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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 88 95
Rank change year-on-year -70 +7 -36
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,276 1,484 1,697
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.23% 3.43% 2.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.66% 12.96% 8.29%
Number of salaries quoted 905 980 1,102
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £37,525
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,780 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £73,250 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% 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 16,661 11,455 20,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.01% 26.51% 31.20%
Number of salaries quoted 12,101 7,505 12,430
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 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 6 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 6 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 -29 466 £70,000 -0.71% 534
South East -40 237 £52,500 -8.70% 245
North of England -94 230 £50,000 - 202
Midlands -55 162 £52,500 +2.24% 104
North West -77 138 £50,000 +2.56% 105
East of England -47 93 £57,500 +21.05% 78
South West -79 84 £57,500 +18.56% 112
East Midlands -16 82 £42,500 +21.43% 47
West Midlands -64 80 £55,000 - 57
Yorkshire -47 56 £45,472 -11.92% 65
North East -38 36 £51,500 -14.17% 34
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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
1 238 (18.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 216 (16.93%) SharePoint
3 50 (3.92%) IIS
4 41 (3.21%) 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 (0.078%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.078%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.078%) WebSphere
Applications
1 64 (5.02%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (2.82%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.63%) 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 (0.078%) Actimize
7 1 (0.078%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 783 (61.36%) Azure
2 516 (40.44%) Microsoft 365
3 423 (33.15%) Entra ID
4 240 (18.81%) AWS
5 163 (12.77%) Azure DevOps
6 109 (8.54%) Power Platform
7 104 (8.15%) OneDrive
7 104 (8.15%) SaaS
8 98 (7.68%) IaaS
9 95 (7.45%) GitHub
10 87 (6.82%) Azure Monitor
11 83 (6.50%) Azure Sentinel
12 75 (5.88%) Power Automate
13 73 (5.72%) PaaS
14 70 (5.49%) Azure AKS
15 62 (4.86%) Azure Key Vault
15 62 (4.86%) GCP
16 56 (4.39%) GitHub Actions
17 55 (4.31%) Microsoft Purview
18 52 (4.08%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 302 (23.67%) Firewall
2 299 (23.43%) DNS
3 213 (16.69%) VPN
4 208 (16.30%) DHCP
5 141 (11.05%) TCP/IP
6 86 (6.74%) WAN
7 75 (5.88%) LAN
7 75 (5.88%) VLAN
8 55 (4.31%) Wireless
9 54 (4.23%) Network Security
10 46 (3.61%) Wi-Fi
11 37 (2.90%) SAN
12 30 (2.35%) Kerberos
13 27 (2.12%) SSL
14 21 (1.65%) NAS
15 20 (1.57%) HTTP
16 15 (1.18%) Internet
17 12 (0.94%) VSAN
18 11 (0.86%) VoIP
19 10 (0.78%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (10.50%) SQL Server
2 84 (6.58%) Azure SQL Database
3 61 (4.78%) Power BI
4 21 (1.65%) MongoDB
4 21 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (1.25%) Relational Database
6 13 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (1.02%) MySQL
7 12 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (0.71%) NoSQL
9 8 (0.63%) Power Query
9 8 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (0.55%) InfluxDB
10 7 (0.55%) Redis
11 6 (0.47%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.47%) Metadata
12 5 (0.39%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.31%) Db2
13 4 (0.31%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 91 (7.13%) JIRA
2 84 (6.58%) Git
3 65 (5.09%) GitLab
4 57 (4.47%) Jenkins
5 20 (1.57%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
7 10 (0.78%) 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
1 463 (36.29%) Social Skills
2 226 (17.71%) Finance
3 178 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (6.27%) Law
5 54 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 53 (4.15%) Documentation Skills
7 47 (3.68%) Legal
8 46 (3.61%) Retail
9 43 (3.37%) Banking
10 36 (2.82%) Manufacturing
11 35 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
12 28 (2.19%) Aerospace
12 28 (2.19%) Public Sector
13 12 (0.94%) Financial Institution
14 11 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (0.78%) Investment Banking
16 9 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (0.63%) Advertising
17 8 (0.63%) Aviation
17 8 (0.63%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 192 (15.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 192 (15.05%) Senior
2 157 (12.30%) Analyst
3 124 (9.72%) Azure Engineer
3 124 (9.72%) Cloud Engineer
4 121 (9.48%) IT Engineer
5 116 (9.09%) Support Engineer
6 97 (7.60%) DevOps Engineer
7 95 (7.45%) IT Support
8 74 (5.80%) Platform Engineer
9 71 (5.56%) Lead
10 67 (5.25%) Consultant
11 62 (4.86%) IT Support Engineer
11 62 (4.86%) Support Analyst
12 56 (4.39%) Security Engineer
13 52 (4.08%) Systems Engineer
14 46 (3.61%) Developer
15 42 (3.29%) Automation Engineer
15 42 (3.29%) Microsoft Engineer
16 40 (3.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 333 (26.10%) Terraform
2 64 (5.02%) .NET
3 56 (4.39%) ARM Templates
4 48 (3.76%) REST
5 44 (3.45%) SAML
6 42 (3.29%) YAML
7 38 (2.98%) Microsoft Graph
8 37 (2.90%) LDAP
8 37 (2.90%) OpenID
9 36 (2.82%) OAuth
10 32 (2.51%) HTML
11 28 (2.19%) JSON
12 23 (1.80%) CSS
13 21 (1.65%) SPFx
14 20 (1.57%) Elastic Stack
15 18 (1.41%) .NET Core
16 13 (1.02%) Kafka
17 12 (0.94%) ADO
17 12 (0.94%) ASP.NET
17 12 (0.94%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 117 (9.17%) Onboarding
2 81 (6.35%) Cloud Native
3 79 (6.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 76 (5.96%) Driving Licence
5 69 (5.41%) Security Posture
6 68 (5.33%) Management Information System
7 51 (4.00%) PKI
8 45 (3.53%) Data Centre
9 44 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
10 37 (2.90%) Security Operations Centre
11 36 (2.82%) Public Cloud
11 36 (2.82%) Replication
12 29 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (1.57%) Cyber Defence
13 20 (1.57%) Private Cloud
14 19 (1.49%) Clustering
14 19 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
15 17 (1.33%) CMDB
15 17 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
16 14 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 649 (50.86%) Windows
2 307 (24.06%) Windows Server
3 297 (23.28%) Linux
4 94 (7.37%) Windows 10
5 48 (3.76%) Apple iOS
6 41 (3.21%) Android
7 39 (3.06%) Ubuntu
8 36 (2.82%) VMS
9 34 (2.66%) Mac OS
10 32 (2.51%) Windows Server 2016
10 32 (2.51%) Windows Server 2019
11 31 (2.43%) CentOS
12 29 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 18 (1.41%) Unix
14 16 (1.25%) 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
1 388 (30.41%) Problem-Solving
2 317 (24.84%) Infrastructure as Code
3 295 (23.12%) Continuous Improvement
3 295 (23.12%) DevOps
4 289 (22.65%) CI/CD
4 289 (22.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 252 (19.75%) ITIL
6 239 (18.73%) Cybersecurity
7 200 (15.67%) Disaster Recovery
8 168 (13.17%) AI
9 150 (11.76%) Agile
10 144 (11.29%) Root Cause Analysis
11 143 (11.21%) Mentoring
12 142 (11.13%) Cloud Security
13 137 (10.74%) High Availability
13 137 (10.74%) Platform Engineering
14 136 (10.66%) Migration
15 131 (10.27%) Incident Response
16 122 (9.56%) Identity Access Management
16 122 (9.56%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 487 (38.17%) Python
2 275 (21.55%) Bash
3 271 (21.24%) SQL
4 117 (9.17%) Bicep
5 79 (6.19%) JavaScript
6 68 (5.33%) C#
7 49 (3.84%) Kusto Query Language
8 34 (2.66%) Java
9 31 (2.43%) T-SQL
10 26 (2.04%) TypeScript
11 23 (1.80%) VBScript
12 16 (1.25%) C++
12 16 (1.25%) Perl
13 13 (1.02%) PHP
14 11 (0.86%) VBA
15 10 (0.78%) Ruby
15 10 (0.78%) VB
16 7 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (0.55%) Go
17 5 (0.39%) Korn
Qualifications
1 168 (13.17%) Security Cleared
2 157 (12.30%) Degree
3 141 (11.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 138 (10.82%) Azure Certification
5 112 (8.78%) SC Cleared
6 58 (4.55%) CISSP
7 53 (4.15%) CompTIA Security+
8 52 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 51 (4.00%) DV Cleared
10 46 (3.61%) Cisco Certification
11 37 (2.90%) CCNA
12 27 (2.12%) CEH
13 25 (1.96%) DBS Check
14 23 (1.80%) AWS Certification
15 20 (1.57%) CISM
16 18 (1.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 17 (1.33%) GIAC
18 14 (1.10%) Network+ Certification
18 14 (1.10%) OSCP
19 13 (1.02%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (7.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 71 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 55 (4.31%) NIST
4 44 (3.45%) SLA
5 39 (3.06%) GDPR
6 24 (1.88%) QA
7 20 (1.57%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.33%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.94%) SOC 2
10 11 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.63%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.63%) PMO
12 7 (0.55%) NCSC
12 7 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.31%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.24%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.16%) EMIR
15 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 1 (0.078%) GRC
System Software
1 494 (38.71%) Active Directory
2 214 (16.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 135 (10.58%) Hyper-V
4 129 (10.11%) Docker
5 78 (6.11%) vSphere
6 72 (5.64%) Virtual Machines
7 59 (4.62%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.80%) VMware ESXi
9 22 (1.72%) VMware NSX
10 17 (1.33%) BitLocker
11 15 (1.18%) Firmware
12 8 (0.63%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.63%) KVM
13 7 (0.55%) Squid
14 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.24%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
17 2 (0.16%) NFS
17 2 (0.16%) Snort
Systems Management
1 235 (18.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 205 (16.07%) Kubernetes
3 152 (11.91%) Ansible
4 74 (5.80%) Grafana
5 65 (5.09%) SCCM
6 53 (4.15%) Single Sign-On
7 39 (3.06%) Prometheus
8 27 (2.12%) Puppet
9 23 (1.80%) Argo
10 22 (1.72%) ZABBIX
11 21 (1.65%) vCenter Server
12 20 (1.57%) Proxmox
13 19 (1.49%) QRadar
14 17 (1.33%) FortiGate
15 15 (1.18%) Graylog
15 15 (1.18%) Packer
16 12 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
16 12 (0.94%) Progress Chef
17 10 (0.78%) VxRail
18 9 (0.71%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 851 (66.69%) Microsoft
2 254 (19.91%) VMware
3 97 (7.60%) Cisco
4 96 (7.52%) ServiceNow
5 81 (6.35%) Splunk
6 67 (5.25%) Veeam
7 44 (3.45%) Oracle
8 43 (3.37%) Red Hat
9 41 (3.21%) Citrix
10 34 (2.66%) Sage
11 33 (2.59%) Dell
11 33 (2.59%) Meraki
12 30 (2.35%) Sophos
13 29 (2.27%) Dynatrace
13 29 (2.27%) SAP
14 27 (2.12%) SolarWinds
15 26 (2.04%) Fortinet
16 25 (1.96%) CrowdStrike
16 25 (1.96%) CyberArk
16 25 (1.96%) Google