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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 76 106
Rank change year-on-year -66 +30 -20
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,183 1,508 2,204
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.42% 3.88% 2.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.95% 12.16% 7.89%
Number of salaries quoted 897 932 1,782
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £35,025
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,938 £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 £74,500 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,850 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.71% +6.36% -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 14,887 12,398 27,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.89% 31.94% 31.22%
Number of salaries quoted 10,611 8,396 22,732
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,500 £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 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -13 515 £70,000 -6.67% 145
North of England -97 187 £47,500 -5.71% 66
South East -60 182 £55,000 -4.35% 117
Midlands -52 124 £48,000 -4.00% 40
North West -95 95 £50,051 +8.81% 40
South West -44 84 £55,000 +15.79% 51
East of England -29 81 £57,500 +21.05% 33
East Midlands -4 73 £47,500 +35.71% 18
Yorkshire -26 64 £45,000 -21.74% 16
West Midlands -89 50 £48,000 -5.37% 22
North East -33 28 £45,000 -23.40% 10
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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
1 175 (14.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 154 (13.02%) SharePoint
3 37 (3.13%) IIS
4 22 (1.86%) Confluence
5 2 (0.17%) Apache
5 2 (0.17%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.085%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.085%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.085%) Site Server
Applications
1 70 (5.92%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.085%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.085%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (0.42%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.25%) Markit EDM
2 3 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.085%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.085%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.085%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.085%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 762 (64.41%) Azure
2 437 (36.94%) Microsoft 365
3 297 (25.11%) Entra ID
4 203 (17.16%) AWS
5 123 (10.40%) Azure DevOps
6 103 (8.71%) Power Platform
7 89 (7.52%) GitHub
8 80 (6.76%) SaaS
9 79 (6.68%) IaaS
10 73 (6.17%) OneDrive
11 61 (5.16%) Azure Monitor
12 60 (5.07%) GitHub Actions
13 56 (4.73%) GCP
14 55 (4.65%) Azure AKS
15 54 (4.56%) Azure Sentinel
16 49 (4.14%) PaaS
17 48 (4.06%) Azure Key Vault
17 48 (4.06%) Power Automate
18 41 (3.47%) Azure Logic Apps
18 41 (3.47%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 246 (20.79%) Firewall
2 233 (19.70%) DNS
3 141 (11.92%) VPN
4 139 (11.75%) DHCP
5 101 (8.54%) TCP/IP
6 68 (5.75%) WAN
7 67 (5.66%) LAN
8 66 (5.58%) Network Security
9 46 (3.89%) VLAN
10 44 (3.72%) Wi-Fi
11 34 (2.87%) SAN
12 33 (2.79%) VoIP
13 27 (2.28%) Broadband
14 21 (1.78%) Wireless
15 16 (1.35%) Kerberos
16 13 (1.10%) BGP
16 13 (1.10%) HTTP
16 13 (1.10%) SSL
17 12 (1.01%) Internet
17 12 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (11.58%) SQL Server
2 76 (6.42%) Power BI
3 60 (5.07%) Azure SQL Database
4 34 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
5 30 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (2.20%) MySQL
7 23 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 19 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 17 (1.44%) Relational Database
10 14 (1.18%) MongoDB
10 14 (1.18%) NoSQL
11 12 (1.01%) Tableau
12 9 (0.76%) Data Lake
12 9 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (0.59%) InfluxDB
14 6 (0.51%) Metadata
15 5 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
15 5 (0.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 3 (0.25%) DynamoDB
16 3 (0.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 90 (7.61%) Git
2 64 (5.41%) JIRA
3 59 (4.99%) GitLab
4 57 (4.82%) Jenkins
5 32 (2.70%) Bitbucket
6 16 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
7 14 (1.18%) TeamCity
8 13 (1.10%) Metasploit
9 12 (1.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 10 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
11 9 (0.76%) Burp Suite
12 6 (0.51%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.51%) Robot Framework
13 5 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.42%) TestRail
14 4 (0.34%) Cypress.io
14 4 (0.34%) MLflow
14 4 (0.34%) Selenium
15 3 (0.25%) Artifactory
15 3 (0.25%) Terragrunt
General
1 345 (29.16%) Social Skills
2 200 (16.91%) Finance
3 159 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (7.10%) Law
5 49 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 49 (4.14%) Organisational Skills
6 47 (3.97%) Legal
7 44 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (3.72%) Retail
8 32 (2.70%) Public Sector
9 24 (2.03%) Aerospace
9 24 (2.03%) Banking
10 20 (1.69%) Advertising
10 20 (1.69%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.10%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.59%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.51%) Aviation
13 6 (0.51%) Police
14 5 (0.42%) Electronics
14 5 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 196 (16.57%) Senior
2 147 (12.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 137 (11.58%) Analyst
4 132 (11.16%) Support Engineer
5 129 (10.90%) Azure Engineer
6 116 (9.81%) IT Support
7 104 (8.79%) IT Engineer
8 95 (8.03%) Cloud Engineer
9 85 (7.19%) DevOps Engineer
10 75 (6.34%) Security Engineer
11 69 (5.83%) IT Support Engineer
12 53 (4.48%) 2nd Line Support
12 53 (4.48%) Lead
12 53 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
13 52 (4.40%) Developer
14 44 (3.72%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 41 (3.47%) Security Analyst
15 41 (3.47%) Systems Engineer
16 36 (3.04%) Architect
17 35 (2.96%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (6.93%) .NET
2 62 (5.24%) OAuth
2 62 (5.24%) SAML
3 59 (4.99%) REST
4 55 (4.65%) OpenID
5 49 (4.14%) LDAP
6 39 (3.30%) ARM Templates
6 39 (3.30%) JSON
7 37 (3.13%) .NET Core
7 37 (3.13%) YAML
8 36 (3.04%) HTML
9 35 (2.96%) Microsoft Graph
10 34 (2.87%) CSS
11 33 (2.79%) SOAP
12 25 (2.11%) SPFx
13 24 (2.03%) GraphQL
14 19 (1.61%) HTML5 Canvas
15 18 (1.52%) React
16 16 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
17 14 (1.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 92 (7.78%) Onboarding
2 69 (5.83%) Hybrid Cloud
3 59 (4.99%) Cloud Native
4 56 (4.73%) Security Posture
5 55 (4.65%) Management Information System
6 45 (3.80%) Driving Licence
7 43 (3.63%) Cyber Defence
7 43 (3.63%) Cyber Threat
8 42 (3.55%) Security Operations Centre
9 37 (3.13%) Data Centre
10 35 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
11 34 (2.87%) Cyberattack
12 32 (2.70%) PKI
13 31 (2.62%) Public Cloud
14 29 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
15 21 (1.78%) CMDB
16 20 (1.69%) Replication
17 19 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
17 19 (1.61%) Private Cloud
18 17 (1.44%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 561 (47.42%) Windows
2 269 (22.74%) Windows Server
3 268 (22.65%) Linux
4 77 (6.51%) Windows 10
5 49 (4.14%) Mac OS
6 48 (4.06%) Apple iOS
7 47 (3.97%) Android
8 41 (3.47%) VMS
9 37 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 30 (2.54%) Windows Server 2019
11 29 (2.45%) CentOS
12 26 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 23 (1.94%) Ubuntu
14 12 (1.01%) Unix
15 5 (0.42%) Debian
15 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.34%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.34%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.17%) AIX
17 2 (0.17%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (25.11%) Problem-Solving
2 274 (23.16%) Infrastructure as Code
3 265 (22.40%) CI/CD
4 251 (21.22%) Cybersecurity
5 247 (20.88%) DevOps
6 212 (17.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 202 (17.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 199 (16.82%) ITIL
9 155 (13.10%) Incident Response
10 151 (12.76%) Mentoring
11 145 (12.26%) Agile
12 143 (12.09%) Disaster Recovery
13 139 (11.75%) Root Cause Analysis
14 122 (10.31%) Containerisation
15 118 (9.97%) SIEM
16 113 (9.55%) High Availability
17 107 (9.04%) Cloud Security
18 106 (8.96%) AI
19 101 (8.54%) Roadmaps
20 97 (8.20%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 476 (40.24%) Python
2 293 (24.77%) Bash
3 253 (21.39%) SQL
4 89 (7.52%) C#
5 76 (6.42%) Bicep
6 75 (6.34%) JavaScript
7 51 (4.31%) T-SQL
8 31 (2.62%) Kusto Query Language
9 27 (2.28%) Java
10 24 (2.03%) TypeScript
11 17 (1.44%) C++
12 14 (1.18%) Perl
13 13 (1.10%) VBScript
14 11 (0.93%) PHP
14 11 (0.93%) VB
14 11 (0.93%) VBA
15 9 (0.76%) Go
16 8 (0.68%) VB.NET
17 7 (0.59%) C
18 6 (0.51%) Korn
Qualifications
1 142 (12.00%) Degree
2 139 (11.75%) Security Cleared
3 120 (10.14%) Azure Certification
4 114 (9.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 84 (7.10%) SC Cleared
6 47 (3.97%) CISSP
7 43 (3.63%) Cisco Certification
8 42 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 36 (3.04%) CompTIA Security+
10 35 (2.96%) DV Cleared
11 32 (2.70%) CCNA
12 29 (2.45%) OSCP
13 26 (2.20%) CREST Certified
14 25 (2.11%) AWS Certification
14 25 (2.11%) DBS Check
15 24 (2.03%) CEH
15 24 (2.03%) GIAC
16 16 (1.35%) CompTIA CySA+
17 12 (1.01%) CCNP
17 12 (1.01%) CCSAM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (11.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 101 (8.54%) NIST
3 54 (4.56%) GDPR
4 43 (3.63%) Cyber Essentials
5 40 (3.38%) SLA
6 25 (2.11%) NCSC
7 19 (1.61%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.35%) ISO 22301
9 14 (1.18%) PCI DSS
9 14 (1.18%) SOC 2
10 13 (1.10%) QA
11 12 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 10 (0.85%) Accessibility
14 6 (0.51%) DICOM
15 5 (0.42%) PMO
16 4 (0.34%) GRC
17 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
17 3 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 442 (37.36%) Active Directory
2 167 (14.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 128 (10.82%) Docker
4 121 (10.23%) Hyper-V
5 57 (4.82%) vSphere
6 34 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
8 21 (1.78%) BitLocker
9 16 (1.35%) VMware NSX
10 11 (0.93%) Firmware
10 11 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.85%) KVM
12 8 (0.68%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.68%) Squid
13 6 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.34%) iptables
15 4 (0.34%) Terminal Services
16 3 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 2 (0.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 279 (23.58%) Terraform
2 203 (17.16%) Kubernetes
3 184 (15.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 136 (11.50%) Ansible
5 58 (4.90%) Grafana
6 56 (4.73%) Single Sign-On
7 45 (3.80%) SCCM
8 43 (3.63%) Prometheus
9 23 (1.94%) Jamf Pro
10 20 (1.69%) vCenter Server
11 18 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 18 (1.52%) Packer
11 18 (1.52%) ZABBIX
12 17 (1.44%) Nessus
13 16 (1.35%) QRadar
14 15 (1.27%) VxRail
15 13 (1.10%) Graylog
15 13 (1.10%) Proxmox
16 12 (1.01%) Argo
16 12 (1.01%) Nagios
Vendors
1 693 (58.58%) Microsoft
2 220 (18.60%) VMware
3 95 (8.03%) Cisco
4 74 (6.26%) Splunk
5 56 (4.73%) ServiceNow
6 54 (4.56%) Red Hat
7 49 (4.14%) Veeam
8 35 (2.96%) CrowdStrike
9 33 (2.79%) Meraki
9 33 (2.79%) Oracle
10 29 (2.45%) Dell
10 29 (2.45%) Google
11 28 (2.37%) Apple
12 27 (2.28%) Fortinet
13 26 (2.20%) Citrix
13 26 (2.20%) Commvault
14 24 (2.03%) Tenable
15 23 (1.94%) Palo Alto
15 23 (1.94%) Sophos
16 21 (1.78%) SolarWinds