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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 77 104
Rank change year-on-year -55 +27 -25
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,280 1,604 2,104
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.45% 3.71% 2.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.98% 12.30% 8.03%
Number of salaries quoted 972 1,045 1,669
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £75,625
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £92,125
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 16,045 13,044 26,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.22% 30.18% 30.69%
Number of salaries quoted 11,737 8,812 20,468
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £48,700 £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 £111,250 £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 18 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 18 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 -23 486 £70,000 -3.45% 89
South East -30 247 £53,000 -7.83% 87
North of England -97 209 £48,445 -0.43% 49
Midlands -39 145 £50,000 - 36
North West -85 110 £50,051 +8.22% 29
East of England -25 95 £55,000 +8.91% 23
South West -61 83 £55,000 +15.79% 27
East Midlands -3 75 £42,500 +13.33% 16
West Midlands -64 69 £52,500 -4.55% 20
Yorkshire -37 60 £47,500 -6.40% 11
North East -26 39 £48,445 -19.26% 10
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UK

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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
1 206 (16.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 177 (13.83%) SharePoint
3 49 (3.83%) IIS
4 27 (2.11%) Confluence
5 6 (0.47%) nginx
6 4 (0.31%) SAS
7 3 (0.23%) Apache
8 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.16%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.078%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.078%) Site Server
9 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.078%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (6.02%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (0.86%) NetSuite
2 10 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.47%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.23%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.16%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.16%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.078%) Alphatax
7 1 (0.078%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.078%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 831 (64.92%) Azure
2 467 (36.48%) Microsoft 365
3 332 (25.94%) Entra ID
4 235 (18.36%) AWS
5 140 (10.94%) Azure DevOps
6 111 (8.67%) Power Platform
7 103 (8.05%) GitHub
8 96 (7.50%) IaaS
9 89 (6.95%) SaaS
10 80 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
10 80 (6.25%) OneDrive
11 70 (5.47%) PaaS
12 65 (5.08%) Azure Sentinel
12 65 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
13 63 (4.92%) Azure AKS
14 57 (4.45%) Azure Key Vault
14 57 (4.45%) Power Automate
15 56 (4.38%) GCP
16 50 (3.91%) Azure Logic Apps
17 49 (3.83%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 293 (22.89%) Firewall
2 264 (20.63%) DNS
3 186 (14.53%) VPN
4 175 (13.67%) DHCP
5 118 (9.22%) TCP/IP
6 80 (6.25%) WAN
7 76 (5.94%) LAN
8 75 (5.86%) Network Security
9 65 (5.08%) VLAN
10 46 (3.59%) Wi-Fi
11 38 (2.97%) Wireless
12 35 (2.73%) SAN
13 32 (2.50%) Kerberos
14 28 (2.19%) VoIP
15 17 (1.33%) NAS
16 16 (1.25%) Internet
16 16 (1.25%) SSL
17 15 (1.17%) Broadband
18 14 (1.09%) BGP
18 14 (1.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (11.80%) SQL Server
2 80 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 74 (5.78%) Power BI
4 38 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (1.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 23 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
6 23 (1.80%) MySQL
7 21 (1.64%) MongoDB
8 16 (1.25%) Relational Database
9 13 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (0.94%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.70%) InfluxDB
12 8 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.47%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.39%) Metadata
14 5 (0.39%) Tableau
15 4 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
15 4 (0.31%) Power Query
15 4 (0.31%) Redis
15 4 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 102 (7.97%) Git
2 82 (6.41%) JIRA
3 67 (5.23%) GitLab
4 59 (4.61%) Jenkins
5 30 (2.34%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
7 12 (0.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 11 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
9 10 (0.78%) TeamCity
10 9 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (0.63%) Metasploit
12 7 (0.55%) Robot Framework
12 7 (0.55%) TestRail
13 6 (0.47%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.47%) Selenium
14 5 (0.39%) Postman
15 4 (0.31%) Burp Suite
15 4 (0.31%) CircleCI
15 4 (0.31%) SonarQube
16 3 (0.23%) Artifactory
General
1 390 (30.47%) Social Skills
2 199 (15.55%) Finance
3 161 (12.58%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (8.05%) Law
5 52 (4.06%) Documentation Skills
6 50 (3.91%) Legal
7 48 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 48 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
8 40 (3.13%) Retail
9 28 (2.19%) Public Sector
10 25 (1.95%) Banking
11 23 (1.80%) Manufacturing
12 21 (1.64%) Aerospace
13 17 (1.33%) Advertising
14 13 (1.02%) Telecoms
15 10 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (0.70%) Financial Institution
17 7 (0.55%) Front Office
17 7 (0.55%) Investment Banking
18 6 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 209 (16.33%) Senior
2 164 (12.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 148 (11.56%) Analyst
4 141 (11.02%) Support Engineer
5 131 (10.23%) Azure Engineer
6 130 (10.16%) IT Engineer
7 122 (9.53%) IT Support
8 112 (8.75%) Cloud Engineer
9 95 (7.42%) DevOps Engineer
10 78 (6.09%) Security Engineer
11 73 (5.70%) IT Support Engineer
12 65 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
13 59 (4.61%) Developer
14 58 (4.53%) Lead
15 56 (4.38%) 2nd Line Support
16 50 (3.91%) Systems Engineer
17 46 (3.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
18 40 (3.13%) Architect
18 40 (3.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
19 39 (3.05%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (6.48%) .NET
2 59 (4.61%) SAML
3 57 (4.45%) OAuth
4 54 (4.22%) ARM Templates
5 52 (4.06%) REST
6 50 (3.91%) OpenID
7 46 (3.59%) LDAP
8 43 (3.36%) HTML
8 43 (3.36%) JSON
9 42 (3.28%) YAML
10 37 (2.89%) .NET Core
11 36 (2.81%) Microsoft Graph
12 32 (2.50%) CSS
13 24 (1.88%) SOAP
13 24 (1.88%) SPFx
14 20 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
15 19 (1.48%) HTML5 Canvas
16 18 (1.41%) XML
17 17 (1.33%) RESTful
18 16 (1.25%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 105 (8.20%) Onboarding
2 79 (6.17%) Cloud Native
3 76 (5.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 68 (5.31%) Security Posture
5 59 (4.61%) Driving Licence
6 56 (4.38%) Management Information System
7 49 (3.83%) Data Centre
8 45 (3.52%) Security Operations Centre
9 44 (3.44%) Public Cloud
10 43 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
11 40 (3.13%) PKI
12 35 (2.73%) Cyber Defence
12 35 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
13 31 (2.42%) Cyber Threat
14 24 (1.88%) Private Cloud
15 23 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
16 22 (1.72%) Cyberattack
16 22 (1.72%) Replication
17 19 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
18 17 (1.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 612 (47.81%) Windows
2 301 (23.52%) Linux
3 292 (22.81%) Windows Server
4 76 (5.94%) Windows 10
5 53 (4.14%) Apple iOS
6 49 (3.83%) VMS
7 44 (3.44%) Mac OS
8 42 (3.28%) Android
9 39 (3.05%) Windows Server 2016
10 34 (2.66%) CentOS
11 31 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 27 (2.11%) Windows Server 2019
13 26 (2.03%) Ubuntu
14 11 (0.86%) Unix
15 8 (0.63%) Debian
16 4 (0.31%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.31%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
17 3 (0.23%) AIX
18 2 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (26.88%) Problem-Solving
2 307 (23.98%) Infrastructure as Code
3 303 (23.67%) CI/CD
4 285 (22.27%) DevOps
5 251 (19.61%) Cybersecurity
6 246 (19.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 238 (18.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 220 (17.19%) ITIL
9 164 (12.81%) Agile
10 162 (12.66%) Disaster Recovery
11 161 (12.58%) Incident Response
12 158 (12.34%) Root Cause Analysis
13 155 (12.11%) Mentoring
14 138 (10.78%) High Availability
15 132 (10.31%) Containerisation
16 130 (10.16%) SIEM
17 127 (9.92%) Cloud Security
18 121 (9.45%) AI
19 113 (8.83%) Observability
20 112 (8.75%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 507 (39.61%) Python
2 314 (24.53%) Bash
3 269 (21.02%) SQL
4 99 (7.73%) Bicep
5 97 (7.58%) C#
6 79 (6.17%) JavaScript
7 48 (3.75%) Kusto Query Language
7 48 (3.75%) T-SQL
8 35 (2.73%) Java
9 30 (2.34%) TypeScript
10 19 (1.48%) C++
11 18 (1.41%) VBScript
12 17 (1.33%) PHP
13 12 (0.94%) Perl
14 11 (0.86%) Go
15 10 (0.78%) VB
15 10 (0.78%) VBA
16 9 (0.70%) Ruby
17 8 (0.63%) C
18 6 (0.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 150 (11.72%) Degree
1 150 (11.72%) Security Cleared
2 143 (11.17%) Azure Certification
3 121 (9.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 98 (7.66%) SC Cleared
5 56 (4.38%) Cisco Certification
6 52 (4.06%) CISSP
7 47 (3.67%) CompTIA Security+
8 46 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 42 (3.28%) CCNA
10 37 (2.89%) DV Cleared
11 26 (2.03%) CEH
11 26 (2.03%) DBS Check
12 25 (1.95%) GIAC
13 23 (1.80%) AWS Certification
13 23 (1.80%) OSCP
14 19 (1.48%) CREST Certified
15 18 (1.41%) CCNP
16 16 (1.25%) CompTIA CySA+
17 15 (1.17%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (9.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 90 (7.03%) NIST
3 58 (4.53%) GDPR
4 55 (4.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 41 (3.20%) SLA
6 24 (1.88%) QA
7 22 (1.72%) Data Quality
8 19 (1.48%) SOC 2
9 18 (1.41%) PCI DSS
10 13 (1.02%) NCSC
11 12 (0.94%) ISO 22301
12 8 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (0.55%) Accessibility
13 7 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.47%) PMO
15 5 (0.39%) DICOM
16 4 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.16%) EMIR
17 2 (0.16%) ISAE 3402
17 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 474 (37.03%) Active Directory
2 205 (16.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 144 (11.25%) Hyper-V
4 133 (10.39%) Docker
5 77 (6.02%) vSphere
6 47 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
7 39 (3.05%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.80%) BitLocker
9 15 (1.17%) VMware NSX
10 13 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.78%) KVM
12 8 (0.63%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.63%) Squid
13 4 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.23%) iptables
14 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.16%) Firmware
15 2 (0.16%) Samba
Systems Management
1 316 (24.69%) Terraform
2 221 (17.27%) Kubernetes
3 197 (15.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 153 (11.95%) Ansible
5 76 (5.94%) Grafana
6 52 (4.06%) SCCM
6 52 (4.06%) Single Sign-On
7 51 (3.98%) Prometheus
8 24 (1.88%) Jamf Pro
9 22 (1.72%) ZABBIX
10 21 (1.64%) vCenter Server
11 20 (1.56%) Argo
11 20 (1.56%) Packer
11 20 (1.56%) QRadar
12 17 (1.33%) Proxmox
13 14 (1.09%) Graylog
14 12 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 12 (0.94%) Nessus
14 12 (0.94%) VxRail
15 11 (0.86%) WSUS
Vendors
1 777 (60.70%) Microsoft
2 252 (19.69%) VMware
3 109 (8.52%) Cisco
4 91 (7.11%) Splunk
5 83 (6.48%) ServiceNow
6 57 (4.45%) Red Hat
7 52 (4.06%) Veeam
8 40 (3.13%) Meraki
9 39 (3.05%) Oracle
10 32 (2.50%) Tenable
11 31 (2.42%) Sophos
12 29 (2.27%) CrowdStrike
13 28 (2.19%) Apple
13 28 (2.19%) Citrix
14 27 (2.11%) Dell
14 27 (2.11%) Palo Alto
15 26 (2.03%) Fortinet
16 23 (1.80%) CyberArk
16 23 (1.80%) Dynatrace
16 23 (1.80%) SolarWinds