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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 94 80
Rank change year-on-year -28 -14 +6
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,052 1,349 2,288
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.70% 3.24% 3.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.24% 9.36% 9.28%
Number of salaries quoted 837 1,002 1,990
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +10.62% -5.83%

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 11,389 14,419 24,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.37% 34.61% 35.51%
Number of salaries quoted 8,361 9,108 21,105
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -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 2 March 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 2 March 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 -8 465 £70,000 -9.68% 146
South East -48 192 £56,750 -5.42% 146
North of England -27 141 £47,500 -9.52% 79
South West +2 101 £55,000 +3.77% 64
Midlands -56 84 £52,500 +5.00% 56
Yorkshire -26 65 £47,500 -9.52% 29
North West -29 60 £50,000 -4.76% 35
East of England -21 52 £40,000 -27.27% 46
East Midlands -30 42 £55,000 +12.24% 28
West Midlands -52 41 £47,500 -5.00% 28
North East -3 16 £47,500 -20.83% 16
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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
1 171 (16.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 122 (11.60%) SharePoint
3 31 (2.95%) IIS
4 22 (2.09%) Exchange Server 2003
5 13 (1.24%) Confluence
6 6 (0.57%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.48%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.19%) CMS
8 2 (0.19%) WordPress
9 1 (0.095%) Apache
9 1 (0.095%) nginx
9 1 (0.095%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.095%) Site Server
Applications
1 41 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.57%) Siemens NX
4 5 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.29%) CATIA
5 3 (0.29%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.29%) Windchill
6 1 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.57%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.38%) Markit EDM
4 4 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.19%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.095%) Actimize
6 1 (0.095%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.095%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.095%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.095%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 652 (61.98%) Azure
2 361 (34.32%) Microsoft 365
3 274 (26.05%) Entra ID
4 186 (17.68%) AWS
5 119 (11.31%) Azure DevOps
6 106 (10.08%) Power Platform
7 76 (7.22%) GCP
7 76 (7.22%) GitHub
8 65 (6.18%) PaaS
9 61 (5.80%) SaaS
10 56 (5.32%) GitHub Actions
11 53 (5.04%) Azure Monitor
12 49 (4.66%) IaaS
13 43 (4.09%) Google Workspace
13 43 (4.09%) Power Automate
14 40 (3.80%) OneDrive
15 35 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
16 33 (3.14%) Nutanix
17 31 (2.95%) Azure Logic Apps
18 28 (2.66%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 203 (19.30%) DNS
2 200 (19.01%) Firewall
3 162 (15.40%) DHCP
4 119 (11.31%) VPN
5 100 (9.51%) TCP/IP
6 66 (6.27%) WAN
7 64 (6.08%) LAN
8 48 (4.56%) VLAN
9 46 (4.37%) Wi-Fi
10 35 (3.33%) Network Security
11 33 (3.14%) SAN
12 32 (3.04%) Wireless
13 31 (2.95%) VoIP
14 27 (2.57%) Broadband
14 27 (2.57%) SD-WAN
15 17 (1.62%) VSAN
16 13 (1.24%) NAS
17 12 (1.14%) WinSCP
18 10 (0.95%) Cisco IOS
18 10 (0.95%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (12.36%) SQL Server
2 81 (7.70%) Power BI
3 31 (2.95%) Relational Database
4 29 (2.76%) Oracle Database
5 28 (2.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 26 (2.47%) Oracle Database 10g
7 24 (2.28%) MySQL
7 24 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
9 15 (1.43%) Tableau
10 14 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 13 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (1.24%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.67%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.48%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.48%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (0.48%) InfluxDB
13 5 (0.48%) Metadata
14 4 (0.38%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 73 (6.94%) Git
2 70 (6.65%) JIRA
3 63 (5.99%) Jenkins
4 36 (3.42%) GitLab
5 25 (2.38%) Octopus Deploy
6 22 (2.09%) Bitbucket
7 17 (1.62%) TeamCity
8 15 (1.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 13 (1.24%) Metasploit
10 10 (0.95%) Burp Suite
11 9 (0.86%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.57%) Robot Framework
13 5 (0.48%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.38%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.38%) MLflow
15 3 (0.29%) Balsamiq
15 3 (0.29%) Eclipse
15 3 (0.29%) JMeter
15 3 (0.29%) TestRail
General
1 361 (34.32%) Social Skills
2 227 (21.58%) Finance
3 121 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (4.47%) Retail
5 43 (4.09%) Law
5 43 (4.09%) Organisational Skills
6 39 (3.71%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (3.23%) Banking
8 32 (3.04%) Legal
9 31 (2.95%) Public Sector
10 29 (2.76%) Telecoms
11 26 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 19 (1.81%) Manufacturing
13 12 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (0.76%) Advertising
16 7 (0.67%) Front Office
17 6 (0.57%) Investment Banking
17 6 (0.57%) Marketing
18 5 (0.48%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 138 (13.12%) Senior
2 136 (12.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 128 (12.17%) Support Engineer
4 99 (9.41%) Analyst
5 89 (8.46%) Azure Engineer
6 79 (7.51%) IT Support
7 72 (6.84%) DevOps Engineer
8 70 (6.65%) Security Engineer
9 68 (6.46%) Developer
10 62 (5.89%) IT Engineer
11 60 (5.70%) Cloud Engineer
12 57 (5.42%) Lead
13 54 (5.13%) 3rd Line Support
14 45 (4.28%) IT Support Engineer
15 44 (4.18%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 43 (4.09%) Platform Engineer
17 35 (3.33%) Architect
17 35 (3.33%) Support Analyst
18 33 (3.14%) 2nd Line Support
19 31 (2.95%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (6.46%) REST
2 62 (5.89%) .NET
3 46 (4.37%) OAuth
4 43 (4.09%) OpenID
4 43 (4.09%) SAML
5 36 (3.42%) SOAP
6 32 (3.04%) LDAP
7 31 (2.95%) JSON
8 27 (2.57%) YAML
9 26 (2.47%) GraphQL
10 24 (2.28%) ARM Templates
11 20 (1.90%) React
12 17 (1.62%) Microsoft Graph
13 16 (1.52%) .NET Core
13 16 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
14 13 (1.24%) Middleware
14 13 (1.24%) Node.js
15 12 (1.14%) AngularJS
16 11 (1.05%) Web Services
16 11 (1.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 88 (8.37%) Onboarding
2 73 (6.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 54 (5.13%) Security Posture
4 40 (3.80%) Driving Licence
4 40 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
5 38 (3.61%) Management Information System
6 35 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
7 32 (3.04%) Cyber Defence
8 30 (2.85%) Data Centre
9 29 (2.76%) Cloud Native
10 28 (2.66%) Analytical Mindset
10 28 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
11 26 (2.47%) Cyberattack
12 21 (2.00%) PKI
13 20 (1.90%) Security Operations Centre
14 19 (1.81%) CMDB
15 17 (1.62%) Hedge funds
16 15 (1.43%) Replication
16 15 (1.43%) Video Conferencing
16 15 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 473 (44.96%) Windows
2 251 (23.86%) Windows Server
3 203 (19.30%) Linux
4 65 (6.18%) Windows 10
5 53 (5.04%) Mac OS
6 40 (3.80%) Unix
7 34 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 33 (3.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 32 (3.04%) Android
10 26 (2.47%) Windows Server 2008
11 25 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 24 (2.28%) Solaris
13 23 (2.19%) Apple iOS
13 23 (2.19%) CentOS
13 23 (2.19%) VMS
14 22 (2.09%) HPUX
14 22 (2.09%) Windows 7
14 22 (2.09%) Windows Server 2003
15 14 (1.33%) Ubuntu
16 11 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (30.89%) Problem-Solving
2 248 (23.57%) DevOps
3 202 (19.20%) CI/CD
4 194 (18.44%) ITIL
5 192 (18.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 178 (16.92%) Cybersecurity
7 177 (16.83%) Infrastructure as Code
8 170 (16.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 150 (14.26%) Disaster Recovery
10 126 (11.98%) Mentoring
11 115 (10.93%) Incident Response
12 109 (10.36%) Agile
12 109 (10.36%) Root Cause Analysis
13 104 (9.89%) Task Automation
14 94 (8.94%) Cloud Security
15 91 (8.65%) Business Intelligence
16 89 (8.46%) Migration
17 86 (8.17%) Computer Science
18 85 (8.08%) Incident Management
19 79 (7.51%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 363 (34.51%) Python
2 235 (22.34%) Bash
3 222 (21.10%) SQL
4 77 (7.32%) C#
5 58 (5.51%) JavaScript
6 57 (5.42%) Bicep
7 53 (5.04%) T-SQL
8 25 (2.38%) Perl
9 24 (2.28%) Kusto Query Language
10 17 (1.62%) Go
11 16 (1.52%) Java
12 10 (0.95%) VB.NET
13 7 (0.67%) PHP
13 7 (0.67%) VB
13 7 (0.67%) VBScript
14 6 (0.57%) Delphi
15 5 (0.48%) C++
15 5 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.38%) Pascal
16 4 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 155 (14.73%) Degree
2 134 (12.74%) Security Cleared
3 95 (9.03%) Microsoft Certification
4 79 (7.51%) Azure Certification
5 78 (7.41%) SC Cleared
6 53 (5.04%) DV Cleared
7 41 (3.90%) CISSP
7 41 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (2.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 29 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
10 24 (2.28%) CREST Certified
11 23 (2.19%) AWS Certification
12 22 (2.09%) CEH
13 21 (2.00%) GIAC
14 19 (1.81%) CompTIA CySA+
15 17 (1.62%) OSCP
16 16 (1.52%) CCNA
16 16 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
16 16 (1.52%) DBS Check
17 12 (1.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (14.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 133 (12.64%) NIST
3 56 (5.32%) SLA
4 54 (5.13%) GDPR
5 39 (3.71%) NCSC
6 31 (2.95%) Cyber Essentials
7 25 (2.38%) Accessibility
8 20 (1.90%) ISO 22301
9 17 (1.62%) Data Quality
9 17 (1.62%) QA
10 15 (1.43%) PCI DSS
11 14 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.67%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.48%) DICOM
14 5 (0.48%) GRC
15 3 (0.29%) HL7
15 3 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.19%) COBIT
16 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
System Software
1 395 (37.55%) Active Directory
2 128 (12.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 96 (9.13%) Docker
4 93 (8.84%) Hyper-V
5 39 (3.71%) vSphere
6 36 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
7 21 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (1.81%) Firmware
9 17 (1.62%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.76%) VMware NSX
11 6 (0.57%) XenApp
11 6 (0.57%) XenDesktop
12 4 (0.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.29%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.29%) iptables
13 3 (0.29%) vCloud
14 2 (0.19%) KVM
14 2 (0.19%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 202 (19.20%) Terraform
2 154 (14.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 136 (12.93%) Kubernetes
4 123 (11.69%) Ansible
5 38 (3.61%) SCCM
6 36 (3.42%) Grafana
7 35 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (2.09%) Prometheus
9 16 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (1.33%) vCenter Server
11 12 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
11 12 (1.14%) Puppet
12 11 (1.05%) Nessus
13 10 (0.95%) SCOM
14 9 (0.86%) FortiGate
14 9 (0.86%) VxRail
15 8 (0.76%) Nagios
15 8 (0.76%) Progress Chef
15 8 (0.76%) SCVMM
16 7 (0.67%) Control-M
Vendors
1 557 (52.95%) Microsoft
2 219 (20.82%) VMware
3 87 (8.27%) Cisco
4 49 (4.66%) Oracle
5 48 (4.56%) Veeam
6 45 (4.28%) ServiceNow
7 42 (3.99%) Splunk
8 40 (3.80%) Google
9 38 (3.61%) Red Hat
10 34 (3.23%) Atlassian
11 31 (2.95%) Commvault
11 31 (2.95%) Palo Alto
12 29 (2.76%) Citrix
13 24 (2.28%) CyberArk
14 22 (2.09%) CrowdStrike
14 22 (2.09%) Dell
14 22 (2.09%) Fortinet
15 21 (2.00%) Meraki
16 20 (1.90%) Apple
17 19 (1.81%) SolarWinds