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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 93 69
Rank change year-on-year -21 -24 +13
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,034 1,456 2,130
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.90% 3.04% 3.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.89% 9.01% 10.17%
Number of salaries quoted 847 1,025 1,849
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,450 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £47,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £92,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -

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 10,454 16,161 20,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.19% 33.78% 37.69%
Number of salaries quoted 7,844 9,498 17,743
10th Percentile £32,838 £37,789 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,994 £48,750 £46,550
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +7.89% -7.31%
75th Percentile £83,250 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -11 445 £70,000 -6.67% 145
South East -36 180 £58,000 -3.33% 199
North of England -20 131 £50,000 -1.48% 120
South West +24 107 £52,500 -2.78% 90
Midlands -30 89 £52,500 +10.53% 79
East of England +13 69 £43,042 -18.01% 75
North West -10 61 £50,500 +1.00% 64
Yorkshire -24 59 £47,500 -9.52% 43
West Midlands -28 48 £52,500 +20.00% 26
East Midlands -7 41 £55,000 +8.91% 52
North East +3 11 £62,500 +10.62% 13
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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
1 170 (16.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 137 (13.25%) SharePoint
3 42 (4.06%) IIS
4 25 (2.42%) Confluence
5 22 (2.13%) Exchange Server 2003
6 14 (1.35%) Skype for Business
7 6 (0.58%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.48%) nginx
8 5 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.19%) CMS
9 2 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 35 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.58%) Siemens NX
4 5 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.39%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 3 (0.29%) CATIA
6 3 (0.29%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.29%) Windchill
7 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.58%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.48%) NEC Housing
3 5 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.29%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.19%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.19%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.097%) Actimize
6 1 (0.097%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 652 (63.06%) Azure
2 352 (34.04%) Microsoft 365
3 253 (24.47%) Entra ID
4 186 (17.99%) AWS
5 148 (14.31%) Azure DevOps
6 104 (10.06%) Power Platform
7 73 (7.06%) GCP
8 72 (6.96%) GitHub
9 63 (6.09%) PaaS
10 57 (5.51%) Power Automate
11 54 (5.22%) GitHub Actions
12 46 (4.45%) Azure Monitor
13 44 (4.26%) IaaS
14 40 (3.87%) OneDrive
15 39 (3.77%) Azure Sentinel
15 39 (3.77%) SaaS
16 31 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
17 30 (2.90%) PowerApps
18 27 (2.61%) Google Workspace
19 26 (2.51%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 203 (19.63%) Firewall
2 192 (18.57%) DNS
3 145 (14.02%) DHCP
4 98 (9.48%) TCP/IP
5 92 (8.90%) VPN
6 72 (6.96%) WAN
7 62 (6.00%) LAN
8 39 (3.77%) Wi-Fi
9 38 (3.68%) VLAN
10 34 (3.29%) Wireless
11 30 (2.90%) SAN
12 24 (2.32%) SD-WAN
13 23 (2.22%) Network Security
14 21 (2.03%) Internet
15 18 (1.74%) VSAN
16 16 (1.55%) VoIP
17 15 (1.45%) Cisco IOS
18 14 (1.35%) Broadband
18 14 (1.35%) Skype
19 12 (1.16%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (11.41%) SQL Server
2 70 (6.77%) Power BI
3 33 (3.19%) Relational Database
4 30 (2.90%) Oracle Database
4 30 (2.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 26 (2.51%) Oracle Database 10g
6 21 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (1.55%) MySQL
8 15 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (1.06%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.06%) Tableau
11 9 (0.87%) MongoDB
12 7 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
12 7 (0.68%) DTS
13 6 (0.58%) Data Mining
13 6 (0.58%) Metadata
13 6 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (0.48%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 83 (8.03%) Git
2 81 (7.83%) JIRA
3 73 (7.06%) Jenkins
4 37 (3.58%) GitLab
5 24 (2.32%) Octopus Deploy
6 17 (1.64%) Bitbucket
7 16 (1.55%) TeamCity
8 11 (1.06%) Burp Suite
8 11 (1.06%) Metasploit
9 6 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (0.58%) CircleCI
9 6 (0.58%) Robot Framework
9 6 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 6 (0.58%) Vagrant
10 5 (0.48%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.39%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.39%) MLflow
11 4 (0.39%) MSI
11 4 (0.39%) Toad
12 3 (0.29%) Balsamiq
General
1 377 (36.46%) Social Skills
2 231 (22.34%) Finance
3 103 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (5.32%) Law
5 47 (4.55%) Retail
6 38 (3.68%) Banking
6 38 (3.68%) Legal
7 37 (3.58%) Public Sector
8 31 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
9 30 (2.90%) Manufacturing
9 30 (2.90%) Telecoms
10 29 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
11 23 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (0.97%) Front Office
14 10 (0.97%) Marketing
15 9 (0.87%) Advertising
16 8 (0.77%) Electronics
17 7 (0.68%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 141 (13.64%) Support Engineer
2 135 (13.06%) Senior
3 112 (10.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 81 (7.83%) Azure Engineer
5 80 (7.74%) Analyst
5 80 (7.74%) DevOps Engineer
6 72 (6.96%) Developer
7 65 (6.29%) IT Support
7 65 (6.29%) Lead
8 64 (6.19%) Security Engineer
9 61 (5.90%) Cloud Engineer
10 55 (5.32%) IT Engineer
11 52 (5.03%) 3rd Line Support
11 52 (5.03%) Platform Engineer
12 45 (4.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 43 (4.16%) Applications Support
14 41 (3.97%) Applications Engineer
14 41 (3.97%) IT Support Engineer
15 36 (3.48%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
16 33 (3.19%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (6.58%) REST
2 59 (5.71%) .NET
3 38 (3.68%) YAML
4 35 (3.38%) SOAP
5 28 (2.71%) LDAP
5 28 (2.71%) OpenID
6 27 (2.61%) OAuth
7 26 (2.51%) ARM Templates
7 26 (2.51%) JSON
8 24 (2.32%) SAML
9 21 (2.03%) React
10 17 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
10 17 (1.64%) Microsoft Graph
11 15 (1.45%) AngularJS
11 15 (1.45%) GraphQL
12 13 (1.26%) Middleware
13 12 (1.16%) Node.js
14 11 (1.06%) Web Services
15 10 (0.97%) OAuth2
15 10 (0.97%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 82 (7.93%) Onboarding
2 58 (5.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 53 (5.13%) Security Posture
4 38 (3.68%) Management Information System
5 35 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
6 32 (3.09%) Cloud Native
7 28 (2.71%) Analytical Mindset
7 28 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (2.61%) Data Centre
9 24 (2.32%) Driving Licence
10 23 (2.22%) PKI
11 21 (2.03%) CMDB
12 20 (1.93%) Cyber Defence
13 19 (1.84%) Cyber Threat
13 19 (1.84%) Hedge funds
14 18 (1.74%) Private Cloud
14 18 (1.74%) Video Conferencing
15 16 (1.55%) Public Cloud
15 16 (1.55%) Replication
16 15 (1.45%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 458 (44.29%) Windows
2 245 (23.69%) Windows Server
3 185 (17.89%) Linux
4 68 (6.58%) Windows 10
5 46 (4.45%) Mac OS
6 41 (3.97%) Unix
7 36 (3.48%) Windows Server 2019
8 35 (3.38%) Windows Server 2016
9 30 (2.90%) Android
10 29 (2.80%) VMS
10 29 (2.80%) Windows Server 2008
11 24 (2.32%) Solaris
12 22 (2.13%) HPUX
12 22 (2.13%) Windows 7
12 22 (2.13%) Windows Server 2003
13 20 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 15 (1.45%) Apple iOS
15 14 (1.35%) CentOS
15 14 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
16 13 (1.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (31.04%) Problem-Solving
2 278 (26.89%) DevOps
3 215 (20.79%) CI/CD
4 193 (18.67%) ITIL
5 172 (16.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 168 (16.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 166 (16.05%) Infrastructure as Code
8 152 (14.70%) Cybersecurity
9 136 (13.15%) Disaster Recovery
10 117 (11.32%) Mentoring
11 116 (11.22%) Task Automation
12 113 (10.93%) Agile
13 102 (9.86%) Root Cause Analysis
14 90 (8.70%) Cloud Security
15 89 (8.61%) Migration
16 87 (8.41%) Computer Science
17 86 (8.32%) Incident Response
18 85 (8.22%) Incident Management
19 80 (7.74%) Business Intelligence
19 80 (7.74%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 342 (33.08%) Python
2 214 (20.70%) SQL
3 204 (19.73%) Bash
4 87 (8.41%) C#
5 62 (6.00%) Bicep
6 51 (4.93%) JavaScript
7 37 (3.58%) T-SQL
8 27 (2.61%) Perl
9 23 (2.22%) Go
10 21 (2.03%) Java
11 19 (1.84%) Kusto Query Language
12 14 (1.35%) VB
13 11 (1.06%) TypeScript
13 11 (1.06%) VBScript
14 10 (0.97%) VB.NET
15 7 (0.68%) Groovy
15 7 (0.68%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.39%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.39%) R
16 4 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 155 (14.99%) Degree
2 146 (14.12%) Security Cleared
3 92 (8.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 89 (8.61%) SC Cleared
5 77 (7.45%) Azure Certification
6 53 (5.13%) DV Cleared
7 44 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (3.19%) CISSP
10 32 (3.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 27 (2.61%) AWS Certification
12 19 (1.84%) CREST Certified
13 18 (1.74%) CEH
14 17 (1.64%) CCNA
15 16 (1.55%) Master's Degree
16 15 (1.45%) DBS Check
17 13 (1.26%) CompTIA CySA+
17 13 (1.26%) GIAC
18 12 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 11 (1.06%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (14.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 111 (10.74%) NIST
3 55 (5.32%) GDPR
4 53 (5.13%) SLA
5 32 (3.09%) NCSC
6 27 (2.61%) Cyber Essentials
7 25 (2.42%) Accessibility
8 15 (1.45%) ISO 22301
8 15 (1.45%) QA
9 13 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 11 (1.06%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.87%) Data Quality
12 7 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.48%) GRC
13 5 (0.48%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.29%) HL7
14 3 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
16 1 (0.097%) DICOM
16 1 (0.097%) NIST 800
System Software
1 364 (35.20%) Active Directory
2 124 (11.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 97 (9.38%) Docker
4 82 (7.93%) Hyper-V
5 34 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (2.80%) vSphere
7 27 (2.61%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (2.22%) Firmware
9 14 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.68%) XenApp
11 7 (0.68%) XenDesktop
12 5 (0.48%) Postfix
12 5 (0.48%) Squid
13 4 (0.39%) DFS Replication
13 4 (0.39%) Dovecot
13 4 (0.39%) VMware NSX
14 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.29%) vCloud
15 2 (0.19%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 206 (19.92%) Terraform
2 176 (17.02%) Microsoft Intune
3 143 (13.83%) Kubernetes
4 119 (11.51%) Ansible
5 52 (5.03%) SCCM
6 36 (3.48%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (3.09%) Grafana
8 26 (2.51%) Prometheus
9 16 (1.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 16 (1.55%) SCOM
10 14 (1.35%) WSUS
11 13 (1.26%) Nessus
12 12 (1.16%) vCenter Server
13 11 (1.06%) Puppet
14 9 (0.87%) FortiGate
14 9 (0.87%) ZABBIX
15 8 (0.77%) Nagios
15 8 (0.77%) SCVMM
16 7 (0.68%) McAfee ePO
16 7 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 577 (55.80%) Microsoft
2 207 (20.02%) VMware
3 87 (8.41%) Cisco
4 62 (6.00%) ServiceNow
5 55 (5.32%) Oracle
6 46 (4.45%) Veeam
7 39 (3.77%) Atlassian
8 38 (3.68%) Google
9 33 (3.19%) Citrix
10 31 (3.00%) Red Hat
10 31 (3.00%) Splunk
11 29 (2.80%) Palo Alto
12 23 (2.22%) Commvault
12 23 (2.22%) SolarWinds
13 22 (2.13%) SAP
14 21 (2.03%) CrowdStrike
14 21 (2.03%) Dell
15 19 (1.84%) Fortinet
16 18 (1.74%) Meraki
17 17 (1.64%) CyberArk