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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 89 91
Rank change year-on-year -38 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,086 1,228 2,308
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.58% 3.38% 2.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.75% 9.81% 8.84%
Number of salaries quoted 860 1,010 2,002
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +12.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,563 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £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 12,415 12,521 26,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.06% 34.48% 33.71%
Number of salaries quoted 8,942 9,289 22,149
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,625
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,683 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

PowerShell
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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -8 490 £70,000 -12.50% 123
South East -50 192 £56,687 -5.52% 97
North of England -41 139 £47,500 -9.52% 66
South West -19 96 £55,000 +15.79% 60
Midlands -48 96 £52,500 +5.00% 45
Yorkshire -33 70 £47,500 -9.52% 16
East of England -38 59 £40,000 -27.27% 34
North West -43 56 £51,000 +5.58% 35
East Midlands -27 52 £55,000 +15.79% 16
West Midlands -49 43 £48,000 -4.00% 29
North East -30 13 £45,000 -23.40% 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
1 174 (16.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 127 (11.69%) SharePoint
3 30 (2.76%) IIS
4 22 (2.03%) Exchange Server 2003
5 13 (1.20%) Confluence
6 6 (0.55%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.18%) Apache
7 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.18%) CMS
7 2 (0.18%) WordPress
8 1 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.092%) Site Server
8 1 (0.092%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 47 (4.33%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.37%) Siemens NX
5 3 (0.28%) CATIA
5 3 (0.28%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.28%) Windchill
6 1 (0.092%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.092%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.37%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.28%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.18%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.092%) Actimize
5 1 (0.092%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.092%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.092%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.092%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 680 (62.62%) Azure
2 370 (34.07%) Microsoft 365
3 270 (24.86%) Entra ID
4 183 (16.85%) AWS
5 105 (9.67%) Azure DevOps
6 96 (8.84%) Power Platform
7 85 (7.83%) GitHub
8 68 (6.26%) GCP
9 66 (6.08%) SaaS
10 60 (5.52%) GitHub Actions
11 57 (5.25%) PaaS
12 53 (4.88%) OneDrive
13 49 (4.51%) IaaS
14 43 (3.96%) Azure Monitor
14 43 (3.96%) Google Workspace
15 37 (3.41%) Nutanix
16 36 (3.31%) Azure Logic Apps
17 34 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
17 34 (3.13%) Power Automate
18 33 (3.04%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 207 (19.06%) DNS
2 195 (17.96%) Firewall
3 157 (14.46%) DHCP
4 119 (10.96%) VPN
5 99 (9.12%) TCP/IP
6 54 (4.97%) WAN
7 52 (4.79%) LAN
8 50 (4.60%) Network Security
9 45 (4.14%) VLAN
10 42 (3.87%) Wi-Fi
11 35 (3.22%) VoIP
12 29 (2.67%) SAN
12 29 (2.67%) Wireless
13 28 (2.58%) Broadband
14 24 (2.21%) SD-WAN
15 14 (1.29%) VSAN
16 12 (1.10%) WinSCP
17 11 (1.01%) Internet
18 10 (0.92%) Cisco IOS
19 9 (0.83%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (12.06%) SQL Server
2 82 (7.55%) Power BI
3 29 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 28 (2.58%) Oracle Database
5 26 (2.39%) Oracle Database 10g
5 26 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (2.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 24 (2.21%) MySQL
6 24 (2.21%) Relational Database
7 21 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (1.47%) NoSQL
9 15 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 14 (1.29%) Tableau
11 11 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (0.74%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.55%) InfluxDB
14 5 (0.46%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.46%) Metadata
15 4 (0.37%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 80 (7.37%) Git
2 72 (6.63%) JIRA
3 59 (5.43%) Jenkins
4 42 (3.87%) GitLab
5 25 (2.30%) Bitbucket
6 22 (2.03%) Octopus Deploy
7 15 (1.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 14 (1.29%) TeamCity
9 13 (1.20%) Metasploit
10 9 (0.83%) Burp Suite
10 9 (0.83%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.64%) Robot Framework
11 7 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.37%) MLflow
13 4 (0.37%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.37%) TestRail
14 3 (0.28%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.28%) Balsamiq
14 3 (0.28%) Eclipse
General
1 366 (33.70%) Social Skills
2 206 (18.97%) Finance
3 128 (11.79%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (5.89%) Law
5 47 (4.33%) Organisational Skills
6 40 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
7 37 (3.41%) Legal
8 36 (3.31%) Retail
9 33 (3.04%) Public Sector
10 29 (2.67%) Banking
11 28 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 25 (2.30%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.57%) Manufacturing
14 15 (1.38%) Advertising
15 7 (0.64%) Front Office
15 7 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.55%) Investment Banking
17 5 (0.46%) Aerospace
17 5 (0.46%) Military
17 5 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 154 (14.18%) Senior
2 137 (12.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 126 (11.60%) Support Engineer
4 106 (9.76%) Analyst
5 101 (9.30%) Azure Engineer
6 96 (8.84%) IT Support
7 74 (6.81%) Security Engineer
8 71 (6.54%) IT Engineer
9 69 (6.35%) DevOps Engineer
10 68 (6.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 59 (5.43%) Developer
12 57 (5.25%) 3rd Line Support
13 53 (4.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 53 (4.88%) IT Support Engineer
14 52 (4.79%) Lead
15 47 (4.33%) 2nd Line Support
16 42 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
17 40 (3.68%) Architect
18 34 (3.13%) Security Analyst
19 33 (3.04%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (5.52%) .NET
2 54 (4.97%) REST
3 49 (4.51%) OAuth
4 46 (4.24%) SAML
5 43 (3.96%) OpenID
6 33 (3.04%) LDAP
7 30 (2.76%) SOAP
7 30 (2.76%) YAML
8 29 (2.67%) JSON
9 27 (2.49%) .NET Core
10 25 (2.30%) GraphQL
11 21 (1.93%) ARM Templates
12 20 (1.84%) Microsoft Graph
13 17 (1.57%) React
14 16 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
14 16 (1.47%) Node.js
15 14 (1.29%) CSS
16 13 (1.20%) SPFx
17 12 (1.10%) HTML
18 11 (1.01%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 82 (7.55%) Onboarding
2 67 (6.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 59 (5.43%) Security Posture
4 42 (3.87%) Driving Licence
5 38 (3.50%) Cyber Defence
5 38 (3.50%) Cyber Threat
5 38 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
6 34 (3.13%) Management Information System
7 33 (3.04%) Cloud Native
8 31 (2.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 26 (2.39%) Cyberattack
9 26 (2.39%) Data Centre
9 26 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
10 23 (2.12%) Security Operations Centre
11 21 (1.93%) PKI
11 21 (1.93%) Public Cloud
12 20 (1.84%) CMDB
13 18 (1.66%) Private Cloud
13 18 (1.66%) Replication
14 15 (1.38%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 500 (46.04%) Windows
2 255 (23.48%) Windows Server
3 226 (20.81%) Linux
4 66 (6.08%) Windows 10
5 55 (5.06%) Mac OS
6 41 (3.78%) Unix
7 35 (3.22%) Android
8 34 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 31 (2.85%) Windows Server 2019
10 30 (2.76%) Apple iOS
11 24 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 24 (2.21%) Solaris
12 22 (2.03%) HPUX
12 22 (2.03%) Windows 7
12 22 (2.03%) Windows Server 2003
12 22 (2.03%) Windows Server 2008
13 21 (1.93%) CentOS
13 21 (1.93%) VMS
14 16 (1.47%) Ubuntu
15 8 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (29.47%) Problem-Solving
2 234 (21.55%) DevOps
3 216 (19.89%) ITIL
4 209 (19.24%) CI/CD
5 198 (18.23%) Infrastructure as Code
6 195 (17.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 192 (17.68%) Cybersecurity
8 189 (17.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 145 (13.35%) Disaster Recovery
10 141 (12.98%) Incident Response
11 134 (12.34%) Mentoring
12 115 (10.59%) Agile
13 109 (10.04%) Root Cause Analysis
14 98 (9.02%) Cloud Security
15 97 (8.93%) Task Automation
16 95 (8.75%) SIEM
17 93 (8.56%) Computer Science
18 91 (8.38%) Incident Management
19 90 (8.29%) Business Intelligence
20 89 (8.20%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 390 (35.91%) Python
2 243 (22.38%) Bash
3 223 (20.53%) SQL
4 74 (6.81%) JavaScript
5 61 (5.62%) C#
6 57 (5.25%) Bicep
7 53 (4.88%) T-SQL
8 30 (2.76%) Kusto Query Language
9 27 (2.49%) Perl
10 15 (1.38%) Java
11 11 (1.01%) Go
12 9 (0.83%) VB.NET
13 8 (0.74%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.64%) PHP
14 7 (0.64%) VB
15 6 (0.55%) C++
15 6 (0.55%) Delphi
16 5 (0.46%) C
16 5 (0.46%) Google Apps Script
17 4 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 159 (14.64%) Degree
2 132 (12.15%) Security Cleared
3 88 (8.10%) Microsoft Certification
4 85 (7.83%) Azure Certification
5 78 (7.18%) SC Cleared
6 57 (5.25%) DV Cleared
7 49 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 42 (3.87%) CISSP
9 31 (2.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 30 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (2.21%) CEH
12 23 (2.12%) AWS Certification
12 23 (2.12%) CREST Certified
12 23 (2.12%) GIAC
13 20 (1.84%) CompTIA CySA+
13 20 (1.84%) CompTIA Security+
13 20 (1.84%) OSCP
14 19 (1.75%) CCNA
15 16 (1.47%) DBS Check
16 13 (1.20%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (14.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 136 (12.52%) NIST
3 66 (6.08%) SLA
4 58 (5.34%) GDPR
5 39 (3.59%) NCSC
6 30 (2.76%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (2.03%) ISO 22301
8 19 (1.75%) QA
9 18 (1.66%) Accessibility
9 18 (1.66%) Data Quality
10 14 (1.29%) PCI DSS
11 12 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
11 12 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 9 (0.83%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.55%) DICOM
14 5 (0.46%) GRC
15 4 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.18%) COBIT
16 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.18%) HL7
System Software
1 402 (37.02%) Active Directory
2 127 (11.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 103 (9.48%) Docker
4 101 (9.30%) Hyper-V
5 41 (3.78%) vSphere
6 29 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (1.57%) Firmware
8 16 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
9 13 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.74%) BitLocker
10 8 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.74%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.46%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 5 (0.46%) XenApp
11 5 (0.46%) XenDesktop
12 4 (0.37%) iptables
12 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.37%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.18%) Samba
13 2 (0.18%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 214 (19.71%) Terraform
2 158 (14.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 153 (14.09%) Kubernetes
4 127 (11.69%) Ansible
5 45 (4.14%) Grafana
6 41 (3.78%) SCCM
7 38 (3.50%) Single Sign-On
8 28 (2.58%) Prometheus
9 21 (1.93%) Jamf Pro
10 17 (1.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 16 (1.47%) vCenter Server
12 12 (1.10%) Nessus
13 11 (1.01%) VxRail
14 10 (0.92%) Puppet
15 8 (0.74%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.74%) Progress Chef
16 6 (0.55%) logstash
16 6 (0.55%) Nagios
16 6 (0.55%) SCVMM
16 6 (0.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 585 (53.87%) Microsoft
2 222 (20.44%) VMware
3 103 (9.48%) Cisco
4 50 (4.60%) Splunk
5 49 (4.51%) Oracle
5 49 (4.51%) ServiceNow
6 45 (4.14%) Veeam
7 41 (3.78%) Red Hat
8 34 (3.13%) Atlassian
8 34 (3.13%) Google
9 33 (3.04%) Commvault
10 32 (2.95%) Palo Alto
11 29 (2.67%) CrowdStrike
11 29 (2.67%) Meraki
12 24 (2.21%) Citrix
12 24 (2.21%) CyberArk
12 24 (2.21%) Dell
13 23 (2.12%) Fortinet
14 22 (2.03%) Apple
15 20 (1.84%) Dynatrace