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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 73 104
Rank change year-on-year -69 +31 -12
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,102 1,552 2,149
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.36% 3.99% 2.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.65% 12.12% 7.94%
Number of salaries quoted 846 975 1,806
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,850 £35,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £88,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £59,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.77% +8.64% -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 14,401 12,805 27,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.84% 32.96% 32.22%
Number of salaries quoted 10,144 8,979 22,382
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,475
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -18 507 £70,000 -7.89% 136
South East -85 161 £56,750 -1.30% 119
North of England -107 150 £47,500 -5.00% 86
Midlands -60 120 £51,250 +2.50% 38
South West -40 79 £55,000 +15.79% 41
North West -109 76 £51,500 +11.96% 54
East of England -28 74 £57,500 +17.95% 24
East Midlands -22 70 £55,000 +40.13% 22
Yorkshire -46 56 £47,500 -24.00% 18
West Midlands -73 49 £48,000 -4.00% 16
North East -31 18 £48,445 -15.75% 14
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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
1 156 (14.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 137 (12.43%) SharePoint
3 38 (3.45%) IIS
4 20 (1.81%) Confluence
5 3 (0.27%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.18%) Apache
6 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.091%) Site Server
7 1 (0.091%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 56 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.091%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.091%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.27%) Markit EDM
2 3 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.091%) Actimize
4 1 (0.091%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.091%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.091%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 714 (64.79%) Azure
2 399 (36.21%) Microsoft 365
3 282 (25.59%) Entra ID
4 197 (17.88%) AWS
5 105 (9.53%) Azure DevOps
6 95 (8.62%) Power Platform
7 84 (7.62%) GitHub
8 77 (6.99%) SaaS
9 69 (6.26%) IaaS
9 69 (6.26%) OneDrive
10 63 (5.72%) GCP
11 62 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
12 53 (4.81%) Azure Sentinel
13 49 (4.45%) Azure AKS
14 48 (4.36%) PaaS
15 46 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
16 44 (3.99%) Power Automate
17 43 (3.90%) Azure Logic Apps
18 41 (3.72%) Google Workspace
19 39 (3.54%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 219 (19.87%) Firewall
2 214 (19.42%) DNS
3 128 (11.62%) DHCP
4 127 (11.52%) VPN
5 91 (8.26%) TCP/IP
6 63 (5.72%) Network Security
7 60 (5.44%) WAN
8 58 (5.26%) LAN
9 44 (3.99%) VLAN
10 42 (3.81%) Wi-Fi
11 34 (3.09%) SAN
11 34 (3.09%) VoIP
12 27 (2.45%) Broadband
13 21 (1.91%) Wireless
14 15 (1.36%) Kerberos
15 14 (1.27%) SD-WAN
16 13 (1.18%) Internet
17 12 (1.09%) BGP
17 12 (1.09%) VSAN
17 12 (1.09%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (12.34%) SQL Server
2 74 (6.72%) Power BI
3 51 (4.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 29 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
4 29 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (2.18%) MySQL
6 23 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 20 (1.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (1.54%) NoSQL
8 17 (1.54%) Relational Database
9 13 (1.18%) MongoDB
9 13 (1.18%) Tableau
10 12 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (0.82%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.64%) InfluxDB
13 6 (0.54%) Metadata
14 5 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
15 4 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 3 (0.27%) DynamoDB
16 3 (0.27%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 88 (7.99%) Git
2 58 (5.26%) JIRA
3 53 (4.81%) Jenkins
4 52 (4.72%) GitLab
5 28 (2.54%) Bitbucket
6 17 (1.54%) Octopus Deploy
7 13 (1.18%) Metasploit
7 13 (1.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 13 (1.18%) TeamCity
8 9 (0.82%) Burp Suite
8 9 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (0.73%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.54%) Robot Framework
11 5 (0.45%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.45%) TestRail
12 4 (0.36%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.36%) MLflow
12 4 (0.36%) Selenium
12 4 (0.36%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 340 (30.85%) Social Skills
2 190 (17.24%) Finance
3 151 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (6.62%) Law
5 47 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 47 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
6 44 (3.99%) Legal
7 42 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
8 41 (3.72%) Retail
9 33 (2.99%) Public Sector
10 23 (2.09%) Banking
11 20 (1.81%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.63%) Advertising
12 18 (1.63%) Aerospace
13 15 (1.36%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.64%) Front Office
15 6 (0.54%) Electronics
15 6 (0.54%) Police
16 5 (0.45%) Aviation
16 5 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 194 (17.60%) Senior
2 140 (12.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 133 (12.07%) Analyst
4 115 (10.44%) Azure Engineer
4 115 (10.44%) Support Engineer
5 95 (8.62%) IT Support
6 82 (7.44%) Cloud Engineer
6 82 (7.44%) IT Engineer
7 76 (6.90%) Security Engineer
8 71 (6.44%) DevOps Engineer
9 53 (4.81%) IT Support Engineer
10 52 (4.72%) Lead
11 51 (4.63%) 2nd Line Support
12 49 (4.45%) Developer
13 45 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
14 44 (3.99%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 41 (3.72%) Security Analyst
16 38 (3.45%) Architect
17 36 (3.27%) Systems Engineer
18 34 (3.09%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (7.08%) .NET
2 62 (5.63%) OAuth
3 58 (5.26%) SAML
4 56 (5.08%) OpenID
4 56 (5.08%) REST
5 45 (4.08%) LDAP
6 39 (3.54%) .NET Core
7 36 (3.27%) JSON
8 33 (2.99%) SOAP
9 32 (2.90%) Microsoft Graph
10 31 (2.81%) CSS
11 30 (2.72%) HTML
12 29 (2.63%) ARM Templates
13 26 (2.36%) SPFx
13 26 (2.36%) YAML
14 24 (2.18%) GraphQL
15 19 (1.72%) HTML5 Canvas
15 19 (1.72%) React
16 16 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
17 15 (1.36%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 90 (8.17%) Onboarding
2 67 (6.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 53 (4.81%) Security Posture
4 51 (4.63%) Management Information System
5 50 (4.54%) Cloud Native
6 45 (4.08%) Cyber Defence
7 43 (3.90%) Security Operations Centre
8 42 (3.81%) Cyber Threat
9 38 (3.45%) Driving Licence
10 36 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
11 34 (3.09%) Cyberattack
11 34 (3.09%) Data Centre
12 29 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
13 28 (2.54%) Public Cloud
14 24 (2.18%) PKI
15 21 (1.91%) CMDB
16 19 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
17 18 (1.63%) Private Cloud
17 18 (1.63%) Replication
18 17 (1.54%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 514 (46.64%) Windows
2 251 (22.78%) Linux
3 240 (21.78%) Windows Server
4 72 (6.53%) Windows 10
5 47 (4.26%) Mac OS
6 46 (4.17%) Android
7 45 (4.08%) Apple iOS
8 32 (2.90%) Windows Server 2016
9 30 (2.72%) VMS
10 25 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 24 (2.18%) CentOS
11 24 (2.18%) Windows Server 2019
12 18 (1.63%) Ubuntu
13 13 (1.18%) Unix
14 7 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.45%) Debian
16 4 (0.36%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.27%) CoreOS
18 2 (0.18%) AIX
19 1 (0.091%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
2 248 (22.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 237 (21.51%) Cybersecurity
4 231 (20.96%) CI/CD
5 225 (20.42%) DevOps
6 194 (17.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 191 (17.33%) ITIL
8 184 (16.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 156 (14.16%) Incident Response
10 140 (12.70%) Mentoring
11 133 (12.07%) Agile
12 132 (11.98%) Root Cause Analysis
13 129 (11.71%) Disaster Recovery
14 116 (10.53%) SIEM
15 112 (10.16%) Containerisation
16 110 (9.98%) Cloud Security
17 99 (8.98%) Roadmaps
18 98 (8.89%) Security Operations
19 93 (8.44%) Task Automation
20 91 (8.26%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 453 (41.11%) Python
2 266 (24.14%) Bash
3 236 (21.42%) SQL
4 86 (7.80%) C#
5 73 (6.62%) JavaScript
6 67 (6.08%) Bicep
7 47 (4.26%) T-SQL
8 30 (2.72%) Kusto Query Language
9 22 (2.00%) Java
9 22 (2.00%) TypeScript
10 14 (1.27%) C++
11 12 (1.09%) Perl
12 11 (1.00%) VB
13 10 (0.91%) Go
13 10 (0.91%) VB.NET
14 9 (0.82%) PHP
14 9 (0.82%) VBA
15 7 (0.64%) C
15 7 (0.64%) VBScript
16 6 (0.54%) Korn
Qualifications
1 142 (12.89%) Degree
2 124 (11.25%) Security Cleared
3 103 (9.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 100 (9.07%) Azure Certification
5 70 (6.35%) SC Cleared
6 45 (4.08%) CISSP
7 41 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (2.99%) CompTIA Security+
10 30 (2.72%) DV Cleared
11 26 (2.36%) OSCP
12 25 (2.27%) CCNA
12 25 (2.27%) GIAC
13 24 (2.18%) CREST Certified
14 22 (2.00%) AWS Certification
15 21 (1.91%) CEH
16 20 (1.81%) DBS Check
17 17 (1.54%) CompTIA CySA+
18 12 (1.09%) CCSAM
18 12 (1.09%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (12.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 106 (9.62%) NIST
3 61 (5.54%) GDPR
4 42 (3.81%) SLA
5 31 (2.81%) Cyber Essentials
6 25 (2.27%) NCSC
7 19 (1.72%) Data Quality
8 18 (1.63%) ISO 22301
9 16 (1.45%) SOC 2
10 15 (1.36%) QA
11 14 (1.27%) PCI DSS
12 13 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
13 12 (1.09%) Accessibility
14 10 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.54%) DICOM
16 5 (0.45%) GRC
17 4 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 3 (0.27%) HIPAA
19 2 (0.18%) COBIT
19 2 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 401 (36.39%) Active Directory
2 148 (13.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 121 (10.98%) Docker
4 100 (9.07%) Hyper-V
5 48 (4.36%) vSphere
6 30 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (1.81%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (1.45%) BitLocker
9 15 (1.36%) Firmware
10 14 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
11 12 (1.09%) VMware NSX
12 10 (0.91%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 6 (0.54%) KVM
14 5 (0.45%) Squid
14 5 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.36%) iptables
15 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.36%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.36%) XenDesktop
16 2 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 249 (22.60%) Terraform
2 193 (17.51%) Kubernetes
3 171 (15.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 132 (11.98%) Ansible
5 55 (4.99%) Grafana
6 49 (4.45%) Single Sign-On
7 45 (4.08%) SCCM
8 36 (3.27%) Prometheus
9 23 (2.09%) Jamf Pro
10 19 (1.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 19 (1.72%) vCenter Server
11 15 (1.36%) Nessus
11 15 (1.36%) VxRail
12 13 (1.18%) QRadar
13 12 (1.09%) Packer
14 10 (0.91%) WSUS
14 10 (0.91%) ZABBIX
15 9 (0.82%) Nagios
16 8 (0.73%) Graylog
16 8 (0.73%) logstash
Vendors
1 634 (57.53%) Microsoft
2 199 (18.06%) VMware
3 89 (8.08%) Cisco
4 59 (5.35%) Splunk
5 50 (4.54%) Red Hat
6 49 (4.45%) ServiceNow
7 41 (3.72%) CrowdStrike
8 38 (3.45%) Veeam
9 30 (2.72%) Dell
9 30 (2.72%) Google
9 30 (2.72%) Meraki
10 28 (2.54%) Commvault
11 27 (2.45%) Citrix
12 26 (2.36%) Apple
12 26 (2.36%) Fortinet
12 26 (2.36%) Palo Alto
13 23 (2.09%) Oracle
14 22 (2.00%) CyberArk
14 22 (2.00%) Tenable
15 20 (1.81%) Sophos