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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 91 77
Rank change year-on-year -34 -14 +10
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,065 1,388 2,225
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.73% 3.24% 3.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.31% 9.33% 9.28%
Number of salaries quoted 852 1,009 1,941
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +9.57% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +9.65% -5.00%

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 11,434 14,879 23,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.60% 34.74% 36.07%
Number of salaries quoted 8,418 9,202 20,512
10th Percentile £33,925 £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%

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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 26 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 26 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 -4 469 £70,000 -9.68% 142
South East -43 194 £56,750 -7.35% 126
North of England -29 145 £47,500 -9.52% 67
South West +3 101 £55,000 - 42
Midlands -49 84 £52,000 +4.00% 40
Yorkshire -36 67 £47,500 -9.52% 23
North West -34 61 £50,000 -2.44% 31
East of England -15 55 £40,000 -27.27% 33
East Midlands -26 42 £55,000 +8.91% 20
West Midlands -42 41 £47,500 -5.00% 20
North East +2 17 £47,500 -20.83% 13
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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
1 171 (16.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 122 (11.46%) SharePoint
3 31 (2.91%) IIS
4 22 (2.07%) Exchange Server 2003
5 13 (1.22%) Confluence
6 6 (0.56%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.47%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.19%) CMS
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.19%) WordPress
9 1 (0.094%) Apache
9 1 (0.094%) nginx
9 1 (0.094%) Site Server
Applications
1 38 (3.57%) 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 1 (0.094%) 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%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.19%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.19%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.094%) Actimize
6 1 (0.094%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.094%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.094%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 660 (61.97%) Azure
2 364 (34.18%) Microsoft 365
3 277 (26.01%) Entra ID
4 194 (18.22%) AWS
5 123 (11.55%) Azure DevOps
6 108 (10.14%) Power Platform
7 77 (7.23%) GCP
7 77 (7.23%) GitHub
8 65 (6.10%) PaaS
9 59 (5.54%) SaaS
10 58 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
11 52 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
12 49 (4.60%) IaaS
13 45 (4.23%) Power Automate
14 43 (4.04%) Google Workspace
15 40 (3.76%) OneDrive
16 35 (3.29%) Azure Sentinel
17 33 (3.10%) Nutanix
18 31 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
19 29 (2.72%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 202 (18.97%) DNS
2 200 (18.78%) Firewall
3 162 (15.21%) DHCP
4 118 (11.08%) VPN
5 98 (9.20%) TCP/IP
6 67 (6.29%) WAN
7 65 (6.10%) LAN
8 48 (4.51%) VLAN
8 48 (4.51%) Wi-Fi
9 34 (3.19%) Network Security
9 34 (3.19%) SAN
10 32 (3.00%) Wireless
11 30 (2.82%) VoIP
12 27 (2.54%) Broadband
12 27 (2.54%) SD-WAN
13 17 (1.60%) VSAN
14 14 (1.31%) NAS
15 12 (1.13%) WinSCP
16 10 (0.94%) Internet
16 10 (0.94%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (12.30%) SQL Server
2 82 (7.70%) Power BI
3 31 (2.91%) Relational Database
4 30 (2.82%) Oracle Database
5 28 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 26 (2.44%) Oracle Database 10g
7 25 (2.35%) MySQL
8 24 (2.25%) 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 5 (0.47%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.47%) InfluxDB
14 5 (0.47%) Metadata
15 4 (0.38%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 76 (7.14%) Git
2 72 (6.76%) JIRA
3 68 (6.38%) Jenkins
4 39 (3.66%) GitLab
5 25 (2.35%) Octopus Deploy
6 20 (1.88%) Bitbucket
7 17 (1.60%) TeamCity
8 15 (1.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 13 (1.22%) Metasploit
10 11 (1.03%) Burp Suite
11 9 (0.85%) 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%) JMeter
15 3 (0.28%) TestRail
General
1 364 (34.18%) Social Skills
2 226 (21.22%) Finance
3 120 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (4.41%) Retail
5 44 (4.13%) Organisational Skills
6 43 (4.04%) Law
7 39 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (3.10%) Banking
8 33 (3.10%) Legal
9 32 (3.00%) Public Sector
10 29 (2.72%) Telecoms
11 26 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.88%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (0.75%) Advertising
16 7 (0.66%) Front Office
17 6 (0.56%) Investment Banking
17 6 (0.56%) Marketing
18 5 (0.47%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 139 (13.05%) Senior
2 136 (12.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 129 (12.11%) Support Engineer
4 97 (9.11%) Analyst
5 87 (8.17%) Azure Engineer
6 80 (7.51%) IT Support
7 74 (6.95%) DevOps Engineer
8 71 (6.67%) Security Engineer
9 68 (6.38%) Developer
10 64 (6.01%) IT Engineer
11 60 (5.63%) Cloud Engineer
12 59 (5.54%) Lead
13 54 (5.07%) 3rd Line Support
14 46 (4.32%) IT Support Engineer
15 45 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
16 43 (4.04%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 35 (3.29%) Architect
17 35 (3.29%) Support Analyst
18 34 (3.19%) 2nd Line Support
19 32 (3.00%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (6.29%) REST
2 62 (5.82%) .NET
3 46 (4.32%) OAuth
4 43 (4.04%) OpenID
4 43 (4.04%) SAML
5 35 (3.29%) SOAP
6 32 (3.00%) LDAP
7 31 (2.91%) JSON
8 28 (2.63%) YAML
9 26 (2.44%) ARM Templates
9 26 (2.44%) GraphQL
10 20 (1.88%) React
11 17 (1.60%) Microsoft Graph
12 16 (1.50%) Elastic Stack
13 15 (1.41%) .NET Core
13 15 (1.41%) Middleware
14 13 (1.22%) Node.js
15 12 (1.13%) AngularJS
16 11 (1.03%) Web Services
16 11 (1.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 88 (8.26%) Onboarding
2 72 (6.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 55 (5.16%) Security Posture
4 41 (3.85%) Management Information System
5 40 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
6 38 (3.57%) Driving Licence
7 33 (3.10%) Cyber Threat
8 30 (2.82%) Cloud Native
8 30 (2.82%) Cyber Defence
8 30 (2.82%) Data Centre
9 28 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 28 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
10 26 (2.44%) Cyberattack
11 21 (1.97%) PKI
12 19 (1.78%) CMDB
12 19 (1.78%) Security Operations Centre
13 18 (1.69%) Hedge funds
14 16 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
15 15 (1.41%) Low-Code
15 15 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 473 (44.41%) Windows
2 251 (23.57%) Windows Server
3 202 (18.97%) Linux
4 66 (6.20%) Windows 10
5 53 (4.98%) Mac OS
6 41 (3.85%) Unix
7 34 (3.19%) Windows Server 2019
8 33 (3.10%) Windows Server 2016
9 32 (3.00%) Android
10 26 (2.44%) Windows Server 2008
11 25 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 24 (2.25%) Solaris
12 24 (2.25%) VMS
13 23 (2.16%) Apple iOS
13 23 (2.16%) CentOS
14 22 (2.07%) HPUX
14 22 (2.07%) Windows 7
14 22 (2.07%) Windows Server 2003
15 14 (1.31%) Ubuntu
16 12 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (30.42%) Problem-Solving
2 256 (24.04%) DevOps
3 207 (19.44%) CI/CD
4 197 (18.50%) ITIL
5 195 (18.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 180 (16.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 178 (16.71%) Cybersecurity
8 172 (16.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 152 (14.27%) Disaster Recovery
10 128 (12.02%) Mentoring
11 112 (10.52%) Agile
12 110 (10.33%) Incident Response
13 108 (10.14%) Root Cause Analysis
13 108 (10.14%) Task Automation
14 94 (8.83%) Cloud Security
15 92 (8.64%) Business Intelligence
16 91 (8.54%) Migration
17 88 (8.26%) Computer Science
18 85 (7.98%) Incident Management
19 81 (7.61%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 370 (34.74%) Python
2 244 (22.91%) Bash
3 222 (20.85%) SQL
4 77 (7.23%) C#
5 58 (5.45%) Bicep
6 57 (5.35%) JavaScript
7 53 (4.98%) T-SQL
8 25 (2.35%) Perl
9 23 (2.16%) Kusto Query Language
10 20 (1.88%) Go
11 17 (1.60%) Java
12 10 (0.94%) VB.NET
13 8 (0.75%) VB
14 7 (0.66%) PHP
14 7 (0.66%) VBScript
15 6 (0.56%) Delphi
15 6 (0.56%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.47%) C++
16 5 (0.47%) Google Apps Script
17 4 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 160 (15.02%) Degree
2 137 (12.86%) Security Cleared
3 97 (9.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 81 (7.61%) SC Cleared
5 80 (7.51%) Azure Certification
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 22 (2.07%) CEH
13 20 (1.88%) GIAC
14 19 (1.78%) CompTIA CySA+
15 18 (1.69%) CCNA
16 17 (1.60%) DBS Check
17 16 (1.50%) OSCP
18 15 (1.41%) CompTIA Security+
19 12 (1.13%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (14.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 133 (12.49%) NIST
3 56 (5.26%) GDPR
4 55 (5.16%) SLA
5 39 (3.66%) NCSC
6 31 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials
7 27 (2.54%) Accessibility
8 20 (1.88%) ISO 22301
9 17 (1.60%) Data Quality
9 17 (1.60%) QA
10 15 (1.41%) PCI DSS
11 14 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
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
1 398 (37.37%) Active Directory
2 130 (12.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 97 (9.11%) Docker
4 92 (8.64%) Hyper-V
5 38 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
5 38 (3.57%) vSphere
6 21 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (1.69%) Firmware
8 16 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.75%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.56%) XenApp
10 6 (0.56%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.28%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.28%) iptables
12 3 (0.28%) KVM
12 3 (0.28%) vCloud
13 2 (0.19%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 207 (19.44%) Terraform
2 156 (14.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 141 (13.24%) Kubernetes
4 127 (11.92%) Ansible
5 40 (3.76%) SCCM
6 37 (3.47%) Single Sign-On
7 36 (3.38%) Grafana
8 22 (2.07%) Prometheus
9 17 (1.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 13 (1.22%) vCenter Server
11 12 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
11 12 (1.13%) Puppet
12 11 (1.03%) Nessus
13 10 (0.94%) SCOM
14 9 (0.85%) FortiGate
14 9 (0.85%) VxRail
15 8 (0.75%) Nagios
15 8 (0.75%) Progress Chef
15 8 (0.75%) SCVMM
16 7 (0.66%) Control-M
Vendors
1 559 (52.49%) Microsoft
2 220 (20.66%) VMware
3 90 (8.45%) Cisco
4 51 (4.79%) Oracle
5 50 (4.69%) ServiceNow
6 49 (4.60%) Veeam
7 41 (3.85%) Google
7 41 (3.85%) Splunk
8 38 (3.57%) Red Hat
9 34 (3.19%) Atlassian
10 32 (3.00%) Palo Alto
11 31 (2.91%) Commvault
12 29 (2.72%) Citrix
13 25 (2.35%) CyberArk
14 24 (2.25%) Dell
15 23 (2.16%) Fortinet
16 22 (2.07%) CrowdStrike
16 22 (2.07%) Meraki
16 22 (2.07%) SolarWinds
17 20 (1.88%) Tenable