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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 78 108
Rank change year-on-year -54 +30 -23
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,222 1,520 2,247
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.46% 3.82% 2.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.99% 12.00% 7.69%
Number of salaries quoted 921 950 1,787
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,150
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £58,300 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% +6.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,750 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
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 15,286 12,668 29,214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.30% 31.85% 30.64%
Number of salaries quoted 11,029 8,500 23,330
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -13 506 £70,000 -5.41% 101
South East -44 203 £55,000 -4.35% 127
North of England -88 196 £47,500 -6.40% 66
Midlands -42 137 £50,000 - 27
North West -79 102 £51,500 +10.75% 50
East of England -26 86 £54,500 +14.74% 25
South West -44 84 £55,000 +15.79% 41
East Midlands -11 77 £45,000 +24.14% 14
Yorkshire -26 61 £45,000 -21.74% 13
West Midlands -69 59 £51,250 -4.54% 13
North East -24 33 £47,500 -19.15% 4
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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
1 188 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 170 (13.91%) SharePoint
3 42 (3.44%) IIS
4 23 (1.88%) Confluence
5 2 (0.16%) Apache
5 2 (0.16%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.082%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.082%) nginx
6 1 (0.082%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.082%) SAS
6 1 (0.082%) Site Server
Applications
1 75 (6.14%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.082%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.082%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.65%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.16%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.082%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.082%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.082%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.082%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 795 (65.06%) Azure
2 453 (37.07%) Microsoft 365
3 312 (25.53%) Entra ID
4 210 (17.18%) AWS
5 133 (10.88%) Azure DevOps
6 111 (9.08%) Power Platform
7 96 (7.86%) GitHub
8 87 (7.12%) IaaS
9 84 (6.87%) SaaS
10 80 (6.55%) OneDrive
11 71 (5.81%) Azure Monitor
12 62 (5.07%) GitHub Actions
13 59 (4.83%) PaaS
14 58 (4.75%) Azure Sentinel
15 57 (4.66%) Azure AKS
15 57 (4.66%) Power Automate
16 53 (4.34%) GCP
17 52 (4.26%) Azure Key Vault
18 45 (3.68%) Azure Logic Apps
19 44 (3.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 252 (20.62%) Firewall
2 241 (19.72%) DNS
3 158 (12.93%) VPN
4 151 (12.36%) DHCP
5 105 (8.59%) TCP/IP
6 74 (6.06%) Network Security
7 72 (5.89%) LAN
8 71 (5.81%) WAN
9 54 (4.42%) VLAN
10 45 (3.68%) Wi-Fi
11 32 (2.62%) SAN
12 31 (2.54%) VoIP
13 27 (2.21%) Broadband
14 26 (2.13%) Wireless
15 19 (1.55%) Kerberos
16 15 (1.23%) BGP
16 15 (1.23%) SSL
17 13 (1.06%) HTTP
17 13 (1.06%) Internet
17 13 (1.06%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (11.46%) SQL Server
2 76 (6.22%) Power BI
3 68 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 38 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (2.05%) MySQL
7 23 (1.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (1.31%) MongoDB
9 14 (1.15%) Relational Database
9 14 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 13 (1.06%) NoSQL
11 10 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.74%) Data Lake
12 9 (0.74%) Tableau
13 8 (0.65%) InfluxDB
13 8 (0.65%) Metadata
14 5 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 4 (0.33%) Redis
16 3 (0.25%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 95 (7.77%) Git
2 69 (5.65%) JIRA
3 60 (4.91%) GitLab
4 59 (4.83%) Jenkins
5 31 (2.54%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.31%) Octopus Deploy
7 15 (1.23%) TeamCity
8 13 (1.06%) Metasploit
9 12 (0.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 10 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
11 9 (0.74%) Burp Suite
12 7 (0.57%) Robot Framework
13 6 (0.49%) TestRail
14 5 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (0.41%) CircleCI
14 5 (0.41%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.41%) Selenium
15 4 (0.33%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.33%) SonarQube
16 3 (0.25%) Terragrunt
General
1 363 (29.71%) Social Skills
2 198 (16.20%) Finance
3 156 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (7.45%) Law
5 54 (4.42%) Organisational Skills
6 50 (4.09%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 48 (3.93%) Legal
8 44 (3.60%) Retail
9 28 (2.29%) Public Sector
10 24 (1.96%) Aerospace
11 22 (1.80%) Banking
12 21 (1.72%) Manufacturing
13 18 (1.47%) Advertising
14 15 (1.23%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.65%) Aviation
16 7 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.49%) Front Office
17 6 (0.49%) Investment Banking
17 6 (0.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 207 (16.94%) Senior
2 154 (12.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 142 (11.62%) Analyst
4 139 (11.37%) Support Engineer
5 130 (10.64%) Azure Engineer
6 120 (9.82%) IT Support
7 114 (9.33%) IT Engineer
8 103 (8.43%) Cloud Engineer
9 89 (7.28%) DevOps Engineer
10 78 (6.38%) Security Engineer
11 73 (5.97%) IT Support Engineer
12 61 (4.99%) Platform Engineer
13 56 (4.58%) Developer
14 54 (4.42%) 2nd Line Support
15 52 (4.26%) Lead
16 44 (3.60%) Systems Engineer
17 43 (3.52%) Security Analyst
18 42 (3.44%) 3rd Line Engineer
19 37 (3.03%) Architect
20 35 (2.86%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (6.55%) .NET
2 65 (5.32%) SAML
3 63 (5.16%) OAuth
4 62 (5.07%) REST
5 56 (4.58%) OpenID
6 53 (4.34%) LDAP
7 42 (3.44%) ARM Templates
8 41 (3.36%) YAML
9 40 (3.27%) JSON
10 38 (3.11%) HTML
11 36 (2.95%) .NET Core
11 36 (2.95%) Microsoft Graph
12 35 (2.86%) SOAP
13 34 (2.78%) CSS
14 27 (2.21%) SPFx
15 26 (2.13%) GraphQL
16 20 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
17 19 (1.55%) HTML5 Canvas
18 18 (1.47%) React
19 15 (1.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 99 (8.10%) Onboarding
2 75 (6.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 66 (5.40%) Cloud Native
3 66 (5.40%) Security Posture
4 56 (4.58%) Driving Licence
5 55 (4.50%) Management Information System
6 45 (3.68%) Security Operations Centre
7 44 (3.60%) Cyber Defence
8 43 (3.52%) Cyber Threat
9 38 (3.11%) Data Centre
10 36 (2.95%) Public Cloud
11 35 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
12 33 (2.70%) Cyberattack
12 33 (2.70%) PKI
13 22 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
14 21 (1.72%) Replication
14 21 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
15 20 (1.64%) Private Cloud
16 18 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
17 15 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 577 (47.22%) Windows
2 282 (23.08%) Linux
3 274 (22.42%) Windows Server
4 76 (6.22%) Windows 10
5 51 (4.17%) Apple iOS
6 49 (4.01%) Mac OS
7 45 (3.68%) VMS
8 42 (3.44%) Android
9 36 (2.95%) Windows Server 2016
10 30 (2.45%) CentOS
11 28 (2.29%) Windows Server 2019
12 27 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 24 (1.96%) Ubuntu
14 11 (0.90%) Unix
15 7 (0.57%) Debian
16 4 (0.33%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.33%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
17 3 (0.25%) AIX
18 2 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (25.94%) Problem-Solving
2 289 (23.65%) Infrastructure as Code
3 281 (23.00%) CI/CD
4 265 (21.69%) DevOps
5 264 (21.60%) Cybersecurity
6 222 (18.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 215 (17.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 205 (16.78%) ITIL
9 159 (13.01%) Incident Response
10 155 (12.68%) Agile
10 155 (12.68%) Mentoring
11 152 (12.44%) Root Cause Analysis
12 151 (12.36%) Disaster Recovery
13 127 (10.39%) Containerisation
14 124 (10.15%) High Availability
15 120 (9.82%) Cloud Security
15 120 (9.82%) SIEM
16 115 (9.41%) AI
17 107 (8.76%) Roadmaps
18 103 (8.43%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 490 (40.10%) Python
2 310 (25.37%) Bash
3 264 (21.60%) SQL
4 92 (7.53%) C#
5 83 (6.79%) Bicep
6 77 (6.30%) JavaScript
7 55 (4.50%) T-SQL
8 37 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
9 29 (2.37%) Java
10 26 (2.13%) TypeScript
11 18 (1.47%) C++
12 15 (1.23%) VBScript
13 13 (1.06%) Perl
13 13 (1.06%) PHP
14 11 (0.90%) VB
15 10 (0.82%) VBA
16 9 (0.74%) Go
17 8 (0.65%) C
17 8 (0.65%) Ruby
18 6 (0.49%) Korn
Qualifications
1 145 (11.87%) Degree
2 142 (11.62%) Security Cleared
3 129 (10.56%) Azure Certification
4 114 (9.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 91 (7.45%) SC Cleared
6 51 (4.17%) CISSP
7 45 (3.68%) Cisco Certification
8 44 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 40 (3.27%) CompTIA Security+
10 34 (2.78%) DV Cleared
11 32 (2.62%) CCNA
12 28 (2.29%) DBS Check
12 28 (2.29%) OSCP
13 26 (2.13%) AWS Certification
14 25 (2.05%) CREST Certified
15 24 (1.96%) CEH
15 24 (1.96%) GIAC
16 17 (1.39%) CompTIA CySA+
17 13 (1.06%) CCNP
18 12 (0.98%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (11.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 102 (8.35%) NIST
3 56 (4.58%) GDPR
4 51 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
5 36 (2.95%) SLA
6 25 (2.05%) NCSC
7 20 (1.64%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.31%) PCI DSS
8 16 (1.31%) QA
9 15 (1.23%) SOC 2
10 13 (1.06%) ISO 22301
11 11 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
13 9 (0.74%) Accessibility
14 6 (0.49%) DICOM
14 6 (0.49%) PMO
15 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.16%) ISAE 3402
16 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 457 (37.40%) Active Directory
2 184 (15.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 135 (11.05%) Docker
4 128 (10.47%) Hyper-V
5 66 (5.40%) vSphere
6 36 (2.95%) Virtual Machines
7 31 (2.54%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.88%) BitLocker
9 16 (1.31%) VMware NSX
10 11 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.82%) KVM
12 8 (0.65%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.65%) Squid
13 5 (0.41%) Firmware
13 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.33%) iptables
15 3 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.25%) Terminal Services
16 2 (0.16%) Samba
Systems Management
1 297 (24.30%) Terraform
2 210 (17.18%) Kubernetes
3 189 (15.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 144 (11.78%) Ansible
5 68 (5.56%) Grafana
6 55 (4.50%) Single Sign-On
7 49 (4.01%) Prometheus
8 46 (3.76%) SCCM
9 25 (2.05%) Jamf Pro
10 20 (1.64%) Packer
10 20 (1.64%) vCenter Server
11 18 (1.47%) Argo
11 18 (1.47%) ZABBIX
12 17 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 17 (1.39%) Nessus
12 17 (1.39%) QRadar
13 14 (1.15%) Graylog
13 14 (1.15%) Proxmox
14 13 (1.06%) VxRail
15 12 (0.98%) Nagios
Vendors
1 731 (59.82%) Microsoft
2 234 (19.15%) VMware
3 94 (7.69%) Cisco
4 81 (6.63%) Splunk
5 66 (5.40%) ServiceNow
6 54 (4.42%) Red Hat
7 46 (3.76%) Veeam
8 37 (3.03%) Meraki
9 36 (2.95%) Oracle
10 31 (2.54%) Apple
10 31 (2.54%) CrowdStrike
11 27 (2.21%) Dell
11 27 (2.21%) Tenable
12 26 (2.13%) Google
13 25 (2.05%) Citrix
13 25 (2.05%) Fortinet
14 24 (1.96%) Palo Alto
14 24 (1.96%) Sophos
15 23 (1.88%) Commvault
16 22 (1.80%) SolarWinds