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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 76 103
Rank change year-on-year -66 +27 -10
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,107 1,555 2,142
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.36% 3.97% 2.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.64% 12.16% 7.90%
Number of salaries quoted 853 977 1,798
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,250 £35,675
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 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £59,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.26% +8.64% -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 14,498 12,788 27,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.83% 32.65% 32.23%
Number of salaries quoted 10,226 8,896 22,384
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,250
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 16 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 16 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 -15 509 £70,000 -6.67% 138
South East -77 160 £56,750 -1.30% 131
North of England -116 151 £47,500 -5.00% 81
Midlands -47 121 £52,500 +5.00% 33
South West -44 81 £55,000 +15.79% 44
North West -106 78 £50,750 +10.33% 49
East of England -26 74 £57,500 +21.05% 25
East Midlands -21 71 £55,000 +42.86% 22
Yorkshire -38 56 £47,500 -19.49% 17
West Midlands -80 49 £48,000 -4.00% 11
North East -36 17 £48,445 -15.75% 15
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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
1 158 (14.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 138 (12.47%) SharePoint
3 38 (3.43%) IIS
4 21 (1.90%) Confluence
5 3 (0.27%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.18%) Apache
6 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.18%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.090%) Site Server
Applications
1 57 (5.15%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.090%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.090%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.27%) Markit EDM
2 3 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.090%) Actimize
4 1 (0.090%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.090%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.090%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 718 (64.86%) Azure
2 402 (36.31%) Microsoft 365
3 285 (25.75%) Entra ID
4 196 (17.71%) AWS
5 106 (9.58%) Azure DevOps
6 94 (8.49%) Power Platform
7 84 (7.59%) GitHub
8 76 (6.87%) SaaS
9 70 (6.32%) IaaS
10 69 (6.23%) OneDrive
11 62 (5.60%) GitHub Actions
12 61 (5.51%) GCP
13 53 (4.79%) Azure Sentinel
14 49 (4.43%) Azure AKS
14 49 (4.43%) Azure Monitor
14 49 (4.43%) PaaS
15 45 (4.07%) Power Automate
16 43 (3.88%) Azure Logic Apps
17 40 (3.61%) Google Workspace
18 39 (3.52%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 219 (19.78%) Firewall
2 214 (19.33%) DNS
3 128 (11.56%) DHCP
4 127 (11.47%) VPN
5 91 (8.22%) TCP/IP
6 63 (5.69%) Network Security
7 61 (5.51%) WAN
8 59 (5.33%) LAN
9 44 (3.97%) VLAN
10 42 (3.79%) Wi-Fi
11 34 (3.07%) VoIP
12 33 (2.98%) SAN
13 27 (2.44%) Broadband
14 21 (1.90%) Wireless
15 15 (1.36%) Kerberos
16 14 (1.26%) SD-WAN
17 13 (1.17%) Internet
17 13 (1.17%) VSAN
18 12 (1.08%) BGP
18 12 (1.08%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (12.20%) SQL Server
2 72 (6.50%) Power BI
3 52 (4.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 29 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
4 29 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (2.17%) MySQL
6 22 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 20 (1.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (1.54%) NoSQL
8 17 (1.54%) Relational Database
9 13 (1.17%) MongoDB
10 12 (1.08%) Tableau
11 11 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.81%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.63%) InfluxDB
14 6 (0.54%) Metadata
15 5 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
16 4 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 3 (0.27%) DynamoDB
18 2 (0.18%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 90 (8.13%) Git
2 57 (5.15%) JIRA
3 54 (4.88%) Jenkins
4 53 (4.79%) GitLab
5 28 (2.53%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.45%) Octopus Deploy
7 13 (1.17%) Metasploit
7 13 (1.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 12 (1.08%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.81%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
10 8 (0.72%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.54%) Robot Framework
12 5 (0.45%) TestRail
13 4 (0.36%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.36%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.36%) MLflow
13 4 (0.36%) Selenium
14 3 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 3 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 337 (30.44%) Social Skills
2 189 (17.07%) Finance
3 152 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (6.68%) Law
5 48 (4.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 48 (4.34%) Organisational Skills
6 44 (3.97%) Legal
7 43 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
8 41 (3.70%) Retail
9 33 (2.98%) Public Sector
10 23 (2.08%) Banking
11 19 (1.72%) Aerospace
11 19 (1.72%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.63%) Advertising
13 15 (1.36%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.63%) Front Office
15 6 (0.54%) Electronics
15 6 (0.54%) Police
16 5 (0.45%) Aviation
16 5 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 193 (17.43%) Senior
2 140 (12.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 133 (12.01%) Analyst
4 117 (10.57%) Azure Engineer
5 115 (10.39%) Support Engineer
6 97 (8.76%) IT Support
7 85 (7.68%) IT Engineer
8 82 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
9 74 (6.68%) Security Engineer
10 72 (6.50%) DevOps Engineer
11 55 (4.97%) IT Support Engineer
12 52 (4.70%) 2nd Line Support
12 52 (4.70%) Lead
13 49 (4.43%) Developer
14 45 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
15 44 (3.97%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 41 (3.70%) Security Analyst
17 38 (3.43%) Architect
18 37 (3.34%) Systems Engineer
19 34 (3.07%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (7.05%) .NET
2 63 (5.69%) OAuth
3 59 (5.33%) SAML
4 57 (5.15%) OpenID
5 54 (4.88%) REST
6 45 (4.07%) LDAP
7 39 (3.52%) .NET Core
8 36 (3.25%) JSON
9 33 (2.98%) Microsoft Graph
9 33 (2.98%) SOAP
10 31 (2.80%) ARM Templates
10 31 (2.80%) CSS
11 30 (2.71%) HTML
12 28 (2.53%) YAML
13 26 (2.35%) SPFx
14 24 (2.17%) GraphQL
15 19 (1.72%) HTML5 Canvas
15 19 (1.72%) React
16 15 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
16 15 (1.36%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 89 (8.04%) Onboarding
2 68 (6.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 53 (4.79%) Security Posture
4 51 (4.61%) Cloud Native
5 50 (4.52%) Management Information System
6 45 (4.07%) Cyber Defence
7 43 (3.88%) Security Operations Centre
8 42 (3.79%) Cyber Threat
9 39 (3.52%) Driving Licence
10 36 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
11 34 (3.07%) Cyberattack
11 34 (3.07%) Data Centre
12 30 (2.71%) Analytical Mindset
13 28 (2.53%) Public Cloud
14 24 (2.17%) PKI
15 21 (1.90%) CMDB
16 19 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
16 19 (1.72%) Replication
17 18 (1.63%) Private Cloud
18 17 (1.54%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 518 (46.79%) Windows
2 251 (22.67%) Linux
3 242 (21.86%) Windows Server
4 74 (6.68%) Windows 10
5 47 (4.25%) Android
6 46 (4.16%) Apple iOS
6 46 (4.16%) Mac OS
7 32 (2.89%) VMS
7 32 (2.89%) Windows Server 2016
8 26 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 25 (2.26%) CentOS
10 24 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 18 (1.63%) Ubuntu
12 13 (1.17%) Unix
13 7 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (0.45%) Debian
15 4 (0.36%) CoreOS
15 4 (0.36%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.18%) AIX
16 2 (0.18%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (25.47%) Problem-Solving
2 250 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 236 (21.32%) Cybersecurity
4 235 (21.23%) CI/CD
5 226 (20.42%) DevOps
6 199 (17.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 193 (17.43%) ITIL
8 186 (16.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 155 (14.00%) Incident Response
10 140 (12.65%) Mentoring
11 133 (12.01%) Agile
11 133 (12.01%) Root Cause Analysis
12 130 (11.74%) Disaster Recovery
13 115 (10.39%) SIEM
14 112 (10.12%) Containerisation
15 109 (9.85%) Cloud Security
16 101 (9.12%) Roadmaps
17 97 (8.76%) Security Operations
18 94 (8.49%) High Availability
18 94 (8.49%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 450 (40.65%) Python
2 267 (24.12%) Bash
3 237 (21.41%) SQL
4 85 (7.68%) C#
5 72 (6.50%) JavaScript
6 68 (6.14%) Bicep
7 47 (4.25%) T-SQL
8 30 (2.71%) Kusto Query Language
9 22 (1.99%) Java
9 22 (1.99%) TypeScript
10 14 (1.26%) C++
11 12 (1.08%) Perl
11 12 (1.08%) VB
12 10 (0.90%) Go
12 10 (0.90%) VB.NET
13 9 (0.81%) PHP
13 9 (0.81%) VBA
13 9 (0.81%) VBScript
14 7 (0.63%) C
15 6 (0.54%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 140 (12.65%) Degree
2 125 (11.29%) Security Cleared
3 105 (9.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 101 (9.12%) Azure Certification
5 70 (6.32%) SC Cleared
6 44 (3.97%) CISSP
7 39 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (2.98%) CompTIA Security+
10 30 (2.71%) DV Cleared
11 27 (2.44%) OSCP
12 26 (2.35%) CCNA
13 25 (2.26%) GIAC
14 24 (2.17%) CREST Certified
15 23 (2.08%) AWS Certification
16 21 (1.90%) CEH
16 21 (1.90%) DBS Check
17 16 (1.45%) CompTIA CySA+
18 12 (1.08%) CCSAM
19 11 (0.99%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (12.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 106 (9.58%) NIST
3 62 (5.60%) GDPR
4 42 (3.79%) SLA
5 32 (2.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 25 (2.26%) NCSC
7 19 (1.72%) Data Quality
8 18 (1.63%) ISO 22301
9 15 (1.36%) PCI DSS
9 15 (1.36%) QA
9 15 (1.36%) SOC 2
10 12 (1.08%) Accessibility
10 12 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
11 10 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.54%) DICOM
13 5 (0.45%) GRC
14 4 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.27%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.18%) COBIT
16 2 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 405 (36.59%) Active Directory
2 150 (13.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 121 (10.93%) Docker
4 102 (9.21%) Hyper-V
5 48 (4.34%) vSphere
6 30 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (1.81%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (1.72%) BitLocker
9 15 (1.36%) Firmware
10 14 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
11 13 (1.17%) VMware NSX
12 10 (0.90%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 6 (0.54%) KVM
13 6 (0.54%) Squid
14 5 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.36%) iptables
15 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.36%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.36%) XenDesktop
16 2 (0.18%) Samba
Systems Management
1 251 (22.67%) Terraform
2 193 (17.43%) Kubernetes
3 171 (15.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 133 (12.01%) Ansible
5 54 (4.88%) Grafana
6 50 (4.52%) Single Sign-On
7 47 (4.25%) SCCM
8 36 (3.25%) Prometheus
9 23 (2.08%) Jamf Pro
10 19 (1.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 19 (1.72%) vCenter Server
11 15 (1.36%) Nessus
11 15 (1.36%) VxRail
12 13 (1.17%) Packer
12 13 (1.17%) QRadar
13 11 (0.99%) ZABBIX
14 10 (0.90%) WSUS
15 9 (0.81%) Nagios
16 8 (0.72%) Graylog
16 8 (0.72%) logstash
Vendors
1 638 (57.63%) Microsoft
2 200 (18.07%) VMware
3 89 (8.04%) Cisco
4 61 (5.51%) Splunk
5 52 (4.70%) Red Hat
6 51 (4.61%) ServiceNow
7 41 (3.70%) CrowdStrike
8 38 (3.43%) Veeam
9 30 (2.71%) Dell
9 30 (2.71%) Meraki
10 28 (2.53%) Citrix
10 28 (2.53%) Commvault
10 28 (2.53%) Google
11 26 (2.35%) Apple
11 26 (2.35%) Fortinet
11 26 (2.35%) Palo Alto
12 24 (2.17%) Oracle
13 23 (2.08%) Tenable
14 22 (1.99%) CyberArk
15 20 (1.81%) Sophos