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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 91 86
Rank change year-on-year -35 -5 +2
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,079 1,294 2,320
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.65% 3.31% 3.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.01% 9.48% 9.10%
Number of salaries quoted 856 1,023 2,011
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,750 £62,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% +12.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,563 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £88,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 11,971 13,654 25,485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.26% 34.89% 34.36%
Number of salaries quoted 8,755 9,365 21,759
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £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 £101,198
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 14 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 14 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 +1 482 £70,000 -12.50% 135
South East -46 194 £56,687 -5.52% 101
North of England -51 137 £47,500 -9.52% 57
South West -7 102 £55,000 +4.76% 45
Midlands -53 90 £52,500 +5.00% 40
Yorkshire -26 66 £47,500 -9.52% 18
East of England -17 56 £40,000 -27.27% 36
North West -37 56 £51,000 +2.00% 26
East Midlands -22 48 £55,000 +12.24% 19
West Midlands -51 41 £48,500 -3.00% 21
North East -17 15 £46,250 -22.92% 14
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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
1 180 (16.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 133 (12.33%) SharePoint
3 33 (3.06%) IIS
4 22 (2.04%) Exchange Server 2003
5 13 (1.20%) Confluence
6 6 (0.56%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.28%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.19%) Apache
8 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.19%) CMS
8 2 (0.19%) WordPress
9 1 (0.093%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.093%) Site Server
Applications
1 45 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.56%) Siemens NX
4 5 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.28%) CATIA
5 3 (0.28%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.28%) Windchill
6 1 (0.093%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.093%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.56%) Teamcenter
2 5 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.37%) Markit EDM
3 4 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.19%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.093%) Actimize
6 1 (0.093%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.093%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.093%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.093%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 677 (62.74%) Azure
2 370 (34.29%) Microsoft 365
3 280 (25.95%) Entra ID
4 186 (17.24%) AWS
5 113 (10.47%) Azure DevOps
6 100 (9.27%) Power Platform
7 82 (7.60%) GitHub
8 74 (6.86%) GCP
9 65 (6.02%) PaaS
10 63 (5.84%) SaaS
11 59 (5.47%) GitHub Actions
12 55 (5.10%) IaaS
13 52 (4.82%) Azure Monitor
14 49 (4.54%) OneDrive
15 44 (4.08%) Google Workspace
16 40 (3.71%) Power Automate
17 38 (3.52%) Azure Sentinel
18 35 (3.24%) Nutanix
19 34 (3.15%) Azure Logic Apps
20 31 (2.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 213 (19.74%) DNS
2 203 (18.81%) Firewall
3 163 (15.11%) DHCP
4 129 (11.96%) VPN
5 100 (9.27%) TCP/IP
6 58 (5.38%) WAN
7 55 (5.10%) LAN
8 48 (4.45%) VLAN
9 45 (4.17%) Network Security
10 44 (4.08%) Wi-Fi
11 34 (3.15%) SAN
11 34 (3.15%) VoIP
12 31 (2.87%) Wireless
13 28 (2.59%) Broadband
14 27 (2.50%) SD-WAN
15 16 (1.48%) VSAN
16 12 (1.11%) NAS
16 12 (1.11%) WinSCP
17 11 (1.02%) Internet
18 10 (0.93%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (12.51%) SQL Server
2 82 (7.60%) Power BI
3 28 (2.59%) Oracle Database
4 27 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 26 (2.41%) Oracle Database 10g
6 25 (2.32%) MySQL
6 25 (2.32%) Relational Database
7 22 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
8 19 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (1.39%) Tableau
10 14 (1.30%) NoSQL
10 14 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 12 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.65%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.56%) InfluxDB
14 5 (0.46%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.46%) Metadata
15 4 (0.37%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 75 (6.95%) Git
2 72 (6.67%) JIRA
3 63 (5.84%) Jenkins
4 40 (3.71%) GitLab
5 26 (2.41%) Bitbucket
5 26 (2.41%) Octopus Deploy
6 18 (1.67%) TeamCity
7 15 (1.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 14 (1.30%) Metasploit
9 10 (0.93%) Burp Suite
10 9 (0.83%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.65%) Robot Framework
12 6 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.46%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.37%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.37%) MLflow
14 4 (0.37%) TestRail
15 3 (0.28%) Balsamiq
15 3 (0.28%) JMeter
15 3 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 367 (34.01%) Social Skills
2 219 (20.30%) Finance
3 123 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (5.10%) Law
5 44 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
6 39 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
6 39 (3.61%) Retail
7 33 (3.06%) Legal
8 32 (2.97%) Banking
8 32 (2.97%) Public Sector
9 29 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 27 (2.50%) Telecoms
11 17 (1.58%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.02%) Advertising
13 9 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.74%) Front Office
14 8 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.65%) Investment Banking
16 5 (0.46%) Marketing
16 5 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 146 (13.53%) Senior
2 135 (12.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 126 (11.68%) Support Engineer
4 105 (9.73%) Analyst
5 93 (8.62%) Azure Engineer
6 85 (7.88%) IT Support
7 75 (6.95%) DevOps Engineer
8 71 (6.58%) Security Engineer
9 64 (5.93%) Cloud Engineer
9 64 (5.93%) IT Engineer
10 61 (5.65%) Developer
11 55 (5.10%) 3rd Line Support
11 55 (5.10%) Lead
12 48 (4.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 48 (4.45%) IT Support Engineer
13 42 (3.89%) Platform Engineer
14 39 (3.61%) Architect
15 38 (3.52%) 2nd Line Support
16 35 (3.24%) Support Analyst
17 32 (2.97%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (5.75%) .NET
2 59 (5.47%) REST
3 49 (4.54%) OAuth
4 47 (4.36%) SAML
5 44 (4.08%) OpenID
6 33 (3.06%) LDAP
7 32 (2.97%) SOAP
8 29 (2.69%) YAML
9 28 (2.59%) JSON
10 25 (2.32%) GraphQL
11 24 (2.22%) ARM Templates
12 22 (2.04%) .NET Core
13 20 (1.85%) Microsoft Graph
14 17 (1.58%) Elastic Stack
15 16 (1.48%) React
16 14 (1.30%) Node.js
17 12 (1.11%) Middleware
17 12 (1.11%) Web Services
18 11 (1.02%) CSS
19 10 (0.93%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 89 (8.25%) Onboarding
2 74 (6.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 55 (5.10%) Security Posture
4 41 (3.80%) Driving Licence
5 37 (3.43%) Cyber Threat
5 37 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
6 36 (3.34%) Cyber Defence
7 35 (3.24%) Management Information System
8 32 (2.97%) Cloud Native
9 30 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 30 (2.78%) Data Centre
10 29 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
11 26 (2.41%) Cyberattack
12 22 (2.04%) Security Operations Centre
13 21 (1.95%) PKI
14 18 (1.67%) CMDB
15 17 (1.58%) Replication
16 15 (1.39%) Hedge funds
16 15 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
16 15 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 492 (45.60%) Windows
2 253 (23.45%) Windows Server
3 216 (20.02%) Linux
4 66 (6.12%) Windows 10
5 57 (5.28%) Mac OS
6 41 (3.80%) Unix
7 33 (3.06%) Android
8 32 (2.97%) Windows Server 2016
8 32 (2.97%) Windows Server 2019
9 26 (2.41%) Apple iOS
10 24 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 24 (2.22%) Solaris
10 24 (2.22%) Windows Server 2008
11 22 (2.04%) CentOS
11 22 (2.04%) HPUX
11 22 (2.04%) VMS
11 22 (2.04%) Windows 7
11 22 (2.04%) Windows Server 2003
12 15 (1.39%) Ubuntu
13 9 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (29.66%) Problem-Solving
2 245 (22.71%) DevOps
3 213 (19.74%) CI/CD
4 210 (19.46%) ITIL
5 194 (17.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 194 (17.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 184 (17.05%) Cybersecurity
7 174 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 152 (14.09%) Disaster Recovery
9 132 (12.23%) Incident Response
10 131 (12.14%) Mentoring
11 112 (10.38%) Agile
12 109 (10.10%) Root Cause Analysis
13 99 (9.18%) Task Automation
14 98 (9.08%) Cloud Security
15 92 (8.53%) Computer Science
16 91 (8.43%) Business Intelligence
17 90 (8.34%) Migration
17 90 (8.34%) SIEM
18 87 (8.06%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 381 (35.31%) Python
2 243 (22.52%) Bash
3 223 (20.67%) SQL
4 69 (6.39%) JavaScript
5 63 (5.84%) C#
6 60 (5.56%) Bicep
7 54 (5.00%) T-SQL
8 28 (2.59%) Kusto Query Language
9 26 (2.41%) Perl
10 16 (1.48%) Java
11 13 (1.20%) Go
12 10 (0.93%) VB.NET
13 8 (0.74%) PHP
14 7 (0.65%) VB
15 6 (0.56%) C++
15 6 (0.56%) Delphi
15 6 (0.56%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.46%) Google Apps Script
17 4 (0.37%) C
17 4 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 160 (14.83%) Degree
2 134 (12.42%) Security Cleared
3 96 (8.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 86 (7.97%) Azure Certification
5 81 (7.51%) SC Cleared
6 55 (5.10%) DV Cleared
7 46 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (3.80%) CISSP
9 32 (2.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 27 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (2.22%) CEH
11 24 (2.22%) CREST Certified
12 23 (2.13%) AWS Certification
13 22 (2.04%) GIAC
14 20 (1.85%) CompTIA CySA+
14 20 (1.85%) OSCP
15 19 (1.76%) CompTIA Security+
16 16 (1.48%) CCNA
17 15 (1.39%) DBS Check
18 13 (1.20%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (15.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 137 (12.70%) NIST
3 63 (5.84%) SLA
4 59 (5.47%) GDPR
5 39 (3.61%) NCSC
6 32 (2.97%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (2.04%) Accessibility
7 22 (2.04%) ISO 22301
8 19 (1.76%) QA
9 17 (1.58%) Data Quality
10 15 (1.39%) PCI DSS
11 13 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.65%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.46%) DICOM
14 5 (0.46%) GRC
15 3 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.19%) COBIT
16 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 407 (37.72%) Active Directory
2 127 (11.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 105 (9.73%) Docker
4 101 (9.36%) Hyper-V
5 41 (3.80%) vSphere
6 35 (3.24%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (1.76%) Firmware
8 17 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (1.48%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.74%) VMware NSX
11 6 (0.56%) BitLocker
12 5 (0.46%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 5 (0.46%) XenApp
12 5 (0.46%) XenDesktop
13 4 (0.37%) iptables
13 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.28%) vCloud
15 2 (0.19%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 2 (0.19%) KVM
Systems Management
1 214 (19.83%) Terraform
2 158 (14.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 150 (13.90%) Kubernetes
4 124 (11.49%) Ansible
5 41 (3.80%) Grafana
6 40 (3.71%) SCCM
7 36 (3.34%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (2.41%) Prometheus
9 19 (1.76%) Jamf Pro
10 16 (1.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 15 (1.39%) vCenter Server
12 12 (1.11%) Puppet
13 11 (1.02%) Nessus
13 11 (1.02%) VxRail
14 10 (0.93%) SCOM
15 9 (0.83%) FortiGate
16 8 (0.74%) Nagios
16 8 (0.74%) Progress Chef
17 7 (0.65%) Control-M
18 6 (0.56%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 580 (53.75%) Microsoft
2 220 (20.39%) VMware
3 94 (8.71%) Cisco
4 49 (4.54%) Oracle
5 48 (4.45%) Splunk
5 48 (4.45%) Veeam
6 42 (3.89%) ServiceNow
7 40 (3.71%) Red Hat
8 39 (3.61%) Google
9 35 (3.24%) Atlassian
10 33 (3.06%) Commvault
11 31 (2.87%) Palo Alto
12 26 (2.41%) Citrix
12 26 (2.41%) CrowdStrike
13 24 (2.22%) CyberArk
13 24 (2.22%) Dell
13 24 (2.22%) Meraki
14 22 (2.04%) Apple
15 21 (1.95%) Fortinet
16 20 (1.85%) Dynatrace