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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 92 70
Rank change year-on-year -24 -22 +14
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,036 1,430 2,240
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.88% 3.02% 3.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.89% 8.94% 9.95%
Number of salaries quoted 842 1,003 1,949
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,350 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,835 £46,625 £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 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £61,350 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.28% +2.25% -

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 10,474 15,989 22,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.99% 33.73% 37.50%
Number of salaries quoted 7,834 9,346 19,120
10th Percentile £32,887 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,500 £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%

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 26 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 26 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 -12 443 £70,000 -6.67% 158
South East -36 181 £57,750 -3.75% 213
North of England -16 135 £48,445 -3.11% 137
South West +17 104 £53,750 -2.27% 89
Midlands -36 90 £52,500 +5.00% 81
East of England +9 68 £43,000 -18.10% 72
North West -8 62 £50,000 - 67
Yorkshire -14 61 £47,500 -5.00% 52
West Midlands -29 46 £51,500 +3.00% 26
East Midlands -14 43 £55,000 +8.91% 54
North East -1 12 £50,000 -12.28% 18
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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
1 171 (16.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 132 (12.74%) SharePoint
3 41 (3.96%) IIS
4 23 (2.22%) Confluence
5 22 (2.12%) Exchange Server 2003
6 13 (1.25%) Skype for Business
7 6 (0.58%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.39%) nginx
10 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.19%) CMS
10 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 3 (0.29%) CATIA
5 3 (0.29%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 3 (0.29%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.29%) Windchill
6 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.58%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.48%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.19%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.19%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.097%) Actimize
6 1 (0.097%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.097%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.097%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 654 (63.13%) Azure
2 352 (33.98%) Microsoft 365
3 262 (25.29%) Entra ID
4 191 (18.44%) AWS
5 142 (13.71%) Azure DevOps
6 103 (9.94%) Power Platform
7 73 (7.05%) GCP
8 72 (6.95%) GitHub
9 61 (5.89%) PaaS
10 54 (5.21%) GitHub Actions
10 54 (5.21%) Power Automate
11 46 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
12 42 (4.05%) IaaS
13 41 (3.96%) Azure Sentinel
13 41 (3.96%) OneDrive
14 40 (3.86%) SaaS
15 32 (3.09%) Google Workspace
16 31 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
17 29 (2.80%) PowerApps
18 27 (2.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 199 (19.21%) Firewall
2 192 (18.53%) DNS
3 147 (14.19%) DHCP
4 97 (9.36%) TCP/IP
5 95 (9.17%) VPN
6 73 (7.05%) WAN
7 64 (6.18%) LAN
8 39 (3.76%) Wi-Fi
9 38 (3.67%) VLAN
10 33 (3.19%) Wireless
11 29 (2.80%) SAN
12 25 (2.41%) SD-WAN
13 24 (2.32%) Network Security
14 20 (1.93%) Internet
15 19 (1.83%) VoIP
16 18 (1.74%) Broadband
17 17 (1.64%) VSAN
18 13 (1.25%) Cisco IOS
18 13 (1.25%) Skype
19 11 (1.06%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (11.58%) SQL Server
2 72 (6.95%) Power BI
3 32 (3.09%) Relational Database
4 30 (2.90%) Oracle Database
5 29 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 26 (2.51%) Oracle Database 10g
7 18 (1.74%) MySQL
8 17 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (1.06%) Tableau
13 10 (0.97%) NoSQL
14 9 (0.87%) MongoDB
15 8 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 7 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
16 7 (0.68%) DTS
17 6 (0.58%) Metadata
18 5 (0.48%) Data Lake
18 5 (0.48%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 82 (7.92%) Git
2 78 (7.53%) JIRA
3 71 (6.85%) Jenkins
4 36 (3.47%) GitLab
5 24 (2.32%) Octopus Deploy
6 16 (1.54%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.54%) TeamCity
7 11 (1.06%) Burp Suite
7 11 (1.06%) Metasploit
8 8 (0.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 6 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (0.58%) CircleCI
9 6 (0.58%) Robot Framework
10 5 (0.48%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.48%) Vagrant
11 4 (0.39%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.39%) MLflow
11 4 (0.39%) MSI
11 4 (0.39%) Toad
12 3 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 376 (36.29%) Social Skills
2 227 (21.91%) Finance
3 107 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (5.02%) Law
5 48 (4.63%) Retail
6 40 (3.86%) Public Sector
7 36 (3.47%) Banking
8 35 (3.38%) Legal
9 33 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
9 33 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
10 29 (2.80%) Telecoms
11 28 (2.70%) Manufacturing
12 24 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (0.87%) Advertising
15 9 (0.87%) Front Office
15 9 (0.87%) Marketing
16 7 (0.68%) Aerospace
16 7 (0.68%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 140 (13.51%) Support Engineer
2 133 (12.84%) Senior
3 119 (11.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 82 (7.92%) Azure Engineer
5 80 (7.72%) Analyst
6 77 (7.43%) DevOps Engineer
7 72 (6.95%) Developer
8 67 (6.47%) Security Engineer
9 66 (6.37%) IT Support
10 62 (5.98%) Lead
11 61 (5.89%) Cloud Engineer
11 61 (5.89%) IT Engineer
12 53 (5.12%) 3rd Line Support
13 50 (4.83%) Platform Engineer
14 44 (4.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 42 (4.05%) Applications Support
15 42 (4.05%) IT Support Engineer
16 40 (3.86%) Applications Engineer
17 34 (3.28%) Support Analyst
18 33 (3.19%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (6.66%) REST
2 60 (5.79%) .NET
3 37 (3.57%) SOAP
4 36 (3.47%) YAML
5 32 (3.09%) OpenID
6 31 (2.99%) LDAP
6 31 (2.99%) OAuth
7 28 (2.70%) SAML
8 26 (2.51%) ARM Templates
8 26 (2.51%) JSON
9 21 (2.03%) React
10 19 (1.83%) GraphQL
11 17 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
11 17 (1.64%) Microsoft Graph
12 15 (1.45%) AngularJS
13 13 (1.25%) Middleware
14 12 (1.16%) Node.js
15 10 (0.97%) OAuth2
15 10 (0.97%) Razor View Engine
15 10 (0.97%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 89 (8.59%) Onboarding
2 61 (5.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 53 (5.12%) Security Posture
4 43 (4.15%) Enterprise Software
5 38 (3.67%) Management Information System
6 31 (2.99%) Cloud Native
7 29 (2.80%) Data Centre
8 28 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
8 28 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
9 27 (2.61%) Driving Licence
10 24 (2.32%) PKI
11 23 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
12 22 (2.12%) CMDB
13 20 (1.93%) Cyber Defence
14 19 (1.83%) Cyberattack
14 19 (1.83%) Hedge funds
15 18 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
16 17 (1.64%) Private Cloud
16 17 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
17 16 (1.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 458 (44.21%) Windows
2 244 (23.55%) Windows Server
3 183 (17.66%) Linux
4 68 (6.56%) Windows 10
5 47 (4.54%) Mac OS
6 42 (4.05%) Unix
7 36 (3.47%) Windows Server 2019
8 35 (3.38%) Windows Server 2016
9 29 (2.80%) Android
9 29 (2.80%) VMS
9 29 (2.80%) Windows Server 2008
10 24 (2.32%) Solaris
11 22 (2.12%) HPUX
11 22 (2.12%) Windows 7
11 22 (2.12%) Windows Server 2003
12 19 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 16 (1.54%) Apple iOS
14 14 (1.35%) CentOS
14 14 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
15 12 (1.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (31.08%) Problem-Solving
2 268 (25.87%) DevOps
3 208 (20.08%) CI/CD
4 193 (18.63%) ITIL
5 182 (17.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 170 (16.41%) Infrastructure as Code
7 169 (16.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 156 (15.06%) Cybersecurity
9 138 (13.32%) Disaster Recovery
10 123 (11.87%) Mentoring
11 118 (11.39%) Task Automation
12 111 (10.71%) Agile
13 103 (9.94%) Root Cause Analysis
14 92 (8.88%) Incident Response
15 89 (8.59%) Migration
16 88 (8.49%) Cloud Security
16 88 (8.49%) Computer Science
17 83 (8.01%) Incident Management
18 81 (7.82%) Business Intelligence
19 78 (7.53%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 342 (33.01%) Python
2 218 (21.04%) SQL
3 213 (20.56%) Bash
4 87 (8.40%) C#
5 61 (5.89%) Bicep
6 52 (5.02%) JavaScript
7 42 (4.05%) T-SQL
8 27 (2.61%) Perl
9 23 (2.22%) Go
10 21 (2.03%) Java
10 21 (2.03%) Kusto Query Language
11 15 (1.45%) VB
12 11 (1.06%) VBScript
13 10 (0.97%) TypeScript
13 10 (0.97%) VB.NET
14 7 (0.68%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.58%) Groovy
16 4 (0.39%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.39%) R
16 4 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 156 (15.06%) Degree
2 144 (13.90%) Security Cleared
3 93 (8.98%) Microsoft Certification
4 88 (8.49%) SC Cleared
5 76 (7.34%) Azure Certification
6 53 (5.12%) DV Cleared
7 44 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
9 34 (3.28%) CISSP
10 31 (2.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 25 (2.41%) AWS Certification
12 20 (1.93%) CEH
12 20 (1.93%) CREST Certified
13 16 (1.54%) CCNA
13 16 (1.54%) DBS Check
13 16 (1.54%) Master's Degree
14 15 (1.45%) CompTIA CySA+
15 14 (1.35%) GIAC
16 12 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 12 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (14.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 114 (11.00%) NIST
3 57 (5.50%) GDPR
4 53 (5.12%) SLA
5 35 (3.38%) NCSC
6 29 (2.80%) Cyber Essentials
7 25 (2.41%) Accessibility
8 16 (1.54%) ISO 22301
9 15 (1.45%) QA
10 14 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 12 (1.16%) PCI DSS
12 11 (1.06%) Data Quality
13 7 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.58%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.48%) GRC
16 3 (0.29%) HL7
16 3 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.19%) COBIT
17 2 (0.19%) DICOM
17 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
System Software
1 371 (35.81%) Active Directory
2 121 (11.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 94 (9.07%) Docker
4 80 (7.72%) Hyper-V
5 33 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (2.70%) vSphere
7 26 (2.51%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (2.22%) Firmware
9 14 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.68%) XenApp
11 7 (0.68%) XenDesktop
12 5 (0.48%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.39%) Postfix
13 4 (0.39%) Squid
14 3 (0.29%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.29%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.29%) vCloud
15 2 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 203 (19.59%) Terraform
2 168 (16.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 140 (13.51%) Kubernetes
4 117 (11.29%) Ansible
5 48 (4.63%) SCCM
6 39 (3.76%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (2.90%) Grafana
8 23 (2.22%) Prometheus
9 17 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 15 (1.45%) SCOM
11 14 (1.35%) WSUS
12 11 (1.06%) vCenter Server
13 10 (0.97%) Nessus
13 10 (0.97%) 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%) Jamf Pro
16 7 (0.68%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 568 (54.83%) Microsoft
2 204 (19.69%) VMware
3 86 (8.30%) Cisco
4 58 (5.60%) ServiceNow
5 55 (5.31%) Oracle
6 45 (4.34%) Veeam
7 38 (3.67%) Atlassian
7 38 (3.67%) Google
8 34 (3.28%) Citrix
9 32 (3.09%) Splunk
10 30 (2.90%) Palo Alto
10 30 (2.90%) Red Hat
11 24 (2.32%) Commvault
11 24 (2.32%) CyberArk
12 23 (2.22%) SolarWinds
13 21 (2.03%) Dell
13 21 (2.03%) SAP
14 19 (1.83%) CrowdStrike
14 19 (1.83%) Fortinet
14 19 (1.83%) Meraki