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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 79 102
Rank change year-on-year -66 +23 -30
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 1,303 1,565 1,747
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.36% 3.58% 2.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.78% 12.63% 8.12%
Number of salaries quoted 969 1,041 1,284
10th Percentile £32,000 £35,000 £36,325
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £89,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
% 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 16,738 12,390 21,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.52% 28.38% 29.68%
Number of salaries quoted 12,205 8,259 15,573
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.46% -6.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,000
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%

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 22 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 22 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 -29 479 £70,000 -3.45% 145
South East -26 251 £52,500 -8.70% 113
North of England -86 225 £50,000 +5.26% 58
Midlands -39 159 £52,500 +5.00% 48
North West -84 127 £50,801 +10.44% 42
East of England -37 101 £57,500 +13.86% 33
East Midlands -5 84 £42,500 +21.43% 18
South West -80 83 £55,000 +19.57% 39
West Midlands -56 75 £55,000 - 30
Yorkshire -39 62 £42,500 -17.68% 11
North East -23 36 £50,000 +5.26% 6
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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
1 222 (17.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 209 (16.04%) SharePoint
3 53 (4.07%) IIS
4 34 (2.61%) Confluence
5 13 (1.00%) nginx
6 8 (0.61%) Apache
7 5 (0.38%) 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 (5.91%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 19 (1.46%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.46%) Raiser’s Edge
4 3 (0.23%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.23%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.077%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 828 (63.55%) Azure
2 496 (38.07%) Microsoft 365
3 364 (27.94%) Entra ID
4 246 (18.88%) AWS
5 152 (11.67%) Azure DevOps
6 102 (7.83%) OneDrive
7 101 (7.75%) Power Platform
8 98 (7.52%) IaaS
9 96 (7.37%) SaaS
10 94 (7.21%) GitHub
11 75 (5.76%) Azure Sentinel
12 72 (5.53%) Azure Monitor
13 69 (5.30%) Power Automate
14 67 (5.14%) Azure AKS
15 66 (5.07%) GCP
15 66 (5.07%) PaaS
16 62 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
17 59 (4.53%) GitHub Actions
18 52 (3.99%) Datadog
19 48 (3.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 302 (23.18%) Firewall
2 281 (21.57%) DNS
3 184 (14.12%) DHCP
3 184 (14.12%) VPN
4 135 (10.36%) TCP/IP
5 83 (6.37%) WAN
6 74 (5.68%) LAN
7 70 (5.37%) Network Security
8 61 (4.68%) VLAN
9 46 (3.53%) Wireless
10 40 (3.07%) Wi-Fi
11 38 (2.92%) SAN
12 31 (2.38%) Kerberos
13 23 (1.77%) NAS
14 22 (1.69%) SSL
15 18 (1.38%) HTTP
15 18 (1.38%) Internet
16 13 (1.00%) VoIP
16 13 (1.00%) VSAN
17 10 (0.77%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (10.13%) SQL Server
2 82 (6.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 58 (4.45%) Power BI
4 26 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.77%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (1.30%) Relational Database
7 14 (1.07%) MySQL
7 14 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (0.92%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (0.54%) InfluxDB
11 6 (0.46%) Power Query
11 6 (0.46%) Redis
12 5 (0.38%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.38%) Metadata
12 5 (0.38%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.31%) Db2
13 4 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 105 (8.06%) Git
2 96 (7.37%) JIRA
3 67 (5.14%) GitLab
4 57 (4.37%) Jenkins
5 27 (2.07%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
7 11 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (0.84%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.84%) 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
9 6 (0.46%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.38%) Postman
11 3 (0.23%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.23%) JMeter
11 3 (0.23%) MSI
11 3 (0.23%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.15%) Metasploit
General
1 438 (33.61%) Social Skills
2 218 (16.73%) Finance
3 181 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (8.37%) Law
5 57 (4.37%) Legal
6 55 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 48 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
8 43 (3.30%) Retail
9 38 (2.92%) Banking
10 34 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
11 32 (2.46%) Manufacturing
12 30 (2.30%) Public Sector
13 27 (2.07%) Aerospace
14 16 (1.23%) Advertising
15 12 (0.92%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.69%) Front Office
17 9 (0.69%) Investment Banking
18 7 (0.54%) Military
18 7 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 202 (15.50%) Senior
2 179 (13.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 145 (11.13%) Analyst
4 130 (9.98%) Azure Engineer
4 130 (9.98%) Support Engineer
5 127 (9.75%) Cloud Engineer
6 125 (9.59%) IT Engineer
7 116 (8.90%) IT Support
8 97 (7.44%) DevOps Engineer
9 67 (5.14%) Platform Engineer
9 67 (5.14%) Security Engineer
10 65 (4.99%) IT Support Engineer
10 65 (4.99%) Lead
11 57 (4.37%) Developer
12 56 (4.30%) Systems Engineer
13 50 (3.84%) Support Analyst
14 47 (3.61%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 45 (3.45%) 2nd Line Support
15 45 (3.45%) Automation Engineer
15 45 (3.45%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 343 (26.32%) Terraform
2 79 (6.06%) .NET
3 53 (4.07%) ARM Templates
4 45 (3.45%) REST
4 45 (3.45%) YAML
5 44 (3.38%) SAML
6 41 (3.15%) HTML
7 40 (3.07%) OAuth
8 38 (2.92%) Microsoft Graph
9 36 (2.76%) LDAP
9 36 (2.76%) OpenID
10 32 (2.46%) JSON
11 31 (2.38%) .NET Core
11 31 (2.38%) CSS
12 24 (1.84%) SPFx
13 19 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
13 19 (1.46%) HTML5 Canvas
14 14 (1.07%) ASP.NET
14 14 (1.07%) React
14 14 (1.07%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 112 (8.60%) Onboarding
2 81 (6.22%) Cloud Native
3 72 (5.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 68 (5.22%) Management Information System
5 67 (5.14%) Security Posture
6 64 (4.91%) Driving Licence
7 47 (3.61%) Data Centre
8 43 (3.30%) Security Operations Centre
9 42 (3.22%) Public Cloud
10 40 (3.07%) PKI
11 39 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
12 36 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
13 28 (2.15%) Private Cloud
14 27 (2.07%) Replication
15 26 (2.00%) Cyber Defence
16 21 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
16 21 (1.61%) Clustering
16 21 (1.61%) CMDB
17 19 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
18 17 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 646 (49.58%) Windows
2 310 (23.79%) Linux
3 299 (22.95%) Windows Server
4 77 (5.91%) Windows 10
5 52 (3.99%) Apple iOS
6 44 (3.38%) Android
7 41 (3.15%) Mac OS
8 37 (2.84%) VMS
9 34 (2.61%) Ubuntu
9 34 (2.61%) Windows Server 2016
10 32 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 31 (2.38%) CentOS
12 25 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
13 13 (1.00%) Unix
14 7 (0.54%) Rocky
15 5 (0.38%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.38%) Solaris
16 4 (0.31%) Debian
16 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
17 3 (0.23%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (28.17%) Problem-Solving
2 322 (24.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 314 (24.10%) CI/CD
4 292 (22.41%) DevOps
5 275 (21.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 271 (20.80%) ITIL
7 269 (20.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 236 (18.11%) Cybersecurity
9 177 (13.58%) Disaster Recovery
10 164 (12.59%) Root Cause Analysis
11 157 (12.05%) Incident Response
12 154 (11.82%) Agile
13 151 (11.59%) High Availability
14 147 (11.28%) Mentoring
15 140 (10.74%) AI
16 131 (10.05%) Containerisation
17 128 (9.82%) Observability
18 123 (9.44%) Cloud Security
18 123 (9.44%) SIEM
19 121 (9.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 506 (38.83%) Python
2 291 (22.33%) Bash
3 263 (20.18%) SQL
4 108 (8.29%) Bicep
5 90 (6.91%) C#
6 85 (6.52%) JavaScript
7 49 (3.76%) Kusto Query Language
8 40 (3.07%) Java
9 33 (2.53%) TypeScript
10 32 (2.46%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.61%) VBScript
12 19 (1.46%) C++
13 18 (1.38%) Perl
14 14 (1.07%) PHP
15 11 (0.84%) Ruby
16 10 (0.77%) VBA
17 9 (0.69%) Go
17 9 (0.69%) VB
18 8 (0.61%) C
19 6 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 168 (12.89%) Security Cleared
2 160 (12.28%) Degree
3 148 (11.36%) Azure Certification
4 133 (10.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 115 (8.83%) SC Cleared
6 56 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 55 (4.22%) Cisco Certification
7 55 (4.22%) CompTIA Security+
8 51 (3.91%) CISSP
9 47 (3.61%) DV Cleared
10 42 (3.22%) CCNA
11 29 (2.23%) CEH
12 24 (1.84%) DBS Check
13 22 (1.69%) AWS Certification
13 22 (1.69%) GIAC
14 21 (1.61%) OSCP
15 18 (1.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 16 (1.23%) CISM
17 15 (1.15%) CCNP
18 14 (1.07%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (7.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (4.91%) NIST
3 62 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 47 (3.61%) GDPR
5 46 (3.53%) SLA
6 26 (2.00%) QA
7 19 (1.46%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.23%) SOC 2
9 14 (1.07%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.54%) ISO 22301
11 7 (0.54%) PMO
12 5 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.31%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.31%) NCSC
14 3 (0.23%) ISAE 3402
15 2 (0.15%) EMIR
15 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 481 (36.91%) Active Directory
2 216 (16.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 144 (11.05%) Hyper-V
4 134 (10.28%) Docker
5 78 (5.99%) vSphere
6 55 (4.22%) Virtual Machines
7 49 (3.76%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (1.77%) BitLocker
9 20 (1.53%) VMware NSX
10 15 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.77%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 8 (0.61%) Firmware
12 8 (0.61%) KVM
12 8 (0.61%) Squid
13 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
16 2 (0.15%) Samba
17 1 (0.077%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 228 (17.50%) Kubernetes
2 225 (17.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 169 (12.97%) Ansible
4 82 (6.29%) Grafana
5 64 (4.91%) SCCM
6 47 (3.61%) Single Sign-On
7 46 (3.53%) Prometheus
8 23 (1.77%) ZABBIX
9 22 (1.69%) vCenter Server
10 21 (1.61%) QRadar
11 20 (1.53%) Argo
11 20 (1.53%) Jamf Pro
11 20 (1.53%) Packer
11 20 (1.53%) Proxmox
12 19 (1.46%) Puppet
13 15 (1.15%) Graylog
14 13 (1.00%) VxRail
15 11 (0.84%) FortiGate
16 10 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 10 (0.77%) Nagios
Vendors
1 829 (63.62%) Microsoft
2 255 (19.57%) VMware
3 115 (8.83%) Cisco
4 108 (8.29%) ServiceNow
5 89 (6.83%) Splunk
6 56 (4.30%) Red Hat
6 56 (4.30%) Veeam
7 46 (3.53%) Oracle
8 45 (3.45%) Meraki
9 39 (2.99%) Citrix
10 36 (2.76%) Dynatrace
11 33 (2.53%) Sophos
12 31 (2.38%) Dell
13 30 (2.30%) Tenable
14 29 (2.23%) CrowdStrike
15 24 (1.84%) Apple
16 23 (1.77%) CyberArk
16 23 (1.77%) Fortinet
17 22 (1.69%) Palo Alto
18 21 (1.61%) Okta