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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 77 109
Rank change year-on-year -51 +32 -26
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,240 1,529 2,251
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.48% 3.83% 2.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.05% 12.05% 7.69%
Number of salaries quoted 936 960 1,794
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,175 £35,250
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 £74,500 £78,750 £75,625
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 15,399 12,694 29,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.35% 31.84% 30.57%
Number of salaries quoted 11,133 8,536 23,354
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -15 504 £70,000 -5.88% 91
South East -44 210 £55,000 -4.35% 124
North of England -86 201 £47,500 -6.40% 66
Midlands -39 140 £50,000 - 28
North West -81 105 £50,000 +5.26% 50
East of England -22 89 £54,000 +13.68% 25
South West -46 85 £55,000 +15.79% 28
East Midlands -13 78 £45,000 +24.14% 15
Yorkshire -23 62 £45,000 -21.74% 13
West Midlands -73 61 £51,250 -4.54% 13
North East -28 34 £47,500 -19.15% 4
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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
1 194 (15.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 175 (14.11%) SharePoint
3 42 (3.39%) IIS
4 23 (1.85%) Confluence
5 2 (0.16%) Apache
5 2 (0.16%) nginx
5 2 (0.16%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.081%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.081%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.081%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.081%) SAS
6 1 (0.081%) Site Server
Applications
1 75 (6.05%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.081%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.081%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.65%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.16%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.081%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.081%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.081%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.081%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 805 (64.92%) Azure
2 462 (37.26%) Microsoft 365
3 319 (25.73%) Entra ID
4 209 (16.85%) AWS
5 136 (10.97%) Azure DevOps
6 114 (9.19%) Power Platform
7 97 (7.82%) GitHub
8 89 (7.18%) IaaS
9 87 (7.02%) SaaS
10 81 (6.53%) OneDrive
11 74 (5.97%) Azure Monitor
12 62 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
13 60 (4.84%) PaaS
13 60 (4.84%) Power Automate
14 59 (4.76%) Azure AKS
14 59 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
15 53 (4.27%) Azure Key Vault
15 53 (4.27%) GCP
16 45 (3.63%) Azure Logic Apps
16 45 (3.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 256 (20.65%) Firewall
2 245 (19.76%) DNS
3 164 (13.23%) VPN
4 157 (12.66%) DHCP
5 107 (8.63%) TCP/IP
6 75 (6.05%) Network Security
7 74 (5.97%) LAN
8 73 (5.89%) WAN
9 56 (4.52%) VLAN
10 46 (3.71%) Wi-Fi
11 32 (2.58%) SAN
12 30 (2.42%) VoIP
13 27 (2.18%) Broadband
13 27 (2.18%) Wireless
14 19 (1.53%) Kerberos
15 16 (1.29%) SSL
16 15 (1.21%) BGP
17 14 (1.13%) Internet
18 13 (1.05%) HTTP
18 13 (1.05%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (11.45%) SQL Server
2 77 (6.21%) Power BI
3 70 (5.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 41 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (2.02%) MySQL
7 23 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 19 (1.53%) MongoDB
9 15 (1.21%) Relational Database
10 14 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 13 (1.05%) NoSQL
12 9 (0.73%) Data Lake
12 9 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.73%) Tableau
13 8 (0.65%) InfluxDB
13 8 (0.65%) Metadata
14 5 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 4 (0.32%) Redis
16 3 (0.24%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 97 (7.82%) Git
2 72 (5.81%) JIRA
3 62 (5.00%) GitLab
4 59 (4.76%) Jenkins
5 33 (2.66%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.29%) Octopus Deploy
7 15 (1.21%) TeamCity
8 13 (1.05%) Metasploit
8 13 (1.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 10 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
10 9 (0.73%) Burp Suite
11 7 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (0.56%) Robot Framework
12 6 (0.48%) TestRail
13 5 (0.40%) CircleCI
13 5 (0.40%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.40%) Selenium
14 4 (0.32%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.32%) SonarQube
15 3 (0.24%) Terragrunt
General
1 368 (29.68%) Social Skills
2 197 (15.89%) Finance
3 154 (12.42%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (7.50%) Law
5 56 (4.52%) Organisational Skills
6 49 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
6 49 (3.95%) Legal
7 48 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 44 (3.55%) Retail
9 29 (2.34%) Public Sector
10 24 (1.94%) Aerospace
11 22 (1.77%) Banking
11 22 (1.77%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.45%) Advertising
13 15 (1.21%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.65%) Aviation
15 7 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.48%) Front Office
16 6 (0.48%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.48%) Police
Job Titles
1 209 (16.85%) Senior
2 157 (12.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 145 (11.69%) Analyst
4 142 (11.45%) Support Engineer
5 131 (10.56%) Azure Engineer
6 123 (9.92%) IT Support
7 118 (9.52%) IT Engineer
8 106 (8.55%) Cloud Engineer
9 93 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
10 79 (6.37%) Security Engineer
11 76 (6.13%) IT Support Engineer
12 64 (5.16%) Platform Engineer
13 56 (4.52%) Developer
14 54 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support
15 52 (4.19%) Lead
16 47 (3.79%) Systems Engineer
17 44 (3.55%) Security Analyst
18 43 (3.47%) 3rd Line Engineer
19 37 (2.98%) Administrator
19 37 (2.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (6.61%) .NET
2 65 (5.24%) SAML
3 63 (5.08%) OAuth
4 62 (5.00%) REST
5 56 (4.52%) OpenID
6 53 (4.27%) LDAP
7 43 (3.47%) ARM Templates
8 42 (3.39%) YAML
9 41 (3.31%) JSON
10 38 (3.06%) HTML
11 36 (2.90%) .NET Core
11 36 (2.90%) Microsoft Graph
12 35 (2.82%) SOAP
13 33 (2.66%) CSS
14 27 (2.18%) SPFx
15 26 (2.10%) GraphQL
16 20 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
17 19 (1.53%) HTML5 Canvas
18 17 (1.37%) React
19 16 (1.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 102 (8.23%) Onboarding
2 75 (6.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 70 (5.65%) Cloud Native
4 68 (5.48%) Security Posture
5 59 (4.76%) Driving Licence
6 57 (4.60%) Management Information System
7 45 (3.63%) Security Operations Centre
8 44 (3.55%) Cyber Defence
9 43 (3.47%) Cyber Threat
10 40 (3.23%) Data Centre
11 38 (3.06%) Public Cloud
12 36 (2.90%) PKI
13 35 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
14 33 (2.66%) Cyberattack
15 23 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
16 22 (1.77%) Replication
17 21 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
18 20 (1.61%) Private Cloud
19 19 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
20 16 (1.29%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 589 (47.50%) Windows
2 290 (23.39%) Linux
3 279 (22.50%) Windows Server
4 76 (6.13%) Windows 10
5 50 (4.03%) Apple iOS
6 49 (3.95%) Mac OS
7 46 (3.71%) VMS
8 41 (3.31%) Android
9 36 (2.90%) Windows Server 2016
10 30 (2.42%) CentOS
11 28 (2.26%) Windows Server 2019
12 27 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 25 (2.02%) Ubuntu
14 11 (0.89%) Unix
15 8 (0.65%) Debian
16 4 (0.32%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.32%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
17 3 (0.24%) AIX
18 2 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
2 292 (23.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 286 (23.06%) CI/CD
4 272 (21.94%) DevOps
5 267 (21.53%) Cybersecurity
6 228 (18.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 220 (17.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 210 (16.94%) ITIL
9 162 (13.06%) Incident Response
10 161 (12.98%) Agile
11 156 (12.58%) Mentoring
12 154 (12.42%) Disaster Recovery
13 153 (12.34%) Root Cause Analysis
14 129 (10.40%) Containerisation
15 126 (10.16%) High Availability
16 122 (9.84%) Cloud Security
17 121 (9.76%) SIEM
18 118 (9.52%) AI
19 108 (8.71%) Roadmaps
20 106 (8.55%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 493 (39.76%) Python
2 316 (25.48%) Bash
3 268 (21.61%) SQL
4 94 (7.58%) C#
5 86 (6.94%) Bicep
6 76 (6.13%) JavaScript
7 56 (4.52%) T-SQL
8 37 (2.98%) Kusto Query Language
9 30 (2.42%) Java
10 26 (2.10%) TypeScript
11 18 (1.45%) C++
12 16 (1.29%) VBScript
13 14 (1.13%) PHP
14 13 (1.05%) Perl
15 11 (0.89%) VB
16 10 (0.81%) VBA
17 9 (0.73%) Go
17 9 (0.73%) Ruby
18 8 (0.65%) C
19 6 (0.48%) Korn
Qualifications
1 148 (11.94%) Degree
2 145 (11.69%) Security Cleared
3 131 (10.56%) Azure Certification
4 119 (9.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 94 (7.58%) SC Cleared
6 51 (4.11%) CISSP
7 48 (3.87%) Cisco Certification
8 45 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 41 (3.31%) CompTIA Security+
10 35 (2.82%) CCNA
11 34 (2.74%) DV Cleared
12 29 (2.34%) DBS Check
13 28 (2.26%) OSCP
14 26 (2.10%) AWS Certification
15 25 (2.02%) CREST Certified
16 24 (1.94%) CEH
16 24 (1.94%) GIAC
17 17 (1.37%) CompTIA CySA+
18 15 (1.21%) CCNP
19 12 (0.97%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (11.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 102 (8.23%) NIST
3 56 (4.52%) GDPR
4 53 (4.27%) Cyber Essentials
5 37 (2.98%) SLA
6 25 (2.02%) NCSC
7 21 (1.69%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.37%) QA
9 16 (1.29%) PCI DSS
9 16 (1.29%) SOC 2
10 13 (1.05%) ISO 22301
11 12 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
13 9 (0.73%) Accessibility
14 6 (0.48%) DICOM
14 6 (0.48%) PMO
15 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.16%) ISAE 3402
16 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 465 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 188 (15.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 135 (10.89%) Docker
4 130 (10.48%) Hyper-V
5 69 (5.56%) vSphere
6 40 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
7 32 (2.58%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.85%) BitLocker
9 16 (1.29%) VMware NSX
10 12 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.81%) KVM
12 8 (0.65%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.65%) Squid
13 5 (0.40%) Firmware
13 5 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.32%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.32%) iptables
15 3 (0.24%) Terminal Services
16 2 (0.16%) Samba
Systems Management
1 301 (24.27%) Terraform
2 214 (17.26%) Kubernetes
3 192 (15.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 145 (11.69%) Ansible
5 69 (5.56%) Grafana
6 55 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
7 50 (4.03%) Prometheus
8 47 (3.79%) SCCM
9 25 (2.02%) Jamf Pro
10 20 (1.61%) Argo
10 20 (1.61%) Packer
10 20 (1.61%) vCenter Server
11 18 (1.45%) ZABBIX
12 17 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 17 (1.37%) Nessus
12 17 (1.37%) QRadar
13 14 (1.13%) Graylog
13 14 (1.13%) Proxmox
13 14 (1.13%) VxRail
14 12 (0.97%) Nagios
Vendors
1 744 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 237 (19.11%) VMware
3 98 (7.90%) Cisco
4 82 (6.61%) Splunk
5 67 (5.40%) ServiceNow
6 54 (4.35%) Red Hat
7 48 (3.87%) Veeam
8 38 (3.06%) Meraki
9 37 (2.98%) Oracle
10 31 (2.50%) Apple
11 30 (2.42%) CrowdStrike
12 28 (2.26%) Dell
13 27 (2.18%) Tenable
14 26 (2.10%) Google
15 25 (2.02%) Citrix
15 25 (2.02%) Sophos
16 24 (1.94%) Fortinet
16 24 (1.94%) Palo Alto
17 23 (1.85%) Commvault
18 22 (1.77%) SolarWinds