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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 53 124
Rank change year-on-year -84 +71 -35
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 106 325 184
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.97% 6.79% 1.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.45% 17.08% 5.90%
Number of salaries quoted 79 58 140
10th Percentile £35,250 £32,500 £30,450
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,313 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -10.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £61,563
90th Percentile £74,550 £62,375 £72,875
England median annual salary £57,500 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.71% +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 1,644 1,903 3,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.97% 39.75% 28.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,306 788 2,489
10th Percentile £37,500 £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% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,250 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,875 £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 27 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 27 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 -29 59 £55,000 +4.76% 28
Cheshire -22 16 £42,000 -13.05% 7
Lancashire -38 13 £37,500 -11.76% 8
Merseyside -26 10 £40,000 -13.04% 3
Cumbria -18 6 £35,500 -33.95%
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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 (21.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (12.26%) SharePoint
3 7 (6.60%) IIS
4 2 (1.89%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.94%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 13 (12.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.94%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 66 (62.26%) Azure
2 37 (34.91%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (29.25%) AWS
4 25 (23.58%) Entra ID
5 16 (15.09%) GitHub
6 13 (12.26%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (11.32%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (6.60%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (4.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (4.72%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (4.72%) OneDrive
9 5 (4.72%) SaaS
10 4 (3.77%) Nutanix
10 4 (3.77%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.83%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.83%) Datadog
11 3 (2.83%) Pulumi
12 2 (1.89%) Mimecast
12 2 (1.89%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 30 (28.30%) Firewall
2 27 (25.47%) DNS
3 18 (16.98%) DHCP
4 14 (13.21%) TCP/IP
5 9 (8.49%) SAN
5 9 (8.49%) VPN
6 7 (6.60%) NGFW
7 5 (4.72%) Network Security
8 3 (2.83%) WAN
9 2 (1.89%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.89%) Skype
9 2 (1.89%) VLAN
9 2 (1.89%) Wireshark
9 2 (1.89%) WPA
10 1 (0.94%) BIG-IP
10 1 (0.94%) LAN
10 1 (0.94%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.94%) SSL
10 1 (0.94%) VSAN
10 1 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.55%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.72%) Electronic Patient Records
3 5 (4.72%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.94%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (6.60%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.72%) GitLab
3 4 (3.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 4 (3.77%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.83%) Git
5 2 (1.89%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.89%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.94%) JIRA
General
1 25 (23.58%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.15%) Finance
3 11 (10.38%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (7.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (5.66%) Law
5 6 (5.66%) Police
5 6 (5.66%) Retail
6 5 (4.72%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.89%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.94%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.94%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (21.70%) Support Engineer
2 19 (17.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 18 (16.98%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (11.32%) Security Engineer
4 12 (11.32%) Senior
5 11 (10.38%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (9.43%) IT Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Analyst
7 7 (6.60%) Applications Support
7 7 (6.60%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Desktop Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) IT Support
7 7 (6.60%) IT Support Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Lead
8 6 (5.66%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.09%) Microsoft Graph
2 7 (6.60%) ARM Templates
2 7 (6.60%) Middleware
3 6 (5.66%) Regular Expression
4 5 (4.72%) Kafka
5 2 (1.89%) OAuth
5 2 (1.89%) OpenID
6 1 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.94%) SAML
6 1 (0.94%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.21%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (10.38%) Onboarding
3 8 (7.55%) Management Information System
4 7 (6.60%) Security Operations Centre
5 6 (5.66%) Cyberattack
5 6 (5.66%) Low-Code
5 6 (5.66%) PACS
6 4 (3.77%) Driving Licence
6 4 (3.77%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.89%) Replication
9 1 (0.94%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.94%) Clustering
9 1 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.94%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 47 (44.34%) Windows
2 23 (21.70%) Windows Server
3 8 (7.55%) Linux
4 7 (6.60%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.89%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.89%) Windows 7
5 2 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.94%) CentOS
6 1 (0.94%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (33.02%) Infrastructure as Code
2 33 (31.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 30 (28.30%) DevOps
4 29 (27.36%) CI/CD
5 25 (23.58%) Cybersecurity
6 24 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (21.70%) Disaster Recovery
8 17 (16.04%) AI
9 15 (14.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (14.15%) Mentoring
10 13 (12.26%) Containerisation
11 12 (11.32%) Deployment Automation
11 12 (11.32%) High Availability
12 11 (10.38%) Business Continuity
12 11 (10.38%) Observability
12 11 (10.38%) RBAC
13 10 (9.43%) Agile
13 10 (9.43%) Roadmaps
14 9 (8.49%) Migration
14 9 (8.49%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 39 (36.79%) Python
2 23 (21.70%) Bash
3 15 (14.15%) Bicep
4 13 (12.26%) SQL
5 6 (5.66%) VBScript
6 2 (1.89%) VB
7 1 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 16 (15.09%) SC Cleared
1 16 (15.09%) Security Cleared
2 14 (13.21%) Azure Certification
3 10 (9.43%) Degree
4 7 (6.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (4.72%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.83%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.89%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.94%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.94%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.94%) GCFA
8 1 (0.94%) GCIH
8 1 (0.94%) GIAC
8 1 (0.94%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (6.60%) NIST
3 6 (5.66%) DICOM
4 3 (2.83%) GDPR
5 2 (1.89%) ISAE 3402
System Software
1 36 (33.96%) Active Directory
2 25 (23.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (11.32%) Hyper-V
4 11 (10.38%) Docker
5 7 (6.60%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (5.66%) BitLocker
7 4 (3.77%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (2.83%) VMware NSX
8 3 (2.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (33.96%) Terraform
2 19 (17.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (15.09%) Kubernetes
4 9 (8.49%) Ansible
5 8 (7.55%) Argo
6 7 (6.60%) Grafana
6 7 (6.60%) Prometheus
7 6 (5.66%) SCCM
8 4 (3.77%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.83%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.89%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.94%) Istio
11 1 (0.94%) linkerd
11 1 (0.94%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.94%) QRadar
11 1 (0.94%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 68 (64.15%) Microsoft
2 35 (33.02%) VMware
3 7 (6.60%) Cisco
4 6 (5.66%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.83%) LogicMonitor
5 3 (2.83%) Remedy
6 2 (1.89%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (1.89%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.89%) Netskope
6 2 (1.89%) Oracle
6 2 (1.89%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.89%) SAP
7 1 (0.94%) Dell
7 1 (0.94%) F5
7 1 (0.94%) HP
7 1 (0.94%) McAfee
7 1 (0.94%) Riverbed
7 1 (0.94%) Splunk
7 1 (0.94%) SYSPRO
7 1 (0.94%) Veeam