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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 74 102
Rank change year-on-year -66 +28 -14
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,149 1,504 2,187
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.39% 3.93% 2.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.84% 12.35% 8.00%
Number of salaries quoted 881 934 1,787
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,400 £35,150
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,188 £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 £92,350 £90,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £59,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.84% +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 14,651 12,178 27,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.71% 31.81% 31.81%
Number of salaries quoted 10,429 8,281 22,463
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 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 25 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 25 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 -12 515 £70,000 -6.67% 95
South East -69 172 £56,750 -1.30% 87
North of England -104 167 £47,500 -6.40% 76
Midlands -54 125 £50,000 +2.56% 33
North West -100 87 £50,750 +10.33% 49
South West -43 82 £55,000 +15.79% 44
East of England -25 78 £57,500 +17.95% 26
East Midlands -12 74 £51,250 +41.38% 19
Yorkshire -30 57 £45,000 -28.00% 17
West Midlands -73 50 £48,000 -4.00% 14
North East -32 23 £45,750 -20.43% 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
1 164 (14.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 145 (12.62%) SharePoint
3 40 (3.48%) IIS
4 22 (1.91%) Confluence
5 2 (0.17%) Apache
5 2 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.17%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.087%) Site Server
Applications
1 66 (5.74%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.087%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.087%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.35%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.26%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.087%) Actimize
5 1 (0.087%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.087%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.087%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 738 (64.23%) Azure
2 421 (36.64%) Microsoft 365
3 294 (25.59%) Entra ID
4 205 (17.84%) AWS
5 113 (9.83%) Azure DevOps
6 99 (8.62%) Power Platform
7 88 (7.66%) GitHub
8 79 (6.88%) SaaS
9 73 (6.35%) IaaS
10 71 (6.18%) OneDrive
11 63 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
12 56 (4.87%) Azure Sentinel
13 55 (4.79%) GCP
14 52 (4.53%) Azure AKS
15 51 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
16 47 (4.09%) PaaS
17 46 (4.00%) Power Automate
18 41 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
19 40 (3.48%) Azure Logic Apps
19 40 (3.48%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 236 (20.54%) Firewall
2 223 (19.41%) DNS
3 138 (12.01%) VPN
4 133 (11.58%) DHCP
5 96 (8.36%) TCP/IP
6 66 (5.74%) Network Security
7 65 (5.66%) WAN
8 63 (5.48%) LAN
9 45 (3.92%) VLAN
10 44 (3.83%) Wi-Fi
11 35 (3.05%) SAN
12 34 (2.96%) VoIP
13 27 (2.35%) Broadband
14 20 (1.74%) Wireless
15 16 (1.39%) Kerberos
16 13 (1.13%) HTTP
16 13 (1.13%) Internet
16 13 (1.13%) SD-WAN
16 13 (1.13%) VSAN
17 12 (1.04%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (12.10%) SQL Server
2 75 (6.53%) Power BI
3 55 (4.79%) Azure SQL Database
4 30 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (2.26%) MySQL
7 22 (1.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 21 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 19 (1.65%) Relational Database
10 16 (1.39%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.13%) MongoDB
12 12 (1.04%) Tableau
13 10 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (0.78%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.61%) InfluxDB
16 6 (0.52%) Metadata
17 5 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
18 4 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 3 (0.26%) DynamoDB
20 2 (0.17%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 91 (7.92%) Git
2 61 (5.31%) JIRA
3 58 (5.05%) GitLab
4 57 (4.96%) Jenkins
5 29 (2.52%) Bitbucket
6 17 (1.48%) Octopus Deploy
7 13 (1.13%) Metasploit
7 13 (1.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 13 (1.13%) TeamCity
8 10 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
9 9 (0.78%) Burp Suite
10 8 (0.70%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.52%) 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 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 3 (0.26%) SonarQube
General
1 342 (29.77%) Social Skills
2 196 (17.06%) Finance
3 156 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (6.79%) Law
5 49 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
6 48 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (4.09%) Legal
8 43 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
9 42 (3.66%) Retail
10 33 (2.87%) Public Sector
11 23 (2.00%) Aerospace
11 23 (2.00%) Banking
12 20 (1.74%) Manufacturing
13 19 (1.65%) Advertising
14 14 (1.22%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.52%) Electronics
15 6 (0.52%) Front Office
15 6 (0.52%) Police
16 5 (0.44%) Investment Banking
16 5 (0.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 198 (17.23%) Senior
2 147 (12.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 137 (11.92%) Analyst
4 122 (10.62%) Azure Engineer
5 119 (10.36%) Support Engineer
6 105 (9.14%) IT Support
7 94 (8.18%) Cloud Engineer
7 94 (8.18%) IT Engineer
8 79 (6.88%) DevOps Engineer
9 75 (6.53%) Security Engineer
10 60 (5.22%) IT Support Engineer
11 53 (4.61%) 2nd Line Support
12 52 (4.53%) Developer
12 52 (4.53%) Lead
13 48 (4.18%) Platform Engineer
14 44 (3.83%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 42 (3.66%) Security Analyst
16 40 (3.48%) Systems Engineer
17 38 (3.31%) Architect
18 35 (3.05%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (6.96%) .NET
2 63 (5.48%) OAuth
3 61 (5.31%) SAML
4 56 (4.87%) OpenID
4 56 (4.87%) REST
5 49 (4.26%) LDAP
6 39 (3.39%) .NET Core
7 36 (3.13%) JSON
7 36 (3.13%) Microsoft Graph
8 34 (2.96%) ARM Templates
8 34 (2.96%) CSS
8 34 (2.96%) HTML
9 33 (2.87%) SOAP
9 33 (2.87%) YAML
10 26 (2.26%) SPFx
11 24 (2.09%) GraphQL
12 19 (1.65%) HTML5 Canvas
12 19 (1.65%) React
13 15 (1.31%) Elastic Stack
14 14 (1.22%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 90 (7.83%) Onboarding
2 68 (5.92%) Hybrid Cloud
3 57 (4.96%) Cloud Native
4 54 (4.70%) Management Information System
5 53 (4.61%) Security Posture
6 45 (3.92%) Cyber Defence
6 45 (3.92%) Security Operations Centre
7 43 (3.74%) Cyber Threat
8 41 (3.57%) Driving Licence
9 36 (3.13%) Data Centre
10 35 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
11 34 (2.96%) Cyberattack
12 30 (2.61%) PKI
13 29 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
14 28 (2.44%) Public Cloud
15 21 (1.83%) CMDB
16 19 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
16 19 (1.65%) Private Cloud
17 18 (1.57%) Replication
18 17 (1.48%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 544 (47.35%) Windows
2 261 (22.72%) Linux
3 258 (22.45%) Windows Server
4 75 (6.53%) Windows 10
5 49 (4.26%) Android
5 49 (4.26%) Mac OS
6 48 (4.18%) Apple iOS
7 34 (2.96%) VMS
7 34 (2.96%) Windows Server 2016
8 27 (2.35%) CentOS
9 26 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 25 (2.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 20 (1.74%) Ubuntu
12 12 (1.04%) Unix
13 6 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (0.44%) Debian
15 4 (0.35%) CoreOS
15 4 (0.35%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.17%) AIX
16 2 (0.17%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (25.07%) Problem-Solving
2 263 (22.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 250 (21.76%) CI/CD
4 246 (21.41%) Cybersecurity
5 234 (20.37%) DevOps
6 206 (17.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 199 (17.32%) ITIL
8 192 (16.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 155 (13.49%) Incident Response
10 144 (12.53%) Mentoring
11 142 (12.36%) Agile
12 135 (11.75%) Root Cause Analysis
13 134 (11.66%) Disaster Recovery
14 122 (10.62%) SIEM
15 120 (10.44%) Containerisation
16 110 (9.57%) Cloud Security
17 100 (8.70%) High Availability
17 100 (8.70%) Roadmaps
18 99 (8.62%) Security Operations
19 97 (8.44%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 468 (40.73%) Python
2 282 (24.54%) Bash
3 249 (21.67%) SQL
4 87 (7.57%) C#
5 73 (6.35%) JavaScript
6 70 (6.09%) Bicep
7 49 (4.26%) T-SQL
8 29 (2.52%) Kusto Query Language
9 25 (2.18%) Java
10 23 (2.00%) TypeScript
11 17 (1.48%) C++
12 15 (1.31%) Perl
13 12 (1.04%) VBScript
14 11 (0.96%) VB
14 11 (0.96%) VBA
15 10 (0.87%) PHP
15 10 (0.87%) VB.NET
16 9 (0.78%) Go
17 7 (0.61%) C
18 6 (0.52%) Korn
Qualifications
1 144 (12.53%) Degree
2 135 (11.75%) Security Cleared
3 112 (9.75%) Azure Certification
4 108 (9.40%) Microsoft Certification
5 80 (6.96%) SC Cleared
6 45 (3.92%) CISSP
7 40 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (3.22%) Cisco Certification
9 36 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
10 31 (2.70%) DV Cleared
11 28 (2.44%) CCNA
11 28 (2.44%) OSCP
12 26 (2.26%) CREST Certified
13 25 (2.18%) AWS Certification
13 25 (2.18%) CEH
13 25 (2.18%) GIAC
14 23 (2.00%) DBS Check
15 16 (1.39%) CompTIA CySA+
16 12 (1.04%) CCSAM
17 11 (0.96%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (12.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 104 (9.05%) NIST
3 58 (5.05%) GDPR
4 43 (3.74%) SLA
5 36 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
6 24 (2.09%) NCSC
7 20 (1.74%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.48%) ISO 22301
9 15 (1.31%) PCI DSS
9 15 (1.31%) QA
9 15 (1.31%) SOC 2
10 12 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
11 11 (0.96%) Accessibility
12 10 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.52%) DICOM
14 5 (0.44%) GRC
15 4 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.26%) HIPAA
16 3 (0.26%) PMO
17 2 (0.17%) COBIT
System Software
1 421 (36.64%) Active Directory
2 159 (13.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 130 (11.31%) Docker
4 112 (9.75%) Hyper-V
5 51 (4.44%) vSphere
6 32 (2.79%) Virtual Machines
7 21 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
8 20 (1.74%) BitLocker
9 14 (1.22%) Firmware
9 14 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (1.22%) VMware NSX
10 10 (0.87%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 10 (0.87%) KVM
11 7 (0.61%) Squid
12 5 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.35%) iptables
13 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.35%) Terminal Services
13 4 (0.35%) XenDesktop
14 2 (0.17%) Samba
Systems Management
1 265 (23.06%) Terraform
2 201 (17.49%) Kubernetes
3 177 (15.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 134 (11.66%) Ansible
5 60 (5.22%) Grafana
6 54 (4.70%) Single Sign-On
7 48 (4.18%) SCCM
8 42 (3.66%) Prometheus
9 23 (2.00%) Jamf Pro
10 20 (1.74%) vCenter Server
11 19 (1.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 16 (1.39%) Nessus
12 16 (1.39%) QRadar
12 16 (1.39%) ZABBIX
13 15 (1.31%) Packer
13 15 (1.31%) VxRail
14 13 (1.13%) Graylog
15 11 (0.96%) Proxmox
16 10 (0.87%) Nagios
16 10 (0.87%) WSUS
Vendors
1 671 (58.40%) Microsoft
2 209 (18.19%) VMware
3 91 (7.92%) Cisco
4 69 (6.01%) Splunk
5 53 (4.61%) Red Hat
5 53 (4.61%) ServiceNow
6 45 (3.92%) Veeam
7 39 (3.39%) CrowdStrike
8 31 (2.70%) Meraki
9 30 (2.61%) Dell
10 29 (2.52%) Citrix
11 28 (2.44%) Google
11 28 (2.44%) Oracle
12 27 (2.35%) Commvault
13 26 (2.26%) Apple
13 26 (2.26%) Fortinet
14 25 (2.18%) Palo Alto
15 23 (2.00%) Tenable
16 21 (1.83%) Sophos
17 20 (1.74%) CyberArk