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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 91 74
Rank change year-on-year -30 -17 +13
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,053 1,399 2,271
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.79% 3.12% 3.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.51% 9.08% 9.41%
Number of salaries quoted 846 990 1,984
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,700 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -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 11,075 15,414 24,127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.84% 34.36% 36.57%
Number of salaries quoted 8,227 9,255 20,610
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 13 February 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 13 February 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 -8 450 £70,000 -8.50% 127
South East -34 188 £57,500 -4.17% 134
North of England -19 138 £48,445 -7.72% 82
South West +1 103 £55,000 +1.85% 38
Midlands -40 91 £52,500 +5.00% 45
East of England 0 65 £40,000 -23.81% 30
Yorkshire -25 62 £47,500 -9.52% 24
North West -21 60 £50,000 -4.76% 46
West Midlands -42 46 £47,500 -5.00% 25
East Midlands -17 44 £55,000 +8.91% 21
North East +1 16 £47,500 -17.39% 12
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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
1 168 (15.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 126 (11.97%) SharePoint
3 36 (3.42%) IIS
4 22 (2.09%) Exchange Server 2003
5 15 (1.42%) Confluence
6 8 (0.76%) Skype for Business
7 6 (0.57%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.19%) CMS
9 2 (0.19%) WordPress
10 1 (0.095%) nginx
10 1 (0.095%) Site Server
Applications
1 38 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.57%) Siemens NX
4 5 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.28%) CATIA
5 3 (0.28%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.28%) Windchill
6 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.57%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.47%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.19%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.19%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.095%) Actimize
7 1 (0.095%) Alphatax
7 1 (0.095%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.095%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 659 (62.58%) Azure
2 359 (34.09%) Microsoft 365
3 277 (26.31%) Entra ID
4 190 (18.04%) AWS
5 135 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
6 108 (10.26%) Power Platform
7 75 (7.12%) GCP
8 74 (7.03%) GitHub
9 62 (5.89%) PaaS
10 56 (5.32%) GitHub Actions
11 51 (4.84%) Power Automate
12 50 (4.75%) SaaS
13 49 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
14 44 (4.18%) IaaS
15 42 (3.99%) OneDrive
16 41 (3.89%) Google Workspace
17 35 (3.32%) Azure Sentinel
18 31 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
19 28 (2.66%) Serverless
20 27 (2.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 195 (18.52%) DNS
2 194 (18.42%) Firewall
3 155 (14.72%) DHCP
4 108 (10.26%) VPN
5 95 (9.02%) TCP/IP
6 68 (6.46%) WAN
7 62 (5.89%) LAN
8 45 (4.27%) VLAN
9 44 (4.18%) Wi-Fi
10 34 (3.23%) Wireless
11 33 (3.13%) Network Security
12 29 (2.75%) SAN
13 28 (2.66%) SD-WAN
14 27 (2.56%) Broadband
15 25 (2.37%) VoIP
16 16 (1.52%) VSAN
17 14 (1.33%) Internet
18 12 (1.14%) NAS
18 12 (1.14%) WinSCP
19 10 (0.95%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (12.44%) SQL Server
2 79 (7.50%) Power BI
3 32 (3.04%) Relational Database
4 30 (2.85%) Oracle Database
5 28 (2.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 26 (2.47%) Oracle Database 10g
7 24 (2.28%) MySQL
8 21 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (1.23%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.23%) Tableau
12 12 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 11 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (0.76%) MongoDB
15 7 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
16 5 (0.47%) Data Lake
16 5 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
16 5 (0.47%) InfluxDB
16 5 (0.47%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 73 (6.93%) Git
2 70 (6.65%) JIRA
3 68 (6.46%) Jenkins
4 35 (3.32%) GitLab
5 25 (2.37%) Octopus Deploy
6 17 (1.61%) Bitbucket
7 16 (1.52%) TeamCity
8 12 (1.14%) Burp Suite
8 12 (1.14%) Metasploit
9 11 (1.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 8 (0.76%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (0.57%) Robot Framework
12 5 (0.47%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.38%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.38%) MLflow
13 4 (0.38%) Toad
14 3 (0.28%) Balsamiq
14 3 (0.28%) Eclipse
14 3 (0.28%) JMeter
General
1 366 (34.76%) Social Skills
2 223 (21.18%) Finance
3 117 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (4.65%) Retail
5 44 (4.18%) Law
6 41 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
7 36 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
8 35 (3.32%) Public Sector
9 34 (3.23%) Legal
10 32 (3.04%) Banking
11 28 (2.66%) Telecoms
12 26 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 22 (2.09%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.85%) Advertising
17 8 (0.76%) Front Office
18 7 (0.66%) Aerospace
18 7 (0.66%) Local Government
19 6 (0.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 139 (13.20%) Senior
2 134 (12.73%) Support Engineer
3 123 (11.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 93 (8.83%) Analyst
5 87 (8.26%) Azure Engineer
6 75 (7.12%) DevOps Engineer
6 75 (7.12%) IT Support
7 71 (6.74%) Developer
8 70 (6.65%) Security Engineer
9 64 (6.08%) IT Engineer
10 62 (5.89%) Cloud Engineer
11 56 (5.32%) Lead
12 51 (4.84%) 3rd Line Support
13 48 (4.56%) Platform Engineer
14 45 (4.27%) IT Support Engineer
15 42 (3.99%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 39 (3.70%) Applications Support
17 35 (3.32%) Support Analyst
18 33 (3.13%) Applications Engineer
18 33 (3.13%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (7.03%) REST
2 65 (6.17%) .NET
3 42 (3.99%) OAuth
3 42 (3.99%) OpenID
4 39 (3.70%) SAML
4 39 (3.70%) SOAP
5 35 (3.32%) JSON
6 33 (3.13%) YAML
7 32 (3.04%) LDAP
8 26 (2.47%) GraphQL
9 25 (2.37%) ARM Templates
10 23 (2.18%) React
11 16 (1.52%) AngularJS
11 16 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
12 15 (1.42%) Microsoft Graph
13 14 (1.33%) .NET Core
13 14 (1.33%) Middleware
13 14 (1.33%) Node.js
14 12 (1.14%) Web Services
15 11 (1.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 87 (8.26%) Onboarding
2 68 (6.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 56 (5.32%) Security Posture
4 42 (3.99%) Enterprise Software
5 41 (3.89%) Management Information System
6 33 (3.13%) Driving Licence
7 31 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
8 30 (2.85%) Cloud Native
9 29 (2.75%) Data Centre
9 29 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
10 26 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
10 26 (2.47%) Cyber Defence
10 26 (2.47%) Cyberattack
11 21 (1.99%) PKI
12 20 (1.90%) CMDB
13 19 (1.80%) Hedge funds
14 18 (1.71%) Security Operations Centre
15 16 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
16 15 (1.42%) Private Cloud
16 15 (1.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 466 (44.25%) Windows
2 251 (23.84%) Windows Server
3 186 (17.66%) Linux
4 66 (6.27%) Windows 10
5 51 (4.84%) Mac OS
6 41 (3.89%) Unix
7 35 (3.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 33 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 30 (2.85%) Android
10 26 (2.47%) Windows Server 2008
11 24 (2.28%) Solaris
11 24 (2.28%) VMS
12 22 (2.09%) HPUX
12 22 (2.09%) Windows 7
12 22 (2.09%) Windows Server 2003
13 19 (1.80%) Apple iOS
14 18 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 17 (1.61%) CentOS
16 13 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
17 10 (0.95%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (30.58%) Problem-Solving
2 260 (24.69%) DevOps
3 202 (19.18%) CI/CD
4 196 (18.61%) ITIL
5 183 (17.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 175 (16.62%) Cybersecurity
6 175 (16.62%) Infrastructure as Code
7 173 (16.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 147 (13.96%) Disaster Recovery
9 129 (12.25%) Mentoring
10 117 (11.11%) Agile
11 112 (10.64%) Task Automation
12 110 (10.45%) Root Cause Analysis
13 104 (9.88%) Incident Response
14 94 (8.93%) Cloud Security
15 91 (8.64%) Migration
16 89 (8.45%) Business Intelligence
16 89 (8.45%) Computer Science
17 84 (7.98%) Incident Management
18 82 (7.79%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 355 (33.71%) Python
2 231 (21.94%) Bash
3 228 (21.65%) SQL
4 89 (8.45%) C#
5 61 (5.79%) Bicep
6 56 (5.32%) JavaScript
7 53 (5.03%) T-SQL
8 25 (2.37%) Perl
9 21 (1.99%) Go
9 21 (1.99%) Kusto Query Language
10 17 (1.61%) Java
11 12 (1.14%) VB
12 10 (0.95%) VB.NET
12 10 (0.95%) VBScript
13 7 (0.66%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.66%) TypeScript
14 6 (0.57%) PHP
15 5 (0.47%) C++
16 4 (0.38%) Delphi
16 4 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 159 (15.10%) Degree
2 136 (12.92%) Security Cleared
3 99 (9.40%) Microsoft Certification
4 81 (7.69%) Azure Certification
5 79 (7.50%) SC Cleared
6 54 (5.13%) DV Cleared
7 43 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (3.89%) CISSP
9 35 (3.32%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (2.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 26 (2.47%) AWS Certification
12 24 (2.28%) CREST Certified
13 21 (1.99%) CEH
14 19 (1.80%) CompTIA CySA+
15 18 (1.71%) GIAC
16 17 (1.61%) CCNA
17 16 (1.52%) DBS Check
18 15 (1.42%) OSCP
19 14 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
20 13 (1.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 129 (12.25%) NIST
3 56 (5.32%) GDPR
4 52 (4.94%) SLA
5 39 (3.70%) NCSC
6 29 (2.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 27 (2.56%) Accessibility
8 18 (1.71%) ISO 22301
9 17 (1.61%) Data Quality
9 17 (1.61%) QA
10 14 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 13 (1.23%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.57%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.47%) DICOM
14 5 (0.47%) GRC
15 3 (0.28%) HL7
15 3 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.19%) COBIT
17 1 (0.095%) HIPAA
System Software
1 393 (37.32%) Active Directory
2 126 (11.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 92 (8.74%) Docker
4 86 (8.17%) Hyper-V
5 38 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
6 33 (3.13%) vSphere
7 23 (2.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 20 (1.90%) Firmware
9 16 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (0.95%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.66%) VMware NSX
12 6 (0.57%) XenApp
12 6 (0.57%) XenDesktop
13 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.28%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.28%) iptables
14 3 (0.28%) vCloud
15 2 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 2 (0.19%) KVM
15 2 (0.19%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 202 (19.18%) Terraform
2 159 (15.10%) Microsoft Intune
3 133 (12.63%) Kubernetes
4 119 (11.30%) Ansible
5 42 (3.99%) SCCM
6 37 (3.51%) Single Sign-On
7 33 (3.13%) Grafana
8 20 (1.90%) Prometheus
9 18 (1.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 13 (1.23%) SCOM
11 12 (1.14%) Puppet
11 12 (1.14%) vCenter Server
12 10 (0.95%) WSUS
13 9 (0.85%) FortiGate
13 9 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
13 9 (0.85%) Nessus
14 8 (0.76%) Progress Chef
14 8 (0.76%) SCVMM
14 8 (0.76%) VxRail
15 7 (0.66%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 557 (52.90%) Microsoft
2 207 (19.66%) VMware
3 85 (8.07%) Cisco
4 53 (5.03%) Oracle
4 53 (5.03%) ServiceNow
5 47 (4.46%) Veeam
6 39 (3.70%) Google
7 37 (3.51%) Splunk
8 36 (3.42%) Atlassian
9 33 (3.13%) Palo Alto
10 29 (2.75%) Citrix
11 27 (2.56%) Red Hat
12 26 (2.47%) Commvault
13 25 (2.37%) CyberArk
14 23 (2.18%) Fortinet
15 22 (2.09%) CrowdStrike
15 22 (2.09%) SolarWinds
16 21 (1.99%) Dell
17 19 (1.80%) Meraki
17 19 (1.80%) SAP