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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 86 100
Rank change year-on-year -69 +14 -39
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,304 1,506 1,712
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.26% 3.48% 2.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.73% 12.90% 8.12%
Number of salaries quoted 925 1,006 1,107
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,758 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £89,000 £90,000 £100,000
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 16,870 11,678 21,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.31% 27.02% 31.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12,308 7,714 13,108
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,689
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 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 26 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 -33 476 £70,000 -1.41% 507
North of England -78 240 £50,000 - 187
South East -37 238 £52,500 -8.70% 203
Midlands -52 161 £52,500 +5.00% 112
North West -72 147 £50,000 +5.26% 104
East of England -46 98 £57,500 +21.05% 64
South West -72 87 £55,000 +15.79% 81
West Midlands -62 81 £55,000 +1.21% 64
East Midlands -19 80 £42,500 +21.43% 48
Yorkshire -46 57 £48,445 -6.16% 59
North East -36 36 £51,500 -6.36% 27
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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
1 235 (18.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 220 (16.87%) SharePoint
3 51 (3.91%) IIS
4 41 (3.14%) Confluence
5 15 (1.15%) nginx
6 8 (0.61%) Apache
7 5 (0.38%) 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 66 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (2.76%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.46%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.38%) 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 (61.20%) Azure
2 520 (39.88%) Microsoft 365
3 418 (32.06%) Entra ID
4 244 (18.71%) AWS
5 162 (12.42%) Azure DevOps
6 108 (8.28%) OneDrive
7 106 (8.13%) Power Platform
8 105 (8.05%) SaaS
9 97 (7.44%) GitHub
9 97 (7.44%) IaaS
10 83 (6.37%) Azure Monitor
10 83 (6.37%) Azure Sentinel
11 78 (5.98%) Power Automate
12 72 (5.52%) PaaS
13 69 (5.29%) Azure AKS
14 65 (4.98%) GCP
15 62 (4.75%) Azure Key Vault
16 60 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
17 56 (4.29%) Microsoft Purview
18 51 (3.91%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 303 (23.24%) Firewall
2 293 (22.47%) DNS
3 202 (15.49%) VPN
4 201 (15.41%) DHCP
5 137 (10.51%) TCP/IP
6 85 (6.52%) WAN
7 75 (5.75%) LAN
8 70 (5.37%) VLAN
9 57 (4.37%) Network Security
10 53 (4.06%) Wireless
11 44 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
12 37 (2.84%) SAN
13 31 (2.38%) Kerberos
14 25 (1.92%) SSL
15 22 (1.69%) NAS
16 19 (1.46%) HTTP
17 16 (1.23%) Internet
18 12 (0.92%) VSAN
19 10 (0.77%) FTP
19 10 (0.77%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (9.97%) SQL Server
2 84 (6.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 58 (4.45%) Power BI
4 22 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (1.53%) MongoDB
6 15 (1.15%) Relational Database
7 14 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (0.92%) MySQL
8 12 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (0.61%) InfluxDB
9 8 (0.61%) NoSQL
9 8 (0.61%) Power Query
10 7 (0.54%) Data Lake
10 7 (0.54%) Redis
10 7 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.46%) Metadata
12 5 (0.38%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.31%) Db2
13 4 (0.31%) WhereScape RED
Development Applications
1 93 (7.13%) JIRA
2 87 (6.67%) Git
3 69 (5.29%) GitLab
4 60 (4.60%) Jenkins
5 21 (1.61%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
8 10 (0.77%) TeamCity
9 8 (0.61%) Robot Framework
9 8 (0.61%) TestRail
10 7 (0.54%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.46%) Selenium
12 5 (0.38%) MSI
12 5 (0.38%) Postman
12 5 (0.38%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.31%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.23%) JMeter
14 3 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 467 (35.81%) Social Skills
2 223 (17.10%) Finance
3 181 (13.88%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (6.83%) Law
5 56 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
5 56 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 49 (3.76%) Legal
6 49 (3.76%) Retail
7 44 (3.37%) Banking
8 37 (2.84%) Manufacturing
9 36 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
10 30 (2.30%) Aerospace
10 30 (2.30%) Public Sector
11 11 (0.84%) Financial Institution
11 11 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (0.77%) Investment Banking
13 9 (0.69%) Advertising
13 9 (0.69%) Front Office
14 8 (0.61%) Aviation
14 8 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 195 (14.95%) Senior
2 194 (14.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 155 (11.89%) Analyst
4 128 (9.82%) Azure Engineer
5 125 (9.59%) Cloud Engineer
6 121 (9.28%) Support Engineer
7 120 (9.20%) IT Engineer
8 97 (7.44%) IT Support
9 95 (7.29%) DevOps Engineer
10 77 (5.90%) Platform Engineer
11 70 (5.37%) Lead
12 66 (5.06%) Consultant
13 64 (4.91%) Support Analyst
14 61 (4.68%) IT Support Engineer
15 58 (4.45%) Security Engineer
16 55 (4.22%) Systems Engineer
17 49 (3.76%) Developer
18 45 (3.45%) Automation Engineer
19 43 (3.30%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
20 42 (3.22%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 343 (26.30%) Terraform
2 65 (4.98%) .NET
3 55 (4.22%) ARM Templates
4 50 (3.83%) REST
5 44 (3.37%) SAML
6 41 (3.14%) YAML
7 40 (3.07%) Microsoft Graph
8 39 (2.99%) OpenID
9 38 (2.91%) OAuth
10 37 (2.84%) LDAP
11 33 (2.53%) HTML
12 28 (2.15%) JSON
13 24 (1.84%) CSS
14 23 (1.76%) SPFx
15 21 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
16 20 (1.53%) .NET Core
17 13 (1.00%) HTML5 Canvas
17 13 (1.00%) RESTful
18 12 (0.92%) Kafka
18 12 (0.92%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 122 (9.36%) Onboarding
2 82 (6.29%) Cloud Native
3 80 (6.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 75 (5.75%) Driving Licence
4 75 (5.75%) Management Information System
5 67 (5.14%) Security Posture
6 48 (3.68%) PKI
7 47 (3.60%) Data Centre
7 47 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
8 42 (3.22%) Security Operations Centre
9 40 (3.07%) Public Cloud
10 33 (2.53%) Replication
11 31 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
12 22 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
12 22 (1.69%) Private Cloud
13 19 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
14 18 (1.38%) Clustering
14 18 (1.38%) CMDB
15 17 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
16 16 (1.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 654 (50.15%) Windows
2 305 (23.39%) Windows Server
3 299 (22.93%) Linux
4 93 (7.13%) Windows 10
5 51 (3.91%) Apple iOS
6 42 (3.22%) Android
7 39 (2.99%) Ubuntu
8 37 (2.84%) VMS
9 34 (2.61%) CentOS
9 34 (2.61%) Mac OS
10 33 (2.53%) Windows Server 2016
11 28 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 28 (2.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 18 (1.38%) Unix
13 15 (1.15%) Rocky
14 7 (0.54%) Solaris
15 5 (0.38%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.31%) Debian
16 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
17 3 (0.23%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (30.06%) Problem-Solving
2 323 (24.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 298 (22.85%) CI/CD
4 297 (22.78%) DevOps
5 295 (22.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 290 (22.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 258 (19.79%) ITIL
8 246 (18.87%) Cybersecurity
9 188 (14.42%) Disaster Recovery
10 163 (12.50%) AI
11 156 (11.96%) Agile
12 148 (11.35%) Mentoring
13 147 (11.27%) Root Cause Analysis
14 139 (10.66%) Cloud Security
15 137 (10.51%) Platform Engineering
16 135 (10.35%) High Availability
17 134 (10.28%) Incident Response
18 132 (10.12%) Migration
19 125 (9.59%) Observability
20 122 (9.36%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 499 (38.27%) Python
2 284 (21.78%) Bash
3 274 (21.01%) SQL
4 116 (8.90%) Bicep
5 84 (6.44%) JavaScript
6 74 (5.67%) C#
7 48 (3.68%) Kusto Query Language
8 38 (2.91%) Java
9 32 (2.45%) T-SQL
10 28 (2.15%) TypeScript
11 23 (1.76%) VBScript
12 19 (1.46%) C++
13 18 (1.38%) Perl
14 13 (1.00%) PHP
15 12 (0.92%) Ruby
16 11 (0.84%) VBA
17 10 (0.77%) VB
18 9 (0.69%) Go
19 7 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 5 (0.38%) Korn
Qualifications
1 175 (13.42%) Security Cleared
2 159 (12.19%) Degree
3 144 (11.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 141 (10.81%) Azure Certification
5 116 (8.90%) SC Cleared
6 57 (4.37%) CISSP
7 54 (4.14%) DV Cleared
8 51 (3.91%) CompTIA Security+
8 51 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 47 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
10 38 (2.91%) CCNA
11 27 (2.07%) CEH
12 24 (1.84%) AWS Certification
13 22 (1.69%) DBS Check
14 20 (1.53%) CISM
15 18 (1.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 17 (1.30%) GIAC
17 16 (1.23%) OSCP
18 13 (1.00%) CompTIA CySA+
18 13 (1.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (6.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 68 (5.21%) Cyber Essentials
3 52 (3.99%) NIST
4 43 (3.30%) SLA
5 40 (3.07%) GDPR
6 24 (1.84%) QA
7 19 (1.46%) Data Quality
8 15 (1.15%) PCI DSS
9 13 (1.00%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.61%) PMO
12 7 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.46%) NCSC
14 5 (0.38%) Accessibility
15 4 (0.31%) ISO 22301
16 3 (0.23%) ISAE 3402
17 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
17 2 (0.15%) EMIR
17 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
17 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 491 (37.65%) Active Directory
2 222 (17.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 134 (10.28%) Hyper-V
4 131 (10.05%) Docker
5 80 (6.13%) vSphere
6 67 (5.14%) Virtual Machines
7 58 (4.45%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.76%) VMware NSX
9 20 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
10 18 (1.38%) BitLocker
11 13 (1.00%) Firmware
12 8 (0.61%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.61%) KVM
12 8 (0.61%) Squid
13 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
17 1 (0.077%) HDFS
17 1 (0.077%) Snort
Systems Management
1 239 (18.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 210 (16.10%) Kubernetes
3 156 (11.96%) Ansible
4 78 (5.98%) Grafana
5 67 (5.14%) SCCM
6 55 (4.22%) Single Sign-On
7 42 (3.22%) Prometheus
8 24 (1.84%) Puppet
8 24 (1.84%) vCenter Server
9 23 (1.76%) Argo
9 23 (1.76%) ZABBIX
10 20 (1.53%) Proxmox
11 19 (1.46%) QRadar
12 17 (1.30%) Packer
13 15 (1.15%) FortiGate
13 15 (1.15%) Graylog
14 13 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
15 11 (0.84%) VxRail
16 9 (0.69%) Kibana
16 9 (0.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 857 (65.72%) Microsoft
2 257 (19.71%) VMware
3 101 (7.75%) ServiceNow
4 97 (7.44%) Cisco
5 83 (6.37%) Splunk
6 65 (4.98%) Veeam
7 47 (3.60%) Red Hat
8 46 (3.53%) Oracle
9 42 (3.22%) Citrix
10 34 (2.61%) Meraki
10 34 (2.61%) Sage
11 33 (2.53%) Dell
12 30 (2.30%) Sophos
13 29 (2.22%) Dynatrace
13 29 (2.22%) SAP
14 26 (1.99%) Tenable
15 25 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
15 25 (1.92%) Fortinet
15 25 (1.92%) SolarWinds
16 24 (1.84%) Google