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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 94 54
Rank change year-on-year -14 -40 +32
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,154 1,673 2,328
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.54% 2.77% 4.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.06% 8.61% 11.96%
Number of salaries quoted 993 1,126 1,896
10th Percentile £33,375 £38,500 £38,815
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £94,375
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +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 10,435 19,430 19,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.95% 32.22% 41.19%
Number of salaries quoted 7,739 11,545 16,025
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,574 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,556 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,439 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.94% - -

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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 17 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 -29 417 £75,000 - 318
South East -13 233 £58,000 +3.11% 194
North of England -18 155 £50,000 - 76
Midlands +25 122 £52,500 +10.53% 84
South West +16 110 £50,000 -4.76% 69
East of England +31 103 £47,500 -9.52% 48
West Midlands +22 92 £55,000 +22.22% 48
Yorkshire -15 74 £47,500 -12.04% 23
North West -6 69 £52,500 +5.00% 41
East Midlands +2 30 £41,000 -13.68% 36
North East -1 12 £60,000 +35.52% 12
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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
1 220 (19.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 162 (14.04%) SharePoint
3 55 (4.77%) Confluence
4 52 (4.51%) IIS
5 22 (1.91%) Exchange Server 2003
6 19 (1.65%) Skype for Business
7 12 (1.04%) nginx
8 6 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.35%) Apache
9 4 (0.35%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.17%) CMS
10 2 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 49 (4.25%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.61%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 6 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.52%) Siemens NX
5 4 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.35%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.26%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.26%) CATIA
6 3 (0.26%) Windchill
7 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.17%) Revit
7 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.087%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 10 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.52%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.43%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.26%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.17%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.087%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.087%) Eikon
6 1 (0.087%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.087%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.087%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 720 (62.39%) Azure
2 402 (34.84%) Microsoft 365
3 235 (20.36%) Entra ID
4 224 (19.41%) AWS
5 157 (13.60%) Azure DevOps
6 108 (9.36%) Power Platform
7 85 (7.37%) PaaS
8 76 (6.59%) SaaS
9 71 (6.15%) GCP
10 69 (5.98%) Power Automate
11 68 (5.89%) GitHub
12 63 (5.46%) Azure Monitor
13 62 (5.37%) IaaS
14 54 (4.68%) Azure Sentinel
15 51 (4.42%) Serverless
16 49 (4.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 45 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
18 42 (3.64%) Amazon S3
19 41 (3.55%) Amazon EC2
19 41 (3.55%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 271 (23.48%) Firewall
2 242 (20.97%) DNS
3 187 (16.20%) DHCP
4 113 (9.79%) TCP/IP
5 96 (8.32%) VPN
6 92 (7.97%) WAN
7 74 (6.41%) LAN
8 52 (4.51%) VLAN
9 48 (4.16%) SAN
10 42 (3.64%) Wireless
11 38 (3.29%) Internet
12 33 (2.86%) Network Security
12 33 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
13 26 (2.25%) SD-WAN
13 26 (2.25%) SMTP
14 25 (2.17%) HTTP
15 21 (1.82%) NAS
16 20 (1.73%) FTP
16 20 (1.73%) SSH
16 20 (1.73%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (10.05%) SQL Server
2 61 (5.29%) Power BI
3 57 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
4 31 (2.69%) Relational Database
5 29 (2.51%) Oracle Database
6 26 (2.25%) Oracle Database 10g
7 18 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (1.30%) MySQL
10 14 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (1.04%) NoSQL
13 9 (0.78%) DTS
14 8 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
15 7 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
15 7 (0.61%) MongoDB
15 7 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 6 (0.52%) Data Mining
17 5 (0.43%) Tableau
18 4 (0.35%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 119 (10.31%) JIRA
2 100 (8.67%) Git
3 93 (8.06%) Jenkins
4 42 (3.64%) GitLab
5 31 (2.69%) Vagrant
6 22 (1.91%) Octopus Deploy
7 15 (1.30%) MSI
8 12 (1.04%) Burp Suite
8 12 (1.04%) Metasploit
9 11 (0.95%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.87%) TeamCity
11 9 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.52%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.35%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.35%) Robot Framework
13 4 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 4 (0.35%) Toad
14 3 (0.26%) Balsamiq
14 3 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 424 (36.74%) Social Skills
2 218 (18.89%) Finance
3 81 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (6.24%) Law
5 52 (4.51%) Public Sector
6 41 (3.55%) Legal
7 38 (3.29%) Banking
7 38 (3.29%) Retail
8 36 (3.12%) Manufacturing
9 30 (2.60%) Telecoms
10 28 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
10 28 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
13 16 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (1.21%) Automotive
14 14 (1.21%) Marketing
15 10 (0.87%) Aerospace
15 10 (0.87%) Front Office
16 9 (0.78%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 195 (16.90%) Support Engineer
2 147 (12.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 118 (10.23%) Senior
4 100 (8.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 94 (8.15%) Azure Engineer
6 92 (7.97%) 3rd Line Support
7 91 (7.89%) Analyst
8 81 (7.02%) IT Support
9 77 (6.67%) IT Engineer
10 74 (6.41%) Security Engineer
11 72 (6.24%) Lead
12 71 (6.15%) Developer
13 69 (5.98%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 69 (5.98%) Cloud Engineer
14 61 (5.29%) Platform Engineer
15 48 (4.16%) IT Support Engineer
16 46 (3.99%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
17 45 (3.90%) Applications Support
18 44 (3.81%) Infrastructure Support
18 44 (3.81%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (5.72%) YAML
2 59 (5.11%) .NET
3 57 (4.94%) REST
4 37 (3.21%) ARM Templates
5 31 (2.69%) JSON
6 29 (2.51%) LDAP
7 25 (2.17%) SOAP
8 18 (1.56%) Microsoft Graph
9 17 (1.47%) AngularJS
10 16 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
11 15 (1.30%) React
12 12 (1.04%) Web Services
13 11 (0.95%) .NET Framework
13 11 (0.95%) Middleware
14 10 (0.87%) Node.js
14 10 (0.87%) Razor View Engine
15 9 (0.78%) SAML
15 9 (0.78%) XML
16 8 (0.69%) Jinja
16 8 (0.69%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 93 (8.06%) Onboarding
2 56 (4.85%) Security Posture
3 47 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
4 39 (3.38%) Data Centre
5 37 (3.21%) PKI
6 36 (3.12%) Cloud Native
6 36 (3.12%) Enterprise Software
7 35 (3.03%) Management Information System
8 30 (2.60%) Replication
9 27 (2.34%) Driving Licence
10 25 (2.17%) Private Cloud
11 24 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
12 23 (1.99%) Public Cloud
13 21 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
13 21 (1.82%) Video Conferencing
14 19 (1.65%) Hedge funds
15 18 (1.56%) IoT
15 18 (1.56%) Product Ownership
16 17 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
17 16 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 537 (46.53%) Windows
2 309 (26.78%) Windows Server
3 227 (19.67%) Linux
4 72 (6.24%) Windows Server 2019
5 70 (6.07%) Windows 10
6 57 (4.94%) VMS
7 46 (3.99%) Unix
8 45 (3.90%) Windows Server 2016
9 43 (3.73%) Mac OS
10 31 (2.69%) Windows Server 2008
11 25 (2.17%) Solaris
12 23 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 22 (1.91%) HPUX
13 22 (1.91%) Windows 7
13 22 (1.91%) Windows Server 2003
14 20 (1.73%) Amazon Linux
15 19 (1.65%) Windows Server 2012
16 17 (1.47%) Android
17 16 (1.39%) Ubuntu
18 12 (1.04%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (29.12%) DevOps
2 299 (25.91%) Problem-Solving
3 243 (21.06%) CI/CD
4 207 (17.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 191 (16.55%) ITIL
6 168 (14.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 164 (14.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 136 (11.79%) Agile
8 136 (11.79%) Mentoring
9 135 (11.70%) Cybersecurity
10 132 (11.44%) Task Automation
11 120 (10.40%) Disaster Recovery
12 106 (9.19%) Cloud Security
13 105 (9.10%) Migration
14 92 (7.97%) Change Management
15 91 (7.89%) ITSM
16 87 (7.54%) Containerisation
17 86 (7.45%) Incident Management
18 82 (7.11%) Platform Engineering
19 79 (6.85%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 364 (31.54%) Python
2 208 (18.02%) SQL
3 207 (17.94%) Bash
4 97 (8.41%) C#
5 57 (4.94%) Bicep
6 45 (3.90%) JavaScript
7 44 (3.81%) Java
8 36 (3.12%) Perl
9 34 (2.95%) Groovy
10 26 (2.25%) Kusto Query Language
11 25 (2.17%) Go
12 23 (1.99%) VB
13 17 (1.47%) T-SQL
14 14 (1.21%) TypeScript
15 13 (1.13%) Shell Script
16 12 (1.04%) VBScript
17 6 (0.52%) Ruby
18 4 (0.35%) C++
18 4 (0.35%) PHP
18 4 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 190 (16.46%) Security Cleared
2 176 (15.25%) Degree
3 124 (10.75%) SC Cleared
4 92 (7.97%) Azure Certification
5 87 (7.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 68 (5.89%) DV Cleared
7 54 (4.68%) Cisco Certification
8 48 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 40 (3.47%) AWS Certification
10 35 (3.03%) CCNA
11 31 (2.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 27 (2.34%) CISSP
13 25 (2.17%) Master's Degree
14 19 (1.65%) CCNP
14 19 (1.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 17 (1.47%) OSCP
16 16 (1.39%) CEH
17 15 (1.30%) CREST Certified
18 13 (1.13%) MCSA
18 13 (1.13%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (11.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 101 (8.75%) NIST
3 58 (5.03%) SLA
4 54 (4.68%) GDPR
5 33 (2.86%) NCSC
6 28 (2.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 23 (1.99%) Accessibility
8 15 (1.30%) QA
9 8 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (0.69%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.61%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.52%) ISO 22301
12 5 (0.43%) GRC
13 4 (0.35%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.17%) HL7
15 1 (0.087%) Data Quality
15 1 (0.087%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.087%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 429 (37.18%) Active Directory
2 185 (16.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 124 (10.75%) Hyper-V
4 108 (9.36%) Docker
5 45 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
6 31 (2.69%) Virtual Desktop
7 30 (2.60%) vSphere
8 22 (1.91%) DFS Replication
8 22 (1.91%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (1.04%) Firmware
10 11 (0.95%) XenApp
11 9 (0.78%) Postfix
11 9 (0.78%) Squid
11 9 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.69%) Dovecot
13 7 (0.61%) Terminal Services
14 6 (0.52%) XenDesktop
15 4 (0.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.26%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 225 (19.50%) Terraform
2 201 (17.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 147 (12.74%) Kubernetes
4 137 (11.87%) Ansible
5 69 (5.98%) SCCM
6 63 (5.46%) Grafana
7 57 (4.94%) Prometheus
8 38 (3.29%) Single Sign-On
9 33 (2.86%) WSUS
10 24 (2.08%) SCOM
11 18 (1.56%) vCenter Server
12 16 (1.39%) Autotask
13 15 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 15 (1.30%) Backup Exec
13 15 (1.30%) WMI
14 12 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
14 12 (1.04%) Nessus
15 11 (0.95%) QRadar
15 11 (0.95%) ZABBIX
16 10 (0.87%) Puppet
Vendors
1 683 (59.19%) Microsoft
2 261 (22.62%) VMware
3 114 (9.88%) Cisco
4 93 (8.06%) ServiceNow
5 67 (5.81%) Oracle
6 57 (4.94%) Veeam
7 47 (4.07%) Citrix
8 45 (3.90%) Atlassian
8 45 (3.90%) Splunk
9 42 (3.64%) Red Hat
10 33 (2.86%) Google
11 30 (2.60%) SolarWinds
12 28 (2.43%) Palo Alto
13 23 (1.99%) Meraki
13 23 (1.99%) SAP
13 23 (1.99%) Sophos
14 21 (1.82%) Apple
15 20 (1.73%) Bloomberg
16 19 (1.65%) Juniper
17 18 (1.56%) HP