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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 83 105
Rank change year-on-year -60 +22 -33
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,303 1,563 1,737
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.35% 3.56% 2.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.78% 12.64% 8.00%
Number of salaries quoted 966 1,043 1,252
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £36,525
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £89,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year - -0.86% -3.33%

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 16,748 12,366 21,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.31% 28.20% 29.70%
Number of salaries quoted 12,262 8,253 15,490
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 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.11% -5.84%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £106,250
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 27 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 27 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 -32 475 £70,000 -3.45% 90
South East -22 249 £52,500 -8.70% 67
North of England -82 225 £50,000 +2.04% 66
Midlands -34 161 £52,500 +5.00% 47
North West -74 129 £50,051 +8.81% 51
East of England -36 103 £57,500 +15.00% 30
South West -82 85 £55,000 +20.88% 43
East Midlands -2 83 £42,500 +21.43% 19
West Midlands -61 78 £55,000 - 28
Yorkshire -41 60 £42,500 -19.05% 11
North East -31 36 £50,000 +5.26% 5
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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
1 225 (17.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 215 (16.50%) SharePoint
3 52 (3.99%) IIS
4 35 (2.69%) Confluence
5 13 (1.00%) nginx
6 7 (0.54%) Apache
7 5 (0.38%) 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 (5.83%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (1.84%) 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 23 (1.77%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.61%) 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
1 822 (63.09%) Azure
2 503 (38.60%) Microsoft 365
3 371 (28.47%) Entra ID
4 245 (18.80%) AWS
5 153 (11.74%) Azure DevOps
6 106 (8.14%) OneDrive
7 102 (7.83%) Power Platform
8 99 (7.60%) SaaS
9 97 (7.44%) IaaS
10 93 (7.14%) GitHub
11 77 (5.91%) Azure Sentinel
12 73 (5.60%) Azure Monitor
13 72 (5.53%) Power Automate
14 70 (5.37%) Azure AKS
15 64 (4.91%) GCP
15 64 (4.91%) PaaS
16 63 (4.83%) Azure Key Vault
17 58 (4.45%) GitHub Actions
18 51 (3.91%) Datadog
19 48 (3.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 299 (22.95%) Firewall
2 280 (21.49%) DNS
3 184 (14.12%) DHCP
3 184 (14.12%) VPN
4 133 (10.21%) TCP/IP
5 80 (6.14%) WAN
6 71 (5.45%) LAN
7 68 (5.22%) Network Security
8 65 (4.99%) VLAN
9 49 (3.76%) Wireless
10 39 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
11 37 (2.84%) SAN
12 30 (2.30%) Kerberos
13 22 (1.69%) NAS
13 22 (1.69%) SSL
14 19 (1.46%) Internet
15 18 (1.38%) HTTP
16 15 (1.15%) VoIP
17 13 (1.00%) VSAN
18 10 (0.77%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (10.05%) SQL Server
2 83 (6.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 58 (4.45%) Power BI
4 24 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.69%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.23%) Relational Database
8 14 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 13 (1.00%) MySQL
10 12 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (0.92%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.61%) InfluxDB
13 6 (0.46%) Power Query
13 6 (0.46%) Redis
14 5 (0.38%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.38%) Metadata
14 5 (0.38%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.31%) Db2
15 4 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 101 (7.75%) Git
2 94 (7.21%) JIRA
3 65 (4.99%) GitLab
4 57 (4.37%) Jenkins
5 26 (2.00%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
7 12 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 11 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
9 10 (0.77%) TeamCity
10 8 (0.61%) Robot Framework
10 8 (0.61%) TestRail
11 6 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.46%) Selenium
11 6 (0.46%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.38%) Postman
13 3 (0.23%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.23%) JMeter
13 3 (0.23%) MSI
13 3 (0.23%) Terragrunt
14 2 (0.15%) NUnit
General
1 444 (34.08%) Social Skills
2 215 (16.50%) Finance
3 180 (13.81%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (8.14%) Law
5 56 (4.30%) Legal
6 54 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 48 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
8 43 (3.30%) Retail
9 38 (2.92%) Banking
10 35 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
11 33 (2.53%) Manufacturing
12 30 (2.30%) Public Sector
13 27 (2.07%) Aerospace
14 16 (1.23%) Advertising
15 12 (0.92%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.69%) Front Office
18 8 (0.61%) Investment Banking
19 7 (0.54%) Military
19 7 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 202 (15.50%) Senior
2 180 (13.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 142 (10.90%) Analyst
4 132 (10.13%) Support Engineer
5 131 (10.05%) Azure Engineer
6 128 (9.82%) Cloud Engineer
7 127 (9.75%) IT Engineer
8 116 (8.90%) IT Support
9 96 (7.37%) DevOps Engineer
10 68 (5.22%) Platform Engineer
11 67 (5.14%) IT Support Engineer
12 66 (5.07%) Security Engineer
13 63 (4.83%) Lead
14 56 (4.30%) Developer
14 56 (4.30%) Systems Engineer
15 50 (3.84%) Consultant
15 50 (3.84%) Support Analyst
16 46 (3.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 45 (3.45%) Automation Engineer
18 43 (3.30%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 337 (25.86%) Terraform
2 79 (6.06%) .NET
3 52 (3.99%) ARM Templates
4 45 (3.45%) REST
4 45 (3.45%) YAML
5 42 (3.22%) SAML
6 41 (3.15%) HTML
7 38 (2.92%) Microsoft Graph
7 38 (2.92%) OAuth
8 36 (2.76%) OpenID
9 35 (2.69%) LDAP
10 32 (2.46%) JSON
11 31 (2.38%) .NET Core
11 31 (2.38%) CSS
12 25 (1.92%) SPFx
13 19 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
13 19 (1.46%) HTML5 Canvas
14 14 (1.07%) ASP.NET
14 14 (1.07%) React
14 14 (1.07%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 113 (8.67%) Onboarding
2 83 (6.37%) Cloud Native
3 68 (5.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 68 (5.22%) Management Information System
4 66 (5.07%) Security Posture
5 65 (4.99%) Driving Licence
6 47 (3.61%) Data Centre
7 42 (3.22%) Public Cloud
7 42 (3.22%) Security Operations Centre
8 40 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
9 39 (2.99%) PKI
10 36 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
11 29 (2.23%) Replication
12 28 (2.15%) Private Cloud
13 26 (2.00%) Cyber Defence
14 21 (1.61%) CMDB
15 20 (1.53%) Clustering
16 19 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
17 18 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
18 17 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 647 (49.65%) Windows
2 307 (23.56%) Linux
3 300 (23.02%) Windows Server
4 78 (5.99%) Windows 10
5 52 (3.99%) Apple iOS
6 44 (3.38%) Android
7 42 (3.22%) Mac OS
8 38 (2.92%) VMS
9 34 (2.61%) Ubuntu
9 34 (2.61%) Windows Server 2016
10 31 (2.38%) CentOS
11 29 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 26 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
13 12 (0.92%) Unix
14 9 (0.69%) Rocky
15 5 (0.38%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.38%) Solaris
16 4 (0.31%) Debian
16 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
17 3 (0.23%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (28.40%) Problem-Solving
2 319 (24.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 309 (23.71%) CI/CD
4 287 (22.03%) DevOps
5 282 (21.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 271 (20.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 271 (20.80%) ITIL
7 237 (18.19%) Cybersecurity
8 176 (13.51%) Disaster Recovery
9 160 (12.28%) Root Cause Analysis
10 155 (11.90%) Incident Response
11 154 (11.82%) Agile
12 149 (11.44%) High Availability
12 149 (11.44%) Mentoring
13 144 (11.05%) AI
14 131 (10.05%) Containerisation
15 128 (9.82%) Observability
16 124 (9.52%) Cloud Security
17 123 (9.44%) Platform Engineering
18 120 (9.21%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 499 (38.30%) Python
2 287 (22.03%) Bash
3 265 (20.34%) SQL
4 107 (8.21%) Bicep
5 89 (6.83%) C#
6 87 (6.68%) JavaScript
7 49 (3.76%) Kusto Query Language
8 40 (3.07%) Java
9 33 (2.53%) TypeScript
10 32 (2.46%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.61%) VBScript
12 19 (1.46%) C++
13 18 (1.38%) Perl
14 13 (1.00%) PHP
15 11 (0.84%) Ruby
16 10 (0.77%) VB
16 10 (0.77%) VBA
17 9 (0.69%) Go
18 7 (0.54%) C
19 6 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 168 (12.89%) Security Cleared
2 157 (12.05%) Degree
3 147 (11.28%) Azure Certification
4 135 (10.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 114 (8.75%) SC Cleared
6 55 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 54 (4.14%) Cisco Certification
7 54 (4.14%) CompTIA Security+
8 50 (3.84%) CISSP
9 48 (3.68%) DV Cleared
10 41 (3.15%) CCNA
11 28 (2.15%) CEH
12 24 (1.84%) DBS Check
13 22 (1.69%) AWS Certification
14 20 (1.53%) GIAC
14 20 (1.53%) OSCP
15 19 (1.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 16 (1.23%) CISM
17 15 (1.15%) CCNP
18 14 (1.07%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (7.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 63 (4.83%) Cyber Essentials
3 60 (4.60%) NIST
4 46 (3.53%) GDPR
5 44 (3.38%) SLA
6 25 (1.92%) QA
7 19 (1.46%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.23%) SOC 2
9 13 (1.00%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.54%) PMO
12 6 (0.46%) ISO 22301
13 5 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.31%) Accessibility
14 4 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.31%) NCSC
15 3 (0.23%) ISAE 3402
16 2 (0.15%) EMIR
16 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 483 (37.07%) Active Directory
2 216 (16.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 146 (11.20%) Hyper-V
4 132 (10.13%) Docker
5 75 (5.76%) vSphere
6 57 (4.37%) Virtual Machines
7 50 (3.84%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.77%) BitLocker
9 20 (1.53%) VMware NSX
10 13 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
11 9 (0.69%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.61%) Firmware
12 8 (0.61%) KVM
12 8 (0.61%) Squid
13 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.077%) Ceph
16 1 (0.077%) Samba
Systems Management
1 230 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 223 (17.11%) Kubernetes
3 164 (12.59%) Ansible
4 80 (6.14%) Grafana
5 67 (5.14%) SCCM
6 47 (3.61%) Single Sign-On
7 43 (3.30%) Prometheus
8 23 (1.77%) ZABBIX
9 21 (1.61%) QRadar
9 21 (1.61%) vCenter Server
10 20 (1.53%) Argo
10 20 (1.53%) Jamf Pro
10 20 (1.53%) Packer
10 20 (1.53%) Proxmox
11 19 (1.46%) Puppet
12 15 (1.15%) Graylog
13 13 (1.00%) FortiGate
13 13 (1.00%) VxRail
14 10 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 9 (0.69%) Nagios
Vendors
1 834 (64.01%) Microsoft
2 250 (19.19%) VMware
3 113 (8.67%) Cisco
4 108 (8.29%) ServiceNow
5 88 (6.75%) Splunk
6 59 (4.53%) Veeam
7 52 (3.99%) Red Hat
8 45 (3.45%) Oracle
9 42 (3.22%) Meraki
10 39 (2.99%) Citrix
11 34 (2.61%) Dynatrace
11 34 (2.61%) Sophos
12 31 (2.38%) Dell
13 30 (2.30%) Tenable
14 29 (2.23%) CrowdStrike
15 25 (1.92%) Apple
16 23 (1.77%) CyberArk
16 23 (1.77%) Fortinet
17 22 (1.69%) Palo Alto
18 21 (1.61%) Okta