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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 86 91
Rank change year-on-year -45 +5 -3
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,093 1,238 2,311
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.56% 3.38% 2.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.64% 9.90% 8.81%
Number of salaries quoted 864 1,018 1,997
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +12.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 12,657 12,511 26,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.07% 34.17% 33.59%
Number of salaries quoted 9,069 9,342 22,200
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,625
25th Percentile £46,446 £47,683 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -13 491 £70,000 -12.50% 123
South East -54 191 £56,750 -5.42% 97
North of England -55 141 £47,500 -9.52% 66
South West -20 97 £55,000 +15.79% 60
Midlands -48 97 £52,500 +5.00% 45
Yorkshire -19 70 £47,500 -9.52% 16
East of England -38 64 £40,000 -27.27% 34
North West -41 58 £51,500 +6.61% 35
East Midlands -25 54 £55,000 +15.79% 16
West Midlands -52 42 £48,000 -4.00% 29
North East -20 13 £45,000 -23.40% 15
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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 (16.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 126 (11.53%) SharePoint
3 30 (2.74%) IIS
4 22 (2.01%) Exchange Server 2003
5 13 (1.19%) Confluence
6 6 (0.55%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.18%) Apache
7 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.18%) CMS
7 2 (0.18%) WordPress
8 1 (0.091%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.091%) Site Server
8 1 (0.091%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 48 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.37%) Siemens NX
5 3 (0.27%) CATIA
5 3 (0.27%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.27%) Windchill
6 1 (0.091%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.091%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.37%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.27%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.18%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.091%) Actimize
5 1 (0.091%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.091%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.091%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.091%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 680 (62.21%) Azure
2 374 (34.22%) Microsoft 365
3 268 (24.52%) Entra ID
4 187 (17.11%) AWS
5 101 (9.24%) Azure DevOps
6 93 (8.51%) Power Platform
7 83 (7.59%) GitHub
8 69 (6.31%) GCP
9 64 (5.86%) SaaS
10 60 (5.49%) GitHub Actions
11 53 (4.85%) PaaS
12 52 (4.76%) OneDrive
13 49 (4.48%) IaaS
14 43 (3.93%) Azure Monitor
14 43 (3.93%) Google Workspace
15 38 (3.48%) Nutanix
16 37 (3.39%) Azure Logic Apps
17 35 (3.20%) Power Automate
18 34 (3.11%) Azure Sentinel
19 33 (3.02%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 214 (19.58%) DNS
2 196 (17.93%) Firewall
3 160 (14.64%) DHCP
4 118 (10.80%) VPN
5 101 (9.24%) TCP/IP
6 53 (4.85%) WAN
7 52 (4.76%) LAN
7 52 (4.76%) Network Security
8 46 (4.21%) VLAN
9 43 (3.93%) Wi-Fi
10 35 (3.20%) VoIP
11 30 (2.74%) SAN
12 29 (2.65%) Wireless
13 28 (2.56%) Broadband
14 23 (2.10%) SD-WAN
15 14 (1.28%) VSAN
16 12 (1.10%) Internet
16 12 (1.10%) WinSCP
17 10 (0.91%) Cisco IOS
17 10 (0.91%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (11.89%) SQL Server
2 80 (7.32%) Power BI
3 29 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 28 (2.56%) Oracle Database
5 27 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (2.38%) Oracle Database 10g
6 26 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 24 (2.20%) MySQL
8 23 (2.10%) Relational Database
9 21 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (1.46%) NoSQL
11 15 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 14 (1.28%) Tableau
13 11 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (0.73%) MongoDB
15 6 (0.55%) Data Lake
15 6 (0.55%) InfluxDB
16 5 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
16 5 (0.46%) Metadata
17 4 (0.37%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 80 (7.32%) Git
2 73 (6.68%) JIRA
3 59 (5.40%) Jenkins
4 43 (3.93%) GitLab
5 25 (2.29%) Bitbucket
6 22 (2.01%) Octopus Deploy
7 15 (1.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 14 (1.28%) TeamCity
9 13 (1.19%) Metasploit
10 9 (0.82%) Burp Suite
10 9 (0.82%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.64%) Robot Framework
11 7 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.37%) MLflow
13 4 (0.37%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.37%) TestRail
14 3 (0.27%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.27%) Balsamiq
14 3 (0.27%) Eclipse
General
1 365 (33.39%) Social Skills
2 207 (18.94%) Finance
3 130 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (6.13%) Law
5 47 (4.30%) Organisational Skills
6 41 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (3.48%) Legal
8 36 (3.29%) Retail
9 32 (2.93%) Public Sector
10 30 (2.74%) Banking
11 28 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 24 (2.20%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.56%) Manufacturing
14 15 (1.37%) Advertising
15 8 (0.73%) Front Office
16 7 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.55%) Investment Banking
18 5 (0.46%) Aerospace
18 5 (0.46%) Marketing
18 5 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 156 (14.27%) Senior
2 135 (12.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 129 (11.80%) Support Engineer
4 107 (9.79%) Analyst
5 103 (9.42%) Azure Engineer
6 98 (8.97%) IT Support
7 74 (6.77%) Security Engineer
8 73 (6.68%) IT Engineer
9 71 (6.50%) Cloud Engineer
10 67 (6.13%) DevOps Engineer
11 59 (5.40%) Developer
12 57 (5.22%) 3rd Line Support
13 54 (4.94%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 54 (4.94%) IT Support Engineer
14 52 (4.76%) Lead
15 48 (4.39%) 2nd Line Support
16 40 (3.66%) Architect
16 40 (3.66%) Platform Engineer
17 35 (3.20%) Security Analyst
18 32 (2.93%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (5.58%) .NET
2 53 (4.85%) REST
3 48 (4.39%) OAuth
4 45 (4.12%) SAML
5 42 (3.84%) OpenID
6 33 (3.02%) LDAP
7 30 (2.74%) SOAP
8 28 (2.56%) .NET Core
8 28 (2.56%) JSON
9 26 (2.38%) YAML
10 25 (2.29%) GraphQL
11 21 (1.92%) ARM Templates
12 19 (1.74%) Microsoft Graph
13 16 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
13 16 (1.46%) Node.js
13 16 (1.46%) React
14 15 (1.37%) CSS
15 14 (1.28%) SPFx
16 13 (1.19%) HTML
17 11 (1.01%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 85 (7.78%) Onboarding
2 69 (6.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 59 (5.40%) Security Posture
4 41 (3.75%) Driving Licence
5 40 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
6 39 (3.57%) Cyber Defence
6 39 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
7 35 (3.20%) Management Information System
8 33 (3.02%) Cloud Native
9 31 (2.84%) Analytical Mindset
10 26 (2.38%) Cyberattack
10 26 (2.38%) Data Centre
11 25 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
12 24 (2.20%) Security Operations Centre
13 23 (2.10%) Public Cloud
14 21 (1.92%) PKI
15 20 (1.83%) CMDB
16 19 (1.74%) Replication
17 18 (1.65%) Private Cloud
18 17 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 503 (46.02%) Windows
2 256 (23.42%) Windows Server
3 227 (20.77%) Linux
4 66 (6.04%) Windows 10
5 55 (5.03%) Mac OS
6 41 (3.75%) Unix
7 35 (3.20%) Android
8 34 (3.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 31 (2.84%) Windows Server 2019
10 30 (2.74%) Apple iOS
11 24 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 24 (2.20%) Solaris
12 22 (2.01%) HPUX
12 22 (2.01%) VMS
12 22 (2.01%) Windows 7
12 22 (2.01%) Windows Server 2003
12 22 (2.01%) Windows Server 2008
13 21 (1.92%) CentOS
14 16 (1.46%) Ubuntu
15 8 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (29.19%) Problem-Solving
2 231 (21.13%) DevOps
3 220 (20.13%) ITIL
4 206 (18.85%) CI/CD
5 198 (18.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 195 (17.84%) Cybersecurity
7 193 (17.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 192 (17.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 144 (13.17%) Disaster Recovery
10 142 (12.99%) Incident Response
11 134 (12.26%) Mentoring
12 116 (10.61%) Agile
13 113 (10.34%) Root Cause Analysis
14 98 (8.97%) Cloud Security
15 97 (8.87%) Task Automation
16 96 (8.78%) SIEM
17 93 (8.51%) Computer Science
18 91 (8.33%) Containerisation
18 91 (8.33%) Incident Management
19 89 (8.14%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 395 (36.14%) Python
2 244 (22.32%) Bash
3 225 (20.59%) SQL
4 76 (6.95%) JavaScript
5 62 (5.67%) C#
6 59 (5.40%) Bicep
7 52 (4.76%) T-SQL
8 30 (2.74%) Kusto Query Language
9 28 (2.56%) Perl
10 15 (1.37%) Java
11 12 (1.10%) Go
12 9 (0.82%) TypeScript
12 9 (0.82%) VB.NET
13 7 (0.64%) C++
13 7 (0.64%) PHP
13 7 (0.64%) VB
14 6 (0.55%) C
14 6 (0.55%) Delphi
15 5 (0.46%) Google Apps Script
15 5 (0.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 161 (14.73%) Degree
2 133 (12.17%) Security Cleared
3 91 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 88 (8.05%) Azure Certification
5 79 (7.23%) SC Cleared
6 58 (5.31%) DV Cleared
7 49 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 43 (3.93%) CISSP
9 30 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
9 30 (2.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 24 (2.20%) CEH
10 24 (2.20%) CREST Certified
10 24 (2.20%) GIAC
11 23 (2.10%) AWS Certification
12 21 (1.92%) OSCP
13 20 (1.83%) CompTIA CySA+
13 20 (1.83%) CompTIA Security+
14 19 (1.74%) CCNA
15 15 (1.37%) DBS Check
16 12 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (14.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 135 (12.35%) NIST
3 65 (5.95%) SLA
4 58 (5.31%) GDPR
5 37 (3.39%) NCSC
6 28 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (2.01%) ISO 22301
8 18 (1.65%) Accessibility
8 18 (1.65%) Data Quality
9 17 (1.56%) QA
10 14 (1.28%) PCI DSS
11 13 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 9 (0.82%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.55%) DICOM
15 5 (0.46%) GRC
16 4 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.18%) COBIT
17 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.18%) HL7
System Software
1 401 (36.69%) Active Directory
2 128 (11.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 103 (9.42%) Docker
4 101 (9.24%) Hyper-V
5 41 (3.75%) vSphere
6 29 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (1.56%) Firmware
8 16 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.73%) BitLocker
10 8 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.73%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.46%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 5 (0.46%) XenApp
11 5 (0.46%) XenDesktop
12 4 (0.37%) iptables
12 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.37%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.18%) Samba
Systems Management
1 215 (19.67%) Terraform
2 156 (14.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 154 (14.09%) Kubernetes
4 129 (11.80%) Ansible
5 45 (4.12%) Grafana
6 41 (3.75%) SCCM
7 37 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
8 28 (2.56%) Prometheus
9 20 (1.83%) Jamf Pro
10 17 (1.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 16 (1.46%) vCenter Server
12 12 (1.10%) Nessus
13 11 (1.01%) VxRail
14 9 (0.82%) Puppet
15 8 (0.73%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.73%) Progress Chef
16 6 (0.55%) logstash
16 6 (0.55%) Nagios
16 6 (0.55%) SCVMM
16 6 (0.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 586 (53.61%) Microsoft
2 223 (20.40%) VMware
3 102 (9.33%) Cisco
4 50 (4.57%) Oracle
4 50 (4.57%) ServiceNow
4 50 (4.57%) Splunk
5 46 (4.21%) Veeam
6 41 (3.75%) Red Hat
7 34 (3.11%) Atlassian
7 34 (3.11%) Commvault
7 34 (3.11%) Google
8 33 (3.02%) Palo Alto
9 29 (2.65%) CrowdStrike
10 27 (2.47%) Meraki
11 24 (2.20%) Citrix
11 24 (2.20%) CyberArk
11 24 (2.20%) Dell
12 23 (2.10%) Fortinet
13 22 (2.01%) Apple
14 20 (1.83%) Dynatrace