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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 53 124
Rank change year-on-year -80 +71 -42
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 114 330 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.99% 6.40% 1.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.60% 17.06% 6.59%
Number of salaries quoted 78 63 116
10th Percentile £35,250 - £36,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £46,500 £50,750
Median % change year-on-year +11.83% -8.37% -0.49%
75th Percentile £62,188 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,575 £65,000 £76,875
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
% 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 1,726 1,934 2,411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.96% 37.51% 27.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,343 817 1,825
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,125 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -3.08%
75th Percentile £75,250 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,550 £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 30 July 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 30 July 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 -43 63 £55,000 +15.79% 31
Cheshire -21 18 £42,250 -12.54% 6
Lancashire -45 13 £38,000 - 10
Merseyside -26 10 £45,051 -2.06% 3
Cumbria -10 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 23 (20.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (9.65%) SharePoint
3 10 (8.77%) IIS
4 4 (3.51%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.88%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.88%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (13.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 71 (62.28%) Azure
2 35 (30.70%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (29.82%) AWS
4 21 (18.42%) Entra ID
5 16 (14.04%) GitHub
6 14 (12.28%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (11.40%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (7.02%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (5.26%) SaaS
10 5 (4.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (4.39%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (4.39%) Power Platform
11 4 (3.51%) Nutanix
11 4 (3.51%) OneDrive
11 4 (3.51%) OpenShift
12 3 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.63%) Datadog
12 3 (2.63%) IaaS
12 3 (2.63%) PaaS
12 3 (2.63%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 32 (28.07%) Firewall
2 31 (27.19%) DNS
3 22 (19.30%) DHCP
4 18 (15.79%) TCP/IP
5 11 (9.65%) VPN
6 10 (8.77%) SAN
7 7 (6.14%) NGFW
8 5 (4.39%) Network Security
8 5 (4.39%) WAN
9 4 (3.51%) Skype
9 4 (3.51%) VSAN
10 3 (2.63%) LAN
11 2 (1.75%) SD-WAN
11 2 (1.75%) VLAN
11 2 (1.75%) Wireshark
11 2 (1.75%) WPA
12 1 (0.88%) BIG-IP
12 1 (0.88%) Kerberos
12 1 (0.88%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.65%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.39%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.63%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (1.75%) MySQL
6 1 (0.88%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (6.14%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.39%) Git
2 5 (4.39%) GitLab
3 4 (3.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 4 (3.51%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.75%) JIRA
4 2 (1.75%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 30 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.67%) Finance
3 11 (9.65%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (8.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (6.14%) Law
7 6 (5.26%) Police
7 6 (5.26%) Retail
8 4 (3.51%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.75%) Billing
9 2 (1.75%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.75%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.88%) Legal
10 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (20.18%) Support Engineer
2 19 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 15 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (12.28%) Senior
5 12 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (10.53%) Security Engineer
6 10 (8.77%) Analyst
7 9 (7.89%) Desktop Engineer
8 8 (7.02%) Lead
9 7 (6.14%) Applications Support
9 7 (6.14%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (6.14%) IT Engineer
10 6 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 6 (5.26%) IT Support
10 6 (5.26%) IT Support Engineer
10 6 (5.26%) Security Analyst
11 5 (4.39%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 5 (4.39%) Automation Engineer
11 5 (4.39%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.91%) Microsoft Graph
2 9 (7.89%) Middleware
3 7 (6.14%) ARM Templates
4 6 (5.26%) Regular Expression
5 5 (4.39%) Kafka
6 3 (2.63%) OAuth
6 3 (2.63%) OpenID
7 2 (1.75%) SAML
8 1 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.88%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.88%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.28%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.65%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (7.89%) Management Information System
3 9 (7.89%) Onboarding
4 7 (6.14%) Security Operations Centre
5 6 (5.26%) Cyberattack
5 6 (5.26%) Low-Code
6 4 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.51%) Driving Licence
6 4 (3.51%) PACS
6 4 (3.51%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.63%) Replication
7 3 (2.63%) Social Media
8 2 (1.75%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.88%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.88%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (46.49%) Windows
2 28 (24.56%) Windows Server
3 12 (10.53%) Linux
4 9 (7.89%) Windows 10
5 4 (3.51%) Windows 7
5 4 (3.51%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (2.63%) CentOS
6 3 (2.63%) CoreOS
6 3 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.75%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.88%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.88%) SUSE
8 1 (0.88%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (29.82%) Infrastructure as Code
2 32 (28.07%) CI/CD
2 32 (28.07%) DevOps
3 30 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 27 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
6 23 (20.18%) Disaster Recovery
7 18 (15.79%) AI
8 17 (14.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (13.16%) High Availability
9 15 (13.16%) ITIL
9 15 (13.16%) Mentoring
10 14 (12.28%) Observability
11 13 (11.40%) Containerisation
11 13 (11.40%) RBAC
12 12 (10.53%) Business Continuity
12 12 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
13 11 (9.65%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (9.65%) Server Building
14 10 (8.77%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 43 (37.72%) Python
2 25 (21.93%) Bash
3 19 (16.67%) SQL
4 18 (15.79%) Bicep
5 9 (7.89%) VBScript
6 4 (3.51%) VB
7 1 (0.88%) C#
7 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (15.79%) SC Cleared
1 18 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.53%) Azure Certification
3 8 (7.02%) Degree
4 7 (6.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.51%) DBS Check
6 3 (2.63%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.63%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.88%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.88%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.88%) GCFA
7 1 (0.88%) GCIH
7 1 (0.88%) GIAC
7 1 (0.88%) HND
7 1 (0.88%) HP ASE
7 1 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.88%) VCAP
7 1 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (6.14%) NIST
3 4 (3.51%) DICOM
3 4 (3.51%) GDPR
4 3 (2.63%) ISAE 3402
5 1 (0.88%) QA
System Software
1 37 (32.46%) Active Directory
2 29 (25.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (14.04%) Hyper-V
4 11 (9.65%) Docker
5 10 (8.77%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (7.02%) BitLocker
7 4 (3.51%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (3.51%) VMware NSX
7 4 (3.51%) vSphere
8 1 (0.88%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (0.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 37 (32.46%) Terraform
2 18 (15.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (14.04%) Kubernetes
4 11 (9.65%) Ansible
4 11 (9.65%) Grafana
5 8 (7.02%) Argo
5 8 (7.02%) SCCM
6 7 (6.14%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.63%) FortiGate
7 3 (2.63%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (2.63%) SCVMM
8 2 (1.75%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.75%) QRadar
8 2 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.88%) Istio
9 1 (0.88%) linkerd
9 1 (0.88%) VxRail
Vendors
1 74 (64.91%) Microsoft
2 36 (31.58%) VMware
3 11 (9.65%) ServiceNow
4 7 (6.14%) Cisco
5 4 (3.51%) Splunk
6 3 (2.63%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (2.63%) McAfee
6 3 (2.63%) Oracle
6 3 (2.63%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.63%) Remedy
6 3 (2.63%) SAP
7 2 (1.75%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (1.75%) Dell
7 2 (1.75%) Netskope
7 2 (1.75%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.75%) Veeam
8 1 (0.88%) Broadcom
8 1 (0.88%) F5
8 1 (0.88%) Riverbed
8 1 (0.88%) WatchGuard