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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 84 102
Rank change year-on-year -65 +18 -39
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,298 1,515 1,701
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.28% 3.51% 2.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.71% 12.81% 8.01%
Number of salaries quoted 934 1,009 1,120
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,780 £47,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,750 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,250 £76,250 £81,500
90th Percentile £89,000 £90,000 £96,025
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -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 16,837 11,828 21,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.56% 27.37% 30.72%
Number of salaries quoted 12,285 7,816 13,580
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,617 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +0.19% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,125 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -37 469 £70,000 -3.45% 469
South East -29 240 £52,500 -8.70% 206
North of England -87 240 £50,000 - 178
Midlands -55 159 £52,500 +5.00% 98
North West -62 144 £50,000 +5.26% 100
East of England -42 99 £57,500 +21.05% 63
South West -83 86 £55,000 +15.79% 80
West Midlands -71 81 £55,000 +1.21% 54
East Midlands -31 78 £42,500 +21.43% 44
Yorkshire -46 60 £45,000 -12.83% 52
North East -43 36 £51,500 -6.36% 28
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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
1 231 (17.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 220 (16.95%) SharePoint
3 50 (3.85%) IIS
4 41 (3.16%) Confluence
5 15 (1.16%) nginx
6 8 (0.62%) Apache
7 5 (0.39%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.31%) SAS
9 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.077%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.077%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.077%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.077%) WebSphere
Applications
1 67 (5.16%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (2.77%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.46%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.39%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.23%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.077%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 798 (61.48%) Azure
2 515 (39.68%) Microsoft 365
3 400 (30.82%) Entra ID
4 244 (18.80%) AWS
5 159 (12.25%) Azure DevOps
6 107 (8.24%) OneDrive
7 106 (8.17%) SaaS
8 105 (8.09%) Power Platform
9 97 (7.47%) IaaS
10 93 (7.16%) GitHub
11 83 (6.39%) Azure Monitor
12 77 (5.93%) Azure Sentinel
13 76 (5.86%) Power Automate
14 71 (5.47%) Azure AKS
15 68 (5.24%) PaaS
16 63 (4.85%) Azure Key Vault
16 63 (4.85%) GCP
17 59 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
18 51 (3.93%) Microsoft Purview
19 49 (3.78%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 303 (23.34%) Firewall
2 292 (22.50%) DNS
3 197 (15.18%) DHCP
3 197 (15.18%) VPN
4 135 (10.40%) TCP/IP
5 84 (6.47%) WAN
6 75 (5.78%) LAN
7 67 (5.16%) VLAN
8 57 (4.39%) Network Security
9 52 (4.01%) Wireless
10 45 (3.47%) Wi-Fi
11 36 (2.77%) SAN
12 29 (2.23%) Kerberos
13 24 (1.85%) SSL
14 22 (1.69%) NAS
15 18 (1.39%) HTTP
16 17 (1.31%) Internet
17 12 (0.92%) VSAN
18 11 (0.85%) VoIP
19 10 (0.77%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (10.17%) SQL Server
2 83 (6.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 58 (4.47%) Power BI
4 22 (1.69%) MongoDB
4 22 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (1.23%) Relational Database
6 15 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (0.92%) MySQL
9 9 (0.69%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (0.62%) InfluxDB
11 7 (0.54%) Power Query
11 7 (0.54%) Redis
12 6 (0.46%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.46%) Metadata
13 5 (0.39%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.31%) Db2
14 4 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 95 (7.32%) JIRA
2 89 (6.86%) Git
3 68 (5.24%) GitLab
4 60 (4.62%) Jenkins
5 21 (1.62%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 12 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
7 10 (0.77%) TeamCity
8 9 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (0.62%) Robot Framework
9 8 (0.62%) TestRail
10 7 (0.54%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.46%) Selenium
12 5 (0.39%) Postman
12 5 (0.39%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.23%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.23%) JMeter
13 3 (0.23%) MSI
13 3 (0.23%) Terragrunt
General
1 462 (35.59%) Social Skills
2 222 (17.10%) Finance
3 179 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (7.32%) Law
5 54 (4.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 53 (4.08%) Legal
7 51 (3.93%) Documentation Skills
8 46 (3.54%) Retail
9 43 (3.31%) Banking
10 37 (2.85%) Manufacturing
11 36 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
12 31 (2.39%) Public Sector
13 29 (2.23%) Aerospace
14 12 (0.92%) Advertising
15 11 (0.85%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (0.69%) Front Office
16 9 (0.69%) Investment Banking
17 8 (0.62%) Aviation
18 6 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 199 (15.33%) Senior
2 193 (14.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 150 (11.56%) Analyst
4 131 (10.09%) Azure Engineer
5 129 (9.94%) Cloud Engineer
6 128 (9.86%) Support Engineer
7 126 (9.71%) IT Engineer
8 104 (8.01%) IT Support
9 96 (7.40%) DevOps Engineer
10 73 (5.62%) Platform Engineer
11 67 (5.16%) Lead
12 65 (5.01%) IT Support Engineer
13 64 (4.93%) Support Analyst
14 63 (4.85%) Consultant
15 60 (4.62%) Security Engineer
16 56 (4.31%) Systems Engineer
17 51 (3.93%) Developer
18 45 (3.47%) Automation Engineer
19 43 (3.31%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
20 41 (3.16%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 339 (26.12%) Terraform
2 68 (5.24%) .NET
3 54 (4.16%) ARM Templates
4 48 (3.70%) REST
5 42 (3.24%) YAML
6 39 (3.00%) Microsoft Graph
6 39 (3.00%) SAML
7 37 (2.85%) OpenID
8 35 (2.70%) LDAP
8 35 (2.70%) OAuth
9 34 (2.62%) HTML
10 28 (2.16%) JSON
11 25 (1.93%) CSS
12 24 (1.85%) SPFx
13 23 (1.77%) .NET Core
14 20 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
15 15 (1.16%) HTML5 Canvas
16 13 (1.00%) RESTful
17 12 (0.92%) ADO
17 12 (0.92%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 121 (9.32%) Onboarding
2 83 (6.39%) Cloud Native
3 75 (5.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 74 (5.70%) Driving Licence
5 72 (5.55%) Management Information System
6 66 (5.08%) Security Posture
7 48 (3.70%) Data Centre
8 45 (3.47%) PKI
9 43 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
10 42 (3.24%) Public Cloud
11 41 (3.16%) Security Operations Centre
12 35 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
13 32 (2.47%) Replication
14 25 (1.93%) Private Cloud
15 23 (1.77%) Cyber Defence
16 19 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
17 18 (1.39%) Clustering
17 18 (1.39%) CMDB
18 16 (1.23%) Product Ownership
19 15 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 647 (49.85%) Windows
2 307 (23.65%) Windows Server
3 304 (23.42%) Linux
4 89 (6.86%) Windows 10
5 51 (3.93%) Apple iOS
6 42 (3.24%) Android
7 41 (3.16%) Ubuntu
8 38 (2.93%) VMS
9 34 (2.62%) CentOS
9 34 (2.62%) Mac OS
10 33 (2.54%) Windows Server 2016
11 30 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 27 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
13 17 (1.31%) Unix
14 15 (1.16%) Rocky
15 7 (0.54%) Solaris
16 5 (0.39%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.31%) Debian
17 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
18 3 (0.23%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (29.97%) Problem-Solving
2 324 (24.96%) Infrastructure as Code
3 299 (23.04%) CI/CD
4 295 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 292 (22.50%) DevOps
6 287 (22.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 265 (20.42%) ITIL
8 241 (18.57%) Cybersecurity
9 183 (14.10%) Disaster Recovery
10 160 (12.33%) AI
11 154 (11.86%) Agile
12 152 (11.71%) Mentoring
13 150 (11.56%) Root Cause Analysis
14 137 (10.55%) High Availability
15 135 (10.40%) Incident Response
16 132 (10.17%) Cloud Security
16 132 (10.17%) Platform Engineering
17 128 (9.86%) Observability
18 122 (9.40%) Migration
19 121 (9.32%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 495 (38.14%) Python
2 282 (21.73%) Bash
3 271 (20.88%) SQL
4 113 (8.71%) Bicep
5 85 (6.55%) JavaScript
6 78 (6.01%) C#
7 47 (3.62%) Kusto Query Language
8 36 (2.77%) Java
9 32 (2.47%) T-SQL
10 30 (2.31%) TypeScript
11 23 (1.77%) VBScript
12 19 (1.46%) C++
13 18 (1.39%) Perl
14 12 (0.92%) PHP
14 12 (0.92%) Ruby
15 10 (0.77%) VB
15 10 (0.77%) VBA
16 9 (0.69%) Go
17 7 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 5 (0.39%) C
Qualifications
1 171 (13.17%) Security Cleared
2 156 (12.02%) Degree
3 144 (11.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 142 (10.94%) Azure Certification
5 117 (9.01%) SC Cleared
6 53 (4.08%) CISSP
6 53 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 51 (3.93%) CompTIA Security+
7 51 (3.93%) DV Cleared
8 50 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
9 39 (3.00%) CCNA
10 26 (2.00%) CEH
11 25 (1.93%) AWS Certification
12 22 (1.69%) DBS Check
13 19 (1.46%) CISM
14 18 (1.39%) GIAC
14 18 (1.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 16 (1.23%) OSCP
16 13 (1.00%) CompTIA CySA+
16 13 (1.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (6.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (4.93%) Cyber Essentials
3 52 (4.01%) NIST
4 43 (3.31%) SLA
5 39 (3.00%) GDPR
6 23 (1.77%) QA
7 19 (1.46%) Data Quality
8 14 (1.08%) SOC 2
9 13 (1.00%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.54%) PMO
11 7 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.39%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.39%) NCSC
13 4 (0.31%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.23%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.15%) EMIR
15 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 485 (37.37%) Active Directory
2 222 (17.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 137 (10.55%) Hyper-V
4 130 (10.02%) Docker
5 78 (6.01%) vSphere
6 67 (5.16%) Virtual Machines
7 54 (4.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 20 (1.54%) VMware NSX
9 18 (1.39%) BitLocker
10 16 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.77%) Firmware
12 8 (0.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.62%) KVM
12 8 (0.62%) Squid
13 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.077%) Ceph
16 1 (0.077%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 235 (18.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 209 (16.10%) Kubernetes
3 155 (11.94%) Ansible
4 77 (5.93%) Grafana
5 64 (4.93%) SCCM
6 52 (4.01%) Single Sign-On
7 41 (3.16%) Prometheus
8 23 (1.77%) Argo
8 23 (1.77%) ZABBIX
9 21 (1.62%) QRadar
9 21 (1.62%) vCenter Server
10 20 (1.54%) Proxmox
10 20 (1.54%) Puppet
11 18 (1.39%) Packer
12 15 (1.16%) FortiGate
12 15 (1.16%) Graylog
13 13 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
14 11 (0.85%) VxRail
15 9 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 9 (0.69%) Kibana
Vendors
1 848 (65.33%) Microsoft
2 257 (19.80%) VMware
3 107 (8.24%) ServiceNow
4 102 (7.86%) Cisco
5 83 (6.39%) Splunk
6 64 (4.93%) Veeam
7 49 (3.78%) Red Hat
8 47 (3.62%) Oracle
9 41 (3.16%) Citrix
10 36 (2.77%) Meraki
11 34 (2.62%) Sage
12 32 (2.47%) Dell
13 31 (2.39%) Sophos
14 29 (2.23%) Dynatrace
15 28 (2.16%) SAP
16 26 (2.00%) Tenable
17 25 (1.93%) Fortinet
18 23 (1.77%) Apple
18 23 (1.77%) CyberArk
18 23 (1.77%) SolarWinds