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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 89 101
Rank change year-on-year -64 +12 -40
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,296 1,485 1,683
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.25% 3.45% 2.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.66% 12.91% 8.14%
Number of salaries quoted 915 990 1,083
10th Percentile £34,300 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,780 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,500 £60,918
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -5.61% +1.53%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £89,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -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 16,919 11,499 20,675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.29% 26.74% 31.04%
Number of salaries quoted 12,290 7,567 12,663
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,200 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,625 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +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

PowerShell
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 30 September 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 30 September 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 -36 475 £70,000 - 373
North of England -81 241 £50,000 - 172
South East -45 236 £52,500 -8.70% 141
Midlands -54 160 £52,500 +5.00% 100
North West -71 148 £50,000 +5.26% 96
East of England -46 94 £57,500 +21.05% 50
South West -71 86 £55,000 +15.79% 72
West Midlands -68 81 £55,000 - 58
East Midlands -26 79 £42,500 +21.43% 42
Yorkshire -39 57 £48,445 -7.72% 52
North East -38 36 £51,500 -14.17% 26
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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
1 235 (18.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 219 (16.90%) SharePoint
3 52 (4.01%) IIS
4 42 (3.24%) Confluence
5 15 (1.16%) nginx
6 8 (0.62%) Apache
7 5 (0.39%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.31%) SAS
9 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.077%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.077%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.077%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.077%) WebSphere
Applications
1 64 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (2.78%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.46%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.39%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.23%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.077%) Actimize
7 1 (0.077%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 795 (61.34%) Azure
2 518 (39.97%) Microsoft 365
3 424 (32.72%) Entra ID
4 245 (18.90%) AWS
5 165 (12.73%) Azure DevOps
6 108 (8.33%) OneDrive
6 108 (8.33%) Power Platform
7 106 (8.18%) SaaS
8 97 (7.48%) GitHub
9 96 (7.41%) IaaS
10 85 (6.56%) Azure Monitor
10 85 (6.56%) Azure Sentinel
11 77 (5.94%) Power Automate
12 72 (5.56%) PaaS
13 70 (5.40%) Azure AKS
14 63 (4.86%) GCP
15 62 (4.78%) Azure Key Vault
16 59 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
17 56 (4.32%) Microsoft Purview
18 51 (3.94%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 304 (23.46%) Firewall
2 296 (22.84%) DNS
3 208 (16.05%) VPN
4 205 (15.82%) DHCP
5 139 (10.73%) TCP/IP
6 86 (6.64%) WAN
7 76 (5.86%) LAN
8 72 (5.56%) VLAN
9 55 (4.24%) Network Security
10 54 (4.17%) Wireless
11 45 (3.47%) Wi-Fi
12 36 (2.78%) SAN
13 31 (2.39%) Kerberos
14 27 (2.08%) SSL
15 21 (1.62%) NAS
16 20 (1.54%) HTTP
17 15 (1.16%) Internet
18 12 (0.93%) VSAN
19 10 (0.77%) FTP
19 10 (0.77%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (10.03%) SQL Server
2 85 (6.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 60 (4.63%) Power BI
4 22 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (1.62%) MongoDB
6 16 (1.23%) Relational Database
7 15 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (0.93%) MySQL
8 12 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (0.69%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.62%) InfluxDB
10 8 (0.62%) Power Query
10 8 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (0.54%) Data Lake
11 7 (0.54%) Redis
12 6 (0.46%) Metadata
13 5 (0.39%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.31%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.31%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 93 (7.18%) JIRA
2 86 (6.64%) Git
3 69 (5.32%) GitLab
4 60 (4.63%) Jenkins
5 21 (1.62%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
8 10 (0.77%) TeamCity
9 8 (0.62%) Robot Framework
9 8 (0.62%) TestRail
10 7 (0.54%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.46%) Selenium
11 6 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.39%) MSI
12 5 (0.39%) Postman
12 5 (0.39%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.31%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.23%) JMeter
14 3 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 462 (35.65%) Social Skills
2 224 (17.28%) Finance
3 180 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (6.48%) Law
5 56 (4.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 54 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
7 49 (3.78%) Retail
8 48 (3.70%) Legal
9 44 (3.40%) Banking
10 37 (2.85%) Manufacturing
11 34 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
12 30 (2.31%) Aerospace
12 30 (2.31%) Public Sector
13 12 (0.93%) Financial Institution
14 11 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (0.77%) Investment Banking
16 9 (0.69%) Front Office
16 9 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (0.62%) Advertising
17 8 (0.62%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 198 (15.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 196 (15.12%) Senior
3 154 (11.88%) Analyst
4 125 (9.65%) Azure Engineer
5 124 (9.57%) Cloud Engineer
6 122 (9.41%) IT Engineer
7 121 (9.34%) Support Engineer
8 97 (7.48%) IT Support
9 96 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
10 76 (5.86%) Platform Engineer
11 72 (5.56%) Lead
12 68 (5.25%) Consultant
13 63 (4.86%) IT Support Engineer
14 62 (4.78%) Support Analyst
15 60 (4.63%) Security Engineer
16 52 (4.01%) Systems Engineer
17 48 (3.70%) Developer
18 44 (3.40%) Automation Engineer
19 43 (3.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
20 42 (3.24%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 343 (26.47%) Terraform
2 65 (5.02%) .NET
3 55 (4.24%) ARM Templates
4 50 (3.86%) REST
5 44 (3.40%) SAML
6 42 (3.24%) YAML
7 39 (3.01%) Microsoft Graph
7 39 (3.01%) OpenID
8 38 (2.93%) LDAP
8 38 (2.93%) OAuth
9 32 (2.47%) HTML
10 28 (2.16%) JSON
11 23 (1.77%) CSS
12 22 (1.70%) SPFx
13 21 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (1.47%) .NET Core
15 13 (1.00%) Kafka
15 13 (1.00%) RESTful
16 12 (0.93%) HTML5 Canvas
16 12 (0.93%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 123 (9.49%) Onboarding
2 83 (6.40%) Cloud Native
3 79 (6.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 76 (5.86%) Management Information System
5 74 (5.71%) Driving Licence
6 68 (5.25%) Security Posture
7 49 (3.78%) PKI
8 47 (3.63%) Data Centre
9 46 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
10 42 (3.24%) Security Operations Centre
11 36 (2.78%) Public Cloud
12 35 (2.70%) Replication
13 30 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (1.62%) Cyber Defence
14 21 (1.62%) Private Cloud
15 20 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
16 18 (1.39%) Clustering
16 18 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
17 17 (1.31%) CMDB
18 15 (1.16%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 654 (50.46%) Windows
2 306 (23.61%) Windows Server
3 300 (23.15%) Linux
4 93 (7.18%) Windows 10
5 50 (3.86%) Apple iOS
6 42 (3.24%) Android
7 40 (3.09%) Ubuntu
8 37 (2.85%) VMS
9 34 (2.62%) Mac OS
10 33 (2.55%) CentOS
11 32 (2.47%) Windows Server 2016
12 29 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 28 (2.16%) Windows Server 2019
14 18 (1.39%) Unix
15 16 (1.23%) Rocky
16 7 (0.54%) Solaris
17 5 (0.39%) CoreOS
18 4 (0.31%) Debian
18 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
19 3 (0.23%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (30.25%) Problem-Solving
2 324 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 299 (23.07%) DevOps
4 297 (22.92%) CI/CD
5 296 (22.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 292 (22.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 250 (19.29%) ITIL
8 248 (19.14%) Cybersecurity
9 191 (14.74%) Disaster Recovery
10 167 (12.89%) AI
11 154 (11.88%) Agile
12 147 (11.34%) Root Cause Analysis
13 146 (11.27%) Mentoring
14 141 (10.88%) Cloud Security
15 138 (10.65%) Platform Engineering
16 137 (10.57%) Migration
17 134 (10.34%) High Availability
18 133 (10.26%) Incident Response
19 124 (9.57%) Observability
20 122 (9.41%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 496 (38.27%) Python
2 283 (21.84%) Bash
3 273 (21.06%) SQL
4 118 (9.10%) Bicep
5 82 (6.33%) JavaScript
6 72 (5.56%) C#
7 48 (3.70%) Kusto Query Language
8 37 (2.85%) Java
9 32 (2.47%) T-SQL
10 27 (2.08%) TypeScript
11 23 (1.77%) VBScript
12 18 (1.39%) C++
13 17 (1.31%) Perl
14 13 (1.00%) PHP
15 11 (0.85%) Ruby
15 11 (0.85%) VBA
16 10 (0.77%) VB
17 8 (0.62%) Go
18 7 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 5 (0.39%) Korn
Qualifications
1 174 (13.43%) Security Cleared
2 159 (12.27%) Degree
3 144 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 139 (10.73%) Azure Certification
5 116 (8.95%) SC Cleared
6 59 (4.55%) CISSP
7 52 (4.01%) DV Cleared
8 51 (3.94%) CompTIA Security+
9 50 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
10 47 (3.63%) Cisco Certification
11 38 (2.93%) CCNA
12 27 (2.08%) CEH
13 25 (1.93%) AWS Certification
14 23 (1.77%) DBS Check
15 20 (1.54%) CISM
16 18 (1.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 16 (1.23%) GIAC
18 15 (1.16%) OSCP
19 13 (1.00%) CompTIA CySA+
19 13 (1.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (6.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 68 (5.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 51 (3.94%) NIST
4 44 (3.40%) SLA
5 40 (3.09%) GDPR
6 24 (1.85%) QA
7 19 (1.47%) Data Quality
8 15 (1.16%) PCI DSS
9 13 (1.00%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.62%) PMO
12 7 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.46%) NCSC
14 5 (0.39%) Accessibility
15 4 (0.31%) ISO 22301
16 3 (0.23%) ISAE 3402
17 2 (0.15%) EMIR
17 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
17 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
18 1 (0.077%) TickIT
System Software
1 496 (38.27%) Active Directory
2 218 (16.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 135 (10.42%) Hyper-V
4 133 (10.26%) Docker
5 78 (6.02%) vSphere
6 69 (5.32%) Virtual Machines
7 59 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.77%) VMware NSX
9 20 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
10 17 (1.31%) BitLocker
11 13 (1.00%) Firmware
12 8 (0.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.62%) KVM
12 8 (0.62%) Squid
13 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
16 2 (0.15%) Snort
16 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 238 (18.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 210 (16.20%) Kubernetes
3 154 (11.88%) Ansible
4 78 (6.02%) Grafana
5 65 (5.02%) SCCM
6 55 (4.24%) Single Sign-On
7 42 (3.24%) Prometheus
8 25 (1.93%) Puppet
9 23 (1.77%) Argo
9 23 (1.77%) vCenter Server
9 23 (1.77%) ZABBIX
10 20 (1.54%) Proxmox
11 19 (1.47%) QRadar
12 16 (1.23%) Packer
13 15 (1.16%) FortiGate
13 15 (1.16%) Graylog
14 13 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
15 11 (0.85%) VxRail
16 10 (0.77%) Progress Chef
17 9 (0.69%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 857 (66.13%) Microsoft
2 258 (19.91%) VMware
3 98 (7.56%) ServiceNow
4 96 (7.41%) Cisco
5 84 (6.48%) Splunk
6 66 (5.09%) Veeam
7 46 (3.55%) Oracle
7 46 (3.55%) Red Hat
8 41 (3.16%) Citrix
9 34 (2.62%) Sage
10 33 (2.55%) Dell
10 33 (2.55%) Meraki
11 30 (2.31%) Sophos
12 29 (2.24%) Dynatrace
12 29 (2.24%) SAP
13 26 (2.01%) CrowdStrike
13 26 (2.01%) Fortinet
13 26 (2.01%) Google
14 25 (1.93%) SolarWinds
14 25 (1.93%) Tenable