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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 85 99
Rank change year-on-year -64 +14 -35
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,290 1,498 1,693
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.28% 3.47% 2.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.73% 12.69% 8.03%
Number of salaries quoted 931 990 1,118
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,125 £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 16,697 11,804 21,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.59% 27.35% 30.67%
Number of salaries quoted 12,214 7,778 13,531
10th Percentile £39,818 £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

PowerShell
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing PowerShell

PowerShell
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in England over the 6 months to 16 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 16 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 -32 463 £70,000 -3.45% 590
South East -35 239 £52,500 -8.70% 202
North of England -80 239 £50,000 - 192
Midlands -39 158 £52,500 +5.00% 106
North West -64 143 £50,000 +8.70% 110
East of England -38 100 £57,500 +21.05% 63
South West -69 86 £55,000 +15.79% 91
West Midlands -66 80 £55,000 - 64
East Midlands -23 78 £42,500 +21.43% 42
Yorkshire -32 60 £45,000 -12.83% 56
North East -36 36 £50,000 -9.09% 27
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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
1 228 (17.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 220 (17.05%) SharePoint
3 51 (3.95%) IIS
4 41 (3.18%) Confluence
5 15 (1.16%) nginx
6 8 (0.62%) Apache
7 5 (0.39%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.31%) SAS
9 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.078%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.078%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.078%) WebSphere
Applications
1 68 (5.27%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (2.79%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.47%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.39%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.23%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.16%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.078%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 788 (61.09%) Azure
2 509 (39.46%) Microsoft 365
3 390 (30.23%) Entra ID
4 240 (18.60%) AWS
5 157 (12.17%) Azure DevOps
6 107 (8.29%) OneDrive
7 105 (8.14%) SaaS
8 104 (8.06%) Power Platform
9 96 (7.44%) IaaS
10 89 (6.90%) GitHub
11 81 (6.28%) Azure Monitor
12 77 (5.97%) Azure Sentinel
13 76 (5.89%) Power Automate
14 69 (5.35%) Azure AKS
15 66 (5.12%) PaaS
16 63 (4.88%) GCP
17 60 (4.65%) Azure Key Vault
18 57 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
19 51 (3.95%) Microsoft Purview
20 49 (3.80%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 300 (23.26%) Firewall
2 286 (22.17%) DNS
3 195 (15.12%) VPN
4 192 (14.88%) DHCP
5 133 (10.31%) TCP/IP
6 82 (6.36%) WAN
7 73 (5.66%) LAN
8 66 (5.12%) VLAN
9 59 (4.57%) Network Security
10 51 (3.95%) Wireless
11 42 (3.26%) Wi-Fi
12 35 (2.71%) SAN
13 29 (2.25%) Kerberos
14 23 (1.78%) SSL
15 22 (1.71%) NAS
16 18 (1.40%) HTTP
16 18 (1.40%) Internet
17 12 (0.93%) VSAN
18 11 (0.85%) VoIP
19 10 (0.78%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (10.16%) SQL Server
2 82 (6.36%) Azure SQL Database
3 58 (4.50%) Power BI
4 22 (1.71%) MongoDB
4 22 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (1.24%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 12 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (0.93%) MySQL
8 10 (0.78%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (0.62%) InfluxDB
11 7 (0.54%) Power Query
11 7 (0.54%) Redis
12 6 (0.47%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.47%) Metadata
13 5 (0.39%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.31%) Db2
14 4 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 97 (7.52%) JIRA
2 90 (6.98%) Git
3 67 (5.19%) GitLab
4 58 (4.50%) Jenkins
5 21 (1.63%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 12 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
7 10 (0.78%) TeamCity
8 9 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (0.62%) Robot Framework
9 8 (0.62%) TestRail
10 6 (0.47%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.47%) Selenium
10 6 (0.47%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.39%) Postman
11 5 (0.39%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.23%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.23%) JMeter
12 3 (0.23%) MSI
12 3 (0.23%) Terragrunt
General
1 461 (35.74%) Social Skills
2 218 (16.90%) Finance
3 178 (13.80%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (7.44%) Law
5 54 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 53 (4.11%) Legal
7 51 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
8 43 (3.33%) Banking
8 43 (3.33%) Retail
9 37 (2.87%) Manufacturing
10 36 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
11 31 (2.40%) Public Sector
12 29 (2.25%) Aerospace
13 12 (0.93%) Advertising
14 11 (0.85%) Financial Institution
14 11 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (0.70%) Front Office
16 8 (0.62%) Aviation
16 8 (0.62%) Investment Banking
17 6 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 200 (15.50%) Senior
2 192 (14.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 151 (11.71%) Analyst
4 128 (9.92%) Azure Engineer
5 127 (9.84%) Support Engineer
6 126 (9.77%) Cloud Engineer
7 124 (9.61%) IT Engineer
8 103 (7.98%) IT Support
9 94 (7.29%) DevOps Engineer
10 71 (5.50%) Platform Engineer
11 67 (5.19%) Lead
12 64 (4.96%) IT Support Engineer
13 63 (4.88%) Consultant
13 63 (4.88%) Support Analyst
14 60 (4.65%) Security Engineer
15 57 (4.42%) Systems Engineer
16 52 (4.03%) Developer
17 46 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
18 43 (3.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
19 42 (3.26%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 332 (25.74%) Terraform
2 70 (5.43%) .NET
3 52 (4.03%) ARM Templates
4 46 (3.57%) REST
5 43 (3.33%) YAML
6 39 (3.02%) Microsoft Graph
7 38 (2.95%) SAML
8 35 (2.71%) HTML
8 35 (2.71%) LDAP
8 35 (2.71%) OpenID
9 33 (2.56%) OAuth
10 28 (2.17%) JSON
11 26 (2.02%) CSS
12 25 (1.94%) .NET Core
12 25 (1.94%) SPFx
13 20 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
14 16 (1.24%) HTML5 Canvas
15 13 (1.01%) RESTful
16 12 (0.93%) Kafka
16 12 (0.93%) React
Miscellaneous
1 118 (9.15%) Onboarding
2 82 (6.36%) Cloud Native
3 73 (5.66%) Hybrid Cloud
4 72 (5.58%) Driving Licence
5 71 (5.50%) Management Information System
6 67 (5.19%) Security Posture
7 48 (3.72%) Data Centre
8 42 (3.26%) PKI
9 41 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
9 41 (3.18%) Public Cloud
10 40 (3.10%) Security Operations Centre
11 35 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
12 31 (2.40%) Replication
13 25 (1.94%) Private Cloud
14 24 (1.86%) Cyber Defence
15 19 (1.47%) CMDB
15 19 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
16 18 (1.40%) Clustering
17 16 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
18 15 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 641 (49.69%) Windows
2 302 (23.41%) Linux
3 301 (23.33%) Windows Server
4 84 (6.51%) Windows 10
5 51 (3.95%) Apple iOS
6 42 (3.26%) Android
7 40 (3.10%) Ubuntu
8 38 (2.95%) VMS
9 34 (2.64%) CentOS
9 34 (2.64%) Mac OS
10 33 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
11 29 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 26 (2.02%) Windows Server 2019
13 16 (1.24%) Unix
14 15 (1.16%) Rocky
15 7 (0.54%) Solaris
16 5 (0.39%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.31%) Debian
17 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
18 3 (0.23%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (29.84%) Problem-Solving
2 316 (24.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 296 (22.95%) CI/CD
4 289 (22.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 287 (22.25%) DevOps
6 285 (22.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 266 (20.62%) ITIL
8 239 (18.53%) Cybersecurity
9 181 (14.03%) Disaster Recovery
10 158 (12.25%) AI
11 151 (11.71%) Agile
11 151 (11.71%) Mentoring
12 149 (11.55%) Root Cause Analysis
13 136 (10.54%) High Availability
13 136 (10.54%) Incident Response
14 132 (10.23%) Cloud Security
15 128 (9.92%) Platform Engineering
16 127 (9.84%) Observability
17 120 (9.30%) Infrastructure Automation
18 119 (9.22%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 491 (38.06%) Python
2 281 (21.78%) Bash
3 270 (20.93%) SQL
4 107 (8.29%) Bicep
5 86 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 81 (6.28%) C#
7 46 (3.57%) Kusto Query Language
8 37 (2.87%) Java
9 32 (2.48%) T-SQL
10 30 (2.33%) TypeScript
11 23 (1.78%) VBScript
12 20 (1.55%) C++
13 19 (1.47%) Perl
14 13 (1.01%) Ruby
15 12 (0.93%) PHP
16 10 (0.78%) Go
16 10 (0.78%) VB
16 10 (0.78%) VBA
17 7 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 6 (0.47%) C
Qualifications
1 172 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 155 (12.02%) Degree
3 142 (11.01%) Microsoft Certification
4 140 (10.85%) Azure Certification
5 117 (9.07%) SC Cleared
6 53 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 52 (4.03%) Cisco Certification
7 52 (4.03%) CompTIA Security+
8 51 (3.95%) CISSP
8 51 (3.95%) DV Cleared
9 40 (3.10%) CCNA
10 26 (2.02%) CEH
11 22 (1.71%) AWS Certification
11 22 (1.71%) DBS Check
12 18 (1.40%) CISM
12 18 (1.40%) GIAC
12 18 (1.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 17 (1.32%) OSCP
14 13 (1.01%) CCNP
14 13 (1.01%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (6.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 63 (4.88%) Cyber Essentials
3 52 (4.03%) NIST
4 42 (3.26%) SLA
5 39 (3.02%) GDPR
6 23 (1.78%) QA
7 20 (1.55%) Data Quality
8 14 (1.09%) SOC 2
9 13 (1.01%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.54%) PMO
12 6 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.39%) Accessibility
13 5 (0.39%) NCSC
14 4 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.31%) ISO 22301
15 3 (0.23%) ISAE 3402
16 2 (0.16%) EMIR
16 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 478 (37.05%) Active Directory
2 221 (17.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 136 (10.54%) Hyper-V
4 128 (9.92%) Docker
5 78 (6.05%) vSphere
6 65 (5.04%) Virtual Machines
7 53 (4.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 20 (1.55%) BitLocker
8 20 (1.55%) VMware NSX
9 15 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.70%) Firmware
11 8 (0.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.62%) KVM
11 8 (0.62%) Squid
12 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.078%) Ceph
15 1 (0.078%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 233 (18.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 206 (15.97%) Kubernetes
3 153 (11.86%) Ansible
4 76 (5.89%) Grafana
5 65 (5.04%) SCCM
6 50 (3.88%) Single Sign-On
7 40 (3.10%) Prometheus
8 23 (1.78%) Argo
8 23 (1.78%) ZABBIX
9 21 (1.63%) QRadar
9 21 (1.63%) vCenter Server
10 20 (1.55%) Proxmox
11 18 (1.40%) Packer
11 18 (1.40%) Puppet
12 15 (1.16%) FortiGate
12 15 (1.16%) Graylog
13 14 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
14 11 (0.85%) VxRail
15 9 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 9 (0.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 839 (65.04%) Microsoft
2 255 (19.77%) VMware
3 105 (8.14%) ServiceNow
4 103 (7.98%) Cisco
5 83 (6.43%) Splunk
6 62 (4.81%) Veeam
7 49 (3.80%) Red Hat
8 47 (3.64%) Oracle
9 41 (3.18%) Citrix
10 35 (2.71%) Meraki
11 34 (2.64%) Sage
12 31 (2.40%) Dell
12 31 (2.40%) Sophos
13 29 (2.25%) Dynatrace
14 27 (2.09%) SAP
14 27 (2.09%) Tenable
15 26 (2.02%) Fortinet
16 23 (1.78%) CrowdStrike
16 23 (1.78%) CyberArk
17 22 (1.71%) Apple