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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 82 106
Rank change year-on-year -64 +24 -33
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,296 1,572 1,747
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.35% 3.59% 2.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.76% 12.65% 8.07%
Number of salaries quoted 964 1,047 1,269
10th Percentile £32,000 £33,900 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,500 £59,850
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -3.93% -0.25%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,875 £80,000
90th Percentile £89,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year - -0.86% -3.33%

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 16,697 12,426 21,636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.40% 28.35% 29.68%
Number of salaries quoted 12,210 8,299 15,512
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.11% -5.84%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -31 476 £70,000 -3.45% 119
South East -26 248 £52,500 -8.70% 111
North of England -82 226 £50,000 +5.26% 64
Midlands -37 157 £52,500 +5.00% 54
North West -83 127 £50,801 +10.44% 46
East of England -38 101 £57,500 +13.86% 32
East Midlands -6 83 £42,500 +21.43% 19
South West -78 83 £55,000 +19.57% 41
West Midlands -52 74 £55,000 - 35
Yorkshire -28 63 £42,500 -17.68% 13
North East -27 36 £50,000 +5.26% 6
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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
1 221 (17.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 209 (16.13%) SharePoint
3 53 (4.09%) IIS
4 34 (2.62%) Confluence
5 13 (1.00%) 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 77 (5.94%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 20 (1.54%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.46%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.23%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.23%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.077%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 822 (63.43%) Azure
2 495 (38.19%) Microsoft 365
3 364 (28.09%) Entra ID
4 243 (18.75%) AWS
5 151 (11.65%) Azure DevOps
6 102 (7.87%) OneDrive
7 101 (7.79%) Power Platform
8 97 (7.48%) IaaS
8 97 (7.48%) SaaS
9 92 (7.10%) GitHub
10 75 (5.79%) Azure Sentinel
11 72 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
12 69 (5.32%) Power Automate
13 68 (5.25%) Azure AKS
14 65 (5.02%) PaaS
15 64 (4.94%) GCP
16 62 (4.78%) Azure Key Vault
17 57 (4.40%) GitHub Actions
18 50 (3.86%) Datadog
19 48 (3.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 300 (23.15%) Firewall
2 280 (21.60%) DNS
3 184 (14.20%) VPN
4 183 (14.12%) DHCP
5 136 (10.49%) TCP/IP
6 82 (6.33%) WAN
7 73 (5.63%) LAN
8 69 (5.32%) Network Security
9 62 (4.78%) VLAN
10 46 (3.55%) Wireless
11 40 (3.09%) Wi-Fi
12 36 (2.78%) SAN
13 30 (2.31%) Kerberos
14 22 (1.70%) NAS
14 22 (1.70%) SSL
15 18 (1.39%) HTTP
15 18 (1.39%) Internet
16 13 (1.00%) VoIP
16 13 (1.00%) VSAN
17 10 (0.77%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (10.11%) SQL Server
2 83 (6.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 58 (4.48%) Power BI
4 25 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.70%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (1.31%) Relational Database
7 14 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 13 (1.00%) MySQL
9 12 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (0.93%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (0.54%) InfluxDB
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
1 100 (7.72%) Git
2 95 (7.33%) JIRA
3 63 (4.86%) GitLab
4 55 (4.24%) Jenkins
5 27 (2.08%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (0.77%) TeamCity
9 7 (0.54%) Robot Framework
9 7 (0.54%) TestRail
10 6 (0.46%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.46%) Selenium
10 6 (0.46%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.39%) Postman
12 3 (0.23%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.23%) JMeter
12 3 (0.23%) MSI
12 3 (0.23%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.15%) NUnit
General
1 436 (33.64%) Social Skills
2 216 (16.67%) Finance
3 178 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (8.33%) Law
5 57 (4.40%) Legal
6 54 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
8 43 (3.32%) Retail
9 37 (2.85%) Banking
10 33 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
11 32 (2.47%) Manufacturing
12 30 (2.31%) Public Sector
13 27 (2.08%) Aerospace
14 16 (1.23%) Advertising
15 12 (0.93%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.69%) Front Office
18 8 (0.62%) Investment Banking
19 7 (0.54%) Military
19 7 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 200 (15.43%) Senior
2 179 (13.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 145 (11.19%) Analyst
4 131 (10.11%) Azure Engineer
4 131 (10.11%) Support Engineer
5 127 (9.80%) Cloud Engineer
6 125 (9.65%) IT Engineer
7 117 (9.03%) IT Support
8 94 (7.25%) DevOps Engineer
9 68 (5.25%) Platform Engineer
10 67 (5.17%) Security Engineer
11 66 (5.09%) IT Support Engineer
12 65 (5.02%) Lead
13 57 (4.40%) Developer
14 56 (4.32%) Systems Engineer
15 50 (3.86%) Support Analyst
16 47 (3.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 46 (3.55%) Consultant
18 45 (3.47%) 2nd Line Support
18 45 (3.47%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 337 (26.00%) Terraform
2 79 (6.10%) .NET
3 52 (4.01%) ARM Templates
4 45 (3.47%) REST
4 45 (3.47%) YAML
5 42 (3.24%) SAML
6 41 (3.16%) HTML
7 38 (2.93%) Microsoft Graph
7 38 (2.93%) OAuth
8 36 (2.78%) OpenID
9 35 (2.70%) LDAP
10 32 (2.47%) JSON
11 31 (2.39%) .NET Core
11 31 (2.39%) CSS
12 24 (1.85%) SPFx
13 19 (1.47%) HTML5 Canvas
14 18 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
15 14 (1.08%) ASP.NET
15 14 (1.08%) React
15 14 (1.08%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 112 (8.64%) Onboarding
2 82 (6.33%) Cloud Native
3 69 (5.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 67 (5.17%) Management Information System
4 67 (5.17%) Security Posture
5 64 (4.94%) Driving Licence
6 47 (3.63%) Data Centre
7 43 (3.32%) Security Operations Centre
8 42 (3.24%) Public Cloud
9 39 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
9 39 (3.01%) PKI
10 36 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
11 28 (2.16%) Private Cloud
12 27 (2.08%) Replication
13 26 (2.01%) Cyber Defence
14 21 (1.62%) CMDB
15 20 (1.54%) Clustering
16 19 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
16 19 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
17 17 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 642 (49.54%) Windows
2 308 (23.77%) Linux
3 295 (22.76%) Windows Server
4 77 (5.94%) Windows 10
5 52 (4.01%) Apple iOS
6 44 (3.40%) Android
7 41 (3.16%) Mac OS
8 37 (2.85%) VMS
9 34 (2.62%) Ubuntu
9 34 (2.62%) Windows Server 2016
10 29 (2.24%) CentOS
10 29 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 25 (1.93%) Windows Server 2019
12 13 (1.00%) Unix
13 8 (0.62%) Rocky
14 5 (0.39%) CoreOS
14 5 (0.39%) Solaris
15 4 (0.31%) Debian
15 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
16 3 (0.23%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (28.09%) Problem-Solving
2 318 (24.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 309 (23.84%) CI/CD
4 287 (22.15%) DevOps
5 273 (21.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 270 (20.83%) ITIL
7 268 (20.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 235 (18.13%) Cybersecurity
9 174 (13.43%) Disaster Recovery
10 163 (12.58%) Root Cause Analysis
11 157 (12.11%) Incident Response
12 152 (11.73%) Agile
13 149 (11.50%) High Availability
14 145 (11.19%) Mentoring
15 140 (10.80%) AI
16 128 (9.88%) Containerisation
17 125 (9.65%) Observability
18 124 (9.57%) Cloud Security
19 123 (9.49%) SIEM
20 120 (9.26%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 502 (38.73%) Python
2 286 (22.07%) Bash
3 265 (20.45%) SQL
4 107 (8.26%) Bicep
5 89 (6.87%) C#
6 86 (6.64%) JavaScript
7 49 (3.78%) Kusto Query Language
8 40 (3.09%) Java
9 33 (2.55%) TypeScript
10 32 (2.47%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.62%) VBScript
12 19 (1.47%) C++
13 18 (1.39%) Perl
14 14 (1.08%) PHP
15 11 (0.85%) Ruby
16 10 (0.77%) VBA
17 9 (0.69%) Go
17 9 (0.69%) VB
18 7 (0.54%) C
19 6 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 166 (12.81%) Security Cleared
2 158 (12.19%) Degree
3 148 (11.42%) Azure Certification
4 133 (10.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 114 (8.80%) SC Cleared
6 55 (4.24%) Cisco Certification
6 55 (4.24%) CompTIA Security+
6 55 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 51 (3.94%) CISSP
8 47 (3.63%) DV Cleared
9 42 (3.24%) CCNA
10 28 (2.16%) CEH
11 24 (1.85%) DBS Check
12 22 (1.70%) AWS Certification
12 22 (1.70%) GIAC
13 21 (1.62%) OSCP
14 18 (1.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 16 (1.23%) CISM
16 15 (1.16%) CCNP
17 14 (1.08%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (7.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 63 (4.86%) NIST
3 62 (4.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 47 (3.63%) GDPR
5 44 (3.40%) SLA
6 25 (1.93%) QA
7 19 (1.47%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.23%) SOC 2
9 14 (1.08%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.54%) PMO
12 6 (0.46%) ISO 22301
13 5 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.31%) Accessibility
14 4 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.31%) NCSC
15 3 (0.23%) ISAE 3402
16 2 (0.15%) EMIR
16 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 478 (36.88%) Active Directory
2 215 (16.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 143 (11.03%) Hyper-V
4 129 (9.95%) Docker
5 77 (5.94%) vSphere
6 55 (4.24%) Virtual Machines
7 49 (3.78%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.77%) BitLocker
9 20 (1.54%) VMware NSX
10 14 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
11 9 (0.69%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.62%) Firmware
12 8 (0.62%) KVM
12 8 (0.62%) Squid
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%) Samba
Systems Management
1 224 (17.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 222 (17.13%) Kubernetes
3 164 (12.65%) Ansible
4 79 (6.10%) Grafana
5 64 (4.94%) SCCM
6 47 (3.63%) Single Sign-On
7 43 (3.32%) Prometheus
8 23 (1.77%) ZABBIX
9 22 (1.70%) vCenter Server
10 21 (1.62%) QRadar
11 20 (1.54%) Argo
11 20 (1.54%) Jamf Pro
11 20 (1.54%) Packer
11 20 (1.54%) Proxmox
12 19 (1.47%) Puppet
13 15 (1.16%) Graylog
14 13 (1.00%) VxRail
15 11 (0.85%) FortiGate
16 10 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 9 (0.69%) Nagios
Vendors
1 828 (63.89%) Microsoft
2 252 (19.44%) VMware
3 115 (8.87%) Cisco
4 108 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 87 (6.71%) Splunk
6 56 (4.32%) Veeam
7 52 (4.01%) Red Hat
8 45 (3.47%) Meraki
8 45 (3.47%) Oracle
9 39 (3.01%) Citrix
10 34 (2.62%) Dynatrace
11 33 (2.55%) Sophos
12 31 (2.39%) Dell
13 30 (2.31%) Tenable
14 29 (2.24%) CrowdStrike
15 24 (1.85%) Apple
16 23 (1.77%) CyberArk
16 23 (1.77%) Fortinet
17 22 (1.70%) Palo Alto
18 21 (1.62%) Okta