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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 86 90
Rank change year-on-year -47 +4 0
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,089 1,237 2,311
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.55% 3.38% 2.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.55% 9.92% 8.81%
Number of salaries quoted 863 1,015 1,995
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £61,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.69% +11.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 12,732 12,474 26,240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.08% 34.13% 33.57%
Number of salaries quoted 9,123 9,319 22,195
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,625
25th Percentile £46,630 £47,683 £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 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -13 496 £70,000 -12.50% 123
South East -58 189 £57,125 -4.79% 97
North of England -56 134 £47,500 -9.52% 66
Midlands -44 98 £52,500 +5.00% 45
South West -22 95 £55,000 +15.79% 60
East of England -35 65 £40,000 -27.27% 34
Yorkshire -32 64 £47,500 -9.52% 16
North West -42 57 £55,000 +13.86% 35
East Midlands -21 54 £55,000 +15.79% 16
West Midlands -52 43 £48,000 -4.00% 29
North East -27 13 £45,000 -23.40% 15
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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
1 176 (16.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 129 (11.85%) SharePoint
3 29 (2.66%) IIS
4 22 (2.02%) Exchange Server 2003
5 13 (1.19%) Confluence
6 6 (0.55%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.18%) Apache
7 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.18%) CMS
7 2 (0.18%) WordPress
8 1 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.092%) Site Server
8 1 (0.092%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 49 (4.50%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.37%) Siemens NX
5 3 (0.28%) CATIA
5 3 (0.28%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.28%) Windchill
6 1 (0.092%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.092%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.37%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.28%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.18%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.092%) Actimize
5 1 (0.092%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.092%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.092%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.092%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 682 (62.63%) Azure
2 376 (34.53%) Microsoft 365
3 269 (24.70%) Entra ID
4 187 (17.17%) AWS
5 100 (9.18%) Azure DevOps
6 93 (8.54%) Power Platform
7 83 (7.62%) GitHub
8 70 (6.43%) GCP
9 64 (5.88%) SaaS
10 60 (5.51%) GitHub Actions
11 55 (5.05%) OneDrive
12 53 (4.87%) PaaS
13 49 (4.50%) IaaS
14 43 (3.95%) Azure Monitor
14 43 (3.95%) Google Workspace
15 38 (3.49%) Azure Logic Apps
15 38 (3.49%) Nutanix
16 36 (3.31%) Power Automate
17 34 (3.12%) Azure Sentinel
18 33 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 211 (19.38%) DNS
2 194 (17.81%) Firewall
3 159 (14.60%) DHCP
4 118 (10.84%) VPN
5 99 (9.09%) TCP/IP
6 53 (4.87%) Network Security
7 52 (4.78%) WAN
8 51 (4.68%) LAN
9 46 (4.22%) VLAN
10 44 (4.04%) Wi-Fi
11 35 (3.21%) VoIP
12 30 (2.75%) SAN
13 29 (2.66%) Wireless
14 28 (2.57%) Broadband
15 23 (2.11%) SD-WAN
16 14 (1.29%) VSAN
17 12 (1.10%) Internet
17 12 (1.10%) WinSCP
18 10 (0.92%) Cisco IOS
18 10 (0.92%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (11.75%) SQL Server
2 80 (7.35%) Power BI
3 30 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 28 (2.57%) Oracle Database
5 27 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (2.39%) Oracle Database 10g
6 26 (2.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 24 (2.20%) MySQL
8 22 (2.02%) Relational Database
9 21 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (1.47%) NoSQL
11 15 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 14 (1.29%) Tableau
13 11 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (0.73%) MongoDB
15 6 (0.55%) Data Lake
15 6 (0.55%) InfluxDB
16 5 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
16 5 (0.46%) Metadata
17 4 (0.37%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 80 (7.35%) Git
2 67 (6.15%) JIRA
3 59 (5.42%) Jenkins
4 43 (3.95%) GitLab
5 25 (2.30%) Bitbucket
6 21 (1.93%) Octopus Deploy
7 14 (1.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 14 (1.29%) TeamCity
8 13 (1.19%) Metasploit
9 9 (0.83%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.83%) CircleCI
10 7 (0.64%) Robot Framework
10 7 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
11 5 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.37%) MLflow
12 4 (0.37%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.37%) TestRail
13 3 (0.28%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.28%) Balsamiq
13 3 (0.28%) Eclipse
General
1 362 (33.24%) Social Skills
2 209 (19.19%) Finance
3 130 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (6.24%) Law
5 47 (4.32%) Organisational Skills
6 41 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (3.49%) Legal
8 37 (3.40%) Retail
9 31 (2.85%) Banking
9 31 (2.85%) Public Sector
10 29 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (2.20%) Telecoms
12 17 (1.56%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.38%) Advertising
14 8 (0.73%) Front Office
15 7 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.55%) Investment Banking
17 5 (0.46%) Aerospace
17 5 (0.46%) Marketing
17 5 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 158 (14.51%) Senior
2 135 (12.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 129 (11.85%) Support Engineer
4 106 (9.73%) Analyst
5 103 (9.46%) Azure Engineer
6 99 (9.09%) IT Support
7 74 (6.80%) IT Engineer
7 74 (6.80%) Security Engineer
8 70 (6.43%) Cloud Engineer
9 66 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
10 56 (5.14%) 3rd Line Support
11 55 (5.05%) Developer
11 55 (5.05%) IT Support Engineer
12 52 (4.78%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 52 (4.78%) Lead
13 49 (4.50%) 2nd Line Support
14 41 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
15 40 (3.67%) Architect
16 35 (3.21%) Security Analyst
17 33 (3.03%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (5.69%) .NET
2 54 (4.96%) REST
3 48 (4.41%) OAuth
4 45 (4.13%) SAML
5 42 (3.86%) OpenID
6 33 (3.03%) LDAP
7 31 (2.85%) SOAP
8 29 (2.66%) .NET Core
8 29 (2.66%) JSON
9 26 (2.39%) YAML
10 25 (2.30%) GraphQL
11 21 (1.93%) ARM Templates
12 20 (1.84%) Microsoft Graph
13 16 (1.47%) CSS
13 16 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
13 16 (1.47%) Node.js
13 16 (1.47%) React
14 15 (1.38%) SPFx
15 14 (1.29%) HTML
16 11 (1.01%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 84 (7.71%) Onboarding
2 69 (6.34%) Hybrid Cloud
3 60 (5.51%) Security Posture
4 42 (3.86%) Driving Licence
5 40 (3.67%) Cyber Threat
5 40 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
6 39 (3.58%) Cyber Defence
7 37 (3.40%) Management Information System
8 33 (3.03%) Cloud Native
9 31 (2.85%) Analytical Mindset
10 27 (2.48%) Cyberattack
10 27 (2.48%) Data Centre
11 25 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (2.30%) Security Operations Centre
12 24 (2.20%) Public Cloud
13 21 (1.93%) PKI
14 20 (1.84%) CMDB
15 19 (1.74%) Replication
16 18 (1.65%) Private Cloud
17 17 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 504 (46.28%) Windows
2 254 (23.32%) Windows Server
3 229 (21.03%) Linux
4 68 (6.24%) Windows 10
5 54 (4.96%) Mac OS
6 41 (3.76%) Unix
7 36 (3.31%) Android
8 34 (3.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 31 (2.85%) Apple iOS
10 30 (2.75%) Windows Server 2019
11 24 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 24 (2.20%) Solaris
12 22 (2.02%) HPUX
12 22 (2.02%) VMS
12 22 (2.02%) Windows 7
12 22 (2.02%) Windows Server 2003
12 22 (2.02%) Windows Server 2008
13 21 (1.93%) CentOS
14 16 (1.47%) Ubuntu
15 8 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (28.65%) Problem-Solving
2 230 (21.12%) DevOps
3 212 (19.47%) ITIL
4 207 (19.01%) CI/CD
5 198 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 196 (18.00%) Cybersecurity
7 193 (17.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 186 (17.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 143 (13.13%) Disaster Recovery
9 143 (13.13%) Incident Response
10 135 (12.40%) Mentoring
11 117 (10.74%) Agile
12 113 (10.38%) Root Cause Analysis
13 98 (9.00%) Cloud Security
14 97 (8.91%) Task Automation
15 96 (8.82%) SIEM
16 91 (8.36%) Containerisation
16 91 (8.36%) Roadmaps
17 89 (8.17%) Business Intelligence
18 87 (7.99%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 397 (36.46%) Python
2 245 (22.50%) Bash
3 223 (20.48%) SQL
4 72 (6.61%) JavaScript
5 64 (5.88%) C#
6 59 (5.42%) Bicep
7 51 (4.68%) T-SQL
8 29 (2.66%) Kusto Query Language
8 29 (2.66%) Perl
9 16 (1.47%) Java
10 13 (1.19%) Go
11 10 (0.92%) TypeScript
12 9 (0.83%) VB.NET
13 8 (0.73%) C++
14 7 (0.64%) C
14 7 (0.64%) PHP
14 7 (0.64%) VB
15 6 (0.55%) Delphi
15 6 (0.55%) Ruby
16 5 (0.46%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 155 (14.23%) Degree
2 134 (12.30%) Security Cleared
3 92 (8.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 88 (8.08%) Azure Certification
5 80 (7.35%) SC Cleared
6 58 (5.33%) DV Cleared
7 49 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 43 (3.95%) CISSP
9 30 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (2.30%) CREST Certified
11 24 (2.20%) CEH
11 24 (2.20%) GIAC
12 23 (2.11%) AWS Certification
12 23 (2.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 22 (2.02%) OSCP
14 20 (1.84%) CompTIA CySA+
14 20 (1.84%) CompTIA Security+
15 19 (1.74%) CCNA
16 15 (1.38%) DBS Check
17 12 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (14.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 135 (12.40%) NIST
3 65 (5.97%) SLA
4 58 (5.33%) GDPR
5 37 (3.40%) NCSC
6 28 (2.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (2.02%) ISO 22301
8 18 (1.65%) Accessibility
8 18 (1.65%) Data Quality
9 17 (1.56%) QA
10 14 (1.29%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (1.29%) PCI DSS
11 11 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 9 (0.83%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.55%) DICOM
14 5 (0.46%) GRC
15 4 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.18%) COBIT
16 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.18%) HL7
System Software
1 404 (37.10%) Active Directory
2 129 (11.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 103 (9.46%) Docker
4 102 (9.37%) Hyper-V
5 42 (3.86%) vSphere
6 29 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (1.56%) Firmware
8 16 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
9 13 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.73%) BitLocker
10 8 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.73%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.46%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 5 (0.46%) XenApp
11 5 (0.46%) XenDesktop
12 4 (0.37%) iptables
12 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.37%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.18%) Samba
Systems Management
1 216 (19.83%) Terraform
2 157 (14.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 155 (14.23%) Kubernetes
4 129 (11.85%) Ansible
5 45 (4.13%) Grafana
6 41 (3.76%) SCCM
7 37 (3.40%) Single Sign-On
8 28 (2.57%) Prometheus
9 20 (1.84%) Jamf Pro
10 17 (1.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 16 (1.47%) vCenter Server
12 12 (1.10%) Nessus
13 11 (1.01%) VxRail
14 9 (0.83%) Puppet
15 8 (0.73%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.73%) Progress Chef
16 6 (0.55%) logstash
16 6 (0.55%) Nagios
16 6 (0.55%) SCVMM
16 6 (0.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 587 (53.90%) Microsoft
2 224 (20.57%) VMware
3 101 (9.27%) Cisco
4 51 (4.68%) ServiceNow
5 49 (4.50%) Splunk
6 48 (4.41%) Oracle
7 45 (4.13%) Veeam
8 41 (3.76%) Red Hat
9 34 (3.12%) Commvault
9 34 (3.12%) Google
9 34 (3.12%) Palo Alto
10 29 (2.66%) CrowdStrike
11 28 (2.57%) Atlassian
12 27 (2.48%) Meraki
13 26 (2.39%) Citrix
14 24 (2.20%) CyberArk
14 24 (2.20%) Dell
15 23 (2.11%) Fortinet
16 22 (2.02%) Apple
17 20 (1.84%) Dynatrace