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 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 51 121
Rank change year-on-year -81 +70 -42
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 137 320 126
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.10% 6.26% 1.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.73% 17.58% 6.14%
Number of salaries quoted 91 57 82
10th Percentile £32,500 - £36,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £74,750 £65,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -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 1,773 1,820 2,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.30% 35.59% 26.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,377 707 1,346
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £43,750
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 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,751 £79,800
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -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 8 September 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 8 September 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 -26 86 £55,000 +22.22% 59
Cheshire -19 17 £42,000 +5.00% 11
Lancashire -43 15 £38,000 +63.44% 7
Merseyside -19 9 £60,000 +30.43% 2
Cumbria -11 8 £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 34 (24.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (13.14%) SharePoint
3 12 (8.76%) IIS
4 4 (2.92%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.73%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.73%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (10.95%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.73%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.92%) NetSuite
2 3 (2.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 78 (56.93%) Azure
2 44 (32.12%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (24.09%) AWS
4 31 (22.63%) Entra ID
5 18 (13.14%) GitHub
6 16 (11.68%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (10.95%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (9.49%) SaaS
9 10 (7.30%) Azure Sentinel
10 9 (6.57%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (6.57%) OneDrive
11 7 (5.11%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (3.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (3.65%) Azure AKS
13 5 (3.65%) IaaS
13 5 (3.65%) Power Platform
14 4 (2.92%) Azure Key Vault
14 4 (2.92%) OpenShift
14 4 (2.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (30.66%) DNS
2 34 (24.82%) Firewall
3 31 (22.63%) DHCP
4 24 (17.52%) TCP/IP
5 18 (13.14%) VPN
6 9 (6.57%) SAN
7 8 (5.84%) VLAN
8 7 (5.11%) NGFW
9 6 (4.38%) WAN
10 5 (3.65%) Internet
10 5 (3.65%) Network Security
10 5 (3.65%) VSAN
11 4 (2.92%) LAN
11 4 (2.92%) Skype
11 4 (2.92%) Unified Communications
11 4 (2.92%) VoIP
11 4 (2.92%) Wireless
12 2 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (1.46%) Wireshark
12 2 (1.46%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.49%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.65%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.46%) MySQL
5 1 (0.73%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.73%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (5.84%) GitLab
2 7 (5.11%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.65%) Git
4 4 (2.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (2.92%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.19%) JIRA
6 2 (1.46%) Terragrunt
General
1 47 (34.31%) Social Skills
2 22 (16.06%) Finance
3 18 (13.14%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.03%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (7.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (5.84%) Law
7 7 (5.11%) Retail
8 6 (4.38%) Police
8 6 (4.38%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.19%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.46%) Billing
10 2 (1.46%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.46%) Games
10 2 (1.46%) Legal
10 2 (1.46%) Social Housing
11 1 (0.73%) Legal Technology
11 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (21.17%) Support Engineer
2 26 (18.98%) Cloud Engineer
3 20 (14.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (10.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (10.22%) Senior
5 12 (8.76%) Security Engineer
6 11 (8.03%) Analyst
6 11 (8.03%) IT Support
7 10 (7.30%) Lead
8 9 (6.57%) Desktop Engineer
9 8 (5.84%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (5.84%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 7 (5.11%) Applications Support
10 7 (5.11%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (5.11%) IT Engineer
11 6 (4.38%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 6 (4.38%) IT Support Engineer
11 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Engineer
11 6 (4.38%) Security Analyst
12 5 (3.65%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (29.93%) Terraform
2 13 (9.49%) Microsoft Graph
3 9 (6.57%) Middleware
4 7 (5.11%) ARM Templates
5 6 (4.38%) Regular Expression
6 5 (3.65%) Kafka
7 3 (2.19%) OAuth
7 3 (2.19%) OpenID
7 3 (2.19%) Pulumi
8 2 (1.46%) SAML
8 2 (1.46%) Software Packaging
9 1 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.73%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.73%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.33%) Onboarding
2 15 (10.95%) Management Information System
3 14 (10.22%) Cloud Native
4 10 (7.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (6.57%) Driving Licence
6 7 (5.11%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (4.38%) Cyberattack
7 6 (4.38%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (4.38%) Low-Code
8 4 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.92%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.92%) Replication
8 4 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.19%) Clustering
9 3 (2.19%) Social Media
9 3 (2.19%) SystemC
10 2 (1.46%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (1.46%) PKI
10 2 (1.46%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 67 (48.91%) Windows
2 33 (24.09%) Windows Server
3 18 (13.14%) Linux
4 10 (7.30%) Windows 10
5 6 (4.38%) Mac OS
6 5 (3.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (2.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (2.92%) Windows 7
7 4 (2.92%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (2.19%) CentOS
8 3 (2.19%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.73%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.73%) SUSE
9 1 (0.73%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.73%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (30.66%) Infrastructure as Code
2 41 (29.93%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (27.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 36 (26.28%) CI/CD
5 35 (25.55%) DevOps
6 29 (21.17%) Cybersecurity
7 27 (19.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 27 (19.71%) Disaster Recovery
8 25 (18.25%) ITIL
9 19 (13.87%) Observability
10 17 (12.41%) AI
10 17 (12.41%) High Availability
10 17 (12.41%) Mentoring
11 15 (10.95%) Containerisation
11 15 (10.95%) Customer Service
11 15 (10.95%) RBAC
12 14 (10.22%) Business Continuity
12 14 (10.22%) ITSM
13 13 (9.49%) Service Management
13 13 (9.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 47 (34.31%) Python
2 32 (23.36%) Bash
3 24 (17.52%) SQL
4 23 (16.79%) Bicep
5 10 (7.30%) VBScript
6 5 (3.65%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.92%) VB
8 1 (0.73%) C#
8 1 (0.73%) Java
8 1 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.73%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (16.06%) Security Cleared
2 21 (15.33%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (8.03%) Azure Certification
4 11 (8.03%) Degree
5 5 (3.65%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.92%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.73%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.73%) CCNA
7 1 (0.73%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.73%) GCFA
7 1 (0.73%) GCIH
7 1 (0.73%) GIAC
7 1 (0.73%) HND
7 1 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.73%) MCSE
7 1 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.11%) NIST
3 4 (2.92%) GDPR
4 3 (2.19%) ISAE 3402
5 2 (1.46%) QA
6 1 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.73%) DICOM
6 1 (0.73%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (32.85%) Active Directory
2 31 (22.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (13.14%) Hyper-V
4 14 (10.22%) Docker
5 11 (8.03%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (5.84%) BitLocker
7 5 (3.65%) VMware NSX
7 5 (3.65%) vSphere
8 4 (2.92%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.73%) Ceph
9 1 (0.73%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.73%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.73%) Firmware
9 1 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (17.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (13.87%) Kubernetes
3 14 (10.22%) Ansible
4 11 (8.03%) Grafana
5 10 (7.30%) SCCM
6 8 (5.84%) Argo
7 7 (5.11%) Prometheus
8 4 (2.92%) FortiGate
9 3 (2.19%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (2.19%) SCVMM
10 2 (1.46%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (1.46%) QRadar
10 2 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.73%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.73%) Istio
11 1 (0.73%) linkerd
11 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.73%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.73%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.73%) VxRail
Vendors
1 92 (67.15%) Microsoft
2 38 (27.74%) VMware
3 11 (8.03%) ServiceNow
4 10 (7.30%) Cisco
5 7 (5.11%) SAP
6 5 (3.65%) Splunk
7 4 (2.92%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.92%) Sage
8 3 (2.19%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (2.19%) McAfee
8 3 (2.19%) Remedy
9 2 (1.46%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (1.46%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.46%) Dell
9 2 (1.46%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.46%) Netskope
9 2 (1.46%) Okta
9 2 (1.46%) Oracle
9 2 (1.46%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.46%) Veeam