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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 90 79
Rank change year-on-year -34 -11 +8
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,059 1,383 2,247
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.72% 3.25% 3.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.28% 9.36% 9.34%
Number of salaries quoted 845 1,010 1,961
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,125 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -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 11,414 14,782 24,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.55% 34.69% 36.02%
Number of salaries quoted 8,396 9,178 20,608
10th Percentile £34,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £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 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £102,500
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 27 February 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 27 February 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 -9 469 £70,000 -9.68% 95
South East -42 191 £56,750 -7.35% 64
North of England -27 143 £47,500 -9.52% 46
South West +6 101 £55,000 +1.85% 38
Midlands -57 83 £52,500 +5.00% 26
Yorkshire -25 65 £47,500 -9.52% 19
North West -29 61 £50,000 - 20
East of England -18 55 £40,000 -27.27% 24
East Midlands -30 42 £55,000 +8.91% 14
West Midlands -47 40 £47,500 -5.00% 12
North East -1 17 £47,500 -20.83% 7
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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
1 170 (16.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 122 (11.52%) SharePoint
3 31 (2.93%) IIS
4 22 (2.08%) Exchange Server 2003
5 13 (1.23%) Confluence
6 6 (0.57%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.47%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.19%) CMS
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.19%) WordPress
9 1 (0.094%) Apache
9 1 (0.094%) nginx
9 1 (0.094%) Site Server
Applications
1 39 (3.68%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.57%) Siemens NX
4 5 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.28%) CATIA
5 3 (0.28%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.28%) Windchill
6 1 (0.094%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.57%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.38%) Markit EDM
4 4 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.19%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.19%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.094%) Actimize
6 1 (0.094%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.094%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.094%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 658 (62.13%) Azure
2 362 (34.18%) Microsoft 365
3 274 (25.87%) Entra ID
4 189 (17.85%) AWS
5 121 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
6 107 (10.10%) Power Platform
7 77 (7.27%) GCP
8 76 (7.18%) GitHub
9 65 (6.14%) PaaS
10 59 (5.57%) SaaS
11 56 (5.29%) GitHub Actions
12 52 (4.91%) Azure Monitor
13 49 (4.63%) IaaS
14 45 (4.25%) Power Automate
15 43 (4.06%) Google Workspace
16 40 (3.78%) OneDrive
17 35 (3.31%) Azure Sentinel
18 33 (3.12%) Nutanix
19 29 (2.74%) Azure Logic Apps
19 29 (2.74%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 202 (19.07%) DNS
2 201 (18.98%) Firewall
3 162 (15.30%) DHCP
4 118 (11.14%) VPN
5 98 (9.25%) TCP/IP
6 66 (6.23%) WAN
7 64 (6.04%) LAN
8 48 (4.53%) VLAN
8 48 (4.53%) Wi-Fi
9 35 (3.31%) Network Security
10 34 (3.21%) SAN
11 32 (3.02%) Wireless
12 30 (2.83%) VoIP
13 27 (2.55%) Broadband
13 27 (2.55%) SD-WAN
14 17 (1.61%) VSAN
15 14 (1.32%) NAS
16 12 (1.13%) WinSCP
17 10 (0.94%) Internet
17 10 (0.94%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (12.28%) SQL Server
2 81 (7.65%) Power BI
3 31 (2.93%) Relational Database
4 28 (2.64%) Oracle Database
4 28 (2.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 26 (2.46%) Oracle Database 10g
6 24 (2.27%) MySQL
6 24 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
8 15 (1.42%) Tableau
9 14 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 13 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (1.23%) NoSQL
11 7 (0.66%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.47%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (0.47%) InfluxDB
12 5 (0.47%) Metadata
13 4 (0.38%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 75 (7.08%) Git
2 72 (6.80%) JIRA
3 64 (6.04%) Jenkins
4 37 (3.49%) GitLab
5 25 (2.36%) Octopus Deploy
6 21 (1.98%) Bitbucket
7 17 (1.61%) TeamCity
8 15 (1.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 12 (1.13%) Metasploit
10 10 (0.94%) Burp Suite
11 9 (0.85%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.57%) Robot Framework
13 5 (0.47%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.38%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.38%) MLflow
15 3 (0.28%) Balsamiq
15 3 (0.28%) Eclipse
15 3 (0.28%) JMeter
15 3 (0.28%) TestRail
General
1 363 (34.28%) Social Skills
2 226 (21.34%) Finance
3 120 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (4.44%) Retail
5 44 (4.15%) Organisational Skills
6 43 (4.06%) Law
7 39 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (3.12%) Banking
9 32 (3.02%) Legal
9 32 (3.02%) Public Sector
10 28 (2.64%) Telecoms
11 26 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 19 (1.79%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (0.76%) Advertising
16 7 (0.66%) Front Office
17 6 (0.57%) Investment Banking
17 6 (0.57%) Marketing
18 5 (0.47%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 139 (13.13%) Senior
2 136 (12.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 127 (11.99%) Support Engineer
4 99 (9.35%) Analyst
5 88 (8.31%) Azure Engineer
6 78 (7.37%) IT Support
7 73 (6.89%) DevOps Engineer
8 70 (6.61%) Security Engineer
9 68 (6.42%) Developer
10 62 (5.85%) IT Engineer
11 60 (5.67%) Cloud Engineer
12 58 (5.48%) Lead
13 54 (5.10%) 3rd Line Support
14 44 (4.15%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 44 (4.15%) IT Support Engineer
14 44 (4.15%) Platform Engineer
15 35 (3.31%) Architect
15 35 (3.31%) Support Analyst
16 32 (3.02%) 2nd Line Support
16 32 (3.02%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (6.33%) REST
2 62 (5.85%) .NET
3 46 (4.34%) OAuth
4 43 (4.06%) OpenID
4 43 (4.06%) SAML
5 35 (3.31%) SOAP
6 32 (3.02%) LDAP
7 31 (2.93%) JSON
8 28 (2.64%) YAML
9 26 (2.46%) GraphQL
10 24 (2.27%) ARM Templates
11 20 (1.89%) React
12 17 (1.61%) Microsoft Graph
13 16 (1.51%) Elastic Stack
14 15 (1.42%) .NET Core
15 13 (1.23%) Middleware
15 13 (1.23%) Node.js
16 12 (1.13%) AngularJS
17 11 (1.04%) Web Services
17 11 (1.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 88 (8.31%) Onboarding
2 73 (6.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 54 (5.10%) Security Posture
4 41 (3.87%) Management Information System
5 39 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
6 38 (3.59%) Driving Licence
7 34 (3.21%) Cyber Threat
8 31 (2.93%) Cyber Defence
9 30 (2.83%) Cloud Native
9 30 (2.83%) Data Centre
10 28 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
10 28 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
11 26 (2.46%) Cyberattack
12 21 (1.98%) PKI
13 20 (1.89%) Security Operations Centre
14 19 (1.79%) CMDB
15 17 (1.61%) Hedge funds
16 15 (1.42%) Low-Code
16 15 (1.42%) Replication
16 15 (1.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 473 (44.66%) Windows
2 251 (23.70%) Windows Server
3 202 (19.07%) Linux
4 66 (6.23%) Windows 10
5 53 (5.00%) Mac OS
6 40 (3.78%) Unix
7 34 (3.21%) Windows Server 2019
8 33 (3.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 32 (3.02%) Android
10 26 (2.46%) Windows Server 2008
11 25 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 24 (2.27%) Solaris
13 23 (2.17%) Apple iOS
13 23 (2.17%) CentOS
14 22 (2.08%) HPUX
14 22 (2.08%) VMS
14 22 (2.08%) Windows 7
14 22 (2.08%) Windows Server 2003
15 14 (1.32%) Ubuntu
16 11 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (30.59%) Problem-Solving
2 254 (23.98%) DevOps
3 205 (19.36%) CI/CD
4 198 (18.70%) ITIL
5 195 (18.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 179 (16.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 178 (16.81%) Cybersecurity
8 169 (15.96%) Continuous Improvement
9 151 (14.26%) Disaster Recovery
10 127 (11.99%) Mentoring
11 112 (10.58%) Agile
12 111 (10.48%) Incident Response
13 108 (10.20%) Root Cause Analysis
14 105 (9.92%) Task Automation
15 94 (8.88%) Cloud Security
16 91 (8.59%) Business Intelligence
16 91 (8.59%) Migration
17 89 (8.40%) Computer Science
18 84 (7.93%) Incident Management
19 81 (7.65%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 369 (34.84%) Python
2 240 (22.66%) Bash
3 221 (20.87%) SQL
4 77 (7.27%) C#
5 58 (5.48%) Bicep
5 58 (5.48%) JavaScript
6 53 (5.00%) T-SQL
7 25 (2.36%) Perl
8 23 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
9 20 (1.89%) Go
10 15 (1.42%) Java
11 10 (0.94%) VB.NET
12 8 (0.76%) VB
13 7 (0.66%) PHP
13 7 (0.66%) VBScript
14 6 (0.57%) Delphi
15 5 (0.47%) C++
15 5 (0.47%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.38%) R
16 4 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 161 (15.20%) Degree
2 135 (12.75%) Security Cleared
3 96 (9.07%) Microsoft Certification
4 81 (7.65%) Azure Certification
5 79 (7.46%) SC Cleared
6 54 (5.10%) DV Cleared
7 42 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (3.87%) CISSP
9 32 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (2.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 24 (2.27%) AWS Certification
11 24 (2.27%) CREST Certified
12 22 (2.08%) CEH
13 21 (1.98%) GIAC
14 19 (1.79%) CompTIA CySA+
15 18 (1.70%) CCNA
16 17 (1.61%) DBS Check
16 17 (1.61%) OSCP
17 16 (1.51%) CompTIA Security+
18 12 (1.13%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (14.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 134 (12.65%) NIST
3 55 (5.19%) SLA
4 54 (5.10%) GDPR
5 39 (3.68%) NCSC
6 31 (2.93%) Cyber Essentials
7 27 (2.55%) Accessibility
8 20 (1.89%) ISO 22301
9 17 (1.61%) Data Quality
9 17 (1.61%) QA
10 15 (1.42%) PCI DSS
11 14 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.66%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.47%) DICOM
14 5 (0.47%) GRC
15 3 (0.28%) HL7
15 3 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.19%) COBIT
16 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
System Software
1 397 (37.49%) Active Directory
2 130 (12.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 96 (9.07%) Docker
4 92 (8.69%) Hyper-V
5 39 (3.68%) vSphere
6 38 (3.59%) Virtual Machines
7 21 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (1.70%) Firmware
9 17 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.76%) VMware NSX
11 6 (0.57%) XenApp
11 6 (0.57%) XenDesktop
12 4 (0.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.28%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.28%) iptables
13 3 (0.28%) KVM
13 3 (0.28%) vCloud
14 2 (0.19%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 206 (19.45%) Terraform
2 155 (14.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 139 (13.13%) Kubernetes
4 126 (11.90%) Ansible
5 40 (3.78%) SCCM
6 36 (3.40%) Grafana
6 36 (3.40%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (2.08%) Prometheus
8 16 (1.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 14 (1.32%) vCenter Server
10 12 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
10 12 (1.13%) Puppet
11 11 (1.04%) Nessus
12 10 (0.94%) SCOM
13 9 (0.85%) FortiGate
13 9 (0.85%) VxRail
14 8 (0.76%) Nagios
14 8 (0.76%) Progress Chef
14 8 (0.76%) SCVMM
15 7 (0.66%) Control-M
Vendors
1 559 (52.79%) Microsoft
2 221 (20.87%) VMware
3 90 (8.50%) Cisco
4 49 (4.63%) Oracle
4 49 (4.63%) Veeam
5 48 (4.53%) ServiceNow
6 41 (3.87%) Google
6 41 (3.87%) Splunk
7 38 (3.59%) Red Hat
8 34 (3.21%) Atlassian
9 32 (3.02%) Palo Alto
10 31 (2.93%) Commvault
11 29 (2.74%) Citrix
12 25 (2.36%) CyberArk
13 24 (2.27%) Dell
14 23 (2.17%) Fortinet
15 22 (2.08%) CrowdStrike
15 22 (2.08%) Meraki
16 20 (1.89%) Apple
16 20 (1.89%) Tenable