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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 75 105
Rank change year-on-year -57 +30 -25
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,281 1,599 2,205
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.48% 3.76% 2.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.03% 12.28% 7.91%
Number of salaries quoted 963 1,035 1,761
10th Percentile £32,100 £35,200 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,500 £77,500 £75,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £91,250
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 15,945 13,022 27,860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.43% 30.62% 30.98%
Number of salaries quoted 11,583 8,821 22,048
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 £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 8 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 8 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 -16 494 £70,000 -3.45% 105
South East -26 241 £53,000 -7.83% 101
North of England -96 205 £47,972 -4.06% 63
Midlands -43 140 £50,000 - 32
North West -88 110 £50,051 +3.61% 39
East of England -30 98 £54,500 +9.00% 24
South West -50 91 £55,000 +15.79% 41
East Midlands -10 77 £45,000 +28.57% 14
West Midlands -60 62 £52,500 -4.55% 18
Yorkshire -30 59 £47,500 -9.52% 13
North East -22 36 £47,972 -20.05% 13
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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
1 206 (16.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 177 (13.82%) SharePoint
3 49 (3.83%) IIS
4 25 (1.95%) Confluence
5 4 (0.31%) nginx
5 4 (0.31%) SAS
6 2 (0.16%) Apache
6 2 (0.16%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.078%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.078%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.078%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.078%) Site Server
7 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
Applications
1 74 (5.78%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.078%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.078%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (0.78%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.39%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.16%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.16%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.16%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.078%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.078%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.078%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 828 (64.64%) Azure
2 466 (36.38%) Microsoft 365
3 323 (25.21%) Entra ID
4 224 (17.49%) AWS
5 142 (11.09%) Azure DevOps
6 111 (8.67%) Power Platform
7 107 (8.35%) GitHub
8 98 (7.65%) IaaS
9 87 (6.79%) SaaS
10 79 (6.17%) Azure Monitor
11 78 (6.09%) OneDrive
12 72 (5.62%) PaaS
13 68 (5.31%) GitHub Actions
14 63 (4.92%) Azure AKS
14 63 (4.92%) Azure Sentinel
15 57 (4.45%) Azure Key Vault
15 57 (4.45%) Power Automate
16 53 (4.14%) GCP
17 50 (3.90%) Serverless
18 49 (3.83%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 289 (22.56%) Firewall
2 261 (20.37%) DNS
3 189 (14.75%) VPN
4 172 (13.43%) DHCP
5 117 (9.13%) TCP/IP
6 80 (6.25%) WAN
7 79 (6.17%) LAN
8 77 (6.01%) Network Security
9 64 (5.00%) VLAN
10 48 (3.75%) Wi-Fi
11 37 (2.89%) Wireless
12 34 (2.65%) SAN
13 29 (2.26%) VoIP
14 26 (2.03%) Kerberos
15 21 (1.64%) Broadband
16 16 (1.25%) SSL
17 15 (1.17%) BGP
17 15 (1.17%) NAS
18 14 (1.09%) HTTP
18 14 (1.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (11.79%) SQL Server
2 78 (6.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 73 (5.70%) Power BI
4 39 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (1.95%) MySQL
6 25 (1.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 21 (1.64%) MongoDB
8 15 (1.17%) Relational Database
9 13 (1.01%) NoSQL
10 12 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (0.70%) InfluxDB
13 7 (0.55%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.47%) Tableau
15 5 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
15 5 (0.39%) Metadata
15 5 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 4 (0.31%) Power Query
16 4 (0.31%) Redis
Development Applications
1 105 (8.20%) Git
2 77 (6.01%) JIRA
3 65 (5.07%) GitLab
4 61 (4.76%) Jenkins
5 34 (2.65%) Bitbucket
6 15 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
7 13 (1.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 11 (0.86%) Metasploit
8 11 (0.86%) TeamCity
8 11 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 8 (0.62%) Robot Framework
10 7 (0.55%) Burp Suite
10 7 (0.55%) TestRail
11 6 (0.47%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.47%) Selenium
12 5 (0.39%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.39%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.31%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.23%) MSI
General
1 388 (30.29%) Social Skills
2 208 (16.24%) Finance
3 158 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (7.88%) Law
5 54 (4.22%) Documentation Skills
6 52 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
7 51 (3.98%) Legal
8 50 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 42 (3.28%) Retail
10 27 (2.11%) Public Sector
11 23 (1.80%) Banking
12 22 (1.72%) Aerospace
13 21 (1.64%) Manufacturing
14 17 (1.33%) Advertising
15 15 (1.17%) Telecoms
16 9 (0.70%) Financial Institution
16 9 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.55%) Aviation
17 7 (0.55%) Front Office
17 7 (0.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 215 (16.78%) Senior
2 161 (12.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 149 (11.63%) Analyst
4 144 (11.24%) Support Engineer
5 132 (10.30%) Azure Engineer
6 131 (10.23%) IT Engineer
7 124 (9.68%) IT Support
8 108 (8.43%) Cloud Engineer
9 97 (7.57%) DevOps Engineer
10 78 (6.09%) Security Engineer
11 77 (6.01%) IT Support Engineer
12 66 (5.15%) Platform Engineer
13 60 (4.68%) Developer
14 54 (4.22%) 2nd Line Support
14 54 (4.22%) Lead
15 50 (3.90%) Systems Engineer
16 46 (3.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 42 (3.28%) Architect
17 42 (3.28%) Security Analyst
18 39 (3.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (6.48%) .NET
2 63 (4.92%) SAML
3 61 (4.76%) OAuth
4 58 (4.53%) REST
5 54 (4.22%) OpenID
6 51 (3.98%) ARM Templates
7 50 (3.90%) LDAP
8 42 (3.28%) JSON
8 42 (3.28%) YAML
9 41 (3.20%) HTML
10 37 (2.89%) .NET Core
11 36 (2.81%) Microsoft Graph
12 32 (2.50%) CSS
13 30 (2.34%) SOAP
14 24 (1.87%) SPFx
15 21 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
16 20 (1.56%) GraphQL
17 19 (1.48%) HTML5 Canvas
18 17 (1.33%) XML
19 15 (1.17%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 101 (7.88%) Onboarding
2 78 (6.09%) Cloud Native
3 77 (6.01%) Hybrid Cloud
4 72 (5.62%) Security Posture
5 61 (4.76%) Driving Licence
6 57 (4.45%) Management Information System
7 45 (3.51%) Data Centre
7 45 (3.51%) Security Operations Centre
8 44 (3.43%) Public Cloud
9 41 (3.20%) Cyber Defence
10 39 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
11 38 (2.97%) Cyber Threat
11 38 (2.97%) PKI
12 35 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
13 27 (2.11%) Cyberattack
14 24 (1.87%) Private Cloud
15 23 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
15 23 (1.80%) Replication
16 17 (1.33%) Clustering
17 15 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 613 (47.85%) Windows
2 298 (23.26%) Linux
3 295 (23.03%) Windows Server
4 76 (5.93%) Windows 10
5 52 (4.06%) Apple iOS
6 50 (3.90%) VMS
7 46 (3.59%) Mac OS
8 40 (3.12%) Android
9 39 (3.04%) Windows Server 2016
10 33 (2.58%) CentOS
11 30 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 28 (2.19%) Windows Server 2019
13 25 (1.95%) Ubuntu
14 10 (0.78%) Unix
15 8 (0.62%) Debian
16 4 (0.31%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.31%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
17 3 (0.23%) AIX
18 2 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (27.01%) Problem-Solving
2 311 (24.28%) Infrastructure as Code
3 304 (23.73%) CI/CD
4 289 (22.56%) DevOps
5 257 (20.06%) Cybersecurity
6 237 (18.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 236 (18.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 216 (16.86%) ITIL
9 172 (13.43%) Agile
10 162 (12.65%) Incident Response
11 159 (12.41%) Disaster Recovery
11 159 (12.41%) Mentoring
11 159 (12.41%) Root Cause Analysis
12 136 (10.62%) Containerisation
13 134 (10.46%) High Availability
14 130 (10.15%) Cloud Security
15 126 (9.84%) SIEM
16 116 (9.06%) AI
17 115 (8.98%) Roadmaps
18 111 (8.67%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 509 (39.73%) Python
2 319 (24.90%) Bash
3 276 (21.55%) SQL
4 100 (7.81%) Bicep
5 96 (7.49%) C#
6 78 (6.09%) JavaScript
7 53 (4.14%) T-SQL
8 45 (3.51%) Kusto Query Language
9 32 (2.50%) Java
10 30 (2.34%) TypeScript
11 19 (1.48%) C++
12 17 (1.33%) VBScript
13 16 (1.25%) PHP
14 12 (0.94%) Perl
15 11 (0.86%) Go
15 11 (0.86%) VB
16 10 (0.78%) VBA
17 9 (0.70%) Ruby
18 8 (0.62%) C
19 6 (0.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 152 (11.87%) Degree
2 151 (11.79%) Security Cleared
3 143 (11.16%) Azure Certification
4 128 (9.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 97 (7.57%) SC Cleared
6 54 (4.22%) Cisco Certification
6 54 (4.22%) CISSP
7 47 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 44 (3.43%) CompTIA Security+
9 40 (3.12%) CCNA
10 36 (2.81%) DV Cleared
11 29 (2.26%) DBS Check
12 26 (2.03%) AWS Certification
12 26 (2.03%) OSCP
13 25 (1.95%) CEH
13 25 (1.95%) GIAC
14 23 (1.80%) CREST Certified
15 17 (1.33%) CCNP
16 16 (1.25%) CompTIA CySA+
17 14 (1.09%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (10.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 98 (7.65%) NIST
3 61 (4.76%) GDPR
4 55 (4.29%) Cyber Essentials
5 40 (3.12%) SLA
6 23 (1.80%) QA
7 19 (1.48%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.48%) NCSC
8 18 (1.41%) PCI DSS
8 18 (1.41%) SOC 2
9 14 (1.09%) ISO 22301
10 10 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 9 (0.70%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.47%) DICOM
13 6 (0.47%) PMO
14 3 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.16%) EMIR
15 2 (0.16%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 472 (36.85%) Active Directory
2 202 (15.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 142 (11.09%) Hyper-V
4 139 (10.85%) Docker
5 76 (5.93%) vSphere
6 45 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
7 37 (2.89%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.80%) BitLocker
9 16 (1.25%) VMware NSX
10 13 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.78%) KVM
12 8 (0.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.62%) Squid
13 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.31%) iptables
15 3 (0.23%) Firmware
15 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
16 2 (0.16%) Samba
Systems Management
1 316 (24.67%) Terraform
2 224 (17.49%) Kubernetes
3 192 (14.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 155 (12.10%) Ansible
5 74 (5.78%) Grafana
6 54 (4.22%) Single Sign-On
7 52 (4.06%) SCCM
8 51 (3.98%) Prometheus
9 25 (1.95%) Jamf Pro
10 22 (1.72%) vCenter Server
11 21 (1.64%) ZABBIX
12 20 (1.56%) Argo
12 20 (1.56%) Packer
13 19 (1.48%) QRadar
14 17 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 16 (1.25%) Proxmox
16 15 (1.17%) Nessus
17 14 (1.09%) Graylog
18 12 (0.94%) Nagios
18 12 (0.94%) WSUS
Vendors
1 772 (60.27%) Microsoft
2 249 (19.44%) VMware
3 99 (7.73%) Cisco
4 88 (6.87%) Splunk
5 73 (5.70%) ServiceNow
6 56 (4.37%) Red Hat
7 53 (4.14%) Veeam
8 39 (3.04%) Meraki
8 39 (3.04%) Oracle
9 31 (2.42%) Tenable
10 30 (2.34%) Apple
11 29 (2.26%) CrowdStrike
12 28 (2.19%) Sophos
13 27 (2.11%) Dell
14 26 (2.03%) Citrix
14 26 (2.03%) Palo Alto
15 25 (1.95%) Fortinet
16 24 (1.87%) SolarWinds
17 23 (1.80%) Google
18 21 (1.64%) Dynatrace