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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 78 106
Rank change year-on-year -53 +28 -25
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,287 1,613 2,161
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.47% 3.71% 2.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.03% 12.26% 7.95%
Number of salaries quoted 973 1,051 1,719
10th Percentile £32,100 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £43,586
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,500 £77,500 £75,438
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £91,400
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -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 16,018 13,155 27,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.28% 30.30% 30.75%
Number of salaries quoted 11,663 8,905 21,358
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £48,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -18 495 £70,000 -4.44% 153
South East -19 246 £55,000 -4.35% 114
North of England -93 206 £47,500 -4.04% 70
Midlands -43 141 £50,000 - 41
North West -90 110 £50,000 +5.26% 37
East of England -26 97 £54,500 +9.00% 23
South West -56 89 £55,000 +15.79% 64
East Midlands -17 75 £43,750 +25.00% 17
West Midlands -68 65 £52,500 -4.55% 24
Yorkshire -37 59 £47,500 -7.99% 17
North East -26 37 £47,500 -20.83% 18
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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
1 207 (16.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 179 (13.91%) SharePoint
3 49 (3.81%) IIS
4 25 (1.94%) Confluence
5 5 (0.39%) nginx
6 4 (0.31%) SAS
7 2 (0.16%) Apache
7 2 (0.16%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.078%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.078%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.078%) Site Server
8 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
Applications
1 78 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (0.85%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.47%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.16%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.16%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.16%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.078%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.078%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 831 (64.57%) Azure
2 466 (36.21%) Microsoft 365
3 328 (25.49%) Entra ID
4 231 (17.95%) AWS
5 144 (11.19%) Azure DevOps
6 114 (8.86%) Power Platform
7 106 (8.24%) GitHub
8 98 (7.61%) IaaS
9 87 (6.76%) SaaS
10 80 (6.22%) Azure Monitor
10 80 (6.22%) OneDrive
11 72 (5.59%) PaaS
12 68 (5.28%) GitHub Actions
13 64 (4.97%) Azure AKS
14 63 (4.90%) Azure Sentinel
15 58 (4.51%) Power Automate
16 57 (4.43%) Azure Key Vault
17 55 (4.27%) GCP
18 49 (3.81%) Azure Logic Apps
18 49 (3.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 288 (22.38%) Firewall
2 264 (20.51%) DNS
3 188 (14.61%) VPN
4 176 (13.68%) DHCP
5 119 (9.25%) TCP/IP
6 78 (6.06%) WAN
7 77 (5.98%) LAN
8 76 (5.91%) Network Security
9 66 (5.13%) VLAN
10 49 (3.81%) Wi-Fi
11 39 (3.03%) Wireless
12 33 (2.56%) SAN
13 29 (2.25%) VoIP
14 27 (2.10%) Kerberos
15 16 (1.24%) Broadband
15 16 (1.24%) SSL
16 15 (1.17%) BGP
16 15 (1.17%) NAS
17 14 (1.09%) HTTP
17 14 (1.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (11.81%) SQL Server
2 80 (6.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 77 (5.98%) Power BI
4 39 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (1.94%) MySQL
5 25 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 24 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (1.63%) MongoDB
8 15 (1.17%) Relational Database
9 13 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (1.01%) NoSQL
10 11 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (0.78%) InfluxDB
12 7 (0.54%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.47%) Tableau
14 5 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.39%) Metadata
14 5 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 4 (0.31%) Power Query
15 4 (0.31%) Redis
Development Applications
1 106 (8.24%) Git
2 78 (6.06%) JIRA
3 68 (5.28%) GitLab
4 65 (5.05%) Jenkins
5 33 (2.56%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
7 12 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 11 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
9 10 (0.78%) Metasploit
9 10 (0.78%) TeamCity
10 9 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (0.70%) Robot Framework
11 8 (0.62%) TestRail
12 7 (0.54%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.54%) Selenium
13 6 (0.47%) Burp Suite
14 5 (0.39%) CircleCI
14 5 (0.39%) Postman
14 5 (0.39%) SonarQube
15 4 (0.31%) JMeter
General
1 394 (30.61%) Social Skills
2 211 (16.39%) Finance
3 161 (12.51%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (7.93%) Law
5 54 (4.20%) Documentation Skills
6 52 (4.04%) Legal
7 49 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 49 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
8 40 (3.11%) Retail
9 27 (2.10%) Public Sector
10 24 (1.86%) Banking
11 22 (1.71%) Aerospace
11 22 (1.71%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.32%) Advertising
13 13 (1.01%) Telecoms
14 9 (0.70%) Financial Institution
14 9 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.54%) Front Office
15 7 (0.54%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 214 (16.63%) Senior
2 163 (12.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 151 (11.73%) Analyst
4 145 (11.27%) Support Engineer
5 132 (10.26%) Azure Engineer
6 131 (10.18%) IT Engineer
7 124 (9.63%) IT Support
8 111 (8.62%) Cloud Engineer
9 98 (7.61%) DevOps Engineer
10 78 (6.06%) Security Engineer
11 76 (5.91%) IT Support Engineer
12 66 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
13 57 (4.43%) Developer
14 56 (4.35%) Lead
15 54 (4.20%) 2nd Line Support
16 49 (3.81%) Systems Engineer
17 46 (3.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
18 41 (3.19%) Architect
18 41 (3.19%) Security Analyst
19 40 (3.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (6.53%) .NET
2 59 (4.58%) SAML
3 57 (4.43%) OAuth
4 54 (4.20%) ARM Templates
5 53 (4.12%) REST
6 50 (3.89%) OpenID
7 45 (3.50%) LDAP
8 43 (3.34%) YAML
9 42 (3.26%) HTML
9 42 (3.26%) JSON
10 37 (2.87%) .NET Core
11 36 (2.80%) Microsoft Graph
12 32 (2.49%) CSS
13 25 (1.94%) SOAP
14 24 (1.86%) SPFx
15 22 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
16 19 (1.48%) HTML5 Canvas
17 17 (1.32%) XML
18 15 (1.17%) ASP.NET
18 15 (1.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 105 (8.16%) Onboarding
2 79 (6.14%) Cloud Native
3 76 (5.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 70 (5.44%) Security Posture
5 62 (4.82%) Driving Licence
6 57 (4.43%) Management Information System
7 47 (3.65%) Data Centre
8 45 (3.50%) Security Operations Centre
9 44 (3.42%) Public Cloud
10 39 (3.03%) Cyber Defence
10 39 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
10 39 (3.03%) PKI
11 36 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
12 32 (2.49%) Cyber Threat
13 24 (1.86%) Private Cloud
14 22 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
14 22 (1.71%) Cyberattack
14 22 (1.71%) Replication
15 18 (1.40%) Clustering
16 16 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 617 (47.94%) Windows
2 303 (23.54%) Linux
3 294 (22.84%) Windows Server
4 74 (5.75%) Windows 10
5 52 (4.04%) Apple iOS
6 50 (3.89%) VMS
7 44 (3.42%) Mac OS
8 40 (3.11%) Android
9 39 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
10 34 (2.64%) CentOS
11 30 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 27 (2.10%) Windows Server 2019
13 25 (1.94%) Ubuntu
14 10 (0.78%) Unix
15 8 (0.62%) Debian
16 4 (0.31%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.31%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
17 3 (0.23%) AIX
18 2 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 316 (24.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 310 (24.09%) CI/CD
4 293 (22.77%) DevOps
5 253 (19.66%) Cybersecurity
6 241 (18.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 240 (18.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 223 (17.33%) ITIL
9 171 (13.29%) Agile
10 163 (12.67%) Incident Response
11 160 (12.43%) Root Cause Analysis
12 159 (12.35%) Disaster Recovery
13 154 (11.97%) Mentoring
14 138 (10.72%) Containerisation
15 136 (10.57%) High Availability
16 130 (10.10%) Cloud Security
17 129 (10.02%) SIEM
18 120 (9.32%) AI
19 113 (8.78%) Observability
20 110 (8.55%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 516 (40.09%) Python
2 319 (24.79%) Bash
3 272 (21.13%) SQL
4 102 (7.93%) Bicep
5 99 (7.69%) C#
6 79 (6.14%) JavaScript
7 49 (3.81%) T-SQL
8 47 (3.65%) Kusto Query Language
9 34 (2.64%) Java
10 30 (2.33%) TypeScript
11 19 (1.48%) C++
12 17 (1.32%) PHP
12 17 (1.32%) VBScript
13 12 (0.93%) Perl
14 11 (0.85%) Go
14 11 (0.85%) VB
15 10 (0.78%) VBA
16 9 (0.70%) Ruby
17 8 (0.62%) C
18 6 (0.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 155 (12.04%) Security Cleared
2 154 (11.97%) Degree
3 144 (11.19%) Azure Certification
4 126 (9.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 98 (7.61%) SC Cleared
6 55 (4.27%) Cisco Certification
7 53 (4.12%) CISSP
8 46 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
8 46 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 41 (3.19%) CCNA
10 37 (2.87%) DV Cleared
11 27 (2.10%) DBS Check
12 25 (1.94%) AWS Certification
12 25 (1.94%) CEH
12 25 (1.94%) GIAC
12 25 (1.94%) OSCP
13 22 (1.71%) CREST Certified
14 17 (1.32%) CCNP
15 16 (1.24%) CompTIA CySA+
16 14 (1.09%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (9.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 94 (7.30%) NIST
3 59 (4.58%) GDPR
4 55 (4.27%) Cyber Essentials
5 39 (3.03%) SLA
6 24 (1.86%) QA
7 21 (1.63%) Data Quality
8 18 (1.40%) PCI DSS
8 18 (1.40%) SOC 2
9 14 (1.09%) NCSC
10 13 (1.01%) ISO 22301
11 9 (0.70%) Accessibility
11 9 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.47%) DICOM
13 6 (0.47%) PMO
14 3 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.16%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 471 (36.60%) Active Directory
2 203 (15.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 144 (11.19%) Hyper-V
4 140 (10.88%) Docker
5 77 (5.98%) vSphere
6 48 (3.73%) Virtual Machines
7 39 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.79%) BitLocker
9 16 (1.24%) VMware NSX
10 13 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.78%) KVM
12 8 (0.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.62%) Squid
13 4 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.23%) iptables
14 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.16%) Firmware
15 2 (0.16%) Samba
Systems Management
1 323 (25.10%) Terraform
2 228 (17.72%) Kubernetes
3 195 (15.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 158 (12.28%) Ansible
5 76 (5.91%) Grafana
6 57 (4.43%) Single Sign-On
7 52 (4.04%) SCCM
8 51 (3.96%) Prometheus
9 25 (1.94%) Jamf Pro
10 23 (1.79%) vCenter Server
11 21 (1.63%) ZABBIX
12 20 (1.55%) Argo
12 20 (1.55%) Packer
13 19 (1.48%) QRadar
14 17 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 16 (1.24%) Proxmox
16 14 (1.09%) Graylog
16 14 (1.09%) Nessus
17 12 (0.93%) Nagios
17 12 (0.93%) WSUS
Vendors
1 778 (60.45%) Microsoft
2 250 (19.43%) VMware
3 101 (7.85%) Cisco
4 89 (6.92%) Splunk
5 76 (5.91%) ServiceNow
6 57 (4.43%) Red Hat
7 51 (3.96%) Veeam
8 40 (3.11%) Oracle
9 39 (3.03%) Meraki
10 31 (2.41%) Tenable
11 30 (2.33%) Apple
12 29 (2.25%) CrowdStrike
13 28 (2.18%) Sophos
14 27 (2.10%) Citrix
14 27 (2.10%) Dell
14 27 (2.10%) Palo Alto
15 24 (1.86%) Fortinet
15 24 (1.86%) SolarWinds
16 23 (1.79%) Google
17 22 (1.71%) Dynatrace