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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 84 96
Rank change year-on-year -62 +12 0
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,089 1,293 2,220
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.37% 3.41% 2.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.79% 10.33% 8.23%
Number of salaries quoted 836 1,002 1,877
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,700
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 13,984 12,523 26,981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.54% 33.05% 32.45%
Number of salaries quoted 9,817 9,215 22,411
10th Percentile £35,222 £37,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,643 £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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -9.68% 97
South East -86 162 £55,000 -4.35% 103
North of England -43 140 £48,445 +0.29% 56
Midlands -61 110 £50,000 - 30
South West -39 85 £55,000 +15.79% 32
East of England -33 73 £52,500 +2.44% 29
North West -46 70 £55,000 +19.57% 34
East Midlands -39 64 £55,000 +37.50% 16
Yorkshire -40 56 £47,500 -13.64% 11
West Midlands -73 45 £47,138 -5.73% 14
North East -39 14 £45,000 -21.74% 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
1 160 (14.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 142 (13.04%) SharePoint
3 37 (3.40%) IIS
4 16 (1.47%) Confluence
5 5 (0.46%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.18%) Apache
6 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2003
7 1 (0.092%) CMS
7 1 (0.092%) Site Server
7 1 (0.092%) WordPress
Applications
1 49 (4.50%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.18%) CATIA
3 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.18%) Siemens NX
3 2 (0.18%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.18%) Windchill
4 1 (0.092%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.28%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.18%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.18%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.092%) Actimize
5 1 (0.092%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.092%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.092%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.092%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 692 (63.54%) Azure
2 395 (36.27%) Microsoft 365
3 283 (25.99%) Entra ID
4 194 (17.81%) AWS
5 100 (9.18%) Azure DevOps
6 97 (8.91%) Power Platform
7 84 (7.71%) GitHub
8 72 (6.61%) SaaS
9 69 (6.34%) OneDrive
10 64 (5.88%) GCP
11 63 (5.79%) GitHub Actions
12 54 (4.96%) IaaS
13 47 (4.32%) Azure Sentinel
14 46 (4.22%) Azure Logic Apps
14 46 (4.22%) Power Automate
15 44 (4.04%) PaaS
16 42 (3.86%) Azure Monitor
16 42 (3.86%) Google Workspace
17 37 (3.40%) Azure AKS
18 35 (3.21%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 205 (18.82%) Firewall
2 200 (18.37%) DNS
3 126 (11.57%) DHCP
4 119 (10.93%) VPN
5 90 (8.26%) TCP/IP
6 59 (5.42%) Network Security
7 56 (5.14%) LAN
7 56 (5.14%) WAN
8 44 (4.04%) VLAN
9 43 (3.95%) Wi-Fi
10 35 (3.21%) SAN
11 34 (3.12%) VoIP
12 28 (2.57%) Broadband
13 25 (2.30%) Wireless
14 17 (1.56%) SD-WAN
15 13 (1.19%) VSAN
16 12 (1.10%) Internet
16 12 (1.10%) Kerberos
16 12 (1.10%) WinSCP
17 11 (1.01%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (12.12%) SQL Server
2 81 (7.44%) Power BI
3 45 (4.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 29 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (2.30%) MySQL
7 23 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 20 (1.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 17 (1.56%) Relational Database
10 15 (1.38%) NoSQL
11 14 (1.29%) Tableau
12 13 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (0.83%) MongoDB
14 8 (0.73%) Data Lake
14 8 (0.73%) InfluxDB
15 7 (0.64%) Metadata
16 5 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
16 5 (0.46%) Oracle Database
17 4 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 3 (0.28%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 89 (8.17%) Git
2 59 (5.42%) Jenkins
3 57 (5.23%) JIRA
4 46 (4.22%) GitLab
5 28 (2.57%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.47%) Octopus Deploy
7 13 (1.19%) Metasploit
7 13 (1.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 11 (1.01%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.83%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
10 8 (0.73%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.73%) Robot Framework
11 6 (0.55%) TestRail
12 5 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.37%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.37%) MLflow
13 4 (0.37%) Selenium
14 3 (0.28%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.28%) Balsamiq
General
1 354 (32.51%) Social Skills
2 194 (17.81%) Finance
3 146 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (5.88%) Law
5 49 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
6 46 (4.22%) Retail
7 43 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
7 43 (3.95%) Legal
8 41 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 32 (2.94%) Public Sector
10 27 (2.48%) Banking
11 22 (2.02%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.65%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.56%) Advertising
14 14 (1.29%) Aerospace
15 10 (0.92%) Front Office
16 7 (0.64%) Electronics
16 7 (0.64%) Military
17 6 (0.55%) Police
18 5 (0.46%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 181 (16.62%) Senior
2 135 (12.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 129 (11.85%) Analyst
4 120 (11.02%) Support Engineer
5 109 (10.01%) Azure Engineer
6 93 (8.54%) IT Support
7 77 (7.07%) Cloud Engineer
8 75 (6.89%) IT Engineer
9 74 (6.80%) Security Engineer
10 63 (5.79%) DevOps Engineer
11 60 (5.51%) Developer
12 57 (5.23%) Lead
13 49 (4.50%) 2nd Line Support
13 49 (4.50%) IT Support Engineer
14 44 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
15 41 (3.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 40 (3.67%) Security Analyst
17 37 (3.40%) Architect
17 37 (3.40%) Support Analyst
18 30 (2.75%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (6.89%) .NET
2 60 (5.51%) OAuth
3 58 (5.33%) REST
4 55 (5.05%) SAML
5 54 (4.96%) OpenID
6 40 (3.67%) LDAP
7 39 (3.58%) .NET Core
8 35 (3.21%) JSON
9 34 (3.12%) SOAP
10 32 (2.94%) CSS
11 31 (2.85%) Microsoft Graph
12 30 (2.75%) HTML
13 29 (2.66%) ARM Templates
14 28 (2.57%) SPFx
15 25 (2.30%) GraphQL
16 22 (2.02%) YAML
17 19 (1.74%) HTML5 Canvas
17 19 (1.74%) React
18 15 (1.38%) Elastic Stack
18 15 (1.38%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 92 (8.45%) Onboarding
2 71 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 54 (4.96%) Security Posture
4 53 (4.87%) Management Information System
5 44 (4.04%) Cloud Native
6 43 (3.95%) Cyber Defence
6 43 (3.95%) Cyber Threat
7 40 (3.67%) Security Operations Centre
8 39 (3.58%) Driving Licence
9 38 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
10 34 (3.12%) Cyberattack
11 32 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
12 28 (2.57%) Data Centre
13 27 (2.48%) Public Cloud
14 20 (1.84%) CMDB
14 20 (1.84%) PKI
15 17 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
15 17 (1.56%) Low-Code
16 16 (1.47%) Private Cloud
16 16 (1.47%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 500 (45.91%) Windows
2 243 (22.31%) Windows Server
3 242 (22.22%) Linux
4 74 (6.80%) Windows 10
5 49 (4.50%) Mac OS
6 46 (4.22%) Android
7 45 (4.13%) Apple iOS
8 35 (3.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 25 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 25 (2.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 24 (2.20%) VMS
11 21 (1.93%) CentOS
12 16 (1.47%) Unix
13 15 (1.38%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.46%) Debian
16 4 (0.37%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.37%) Solaris
17 3 (0.28%) CoreOS
18 2 (0.18%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (27.64%) Problem-Solving
2 229 (21.03%) Infrastructure as Code
3 222 (20.39%) Cybersecurity
4 218 (20.02%) DevOps
5 217 (19.93%) CI/CD
6 194 (17.81%) ITIL
7 191 (17.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 190 (17.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 152 (13.96%) Incident Response
10 140 (12.86%) Mentoring
11 129 (11.85%) Disaster Recovery
12 122 (11.20%) Agile
13 117 (10.74%) Root Cause Analysis
14 109 (10.01%) SIEM
15 108 (9.92%) Cloud Security
16 106 (9.73%) Containerisation
17 95 (8.72%) Security Operations
18 92 (8.45%) Task Automation
19 91 (8.36%) Business Intelligence
20 90 (8.26%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 435 (39.94%) Python
2 255 (23.42%) Bash
3 235 (21.58%) SQL
4 82 (7.53%) C#
5 80 (7.35%) JavaScript
6 67 (6.15%) Bicep
7 52 (4.78%) T-SQL
8 33 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
9 22 (2.02%) TypeScript
10 20 (1.84%) Java
11 12 (1.10%) Go
12 11 (1.01%) C++
12 11 (1.01%) Perl
13 10 (0.92%) VB.NET
14 9 (0.83%) VB
14 9 (0.83%) VBA
15 8 (0.73%) VBScript
16 7 (0.64%) C
16 7 (0.64%) PHP
17 6 (0.55%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 143 (13.13%) Degree
2 120 (11.02%) Security Cleared
3 99 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 86 (7.90%) Azure Certification
5 66 (6.06%) SC Cleared
6 44 (4.04%) CISSP
7 43 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (3.21%) DV Cleared
9 31 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
9 31 (2.85%) CompTIA Security+
10 25 (2.30%) OSCP
11 24 (2.20%) CREST Certified
12 23 (2.11%) CCNA
12 23 (2.11%) GIAC
13 22 (2.02%) AWS Certification
13 22 (2.02%) CompTIA CySA+
14 21 (1.93%) CEH
15 17 (1.56%) DBS Check
16 13 (1.19%) CISA
16 13 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (13.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 112 (10.28%) NIST
3 63 (5.79%) GDPR
4 44 (4.04%) SLA
5 29 (2.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 29 (2.66%) NCSC
6 20 (1.84%) Data Quality
6 20 (1.84%) ISO 22301
7 15 (1.38%) QA
8 14 (1.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 13 (1.19%) Accessibility
9 13 (1.19%) PCI DSS
9 13 (1.19%) SOC 2
10 11 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.55%) DICOM
12 5 (0.46%) GRC
13 4 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.28%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.18%) COBIT
15 2 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 400 (36.73%) Active Directory
2 135 (12.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 119 (10.93%) Docker
4 92 (8.45%) Hyper-V
5 41 (3.76%) vSphere
6 32 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (1.38%) Firmware
9 14 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
10 12 (1.10%) BitLocker
11 11 (1.01%) VMware NSX
12 10 (0.92%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 6 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.46%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.37%) iptables
15 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.37%) Squid
15 4 (0.37%) XenDesktop
16 2 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.18%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 232 (21.30%) Terraform
2 178 (16.35%) Kubernetes
3 160 (14.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 129 (11.85%) Ansible
5 49 (4.50%) Grafana
6 44 (4.04%) SCCM
7 43 (3.95%) Single Sign-On
8 31 (2.85%) Prometheus
9 22 (2.02%) Jamf Pro
10 19 (1.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (1.56%) vCenter Server
12 13 (1.19%) Nessus
12 13 (1.19%) VxRail
13 10 (0.92%) FortiGate
13 10 (0.92%) Packer
14 8 (0.73%) logstash
14 8 (0.73%) Puppet
14 8 (0.73%) QRadar
14 8 (0.73%) WSUS
15 7 (0.64%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 622 (57.12%) Microsoft
2 193 (17.72%) VMware
3 90 (8.26%) Cisco
4 54 (4.96%) Splunk
5 51 (4.68%) Red Hat
5 51 (4.68%) ServiceNow
6 41 (3.76%) CrowdStrike
7 37 (3.40%) Veeam
8 32 (2.94%) Google
9 31 (2.85%) Commvault
10 29 (2.66%) Dell
11 28 (2.57%) Palo Alto
12 27 (2.48%) Oracle
13 26 (2.39%) Meraki
14 24 (2.20%) Apple
14 24 (2.20%) Citrix
14 24 (2.20%) Fortinet
15 22 (2.02%) CyberArk
16 19 (1.74%) Adobe
16 19 (1.74%) Sophos