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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 87 94
Rank change year-on-year -57 +7 -1
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,103 1,292 2,262
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.43% 3.46% 2.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.05% 10.16% 8.36%
Number of salaries quoted 853 1,003 1,928
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,400 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,750 £45,500 £42,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £74,063
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
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 13,698 12,719 27,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.75% 34.10% 32.80%
Number of salaries quoted 9,636 9,330 22,585
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,475
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £111,375 £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 19 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 19 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 -8 512 £70,000 -9.68% 111
South East -76 176 £56,750 -1.30% 100
North of England -54 140 £48,445 -3.11% 62
Midlands -61 104 £52,500 +5.00% 43
South West -40 91 £55,000 +15.79% 45
North West -36 70 £55,000 +19.57% 33
East of England -49 67 £43,000 -21.82% 37
East Midlands -48 59 £55,000 +25.71% 23
Yorkshire -31 56 £47,500 -13.64% 16
West Midlands -66 44 £48,000 -4.00% 20
North East -33 14 £45,000 -21.74% 13
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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 (15.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 135 (12.24%) SharePoint
3 35 (3.17%) IIS
4 16 (1.45%) Confluence
5 14 (1.27%) 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 (0.091%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.091%) Site Server
Applications
1 46 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.27%) 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 (0.091%) 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 (0.091%) Actimize
5 1 (0.091%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.091%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 694 (62.92%) Azure
2 391 (35.45%) Microsoft 365
3 283 (25.66%) Entra ID
4 195 (17.68%) AWS
5 104 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
6 92 (8.34%) Power Platform
7 85 (7.71%) GitHub
8 67 (6.07%) GCP
8 67 (6.07%) SaaS
9 64 (5.80%) GitHub Actions
10 61 (5.53%) OneDrive
11 53 (4.81%) IaaS
12 52 (4.71%) PaaS
13 43 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
13 43 (3.90%) Google Workspace
14 42 (3.81%) Azure Logic Apps
14 42 (3.81%) Azure Sentinel
15 39 (3.54%) Power Automate
16 34 (3.08%) Nutanix
16 34 (3.08%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 209 (18.95%) DNS
1 209 (18.95%) Firewall
2 148 (13.42%) DHCP
3 122 (11.06%) VPN
4 93 (8.43%) TCP/IP
5 59 (5.35%) Network Security
5 59 (5.35%) WAN
6 56 (5.08%) LAN
7 47 (4.26%) VLAN
8 45 (4.08%) Wi-Fi
9 33 (2.99%) SAN
9 33 (2.99%) VoIP
10 29 (2.63%) Wireless
11 28 (2.54%) Broadband
12 21 (1.90%) SD-WAN
13 13 (1.18%) Internet
13 13 (1.18%) VSAN
14 12 (1.09%) WinSCP
15 11 (1.00%) Kerberos
16 10 (0.91%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (11.24%) SQL Server
2 77 (6.98%) Power BI
3 36 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 28 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (2.36%) MySQL
6 23 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 19 (1.72%) Relational Database
8 18 (1.63%) Oracle Database
9 17 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 16 (1.45%) Oracle Database 10g
11 15 (1.36%) NoSQL
12 14 (1.27%) Tableau
13 12 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (0.82%) InfluxDB
14 9 (0.82%) MongoDB
15 7 (0.63%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.63%) Metadata
16 5 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
17 4 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 91 (8.25%) Git
2 64 (5.80%) Jenkins
3 61 (5.53%) JIRA
4 47 (4.26%) GitLab
5 29 (2.63%) Bitbucket
6 17 (1.54%) Octopus Deploy
7 14 (1.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 13 (1.18%) Metasploit
9 11 (1.00%) TeamCity
10 10 (0.91%) Robot Framework
11 9 (0.82%) Burp Suite
11 9 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
12 8 (0.73%) CircleCI
13 7 (0.63%) TestRail
14 6 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (0.36%) Balsamiq
15 4 (0.36%) Cypress.io
15 4 (0.36%) MLflow
15 4 (0.36%) Selenium
15 4 (0.36%) SonarQube
General
1 350 (31.73%) Social Skills
2 201 (18.22%) Finance
3 140 (12.69%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (5.89%) Law
5 49 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
6 45 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
7 42 (3.81%) Retail
8 41 (3.72%) Legal
9 39 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 33 (2.99%) Public Sector
11 28 (2.54%) Banking
12 19 (1.72%) Manufacturing
12 19 (1.72%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.36%) Advertising
14 13 (1.18%) Aerospace
15 10 (0.91%) Front Office
16 8 (0.73%) Military
17 6 (0.54%) Electronics
17 6 (0.54%) Investment Banking
17 6 (0.54%) Police
Job Titles
1 169 (15.32%) Senior
2 139 (12.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 124 (11.24%) Support Engineer
4 122 (11.06%) Analyst
5 110 (9.97%) Azure Engineer
6 95 (8.61%) IT Support
7 77 (6.98%) Cloud Engineer
8 76 (6.89%) Security Engineer
9 75 (6.80%) IT Engineer
10 62 (5.62%) DevOps Engineer
11 61 (5.53%) Lead
12 53 (4.81%) Developer
13 51 (4.62%) IT Support Engineer
14 48 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support
15 47 (4.26%) 3rd Line Support
16 43 (3.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 42 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
18 39 (3.54%) Architect
19 36 (3.26%) Security Analyst
20 35 (3.17%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (6.17%) .NET
2 57 (5.17%) OAuth
2 57 (5.17%) REST
3 52 (4.71%) SAML
4 51 (4.62%) OpenID
5 38 (3.45%) LDAP
6 33 (2.99%) .NET Core
6 33 (2.99%) SOAP
7 30 (2.72%) JSON
8 28 (2.54%) ARM Templates
9 26 (2.36%) YAML
10 25 (2.27%) GraphQL
11 24 (2.18%) Microsoft Graph
12 22 (1.99%) CSS
13 21 (1.90%) SPFx
14 20 (1.81%) HTML
15 18 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
15 18 (1.63%) React
16 15 (1.36%) Node.js
17 12 (1.09%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 92 (8.34%) Onboarding
2 71 (6.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 60 (5.44%) Security Posture
4 47 (4.26%) Management Information System
5 43 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
6 42 (3.81%) Cloud Native
7 40 (3.63%) Cyber Threat
7 40 (3.63%) Driving Licence
8 38 (3.45%) Cyber Defence
9 35 (3.17%) Security Operations Centre
10 34 (3.08%) Cyberattack
11 30 (2.72%) Analytical Mindset
12 29 (2.63%) Data Centre
13 27 (2.45%) Public Cloud
14 20 (1.81%) PKI
15 19 (1.72%) CMDB
15 19 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
16 17 (1.54%) Low-Code
16 17 (1.54%) Replication
17 16 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 513 (46.51%) Windows
2 248 (22.48%) Windows Server
3 238 (21.58%) Linux
4 71 (6.44%) Windows 10
5 52 (4.71%) Mac OS
6 44 (3.99%) Android
7 43 (3.90%) Apple iOS
8 36 (3.26%) Windows Server 2016
9 29 (2.63%) Unix
10 28 (2.54%) Windows Server 2019
11 26 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 23 (2.09%) CentOS
12 23 (2.09%) VMS
13 16 (1.45%) Solaris
14 15 (1.36%) Ubuntu
15 14 (1.27%) HPUX
15 14 (1.27%) Windows 7
15 14 (1.27%) Windows Server 2003
15 14 (1.27%) Windows Server 2008
16 8 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (27.29%) Problem-Solving
2 229 (20.76%) DevOps
3 224 (20.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 223 (20.22%) CI/CD
5 218 (19.76%) Cybersecurity
6 198 (17.95%) ITIL
7 197 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 185 (16.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 149 (13.51%) Incident Response
10 140 (12.69%) Mentoring
11 134 (12.15%) Disaster Recovery
12 129 (11.70%) Agile
13 114 (10.34%) Root Cause Analysis
14 107 (9.70%) Cloud Security
14 107 (9.70%) SIEM
15 102 (9.25%) Containerisation
16 96 (8.70%) Task Automation
17 93 (8.43%) Roadmaps
18 90 (8.16%) Security Operations
19 86 (7.80%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 429 (38.89%) Python
2 259 (23.48%) Bash
3 226 (20.49%) SQL
4 74 (6.71%) JavaScript
5 73 (6.62%) C#
6 67 (6.07%) Bicep
7 52 (4.71%) T-SQL
8 31 (2.81%) Kusto Query Language
9 22 (1.99%) Perl
10 20 (1.81%) Java
11 16 (1.45%) TypeScript
12 11 (1.00%) Go
13 10 (0.91%) C++
14 9 (0.82%) VB
14 9 (0.82%) VB.NET
15 7 (0.63%) C
15 7 (0.63%) PHP
16 6 (0.54%) Delphi
16 6 (0.54%) VBA
16 6 (0.54%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 148 (13.42%) Degree
2 132 (11.97%) Security Cleared
3 97 (8.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 85 (7.71%) Azure Certification
5 75 (6.80%) SC Cleared
6 50 (4.53%) DV Cleared
7 49 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 47 (4.26%) CISSP
9 34 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (2.36%) OSCP
11 25 (2.27%) CompTIA Security+
12 24 (2.18%) CREST Certified
12 24 (2.18%) GIAC
13 22 (1.99%) AWS Certification
13 22 (1.99%) CCNA
13 22 (1.99%) CEH
13 22 (1.99%) CompTIA CySA+
14 17 (1.54%) DBS Check
15 12 (1.09%) CCSAM
15 12 (1.09%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (13.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 124 (11.24%) NIST
3 63 (5.71%) GDPR
4 57 (5.17%) SLA
5 33 (2.99%) NCSC
6 29 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
7 19 (1.72%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.72%) ISO 22301
8 16 (1.45%) QA
9 15 (1.36%) PCI DSS
10 14 (1.27%) Accessibility
10 14 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (1.18%) SOC 2
12 11 (1.00%) 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
17 2 (0.18%) HL7
System Software
1 409 (37.08%) Active Directory
2 135 (12.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 120 (10.88%) Docker
4 99 (8.98%) Hyper-V
5 40 (3.63%) vSphere
6 33 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (1.45%) Firmware
9 14 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
10 11 (1.00%) BitLocker
11 10 (0.91%) VMware NSX
12 8 (0.73%) 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%) Samba
17 2 (0.18%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 234 (21.21%) Terraform
2 174 (15.78%) Kubernetes
3 164 (14.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 133 (12.06%) Ansible
5 51 (4.62%) Grafana
6 46 (4.17%) SCCM
7 43 (3.90%) Single Sign-On
8 31 (2.81%) Prometheus
9 22 (1.99%) Jamf Pro
10 18 (1.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (1.54%) vCenter Server
12 13 (1.18%) Nessus
12 13 (1.18%) VxRail
13 11 (1.00%) FortiGate
14 9 (0.82%) Puppet
14 9 (0.82%) QRadar
15 8 (0.73%) logstash
15 8 (0.73%) Packer
15 8 (0.73%) Progress Chef
15 8 (0.73%) WSUS
Vendors
1 626 (56.75%) Microsoft
2 213 (19.31%) VMware
3 93 (8.43%) Cisco
4 56 (5.08%) Splunk
5 54 (4.90%) ServiceNow
6 51 (4.62%) Red Hat
7 42 (3.81%) Oracle
8 40 (3.63%) Veeam
9 39 (3.54%) CrowdStrike
10 34 (3.08%) Google
11 33 (2.99%) Commvault
12 31 (2.81%) Palo Alto
13 29 (2.63%) Dell
14 27 (2.45%) Meraki
15 25 (2.27%) CyberArk
15 25 (2.27%) Fortinet
16 23 (2.09%) Apple
16 23 (2.09%) Citrix
17 20 (1.81%) Atlassian
18 19 (1.72%) Dynatrace