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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 76 108
Rank change year-on-year -53 +32 -27
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,273 1,564 2,228
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.48% 3.80% 2.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.08% 12.21% 7.81%
Number of salaries quoted 960 1,003 1,783
10th Percentile £31,925 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +6.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £75,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -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 15,751 12,813 28,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.36% 31.10% 30.82%
Number of salaries quoted 11,437 8,655 22,670
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,500 £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 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,000 £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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -16 499 £70,000 -3.45% 137
South East -40 229 £53,000 -7.83% 119
North of England -82 207 £47,500 -6.40% 74
Midlands -47 139 £50,000 - 35
North West -85 109 £50,000 +3.51% 45
East of England -22 95 £54,000 +10.77% 28
South West -46 92 £55,000 +15.79% 49
East Midlands -12 77 £45,000 +28.57% 15
Yorkshire -31 63 £45,000 -14.29% 16
West Midlands -75 61 £51,250 -6.82% 20
North East -30 35 £47,972 -20.05% 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
1 203 (15.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 178 (13.98%) SharePoint
3 47 (3.69%) IIS
4 25 (1.96%) Confluence
5 3 (0.24%) nginx
5 3 (0.24%) SAS
6 2 (0.16%) Apache
6 2 (0.16%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.079%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.079%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.079%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.079%) Site Server
7 1 (0.079%) Tomcat
Applications
1 76 (5.97%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.079%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.079%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (0.71%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.39%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.16%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.16%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.079%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.079%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.079%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.079%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 823 (64.65%) Azure
2 467 (36.68%) Microsoft 365
3 320 (25.14%) Entra ID
4 219 (17.20%) AWS
5 143 (11.23%) Azure DevOps
6 113 (8.88%) Power Platform
7 105 (8.25%) GitHub
8 98 (7.70%) IaaS
9 85 (6.68%) SaaS
10 80 (6.28%) OneDrive
11 79 (6.21%) Azure Monitor
12 69 (5.42%) PaaS
13 66 (5.18%) GitHub Actions
14 61 (4.79%) Azure AKS
14 61 (4.79%) Azure Sentinel
15 58 (4.56%) Power Automate
16 57 (4.48%) Azure Key Vault
17 53 (4.16%) GCP
18 51 (4.01%) Serverless
19 48 (3.77%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 280 (22.00%) Firewall
2 258 (20.27%) DNS
3 186 (14.61%) VPN
4 172 (13.51%) DHCP
5 115 (9.03%) TCP/IP
6 80 (6.28%) Network Security
7 79 (6.21%) LAN
8 78 (6.13%) WAN
9 65 (5.11%) VLAN
10 52 (4.08%) Wi-Fi
11 35 (2.75%) SAN
11 35 (2.75%) Wireless
12 29 (2.28%) VoIP
13 23 (1.81%) Kerberos
14 21 (1.65%) Broadband
15 16 (1.26%) SSL
16 15 (1.18%) BGP
17 14 (1.10%) HTTP
17 14 (1.10%) Internet
17 14 (1.10%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (12.02%) SQL Server
2 77 (6.05%) Azure SQL Database
3 75 (5.89%) Power BI
4 41 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (2.04%) MySQL
7 25 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 21 (1.65%) MongoDB
9 16 (1.26%) Relational Database
10 13 (1.02%) NoSQL
10 13 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.71%) InfluxDB
13 8 (0.63%) Data Lake
14 7 (0.55%) Tableau
15 6 (0.47%) Metadata
16 5 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
16 5 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 4 (0.31%) Power Query
17 4 (0.31%) Redis
Development Applications
1 106 (8.33%) Git
2 77 (6.05%) JIRA
3 64 (5.03%) GitLab
4 61 (4.79%) Jenkins
5 33 (2.59%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
7 13 (1.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 13 (1.02%) TeamCity
8 12 (0.94%) Metasploit
9 11 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
10 8 (0.63%) Burp Suite
10 8 (0.63%) Robot Framework
11 7 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (0.55%) TestRail
12 6 (0.47%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.47%) Selenium
13 5 (0.39%) CircleCI
13 5 (0.39%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.31%) Artifactory
15 3 (0.24%) Postman
General
1 388 (30.48%) Social Skills
2 204 (16.03%) Finance
3 155 (12.18%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (7.54%) Law
5 53 (4.16%) Documentation Skills
6 51 (4.01%) Organisational Skills
7 50 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 48 (3.77%) Legal
9 43 (3.38%) Retail
10 29 (2.28%) Public Sector
11 24 (1.89%) Aerospace
12 22 (1.73%) Banking
12 22 (1.73%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.34%) Advertising
14 15 (1.18%) Telecoms
15 9 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.55%) Aviation
17 6 (0.47%) Front Office
17 6 (0.47%) Investment Banking
17 6 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 215 (16.89%) Senior
2 161 (12.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 150 (11.78%) Analyst
4 144 (11.31%) Support Engineer
5 131 (10.29%) Azure Engineer
6 128 (10.05%) IT Engineer
7 125 (9.82%) IT Support
8 108 (8.48%) Cloud Engineer
9 97 (7.62%) DevOps Engineer
10 80 (6.28%) Security Engineer
11 77 (6.05%) IT Support Engineer
12 67 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
13 58 (4.56%) Developer
14 54 (4.24%) 2nd Line Support
15 53 (4.16%) Lead
16 48 (3.77%) Systems Engineer
17 44 (3.46%) 3rd Line Engineer
18 42 (3.30%) Security Analyst
19 39 (3.06%) Architect
19 39 (3.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (6.60%) .NET
2 61 (4.79%) SAML
3 59 (4.63%) OAuth
3 59 (4.63%) REST
4 52 (4.08%) OpenID
5 48 (3.77%) ARM Templates
5 48 (3.77%) LDAP
6 42 (3.30%) JSON
6 42 (3.30%) YAML
7 41 (3.22%) HTML
8 37 (2.91%) .NET Core
9 36 (2.83%) Microsoft Graph
10 33 (2.59%) CSS
11 30 (2.36%) SOAP
12 25 (1.96%) SPFx
13 21 (1.65%) Elastic Stack
14 20 (1.57%) GraphQL
15 19 (1.49%) HTML5 Canvas
16 17 (1.34%) XML
17 16 (1.26%) React
Miscellaneous
1 102 (8.01%) Onboarding
2 77 (6.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 76 (5.97%) Cloud Native
4 72 (5.66%) Security Posture
5 62 (4.87%) Driving Licence
6 57 (4.48%) Management Information System
7 45 (3.53%) Security Operations Centre
8 44 (3.46%) Public Cloud
9 43 (3.38%) Data Centre
10 42 (3.30%) Cyber Defence
11 39 (3.06%) PKI
12 38 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
13 37 (2.91%) Cyber Threat
14 34 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
15 27 (2.12%) Cyberattack
16 23 (1.81%) Private Cloud
16 23 (1.81%) Replication
17 22 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
18 17 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
19 16 (1.26%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 609 (47.84%) Windows
2 295 (23.17%) Linux
3 292 (22.94%) Windows Server
4 75 (5.89%) Windows 10
5 50 (3.93%) Apple iOS
5 50 (3.93%) VMS
6 47 (3.69%) Mac OS
7 40 (3.14%) Android
8 38 (2.99%) Windows Server 2016
9 32 (2.51%) CentOS
10 29 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 28 (2.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 25 (1.96%) Ubuntu
13 10 (0.79%) Unix
14 8 (0.63%) Debian
15 4 (0.31%) CoreOS
15 4 (0.31%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.24%) AIX
17 2 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (27.10%) Problem-Solving
2 308 (24.19%) Infrastructure as Code
3 300 (23.57%) CI/CD
4 284 (22.31%) DevOps
5 258 (20.27%) Cybersecurity
6 234 (18.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 234 (18.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 216 (16.97%) ITIL
8 172 (13.51%) Agile
9 163 (12.80%) Disaster Recovery
10 162 (12.73%) Incident Response
11 159 (12.49%) Root Cause Analysis
12 156 (12.25%) Mentoring
13 134 (10.53%) Containerisation
14 132 (10.37%) High Availability
15 129 (10.13%) Cloud Security
16 122 (9.58%) SIEM
17 120 (9.43%) AI
18 112 (8.80%) Roadmaps
19 110 (8.64%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 507 (39.83%) Python
2 318 (24.98%) Bash
3 276 (21.68%) SQL
4 97 (7.62%) Bicep
5 96 (7.54%) C#
6 76 (5.97%) JavaScript
7 54 (4.24%) T-SQL
8 42 (3.30%) Kusto Query Language
9 32 (2.51%) Java
10 28 (2.20%) TypeScript
11 19 (1.49%) C++
12 17 (1.34%) VBScript
13 15 (1.18%) PHP
14 12 (0.94%) Perl
15 11 (0.86%) Go
15 11 (0.86%) VB
16 10 (0.79%) VBA
17 9 (0.71%) Ruby
18 8 (0.63%) C
19 6 (0.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 153 (12.02%) Security Cleared
2 150 (11.78%) Degree
3 139 (10.92%) Azure Certification
4 125 (9.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 98 (7.70%) SC Cleared
6 53 (4.16%) Cisco Certification
7 51 (4.01%) CISSP
8 46 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 42 (3.30%) CompTIA Security+
10 39 (3.06%) CCNA
11 36 (2.83%) DV Cleared
12 29 (2.28%) DBS Check
13 27 (2.12%) OSCP
14 26 (2.04%) AWS Certification
15 24 (1.89%) CREST Certified
15 24 (1.89%) GIAC
16 23 (1.81%) CEH
17 17 (1.34%) CCNP
18 16 (1.26%) CompTIA CySA+
19 13 (1.02%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (10.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 97 (7.62%) NIST
3 63 (4.95%) GDPR
4 54 (4.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 39 (3.06%) SLA
6 21 (1.65%) Data Quality
7 20 (1.57%) QA
8 19 (1.49%) NCSC
9 18 (1.41%) SOC 2
10 17 (1.34%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.94%) ISO 22301
12 11 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 9 (0.71%) Accessibility
13 9 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.47%) DICOM
14 6 (0.47%) PMO
15 3 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.16%) EMIR
16 2 (0.16%) ISAE 3402
16 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 475 (37.31%) Active Directory
2 201 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 139 (10.92%) Hyper-V
4 138 (10.84%) Docker
5 77 (6.05%) vSphere
6 44 (3.46%) Virtual Machines
7 37 (2.91%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.81%) BitLocker
9 16 (1.26%) VMware NSX
10 12 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.79%) KVM
12 8 (0.63%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.63%) Squid
13 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.31%) Firmware
14 4 (0.31%) iptables
15 3 (0.24%) Terminal Services
16 2 (0.16%) Samba
Systems Management
1 314 (24.67%) Terraform
2 219 (17.20%) Kubernetes
3 192 (15.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 151 (11.86%) Ansible
5 72 (5.66%) Grafana
6 55 (4.32%) Single Sign-On
7 49 (3.85%) Prometheus
8 48 (3.77%) SCCM
9 25 (1.96%) Jamf Pro
10 21 (1.65%) vCenter Server
11 20 (1.57%) Argo
11 20 (1.57%) Packer
11 20 (1.57%) ZABBIX
12 18 (1.41%) QRadar
13 17 (1.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 16 (1.26%) Nessus
15 15 (1.18%) Proxmox
16 14 (1.10%) Graylog
16 14 (1.10%) VxRail
17 12 (0.94%) Nagios
Vendors
1 769 (60.41%) Microsoft
2 249 (19.56%) VMware
3 98 (7.70%) Cisco
4 85 (6.68%) Splunk
5 71 (5.58%) ServiceNow
6 56 (4.40%) Red Hat
7 51 (4.01%) Veeam
8 39 (3.06%) Meraki
8 39 (3.06%) Oracle
9 31 (2.44%) Tenable
10 30 (2.36%) CrowdStrike
11 29 (2.28%) Apple
11 29 (2.28%) Dell
12 27 (2.12%) Sophos
13 26 (2.04%) Google
13 26 (2.04%) Palo Alto
14 24 (1.89%) Fortinet
15 23 (1.81%) Citrix
15 23 (1.81%) SolarWinds
16 22 (1.73%) Commvault