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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 90 97
Rank change year-on-year -64 +7 -39
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,288 1,488 1,696
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.24% 3.44% 2.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.76% 12.94% 8.29%
Number of salaries quoted 917 983 1,100
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,890 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% 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 16,597 11,495 20,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.96% 26.54% 31.22%
Number of salaries quoted 12,116 7,536 12,420
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,875 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -27 473 £70,000 -0.71% 551
South East -36 236 £52,500 -8.70% 233
North of England -85 233 £50,000 - 169
Midlands -44 162 £52,500 +2.24% 86
North West -73 140 £50,000 - 90
East of England -48 94 £57,500 +21.05% 64
South West -74 86 £57,500 +18.56% 96
East Midlands -17 82 £42,500 +15.65% 36
West Midlands -71 80 £55,000 - 50
Yorkshire -45 56 £45,472 -11.92% 57
North East -41 37 £51,500 -14.17% 23
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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
1 240 (18.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 216 (16.77%) SharePoint
3 50 (3.88%) IIS
4 41 (3.18%) Confluence
5 15 (1.16%) nginx
6 8 (0.62%) Apache
7 5 (0.39%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.31%) SAS
9 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.078%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.078%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.078%) WebSphere
Applications
1 64 (4.97%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (2.80%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.47%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.39%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.23%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.16%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.078%) Actimize
7 1 (0.078%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 789 (61.26%) Azure
2 520 (40.37%) Microsoft 365
3 427 (33.15%) Entra ID
4 241 (18.71%) AWS
5 164 (12.73%) Azure DevOps
6 110 (8.54%) Power Platform
7 105 (8.15%) SaaS
8 104 (8.07%) OneDrive
9 98 (7.61%) IaaS
10 97 (7.53%) GitHub
11 88 (6.83%) Azure Monitor
12 83 (6.44%) Azure Sentinel
13 75 (5.82%) Power Automate
14 72 (5.59%) PaaS
15 70 (5.43%) Azure AKS
16 63 (4.89%) GCP
17 62 (4.81%) Azure Key Vault
18 58 (4.50%) GitHub Actions
19 55 (4.27%) Microsoft Purview
20 52 (4.04%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 304 (23.60%) Firewall
2 302 (23.45%) DNS
3 213 (16.54%) VPN
4 211 (16.38%) DHCP
5 142 (11.02%) TCP/IP
6 85 (6.60%) WAN
7 74 (5.75%) LAN
7 74 (5.75%) VLAN
8 55 (4.27%) Wireless
9 54 (4.19%) Network Security
10 46 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
11 38 (2.95%) SAN
12 31 (2.41%) Kerberos
13 29 (2.25%) SSL
14 22 (1.71%) NAS
15 20 (1.55%) HTTP
16 15 (1.16%) Internet
17 12 (0.93%) VSAN
18 11 (0.85%) VoIP
19 10 (0.78%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (10.40%) SQL Server
2 84 (6.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 61 (4.74%) Power BI
4 21 (1.63%) MongoDB
4 21 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (1.24%) Relational Database
6 13 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (1.01%) MySQL
7 12 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (0.70%) NoSQL
9 8 (0.62%) Power Query
9 8 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (0.54%) InfluxDB
10 7 (0.54%) Redis
11 6 (0.47%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.47%) Metadata
12 5 (0.39%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.31%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.31%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 91 (7.07%) JIRA
2 85 (6.60%) Git
3 66 (5.12%) GitLab
4 58 (4.50%) Jenkins
5 20 (1.55%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
7 10 (0.78%) TeamCity
8 7 (0.54%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.54%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.54%) TestRail
9 5 (0.39%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.39%) MSI
9 5 (0.39%) Postman
9 5 (0.39%) Selenium
9 5 (0.39%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (0.31%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.31%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 465 (36.10%) Social Skills
2 227 (17.62%) Finance
3 180 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (6.29%) Law
5 54 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 53 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
7 47 (3.65%) Legal
8 46 (3.57%) Retail
9 43 (3.34%) Banking
10 36 (2.80%) Manufacturing
11 35 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
12 28 (2.17%) Aerospace
12 28 (2.17%) Public Sector
13 12 (0.93%) Financial Institution
14 11 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (0.78%) Investment Banking
16 9 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (0.62%) Advertising
17 8 (0.62%) Aviation
17 8 (0.62%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 197 (15.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 192 (14.91%) Senior
3 158 (12.27%) Analyst
4 126 (9.78%) Azure Engineer
5 124 (9.63%) Cloud Engineer
6 121 (9.39%) IT Engineer
7 116 (9.01%) Support Engineer
8 98 (7.61%) DevOps Engineer
9 95 (7.38%) IT Support
10 74 (5.75%) Platform Engineer
11 71 (5.51%) Lead
12 69 (5.36%) Consultant
13 62 (4.81%) IT Support Engineer
13 62 (4.81%) Support Analyst
14 56 (4.35%) Security Engineer
15 52 (4.04%) Systems Engineer
16 46 (3.57%) Developer
17 42 (3.26%) Automation Engineer
17 42 (3.26%) Microsoft Engineer
18 40 (3.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 340 (26.40%) Terraform
2 64 (4.97%) .NET
3 56 (4.35%) ARM Templates
4 48 (3.73%) REST
5 46 (3.57%) SAML
6 42 (3.26%) YAML
7 38 (2.95%) LDAP
7 38 (2.95%) Microsoft Graph
7 38 (2.95%) OpenID
8 37 (2.87%) OAuth
9 32 (2.48%) HTML
10 28 (2.17%) JSON
11 23 (1.79%) CSS
12 21 (1.63%) SPFx
13 20 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
14 18 (1.40%) .NET Core
15 13 (1.01%) Kafka
15 13 (1.01%) RESTful
16 12 (0.93%) ASP.NET Core
16 12 (0.93%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 117 (9.08%) Onboarding
2 83 (6.44%) Cloud Native
3 79 (6.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 77 (5.98%) Driving Licence
5 70 (5.43%) Security Posture
6 68 (5.28%) Management Information System
7 51 (3.96%) PKI
8 47 (3.65%) Data Centre
9 45 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
10 39 (3.03%) Replication
11 37 (2.87%) Security Operations Centre
12 36 (2.80%) Public Cloud
13 29 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
14 20 (1.55%) Cyber Defence
14 20 (1.55%) Private Cloud
15 19 (1.48%) Clustering
15 19 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
16 17 (1.32%) CMDB
16 17 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
17 14 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 658 (51.09%) Windows
2 310 (24.07%) Windows Server
3 302 (23.45%) Linux
4 94 (7.30%) Windows 10
5 48 (3.73%) Apple iOS
6 41 (3.18%) Android
7 39 (3.03%) Ubuntu
8 36 (2.80%) VMS
9 34 (2.64%) Mac OS
10 33 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
10 33 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
11 31 (2.41%) CentOS
12 29 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 18 (1.40%) Unix
14 16 (1.24%) Rocky
15 7 (0.54%) Solaris
16 5 (0.39%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.31%) Debian
17 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
18 3 (0.23%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (30.28%) Problem-Solving
2 324 (25.16%) Infrastructure as Code
3 297 (23.06%) Continuous Improvement
3 297 (23.06%) DevOps
4 295 (22.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 291 (22.59%) CI/CD
6 253 (19.64%) ITIL
7 242 (18.79%) Cybersecurity
8 202 (15.68%) Disaster Recovery
9 169 (13.12%) AI
10 151 (11.72%) Agile
11 145 (11.26%) Mentoring
12 143 (11.10%) Cloud Security
12 143 (11.10%) Root Cause Analysis
13 139 (10.79%) Platform Engineering
14 138 (10.71%) Migration
15 137 (10.64%) High Availability
16 131 (10.17%) Incident Response
17 129 (10.02%) Infrastructure Automation
18 123 (9.55%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 493 (38.28%) Python
2 280 (21.74%) Bash
3 272 (21.12%) SQL
4 119 (9.24%) Bicep
5 79 (6.13%) JavaScript
6 69 (5.36%) C#
7 49 (3.80%) Kusto Query Language
8 38 (2.95%) Java
9 31 (2.41%) T-SQL
10 27 (2.10%) TypeScript
11 23 (1.79%) VBScript
12 16 (1.24%) C++
12 16 (1.24%) Perl
13 13 (1.01%) PHP
14 11 (0.85%) VBA
15 10 (0.78%) Ruby
15 10 (0.78%) VB
16 8 (0.62%) Go
17 7 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 5 (0.39%) Korn
Qualifications
1 173 (13.43%) Security Cleared
2 158 (12.27%) Degree
3 143 (11.10%) Microsoft Certification
4 139 (10.79%) Azure Certification
5 113 (8.77%) SC Cleared
6 59 (4.58%) CISSP
7 55 (4.27%) DV Cleared
8 53 (4.11%) CompTIA Security+
9 52 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
10 46 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
11 37 (2.87%) CCNA
12 27 (2.10%) CEH
13 25 (1.94%) DBS Check
14 23 (1.79%) AWS Certification
15 20 (1.55%) CISM
16 18 (1.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 17 (1.32%) GIAC
18 14 (1.09%) OSCP
19 13 (1.01%) CompTIA CySA+
19 13 (1.01%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (6.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 70 (5.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 55 (4.27%) NIST
4 44 (3.42%) SLA
5 38 (2.95%) GDPR
6 24 (1.86%) QA
7 20 (1.55%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.32%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.93%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.62%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.62%) PMO
12 7 (0.54%) NCSC
12 7 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.39%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.23%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.16%) EMIR
15 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 1 (0.078%) TickIT
System Software
1 499 (38.74%) Active Directory
2 220 (17.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 138 (10.71%) Hyper-V
4 130 (10.09%) Docker
5 79 (6.13%) vSphere
6 72 (5.59%) Virtual Machines
7 60 (4.66%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (2.10%) VMware ESXi
9 26 (2.02%) VMware NSX
10 17 (1.32%) BitLocker
11 15 (1.16%) Firmware
12 8 (0.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.62%) KVM
13 7 (0.54%) Squid
14 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 2 (0.16%) DFS Replication
17 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
17 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 237 (18.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 210 (16.30%) Kubernetes
3 156 (12.11%) Ansible
4 75 (5.82%) Grafana
5 67 (5.20%) SCCM
6 55 (4.27%) Single Sign-On
7 40 (3.11%) Prometheus
8 31 (2.41%) Puppet
9 25 (1.94%) vCenter Server
10 23 (1.79%) Argo
11 22 (1.71%) ZABBIX
12 20 (1.55%) Proxmox
13 19 (1.48%) QRadar
14 18 (1.40%) FortiGate
15 15 (1.16%) Graylog
15 15 (1.16%) Packer
16 12 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
16 12 (0.93%) Progress Chef
17 10 (0.78%) VxRail
18 9 (0.70%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 861 (66.85%) Microsoft
2 260 (20.19%) VMware
3 98 (7.61%) Cisco
4 96 (7.45%) ServiceNow
5 82 (6.37%) Splunk
6 67 (5.20%) Veeam
7 44 (3.42%) Oracle
8 43 (3.34%) Red Hat
9 42 (3.26%) Citrix
10 34 (2.64%) Sage
11 33 (2.56%) Dell
11 33 (2.56%) Meraki
12 30 (2.33%) Sophos
13 29 (2.25%) Dynatrace
13 29 (2.25%) SAP
13 29 (2.25%) SolarWinds
14 26 (2.02%) Fortinet
15 25 (1.94%) CrowdStrike
15 25 (1.94%) CyberArk
15 25 (1.94%) Google