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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 85 102
Rank change year-on-year -62 +17 -33
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,288 1,514 1,685
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.31% 3.51% 2.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.70% 12.79% 8.07%
Number of salaries quoted 946 1,004 1,167
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £46,000
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 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -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 16,727 11,836 20,886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.05% 27.42% 30.15%
Number of salaries quoted 12,268 7,818 14,238
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,231
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £108,750
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 5 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 5 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 -32 460 £70,000 -3.45% 318
South East -24 244 £52,500 -8.70% 144
North of England -84 231 £50,000 +5.26% 97
Midlands -35 161 £52,500 +5.00% 73
North West -69 135 £50,000 +8.70% 64
East of England -41 101 £57,500 +21.05% 54
South West -79 84 £55,000 +22.22% 59
East Midlands -16 82 £42,500 +21.43% 25
West Midlands -61 79 £55,000 - 48
Yorkshire -48 60 £42,500 -17.68% 20
North East -36 36 £50,000 - 14
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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
1 225 (17.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 220 (17.08%) SharePoint
3 54 (4.19%) IIS
4 37 (2.87%) Confluence
5 15 (1.16%) nginx
6 8 (0.62%) Apache
7 5 (0.39%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.31%) SAS
9 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.078%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.078%) WebSphere
Applications
1 69 (5.36%) 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 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 29 (2.25%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.47%) Raiser’s Edge
4 4 (0.31%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.23%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.16%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.078%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 806 (62.58%) Azure
2 505 (39.21%) Microsoft 365
3 375 (29.11%) Entra ID
4 244 (18.94%) AWS
5 158 (12.27%) Azure DevOps
6 109 (8.46%) OneDrive
7 104 (8.07%) Power Platform
8 99 (7.69%) SaaS
9 95 (7.38%) IaaS
10 93 (7.22%) GitHub
11 79 (6.13%) Azure Sentinel
12 77 (5.98%) Azure Monitor
12 77 (5.98%) Power Automate
13 69 (5.36%) Azure AKS
14 64 (4.97%) PaaS
15 62 (4.81%) Azure Key Vault
15 62 (4.81%) GCP
16 59 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
17 50 (3.88%) Datadog
18 45 (3.49%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 299 (23.21%) Firewall
2 283 (21.97%) DNS
3 187 (14.52%) DHCP
3 187 (14.52%) VPN
4 132 (10.25%) TCP/IP
5 81 (6.29%) WAN
6 72 (5.59%) LAN
7 68 (5.28%) VLAN
8 62 (4.81%) Network Security
9 51 (3.96%) Wireless
10 40 (3.11%) Wi-Fi
11 37 (2.87%) SAN
12 29 (2.25%) Kerberos
13 22 (1.71%) NAS
13 22 (1.71%) SSL
14 19 (1.48%) Internet
15 18 (1.40%) HTTP
16 13 (1.01%) VoIP
16 13 (1.01%) VSAN
17 10 (0.78%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (10.02%) SQL Server
2 83 (6.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 57 (4.43%) Power BI
4 23 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.71%) MongoDB
6 16 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (1.24%) Relational Database
7 14 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (0.93%) MySQL
9 11 (0.85%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.70%) InfluxDB
10 9 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.47%) Power Query
11 6 (0.47%) Redis
12 5 (0.39%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.39%) Metadata
12 5 (0.39%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.31%) Db2
13 4 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 97 (7.53%) Git
2 95 (7.38%) JIRA
3 68 (5.28%) GitLab
4 56 (4.35%) Jenkins
5 22 (1.71%) 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 (0.47%) 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
1 452 (35.09%) Social Skills
2 210 (16.30%) Finance
3 178 (13.82%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (7.92%) Law
5 55 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (4.27%) Legal
6 49 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
7 43 (3.34%) Retail
8 38 (2.95%) Banking
9 37 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
10 35 (2.72%) Manufacturing
11 30 (2.33%) Public Sector
12 27 (2.10%) Aerospace
13 14 (1.09%) Advertising
14 11 (0.85%) Financial Institution
14 11 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (0.70%) Aviation
15 9 (0.70%) Front Office
16 7 (0.54%) Investment Banking
17 6 (0.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 200 (15.53%) Senior
2 188 (14.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 144 (11.18%) Analyst
4 129 (10.02%) Azure Engineer
4 129 (10.02%) Support Engineer
5 127 (9.86%) Cloud Engineer
6 126 (9.78%) IT Engineer
7 111 (8.62%) IT Support
8 94 (7.30%) DevOps Engineer
9 71 (5.51%) Platform Engineer
10 68 (5.28%) Lead
11 66 (5.12%) IT Support Engineer
12 62 (4.81%) Security Engineer
13 55 (4.27%) Consultant
13 55 (4.27%) Systems Engineer
14 53 (4.11%) Developer
14 53 (4.11%) Support Analyst
15 46 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
16 42 (3.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 41 (3.18%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 334 (25.93%) Terraform
2 74 (5.75%) .NET
3 51 (3.96%) ARM Templates
4 45 (3.49%) REST
5 44 (3.42%) YAML
6 40 (3.11%) SAML
7 39 (3.03%) Microsoft Graph
8 38 (2.95%) HTML
9 36 (2.80%) OAuth
10 35 (2.72%) OpenID
11 34 (2.64%) LDAP
12 31 (2.41%) JSON
13 29 (2.25%) CSS
14 28 (2.17%) .NET Core
15 27 (2.10%) SPFx
16 20 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
17 18 (1.40%) HTML5 Canvas
18 14 (1.09%) RESTful
19 13 (1.01%) ASP.NET
19 13 (1.01%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 114 (8.85%) Onboarding
2 82 (6.37%) Cloud Native
3 71 (5.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 69 (5.36%) Management Information System
5 67 (5.20%) Security Posture
6 66 (5.12%) Driving Licence
7 47 (3.65%) Data Centre
8 44 (3.42%) Public Cloud
9 41 (3.18%) Security Operations Centre
10 40 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
10 40 (3.11%) PKI
11 35 (2.72%) 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 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
17 18 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
18 17 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 642 (49.84%) Windows
2 304 (23.60%) Linux
3 297 (23.06%) Windows Server
4 79 (6.13%) Windows 10
5 54 (4.19%) Apple iOS
6 45 (3.49%) Android
7 38 (2.95%) Ubuntu
7 38 (2.95%) VMS
8 37 (2.87%) Mac OS
9 35 (2.72%) Windows Server 2016
10 33 (2.56%) CentOS
11 28 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 27 (2.10%) Windows Server 2019
13 13 (1.01%) Rocky
14 11 (0.85%) Unix
15 6 (0.47%) Solaris
16 5 (0.39%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.31%) Debian
17 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
18 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (29.50%) Problem-Solving
2 317 (24.61%) Infrastructure as Code
3 301 (23.37%) CI/CD
4 285 (22.13%) DevOps
5 284 (22.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 277 (21.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 268 (20.81%) ITIL
8 236 (18.32%) Cybersecurity
9 181 (14.05%) Disaster Recovery
10 155 (12.03%) Mentoring
11 153 (11.88%) Agile
12 152 (11.80%) Root Cause Analysis
13 148 (11.49%) AI
14 142 (11.02%) High Availability
14 142 (11.02%) Incident Response
15 127 (9.86%) Observability
15 127 (9.86%) Platform Engineering
16 126 (9.78%) Cloud Security
17 125 (9.70%) Containerisation
18 115 (8.93%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 487 (37.81%) Python
2 284 (22.05%) Bash
3 265 (20.57%) SQL
4 106 (8.23%) Bicep
5 88 (6.83%) JavaScript
6 85 (6.60%) C#
7 47 (3.65%) Kusto Query Language
8 37 (2.87%) Java
9 32 (2.48%) T-SQL
9 32 (2.48%) TypeScript
10 23 (1.79%) VBScript
11 19 (1.48%) C++
11 19 (1.48%) Perl
12 13 (1.01%) PHP
13 12 (0.93%) Ruby
14 10 (0.78%) VB
14 10 (0.78%) VBA
15 9 (0.70%) Go
16 6 (0.47%) C
16 6 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 168 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 151 (11.72%) Degree
3 143 (11.10%) Azure Certification
4 135 (10.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 114 (8.85%) 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 (3.65%) DV Cleared
9 40 (3.11%) CCNA
10 27 (2.10%) CEH
11 23 (1.79%) DBS Check
12 21 (1.63%) AWS Certification
13 19 (1.48%) GIAC
13 19 (1.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 19 (1.48%) OSCP
14 16 (1.24%) CISM
15 14 (1.09%) CCNP
15 14 (1.09%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (7.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 63 (4.89%) Cyber Essentials
3 54 (4.19%) NIST
4 43 (3.34%) GDPR
4 43 (3.34%) SLA
5 24 (1.86%) QA
6 19 (1.48%) Data Quality
7 16 (1.24%) SOC 2
8 13 (1.01%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (0.54%) PMO
11 5 (0.39%) ISO 22301
11 5 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.31%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.31%) NCSC
13 3 (0.23%) ISAE 3402
14 2 (0.16%) EMIR
14 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 475 (36.88%) Active Directory
2 221 (17.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 141 (10.95%) Hyper-V
4 129 (10.02%) Docker
5 75 (5.82%) vSphere
6 59 (4.58%) Virtual Machines
7 51 (3.96%) Virtual Desktop
8 22 (1.71%) BitLocker
9 20 (1.55%) VMware NSX
10 14 (1.09%) 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 (0.078%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 234 (18.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 212 (16.46%) Kubernetes
3 160 (12.42%) Ansible
4 79 (6.13%) Grafana
5 66 (5.12%) SCCM
6 48 (3.73%) Single Sign-On
7 41 (3.18%) Prometheus
8 23 (1.79%) ZABBIX
9 22 (1.71%) vCenter Server
10 21 (1.63%) QRadar
11 20 (1.55%) Argo
11 20 (1.55%) Packer
11 20 (1.55%) Proxmox
12 18 (1.40%) Jamf Pro
12 18 (1.40%) Puppet
13 15 (1.16%) Graylog
14 14 (1.09%) FortiGate
15 13 (1.01%) VxRail
16 9 (0.70%) Kibana
16 9 (0.70%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 834 (64.75%) Microsoft
2 257 (19.95%) VMware
3 111 (8.62%) Cisco
4 106 (8.23%) ServiceNow
5 85 (6.60%) Splunk
6 62 (4.81%) Veeam
7 51 (3.96%) Red Hat
8 44 (3.42%) Oracle
9 40 (3.11%) Citrix
9 40 (3.11%) Meraki
10 33 (2.56%) Dynatrace
10 33 (2.56%) Sophos
11 32 (2.48%) Dell
12 28 (2.17%) Tenable
13 27 (2.10%) Sage
14 26 (2.02%) CrowdStrike
15 24 (1.86%) Apple
15 24 (1.86%) Fortinet
16 23 (1.79%) CyberArk
17 22 (1.71%) SAP