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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 90 77
Rank change year-on-year -29 -13 +9
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,054 1,403 2,260
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.80% 3.12% 3.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.56% 9.09% 9.42%
Number of salaries quoted 847 994 1,973
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -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 11,026 15,431 24,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.80% 34.36% 36.59%
Number of salaries quoted 8,188 9,277 20,506
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,007
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 £102,500 £112,500 £102,500
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 12 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 12 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 -7 450 £70,000 -8.50% 129
South East -38 191 £57,500 -4.17% 132
North of England -30 137 £48,445 -7.72% 93
South West +3 103 £55,000 +1.85% 39
Midlands -51 91 £52,500 +5.00% 43
East of England +2 65 £40,000 -23.81% 31
Yorkshire -27 62 £47,500 -9.52% 29
North West -16 59 £50,000 -4.76% 52
East Midlands -17 45 £55,000 +8.91% 20
West Midlands -43 45 £48,000 -4.00% 24
North East +2 16 £47,500 -17.39% 12
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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
1 167 (15.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 127 (12.05%) SharePoint
3 37 (3.51%) IIS
4 22 (2.09%) Exchange Server 2003
5 15 (1.42%) Confluence
6 8 (0.76%) Skype for Business
7 6 (0.57%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.19%) CMS
9 2 (0.19%) WordPress
10 1 (0.095%) nginx
10 1 (0.095%) Site Server
Applications
1 38 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.57%) Siemens NX
4 5 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.28%) CATIA
5 3 (0.28%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.28%) Windchill
6 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.57%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.47%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.19%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.19%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.095%) Actimize
7 1 (0.095%) Alphatax
7 1 (0.095%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.095%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 661 (62.71%) Azure
2 360 (34.16%) Microsoft 365
3 277 (26.28%) Entra ID
4 190 (18.03%) AWS
5 135 (12.81%) Azure DevOps
6 109 (10.34%) Power Platform
7 75 (7.12%) GCP
8 73 (6.93%) GitHub
9 62 (5.88%) PaaS
10 55 (5.22%) GitHub Actions
11 51 (4.84%) Power Automate
12 49 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
12 49 (4.65%) SaaS
13 44 (4.17%) IaaS
14 42 (3.98%) OneDrive
15 41 (3.89%) Google Workspace
16 36 (3.42%) Azure Sentinel
17 31 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
18 28 (2.66%) Serverless
19 27 (2.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 197 (18.69%) Firewall
2 196 (18.60%) DNS
3 155 (14.71%) DHCP
4 108 (10.25%) VPN
5 96 (9.11%) TCP/IP
6 69 (6.55%) WAN
7 63 (5.98%) LAN
8 45 (4.27%) VLAN
9 44 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
10 34 (3.23%) Network Security
10 34 (3.23%) Wireless
11 28 (2.66%) SAN
11 28 (2.66%) SD-WAN
12 27 (2.56%) Broadband
13 25 (2.37%) VoIP
14 16 (1.52%) VSAN
15 15 (1.42%) Internet
16 12 (1.14%) NAS
16 12 (1.14%) WinSCP
17 10 (0.95%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (12.52%) SQL Server
2 80 (7.59%) Power BI
3 34 (3.23%) Relational Database
4 30 (2.85%) Oracle Database
5 28 (2.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 26 (2.47%) Oracle Database 10g
7 25 (2.37%) MySQL
8 22 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
10 15 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (1.23%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 13 (1.23%) Tableau
12 8 (0.76%) MongoDB
13 7 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
14 5 (0.47%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.47%) Metadata
15 4 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
15 4 (0.38%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 75 (7.12%) Git
2 70 (6.64%) JIRA
3 67 (6.36%) Jenkins
4 35 (3.32%) GitLab
5 25 (2.37%) Octopus Deploy
6 17 (1.61%) Bitbucket
7 16 (1.52%) TeamCity
8 12 (1.14%) Burp Suite
8 12 (1.14%) Metasploit
9 11 (1.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 8 (0.76%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (0.57%) Robot Framework
12 5 (0.47%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.38%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.38%) MLflow
13 4 (0.38%) Toad
14 3 (0.28%) Balsamiq
14 3 (0.28%) JMeter
14 3 (0.28%) MSI
General
1 368 (34.91%) Social Skills
2 221 (20.97%) Finance
3 117 (11.10%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (4.65%) Retail
5 46 (4.36%) Law
6 41 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
7 36 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
8 35 (3.32%) Public Sector
9 34 (3.23%) Legal
10 32 (3.04%) Banking
11 28 (2.66%) Telecoms
12 26 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 22 (2.09%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.85%) Advertising
17 8 (0.76%) Front Office
18 7 (0.66%) Aerospace
18 7 (0.66%) Local Government
19 6 (0.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 140 (13.28%) Senior
2 135 (12.81%) Support Engineer
3 122 (11.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 93 (8.82%) Analyst
5 87 (8.25%) Azure Engineer
6 76 (7.21%) IT Support
7 75 (7.12%) DevOps Engineer
8 73 (6.93%) Developer
9 69 (6.55%) Security Engineer
10 65 (6.17%) IT Engineer
11 62 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
12 56 (5.31%) Lead
13 51 (4.84%) 3rd Line Support
14 48 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
15 46 (4.36%) IT Support Engineer
16 42 (3.98%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 38 (3.61%) Applications Support
18 36 (3.42%) Support Analyst
19 34 (3.23%) Architect
20 32 (3.04%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (7.02%) REST
2 65 (6.17%) .NET
3 42 (3.98%) OAuth
3 42 (3.98%) OpenID
4 39 (3.70%) SAML
4 39 (3.70%) SOAP
5 34 (3.23%) JSON
6 33 (3.13%) LDAP
6 33 (3.13%) YAML
7 26 (2.47%) GraphQL
8 25 (2.37%) ARM Templates
9 23 (2.18%) React
10 16 (1.52%) AngularJS
10 16 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
11 15 (1.42%) Microsoft Graph
12 14 (1.33%) .NET Core
12 14 (1.33%) Middleware
12 14 (1.33%) Node.js
13 12 (1.14%) Web Services
14 10 (0.95%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 87 (8.25%) Onboarding
2 68 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 56 (5.31%) Security Posture
4 42 (3.98%) Enterprise Software
4 42 (3.98%) Management Information System
5 33 (3.13%) Driving Licence
6 31 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
7 30 (2.85%) Cloud Native
8 29 (2.75%) Data Centre
8 29 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
9 27 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
10 26 (2.47%) Cyber Defence
10 26 (2.47%) Cyberattack
11 22 (2.09%) PKI
12 20 (1.90%) CMDB
13 19 (1.80%) Hedge funds
14 18 (1.71%) Security Operations Centre
15 16 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
16 15 (1.42%) Private Cloud
16 15 (1.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 468 (44.40%) Windows
2 250 (23.72%) Windows Server
3 188 (17.84%) Linux
4 68 (6.45%) Windows 10
5 51 (4.84%) Mac OS
6 41 (3.89%) Unix
7 36 (3.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 34 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 30 (2.85%) Android
10 26 (2.47%) Windows Server 2008
11 24 (2.28%) Solaris
11 24 (2.28%) VMS
12 22 (2.09%) HPUX
12 22 (2.09%) Windows 7
12 22 (2.09%) Windows Server 2003
13 19 (1.80%) Apple iOS
14 18 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 17 (1.61%) CentOS
16 13 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
17 10 (0.95%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (30.83%) Problem-Solving
2 259 (24.57%) DevOps
3 204 (19.35%) CI/CD
4 196 (18.60%) ITIL
5 182 (17.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 176 (16.70%) Cybersecurity
7 175 (16.60%) Infrastructure as Code
8 174 (16.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 146 (13.85%) Disaster Recovery
10 130 (12.33%) Mentoring
11 117 (11.10%) Agile
12 112 (10.63%) Task Automation
13 110 (10.44%) Root Cause Analysis
14 105 (9.96%) Incident Response
15 95 (9.01%) Cloud Security
16 91 (8.63%) Migration
17 90 (8.54%) Business Intelligence
18 88 (8.35%) Computer Science
19 84 (7.97%) Incident Management
20 81 (7.69%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 354 (33.59%) Python
2 231 (21.92%) Bash
3 230 (21.82%) SQL
4 89 (8.44%) C#
5 61 (5.79%) Bicep
6 56 (5.31%) JavaScript
7 54 (5.12%) T-SQL
8 25 (2.37%) Perl
9 22 (2.09%) Kusto Query Language
10 21 (1.99%) Go
11 17 (1.61%) Java
12 13 (1.23%) VB
13 10 (0.95%) VB.NET
13 10 (0.95%) VBScript
14 7 (0.66%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.66%) TypeScript
15 6 (0.57%) PHP
16 5 (0.47%) C++
17 4 (0.38%) Delphi
17 4 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 158 (14.99%) Degree
2 134 (12.71%) Security Cleared
3 99 (9.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 80 (7.59%) Azure Certification
5 78 (7.40%) SC Cleared
6 53 (5.03%) DV Cleared
7 43 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 40 (3.80%) CISSP
9 35 (3.32%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (2.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 25 (2.37%) AWS Certification
12 23 (2.18%) CREST Certified
13 21 (1.99%) CEH
14 19 (1.80%) CompTIA CySA+
15 18 (1.71%) GIAC
16 17 (1.61%) CCNA
17 16 (1.52%) DBS Check
18 15 (1.42%) OSCP
19 14 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
20 13 (1.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (15.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 130 (12.33%) NIST
3 56 (5.31%) GDPR
4 53 (5.03%) SLA
5 39 (3.70%) NCSC
6 29 (2.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 26 (2.47%) Accessibility
8 18 (1.71%) ISO 22301
9 17 (1.61%) QA
10 16 (1.52%) Data Quality
11 14 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 13 (1.23%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.57%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.47%) GRC
16 4 (0.38%) DICOM
17 3 (0.28%) HL7
17 3 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 2 (0.19%) COBIT
19 1 (0.095%) HIPAA
System Software
1 394 (37.38%) Active Directory
2 125 (11.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 92 (8.73%) Docker
4 86 (8.16%) Hyper-V
5 38 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
6 32 (3.04%) vSphere
7 23 (2.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 21 (1.99%) Firmware
9 15 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (0.95%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.66%) VMware NSX
12 6 (0.57%) XenApp
12 6 (0.57%) XenDesktop
13 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.28%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.28%) iptables
14 3 (0.28%) vCloud
15 2 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 2 (0.19%) KVM
15 2 (0.19%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 201 (19.07%) Terraform
2 160 (15.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 133 (12.62%) Kubernetes
4 119 (11.29%) Ansible
5 42 (3.98%) SCCM
6 38 (3.61%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (3.04%) Grafana
8 20 (1.90%) Prometheus
9 18 (1.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 12 (1.14%) Puppet
10 12 (1.14%) SCOM
10 12 (1.14%) vCenter Server
11 11 (1.04%) WSUS
12 9 (0.85%) FortiGate
12 9 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
12 9 (0.85%) Nessus
13 8 (0.76%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.76%) SCVMM
13 8 (0.76%) VxRail
14 7 (0.66%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 561 (53.23%) Microsoft
2 206 (19.54%) VMware
3 86 (8.16%) Cisco
4 53 (5.03%) Oracle
5 52 (4.93%) ServiceNow
6 47 (4.46%) Veeam
7 39 (3.70%) Google
8 37 (3.51%) Splunk
9 36 (3.42%) Atlassian
10 33 (3.13%) Palo Alto
11 29 (2.75%) Citrix
12 27 (2.56%) Red Hat
13 26 (2.47%) Commvault
14 25 (2.37%) CyberArk
15 23 (2.18%) Fortinet
16 22 (2.09%) CrowdStrike
16 22 (2.09%) SolarWinds
17 21 (1.99%) Dell
18 19 (1.80%) SAP
18 19 (1.80%) Tenable