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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 87 91
Rank change year-on-year -50 +4 +1
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,107 1,286 2,292
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.45% 3.47% 2.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.15% 10.22% 8.51%
Number of salaries quoted 860 999 1,959
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,200 £36,200
25th Percentile £42,000 £45,625 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,125 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,375 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 13,589 12,579 26,918
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.85% 33.94% 32.85%
Number of salaries quoted 9,548 9,309 22,587
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,490
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £63,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.31% +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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -10 513 £70,000 -12.50% 107
South East -77 181 £58,000 +0.87% 95
North of England -54 137 £48,445 -4.54% 61
Midlands -62 102 £52,500 +5.00% 33
South West -43 93 £55,000 +15.79% 42
North West -36 70 £55,000 +18.28% 33
East of England -49 68 £41,750 -24.09% 37
East Midlands -44 57 £55,000 +15.79% 15
Yorkshire -37 54 £47,500 -9.52% 16
West Midlands -56 44 £48,000 -4.00% 18
North East -35 13 £45,000 -21.74% 12
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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
1 172 (15.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 133 (12.01%) SharePoint
3 35 (3.16%) IIS
4 17 (1.54%) Exchange Server 2003
5 15 (1.36%) Confluence
6 6 (0.54%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.18%) Apache
7 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.18%) CMS
7 2 (0.18%) WordPress
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.090%) Site Server
Applications
1 45 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.27%) CATIA
4 3 (0.27%) Siemens NX
4 3 (0.27%) SOLIDWORKS
4 3 (0.27%) Windchill
5 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.090%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.27%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.27%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.18%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.090%) Actimize
5 1 (0.090%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.090%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 698 (63.05%) Azure
2 391 (35.32%) Microsoft 365
3 286 (25.84%) Entra ID
4 196 (17.71%) AWS
5 104 (9.39%) Azure DevOps
6 95 (8.58%) Power Platform
7 85 (7.68%) GitHub
8 69 (6.23%) GCP
9 67 (6.05%) SaaS
10 64 (5.78%) GitHub Actions
11 60 (5.42%) OneDrive
12 54 (4.88%) IaaS
13 52 (4.70%) PaaS
14 44 (3.97%) Azure Monitor
15 43 (3.88%) Google Workspace
16 42 (3.79%) Azure Logic Apps
16 42 (3.79%) Azure Sentinel
17 40 (3.61%) Power Automate
18 35 (3.16%) Nutanix
19 34 (3.07%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 209 (18.88%) DNS
2 207 (18.70%) Firewall
3 150 (13.55%) DHCP
4 119 (10.75%) VPN
5 93 (8.40%) TCP/IP
6 59 (5.33%) Network Security
7 56 (5.06%) WAN
8 55 (4.97%) LAN
9 46 (4.16%) VLAN
10 45 (4.07%) Wi-Fi
11 34 (3.07%) VoIP
12 33 (2.98%) SAN
13 29 (2.62%) Wireless
14 28 (2.53%) Broadband
15 21 (1.90%) SD-WAN
16 13 (1.17%) VSAN
17 12 (1.08%) Internet
17 12 (1.08%) WinSCP
18 11 (0.99%) Kerberos
19 10 (0.90%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (11.47%) SQL Server
2 79 (7.14%) Power BI
3 34 (3.07%) Azure SQL Database
4 29 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (2.35%) MySQL
6 25 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
7 24 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 22 (1.99%) Oracle Database
9 20 (1.81%) Oracle Database 10g
10 19 (1.72%) Relational Database
11 17 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 15 (1.36%) NoSQL
13 14 (1.26%) Tableau
14 11 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.81%) InfluxDB
16 8 (0.72%) MongoDB
17 7 (0.63%) Metadata
18 6 (0.54%) Data Lake
19 5 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
20 4 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 89 (8.04%) Git
2 63 (5.69%) Jenkins
3 59 (5.33%) JIRA
4 46 (4.16%) GitLab
5 28 (2.53%) Bitbucket
6 18 (1.63%) Octopus Deploy
7 14 (1.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 13 (1.17%) Metasploit
9 12 (1.08%) TeamCity
10 10 (0.90%) Robot Framework
11 9 (0.81%) Burp Suite
12 8 (0.72%) CircleCI
12 8 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (0.63%) TestRail
14 6 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (0.36%) Balsamiq
15 4 (0.36%) Cypress.io
15 4 (0.36%) MLflow
15 4 (0.36%) Selenium
15 4 (0.36%) SonarQube
General
1 350 (31.62%) Social Skills
2 205 (18.52%) Finance
3 140 (12.65%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (5.96%) Law
5 50 (4.52%) Organisational Skills
6 46 (4.16%) Documentation Skills
7 42 (3.79%) Retail
8 41 (3.70%) Legal
9 39 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 33 (2.98%) Public Sector
11 29 (2.62%) Banking
12 20 (1.81%) Telecoms
13 18 (1.63%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.26%) Advertising
15 11 (0.99%) Aerospace
16 10 (0.90%) Front Office
17 8 (0.72%) Military
18 6 (0.54%) Investment Banking
18 6 (0.54%) Police
19 5 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 169 (15.27%) Senior
2 140 (12.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 125 (11.29%) Support Engineer
4 120 (10.84%) Analyst
5 109 (9.85%) Azure Engineer
6 96 (8.67%) IT Support
7 77 (6.96%) Cloud Engineer
8 75 (6.78%) IT Engineer
8 75 (6.78%) Security Engineer
9 63 (5.69%) DevOps Engineer
10 60 (5.42%) Lead
11 53 (4.79%) Developer
12 52 (4.70%) IT Support Engineer
13 50 (4.52%) 3rd Line Support
14 48 (4.34%) 2nd Line Support
15 45 (4.07%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 42 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
17 40 (3.61%) Architect
18 36 (3.25%) Security Analyst
19 34 (3.07%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (6.14%) .NET
2 58 (5.24%) REST
3 57 (5.15%) OAuth
4 52 (4.70%) SAML
5 51 (4.61%) OpenID
6 38 (3.43%) LDAP
7 33 (2.98%) .NET Core
7 33 (2.98%) SOAP
8 30 (2.71%) JSON
9 27 (2.44%) ARM Templates
10 25 (2.26%) GraphQL
10 25 (2.26%) YAML
11 24 (2.17%) Microsoft Graph
12 22 (1.99%) CSS
13 21 (1.90%) SPFx
14 20 (1.81%) HTML
15 18 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
15 18 (1.63%) React
16 15 (1.36%) Node.js
17 12 (1.08%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 91 (8.22%) Onboarding
2 71 (6.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 59 (5.33%) Security Posture
4 47 (4.25%) Management Information System
5 44 (3.97%) Enterprise Software
6 41 (3.70%) Cloud Native
7 40 (3.61%) Cyber Threat
8 39 (3.52%) Driving Licence
9 38 (3.43%) Cyber Defence
10 34 (3.07%) Cyberattack
10 34 (3.07%) Security Operations Centre
11 31 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
12 30 (2.71%) Data Centre
13 28 (2.53%) Public Cloud
14 20 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
14 20 (1.81%) PKI
15 19 (1.72%) CMDB
16 18 (1.63%) Low-Code
16 18 (1.63%) Replication
17 17 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 514 (46.43%) Windows
2 247 (22.31%) Windows Server
3 237 (21.41%) Linux
4 69 (6.23%) Windows 10
5 52 (4.70%) Mac OS
6 44 (3.97%) Android
7 43 (3.88%) Apple iOS
8 37 (3.34%) Windows Server 2016
9 33 (2.98%) Unix
10 29 (2.62%) Windows Server 2019
11 26 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 23 (2.08%) CentOS
13 22 (1.99%) VMS
14 19 (1.72%) Solaris
15 17 (1.54%) HPUX
15 17 (1.54%) Windows 7
15 17 (1.54%) Windows Server 2003
15 17 (1.54%) Windows Server 2008
16 15 (1.36%) Ubuntu
17 8 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (27.37%) Problem-Solving
2 231 (20.87%) DevOps
3 222 (20.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 221 (19.96%) CI/CD
5 218 (19.69%) Cybersecurity
6 202 (18.25%) ITIL
7 197 (17.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 183 (16.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 147 (13.28%) Incident Response
10 139 (12.56%) Mentoring
11 135 (12.20%) Disaster Recovery
12 126 (11.38%) Agile
13 114 (10.30%) Root Cause Analysis
14 107 (9.67%) Cloud Security
15 105 (9.49%) SIEM
16 102 (9.21%) Containerisation
17 98 (8.85%) Task Automation
18 93 (8.40%) Roadmaps
19 88 (7.95%) Business Intelligence
19 88 (7.95%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 425 (38.39%) Python
2 259 (23.40%) Bash
3 226 (20.42%) SQL
4 74 (6.68%) JavaScript
5 72 (6.50%) C#
6 66 (5.96%) Bicep
7 52 (4.70%) T-SQL
8 31 (2.80%) Kusto Query Language
9 25 (2.26%) Perl
10 19 (1.72%) Java
11 16 (1.45%) TypeScript
12 11 (0.99%) Go
13 10 (0.90%) C++
14 9 (0.81%) VB
14 9 (0.81%) VB.NET
15 7 (0.63%) C
15 7 (0.63%) PHP
16 6 (0.54%) Delphi
16 6 (0.54%) VBA
16 6 (0.54%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 148 (13.37%) Degree
2 135 (12.20%) Security Cleared
3 97 (8.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 85 (7.68%) Azure Certification
5 78 (7.05%) SC Cleared
6 53 (4.79%) DV Cleared
7 49 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 47 (4.25%) CISSP
9 33 (2.98%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (2.26%) CompTIA Security+
10 25 (2.26%) OSCP
11 24 (2.17%) CREST Certified
11 24 (2.17%) GIAC
12 22 (1.99%) CEH
12 22 (1.99%) CompTIA CySA+
13 21 (1.90%) AWS Certification
13 21 (1.90%) CCNA
14 17 (1.54%) DBS Check
15 12 (1.08%) CISA
15 12 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 124 (11.20%) NIST
3 64 (5.78%) GDPR
4 59 (5.33%) SLA
5 33 (2.98%) NCSC
6 29 (2.62%) Cyber Essentials
7 19 (1.72%) ISO 22301
8 18 (1.63%) Data Quality
9 16 (1.45%) QA
10 15 (1.36%) PCI DSS
11 14 (1.26%) Accessibility
11 14 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
12 13 (1.17%) SOC 2
13 11 (0.99%) 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%) HL7
System Software
1 413 (37.31%) Active Directory
2 135 (12.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 119 (10.75%) Docker
4 99 (8.94%) Hyper-V
5 40 (3.61%) vSphere
6 32 (2.89%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (1.45%) Firmware
8 15 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
10 11 (0.99%) BitLocker
11 9 (0.81%) VMware NSX
12 8 (0.72%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 7 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.36%) iptables
14 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.36%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.36%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.27%) XenApp
16 2 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.18%) KVM
Systems Management
1 235 (21.23%) Terraform
2 174 (15.72%) Kubernetes
3 163 (14.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 134 (12.10%) Ansible
5 51 (4.61%) Grafana
6 47 (4.25%) SCCM
7 43 (3.88%) Single Sign-On
8 31 (2.80%) Prometheus
9 22 (1.99%) Jamf Pro
10 18 (1.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (1.54%) vCenter Server
12 13 (1.17%) Nessus
13 12 (1.08%) VxRail
14 10 (0.90%) FortiGate
15 9 (0.81%) Puppet
16 8 (0.72%) logstash
16 8 (0.72%) Progress Chef
16 8 (0.72%) QRadar
17 7 (0.63%) Packer
17 7 (0.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 622 (56.19%) Microsoft
2 218 (19.69%) VMware
3 96 (8.67%) Cisco
4 55 (4.97%) Splunk
5 52 (4.70%) ServiceNow
6 51 (4.61%) Red Hat
7 44 (3.97%) Oracle
8 41 (3.70%) Veeam
9 37 (3.34%) CrowdStrike
10 35 (3.16%) Google
11 33 (2.98%) Commvault
11 33 (2.98%) Palo Alto
12 28 (2.53%) Dell
13 27 (2.44%) Meraki
14 26 (2.35%) Citrix
15 25 (2.26%) CyberArk
15 25 (2.26%) Fortinet
16 23 (2.08%) Apple
17 20 (1.81%) Atlassian
17 20 (1.81%) Dynatrace