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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 89 89
Rank change year-on-year -41 0 0
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,085 1,279 2,310
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.60% 3.36% 3.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.88% 9.73% 8.90%
Number of salaries quoted 862 1,024 2,007
10th Percentile £31,375 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £62,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +12.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,750 £84,063 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £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 12,212 13,143 25,964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.98% 34.57% 33.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,846 9,368 22,046
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,683 £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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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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 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 23 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 -9 488 £70,000 -12.50% 124
South East -51 191 £56,750 -5.42% 97
North of England -53 139 £47,500 -9.52% 57
South West -9 96 £55,000 +15.79% 51
Midlands -62 96 £52,500 +5.00% 43
Yorkshire -26 69 £47,500 -9.52% 17
East of England -22 60 £40,000 -27.27% 35
North West -42 56 £53,000 +9.72% 26
East Midlands -27 52 £55,000 +15.79% 17
West Midlands -42 43 £48,000 -4.00% 26
North East -23 14 £45,000 -25.00% 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
1 179 (16.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 130 (11.98%) SharePoint
3 31 (2.86%) IIS
4 22 (2.03%) Exchange Server 2003
5 13 (1.20%) 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%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.18%) WordPress
8 1 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.092%) Site Server
Applications
1 47 (4.33%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.46%) Siemens NX
5 3 (0.28%) CATIA
5 3 (0.28%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.28%) Windchill
6 1 (0.092%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (0.46%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.37%) Markit EDM
2 4 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.18%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.092%) Actimize
5 1 (0.092%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.092%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.092%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.092%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 678 (62.49%) Azure
2 374 (34.47%) Microsoft 365
3 273 (25.16%) Entra ID
4 185 (17.05%) AWS
5 109 (10.05%) Azure DevOps
6 99 (9.12%) Power Platform
7 83 (7.65%) GitHub
8 72 (6.64%) GCP
9 64 (5.90%) SaaS
10 59 (5.44%) PaaS
11 58 (5.35%) GitHub Actions
12 52 (4.79%) IaaS
12 52 (4.79%) OneDrive
13 45 (4.15%) Azure Monitor
14 44 (4.06%) Google Workspace
15 37 (3.41%) Power Automate
16 36 (3.32%) Azure Logic Apps
16 36 (3.32%) Nutanix
17 34 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
18 33 (3.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 209 (19.26%) DNS
2 198 (18.25%) Firewall
3 160 (14.75%) DHCP
4 122 (11.24%) VPN
5 99 (9.12%) TCP/IP
6 56 (5.16%) WAN
7 53 (4.88%) LAN
8 50 (4.61%) Network Security
9 47 (4.33%) VLAN
10 45 (4.15%) Wi-Fi
11 35 (3.23%) VoIP
12 31 (2.86%) SAN
13 30 (2.76%) Wireless
14 28 (2.58%) Broadband
15 25 (2.30%) SD-WAN
16 15 (1.38%) VSAN
17 13 (1.20%) Internet
18 12 (1.11%) WinSCP
19 10 (0.92%) Cisco IOS
19 10 (0.92%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (12.44%) SQL Server
2 85 (7.83%) Power BI
3 28 (2.58%) Oracle Database
3 28 (2.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 27 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 27 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (2.40%) Oracle Database 10g
6 24 (2.21%) MySQL
7 23 (2.12%) Relational Database
8 20 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (1.47%) NoSQL
10 15 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 15 (1.38%) Tableau
11 12 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.55%) InfluxDB
12 6 (0.55%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.46%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (0.46%) Metadata
14 4 (0.37%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 77 (7.10%) Git
2 74 (6.82%) JIRA
3 60 (5.53%) Jenkins
4 43 (3.96%) GitLab
5 26 (2.40%) Octopus Deploy
6 25 (2.30%) Bitbucket
7 17 (1.57%) TeamCity
8 15 (1.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 13 (1.20%) Metasploit
10 9 (0.83%) Burp Suite
10 9 (0.83%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.65%) Robot Framework
12 5 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.37%) MLflow
13 4 (0.37%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.37%) TestRail
13 4 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
14 3 (0.28%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.28%) Balsamiq
14 3 (0.28%) Eclipse
General
1 360 (33.18%) Social Skills
2 212 (19.54%) Finance
3 122 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (5.62%) Law
5 45 (4.15%) Organisational Skills
6 39 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (3.50%) Retail
8 35 (3.23%) Legal
9 32 (2.95%) Public Sector
10 31 (2.86%) Banking
11 29 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 26 (2.40%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.57%) Manufacturing
14 12 (1.11%) Advertising
15 8 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.65%) Front Office
16 7 (0.65%) Investment Banking
16 7 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.46%) Aerospace
17 5 (0.46%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 149 (13.73%) Senior
2 136 (12.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 124 (11.43%) Support Engineer
4 105 (9.68%) Analyst
5 96 (8.85%) Azure Engineer
6 93 (8.57%) IT Support
7 75 (6.91%) Security Engineer
8 74 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
9 69 (6.36%) Cloud Engineer
9 69 (6.36%) IT Engineer
10 59 (5.44%) Developer
11 57 (5.25%) 3rd Line Support
12 53 (4.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 53 (4.88%) Lead
13 51 (4.70%) IT Support Engineer
14 45 (4.15%) 2nd Line Support
15 40 (3.69%) Platform Engineer
16 39 (3.59%) Architect
17 34 (3.13%) Security Analyst
18 32 (2.95%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (5.81%) .NET
2 55 (5.07%) REST
3 49 (4.52%) OAuth
4 46 (4.24%) SAML
5 43 (3.96%) OpenID
6 33 (3.04%) LDAP
7 31 (2.86%) SOAP
8 30 (2.76%) YAML
9 28 (2.58%) JSON
10 26 (2.40%) .NET Core
11 25 (2.30%) GraphQL
12 23 (2.12%) ARM Templates
13 21 (1.94%) Microsoft Graph
14 17 (1.57%) React
15 16 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
15 16 (1.47%) Node.js
16 13 (1.20%) CSS
17 12 (1.11%) Middleware
17 12 (1.11%) SPFx
18 11 (1.01%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 85 (7.83%) Onboarding
2 72 (6.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 58 (5.35%) Security Posture
4 40 (3.69%) Driving Licence
5 38 (3.50%) Cyber Defence
5 38 (3.50%) Cyber Threat
5 38 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
6 34 (3.13%) Cloud Native
6 34 (3.13%) Management Information System
7 30 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
8 29 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (2.58%) Data Centre
10 26 (2.40%) Cyberattack
11 23 (2.12%) Security Operations Centre
12 22 (2.03%) PKI
13 19 (1.75%) CMDB
14 17 (1.57%) Replication
15 15 (1.38%) Private Cloud
15 15 (1.38%) Public Cloud
15 15 (1.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 496 (45.71%) Windows
2 254 (23.41%) Windows Server
3 218 (20.09%) Linux
4 66 (6.08%) Windows 10
5 57 (5.25%) Mac OS
6 41 (3.78%) Unix
7 36 (3.32%) Android
8 33 (3.04%) Windows Server 2016
9 32 (2.95%) Windows Server 2019
10 29 (2.67%) Apple iOS
11 24 (2.21%) Solaris
12 23 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 23 (2.12%) Windows Server 2008
13 22 (2.03%) HPUX
13 22 (2.03%) VMS
13 22 (2.03%) Windows 7
13 22 (2.03%) Windows Server 2003
14 21 (1.94%) CentOS
15 14 (1.29%) Ubuntu
16 8 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (29.12%) Problem-Solving
2 240 (22.12%) DevOps
3 212 (19.54%) CI/CD
4 211 (19.45%) ITIL
5 195 (17.97%) Infrastructure as Code
6 194 (17.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 192 (17.70%) Cybersecurity
8 182 (16.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 149 (13.73%) Disaster Recovery
10 138 (12.72%) Incident Response
11 130 (11.98%) Mentoring
12 117 (10.78%) Agile
13 109 (10.05%) Root Cause Analysis
14 100 (9.22%) Cloud Security
15 98 (9.03%) Task Automation
16 96 (8.85%) SIEM
17 93 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
18 92 (8.48%) Computer Science
19 90 (8.29%) Incident Management
19 90 (8.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 385 (35.48%) Python
2 244 (22.49%) Bash
3 225 (20.74%) SQL
4 74 (6.82%) JavaScript
5 61 (5.62%) C#
6 55 (5.07%) Bicep
7 54 (4.98%) T-SQL
8 30 (2.76%) Kusto Query Language
9 27 (2.49%) Perl
10 15 (1.38%) Java
11 13 (1.20%) Go
12 9 (0.83%) VB.NET
13 8 (0.74%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.65%) PHP
14 7 (0.65%) VB
15 6 (0.55%) C++
15 6 (0.55%) Delphi
16 5 (0.46%) C
16 5 (0.46%) Google Apps Script
17 4 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 159 (14.65%) Degree
2 127 (11.71%) Security Cleared
3 91 (8.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 82 (7.56%) Azure Certification
5 74 (6.82%) SC Cleared
6 54 (4.98%) DV Cleared
7 47 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (3.78%) CISSP
9 31 (2.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 30 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (2.21%) CEH
12 23 (2.12%) AWS Certification
12 23 (2.12%) CREST Certified
12 23 (2.12%) GIAC
13 20 (1.84%) CompTIA CySA+
13 20 (1.84%) CompTIA Security+
13 20 (1.84%) OSCP
14 18 (1.66%) CCNA
15 16 (1.47%) DBS Check
16 13 (1.20%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (14.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 138 (12.72%) NIST
3 65 (5.99%) SLA
4 59 (5.44%) GDPR
5 39 (3.59%) NCSC
6 30 (2.76%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (2.03%) ISO 22301
8 20 (1.84%) Accessibility
9 19 (1.75%) QA
10 18 (1.66%) Data Quality
11 15 (1.38%) PCI DSS
12 12 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
12 12 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.74%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.46%) DICOM
14 5 (0.46%) GRC
15 3 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.18%) COBIT
16 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.18%) HL7
System Software
1 400 (36.87%) Active Directory
2 125 (11.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 104 (9.59%) Docker
4 100 (9.22%) Hyper-V
5 40 (3.69%) vSphere
6 29 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (1.75%) Firmware
8 16 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.74%) BitLocker
10 8 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.74%) 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
13 3 (0.28%) vCloud
14 2 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.18%) KVM
Systems Management
1 213 (19.63%) Terraform
2 159 (14.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 152 (14.01%) Kubernetes
4 121 (11.15%) Ansible
5 43 (3.96%) Grafana
6 42 (3.87%) SCCM
7 37 (3.41%) Single Sign-On
8 27 (2.49%) Prometheus
9 21 (1.94%) Jamf Pro
10 16 (1.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 15 (1.38%) vCenter Server
12 11 (1.01%) Nessus
12 11 (1.01%) Puppet
12 11 (1.01%) VxRail
13 8 (0.74%) FortiGate
13 8 (0.74%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.65%) Nagios
15 6 (0.55%) Control-M
15 6 (0.55%) SCVMM
15 6 (0.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 581 (53.55%) Microsoft
2 219 (20.18%) VMware
3 101 (9.31%) Cisco
4 49 (4.52%) Oracle
4 49 (4.52%) Splunk
5 46 (4.24%) ServiceNow
5 46 (4.24%) Veeam
6 39 (3.59%) Red Hat
7 37 (3.41%) Google
8 34 (3.13%) Atlassian
9 33 (3.04%) Commvault
10 32 (2.95%) Palo Alto
11 29 (2.67%) CrowdStrike
12 28 (2.58%) Meraki
13 25 (2.30%) Citrix
14 24 (2.21%) CyberArk
15 23 (2.12%) Dell
16 22 (2.03%) Apple
16 22 (2.03%) Fortinet
17 21 (1.94%) Dynatrace