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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 93 102
Rank change year-on-year -50 +9 -8
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,110 1,303 2,174
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.37% 3.34% 2.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.76% 10.26% 8.02%
Number of salaries quoted 847 990 1,827
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,700 £35,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 14,302 12,701 27,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.71% 32.60% 32.27%
Number of salaries quoted 10,060 9,133 22,450
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 £112,500 £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 9 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 9 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 -13 514 £70,000 -9.68% 130
South East -91 157 £55,812 -2.94% 121
North of England -45 149 £47,500 -5.00% 67
Midlands -55 120 £52,500 +5.00% 34
South West -37 85 £55,000 +15.79% 30
East of England -24 73 £57,500 +17.95% 28
North West -27 73 £51,500 +11.96% 41
East Midlands -9 70 £55,000 +41.94% 17
Yorkshire -33 57 £47,500 -14.41% 16
West Midlands -75 49 £48,000 -4.00% 17
North East -40 19 £47,472 -17.44% 10
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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
1 157 (14.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 141 (12.70%) SharePoint
3 38 (3.42%) IIS
4 18 (1.62%) Confluence
5 4 (0.36%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.18%) Apache
6 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.090%) CMS
7 1 (0.090%) Site Server
7 1 (0.090%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.090%) WordPress
Applications
1 54 (4.86%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.090%) CATIA
4 1 (0.090%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.090%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.090%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.090%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.090%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (0.45%) 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
3 2 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.090%) Actimize
4 1 (0.090%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.090%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.090%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.090%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.090%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 713 (64.23%) Azure
2 401 (36.13%) Microsoft 365
3 283 (25.50%) Entra ID
4 204 (18.38%) AWS
5 103 (9.28%) Azure DevOps
6 95 (8.56%) Power Platform
7 83 (7.48%) GitHub
8 73 (6.58%) SaaS
9 71 (6.40%) OneDrive
10 68 (6.13%) GCP
11 64 (5.77%) IaaS
12 61 (5.50%) GitHub Actions
13 53 (4.77%) Azure Sentinel
14 45 (4.05%) Azure AKS
14 45 (4.05%) Power Automate
15 44 (3.96%) PaaS
16 43 (3.87%) Azure Logic Apps
16 43 (3.87%) Azure Monitor
17 42 (3.78%) Google Workspace
18 38 (3.42%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 216 (19.46%) Firewall
2 210 (18.92%) DNS
3 128 (11.53%) VPN
4 127 (11.44%) DHCP
5 91 (8.20%) TCP/IP
6 61 (5.50%) Network Security
7 58 (5.23%) WAN
8 56 (5.05%) LAN
9 45 (4.05%) VLAN
10 42 (3.78%) Wi-Fi
11 34 (3.06%) SAN
11 34 (3.06%) VoIP
12 28 (2.52%) Broadband
13 23 (2.07%) Wireless
14 14 (1.26%) SD-WAN
15 13 (1.17%) Internet
15 13 (1.17%) Kerberos
15 13 (1.17%) VSAN
16 12 (1.08%) BGP
16 12 (1.08%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (12.25%) SQL Server
2 77 (6.94%) Power BI
3 50 (4.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 28 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
4 28 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (2.25%) MySQL
6 23 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 20 (1.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (1.44%) NoSQL
8 16 (1.44%) Relational Database
9 13 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (1.17%) Tableau
10 12 (1.08%) MongoDB
11 10 (0.90%) Data Lake
12 8 (0.72%) InfluxDB
13 7 (0.63%) Metadata
14 5 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
15 4 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 3 (0.27%) Power Query
16 3 (0.27%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 89 (8.02%) Git
2 58 (5.23%) Jenkins
3 57 (5.14%) JIRA
4 52 (4.68%) GitLab
5 29 (2.61%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
7 13 (1.17%) Metasploit
7 13 (1.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 12 (1.08%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.81%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
10 8 (0.72%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.72%) Robot Framework
11 6 (0.54%) TestRail
12 4 (0.36%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.36%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.36%) MLflow
12 4 (0.36%) Selenium
12 4 (0.36%) SonarQube
General
1 349 (31.44%) Social Skills
2 192 (17.30%) Finance
3 149 (13.42%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (6.49%) Law
5 48 (4.32%) Organisational Skills
6 46 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (3.96%) Legal
8 43 (3.87%) Retail
9 34 (3.06%) Public Sector
10 24 (2.16%) Banking
11 23 (2.07%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.53%) Advertising
12 17 (1.53%) Aerospace
13 16 (1.44%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.72%) Front Office
15 7 (0.63%) Electronics
16 6 (0.54%) Military
16 6 (0.54%) Police
17 4 (0.36%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 188 (16.94%) Senior
2 141 (12.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 129 (11.62%) Analyst
4 117 (10.54%) Azure Engineer
5 114 (10.27%) Support Engineer
6 93 (8.38%) IT Support
7 82 (7.39%) Cloud Engineer
8 79 (7.12%) Security Engineer
9 78 (7.03%) IT Engineer
10 71 (6.40%) DevOps Engineer
11 54 (4.86%) Developer
12 52 (4.68%) Lead
13 50 (4.50%) 2nd Line Support
13 50 (4.50%) IT Support Engineer
14 45 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
15 42 (3.78%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 39 (3.51%) Security Analyst
17 37 (3.33%) Architect
18 35 (3.15%) Systems Engineer
19 34 (3.06%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (6.94%) .NET
2 61 (5.50%) OAuth
3 57 (5.14%) SAML
4 56 (5.05%) OpenID
4 56 (5.05%) REST
5 43 (3.87%) LDAP
6 39 (3.51%) .NET Core
7 35 (3.15%) JSON
8 33 (2.97%) Microsoft Graph
8 33 (2.97%) SOAP
9 32 (2.88%) CSS
10 31 (2.79%) ARM Templates
11 30 (2.70%) HTML
12 28 (2.52%) SPFx
13 25 (2.25%) GraphQL
14 23 (2.07%) YAML
15 20 (1.80%) React
16 19 (1.71%) HTML5 Canvas
17 16 (1.44%) Elastic Stack
18 15 (1.35%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 91 (8.20%) Onboarding
2 71 (6.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 52 (4.68%) Security Posture
4 50 (4.50%) Management Information System
5 49 (4.41%) Cloud Native
6 43 (3.87%) Cyber Defence
6 43 (3.87%) Cyber Threat
7 41 (3.69%) Security Operations Centre
8 38 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (3.24%) Driving Licence
10 34 (3.06%) Cyberattack
11 33 (2.97%) Data Centre
12 30 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
13 29 (2.61%) Public Cloud
14 23 (2.07%) PKI
15 21 (1.89%) CMDB
16 19 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
16 19 (1.71%) Private Cloud
17 17 (1.53%) Replication
18 16 (1.44%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 515 (46.40%) Windows
2 251 (22.61%) Linux
3 241 (21.71%) Windows Server
4 75 (6.76%) Windows 10
5 47 (4.23%) Mac OS
6 46 (4.14%) Android
6 46 (4.14%) Apple iOS
7 33 (2.97%) Windows Server 2016
8 30 (2.70%) VMS
9 25 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 23 (2.07%) CentOS
10 23 (2.07%) Windows Server 2019
11 16 (1.44%) Ubuntu
12 13 (1.17%) Unix
13 8 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (0.45%) Debian
15 4 (0.36%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.27%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.18%) AIX
18 1 (0.090%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (25.68%) Problem-Solving
2 249 (22.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 231 (20.81%) CI/CD
4 230 (20.72%) Cybersecurity
5 227 (20.45%) DevOps
6 197 (17.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 194 (17.48%) ITIL
8 192 (17.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 155 (13.96%) Incident Response
10 138 (12.43%) Mentoring
11 131 (11.80%) Agile
12 129 (11.62%) Disaster Recovery
13 127 (11.44%) Root Cause Analysis
14 115 (10.36%) SIEM
15 114 (10.27%) Containerisation
16 112 (10.09%) Cloud Security
17 98 (8.83%) Roadmaps
18 95 (8.56%) Security Operations
18 95 (8.56%) Task Automation
19 91 (8.20%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 447 (40.27%) Python
2 269 (24.23%) Bash
3 240 (21.62%) SQL
4 84 (7.57%) C#
5 76 (6.85%) JavaScript
6 68 (6.13%) Bicep
7 50 (4.50%) T-SQL
8 31 (2.79%) Kusto Query Language
9 23 (2.07%) TypeScript
10 21 (1.89%) Java
11 13 (1.17%) C++
12 11 (0.99%) Perl
12 11 (0.99%) VB
13 10 (0.90%) Go
13 10 (0.90%) VB.NET
13 10 (0.90%) VBA
14 8 (0.72%) PHP
15 7 (0.63%) C
15 7 (0.63%) VBScript
16 6 (0.54%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 146 (13.15%) Degree
2 125 (11.26%) Security Cleared
3 101 (9.10%) Microsoft Certification
4 96 (8.65%) Azure Certification
5 67 (6.04%) SC Cleared
6 45 (4.05%) CISSP
7 42 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (3.06%) DV Cleared
9 33 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (2.79%) CompTIA Security+
11 26 (2.34%) OSCP
12 24 (2.16%) CCNA
12 24 (2.16%) CREST Certified
12 24 (2.16%) GIAC
13 22 (1.98%) AWS Certification
14 21 (1.89%) CEH
15 20 (1.80%) DBS Check
16 18 (1.62%) CompTIA CySA+
17 13 (1.17%) CISA
18 12 (1.08%) CCSAM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (12.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 108 (9.73%) NIST
3 62 (5.59%) GDPR
4 42 (3.78%) SLA
5 30 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
6 26 (2.34%) NCSC
7 20 (1.80%) Data Quality
8 19 (1.71%) ISO 22301
9 17 (1.53%) QA
10 16 (1.44%) SOC 2
11 14 (1.26%) PCI DSS
12 13 (1.17%) Accessibility
12 13 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.54%) DICOM
15 5 (0.45%) 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
1 404 (36.40%) Active Directory
2 147 (13.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 123 (11.08%) Docker
4 99 (8.92%) Hyper-V
5 46 (4.14%) vSphere
6 30 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
7 21 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (1.44%) BitLocker
9 15 (1.35%) Firmware
10 14 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
11 12 (1.08%) VMware NSX
12 10 (0.90%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 5 (0.45%) KVM
13 5 (0.45%) Squid
13 5 (0.45%) Terminal Services
13 5 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.36%) iptables
14 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.36%) XenDesktop
15 2 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 252 (22.70%) Terraform
2 193 (17.39%) Kubernetes
3 169 (15.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 136 (12.25%) Ansible
5 53 (4.77%) Grafana
6 47 (4.23%) SCCM
7 46 (4.14%) Single Sign-On
8 34 (3.06%) Prometheus
9 23 (2.07%) Jamf Pro
10 19 (1.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 18 (1.62%) vCenter Server
12 14 (1.26%) Nessus
12 14 (1.26%) VxRail
13 12 (1.08%) Packer
13 12 (1.08%) QRadar
14 9 (0.81%) WSUS
14 9 (0.81%) ZABBIX
15 8 (0.72%) logstash
15 8 (0.72%) Nagios
15 8 (0.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 628 (56.58%) Microsoft
2 199 (17.93%) VMware
3 89 (8.02%) Cisco
4 58 (5.23%) Splunk
5 53 (4.77%) ServiceNow
6 52 (4.68%) Red Hat
7 42 (3.78%) CrowdStrike
8 36 (3.24%) Veeam
9 31 (2.79%) Google
10 30 (2.70%) Dell
11 29 (2.61%) Citrix
11 29 (2.61%) Commvault
12 28 (2.52%) Meraki
13 27 (2.43%) Palo Alto
14 25 (2.25%) Apple
14 25 (2.25%) Fortinet
15 24 (2.16%) Oracle
16 22 (1.98%) CyberArk
17 21 (1.89%) Tenable
18 20 (1.80%) Sophos