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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 86 94
Rank change year-on-year -71 +8 -35
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,273 1,493 1,699
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.23% 3.44% 2.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.73% 13.00% 8.34%
Number of salaries quoted 906 985 1,108
10th Percentile £33,875 £32,500 £38,000
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 £73,625 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,959
% change year-on-year -4.35% -5.67% +1.60%

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 16,472 11,481 20,380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.88% 26.46% 31.37%
Number of salaries quoted 11,995 7,531 12,358
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 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £63,264
% change year-on-year +4.00% -1.21% -2.67%

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

PowerShell
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 9 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 9 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 -28 463 £70,000 -0.71% 536
South East -41 233 £52,500 -8.70% 175
North of England -93 230 £50,000 - 168
Midlands -41 162 £52,500 +2.44% 80
North West -74 137 £50,000 - 87
East of England -51 93 £57,500 +21.05% 59
South West -75 88 £55,000 +13.40% 93
East Midlands -19 82 £42,500 +15.65% 30
West Midlands -67 80 £55,000 - 50
Yorkshire -50 56 £45,472 -9.06% 57
North East -37 37 £51,500 -14.17% 25
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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 (18.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 213 (16.73%) SharePoint
3 47 (3.69%) 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 31 (2.44%) 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
1 782 (61.43%) Azure
2 519 (40.77%) Microsoft 365
3 426 (33.46%) Entra ID
4 238 (18.70%) AWS
5 160 (12.57%) Azure DevOps
6 108 (8.48%) Power Platform
6 108 (8.48%) SaaS
7 102 (8.01%) OneDrive
8 96 (7.54%) IaaS
9 94 (7.38%) GitHub
10 87 (6.83%) Azure Monitor
11 85 (6.68%) Azure Sentinel
12 72 (5.66%) Power Automate
13 70 (5.50%) PaaS
14 69 (5.42%) Azure AKS
15 62 (4.87%) GCP
16 61 (4.79%) Azure Key Vault
17 57 (4.48%) Microsoft Purview
18 56 (4.40%) GitHub Actions
19 54 (4.24%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 302 (23.72%) DNS
2 300 (23.57%) Firewall
3 213 (16.73%) DHCP
3 213 (16.73%) VPN
4 143 (11.23%) TCP/IP
5 84 (6.60%) WAN
6 74 (5.81%) LAN
6 74 (5.81%) VLAN
7 55 (4.32%) Network Security
7 55 (4.32%) Wireless
8 46 (3.61%) Wi-Fi
9 37 (2.91%) SAN
10 31 (2.44%) Kerberos
11 30 (2.36%) SSL
12 24 (1.89%) NAS
13 20 (1.57%) HTTP
14 14 (1.10%) Internet
15 12 (0.94%) VSAN
16 11 (0.86%) VoIP
17 10 (0.79%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (10.37%) SQL Server
2 82 (6.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 59 (4.63%) 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 11 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (0.86%) MySQL
8 11 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (0.63%) InfluxDB
9 8 (0.63%) NoSQL
9 8 (0.63%) Power Query
9 8 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (0.55%) Redis
11 6 (0.47%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.39%) Metadata
12 5 (0.39%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.31%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 88 (6.91%) JIRA
2 81 (6.36%) Git
3 68 (5.34%) GitLab
4 59 (4.63%) Jenkins
5 19 (1.49%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
7 10 (0.79%) TeamCity
8 8 (0.63%) Robot Framework
8 8 (0.63%) TestRail
9 7 (0.55%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.47%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.47%) Selenium
11 5 (0.39%) MSI
11 5 (0.39%) Postman
11 5 (0.39%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.31%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.31%) Claude Code
13 3 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 461 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 220 (17.28%) Finance
3 181 (14.22%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (6.28%) Law
5 53 (4.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 52 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (3.77%) Legal
8 47 (3.69%) Retail
9 43 (3.38%) Banking
10 37 (2.91%) Manufacturing
11 35 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
12 27 (2.12%) Public Sector
13 26 (2.04%) Aerospace
14 12 (0.94%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (0.79%) Investment Banking
17 9 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
18 8 (0.63%) Advertising
18 8 (0.63%) Aviation
19 7 (0.55%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 200 (15.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 185 (14.53%) Senior
3 162 (12.73%) Analyst
4 124 (9.74%) Azure Engineer
5 122 (9.58%) Cloud Engineer
6 119 (9.35%) IT Engineer
7 112 (8.80%) Support Engineer
8 97 (7.62%) DevOps Engineer
9 94 (7.38%) IT Support
10 73 (5.73%) Platform Engineer
11 69 (5.42%) Consultant
12 68 (5.34%) Lead
13 64 (5.03%) Support Analyst
14 61 (4.79%) IT Support Engineer
15 56 (4.40%) Security Engineer
16 48 (3.77%) Systems Engineer
17 41 (3.22%) Microsoft Engineer
18 40 (3.14%) Automation Engineer
18 40 (3.14%) Developer
19 39 (3.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 333 (26.16%) Terraform
2 59 (4.63%) .NET
3 54 (4.24%) ARM Templates
4 47 (3.69%) REST
5 46 (3.61%) SAML
6 40 (3.14%) 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 (1.41%) 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 (9.11%) Onboarding
2 81 (6.36%) Cloud Native
3 80 (6.28%) Driving Licence
4 77 (6.05%) Hybrid Cloud
5 69 (5.42%) Security Posture
6 66 (5.18%) Management Information System
7 50 (3.93%) PKI
8 46 (3.61%) Data Centre
8 46 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
9 41 (3.22%) Replication
10 37 (2.91%) Security Operations Centre
11 34 (2.67%) Public Cloud
12 29 (2.28%) 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 (1.34%) CMDB
15 17 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
16 14 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 650 (51.06%) Windows
2 311 (24.43%) Windows Server
3 296 (23.25%) Linux
4 94 (7.38%) Windows 10
5 46 (3.61%) Apple iOS
6 41 (3.22%) Android
7 39 (3.06%) Ubuntu
8 36 (2.83%) VMS
9 34 (2.67%) Mac OS
9 34 (2.67%) Windows Server 2019
10 32 (2.51%) CentOS
10 32 (2.51%) Windows Server 2016
11 26 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 18 (1.41%) Unix
13 16 (1.26%) Rocky
14 7 (0.55%) Solaris
15 5 (0.39%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.31%) Debian
16 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
17 3 (0.24%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (30.87%) Problem-Solving
2 318 (24.98%) Infrastructure as Code
3 297 (23.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 295 (23.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 290 (22.78%) DevOps
6 283 (22.23%) CI/CD
7 250 (19.64%) ITIL
8 240 (18.85%) Cybersecurity
9 206 (16.18%) Disaster Recovery
10 170 (13.35%) AI
11 146 (11.47%) Agile
12 145 (11.39%) Root Cause Analysis
13 144 (11.31%) Mentoring
14 142 (11.15%) Cloud Security
15 141 (11.08%) Migration
16 139 (10.92%) Platform Engineering
17 134 (10.53%) Incident Response
18 132 (10.37%) High Availability
19 126 (9.90%) Infrastructure Automation
20 121 (9.51%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 485 (38.10%) Python
2 277 (21.76%) Bash
3 265 (20.82%) SQL
4 114 (8.96%) Bicep
5 75 (5.89%) JavaScript
6 65 (5.11%) C#
7 51 (4.01%) 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
1 175 (13.75%) Security Cleared
2 154 (12.10%) Degree
3 145 (11.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 140 (11.00%) Azure Certification
5 115 (9.03%) SC Cleared
6 62 (4.87%) CISSP
7 53 (4.16%) DV Cleared
8 52 (4.08%) CompTIA Security+
9 50 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 46 (3.61%) Cisco Certification
11 37 (2.91%) CCNA
12 27 (2.12%) CEH
13 24 (1.89%) DBS Check
14 23 (1.81%) AWS Certification
15 20 (1.57%) CISM
16 18 (1.41%) GIAC
16 18 (1.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 15 (1.18%) OSCP
18 13 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
18 13 (1.02%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (6.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 74 (5.81%) Cyber Essentials
3 57 (4.48%) NIST
4 44 (3.46%) SLA
5 34 (2.67%) GDPR
6 23 (1.81%) QA
7 20 (1.57%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.26%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 10 (0.79%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.63%) PMO
12 7 (0.55%) Accessibility
12 7 (0.55%) NCSC
12 7 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.39%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.24%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.16%) EMIR
15 2 (0.16%) GRC
15 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 492 (38.65%) Active Directory
2 216 (16.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 141 (11.08%) Hyper-V
4 126 (9.90%) Docker
5 78 (6.13%) vSphere
6 70 (5.50%) Virtual Machines
7 59 (4.63%) 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%) Microsoft App-V
18 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 234 (18.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 205 (16.10%) Kubernetes
3 152 (11.94%) Ansible
4 74 (5.81%) Grafana
5 65 (5.11%) SCCM
6 54 (4.24%) Single Sign-On
7 38 (2.99%) Prometheus
8 31 (2.44%) Puppet
9 26 (2.04%) vCenter Server
10 23 (1.81%) Argo
11 22 (1.73%) ZABBIX
12 20 (1.57%) Proxmox
13 18 (1.41%) FortiGate
13 18 (1.41%) QRadar
14 15 (1.18%) Graylog
15 14 (1.10%) Packer
16 12 (0.94%) Progress Chef
17 11 (0.86%) Jamf Pro
18 10 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 10 (0.79%) VxRail
Vendors
1 851 (66.85%) Microsoft
2 256 (20.11%) VMware
3 99 (7.78%) Cisco
4 94 (7.38%) ServiceNow
5 82 (6.44%) Splunk
6 67 (5.26%) Veeam
7 44 (3.46%) Oracle
8 41 (3.22%) Red Hat
9 40 (3.14%) Citrix
10 34 (2.67%) Sage
11 33 (2.59%) Meraki
12 31 (2.44%) SolarWinds
13 30 (2.36%) Dell
14 29 (2.28%) SAP
14 29 (2.28%) Sophos
15 28 (2.20%) Dynatrace
16 25 (1.96%) Fortinet
17 24 (1.89%) Apple
17 24 (1.89%) CyberArk
17 24 (1.89%) Google