PowerShell Job Trends in the North of England

Windows PowerShell
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 118 119
Rank change year-on-year -23 +1 -29
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 133 183 206
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.21% 2.01% 2.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.24% 7.20% 6.52%
Number of salaries quoted 100 130 183
10th Percentile £30,575 £37,450 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,188 £44,750 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £70,188 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £71,250 £87,500
England median annual salary £58,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.20% +4.17% -

All Programming Languages
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,837 2,542 3,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.67% 27.98% 34.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,422 1,384 2,637
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,475 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,125 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,438 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in the North of England

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Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 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
North West -18 63 £50,500 +1.00% 60
Yorkshire -22 59 £47,500 -9.52% 41
North East +3 11 £62,500 +17.37% 13
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 27 (20.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (15.79%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.26%) IIS
4 1 (0.75%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.26%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.26%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.26%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 65 (48.87%) Azure
2 52 (39.10%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (19.55%) AWS
4 20 (15.04%) Entra ID
5 18 (13.53%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (11.28%) Power Platform
7 12 (9.02%) GitHub
8 11 (8.27%) SaaS
9 10 (7.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (7.52%) Power Automate
10 9 (6.77%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (6.77%) Microsoft Copilot
10 9 (6.77%) OneDrive
11 8 (6.02%) IaaS
12 7 (5.26%) PaaS
13 6 (4.51%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (4.51%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Purview
14 5 (3.76%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (3.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 21 (15.79%) Firewall
2 19 (14.29%) DHCP
2 19 (14.29%) DNS
3 9 (6.77%) TCP/IP
3 9 (6.77%) VPN
4 8 (6.02%) WAN
5 7 (5.26%) LAN
5 7 (5.26%) Network Security
5 7 (5.26%) SAN
5 7 (5.26%) VLAN
6 4 (3.01%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.50%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.50%) VoIP
8 1 (0.75%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.75%) BGP
8 1 (0.75%) Intranet
8 1 (0.75%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.75%) MPLS
8 1 (0.75%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.75%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.77%) Power BI
3 8 (6.02%) MySQL
4 3 (2.26%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.26%) RDBMS
4 3 (2.26%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.75%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 26 (19.55%) JIRA
2 9 (6.77%) GitLab
3 8 (6.02%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (2.26%) Git
6 2 (1.50%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.50%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.50%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.50%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.75%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.75%) git-flow
General
1 59 (44.36%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.29%) Finance
3 11 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.02%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.51%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.76%) Retail
7 4 (3.01%) Legal
8 3 (2.26%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.26%) Banking
8 3 (2.26%) Marketing
8 3 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (19.55%) Developer
2 23 (17.29%) JIRA Developer
3 17 (12.78%) Support Engineer
4 16 (12.03%) Senior
5 14 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (9.02%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (6.02%) Lead
7 8 (6.02%) Security Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) IT Support
8 7 (5.26%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) 1st Line Support
9 6 (4.51%) 3rd Line Support
9 6 (4.51%) Applications Support
9 6 (4.51%) Architect
9 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Support Technician
10 5 (3.76%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.26%) REST
2 6 (4.51%) .NET
3 4 (3.01%) ARM Templates
3 4 (3.01%) JSON
4 3 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.26%) FHIR
4 3 (2.26%) Itk
4 3 (2.26%) Node.js
4 3 (2.26%) YAML
5 2 (1.50%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (1.50%) Middleware
6 1 (0.75%) LDAP
6 1 (0.75%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.75%) React
6 1 (0.75%) RESTful
6 1 (0.75%) SOAP
6 1 (0.75%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.77%) Driving Licence
1 9 (6.77%) Onboarding
2 7 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.01%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.01%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.26%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.26%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.50%) CMDB
5 2 (1.50%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.50%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.75%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.75%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.75%) FMCG
6 1 (0.75%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.75%) PACS
6 1 (0.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 47 (35.34%) Windows
2 25 (18.80%) Windows Server
3 18 (13.53%) Linux
4 8 (6.02%) Mac OS
5 3 (2.26%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (35.34%) Continuous Improvement
1 47 (35.34%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (32.33%) DevOps
3 40 (30.08%) ITIL
4 34 (25.56%) Computer Science
4 34 (25.56%) Incident Management
5 32 (24.06%) ITSM
6 28 (21.05%) Change Management
7 27 (20.30%) Disaster Recovery
8 26 (19.55%) Infrastructure as Code
9 25 (18.80%) CI/CD
10 24 (18.05%) Asset Management
10 24 (18.05%) Service Management
11 20 (15.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 14 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
12 14 (10.53%) Mentoring
12 14 (10.53%) Task Automation
13 13 (9.77%) Cloud Security
14 12 (9.02%) Agile
15 10 (7.52%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (21.80%) Python
2 27 (20.30%) Bash
2 27 (20.30%) JavaScript
3 22 (16.54%) SQL
4 13 (9.77%) Bicep
5 9 (6.77%) Java
6 7 (5.26%) C#
7 6 (4.51%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.26%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.26%) Tcl
8 3 (2.26%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.50%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (25.56%) Degree
2 25 (18.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 11 (8.27%) Azure Certification
4 8 (6.02%) AWS Certification
4 8 (6.02%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (6.02%) Security Cleared
5 7 (5.26%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.01%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (2.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.26%) CISSP
7 3 (2.26%) HNC
7 3 (2.26%) HND
7 3 (2.26%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.75%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.75%) CCNA
8 1 (0.75%) CCSP
8 1 (0.75%) MCITP
8 1 (0.75%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.76%) GDPR
3 4 (3.01%) QA
4 3 (2.26%) HL7
4 3 (2.26%) NIST
5 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.75%) DICOM
5 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (18.80%) Active Directory
2 17 (12.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (11.28%) Hyper-V
4 8 (6.02%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (5.26%) Docker
5 7 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (3.01%) vSphere
7 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (1.50%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.50%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.75%) Firmware
8 1 (0.75%) Squid
8 1 (0.75%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (12.78%) Terraform
2 16 (12.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (11.28%) Kubernetes
4 12 (9.02%) Ansible
5 6 (4.51%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.01%) Grafana
7 2 (1.50%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (1.50%) Control-M
7 2 (1.50%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (1.50%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.50%) Plesk
8 1 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.75%) Argo
8 1 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.75%) Kibana
8 1 (0.75%) SCCM
8 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.75%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.75%) WSUS
Vendors
1 72 (54.14%) Microsoft
2 29 (21.80%) VMware
3 25 (18.80%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.01%) Oracle
5 3 (2.26%) Citrix
5 3 (2.26%) Fortinet
5 3 (2.26%) Foundry
5 3 (2.26%) Freshdesk
5 3 (2.26%) IFS
5 3 (2.26%) LexisNexis
5 3 (2.26%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.26%) Siemens
5 3 (2.26%) Sitecore
5 3 (2.26%) Splunk
6 2 (1.50%) Draytek
6 2 (1.50%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.50%) Nexthink
6 2 (1.50%) Veeam
7 1 (0.75%) F5
7 1 (0.75%) New Relic