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 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 94 58
Rank change year-on-year -12 -36 +23
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,086 1,528 2,038
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.10% 3.04% 4.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.54% 8.89% 11.69%
Number of salaries quoted 929 1,098 1,733
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,350 £39,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +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 10,304 17,180 17,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.88% 34.13% 40.69%
Number of salaries quoted 7,782 10,271 14,558
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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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 22 December 2025.

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 22 December 2025. 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 -17 437 £73,250 -2.33% 195
South East -30 200 £58,000 -1.90% 277
North of England -15 143 £50,000 - 202
South West +28 116 £50,000 -6.10% 120
Midlands -19 94 £52,500 +10.53% 150
East of England +28 82 £46,250 -11.90% 110
Yorkshire -15 67 £47,500 -5.00% 80
North West -6 65 £51,750 +3.50% 106
West Midlands -5 60 £52,500 +23.53% 76
East Midlands -14 34 £54,000 +10.20% 65
North East +8 11 £55,000 +16.68% 19
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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
1 187 (17.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 145 (13.35%) SharePoint
3 54 (4.97%) IIS
4 36 (3.31%) Confluence
5 22 (2.03%) Exchange Server 2003
6 17 (1.57%) Skype for Business
7 7 (0.64%) nginx
8 6 (0.55%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.18%) CMS
10 2 (0.18%) WordPress
11 1 (0.092%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 37 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.55%) Siemens NX
4 4 (0.37%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 3 (0.28%) CATIA
5 3 (0.28%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.28%) Windchill
6 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.55%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.46%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.28%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.28%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.18%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.092%) Actimize
6 1 (0.092%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.092%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 692 (63.72%) Azure
2 376 (34.62%) Microsoft 365
3 240 (22.10%) Entra ID
4 210 (19.34%) AWS
5 158 (14.55%) Azure DevOps
6 100 (9.21%) Power Platform
7 82 (7.55%) GCP
8 76 (7.00%) GitHub
9 73 (6.72%) PaaS
10 59 (5.43%) Power Automate
11 55 (5.06%) Azure Monitor
11 55 (5.06%) SaaS
12 53 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
13 52 (4.79%) Azure Sentinel
14 51 (4.70%) IaaS
15 37 (3.41%) Serverless
16 33 (3.04%) OneDrive
17 31 (2.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 31 (2.85%) AWS CloudFormation
17 31 (2.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 233 (21.45%) Firewall
2 216 (19.89%) DNS
3 170 (15.65%) DHCP
4 107 (9.85%) TCP/IP
5 93 (8.56%) VPN
6 85 (7.83%) WAN
7 66 (6.08%) LAN
8 46 (4.24%) VLAN
9 38 (3.50%) SAN
10 36 (3.31%) Wi-Fi
10 36 (3.31%) Wireless
11 33 (3.04%) Internet
12 28 (2.58%) SD-WAN
13 26 (2.39%) Network Security
14 22 (2.03%) VoIP
15 19 (1.75%) NAS
16 17 (1.57%) Cisco IOS
16 17 (1.57%) Skype
17 15 (1.38%) HTTP
17 15 (1.38%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (10.41%) SQL Server
2 62 (5.71%) Power BI
3 33 (3.04%) Relational Database
4 30 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (2.76%) Oracle Database
5 26 (2.39%) Oracle Database 10g
6 22 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (1.29%) MySQL
9 14 (1.29%) NoSQL
10 13 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (0.83%) DTS
12 8 (0.74%) MongoDB
12 8 (0.74%) Tableau
13 7 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
14 6 (0.55%) Data Mining
15 5 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 4 (0.37%) MS Access
16 4 (0.37%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 98 (9.02%) JIRA
2 86 (7.92%) Git
3 77 (7.09%) Jenkins
4 40 (3.68%) GitLab
5 22 (2.03%) Octopus Deploy
6 14 (1.29%) Bitbucket
7 12 (1.10%) TeamCity
7 12 (1.10%) Vagrant
8 11 (1.01%) Burp Suite
8 11 (1.01%) Metasploit
9 9 (0.83%) MSI
10 6 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (0.55%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.46%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.37%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.37%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.37%) Toad
13 3 (0.28%) Balsamiq
General
1 410 (37.75%) Social Skills
2 234 (21.55%) Finance
3 97 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (6.35%) Law
5 43 (3.96%) Legal
6 42 (3.87%) Banking
7 39 (3.59%) Retail
8 38 (3.50%) Public Sector
9 35 (3.22%) Manufacturing
10 33 (3.04%) Telecoms
11 30 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
12 26 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 21 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.20%) Marketing
15 13 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (0.92%) Advertising
16 10 (0.92%) Electronics
16 10 (0.92%) Front Office
17 9 (0.83%) Games
Job Titles
1 160 (14.73%) Support Engineer
2 127 (11.69%) Senior
3 116 (10.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 91 (8.38%) Analyst
4 91 (8.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 86 (7.92%) Azure Engineer
6 73 (6.72%) IT Support
7 71 (6.54%) 3rd Line Support
7 71 (6.54%) Lead
8 68 (6.26%) Developer
8 68 (6.26%) Security Engineer
9 67 (6.17%) Cloud Engineer
10 61 (5.62%) IT Engineer
11 52 (4.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 52 (4.79%) Platform Engineer
12 45 (4.14%) Applications Support
13 43 (3.96%) Applications Engineer
13 43 (3.96%) Support Analyst
14 41 (3.78%) IT Support Engineer
15 40 (3.68%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (5.43%) .NET
2 56 (5.16%) YAML
3 54 (4.97%) REST
4 36 (3.31%) ARM Templates
5 30 (2.76%) JSON
6 23 (2.12%) SOAP
7 22 (2.03%) LDAP
8 18 (1.66%) React
9 17 (1.57%) Microsoft Graph
10 16 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
11 15 (1.38%) AngularJS
12 12 (1.10%) Node.js
12 12 (1.10%) Web Services
13 11 (1.01%) Middleware
13 11 (1.01%) OpenID
14 10 (0.92%) .NET Framework
14 10 (0.92%) OAuth
14 10 (0.92%) Razor View Engine
15 9 (0.83%) SAML
16 8 (0.74%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 90 (8.29%) Onboarding
2 57 (5.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 52 (4.79%) Security Posture
4 42 (3.87%) Management Information System
5 39 (3.59%) Cloud Native
5 39 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
6 31 (2.85%) Data Centre
6 31 (2.85%) PKI
7 29 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
8 23 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (1.93%) Private Cloud
9 21 (1.93%) Public Cloud
9 21 (1.93%) Video Conferencing
10 19 (1.75%) CMDB
10 19 (1.75%) Driving Licence
11 18 (1.66%) Hedge funds
12 17 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (1.38%) Clustering
13 15 (1.38%) Product Ownership
13 15 (1.38%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 490 (45.12%) Windows
2 276 (25.41%) Windows Server
3 201 (18.51%) Linux
4 72 (6.63%) Windows 10
5 53 (4.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 43 (3.96%) Mac OS
6 43 (3.96%) Unix
7 40 (3.68%) Windows Server 2016
8 33 (3.04%) VMS
9 31 (2.85%) Windows Server 2008
10 30 (2.76%) Android
11 26 (2.39%) Solaris
12 22 (2.03%) HPUX
12 22 (2.03%) Windows 7
12 22 (2.03%) Windows Server 2003
13 20 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 18 (1.66%) Windows Server 2012
15 16 (1.47%) Apple iOS
16 13 (1.20%) Ubuntu
17 11 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (28.55%) Problem-Solving
2 309 (28.45%) DevOps
3 234 (21.55%) CI/CD
4 185 (17.03%) ITIL
5 179 (16.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 174 (16.02%) Continuous Improvement
7 172 (15.84%) Infrastructure as Code
8 141 (12.98%) Cybersecurity
9 127 (11.69%) Agile
10 121 (11.14%) Disaster Recovery
11 120 (11.05%) Task Automation
12 119 (10.96%) Mentoring
13 105 (9.67%) Migration
14 99 (9.12%) Cloud Security
15 89 (8.20%) Root Cause Analysis
16 88 (8.10%) Incident Management
17 85 (7.83%) Containerisation
18 84 (7.73%) ITSM
19 82 (7.55%) Change Management
20 81 (7.46%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 351 (32.32%) Python
2 203 (18.69%) SQL
3 201 (18.51%) Bash
4 90 (8.29%) C#
5 61 (5.62%) Bicep
6 47 (4.33%) JavaScript
7 32 (2.95%) Perl
8 28 (2.58%) Java
8 28 (2.58%) Kusto Query Language
9 25 (2.30%) Go
10 20 (1.84%) VB
11 19 (1.75%) T-SQL
12 14 (1.29%) Groovy
13 12 (1.10%) TypeScript
13 12 (1.10%) VBScript
14 8 (0.74%) VB.NET
15 7 (0.64%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.55%) Ruby
17 4 (0.37%) C++
17 4 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 162 (14.92%) Degree
2 156 (14.36%) Security Cleared
3 97 (8.93%) SC Cleared
4 93 (8.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 81 (7.46%) Azure Certification
6 57 (5.25%) DV Cleared
7 44 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 43 (3.96%) Cisco Certification
9 34 (3.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 29 (2.67%) AWS Certification
10 29 (2.67%) CISSP
11 24 (2.21%) CCNA
12 20 (1.84%) Master's Degree
13 19 (1.75%) CEH
14 15 (1.38%) CREST Certified
14 15 (1.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 14 (1.29%) CCNP
15 14 (1.29%) OSCP
16 13 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
16 13 (1.20%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (12.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 106 (9.76%) NIST
3 60 (5.52%) SLA
4 52 (4.79%) GDPR
5 29 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 29 (2.67%) NCSC
6 26 (2.39%) Accessibility
7 13 (1.20%) QA
8 11 (1.01%) ISO 22301
9 10 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 9 (0.83%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.46%) GRC
11 5 (0.46%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.37%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.28%) Data Quality
13 3 (0.28%) HL7
14 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.092%) COBIT
15 1 (0.092%) NIST 800
System Software
1 368 (33.89%) Active Directory
2 149 (13.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 105 (9.67%) Docker
4 94 (8.66%) Hyper-V
5 42 (3.87%) Virtual Machines
6 35 (3.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (2.39%) vSphere
8 22 (2.03%) VMware ESXi
9 21 (1.93%) Firmware
10 9 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.83%) XenApp
11 8 (0.74%) XenDesktop
12 7 (0.64%) DFS Replication
13 5 (0.46%) Postfix
13 5 (0.46%) Squid
14 4 (0.37%) Dovecot
15 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.28%) Terminal Server
15 3 (0.28%) vCloud
15 3 (0.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 216 (19.89%) Terraform
2 190 (17.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 153 (14.09%) Kubernetes
4 120 (11.05%) Ansible
5 61 (5.62%) SCCM
6 41 (3.78%) Grafana
7 35 (3.22%) Prometheus
7 35 (3.22%) Single Sign-On
8 24 (2.21%) WSUS
9 18 (1.66%) SCOM
10 17 (1.57%) vCenter Server
11 13 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 11 (1.01%) Autotask
12 11 (1.01%) Puppet
12 11 (1.01%) ZABBIX
13 10 (0.92%) QRadar
14 9 (0.83%) FortiGate
14 9 (0.83%) Nagios
14 9 (0.83%) Nmap
14 9 (0.83%) WMI
Vendors
1 627 (57.73%) Microsoft
2 225 (20.72%) VMware
3 103 (9.48%) Cisco
4 70 (6.45%) ServiceNow
5 58 (5.34%) Oracle
6 47 (4.33%) Veeam
7 43 (3.96%) Citrix
8 42 (3.87%) Atlassian
9 37 (3.41%) Red Hat
10 36 (3.31%) Splunk
11 33 (3.04%) Google
12 30 (2.76%) Palo Alto
13 27 (2.49%) SolarWinds
14 23 (2.12%) SAP
15 20 (1.84%) CrowdStrike
15 20 (1.84%) Meraki
16 19 (1.75%) Commvault
16 19 (1.75%) Dell
16 19 (1.75%) Fortinet
17 18 (1.66%) Sophos