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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 74 104
Rank change year-on-year -68 +30 -13
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,127 1,530 2,145
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.37% 3.90% 2.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.72% 12.15% 7.90%
Number of salaries quoted 862 958 1,774
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,025 £35,075
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £59,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.68% +8.18% -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 14,598 12,596 27,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.76% 32.08% 32.07%
Number of salaries quoted 10,329 8,774 22,360
10th Percentile £36,500 £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 21 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 21 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 -19 512 £70,000 -6.67% 117
South East -69 167 £56,750 -1.30% 113
North of England -104 160 £47,500 -5.71% 74
Midlands -49 121 £51,250 +2.50% 37
North West -103 83 £50,750 +10.33% 47
South West -47 81 £55,000 +15.79% 41
East of England -26 76 £57,500 +21.05% 25
East Midlands -14 71 £53,750 +41.45% 22
Yorkshire -23 57 £45,000 -28.00% 15
West Midlands -85 49 £48,000 -4.00% 15
North East -33 20 £48,445 -15.75% 12
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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
1 162 (14.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 140 (12.42%) SharePoint
3 38 (3.37%) IIS
4 19 (1.69%) 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 64 (5.68%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.06%) 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 (0.44%) 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
1 728 (64.60%) Azure
2 413 (36.65%) Microsoft 365
3 292 (25.91%) Entra ID
4 198 (17.57%) AWS
5 108 (9.58%) Azure DevOps
6 97 (8.61%) Power Platform
7 87 (7.72%) GitHub
8 81 (7.19%) SaaS
9 72 (6.39%) IaaS
10 69 (6.12%) OneDrive
11 62 (5.50%) GitHub Actions
12 57 (5.06%) GCP
13 54 (4.79%) Azure Sentinel
14 53 (4.70%) Azure AKS
15 51 (4.53%) Azure Monitor
16 47 (4.17%) PaaS
17 46 (4.08%) Power Automate
18 42 (3.73%) Azure Logic Apps
19 40 (3.55%) Azure Storage
19 40 (3.55%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 229 (20.32%) Firewall
2 221 (19.61%) DNS
3 133 (11.80%) VPN
4 132 (11.71%) DHCP
5 94 (8.34%) TCP/IP
6 65 (5.77%) Network Security
6 65 (5.77%) WAN
7 63 (5.59%) LAN
8 44 (3.90%) VLAN
8 44 (3.90%) Wi-Fi
9 35 (3.11%) SAN
10 34 (3.02%) VoIP
11 27 (2.40%) Broadband
12 20 (1.77%) Wireless
13 16 (1.42%) Kerberos
14 14 (1.24%) SD-WAN
15 13 (1.15%) Internet
15 13 (1.15%) VSAN
16 12 (1.06%) BGP
16 12 (1.06%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (11.98%) SQL Server
2 73 (6.48%) Power BI
3 51 (4.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 30 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (2.22%) MySQL
6 22 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 22 (1.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 19 (1.69%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.42%) NoSQL
9 13 (1.15%) MongoDB
10 12 (1.06%) Tableau
11 11 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.80%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.62%) InfluxDB
14 6 (0.53%) Metadata
15 5 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
16 4 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 3 (0.27%) DynamoDB
18 2 (0.18%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 90 (7.99%) Git
2 58 (5.15%) JIRA
3 53 (4.70%) Jenkins
4 52 (4.61%) GitLab
5 27 (2.40%) Bitbucket
6 17 (1.51%) Octopus Deploy
7 13 (1.15%) Metasploit
7 13 (1.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 13 (1.15%) TeamCity
8 10 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
9 9 (0.80%) Burp Suite
10 8 (0.71%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.53%) Robot Framework
12 5 (0.44%) TestRail
13 4 (0.35%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.35%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.35%) MLflow
13 4 (0.35%) Selenium
14 3 (0.27%) SonarQube
15 2 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 343 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 193 (17.13%) Finance
3 154 (13.66%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (6.83%) Law
5 48 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 48 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
6 47 (4.17%) Legal
7 43 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
8 40 (3.55%) Retail
9 33 (2.93%) Public Sector
10 21 (1.86%) Aerospace
10 21 (1.86%) Banking
11 19 (1.69%) Advertising
11 19 (1.69%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.24%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.53%) Electronics
13 6 (0.53%) Front Office
13 6 (0.53%) Police
14 5 (0.44%) Aviation
14 5 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 196 (17.39%) Senior
2 142 (12.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 136 (12.07%) Analyst
4 120 (10.65%) Azure Engineer
5 115 (10.20%) Support Engineer
6 101 (8.96%) IT Support
7 90 (7.99%) IT Engineer
8 89 (7.90%) Cloud Engineer
9 74 (6.57%) DevOps Engineer
9 74 (6.57%) Security Engineer
10 57 (5.06%) IT Support Engineer
11 53 (4.70%) Lead
12 52 (4.61%) 2nd Line Support
13 51 (4.53%) Developer
14 47 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
15 45 (3.99%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 41 (3.64%) Security Analyst
17 40 (3.55%) Systems Engineer
18 39 (3.46%) Architect
19 35 (3.11%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (7.01%) .NET
2 63 (5.59%) OAuth
3 61 (5.41%) SAML
4 56 (4.97%) OpenID
5 55 (4.88%) REST
6 48 (4.26%) LDAP
7 39 (3.46%) .NET Core
8 36 (3.19%) JSON
9 35 (3.11%) Microsoft Graph
10 34 (3.02%) CSS
10 34 (3.02%) HTML
11 33 (2.93%) SOAP
12 32 (2.84%) ARM Templates
13 29 (2.57%) YAML
14 26 (2.31%) SPFx
15 24 (2.13%) GraphQL
16 19 (1.69%) HTML5 Canvas
16 19 (1.69%) React
17 15 (1.33%) Node.js
18 14 (1.24%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 89 (7.90%) Onboarding
2 64 (5.68%) Hybrid Cloud
3 54 (4.79%) Management Information System
3 54 (4.79%) Security Posture
4 52 (4.61%) Cloud Native
5 45 (3.99%) Cyber Defence
6 43 (3.82%) Cyber Threat
6 43 (3.82%) Security Operations Centre
7 40 (3.55%) Driving Licence
8 36 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
9 34 (3.02%) Cyberattack
9 34 (3.02%) Data Centre
10 29 (2.57%) Analytical Mindset
11 28 (2.48%) Public Cloud
12 26 (2.31%) PKI
13 21 (1.86%) CMDB
14 20 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
15 18 (1.60%) Private Cloud
15 18 (1.60%) Replication
16 17 (1.51%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 527 (46.76%) Windows
2 254 (22.54%) Linux
3 250 (22.18%) Windows Server
4 74 (6.57%) Windows 10
5 48 (4.26%) Android
5 48 (4.26%) Mac OS
6 47 (4.17%) Apple iOS
7 34 (3.02%) Windows Server 2016
8 32 (2.84%) VMS
9 25 (2.22%) CentOS
9 25 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 25 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
10 18 (1.60%) Ubuntu
11 12 (1.06%) Unix
12 6 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.44%) Debian
14 4 (0.35%) CoreOS
14 4 (0.35%) Kali Linux
15 2 (0.18%) AIX
15 2 (0.18%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (25.20%) Problem-Solving
2 252 (22.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 243 (21.56%) Cybersecurity
4 237 (21.03%) CI/CD
5 224 (19.88%) DevOps
6 199 (17.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 194 (17.21%) ITIL
8 188 (16.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 155 (13.75%) Incident Response
10 144 (12.78%) Mentoring
11 134 (11.89%) Agile
11 134 (11.89%) Root Cause Analysis
12 130 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
13 118 (10.47%) SIEM
14 113 (10.03%) Containerisation
15 110 (9.76%) Cloud Security
16 102 (9.05%) Roadmaps
17 98 (8.70%) High Availability
18 97 (8.61%) Security Operations
19 94 (8.34%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 460 (40.82%) Python
2 271 (24.05%) Bash
3 243 (21.56%) SQL
4 87 (7.72%) C#
5 72 (6.39%) JavaScript
6 69 (6.12%) Bicep
7 48 (4.26%) T-SQL
8 30 (2.66%) Kusto Query Language
9 23 (2.04%) Java
9 23 (2.04%) TypeScript
10 16 (1.42%) C++
11 14 (1.24%) Perl
12 11 (0.98%) VB
12 11 (0.98%) VBA
12 11 (0.98%) VBScript
13 10 (0.89%) Go
13 10 (0.89%) VB.NET
14 9 (0.80%) PHP
15 7 (0.62%) C
16 6 (0.53%) Korn
Qualifications
1 144 (12.78%) Degree
2 126 (11.18%) Security Cleared
3 108 (9.58%) Azure Certification
4 107 (9.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 71 (6.30%) SC Cleared
6 45 (3.99%) CISSP
7 41 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
9 35 (3.11%) CompTIA Security+
10 30 (2.66%) DV Cleared
11 27 (2.40%) CCNA
11 27 (2.40%) OSCP
12 25 (2.22%) CREST Certified
12 25 (2.22%) GIAC
13 24 (2.13%) AWS Certification
13 24 (2.13%) CEH
14 22 (1.95%) DBS Check
15 16 (1.42%) CompTIA CySA+
16 12 (1.06%) CCSAM
17 11 (0.98%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (12.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 104 (9.23%) NIST
3 59 (5.24%) GDPR
4 43 (3.82%) SLA
5 34 (3.02%) Cyber Essentials
6 24 (2.13%) NCSC
7 20 (1.77%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.51%) ISO 22301
9 15 (1.33%) QA
9 15 (1.33%) SOC 2
10 14 (1.24%) PCI DSS
11 12 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (0.98%) Accessibility
13 9 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.53%) DICOM
15 5 (0.44%) GRC
16 4 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 3 (0.27%) HIPAA
17 3 (0.27%) PMO
18 2 (0.18%) COBIT
System Software
1 414 (36.73%) Active Directory
2 153 (13.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 122 (10.83%) Docker
4 106 (9.41%) Hyper-V
5 50 (4.44%) vSphere
6 32 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (1.77%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (1.69%) BitLocker
9 14 (1.24%) Firmware
9 14 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
10 13 (1.15%) VMware NSX
11 10 (0.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.71%) KVM
13 6 (0.53%) Squid
14 5 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.35%) iptables
15 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.35%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.35%) XenDesktop
16 2 (0.18%) Samba
Systems Management
1 256 (22.72%) Terraform
2 194 (17.21%) Kubernetes
3 174 (15.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 131 (11.62%) Ansible
5 54 (4.79%) Grafana
6 51 (4.53%) Single Sign-On
7 47 (4.17%) SCCM
8 36 (3.19%) Prometheus
9 23 (2.04%) Jamf Pro
10 19 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 19 (1.69%) vCenter Server
11 15 (1.33%) Nessus
11 15 (1.33%) QRadar
11 15 (1.33%) VxRail
12 14 (1.24%) Packer
13 13 (1.15%) ZABBIX
14 10 (0.89%) Graylog
14 10 (0.89%) WSUS
15 9 (0.80%) Nagios
16 8 (0.71%) logstash
Vendors
1 659 (58.47%) Microsoft
2 203 (18.01%) VMware
3 89 (7.90%) Cisco
4 64 (5.68%) Splunk
5 51 (4.53%) Red Hat
5 51 (4.53%) ServiceNow
6 41 (3.64%) Veeam
7 39 (3.46%) CrowdStrike
8 31 (2.75%) Meraki
9 30 (2.66%) Dell
10 29 (2.57%) Google
11 28 (2.48%) Citrix
12 27 (2.40%) Commvault
13 26 (2.31%) Apple
13 26 (2.31%) Fortinet
14 25 (2.22%) Palo Alto
15 24 (2.13%) Oracle
16 23 (2.04%) Tenable
17 22 (1.95%) CyberArk
18 21 (1.86%) Sophos