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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 87 101
Rank change year-on-year -65 +14 -37
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,310 1,497 1,665
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.27% 3.50% 2.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.73% 12.83% 8.08%
Number of salaries quoted 933 999 1,091
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,750 £47,138
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 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -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 16,938 11,668 20,597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.47% 27.25% 30.74%
Number of salaries quoted 12,330 7,699 13,047
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -1.56% -1.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 23 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 23 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 -30 479 £70,000 -3.45% 413
North of England -84 241 £50,000 - 189
South East -40 238 £52,500 -8.70% 196
Midlands -66 160 £52,500 +5.00% 109
North West -77 147 £50,000 +5.26% 107
East of England -46 99 £57,500 +21.05% 67
South West -70 89 £55,000 +15.79% 76
West Midlands -68 81 £55,000 +2.44% 62
East Midlands -24 79 £42,500 +21.43% 47
Yorkshire -40 58 £45,472 -11.92% 57
North East -43 36 £51,500 -6.36% 27
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UK

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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
1 233 (17.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 219 (16.72%) SharePoint
3 51 (3.89%) IIS
4 42 (3.21%) Confluence
5 15 (1.15%) nginx
6 8 (0.61%) Apache
7 5 (0.38%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.31%) SAS
9 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.076%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.076%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.076%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.076%) WebSphere
Applications
1 65 (4.96%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (2.75%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.46%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.38%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.23%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.076%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 804 (61.37%) Azure
2 516 (39.39%) Microsoft 365
3 415 (31.68%) Entra ID
4 244 (18.63%) AWS
5 162 (12.37%) Azure DevOps
6 108 (8.24%) OneDrive
6 108 (8.24%) SaaS
7 105 (8.02%) Power Platform
8 98 (7.48%) GitHub
8 98 (7.48%) IaaS
9 83 (6.34%) Azure Monitor
10 80 (6.11%) Azure Sentinel
11 76 (5.80%) Power Automate
12 73 (5.57%) PaaS
13 71 (5.42%) Azure AKS
14 64 (4.89%) GCP
15 63 (4.81%) GitHub Actions
16 62 (4.73%) Azure Key Vault
17 54 (4.12%) Microsoft Purview
18 50 (3.82%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 304 (23.21%) Firewall
2 293 (22.37%) DNS
3 201 (15.34%) DHCP
4 200 (15.27%) VPN
5 137 (10.46%) TCP/IP
6 84 (6.41%) WAN
7 74 (5.65%) LAN
8 69 (5.27%) VLAN
9 57 (4.35%) Network Security
10 53 (4.05%) Wireless
11 43 (3.28%) Wi-Fi
12 36 (2.75%) SAN
13 31 (2.37%) Kerberos
14 26 (1.98%) SSL
15 22 (1.68%) NAS
16 19 (1.45%) HTTP
17 16 (1.22%) Internet
18 12 (0.92%) VSAN
19 10 (0.76%) FTP
19 10 (0.76%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (9.92%) SQL Server
2 85 (6.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 58 (4.43%) Power BI
4 22 (1.68%) MongoDB
4 22 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (1.22%) Relational Database
6 15 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (0.92%) MySQL
9 9 (0.69%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.61%) InfluxDB
10 8 (0.61%) Power Query
10 8 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (0.53%) Data Lake
11 7 (0.53%) Redis
12 6 (0.46%) Metadata
13 5 (0.38%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.31%) Db2
14 4 (0.31%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 95 (7.25%) JIRA
2 89 (6.79%) Git
3 69 (5.27%) GitLab
4 62 (4.73%) Jenkins
5 21 (1.60%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
8 10 (0.76%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
10 8 (0.61%) Robot Framework
10 8 (0.61%) TestRail
11 7 (0.53%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.46%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.46%) Selenium
13 5 (0.38%) Postman
13 5 (0.38%) Visual Studio
14 4 (0.31%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.31%) MSI
15 3 (0.23%) JMeter
15 3 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 467 (35.65%) Social Skills
2 223 (17.02%) Finance
3 184 (14.05%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (6.95%) Law
5 55 (4.20%) Documentation Skills
5 55 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 51 (3.89%) Legal
7 48 (3.66%) Retail
8 44 (3.36%) Banking
9 37 (2.82%) Manufacturing
10 36 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
11 30 (2.29%) Public Sector
12 29 (2.21%) Aerospace
13 12 (0.92%) Advertising
13 12 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (0.84%) Financial Institution
15 10 (0.76%) Investment Banking
16 9 (0.69%) Front Office
17 8 (0.61%) Aviation
17 8 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 199 (15.19%) Senior
2 197 (15.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 154 (11.76%) Analyst
4 132 (10.08%) Azure Engineer
5 126 (9.62%) Cloud Engineer
6 124 (9.47%) Support Engineer
7 121 (9.24%) IT Engineer
8 99 (7.56%) IT Support
9 96 (7.33%) DevOps Engineer
10 78 (5.95%) Platform Engineer
11 70 (5.34%) Lead
12 67 (5.11%) Consultant
13 64 (4.89%) Support Analyst
14 62 (4.73%) IT Support Engineer
15 58 (4.43%) Security Engineer
16 56 (4.27%) Systems Engineer
17 49 (3.74%) Developer
18 45 (3.44%) Automation Engineer
19 43 (3.28%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
20 41 (3.13%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 348 (26.56%) Terraform
2 66 (5.04%) .NET
3 55 (4.20%) ARM Templates
4 50 (3.82%) REST
5 43 (3.28%) SAML
6 41 (3.13%) YAML
7 38 (2.90%) Microsoft Graph
7 38 (2.90%) OpenID
8 37 (2.82%) LDAP
8 37 (2.82%) OAuth
9 33 (2.52%) HTML
10 28 (2.14%) JSON
11 24 (1.83%) CSS
12 23 (1.76%) SPFx
13 21 (1.60%) .NET Core
13 21 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
14 14 (1.07%) HTML5 Canvas
15 13 (0.99%) RESTful
16 12 (0.92%) ADO
16 12 (0.92%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 121 (9.24%) Onboarding
2 83 (6.34%) Cloud Native
3 77 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 74 (5.65%) Driving Licence
4 74 (5.65%) Management Information System
5 67 (5.11%) Security Posture
6 47 (3.59%) Data Centre
7 46 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
7 46 (3.51%) PKI
8 41 (3.13%) Public Cloud
8 41 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
9 33 (2.52%) Replication
10 32 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
11 25 (1.91%) Private Cloud
12 22 (1.68%) Cyber Defence
13 19 (1.45%) CMDB
13 19 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
14 18 (1.37%) Clustering
15 17 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
16 16 (1.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 654 (49.92%) Windows
2 310 (23.66%) Windows Server
3 309 (23.59%) Linux
4 91 (6.95%) Windows 10
5 50 (3.82%) Apple iOS
6 41 (3.13%) Android
6 41 (3.13%) Ubuntu
7 38 (2.90%) VMS
8 34 (2.60%) CentOS
8 34 (2.60%) Mac OS
9 33 (2.52%) Windows Server 2016
10 30 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 27 (2.06%) Windows Server 2019
12 18 (1.37%) Unix
13 15 (1.15%) Rocky
14 7 (0.53%) Solaris
15 5 (0.38%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.31%) Debian
16 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
17 3 (0.23%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (30.08%) Problem-Solving
2 328 (25.04%) Infrastructure as Code
3 303 (23.13%) CI/CD
4 297 (22.67%) DevOps
5 294 (22.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 293 (22.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 261 (19.92%) ITIL
8 245 (18.70%) Cybersecurity
9 185 (14.12%) Disaster Recovery
10 164 (12.52%) AI
11 154 (11.76%) Agile
12 152 (11.60%) Mentoring
13 149 (11.37%) Root Cause Analysis
14 139 (10.61%) Cloud Security
14 139 (10.61%) Platform Engineering
15 134 (10.23%) High Availability
15 134 (10.23%) Incident Response
16 128 (9.77%) Migration
17 126 (9.62%) Observability
18 124 (9.47%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 504 (38.47%) Python
2 287 (21.91%) Bash
3 276 (21.07%) SQL
4 118 (9.01%) Bicep
5 83 (6.34%) JavaScript
6 76 (5.80%) C#
7 47 (3.59%) Kusto Query Language
8 39 (2.98%) Java
9 32 (2.44%) T-SQL
10 29 (2.21%) TypeScript
11 23 (1.76%) VBScript
12 19 (1.45%) C++
13 18 (1.37%) Perl
14 13 (0.99%) PHP
15 12 (0.92%) Ruby
16 11 (0.84%) VBA
17 10 (0.76%) VB
18 9 (0.69%) Go
19 7 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 5 (0.38%) C
Qualifications
1 177 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 161 (12.29%) Degree
3 145 (11.07%) Azure Certification
3 145 (11.07%) Microsoft Certification
4 118 (9.01%) SC Cleared
5 56 (4.27%) CISSP
6 55 (4.20%) DV Cleared
7 53 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 51 (3.89%) CompTIA Security+
9 49 (3.74%) Cisco Certification
10 39 (2.98%) CCNA
11 27 (2.06%) CEH
12 24 (1.83%) AWS Certification
13 22 (1.68%) DBS Check
14 20 (1.53%) CISM
15 18 (1.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 17 (1.30%) GIAC
17 16 (1.22%) OSCP
18 13 (0.99%) CompTIA CySA+
18 13 (0.99%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (6.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 67 (5.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 50 (3.82%) NIST
4 43 (3.28%) SLA
5 41 (3.13%) GDPR
6 25 (1.91%) QA
7 19 (1.45%) Data Quality
8 14 (1.07%) PCI DSS
8 14 (1.07%) SOC 2
9 9 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.53%) PMO
12 5 (0.38%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.38%) NCSC
13 4 (0.31%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.23%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.15%) EMIR
15 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 494 (37.71%) Active Directory
2 224 (17.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 136 (10.38%) Hyper-V
4 134 (10.23%) Docker
5 78 (5.95%) vSphere
6 68 (5.19%) Virtual Machines
7 57 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.76%) VMware NSX
9 19 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
10 18 (1.37%) BitLocker
11 11 (0.84%) Firmware
12 8 (0.61%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.61%) KVM
12 8 (0.61%) Squid
13 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.076%) Ceph
16 1 (0.076%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 237 (18.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 213 (16.26%) Kubernetes
3 161 (12.29%) Ansible
4 80 (6.11%) Grafana
5 66 (5.04%) SCCM
6 54 (4.12%) Single Sign-On
7 44 (3.36%) Prometheus
8 24 (1.83%) vCenter Server
9 23 (1.76%) Argo
9 23 (1.76%) Puppet
9 23 (1.76%) ZABBIX
10 20 (1.53%) Proxmox
11 19 (1.45%) QRadar
12 18 (1.37%) Packer
13 15 (1.15%) FortiGate
13 15 (1.15%) Graylog
14 13 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
15 11 (0.84%) VxRail
16 9 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 9 (0.69%) Kibana
Vendors
1 858 (65.50%) Microsoft
2 259 (19.77%) VMware
3 105 (8.02%) ServiceNow
4 100 (7.63%) Cisco
5 84 (6.41%) Splunk
6 64 (4.89%) Veeam
7 49 (3.74%) Red Hat
8 47 (3.59%) Oracle
9 41 (3.13%) Citrix
10 35 (2.67%) Meraki
11 34 (2.60%) Sage
12 32 (2.44%) Dell
13 29 (2.21%) Dynatrace
13 29 (2.21%) SAP
13 29 (2.21%) Sophos
14 27 (2.06%) Tenable
15 25 (1.91%) CyberArk
15 25 (1.91%) Fortinet
16 24 (1.83%) CrowdStrike
17 23 (1.76%) Google