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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 80 103
Rank change year-on-year -66 +23 -32
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,294 1,546 1,721
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.33% 3.53% 2.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.77% 12.59% 8.02%
Number of salaries quoted 958 1,033 1,208
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £36,675
25th Percentile £41,750 £42,750 £45,161
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £89,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £59,125
% change year-on-year - -2.75% -1.46%

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 16,664 12,282 21,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.16% 28.06% 30.08%
Number of salaries quoted 12,212 8,191 14,866
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -27 470 £70,000 -3.45% 388
South East -32 245 £52,500 -8.70% 151
North of England -81 229 £50,000 +3.63% 115
Midlands -44 157 £52,500 +5.00% 79
North West -77 133 £50,000 +8.70% 72
East of England -30 101 £57,500 +21.05% 67
South West -80 85 £55,000 +19.57% 65
East Midlands -10 79 £42,500 +21.43% 30
West Midlands -55 78 £55,000 - 49
Yorkshire -43 60 £42,500 -17.68% 28
North East -33 36 £50,000 -6.98% 16
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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
1 224 (17.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 218 (16.85%) SharePoint
3 52 (4.02%) IIS
4 36 (2.78%) Confluence
5 14 (1.08%) nginx
6 7 (0.54%) Apache
7 5 (0.39%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.31%) SAS
9 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.077%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.077%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.077%) WebSphere
Applications
1 71 (5.49%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 27 (2.09%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.46%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.23%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.23%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.077%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 817 (63.14%) Azure
2 502 (38.79%) Microsoft 365
3 374 (28.90%) Entra ID
4 246 (19.01%) AWS
5 156 (12.06%) Azure DevOps
6 108 (8.35%) OneDrive
7 103 (7.96%) Power Platform
8 100 (7.73%) SaaS
9 95 (7.34%) IaaS
10 93 (7.19%) GitHub
11 82 (6.34%) Azure Sentinel
12 74 (5.72%) Azure Monitor
12 74 (5.72%) Power Automate
13 69 (5.33%) Azure AKS
14 65 (5.02%) PaaS
15 64 (4.95%) GCP
16 61 (4.71%) Azure Key Vault
17 58 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
18 50 (3.86%) Datadog
19 45 (3.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 298 (23.03%) Firewall
2 278 (21.48%) DNS
3 186 (14.37%) VPN
4 182 (14.06%) DHCP
5 132 (10.20%) TCP/IP
6 80 (6.18%) WAN
7 71 (5.49%) LAN
8 66 (5.10%) Network Security
8 66 (5.10%) VLAN
9 50 (3.86%) Wireless
10 39 (3.01%) Wi-Fi
11 36 (2.78%) SAN
12 29 (2.24%) Kerberos
13 22 (1.70%) NAS
13 22 (1.70%) SSL
14 19 (1.47%) Internet
15 18 (1.39%) HTTP
16 13 (1.00%) VoIP
16 13 (1.00%) VSAN
17 10 (0.77%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (9.97%) SQL Server
2 83 (6.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 58 (4.48%) Power BI
4 23 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.70%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.24%) Relational Database
8 14 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 12 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (0.93%) MySQL
10 11 (0.85%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.70%) InfluxDB
11 9 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.46%) Power Query
12 6 (0.46%) Redis
13 5 (0.39%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.39%) Metadata
13 5 (0.39%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.31%) Db2
14 4 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 98 (7.57%) Git
2 94 (7.26%) JIRA
3 66 (5.10%) GitLab
4 58 (4.48%) Jenkins
5 25 (1.93%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
7 12 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 11 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
9 10 (0.77%) TeamCity
10 9 (0.70%) Robot Framework
10 9 (0.70%) TestRail
11 7 (0.54%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.54%) Selenium
12 6 (0.46%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.39%) Postman
14 3 (0.23%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.23%) JMeter
14 3 (0.23%) MSI
14 3 (0.23%) Terragrunt
14 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 446 (34.47%) Social Skills
2 214 (16.54%) Finance
3 178 (13.76%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (7.96%) Law
5 55 (4.25%) Legal
6 53 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 48 (3.71%) Documentation Skills
8 43 (3.32%) Retail
9 38 (2.94%) Banking
10 34 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
11 33 (2.55%) Manufacturing
12 31 (2.40%) Public Sector
13 27 (2.09%) Aerospace
14 16 (1.24%) Advertising
15 11 (0.85%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (0.70%) Front Office
17 8 (0.62%) Investment Banking
18 7 (0.54%) Aviation
19 6 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 201 (15.53%) Senior
2 183 (14.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 145 (11.21%) Analyst
4 130 (10.05%) Azure Engineer
5 129 (9.97%) Support Engineer
6 126 (9.74%) Cloud Engineer
7 125 (9.66%) IT Engineer
8 112 (8.66%) IT Support
9 95 (7.34%) DevOps Engineer
10 71 (5.49%) Platform Engineer
11 65 (5.02%) IT Support Engineer
11 65 (5.02%) Lead
11 65 (5.02%) Security Engineer
12 56 (4.33%) Systems Engineer
13 55 (4.25%) Developer
14 52 (4.02%) Consultant
14 52 (4.02%) Support Analyst
15 45 (3.48%) Automation Engineer
16 41 (3.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 41 (3.17%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 339 (26.20%) Terraform
2 76 (5.87%) .NET
3 52 (4.02%) ARM Templates
4 44 (3.40%) YAML
5 43 (3.32%) REST
6 40 (3.09%) SAML
7 39 (3.01%) HTML
7 39 (3.01%) Microsoft Graph
8 36 (2.78%) OAuth
9 35 (2.70%) OpenID
10 34 (2.63%) LDAP
11 32 (2.47%) JSON
12 30 (2.32%) CSS
13 29 (2.24%) .NET Core
14 26 (2.01%) SPFx
15 20 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
16 19 (1.47%) HTML5 Canvas
17 14 (1.08%) ASP.NET
17 14 (1.08%) RESTful
18 13 (1.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 110 (8.50%) Onboarding
2 84 (6.49%) Cloud Native
3 69 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 68 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 66 (5.10%) Security Posture
6 64 (4.95%) Driving Licence
7 47 (3.63%) Data Centre
8 44 (3.40%) Public Cloud
9 42 (3.25%) Security Operations Centre
10 39 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
10 39 (3.01%) PKI
11 35 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
12 30 (2.32%) Replication
13 28 (2.16%) Private Cloud
14 25 (1.93%) Cyber Defence
15 21 (1.62%) CMDB
16 20 (1.55%) Clustering
17 18 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
17 18 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
18 17 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 642 (49.61%) Windows
2 304 (23.49%) Linux
3 297 (22.95%) Windows Server
4 79 (6.11%) Windows 10
5 53 (4.10%) Apple iOS
6 44 (3.40%) Android
7 39 (3.01%) Mac OS
8 37 (2.86%) VMS
9 35 (2.70%) Ubuntu
10 34 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
11 31 (2.40%) CentOS
12 27 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 26 (2.01%) Windows Server 2019
14 12 (0.93%) Unix
15 10 (0.77%) Rocky
16 5 (0.39%) CoreOS
16 5 (0.39%) Solaris
17 4 (0.31%) Debian
17 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
18 3 (0.23%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (28.75%) Problem-Solving
2 322 (24.88%) Infrastructure as Code
3 308 (23.80%) CI/CD
4 288 (22.26%) DevOps
5 280 (21.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 275 (21.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 269 (20.79%) ITIL
8 235 (18.16%) Cybersecurity
9 180 (13.91%) Disaster Recovery
10 155 (11.98%) Root Cause Analysis
11 152 (11.75%) Mentoring
12 151 (11.67%) Agile
13 149 (11.51%) Incident Response
14 146 (11.28%) AI
15 144 (11.13%) High Availability
16 128 (9.89%) Containerisation
16 128 (9.89%) Observability
17 127 (9.81%) Cloud Security
18 126 (9.74%) Platform Engineering
19 119 (9.20%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 499 (38.56%) Python
2 285 (22.02%) Bash
3 264 (20.40%) SQL
4 108 (8.35%) Bicep
5 88 (6.80%) JavaScript
6 87 (6.72%) C#
7 50 (3.86%) Kusto Query Language
8 38 (2.94%) Java
9 33 (2.55%) TypeScript
10 32 (2.47%) T-SQL
11 23 (1.78%) VBScript
12 20 (1.55%) C++
13 18 (1.39%) Perl
14 13 (1.00%) PHP
15 11 (0.85%) Ruby
16 10 (0.77%) VB
16 10 (0.77%) VBA
17 9 (0.70%) Go
18 6 (0.46%) C
18 6 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 167 (12.91%) Security Cleared
2 154 (11.90%) Degree
3 144 (11.13%) Azure Certification
4 136 (10.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 113 (8.73%) SC Cleared
6 54 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
6 54 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 53 (4.10%) Cisco Certification
8 49 (3.79%) CISSP
9 48 (3.71%) DV Cleared
10 40 (3.09%) CCNA
11 28 (2.16%) CEH
12 24 (1.85%) DBS Check
13 22 (1.70%) AWS Certification
14 20 (1.55%) GIAC
14 20 (1.55%) OSCP
15 19 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 16 (1.24%) CISM
17 14 (1.08%) CCNP
17 14 (1.08%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (7.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 62 (4.79%) Cyber Essentials
3 58 (4.48%) NIST
4 45 (3.48%) GDPR
5 40 (3.09%) SLA
6 25 (1.93%) QA
7 19 (1.47%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.24%) SOC 2
9 13 (1.00%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.54%) PMO
12 6 (0.46%) ISO 22301
13 5 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.31%) Accessibility
14 4 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.31%) NCSC
15 3 (0.23%) ISAE 3402
16 2 (0.15%) EMIR
16 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 477 (36.86%) Active Directory
2 218 (16.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 142 (10.97%) Hyper-V
4 130 (10.05%) Docker
5 74 (5.72%) vSphere
6 58 (4.48%) Virtual Machines
7 50 (3.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.78%) BitLocker
9 20 (1.55%) VMware NSX
10 13 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.62%) KVM
11 8 (0.62%) Squid
12 7 (0.54%) Firmware
13 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.077%) Ceph
16 1 (0.077%) iptables
Systems Management
1 232 (17.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 217 (16.77%) Kubernetes
3 162 (12.52%) Ansible
4 80 (6.18%) Grafana
5 68 (5.26%) SCCM
6 48 (3.71%) Single Sign-On
7 42 (3.25%) Prometheus
8 23 (1.78%) ZABBIX
9 22 (1.70%) vCenter Server
10 21 (1.62%) QRadar
11 20 (1.55%) Argo
11 20 (1.55%) Packer
11 20 (1.55%) Proxmox
12 19 (1.47%) Puppet
13 18 (1.39%) Jamf Pro
14 15 (1.16%) Graylog
15 13 (1.00%) FortiGate
15 13 (1.00%) VxRail
16 10 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 9 (0.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 834 (64.45%) Microsoft
2 254 (19.63%) VMware
3 111 (8.58%) Cisco
4 106 (8.19%) ServiceNow
5 85 (6.57%) Splunk
6 60 (4.64%) Veeam
7 50 (3.86%) Red Hat
8 43 (3.32%) Oracle
9 42 (3.25%) Meraki
10 40 (3.09%) Citrix
11 34 (2.63%) Sophos
12 33 (2.55%) Dynatrace
13 31 (2.40%) Dell
14 30 (2.32%) Tenable
15 28 (2.16%) CrowdStrike
16 25 (1.93%) Sage
17 23 (1.78%) CyberArk
17 23 (1.78%) Fortinet
18 22 (1.70%) Apple
18 22 (1.70%) Palo Alto