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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 82 105
Rank change year-on-year -59 +23 -32
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,299 1,578 1,741
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.37% 3.61% 2.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.76% 12.63% 8.08%
Number of salaries quoted 969 1,051 1,298
10th Percentile £32,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,750 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £74,750 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £89,000 £90,000 £95,000
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 16,749 12,497 21,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.62% 28.56% 29.68%
Number of salaries quoted 12,205 8,338 15,703
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 £83,625
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 19 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 19 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 -23 481 £71,500 -3.87% 307
South East -26 247 £52,750 -8.26% 154
North of England -88 222 £50,000 +5.26% 85
Midlands -35 159 £52,500 +5.00% 51
North West -86 125 £51,500 +11.96% 53
East of England -37 100 £57,500 +13.86% 39
East Midlands -5 84 £42,500 +21.43% 21
South West -70 84 £55,000 +19.57% 53
West Midlands -60 75 £55,000 - 30
Yorkshire -29 61 £42,500 -16.26% 22
North East -30 36 £50,000 -16.67% 11
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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
1 223 (17.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 206 (15.86%) SharePoint
3 51 (3.93%) IIS
4 32 (2.46%) Confluence
5 12 (0.92%) nginx
6 7 (0.54%) Apache
7 5 (0.38%) 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 77 (5.93%) 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%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.077%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.077%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 832 (64.05%) Azure
2 494 (38.03%) Microsoft 365
3 357 (27.48%) Entra ID
4 247 (19.01%) AWS
5 152 (11.70%) Azure DevOps
6 101 (7.78%) OneDrive
6 101 (7.78%) Power Platform
7 99 (7.62%) IaaS
8 96 (7.39%) GitHub
8 96 (7.39%) SaaS
9 75 (5.77%) Azure Sentinel
10 74 (5.70%) Azure Monitor
11 67 (5.16%) Azure AKS
11 67 (5.16%) PaaS
12 66 (5.08%) Power Automate
13 63 (4.85%) GCP
14 62 (4.77%) Azure Key Vault
15 59 (4.54%) GitHub Actions
16 49 (3.77%) Datadog
17 48 (3.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 300 (23.09%) Firewall
2 279 (21.48%) DNS
3 183 (14.09%) DHCP
3 183 (14.09%) VPN
4 134 (10.32%) TCP/IP
5 81 (6.24%) WAN
6 73 (5.62%) LAN
7 70 (5.39%) Network Security
8 61 (4.70%) VLAN
9 44 (3.39%) Wireless
10 41 (3.16%) SAN
11 40 (3.08%) Wi-Fi
12 31 (2.39%) Kerberos
13 23 (1.77%) NAS
14 22 (1.69%) SSL
15 18 (1.39%) HTTP
15 18 (1.39%) Internet
16 15 (1.15%) VoIP
17 13 (1.00%) VSAN
18 10 (0.77%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (10.55%) SQL Server
2 83 (6.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 59 (4.54%) Power BI
4 27 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.77%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (1.31%) Relational Database
7 15 (1.15%) MySQL
7 15 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 13 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (0.92%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (0.54%) InfluxDB
12 6 (0.46%) Power Query
12 6 (0.46%) Redis
13 5 (0.38%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.38%) Metadata
13 5 (0.38%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.31%) Db2
14 4 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 104 (8.01%) Git
2 93 (7.16%) JIRA
3 67 (5.16%) GitLab
4 57 (4.39%) Jenkins
5 29 (2.23%) 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 (0.38%) 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
1 429 (33.03%) Social Skills
2 215 (16.55%) Finance
3 178 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (8.31%) Law
5 56 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (4.31%) Legal
6 45 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (3.39%) Retail
8 36 (2.77%) Banking
9 32 (2.46%) Manufacturing
9 32 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
10 30 (2.31%) Public Sector
11 27 (2.08%) Aerospace
12 16 (1.23%) Advertising
13 12 (0.92%) Financial Institution
14 11 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (0.69%) Front Office
15 9 (0.69%) Investment Banking
16 8 (0.62%) Telecoms
17 7 (0.54%) Military
Job Titles
1 204 (15.70%) Senior
2 178 (13.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 141 (10.85%) Analyst
4 133 (10.24%) Azure Engineer
5 132 (10.16%) Support Engineer
6 124 (9.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 124 (9.55%) IT Engineer
7 117 (9.01%) IT Support
8 98 (7.54%) DevOps Engineer
9 67 (5.16%) Platform Engineer
10 66 (5.08%) IT Support Engineer
10 66 (5.08%) Security Engineer
11 65 (5.00%) Lead
12 58 (4.46%) Developer
13 55 (4.23%) Systems Engineer
14 48 (3.70%) 2nd Line Support
15 47 (3.62%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 44 (3.39%) Support Analyst
17 43 (3.31%) Automation Engineer
17 43 (3.31%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (6.24%) .NET
2 53 (4.08%) ARM Templates
3 45 (3.46%) REST
3 45 (3.46%) YAML
4 44 (3.39%) SAML
5 41 (3.16%) HTML
6 40 (3.08%) OAuth
7 39 (3.00%) Microsoft Graph
8 36 (2.77%) LDAP
8 36 (2.77%) OpenID
9 33 (2.54%) .NET Core
10 32 (2.46%) JSON
11 31 (2.39%) CSS
12 24 (1.85%) SPFx
13 19 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
13 19 (1.46%) HTML5 Canvas
14 14 (1.08%) ASP.NET
14 14 (1.08%) Middleware
14 14 (1.08%) React
14 14 (1.08%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 108 (8.31%) Onboarding
2 82 (6.31%) Cloud Native
3 72 (5.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 68 (5.23%) Management Information System
5 66 (5.08%) Security Posture
6 61 (4.70%) Driving Licence
7 48 (3.70%) Data Centre
8 43 (3.31%) Public Cloud
8 43 (3.31%) Security Operations Centre
9 39 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
10 38 (2.93%) PKI
11 36 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
12 28 (2.16%) Cyber Defence
12 28 (2.16%) Private Cloud
12 28 (2.16%) Replication
13 21 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
13 21 (1.62%) Clustering
13 21 (1.62%) CMDB
13 21 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
14 15 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 641 (49.35%) Windows
2 309 (23.79%) Linux
3 296 (22.79%) Windows Server
4 75 (5.77%) Windows 10
5 51 (3.93%) Apple iOS
6 43 (3.31%) Android
7 41 (3.16%) Mac OS
8 40 (3.08%) VMS
9 35 (2.69%) Windows Server 2016
10 33 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 33 (2.54%) Ubuntu
11 32 (2.46%) CentOS
12 25 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
13 13 (1.00%) Unix
14 7 (0.54%) Rocky
15 5 (0.38%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.38%) Solaris
16 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
17 3 (0.23%) AIX
17 3 (0.23%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (27.64%) Problem-Solving
2 322 (24.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 317 (24.40%) CI/CD
4 293 (22.56%) DevOps
5 270 (20.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 269 (20.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 266 (20.48%) ITIL
8 235 (18.09%) Cybersecurity
9 176 (13.55%) Disaster Recovery
10 161 (12.39%) Incident Response
10 161 (12.39%) Root Cause Analysis
11 155 (11.93%) Agile
12 151 (11.62%) High Availability
13 148 (11.39%) Mentoring
14 137 (10.55%) AI
15 131 (10.08%) Containerisation
16 125 (9.62%) Observability
16 125 (9.62%) SIEM
17 123 (9.47%) Cloud Security
18 120 (9.24%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 506 (38.95%) Python
2 292 (22.48%) Bash
3 263 (20.25%) SQL
4 108 (8.31%) Bicep
5 92 (7.08%) C#
6 85 (6.54%) JavaScript
7 49 (3.77%) Kusto Query Language
8 40 (3.08%) Java
9 33 (2.54%) TypeScript
10 32 (2.46%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.62%) VBScript
12 19 (1.46%) 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%) Korn
Qualifications
1 169 (13.01%) Security Cleared
2 162 (12.47%) Degree
3 147 (11.32%) Azure Certification
4 134 (10.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 117 (9.01%) SC Cleared
6 56 (4.31%) Cisco Certification
7 55 (4.23%) CompTIA Security+
8 54 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 50 (3.85%) CISSP
10 45 (3.46%) DV Cleared
11 43 (3.31%) CCNA
12 28 (2.16%) CEH
13 24 (1.85%) DBS Check
14 22 (1.69%) AWS Certification
14 22 (1.69%) GIAC
15 21 (1.62%) OSCP
16 18 (1.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 16 (1.23%) CCNP
17 16 (1.23%) CISM
18 14 (1.08%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (7.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 63 (4.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 63 (4.85%) NIST
3 48 (3.70%) GDPR
4 45 (3.46%) SLA
5 26 (2.00%) QA
6 19 (1.46%) 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 (0.38%) 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
1 476 (36.64%) Active Directory
2 214 (16.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 144 (11.09%) Hyper-V
4 136 (10.47%) Docker
5 79 (6.08%) vSphere
6 54 (4.16%) Virtual Machines
7 48 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.77%) BitLocker
9 19 (1.46%) VMware NSX
10 14 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
11 11 (0.85%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.62%) KVM
12 8 (0.62%) Squid
13 7 (0.54%) Firmware
14 5 (0.38%) 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%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 341 (26.25%) Terraform
2 232 (17.86%) Kubernetes
3 225 (17.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 168 (12.93%) Ansible
5 79 (6.08%) Grafana
6 63 (4.85%) SCCM
7 47 (3.62%) Single Sign-On
8 46 (3.54%) Prometheus
9 23 (1.77%) ZABBIX
10 22 (1.69%) vCenter Server
11 21 (1.62%) QRadar
12 20 (1.54%) Argo
12 20 (1.54%) Jamf Pro
12 20 (1.54%) Packer
12 20 (1.54%) Proxmox
13 19 (1.46%) Puppet
14 15 (1.15%) Graylog
15 13 (1.00%) VxRail
16 11 (0.85%) FortiGate
17 10 (0.77%) Nagios
Vendors
1 825 (63.51%) Microsoft
2 255 (19.63%) VMware
3 118 (9.08%) Cisco
4 108 (8.31%) ServiceNow
5 90 (6.93%) Splunk
6 58 (4.46%) Red Hat
7 55 (4.23%) Veeam
8 46 (3.54%) Oracle
9 45 (3.46%) Meraki
10 38 (2.93%) Citrix
11 33 (2.54%) Dynatrace
11 33 (2.54%) Sophos
12 32 (2.46%) Dell
13 30 (2.31%) Tenable
14 29 (2.23%) CrowdStrike
15 25 (1.92%) Apple
16 24 (1.85%) Fortinet
17 22 (1.69%) Okta
18 21 (1.62%) Palo Alto
18 21 (1.62%) Qualys