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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 75 105
Rank change year-on-year -66 +30 -14
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,121 1,551 2,140
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.37% 3.94% 2.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.71% 12.23% 7.88%
Number of salaries quoted 863 975 1,784
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,450 £35,075
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,375 £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 £81,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
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 14,535 12,684 27,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.73% 32.23% 32.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,296 8,857 22,386
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £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 £86,250 £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 19 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 19 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 -16 509 £70,000 -6.67% 136
South East -80 166 £56,750 -1.30% 124
North of England -107 159 £47,500 -5.00% 78
Midlands -50 121 £52,500 +5.00% 32
South West -47 81 £55,000 +15.79% 43
North West -104 81 £50,000 +8.70% 45
East of England -29 75 £57,500 +21.05% 24
East Midlands -22 71 £55,000 +42.86% 19
Yorkshire -33 58 £45,000 -23.73% 18
West Midlands -67 49 £48,000 -4.00% 13
North East -32 20 £48,445 -15.75% 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
1 159 (14.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 141 (12.58%) SharePoint
3 37 (3.30%) IIS
4 20 (1.78%) Confluence
5 2 (0.18%) Apache
5 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.18%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.089%) Site Server
Applications
1 62 (5.53%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.089%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.089%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.27%) Markit EDM
2 3 (0.27%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.089%) Actimize
4 1 (0.089%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.089%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.089%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 727 (64.85%) Azure
2 409 (36.49%) Microsoft 365
3 288 (25.69%) Entra ID
4 199 (17.75%) AWS
5 106 (9.46%) Azure DevOps
6 94 (8.39%) Power Platform
7 84 (7.49%) GitHub
8 76 (6.78%) SaaS
9 71 (6.33%) IaaS
10 69 (6.16%) OneDrive
11 61 (5.44%) GCP
11 61 (5.44%) GitHub Actions
12 55 (4.91%) Azure Sentinel
13 52 (4.64%) Azure AKS
14 50 (4.46%) Azure Monitor
15 46 (4.10%) PaaS
15 46 (4.10%) Power Automate
16 42 (3.75%) Azure Logic Apps
17 40 (3.57%) Azure Storage
17 40 (3.57%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 229 (20.43%) Firewall
2 219 (19.54%) DNS
3 131 (11.69%) DHCP
3 131 (11.69%) VPN
4 94 (8.39%) TCP/IP
5 65 (5.80%) Network Security
5 65 (5.80%) WAN
6 63 (5.62%) LAN
7 44 (3.93%) VLAN
8 43 (3.84%) Wi-Fi
9 34 (3.03%) SAN
9 34 (3.03%) VoIP
10 27 (2.41%) Broadband
11 21 (1.87%) Wireless
12 16 (1.43%) Kerberos
13 14 (1.25%) Internet
13 14 (1.25%) SD-WAN
14 13 (1.16%) VSAN
15 12 (1.07%) HTTP
15 12 (1.07%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (11.95%) SQL Server
2 72 (6.42%) Power BI
3 51 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 30 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
5 29 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (2.23%) MySQL
7 22 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 20 (1.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 19 (1.69%) Relational Database
10 17 (1.52%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.16%) MongoDB
12 12 (1.07%) Tableau
13 11 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (0.80%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.62%) InfluxDB
16 6 (0.54%) Metadata
17 5 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
18 4 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 3 (0.27%) DynamoDB
20 2 (0.18%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 89 (7.94%) Git
2 56 (5.00%) JIRA
3 52 (4.64%) GitLab
3 52 (4.64%) Jenkins
4 27 (2.41%) Bitbucket
5 16 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
6 13 (1.16%) Metasploit
6 13 (1.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 12 (1.07%) TeamCity
8 9 (0.80%) Burp Suite
8 9 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (0.71%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.54%) Robot Framework
11 5 (0.45%) TestRail
12 4 (0.36%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.36%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.36%) MLflow
12 4 (0.36%) Selenium
13 3 (0.27%) SonarQube
14 2 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 340 (30.33%) Social Skills
2 189 (16.86%) Finance
3 154 (13.74%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (6.69%) Law
5 48 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 48 (4.28%) Organisational Skills
6 44 (3.93%) Legal
7 43 (3.84%) Documentation Skills
8 42 (3.75%) Retail
9 33 (2.94%) Public Sector
10 22 (1.96%) Banking
11 21 (1.87%) Aerospace
12 19 (1.69%) Advertising
12 19 (1.69%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.34%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.62%) Front Office
15 6 (0.54%) Electronics
15 6 (0.54%) Police
16 5 (0.45%) Aviation
16 5 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 193 (17.22%) Senior
2 144 (12.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 138 (12.31%) Analyst
4 120 (10.70%) Azure Engineer
5 116 (10.35%) Support Engineer
6 100 (8.92%) IT Support
7 87 (7.76%) IT Engineer
8 85 (7.58%) Cloud Engineer
9 75 (6.69%) Security Engineer
10 73 (6.51%) DevOps Engineer
11 57 (5.08%) IT Support Engineer
12 53 (4.73%) Lead
13 52 (4.64%) 2nd Line Support
14 48 (4.28%) Developer
15 45 (4.01%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 44 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
17 43 (3.84%) Security Analyst
18 39 (3.48%) Architect
19 38 (3.39%) Systems Engineer
20 35 (3.12%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (7.05%) .NET
2 63 (5.62%) OAuth
3 60 (5.35%) SAML
4 57 (5.08%) OpenID
5 54 (4.82%) REST
6 48 (4.28%) LDAP
7 39 (3.48%) .NET Core
8 36 (3.21%) JSON
9 35 (3.12%) Microsoft Graph
10 33 (2.94%) ARM Templates
11 32 (2.85%) SOAP
12 31 (2.77%) CSS
12 31 (2.77%) HTML
13 28 (2.50%) YAML
14 26 (2.32%) SPFx
15 24 (2.14%) GraphQL
16 19 (1.69%) HTML5 Canvas
16 19 (1.69%) React
17 15 (1.34%) Elastic Stack
17 15 (1.34%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 89 (7.94%) Onboarding
2 67 (5.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 54 (4.82%) Security Posture
4 52 (4.64%) Cloud Native
5 51 (4.55%) Management Information System
6 45 (4.01%) Cyber Defence
6 45 (4.01%) Security Operations Centre
7 42 (3.75%) Cyber Threat
8 40 (3.57%) Driving Licence
9 36 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
10 34 (3.03%) Cyberattack
10 34 (3.03%) Data Centre
11 30 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
12 28 (2.50%) Public Cloud
13 26 (2.32%) PKI
14 21 (1.87%) CMDB
15 19 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
16 18 (1.61%) Private Cloud
16 18 (1.61%) Replication
17 16 (1.43%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 525 (46.83%) Windows
2 253 (22.57%) Linux
3 246 (21.94%) Windows Server
4 74 (6.60%) Windows 10
5 47 (4.19%) Android
6 46 (4.10%) Apple iOS
6 46 (4.10%) Mac OS
7 32 (2.85%) VMS
7 32 (2.85%) Windows Server 2016
8 25 (2.23%) CentOS
8 25 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 25 (2.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 18 (1.61%) Ubuntu
10 13 (1.16%) Unix
11 6 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.45%) Debian
13 4 (0.36%) CoreOS
13 4 (0.36%) Kali Linux
14 2 (0.18%) AIX
14 2 (0.18%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (25.42%) Problem-Solving
2 251 (22.39%) Infrastructure as Code
3 244 (21.77%) Cybersecurity
4 235 (20.96%) CI/CD
5 225 (20.07%) DevOps
6 202 (18.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 197 (17.57%) ITIL
8 189 (16.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 156 (13.92%) Incident Response
10 141 (12.58%) Mentoring
11 136 (12.13%) Root Cause Analysis
12 133 (11.86%) Agile
13 130 (11.60%) Disaster Recovery
14 120 (10.70%) SIEM
15 114 (10.17%) Containerisation
16 111 (9.90%) Cloud Security
17 102 (9.10%) Roadmaps
18 99 (8.83%) Security Operations
19 97 (8.65%) High Availability
20 94 (8.39%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 456 (40.68%) Python
2 272 (24.26%) Bash
3 238 (21.23%) SQL
4 87 (7.76%) C#
5 73 (6.51%) JavaScript
6 69 (6.16%) Bicep
7 47 (4.19%) T-SQL
8 31 (2.77%) Kusto Query Language
9 22 (1.96%) Java
9 22 (1.96%) TypeScript
10 16 (1.43%) C++
11 14 (1.25%) Perl
12 11 (0.98%) VB
13 10 (0.89%) Go
13 10 (0.89%) VB.NET
14 9 (0.80%) PHP
14 9 (0.80%) VBA
14 9 (0.80%) VBScript
15 7 (0.62%) C
16 6 (0.54%) Korn
Qualifications
1 143 (12.76%) Degree
2 127 (11.33%) Security Cleared
3 107 (9.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 105 (9.37%) Azure Certification
5 71 (6.33%) SC Cleared
6 45 (4.01%) CISSP
7 40 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
9 35 (3.12%) CompTIA Security+
10 31 (2.77%) DV Cleared
11 27 (2.41%) CCNA
11 27 (2.41%) OSCP
12 26 (2.32%) GIAC
13 25 (2.23%) CREST Certified
14 23 (2.05%) AWS Certification
14 23 (2.05%) CEH
15 22 (1.96%) DBS Check
16 16 (1.43%) CompTIA CySA+
17 12 (1.07%) CCSAM
18 11 (0.98%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (12.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 105 (9.37%) NIST
3 62 (5.53%) GDPR
4 43 (3.84%) SLA
5 33 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
6 24 (2.14%) NCSC
7 20 (1.78%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.52%) ISO 22301
9 15 (1.34%) PCI DSS
9 15 (1.34%) QA
9 15 (1.34%) SOC 2
10 12 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
11 11 (0.98%) Accessibility
12 9 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.54%) DICOM
14 5 (0.45%) GRC
15 4 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.27%) HIPAA
16 3 (0.27%) PMO
17 2 (0.18%) COBIT
System Software
1 411 (36.66%) Active Directory
2 152 (13.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 121 (10.79%) Docker
4 106 (9.46%) Hyper-V
5 49 (4.37%) vSphere
6 31 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (1.78%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (1.69%) BitLocker
9 15 (1.34%) Firmware
10 14 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
11 13 (1.16%) VMware NSX
12 10 (0.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 8 (0.71%) KVM
14 6 (0.54%) Squid
15 5 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
16 4 (0.36%) iptables
16 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.36%) Terminal Services
16 4 (0.36%) XenDesktop
17 2 (0.18%) Samba
Systems Management
1 254 (22.66%) Terraform
2 194 (17.31%) Kubernetes
3 175 (15.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 132 (11.78%) Ansible
5 54 (4.82%) Grafana
6 51 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
7 48 (4.28%) SCCM
8 36 (3.21%) Prometheus
9 23 (2.05%) Jamf Pro
10 19 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 19 (1.69%) vCenter Server
11 15 (1.34%) Nessus
11 15 (1.34%) QRadar
11 15 (1.34%) VxRail
12 13 (1.16%) Packer
12 13 (1.16%) ZABBIX
13 10 (0.89%) Graylog
13 10 (0.89%) WSUS
14 9 (0.80%) Nagios
15 8 (0.71%) logstash
Vendors
1 652 (58.16%) Microsoft
2 200 (17.84%) VMware
3 90 (8.03%) Cisco
4 64 (5.71%) Splunk
5 52 (4.64%) ServiceNow
6 51 (4.55%) Red Hat
7 42 (3.75%) Veeam
8 41 (3.66%) CrowdStrike
9 31 (2.77%) Meraki
10 30 (2.68%) Dell
11 28 (2.50%) Citrix
11 28 (2.50%) Google
12 27 (2.41%) Commvault
13 26 (2.32%) Apple
13 26 (2.32%) Fortinet
13 26 (2.32%) Palo Alto
14 24 (2.14%) Oracle
15 23 (2.05%) Tenable
16 22 (1.96%) CyberArk
17 20 (1.78%) Sophos