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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 85 98
Rank change year-on-year -70 +13 -37
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,285 1,496 1,699
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.24% 3.45% 2.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.71% 12.94% 8.21%
Number of salaries quoted 909 991 1,105
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £37,600
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,780 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,500 £60,918
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -5.61% +1.53%
75th Percentile £73,250 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £100,000
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 16,676 11,558 20,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.03% 26.64% 31.21%
Number of salaries quoted 12,130 7,594 12,642
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £111,225
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

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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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -28 469 £70,000 -3.45% 582
South East -38 238 £52,500 -8.70% 237
North of England -87 236 £50,000 - 201
Midlands -42 163 £52,500 +2.24% 112
North West -66 143 £50,000 +5.26% 108
East of England -45 93 £57,500 +21.05% 78
East Midlands -29 83 £42,500 +21.43% 49
South West -75 82 £57,500 +19.79% 107
West Midlands -65 80 £55,000 - 63
Yorkshire -57 57 £48,445 -6.16% 62
North East -33 36 £51,500 -14.17% 33
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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
1 236 (18.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 214 (16.65%) SharePoint
3 51 (3.97%) IIS
4 42 (3.27%) Confluence
5 15 (1.17%) 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 63 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (2.80%) 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%) Actimize
7 1 (0.078%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 791 (61.56%) Azure
2 515 (40.08%) Microsoft 365
3 422 (32.84%) Entra ID
4 242 (18.83%) AWS
5 166 (12.92%) Azure DevOps
6 109 (8.48%) Power Platform
7 104 (8.09%) OneDrive
7 104 (8.09%) SaaS
8 99 (7.70%) IaaS
9 98 (7.63%) GitHub
10 87 (6.77%) Azure Monitor
11 85 (6.61%) Azure Sentinel
12 75 (5.84%) Power Automate
13 73 (5.68%) PaaS
14 70 (5.45%) Azure AKS
15 62 (4.82%) Azure Key Vault
15 62 (4.82%) GCP
16 58 (4.51%) GitHub Actions
17 55 (4.28%) Microsoft Purview
18 52 (4.05%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 302 (23.50%) Firewall
2 298 (23.19%) DNS
3 211 (16.42%) VPN
4 207 (16.11%) DHCP
5 141 (10.97%) TCP/IP
6 88 (6.85%) WAN
7 77 (5.99%) LAN
8 72 (5.60%) VLAN
9 54 (4.20%) Network Security
9 54 (4.20%) Wireless
10 45 (3.50%) Wi-Fi
11 38 (2.96%) SAN
12 30 (2.33%) Kerberos
13 27 (2.10%) SSL
14 21 (1.63%) NAS
15 20 (1.56%) HTTP
16 15 (1.17%) Internet
17 12 (0.93%) VSAN
18 10 (0.78%) FTP
18 10 (0.78%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (10.43%) SQL Server
2 85 (6.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 61 (4.75%) Power BI
4 21 (1.63%) MongoDB
4 21 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (1.25%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (1.01%) MySQL
8 12 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (0.70%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.62%) Power Query
10 8 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (0.54%) InfluxDB
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%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 93 (7.24%) JIRA
2 85 (6.61%) Git
3 66 (5.14%) GitLab
4 58 (4.51%) Jenkins
5 21 (1.63%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
8 10 (0.78%) TeamCity
9 7 (0.54%) Robot Framework
9 7 (0.54%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.54%) TestRail
10 5 (0.39%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.39%) MSI
10 5 (0.39%) Postman
10 5 (0.39%) Selenium
10 5 (0.39%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (0.31%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.31%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 462 (35.95%) Social Skills
2 227 (17.67%) Finance
3 179 (13.93%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (6.30%) Law
5 55 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 53 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (3.74%) Legal
8 47 (3.66%) Retail
9 43 (3.35%) Banking
10 37 (2.88%) Manufacturing
11 34 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
12 30 (2.33%) Public Sector
13 29 (2.26%) Aerospace
14 12 (0.93%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (0.78%) Investment Banking
17 9 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
18 8 (0.62%) Advertising
18 8 (0.62%) Aviation
18 8 (0.62%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 195 (15.18%) Senior
2 193 (15.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 157 (12.22%) Analyst
4 127 (9.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 124 (9.65%) Azure Engineer
6 120 (9.34%) IT Engineer
7 116 (9.03%) Support Engineer
8 97 (7.55%) DevOps Engineer
9 96 (7.47%) IT Support
10 75 (5.84%) Platform Engineer
11 73 (5.68%) Lead
12 67 (5.21%) Consultant
13 62 (4.82%) IT Support Engineer
13 62 (4.82%) Support Analyst
14 58 (4.51%) Security Engineer
15 52 (4.05%) Systems Engineer
16 46 (3.58%) Developer
17 43 (3.35%) Automation Engineer
18 42 (3.27%) Microsoft Engineer
18 42 (3.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 338 (26.30%) Terraform
2 64 (4.98%) .NET
3 57 (4.44%) ARM Templates
4 49 (3.81%) REST
5 44 (3.42%) SAML
6 43 (3.35%) YAML
7 38 (2.96%) Microsoft Graph
8 37 (2.88%) LDAP
8 37 (2.88%) OpenID
9 36 (2.80%) OAuth
10 32 (2.49%) HTML
11 28 (2.18%) JSON
12 23 (1.79%) CSS
13 21 (1.63%) SPFx
14 20 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
15 18 (1.40%) .NET Core
16 13 (1.01%) Kafka
17 12 (0.93%) ASP.NET Core
17 12 (0.93%) Middleware
17 12 (0.93%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 120 (9.34%) Onboarding
2 82 (6.38%) Cloud Native
3 80 (6.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 74 (5.76%) Driving Licence
5 69 (5.37%) Management Information System
5 69 (5.37%) Security Posture
6 51 (3.97%) PKI
7 46 (3.58%) Data Centre
8 45 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
9 39 (3.04%) Security Operations Centre
10 36 (2.80%) Public Cloud
10 36 (2.80%) Replication
11 29 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.63%) Cyber Defence
13 20 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
13 20 (1.56%) Private Cloud
14 19 (1.48%) Clustering
15 17 (1.32%) CMDB
15 17 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
16 14 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 651 (50.66%) Windows
2 308 (23.97%) Windows Server
3 298 (23.19%) Linux
4 94 (7.32%) Windows 10
5 50 (3.89%) Apple iOS
6 42 (3.27%) Android
7 39 (3.04%) Ubuntu
8 36 (2.80%) VMS
9 34 (2.65%) Mac OS
10 32 (2.49%) Windows Server 2016
10 32 (2.49%) Windows Server 2019
11 31 (2.41%) CentOS
12 29 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 18 (1.40%) Unix
14 16 (1.25%) 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%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (30.51%) Problem-Solving
2 324 (25.21%) Infrastructure as Code
3 299 (23.27%) DevOps
4 295 (22.96%) Continuous Improvement
5 294 (22.88%) CI/CD
6 291 (22.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 252 (19.61%) ITIL
8 242 (18.83%) Cybersecurity
9 200 (15.56%) Disaster Recovery
10 169 (13.15%) AI
11 151 (11.75%) Agile
12 146 (11.36%) Root Cause Analysis
13 145 (11.28%) Mentoring
14 144 (11.21%) Cloud Security
15 138 (10.74%) High Availability
15 138 (10.74%) Migration
15 138 (10.74%) Platform Engineering
16 133 (10.35%) Incident Response
17 123 (9.57%) Infrastructure Automation
17 123 (9.57%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 495 (38.52%) Python
2 279 (21.71%) Bash
3 273 (21.25%) SQL
4 119 (9.26%) Bicep
5 79 (6.15%) JavaScript
6 68 (5.29%) C#
7 49 (3.81%) Kusto Query Language
8 35 (2.72%) Java
9 31 (2.41%) T-SQL
10 26 (2.02%) TypeScript
11 23 (1.79%) VBScript
12 16 (1.25%) C++
12 16 (1.25%) Perl
13 13 (1.01%) PHP
14 11 (0.86%) VBA
15 10 (0.78%) Ruby
15 10 (0.78%) VB
16 7 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (0.54%) Go
17 5 (0.39%) Korn
Qualifications
1 169 (13.15%) Security Cleared
2 157 (12.22%) Degree
3 140 (10.89%) Microsoft Certification
4 138 (10.74%) Azure Certification
5 113 (8.79%) SC Cleared
6 58 (4.51%) CISSP
7 53 (4.12%) CompTIA Security+
8 52 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 50 (3.89%) DV Cleared
10 47 (3.66%) Cisco Certification
11 38 (2.96%) CCNA
12 27 (2.10%) CEH
13 25 (1.95%) DBS Check
14 24 (1.87%) AWS Certification
15 20 (1.56%) CISM
16 18 (1.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 17 (1.32%) GIAC
18 15 (1.17%) OSCP
19 14 (1.09%) Network+ Certification
20 13 (1.01%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (7.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 70 (5.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 55 (4.28%) NIST
4 44 (3.42%) SLA
5 39 (3.04%) GDPR
6 24 (1.87%) QA
7 20 (1.56%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.32%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.93%) SOC 2
10 11 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.62%) PMO
12 7 (0.54%) Accessibility
12 7 (0.54%) NCSC
12 7 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.31%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.23%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.16%) EMIR
15 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 1 (0.078%) TickIT
System Software
1 495 (38.52%) Active Directory
2 214 (16.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 135 (10.51%) Hyper-V
4 132 (10.27%) Docker
5 78 (6.07%) vSphere
6 72 (5.60%) Virtual Machines
7 59 (4.59%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.79%) VMware NSX
9 22 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
10 17 (1.32%) BitLocker
11 14 (1.09%) Firmware
12 8 (0.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.62%) KVM
12 8 (0.62%) Squid
13 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
16 2 (0.16%) Snort
16 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 235 (18.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 207 (16.11%) Kubernetes
3 153 (11.91%) Ansible
4 76 (5.91%) Grafana
5 64 (4.98%) SCCM
6 53 (4.12%) Single Sign-On
7 41 (3.19%) Prometheus
8 27 (2.10%) Puppet
9 23 (1.79%) Argo
9 23 (1.79%) ZABBIX
10 21 (1.63%) vCenter Server
11 20 (1.56%) Proxmox
12 19 (1.48%) QRadar
13 16 (1.25%) FortiGate
13 16 (1.25%) Packer
14 15 (1.17%) Graylog
15 12 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
15 12 (0.93%) Progress Chef
16 11 (0.86%) VxRail
17 9 (0.70%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 856 (66.61%) Microsoft
2 254 (19.77%) VMware
3 97 (7.55%) ServiceNow
4 96 (7.47%) Cisco
5 83 (6.46%) Splunk
6 68 (5.29%) Veeam
7 45 (3.50%) Oracle
8 44 (3.42%) Red Hat
9 41 (3.19%) Citrix
10 34 (2.65%) Dell
10 34 (2.65%) Sage
11 33 (2.57%) Meraki
12 31 (2.41%) Sophos
13 29 (2.26%) Dynatrace
13 29 (2.26%) SAP
14 28 (2.18%) SolarWinds
15 26 (2.02%) CrowdStrike
15 26 (2.02%) Fortinet
16 25 (1.95%) Google
16 25 (1.95%) Tenable