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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 91 97
Rank change year-on-year -54 +6 -4
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,095 1,291 2,191
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.35% 3.32% 2.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.75% 10.17% 8.10%
Number of salaries quoted 836 994 1,846
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,625 £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 £90,625 £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 14,130 12,688 27,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.39% 32.62% 32.41%
Number of salaries quoted 9,913 9,165 22,439
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,850 £35,225
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,683 £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 6 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 6 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 -15 511 £70,000 -9.68% 129
South East -89 157 £55,812 -2.94% 139
North of England -38 143 £48,445 -3.11% 63
Midlands -54 115 £52,500 +5.00% 42
South West -41 86 £55,000 +15.79% 42
East of England -28 71 £57,500 +17.95% 30
North West -33 70 £52,500 +14.13% 33
East Midlands -28 67 £55,000 +37.50% 22
Yorkshire -29 57 £47,500 -14.41% 15
West Midlands -64 47 £48,000 -4.00% 20
North East -28 16 £45,750 -20.43% 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
1 157 (14.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 142 (12.97%) SharePoint
3 37 (3.38%) IIS
4 16 (1.46%) Confluence
5 4 (0.37%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.18%) Apache
6 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.091%) CMS
7 1 (0.091%) Site Server
7 1 (0.091%) WordPress
Applications
1 48 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.091%) CATIA
4 1 (0.091%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.091%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.091%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.091%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.091%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.27%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.091%) Actimize
5 1 (0.091%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.091%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.091%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.091%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.091%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.091%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 701 (64.02%) Azure
2 399 (36.44%) Microsoft 365
3 283 (25.84%) Entra ID
4 197 (17.99%) AWS
5 101 (9.22%) Azure DevOps
6 95 (8.68%) Power Platform
7 85 (7.76%) GitHub
8 73 (6.67%) SaaS
9 70 (6.39%) OneDrive
10 64 (5.84%) GCP
11 63 (5.75%) GitHub Actions
12 59 (5.39%) IaaS
13 50 (4.57%) Azure Sentinel
14 46 (4.20%) Power Automate
15 44 (4.02%) Azure Logic Apps
15 44 (4.02%) PaaS
16 42 (3.84%) Azure Monitor
16 42 (3.84%) Google Workspace
17 40 (3.65%) Azure AKS
18 35 (3.20%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 208 (19.00%) Firewall
2 203 (18.54%) DNS
3 124 (11.32%) DHCP
4 119 (10.87%) VPN
5 88 (8.04%) TCP/IP
6 58 (5.30%) Network Security
7 52 (4.75%) LAN
7 52 (4.75%) WAN
8 43 (3.93%) VLAN
9 41 (3.74%) Wi-Fi
10 34 (3.11%) SAN
10 34 (3.11%) VoIP
11 28 (2.56%) Broadband
12 23 (2.10%) Wireless
13 14 (1.28%) SD-WAN
14 13 (1.19%) Kerberos
14 13 (1.19%) VSAN
15 12 (1.10%) Internet
15 12 (1.10%) WinSCP
16 10 (0.91%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (12.24%) SQL Server
2 79 (7.21%) Power BI
3 47 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 28 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (2.28%) MySQL
7 23 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 20 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 16 (1.46%) Relational Database
10 15 (1.37%) NoSQL
11 14 (1.28%) Tableau
12 13 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (1.00%) MongoDB
14 9 (0.82%) 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 (0.27%) Power Query
19 3 (0.27%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 89 (8.13%) Git
2 57 (5.21%) Jenkins
2 57 (5.21%) JIRA
3 49 (4.47%) GitLab
4 27 (2.47%) Bitbucket
5 16 (1.46%) Octopus Deploy
6 13 (1.19%) Metasploit
6 13 (1.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 11 (1.00%) TeamCity
8 9 (0.82%) Burp Suite
8 9 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (0.73%) CircleCI
9 8 (0.73%) Robot Framework
10 6 (0.55%) TestRail
11 4 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.37%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.37%) MLflow
11 4 (0.37%) Selenium
12 3 (0.27%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 350 (31.96%) Social Skills
2 192 (17.53%) Finance
3 144 (13.15%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (6.21%) Law
5 48 (4.38%) Organisational Skills
6 45 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (4.02%) Legal
8 43 (3.93%) Retail
9 33 (3.01%) Public Sector
10 24 (2.19%) Banking
11 22 (2.01%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.55%) Advertising
13 16 (1.46%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.28%) Aerospace
15 8 (0.73%) Front Office
16 7 (0.64%) Electronics
16 7 (0.64%) Military
17 6 (0.55%) Police
18 4 (0.37%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 189 (17.26%) Senior
2 138 (12.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 129 (11.78%) Analyst
4 113 (10.32%) Support Engineer
5 110 (10.05%) Azure Engineer
6 90 (8.22%) IT Support
7 80 (7.31%) Cloud Engineer
8 78 (7.12%) Security Engineer
9 76 (6.94%) IT Engineer
10 66 (6.03%) DevOps Engineer
11 58 (5.30%) Developer
12 54 (4.93%) Lead
13 49 (4.47%) 2nd Line Support
14 48 (4.38%) IT Support Engineer
15 47 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
16 41 (3.74%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 40 (3.65%) Security Analyst
18 38 (3.47%) Architect
19 34 (3.11%) Support Analyst
20 32 (2.92%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (6.94%) .NET
2 61 (5.57%) OAuth
3 57 (5.21%) SAML
4 56 (5.11%) OpenID
4 56 (5.11%) REST
5 41 (3.74%) LDAP
6 39 (3.56%) .NET Core
7 34 (3.11%) JSON
8 33 (3.01%) SOAP
9 32 (2.92%) CSS
9 32 (2.92%) Microsoft Graph
10 31 (2.83%) ARM Templates
11 30 (2.74%) HTML
12 29 (2.65%) SPFx
13 25 (2.28%) GraphQL
14 21 (1.92%) YAML
15 20 (1.83%) React
16 19 (1.74%) HTML5 Canvas
17 15 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
17 15 (1.37%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 90 (8.22%) Onboarding
2 71 (6.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 53 (4.84%) Security Posture
4 51 (4.66%) Management Information System
5 47 (4.29%) Cloud Native
6 43 (3.93%) Cyber Defence
6 43 (3.93%) Cyber Threat
7 41 (3.74%) Security Operations Centre
8 38 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
9 37 (3.38%) Driving Licence
10 34 (3.11%) Cyberattack
11 30 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
11 30 (2.74%) Data Centre
12 28 (2.56%) Public Cloud
13 22 (2.01%) PKI
14 21 (1.92%) CMDB
15 19 (1.74%) Private Cloud
16 18 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
17 16 (1.46%) Low-Code
17 16 (1.46%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 499 (45.57%) Windows
2 245 (22.37%) Linux
3 240 (21.92%) Windows Server
4 73 (6.67%) Windows 10
5 48 (4.38%) Mac OS
6 45 (4.11%) Android
6 45 (4.11%) Apple iOS
7 34 (3.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 27 (2.47%) VMS
9 25 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 24 (2.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 23 (2.10%) CentOS
12 16 (1.46%) Ubuntu
13 12 (1.10%) Unix
14 7 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.46%) Debian
16 4 (0.37%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.27%) CoreOS
18 1 (0.091%) OpenBSD
18 1 (0.091%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (26.03%) Problem-Solving
2 241 (22.01%) Infrastructure as Code
3 226 (20.64%) Cybersecurity
4 224 (20.46%) CI/CD
4 224 (20.46%) DevOps
5 193 (17.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 193 (17.63%) ITIL
6 192 (17.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 154 (14.06%) Incident Response
8 137 (12.51%) Mentoring
9 128 (11.69%) Agile
10 126 (11.51%) Disaster Recovery
11 122 (11.14%) Root Cause Analysis
12 113 (10.32%) SIEM
13 112 (10.23%) Cloud Security
14 109 (9.95%) Containerisation
15 96 (8.77%) Roadmaps
16 95 (8.68%) Security Operations
17 93 (8.49%) Task Automation
18 90 (8.22%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 442 (40.37%) Python
2 263 (24.02%) Bash
3 236 (21.55%) SQL
4 83 (7.58%) C#
5 78 (7.12%) JavaScript
6 68 (6.21%) Bicep
7 50 (4.57%) T-SQL
8 33 (3.01%) Kusto Query Language
9 23 (2.10%) TypeScript
10 19 (1.74%) Java
11 11 (1.00%) C++
11 11 (1.00%) Go
12 10 (0.91%) VB
12 10 (0.91%) VB.NET
12 10 (0.91%) VBA
13 9 (0.82%) Perl
14 8 (0.73%) PHP
15 7 (0.64%) C
16 6 (0.55%) Delphi
16 6 (0.55%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 149 (13.61%) Degree
2 122 (11.14%) Security Cleared
3 100 (9.13%) Microsoft Certification
4 91 (8.31%) Azure Certification
5 64 (5.84%) SC Cleared
6 45 (4.11%) CISSP
7 42 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (3.11%) DV Cleared
9 32 (2.92%) CompTIA Security+
10 30 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (2.28%) OSCP
12 23 (2.10%) CREST Certified
12 23 (2.10%) GIAC
13 22 (2.01%) CCNA
13 22 (2.01%) CompTIA CySA+
14 21 (1.92%) AWS Certification
14 21 (1.92%) CEH
15 18 (1.64%) DBS Check
16 14 (1.28%) CISA
17 13 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (13.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 111 (10.14%) NIST
3 63 (5.75%) GDPR
4 41 (3.74%) SLA
5 28 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 27 (2.47%) NCSC
7 20 (1.83%) Data Quality
8 19 (1.74%) ISO 22301
9 16 (1.46%) QA
10 15 (1.37%) SOC 2
11 14 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
12 13 (1.19%) Accessibility
12 13 (1.19%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.55%) DICOM
15 5 (0.46%) GRC
16 4 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 3 (0.27%) HIPAA
18 2 (0.18%) COBIT
18 2 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 396 (36.16%) Active Directory
2 141 (12.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 120 (10.96%) Docker
4 96 (8.77%) Hyper-V
5 43 (3.93%) vSphere
6 29 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
7 21 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (1.37%) Firmware
9 14 (1.28%) BitLocker
9 14 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
10 11 (1.00%) VMware NSX
11 10 (0.91%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 5 (0.46%) Terminal Services
12 5 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.37%) iptables
13 4 (0.37%) KVM
13 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.37%) Squid
13 4 (0.37%) XenDesktop
14 2 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 246 (22.47%) Terraform
2 185 (16.89%) Kubernetes
3 163 (14.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 133 (12.15%) Ansible
5 51 (4.66%) Grafana
6 46 (4.20%) Single Sign-On
7 43 (3.93%) SCCM
8 33 (3.01%) Prometheus
9 23 (2.10%) Jamf Pro
10 19 (1.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 18 (1.64%) vCenter Server
12 14 (1.28%) Nessus
12 14 (1.28%) VxRail
13 11 (1.00%) Packer
14 9 (0.82%) FortiGate
14 9 (0.82%) WSUS
15 8 (0.73%) logstash
15 8 (0.73%) Nagios
15 8 (0.73%) Puppet
15 8 (0.73%) QRadar
Vendors
1 615 (56.16%) Microsoft
2 194 (17.72%) VMware
3 90 (8.22%) Cisco
4 54 (4.93%) Splunk
5 53 (4.84%) ServiceNow
6 50 (4.57%) Red Hat
7 43 (3.93%) CrowdStrike
8 35 (3.20%) Veeam
9 32 (2.92%) Google
10 29 (2.65%) Commvault
10 29 (2.65%) Dell
11 27 (2.47%) Citrix
11 27 (2.47%) Meraki
11 27 (2.47%) Palo Alto
12 25 (2.28%) Fortinet
13 24 (2.19%) Apple
14 22 (2.01%) CyberArk
14 22 (2.01%) Oracle
15 20 (1.83%) Tenable
16 19 (1.74%) Adobe