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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 78 104
Rank change year-on-year -66 +26 -31
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,283 1,600 1,770
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.37% 3.66% 2.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.69% 12.60% 8.21%
Number of salaries quoted 961 1,052 1,343
10th Percentile £32,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -1.71% -2.50%
75th Percentile £74,500 £77,500 £78,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - - -4.17%

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 16,690 12,697 21,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.77% 29.07% 29.66%
Number of salaries quoted 12,155 8,459 15,920
10th Percentile £38,000 £34,000 £36,494
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,939
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.56% -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,031
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -32 475 £70,000 -6.35% 428
South East -38 243 £53,000 -7.83% 160
North of England -88 219 £50,000 +5.26% 113
Midlands -20 156 £51,250 +2.50% 55
North West -86 122 £52,500 +14.13% 71
East of England -43 97 £57,500 +11.65% 42
South West -74 83 £55,000 +15.79% 69
East Midlands -3 81 £42,500 +21.43% 24
West Midlands -54 75 £54,344 -1.19% 31
Yorkshire -36 61 £42,500 -17.68% 29
North East -29 36 £50,000 -16.67% 15
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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
1 220 (17.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 200 (15.59%) SharePoint
3 51 (3.98%) IIS
4 32 (2.49%) Confluence
5 11 (0.86%) nginx
6 6 (0.47%) Apache
7 5 (0.39%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.31%) SAS
9 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.078%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.078%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (0.86%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.47%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.23%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.23%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.16%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.16%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.078%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 826 (64.38%) Azure
2 484 (37.72%) Microsoft 365
3 345 (26.89%) Entra ID
4 241 (18.78%) AWS
5 151 (11.77%) Azure DevOps
6 101 (7.87%) Power Platform
7 99 (7.72%) IaaS
8 97 (7.56%) OneDrive
9 96 (7.48%) GitHub
10 94 (7.33%) SaaS
11 73 (5.69%) Azure Monitor
11 73 (5.69%) Azure Sentinel
12 67 (5.22%) PaaS
13 66 (5.14%) Azure AKS
14 63 (4.91%) Power Automate
15 61 (4.75%) Azure Key Vault
16 60 (4.68%) GCP
17 59 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
18 47 (3.66%) Datadog
19 45 (3.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 296 (23.07%) Firewall
2 275 (21.43%) DNS
3 180 (14.03%) DHCP
3 180 (14.03%) VPN
4 131 (10.21%) TCP/IP
5 79 (6.16%) WAN
6 72 (5.61%) LAN
7 69 (5.38%) Network Security
8 61 (4.75%) VLAN
9 41 (3.20%) Wi-Fi
9 41 (3.20%) Wireless
10 40 (3.12%) SAN
11 32 (2.49%) Kerberos
12 22 (1.71%) SSL
13 21 (1.64%) NAS
14 18 (1.40%) HTTP
14 18 (1.40%) VoIP
15 17 (1.33%) Internet
16 12 (0.94%) VSAN
17 11 (0.86%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (10.99%) SQL Server
2 81 (6.31%) Azure SQL Database
3 61 (4.75%) Power BI
4 29 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.79%) MongoDB
6 18 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (1.33%) Relational Database
7 17 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (1.25%) MySQL
9 14 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (0.94%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.62%) InfluxDB
13 6 (0.47%) Power Query
13 6 (0.47%) Redis
14 5 (0.39%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.39%) Metadata
14 5 (0.39%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.31%) Db2
15 4 (0.31%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 106 (8.26%) Git
2 89 (6.94%) JIRA
3 63 (4.91%) GitLab
4 55 (4.29%) Jenkins
5 30 (2.34%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.86%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
8 7 (0.55%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.55%) TestRail
9 6 (0.47%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.47%) Selenium
9 6 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 5 (0.39%) Postman
11 4 (0.31%) Metasploit
11 4 (0.31%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.23%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.23%) JMeter
12 3 (0.23%) MSI
General
1 415 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 210 (16.37%) Finance
3 173 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (8.18%) Law
5 56 (4.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 53 (4.13%) Legal
7 47 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (3.51%) Retail
9 34 (2.65%) Banking
10 32 (2.49%) Manufacturing
10 32 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
11 29 (2.26%) Public Sector
12 25 (1.95%) Aerospace
13 16 (1.25%) Advertising
14 11 (0.86%) Financial Institution
14 11 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (0.70%) Telecoms
16 8 (0.62%) Front Office
16 8 (0.62%) Investment Banking
17 7 (0.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 199 (15.51%) Senior
2 176 (13.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 138 (10.76%) Analyst
4 132 (10.29%) Support Engineer
5 129 (10.05%) Azure Engineer
6 124 (9.66%) IT Engineer
7 123 (9.59%) Cloud Engineer
8 115 (8.96%) IT Support
9 96 (7.48%) DevOps Engineer
10 69 (5.38%) Security Engineer
11 67 (5.22%) IT Support Engineer
12 65 (5.07%) Lead
12 65 (5.07%) Platform Engineer
13 58 (4.52%) Developer
14 54 (4.21%) Systems Engineer
15 49 (3.82%) 2nd Line Support
16 47 (3.66%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 42 (3.27%) Support Analyst
18 41 (3.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
19 39 (3.04%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (6.39%) .NET
2 52 (4.05%) ARM Templates
3 47 (3.66%) SAML
4 45 (3.51%) REST
4 45 (3.51%) YAML
5 43 (3.35%) OAuth
6 41 (3.20%) HTML
7 38 (2.96%) Microsoft Graph
7 38 (2.96%) OpenID
8 36 (2.81%) LDAP
9 34 (2.65%) .NET Core
10 33 (2.57%) JSON
11 31 (2.42%) CSS
12 24 (1.87%) SPFx
13 19 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
13 19 (1.48%) HTML5 Canvas
14 15 (1.17%) Middleware
14 15 (1.17%) RESTful
15 14 (1.09%) ASP.NET
15 14 (1.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 106 (8.26%) Onboarding
2 83 (6.47%) Cloud Native
3 71 (5.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 66 (5.14%) Security Posture
5 65 (5.07%) Management Information System
6 58 (4.52%) Driving Licence
7 48 (3.74%) Data Centre
8 44 (3.43%) Public Cloud
9 42 (3.27%) Security Operations Centre
10 38 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
11 36 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
12 34 (2.65%) PKI
13 28 (2.18%) Cyber Defence
14 26 (2.03%) Private Cloud
14 26 (2.03%) Replication
15 21 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
15 21 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
16 20 (1.56%) CMDB
17 19 (1.48%) Clustering
18 15 (1.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 633 (49.34%) Windows
2 308 (24.01%) Linux
3 296 (23.07%) Windows Server
4 75 (5.85%) Windows 10
5 50 (3.90%) Apple iOS
6 42 (3.27%) Android
6 42 (3.27%) VMS
7 41 (3.20%) Mac OS
8 36 (2.81%) Windows Server 2016
9 35 (2.73%) CentOS
9 35 (2.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 33 (2.57%) Ubuntu
11 25 (1.95%) Windows Server 2019
12 14 (1.09%) Unix
13 6 (0.47%) Rocky
14 5 (0.39%) CoreOS
14 5 (0.39%) Debian
14 5 (0.39%) Solaris
15 4 (0.31%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (26.89%) Problem-Solving
2 312 (24.32%) CI/CD
2 312 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 289 (22.53%) DevOps
4 261 (20.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 255 (19.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 254 (19.80%) ITIL
7 233 (18.16%) Cybersecurity
8 173 (13.48%) Disaster Recovery
9 161 (12.55%) Incident Response
10 159 (12.39%) Root Cause Analysis
11 155 (12.08%) Agile
12 146 (11.38%) High Availability
13 144 (11.22%) Mentoring
14 134 (10.44%) AI
15 129 (10.05%) Containerisation
16 125 (9.74%) Observability
17 123 (9.59%) SIEM
18 121 (9.43%) Cloud Security
19 119 (9.28%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 503 (39.20%) Python
2 293 (22.84%) Bash
3 258 (20.11%) SQL
4 105 (8.18%) Bicep
5 93 (7.25%) C#
6 80 (6.24%) JavaScript
7 49 (3.82%) Kusto Query Language
8 40 (3.12%) Java
9 33 (2.57%) T-SQL
10 31 (2.42%) TypeScript
11 21 (1.64%) VBScript
12 18 (1.40%) C++
13 17 (1.33%) Perl
14 14 (1.09%) PHP
15 11 (0.86%) Ruby
16 10 (0.78%) VBA
17 9 (0.70%) Go
17 9 (0.70%) VB
18 8 (0.62%) C
19 6 (0.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 169 (13.17%) Security Cleared
2 158 (12.31%) Degree
3 147 (11.46%) Azure Certification
4 129 (10.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 116 (9.04%) SC Cleared
6 54 (4.21%) Cisco Certification
7 53 (4.13%) CompTIA Security+
8 52 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 51 (3.98%) CISSP
10 42 (3.27%) DV Cleared
11 41 (3.20%) CCNA
12 27 (2.10%) CEH
13 24 (1.87%) DBS Check
14 22 (1.71%) AWS Certification
14 22 (1.71%) GIAC
15 20 (1.56%) OSCP
16 16 (1.25%) CCNP
16 16 (1.25%) CISM
16 16 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 13 (1.01%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (7.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (4.99%) NIST
3 61 (4.75%) Cyber Essentials
4 52 (4.05%) GDPR
5 43 (3.35%) SLA
6 26 (2.03%) QA
7 19 (1.48%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.33%) SOC 2
9 15 (1.17%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.62%) ISO 22301
11 7 (0.55%) PMO
12 5 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.31%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.31%) NCSC
14 3 (0.23%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.16%) EMIR
15 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 467 (36.40%) Active Directory
2 210 (16.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 142 (11.07%) Hyper-V
4 134 (10.44%) Docker
5 76 (5.92%) vSphere
6 50 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
7 45 (3.51%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.79%) BitLocker
9 19 (1.48%) VMware NSX
10 14 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
11 11 (0.86%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 9 (0.70%) KVM
13 8 (0.62%) Squid
14 6 (0.47%) Firmware
15 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
16 4 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
18 2 (0.16%) Samba
19 1 (0.078%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 334 (26.03%) Terraform
2 231 (18.00%) Kubernetes
3 220 (17.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 163 (12.70%) Ansible
5 78 (6.08%) Grafana
6 61 (4.75%) SCCM
7 48 (3.74%) Single Sign-On
8 47 (3.66%) Prometheus
9 23 (1.79%) ZABBIX
10 21 (1.64%) Jamf Pro
10 21 (1.64%) vCenter Server
11 20 (1.56%) Argo
11 20 (1.56%) Packer
11 20 (1.56%) Proxmox
11 20 (1.56%) QRadar
12 15 (1.17%) Puppet
13 14 (1.09%) Graylog
14 13 (1.01%) VxRail
15 11 (0.86%) Nagios
16 10 (0.78%) Nessus
Vendors
1 812 (63.29%) Microsoft
2 251 (19.56%) VMware
3 117 (9.12%) Cisco
4 107 (8.34%) ServiceNow
5 88 (6.86%) Splunk
6 62 (4.83%) Red Hat
7 56 (4.36%) Veeam
8 46 (3.59%) Oracle
9 44 (3.43%) Meraki
10 36 (2.81%) Citrix
11 32 (2.49%) Dynatrace
11 32 (2.49%) Sophos
12 31 (2.42%) Dell
13 30 (2.34%) Tenable
14 28 (2.18%) CrowdStrike
15 26 (2.03%) Apple
16 24 (1.87%) Fortinet
17 22 (1.71%) Okta
18 21 (1.64%) CyberArk
18 21 (1.64%) Palo Alto