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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 93 78
Rank change year-on-year -27 -15 +9
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,066 1,393 2,259
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.76% 3.19% 3.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.42% 9.22% 9.32%
Number of salaries quoted 854 996 1,974
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,688 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,875 £96,875 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -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 11,318 15,107 24,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.64% 34.62% 36.26%
Number of salaries quoted 8,371 9,227 20,744
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -3 465 £70,000 -9.68% 137
South East -46 193 £57,500 -6.12% 134
North of England -37 142 £48,445 -7.72% 79
South West +4 103 £55,000 +1.85% 43
Midlands -50 84 £51,500 +3.00% 45
Yorkshire -23 65 £47,500 -9.52% 28
East of England -4 60 £40,000 -25.58% 29
North West -32 60 £50,000 -4.76% 39
West Midlands -56 42 £47,500 -5.00% 24
East Midlands -30 41 £55,000 +8.91% 21
North East -9 17 £47,500 -20.83% 13
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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
1 168 (15.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 122 (11.44%) SharePoint
3 34 (3.19%) IIS
4 22 (2.06%) Exchange Server 2003
5 14 (1.31%) Confluence
6 6 (0.56%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.47%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.19%) CMS
9 2 (0.19%) WordPress
10 1 (0.094%) nginx
10 1 (0.094%) Site Server
Applications
1 39 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.56%) Siemens NX
4 5 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.28%) CATIA
5 3 (0.28%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.28%) Windchill
6 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.56%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.38%) Markit EDM
4 4 (0.38%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.19%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.094%) Actimize
6 1 (0.094%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.094%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.094%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 662 (62.10%) Azure
2 364 (34.15%) Microsoft 365
3 278 (26.08%) Entra ID
4 193 (18.11%) AWS
5 127 (11.91%) Azure DevOps
6 110 (10.32%) Power Platform
7 77 (7.22%) GCP
7 77 (7.22%) GitHub
8 64 (6.00%) PaaS
9 58 (5.44%) SaaS
10 57 (5.35%) GitHub Actions
11 51 (4.78%) Azure Monitor
12 47 (4.41%) IaaS
12 47 (4.41%) Power Automate
13 42 (3.94%) Google Workspace
14 40 (3.75%) OneDrive
15 35 (3.28%) Azure Sentinel
16 30 (2.81%) AWS CloudFormation
16 30 (2.81%) Azure Logic Apps
16 30 (2.81%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 201 (18.86%) DNS
2 200 (18.76%) Firewall
3 160 (15.01%) DHCP
4 117 (10.98%) VPN
5 97 (9.10%) TCP/IP
6 66 (6.19%) WAN
7 63 (5.91%) LAN
8 50 (4.69%) VLAN
9 46 (4.32%) Wi-Fi
10 34 (3.19%) Network Security
10 34 (3.19%) Wireless
11 33 (3.10%) SAN
12 29 (2.72%) VoIP
13 28 (2.63%) SD-WAN
14 27 (2.53%) Broadband
15 17 (1.59%) VSAN
16 13 (1.22%) NAS
17 12 (1.13%) Internet
17 12 (1.13%) WinSCP
18 10 (0.94%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (12.57%) SQL Server
2 82 (7.69%) Power BI
3 32 (3.00%) Relational Database
4 30 (2.81%) Oracle Database
5 28 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 26 (2.44%) Oracle Database 10g
7 25 (2.35%) MySQL
8 23 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
10 15 (1.41%) Tableau
11 14 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 13 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (1.22%) NoSQL
13 7 (0.66%) MongoDB
14 6 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
15 5 (0.47%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
15 5 (0.47%) InfluxDB
15 5 (0.47%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 72 (6.75%) Git
2 69 (6.47%) JIRA
3 66 (6.19%) Jenkins
4 35 (3.28%) GitLab
5 25 (2.35%) Octopus Deploy
6 20 (1.88%) Bitbucket
7 16 (1.50%) TeamCity
8 15 (1.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 13 (1.22%) Metasploit
10 11 (1.03%) Burp Suite
11 8 (0.75%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.56%) Robot Framework
13 5 (0.47%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.38%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.38%) MLflow
15 3 (0.28%) Balsamiq
15 3 (0.28%) Eclipse
15 3 (0.28%) TestRail
15 3 (0.28%) Toad
General
1 366 (34.33%) Social Skills
2 229 (21.48%) Finance
3 118 (11.07%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (4.60%) Retail
5 43 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
6 42 (3.94%) Law
7 38 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (3.10%) Public Sector
9 32 (3.00%) Banking
10 31 (2.91%) Legal
11 29 (2.72%) Telecoms
12 26 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 21 (1.97%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (0.75%) Advertising
17 7 (0.66%) Front Office
18 6 (0.56%) Local Government
18 6 (0.56%) Marketing
19 5 (0.47%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 140 (13.13%) Senior
2 137 (12.85%) Support Engineer
3 136 (12.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 96 (9.01%) Analyst
5 90 (8.44%) Azure Engineer
6 79 (7.41%) IT Support
7 74 (6.94%) DevOps Engineer
8 71 (6.66%) Security Engineer
9 68 (6.38%) Developer
10 66 (6.19%) IT Engineer
11 63 (5.91%) Cloud Engineer
12 56 (5.25%) Lead
13 52 (4.88%) 3rd Line Support
14 48 (4.50%) IT Support Engineer
15 46 (4.32%) Platform Engineer
16 42 (3.94%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 36 (3.38%) Applications Support
18 35 (3.28%) Architect
18 35 (3.28%) Support Analyst
19 33 (3.10%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (6.66%) REST
2 64 (6.00%) .NET
3 44 (4.13%) OAuth
4 43 (4.03%) OpenID
5 41 (3.85%) SAML
6 37 (3.47%) SOAP
7 34 (3.19%) JSON
8 32 (3.00%) LDAP
9 29 (2.72%) YAML
10 26 (2.44%) GraphQL
11 25 (2.35%) ARM Templates
12 22 (2.06%) React
13 16 (1.50%) .NET Core
13 16 (1.50%) Middleware
14 15 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
14 15 (1.41%) Microsoft Graph
15 14 (1.31%) AngularJS
15 14 (1.31%) Node.js
16 11 (1.03%) Web Services
16 11 (1.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 89 (8.35%) Onboarding
2 68 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 55 (5.16%) Security Posture
4 41 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
5 40 (3.75%) Management Information System
6 35 (3.28%) Driving Licence
7 33 (3.10%) Cyber Threat
7 33 (3.10%) Data Centre
8 31 (2.91%) Cloud Native
9 30 (2.81%) Cyber Defence
10 28 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
11 26 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
11 26 (2.44%) Cyberattack
12 21 (1.97%) PKI
13 20 (1.88%) CMDB
14 19 (1.78%) Security Operations Centre
15 18 (1.69%) Hedge funds
16 16 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
17 15 (1.41%) Low-Code
17 15 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 474 (44.47%) Windows
2 256 (24.02%) Windows Server
3 198 (18.57%) Linux
4 67 (6.29%) Windows 10
5 53 (4.97%) Mac OS
6 43 (4.03%) Unix
7 35 (3.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 34 (3.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 32 (3.00%) Android
10 27 (2.53%) VMS
11 26 (2.44%) Windows Server 2008
12 24 (2.25%) Solaris
13 22 (2.06%) Apple iOS
13 22 (2.06%) HPUX
13 22 (2.06%) Windows 7
13 22 (2.06%) Windows Server 2003
14 21 (1.97%) CentOS
14 21 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 13 (1.22%) Ubuntu
16 12 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
2 256 (24.02%) DevOps
3 204 (19.14%) CI/CD
4 197 (18.48%) ITIL
5 195 (18.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 178 (16.70%) Cybersecurity
7 177 (16.60%) Infrastructure as Code
8 175 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 151 (14.17%) Disaster Recovery
10 129 (12.10%) Mentoring
11 113 (10.60%) Agile
12 110 (10.32%) Root Cause Analysis
13 109 (10.23%) Incident Response
14 107 (10.04%) Task Automation
15 94 (8.82%) Cloud Security
16 92 (8.63%) Business Intelligence
16 92 (8.63%) Migration
17 89 (8.35%) Computer Science
18 86 (8.07%) Incident Management
19 80 (7.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 366 (34.33%) Python
2 239 (22.42%) Bash
3 228 (21.39%) SQL
4 84 (7.88%) C#
5 57 (5.35%) Bicep
5 57 (5.35%) JavaScript
6 53 (4.97%) T-SQL
7 25 (2.35%) Perl
8 24 (2.25%) Kusto Query Language
9 20 (1.88%) Go
10 17 (1.59%) Java
11 11 (1.03%) VB
12 10 (0.94%) VB.NET
13 9 (0.84%) VBScript
14 7 (0.66%) PHP
15 6 (0.56%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.56%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.47%) C++
16 5 (0.47%) Delphi
17 4 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 162 (15.20%) Degree
2 136 (12.76%) Security Cleared
3 97 (9.10%) Microsoft Certification
4 82 (7.69%) Azure Certification
5 79 (7.41%) SC Cleared
6 54 (5.07%) DV Cleared
7 42 (3.94%) CISSP
7 42 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 33 (3.10%) Cisco Certification
9 31 (2.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 26 (2.44%) AWS Certification
11 24 (2.25%) CREST Certified
12 21 (1.97%) CEH
13 19 (1.78%) CompTIA CySA+
13 19 (1.78%) GIAC
14 17 (1.59%) CCNA
15 16 (1.50%) DBS Check
15 16 (1.50%) OSCP
16 15 (1.41%) CompTIA Security+
17 13 (1.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (15.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 130 (12.20%) NIST
3 57 (5.35%) GDPR
4 53 (4.97%) SLA
5 39 (3.66%) NCSC
6 30 (2.81%) Cyber Essentials
7 27 (2.53%) Accessibility
8 19 (1.78%) ISO 22301
9 17 (1.59%) Data Quality
10 16 (1.50%) QA
11 14 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 14 (1.31%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.66%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.47%) DICOM
14 5 (0.47%) GRC
15 3 (0.28%) HL7
15 3 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.19%) COBIT
16 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
System Software
1 396 (37.15%) Active Directory
2 130 (12.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 92 (8.63%) Docker
4 91 (8.54%) Hyper-V
5 38 (3.56%) Virtual Machines
6 36 (3.38%) vSphere
7 21 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (1.78%) Firmware
9 15 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.75%) VMware NSX
12 6 (0.56%) XenApp
12 6 (0.56%) XenDesktop
13 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.28%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 3 (0.28%) iptables
14 3 (0.28%) KVM
14 3 (0.28%) vCloud
15 2 (0.19%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 204 (19.14%) Terraform
2 158 (14.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 137 (12.85%) Kubernetes
4 123 (11.54%) Ansible
5 40 (3.75%) SCCM
6 36 (3.38%) Single Sign-On
7 33 (3.10%) Grafana
8 19 (1.78%) Prometheus
9 17 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 13 (1.22%) vCenter Server
11 12 (1.13%) Puppet
12 11 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (1.03%) Nessus
13 10 (0.94%) SCOM
14 9 (0.84%) FortiGate
14 9 (0.84%) VxRail
15 8 (0.75%) Progress Chef
15 8 (0.75%) SCVMM
16 7 (0.66%) Control-M
16 7 (0.66%) WSUS
Vendors
1 566 (53.10%) Microsoft
2 215 (20.17%) VMware
3 89 (8.35%) Cisco
4 52 (4.88%) Oracle
4 52 (4.88%) ServiceNow
5 49 (4.60%) Veeam
6 40 (3.75%) Google
7 39 (3.66%) Splunk
8 35 (3.28%) Atlassian
9 33 (3.10%) Red Hat
10 32 (3.00%) Palo Alto
11 29 (2.72%) Citrix
12 28 (2.63%) Commvault
13 26 (2.44%) CyberArk
14 23 (2.16%) Dell
14 23 (2.16%) Fortinet
15 22 (2.06%) CrowdStrike
15 22 (2.06%) SolarWinds
16 20 (1.88%) Tenable
17 19 (1.78%) Meraki