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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 89 83
Rank change year-on-year -33 -6 +4
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,084 1,369 2,310
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.70% 3.29% 3.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.22% 9.37% 9.19%
Number of salaries quoted 861 1,033 2,008
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +10.62% -5.83%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.26% +12.73% -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 11,751 14,613 25,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.38% 35.12% 35.13%
Number of salaries quoted 8,604 9,506 21,519
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 7 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 7 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 -4 482 £70,000 -10.54% 147
South East -41 195 £56,750 -5.42% 136
North of England -28 141 £47,500 -9.52% 65
South West +2 103 £55,000 +4.76% 43
Midlands -42 92 £52,500 +5.00% 37
Yorkshire -27 66 £47,500 -9.52% 23
North West -34 60 £50,000 - 30
East of England -16 54 £40,000 -27.27% 38
East Midlands -21 46 £55,000 +8.91% 19
West Midlands -46 45 £48,000 -4.00% 18
North East -11 15 £46,250 -22.92% 13
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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
1 176 (16.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 126 (11.62%) SharePoint
3 32 (2.95%) IIS
4 22 (2.03%) Exchange Server 2003
5 13 (1.20%) Confluence
6 6 (0.55%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.37%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.18%) Apache
8 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.18%) CMS
8 2 (0.18%) WordPress
9 1 (0.092%) nginx
9 1 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.092%) Site Server
Applications
1 46 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.55%) Siemens NX
4 5 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.28%) CATIA
5 3 (0.28%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.28%) Windchill
6 1 (0.092%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.55%) Teamcenter
2 5 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.37%) Markit EDM
3 4 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.37%) 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
1 671 (61.90%) Azure
2 372 (34.32%) Microsoft 365
3 283 (26.11%) Entra ID
4 188 (17.34%) AWS
5 116 (10.70%) Azure DevOps
6 102 (9.41%) Power Platform
7 78 (7.20%) GitHub
8 76 (7.01%) GCP
9 66 (6.09%) PaaS
10 64 (5.90%) SaaS
11 57 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
12 53 (4.89%) Azure Monitor
12 53 (4.89%) IaaS
13 43 (3.97%) Google Workspace
13 43 (3.97%) OneDrive
14 40 (3.69%) Power Automate
15 38 (3.51%) Azure Sentinel
16 34 (3.14%) Nutanix
17 32 (2.95%) Azure Logic Apps
18 29 (2.68%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 210 (19.37%) DNS
2 206 (19.00%) Firewall
3 165 (15.22%) DHCP
4 126 (11.62%) VPN
5 102 (9.41%) TCP/IP
6 66 (6.09%) WAN
7 63 (5.81%) LAN
8 47 (4.34%) VLAN
9 45 (4.15%) Wi-Fi
10 42 (3.87%) Network Security
11 33 (3.04%) SAN
11 33 (3.04%) VoIP
12 32 (2.95%) Wireless
13 28 (2.58%) Broadband
14 27 (2.49%) SD-WAN
15 17 (1.57%) VSAN
16 13 (1.20%) NAS
17 12 (1.11%) WinSCP
18 10 (0.92%) Cisco IOS
18 10 (0.92%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (12.27%) SQL Server
2 81 (7.47%) Power BI
3 30 (2.77%) Relational Database
4 28 (2.58%) Oracle Database
5 27 (2.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 26 (2.40%) Oracle Database 10g
7 25 (2.31%) MySQL
7 25 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
9 15 (1.38%) Tableau
10 14 (1.29%) NoSQL
10 14 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 12 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.65%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.46%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (0.46%) InfluxDB
13 5 (0.46%) Metadata
14 4 (0.37%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 78 (7.20%) Git
2 71 (6.55%) JIRA
3 65 (6.00%) Jenkins
4 37 (3.41%) GitLab
5 25 (2.31%) Bitbucket
5 25 (2.31%) Octopus Deploy
6 18 (1.66%) TeamCity
7 15 (1.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 14 (1.29%) Metasploit
9 10 (0.92%) Burp Suite
10 9 (0.83%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (0.55%) Robot Framework
12 5 (0.46%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.37%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.37%) MLflow
14 3 (0.28%) Balsamiq
14 3 (0.28%) Eclipse
14 3 (0.28%) JMeter
14 3 (0.28%) TestRail
General
1 367 (33.86%) Social Skills
2 230 (21.22%) Finance
3 123 (11.35%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (4.52%) Law
5 45 (4.15%) Organisational Skills
5 45 (4.15%) Retail
6 39 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (3.04%) Banking
7 33 (3.04%) Public Sector
8 32 (2.95%) Legal
9 29 (2.68%) Telecoms
10 27 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (1.75%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (0.92%) Advertising
13 10 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.65%) Front Office
14 7 (0.65%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.55%) Marketing
16 5 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 143 (13.19%) Senior
2 135 (12.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 128 (11.81%) Support Engineer
4 102 (9.41%) Analyst
5 94 (8.67%) Azure Engineer
6 85 (7.84%) IT Support
7 76 (7.01%) DevOps Engineer
8 72 (6.64%) Security Engineer
9 66 (6.09%) Developer
10 65 (6.00%) IT Engineer
11 63 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
12 58 (5.35%) Lead
13 55 (5.07%) 3rd Line Support
14 47 (4.34%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 47 (4.34%) IT Support Engineer
15 43 (3.97%) Platform Engineer
16 38 (3.51%) Architect
17 36 (3.32%) Support Analyst
18 35 (3.23%) 2nd Line Support
19 30 (2.77%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (6.18%) REST
2 62 (5.72%) .NET
3 48 (4.43%) OAuth
4 45 (4.15%) SAML
5 44 (4.06%) OpenID
6 35 (3.23%) SOAP
7 33 (3.04%) LDAP
8 31 (2.86%) JSON
9 28 (2.58%) YAML
10 26 (2.40%) GraphQL
11 25 (2.31%) ARM Templates
12 20 (1.85%) React
13 19 (1.75%) Microsoft Graph
14 18 (1.66%) .NET Core
15 16 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
16 14 (1.29%) Node.js
17 12 (1.11%) Middleware
17 12 (1.11%) Web Services
18 11 (1.01%) AngularJS
18 11 (1.01%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 93 (8.58%) Onboarding
2 75 (6.92%) Hybrid Cloud
3 54 (4.98%) Security Posture
4 41 (3.78%) Driving Licence
5 39 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
6 38 (3.51%) Management Information System
7 37 (3.41%) Cyber Threat
8 35 (3.23%) Cyber Defence
9 31 (2.86%) Cloud Native
10 30 (2.77%) Data Centre
11 29 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
11 29 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
12 26 (2.40%) Cyberattack
13 21 (1.94%) PKI
13 21 (1.94%) Security Operations Centre
14 18 (1.66%) CMDB
15 16 (1.48%) Hedge funds
16 15 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
16 15 (1.38%) Replication
16 15 (1.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 491 (45.30%) Windows
2 256 (23.62%) Windows Server
3 213 (19.65%) Linux
4 66 (6.09%) Windows 10
5 57 (5.26%) Mac OS
6 41 (3.78%) Unix
7 34 (3.14%) Windows Server 2019
8 33 (3.04%) Windows Server 2016
9 31 (2.86%) Android
10 27 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 25 (2.31%) Windows Server 2008
12 24 (2.21%) CentOS
12 24 (2.21%) Solaris
13 23 (2.12%) Apple iOS
13 23 (2.12%) VMS
14 22 (2.03%) HPUX
14 22 (2.03%) Windows 7
14 22 (2.03%) Windows Server 2003
15 15 (1.38%) Ubuntu
16 10 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (29.98%) Problem-Solving
2 250 (23.06%) DevOps
3 212 (19.56%) CI/CD
4 204 (18.82%) ITIL
5 193 (17.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 188 (17.34%) Infrastructure as Code
7 182 (16.79%) Cybersecurity
8 176 (16.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 153 (14.11%) Disaster Recovery
10 127 (11.72%) Mentoring
11 125 (11.53%) Incident Response
12 113 (10.42%) Root Cause Analysis
13 109 (10.06%) Agile
14 102 (9.41%) Task Automation
15 97 (8.95%) Cloud Security
16 91 (8.39%) Business Intelligence
16 91 (8.39%) Computer Science
16 91 (8.39%) Migration
17 86 (7.93%) Incident Management
17 86 (7.93%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 379 (34.96%) Python
2 242 (22.32%) Bash
3 224 (20.66%) SQL
4 72 (6.64%) C#
5 64 (5.90%) JavaScript
6 60 (5.54%) Bicep
7 53 (4.89%) T-SQL
8 27 (2.49%) Kusto Query Language
9 25 (2.31%) Perl
10 18 (1.66%) Java
11 16 (1.48%) Go
12 10 (0.92%) VB.NET
13 7 (0.65%) PHP
13 7 (0.65%) VB
14 6 (0.55%) C++
14 6 (0.55%) Delphi
14 6 (0.55%) VBScript
15 5 (0.46%) Google Apps Script
15 5 (0.46%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 161 (14.85%) Degree
2 134 (12.36%) Security Cleared
3 99 (9.13%) Microsoft Certification
4 84 (7.75%) Azure Certification
5 79 (7.29%) SC Cleared
6 55 (5.07%) DV Cleared
7 44 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 42 (3.87%) CISSP
9 31 (2.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 28 (2.58%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (2.21%) AWS Certification
11 24 (2.21%) CREST Certified
12 23 (2.12%) CEH
13 22 (2.03%) GIAC
14 19 (1.75%) CompTIA CySA+
15 18 (1.66%) OSCP
16 17 (1.57%) CompTIA Security+
17 16 (1.48%) CCNA
17 16 (1.48%) DBS Check
18 12 (1.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (14.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 137 (12.64%) NIST
3 61 (5.63%) SLA
4 57 (5.26%) GDPR
5 39 (3.60%) NCSC
6 32 (2.95%) Cyber Essentials
7 24 (2.21%) Accessibility
8 21 (1.94%) ISO 22301
9 18 (1.66%) QA
10 17 (1.57%) Data Quality
11 15 (1.38%) PCI DSS
12 14 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 10 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.65%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.46%) DICOM
15 5 (0.46%) GRC
16 3 (0.28%) HL7
16 3 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.18%) COBIT
17 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
System Software
1 409 (37.73%) Active Directory
2 127 (11.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 103 (9.50%) Docker
4 99 (9.13%) Hyper-V
5 40 (3.69%) vSphere
6 36 (3.32%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (1.75%) Firmware
7 19 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.74%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.55%) XenApp
10 6 (0.55%) XenDesktop
11 5 (0.46%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.37%) BitLocker
12 4 (0.37%) iptables
12 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.28%) vCloud
14 2 (0.18%) KVM
14 2 (0.18%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 212 (19.56%) Terraform
2 161 (14.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 148 (13.65%) Kubernetes
4 125 (11.53%) Ansible
5 39 (3.60%) SCCM
6 38 (3.51%) Grafana
7 37 (3.41%) Single Sign-On
8 24 (2.21%) Prometheus
9 17 (1.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 16 (1.48%) Jamf Pro
11 14 (1.29%) vCenter Server
12 13 (1.20%) Puppet
13 11 (1.01%) Nessus
14 10 (0.92%) SCOM
15 9 (0.83%) Progress Chef
15 9 (0.83%) VxRail
16 8 (0.74%) FortiGate
16 8 (0.74%) Nagios
16 8 (0.74%) SCVMM
17 7 (0.65%) Control-M
Vendors
1 580 (53.51%) Microsoft
2 220 (20.30%) VMware
3 87 (8.03%) Cisco
4 49 (4.52%) Oracle
5 48 (4.43%) Veeam
6 45 (4.15%) Splunk
7 43 (3.97%) ServiceNow
8 40 (3.69%) Red Hat
9 39 (3.60%) Google
10 34 (3.14%) Atlassian
11 32 (2.95%) Commvault
12 30 (2.77%) Palo Alto
13 28 (2.58%) Citrix
14 25 (2.31%) CrowdStrike
15 24 (2.21%) CyberArk
16 23 (2.12%) Dell
16 23 (2.12%) Meraki
17 21 (1.94%) Apple
17 21 (1.94%) Fortinet
18 19 (1.75%) Tenable