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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 89 92
Rank change year-on-year -49 +3 -3
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,087 1,231 2,290
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.50% 3.36% 2.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.33% 9.90% 8.67%
Number of salaries quoted 858 1,010 1,971
10th Percentile £32,125 £37,500 £35,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,625 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

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 13,042 12,430 26,414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.98% 33.93% 33.38%
Number of salaries quoted 9,317 9,362 22,267
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,624
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,683 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £63,217 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.74% +8.33% -7.69%

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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 6 April 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 April 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 -15 498 £70,000 -12.50% 123
South East -59 189 £57,500 -4.17% 97
North of England -56 133 £47,500 -9.52% 66
Midlands -53 97 £52,500 +5.00% 45
South West -32 94 £55,000 +15.79% 60
East of England -45 64 £40,000 -27.27% 34
North West -40 63 £55,000 +17.02% 35
Yorkshire -37 58 £47,500 -11.63% 16
East Midlands -25 54 £55,000 +15.79% 16
West Midlands -52 42 £48,000 -4.00% 29
North East -30 12 £45,000 -21.74% 15
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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
1 170 (15.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 127 (11.68%) SharePoint
3 31 (2.85%) IIS
4 20 (1.84%) Exchange Server 2003
5 14 (1.29%) Confluence
6 6 (0.55%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.18%) Apache
7 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.18%) CMS
7 2 (0.18%) WordPress
8 1 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.092%) Site Server
Applications
1 48 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.28%) CATIA
4 3 (0.28%) Siemens NX
4 3 (0.28%) SOLIDWORKS
4 3 (0.28%) Windchill
5 1 (0.092%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.092%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.28%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.28%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.18%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.092%) Actimize
5 1 (0.092%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.092%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.092%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 691 (63.57%) Azure
2 378 (34.77%) Microsoft 365
3 274 (25.21%) Entra ID
4 191 (17.57%) AWS
5 102 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
6 92 (8.46%) Power Platform
7 85 (7.82%) GitHub
8 69 (6.35%) GCP
9 66 (6.07%) SaaS
10 62 (5.70%) GitHub Actions
11 54 (4.97%) OneDrive
12 53 (4.88%) PaaS
13 51 (4.69%) IaaS
14 43 (3.96%) Azure Monitor
14 43 (3.96%) Google Workspace
15 38 (3.50%) Azure Sentinel
16 37 (3.40%) Azure Logic Apps
17 36 (3.31%) Nutanix
17 36 (3.31%) Power Automate
18 35 (3.22%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 209 (19.23%) DNS
2 195 (17.94%) Firewall
3 156 (14.35%) DHCP
4 118 (10.86%) VPN
5 97 (8.92%) TCP/IP
6 55 (5.06%) Network Security
7 54 (4.97%) WAN
8 53 (4.88%) LAN
9 47 (4.32%) VLAN
10 43 (3.96%) Wi-Fi
11 34 (3.13%) VoIP
12 31 (2.85%) SAN
13 29 (2.67%) Wireless
14 28 (2.58%) Broadband
15 23 (2.12%) SD-WAN
16 14 (1.29%) VSAN
17 12 (1.10%) WinSCP
18 11 (1.01%) NAS
19 10 (0.92%) Cisco IOS
19 10 (0.92%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (11.68%) SQL Server
2 78 (7.18%) Power BI
3 31 (2.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 27 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (2.39%) Oracle Database
6 25 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 24 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
7 24 (2.21%) MySQL
7 24 (2.21%) Oracle Database 10g
8 21 (1.93%) Relational Database
9 16 (1.47%) NoSQL
10 15 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 14 (1.29%) Tableau
12 11 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (0.74%) MongoDB
14 7 (0.64%) InfluxDB
15 6 (0.55%) Data Lake
16 5 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
16 5 (0.46%) Metadata
17 4 (0.37%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 83 (7.64%) Git
2 61 (5.61%) Jenkins
2 61 (5.61%) JIRA
3 45 (4.14%) GitLab
4 26 (2.39%) Bitbucket
5 20 (1.84%) Octopus Deploy
6 14 (1.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 13 (1.20%) Metasploit
7 13 (1.20%) TeamCity
8 9 (0.83%) Burp Suite
9 8 (0.74%) CircleCI
9 8 (0.74%) Robot Framework
9 8 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
10 5 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.46%) TestRail
11 4 (0.37%) MLflow
11 4 (0.37%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.28%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.28%) Balsamiq
12 3 (0.28%) Cypress.io
General
1 350 (32.20%) Social Skills
2 203 (18.68%) Finance
3 132 (12.14%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (6.26%) Law
5 47 (4.32%) Organisational Skills
6 42 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
7 39 (3.59%) Legal
7 39 (3.59%) Retail
8 33 (3.04%) Public Sector
9 32 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (2.76%) Banking
11 23 (2.12%) Telecoms
12 18 (1.66%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.29%) Advertising
14 8 (0.74%) Front Office
15 7 (0.64%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.55%) Investment Banking
17 5 (0.46%) Electronics
17 5 (0.46%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 159 (14.63%) Senior
2 142 (13.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 129 (11.87%) Support Engineer
4 106 (9.75%) Analyst
5 105 (9.66%) Azure Engineer
6 98 (9.02%) IT Support
7 75 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
7 75 (6.90%) IT Engineer
8 74 (6.81%) Security Engineer
9 64 (5.89%) DevOps Engineer
10 55 (5.06%) 3rd Line Support
10 55 (5.06%) IT Support Engineer
11 53 (4.88%) Lead
12 52 (4.78%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 49 (4.51%) 2nd Line Support
14 47 (4.32%) Developer
15 43 (3.96%) Platform Engineer
16 41 (3.77%) Architect
17 35 (3.22%) Security Analyst
18 32 (2.94%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (5.61%) .NET
2 55 (5.06%) REST
3 51 (4.69%) OAuth
4 47 (4.32%) SAML
5 45 (4.14%) OpenID
6 35 (3.22%) LDAP
7 31 (2.85%) SOAP
8 29 (2.67%) .NET Core
9 27 (2.48%) JSON
10 25 (2.30%) GraphQL
10 25 (2.30%) YAML
11 23 (2.12%) ARM Templates
12 20 (1.84%) Microsoft Graph
13 16 (1.47%) CSS
13 16 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
13 16 (1.47%) Node.js
14 15 (1.38%) React
14 15 (1.38%) SPFx
15 14 (1.29%) HTML
16 11 (1.01%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 88 (8.10%) Onboarding
2 67 (6.16%) Hybrid Cloud
3 57 (5.24%) Security Posture
4 42 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
5 41 (3.77%) Driving Licence
5 41 (3.77%) Management Information System
6 40 (3.68%) Cyber Threat
7 38 (3.50%) Cyber Defence
8 36 (3.31%) Cloud Native
9 31 (2.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 31 (2.85%) Cyberattack
10 29 (2.67%) Security Operations Centre
11 28 (2.58%) Data Centre
12 25 (2.30%) Public Cloud
13 24 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
14 20 (1.84%) CMDB
14 20 (1.84%) PKI
15 19 (1.75%) Replication
16 18 (1.66%) Private Cloud
17 17 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 510 (46.92%) Windows
2 255 (23.46%) Windows Server
3 233 (21.44%) Linux
4 68 (6.26%) Windows 10
5 54 (4.97%) Mac OS
6 38 (3.50%) Unix
7 36 (3.31%) Android
7 36 (3.31%) Windows Server 2016
8 34 (3.13%) Apple iOS
9 30 (2.76%) Windows Server 2019
10 23 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 22 (2.02%) CentOS
11 22 (2.02%) Solaris
11 22 (2.02%) VMS
12 20 (1.84%) HPUX
12 20 (1.84%) Windows 7
12 20 (1.84%) Windows Server 2003
12 20 (1.84%) Windows Server 2008
13 16 (1.47%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (28.33%) Problem-Solving
2 229 (21.07%) DevOps
3 212 (19.50%) CI/CD
4 208 (19.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 205 (18.86%) ITIL
6 201 (18.49%) Cybersecurity
6 201 (18.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 178 (16.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 142 (13.06%) Incident Response
9 141 (12.97%) Disaster Recovery
10 133 (12.24%) Mentoring
11 118 (10.86%) Agile
12 116 (10.67%) Root Cause Analysis
13 101 (9.29%) Cloud Security
14 100 (9.20%) Task Automation
15 97 (8.92%) SIEM
16 96 (8.83%) Containerisation
17 93 (8.56%) Roadmaps
18 87 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
18 87 (8.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 404 (37.17%) Python
2 250 (23.00%) Bash
3 218 (20.06%) SQL
4 67 (6.16%) JavaScript
5 64 (5.89%) C#
6 61 (5.61%) Bicep
7 51 (4.69%) T-SQL
8 29 (2.67%) Kusto Query Language
9 27 (2.48%) Perl
10 17 (1.56%) Java
11 12 (1.10%) Go
12 10 (0.92%) TypeScript
13 9 (0.83%) C++
13 9 (0.83%) VB.NET
14 7 (0.64%) C
14 7 (0.64%) PHP
14 7 (0.64%) VB
15 6 (0.55%) Delphi
15 6 (0.55%) Ruby
16 5 (0.46%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 147 (13.52%) Degree
2 138 (12.70%) Security Cleared
3 93 (8.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 89 (8.19%) Azure Certification
5 81 (7.45%) SC Cleared
6 56 (5.15%) DV Cleared
7 50 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 44 (4.05%) CISSP
9 31 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (2.30%) AWS Certification
11 24 (2.21%) CREST Certified
11 24 (2.21%) GIAC
12 23 (2.12%) OSCP
13 22 (2.02%) CEH
14 20 (1.84%) CCNA
14 20 (1.84%) CompTIA CySA+
14 20 (1.84%) CompTIA Security+
15 16 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 15 (1.38%) DBS Check
17 12 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (13.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 127 (11.68%) NIST
3 62 (5.70%) SLA
4 59 (5.43%) GDPR
5 35 (3.22%) NCSC
6 27 (2.48%) Cyber Essentials
7 20 (1.84%) ISO 22301
8 18 (1.66%) Data Quality
9 16 (1.47%) Accessibility
9 16 (1.47%) QA
10 14 (1.29%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (1.29%) PCI DSS
11 11 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (0.92%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.55%) DICOM
14 5 (0.46%) GRC
15 4 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.18%) COBIT
16 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.18%) HL7
System Software
1 409 (37.63%) Active Directory
2 133 (12.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 110 (10.12%) Docker
4 102 (9.38%) Hyper-V
5 44 (4.05%) vSphere
6 30 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (1.47%) Firmware
7 16 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (0.83%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.74%) BitLocker
10 8 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.46%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.37%) iptables
12 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.37%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.37%) XenApp
12 4 (0.37%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.18%) Samba
Systems Management
1 226 (20.79%) Terraform
2 163 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 157 (14.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 132 (12.14%) Ansible
5 48 (4.42%) Grafana
6 40 (3.68%) SCCM
7 39 (3.59%) Single Sign-On
8 30 (2.76%) Prometheus
9 21 (1.93%) Jamf Pro
10 18 (1.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 18 (1.66%) vCenter Server
11 13 (1.20%) Nessus
12 12 (1.10%) VxRail
13 9 (0.83%) Puppet
14 8 (0.74%) FortiGate
14 8 (0.74%) Progress Chef
15 7 (0.64%) logstash
15 7 (0.64%) WSUS
16 6 (0.55%) Nagios
16 6 (0.55%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 598 (55.01%) Microsoft
2 224 (20.61%) VMware
3 101 (9.29%) Cisco
4 52 (4.78%) Splunk
5 51 (4.69%) ServiceNow
6 47 (4.32%) Oracle
7 46 (4.23%) Veeam
8 44 (4.05%) Red Hat
9 34 (3.13%) Google
10 33 (3.04%) Commvault
10 33 (3.04%) Palo Alto
11 30 (2.76%) CrowdStrike
12 28 (2.58%) Meraki
13 26 (2.39%) Dell
14 25 (2.30%) Citrix
15 24 (2.21%) CyberArk
15 24 (2.21%) Fortinet
16 22 (2.02%) Apple
16 22 (2.02%) Atlassian
17 20 (1.84%) Dynatrace