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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 85 99
Rank change year-on-year -68 +14 -35
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,306 1,498 1,693
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.29% 3.47% 2.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.76% 12.69% 8.03%
Number of salaries quoted 940 990 1,118
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,313 £42,780 £47,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,250 £76,250 £81,500
90th Percentile £89,000 £90,000 £95,300
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 16,838 11,804 21,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.61% 27.35% 30.67%
Number of salaries quoted 12,286 7,778 13,531
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -33 472 £70,000 -3.45% 590
South East -35 240 £52,500 -8.70% 218
North of England -73 240 £50,000 - 207
Midlands -47 162 £52,500 +5.00% 117
North West -73 143 £50,000 +8.70% 114
East of England -37 101 £57,500 +21.05% 75
South West -72 86 £55,000 +15.79% 99
West Midlands -60 83 £55,000 - 69
East Midlands -33 79 £42,500 +21.43% 48
Yorkshire -40 60 £45,000 -12.83% 63
North East -36 37 £50,750 -7.73% 32
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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
1 233 (17.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 223 (17.08%) SharePoint
3 51 (3.91%) IIS
4 41 (3.14%) Confluence
5 15 (1.15%) nginx
6 8 (0.61%) Apache
7 5 (0.38%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.31%) SAS
9 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.077%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.077%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.077%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.077%) WebSphere
Applications
1 68 (5.21%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (2.76%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.46%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.38%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.23%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.077%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 804 (61.56%) Azure
2 518 (39.66%) Microsoft 365
3 402 (30.78%) Entra ID
4 246 (18.84%) AWS
5 158 (12.10%) Azure DevOps
6 110 (8.42%) OneDrive
7 107 (8.19%) Power Platform
8 106 (8.12%) SaaS
9 96 (7.35%) IaaS
10 91 (6.97%) GitHub
11 83 (6.36%) Azure Monitor
12 79 (6.05%) Azure Sentinel
13 77 (5.90%) Power Automate
14 70 (5.36%) Azure AKS
15 67 (5.13%) PaaS
16 65 (4.98%) GCP
17 62 (4.75%) Azure Key Vault
18 58 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
19 51 (3.91%) Microsoft Purview
20 50 (3.83%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 304 (23.28%) Firewall
2 292 (22.36%) DNS
3 198 (15.16%) VPN
4 197 (15.08%) DHCP
5 135 (10.34%) TCP/IP
6 83 (6.36%) WAN
7 74 (5.67%) LAN
8 67 (5.13%) VLAN
9 59 (4.52%) Network Security
10 52 (3.98%) Wireless
11 45 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
12 36 (2.76%) SAN
13 29 (2.22%) Kerberos
14 24 (1.84%) SSL
15 22 (1.68%) NAS
16 18 (1.38%) HTTP
16 18 (1.38%) Internet
17 12 (0.92%) VSAN
18 11 (0.84%) VoIP
19 10 (0.77%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (10.18%) SQL Server
2 84 (6.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 60 (4.59%) Power BI
4 22 (1.68%) MongoDB
4 22 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (1.23%) Relational Database
6 15 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (0.92%) MySQL
9 10 (0.77%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (0.61%) InfluxDB
12 7 (0.54%) Power Query
12 7 (0.54%) Redis
13 6 (0.46%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.46%) Metadata
14 5 (0.38%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.31%) Db2
15 4 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 97 (7.43%) JIRA
2 90 (6.89%) Git
3 68 (5.21%) GitLab
4 59 (4.52%) Jenkins
5 21 (1.61%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 12 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
7 10 (0.77%) TeamCity
8 9 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (0.61%) Robot Framework
9 8 (0.61%) TestRail
10 6 (0.46%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.46%) Selenium
10 6 (0.46%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.38%) Postman
11 5 (0.38%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.23%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.23%) JMeter
12 3 (0.23%) MSI
12 3 (0.23%) Terragrunt
General
1 466 (35.68%) Social Skills
2 221 (16.92%) Finance
3 180 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (7.35%) Law
5 54 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 53 (4.06%) Legal
7 52 (3.98%) Documentation Skills
8 46 (3.52%) Retail
9 43 (3.29%) Banking
10 37 (2.83%) Manufacturing
11 36 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
12 31 (2.37%) Public Sector
13 29 (2.22%) Aerospace
14 12 (0.92%) Advertising
15 11 (0.84%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (0.69%) Front Office
17 8 (0.61%) Aviation
17 8 (0.61%) Investment Banking
18 6 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 202 (15.47%) Senior
2 193 (14.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 153 (11.72%) Analyst
4 130 (9.95%) Azure Engineer
5 128 (9.80%) Cloud Engineer
5 128 (9.80%) Support Engineer
6 125 (9.57%) IT Engineer
7 105 (8.04%) IT Support
8 95 (7.27%) DevOps Engineer
9 72 (5.51%) Platform Engineer
10 68 (5.21%) Lead
11 65 (4.98%) IT Support Engineer
12 64 (4.90%) Consultant
12 64 (4.90%) Support Analyst
13 60 (4.59%) Security Engineer
14 57 (4.36%) Systems Engineer
15 52 (3.98%) Developer
16 46 (3.52%) Automation Engineer
17 43 (3.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 42 (3.22%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 338 (25.88%) Terraform
2 70 (5.36%) .NET
3 54 (4.13%) ARM Templates
4 47 (3.60%) REST
5 43 (3.29%) YAML
6 40 (3.06%) Microsoft Graph
7 39 (2.99%) SAML
8 37 (2.83%) OpenID
9 35 (2.68%) HTML
9 35 (2.68%) LDAP
9 35 (2.68%) OAuth
10 29 (2.22%) JSON
11 26 (1.99%) CSS
12 25 (1.91%) .NET Core
12 25 (1.91%) SPFx
13 20 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
14 16 (1.23%) HTML5 Canvas
15 13 (1.00%) RESTful
16 12 (0.92%) Kafka
16 12 (0.92%) React
Miscellaneous
1 123 (9.42%) Onboarding
2 84 (6.43%) Cloud Native
3 75 (5.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 74 (5.67%) Driving Licence
5 73 (5.59%) Management Information System
6 67 (5.13%) Security Posture
7 48 (3.68%) Data Centre
8 45 (3.45%) PKI
9 43 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
9 43 (3.29%) Public Cloud
10 41 (3.14%) Security Operations Centre
11 35 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
12 32 (2.45%) Replication
13 25 (1.91%) Private Cloud
14 24 (1.84%) Cyber Defence
15 19 (1.45%) CMDB
15 19 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
16 18 (1.38%) Clustering
17 16 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
17 16 (1.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 651 (49.85%) Windows
2 307 (23.51%) Windows Server
3 305 (23.35%) Linux
4 88 (6.74%) Windows 10
5 52 (3.98%) Apple iOS
6 43 (3.29%) Android
7 41 (3.14%) Ubuntu
8 38 (2.91%) VMS
9 35 (2.68%) Mac OS
10 34 (2.60%) CentOS
11 33 (2.53%) Windows Server 2016
12 30 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 27 (2.07%) Windows Server 2019
14 17 (1.30%) Unix
15 15 (1.15%) Rocky
16 7 (0.54%) Solaris
17 5 (0.38%) CoreOS
18 4 (0.31%) Debian
18 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
19 3 (0.23%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (29.86%) Problem-Solving
2 322 (24.66%) Infrastructure as Code
3 298 (22.82%) CI/CD
4 295 (22.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 290 (22.21%) DevOps
6 286 (21.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 267 (20.44%) ITIL
8 243 (18.61%) Cybersecurity
9 184 (14.09%) Disaster Recovery
10 160 (12.25%) AI
11 154 (11.79%) Agile
11 154 (11.79%) Mentoring
12 149 (11.41%) Root Cause Analysis
13 137 (10.49%) High Availability
13 137 (10.49%) Incident Response
14 132 (10.11%) Cloud Security
15 130 (9.95%) Platform Engineering
16 128 (9.80%) Observability
17 123 (9.42%) Migration
18 120 (9.19%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 497 (38.06%) Python
2 283 (21.67%) Bash
3 272 (20.83%) SQL
4 111 (8.50%) Bicep
5 87 (6.66%) JavaScript
6 81 (6.20%) C#
7 47 (3.60%) Kusto Query Language
8 37 (2.83%) Java
9 32 (2.45%) T-SQL
10 31 (2.37%) TypeScript
11 23 (1.76%) VBScript
12 20 (1.53%) C++
13 19 (1.45%) Perl
14 13 (1.00%) Ruby
15 12 (0.92%) PHP
16 10 (0.77%) Go
16 10 (0.77%) VB
16 10 (0.77%) VBA
17 7 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 6 (0.46%) C
Qualifications
1 172 (13.17%) Security Cleared
2 159 (12.17%) Degree
3 145 (11.10%) Microsoft Certification
4 142 (10.87%) Azure Certification
5 117 (8.96%) SC Cleared
6 54 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 53 (4.06%) CISSP
8 52 (3.98%) Cisco Certification
8 52 (3.98%) CompTIA Security+
9 51 (3.91%) DV Cleared
10 40 (3.06%) CCNA
11 26 (1.99%) CEH
12 25 (1.91%) AWS Certification
13 22 (1.68%) DBS Check
14 18 (1.38%) CISM
14 18 (1.38%) GIAC
14 18 (1.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 17 (1.30%) OSCP
16 13 (1.00%) CCNP
16 13 (1.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (6.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (4.90%) Cyber Essentials
3 53 (4.06%) NIST
4 43 (3.29%) SLA
5 39 (2.99%) GDPR
6 23 (1.76%) QA
7 20 (1.53%) Data Quality
8 14 (1.07%) SOC 2
9 13 (1.00%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.54%) PMO
12 6 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.38%) Accessibility
13 5 (0.38%) NCSC
14 4 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.31%) ISO 22301
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
1 487 (37.29%) Active Directory
2 223 (17.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 137 (10.49%) Hyper-V
4 130 (9.95%) Docker
5 79 (6.05%) vSphere
6 67 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
7 54 (4.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 20 (1.53%) BitLocker
8 20 (1.53%) VMware NSX
9 16 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (0.77%) Firmware
11 8 (0.61%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.61%) KVM
11 8 (0.61%) Squid
12 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.077%) Ceph
15 1 (0.077%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 238 (18.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 208 (15.93%) Kubernetes
3 154 (11.79%) Ansible
4 77 (5.90%) Grafana
5 66 (5.05%) SCCM
6 51 (3.91%) Single Sign-On
7 41 (3.14%) Prometheus
8 23 (1.76%) Argo
8 23 (1.76%) ZABBIX
9 21 (1.61%) QRadar
9 21 (1.61%) vCenter Server
10 20 (1.53%) Proxmox
11 19 (1.45%) Puppet
12 18 (1.38%) Packer
13 15 (1.15%) FortiGate
13 15 (1.15%) Graylog
14 14 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
15 11 (0.84%) VxRail
16 9 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 9 (0.69%) Kibana
Vendors
1 853 (65.31%) Microsoft
2 258 (19.75%) VMware
3 107 (8.19%) ServiceNow
4 105 (8.04%) Cisco
5 84 (6.43%) Splunk
6 64 (4.90%) Veeam
7 49 (3.75%) Red Hat
8 47 (3.60%) Oracle
9 42 (3.22%) Citrix
10 37 (2.83%) Meraki
11 34 (2.60%) Sage
12 32 (2.45%) Dell
13 31 (2.37%) Sophos
14 29 (2.22%) Dynatrace
15 27 (2.07%) SAP
15 27 (2.07%) Tenable
16 26 (1.99%) Fortinet
17 24 (1.84%) CrowdStrike
18 23 (1.76%) Apple
18 23 (1.76%) CyberArk