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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 78 107
Rank change year-on-year -55 +29 -30
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,268 1,607 1,987
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.43% 3.71% 2.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.87% 12.30% 8.02%
Number of salaries quoted 962 1,045 1,570
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,950
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,250
Median % change year-on-year - +4.07% -7.92%
75th Percentile £74,313 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £56,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.74% +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 16,117 13,060 24,771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.15% 30.15% 30.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11,817 8,814 19,154
10th Percentile £37,650 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,700 £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 £111,250 £101,250
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 22 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 22 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 -24 476 £70,000 -6.67% 135
South East -30 244 £55,000 -4.35% 94
North of England -87 209 £48,445 +0.29% 65
Midlands -41 147 £50,000 - 35
North West -89 110 £50,801 +9.84% 37
East of England -20 94 £55,000 +8.91% 27
South West -74 83 £55,000 +15.79% 36
East Midlands -11 76 £42,500 +21.43% 14
West Midlands -53 70 £52,500 -4.55% 21
Yorkshire -45 59 £47,500 -5.71% 17
North East -22 40 £48,445 -19.26% 12
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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
1 207 (16.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 179 (14.12%) SharePoint
3 48 (3.79%) IIS
4 26 (2.05%) Confluence
5 6 (0.47%) nginx
6 4 (0.32%) SAS
7 3 (0.24%) Apache
7 3 (0.24%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.079%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.079%) Site Server
9 1 (0.079%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.079%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (6.07%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (0.87%) NetSuite
1 11 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.47%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.24%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.16%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.16%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.079%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.079%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.079%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 824 (64.98%) Azure
2 467 (36.83%) Microsoft 365
3 334 (26.34%) Entra ID
4 233 (18.38%) AWS
5 140 (11.04%) Azure DevOps
6 108 (8.52%) Power Platform
7 102 (8.04%) GitHub
8 95 (7.49%) IaaS
9 89 (7.02%) SaaS
10 82 (6.47%) OneDrive
11 79 (6.23%) Azure Monitor
12 69 (5.44%) Azure Sentinel
13 68 (5.36%) PaaS
14 64 (5.05%) GitHub Actions
15 63 (4.97%) Azure AKS
16 58 (4.57%) Azure Key Vault
17 57 (4.50%) Power Automate
18 54 (4.26%) GCP
19 49 (3.86%) Azure Logic Apps
20 48 (3.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 290 (22.87%) Firewall
2 262 (20.66%) DNS
3 187 (14.75%) VPN
4 173 (13.64%) DHCP
5 117 (9.23%) TCP/IP
6 74 (5.84%) WAN
7 73 (5.76%) Network Security
8 71 (5.60%) LAN
9 64 (5.05%) VLAN
10 45 (3.55%) Wi-Fi
11 37 (2.92%) Wireless
12 35 (2.76%) SAN
13 32 (2.52%) Kerberos
14 28 (2.21%) VoIP
15 17 (1.34%) NAS
15 17 (1.34%) SSL
16 16 (1.26%) Internet
17 14 (1.10%) BGP
17 14 (1.10%) Broadband
17 14 (1.10%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (11.51%) SQL Server
2 80 (6.31%) Azure SQL Database
3 72 (5.68%) Power BI
4 38 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.81%) MySQL
5 23 (1.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 22 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (1.66%) MongoDB
8 15 (1.18%) Relational Database
9 13 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (0.95%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.71%) InfluxDB
12 7 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.39%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.39%) Metadata
13 5 (0.39%) Tableau
14 4 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
14 4 (0.32%) Power Query
14 4 (0.32%) Redis
15 3 (0.24%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 97 (7.65%) Git
2 81 (6.39%) JIRA
3 67 (5.28%) GitLab
4 58 (4.57%) Jenkins
5 30 (2.37%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 11 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (0.79%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (0.55%) Metasploit
10 7 (0.55%) Robot Framework
10 7 (0.55%) TestRail
11 6 (0.47%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.47%) Selenium
12 5 (0.39%) Postman
13 4 (0.32%) SonarQube
14 3 (0.24%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.24%) Burp Suite
14 3 (0.24%) JMeter
General
1 391 (30.84%) Social Skills
2 197 (15.54%) Finance
3 160 (12.62%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (8.04%) Law
5 51 (4.02%) Documentation Skills
6 50 (3.94%) Legal
7 48 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 44 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
9 39 (3.08%) Retail
10 28 (2.21%) Public Sector
11 24 (1.89%) Banking
12 23 (1.81%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.66%) Aerospace
14 17 (1.34%) Advertising
15 11 (0.87%) Telecoms
16 10 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.71%) Financial Institution
18 7 (0.55%) Front Office
18 7 (0.55%) Investment Banking
19 6 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 207 (16.32%) Senior
2 163 (12.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 145 (11.44%) Analyst
4 139 (10.96%) Support Engineer
5 131 (10.33%) Azure Engineer
6 129 (10.17%) IT Engineer
7 120 (9.46%) IT Support
8 115 (9.07%) Cloud Engineer
9 96 (7.57%) DevOps Engineer
10 76 (5.99%) Security Engineer
11 71 (5.60%) IT Support Engineer
12 65 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
13 59 (4.65%) Lead
14 58 (4.57%) Developer
15 54 (4.26%) 2nd Line Support
16 50 (3.94%) Systems Engineer
17 48 (3.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
18 40 (3.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
19 38 (3.00%) Architect
19 38 (3.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (6.47%) .NET
2 58 (4.57%) SAML
3 55 (4.34%) ARM Templates
3 55 (4.34%) OAuth
4 52 (4.10%) REST
5 48 (3.79%) OpenID
6 45 (3.55%) LDAP
7 43 (3.39%) HTML
7 43 (3.39%) JSON
7 43 (3.39%) YAML
8 36 (2.84%) .NET Core
8 36 (2.84%) Microsoft Graph
9 32 (2.52%) CSS
10 24 (1.89%) SPFx
11 22 (1.74%) SOAP
12 20 (1.58%) Elastic Stack
13 19 (1.50%) HTML5 Canvas
14 18 (1.42%) XML
15 17 (1.34%) RESTful
16 16 (1.26%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 108 (8.52%) Onboarding
2 78 (6.15%) Cloud Native
3 75 (5.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 67 (5.28%) Security Posture
5 58 (4.57%) Driving Licence
6 57 (4.50%) Management Information System
7 50 (3.94%) Data Centre
8 45 (3.55%) Security Operations Centre
9 44 (3.47%) Public Cloud
10 43 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
11 39 (3.08%) PKI
12 35 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
13 33 (2.60%) Cyber Defence
14 30 (2.37%) Cyber Threat
15 24 (1.89%) Private Cloud
16 22 (1.74%) Replication
17 21 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
17 21 (1.66%) Cyberattack
18 19 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
19 16 (1.26%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 608 (47.95%) Windows
2 298 (23.50%) Linux
3 285 (22.48%) Windows Server
4 74 (5.84%) Windows 10
5 52 (4.10%) Apple iOS
6 47 (3.71%) VMS
7 42 (3.31%) Mac OS
8 41 (3.23%) Android
9 34 (2.68%) Windows Server 2016
10 31 (2.44%) CentOS
11 28 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 26 (2.05%) Ubuntu
13 24 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
14 11 (0.87%) Unix
15 8 (0.63%) Debian
16 4 (0.32%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
17 3 (0.24%) AIX
18 2 (0.16%) Rocky
18 2 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (26.58%) Problem-Solving
2 303 (23.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 302 (23.82%) CI/CD
4 286 (22.56%) DevOps
5 249 (19.64%) Cybersecurity
6 244 (19.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 236 (18.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 217 (17.11%) ITIL
9 161 (12.70%) Agile
9 161 (12.70%) Disaster Recovery
10 159 (12.54%) Incident Response
11 154 (12.15%) Mentoring
12 152 (11.99%) Root Cause Analysis
13 136 (10.73%) High Availability
14 131 (10.33%) Containerisation
15 129 (10.17%) Cloud Security
15 129 (10.17%) SIEM
16 121 (9.54%) AI
17 114 (8.99%) Observability
18 112 (8.83%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 499 (39.35%) Python
2 308 (24.29%) Bash
3 267 (21.06%) SQL
4 100 (7.89%) Bicep
5 96 (7.57%) C#
6 79 (6.23%) JavaScript
7 48 (3.79%) Kusto Query Language
8 47 (3.71%) T-SQL
9 35 (2.76%) Java
10 30 (2.37%) TypeScript
11 19 (1.50%) C++
12 18 (1.42%) VBScript
13 17 (1.34%) PHP
14 12 (0.95%) Perl
15 10 (0.79%) Go
15 10 (0.79%) VBA
16 9 (0.71%) VB
17 8 (0.63%) C
17 8 (0.63%) Ruby
18 6 (0.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 151 (11.91%) Degree
2 150 (11.83%) Security Cleared
3 145 (11.44%) Azure Certification
4 123 (9.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 99 (7.81%) SC Cleared
6 56 (4.42%) Cisco Certification
7 53 (4.18%) CISSP
8 48 (3.79%) CompTIA Security+
9 44 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 42 (3.31%) CCNA
11 37 (2.92%) DV Cleared
12 26 (2.05%) CEH
13 25 (1.97%) GIAC
14 24 (1.89%) DBS Check
15 23 (1.81%) AWS Certification
16 22 (1.74%) OSCP
17 18 (1.42%) CCNP
17 18 (1.42%) CREST Certified
18 17 (1.34%) CompTIA CySA+
19 15 (1.18%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (9.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 86 (6.78%) NIST
3 57 (4.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 56 (4.42%) GDPR
5 41 (3.23%) SLA
6 24 (1.89%) QA
7 22 (1.74%) Data Quality
8 19 (1.50%) SOC 2
9 18 (1.42%) PCI DSS
10 13 (1.03%) NCSC
11 11 (0.87%) ISO 22301
12 8 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (0.55%) Accessibility
13 7 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.47%) PMO
15 5 (0.39%) DICOM
16 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.16%) EMIR
17 2 (0.16%) ISAE 3402
17 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 473 (37.30%) Active Directory
2 202 (15.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 136 (10.73%) Hyper-V
4 132 (10.41%) Docker
5 76 (5.99%) vSphere
6 47 (3.71%) Virtual Machines
7 40 (3.15%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.81%) BitLocker
9 15 (1.18%) VMware NSX
10 13 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.79%) KVM
12 8 (0.63%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.63%) Squid
13 4 (0.32%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.24%) Firmware
14 3 (0.24%) iptables
14 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.24%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.16%) Samba
Systems Management
1 315 (24.84%) Terraform
2 220 (17.35%) Kubernetes
3 201 (15.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 150 (11.83%) Ansible
5 75 (5.91%) Grafana
6 52 (4.10%) SCCM
6 52 (4.10%) Single Sign-On
7 51 (4.02%) Prometheus
8 24 (1.89%) Jamf Pro
9 23 (1.81%) ZABBIX
10 20 (1.58%) Argo
10 20 (1.58%) Packer
10 20 (1.58%) QRadar
10 20 (1.58%) vCenter Server
11 17 (1.34%) Proxmox
12 14 (1.10%) Graylog
13 12 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 12 (0.95%) VxRail
14 11 (0.87%) Nessus
14 11 (0.87%) WSUS
Vendors
1 776 (61.20%) Microsoft
2 248 (19.56%) VMware
3 111 (8.75%) Cisco
4 90 (7.10%) Splunk
5 86 (6.78%) ServiceNow
6 54 (4.26%) Red Hat
7 50 (3.94%) Veeam
8 40 (3.15%) Meraki
9 39 (3.08%) Oracle
10 31 (2.44%) Sophos
10 31 (2.44%) Tenable
11 29 (2.29%) Citrix
11 29 (2.29%) CrowdStrike
12 28 (2.21%) Apple
13 27 (2.13%) Dell
13 27 (2.13%) Fortinet
14 25 (1.97%) CyberArk
14 25 (1.97%) Palo Alto
15 23 (1.81%) Dynatrace
16 21 (1.66%) SolarWinds