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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 89 91
Rank change year-on-year -51 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,098 1,228 2,304
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.48% 3.36% 2.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.27% 10.03% 8.63%
Number of salaries quoted 861 1,011 1,973
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £35,325
25th Percentile £42,000 £46,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 13,277 12,245 26,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.93% 33.51% 33.28%
Number of salaries quoted 9,478 9,354 22,468
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,532
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £64,266 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.13% +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 10 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 10 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 -5 505 £70,000 -12.50% 123
South East -57 186 £58,000 +0.87% 97
North of England -67 133 £47,500 -9.52% 66
Midlands -66 99 £52,500 +5.00% 45
South West -33 95 £55,000 +15.79% 60
North West -39 67 £55,000 +17.02% 35
East of England -48 67 £40,000 -27.27% 34
East Midlands -35 56 £55,000 +15.79% 16
Yorkshire -41 54 £47,500 -11.63% 16
West Midlands -57 42 £48,000 -4.00% 29
North East -33 12 £45,000 -21.74% 15
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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
1 170 (15.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 128 (11.66%) SharePoint
3 34 (3.10%) IIS
4 19 (1.73%) Exchange Server 2003
5 14 (1.28%) 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 (0.091%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.091%) Site Server
Applications
1 47 (4.28%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.27%) CATIA
4 3 (0.27%) Siemens NX
4 3 (0.27%) SOLIDWORKS
4 3 (0.27%) Windchill
5 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.091%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.27%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.27%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.18%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.091%) Actimize
5 1 (0.091%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.091%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.091%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 698 (63.57%) Azure
2 383 (34.88%) Microsoft 365
3 277 (25.23%) Entra ID
4 196 (17.85%) AWS
5 104 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
6 94 (8.56%) Power Platform
7 86 (7.83%) GitHub
8 70 (6.38%) GCP
9 66 (6.01%) SaaS
10 63 (5.74%) GitHub Actions
11 55 (5.01%) OneDrive
12 54 (4.92%) IaaS
13 53 (4.83%) PaaS
14 43 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
14 43 (3.92%) Google Workspace
15 40 (3.64%) Azure Logic Apps
15 40 (3.64%) Azure Sentinel
16 38 (3.46%) Power Automate
17 35 (3.19%) Datadog
17 35 (3.19%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 209 (19.03%) DNS
2 201 (18.31%) Firewall
3 154 (14.03%) DHCP
4 120 (10.93%) VPN
5 95 (8.65%) TCP/IP
6 56 (5.10%) Network Security
7 54 (4.92%) WAN
8 53 (4.83%) LAN
9 47 (4.28%) VLAN
10 43 (3.92%) Wi-Fi
11 34 (3.10%) VoIP
12 33 (3.01%) SAN
13 30 (2.73%) Wireless
14 28 (2.55%) Broadband
15 22 (2.00%) SD-WAN
16 14 (1.28%) VSAN
17 12 (1.09%) WinSCP
18 11 (1.00%) Internet
19 10 (0.91%) Cisco IOS
19 10 (0.91%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (11.66%) SQL Server
2 79 (7.19%) Power BI
3 33 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
4 29 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (2.37%) MySQL
6 25 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (2.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 24 (2.19%) Oracle Database
8 22 (2.00%) Oracle Database 10g
9 20 (1.82%) Relational Database
10 17 (1.55%) NoSQL
11 16 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 14 (1.28%) Tableau
13 11 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (0.73%) MongoDB
15 7 (0.64%) InfluxDB
16 6 (0.55%) Data Lake
16 6 (0.55%) Metadata
17 5 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
18 4 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 86 (7.83%) Git
2 62 (5.65%) Jenkins
3 59 (5.37%) JIRA
4 45 (4.10%) GitLab
5 27 (2.46%) Bitbucket
6 19 (1.73%) Octopus Deploy
7 14 (1.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 13 (1.18%) Metasploit
8 13 (1.18%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.82%) Burp Suite
10 8 (0.73%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.73%) Robot Framework
10 8 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.46%) TestRail
13 4 (0.36%) Balsamiq
13 4 (0.36%) MLflow
13 4 (0.36%) SonarQube
14 3 (0.27%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.27%) Cypress.io
General
1 349 (31.79%) Social Skills
2 204 (18.58%) Finance
3 138 (12.57%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (6.10%) Law
5 50 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
6 44 (4.01%) Documentation Skills
7 40 (3.64%) Legal
8 39 (3.55%) Retail
9 36 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 33 (3.01%) Public Sector
11 30 (2.73%) Banking
12 22 (2.00%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.55%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.28%) Advertising
15 9 (0.82%) Aerospace
15 9 (0.82%) Front Office
16 8 (0.73%) Military
17 6 (0.55%) Investment Banking
18 5 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
18 5 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 166 (15.12%) Senior
2 141 (12.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 129 (11.75%) Support Engineer
4 109 (9.93%) Analyst
5 106 (9.65%) Azure Engineer
6 98 (8.93%) IT Support
7 76 (6.92%) IT Engineer
8 75 (6.83%) Cloud Engineer
8 75 (6.83%) Security Engineer
9 65 (5.92%) DevOps Engineer
10 57 (5.19%) Lead
11 55 (5.01%) IT Support Engineer
12 53 (4.83%) 3rd Line Support
13 49 (4.46%) Developer
14 48 (4.37%) 2nd Line Support
14 48 (4.37%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 44 (4.01%) Platform Engineer
16 41 (3.73%) Architect
17 35 (3.19%) Security Analyst
18 32 (2.91%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (5.92%) .NET
2 56 (5.10%) REST
3 54 (4.92%) OAuth
4 49 (4.46%) SAML
5 48 (4.37%) OpenID
6 35 (3.19%) LDAP
7 32 (2.91%) SOAP
8 31 (2.82%) .NET Core
9 29 (2.64%) JSON
10 26 (2.37%) ARM Templates
10 26 (2.37%) YAML
11 25 (2.28%) GraphQL
12 22 (2.00%) Microsoft Graph
13 19 (1.73%) CSS
14 18 (1.64%) SPFx
15 17 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
15 17 (1.55%) HTML
15 17 (1.55%) React
16 16 (1.46%) Node.js
17 11 (1.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 90 (8.20%) Onboarding
2 70 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 56 (5.10%) Security Posture
4 46 (4.19%) Management Information System
5 42 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
6 40 (3.64%) Cyber Threat
7 39 (3.55%) Cloud Native
7 39 (3.55%) Driving Licence
8 38 (3.46%) Cyber Defence
9 33 (3.01%) Cyberattack
10 31 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
11 30 (2.73%) Security Operations Centre
12 29 (2.64%) Data Centre
13 27 (2.46%) Public Cloud
14 22 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
15 21 (1.91%) PKI
16 19 (1.73%) CMDB
17 18 (1.64%) Replication
18 17 (1.55%) Low-Code
18 17 (1.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 514 (46.81%) Windows
2 250 (22.77%) Windows Server
3 238 (21.68%) Linux
4 67 (6.10%) Windows 10
5 54 (4.92%) Mac OS
6 39 (3.55%) Android
7 38 (3.46%) Apple iOS
8 37 (3.37%) Unix
9 36 (3.28%) Windows Server 2016
10 29 (2.64%) Windows Server 2019
11 27 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 22 (2.00%) CentOS
12 22 (2.00%) VMS
13 21 (1.91%) Solaris
14 19 (1.73%) HPUX
14 19 (1.73%) Windows 7
14 19 (1.73%) Windows Server 2003
14 19 (1.73%) Windows Server 2008
15 16 (1.46%) Ubuntu
16 8 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (27.87%) Problem-Solving
2 231 (21.04%) DevOps
3 218 (19.85%) CI/CD
4 216 (19.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 208 (18.94%) Cybersecurity
6 205 (18.67%) ITIL
7 200 (18.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 180 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 143 (13.02%) Incident Response
10 136 (12.39%) Disaster Recovery
11 134 (12.20%) Mentoring
12 121 (11.02%) Agile
13 114 (10.38%) Root Cause Analysis
14 104 (9.47%) Cloud Security
15 100 (9.11%) SIEM
16 99 (9.02%) Containerisation
17 98 (8.93%) Task Automation
18 93 (8.47%) Roadmaps
19 87 (7.92%) Business Intelligence
20 85 (7.74%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 415 (37.80%) Python
2 254 (23.13%) Bash
3 223 (20.31%) SQL
4 69 (6.28%) JavaScript
5 68 (6.19%) C#
6 64 (5.83%) Bicep
7 52 (4.74%) T-SQL
8 31 (2.82%) Kusto Query Language
9 26 (2.37%) Perl
10 18 (1.64%) Java
11 13 (1.18%) TypeScript
12 12 (1.09%) Go
13 9 (0.82%) C++
13 9 (0.82%) VB
13 9 (0.82%) VB.NET
14 7 (0.64%) C
14 7 (0.64%) PHP
15 6 (0.55%) Delphi
15 6 (0.55%) Ruby
16 5 (0.46%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 149 (13.57%) Degree
2 138 (12.57%) Security Cleared
3 92 (8.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 87 (7.92%) Azure Certification
5 81 (7.38%) SC Cleared
6 57 (5.19%) DV Cleared
7 51 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 44 (4.01%) CISSP
9 31 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
10 24 (2.19%) CREST Certified
10 24 (2.19%) GIAC
11 23 (2.09%) AWS Certification
11 23 (2.09%) OSCP
12 22 (2.00%) CEH
12 22 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
13 20 (1.82%) CCNA
13 20 (1.82%) CompTIA CySA+
14 17 (1.55%) DBS Check
15 12 (1.09%) CISA
15 12 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (13.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 126 (11.48%) NIST
3 64 (5.83%) GDPR
4 60 (5.46%) SLA
5 34 (3.10%) NCSC
6 28 (2.55%) Cyber Essentials
7 20 (1.82%) ISO 22301
8 18 (1.64%) Data Quality
9 17 (1.55%) QA
10 16 (1.46%) Accessibility
11 15 (1.37%) PCI DSS
12 14 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
13 12 (1.09%) SOC 2
14 11 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.55%) DICOM
16 5 (0.46%) GRC
17 4 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 3 (0.27%) HIPAA
19 2 (0.18%) COBIT
19 2 (0.18%) HL7
System Software
1 411 (37.43%) Active Directory
2 133 (12.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 116 (10.56%) Docker
4 98 (8.93%) Hyper-V
5 42 (3.83%) vSphere
6 31 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (1.46%) Firmware
8 15 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.82%) BitLocker
9 9 (0.82%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.73%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 7 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.36%) iptables
12 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.36%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.36%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.27%) XenApp
14 2 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.18%) KVM
Systems Management
1 232 (21.13%) Terraform
2 171 (15.57%) Kubernetes
3 160 (14.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 134 (12.20%) Ansible
5 49 (4.46%) Grafana
6 45 (4.10%) SCCM
7 42 (3.83%) Single Sign-On
8 31 (2.82%) Prometheus
9 22 (2.00%) Jamf Pro
10 18 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (1.55%) vCenter Server
12 13 (1.18%) Nessus
13 12 (1.09%) VxRail
14 10 (0.91%) FortiGate
15 9 (0.82%) Puppet
16 8 (0.73%) Progress Chef
17 7 (0.64%) logstash
17 7 (0.64%) WSUS
18 6 (0.55%) SCOM
18 6 (0.55%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 611 (55.65%) Microsoft
2 221 (20.13%) VMware
3 99 (9.02%) Cisco
4 53 (4.83%) Splunk
5 52 (4.74%) ServiceNow
6 48 (4.37%) Red Hat
7 45 (4.10%) Oracle
8 43 (3.92%) Veeam
9 35 (3.19%) Google
10 34 (3.10%) Commvault
10 34 (3.10%) CrowdStrike
10 34 (3.10%) Palo Alto
11 28 (2.55%) Dell
12 27 (2.46%) Meraki
13 26 (2.37%) Citrix
13 26 (2.37%) CyberArk
14 25 (2.28%) Fortinet
15 23 (2.09%) Apple
16 20 (1.82%) Dynatrace
17 19 (1.73%) Atlassian