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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 93 95
Rank change year-on-year -62 +2 -38
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,289 1,417 1,690
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.24% 3.29% 2.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.78% 12.54% 8.27%
Number of salaries quoted 908 980 1,104
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,945 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,500 £57,500 £61,425
% change year-on-year -1.74% -6.39% +2.38%

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 16,570 11,301 20,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.94% 26.26% 31.56%
Number of salaries quoted 12,018 7,475 12,292
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,987 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,563 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.79% -3.08%

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

PowerShell
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing PowerShell

PowerShell
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in England

PowerShell
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 11 October 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 -26 468 £70,000 - 573
South East -29 235 £52,500 -8.70% 194
North of England -93 231 £50,000 - 171
Midlands -37 161 £52,500 +1.94% 95
North West -76 138 £50,000 - 85
East of England -42 97 £57,500 +21.05% 69
South West -70 92 £55,000 +13.40% 101
East Midlands +1 83 £42,500 +15.65% 37
West Midlands -71 78 £55,000 - 58
Yorkshire -60 56 £45,472 -9.06% 61
North East -39 37 £51,500 -14.17% 27
PowerShell
UK

PowerShell
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
1 240 (18.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 215 (16.68%) SharePoint
3 47 (3.65%) IIS
4 41 (3.18%) 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%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.078%) FactoryTalk
10 1 (0.078%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.078%) WebSphere
Applications
1 65 (5.04%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.078%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 36 (2.79%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.47%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.39%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.23%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.16%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.078%) Actimize
7 1 (0.078%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 795 (61.68%) Azure
2 527 (40.88%) Microsoft 365
3 440 (34.13%) Entra ID
4 237 (18.39%) AWS
5 162 (12.57%) Azure DevOps
6 110 (8.53%) Power Platform
7 109 (8.46%) SaaS
8 104 (8.07%) OneDrive
9 98 (7.60%) IaaS
10 94 (7.29%) GitHub
11 88 (6.83%) Azure Monitor
12 86 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
13 74 (5.74%) Power Automate
14 71 (5.51%) Azure AKS
14 71 (5.51%) PaaS
15 63 (4.89%) GCP
16 61 (4.73%) Azure Key Vault
17 59 (4.58%) Microsoft Purview
18 58 (4.50%) Microsoft Copilot
19 56 (4.34%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 306 (23.74%) DNS
1 306 (23.74%) Firewall
2 218 (16.91%) DHCP
2 218 (16.91%) VPN
3 145 (11.25%) TCP/IP
4 83 (6.44%) WAN
5 78 (6.05%) VLAN
6 73 (5.66%) LAN
7 57 (4.42%) Network Security
8 56 (4.34%) Wireless
9 46 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
10 39 (3.03%) SAN
11 33 (2.56%) Kerberos
12 31 (2.40%) SSL
13 26 (2.02%) NAS
14 19 (1.47%) HTTP
15 14 (1.09%) Internet
16 12 (0.93%) VSAN
17 11 (0.85%) VoIP
18 10 (0.78%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (10.16%) SQL Server
2 82 (6.36%) Azure SQL Database
3 59 (4.58%) Power BI
4 22 (1.71%) MongoDB
5 18 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (1.24%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (0.78%) MySQL
10 9 (0.70%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.62%) InfluxDB
11 8 (0.62%) Power Query
11 8 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.54%) Redis
13 6 (0.47%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.47%) Metadata
14 5 (0.39%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.31%) DynamoDB
15 4 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 88 (6.83%) JIRA
2 81 (6.28%) Git
3 69 (5.35%) GitLab
4 59 (4.58%) Jenkins
5 19 (1.47%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
7 10 (0.78%) TeamCity
8 8 (0.62%) Robot Framework
8 8 (0.62%) TestRail
9 7 (0.54%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.47%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.47%) Selenium
11 5 (0.39%) MSI
11 5 (0.39%) Postman
11 5 (0.39%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.31%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.31%) Claude Code
13 3 (0.23%) JMeter
General
1 461 (35.76%) Social Skills
2 220 (17.07%) Finance
3 184 (14.27%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (6.21%) Law
5 55 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 52 (4.03%) Documentation Skills
7 50 (3.88%) Legal
8 47 (3.65%) Retail
9 43 (3.34%) Banking
10 38 (2.95%) Manufacturing
11 35 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
12 28 (2.17%) Public Sector
13 27 (2.09%) Aerospace
14 12 (0.93%) Financial Institution
14 12 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (0.78%) Investment Banking
16 9 (0.70%) Advertising
16 9 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (0.62%) Aviation
18 7 (0.54%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 210 (16.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 187 (14.51%) Senior
3 162 (12.57%) Analyst
4 125 (9.70%) Azure Engineer
5 122 (9.46%) Cloud Engineer
6 121 (9.39%) IT Engineer
7 113 (8.77%) Support Engineer
8 99 (7.68%) DevOps Engineer
9 95 (7.37%) IT Support
10 72 (5.59%) Platform Engineer
11 71 (5.51%) Consultant
12 69 (5.35%) Lead
13 65 (5.04%) Support Analyst
14 62 (4.81%) IT Support Engineer
15 54 (4.19%) Security Engineer
16 47 (3.65%) Systems Engineer
17 41 (3.18%) Developer
17 41 (3.18%) Microsoft Engineer
17 41 (3.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 40 (3.10%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 338 (26.22%) Terraform
2 61 (4.73%) .NET
3 52 (4.03%) ARM Templates
4 49 (3.80%) SAML
5 48 (3.72%) REST
6 40 (3.10%) LDAP
7 39 (3.03%) OpenID
7 39 (3.03%) YAML
8 36 (2.79%) Microsoft Graph
8 36 (2.79%) OAuth
9 29 (2.25%) HTML
10 26 (2.02%) JSON
11 20 (1.55%) CSS
11 20 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
12 19 (1.47%) SPFx
13 16 (1.24%) .NET Core
14 13 (1.01%) ADO
14 13 (1.01%) Kafka
14 13 (1.01%) RESTful
15 12 (0.93%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 116 (9.00%) Onboarding
2 83 (6.44%) Driving Licence
3 80 (6.21%) Cloud Native
4 77 (5.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 70 (5.43%) Security Posture
6 66 (5.12%) Management Information System
7 52 (4.03%) PKI
8 49 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
9 46 (3.57%) Data Centre
10 43 (3.34%) Replication
11 35 (2.72%) Security Operations Centre
12 34 (2.64%) Public Cloud
13 30 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (1.63%) Private Cloud
15 20 (1.55%) Cyber Defence
16 19 (1.47%) Clustering
16 19 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
17 18 (1.40%) AI Agents
18 17 (1.32%) CMDB
18 17 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 660 (51.20%) Windows
2 315 (24.44%) Windows Server
3 303 (23.51%) Linux
4 96 (7.45%) Windows 10
5 46 (3.57%) Apple iOS
6 41 (3.18%) Android
7 40 (3.10%) Ubuntu
8 37 (2.87%) VMS
9 36 (2.79%) macOS
10 34 (2.64%) Windows Server 2019
11 32 (2.48%) CentOS
11 32 (2.48%) Windows Server 2016
12 25 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 18 (1.40%) Unix
14 17 (1.32%) Rocky
15 7 (0.54%) 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
1 398 (30.88%) Problem-Solving
2 322 (24.98%) Infrastructure as Code
3 308 (23.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 302 (23.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 292 (22.65%) DevOps
6 287 (22.27%) CI/CD
7 252 (19.55%) ITIL
8 242 (18.77%) Cybersecurity
9 208 (16.14%) Disaster Recovery
10 173 (13.42%) AI
11 150 (11.64%) Root Cause Analysis
12 147 (11.40%) Agile
13 145 (11.25%) Mentoring
14 143 (11.09%) Migration
15 142 (11.02%) Cloud Security
15 142 (11.02%) Platform Engineering
16 134 (10.40%) Incident Response
17 133 (10.32%) Infrastructure Automation
18 130 (10.09%) High Availability
19 126 (9.78%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 485 (37.63%) Python
2 280 (21.72%) Bash
3 265 (20.56%) SQL
4 117 (9.08%) Bicep
5 76 (5.90%) JavaScript
6 66 (5.12%) C#
7 51 (3.96%) Kusto Query Language
8 41 (3.18%) Java
9 30 (2.33%) T-SQL
10 26 (2.02%) TypeScript
11 22 (1.71%) VBScript
12 17 (1.32%) C++
13 16 (1.24%) Perl
14 13 (1.01%) PHP
15 10 (0.78%) Ruby
15 10 (0.78%) VBA
16 8 (0.62%) VB
17 7 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.54%) Go
18 5 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 183 (14.20%) Security Cleared
2 156 (12.10%) Degree
3 149 (11.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 143 (11.09%) Azure Certification
5 117 (9.08%) SC Cleared
6 65 (5.04%) CISSP
7 57 (4.42%) DV Cleared
8 51 (3.96%) CompTIA Security+
8 51 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 45 (3.49%) Cisco Certification
10 36 (2.79%) CCNA
11 27 (2.09%) CEH
12 25 (1.94%) DBS Check
13 23 (1.78%) AWS Certification
14 20 (1.55%) CISM
15 18 (1.40%) GIAC
15 18 (1.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 17 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
17 15 (1.16%) OSCP
18 13 (1.01%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 73 (5.66%) Cyber Essentials
3 59 (4.58%) NIST
4 47 (3.65%) SLA
5 34 (2.64%) GDPR
6 23 (1.78%) QA
7 20 (1.55%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.24%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 10 (0.78%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.62%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.62%) PMO
12 7 (0.54%) NCSC
12 7 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.47%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.23%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.16%) EMIR
15 2 (0.16%) GRC
15 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 501 (38.87%) Active Directory
2 221 (17.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 142 (11.02%) Hyper-V
4 125 (9.70%) Docker
5 80 (6.21%) vSphere
6 70 (5.43%) Virtual Machines
7 60 (4.65%) Virtual Desktop
8 32 (2.48%) VMware ESXi
9 29 (2.25%) VMware NSX
10 17 (1.32%) BitLocker
11 15 (1.16%) Firmware
12 8 (0.62%) KVM
13 7 (0.54%) Squid
14 5 (0.39%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 2 (0.16%) DFS Replication
17 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
17 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 239 (18.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 208 (16.14%) Kubernetes
3 157 (12.18%) Ansible
4 75 (5.82%) Grafana
5 67 (5.20%) SCCM
6 56 (4.34%) Single Sign-On
7 39 (3.03%) Prometheus
8 34 (2.64%) Puppet
9 29 (2.25%) vCenter Server
10 23 (1.78%) Argo
11 22 (1.71%) ZABBIX
12 20 (1.55%) Proxmox
13 18 (1.40%) FortiGate
13 18 (1.40%) QRadar
14 15 (1.16%) Graylog
15 14 (1.09%) Packer
16 12 (0.93%) Progress Chef
17 11 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 11 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
18 10 (0.78%) VxRail
Vendors
1 867 (67.26%) Microsoft
2 262 (20.33%) VMware
3 101 (7.84%) Cisco
4 95 (7.37%) ServiceNow
5 83 (6.44%) Splunk
6 68 (5.28%) Veeam
7 44 (3.41%) Oracle
8 40 (3.10%) Citrix
8 40 (3.10%) Red Hat
9 34 (2.64%) Sage
10 33 (2.56%) Meraki
11 31 (2.40%) SolarWinds
12 30 (2.33%) Dell
13 29 (2.25%) SAP
13 29 (2.25%) Sophos
14 28 (2.17%) Dynatrace
15 25 (1.94%) Fortinet
15 25 (1.94%) Google
16 24 (1.86%) Apple
16 24 (1.86%) CyberArk