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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 89 96
Rank change year-on-year -66 +7 -37
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,272 1,487 1,707
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.23% 3.43% 2.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.72% 12.93% 8.31%
Number of salaries quoted 907 980 1,109
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,780 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £73,500 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.74% -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 16,471 11,499 20,537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.91% 26.56% 31.31%
Number of salaries quoted 12,029 7,541 12,470
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -26 464 £70,000 -2.44% 539
South East -40 234 £52,500 -8.70% 224
North of England -89 231 £50,000 - 172
Midlands -47 161 £52,500 +2.24% 87
North West -78 138 £50,000 - 94
East of England -48 92 £57,500 +21.05% 66
South West -71 86 £55,000 +13.40% 94
East Midlands -17 81 £42,500 +15.65% 36
West Midlands -70 80 £55,000 - 51
Yorkshire -50 56 £45,472 -13.39% 56
North East -32 37 £51,500 -14.17% 23
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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
1 239 (18.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 214 (16.82%) SharePoint
3 48 (3.77%) IIS
4 41 (3.22%) Confluence
5 15 (1.18%) nginx
6 8 (0.63%) Apache
7 5 (0.39%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.31%) SAS
9 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.079%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.079%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.079%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.079%) WebSphere
Applications
1 65 (5.11%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.079%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 36 (2.83%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.47%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.39%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.24%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.16%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.079%) Actimize
7 1 (0.079%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 781 (61.40%) Azure
2 518 (40.72%) Microsoft 365
3 428 (33.65%) Entra ID
4 237 (18.63%) AWS
5 161 (12.66%) Azure DevOps
6 107 (8.41%) Power Platform
7 106 (8.33%) SaaS
8 102 (8.02%) OneDrive
9 97 (7.63%) IaaS
10 94 (7.39%) GitHub
11 87 (6.84%) Azure Monitor
12 84 (6.60%) Azure Sentinel
13 72 (5.66%) Power Automate
14 71 (5.58%) PaaS
15 69 (5.42%) Azure AKS
16 61 (4.80%) Azure Key Vault
16 61 (4.80%) GCP
17 56 (4.40%) GitHub Actions
17 56 (4.40%) Microsoft Purview
18 53 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 304 (23.90%) DNS
2 303 (23.82%) Firewall
3 215 (16.90%) DHCP
4 214 (16.82%) VPN
5 144 (11.32%) TCP/IP
6 85 (6.68%) WAN
7 75 (5.90%) VLAN
8 74 (5.82%) LAN
9 56 (4.40%) Wireless
10 54 (4.25%) Network Security
11 46 (3.62%) Wi-Fi
12 36 (2.83%) SAN
13 31 (2.44%) Kerberos
14 30 (2.36%) SSL
15 23 (1.81%) NAS
16 20 (1.57%) HTTP
17 14 (1.10%) Internet
18 12 (0.94%) VSAN
19 11 (0.86%) VoIP
20 10 (0.79%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (10.38%) SQL Server
2 82 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 59 (4.64%) Power BI
4 21 (1.65%) MongoDB
5 19 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (1.26%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (0.86%) MySQL
9 11 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (0.63%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.63%) Power Query
10 8 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (0.55%) InfluxDB
11 7 (0.55%) Redis
12 6 (0.47%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.39%) Metadata
13 5 (0.39%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.31%) Db2
14 4 (0.31%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 89 (7.00%) JIRA
2 81 (6.37%) Git
3 66 (5.19%) GitLab
4 57 (4.48%) Jenkins
5 19 (1.49%) Bitbucket
6 11 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
7 10 (0.79%) TeamCity
8 7 (0.55%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.55%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.55%) TestRail
9 5 (0.39%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.39%) MSI
9 5 (0.39%) Postman
9 5 (0.39%) Selenium
9 5 (0.39%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (0.31%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.31%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.24%) Terragrunt
General
1 460 (36.16%) Social Skills
2 222 (17.45%) Finance
3 180 (14.15%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (6.29%) Law
5 53 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 53 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 48 (3.77%) Legal
7 45 (3.54%) Retail
8 43 (3.38%) Banking
9 36 (2.83%) Manufacturing
10 34 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
11 27 (2.12%) Aerospace
11 27 (2.12%) Public Sector
12 12 (0.94%) Financial Institution
13 11 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (0.79%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (0.63%) Advertising
16 8 (0.63%) Aviation
16 8 (0.63%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 198 (15.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 185 (14.54%) Senior
3 159 (12.50%) Analyst
4 124 (9.75%) Azure Engineer
5 122 (9.59%) Cloud Engineer
5 122 (9.59%) IT Engineer
6 116 (9.12%) Support Engineer
7 97 (7.63%) DevOps Engineer
8 96 (7.55%) IT Support
9 73 (5.74%) Platform Engineer
10 69 (5.42%) Consultant
10 69 (5.42%) Lead
11 63 (4.95%) IT Support Engineer
11 63 (4.95%) Support Analyst
12 55 (4.32%) Security Engineer
13 50 (3.93%) Systems Engineer
14 41 (3.22%) Developer
14 41 (3.22%) Microsoft Engineer
15 40 (3.14%) Automation Engineer
16 39 (3.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 332 (26.10%) Terraform
2 59 (4.64%) .NET
3 54 (4.25%) ARM Templates
4 47 (3.69%) REST
5 46 (3.62%) SAML
6 41 (3.22%) YAML
7 38 (2.99%) LDAP
8 36 (2.83%) Microsoft Graph
8 36 (2.83%) OpenID
9 35 (2.75%) OAuth
10 29 (2.28%) HTML
11 26 (2.04%) JSON
12 20 (1.57%) CSS
12 20 (1.57%) Elastic Stack
13 18 (1.42%) SPFx
14 16 (1.26%) .NET Core
15 13 (1.02%) Kafka
16 12 (0.94%) ADO
16 12 (0.94%) Middleware
16 12 (0.94%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 116 (9.12%) Onboarding
2 80 (6.29%) Cloud Native
3 78 (6.13%) Driving Licence
4 77 (6.05%) Hybrid Cloud
5 69 (5.42%) Security Posture
6 67 (5.27%) Management Information System
7 50 (3.93%) PKI
8 46 (3.62%) Data Centre
9 44 (3.46%) Enterprise Software
10 40 (3.14%) Replication
11 37 (2.91%) Security Operations Centre
12 34 (2.67%) Public Cloud
13 28 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
14 20 (1.57%) Cyber Defence
14 20 (1.57%) Private Cloud
15 19 (1.49%) Clustering
15 19 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
16 17 (1.34%) CMDB
16 17 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
17 14 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 652 (51.26%) Windows
2 311 (24.45%) Windows Server
3 296 (23.27%) Linux
4 94 (7.39%) Windows 10
5 46 (3.62%) Apple iOS
6 40 (3.14%) Android
7 39 (3.07%) Ubuntu
8 36 (2.83%) VMS
9 34 (2.67%) Mac OS
9 34 (2.67%) Windows Server 2019
10 33 (2.59%) Windows Server 2016
11 31 (2.44%) CentOS
12 26 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 18 (1.42%) Unix
14 16 (1.26%) Rocky
15 7 (0.55%) Solaris
16 5 (0.39%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.31%) Debian
17 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
18 3 (0.24%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (30.58%) Problem-Solving
2 316 (24.84%) Infrastructure as Code
3 295 (23.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 294 (23.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 290 (22.80%) DevOps
6 282 (22.17%) CI/CD
7 250 (19.65%) ITIL
8 240 (18.87%) Cybersecurity
9 204 (16.04%) Disaster Recovery
10 170 (13.36%) AI
11 146 (11.48%) Agile
12 145 (11.40%) Mentoring
12 145 (11.40%) Root Cause Analysis
13 142 (11.16%) Cloud Security
14 139 (10.93%) Migration
15 138 (10.85%) Platform Engineering
16 132 (10.38%) High Availability
16 132 (10.38%) Incident Response
17 126 (9.91%) Infrastructure Automation
18 121 (9.51%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 486 (38.21%) Python
2 274 (21.54%) Bash
3 265 (20.83%) SQL
4 115 (9.04%) Bicep
5 75 (5.90%) JavaScript
6 65 (5.11%) C#
7 50 (3.93%) Kusto Query Language
8 37 (2.91%) Java
9 30 (2.36%) T-SQL
10 24 (1.89%) TypeScript
11 22 (1.73%) VBScript
12 16 (1.26%) C++
12 16 (1.26%) Perl
13 13 (1.02%) PHP
14 10 (0.79%) Ruby
14 10 (0.79%) VBA
15 9 (0.71%) VB
16 8 (0.63%) Go
17 7 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 5 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 173 (13.60%) Security Cleared
2 156 (12.26%) Degree
3 145 (11.40%) Microsoft Certification
4 140 (11.01%) Azure Certification
5 114 (8.96%) SC Cleared
6 61 (4.80%) CISSP
7 54 (4.25%) DV Cleared
8 52 (4.09%) CompTIA Security+
9 51 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 46 (3.62%) Cisco Certification
11 37 (2.91%) CCNA
12 27 (2.12%) CEH
13 26 (2.04%) DBS Check
14 23 (1.81%) AWS Certification
15 20 (1.57%) CISM
16 18 (1.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 17 (1.34%) GIAC
18 14 (1.10%) OSCP
19 13 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
19 13 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (7.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 72 (5.66%) Cyber Essentials
3 57 (4.48%) NIST
4 46 (3.62%) SLA
5 37 (2.91%) GDPR
6 24 (1.89%) QA
7 20 (1.57%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.26%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 11 (0.86%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.63%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.63%) PMO
11 7 (0.55%) NCSC
11 7 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.39%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.24%) ISAE 3402
14 2 (0.16%) EMIR
14 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 1 (0.079%) GRC
System Software
1 496 (38.99%) Active Directory
2 217 (17.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 140 (11.01%) Hyper-V
4 125 (9.83%) Docker
5 78 (6.13%) vSphere
6 70 (5.50%) Virtual Machines
7 60 (4.72%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (2.12%) VMware ESXi
9 26 (2.04%) VMware NSX
10 16 (1.26%) BitLocker
11 15 (1.18%) Firmware
12 8 (0.63%) KVM
13 7 (0.55%) Squid
14 6 (0.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
16 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 3 (0.24%) EMC RecoverPoint
18 2 (0.16%) DFS Replication
18 2 (0.16%) NFS
18 2 (0.16%) Snort
Systems Management
1 236 (18.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 203 (15.96%) Kubernetes
3 152 (11.95%) Ansible
4 74 (5.82%) Grafana
5 66 (5.19%) SCCM
6 54 (4.25%) Single Sign-On
7 39 (3.07%) Prometheus
8 31 (2.44%) Puppet
9 25 (1.97%) vCenter Server
10 23 (1.81%) Argo
11 22 (1.73%) ZABBIX
12 20 (1.57%) Proxmox
13 19 (1.49%) FortiGate
14 18 (1.42%) QRadar
15 15 (1.18%) Graylog
16 14 (1.10%) Packer
17 12 (0.94%) Progress Chef
18 11 (0.86%) Jamf Pro
19 10 (0.79%) VxRail
20 9 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 853 (67.06%) Microsoft
2 257 (20.20%) VMware
3 98 (7.70%) Cisco
4 94 (7.39%) ServiceNow
5 81 (6.37%) Splunk
6 67 (5.27%) Veeam
7 44 (3.46%) Oracle
8 40 (3.14%) Citrix
8 40 (3.14%) Red Hat
9 34 (2.67%) Sage
10 33 (2.59%) Meraki
11 30 (2.36%) Dell
11 30 (2.36%) SolarWinds
12 29 (2.28%) SAP
12 29 (2.28%) Sophos
13 28 (2.20%) Dynatrace
14 26 (2.04%) Fortinet
15 25 (1.97%) CrowdStrike
16 24 (1.89%) Apple
16 24 (1.89%) Google