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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 90 99
Rank change year-on-year -61 +9 -38
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,291 1,487 1,686
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.24% 3.45% 2.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.68% 12.87% 8.12%
Number of salaries quoted 911 992 1,087
10th Percentile £34,000 £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 £76,063 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £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 16,817 11,554 20,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.20% 26.77% 31.09%
Number of salaries quoted 12,275 7,605 12,720
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £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 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,556
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

PowerShell
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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -30 475 £70,000 - 416
North of England -87 239 £50,000 - 171
South East -45 236 £52,500 -8.70% 160
Midlands -49 160 £52,500 +5.00% 102
North West -72 146 £50,000 +5.26% 97
East of England -43 94 £57,500 +21.05% 60
South West -75 83 £57,500 +21.05% 85
West Midlands -72 81 £55,000 - 58
East Midlands -21 79 £42,500 +21.43% 44
Yorkshire -37 57 £48,445 -7.72% 48
North East -39 36 £51,500 -14.17% 27
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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 (18.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 218 (16.89%) SharePoint
3 52 (4.03%) IIS
4 42 (3.25%) 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 (4.96%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (2.32%) 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 (2.79%) 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
1 793 (61.43%) Azure
2 514 (39.81%) Microsoft 365
3 424 (32.84%) Entra ID
4 243 (18.82%) AWS
5 166 (12.86%) Azure DevOps
6 108 (8.37%) OneDrive
6 108 (8.37%) Power Platform
7 105 (8.13%) SaaS
8 97 (7.51%) GitHub
9 96 (7.44%) IaaS
10 85 (6.58%) Azure Monitor
10 85 (6.58%) Azure Sentinel
11 77 (5.96%) Power Automate
12 72 (5.58%) PaaS
13 70 (5.42%) Azure AKS
14 63 (4.88%) GCP
15 62 (4.80%) Azure Key Vault
16 59 (4.57%) GitHub Actions
17 54 (4.18%) Microsoft Purview
18 50 (3.87%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 303 (23.47%) Firewall
2 293 (22.70%) DNS
3 207 (16.03%) VPN
4 202 (15.65%) DHCP
5 139 (10.77%) TCP/IP
6 86 (6.66%) WAN
7 76 (5.89%) LAN
8 72 (5.58%) VLAN
9 56 (4.34%) Network Security
10 54 (4.18%) Wireless
11 45 (3.49%) Wi-Fi
12 36 (2.79%) SAN
13 32 (2.48%) Kerberos
14 27 (2.09%) SSL
15 21 (1.63%) NAS
16 20 (1.55%) HTTP
17 15 (1.16%) Internet
18 12 (0.93%) VSAN
19 10 (0.77%) FTP
19 10 (0.77%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (9.99%) SQL Server
2 84 (6.51%) Azure SQL Database
3 59 (4.57%) Power BI
4 21 (1.63%) MongoDB
4 21 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (1.24%) Relational Database
6 15 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (0.93%) MySQL
7 12 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (0.70%) NoSQL
9 8 (0.62%) InfluxDB
9 8 (0.62%) Power Query
9 8 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (0.54%) Redis
11 6 (0.46%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.46%) Metadata
12 5 (0.39%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.31%) Db2
13 4 (0.31%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 93 (7.20%) JIRA
2 86 (6.66%) Git
3 68 (5.27%) GitLab
4 60 (4.65%) Jenkins
5 21 (1.63%) 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%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 3 (0.23%) Terragrunt
General
1 462 (35.79%) Social Skills
2 223 (17.27%) Finance
3 180 (13.94%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (6.51%) Law
5 56 (4.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 53 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
7 49 (3.80%) Retail
8 48 (3.72%) Legal
9 44 (3.41%) Banking
10 37 (2.87%) Manufacturing
11 34 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
12 30 (2.32%) Aerospace
12 30 (2.32%) Public Sector
13 12 (0.93%) Financial Institution
13 12 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (0.77%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (0.62%) Advertising
16 8 (0.62%) Aviation
16 8 (0.62%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 196 (15.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 195 (15.10%) Senior
3 155 (12.01%) Analyst
4 125 (9.68%) Azure Engineer
5 124 (9.60%) Cloud Engineer
6 120 (9.30%) IT Engineer
7 119 (9.22%) Support Engineer
8 97 (7.51%) DevOps Engineer
9 96 (7.44%) IT Support
10 76 (5.89%) Platform Engineer
11 72 (5.58%) Lead
12 67 (5.19%) Consultant
13 63 (4.88%) Support Analyst
14 62 (4.80%) IT Support Engineer
15 59 (4.57%) Security Engineer
16 52 (4.03%) Systems Engineer
17 48 (3.72%) Developer
18 44 (3.41%) Automation Engineer
19 42 (3.25%) Microsoft Engineer
19 42 (3.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 343 (26.57%) Terraform
2 65 (5.03%) .NET
3 56 (4.34%) ARM Templates
4 51 (3.95%) REST
5 45 (3.49%) SAML
6 43 (3.33%) YAML
7 40 (3.10%) OpenID
8 39 (3.02%) LDAP
8 39 (3.02%) Microsoft Graph
8 39 (3.02%) OAuth
9 32 (2.48%) HTML
10 28 (2.17%) JSON
11 23 (1.78%) CSS
12 22 (1.70%) SPFx
13 21 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (1.47%) .NET Core
15 13 (1.01%) Kafka
15 13 (1.01%) RESTful
16 12 (0.93%) ASP.NET Core
16 12 (0.93%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 122 (9.45%) Onboarding
2 82 (6.35%) Cloud Native
3 79 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 75 (5.81%) Driving Licence
4 75 (5.81%) Management Information System
5 69 (5.34%) Security Posture
6 49 (3.80%) PKI
7 47 (3.64%) Data Centre
8 46 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
9 42 (3.25%) Security Operations Centre
10 36 (2.79%) Public Cloud
11 34 (2.63%) Replication
12 29 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.63%) Cyber Defence
13 21 (1.63%) Private Cloud
14 20 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
15 18 (1.39%) Clustering
15 18 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
16 17 (1.32%) CMDB
17 14 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 652 (50.50%) Windows
2 305 (23.63%) Windows Server
3 300 (23.24%) Linux
4 94 (7.28%) Windows 10
5 50 (3.87%) Apple iOS
6 42 (3.25%) Android
7 40 (3.10%) Ubuntu
8 36 (2.79%) VMS
9 34 (2.63%) Mac OS
10 33 (2.56%) CentOS
11 32 (2.48%) Windows Server 2016
12 29 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 28 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
14 18 (1.39%) Unix
15 16 (1.24%) 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
1 389 (30.13%) Problem-Solving
2 323 (25.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 298 (23.08%) DevOps
4 297 (23.01%) CI/CD
5 293 (22.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 291 (22.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 249 (19.29%) ITIL
8 247 (19.13%) Cybersecurity
9 191 (14.79%) Disaster Recovery
10 166 (12.86%) AI
11 154 (11.93%) Agile
12 146 (11.31%) Mentoring
13 145 (11.23%) Root Cause Analysis
14 140 (10.84%) Cloud Security
15 139 (10.77%) Platform Engineering
16 137 (10.61%) Migration
17 133 (10.30%) High Availability
17 133 (10.30%) Incident Response
18 124 (9.60%) Observability
19 123 (9.53%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 494 (38.26%) Python
2 282 (21.84%) Bash
3 271 (20.99%) SQL
4 117 (9.06%) Bicep
5 82 (6.35%) JavaScript
6 72 (5.58%) C#
7 48 (3.72%) Kusto Query Language
8 37 (2.87%) Java
9 31 (2.40%) T-SQL
10 27 (2.09%) TypeScript
11 23 (1.78%) VBScript
12 18 (1.39%) C++
13 17 (1.32%) Perl
14 13 (1.01%) 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
1 173 (13.40%) Security Cleared
2 156 (12.08%) Degree
3 142 (11.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 138 (10.69%) Azure Certification
5 115 (8.91%) SC Cleared
6 59 (4.57%) CISSP
7 51 (3.95%) CompTIA Security+
7 51 (3.95%) DV Cleared
8 50 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 47 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
10 38 (2.94%) CCNA
11 27 (2.09%) CEH
12 25 (1.94%) AWS Certification
13 23 (1.78%) DBS Check
14 20 (1.55%) CISM
15 18 (1.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 16 (1.24%) GIAC
17 15 (1.16%) OSCP
18 13 (1.01%) CompTIA CySA+
18 13 (1.01%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (6.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 68 (5.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 51 (3.95%) NIST
4 44 (3.41%) SLA
5 40 (3.10%) GDPR
6 24 (1.86%) QA
7 19 (1.47%) Data Quality
8 15 (1.16%) PCI DSS
9 13 (1.01%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.70%) 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 (38.42%) Active Directory
2 217 (16.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 135 (10.46%) Hyper-V
4 133 (10.30%) Docker
5 78 (6.04%) vSphere
6 69 (5.34%) Virtual Machines
7 59 (4.57%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.78%) VMware NSX
9 20 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
10 17 (1.32%) BitLocker
11 14 (1.08%) 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
1 237 (18.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 210 (16.27%) Kubernetes
3 154 (11.93%) Ansible
4 78 (6.04%) Grafana
5 64 (4.96%) SCCM
6 55 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
7 42 (3.25%) Prometheus
8 25 (1.94%) Puppet
9 23 (1.78%) Argo
9 23 (1.78%) vCenter Server
9 23 (1.78%) ZABBIX
10 20 (1.55%) Proxmox
11 19 (1.47%) QRadar
12 16 (1.24%) Packer
13 15 (1.16%) FortiGate
13 15 (1.16%) Graylog
14 13 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
15 11 (0.85%) VxRail
16 10 (0.77%) Progress Chef
17 9 (0.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 854 (66.15%) Microsoft
2 257 (19.91%) VMware
3 98 (7.59%) ServiceNow
4 96 (7.44%) Cisco
5 84 (6.51%) Splunk
6 66 (5.11%) Veeam
7 46 (3.56%) Red Hat
8 45 (3.49%) Oracle
9 41 (3.18%) Citrix
10 34 (2.63%) Sage
11 33 (2.56%) Dell
11 33 (2.56%) Meraki
12 30 (2.32%) Sophos
13 29 (2.25%) Dynatrace
13 29 (2.25%) SAP
14 26 (2.01%) CrowdStrike
14 26 (2.01%) Fortinet
14 26 (2.01%) Google
15 25 (1.94%) SolarWinds
15 25 (1.94%) Tenable