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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 78 109
Rank change year-on-year -49 +31 -28
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,275 1,570 2,221
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.48% 3.76% 2.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.09% 12.17% 7.79%
Number of salaries quoted 958 1,008 1,775
10th Percentile £31,775 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +6.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%

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 15,767 12,901 28,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.36% 30.88% 30.83%
Number of salaries quoted 11,441 8,728 22,681
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -17 501 £70,000 -3.45% 128
South East -32 230 £53,000 -7.83% 105
North of England -86 204 £47,500 -5.00% 73
Midlands -39 140 £50,000 - 34
North West -89 108 £50,000 +3.51% 46
East of England -22 96 £54,000 +10.77% 23
South West -54 92 £55,000 +15.79% 48
East Midlands +2 77 £45,000 +28.57% 12
West Midlands -67 62 £52,500 -3.39% 22
Yorkshire -30 61 £45,000 -14.29% 15
North East -26 35 £47,972 -20.05% 15
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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
1 201 (15.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 176 (13.80%) SharePoint
3 47 (3.69%) IIS
4 25 (1.96%) Confluence
5 3 (0.24%) nginx
5 3 (0.24%) SAS
6 2 (0.16%) Apache
6 2 (0.16%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.078%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.078%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.078%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.078%) Site Server
7 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
Applications
1 75 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.078%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.078%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (0.71%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.39%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.16%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.16%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.078%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.078%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.078%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.078%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 822 (64.47%) Azure
2 464 (36.39%) Microsoft 365
3 322 (25.25%) Entra ID
4 219 (17.18%) AWS
5 144 (11.29%) Azure DevOps
6 112 (8.78%) Power Platform
7 106 (8.31%) GitHub
8 98 (7.69%) IaaS
9 87 (6.82%) SaaS
10 78 (6.12%) Azure Monitor
10 78 (6.12%) OneDrive
11 71 (5.57%) PaaS
12 67 (5.25%) GitHub Actions
13 62 (4.86%) Azure AKS
14 61 (4.78%) Azure Sentinel
15 57 (4.47%) Azure Key Vault
15 57 (4.47%) Power Automate
16 53 (4.16%) GCP
17 51 (4.00%) Serverless
18 48 (3.76%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 284 (22.27%) Firewall
2 257 (20.16%) DNS
3 186 (14.59%) VPN
4 170 (13.33%) DHCP
5 114 (8.94%) TCP/IP
6 80 (6.27%) LAN
7 79 (6.20%) Network Security
7 79 (6.20%) WAN
8 64 (5.02%) VLAN
9 51 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
10 35 (2.75%) Wireless
11 34 (2.67%) SAN
12 29 (2.27%) VoIP
13 25 (1.96%) Kerberos
14 21 (1.65%) Broadband
15 16 (1.25%) SSL
16 15 (1.18%) BGP
17 14 (1.10%) HTTP
17 14 (1.10%) Internet
17 14 (1.10%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (11.92%) SQL Server
2 77 (6.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 74 (5.80%) Power BI
4 40 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (2.04%) MySQL
7 25 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 21 (1.65%) MongoDB
9 16 (1.25%) Relational Database
10 13 (1.02%) NoSQL
10 13 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.71%) InfluxDB
13 8 (0.63%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.47%) Metadata
14 6 (0.47%) Tableau
15 5 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
15 5 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 4 (0.31%) Power Query
16 4 (0.31%) Redis
Development Applications
1 106 (8.31%) Git
2 77 (6.04%) JIRA
3 64 (5.02%) GitLab
4 61 (4.78%) Jenkins
5 34 (2.67%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
7 13 (1.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 13 (1.02%) TeamCity
8 12 (0.94%) Metasploit
9 11 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
10 8 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 8 (0.63%) Burp Suite
10 8 (0.63%) Robot Framework
11 7 (0.55%) TestRail
12 6 (0.47%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.47%) Selenium
13 5 (0.39%) CircleCI
13 5 (0.39%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.31%) Artifactory
15 3 (0.24%) Terragrunt
General
1 386 (30.27%) Social Skills
2 208 (16.31%) Finance
3 155 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (7.84%) Law
5 52 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
6 51 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
7 50 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 49 (3.84%) Legal
9 43 (3.37%) Retail
10 29 (2.27%) Public Sector
11 23 (1.80%) Aerospace
12 22 (1.73%) Banking
12 22 (1.73%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.33%) Advertising
14 15 (1.18%) Telecoms
15 9 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.55%) Aviation
16 7 (0.55%) Financial Institution
17 6 (0.47%) Investment Banking
17 6 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 215 (16.86%) Senior
2 159 (12.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 150 (11.76%) Analyst
4 144 (11.29%) Support Engineer
5 131 (10.27%) Azure Engineer
6 129 (10.12%) IT Engineer
7 124 (9.73%) IT Support
8 107 (8.39%) Cloud Engineer
9 97 (7.61%) DevOps Engineer
10 79 (6.20%) Security Engineer
11 77 (6.04%) IT Support Engineer
12 68 (5.33%) Platform Engineer
13 58 (4.55%) Developer
14 54 (4.24%) 2nd Line Support
15 53 (4.16%) Lead
16 49 (3.84%) Systems Engineer
17 44 (3.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
18 42 (3.29%) Security Analyst
19 41 (3.22%) Architect
20 39 (3.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (6.67%) .NET
2 63 (4.94%) SAML
3 61 (4.78%) OAuth
4 59 (4.63%) REST
5 54 (4.24%) OpenID
6 50 (3.92%) LDAP
7 48 (3.76%) ARM Templates
8 42 (3.29%) JSON
8 42 (3.29%) YAML
9 41 (3.22%) HTML
10 37 (2.90%) .NET Core
11 36 (2.82%) Microsoft Graph
12 33 (2.59%) CSS
13 30 (2.35%) SOAP
14 25 (1.96%) SPFx
15 21 (1.65%) Elastic Stack
16 20 (1.57%) GraphQL
17 19 (1.49%) HTML5 Canvas
18 17 (1.33%) XML
19 16 (1.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 101 (7.92%) Onboarding
2 78 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
3 76 (5.96%) Cloud Native
4 73 (5.73%) Security Posture
5 61 (4.78%) Driving Licence
6 56 (4.39%) Management Information System
7 45 (3.53%) Data Centre
7 45 (3.53%) Security Operations Centre
8 44 (3.45%) Public Cloud
9 42 (3.29%) Cyber Defence
10 40 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
11 38 (2.98%) PKI
12 37 (2.90%) Cyber Threat
13 34 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
14 27 (2.12%) Cyberattack
15 24 (1.88%) Private Cloud
16 22 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
16 22 (1.73%) Replication
17 17 (1.33%) Clustering
17 17 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 608 (47.69%) Windows
2 294 (23.06%) Linux
3 291 (22.82%) Windows Server
4 76 (5.96%) Windows 10
5 51 (4.00%) Apple iOS
6 50 (3.92%) VMS
7 46 (3.61%) Mac OS
8 41 (3.22%) Android
9 38 (2.98%) Windows Server 2016
10 32 (2.51%) CentOS
11 29 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 28 (2.20%) Windows Server 2019
13 25 (1.96%) Ubuntu
14 10 (0.78%) Unix
15 8 (0.63%) Debian
16 4 (0.31%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.31%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
17 3 (0.24%) AIX
18 2 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (27.14%) Problem-Solving
2 310 (24.31%) Infrastructure as Code
3 302 (23.69%) CI/CD
4 286 (22.43%) DevOps
5 257 (20.16%) Cybersecurity
6 235 (18.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 231 (18.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 216 (16.94%) ITIL
9 172 (13.49%) Agile
10 162 (12.71%) Incident Response
11 160 (12.55%) Root Cause Analysis
12 157 (12.31%) Disaster Recovery
12 157 (12.31%) Mentoring
13 135 (10.59%) Containerisation
14 133 (10.43%) High Availability
15 129 (10.12%) Cloud Security
16 123 (9.65%) SIEM
17 120 (9.41%) AI
18 112 (8.78%) Roadmaps
19 111 (8.71%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 508 (39.84%) Python
2 318 (24.94%) Bash
3 276 (21.65%) SQL
4 97 (7.61%) Bicep
5 96 (7.53%) C#
6 77 (6.04%) JavaScript
7 53 (4.16%) T-SQL
8 43 (3.37%) Kusto Query Language
9 33 (2.59%) Java
10 29 (2.27%) TypeScript
11 19 (1.49%) C++
12 17 (1.33%) VBScript
13 15 (1.18%) PHP
14 12 (0.94%) Perl
15 11 (0.86%) Go
15 11 (0.86%) VB
16 10 (0.78%) VBA
17 9 (0.71%) Ruby
18 8 (0.63%) C
19 6 (0.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 151 (11.84%) Degree
1 151 (11.84%) Security Cleared
2 141 (11.06%) Azure Certification
3 127 (9.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 97 (7.61%) SC Cleared
5 53 (4.16%) Cisco Certification
6 52 (4.08%) CISSP
7 46 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 42 (3.29%) CompTIA Security+
9 39 (3.06%) CCNA
10 36 (2.82%) DV Cleared
11 29 (2.27%) DBS Check
12 27 (2.12%) OSCP
13 26 (2.04%) AWS Certification
14 24 (1.88%) CREST Certified
14 24 (1.88%) GIAC
15 23 (1.80%) CEH
16 17 (1.33%) CCNP
17 15 (1.18%) CompTIA CySA+
18 13 (1.02%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (10.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 97 (7.61%) NIST
3 62 (4.86%) GDPR
4 53 (4.16%) Cyber Essentials
5 39 (3.06%) SLA
6 21 (1.65%) QA
7 20 (1.57%) Data Quality
8 19 (1.49%) NCSC
9 18 (1.41%) SOC 2
10 17 (1.33%) PCI DSS
11 14 (1.10%) ISO 22301
12 10 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 9 (0.71%) Accessibility
14 8 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.47%) DICOM
15 6 (0.47%) PMO
16 3 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.16%) ISAE 3402
17 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 473 (37.10%) Active Directory
2 200 (15.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 140 (10.98%) Hyper-V
4 138 (10.82%) Docker
5 76 (5.96%) vSphere
6 43 (3.37%) Virtual Machines
7 37 (2.90%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.80%) BitLocker
9 16 (1.25%) VMware NSX
10 12 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.78%) KVM
12 8 (0.63%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.63%) Squid
13 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.31%) Firmware
14 4 (0.31%) iptables
15 3 (0.24%) Terminal Services
16 2 (0.16%) Samba
Systems Management
1 315 (24.71%) Terraform
2 221 (17.33%) Kubernetes
3 190 (14.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 152 (11.92%) Ansible
5 73 (5.73%) Grafana
6 57 (4.47%) Single Sign-On
7 50 (3.92%) Prometheus
8 49 (3.84%) SCCM
9 25 (1.96%) Jamf Pro
10 21 (1.65%) vCenter Server
11 20 (1.57%) Argo
11 20 (1.57%) Packer
11 20 (1.57%) ZABBIX
12 18 (1.41%) QRadar
13 17 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 16 (1.25%) Nessus
14 16 (1.25%) Proxmox
15 14 (1.10%) Graylog
16 13 (1.02%) VxRail
17 12 (0.94%) Nagios
Vendors
1 768 (60.24%) Microsoft
2 247 (19.37%) VMware
3 97 (7.61%) Cisco
4 86 (6.75%) Splunk
5 72 (5.65%) ServiceNow
6 56 (4.39%) Red Hat
7 52 (4.08%) Veeam
8 40 (3.14%) Oracle
9 39 (3.06%) Meraki
10 31 (2.43%) Tenable
11 30 (2.35%) CrowdStrike
12 29 (2.27%) Apple
13 28 (2.20%) Dell
13 28 (2.20%) Sophos
14 27 (2.12%) Palo Alto
15 25 (1.96%) Google
16 24 (1.88%) Citrix
16 24 (1.88%) Fortinet
17 23 (1.80%) Logitech
17 23 (1.80%) SolarWinds