PowerShell Job Trends in the North West

Windows PowerShell
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 118 74
Rank change year-on-year +82 -44 +41
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 316 122 152
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 6.57% 1.76% 3.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.24% 6.48% 9.19%
Number of salaries quoted 61 84 124
10th Percentile £30,500 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,053 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £67,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £58,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.20% +4.17% -

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,421 1,884 1,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 29.53% 27.19% 40.72%
Number of salaries quoted 708 1,064 1,309
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,075 £36,270
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £82,548
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the North West over the 6 months to 29 October 2025.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in the North West

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Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the North West region over the 6 months to 29 October 2025. 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
Lancashire +49 169 £23,250 -53.50% 19
Manchester +40 86 £55,000 -6.38% 39
Cheshire -11 43 £45,000 -10.00% 7
Merseyside +2 11 £50,000 +38.89% 3
Cumbria +17 7 £53,750 +7.50% 4
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 17 (5.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (4.75%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.32%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (10.13%) Azure
2 29 (9.18%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (5.38%) Entra ID
4 14 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (4.43%) Microsoft Copilot
4 14 (4.43%) Power Platform
5 12 (3.80%) AWS
6 10 (3.16%) Microsoft Purview
6 10 (3.16%) Power Automate
7 9 (2.85%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (1.58%) GitHub
10 4 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (1.27%) Copilot Studio
10 4 (1.27%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.27%) PaaS
10 4 (1.27%) Snowflake
11 3 (0.95%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (0.95%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 254 (80.38%) VPN
2 250 (79.11%) Cisco IOS
3 13 (4.11%) Firewall
4 10 (3.16%) DNS
5 9 (2.85%) WAN
6 7 (2.22%) DHCP
6 7 (2.22%) LAN
7 3 (0.95%) Network Security
8 2 (0.63%) SAN
8 2 (0.63%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.32%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.16%) Power BI
2 5 (1.58%) MySQL
3 4 (1.27%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.95%) RDBMS
4 3 (0.95%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (0.63%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (1.27%) Git
2 2 (0.63%) GitLab
2 2 (0.63%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.63%) JIRA
2 2 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.32%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.32%) git-flow
General
1 262 (82.91%) Analytical Skills
2 250 (79.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (6.65%) Social Skills
4 9 (2.85%) Finance
5 5 (1.58%) Aerospace
5 5 (1.58%) Military
6 4 (1.27%) Banking
6 4 (1.27%) Legal
7 3 (0.95%) Marketing
8 1 (0.32%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 259 (81.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (5.38%) Support Engineer
3 11 (3.48%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 10 (3.16%) Microsoft Engineer
5 8 (2.53%) Applications Engineer
5 8 (2.53%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (1.90%) 1st Line Support
7 5 (1.58%) Applications Support
7 5 (1.58%) Applications Support Engineer
7 5 (1.58%) Architect
7 5 (1.58%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (1.58%) Infrastructure Support
7 5 (1.58%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 5 (1.58%) Security Engineer
7 5 (1.58%) Systems Engineer
7 5 (1.58%) Systems Support
7 5 (1.58%) Systems Support Engineer
8 4 (1.27%) Senior
9 3 (0.95%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (0.95%) Digital Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (79.43%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (1.27%) JSON
2 4 (1.27%) REST
3 3 (0.95%) FHIR
3 3 (0.95%) Node.js
4 2 (0.63%) .NET
4 2 (0.63%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.32%) React
5 1 (0.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 250 (79.11%) Cyberattack
2 10 (3.16%) Onboarding
3 5 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (1.27%) AI Agents
4 4 (1.27%) Cloud Native
5 3 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.63%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.63%) Low-Code
6 2 (0.63%) NHS
7 1 (0.32%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.32%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.32%) LIMS
7 1 (0.32%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.32%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.32%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.32%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.32%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 267 (84.49%) Windows
2 259 (81.96%) Linux
3 250 (79.11%) Android
4 8 (2.53%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.90%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.58%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.63%) VMS
8 1 (0.32%) CentOS
8 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (85.13%) DevOps
2 264 (83.54%) Task Automation
3 261 (82.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 261 (82.59%) Problem-Solving
4 255 (80.70%) Storage Management
5 253 (80.06%) Risk Management
6 252 (79.75%) Platform Engineering
7 250 (79.11%) Line Management
7 250 (79.11%) Mathematics
8 16 (5.06%) Disaster Recovery
9 13 (4.11%) CI/CD
9 13 (4.11%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (4.11%) Migration
10 11 (3.48%) Agile
11 10 (3.16%) Client Onboarding
11 10 (3.16%) Knowledge Management
12 8 (2.53%) Business Intelligence
12 8 (2.53%) Cloud Security
12 8 (2.53%) Identity Access Management
12 8 (2.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 263 (83.23%) Bash
2 261 (82.59%) Python
3 13 (4.11%) SQL
4 6 (1.90%) Bicep
5 3 (0.95%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.32%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (3.16%) Degree
2 9 (2.85%) Azure Certification
3 8 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (1.90%) Network+ Certification
5 5 (1.58%) CCNA
5 5 (1.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (1.27%) CISSP
7 3 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (0.95%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.95%) Security Cleared
8 2 (0.63%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.32%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.32%) CEH
9 1 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.32%) GCIA
9 1 (0.32%) GCIH
9 1 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.32%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (1.58%) NIST
2 3 (0.95%) HL7
3 2 (0.63%) GDPR
4 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.32%) QA
System Software
1 255 (80.70%) vSphere
2 254 (80.38%) Docker
3 253 (80.06%) Hyper-V
4 250 (79.11%) VMware NSX
5 10 (3.16%) Active Directory
6 9 (2.85%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
8 5 (1.58%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.32%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.32%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 258 (81.65%) Terraform
2 252 (79.75%) Ansible
3 7 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (2.22%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.58%) vCenter Server
5 4 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.63%) BMC PATROL
6 2 (0.63%) Grafana
6 2 (0.63%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.32%) Argo
7 1 (0.32%) Nessus
Vendors
1 255 (80.70%) Cisco
2 253 (80.06%) Splunk
3 250 (79.11%) 3PAR
3 250 (79.11%) Juniper
4 47 (14.87%) Microsoft
5 10 (3.16%) VMware
6 4 (1.27%) Foundry
7 3 (0.95%) LexisNexis
7 3 (0.95%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.63%) Databricks
8 2 (0.63%) Freshdesk
8 2 (0.63%) Meraki
8 2 (0.63%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.32%) Okta
9 1 (0.32%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.32%) Proofpoint
9 1 (0.32%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.32%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.32%) Tenable