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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 55 134
Rank change year-on-year -86 +79 -45
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 96 321 179
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.90% 6.84% 1.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.10% 16.94% 5.82%
Number of salaries quoted 75 55 139
10th Percentile £35,250 £32,500 £30,400
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,375 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £46,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.96% -12.38% +6.13%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £74,750 £60,450 £68,124
England median annual salary £59,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.85% +6.36% -8.33%

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 1,574 1,895 3,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.75% 40.35% 28.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,253 784 2,504
10th Percentile £36,500 £33,125 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -0.04%
75th Percentile £75,250 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,375 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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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 11 June 2026.

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 11 June 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
Manchester -35 53 £55,000 +10.00% 23
Cheshire -19 15 £42,250 -12.54% 11
Lancashire -37 12 £37,500 +1.35% 8
Merseyside -22 8 £40,000 -13.04% 4
Cumbria -18 6 £35,500 -33.18% 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 23 (23.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (14.58%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.13%) IIS
4 2 (2.08%) Skype for Business
5 1 (1.04%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 13 (13.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.04%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 60 (62.50%) Azure
2 38 (39.58%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (28.13%) AWS
4 24 (25.00%) Entra ID
5 14 (14.58%) GitHub
6 11 (11.46%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (6.25%) OneDrive
8 6 (6.25%) SaaS
9 4 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (4.17%) Nutanix
10 3 (3.13%) Datadog
10 3 (3.13%) Power Platform
11 2 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (2.08%) iPaaS
11 2 (2.08%) Mimecast
11 2 (2.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (26.04%) Firewall
2 23 (23.96%) DNS
3 15 (15.63%) DHCP
4 10 (10.42%) TCP/IP
5 8 (8.33%) SAN
6 7 (7.29%) NGFW
7 4 (4.17%) Network Security
7 4 (4.17%) VPN
8 3 (3.13%) WAN
9 2 (2.08%) SD-WAN
9 2 (2.08%) Skype
9 2 (2.08%) Wireshark
9 2 (2.08%) WPA
10 1 (1.04%) BIG-IP
10 1 (1.04%) Intranet
10 1 (1.04%) LAN
10 1 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (1.04%) VLAN
10 1 (1.04%) VSAN
10 1 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.21%) Electronic Patient Records
2 4 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.08%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.08%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.04%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.17%) GitLab
3 3 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (2.08%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.08%) Git
4 2 (2.08%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.04%) JIRA
General
1 20 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.63%) Finance
3 8 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (6.25%) Law
4 6 (6.25%) Police
4 6 (6.25%) Retail
5 4 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.08%) Social Housing
7 1 (1.04%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (18.75%) Cloud Engineer
2 18 (18.75%) Support Engineer
3 12 (12.50%) Senior
4 11 (11.46%) Security Engineer
5 9 (9.38%) IT Engineer
6 8 (8.33%) Analyst
7 7 (7.29%) Applications Support
7 7 (7.29%) Desktop Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) IT Support
8 6 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Lead
9 5 (5.21%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Security Analyst
9 5 (5.21%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.63%) Microsoft Graph
2 6 (6.25%) ARM Templates
2 6 (6.25%) Regular Expression
3 4 (4.17%) Middleware
4 2 (2.08%) Kafka
4 2 (2.08%) OAuth
4 2 (2.08%) OpenID
5 1 (1.04%) FHIR
5 1 (1.04%) JSON
5 1 (1.04%) REST
5 1 (1.04%) SAML
5 1 (1.04%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (11.46%) Onboarding
3 9 (9.38%) Cloud Native
4 7 (7.29%) Management Information System
5 6 (6.25%) Cyberattack
5 6 (6.25%) Low-Code
5 6 (6.25%) PACS
5 6 (6.25%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (4.17%) Driving Licence
6 4 (4.17%) Public Cloud
6 4 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (2.08%) Replication
9 1 (1.04%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.04%) Clustering
9 1 (1.04%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (1.04%) Housing Association
9 1 (1.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 41 (42.71%) Windows
2 19 (19.79%) Windows Server
3 7 (7.29%) Windows 10
4 4 (4.17%) Linux
5 2 (2.08%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.08%) Windows 7
5 2 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.04%) CentOS
6 1 (1.04%) CoreOS
6 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (34.38%) Infrastructure as Code
2 32 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 25 (26.04%) Cybersecurity
4 24 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 24 (25.00%) DevOps
5 21 (21.88%) Disaster Recovery
6 17 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (16.67%) AI
8 12 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (12.50%) Mentoring
9 11 (11.46%) Deployment Automation
10 10 (10.42%) Roadmaps
11 9 (9.38%) Containerisation
11 9 (9.38%) Workflow
12 8 (8.33%) Business Continuity
12 8 (8.33%) Customer Service
12 8 (8.33%) High Availability
12 8 (8.33%) Migration
12 8 (8.33%) Observability
12 8 (8.33%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 35 (36.46%) Python
2 18 (18.75%) Bash
3 14 (14.58%) Bicep
4 10 (10.42%) SQL
5 6 (6.25%) VBScript
6 2 (2.08%) VB
7 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (14.58%) SC Cleared
1 14 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 9 (9.38%) Degree
4 5 (5.21%) AWS Certification
4 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.08%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.04%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.04%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (7.29%) NIST
3 6 (6.25%) DICOM
4 2 (2.08%) GDPR
5 1 (1.04%) HL7
5 1 (1.04%) ISAE 3402
System Software
1 36 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 19 (19.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (9.38%) Docker
4 8 (8.33%) Hyper-V
4 8 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (6.25%) BitLocker
6 4 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (2.08%) VMware NSX
7 2 (2.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (34.38%) Terraform
2 20 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (11.46%) Kubernetes
4 9 (9.38%) Ansible
5 6 (6.25%) SCCM
6 5 (5.21%) Grafana
6 5 (5.21%) Prometheus
7 4 (4.17%) Argo
7 4 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (3.13%) FortiGate
9 2 (2.08%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (1.04%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (1.04%) QRadar
10 1 (1.04%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 62 (64.58%) Microsoft
2 31 (32.29%) VMware
3 6 (6.25%) Cisco
4 5 (5.21%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.13%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (2.08%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (2.08%) CyberArk
6 2 (2.08%) Netskope
6 2 (2.08%) Oracle
6 2 (2.08%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.08%) Remedy
7 1 (1.04%) Apple
7 1 (1.04%) Dell
7 1 (1.04%) HP
7 1 (1.04%) McAfee
7 1 (1.04%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.04%) SAP
7 1 (1.04%) Splunk
7 1 (1.04%) Veeam
7 1 (1.04%) WatchGuard