PowerShell Jobs in England

Windows PowerShell
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring PowerShell skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PowerShell over the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 90 89
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 -3
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,238 2,368 3,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.81% 2.95% 3.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.99% 8.80% 8.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,015 1,986 2,550
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £46,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -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 13,768 26,897 42,842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.22% 33.46% 43.70%
Number of salaries quoted 10,291 22,270 27,232
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,529 £39,500
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in England

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Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in England.

Salary trend for PowerShell in England

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Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 3 April 2025.

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 April 2025. 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 +2 535 £80,000 +10.34% 503
South East +15 266 £60,000 +14.29% 145
North of England -32 138 £52,500 +5.00% 117
Midlands -27 125 £50,000 +5.26% 63
West Midlands -18 91 £50,000 +6.16% 31
North West -38 80 £47,903 -8.76% 77
East of England +8 78 £55,000 +22.22% 40
South West -42 78 £47,500 -5.00% 59
Yorkshire +9 43 £53,750 +13.16% 30
East Midlands -6 34 £47,500 -1.84% 30
North East +23 15 £57,500 +17.95% 11
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UK

PowerShell
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 218 (17.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 149 (12.04%) SharePoint
3 35 (2.83%) IIS
4 11 (0.89%) Confluence
5 7 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.48%) WordPress
7 5 (0.40%) Apache
7 5 (0.40%) CMS
8 4 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (0.24%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.16%) nginx
10 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.081%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.081%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.081%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.081%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.081%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.081%) Tomcat
Applications
1 85 (6.87%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (4.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.13%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.24%) Acrobat
4 3 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.57%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.40%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.24%) Sage 50
4 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.081%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.081%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 707 (57.11%) Azure
2 398 (32.15%) Microsoft 365
3 242 (19.55%) Entra ID
4 212 (17.12%) AWS
5 141 (11.39%) Azure DevOps
6 113 (9.13%) IaaS
7 106 (8.56%) Power Platform
8 85 (6.87%) SaaS
9 82 (6.62%) PaaS
10 71 (5.74%) Power Automate
11 62 (5.01%) GCP
12 60 (4.85%) PowerApps
13 59 (4.77%) GitHub
14 55 (4.44%) OneDrive
15 47 (3.80%) Azure Monitor
16 37 (2.99%) Azure AKS
17 36 (2.91%) Azure Sentinel
18 32 (2.58%) Cloud Computing
19 26 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
20 25 (2.02%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 279 (22.54%) Firewall
2 206 (16.64%) DNS
3 149 (12.04%) DHCP
4 111 (8.97%) VPN
5 96 (7.75%) WAN
6 95 (7.67%) TCP/IP
7 91 (7.35%) VLAN
8 82 (6.62%) LAN
8 82 (6.62%) Network Security
9 65 (5.25%) SAN
10 40 (3.23%) VSAN
11 37 (2.99%) BGP
12 34 (2.75%) VoIP
13 31 (2.50%) OSPF
14 28 (2.26%) IPv4
14 28 (2.26%) SD-WAN
14 28 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
15 24 (1.94%) Internet
16 22 (1.78%) FTP
17 21 (1.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (10.82%) SQL Server
2 58 (4.68%) Power BI
3 39 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
5 28 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 25 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (1.29%) Data Lake
8 16 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (1.29%) Relational Database
9 11 (0.89%) Big Data
10 10 (0.81%) DB2
10 10 (0.81%) MongoDB
11 9 (0.73%) MySQL
12 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 5 (0.40%) Airbyte
13 5 (0.40%) Metadata
13 5 (0.40%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.40%) Qlik Sense
13 5 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 60 (4.85%) Git
2 37 (2.99%) JIRA
3 36 (2.91%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.81%) GitLab
4 10 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
5 7 (0.57%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.48%) MSI
6 6 (0.48%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.40%) Artifactory
7 5 (0.40%) LabVIEW
7 5 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (0.40%) Subversion
8 4 (0.32%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.32%) InstallShield
8 4 (0.32%) Selenium
8 4 (0.32%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.16%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.16%) webpack
General
1 340 (27.46%) Social Skills
2 297 (23.99%) Finance
3 88 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (4.93%) Legal
5 53 (4.28%) Law
6 48 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (3.55%) Retail
8 43 (3.47%) Banking
9 34 (2.75%) Automotive
10 22 (1.78%) German Language
11 19 (1.53%) Electronics
12 18 (1.45%) Public Sector
12 18 (1.45%) Telecoms
13 16 (1.29%) Advertising
14 15 (1.21%) Manufacturing
15 11 (0.89%) Local Government
16 10 (0.81%) Aerospace
16 10 (0.81%) Back Office
16 10 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.73%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 177 (14.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 152 (12.28%) Senior
3 126 (10.18%) Analyst
4 110 (8.89%) Lead
5 103 (8.32%) Cloud Engineer
6 92 (7.43%) IT Engineer
7 87 (7.03%) Azure Engineer
8 85 (6.87%) IT Support
9 81 (6.54%) Support Engineer
10 70 (5.65%) Developer
10 70 (5.65%) Security Engineer
11 66 (5.33%) DevOps Engineer
12 54 (4.36%) Administrator
13 43 (3.47%) VMware Specialist
14 42 (3.39%) Support Analyst
15 41 (3.31%) Systems Engineer
16 39 (3.15%) 3rd Line Support
17 38 (3.07%) IT Support Engineer
18 37 (2.99%) Architect
19 36 (2.91%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (3.96%) .NET
2 42 (3.39%) YAML
3 34 (2.75%) ARM Templates
4 31 (2.50%) React
4 31 (2.50%) REST
5 27 (2.18%) SailPoint
6 26 (2.10%) HTML
7 24 (1.94%) XML
8 20 (1.62%) Web Services
9 19 (1.53%) CSS
9 19 (1.53%) JSON
10 18 (1.45%) ASP.NET
10 18 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
11 17 (1.37%) Azure Blueprints
11 17 (1.37%) LDAP
12 16 (1.29%) SPFx
13 15 (1.21%) FIX Protocol
14 14 (1.13%) Pandas
15 13 (1.05%) .NET Framework
15 13 (1.05%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 118 (9.53%) Management Information System
2 60 (4.85%) Data Centre
3 55 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 48 (3.88%) Security Posture
5 45 (3.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 38 (3.07%) Cloud Native
7 37 (2.99%) Hedge funds
8 32 (2.58%) Public Cloud
9 29 (2.34%) Clustering
10 26 (2.10%) Private Cloud
11 23 (1.86%) Cyber Threat
11 23 (1.86%) Virtual Team
12 22 (1.78%) IoT
13 20 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
14 19 (1.53%) Client/Server
14 19 (1.53%) Smartphone
15 16 (1.29%) Driving Licence
16 15 (1.21%) Replication
16 15 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
17 14 (1.13%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 636 (51.37%) Windows
2 318 (25.69%) Windows Server
3 273 (22.05%) Linux
4 99 (8.00%) Windows 10
5 84 (6.79%) Windows Server 2019
6 83 (6.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 59 (4.77%) Unix
8 41 (3.31%) Ubuntu
9 38 (3.07%) Windows Server 2012
10 33 (2.67%) Mac OS
11 26 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 25 (2.02%) VMS
13 24 (1.94%) Android
14 22 (1.78%) Mac OS X
15 17 (1.37%) Apple iOS
15 17 (1.37%) CentOS
16 9 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
17 5 (0.40%) Debian
17 5 (0.40%) VxWorks
18 4 (0.32%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (23.91%) DevOps
2 281 (22.70%) Problem-Solving
3 238 (19.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 231 (18.66%) CI/CD
5 203 (16.40%) Infrastructure as Code
6 181 (14.62%) Cybersecurity
7 171 (13.81%) ITIL
8 144 (11.63%) Disaster Recovery
9 142 (11.47%) Agile
10 119 (9.61%) Mentoring
11 116 (9.37%) Computer Science
12 110 (8.89%) Task Automation
13 96 (7.75%) Continuous Improvement
14 94 (7.59%) Migration
15 90 (7.27%) High Availability
16 89 (7.19%) Containerisation
17 79 (6.38%) Identity Access Management
17 79 (6.38%) SIEM
18 78 (6.30%) Infrastructure Management
19 77 (6.22%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 505 (40.79%) Python
2 250 (20.19%) SQL
3 221 (17.85%) Bash
4 100 (8.08%) C#
5 59 (4.77%) JavaScript
6 38 (3.07%) Java
7 34 (2.75%) Bicep
7 34 (2.75%) T-SQL
8 33 (2.67%) Perl
8 33 (2.67%) TypeScript
9 15 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 14 (1.13%) Go
11 13 (1.05%) C++
12 11 (0.89%) C
12 11 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
12 11 (0.89%) Ruby
13 8 (0.65%) R
13 8 (0.65%) VBScript
14 5 (0.40%) MATLAB
14 5 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 261 (21.08%) Degree
2 163 (13.17%) Security Cleared
3 135 (10.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 115 (9.29%) DV Cleared
5 111 (8.97%) Azure Certification
6 96 (7.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 77 (6.22%) SC Cleared
8 54 (4.36%) CompTIA Security+
9 53 (4.28%) CISSP
10 43 (3.47%) Cisco Certification
11 39 (3.15%) CEH
12 37 (2.99%) MCSE
12 37 (2.99%) Network+ Certification
13 32 (2.58%) OSCP
14 29 (2.34%) AWS Certification
14 29 (2.34%) CCNA
15 28 (2.26%) GCIH
16 25 (2.02%) HND
17 23 (1.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 22 (1.78%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (5.57%) GDPR
2 61 (4.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 53 (4.28%) NIST
4 25 (2.02%) PCI DSS
5 24 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 24 (1.94%) HIPAA
5 24 (1.94%) SLA
6 19 (1.53%) Data Quality
7 16 (1.29%) QA
8 14 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 14 (1.13%) NCSC
9 13 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (1.05%) SOC 2
10 11 (0.89%) COBIT
11 7 (0.57%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.081%) GRC
13 1 (0.081%) JTAG
13 1 (0.081%) MISRA
13 1 (0.081%) Solvency II
System Software
1 442 (35.70%) Active Directory
2 249 (20.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 104 (8.40%) Hyper-V
4 101 (8.16%) vSphere
5 99 (8.00%) Docker
6 78 (6.30%) Virtual Machines
7 56 (4.52%) VMware ESXi
8 55 (4.44%) Virtual Desktop
9 51 (4.12%) VMware NSX
10 24 (1.94%) XenApp
11 10 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.65%) Firmware
13 7 (0.57%) BitLocker
14 6 (0.48%) XenDesktop
15 5 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.32%) Microsoft App-V
17 3 (0.24%) Dovecot
17 3 (0.24%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 3 (0.24%) Postfix
18 2 (0.16%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 228 (18.42%) Terraform
2 193 (15.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 145 (11.71%) Ansible
3 145 (11.71%) SCCM
4 133 (10.74%) Kubernetes
5 44 (3.55%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (2.58%) Puppet
7 28 (2.26%) Prometheus
8 27 (2.18%) WSUS
9 26 (2.10%) Grafana
10 23 (1.86%) vCenter Server
11 20 (1.62%) Progress Chef
11 20 (1.62%) vRealize
12 19 (1.53%) NetBackup
13 18 (1.45%) SCOM
14 17 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 17 (1.37%) CASB
15 15 (1.21%) Failover Clustering
15 15 (1.21%) vRealize Orchestrator
16 12 (0.97%) QRadar
Vendors
1 632 (51.05%) Microsoft
2 316 (25.53%) VMware
3 127 (10.26%) Cisco
4 91 (7.35%) Citrix
5 56 (4.52%) Veeam
6 53 (4.28%) ServiceNow
7 47 (3.80%) Google
8 42 (3.39%) SolarWinds
9 41 (3.31%) Apple
9 41 (3.31%) Dell
10 40 (3.23%) Fortinet
11 39 (3.15%) Red Hat
12 38 (3.07%) Okta
13 37 (2.99%) Meraki
14 33 (2.67%) Palo Alto
15 31 (2.50%) Oracle
16 30 (2.42%) iManage
17 28 (2.26%) Splunk
18 26 (2.10%) Salesforce
19 24 (1.94%) Ubiquiti