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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 77 108
Rank change year-on-year -51 +31 -23
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,206 1,518 2,250
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.45% 3.84% 2.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.94% 12.00% 7.76%
Number of salaries quoted 908 947 1,788
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.85% +6.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,500 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 15,180 12,652 29,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.24% 31.99% 30.58%
Number of salaries quoted 10,948 8,485 23,144
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £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 £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%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -14 503 £70,000 -6.67% 105
South East -44 194 £55,875 -2.83% 157
North of England -87 193 £47,500 -5.00% 97
Midlands -44 136 £50,000 - 58
North West -84 101 £50,801 +9.84% 60
East of England -21 85 £55,000 +15.79% 40
South West -40 85 £55,000 +15.79% 49
East Midlands -16 77 £45,000 +24.14% 31
Yorkshire -28 60 £45,000 -21.74% 27
West Midlands -68 58 £51,250 -4.54% 27
North East -30 32 £47,500 -19.15% 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
1 187 (15.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 165 (13.68%) SharePoint
3 41 (3.40%) IIS
4 23 (1.91%) Confluence
5 2 (0.17%) Apache
5 2 (0.17%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.083%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.083%) nginx
6 1 (0.083%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.083%) SAS
6 1 (0.083%) Site Server
Applications
1 71 (5.89%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.083%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.083%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (0.41%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.17%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.083%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.083%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.083%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.083%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.083%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 785 (65.09%) Azure
2 446 (36.98%) Microsoft 365
3 310 (25.70%) Entra ID
4 208 (17.25%) AWS
5 130 (10.78%) Azure DevOps
6 103 (8.54%) Power Platform
7 95 (7.88%) GitHub
8 85 (7.05%) IaaS
9 84 (6.97%) SaaS
10 78 (6.47%) OneDrive
11 70 (5.80%) Azure Monitor
12 62 (5.14%) GitHub Actions
13 57 (4.73%) Azure AKS
13 57 (4.73%) Azure Sentinel
13 57 (4.73%) PaaS
14 52 (4.31%) Power Automate
15 51 (4.23%) Azure Key Vault
16 50 (4.15%) GCP
17 44 (3.65%) Azure Logic Apps
18 43 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 252 (20.90%) Firewall
2 242 (20.07%) DNS
3 155 (12.85%) VPN
4 152 (12.60%) DHCP
5 106 (8.79%) TCP/IP
6 73 (6.05%) Network Security
7 72 (5.97%) LAN
8 71 (5.89%) WAN
9 54 (4.48%) VLAN
10 45 (3.73%) Wi-Fi
11 33 (2.74%) SAN
12 31 (2.57%) VoIP
13 27 (2.24%) Broadband
14 26 (2.16%) Wireless
15 19 (1.58%) Kerberos
16 15 (1.24%) BGP
16 15 (1.24%) SSL
17 13 (1.08%) HTTP
17 13 (1.08%) Internet
17 13 (1.08%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (11.61%) SQL Server
2 73 (6.05%) Power BI
3 66 (5.47%) Azure SQL Database
4 38 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (2.07%) MySQL
7 22 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (1.24%) MongoDB
9 15 (1.24%) Relational Database
10 13 (1.08%) NoSQL
11 10 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.75%) Data Lake
12 9 (0.75%) Tableau
13 8 (0.66%) InfluxDB
14 7 (0.58%) Metadata
15 5 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
15 5 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 4 (0.33%) Redis
17 3 (0.25%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 94 (7.79%) Git
2 67 (5.56%) JIRA
3 60 (4.98%) GitLab
4 59 (4.89%) Jenkins
5 31 (2.57%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
7 15 (1.24%) TeamCity
8 13 (1.08%) Metasploit
9 12 (1.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 10 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
11 9 (0.75%) Burp Suite
12 7 (0.58%) Robot Framework
13 6 (0.50%) TestRail
14 5 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (0.41%) CircleCI
14 5 (0.41%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.41%) Selenium
15 4 (0.33%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.33%) SonarQube
16 3 (0.25%) Terragrunt
General
1 356 (29.52%) Social Skills
2 194 (16.09%) Finance
3 153 (12.69%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (7.38%) Law
5 53 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
6 49 (4.06%) Documentation Skills
6 49 (4.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (3.65%) Legal
8 43 (3.57%) Retail
9 29 (2.40%) Public Sector
10 24 (1.99%) Aerospace
11 21 (1.74%) Banking
11 21 (1.74%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.49%) Advertising
13 15 (1.24%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.66%) Aviation
15 7 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.50%) Front Office
16 6 (0.50%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 203 (16.83%) Senior
2 154 (12.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 139 (11.53%) Analyst
4 138 (11.44%) Support Engineer
5 130 (10.78%) Azure Engineer
6 118 (9.78%) IT Support
7 112 (9.29%) IT Engineer
8 101 (8.37%) Cloud Engineer
9 88 (7.30%) DevOps Engineer
10 76 (6.30%) Security Engineer
11 72 (5.97%) IT Support Engineer
12 60 (4.98%) Platform Engineer
13 54 (4.48%) 2nd Line Support
14 53 (4.39%) Developer
14 53 (4.39%) Lead
15 43 (3.57%) Security Analyst
15 43 (3.57%) Systems Engineer
16 42 (3.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 37 (3.07%) Architect
18 34 (2.82%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (6.63%) .NET
2 66 (5.47%) SAML
3 64 (5.31%) OAuth
4 62 (5.14%) REST
5 57 (4.73%) OpenID
6 53 (4.39%) LDAP
7 41 (3.40%) ARM Templates
7 41 (3.40%) YAML
8 40 (3.32%) JSON
9 37 (3.07%) HTML
10 35 (2.90%) .NET Core
10 35 (2.90%) Microsoft Graph
10 35 (2.90%) SOAP
11 33 (2.74%) CSS
12 26 (2.16%) GraphQL
12 26 (2.16%) SPFx
13 20 (1.66%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (1.58%) HTML5 Canvas
15 17 (1.41%) React
16 15 (1.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 99 (8.21%) Onboarding
2 73 (6.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 65 (5.39%) Cloud Native
4 64 (5.31%) Security Posture
5 54 (4.48%) Management Information System
6 52 (4.31%) Driving Licence
7 45 (3.73%) Security Operations Centre
8 44 (3.65%) Cyber Defence
9 42 (3.48%) Cyber Threat
10 38 (3.15%) Data Centre
11 35 (2.90%) Public Cloud
12 34 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
13 33 (2.74%) Cyberattack
14 32 (2.65%) PKI
15 22 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
16 21 (1.74%) Replication
17 20 (1.66%) Private Cloud
17 20 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
18 17 (1.41%) CMDB
18 17 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 576 (47.76%) Windows
2 279 (23.13%) Linux
3 275 (22.80%) Windows Server
4 76 (6.30%) Windows 10
5 51 (4.23%) Apple iOS
6 48 (3.98%) Mac OS
7 44 (3.65%) Android
7 44 (3.65%) VMS
8 37 (3.07%) Windows Server 2016
9 30 (2.49%) CentOS
10 29 (2.40%) Windows Server 2019
11 27 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 25 (2.07%) Ubuntu
13 12 (1.00%) Unix
14 7 (0.58%) Debian
15 4 (0.33%) CoreOS
15 4 (0.33%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.25%) AIX
17 2 (0.17%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (25.79%) Problem-Solving
2 284 (23.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 276 (22.89%) CI/CD
4 258 (21.39%) Cybersecurity
4 258 (21.39%) DevOps
5 221 (18.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 204 (16.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 201 (16.67%) ITIL
8 156 (12.94%) Incident Response
9 154 (12.77%) Mentoring
10 152 (12.60%) Agile
11 147 (12.19%) Disaster Recovery
11 147 (12.19%) Root Cause Analysis
12 125 (10.36%) Containerisation
13 123 (10.20%) High Availability
14 119 (9.87%) SIEM
15 115 (9.54%) Cloud Security
16 109 (9.04%) AI
17 106 (8.79%) Roadmaps
18 99 (8.21%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 483 (40.05%) Python
2 308 (25.54%) Bash
3 261 (21.64%) SQL
4 91 (7.55%) C#
5 81 (6.72%) Bicep
6 73 (6.05%) JavaScript
7 54 (4.48%) T-SQL
8 36 (2.99%) Kusto Query Language
9 29 (2.40%) Java
10 25 (2.07%) TypeScript
11 17 (1.41%) C++
12 15 (1.24%) VBScript
13 13 (1.08%) Perl
13 13 (1.08%) PHP
14 11 (0.91%) VB
15 10 (0.83%) VBA
16 9 (0.75%) Go
17 8 (0.66%) Ruby
18 7 (0.58%) C
19 6 (0.50%) Korn
Qualifications
1 143 (11.86%) Degree
1 143 (11.86%) Security Cleared
2 127 (10.53%) Azure Certification
3 114 (9.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 91 (7.55%) SC Cleared
5 50 (4.15%) CISSP
6 45 (3.73%) Cisco Certification
7 43 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 40 (3.32%) CompTIA Security+
9 34 (2.82%) DV Cleared
10 32 (2.65%) CCNA
11 28 (2.32%) OSCP
12 26 (2.16%) DBS Check
13 25 (2.07%) AWS Certification
13 25 (2.07%) CREST Certified
14 23 (1.91%) CEH
14 23 (1.91%) GIAC
15 17 (1.41%) CompTIA CySA+
16 13 (1.08%) CCNP
17 12 (1.00%) CCSAM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 98 (8.13%) NIST
3 53 (4.39%) GDPR
4 49 (4.06%) Cyber Essentials
5 37 (3.07%) SLA
6 25 (2.07%) NCSC
7 20 (1.66%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.33%) PCI DSS
9 14 (1.16%) QA
9 14 (1.16%) SOC 2
10 13 (1.08%) ISO 22301
11 11 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (0.83%) Accessibility
12 10 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.50%) DICOM
13 6 (0.50%) PMO
14 4 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.17%) EMIR
16 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 456 (37.81%) Active Directory
2 183 (15.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 133 (11.03%) Docker
4 128 (10.61%) Hyper-V
5 64 (5.31%) vSphere
6 36 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
7 30 (2.49%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.91%) BitLocker
9 17 (1.41%) VMware NSX
10 12 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.83%) KVM
12 8 (0.66%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.66%) Squid
13 6 (0.50%) Firmware
14 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 5 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.33%) iptables
16 3 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 3 (0.25%) Terminal Services
17 2 (0.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 290 (24.05%) Terraform
2 207 (17.16%) Kubernetes
3 189 (15.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 142 (11.77%) Ansible
5 66 (5.47%) Grafana
6 56 (4.64%) Single Sign-On
7 49 (4.06%) Prometheus
8 46 (3.81%) SCCM
9 25 (2.07%) Jamf Pro
10 21 (1.74%) vCenter Server
11 20 (1.66%) Packer
12 18 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 18 (1.49%) Argo
12 18 (1.49%) ZABBIX
13 17 (1.41%) Nessus
13 17 (1.41%) QRadar
14 14 (1.16%) Graylog
14 14 (1.16%) Proxmox
14 14 (1.16%) VxRail
15 12 (1.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 718 (59.54%) Microsoft
2 234 (19.40%) VMware
3 97 (8.04%) Cisco
4 79 (6.55%) Splunk
5 64 (5.31%) ServiceNow
6 55 (4.56%) Red Hat
7 47 (3.90%) Veeam
8 37 (3.07%) Meraki
9 36 (2.99%) Oracle
10 31 (2.57%) Apple
10 31 (2.57%) CrowdStrike
11 28 (2.32%) Dell
12 27 (2.24%) Google
13 26 (2.16%) Citrix
13 26 (2.16%) Tenable
14 25 (2.07%) Fortinet
15 24 (1.99%) Sophos
16 23 (1.91%) Commvault
16 23 (1.91%) Palo Alto
17 21 (1.74%) Logitech