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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 93 99
Rank change year-on-year -50 +6 -8
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,098 1,286 2,184
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.36% 3.30% 2.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.75% 10.17% 8.07%
Number of salaries quoted 836 989 1,838
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,650 £35,925
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,625 £95,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £59,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.36% +8.18% -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 14,165 12,641 27,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.54% 32.47% 32.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,929 9,112 22,446
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,250
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 £112,375 £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 8 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 8 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 -10 513 £70,000 -9.68% 117
South East -101 154 £55,000 -4.35% 121
North of England -39 146 £47,500 -3.36% 64
Midlands -48 117 £50,000 - 35
South West -41 85 £55,000 +15.79% 31
North West -27 72 £51,500 +11.96% 36
East of England -29 71 £57,500 +21.05% 25
East Midlands -19 68 £55,000 +37.50% 18
Yorkshire -29 57 £47,500 -19.49% 18
West Midlands -65 48 £48,000 -4.00% 17
North East -31 17 £46,500 -19.13% 10
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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
1 156 (14.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 140 (12.75%) SharePoint
3 37 (3.37%) IIS
4 18 (1.64%) Confluence
5 4 (0.36%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.18%) Apache
6 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.091%) CMS
7 1 (0.091%) Site Server
7 1 (0.091%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.091%) WordPress
Applications
1 51 (4.64%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.091%) CATIA
4 1 (0.091%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.091%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.091%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.091%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.091%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) 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
4 1 (0.091%) Actimize
4 1 (0.091%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.091%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.091%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.091%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.091%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.091%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 703 (64.03%) Azure
2 397 (36.16%) Microsoft 365
3 282 (25.68%) Entra ID
4 202 (18.40%) AWS
5 101 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
6 96 (8.74%) Power Platform
7 83 (7.56%) GitHub
8 73 (6.65%) SaaS
9 70 (6.38%) OneDrive
10 67 (6.10%) GCP
11 61 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
12 60 (5.46%) IaaS
13 52 (4.74%) Azure Sentinel
14 45 (4.10%) Power Automate
15 44 (4.01%) PaaS
16 43 (3.92%) Azure Logic Apps
16 43 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
17 42 (3.83%) Google Workspace
18 40 (3.64%) Azure AKS
19 36 (3.28%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 213 (19.40%) Firewall
2 204 (18.58%) DNS
3 126 (11.48%) VPN
4 125 (11.38%) DHCP
5 90 (8.20%) TCP/IP
6 61 (5.56%) Network Security
7 57 (5.19%) WAN
8 55 (5.01%) LAN
9 45 (4.10%) VLAN
10 42 (3.83%) Wi-Fi
11 34 (3.10%) VoIP
12 33 (3.01%) SAN
13 28 (2.55%) Broadband
14 23 (2.09%) Wireless
15 14 (1.28%) SD-WAN
16 13 (1.18%) Internet
16 13 (1.18%) Kerberos
16 13 (1.18%) VSAN
17 12 (1.09%) BGP
17 12 (1.09%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (12.30%) SQL Server
2 78 (7.10%) Power BI
3 50 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 28 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (2.28%) MySQL
7 23 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 20 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 16 (1.46%) NoSQL
9 16 (1.46%) Relational Database
10 13 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (1.18%) Tableau
11 12 (1.09%) MongoDB
12 9 (0.82%) Data Lake
13 8 (0.73%) InfluxDB
14 7 (0.64%) Metadata
15 5 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
16 4 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 3 (0.27%) Power Query
17 3 (0.27%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 89 (8.11%) Git
2 58 (5.28%) Jenkins
2 58 (5.28%) JIRA
3 52 (4.74%) GitLab
4 29 (2.64%) Bitbucket
5 16 (1.46%) Octopus Deploy
6 13 (1.18%) Metasploit
6 13 (1.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 12 (1.09%) TeamCity
8 9 (0.82%) Burp Suite
8 9 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (0.73%) CircleCI
9 8 (0.73%) Robot Framework
10 6 (0.55%) TestRail
11 4 (0.36%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.36%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.36%) MLflow
11 4 (0.36%) Selenium
11 4 (0.36%) SonarQube
General
1 349 (31.79%) Social Skills
2 190 (17.30%) Finance
3 148 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (6.19%) Law
5 48 (4.37%) Organisational Skills
6 45 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (4.01%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (4.01%) Legal
8 42 (3.83%) Retail
9 34 (3.10%) Public Sector
10 24 (2.19%) Banking
11 23 (2.09%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.55%) Advertising
13 16 (1.46%) Aerospace
13 16 (1.46%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.73%) Front Office
15 7 (0.64%) Electronics
16 6 (0.55%) Military
16 6 (0.55%) Police
17 4 (0.36%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 187 (17.03%) Senior
2 138 (12.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 128 (11.66%) Analyst
4 115 (10.47%) Support Engineer
5 113 (10.29%) Azure Engineer
6 92 (8.38%) IT Support
7 78 (7.10%) Cloud Engineer
7 78 (7.10%) IT Engineer
8 77 (7.01%) Security Engineer
9 70 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
10 55 (5.01%) Developer
11 52 (4.74%) Lead
12 50 (4.55%) 2nd Line Support
12 50 (4.55%) IT Support Engineer
13 45 (4.10%) Platform Engineer
14 39 (3.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 39 (3.55%) Security Analyst
15 37 (3.37%) Architect
16 34 (3.10%) Support Analyst
16 34 (3.10%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (6.92%) .NET
2 61 (5.56%) OAuth
3 57 (5.19%) SAML
4 56 (5.10%) OpenID
4 56 (5.10%) REST
5 42 (3.83%) LDAP
6 39 (3.55%) .NET Core
7 35 (3.19%) JSON
8 33 (3.01%) SOAP
9 32 (2.91%) CSS
9 32 (2.91%) Microsoft Graph
10 30 (2.73%) ARM Templates
10 30 (2.73%) HTML
11 28 (2.55%) SPFx
12 25 (2.28%) GraphQL
13 22 (2.00%) YAML
14 20 (1.82%) React
15 19 (1.73%) HTML5 Canvas
16 16 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
17 15 (1.37%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 91 (8.29%) Onboarding
2 70 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 51 (4.64%) Security Posture
4 50 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 48 (4.37%) Cloud Native
6 43 (3.92%) Cyber Defence
6 43 (3.92%) Cyber Threat
7 40 (3.64%) Security Operations Centre
8 38 (3.46%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (3.28%) Driving Licence
10 34 (3.10%) Cyberattack
11 33 (3.01%) Data Centre
12 30 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
13 29 (2.64%) Public Cloud
14 22 (2.00%) PKI
15 21 (1.91%) CMDB
16 19 (1.73%) Private Cloud
17 18 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
18 17 (1.55%) Replication
19 16 (1.46%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 509 (46.36%) Windows
2 250 (22.77%) Linux
3 239 (21.77%) Windows Server
4 74 (6.74%) Windows 10
5 47 (4.28%) Mac OS
6 46 (4.19%) Android
6 46 (4.19%) Apple iOS
7 33 (3.01%) Windows Server 2016
8 30 (2.73%) VMS
9 25 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 23 (2.09%) CentOS
10 23 (2.09%) Windows Server 2019
11 16 (1.46%) Ubuntu
12 13 (1.18%) Unix
13 8 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (0.46%) Debian
15 4 (0.36%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.27%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.18%) AIX
18 1 (0.091%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (25.87%) Problem-Solving
2 247 (22.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 230 (20.95%) CI/CD
4 227 (20.67%) Cybersecurity
5 225 (20.49%) DevOps
6 194 (17.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 193 (17.58%) ITIL
8 192 (17.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 154 (14.03%) Incident Response
10 138 (12.57%) Mentoring
11 128 (11.66%) Disaster Recovery
12 126 (11.48%) Agile
13 123 (11.20%) Root Cause Analysis
14 112 (10.20%) SIEM
15 111 (10.11%) Cloud Security
16 110 (10.02%) Containerisation
17 97 (8.83%) Roadmaps
18 94 (8.56%) Task Automation
19 93 (8.47%) Security Operations
20 88 (8.01%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 442 (40.26%) Python
2 266 (24.23%) Bash
3 239 (21.77%) SQL
4 83 (7.56%) C#
5 76 (6.92%) JavaScript
6 66 (6.01%) Bicep
7 50 (4.55%) T-SQL
8 31 (2.82%) Kusto Query Language
9 23 (2.09%) TypeScript
10 21 (1.91%) Java
11 12 (1.09%) C++
12 11 (1.00%) VB
13 10 (0.91%) Go
13 10 (0.91%) Perl
13 10 (0.91%) VB.NET
13 10 (0.91%) VBA
14 8 (0.73%) PHP
15 7 (0.64%) C
16 6 (0.55%) Delphi
16 6 (0.55%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 146 (13.30%) Degree
2 124 (11.29%) Security Cleared
3 101 (9.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 92 (8.38%) Azure Certification
5 66 (6.01%) SC Cleared
6 45 (4.10%) CISSP
7 42 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (3.10%) DV Cleared
9 33 (3.01%) Cisco Certification
10 30 (2.73%) CompTIA Security+
11 26 (2.37%) OSCP
12 24 (2.19%) CCNA
12 24 (2.19%) GIAC
13 23 (2.09%) CREST Certified
14 22 (2.00%) AWS Certification
15 20 (1.82%) CEH
16 19 (1.73%) DBS Check
17 18 (1.64%) CompTIA CySA+
18 13 (1.18%) CISA
19 12 (1.09%) CCSAM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (12.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 107 (9.74%) NIST
3 62 (5.65%) GDPR
4 42 (3.83%) SLA
5 30 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 26 (2.37%) NCSC
7 20 (1.82%) Data Quality
8 19 (1.73%) ISO 22301
9 17 (1.55%) QA
10 16 (1.46%) SOC 2
11 14 (1.28%) PCI DSS
12 13 (1.18%) Accessibility
12 13 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.55%) DICOM
15 5 (0.46%) GRC
16 4 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 3 (0.27%) HIPAA
18 2 (0.18%) COBIT
18 2 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 400 (36.43%) Active Directory
2 145 (13.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 123 (11.20%) Docker
4 97 (8.83%) Hyper-V
5 45 (4.10%) vSphere
6 30 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
7 21 (1.91%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (1.46%) BitLocker
9 15 (1.37%) Firmware
10 14 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
11 12 (1.09%) VMware NSX
12 10 (0.91%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 5 (0.46%) Squid
13 5 (0.46%) Terminal Services
13 5 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.36%) iptables
14 4 (0.36%) KVM
14 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.36%) XenDesktop
15 2 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 250 (22.77%) Terraform
2 188 (17.12%) Kubernetes
3 167 (15.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 136 (12.39%) Ansible
5 53 (4.83%) Grafana
6 46 (4.19%) Single Sign-On
7 45 (4.10%) SCCM
8 34 (3.10%) Prometheus
9 23 (2.09%) Jamf Pro
10 19 (1.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 18 (1.64%) vCenter Server
12 14 (1.28%) Nessus
12 14 (1.28%) VxRail
13 12 (1.09%) Packer
14 10 (0.91%) QRadar
15 9 (0.82%) WSUS
16 8 (0.73%) FortiGate
16 8 (0.73%) logstash
16 8 (0.73%) Nagios
16 8 (0.73%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 620 (56.47%) Microsoft
2 196 (17.85%) VMware
3 88 (8.01%) Cisco
4 57 (5.19%) Splunk
5 52 (4.74%) Red Hat
6 51 (4.64%) ServiceNow
7 42 (3.83%) CrowdStrike
8 34 (3.10%) Veeam
9 31 (2.82%) Google
10 30 (2.73%) Dell
11 29 (2.64%) Citrix
12 28 (2.55%) Commvault
13 27 (2.46%) Meraki
13 27 (2.46%) Palo Alto
14 25 (2.28%) Apple
14 25 (2.28%) Fortinet
15 23 (2.09%) Oracle
16 22 (2.00%) CyberArk
17 21 (1.91%) Tenable
18 19 (1.73%) SolarWinds