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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 94 57
Rank change year-on-year +3 -37 +30
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,417 1,685 2,324
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.32% 2.70% 4.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.03% 8.48% 11.16%
Number of salaries quoted 985 1,107 1,878
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £36,970
25th Percentile £43,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +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 10,879 19,867 20,822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.52% 31.84% 41.16%
Number of salaries quoted 7,401 11,978 17,074
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,972 £49,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%

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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 18 October 2025.

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 18 October 2025. 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 -24 407 £72,500 -3.33% 186
North of England +47 397 £50,000 -2.91% 107
North West +82 313 £50,000 - 83
South East -5 232 £57,500 +2.22% 184
Midlands +26 162 £51,500 +8.42% 47
West Midlands +36 113 £55,000 +22.22% 31
East of England +28 109 £47,500 -9.52% 44
South West +23 97 £48,500 -3.96% 65
Yorkshire -14 75 £50,000 -8.26% 19
East Midlands +11 49 £38,500 -18.95% 14
North East -3 9 £60,000 +35.52% 7
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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
1 220 (15.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 163 (11.50%) SharePoint
3 61 (4.30%) Confluence
4 57 (4.02%) IIS
5 21 (1.48%) Skype for Business
6 13 (0.92%) nginx
7 9 (0.64%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2003
9 6 (0.42%) Apache
10 5 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.071%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 60 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 4 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.21%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.21%) Siemens NX
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.14%) Revit
6 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.071%) Autodesk Inventor
7 1 (0.071%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 12 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.35%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.21%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.21%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.21%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.071%) Eikon
5 1 (0.071%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.071%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 713 (50.32%) Azure
2 408 (28.79%) Microsoft 365
3 245 (17.29%) AWS
4 243 (17.15%) Entra ID
5 162 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
6 119 (8.40%) Power Platform
7 99 (6.99%) SaaS
8 96 (6.77%) PaaS
9 94 (6.63%) Power Automate
10 76 (5.36%) IaaS
11 73 (5.15%) Azure Monitor
12 59 (4.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 59 (4.16%) GCP
13 56 (3.95%) GitHub
14 53 (3.74%) Amazon S3
14 53 (3.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 52 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
16 50 (3.53%) Azure Sentinel
16 50 (3.53%) Serverless
17 48 (3.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 367 (25.90%) VPN
2 293 (20.68%) Firewall
3 270 (19.05%) Cisco IOS
4 254 (17.93%) DNS
5 183 (12.91%) DHCP
6 115 (8.12%) TCP/IP
7 106 (7.48%) WAN
8 71 (5.01%) LAN
9 55 (3.88%) SAN
10 53 (3.74%) VLAN
11 44 (3.11%) Wireless
12 41 (2.89%) Network Security
13 38 (2.68%) SD-WAN
13 38 (2.68%) SMTP
14 36 (2.54%) Internet
15 31 (2.19%) HTTP
16 28 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
17 26 (1.83%) FTP
18 25 (1.76%) NAS
18 25 (1.76%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (9.46%) SQL Server
2 82 (5.79%) Amazon RDS
3 68 (4.80%) Power BI
4 31 (2.19%) MySQL
5 30 (2.12%) Relational Database
6 27 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 15 (1.06%) Data Lake
9 13 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (0.85%) Oracle Database
11 11 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 10 (0.71%) NoSQL
13 9 (0.64%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (0.64%) DTS
13 9 (0.64%) Oracle Database 10g
14 5 (0.35%) BusinessObjects
14 5 (0.35%) Data Mining
14 5 (0.35%) MongoDB
14 5 (0.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 118 (8.33%) Git
2 117 (8.26%) JIRA
3 93 (6.56%) Jenkins
4 41 (2.89%) Vagrant
5 40 (2.82%) GitLab
6 28 (1.98%) MSI
7 20 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
8 15 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
9 12 (0.85%) Burp Suite
9 12 (0.85%) Metasploit
10 10 (0.71%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.42%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.28%) Toad
13 3 (0.21%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.21%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.21%) SonarQube
14 2 (0.14%) MSBuild
14 2 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
14 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 409 (28.86%) Social Skills
2 331 (23.36%) Analytical Skills
3 292 (20.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 192 (13.55%) Finance
5 65 (4.59%) Law
6 61 (4.30%) Public Sector
7 40 (2.82%) Banking
8 38 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
9 37 (2.61%) Legal
10 32 (2.26%) Manufacturing
10 32 (2.26%) Retail
11 28 (1.98%) Telecoms
12 24 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
13 20 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
14 17 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (1.13%) Advertising
16 15 (1.06%) Marketing
17 14 (0.99%) Automotive
18 13 (0.92%) Front Office
19 10 (0.71%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 412 (29.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 192 (13.55%) Support Engineer
3 115 (8.12%) Senior
4 101 (7.13%) DevOps Engineer
5 98 (6.92%) IT Support
6 94 (6.63%) Analyst
7 85 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
8 80 (5.65%) IT Engineer
9 74 (5.22%) 3rd Line Support
10 67 (4.73%) Developer
11 66 (4.66%) Lead
12 64 (4.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 62 (4.38%) Platform Engineer
14 60 (4.23%) Cloud Engineer
14 60 (4.23%) Security Engineer
15 57 (4.02%) Infrastructure Support
16 55 (3.88%) Architect
17 53 (3.74%) Administrator
18 52 (3.67%) Systems Engineer
19 50 (3.53%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 271 (19.12%) Elastic Stack
2 66 (4.66%) YAML
3 64 (4.52%) .NET
4 60 (4.23%) REST
5 40 (2.82%) JSON
6 33 (2.33%) SOAP
7 31 (2.19%) ARM Templates
8 30 (2.12%) LDAP
9 17 (1.20%) React
9 17 (1.20%) XML
10 16 (1.13%) Microsoft Graph
11 15 (1.06%) AngularJS
12 13 (0.92%) .NET Framework
12 13 (0.92%) Web Services
13 12 (0.85%) Node.js
14 10 (0.71%) HTML
14 10 (0.71%) Razor View Engine
14 10 (0.71%) SAML
15 8 (0.56%) Jinja
15 8 (0.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 263 (18.56%) Cyberattack
2 92 (6.49%) Onboarding
3 55 (3.88%) Data Centre
4 47 (3.32%) Security Posture
5 44 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 40 (2.82%) PKI
7 37 (2.61%) Cloud Native
7 37 (2.61%) Replication
8 33 (2.33%) Management Information System
9 32 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
10 30 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
11 27 (1.91%) Clustering
12 25 (1.76%) Private Cloud
13 23 (1.62%) Driving Licence
14 21 (1.48%) Product Ownership
14 21 (1.48%) Public Cloud
15 19 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
15 19 (1.34%) Video Conferencing
16 18 (1.27%) Virtual Team
17 17 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 816 (57.59%) Windows
2 505 (35.64%) Linux
3 317 (22.37%) Windows Server
4 274 (19.34%) Android
5 73 (5.15%) VMS
5 73 (5.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 65 (4.59%) Windows 10
7 47 (3.32%) Windows Server 2016
8 43 (3.03%) Mac OS
9 40 (2.82%) Unix
10 26 (1.83%) Amazon Linux
11 24 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
12 20 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 19 (1.34%) Windows Server 2008
14 16 (1.13%) Ubuntu
15 10 (0.71%) Apple iOS
15 10 (0.71%) CentOS
15 10 (0.71%) Windows 7
16 9 (0.64%) Solaris
16 9 (0.64%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 600 (42.34%) DevOps
2 533 (37.61%) Problem-Solving
3 457 (32.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 395 (27.88%) Task Automation
5 345 (24.35%) Platform Engineering
6 293 (20.68%) Storage Management
7 279 (19.69%) Risk Management
8 265 (18.70%) Mathematics
9 263 (18.56%) Line Management
10 247 (17.43%) CI/CD
11 183 (12.91%) ITIL
12 169 (11.93%) Agile
13 167 (11.79%) Infrastructure as Code
14 141 (9.95%) Continuous Improvement
15 131 (9.24%) Mentoring
16 123 (8.68%) Cybersecurity
17 119 (8.40%) Disaster Recovery
18 116 (8.19%) Migration
19 108 (7.62%) Cloud Security
20 98 (6.92%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 609 (42.98%) Python
2 446 (31.47%) Bash
3 240 (16.94%) SQL
4 99 (6.99%) C#
5 64 (4.52%) Bicep
6 62 (4.38%) Java
7 51 (3.60%) JavaScript
8 44 (3.11%) Groovy
9 26 (1.83%) Perl
10 24 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
10 24 (1.69%) VB
11 22 (1.55%) Go
12 16 (1.13%) TypeScript
13 13 (0.92%) Shell Script
13 13 (0.92%) T-SQL
14 12 (0.85%) VBA
15 8 (0.56%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.56%) VBScript
16 5 (0.35%) PHP
16 5 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 202 (14.26%) Security Cleared
2 170 (12.00%) Degree
3 121 (8.54%) SC Cleared
4 104 (7.34%) Azure Certification
5 90 (6.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 74 (5.22%) DV Cleared
7 53 (3.74%) Cisco Certification
8 45 (3.18%) AWS Certification
9 44 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
10 38 (2.68%) CCNA
11 27 (1.91%) DBS Check
12 25 (1.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 22 (1.55%) Master's Degree
13 22 (1.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 20 (1.41%) CCNP
14 20 (1.41%) CISSP
15 15 (1.06%) OSCP
16 13 (0.92%) MCSA
17 12 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
18 11 (0.78%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (8.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 81 (5.72%) NIST
3 53 (3.74%) SLA
4 52 (3.67%) GDPR
5 29 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials
5 29 (2.05%) NCSC
6 20 (1.41%) Accessibility
7 11 (0.78%) QA
8 9 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (0.49%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.49%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.35%) GRC
11 3 (0.21%) HL7
11 3 (0.21%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.21%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.071%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.071%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.071%) WCAG
System Software
1 440 (31.05%) Active Directory
2 402 (28.37%) Hyper-V
3 366 (25.83%) Docker
4 296 (20.89%) vSphere
5 265 (18.70%) VMware NSX
6 215 (15.17%) VMware Infrastructure
7 57 (4.02%) Virtual Machines
8 36 (2.54%) VMware ESXi
9 29 (2.05%) DFS Replication
9 29 (2.05%) Virtual Desktop
10 13 (0.92%) Terminal Services
11 11 (0.78%) Firmware
11 11 (0.78%) XenApp
12 10 (0.71%) Squid
13 9 (0.64%) Dovecot
13 9 (0.64%) Postfix
14 6 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
14 6 (0.42%) XenDesktop
15 5 (0.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 4 (0.28%) KVM
Systems Management
1 477 (33.66%) Terraform
2 401 (28.30%) Ansible
3 221 (15.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 149 (10.52%) Kubernetes
5 71 (5.01%) SCCM
6 70 (4.94%) Grafana
7 68 (4.80%) Prometheus
8 65 (4.59%) Single Sign-On
9 38 (2.68%) WSUS
10 31 (2.19%) WMI
11 30 (2.12%) SCOM
12 27 (1.91%) vCenter Server
13 17 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 17 (1.20%) Autotask
13 17 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
14 16 (1.13%) Backup Exec
15 14 (0.99%) Puppet
16 13 (0.92%) Nessus
17 12 (0.85%) Nagios
17 12 (0.85%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 688 (48.55%) Microsoft
2 377 (26.61%) Cisco
3 303 (21.38%) Splunk
4 282 (19.90%) Juniper
5 265 (18.70%) VMware
6 262 (18.49%) 3PAR
7 94 (6.63%) ServiceNow
8 62 (4.38%) Citrix
9 60 (4.23%) Oracle
10 59 (4.16%) Veeam
11 47 (3.32%) Meraki
12 36 (2.54%) Google
13 35 (2.47%) Red Hat
14 34 (2.40%) Atlassian
15 28 (1.98%) SolarWinds
16 27 (1.91%) Sophos
17 26 (1.83%) HP
18 24 (1.69%) Apple
18 24 (1.69%) SAP
19 20 (1.41%) Bloomberg