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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 92 70
Rank change year-on-year -22 -22 +16
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,044 1,447 2,164
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.91% 3.02% 3.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.96% 8.96% 10.13%
Number of salaries quoted 855 1,017 1,874
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £91,980
UK median annual salary £57,500 £61,425 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.39% +2.38% -

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 10,486 16,145 21,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.15% 33.74% 37.65%
Number of salaries quoted 7,863 9,491 18,083
10th Percentile £33,000 £38,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 23 January 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 23 January 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 -9 447 £70,000 -6.67% 151
South East -34 181 £58,000 -3.33% 215
North of England -22 136 £50,000 - 133
South West +21 107 £52,500 -2.78% 95
Midlands -27 90 £52,500 +7.69% 81
East of England +17 69 £43,042 -18.01% 80
North West -19 63 £50,000 - 66
Yorkshire -23 61 £47,500 -9.52% 49
West Midlands -33 48 £52,500 +16.67% 25
East Midlands -8 41 £55,000 +8.91% 55
North East -2 12 £50,000 -11.50% 18
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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
1 169 (16.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 136 (13.03%) SharePoint
3 42 (4.02%) IIS
4 25 (2.39%) Confluence
5 22 (2.11%) Exchange Server 2003
6 14 (1.34%) Skype for Business
7 6 (0.57%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.48%) nginx
8 5 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.19%) CMS
9 2 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 35 (3.35%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.57%) Siemens NX
4 5 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.38%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 3 (0.29%) CATIA
6 3 (0.29%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.29%) Windchill
7 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.57%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.48%) NEC Housing
3 5 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.29%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.19%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.19%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.096%) Actimize
6 1 (0.096%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.096%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 659 (63.12%) Azure
2 352 (33.72%) Microsoft 365
3 258 (24.71%) Entra ID
4 190 (18.20%) AWS
5 147 (14.08%) Azure DevOps
6 105 (10.06%) Power Platform
7 73 (6.99%) GitHub
8 72 (6.90%) GCP
9 62 (5.94%) PaaS
10 58 (5.56%) Power Automate
11 55 (5.27%) GitHub Actions
12 46 (4.41%) Azure Monitor
13 44 (4.21%) IaaS
14 40 (3.83%) Azure Sentinel
14 40 (3.83%) OneDrive
14 40 (3.83%) SaaS
15 31 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
15 31 (2.97%) PowerApps
16 27 (2.59%) Google Workspace
17 26 (2.49%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 203 (19.44%) Firewall
2 194 (18.58%) DNS
3 147 (14.08%) DHCP
4 98 (9.39%) TCP/IP
5 94 (9.00%) VPN
6 73 (6.99%) WAN
7 64 (6.13%) LAN
8 41 (3.93%) Wi-Fi
9 40 (3.83%) VLAN
10 34 (3.26%) Wireless
11 29 (2.78%) SAN
12 25 (2.39%) SD-WAN
13 24 (2.30%) Network Security
14 21 (2.01%) Internet
15 18 (1.72%) VoIP
15 18 (1.72%) VSAN
16 15 (1.44%) Broadband
16 15 (1.44%) Cisco IOS
17 14 (1.34%) Skype
18 12 (1.15%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (11.40%) SQL Server
2 72 (6.90%) Power BI
3 33 (3.16%) Relational Database
4 30 (2.87%) Oracle Database
4 30 (2.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 26 (2.49%) Oracle Database 10g
6 21 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (1.63%) MySQL
8 16 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (1.05%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.05%) Tableau
11 9 (0.86%) MongoDB
12 7 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
12 7 (0.67%) DTS
12 7 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (0.57%) Data Mining
13 6 (0.57%) Metadata
14 5 (0.48%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 83 (7.95%) Git
2 79 (7.57%) JIRA
3 74 (7.09%) Jenkins
4 38 (3.64%) GitLab
5 24 (2.30%) Octopus Deploy
6 17 (1.63%) Bitbucket
7 16 (1.53%) TeamCity
8 11 (1.05%) Burp Suite
8 11 (1.05%) Metasploit
9 7 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 6 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (0.57%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.57%) Robot Framework
10 6 (0.57%) Vagrant
11 5 (0.48%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.38%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.38%) MLflow
12 4 (0.38%) MSI
12 4 (0.38%) Toad
13 3 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 378 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 234 (22.41%) Finance
3 106 (10.15%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (5.27%) Law
5 48 (4.60%) Retail
6 40 (3.83%) Public Sector
7 37 (3.54%) Banking
7 37 (3.54%) Legal
8 32 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
9 31 (2.97%) Telecoms
10 30 (2.87%) Manufacturing
10 30 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
11 23 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (0.96%) Marketing
15 9 (0.86%) Advertising
15 9 (0.86%) Front Office
16 8 (0.77%) Electronics
17 7 (0.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 143 (13.70%) Support Engineer
2 136 (13.03%) Senior
3 116 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 81 (7.76%) Azure Engineer
5 80 (7.66%) Analyst
5 80 (7.66%) DevOps Engineer
6 72 (6.90%) Developer
7 68 (6.51%) IT Support
8 66 (6.32%) Security Engineer
9 65 (6.23%) Lead
10 62 (5.94%) Cloud Engineer
11 59 (5.65%) IT Engineer
12 52 (4.98%) 3rd Line Support
12 52 (4.98%) Platform Engineer
13 45 (4.31%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 44 (4.21%) Applications Support
15 43 (4.12%) IT Support Engineer
16 42 (4.02%) Applications Engineer
17 35 (3.35%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
18 34 (3.26%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (6.61%) REST
2 59 (5.65%) .NET
3 37 (3.54%) YAML
4 36 (3.45%) SOAP
5 29 (2.78%) LDAP
5 29 (2.78%) OpenID
6 28 (2.68%) OAuth
7 27 (2.59%) JSON
8 26 (2.49%) ARM Templates
9 25 (2.39%) SAML
10 21 (2.01%) React
11 17 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
11 17 (1.63%) Microsoft Graph
12 16 (1.53%) GraphQL
13 15 (1.44%) AngularJS
14 13 (1.25%) Middleware
15 12 (1.15%) Node.js
16 11 (1.05%) Web Services
17 10 (0.96%) OAuth2
17 10 (0.96%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 86 (8.24%) Onboarding
2 59 (5.65%) Hybrid Cloud
3 54 (5.17%) Security Posture
4 39 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
5 38 (3.64%) Management Information System
6 32 (3.07%) Cloud Native
7 28 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
7 28 (2.68%) Data Centre
7 28 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (2.30%) Driving Licence
8 24 (2.30%) PKI
9 21 (2.01%) CMDB
10 20 (1.92%) Cyber Defence
10 20 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
11 19 (1.82%) Hedge funds
12 18 (1.72%) Private Cloud
12 18 (1.72%) Video Conferencing
13 16 (1.53%) Cyberattack
13 16 (1.53%) Replication
14 15 (1.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 460 (44.06%) Windows
2 246 (23.56%) Windows Server
3 189 (18.10%) Linux
4 68 (6.51%) Windows 10
5 46 (4.41%) Mac OS
6 41 (3.93%) Unix
7 36 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
8 35 (3.35%) Windows Server 2016
9 30 (2.87%) Android
10 29 (2.78%) VMS
10 29 (2.78%) Windows Server 2008
11 24 (2.30%) Solaris
12 22 (2.11%) HPUX
12 22 (2.11%) Windows 7
12 22 (2.11%) Windows Server 2003
13 20 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 15 (1.44%) Apple iOS
15 14 (1.34%) CentOS
15 14 (1.34%) Windows Server 2012
16 13 (1.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (30.84%) Problem-Solving
2 278 (26.63%) DevOps
3 215 (20.59%) CI/CD
4 193 (18.49%) ITIL
5 177 (16.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 170 (16.28%) Infrastructure as Code
7 169 (16.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 155 (14.85%) Cybersecurity
9 137 (13.12%) Disaster Recovery
10 121 (11.59%) Mentoring
11 118 (11.30%) Task Automation
12 113 (10.82%) Agile
13 104 (9.96%) Root Cause Analysis
14 92 (8.81%) Cloud Security
15 91 (8.72%) Migration
16 87 (8.33%) Computer Science
16 87 (8.33%) Incident Response
17 85 (8.14%) Incident Management
18 82 (7.85%) Business Intelligence
19 79 (7.57%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 348 (33.33%) Python
2 217 (20.79%) SQL
3 210 (20.11%) Bash
4 87 (8.33%) C#
5 63 (6.03%) Bicep
6 52 (4.98%) JavaScript
7 39 (3.74%) T-SQL
8 27 (2.59%) Perl
9 23 (2.20%) Go
10 21 (2.01%) Java
11 19 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
12 14 (1.34%) VB
13 11 (1.05%) TypeScript
13 11 (1.05%) VBScript
14 10 (0.96%) VB.NET
15 7 (0.67%) Groovy
15 7 (0.67%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.38%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.38%) R
16 4 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 155 (14.85%) Degree
2 147 (14.08%) Security Cleared
3 93 (8.91%) Microsoft Certification
4 89 (8.52%) SC Cleared
5 79 (7.57%) Azure Certification
6 53 (5.08%) DV Cleared
7 44 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
9 34 (3.26%) CISSP
10 32 (3.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 27 (2.59%) AWS Certification
12 20 (1.92%) CREST Certified
13 19 (1.82%) CEH
14 17 (1.63%) CCNA
15 16 (1.53%) DBS Check
15 16 (1.53%) Master's Degree
16 14 (1.34%) GIAC
17 13 (1.25%) CompTIA CySA+
18 12 (1.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 12 (1.15%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (14.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 113 (10.82%) NIST
3 56 (5.36%) GDPR
4 53 (5.08%) SLA
5 33 (3.16%) NCSC
6 27 (2.59%) Accessibility
6 27 (2.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 15 (1.44%) ISO 22301
7 15 (1.44%) QA
8 13 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 11 (1.05%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.96%) Data Quality
11 7 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.48%) GRC
12 5 (0.48%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.29%) HL7
13 3 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.19%) DICOM
14 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
15 1 (0.096%) COBIT
System Software
1 370 (35.44%) Active Directory
2 123 (11.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 97 (9.29%) Docker
4 80 (7.66%) Hyper-V
5 34 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (2.78%) vSphere
7 27 (2.59%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (2.20%) Firmware
9 15 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.67%) XenApp
11 7 (0.67%) XenDesktop
12 5 (0.48%) Postfix
12 5 (0.48%) Squid
12 5 (0.48%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.38%) DFS Replication
13 4 (0.38%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.29%) vCloud
15 2 (0.19%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 207 (19.83%) Terraform
2 173 (16.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 143 (13.70%) Kubernetes
4 119 (11.40%) Ansible
5 50 (4.79%) SCCM
6 39 (3.74%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (3.07%) Grafana
8 26 (2.49%) Prometheus
9 17 (1.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 16 (1.53%) SCOM
11 15 (1.44%) WSUS
12 13 (1.25%) Nessus
13 12 (1.15%) vCenter Server
14 11 (1.05%) Puppet
15 9 (0.86%) FortiGate
15 9 (0.86%) ZABBIX
16 8 (0.77%) Nagios
16 8 (0.77%) SCVMM
17 7 (0.67%) McAfee ePO
17 7 (0.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 578 (55.36%) Microsoft
2 206 (19.73%) VMware
3 88 (8.43%) Cisco
4 61 (5.84%) ServiceNow
5 55 (5.27%) Oracle
6 46 (4.41%) Veeam
7 39 (3.74%) Atlassian
8 36 (3.45%) Google
9 33 (3.16%) Citrix
9 33 (3.16%) Splunk
10 31 (2.97%) Red Hat
11 29 (2.78%) Palo Alto
12 23 (2.20%) Commvault
12 23 (2.20%) SolarWinds
13 22 (2.11%) CrowdStrike
13 22 (2.11%) SAP
14 21 (2.01%) CyberArk
14 21 (2.01%) Dell
15 19 (1.82%) Fortinet
15 19 (1.82%) Meraki