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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 88 93
Rank change year-on-year -55 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,107 1,294 2,265
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.43% 3.46% 2.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.05% 10.17% 8.38%
Number of salaries quoted 856 1,005 1,926
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,750 £45,500 £43,503
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 13,746 12,725 27,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.74% 34.06% 32.77%
Number of salaries quoted 9,679 9,352 22,545
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,683 £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 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 20 April 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 20 April 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 -11 515 £70,000 -9.68% 118
South East -78 176 £56,750 -1.30% 102
North of England -50 140 £48,445 -3.11% 64
Midlands -60 105 £52,500 +5.00% 42
South West -39 91 £55,000 +15.79% 42
North West -39 70 £55,000 +19.57% 35
East of England -49 67 £43,000 -21.82% 38
East Midlands -46 59 £55,000 +25.71% 22
Yorkshire -40 56 £47,500 -13.64% 17
West Midlands -72 45 £47,750 -4.50% 20
North East -39 14 £45,000 -21.74% 12
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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
1 170 (15.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 135 (12.20%) SharePoint
3 35 (3.16%) IIS
4 16 (1.45%) Confluence
5 13 (1.17%) Exchange Server 2003
6 6 (0.54%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.18%) Apache
7 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.18%) CMS
7 2 (0.18%) WordPress
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.090%) Site Server
Applications
1 46 (4.16%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.27%) CATIA
3 3 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.27%) Siemens NX
3 3 (0.27%) SOLIDWORKS
3 3 (0.27%) Windchill
4 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.090%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.27%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.27%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.18%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.090%) Actimize
5 1 (0.090%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.090%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 696 (62.87%) Azure
2 395 (35.68%) Microsoft 365
3 284 (25.65%) Entra ID
4 198 (17.89%) AWS
5 105 (9.49%) Azure DevOps
6 92 (8.31%) Power Platform
7 86 (7.77%) GitHub
8 68 (6.14%) SaaS
9 67 (6.05%) GCP
10 65 (5.87%) GitHub Actions
11 61 (5.51%) OneDrive
12 53 (4.79%) IaaS
13 52 (4.70%) PaaS
14 44 (3.97%) Azure Monitor
15 43 (3.88%) Google Workspace
16 42 (3.79%) Azure Logic Apps
16 42 (3.79%) Azure Sentinel
17 39 (3.52%) Power Automate
18 34 (3.07%) Nutanix
18 34 (3.07%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 211 (19.06%) Firewall
2 209 (18.88%) DNS
3 148 (13.37%) DHCP
4 123 (11.11%) VPN
5 94 (8.49%) TCP/IP
6 60 (5.42%) WAN
7 59 (5.33%) Network Security
8 57 (5.15%) LAN
9 47 (4.25%) VLAN
10 45 (4.07%) Wi-Fi
11 34 (3.07%) SAN
12 33 (2.98%) VoIP
13 29 (2.62%) Wireless
14 28 (2.53%) Broadband
15 21 (1.90%) SD-WAN
16 13 (1.17%) Internet
16 13 (1.17%) VSAN
17 12 (1.08%) WinSCP
18 11 (0.99%) Kerberos
18 11 (0.99%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (11.38%) SQL Server
2 77 (6.96%) Power BI
3 36 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 29 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (2.44%) MySQL
6 26 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
7 23 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 19 (1.72%) Relational Database
9 17 (1.54%) Oracle Database
9 17 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 15 (1.36%) NoSQL
10 15 (1.36%) Oracle Database 10g
11 14 (1.26%) Tableau
12 12 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (0.81%) InfluxDB
13 9 (0.81%) MongoDB
14 7 (0.63%) Data Lake
14 7 (0.63%) Metadata
15 5 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
16 4 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 91 (8.22%) Git
2 64 (5.78%) Jenkins
3 61 (5.51%) JIRA
4 47 (4.25%) GitLab
5 29 (2.62%) Bitbucket
6 17 (1.54%) Octopus Deploy
7 14 (1.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 13 (1.17%) Metasploit
9 11 (0.99%) TeamCity
10 10 (0.90%) Robot Framework
11 9 (0.81%) Burp Suite
11 9 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
12 8 (0.72%) CircleCI
13 7 (0.63%) TestRail
14 6 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (0.36%) Balsamiq
15 4 (0.36%) Cypress.io
15 4 (0.36%) MLflow
15 4 (0.36%) Selenium
15 4 (0.36%) SonarQube
General
1 351 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 201 (18.16%) Finance
3 140 (12.65%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (5.87%) Law
5 50 (4.52%) Organisational Skills
6 45 (4.07%) Documentation Skills
7 43 (3.88%) Retail
8 41 (3.70%) Legal
9 39 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 33 (2.98%) Public Sector
11 28 (2.53%) Banking
12 19 (1.72%) Manufacturing
12 19 (1.72%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.36%) Advertising
14 13 (1.17%) Aerospace
15 10 (0.90%) Front Office
16 8 (0.72%) Military
17 6 (0.54%) Electronics
17 6 (0.54%) Investment Banking
17 6 (0.54%) Police
Job Titles
1 172 (15.54%) Senior
2 140 (12.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 124 (11.20%) Support Engineer
4 123 (11.11%) Analyst
5 110 (9.94%) Azure Engineer
6 95 (8.58%) IT Support
7 77 (6.96%) Cloud Engineer
7 77 (6.96%) Security Engineer
8 75 (6.78%) IT Engineer
9 62 (5.60%) DevOps Engineer
10 61 (5.51%) Lead
11 53 (4.79%) Developer
12 51 (4.61%) IT Support Engineer
13 49 (4.43%) 2nd Line Support
14 46 (4.16%) 3rd Line Support
15 43 (3.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 43 (3.88%) Platform Engineer
16 39 (3.52%) Architect
17 36 (3.25%) Security Analyst
17 36 (3.25%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (6.14%) .NET
2 57 (5.15%) OAuth
2 57 (5.15%) REST
3 52 (4.70%) SAML
4 51 (4.61%) OpenID
5 38 (3.43%) LDAP
6 33 (2.98%) .NET Core
6 33 (2.98%) SOAP
7 30 (2.71%) JSON
8 29 (2.62%) ARM Templates
9 26 (2.35%) YAML
10 25 (2.26%) GraphQL
11 24 (2.17%) Microsoft Graph
12 22 (1.99%) CSS
13 21 (1.90%) SPFx
14 20 (1.81%) HTML
15 18 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
15 18 (1.63%) React
16 15 (1.36%) Node.js
17 12 (1.08%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 93 (8.40%) Onboarding
2 72 (6.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 60 (5.42%) Security Posture
4 48 (4.34%) Management Information System
5 44 (3.97%) Enterprise Software
6 43 (3.88%) Cloud Native
7 40 (3.61%) Cyber Threat
7 40 (3.61%) Driving Licence
8 38 (3.43%) Cyber Defence
9 35 (3.16%) Security Operations Centre
10 34 (3.07%) Cyberattack
11 30 (2.71%) Analytical Mindset
12 29 (2.62%) Data Centre
13 27 (2.44%) Public Cloud
14 20 (1.81%) PKI
15 19 (1.72%) CMDB
15 19 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
16 17 (1.54%) Low-Code
16 17 (1.54%) Replication
17 16 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 514 (46.43%) Windows
2 250 (22.58%) Windows Server
3 239 (21.59%) Linux
4 71 (6.41%) Windows 10
5 52 (4.70%) Mac OS
6 44 (3.97%) Android
7 43 (3.88%) Apple iOS
8 36 (3.25%) Windows Server 2016
9 28 (2.53%) Unix
9 28 (2.53%) Windows Server 2019
10 27 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 23 (2.08%) CentOS
11 23 (2.08%) VMS
12 15 (1.36%) Solaris
12 15 (1.36%) Ubuntu
13 13 (1.17%) HPUX
13 13 (1.17%) Windows 7
13 13 (1.17%) Windows Server 2003
13 13 (1.17%) Windows Server 2008
14 8 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (27.28%) Problem-Solving
2 230 (20.78%) DevOps
3 226 (20.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 224 (20.23%) CI/CD
5 218 (19.69%) Cybersecurity
6 199 (17.98%) ITIL
7 198 (17.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 186 (16.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 149 (13.46%) Incident Response
10 141 (12.74%) Mentoring
11 135 (12.20%) Disaster Recovery
12 129 (11.65%) Agile
13 115 (10.39%) Root Cause Analysis
14 109 (9.85%) Cloud Security
15 108 (9.76%) SIEM
16 102 (9.21%) Containerisation
17 96 (8.67%) Task Automation
18 93 (8.40%) Roadmaps
19 90 (8.13%) Security Operations
20 87 (7.86%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 433 (39.11%) Python
2 261 (23.58%) Bash
3 227 (20.51%) SQL
4 74 (6.68%) JavaScript
5 73 (6.59%) C#
6 67 (6.05%) Bicep
7 52 (4.70%) T-SQL
8 32 (2.89%) Kusto Query Language
9 21 (1.90%) Perl
10 20 (1.81%) Java
11 16 (1.45%) TypeScript
12 11 (0.99%) Go
13 10 (0.90%) C++
14 9 (0.81%) VB
14 9 (0.81%) VB.NET
15 7 (0.63%) C
15 7 (0.63%) PHP
16 6 (0.54%) Delphi
16 6 (0.54%) VBA
16 6 (0.54%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 150 (13.55%) Degree
2 131 (11.83%) Security Cleared
3 97 (8.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 85 (7.68%) Azure Certification
5 74 (6.68%) SC Cleared
6 49 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (4.43%) DV Cleared
7 47 (4.25%) CISSP
8 35 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
9 26 (2.35%) OSCP
10 25 (2.26%) CompTIA Security+
11 24 (2.17%) CREST Certified
11 24 (2.17%) GIAC
12 23 (2.08%) CCNA
13 22 (1.99%) AWS Certification
13 22 (1.99%) CEH
13 22 (1.99%) CompTIA CySA+
14 17 (1.54%) DBS Check
15 12 (1.08%) CCSAM
15 12 (1.08%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 124 (11.20%) NIST
3 64 (5.78%) GDPR
4 56 (5.06%) SLA
5 33 (2.98%) NCSC
6 30 (2.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 19 (1.72%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.72%) ISO 22301
8 16 (1.45%) QA
9 15 (1.36%) PCI DSS
10 14 (1.26%) Accessibility
10 14 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (1.17%) SOC 2
12 11 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.54%) DICOM
14 5 (0.45%) GRC
15 4 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.27%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.18%) COBIT
17 2 (0.18%) HL7
System Software
1 411 (37.13%) Active Directory
2 135 (12.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 121 (10.93%) Docker
4 99 (8.94%) Hyper-V
5 40 (3.61%) vSphere
6 33 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (1.45%) Firmware
9 14 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
10 11 (0.99%) BitLocker
11 10 (0.90%) VMware NSX
12 9 (0.81%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 7 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.45%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.36%) iptables
15 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.36%) XenDesktop
16 3 (0.27%) Squid
17 2 (0.18%) Samba
17 2 (0.18%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 236 (21.32%) Terraform
2 175 (15.81%) Kubernetes
3 164 (14.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 133 (12.01%) Ansible
5 51 (4.61%) Grafana
6 46 (4.16%) SCCM
7 43 (3.88%) Single Sign-On
8 31 (2.80%) Prometheus
9 22 (1.99%) Jamf Pro
10 18 (1.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (1.54%) vCenter Server
12 13 (1.17%) Nessus
12 13 (1.17%) VxRail
13 12 (1.08%) FortiGate
14 9 (0.81%) Puppet
14 9 (0.81%) QRadar
15 8 (0.72%) logstash
15 8 (0.72%) Packer
15 8 (0.72%) Progress Chef
15 8 (0.72%) WSUS
Vendors
1 629 (56.82%) Microsoft
2 212 (19.15%) VMware
3 93 (8.40%) Cisco
4 56 (5.06%) Splunk
5 54 (4.88%) ServiceNow
6 52 (4.70%) Red Hat
7 41 (3.70%) Oracle
8 40 (3.61%) CrowdStrike
8 40 (3.61%) Veeam
9 34 (3.07%) Google
10 33 (2.98%) Commvault
11 31 (2.80%) Palo Alto
12 30 (2.71%) Dell
13 27 (2.44%) Meraki
14 25 (2.26%) CyberArk
14 25 (2.26%) Fortinet
15 23 (2.08%) Apple
15 23 (2.08%) Citrix
16 20 (1.81%) Atlassian
17 19 (1.72%) Dynatrace