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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 77 105
Rank change year-on-year -55 +28 -24
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,277 1,592 2,220
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.48% 3.76% 2.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.08% 12.25% 7.85%
Number of salaries quoted 961 1,029 1,776
10th Percentile £32,000 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,500 £77,500 £75,063
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 15,814 12,997 28,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.32% 30.72% 30.86%
Number of salaries quoted 11,475 8,802 22,448
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 5 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 5 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 -24 496 £70,000 -3.45% 128
South East -30 236 £55,000 -4.35% 105
North of England -82 206 £47,500 -5.00% 73
Midlands -42 140 £50,000 - 34
North West -93 109 £50,000 +4.38% 46
East of England -25 96 £54,000 +8.00% 23
South West -57 91 £55,000 +15.79% 48
East Midlands -11 76 £45,000 +28.57% 12
West Midlands -63 63 £51,250 -6.82% 22
Yorkshire -28 62 £46,250 -11.90% 15
North East -21 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
1 203 (15.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 176 (13.78%) SharePoint
3 49 (3.84%) IIS
4 25 (1.96%) Confluence
5 4 (0.31%) nginx
6 3 (0.23%) SAS
7 2 (0.16%) Apache
7 2 (0.16%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.078%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.078%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.078%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.078%) Site Server
8 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
Applications
1 75 (5.87%) 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 (0.70%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.39%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.16%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.16%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.16%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.078%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.078%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.078%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 825 (64.60%) Azure
2 466 (36.49%) Microsoft 365
3 323 (25.29%) Entra ID
4 221 (17.31%) AWS
5 142 (11.12%) Azure DevOps
6 111 (8.69%) Power Platform
7 106 (8.30%) GitHub
8 99 (7.75%) IaaS
9 86 (6.73%) SaaS
10 79 (6.19%) Azure Monitor
11 78 (6.11%) OneDrive
12 72 (5.64%) PaaS
13 67 (5.25%) GitHub Actions
14 63 (4.93%) Azure AKS
15 61 (4.78%) Azure Sentinel
16 58 (4.54%) Power Automate
17 57 (4.46%) Azure Key Vault
18 53 (4.15%) GCP
19 50 (3.92%) Serverless
20 48 (3.76%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 288 (22.55%) Firewall
2 260 (20.36%) DNS
3 190 (14.88%) VPN
4 173 (13.55%) DHCP
5 117 (9.16%) TCP/IP
6 81 (6.34%) LAN
7 80 (6.26%) WAN
8 79 (6.19%) Network Security
9 65 (5.09%) VLAN
10 51 (3.99%) Wi-Fi
11 37 (2.90%) Wireless
12 34 (2.66%) SAN
13 29 (2.27%) VoIP
14 25 (1.96%) Kerberos
15 21 (1.64%) Broadband
16 16 (1.25%) SSL
17 15 (1.17%) BGP
18 14 (1.10%) HTTP
18 14 (1.10%) Internet
18 14 (1.10%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (11.98%) SQL Server
2 78 (6.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 73 (5.72%) Power BI
4 40 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (2.04%) MySQL
6 25 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 21 (1.64%) MongoDB
8 15 (1.17%) Relational Database
9 13 (1.02%) NoSQL
10 11 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (0.70%) InfluxDB
12 7 (0.55%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.47%) Tableau
14 5 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.39%) Metadata
14 5 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 4 (0.31%) Power Query
15 4 (0.31%) Redis
Development Applications
1 105 (8.22%) Git
2 78 (6.11%) JIRA
3 65 (5.09%) GitLab
4 61 (4.78%) Jenkins
5 34 (2.66%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
7 13 (1.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 12 (0.94%) Metasploit
8 12 (0.94%) TeamCity
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 (0.23%) Postman
General
1 388 (30.38%) Social Skills
2 206 (16.13%) Finance
3 156 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (7.83%) Law
5 54 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
6 51 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
7 50 (3.92%) Legal
8 49 (3.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 43 (3.37%) Retail
10 29 (2.27%) Public Sector
11 23 (1.80%) Aerospace
12 22 (1.72%) Banking
12 22 (1.72%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.33%) Advertising
14 15 (1.17%) Telecoms
15 9 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.55%) Aviation
16 7 (0.55%) Financial Institution
17 6 (0.47%) Front Office
17 6 (0.47%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 214 (16.76%) Senior
2 159 (12.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 149 (11.67%) Analyst
4 146 (11.43%) Support Engineer
5 131 (10.26%) Azure Engineer
5 131 (10.26%) IT Engineer
6 125 (9.79%) IT Support
7 107 (8.38%) Cloud Engineer
8 97 (7.60%) DevOps Engineer
9 79 (6.19%) Security Engineer
10 78 (6.11%) IT Support Engineer
11 66 (5.17%) Platform Engineer
12 59 (4.62%) Developer
13 54 (4.23%) 2nd Line Support
14 53 (4.15%) Lead
15 50 (3.92%) Systems Engineer
16 45 (3.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 42 (3.29%) Architect
17 42 (3.29%) Security Analyst
18 39 (3.05%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (6.58%) .NET
2 63 (4.93%) SAML
3 61 (4.78%) OAuth
4 58 (4.54%) REST
5 54 (4.23%) OpenID
6 51 (3.99%) ARM Templates
7 50 (3.92%) LDAP
8 42 (3.29%) JSON
8 42 (3.29%) YAML
9 41 (3.21%) HTML
10 37 (2.90%) .NET Core
11 36 (2.82%) Microsoft Graph
12 32 (2.51%) CSS
13 30 (2.35%) SOAP
14 24 (1.88%) SPFx
15 21 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
16 20 (1.57%) GraphQL
17 19 (1.49%) HTML5 Canvas
18 17 (1.33%) XML
19 15 (1.17%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 102 (7.99%) Onboarding
2 77 (6.03%) Cloud Native
2 77 (6.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 73 (5.72%) Security Posture
4 61 (4.78%) Driving Licence
5 57 (4.46%) Management Information System
6 45 (3.52%) Data Centre
6 45 (3.52%) Security Operations Centre
7 44 (3.45%) Public Cloud
8 42 (3.29%) Cyber Defence
9 39 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
10 38 (2.98%) Cyber Threat
10 38 (2.98%) PKI
11 34 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
12 27 (2.11%) Cyberattack
13 24 (1.88%) Private Cloud
14 22 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
14 22 (1.72%) Replication
15 17 (1.33%) Clustering
16 16 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 613 (48.00%) Windows
2 297 (23.26%) Linux
3 294 (23.02%) Windows Server
4 76 (5.95%) Windows 10
5 51 (3.99%) Apple iOS
6 50 (3.92%) VMS
7 46 (3.60%) Mac OS
8 41 (3.21%) Android
9 38 (2.98%) Windows Server 2016
10 32 (2.51%) CentOS
11 29 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 28 (2.19%) 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 (0.23%) AIX
18 2 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (27.33%) Problem-Solving
2 309 (24.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 302 (23.65%) CI/CD
4 285 (22.32%) DevOps
5 258 (20.20%) Cybersecurity
6 236 (18.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 234 (18.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 217 (16.99%) ITIL
9 172 (13.47%) Agile
10 161 (12.61%) Disaster Recovery
10 161 (12.61%) Incident Response
11 159 (12.45%) Mentoring
11 159 (12.45%) Root Cause Analysis
12 137 (10.73%) Containerisation
13 134 (10.49%) High Availability
14 130 (10.18%) Cloud Security
15 124 (9.71%) SIEM
16 118 (9.24%) AI
17 113 (8.85%) Roadmaps
18 111 (8.69%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 509 (39.86%) Python
2 318 (24.90%) Bash
3 275 (21.53%) SQL
4 99 (7.75%) Bicep
5 97 (7.60%) C#
6 77 (6.03%) JavaScript
7 53 (4.15%) T-SQL
8 43 (3.37%) Kusto Query Language
9 33 (2.58%) Java
10 29 (2.27%) TypeScript
11 20 (1.57%) C++
12 17 (1.33%) VBScript
13 16 (1.25%) PHP
14 12 (0.94%) Perl
15 11 (0.86%) Go
15 11 (0.86%) VB
16 10 (0.78%) VBA
17 9 (0.70%) C
17 9 (0.70%) Ruby
18 6 (0.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 153 (11.98%) Degree
2 152 (11.90%) Security Cleared
3 142 (11.12%) Azure Certification
4 127 (9.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 97 (7.60%) SC Cleared
6 54 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
7 53 (4.15%) CISSP
8 47 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 42 (3.29%) CompTIA Security+
10 40 (3.13%) CCNA
11 37 (2.90%) DV Cleared
12 29 (2.27%) DBS Check
13 27 (2.11%) OSCP
14 26 (2.04%) AWS Certification
15 25 (1.96%) GIAC
16 24 (1.88%) CEH
16 24 (1.88%) CREST Certified
17 17 (1.33%) CCNP
18 15 (1.17%) CompTIA CySA+
19 14 (1.10%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 99 (7.75%) NIST
3 62 (4.86%) GDPR
4 55 (4.31%) Cyber Essentials
5 39 (3.05%) SLA
6 22 (1.72%) QA
7 19 (1.49%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.49%) NCSC
8 18 (1.41%) PCI DSS
8 18 (1.41%) SOC 2
9 14 (1.10%) ISO 22301
10 10 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 9 (0.70%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.47%) DICOM
13 6 (0.47%) PMO
14 3 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.16%) EMIR
15 2 (0.16%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 474 (37.12%) Active Directory
2 203 (15.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 143 (11.20%) Hyper-V
4 139 (10.88%) Docker
5 77 (6.03%) vSphere
6 45 (3.52%) 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 (0.23%) Terminal Services
16 2 (0.16%) Samba
Systems Management
1 315 (24.67%) Terraform
2 224 (17.54%) Kubernetes
3 191 (14.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 153 (11.98%) Ansible
5 74 (5.79%) Grafana
6 57 (4.46%) Single Sign-On
7 51 (3.99%) Prometheus
8 49 (3.84%) SCCM
9 25 (1.96%) Jamf Pro
10 21 (1.64%) 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
1 772 (60.45%) Microsoft
2 250 (19.58%) VMware
3 99 (7.75%) Cisco
4 87 (6.81%) Splunk
5 72 (5.64%) ServiceNow
6 56 (4.39%) Red Hat
7 52 (4.07%) Veeam
8 40 (3.13%) Oracle
9 39 (3.05%) Meraki
10 31 (2.43%) Tenable
11 29 (2.27%) Apple
11 29 (2.27%) CrowdStrike
12 28 (2.19%) Dell
12 28 (2.19%) Sophos
13 26 (2.04%) Palo Alto
14 25 (1.96%) Google
15 24 (1.88%) Citrix
15 24 (1.88%) SolarWinds
16 23 (1.80%) Fortinet
16 23 (1.80%) Logitech