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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 93 78
Rank change year-on-year -28 -15 +9
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,068 1,409 2,246
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.77% 3.20% 3.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.46% 9.25% 9.33%
Number of salaries quoted 857 996 1,963
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,797 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,500 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -4.17%

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 11,295 15,231 24,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.68% 34.60% 36.26%
Number of salaries quoted 8,357 9,232 20,615
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £102,500
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 20 February 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 February 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 -11 462 £70,000 -9.68% 159
South East -47 195 £57,500 -4.17% 142
North of England -19 142 £48,445 -7.72% 84
South West 0 105 £55,000 +3.77% 48
Midlands -54 84 £51,500 +3.00% 47
Yorkshire -24 64 £47,500 -9.52% 29
East of England -6 61 £40,000 -23.81% 32
North West -30 61 £50,000 -4.76% 42
East Midlands -21 42 £55,000 +8.91% 24
West Midlands -47 41 £47,500 -5.00% 23
North East -3 17 £47,500 -19.15% 13
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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
1 166 (15.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 123 (11.52%) SharePoint
3 35 (3.28%) IIS
4 22 (2.06%) Exchange Server 2003
5 14 (1.31%) Confluence
6 6 (0.56%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.47%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.19%) CMS
8 2 (0.19%) WordPress
9 1 (0.094%) nginx
9 1 (0.094%) Site Server
Applications
1 39 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.56%) Siemens NX
4 5 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.28%) CATIA
5 3 (0.28%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.28%) Windchill
6 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.56%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.47%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.28%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.19%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.094%) Actimize
7 1 (0.094%) Alphatax
7 1 (0.094%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.094%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 663 (62.08%) Azure
2 363 (33.99%) Microsoft 365
3 277 (25.94%) Entra ID
4 193 (18.07%) AWS
5 131 (12.27%) Azure DevOps
6 108 (10.11%) Power Platform
7 77 (7.21%) GCP
8 76 (7.12%) GitHub
9 63 (5.90%) PaaS
10 57 (5.34%) GitHub Actions
11 56 (5.24%) SaaS
12 52 (4.87%) Azure Monitor
13 48 (4.49%) Power Automate
14 46 (4.31%) IaaS
15 42 (3.93%) Google Workspace
16 41 (3.84%) OneDrive
17 35 (3.28%) Azure Sentinel
18 31 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
19 29 (2.72%) Azure Logic Apps
19 29 (2.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 201 (18.82%) Firewall
2 200 (18.73%) DNS
3 160 (14.98%) DHCP
4 117 (10.96%) VPN
5 96 (8.99%) TCP/IP
6 68 (6.37%) WAN
7 65 (6.09%) LAN
8 50 (4.68%) VLAN
9 47 (4.40%) Wi-Fi
10 34 (3.18%) Network Security
10 34 (3.18%) Wireless
11 32 (3.00%) SAN
12 29 (2.72%) VoIP
13 28 (2.62%) SD-WAN
14 27 (2.53%) Broadband
15 16 (1.50%) VSAN
16 13 (1.22%) Internet
16 13 (1.22%) NAS
17 12 (1.12%) WinSCP
18 10 (0.94%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (12.45%) SQL Server
2 80 (7.49%) Power BI
3 32 (3.00%) Relational Database
4 30 (2.81%) Oracle Database
5 28 (2.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 26 (2.43%) Oracle Database 10g
7 25 (2.34%) MySQL
8 23 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 14 (1.31%) Tableau
12 13 (1.22%) NoSQL
12 13 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 12 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
14 7 (0.66%) MongoDB
15 5 (0.47%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
15 5 (0.47%) InfluxDB
15 5 (0.47%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 74 (6.93%) Git
2 69 (6.46%) JIRA
3 67 (6.27%) Jenkins
4 36 (3.37%) GitLab
5 25 (2.34%) Octopus Deploy
6 19 (1.78%) Bitbucket
7 16 (1.50%) TeamCity
8 14 (1.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 12 (1.12%) Metasploit
10 11 (1.03%) Burp Suite
11 8 (0.75%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.56%) Robot Framework
13 5 (0.47%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.37%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.37%) MLflow
14 4 (0.37%) Toad
15 3 (0.28%) Eclipse
15 3 (0.28%) JMeter
15 3 (0.28%) TestRail
General
1 371 (34.74%) Social Skills
2 226 (21.16%) Finance
3 120 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (4.59%) Retail
5 44 (4.12%) Law
6 43 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
7 39 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
8 34 (3.18%) Public Sector
9 32 (3.00%) Legal
10 31 (2.90%) Banking
11 29 (2.72%) Telecoms
12 26 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 21 (1.97%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (0.75%) Advertising
17 7 (0.66%) Front Office
17 7 (0.66%) Local Government
18 6 (0.56%) Marketing
19 5 (0.47%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 142 (13.30%) Senior
2 139 (13.01%) Support Engineer
3 135 (12.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 96 (8.99%) Analyst
5 89 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
6 79 (7.40%) IT Support
7 74 (6.93%) DevOps Engineer
8 71 (6.65%) Security Engineer
9 69 (6.46%) Developer
10 66 (6.18%) IT Engineer
11 65 (6.09%) Cloud Engineer
12 55 (5.15%) Lead
13 52 (4.87%) 3rd Line Support
14 48 (4.49%) IT Support Engineer
15 47 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
16 42 (3.93%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 38 (3.56%) Applications Support
18 36 (3.37%) Support Analyst
19 34 (3.18%) 2nd Line Support
19 34 (3.18%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (6.74%) REST
2 65 (6.09%) .NET
3 45 (4.21%) OAuth
4 44 (4.12%) OpenID
5 42 (3.93%) SAML
6 38 (3.56%) SOAP
7 34 (3.18%) JSON
8 33 (3.09%) LDAP
9 29 (2.72%) YAML
10 26 (2.43%) ARM Templates
10 26 (2.43%) GraphQL
11 22 (2.06%) React
12 16 (1.50%) .NET Core
12 16 (1.50%) Microsoft Graph
13 15 (1.40%) AngularJS
13 15 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
13 15 (1.40%) Middleware
14 14 (1.31%) Node.js
15 11 (1.03%) Web Services
15 11 (1.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 90 (8.43%) Onboarding
2 68 (6.37%) Hybrid Cloud
3 55 (5.15%) Security Posture
4 41 (3.84%) Enterprise Software
4 41 (3.84%) Management Information System
5 35 (3.28%) Driving Licence
6 33 (3.09%) Data Centre
7 32 (3.00%) Cloud Native
7 32 (3.00%) Cyber Threat
8 29 (2.72%) Cyber Defence
9 28 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
10 27 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
11 26 (2.43%) Cyberattack
12 21 (1.97%) PKI
13 20 (1.87%) CMDB
14 19 (1.78%) Security Operations Centre
15 18 (1.69%) Hedge funds
16 16 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
17 15 (1.40%) Private Cloud
17 15 (1.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 472 (44.19%) Windows
2 255 (23.88%) Windows Server
3 197 (18.45%) Linux
4 68 (6.37%) Windows 10
5 53 (4.96%) Mac OS
6 43 (4.03%) Unix
7 36 (3.37%) Windows Server 2019
8 35 (3.28%) Windows Server 2016
9 32 (3.00%) Android
10 26 (2.43%) VMS
10 26 (2.43%) Windows Server 2008
11 24 (2.25%) Solaris
12 22 (2.06%) Apple iOS
12 22 (2.06%) HPUX
12 22 (2.06%) Windows 7
12 22 (2.06%) Windows Server 2003
13 21 (1.97%) CentOS
13 21 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 13 (1.22%) Ubuntu
15 12 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
2 260 (24.34%) DevOps
3 205 (19.19%) CI/CD
4 196 (18.35%) ITIL
5 194 (18.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 179 (16.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 178 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
8 175 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 151 (14.14%) Disaster Recovery
10 129 (12.08%) Mentoring
11 115 (10.77%) Agile
12 110 (10.30%) Root Cause Analysis
13 108 (10.11%) Task Automation
14 107 (10.02%) Incident Response
15 95 (8.90%) Cloud Security
16 93 (8.71%) Migration
17 90 (8.43%) Business Intelligence
17 90 (8.43%) Computer Science
18 86 (8.05%) Incident Management
19 80 (7.49%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 365 (34.18%) Python
2 239 (22.38%) Bash
3 231 (21.63%) SQL
4 86 (8.05%) C#
5 58 (5.43%) Bicep
5 58 (5.43%) JavaScript
6 53 (4.96%) T-SQL
7 25 (2.34%) Perl
8 23 (2.15%) Kusto Query Language
9 21 (1.97%) Go
10 17 (1.59%) Java
11 13 (1.22%) VB
12 10 (0.94%) VB.NET
13 9 (0.84%) VBScript
14 7 (0.66%) PHP
14 7 (0.66%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.66%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.47%) C++
15 5 (0.47%) Delphi
16 4 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 163 (15.26%) Degree
2 135 (12.64%) Security Cleared
3 97 (9.08%) Microsoft Certification
4 82 (7.68%) Azure Certification
5 78 (7.30%) SC Cleared
6 54 (5.06%) DV Cleared
7 42 (3.93%) CISSP
7 42 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (3.18%) Cisco Certification
9 31 (2.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 26 (2.43%) AWS Certification
11 24 (2.25%) CREST Certified
12 21 (1.97%) CEH
13 19 (1.78%) CompTIA CySA+
13 19 (1.78%) GIAC
14 17 (1.59%) CCNA
15 16 (1.50%) DBS Check
15 16 (1.50%) OSCP
16 15 (1.40%) CompTIA Security+
17 13 (1.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (15.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 130 (12.17%) NIST
3 57 (5.34%) GDPR
4 54 (5.06%) SLA
5 39 (3.65%) NCSC
6 30 (2.81%) Cyber Essentials
7 27 (2.53%) Accessibility
8 19 (1.78%) ISO 22301
9 17 (1.59%) Data Quality
10 16 (1.50%) QA
11 14 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 14 (1.31%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.66%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.47%) DICOM
14 5 (0.47%) GRC
15 3 (0.28%) HL7
15 3 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.19%) COBIT
16 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
System Software
1 396 (37.08%) Active Directory
2 131 (12.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 93 (8.71%) Docker
4 90 (8.43%) Hyper-V
5 38 (3.56%) Virtual Machines
6 35 (3.28%) vSphere
7 22 (2.06%) Virtual Desktop
8 20 (1.87%) Firmware
9 15 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.75%) VMware NSX
12 6 (0.56%) XenApp
12 6 (0.56%) XenDesktop
13 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.28%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 3 (0.28%) iptables
14 3 (0.28%) KVM
14 3 (0.28%) vCloud
15 2 (0.19%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 208 (19.48%) Terraform
2 158 (14.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 138 (12.92%) Kubernetes
4 124 (11.61%) Ansible
5 40 (3.75%) SCCM
6 35 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
7 33 (3.09%) Grafana
8 20 (1.87%) Prometheus
9 17 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 13 (1.22%) vCenter Server
11 12 (1.12%) Puppet
12 11 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (1.03%) Nessus
13 10 (0.94%) SCOM
14 9 (0.84%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.75%) Progress Chef
15 8 (0.75%) SCVMM
15 8 (0.75%) VxRail
15 8 (0.75%) WSUS
16 7 (0.66%) CASB
Vendors
1 567 (53.09%) Microsoft
2 214 (20.04%) VMware
3 90 (8.43%) Cisco
4 53 (4.96%) Oracle
5 52 (4.87%) ServiceNow
6 49 (4.59%) Veeam
7 40 (3.75%) Google
8 39 (3.65%) Splunk
9 35 (3.28%) Atlassian
10 33 (3.09%) Palo Alto
10 33 (3.09%) Red Hat
11 28 (2.62%) Citrix
11 28 (2.62%) Commvault
12 26 (2.43%) CyberArk
13 24 (2.25%) Fortinet
14 22 (2.06%) CrowdStrike
14 22 (2.06%) Dell
14 22 (2.06%) SolarWinds
15 20 (1.87%) Meraki
15 20 (1.87%) Tenable