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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 81 103
Rank change year-on-year -68 +22 -33
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,291 1,535 1,708
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.33% 3.52% 2.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.75% 12.56% 8.01%
Number of salaries quoted 950 1,023 1,195
10th Percentile £32,725 £33,150 £36,750
25th Percentile £41,938 £42,500 £45,108
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £59,125
% change year-on-year - -2.75% -1.46%

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 16,649 12,221 21,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.11% 28.04% 30.05%
Number of salaries quoted 12,206 8,152 14,743
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 3 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 3 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 -37 463 £70,000 -3.45% 416
South East -19 246 £52,500 -8.70% 168
North of England -73 231 £50,000 +5.26% 117
Midlands -38 158 £52,500 +5.00% 84
North West -71 135 £50,000 +8.70% 70
East of England -38 101 £57,500 +21.05% 66
South West -81 85 £55,000 +19.57% 72
East Midlands -8 81 £42,500 +21.43% 31
West Midlands -58 77 £55,000 - 53
Yorkshire -55 60 £42,500 -16.26% 31
North East -30 36 £50,000 -6.98% 17
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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
1 227 (17.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 218 (16.89%) SharePoint
3 53 (4.11%) IIS
4 37 (2.87%) Confluence
5 14 (1.08%) nginx
6 7 (0.54%) Apache
7 5 (0.39%) 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 70 (5.42%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 29 (2.25%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.46%) Raiser’s Edge
4 4 (0.31%) 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
1 808 (62.59%) Azure
2 504 (39.04%) Microsoft 365
3 373 (28.89%) Entra ID
4 245 (18.98%) AWS
5 158 (12.24%) Azure DevOps
6 108 (8.37%) OneDrive
7 103 (7.98%) Power Platform
8 100 (7.75%) SaaS
9 95 (7.36%) IaaS
10 93 (7.20%) GitHub
11 79 (6.12%) Azure Sentinel
12 77 (5.96%) Azure Monitor
13 74 (5.73%) Power Automate
14 70 (5.42%) Azure AKS
15 64 (4.96%) PaaS
16 62 (4.80%) Azure Key Vault
16 62 (4.80%) GCP
17 59 (4.57%) GitHub Actions
18 50 (3.87%) Datadog
19 45 (3.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 299 (23.16%) Firewall
2 283 (21.92%) DNS
3 187 (14.48%) DHCP
3 187 (14.48%) VPN
4 133 (10.30%) TCP/IP
5 81 (6.27%) WAN
6 72 (5.58%) LAN
7 68 (5.27%) VLAN
8 63 (4.88%) Network Security
9 51 (3.95%) Wireless
10 40 (3.10%) Wi-Fi
11 37 (2.87%) SAN
12 29 (2.25%) Kerberos
13 22 (1.70%) NAS
13 22 (1.70%) SSL
14 19 (1.47%) Internet
15 18 (1.39%) HTTP
16 13 (1.01%) VoIP
16 13 (1.01%) VSAN
17 10 (0.77%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (10.07%) SQL Server
2 83 (6.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 57 (4.42%) Power BI
4 23 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.70%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.24%) Relational Database
8 14 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 12 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (0.93%) MySQL
10 11 (0.85%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.70%) InfluxDB
11 9 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.46%) Power Query
12 6 (0.46%) Redis
13 5 (0.39%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.39%) Metadata
13 5 (0.39%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.31%) Db2
14 4 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 97 (7.51%) Git
2 95 (7.36%) JIRA
3 68 (5.27%) GitLab
4 57 (4.42%) Jenkins
5 24 (1.86%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
7 12 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 11 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
9 9 (0.70%) Robot Framework
9 9 (0.70%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.70%) TestRail
10 7 (0.54%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.54%) Selenium
11 6 (0.46%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.39%) Postman
13 3 (0.23%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.23%) JMeter
13 3 (0.23%) MSI
13 3 (0.23%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 450 (34.86%) Social Skills
2 212 (16.42%) Finance
3 178 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (7.90%) Law
5 55 (4.26%) Legal
6 54 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 49 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
8 43 (3.33%) Retail
9 38 (2.94%) Banking
10 35 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
11 34 (2.63%) Manufacturing
12 31 (2.40%) Public Sector
13 27 (2.09%) Aerospace
14 14 (1.08%) Advertising
15 11 (0.85%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (0.70%) Front Office
17 8 (0.62%) Aviation
18 7 (0.54%) Investment Banking
19 6 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 201 (15.57%) Senior
2 189 (14.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 144 (11.15%) Analyst
4 130 (10.07%) Azure Engineer
4 130 (10.07%) Support Engineer
5 128 (9.91%) Cloud Engineer
6 127 (9.84%) IT Engineer
7 110 (8.52%) IT Support
8 95 (7.36%) DevOps Engineer
9 71 (5.50%) Platform Engineer
10 66 (5.11%) IT Support Engineer
10 66 (5.11%) Lead
11 62 (4.80%) Security Engineer
12 56 (4.34%) Systems Engineer
13 55 (4.26%) Consultant
14 53 (4.11%) Developer
14 53 (4.11%) Support Analyst
15 46 (3.56%) Automation Engineer
16 42 (3.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 41 (3.18%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 337 (26.10%) Terraform
2 74 (5.73%) .NET
3 51 (3.95%) ARM Templates
4 44 (3.41%) REST
4 44 (3.41%) YAML
5 40 (3.10%) SAML
6 38 (2.94%) HTML
6 38 (2.94%) Microsoft Graph
7 36 (2.79%) OAuth
8 35 (2.71%) OpenID
9 34 (2.63%) LDAP
10 31 (2.40%) JSON
11 29 (2.25%) CSS
12 28 (2.17%) .NET Core
13 26 (2.01%) SPFx
14 20 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
15 18 (1.39%) HTML5 Canvas
16 14 (1.08%) RESTful
17 13 (1.01%) ASP.NET
17 13 (1.01%) React
Miscellaneous
1 114 (8.83%) Onboarding
2 83 (6.43%) Cloud Native
3 71 (5.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 69 (5.34%) Management Information System
5 67 (5.19%) Security Posture
6 66 (5.11%) Driving Licence
7 48 (3.72%) Data Centre
8 44 (3.41%) Public Cloud
9 41 (3.18%) Security Operations Centre
10 40 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
10 40 (3.10%) PKI
11 35 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
12 32 (2.48%) Replication
13 28 (2.17%) Private Cloud
14 25 (1.94%) Cyber Defence
15 21 (1.63%) CMDB
16 20 (1.55%) Clustering
17 18 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
17 18 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
18 17 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 644 (49.88%) Windows
2 305 (23.63%) Linux
3 297 (23.01%) Windows Server
4 79 (6.12%) Windows 10
5 54 (4.18%) Apple iOS
6 45 (3.49%) Android
7 38 (2.94%) VMS
8 37 (2.87%) Mac OS
8 37 (2.87%) Ubuntu
9 35 (2.71%) Windows Server 2016
10 33 (2.56%) CentOS
11 28 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 27 (2.09%) Windows Server 2019
13 13 (1.01%) Rocky
14 12 (0.93%) Unix
15 6 (0.46%) Solaris
16 5 (0.39%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.31%) Debian
17 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
18 3 (0.23%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (29.43%) Problem-Solving
2 319 (24.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 304 (23.55%) CI/CD
4 287 (22.23%) DevOps
5 283 (21.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 278 (21.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 270 (20.91%) ITIL
8 235 (18.20%) Cybersecurity
9 181 (14.02%) Disaster Recovery
10 154 (11.93%) Mentoring
11 152 (11.77%) Agile
11 152 (11.77%) Root Cause Analysis
12 147 (11.39%) AI
13 143 (11.08%) High Availability
13 143 (11.08%) Incident Response
14 128 (9.91%) Observability
15 127 (9.84%) Containerisation
15 127 (9.84%) Platform Engineering
16 126 (9.76%) Cloud Security
17 116 (8.99%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 491 (38.03%) Python
2 286 (22.15%) Bash
3 266 (20.60%) SQL
4 106 (8.21%) Bicep
5 89 (6.89%) JavaScript
6 85 (6.58%) C#
7 47 (3.64%) Kusto Query Language
8 37 (2.87%) Java
9 32 (2.48%) T-SQL
9 32 (2.48%) TypeScript
10 23 (1.78%) VBScript
11 19 (1.47%) C++
11 19 (1.47%) Perl
12 13 (1.01%) PHP
13 12 (0.93%) Ruby
14 10 (0.77%) VB
14 10 (0.77%) VBA
15 9 (0.70%) Go
16 6 (0.46%) C
16 6 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 168 (13.01%) Security Cleared
2 151 (11.70%) Degree
3 143 (11.08%) Azure Certification
4 135 (10.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 114 (8.83%) SC Cleared
6 53 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
6 53 (4.11%) CompTIA Security+
6 53 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 49 (3.80%) CISSP
8 47 (3.64%) DV Cleared
9 40 (3.10%) CCNA
10 27 (2.09%) CEH
11 23 (1.78%) DBS Check
12 22 (1.70%) AWS Certification
13 19 (1.47%) GIAC
13 19 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 19 (1.47%) OSCP
14 16 (1.24%) CISM
15 14 (1.08%) CCNP
15 14 (1.08%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (7.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 63 (4.88%) Cyber Essentials
3 54 (4.18%) NIST
4 43 (3.33%) GDPR
5 42 (3.25%) SLA
6 24 (1.86%) QA
7 19 (1.47%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.24%) SOC 2
9 13 (1.01%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.54%) PMO
12 5 (0.39%) ISO 22301
12 5 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.31%) Accessibility
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 (36.79%) Active Directory
2 220 (17.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 143 (11.08%) Hyper-V
4 130 (10.07%) Docker
5 75 (5.81%) vSphere
6 60 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
7 51 (3.95%) Virtual Desktop
8 22 (1.70%) BitLocker
9 20 (1.55%) 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 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.077%) Ceph
16 1 (0.077%) iptables
Systems Management
1 233 (18.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 214 (16.58%) Kubernetes
3 162 (12.55%) Ansible
4 80 (6.20%) Grafana
5 66 (5.11%) SCCM
6 48 (3.72%) Single Sign-On
7 42 (3.25%) Prometheus
8 23 (1.78%) ZABBIX
9 22 (1.70%) vCenter Server
10 21 (1.63%) QRadar
11 20 (1.55%) Argo
11 20 (1.55%) Packer
11 20 (1.55%) Proxmox
12 19 (1.47%) Puppet
13 17 (1.32%) Jamf Pro
14 15 (1.16%) Graylog
15 14 (1.08%) FortiGate
16 13 (1.01%) VxRail
17 9 (0.70%) Kibana
17 9 (0.70%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 833 (64.52%) Microsoft
2 256 (19.83%) VMware
3 111 (8.60%) Cisco
4 106 (8.21%) ServiceNow
5 85 (6.58%) Splunk
6 62 (4.80%) Veeam
7 51 (3.95%) Red Hat
8 44 (3.41%) Oracle
9 40 (3.10%) Meraki
10 39 (3.02%) Citrix
11 33 (2.56%) Dynatrace
11 33 (2.56%) Sophos
12 32 (2.48%) Dell
13 28 (2.17%) Tenable
14 27 (2.09%) Sage
15 26 (2.01%) CrowdStrike
16 24 (1.86%) Fortinet
17 23 (1.78%) Apple
17 23 (1.78%) CyberArk
18 22 (1.70%) Palo Alto