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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 92 63
Rank change year-on-year -21 -29 +21
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,030 1,460 2,028
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.93% 3.04% 4.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.95% 8.97% 10.67%
Number of salaries quoted 846 1,028 1,750
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,925 £38,725
25th Percentile £43,285 £47,500 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,750 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +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 10,353 16,273 19,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.39% 33.86% 38.29%
Number of salaries quoted 7,802 9,576 15,986
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,063 £38,130
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,250 £86,063 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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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 16 January 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 16 January 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 -6 444 £72,500 -3.33% 142
South East -39 174 £58,000 -3.33% 151
North of England -15 133 £50,000 - 90
South West +24 107 £52,500 -4.55% 62
Midlands -17 89 £52,500 +10.53% 52
East of England +24 70 £43,085 -17.93% 52
North West -8 63 £50,500 +1.00% 51
Yorkshire -15 59 £47,500 -9.52% 28
West Midlands -27 48 £52,500 +23.53% 21
East Midlands -9 41 £55,000 +15.79% 29
North East +2 11 £62,500 +17.37% 12
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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
1 173 (16.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 137 (13.30%) SharePoint
3 43 (4.17%) IIS
4 25 (2.43%) Confluence
5 22 (2.14%) Exchange Server 2003
6 16 (1.55%) Skype for Business
7 6 (0.58%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.49%) nginx
8 5 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.19%) CMS
9 2 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.58%) Siemens NX
4 5 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.39%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 3 (0.29%) CATIA
6 3 (0.29%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.29%) Windchill
7 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.58%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.49%) NEC Housing
3 5 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.29%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.19%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.19%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.097%) Actimize
6 1 (0.097%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 648 (62.91%) Azure
2 354 (34.37%) Microsoft 365
3 250 (24.27%) Entra ID
4 187 (18.16%) AWS
5 151 (14.66%) Azure DevOps
6 101 (9.81%) Power Platform
7 73 (7.09%) GitHub
8 72 (6.99%) GCP
9 62 (6.02%) PaaS
10 58 (5.63%) Power Automate
11 53 (5.15%) GitHub Actions
12 46 (4.47%) Azure Monitor
13 43 (4.17%) IaaS
14 40 (3.88%) Azure Sentinel
14 40 (3.88%) OneDrive
15 38 (3.69%) SaaS
16 30 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
16 30 (2.91%) PowerApps
17 27 (2.62%) OpenShift
17 27 (2.62%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 202 (19.61%) Firewall
2 190 (18.45%) DNS
3 143 (13.88%) DHCP
4 95 (9.22%) TCP/IP
5 90 (8.74%) VPN
6 70 (6.80%) WAN
7 60 (5.83%) LAN
8 38 (3.69%) Wi-Fi
9 37 (3.59%) VLAN
10 32 (3.11%) Wireless
11 31 (3.01%) SAN
12 25 (2.43%) SD-WAN
13 23 (2.23%) Internet
14 22 (2.14%) Network Security
15 18 (1.75%) VoIP
16 16 (1.55%) Cisco IOS
16 16 (1.55%) Skype
17 15 (1.46%) VSAN
18 13 (1.26%) NAS
19 12 (1.17%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (11.17%) SQL Server
2 67 (6.50%) Power BI
3 33 (3.20%) Relational Database
4 30 (2.91%) Oracle Database
5 29 (2.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 26 (2.52%) Oracle Database 10g
7 22 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (1.55%) MySQL
8 16 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (1.17%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.07%) Tableau
11 9 (0.87%) MongoDB
12 8 (0.78%) DTS
13 7 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
14 6 (0.58%) Data Mining
14 6 (0.58%) Metadata
15 5 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 4 (0.39%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 83 (8.06%) JIRA
2 82 (7.96%) Git
3 74 (7.18%) Jenkins
4 38 (3.69%) GitLab
5 24 (2.33%) Octopus Deploy
6 16 (1.55%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.55%) TeamCity
7 10 (0.97%) Burp Suite
7 10 (0.97%) Metasploit
8 6 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (0.58%) Robot Framework
8 6 (0.58%) Vagrant
9 5 (0.49%) CircleCI
9 5 (0.49%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.39%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.39%) MLflow
10 4 (0.39%) MSI
10 4 (0.39%) Toad
11 3 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 381 (36.99%) Social Skills
2 233 (22.62%) Finance
3 102 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (5.63%) Law
5 46 (4.47%) Retail
6 39 (3.79%) Banking
6 39 (3.79%) Legal
7 38 (3.69%) Public Sector
8 32 (3.11%) Manufacturing
9 31 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
10 30 (2.91%) Telecoms
11 24 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (1.17%) Marketing
15 10 (0.97%) Front Office
16 9 (0.87%) Advertising
16 9 (0.87%) Electronics
17 8 (0.78%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 142 (13.79%) Support Engineer
2 132 (12.82%) Senior
3 107 (10.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 85 (8.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 80 (7.77%) Azure Engineer
6 79 (7.67%) Analyst
7 71 (6.89%) Developer
8 68 (6.60%) Lead
9 64 (6.21%) IT Support
9 64 (6.21%) Security Engineer
10 61 (5.92%) Cloud Engineer
11 55 (5.34%) 3rd Line Support
12 52 (5.05%) IT Engineer
12 52 (5.05%) Platform Engineer
13 46 (4.47%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 43 (4.17%) Applications Engineer
14 43 (4.17%) Applications Support
15 38 (3.69%) IT Support Engineer
15 38 (3.69%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
16 33 (3.20%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (6.31%) REST
2 60 (5.83%) .NET
3 42 (4.08%) YAML
4 32 (3.11%) SOAP
5 27 (2.62%) ARM Templates
5 27 (2.62%) JSON
5 27 (2.62%) LDAP
6 24 (2.33%) OpenID
7 23 (2.23%) OAuth
8 21 (2.04%) React
8 21 (2.04%) SAML
9 17 (1.65%) Elastic Stack
9 17 (1.65%) Microsoft Graph
10 15 (1.46%) AngularJS
11 13 (1.26%) GraphQL
11 13 (1.26%) Middleware
12 12 (1.17%) Node.js
13 11 (1.07%) Web Services
14 10 (0.97%) Razor View Engine
15 9 (0.87%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 83 (8.06%) Onboarding
2 58 (5.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 53 (5.15%) Security Posture
4 39 (3.79%) Management Information System
5 36 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
6 31 (3.01%) Cloud Native
7 27 (2.62%) Analytical Mindset
7 27 (2.62%) Data Centre
8 25 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
9 24 (2.33%) PKI
10 22 (2.14%) CMDB
10 22 (2.14%) Driving Licence
11 20 (1.94%) Hedge funds
11 20 (1.94%) Private Cloud
12 19 (1.84%) Video Conferencing
13 18 (1.75%) Cyber Defence
14 17 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
14 17 (1.65%) Public Cloud
15 16 (1.55%) Replication
15 16 (1.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 458 (44.47%) Windows
2 244 (23.69%) Windows Server
3 184 (17.86%) Linux
4 66 (6.41%) Windows 10
5 44 (4.27%) Mac OS
6 42 (4.08%) Unix
7 34 (3.30%) Windows Server 2019
8 31 (3.01%) Windows Server 2016
9 30 (2.91%) Windows Server 2008
10 29 (2.82%) Android
11 27 (2.62%) VMS
12 25 (2.43%) Solaris
13 22 (2.14%) HPUX
13 22 (2.14%) Windows 7
13 22 (2.14%) Windows Server 2003
14 18 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 15 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
16 13 (1.26%) Apple iOS
16 13 (1.26%) Ubuntu
17 11 (1.07%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (30.39%) Problem-Solving
2 284 (27.57%) DevOps
3 222 (21.55%) CI/CD
4 187 (18.16%) ITIL
5 167 (16.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 166 (16.12%) Continuous Improvement
7 163 (15.83%) Infrastructure as Code
8 150 (14.56%) Cybersecurity
9 131 (12.72%) Disaster Recovery
10 117 (11.36%) Mentoring
10 117 (11.36%) Task Automation
11 113 (10.97%) Agile
12 94 (9.13%) Root Cause Analysis
13 89 (8.64%) Migration
14 85 (8.25%) Cloud Security
14 85 (8.25%) Computer Science
14 85 (8.25%) Incident Management
15 83 (8.06%) Incident Response
16 78 (7.57%) Business Intelligence
16 78 (7.57%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 333 (32.33%) Python
2 210 (20.39%) SQL
3 199 (19.32%) Bash
4 87 (8.45%) C#
5 58 (5.63%) Bicep
6 51 (4.95%) JavaScript
7 34 (3.30%) T-SQL
8 27 (2.62%) Perl
9 23 (2.23%) Go
10 22 (2.14%) Java
11 18 (1.75%) Kusto Query Language
12 13 (1.26%) VB
13 11 (1.07%) TypeScript
13 11 (1.07%) VBScript
14 10 (0.97%) VB.NET
15 8 (0.78%) Groovy
16 7 (0.68%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.39%) C++
17 4 (0.39%) Ruby
17 4 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 152 (14.76%) Degree
2 147 (14.27%) Security Cleared
3 91 (8.83%) SC Cleared
4 89 (8.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 78 (7.57%) Azure Certification
6 53 (5.15%) DV Cleared
7 41 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (3.40%) Cisco Certification
9 32 (3.11%) CISSP
9 32 (3.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 27 (2.62%) AWS Certification
11 18 (1.75%) CREST Certified
12 17 (1.65%) CCNA
12 17 (1.65%) CEH
13 16 (1.55%) Master's Degree
14 13 (1.26%) CompTIA CySA+
15 12 (1.17%) DBS Check
15 12 (1.17%) GIAC
16 11 (1.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 11 (1.07%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (14.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 108 (10.49%) NIST
3 53 (5.15%) SLA
4 52 (5.05%) GDPR
5 32 (3.11%) NCSC
6 27 (2.62%) Cyber Essentials
7 26 (2.52%) Accessibility
8 15 (1.46%) QA
9 14 (1.36%) ISO 22301
10 13 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (0.97%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.78%) Data Quality
13 7 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.49%) GRC
14 5 (0.49%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.29%) HL7
15 3 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
17 1 (0.097%) COBIT
17 1 (0.097%) DICOM
System Software
1 362 (35.15%) Active Directory
2 125 (12.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 97 (9.42%) Docker
4 76 (7.38%) Hyper-V
5 36 (3.50%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (2.82%) Virtual Desktop
7 28 (2.72%) vSphere
8 23 (2.23%) Firmware
9 15 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.78%) XenApp
11 8 (0.78%) XenDesktop
12 5 (0.49%) Postfix
12 5 (0.49%) Squid
13 4 (0.39%) DFS Replication
13 4 (0.39%) Dovecot
13 4 (0.39%) VMware NSX
14 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.29%) vCloud
15 2 (0.19%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 205 (19.90%) Terraform
2 177 (17.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 146 (14.17%) Kubernetes
4 118 (11.46%) Ansible
5 55 (5.34%) SCCM
6 37 (3.59%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (3.11%) Grafana
8 27 (2.62%) Prometheus
9 17 (1.65%) SCOM
10 16 (1.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 16 (1.55%) WSUS
11 12 (1.17%) Nessus
11 12 (1.17%) vCenter Server
12 11 (1.07%) Puppet
13 10 (0.97%) ZABBIX
14 9 (0.87%) FortiGate
14 9 (0.87%) Nagios
15 8 (0.78%) Progress Chef
16 6 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
16 6 (0.58%) vRealize
Vendors
1 578 (56.12%) Microsoft
2 208 (20.19%) VMware
3 88 (8.54%) Cisco
4 64 (6.21%) ServiceNow
5 56 (5.44%) Oracle
6 44 (4.27%) Veeam
7 40 (3.88%) Atlassian
8 37 (3.59%) Google
9 35 (3.40%) Citrix
10 31 (3.01%) Splunk
11 29 (2.82%) Red Hat
12 28 (2.72%) Palo Alto
13 24 (2.33%) SAP
14 22 (2.14%) Commvault
14 22 (2.14%) SolarWinds
15 21 (2.04%) CrowdStrike
16 20 (1.94%) Dell
17 19 (1.84%) Fortinet
18 18 (1.75%) Meraki
19 17 (1.65%) CyberArk