13 (1.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 11 (1.01%) TeamCity
8 9 (0.83%) Burp Suite
9 8 (0.73%) CircleCI
9 8 (0.73%) Robot Framework
9 8 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.55%) TestRail
11 5 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.37%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.37%) MLflow
12 4 (0.37%) Selenium
13 3 (0.28%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.28%) SonarQube
General
1 346 (31.77%) Social Skills
2 192 (17.63%) Finance
3 143 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (6.24%) Law
5 47 (4.32%) Organisational Skills
6 44 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
6 44 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 44 (4.04%) Legal
7 43 (3.95%) Retail
8 33 (3.03%) Public Sector
9 24 (2.20%) Banking
10 22 (2.02%) Manufacturing
11 17 (1.56%) Advertising
12 16 (1.47%) Telecoms
13 14 (1.29%) Aerospace
14 8 (0.73%) Front Office
15 7 (0.64%) Electronics
15 7 (0.64%) Military
16 6 (0.55%) Police
17 4 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 185 (16.99%) Senior
2 136 (12.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 129 (11.85%) Analyst
4 113 (10.38%) Support Engineer
5 108 (9.92%) Azure Engineer
6 90 (8.26%) IT Support
7 81 (7.44%) Cloud Engineer
8 78 (7.16%) Security Engineer
9 76 (6.98%) IT Engineer
10 63 (5.79%) DevOps Engineer
11 58 (5.33%) Developer
12 55 (5.05%) Lead
13 49 (4.50%) 2nd Line Support
14 48 (4.41%) IT Support Engineer
15 45 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
16 41 (3.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 40 (3.67%) Security Analyst
18 38 (3.49%) Architect
19 34 (3.12%) Support Analyst
20 32 (2.94%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (6.89%) .NET
2 61 (5.60%) OAuth
3 57 (5.23%) SAML
4 56 (5.14%) OpenID
4 56 (5.14%) REST
5 41 (3.76%) LDAP
6 39 (3.58%) .NET Core
7 34 (3.12%) JSON
8 33 (3.03%) SOAP
9 32 (2.94%) CSS
10 31 (2.85%) Microsoft Graph
11 30 (2.75%) HTML
12 29 (2.66%) ARM Templates
12 29 (2.66%) SPFx
13 25 (2.30%) GraphQL
14 20 (1.84%) React
14 20 (1.84%) YAML
15 19 (1.74%) HTML5 Canvas
16 15 (1.38%) Elastic Stack
16 15 (1.38%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 90 (8.26%) Onboarding
2 70 (6.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 53 (4.87%) Security Posture
4 51 (4.68%) Management Information System
5 48 (4.41%) Cloud Native
6 43 (3.95%) Cyber Defence
6 43 (3.95%) Cyber Threat
7 41 (3.76%) Security Operations Centre
8 38 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
9 37 (3.40%) Driving Licence
10 34 (3.12%) Cyberattack
11 30 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
12 29 (2.66%) Data Centre
13 27 (2.48%) Public Cloud
14 22 (2.02%) PKI
15 20 (1.84%) CMDB
16 18 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
17 16 (1.47%) Low-Code
17 16 (1.47%) Private Cloud
17 16 (1.47%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 498 (45.73%) Windows
2 244 (22.41%) Linux
3 240 (22.04%) Windows Server
4 73 (6.70%) Windows 10
5 48 (4.41%) Mac OS
6 45 (4.13%) Android
6 45 (4.13%) Apple iOS
7 35 (3.21%) Windows Server 2016
8 27 (2.48%) VMS
9 26 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 25 (2.30%) Windows Server 2019
11 23 (2.11%) CentOS
12 16 (1.47%) Ubuntu
13 12 (1.10%) Unix
14 8 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.46%) Debian
16 4 (0.37%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.28%) CoreOS
18 1 (0.092%) OpenBSD
18 1 (0.092%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (26.08%) Problem-Solving
2 235 (21.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 225 (20.66%) Cybersecurity
4 222 (20.39%) DevOps
5 220 (20.20%) CI/CD
6 193 (17.72%) ITIL
7 189 (17.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 188 (17.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 154 (14.14%) Incident Response
10 136 (12.49%) Mentoring
11 127 (11.66%) Agile
12 126 (11.57%) Disaster Recovery
13 122 (11.20%) Root Cause Analysis
14 114 (10.47%) SIEM
15 113 (10.38%) Cloud Security
16 109 (10.01%) Containerisation
17 95 (8.72%) Security Operations
18 93 (8.54%) Roadmaps
19 92 (8.45%) Task Automation
20 91 (8.36%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 440 (40.40%) Python
2 261 (23.97%) Bash
3 233 (21.40%) SQL
4 81 (7.44%) C#
5 78 (7.16%) JavaScript
6 67 (6.15%) Bicep
7 50 (4.59%) T-SQL
8 33 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
9 23 (2.11%) TypeScript
10 19 (1.74%) Java
11 11 (1.01%) C++
11 11 (1.01%) Go
12 10 (0.92%) VB.NET
12 10 (0.92%) VBA
13 9 (0.83%) Perl
13 9 (0.83%) VB
14 8 (0.73%) PHP
15 7 (0.64%) C
16 6 (0.55%) Delphi
16 6 (0.55%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 146 (13.41%) Degree
2 120 (11.02%) Security Cleared
3 99 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 89 (8.17%) Azure Certification
5 64 (5.88%) SC Cleared
6 45 (4.13%) CISSP
7 41 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (3.12%) DV Cleared
9 32 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
10 30 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (2.30%) OSCP
12 23 (2.11%) CREST Certified
12 23 (2.11%) GIAC
13 22 (2.02%) CCNA
13 22 (2.02%) CompTIA CySA+
14 21 (1.93%) AWS Certification
14 21 (1.93%) CEH
15 18 (1.65%) DBS Check
16 14 (1.29%) CISA
17 13 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (12.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 109 (10.01%) NIST
3 62 (5.69%) GDPR
4 41 (3.76%) SLA
5 28 (2.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 27 (2.48%) NCSC
7 20 (1.84%) Data Quality
8 19 (1.74%) ISO 22301
9 16 (1.47%) QA
10 15 (1.38%) SOC 2
11 14 (1.29%) Actionable Recommendations
12 13 (1.19%) Accessibility
12 13 (1.19%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.55%) DICOM
15 5 (0.46%) GRC
16 4 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 3 (0.28%) HIPAA
18 2 (0.18%) COBIT
18 2 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 395 (36.27%) Active Directory
2 141 (12.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 120 (11.02%) Docker
4 94 (8.63%) Hyper-V
5 43 (3.95%) vSphere
6 29 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (1.84%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (1.38%) Firmware
9 14 (1.29%) BitLocker
9 14 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
10 11 (1.01%) VMware NSX
11 10 (0.92%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 5 (0.46%) Terminal Services
13 4 (0.37%) iptables
13 4 (0.37%) KVM
13 4 (0.37%) Squid
13 4 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.37%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.18%) Samba
Systems Management
1 239 (21.95%) Terraform
2 183 (16.80%) Kubernetes
3 162 (14.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 130 (11.94%) Ansible
5 50 (4.59%) Grafana
6 46 (4.22%) Single Sign-On
7 43 (3.95%) SCCM
8 32 (2.94%) Prometheus
9 23 (2.11%) Jamf Pro
10 19 (1.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 18 (1.65%) vCenter Server
12 14 (1.29%) Nessus
12 14 (1.29%) VxRail
13 10 (0.92%) Packer
14 9 (0.83%) FortiGate
14 9 (0.83%) Puppet
14 9 (0.83%) WSUS
15 8 (0.73%) logstash
15 8 (0.73%) Nagios
15 8 (0.73%) QRadar
Vendors
1 612 (56.20%) Microsoft
2 193 (17.72%) VMware
3 89 (8.17%) Cisco
4 54 (4.96%) Splunk
5 53 (4.87%) ServiceNow
6 51 (4.68%) Red Hat
7 43 (3.95%) CrowdStrike
8 36 (3.31%) Veeam
9 32 (2.94%) Google
10 31 (2.85%) Dell
11 30 (2.75%) Commvault
12 27 (2.48%) Meraki
13 26 (2.39%) Citrix
13 26 (2.39%) Palo Alto
14 25 (2.30%) Fortinet
15 24 (2.20%) Apple
16 23 (2.11%) Oracle
17 22 (2.02%) CyberArk
18 20 (1.84%) Tenable
19 19 (1.74%) Adobe