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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 76 103
Rank change year-on-year -65 +27 -27
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,283 1,613 1,778
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.38% 3.70% 2.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.72% 12.55% 8.23%
Number of salaries quoted 966 1,052 1,368
10th Percentile £32,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £58,175
Median % change year-on-year - -1.16% -3.04%
75th Percentile £74,500 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
% 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 16,619 12,849 21,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.91% 29.50% 29.63%
Number of salaries quoted 12,123 8,581 16,126
10th Percentile £37,800 £34,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +5.79% -6.92%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 August 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 August 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 -27 477 £70,000 -6.67% 231
South East -40 247 £53,000 -7.83% 129
North of England -86 215 £50,000 +5.26% 106
Midlands -36 153 £52,500 +5.00% 44
North West -81 118 £52,500 +14.13% 76
East of England -37 96 £57,500 +9.52% 40
South West -73 84 £55,000 +15.79% 49
East Midlands -1 80 £42,500 +21.43% 19
West Midlands -61 73 £54,344 -1.19% 25
Yorkshire -34 60 £42,500 -16.26% 22
North East -25 37 £50,000 -16.67% 10
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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
1 214 (16.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 193 (15.04%) SharePoint
3 49 (3.82%) IIS
4 32 (2.49%) Confluence
5 9 (0.70%) nginx
6 5 (0.39%) Apache
6 5 (0.39%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.31%) SAS
8 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.078%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.078%) Site Server
9 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.078%) WebSphere
Applications
1 76 (5.92%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (0.86%) NetSuite
2 10 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.47%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.23%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.16%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.16%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.078%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.078%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 823 (64.15%) Azure
2 480 (37.41%) Microsoft 365
3 344 (26.81%) Entra ID
4 242 (18.86%) AWS
5 150 (11.69%) Azure DevOps
6 102 (7.95%) Power Platform
7 99 (7.72%) GitHub
7 99 (7.72%) IaaS
8 94 (7.33%) SaaS
9 93 (7.25%) OneDrive
10 77 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
11 72 (5.61%) Azure Sentinel
12 68 (5.30%) PaaS
13 67 (5.22%) Azure AKS
14 61 (4.75%) GCP
14 61 (4.75%) GitHub Actions
15 60 (4.68%) Azure Key Vault
15 60 (4.68%) Power Automate
16 49 (3.82%) Datadog
17 45 (3.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 293 (22.84%) Firewall
2 275 (21.43%) DNS
3 181 (14.11%) VPN
4 179 (13.95%) DHCP
5 129 (10.05%) TCP/IP
6 79 (6.16%) WAN
7 73 (5.69%) LAN
8 70 (5.46%) Network Security
9 63 (4.91%) VLAN
10 43 (3.35%) Wi-Fi
11 39 (3.04%) SAN
12 38 (2.96%) Wireless
13 35 (2.73%) Kerberos
14 22 (1.71%) SSL
15 21 (1.64%) VoIP
16 20 (1.56%) NAS
17 16 (1.25%) HTTP
17 16 (1.25%) Internet
18 12 (0.94%) VSAN
19 11 (0.86%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (11.15%) SQL Server
2 82 (6.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 64 (4.99%) Power BI
4 31 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.79%) MongoDB
6 19 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
7 18 (1.40%) Relational Database
7 18 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (1.33%) MySQL
9 14 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (0.86%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.62%) InfluxDB
13 6 (0.47%) Power Query
14 5 (0.39%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.39%) Metadata
14 5 (0.39%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.39%) Redis
15 4 (0.31%) Db2
15 4 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 106 (8.26%) Git
2 89 (6.94%) JIRA
3 66 (5.14%) GitLab
4 57 (4.44%) Jenkins
5 30 (2.34%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (0.86%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (0.55%) Robot Framework
9 7 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 7 (0.55%) TestRail
10 6 (0.47%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.47%) Selenium
11 5 (0.39%) Postman
12 4 (0.31%) Metasploit
12 4 (0.31%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.23%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.23%) JMeter
13 3 (0.23%) MSI
General
1 406 (31.64%) Social Skills
2 206 (16.06%) Finance
3 174 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (8.18%) Law
5 52 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 52 (4.05%) Legal
6 48 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (3.43%) Retail
8 34 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
9 32 (2.49%) Banking
10 28 (2.18%) Manufacturing
11 27 (2.10%) Public Sector
12 25 (1.95%) Aerospace
13 17 (1.33%) Advertising
14 12 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (0.86%) Financial Institution
16 10 (0.78%) Telecoms
17 8 (0.62%) Front Office
17 8 (0.62%) Investment Banking
18 7 (0.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 201 (15.67%) Senior
2 175 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 136 (10.60%) Analyst
4 132 (10.29%) Support Engineer
5 130 (10.13%) Azure Engineer
6 123 (9.59%) IT Engineer
7 120 (9.35%) Cloud Engineer
8 117 (9.12%) IT Support
9 97 (7.56%) DevOps Engineer
10 71 (5.53%) Security Engineer
11 68 (5.30%) IT Support Engineer
12 66 (5.14%) Platform Engineer
13 65 (5.07%) Lead
14 58 (4.52%) Developer
15 51 (3.98%) 2nd Line Support
15 51 (3.98%) Systems Engineer
16 47 (3.66%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 41 (3.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 40 (3.12%) Administrator
19 39 (3.04%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (6.31%) .NET
2 55 (4.29%) ARM Templates
3 53 (4.13%) SAML
4 49 (3.82%) OAuth
5 48 (3.74%) REST
6 44 (3.43%) YAML
7 43 (3.35%) OpenID
8 42 (3.27%) HTML
9 41 (3.20%) LDAP
10 38 (2.96%) Microsoft Graph
11 34 (2.65%) JSON
12 33 (2.57%) .NET Core
13 31 (2.42%) CSS
14 24 (1.87%) SPFx
15 20 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
16 19 (1.48%) HTML5 Canvas
17 16 (1.25%) RESTful
18 15 (1.17%) Middleware
19 13 (1.01%) ASP.NET
19 13 (1.01%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 100 (7.79%) Onboarding
2 82 (6.39%) Cloud Native
3 72 (5.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 66 (5.14%) Security Posture
5 63 (4.91%) Management Information System
6 56 (4.36%) Driving Licence
7 47 (3.66%) Data Centre
8 44 (3.43%) Public Cloud
9 42 (3.27%) Security Operations Centre
10 38 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
11 36 (2.81%) PKI
11 36 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
12 29 (2.26%) Cyber Defence
13 26 (2.03%) Private Cloud
13 26 (2.03%) Replication
14 23 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
15 22 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
16 20 (1.56%) Clustering
17 17 (1.33%) CMDB
18 15 (1.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 630 (49.10%) Windows
2 310 (24.16%) Linux
3 295 (22.99%) Windows Server
4 76 (5.92%) Windows 10
5 51 (3.98%) Apple iOS
6 43 (3.35%) Android
6 43 (3.35%) Mac OS
7 42 (3.27%) VMS
8 36 (2.81%) Windows Server 2016
9 35 (2.73%) CentOS
9 35 (2.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 31 (2.42%) Ubuntu
11 26 (2.03%) Windows Server 2019
12 11 (0.86%) Unix
13 6 (0.47%) Debian
14 5 (0.39%) CoreOS
15 4 (0.31%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.31%) Rocky
15 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
16 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (26.73%) Problem-Solving
2 314 (24.47%) CI/CD
2 314 (24.47%) Infrastructure as Code
3 294 (22.92%) DevOps
4 257 (20.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 251 (19.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 241 (18.78%) ITIL
7 237 (18.47%) Cybersecurity
8 168 (13.09%) Disaster Recovery
9 159 (12.39%) Root Cause Analysis
10 158 (12.31%) Agile
11 156 (12.16%) Incident Response
12 146 (11.38%) Mentoring
13 144 (11.22%) High Availability
14 131 (10.21%) Containerisation
15 130 (10.13%) AI
16 127 (9.90%) Observability
17 126 (9.82%) Cloud Security
18 123 (9.59%) SIEM
19 122 (9.51%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 506 (39.44%) Python
2 297 (23.15%) Bash
3 263 (20.50%) SQL
4 105 (8.18%) Bicep
5 94 (7.33%) C#
6 80 (6.24%) JavaScript
7 49 (3.82%) Kusto Query Language
8 39 (3.04%) Java
9 36 (2.81%) T-SQL
10 31 (2.42%) TypeScript
11 21 (1.64%) VBScript
12 18 (1.40%) C++
13 16 (1.25%) PHP
14 15 (1.17%) Perl
15 10 (0.78%) VBA
16 9 (0.70%) Go
16 9 (0.70%) Ruby
16 9 (0.70%) VB
17 8 (0.62%) C
18 6 (0.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 166 (12.94%) Security Cleared
2 156 (12.16%) Degree
3 148 (11.54%) Azure Certification
4 130 (10.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 110 (8.57%) SC Cleared
6 54 (4.21%) Cisco Certification
7 53 (4.13%) CISSP
7 53 (4.13%) CompTIA Security+
8 50 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 44 (3.43%) DV Cleared
10 40 (3.12%) CCNA
11 26 (2.03%) CEH
12 24 (1.87%) AWS Certification
12 24 (1.87%) DBS Check
13 22 (1.71%) GIAC
14 19 (1.48%) OSCP
15 16 (1.25%) CCNP
15 16 (1.25%) CISM
16 14 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 13 (1.01%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (8.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 69 (5.38%) NIST
3 61 (4.75%) Cyber Essentials
4 53 (4.13%) GDPR
5 43 (3.35%) SLA
6 26 (2.03%) QA
7 20 (1.56%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.33%) SOC 2
9 15 (1.17%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.70%) ISO 22301
11 7 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.47%) NCSC
12 6 (0.47%) PMO
13 5 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.31%) Accessibility
15 3 (0.23%) DICOM
15 3 (0.23%) ISAE 3402
16 2 (0.16%) EMIR
16 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
System Software
1 467 (36.40%) Active Directory
2 210 (16.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 144 (11.22%) Hyper-V
4 136 (10.60%) Docker
5 75 (5.85%) vSphere
6 52 (4.05%) Virtual Machines
7 44 (3.43%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.79%) BitLocker
9 19 (1.48%) VMware NSX
10 15 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
11 9 (0.70%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 9 (0.70%) KVM
12 8 (0.62%) Squid
13 5 (0.39%) Firmware
14 4 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
16 2 (0.16%) iptables
16 2 (0.16%) Samba
Systems Management
1 338 (26.34%) Terraform
2 232 (18.08%) Kubernetes
3 214 (16.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 167 (13.02%) Ansible
5 82 (6.39%) Grafana
6 58 (4.52%) SCCM
7 50 (3.90%) Prometheus
8 48 (3.74%) Single Sign-On
9 23 (1.79%) Jamf Pro
9 23 (1.79%) ZABBIX
10 21 (1.64%) vCenter Server
11 20 (1.56%) Argo
11 20 (1.56%) Packer
11 20 (1.56%) QRadar
12 19 (1.48%) Proxmox
13 15 (1.17%) Puppet
14 14 (1.09%) Graylog
15 12 (0.94%) Nagios
15 12 (0.94%) VxRail
16 10 (0.78%) Nessus
Vendors
1 808 (62.98%) Microsoft
2 252 (19.64%) VMware
3 114 (8.89%) Cisco
4 104 (8.11%) ServiceNow
5 89 (6.94%) Splunk
6 60 (4.68%) Red Hat
7 57 (4.44%) Veeam
8 45 (3.51%) Oracle
9 44 (3.43%) Meraki
10 32 (2.49%) Citrix
10 32 (2.49%) Dynatrace
11 31 (2.42%) Sophos
12 30 (2.34%) Dell
12 30 (2.34%) Tenable
13 29 (2.26%) Apple
14 27 (2.10%) CrowdStrike
15 25 (1.95%) Fortinet
16 22 (1.71%) Palo Alto
17 21 (1.64%) CyberArk
18 20 (1.56%) Qualys