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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 77 108
Rank change year-on-year -58 +31 -33
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,262 1,615 1,938
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.42% 3.73% 2.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.80% 12.38% 8.08%
Number of salaries quoted 954 1,053 1,533
10th Percentile £32,150 £35,000 £36,050
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £56,252
Median % change year-on-year - +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £56,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.74% +4.55% -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 16,173 13,044 23,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.15% 30.14% 30.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11,813 8,795 18,501
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
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 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.78% +7.50% -7.69%

PowerShell
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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -28 472 £70,000 -6.67% 134
South East -35 245 £53,000 -7.83% 96
North of England -94 210 £48,445 +0.29% 78
Midlands -41 148 £50,000 - 37
North West -89 112 £51,500 +10.75% 48
East of England -27 92 £55,000 +6.80% 29
South West -69 82 £55,000 +15.79% 47
East Midlands -11 77 £42,500 +21.43% 14
West Midlands -70 71 £52,500 -4.55% 23
Yorkshire -42 58 £47,500 -5.71% 18
North East -17 40 £48,445 -19.26% 14
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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
1 208 (16.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 181 (14.34%) SharePoint
3 50 (3.96%) IIS
4 26 (2.06%) Confluence
5 7 (0.55%) nginx
6 4 (0.32%) Apache
6 4 (0.32%) SAS
6 4 (0.32%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.079%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.079%) Site Server
8 1 (0.079%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.079%) WebSphere
Applications
1 78 (6.18%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (0.87%) NetSuite
1 11 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.48%) Raiser’s Edge
3 4 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.24%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.16%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.16%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.079%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.079%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 814 (64.50%) Azure
2 468 (37.08%) Microsoft 365
3 332 (26.31%) Entra ID
4 229 (18.15%) AWS
5 144 (11.41%) Azure DevOps
6 107 (8.48%) Power Platform
7 102 (8.08%) GitHub
8 96 (7.61%) IaaS
9 91 (7.21%) SaaS
10 84 (6.66%) OneDrive
11 79 (6.26%) Azure Monitor
12 69 (5.47%) PaaS
13 67 (5.31%) Azure Sentinel
14 64 (5.07%) Azure AKS
14 64 (5.07%) GitHub Actions
15 59 (4.68%) Azure Key Vault
16 58 (4.60%) Power Automate
17 54 (4.28%) GCP
18 48 (3.80%) Azure Logic Apps
18 48 (3.80%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 288 (22.82%) Firewall
2 264 (20.92%) DNS
3 184 (14.58%) VPN
4 173 (13.71%) DHCP
5 121 (9.59%) TCP/IP
6 74 (5.86%) WAN
7 72 (5.71%) Network Security
8 70 (5.55%) LAN
9 63 (4.99%) VLAN
10 44 (3.49%) Wi-Fi
11 39 (3.09%) Wireless
12 36 (2.85%) SAN
13 32 (2.54%) Kerberos
14 26 (2.06%) VoIP
15 18 (1.43%) NAS
15 18 (1.43%) SSL
16 16 (1.27%) Internet
17 14 (1.11%) HTTP
18 13 (1.03%) BGP
18 13 (1.03%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (11.49%) SQL Server
2 80 (6.34%) Azure SQL Database
3 70 (5.55%) Power BI
4 38 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.82%) MySQL
6 22 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 21 (1.66%) MongoDB
8 15 (1.19%) Relational Database
9 13 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (1.03%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.71%) InfluxDB
11 7 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.40%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.40%) Metadata
12 5 (0.40%) Power Query
12 5 (0.40%) Redis
12 5 (0.40%) Tableau
13 4 (0.32%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.24%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 100 (7.92%) Git
2 81 (6.42%) JIRA
3 66 (5.23%) GitLab
4 58 (4.60%) Jenkins
5 30 (2.38%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (0.87%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
8 9 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (0.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 7 (0.55%) Metasploit
9 7 (0.55%) Robot Framework
9 7 (0.55%) TestRail
10 6 (0.48%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.48%) Selenium
11 5 (0.40%) Postman
12 4 (0.32%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.24%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.24%) Burp Suite
13 3 (0.24%) CircleCI
General
1 389 (30.82%) Social Skills
2 199 (15.77%) Finance
3 161 (12.76%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (8.16%) Law
5 52 (4.12%) Legal
6 49 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
6 49 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 43 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
8 39 (3.09%) Retail
9 25 (1.98%) Banking
10 24 (1.90%) Manufacturing
10 24 (1.90%) Public Sector
11 21 (1.66%) Aerospace
12 17 (1.35%) Advertising
13 10 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (0.79%) Telecoms
14 9 (0.71%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.55%) Front Office
15 7 (0.55%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.48%) Military
Job Titles
1 207 (16.40%) Senior
2 158 (12.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 146 (11.57%) Analyst
4 136 (10.78%) Support Engineer
5 129 (10.22%) Azure Engineer
6 123 (9.75%) IT Engineer
7 118 (9.35%) IT Support
8 115 (9.11%) Cloud Engineer
9 97 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
10 73 (5.78%) Security Engineer
11 70 (5.55%) IT Support Engineer
12 65 (5.15%) Platform Engineer
13 59 (4.68%) Developer
14 58 (4.60%) Lead
15 53 (4.20%) 2nd Line Support
16 50 (3.96%) Systems Engineer
17 47 (3.72%) 3rd Line Engineer
18 40 (3.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
19 38 (3.01%) Administrator
19 38 (3.01%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (6.50%) .NET
2 57 (4.52%) SAML
3 55 (4.36%) ARM Templates
4 54 (4.28%) OAuth
5 52 (4.12%) REST
6 47 (3.72%) OpenID
7 44 (3.49%) LDAP
8 43 (3.41%) HTML
8 43 (3.41%) YAML
9 42 (3.33%) JSON
10 37 (2.93%) Microsoft Graph
11 36 (2.85%) .NET Core
12 32 (2.54%) CSS
13 24 (1.90%) SPFx
14 21 (1.66%) SOAP
15 20 (1.58%) Elastic Stack
16 19 (1.51%) HTML5 Canvas
17 17 (1.35%) RESTful
17 17 (1.35%) XML
18 16 (1.27%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 103 (8.16%) Onboarding
2 80 (6.34%) Cloud Native
3 72 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 67 (5.31%) Security Posture
5 60 (4.75%) Management Information System
6 57 (4.52%) Driving Licence
7 48 (3.80%) Data Centre
8 44 (3.49%) Public Cloud
8 44 (3.49%) Security Operations Centre
9 37 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
9 37 (2.93%) PKI
10 35 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
11 33 (2.61%) Cyber Defence
12 29 (2.30%) Cyber Threat
13 25 (1.98%) Private Cloud
14 22 (1.74%) Replication
15 21 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
16 20 (1.58%) Cyberattack
17 17 (1.35%) Clustering
18 15 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 610 (48.34%) Windows
2 296 (23.45%) Linux
3 288 (22.82%) Windows Server
4 75 (5.94%) Windows 10
5 52 (4.12%) Apple iOS
6 46 (3.65%) VMS
7 41 (3.25%) Android
7 41 (3.25%) Mac OS
8 35 (2.77%) Windows Server 2016
9 32 (2.54%) CentOS
10 29 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 27 (2.14%) Ubuntu
12 25 (1.98%) Windows Server 2019
13 10 (0.79%) Unix
14 7 (0.55%) Debian
15 4 (0.32%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.24%) AIX
16 3 (0.24%) Windows 7
17 2 (0.16%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (26.39%) Problem-Solving
2 307 (24.33%) CI/CD
3 304 (24.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 289 (22.90%) DevOps
5 243 (19.26%) Cybersecurity
6 237 (18.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 234 (18.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 221 (17.51%) ITIL
9 162 (12.84%) Agile
9 162 (12.84%) Disaster Recovery
10 156 (12.36%) Incident Response
11 153 (12.12%) Root Cause Analysis
12 148 (11.73%) Mentoring
13 135 (10.70%) High Availability
14 131 (10.38%) Containerisation
15 127 (10.06%) SIEM
16 126 (9.98%) Cloud Security
17 123 (9.75%) AI
18 116 (9.19%) Observability
19 112 (8.87%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 493 (39.06%) Python
2 302 (23.93%) Bash
3 264 (20.92%) SQL
4 102 (8.08%) Bicep
5 95 (7.53%) C#
6 78 (6.18%) JavaScript
7 48 (3.80%) Kusto Query Language
8 45 (3.57%) T-SQL
9 34 (2.69%) Java
10 30 (2.38%) TypeScript
11 19 (1.51%) VBScript
12 18 (1.43%) C++
13 17 (1.35%) PHP
14 12 (0.95%) Perl
15 10 (0.79%) Go
15 10 (0.79%) VB
15 10 (0.79%) VBA
16 8 (0.63%) C
16 8 (0.63%) Ruby
17 6 (0.48%) Korn
Qualifications
1 152 (12.04%) Security Cleared
2 150 (11.89%) Degree
3 144 (11.41%) Azure Certification
4 124 (9.83%) Microsoft Certification
5 102 (8.08%) SC Cleared
6 55 (4.36%) Cisco Certification
7 52 (4.12%) CISSP
8 48 (3.80%) CompTIA Security+
9 45 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 41 (3.25%) CCNA
11 36 (2.85%) DV Cleared
12 25 (1.98%) DBS Check
13 24 (1.90%) CEH
13 24 (1.90%) GIAC
14 22 (1.74%) AWS Certification
15 21 (1.66%) OSCP
16 18 (1.43%) CCNP
17 17 (1.35%) CREST Certified
18 15 (1.19%) CISM
18 15 (1.19%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (9.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 82 (6.50%) NIST
3 57 (4.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 55 (4.36%) GDPR
5 42 (3.33%) SLA
6 25 (1.98%) QA
7 21 (1.66%) Data Quality
8 18 (1.43%) SOC 2
9 17 (1.35%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.95%) NCSC
11 11 (0.87%) ISO 22301
12 8 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.48%) PMO
15 5 (0.40%) Accessibility
16 4 (0.32%) DICOM
16 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 3 (0.24%) ISAE 3402
18 2 (0.16%) EMIR
18 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
System Software
1 468 (37.08%) Active Directory
2 203 (16.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 140 (11.09%) Hyper-V
4 133 (10.54%) Docker
5 75 (5.94%) vSphere
6 48 (3.80%) Virtual Machines
7 40 (3.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 24 (1.90%) BitLocker
9 14 (1.11%) VMware NSX
10 12 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.79%) KVM
12 8 (0.63%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.63%) Squid
13 4 (0.32%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.24%) Firmware
14 3 (0.24%) iptables
14 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.24%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.16%) Samba
Systems Management
1 320 (25.36%) Terraform
2 223 (17.67%) Kubernetes
3 202 (16.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 152 (12.04%) Ansible
5 77 (6.10%) Grafana
6 54 (4.28%) SCCM
7 51 (4.04%) Prometheus
8 47 (3.72%) Single Sign-On
9 25 (1.98%) Jamf Pro
10 23 (1.82%) ZABBIX
11 20 (1.58%) Argo
11 20 (1.58%) Packer
11 20 (1.58%) vCenter Server
12 19 (1.51%) QRadar
13 17 (1.35%) Proxmox
14 14 (1.11%) Graylog
15 12 (0.95%) Nessus
15 12 (0.95%) VxRail
16 11 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 11 (0.87%) Nagios
Vendors
1 780 (61.81%) Microsoft
2 248 (19.65%) VMware
3 108 (8.56%) Cisco
4 92 (7.29%) ServiceNow
5 86 (6.81%) Splunk
6 55 (4.36%) Red Hat
7 51 (4.04%) Veeam
8 40 (3.17%) Meraki
9 38 (3.01%) Oracle
10 31 (2.46%) Sophos
11 30 (2.38%) Apple
12 29 (2.30%) Citrix
12 29 (2.30%) Tenable
13 28 (2.22%) CrowdStrike
14 27 (2.14%) Dell
14 27 (2.14%) Fortinet
15 25 (1.98%) Dynatrace
16 24 (1.90%) Palo Alto
17 21 (1.66%) SolarWinds
18 19 (1.51%) Adobe