PowerShell Job Trends in Manchester

Windows PowerShell
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 106 97
Rank change year-on-year +15 -9 +13
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 42 45 51
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.47% 1.69% 2.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.59% 5.02% 4.82%
Number of salaries quoted 42 33 43
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,700 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,125 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £65,625
90th Percentile £86,425 £77,777 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.00% -9.09% +16.71%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 553 897 1,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 19.30% 33.63% 41.68%
Number of salaries quoted 474 470 877
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -3.40%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Manchester

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Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Manchester over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in Manchester

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Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
Altrincham -8 1 £31,500 -45.22%
Oldham - 1 £50,000 -
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North West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 15 (35.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (26.19%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (54.76%) Azure
2 22 (52.38%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (38.10%) Entra ID
4 10 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (23.81%) Microsoft Copilot
5 7 (16.67%) GitHub
5 7 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
6 6 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (14.29%) Power Automate
7 5 (11.90%) AWS
7 5 (11.90%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (9.52%) OneDrive
9 3 (7.14%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (4.76%) Azure AKS
10 2 (4.76%) Azure Functions
10 2 (4.76%) Azure Storage
10 2 (4.76%) iPaaS
10 2 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) Firewall
2 3 (7.14%) DHCP
2 3 (7.14%) DNS
2 3 (7.14%) SAN
2 3 (7.14%) VPN
3 2 (4.76%) Network Security
4 1 (2.38%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.38%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.38%) VLAN
4 1 (2.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) MySQL
1 3 (7.14%) RDBMS
1 3 (7.14%) Relational Database
1 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (4.76%) Git
General
1 17 (40.48%) Social Skills
2 11 (26.19%) Finance
3 10 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Banking
4 3 (7.14%) Legal
4 3 (7.14%) Marketing
4 3 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (19.05%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Microsoft Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Senior
4 5 (11.90%) Architect
4 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Applications Support
5 3 (7.14%) Applications Support Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Digital Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Integration Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Security Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Applications Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Systems Support
5 3 (7.14%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) JSON
2 3 (7.14%) ARM Templates
2 3 (7.14%) FHIR
2 3 (7.14%) REST
3 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (4.76%) Middleware
3 2 (4.76%) Node.js
4 1 (2.38%) .NET
4 1 (2.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.43%) Onboarding
2 5 (11.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (7.14%) AI Agents
3 3 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.76%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.38%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.38%) Cyberattack
5 1 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.38%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (2.38%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.29%) Windows
1 6 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.95%) DevOps
2 11 (26.19%) Disaster Recovery
2 11 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (21.43%) Task Automation
4 7 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 7 (16.67%) Client Onboarding
4 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (16.67%) Knowledge Management
5 6 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (14.29%) Migration
5 6 (14.29%) Service Delivery
6 5 (11.90%) Business Continuity
6 5 (11.90%) Cloud Security
6 5 (11.90%) High Availability
7 4 (9.52%) Business Strategy
7 4 (9.52%) Containerisation
7 4 (9.52%) Incident Response
7 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (23.81%) SQL
2 8 (19.05%) Python
3 7 (16.67%) Bicep
4 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.76%) Bash
5 2 (4.76%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (2.38%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (21.43%) Azure Certification
2 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (7.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (7.14%) CISSP
4 2 (4.76%) Degree
4 2 (4.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.38%) A+ Certification
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.38%) CCSP
5 1 (2.38%) CISM
5 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.38%) CREST Certified
5 1 (2.38%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.14%) HL7
2 3 (7.14%) NIST
3 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (23.81%) Active Directory
2 8 (19.05%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (7.14%) Docker
5 2 (4.76%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (2.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (14.29%) Terraform
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (9.52%) Prometheus
3 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.76%) BMC PATROL
4 2 (4.76%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (19.05%) VMware
3 3 (7.14%) Foundry
3 3 (7.14%) LexisNexis
3 3 (7.14%) Sitecore
4 2 (4.76%) Fortinet
4 2 (4.76%) Freshdesk
4 2 (4.76%) Splunk
5 1 (2.38%) Spotify
5 1 (2.38%) Veeam