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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 87 94
Rank change year-on-year -60 +7 -1
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,108 1,294 2,244
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.42% 3.46% 2.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.01% 10.16% 8.34%
Number of salaries quoted 858 1,005 1,906
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,750 £45,147 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,875 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 13,837 12,735 26,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.77% 34.08% 32.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,702 9,358 22,451
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,125
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,623 £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 £111,250 £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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -12 516 £70,000 -9.68% 114
South East -79 175 £56,750 -1.30% 98
North of England -57 139 £48,445 -3.11% 54
Midlands -57 105 £52,500 +5.00% 37
South West -43 90 £55,000 +15.79% 37
East of England -49 70 £44,500 -19.09% 34
North West -46 69 £55,000 +19.57% 33
East Midlands -52 59 £55,000 +25.71% 18
Yorkshire -39 56 £47,500 -13.64% 12
West Midlands -66 45 £47,750 -4.50% 19
North East -39 14 £45,000 -21.74% 9
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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
1 170 (15.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 136 (12.27%) SharePoint
3 36 (3.25%) IIS
4 16 (1.44%) Confluence
5 13 (1.17%) Exchange Server 2003
6 6 (0.54%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.18%) Apache
7 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.18%) CMS
7 2 (0.18%) WordPress
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.090%) Site Server
Applications
1 47 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.27%) CATIA
3 3 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.27%) Siemens NX
3 3 (0.27%) SOLIDWORKS
3 3 (0.27%) Windchill
4 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.090%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.27%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.27%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.18%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.090%) Actimize
5 1 (0.090%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.090%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 697 (62.91%) Azure
2 396 (35.74%) Microsoft 365
3 283 (25.54%) Entra ID
4 197 (17.78%) AWS
5 103 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
6 94 (8.48%) Power Platform
7 86 (7.76%) GitHub
8 68 (6.14%) SaaS
9 67 (6.05%) GCP
10 65 (5.87%) GitHub Actions
11 64 (5.78%) OneDrive
12 51 (4.60%) IaaS
13 49 (4.42%) PaaS
14 45 (4.06%) Azure Logic Apps
15 44 (3.97%) Azure Monitor
16 43 (3.88%) Azure Sentinel
16 43 (3.88%) Google Workspace
17 41 (3.70%) Power Automate
18 35 (3.16%) Datadog
19 33 (2.98%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 210 (18.95%) Firewall
2 207 (18.68%) DNS
3 146 (13.18%) DHCP
4 120 (10.83%) VPN
5 93 (8.39%) TCP/IP
6 58 (5.23%) Network Security
6 58 (5.23%) WAN
7 56 (5.05%) LAN
8 46 (4.15%) VLAN
9 45 (4.06%) Wi-Fi
10 34 (3.07%) SAN
11 33 (2.98%) VoIP
12 28 (2.53%) Broadband
12 28 (2.53%) Wireless
13 20 (1.81%) SD-WAN
14 13 (1.17%) Internet
14 13 (1.17%) VSAN
15 12 (1.08%) WinSCP
16 11 (0.99%) Kerberos
16 11 (0.99%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (11.46%) SQL Server
2 79 (7.13%) Power BI
3 39 (3.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 29 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (2.26%) MySQL
7 23 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 18 (1.62%) Relational Database
8 18 (1.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 17 (1.53%) Oracle Database
10 15 (1.35%) NoSQL
10 15 (1.35%) Oracle Database 10g
11 14 (1.26%) Tableau
12 13 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (0.81%) MongoDB
14 8 (0.72%) Data Lake
14 8 (0.72%) InfluxDB
15 7 (0.63%) Metadata
16 5 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
17 4 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 91 (8.21%) Git
2 63 (5.69%) Jenkins
3 60 (5.42%) JIRA
4 48 (4.33%) GitLab
5 29 (2.62%) Bitbucket
6 17 (1.53%) Octopus Deploy
7 14 (1.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 13 (1.17%) Metasploit
9 11 (0.99%) TeamCity
10 9 (0.81%) Burp Suite
10 9 (0.81%) Robot Framework
10 9 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
11 8 (0.72%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.54%) TestRail
13 4 (0.36%) Balsamiq
13 4 (0.36%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.36%) MLflow
13 4 (0.36%) Selenium
13 4 (0.36%) SonarQube
General
1 353 (31.86%) Social Skills
2 200 (18.05%) Finance
3 140 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (5.87%) Law
5 49 (4.42%) Organisational Skills
6 44 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
7 43 (3.88%) Retail
8 42 (3.79%) Legal
9 39 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 33 (2.98%) Public Sector
11 28 (2.53%) Banking
12 19 (1.71%) Manufacturing
12 19 (1.71%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.35%) Advertising
14 13 (1.17%) Aerospace
15 10 (0.90%) Front Office
16 8 (0.72%) Military
17 6 (0.54%) Electronics
17 6 (0.54%) Investment Banking
17 6 (0.54%) Police
Job Titles
1 172 (15.52%) Senior
2 140 (12.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 123 (11.10%) Support Engineer
4 122 (11.01%) Analyst
5 109 (9.84%) Azure Engineer
6 95 (8.57%) IT Support
7 79 (7.13%) Security Engineer
8 76 (6.86%) Cloud Engineer
8 76 (6.86%) IT Engineer
9 62 (5.60%) DevOps Engineer
10 59 (5.32%) Lead
11 54 (4.87%) Developer
12 51 (4.60%) IT Support Engineer
13 49 (4.42%) 2nd Line Support
14 46 (4.15%) 3rd Line Support
15 44 (3.97%) Platform Engineer
16 43 (3.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 39 (3.52%) Architect
18 36 (3.25%) Security Analyst
18 36 (3.25%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (6.32%) .NET
2 57 (5.14%) OAuth
2 57 (5.14%) REST
3 52 (4.69%) SAML
4 51 (4.60%) OpenID
5 38 (3.43%) LDAP
6 35 (3.16%) .NET Core
7 33 (2.98%) SOAP
8 31 (2.80%) JSON
9 28 (2.53%) ARM Templates
10 26 (2.35%) Microsoft Graph
11 25 (2.26%) CSS
11 25 (2.26%) GraphQL
11 25 (2.26%) YAML
12 23 (2.08%) HTML
12 23 (2.08%) SPFx
13 18 (1.62%) React
14 17 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
15 15 (1.35%) Node.js
16 14 (1.26%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 93 (8.39%) Onboarding
2 71 (6.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 59 (5.32%) Security Posture
4 49 (4.42%) Management Information System
5 44 (3.97%) Cloud Native
5 44 (3.97%) Enterprise Software
6 40 (3.61%) Cyber Threat
7 39 (3.52%) Driving Licence
8 38 (3.43%) Cyber Defence
9 35 (3.16%) Security Operations Centre
10 34 (3.07%) Cyberattack
11 30 (2.71%) Analytical Mindset
12 28 (2.53%) Data Centre
13 27 (2.44%) Public Cloud
14 20 (1.81%) PKI
15 19 (1.71%) CMDB
16 18 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
17 17 (1.53%) Low-Code
17 17 (1.53%) Replication
18 16 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 514 (46.39%) Windows
2 250 (22.56%) Windows Server
3 238 (21.48%) Linux
4 70 (6.32%) Windows 10
5 52 (4.69%) Mac OS
6 44 (3.97%) Android
7 43 (3.88%) Apple iOS
8 36 (3.25%) Windows Server 2016
9 28 (2.53%) Unix
9 28 (2.53%) Windows Server 2019
10 27 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 23 (2.08%) VMS
12 22 (1.99%) CentOS
13 15 (1.35%) Solaris
13 15 (1.35%) Ubuntu
14 13 (1.17%) HPUX
14 13 (1.17%) Windows 7
14 13 (1.17%) Windows Server 2003
14 13 (1.17%) Windows Server 2008
15 8 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (27.35%) Problem-Solving
2 227 (20.49%) DevOps
2 227 (20.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 223 (20.13%) CI/CD
4 218 (19.68%) Cybersecurity
5 198 (17.87%) ITIL
6 195 (17.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 185 (16.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 150 (13.54%) Incident Response
9 140 (12.64%) Mentoring
10 133 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
11 126 (11.37%) Agile
12 115 (10.38%) Root Cause Analysis
13 110 (9.93%) Cloud Security
14 109 (9.84%) SIEM
15 100 (9.03%) Containerisation
16 95 (8.57%) Task Automation
17 93 (8.39%) Roadmaps
18 90 (8.12%) Security Operations
19 89 (8.03%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 433 (39.08%) Python
2 260 (23.47%) Bash
3 230 (20.76%) SQL
4 75 (6.77%) C#
4 75 (6.77%) JavaScript
5 66 (5.96%) Bicep
6 53 (4.78%) T-SQL
7 32 (2.89%) Kusto Query Language
8 21 (1.90%) Perl
9 20 (1.81%) Java
10 18 (1.62%) TypeScript
11 10 (0.90%) C++
11 10 (0.90%) Go
12 9 (0.81%) VB
12 9 (0.81%) VB.NET
13 7 (0.63%) C
13 7 (0.63%) PHP
13 7 (0.63%) VBA
13 7 (0.63%) VBScript
14 6 (0.54%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 148 (13.36%) Degree
2 130 (11.73%) Security Cleared
3 98 (8.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 85 (7.67%) Azure Certification
5 74 (6.68%) SC Cleared
6 48 (4.33%) DV Cleared
7 47 (4.24%) CISSP
7 47 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
9 26 (2.35%) OSCP
10 25 (2.26%) CompTIA Security+
11 24 (2.17%) CREST Certified
11 24 (2.17%) GIAC
12 22 (1.99%) AWS Certification
12 22 (1.99%) CCNA
12 22 (1.99%) CEH
12 22 (1.99%) CompTIA CySA+
13 17 (1.53%) DBS Check
14 13 (1.17%) CISA
15 12 (1.08%) CCSAM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (13.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 121 (10.92%) NIST
3 64 (5.78%) GDPR
4 56 (5.05%) SLA
5 32 (2.89%) NCSC
6 30 (2.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 20 (1.81%) Data Quality
8 18 (1.62%) ISO 22301
9 16 (1.44%) QA
10 14 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (1.26%) PCI DSS
11 13 (1.17%) Accessibility
11 13 (1.17%) SOC 2
12 11 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.54%) DICOM
14 5 (0.45%) GRC
15 4 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.27%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.18%) COBIT
18 1 (0.090%) HL7
System Software
1 410 (37.00%) Active Directory
2 136 (12.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 119 (10.74%) Docker
4 98 (8.84%) Hyper-V
5 40 (3.61%) vSphere
6 32 (2.89%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (1.44%) Firmware
9 14 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
10 11 (0.99%) BitLocker
11 10 (0.90%) VMware NSX
12 9 (0.81%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 7 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.45%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.36%) iptables
15 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.36%) XenDesktop
16 3 (0.27%) Squid
17 2 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 2 (0.18%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 235 (21.21%) Terraform
2 172 (15.52%) Kubernetes
3 164 (14.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 133 (12.00%) Ansible
5 49 (4.42%) Grafana
6 47 (4.24%) SCCM
7 43 (3.88%) Single Sign-On
8 31 (2.80%) Prometheus
9 22 (1.99%) Jamf Pro
10 18 (1.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (1.53%) vCenter Server
12 13 (1.17%) Nessus
12 13 (1.17%) VxRail
13 12 (1.08%) FortiGate
14 9 (0.81%) Puppet
14 9 (0.81%) QRadar
15 8 (0.72%) logstash
15 8 (0.72%) Packer
15 8 (0.72%) Progress Chef
15 8 (0.72%) WSUS
Vendors
1 630 (56.86%) Microsoft
2 210 (18.95%) VMware
3 91 (8.21%) Cisco
4 55 (4.96%) Splunk
5 52 (4.69%) ServiceNow
6 51 (4.60%) Red Hat
7 41 (3.70%) CrowdStrike
7 41 (3.70%) Oracle
8 40 (3.61%) Veeam
9 34 (3.07%) Google
10 32 (2.89%) Commvault
11 30 (2.71%) Dell
12 29 (2.62%) Palo Alto
13 27 (2.44%) Meraki
14 25 (2.26%) CyberArk
15 24 (2.17%) Fortinet
16 23 (2.08%) Apple
16 23 (2.08%) Citrix
17 20 (1.81%) Atlassian
18 19 (1.71%) Dynatrace