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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 82 105
Rank change year-on-year -64 +23 -33
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,293 1,572 1,743
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.36% 3.60% 2.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.74% 12.62% 8.10%
Number of salaries quoted 965 1,048 1,285
10th Percentile £32,000 £34,700 £36,600
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,563 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £89,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
% 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 16,697 12,456 21,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.53% 28.51% 29.64%
Number of salaries quoted 12,177 8,314 15,577
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £61,305
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +1.95% -5.68%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -33 474 £70,000 -3.45% 122
South East -25 247 £52,500 -8.70% 111
North of England -85 225 £50,000 +5.26% 60
Midlands -40 158 £52,500 +5.00% 46
North West -85 127 £51,500 +11.96% 43
East of England -35 101 £57,500 +13.86% 33
East Midlands -4 84 £42,500 +21.43% 16
South West -76 83 £55,000 +19.57% 33
West Midlands -65 74 £55,000 - 30
Yorkshire -42 62 £42,500 -17.68% 12
North East -26 36 £50,000 +5.26% 6
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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
1 222 (17.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 209 (16.16%) SharePoint
3 51 (3.94%) IIS
4 34 (2.63%) Confluence
5 12 (0.93%) nginx
6 7 (0.54%) Apache
7 5 (0.39%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.31%) SAS
9 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.077%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.077%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.077%) WebSphere
Applications
1 76 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 17 (1.31%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.46%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.23%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.23%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.077%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 825 (63.81%) Azure
2 494 (38.21%) Microsoft 365
3 360 (27.84%) Entra ID
4 244 (18.87%) AWS
5 152 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
6 102 (7.89%) OneDrive
7 100 (7.73%) Power Platform
8 98 (7.58%) IaaS
9 94 (7.27%) GitHub
9 94 (7.27%) SaaS
10 75 (5.80%) Azure Sentinel
11 72 (5.57%) Azure Monitor
12 68 (5.26%) Power Automate
13 67 (5.18%) Azure AKS
14 66 (5.10%) PaaS
15 64 (4.95%) GCP
16 62 (4.80%) Azure Key Vault
17 59 (4.56%) GitHub Actions
18 50 (3.87%) Datadog
19 48 (3.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 298 (23.05%) Firewall
2 279 (21.58%) DNS
3 185 (14.31%) DHCP
4 184 (14.23%) VPN
5 134 (10.36%) TCP/IP
6 81 (6.26%) WAN
7 72 (5.57%) LAN
8 69 (5.34%) Network Security
9 61 (4.72%) VLAN
10 45 (3.48%) Wireless
11 39 (3.02%) Wi-Fi
12 38 (2.94%) SAN
13 31 (2.40%) Kerberos
14 23 (1.78%) NAS
15 22 (1.70%) SSL
16 18 (1.39%) HTTP
16 18 (1.39%) Internet
17 15 (1.16%) VoIP
18 12 (0.93%) VSAN
19 10 (0.77%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (10.21%) SQL Server
2 82 (6.34%) Azure SQL Database
3 57 (4.41%) Power BI
4 26 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.78%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (1.31%) Relational Database
7 14 (1.08%) MySQL
7 14 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (0.93%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (0.54%) InfluxDB
11 6 (0.46%) Power Query
11 6 (0.46%) Redis
12 5 (0.39%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.39%) Metadata
12 5 (0.39%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.31%) Db2
13 4 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 104 (8.04%) Git
2 95 (7.35%) JIRA
3 67 (5.18%) GitLab
4 57 (4.41%) Jenkins
5 27 (2.09%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.85%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
8 7 (0.54%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.54%) TestRail
9 6 (0.46%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.46%) Selenium
9 6 (0.46%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.39%) Postman
11 3 (0.23%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.23%) JMeter
11 3 (0.23%) MSI
11 3 (0.23%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.15%) Apache Ivy
General
1 432 (33.41%) Social Skills
2 214 (16.55%) Finance
3 180 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (8.35%) Law
5 56 (4.33%) Legal
6 55 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 46 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
8 43 (3.33%) Retail
9 38 (2.94%) Banking
10 33 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
11 32 (2.47%) Manufacturing
12 30 (2.32%) Public Sector
13 27 (2.09%) Aerospace
14 16 (1.24%) Advertising
15 12 (0.93%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.70%) Front Office
17 9 (0.70%) Investment Banking
18 7 (0.54%) Military
18 7 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 201 (15.55%) Senior
2 175 (13.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 143 (11.06%) Analyst
4 130 (10.05%) Azure Engineer
4 130 (10.05%) Support Engineer
5 126 (9.74%) Cloud Engineer
6 124 (9.59%) IT Engineer
7 116 (8.97%) IT Support
8 97 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
9 67 (5.18%) Platform Engineer
10 66 (5.10%) Security Engineer
11 65 (5.03%) IT Support Engineer
12 64 (4.95%) Lead
13 58 (4.49%) Developer
14 55 (4.25%) Systems Engineer
15 48 (3.71%) Support Analyst
16 47 (3.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 46 (3.56%) 2nd Line Support
18 44 (3.40%) Automation Engineer
18 44 (3.40%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 340 (26.30%) Terraform
2 79 (6.11%) .NET
3 53 (4.10%) ARM Templates
4 45 (3.48%) REST
4 45 (3.48%) YAML
5 44 (3.40%) SAML
6 41 (3.17%) HTML
7 40 (3.09%) OAuth
8 39 (3.02%) Microsoft Graph
9 36 (2.78%) LDAP
9 36 (2.78%) OpenID
10 32 (2.47%) JSON
11 31 (2.40%) .NET Core
11 31 (2.40%) CSS
12 24 (1.86%) SPFx
13 19 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
13 19 (1.47%) HTML5 Canvas
14 14 (1.08%) ASP.NET
14 14 (1.08%) React
14 14 (1.08%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 111 (8.58%) Onboarding
2 81 (6.26%) Cloud Native
3 72 (5.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 67 (5.18%) Management Information System
5 66 (5.10%) Security Posture
6 64 (4.95%) Driving Licence
7 47 (3.63%) Data Centre
8 43 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
9 42 (3.25%) Public Cloud
10 39 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
11 38 (2.94%) PKI
12 36 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
13 28 (2.17%) Private Cloud
14 27 (2.09%) Replication
15 26 (2.01%) Cyber Defence
16 21 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
16 21 (1.62%) CMDB
17 20 (1.55%) Clustering
18 19 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
19 17 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 641 (49.57%) Windows
2 306 (23.67%) Linux
3 296 (22.89%) Windows Server
4 77 (5.96%) Windows 10
5 50 (3.87%) Apple iOS
6 42 (3.25%) Android
7 41 (3.17%) Mac OS
8 37 (2.86%) VMS
9 34 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
10 33 (2.55%) Ubuntu
11 32 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 31 (2.40%) CentOS
13 25 (1.93%) Windows Server 2019
14 13 (1.01%) Unix
15 7 (0.54%) Rocky
16 5 (0.39%) CoreOS
16 5 (0.39%) Solaris
17 4 (0.31%) Debian
17 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
18 3 (0.23%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (27.92%) Problem-Solving
2 319 (24.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 313 (24.21%) CI/CD
4 291 (22.51%) DevOps
5 269 (20.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 267 (20.65%) ITIL
7 266 (20.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 233 (18.02%) Cybersecurity
9 174 (13.46%) Disaster Recovery
10 161 (12.45%) Root Cause Analysis
11 156 (12.06%) Incident Response
12 154 (11.91%) Agile
13 150 (11.60%) High Availability
14 147 (11.37%) Mentoring
15 139 (10.75%) AI
16 130 (10.05%) Containerisation
17 126 (9.74%) Observability
18 123 (9.51%) Cloud Security
19 122 (9.44%) SIEM
20 120 (9.28%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 502 (38.82%) Python
2 290 (22.43%) Bash
3 260 (20.11%) SQL
4 108 (8.35%) Bicep
5 90 (6.96%) C#
6 84 (6.50%) JavaScript
7 47 (3.63%) Kusto Query Language
8 40 (3.09%) Java
9 33 (2.55%) TypeScript
10 32 (2.47%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.62%) VBScript
12 19 (1.47%) C++
13 18 (1.39%) Perl
14 14 (1.08%) PHP
15 11 (0.85%) Ruby
16 10 (0.77%) VBA
17 9 (0.70%) Go
17 9 (0.70%) VB
18 8 (0.62%) C
19 6 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 167 (12.92%) Security Cleared
2 160 (12.37%) Degree
3 147 (11.37%) Azure Certification
4 133 (10.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 115 (8.89%) SC Cleared
6 55 (4.25%) Cisco Certification
6 55 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 54 (4.18%) CompTIA Security+
8 50 (3.87%) CISSP
9 47 (3.63%) DV Cleared
10 42 (3.25%) CCNA
11 28 (2.17%) CEH
12 24 (1.86%) DBS Check
13 22 (1.70%) AWS Certification
13 22 (1.70%) GIAC
14 20 (1.55%) OSCP
15 18 (1.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 16 (1.24%) CISM
17 15 (1.16%) CCNP
18 14 (1.08%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (7.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 63 (4.87%) Cyber Essentials
2 63 (4.87%) NIST
3 48 (3.71%) GDPR
4 45 (3.48%) SLA
5 26 (2.01%) QA
6 19 (1.47%) Data Quality
7 16 (1.24%) SOC 2
8 14 (1.08%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (0.54%) ISO 22301
10 7 (0.54%) PMO
11 5 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.31%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.31%) NCSC
13 3 (0.23%) ISAE 3402
14 2 (0.15%) EMIR
14 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 479 (37.05%) Active Directory
2 213 (16.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 144 (11.14%) Hyper-V
4 134 (10.36%) Docker
5 77 (5.96%) vSphere
6 55 (4.25%) Virtual Machines
7 49 (3.79%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.78%) BitLocker
9 19 (1.47%) VMware NSX
10 14 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.77%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.62%) KVM
12 8 (0.62%) Squid
13 7 (0.54%) Firmware
14 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
17 2 (0.15%) Samba
18 1 (0.077%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 227 (17.56%) Kubernetes
2 225 (17.40%) Microsoft Intune
3 166 (12.84%) Ansible
4 80 (6.19%) Grafana
5 64 (4.95%) SCCM
6 46 (3.56%) Prometheus
6 46 (3.56%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (1.78%) ZABBIX
8 21 (1.62%) QRadar
8 21 (1.62%) vCenter Server
9 20 (1.55%) Argo
9 20 (1.55%) Jamf Pro
9 20 (1.55%) Packer
9 20 (1.55%) Proxmox
10 19 (1.47%) Puppet
11 15 (1.16%) Graylog
12 12 (0.93%) VxRail
13 11 (0.85%) FortiGate
14 10 (0.77%) Nagios
15 9 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 823 (63.65%) Microsoft
2 252 (19.49%) VMware
3 115 (8.89%) Cisco
4 107 (8.28%) ServiceNow
5 89 (6.88%) Splunk
6 56 (4.33%) Red Hat
7 55 (4.25%) Veeam
8 46 (3.56%) Oracle
9 45 (3.48%) Meraki
10 38 (2.94%) Citrix
11 34 (2.63%) Dynatrace
12 32 (2.47%) Sophos
13 30 (2.32%) Dell
13 30 (2.32%) Tenable
14 29 (2.24%) CrowdStrike
15 25 (1.93%) Apple
16 23 (1.78%) Fortinet
17 22 (1.70%) CyberArk
18 21 (1.62%) Palo Alto
18 21 (1.62%) Qualys