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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 80 103
Rank change year-on-year -60 +23 -31
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,296 1,572 1,735
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.36% 3.59% 2.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.75% 12.59% 8.08%
Number of salaries quoted 967 1,048 1,292
10th Percentile £32,000 £34,700 £36,750
25th Percentile £41,750 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £57,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £74,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £89,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,763
% change year-on-year - -0.45% -3.73%

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 16,727 12,484 21,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.58% 28.55% 29.64%
Number of salaries quoted 12,192 8,340 15,648
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £36,625
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +1.63% -5.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
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%

PowerShell
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 20 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 20 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 -30 478 £70,000 -3.45% 202
South East -30 246 £52,500 -8.70% 131
North of England -77 224 £50,000 +5.26% 69
Midlands -32 159 £52,500 +5.00% 47
North West -81 126 £51,500 +11.96% 43
East of England -30 101 £57,500 +13.86% 34
East Midlands -8 84 £42,500 +21.43% 19
South West -78 83 £55,000 +17.65% 38
West Midlands -60 75 £55,000 - 28
Yorkshire -36 62 £42,500 -16.26% 16
North East -33 36 £50,000 -16.67% 11
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UK

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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
1 222 (17.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 208 (16.05%) SharePoint
3 51 (3.94%) IIS
4 33 (2.55%) Confluence
5 12 (0.93%) nginx
6 7 (0.54%) Apache
7 5 (0.39%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.31%) SAS
9 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.077%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.077%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.077%) WebSphere
Applications
1 76 (5.86%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 17 (1.31%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.46%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.23%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.23%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.077%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.077%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 831 (64.12%) Azure
2 495 (38.19%) Microsoft 365
3 361 (27.85%) Entra ID
4 245 (18.90%) AWS
5 152 (11.73%) Azure DevOps
6 102 (7.87%) Power Platform
7 101 (7.79%) OneDrive
8 99 (7.64%) IaaS
9 96 (7.41%) SaaS
10 95 (7.33%) GitHub
11 75 (5.79%) Azure Sentinel
12 73 (5.63%) Azure Monitor
13 68 (5.25%) Power Automate
14 67 (5.17%) Azure AKS
14 67 (5.17%) PaaS
15 64 (4.94%) GCP
16 62 (4.78%) Azure Key Vault
17 59 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
18 50 (3.86%) Datadog
19 48 (3.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 298 (22.99%) Firewall
2 279 (21.53%) DNS
3 184 (14.20%) DHCP
4 183 (14.12%) VPN
5 134 (10.34%) TCP/IP
6 81 (6.25%) WAN
7 72 (5.56%) LAN
8 69 (5.32%) Network Security
9 61 (4.71%) VLAN
10 45 (3.47%) Wireless
11 39 (3.01%) SAN
11 39 (3.01%) Wi-Fi
12 31 (2.39%) Kerberos
13 23 (1.77%) NAS
14 22 (1.70%) SSL
15 18 (1.39%) HTTP
15 18 (1.39%) Internet
16 15 (1.16%) VoIP
17 13 (1.00%) VSAN
18 10 (0.77%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 82 (6.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 59 (4.55%) Power BI
4 26 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.77%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (1.31%) Relational Database
7 15 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 14 (1.08%) MySQL
9 13 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (0.93%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.54%) InfluxDB
13 6 (0.46%) Power Query
13 6 (0.46%) Redis
14 5 (0.39%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.39%) Metadata
14 5 (0.39%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.31%) Db2
15 4 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 104 (8.02%) Git
2 94 (7.25%) JIRA
3 67 (5.17%) GitLab
4 57 (4.40%) Jenkins
5 28 (2.16%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.85%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
8 7 (0.54%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.54%) TestRail
9 6 (0.46%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.46%) Selenium
9 6 (0.46%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.39%) Postman
11 3 (0.23%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.23%) JMeter
11 3 (0.23%) Metasploit
11 3 (0.23%) MSI
11 3 (0.23%) Terragrunt
General
1 431 (33.26%) Social Skills
2 216 (16.67%) Finance
3 179 (13.81%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (8.33%) Law
5 56 (4.32%) Legal
6 55 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 46 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
8 43 (3.32%) Retail
9 38 (2.93%) Banking
10 32 (2.47%) Manufacturing
10 32 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
11 30 (2.31%) Public Sector
12 27 (2.08%) Aerospace
13 16 (1.23%) Advertising
14 12 (0.93%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (0.69%) Front Office
16 9 (0.69%) Investment Banking
17 7 (0.54%) Military
17 7 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 202 (15.59%) Senior
2 176 (13.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 142 (10.96%) Analyst
4 132 (10.19%) Azure Engineer
5 130 (10.03%) Support Engineer
6 126 (9.72%) Cloud Engineer
7 125 (9.65%) IT Engineer
8 117 (9.03%) IT Support
9 98 (7.56%) DevOps Engineer
10 67 (5.17%) Platform Engineer
11 66 (5.09%) IT Support Engineer
11 66 (5.09%) Security Engineer
12 65 (5.02%) Lead
13 58 (4.48%) Developer
14 55 (4.24%) Systems Engineer
15 47 (3.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 46 (3.55%) 2nd Line Support
16 46 (3.55%) Support Analyst
17 44 (3.40%) Automation Engineer
17 44 (3.40%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 341 (26.31%) Terraform
2 80 (6.17%) .NET
3 53 (4.09%) ARM Templates
4 45 (3.47%) REST
4 45 (3.47%) YAML
5 44 (3.40%) SAML
6 41 (3.16%) HTML
7 40 (3.09%) OAuth
8 39 (3.01%) Microsoft Graph
9 36 (2.78%) LDAP
9 36 (2.78%) OpenID
10 32 (2.47%) .NET Core
10 32 (2.47%) JSON
11 31 (2.39%) CSS
12 24 (1.85%) SPFx
13 19 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
13 19 (1.47%) HTML5 Canvas
14 14 (1.08%) ASP.NET
14 14 (1.08%) React
14 14 (1.08%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 109 (8.41%) Onboarding
2 81 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 72 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 67 (5.17%) Management Information System
5 66 (5.09%) Security Posture
6 63 (4.86%) Driving Licence
7 47 (3.63%) Data Centre
8 43 (3.32%) Security Operations Centre
9 42 (3.24%) Public Cloud
10 39 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
11 38 (2.93%) PKI
12 36 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
13 28 (2.16%) Private Cloud
14 27 (2.08%) Cyber Defence
14 27 (2.08%) Replication
15 21 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
15 21 (1.62%) CMDB
16 20 (1.54%) Clustering
16 20 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
17 16 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 641 (49.46%) Windows
2 305 (23.53%) Linux
3 296 (22.84%) Windows Server
4 75 (5.79%) Windows 10
5 50 (3.86%) Apple iOS
6 42 (3.24%) Android
7 41 (3.16%) Mac OS
8 38 (2.93%) VMS
9 34 (2.62%) Windows Server 2016
10 32 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 32 (2.47%) Ubuntu
11 31 (2.39%) CentOS
12 25 (1.93%) Windows Server 2019
13 13 (1.00%) Unix
14 7 (0.54%) Rocky
15 5 (0.39%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.39%) Solaris
16 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
17 3 (0.23%) AIX
17 3 (0.23%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
2 321 (24.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 316 (24.38%) CI/CD
4 292 (22.53%) DevOps
5 271 (20.91%) Continuous Improvement
6 268 (20.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 267 (20.60%) ITIL
8 234 (18.06%) Cybersecurity
9 174 (13.43%) Disaster Recovery
10 162 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
11 158 (12.19%) Incident Response
12 154 (11.88%) Agile
13 150 (11.57%) High Availability
14 148 (11.42%) Mentoring
15 139 (10.73%) AI
16 131 (10.11%) Containerisation
17 126 (9.72%) Observability
18 123 (9.49%) Cloud Security
18 123 (9.49%) SIEM
19 120 (9.26%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 504 (38.89%) Python
2 290 (22.38%) Bash
3 260 (20.06%) SQL
4 108 (8.33%) Bicep
5 91 (7.02%) C#
6 84 (6.48%) JavaScript
7 48 (3.70%) Kusto Query Language
8 40 (3.09%) Java
9 33 (2.55%) TypeScript
10 32 (2.47%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.62%) VBScript
12 19 (1.47%) C++
13 18 (1.39%) Perl
14 14 (1.08%) PHP
15 11 (0.85%) Ruby
16 10 (0.77%) VBA
17 9 (0.69%) Go
17 9 (0.69%) VB
18 8 (0.62%) C
19 6 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 167 (12.89%) Security Cleared
2 160 (12.35%) Degree
3 147 (11.34%) Azure Certification
4 133 (10.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 115 (8.87%) SC Cleared
6 55 (4.24%) Cisco Certification
6 55 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 54 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
8 50 (3.86%) CISSP
9 45 (3.47%) DV Cleared
10 42 (3.24%) CCNA
11 28 (2.16%) CEH
12 24 (1.85%) DBS Check
13 22 (1.70%) AWS Certification
13 22 (1.70%) GIAC
14 20 (1.54%) OSCP
15 18 (1.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 16 (1.23%) CISM
17 15 (1.16%) CCNP
18 14 (1.08%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (7.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 63 (4.86%) Cyber Essentials
2 63 (4.86%) NIST
3 48 (3.70%) GDPR
4 45 (3.47%) SLA
5 26 (2.01%) QA
6 19 (1.47%) Data Quality
7 16 (1.23%) SOC 2
8 14 (1.08%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (0.54%) ISO 22301
10 7 (0.54%) PMO
11 5 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.31%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.31%) NCSC
13 3 (0.23%) ISAE 3402
14 2 (0.15%) EMIR
14 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 478 (36.88%) Active Directory
2 214 (16.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 145 (11.19%) Hyper-V
4 135 (10.42%) Docker
5 78 (6.02%) vSphere
6 55 (4.24%) Virtual Machines
7 49 (3.78%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.77%) BitLocker
9 19 (1.47%) VMware NSX
10 14 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.77%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.62%) KVM
12 8 (0.62%) Squid
13 7 (0.54%) Firmware
14 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
17 2 (0.15%) Samba
18 1 (0.077%) iptables
Systems Management
1 229 (17.67%) Kubernetes
2 227 (17.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 167 (12.89%) Ansible
4 80 (6.17%) Grafana
5 64 (4.94%) SCCM
6 47 (3.63%) Single Sign-On
7 46 (3.55%) Prometheus
8 23 (1.77%) ZABBIX
9 21 (1.62%) QRadar
9 21 (1.62%) vCenter Server
10 20 (1.54%) Argo
10 20 (1.54%) Jamf Pro
10 20 (1.54%) Packer
10 20 (1.54%) Proxmox
11 19 (1.47%) Puppet
12 15 (1.16%) Graylog
13 13 (1.00%) VxRail
14 11 (0.85%) FortiGate
15 10 (0.77%) Nagios
16 9 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 824 (63.58%) Microsoft
2 255 (19.68%) VMware
3 116 (8.95%) Cisco
4 107 (8.26%) ServiceNow
5 89 (6.87%) Splunk
6 56 (4.32%) Red Hat
7 55 (4.24%) Veeam
8 46 (3.55%) Oracle
9 45 (3.47%) Meraki
10 38 (2.93%) Citrix
11 34 (2.62%) Dynatrace
12 32 (2.47%) Sophos
13 31 (2.39%) Dell
14 30 (2.31%) Tenable
15 29 (2.24%) CrowdStrike
16 25 (1.93%) Apple
17 23 (1.77%) Fortinet
18 22 (1.70%) CyberArk
19 21 (1.62%) Palo Alto
19 21 (1.62%) Qualys