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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 74 104
Rank change year-on-year -68 +30 -13
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,128 1,501 2,148
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.37% 3.91% 2.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.71% 12.26% 7.91%
Number of salaries quoted 864 933 1,774
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,350 £35,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,750 £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 £57,750 £59,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.35% +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 14,626 12,240 27,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.76% 31.89% 32.04%
Number of salaries quoted 10,355 8,364 22,348
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 £87,000 £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 22 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 22 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 -13 509 £70,000 -6.67% 116
South East -78 167 £56,750 -1.30% 113
North of England -107 161 £47,500 -6.40% 74
Midlands -53 124 £50,000 - 38
North West -99 84 £50,000 +8.70% 47
South West -49 80 £55,000 +15.79% 41
East of England -25 77 £57,500 +15.00% 25
East Midlands -24 72 £52,500 +40.00% 22
Yorkshire -26 57 £45,000 -28.00% 15
West Midlands -64 51 £48,250 -3.50% 16
North East -29 20 £48,445 -15.75% 12
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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
1 162 (14.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 141 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 39 (3.46%) IIS
4 19 (1.68%) Confluence
5 2 (0.18%) Apache
5 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.18%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.089%) Site Server
Applications
1 65 (5.76%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.089%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.089%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.27%) Markit EDM
2 3 (0.27%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.089%) Actimize
4 1 (0.089%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.089%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.089%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 727 (64.45%) Azure
2 414 (36.70%) Microsoft 365
3 292 (25.89%) Entra ID
4 197 (17.46%) AWS
5 107 (9.49%) Azure DevOps
6 96 (8.51%) Power Platform
7 87 (7.71%) GitHub
8 79 (7.00%) SaaS
9 73 (6.47%) IaaS
10 69 (6.12%) OneDrive
11 62 (5.50%) GitHub Actions
12 57 (5.05%) GCP
13 54 (4.79%) Azure Sentinel
14 52 (4.61%) Azure AKS
15 51 (4.52%) Azure Monitor
16 47 (4.17%) PaaS
17 46 (4.08%) Power Automate
18 42 (3.72%) Azure Logic Apps
19 40 (3.55%) Azure Storage
19 40 (3.55%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 230 (20.39%) Firewall
2 220 (19.50%) DNS
3 133 (11.79%) VPN
4 131 (11.61%) DHCP
5 94 (8.33%) TCP/IP
6 65 (5.76%) Network Security
6 65 (5.76%) WAN
7 63 (5.59%) LAN
8 44 (3.90%) VLAN
8 44 (3.90%) Wi-Fi
9 35 (3.10%) SAN
10 34 (3.01%) VoIP
11 27 (2.39%) Broadband
12 20 (1.77%) Wireless
13 16 (1.42%) Kerberos
14 14 (1.24%) SD-WAN
15 13 (1.15%) Internet
15 13 (1.15%) VSAN
16 12 (1.06%) BGP
16 12 (1.06%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (11.97%) SQL Server
2 72 (6.38%) Power BI
3 50 (4.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 30 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (2.57%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (2.22%) MySQL
7 22 (1.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 21 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 19 (1.68%) Relational Database
10 16 (1.42%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.15%) MongoDB
12 12 (1.06%) Tableau
13 10 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (0.80%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.62%) InfluxDB
16 6 (0.53%) Metadata
17 5 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
18 4 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 3 (0.27%) DynamoDB
20 2 (0.18%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 90 (7.98%) Git
2 58 (5.14%) JIRA
3 52 (4.61%) GitLab
3 52 (4.61%) Jenkins
4 27 (2.39%) Bitbucket
5 17 (1.51%) Octopus Deploy
6 13 (1.15%) Metasploit
6 13 (1.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 13 (1.15%) TeamCity
7 10 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
8 9 (0.80%) Burp Suite
9 8 (0.71%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.53%) Robot Framework
11 5 (0.44%) TestRail
12 4 (0.35%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.35%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.35%) MLflow
12 4 (0.35%) Selenium
13 3 (0.27%) SonarQube
14 2 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 344 (30.50%) Social Skills
2 192 (17.02%) Finance
3 154 (13.65%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (6.83%) Law
5 49 (4.34%) Organisational Skills
6 48 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (4.17%) Legal
8 43 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
9 41 (3.63%) Retail
10 33 (2.93%) Public Sector
11 22 (1.95%) Banking
12 21 (1.86%) Aerospace
13 20 (1.77%) Manufacturing
14 19 (1.68%) Advertising
15 14 (1.24%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.53%) Electronics
16 6 (0.53%) Front Office
16 6 (0.53%) Police
17 5 (0.44%) Aviation
17 5 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 196 (17.38%) Senior
2 144 (12.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 136 (12.06%) Analyst
4 119 (10.55%) Azure Engineer
5 116 (10.28%) Support Engineer
6 102 (9.04%) IT Support
7 91 (8.07%) IT Engineer
8 90 (7.98%) Cloud Engineer
9 74 (6.56%) Security Engineer
10 73 (6.47%) DevOps Engineer
11 58 (5.14%) IT Support Engineer
12 53 (4.70%) 2nd Line Support
12 53 (4.70%) Lead
13 51 (4.52%) Developer
14 45 (3.99%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 45 (3.99%) Platform Engineer
15 41 (3.63%) Security Analyst
16 40 (3.55%) Systems Engineer
17 39 (3.46%) Architect
18 35 (3.10%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (7.00%) .NET
2 63 (5.59%) OAuth
3 61 (5.41%) SAML
4 56 (4.96%) OpenID
4 56 (4.96%) REST
5 48 (4.26%) LDAP
6 39 (3.46%) .NET Core
7 36 (3.19%) JSON
8 35 (3.10%) Microsoft Graph
9 34 (3.01%) CSS
9 34 (3.01%) HTML
10 33 (2.93%) SOAP
11 32 (2.84%) ARM Templates
12 29 (2.57%) YAML
13 26 (2.30%) SPFx
14 24 (2.13%) GraphQL
15 19 (1.68%) HTML5 Canvas
15 19 (1.68%) React
16 15 (1.33%) Node.js
17 14 (1.24%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 89 (7.89%) Onboarding
2 65 (5.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 54 (4.79%) Management Information System
4 53 (4.70%) Cloud Native
4 53 (4.70%) Security Posture
5 45 (3.99%) Cyber Defence
6 43 (3.81%) Cyber Threat
6 43 (3.81%) Security Operations Centre
7 41 (3.63%) Driving Licence
8 36 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
9 35 (3.10%) Data Centre
10 34 (3.01%) Cyberattack
11 29 (2.57%) Analytical Mindset
12 28 (2.48%) Public Cloud
13 26 (2.30%) PKI
14 21 (1.86%) CMDB
15 20 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
16 18 (1.60%) Private Cloud
16 18 (1.60%) Replication
17 17 (1.51%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 531 (47.07%) Windows
2 255 (22.61%) Linux
3 253 (22.43%) Windows Server
4 74 (6.56%) Windows 10
5 48 (4.26%) Android
5 48 (4.26%) Mac OS
6 47 (4.17%) Apple iOS
7 33 (2.93%) Windows Server 2016
8 32 (2.84%) VMS
9 25 (2.22%) CentOS
9 25 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 24 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
11 18 (1.60%) Ubuntu
12 12 (1.06%) Unix
13 6 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (0.44%) Debian
15 4 (0.35%) CoreOS
15 4 (0.35%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.18%) AIX
16 2 (0.18%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (25.27%) Problem-Solving
2 252 (22.34%) Infrastructure as Code
3 244 (21.63%) Cybersecurity
4 237 (21.01%) CI/CD
5 223 (19.77%) DevOps
6 202 (17.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 194 (17.20%) ITIL
8 190 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 153 (13.56%) Incident Response
10 144 (12.77%) Mentoring
11 134 (11.88%) Root Cause Analysis
12 133 (11.79%) Agile
13 130 (11.52%) Disaster Recovery
14 118 (10.46%) SIEM
15 113 (10.02%) Containerisation
16 108 (9.57%) Cloud Security
17 102 (9.04%) Roadmaps
18 99 (8.78%) High Availability
19 97 (8.60%) Security Operations
20 94 (8.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 457 (40.51%) Python
2 270 (23.94%) Bash
3 244 (21.63%) SQL
4 87 (7.71%) C#
5 72 (6.38%) JavaScript
6 68 (6.03%) Bicep
7 48 (4.26%) T-SQL
8 30 (2.66%) Kusto Query Language
9 23 (2.04%) Java
9 23 (2.04%) TypeScript
10 16 (1.42%) C++
11 14 (1.24%) Perl
12 12 (1.06%) VBScript
13 11 (0.98%) VB
13 11 (0.98%) VBA
14 10 (0.89%) Go
14 10 (0.89%) VB.NET
15 9 (0.80%) PHP
16 7 (0.62%) C
17 6 (0.53%) Korn
Qualifications
1 145 (12.85%) Degree
2 128 (11.35%) Security Cleared
3 107 (9.49%) Azure Certification
3 107 (9.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 73 (6.47%) SC Cleared
5 45 (3.99%) CISSP
6 41 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
8 35 (3.10%) CompTIA Security+
9 30 (2.66%) DV Cleared
10 27 (2.39%) CCNA
10 27 (2.39%) OSCP
11 25 (2.22%) CREST Certified
11 25 (2.22%) GIAC
12 24 (2.13%) AWS Certification
12 24 (2.13%) CEH
13 22 (1.95%) DBS Check
14 16 (1.42%) CompTIA CySA+
15 12 (1.06%) CCSAM
16 11 (0.98%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (12.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 103 (9.13%) NIST
3 58 (5.14%) GDPR
4 43 (3.81%) SLA
5 34 (3.01%) Cyber Essentials
6 24 (2.13%) NCSC
7 20 (1.77%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.51%) ISO 22301
9 15 (1.33%) QA
9 15 (1.33%) SOC 2
10 14 (1.24%) PCI DSS
11 12 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (0.98%) Accessibility
13 9 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.53%) DICOM
15 5 (0.44%) GRC
16 4 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 3 (0.27%) HIPAA
17 3 (0.27%) PMO
18 2 (0.18%) COBIT
System Software
1 415 (36.79%) Active Directory
2 153 (13.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 122 (10.82%) Docker
4 109 (9.66%) Hyper-V
5 49 (4.34%) vSphere
6 32 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (1.77%) BitLocker
8 19 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (1.24%) Firmware
9 14 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
10 13 (1.15%) VMware NSX
11 10 (0.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.71%) KVM
13 6 (0.53%) Squid
14 5 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.35%) iptables
15 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.35%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.35%) XenDesktop
16 2 (0.18%) Samba
Systems Management
1 256 (22.70%) Terraform
2 193 (17.11%) Kubernetes
3 174 (15.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 131 (11.61%) Ansible
5 54 (4.79%) Grafana
6 51 (4.52%) Single Sign-On
7 48 (4.26%) SCCM
8 36 (3.19%) Prometheus
9 23 (2.04%) Jamf Pro
10 19 (1.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 19 (1.68%) vCenter Server
11 15 (1.33%) Nessus
11 15 (1.33%) QRadar
11 15 (1.33%) VxRail
12 14 (1.24%) Packer
13 13 (1.15%) ZABBIX
14 10 (0.89%) Graylog
14 10 (0.89%) WSUS
15 9 (0.80%) Nagios
15 9 (0.80%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 660 (58.51%) Microsoft
2 203 (18.00%) VMware
3 89 (7.89%) Cisco
4 64 (5.67%) Splunk
5 52 (4.61%) ServiceNow
6 51 (4.52%) Red Hat
7 41 (3.63%) Veeam
8 39 (3.46%) CrowdStrike
9 31 (2.75%) Meraki
10 30 (2.66%) Dell
11 29 (2.57%) Citrix
11 29 (2.57%) Google
12 27 (2.39%) Commvault
13 26 (2.30%) Apple
13 26 (2.30%) Fortinet
14 25 (2.22%) Oracle
14 25 (2.22%) Palo Alto
15 23 (2.04%) Tenable
16 21 (1.86%) CyberArk
16 21 (1.86%) Sophos