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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 85 100
Rank change year-on-year -65 +15 -34
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,299 1,520 1,702
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.30% 3.50% 2.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.72% 12.81% 8.09%
Number of salaries quoted 947 1,008 1,150
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,125 £42,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,250 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £95,000
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 16,823 11,869 21,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.79% 27.31% 30.43%
Number of salaries quoted 12,332 7,839 13,864
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -33 469 £70,000 -3.45% 284
South East -36 242 £52,500 -8.70% 137
North of England -79 234 £50,000 +2.04% 113
Midlands -45 159 £52,500 +5.00% 71
North West -73 138 £50,000 +9.89% 69
East of England -41 103 £57,500 +21.05% 45
South West -77 85 £55,000 +15.79% 47
East Midlands -22 80 £42,500 +21.43% 33
West Midlands -61 79 £55,000 - 38
Yorkshire -47 60 £42,500 -19.05% 29
North East -30 36 £50,000 - 16
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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
1 228 (17.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 223 (17.17%) SharePoint
3 54 (4.16%) IIS
4 40 (3.08%) Confluence
5 15 (1.15%) nginx
6 8 (0.62%) Apache
7 5 (0.38%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.31%) SAS
9 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.077%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.077%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.077%) WebSphere
Applications
1 71 (5.47%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (2.77%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.46%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.38%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.23%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.077%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 804 (61.89%) Azure
2 509 (39.18%) Microsoft 365
3 381 (29.33%) Entra ID
4 243 (18.71%) AWS
5 159 (12.24%) Azure DevOps
6 110 (8.47%) OneDrive
7 107 (8.24%) Power Platform
8 106 (8.16%) SaaS
9 97 (7.47%) IaaS
10 91 (7.01%) GitHub
11 79 (6.08%) Azure Monitor
12 78 (6.00%) Azure Sentinel
13 77 (5.93%) Power Automate
14 70 (5.39%) Azure AKS
15 65 (5.00%) PaaS
16 63 (4.85%) Azure Key Vault
17 62 (4.77%) GCP
18 57 (4.39%) GitHub Actions
19 48 (3.70%) Datadog
20 47 (3.62%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 304 (23.40%) Firewall
2 287 (22.09%) DNS
3 189 (14.55%) DHCP
3 189 (14.55%) VPN
4 134 (10.32%) TCP/IP
5 82 (6.31%) WAN
6 73 (5.62%) LAN
7 66 (5.08%) VLAN
8 63 (4.85%) Network Security
9 51 (3.93%) Wireless
10 41 (3.16%) Wi-Fi
11 37 (2.85%) SAN
12 29 (2.23%) Kerberos
13 22 (1.69%) NAS
13 22 (1.69%) SSL
14 18 (1.39%) HTTP
14 18 (1.39%) Internet
15 13 (1.00%) VSAN
16 11 (0.85%) VoIP
17 10 (0.77%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (10.16%) SQL Server
2 83 (6.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 60 (4.62%) Power BI
4 23 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.69%) MongoDB
6 16 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (1.23%) Relational Database
7 14 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (0.92%) MySQL
9 11 (0.85%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (0.62%) InfluxDB
12 7 (0.54%) Power Query
13 6 (0.46%) Metadata
13 6 (0.46%) Redis
14 5 (0.38%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.38%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.31%) Db2
15 4 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 97 (7.47%) JIRA
2 92 (7.08%) Git
3 67 (5.16%) GitLab
4 55 (4.23%) Jenkins
5 22 (1.69%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
7 12 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 10 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
9 9 (0.69%) TeamCity
10 8 (0.62%) Robot Framework
10 8 (0.62%) TestRail
11 6 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.46%) Selenium
11 6 (0.46%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.38%) Postman
13 4 (0.31%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.23%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.23%) JMeter
14 3 (0.23%) MSI
14 3 (0.23%) Terragrunt
General
1 459 (35.33%) Social Skills
2 215 (16.55%) Finance
3 178 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (7.78%) Law
5 56 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 54 (4.16%) Legal
7 50 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
8 43 (3.31%) Retail
9 41 (3.16%) Banking
10 36 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
11 35 (2.69%) Manufacturing
12 31 (2.39%) Public Sector
13 27 (2.08%) Aerospace
14 14 (1.08%) Advertising
15 11 (0.85%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (0.69%) Aviation
17 8 (0.62%) Front Office
18 7 (0.54%) Investment Banking
19 6 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 204 (15.70%) Senior
2 192 (14.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 152 (11.70%) Analyst
4 133 (10.24%) Azure Engineer
5 129 (9.93%) Cloud Engineer
5 129 (9.93%) Support Engineer
6 126 (9.70%) IT Engineer
7 108 (8.31%) IT Support
8 93 (7.16%) DevOps Engineer
9 70 (5.39%) Platform Engineer
10 67 (5.16%) Lead
11 66 (5.08%) IT Support Engineer
12 62 (4.77%) Security Engineer
13 61 (4.70%) Consultant
14 60 (4.62%) Support Analyst
15 56 (4.31%) Systems Engineer
16 53 (4.08%) Developer
17 46 (3.54%) Automation Engineer
18 42 (3.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
18 42 (3.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 334 (25.71%) Terraform
2 73 (5.62%) .NET
3 51 (3.93%) ARM Templates
4 46 (3.54%) REST
5 44 (3.39%) YAML
6 39 (3.00%) Microsoft Graph
6 39 (3.00%) SAML
7 37 (2.85%) HTML
8 36 (2.77%) OpenID
9 35 (2.69%) OAuth
10 34 (2.62%) LDAP
11 30 (2.31%) JSON
12 28 (2.16%) CSS
13 27 (2.08%) .NET Core
14 26 (2.00%) SPFx
15 19 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
16 17 (1.31%) HTML5 Canvas
17 14 (1.08%) RESTful
18 13 (1.00%) ASP.NET
18 13 (1.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 117 (9.01%) Onboarding
2 83 (6.39%) Cloud Native
3 72 (5.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 71 (5.47%) Management Information System
5 70 (5.39%) Driving Licence
6 66 (5.08%) Security Posture
7 48 (3.70%) Data Centre
8 42 (3.23%) PKI
8 42 (3.23%) Public Cloud
9 41 (3.16%) Security Operations Centre
10 40 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
11 35 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
12 32 (2.46%) Replication
13 26 (2.00%) Private Cloud
14 25 (1.92%) Cyber Defence
15 20 (1.54%) Clustering
15 20 (1.54%) CMDB
15 20 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
16 17 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
17 16 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 644 (49.58%) Windows
2 306 (23.56%) Linux
3 297 (22.86%) Windows Server
4 82 (6.31%) Windows 10
5 53 (4.08%) Apple iOS
6 44 (3.39%) Android
7 39 (3.00%) Ubuntu
7 39 (3.00%) VMS
8 35 (2.69%) Mac OS
8 35 (2.69%) Windows Server 2016
9 34 (2.62%) CentOS
10 28 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 27 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
12 15 (1.15%) Rocky
13 14 (1.08%) Unix
14 7 (0.54%) Solaris
15 5 (0.38%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.31%) Debian
16 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
17 3 (0.23%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
2 318 (24.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 300 (23.09%) CI/CD
4 288 (22.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 287 (22.09%) DevOps
6 283 (21.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 277 (21.32%) ITIL
8 236 (18.17%) Cybersecurity
9 180 (13.86%) Disaster Recovery
10 153 (11.78%) AI
10 153 (11.78%) Mentoring
11 152 (11.70%) Agile
11 152 (11.70%) Root Cause Analysis
12 142 (10.93%) High Availability
13 141 (10.85%) Incident Response
14 131 (10.08%) Cloud Security
15 126 (9.70%) Observability
16 125 (9.62%) Platform Engineering
17 123 (9.47%) Containerisation
18 119 (9.16%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 490 (37.72%) Python
2 283 (21.79%) Bash
3 271 (20.86%) SQL
4 108 (8.31%) Bicep
5 91 (7.01%) JavaScript
6 84 (6.47%) C#
7 47 (3.62%) Kusto Query Language
8 37 (2.85%) Java
9 32 (2.46%) T-SQL
10 31 (2.39%) TypeScript
11 23 (1.77%) VBScript
12 20 (1.54%) C++
12 20 (1.54%) Perl
13 13 (1.00%) PHP
13 13 (1.00%) Ruby
14 10 (0.77%) VB
14 10 (0.77%) VBA
15 9 (0.69%) Go
16 7 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (0.46%) C
Qualifications
1 169 (13.01%) Security Cleared
2 154 (11.86%) Degree
3 141 (10.85%) Azure Certification
4 138 (10.62%) Microsoft Certification
5 115 (8.85%) SC Cleared
6 54 (4.16%) Cisco Certification
6 54 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 53 (4.08%) CompTIA Security+
8 49 (3.77%) CISSP
8 49 (3.77%) DV Cleared
9 41 (3.16%) CCNA
10 27 (2.08%) CEH
11 23 (1.77%) DBS Check
12 21 (1.62%) AWS Certification
13 19 (1.46%) GIAC
13 19 (1.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 19 (1.46%) OSCP
14 16 (1.23%) CISM
15 14 (1.08%) CompTIA CySA+
16 13 (1.00%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (7.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 62 (4.77%) Cyber Essentials
3 54 (4.16%) NIST
4 44 (3.39%) SLA
5 42 (3.23%) GDPR
6 23 (1.77%) QA
7 20 (1.54%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.23%) SOC 2
9 13 (1.00%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.54%) PMO
12 5 (0.38%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.38%) ISO 22301
12 5 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.31%) NCSC
14 3 (0.23%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.15%) EMIR
15 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 475 (36.57%) Active Directory
2 221 (17.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 140 (10.78%) Hyper-V
4 127 (9.78%) Docker
5 77 (5.93%) vSphere
6 61 (4.70%) Virtual Machines
7 52 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
8 22 (1.69%) BitLocker
9 20 (1.54%) VMware NSX
10 14 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.62%) KVM
11 8 (0.62%) Squid
12 7 (0.54%) Firmware
13 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.077%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 236 (18.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 207 (15.94%) Kubernetes
3 156 (12.01%) Ansible
4 76 (5.85%) Grafana
5 66 (5.08%) SCCM
6 49 (3.77%) Single Sign-On
7 39 (3.00%) Prometheus
8 23 (1.77%) ZABBIX
9 21 (1.62%) QRadar
9 21 (1.62%) vCenter Server
10 20 (1.54%) Argo
10 20 (1.54%) Proxmox
11 19 (1.46%) Packer
12 18 (1.39%) Puppet
13 16 (1.23%) FortiGate
13 16 (1.23%) Jamf Pro
14 15 (1.15%) Graylog
15 12 (0.92%) VxRail
16 9 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 9 (0.69%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 844 (64.97%) Microsoft
2 257 (19.78%) VMware
3 111 (8.55%) Cisco
4 105 (8.08%) ServiceNow
5 82 (6.31%) Splunk
6 62 (4.77%) Veeam
7 50 (3.85%) Red Hat
8 45 (3.46%) Oracle
9 41 (3.16%) Citrix
10 38 (2.93%) Meraki
11 34 (2.62%) Sage
12 33 (2.54%) Dell
13 32 (2.46%) Sophos
14 31 (2.39%) Dynatrace
15 28 (2.16%) Tenable
16 27 (2.08%) SAP
17 26 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
18 25 (1.92%) Fortinet
19 23 (1.77%) Apple
19 23 (1.77%) CyberArk