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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 79 105
Rank change year-on-year -64 +26 -28
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,297 1,598 1,742
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.37% 3.64% 2.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.73% 12.70% 8.14%
Number of salaries quoted 970 1,059 1,311
10th Percentile £32,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £89,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,525
% change year-on-year - -0.04% -4.13%

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 16,784 12,587 21,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.74% 28.71% 29.67%
Number of salaries quoted 12,196 8,409 15,759
10th Percentile £38,469 £33,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,733 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +3.61% +2.49% -5.84%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 16 August 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 August 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 -28 485 £70,000 -6.67% 120
South East -29 248 £53,000 -7.83% 113
North of England -89 220 £50,000 +5.26% 67
Midlands -37 156 £52,500 +5.00% 37
North West -80 123 £52,500 +14.13% 45
East of England -44 96 £57,500 +13.86% 32
South West -86 83 £55,000 +17.65% 39
East Midlands -5 82 £42,500 +21.43% 15
West Midlands -60 74 £55,000 - 22
Yorkshire -35 62 £42,500 -17.68% 13
North East -39 35 £50,810 -15.32% 11
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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
1 220 (16.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 201 (15.50%) SharePoint
3 50 (3.86%) IIS
4 32 (2.47%) Confluence
5 11 (0.85%) nginx
6 6 (0.46%) Apache
7 5 (0.39%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.31%) SAS
9 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.077%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.077%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.077%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (5.94%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (1.08%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.46%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.23%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.23%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.15%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.077%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.077%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 832 (64.15%) Azure
2 486 (37.47%) Microsoft 365
3 351 (27.06%) Entra ID
4 246 (18.97%) AWS
5 153 (11.80%) Azure DevOps
6 101 (7.79%) Power Platform
7 100 (7.71%) IaaS
8 99 (7.63%) OneDrive
9 98 (7.56%) GitHub
10 96 (7.40%) SaaS
11 73 (5.63%) Azure Monitor
11 73 (5.63%) Azure Sentinel
12 68 (5.24%) Azure AKS
12 68 (5.24%) PaaS
13 64 (4.93%) Power Automate
14 63 (4.86%) GCP
15 62 (4.78%) Azure Key Vault
16 60 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
17 50 (3.86%) Datadog
18 46 (3.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 297 (22.90%) Firewall
2 274 (21.13%) DNS
3 182 (14.03%) VPN
4 179 (13.80%) DHCP
5 132 (10.18%) TCP/IP
6 82 (6.32%) WAN
7 74 (5.71%) LAN
8 69 (5.32%) Network Security
9 61 (4.70%) VLAN
10 41 (3.16%) Wi-Fi
10 41 (3.16%) Wireless
11 40 (3.08%) SAN
12 32 (2.47%) Kerberos
13 22 (1.70%) NAS
13 22 (1.70%) SSL
14 19 (1.46%) HTTP
15 17 (1.31%) Internet
16 16 (1.23%) VoIP
17 12 (0.93%) VSAN
18 11 (0.85%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (10.79%) SQL Server
2 83 (6.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 60 (4.63%) Power BI
4 28 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.77%) MongoDB
6 18 (1.39%) Relational Database
7 17 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 15 (1.16%) MySQL
10 14 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (0.93%) NoSQL
12 9 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (0.54%) InfluxDB
14 6 (0.46%) Power Query
14 6 (0.46%) Redis
15 5 (0.39%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.39%) Metadata
15 5 (0.39%) RDBMS
16 4 (0.31%) Db2
16 4 (0.31%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 107 (8.25%) Git
2 91 (7.02%) JIRA
3 65 (5.01%) GitLab
4 55 (4.24%) Jenkins
5 29 (2.24%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.85%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
8 7 (0.54%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.54%) TestRail
9 6 (0.46%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.46%) Selenium
10 5 (0.39%) Postman
11 4 (0.31%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.23%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.23%) JMeter
12 3 (0.23%) MSI
12 3 (0.23%) Terragrunt
General
1 425 (32.77%) Social Skills
2 214 (16.50%) Finance
3 178 (13.72%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (8.17%) Law
5 57 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 56 (4.32%) Legal
7 46 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (3.47%) Retail
9 36 (2.78%) Banking
10 33 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
11 32 (2.47%) Manufacturing
12 29 (2.24%) Public Sector
13 26 (2.00%) Aerospace
14 16 (1.23%) Advertising
15 11 (0.85%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.62%) Front Office
16 8 (0.62%) Investment Banking
16 8 (0.62%) Telecoms
17 7 (0.54%) Military
Job Titles
1 205 (15.81%) Senior
2 178 (13.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 142 (10.95%) Analyst
4 131 (10.10%) Azure Engineer
5 129 (9.95%) Support Engineer
6 126 (9.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 123 (9.48%) IT Engineer
8 116 (8.94%) IT Support
9 97 (7.48%) DevOps Engineer
10 68 (5.24%) Security Engineer
11 66 (5.09%) Lead
11 66 (5.09%) Platform Engineer
12 65 (5.01%) IT Support Engineer
13 58 (4.47%) Developer
14 55 (4.24%) Systems Engineer
15 49 (3.78%) 2nd Line Support
16 47 (3.62%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 45 (3.47%) Support Analyst
18 42 (3.24%) Automation Engineer
19 41 (3.16%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (6.25%) .NET
2 54 (4.16%) ARM Templates
3 47 (3.62%) SAML
4 45 (3.47%) REST
4 45 (3.47%) YAML
5 43 (3.32%) OAuth
6 41 (3.16%) HTML
7 38 (2.93%) Microsoft Graph
7 38 (2.93%) OpenID
8 37 (2.85%) LDAP
9 33 (2.54%) .NET Core
10 32 (2.47%) JSON
11 31 (2.39%) CSS
12 24 (1.85%) SPFx
13 19 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
13 19 (1.46%) HTML5 Canvas
14 15 (1.16%) Middleware
14 15 (1.16%) RESTful
15 14 (1.08%) ASP.NET
15 14 (1.08%) React
Miscellaneous
1 108 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 84 (6.48%) Cloud Native
3 72 (5.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 66 (5.09%) Security Posture
5 65 (5.01%) Management Information System
6 58 (4.47%) Driving Licence
7 48 (3.70%) Data Centre
8 44 (3.39%) Public Cloud
9 43 (3.32%) Security Operations Centre
10 38 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
11 36 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
12 35 (2.70%) PKI
13 28 (2.16%) Cyber Defence
13 28 (2.16%) Replication
14 26 (2.00%) Private Cloud
15 21 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
15 21 (1.62%) CMDB
15 21 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
16 20 (1.54%) Clustering
17 15 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 635 (48.96%) Windows
2 312 (24.06%) Linux
3 291 (22.44%) Windows Server
4 74 (5.71%) Windows 10
5 51 (3.93%) Apple iOS
6 44 (3.39%) Android
7 41 (3.16%) Mac OS
7 41 (3.16%) VMS
8 36 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
9 35 (2.70%) CentOS
9 35 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 34 (2.62%) Ubuntu
11 24 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
12 13 (1.00%) Unix
13 7 (0.54%) Rocky
14 5 (0.39%) CoreOS
14 5 (0.39%) Solaris
15 4 (0.31%) Debian
15 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
16 3 (0.23%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (27.29%) Problem-Solving
2 319 (24.60%) Infrastructure as Code
3 318 (24.52%) CI/CD
4 294 (22.67%) DevOps
5 268 (20.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 263 (20.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 261 (20.12%) ITIL
8 236 (18.20%) Cybersecurity
9 175 (13.49%) Disaster Recovery
10 162 (12.49%) Incident Response
11 161 (12.41%) Root Cause Analysis
12 154 (11.87%) Agile
13 149 (11.49%) High Availability
14 146 (11.26%) Mentoring
15 135 (10.41%) AI
16 131 (10.10%) Containerisation
17 128 (9.87%) Observability
18 123 (9.48%) Cloud Security
19 122 (9.41%) Platform Engineering
19 122 (9.41%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 507 (39.09%) Python
2 295 (22.74%) Bash
3 263 (20.28%) SQL
4 106 (8.17%) Bicep
5 92 (7.09%) C#
6 83 (6.40%) JavaScript
7 49 (3.78%) Kusto Query Language
8 40 (3.08%) Java
9 32 (2.47%) T-SQL
10 31 (2.39%) TypeScript
11 21 (1.62%) VBScript
12 19 (1.46%) C++
13 18 (1.39%) Perl
14 15 (1.16%) PHP
15 11 (0.85%) Ruby
16 10 (0.77%) VBA
17 9 (0.69%) Go
18 8 (0.62%) C
18 8 (0.62%) VB
19 6 (0.46%) Korn
Qualifications
1 169 (13.03%) Security Cleared
2 160 (12.34%) Degree
3 145 (11.18%) Azure Certification
4 130 (10.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 117 (9.02%) SC Cleared
6 55 (4.24%) CompTIA Security+
6 55 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 54 (4.16%) Cisco Certification
8 51 (3.93%) CISSP
9 44 (3.39%) DV Cleared
10 41 (3.16%) CCNA
11 28 (2.16%) CEH
12 23 (1.77%) DBS Check
13 22 (1.70%) AWS Certification
13 22 (1.70%) GIAC
14 21 (1.62%) OSCP
15 16 (1.23%) CCNP
15 16 (1.23%) CISM
15 16 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 14 (1.08%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (7.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (4.93%) NIST
3 62 (4.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 50 (3.86%) GDPR
5 44 (3.39%) SLA
6 26 (2.00%) QA
7 19 (1.46%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.31%) SOC 2
9 15 (1.16%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.62%) ISO 22301
11 7 (0.54%) PMO
12 5 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.31%) NCSC
14 3 (0.23%) Accessibility
14 3 (0.23%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.15%) EMIR
15 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 469 (36.16%) Active Directory
2 210 (16.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 143 (11.03%) Hyper-V
4 135 (10.41%) Docker
5 76 (5.86%) vSphere
6 51 (3.93%) Virtual Machines
7 45 (3.47%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.77%) BitLocker
9 19 (1.46%) VMware NSX
10 13 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
11 11 (0.85%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 9 (0.69%) KVM
13 8 (0.62%) Squid
14 6 (0.46%) Firmware
15 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
16 4 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
18 2 (0.15%) Samba
19 1 (0.077%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 343 (26.45%) Terraform
2 233 (17.96%) Kubernetes
3 221 (17.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 169 (13.03%) Ansible
5 80 (6.17%) Grafana
6 61 (4.70%) SCCM
7 49 (3.78%) Single Sign-On
8 47 (3.62%) Prometheus
9 23 (1.77%) ZABBIX
10 21 (1.62%) Jamf Pro
10 21 (1.62%) Proxmox
10 21 (1.62%) QRadar
10 21 (1.62%) vCenter Server
11 20 (1.54%) Argo
11 20 (1.54%) Packer
12 17 (1.31%) Puppet
13 14 (1.08%) Graylog
14 12 (0.93%) VxRail
15 11 (0.85%) Nagios
16 10 (0.77%) Nessus
Vendors
1 823 (63.45%) Microsoft
2 253 (19.51%) VMware
3 117 (9.02%) Cisco
4 108 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 89 (6.86%) Splunk
6 62 (4.78%) Red Hat
7 55 (4.24%) Veeam
8 46 (3.55%) Oracle
9 45 (3.47%) Meraki
10 36 (2.78%) Citrix
11 34 (2.62%) Dynatrace
12 33 (2.54%) Sophos
13 31 (2.39%) Dell
14 29 (2.24%) Tenable
15 28 (2.16%) CrowdStrike
16 24 (1.85%) Apple
16 24 (1.85%) Fortinet
17 22 (1.70%) Okta
18 21 (1.62%) CyberArk
18 21 (1.62%) Palo Alto