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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 52 120
Rank change year-on-year -97 +68 -35
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 90 322 178
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.82% 7.14% 1.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.94% 17.55% 6.18%
Number of salaries quoted 71 55 140
10th Percentile £35,250 £32,500 £30,450
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,375 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,101 £46,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.92% -12.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £58,500 £57,500 £61,563
90th Percentile £74,750 £60,450 £68,046
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 1,515 1,835 2,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.84% 40.71% 29.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,201 732 2,401
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,250 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,625 £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 May 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 May 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 -41 53 £55,000 +10.00% 26
Cheshire -34 13 £42,000 -13.05% 7
Lancashire -48 11 £37,500 -5.66% 9
Merseyside -28 7 £40,000 -13.04% 5
Cumbria -6 4 £33,250 -36.67% 7
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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 (25.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.22%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.11%) IIS
4 1 (1.11%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 11 (12.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 60 (66.67%) Azure
2 42 (46.67%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (28.89%) AWS
3 26 (28.89%) Entra ID
4 14 (15.56%) GitHub
5 12 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (7.78%) OneDrive
8 6 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (6.67%) SaaS
9 4 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (4.44%) Nutanix
10 3 (3.33%) Datadog
10 3 (3.33%) Power Platform
11 2 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (2.22%) Power Automate
11 2 (2.22%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 25 (27.78%) Firewall
2 20 (22.22%) DNS
3 14 (15.56%) DHCP
4 9 (10.00%) TCP/IP
5 8 (8.89%) SAN
6 7 (7.78%) NGFW
7 5 (5.56%) Network Security
8 4 (4.44%) VPN
8 4 (4.44%) WAN
9 3 (3.33%) SD-WAN
10 2 (2.22%) Skype
10 2 (2.22%) VLAN
10 2 (2.22%) Wireshark
10 2 (2.22%) WPA
11 1 (1.11%) BIG-IP
11 1 (1.11%) Intranet
11 1 (1.11%) LAN
11 1 (1.11%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (1.11%) VSAN
11 1 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.56%) Electronic Patient Records
2 3 (3.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.22%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.11%) MySQL
4 1 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.44%) GitLab
3 3 (3.33%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (2.22%) Git
4 2 (2.22%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.11%) JIRA
General
1 19 (21.11%) Social Skills
2 15 (16.67%) Finance
3 8 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (6.67%) Law
4 6 (6.67%) Police
4 6 (6.67%) Retail
5 4 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (4.44%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Social Housing
8 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 22 (24.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 14 (15.56%) Support Engineer
4 13 (14.44%) Senior
5 11 (12.22%) Security Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) Analyst
7 7 (7.78%) Applications Support
7 7 (7.78%) IT Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Desktop Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Developer
9 5 (5.56%) IT Support
9 5 (5.56%) Lead
9 5 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) SharePoint Developer
10 4 (4.44%) Network Analyst
10 4 (4.44%) Network Security Analyst
10 4 (4.44%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
2 6 (6.67%) ARM Templates
2 6 (6.67%) Regular Expression
3 2 (2.22%) Middleware
3 2 (2.22%) OAuth
3 2 (2.22%) OpenID
4 1 (1.11%) FHIR
4 1 (1.11%) JSON
4 1 (1.11%) REST
4 1 (1.11%) SAML
4 1 (1.11%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (12.22%) Onboarding
3 7 (7.78%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.78%) Cyberattack
4 6 (6.67%) Low-Code
4 6 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.67%) PACS
4 6 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (4.44%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.22%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.22%) Replication
8 1 (1.11%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.11%) Clustering
8 1 (1.11%) Housing Association
8 1 (1.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (40.00%) Windows
2 17 (18.89%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.56%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.22%) Linux
4 2 (2.22%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.22%) Windows 7
4 2 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.11%) CentOS
5 1 (1.11%) CoreOS
5 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (36.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 28 (31.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 27 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
4 23 (25.56%) DevOps
5 22 (24.44%) CI/CD
6 20 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
7 17 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (17.78%) AI
9 14 (15.56%) Mentoring
10 11 (12.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (11.11%) Containerisation
11 10 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
11 10 (11.11%) Roadmaps
12 9 (10.00%) Workflow
13 8 (8.89%) Cyber Resilience
13 8 (8.89%) Data Loss Prevention
14 7 (7.78%) ITIL
14 7 (7.78%) Observability
14 7 (7.78%) Password Management
14 7 (7.78%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (37.78%) Python
2 16 (17.78%) Bash
3 14 (15.56%) Bicep
4 10 (11.11%) SQL
5 4 (4.44%) VBScript
6 2 (2.22%) VB
7 1 (1.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (14.44%) Azure Certification
2 11 (12.22%) SC Cleared
2 11 (12.22%) Security Cleared
3 9 (10.00%) Degree
4 6 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.11%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.11%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (7.78%) NIST
3 6 (6.67%) DICOM
4 2 (2.22%) GDPR
5 1 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.11%) HL7
System Software
1 36 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 18 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (11.11%) Docker
3 10 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (7.78%) Hyper-V
5 6 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (4.44%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (36.67%) Terraform
2 22 (24.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 9 (10.00%) Ansible
5 5 (5.56%) FortiGate
5 5 (5.56%) Grafana
5 5 (5.56%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.44%) SCCM
6 4 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (2.22%) Argo
7 2 (2.22%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.11%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (1.11%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 60 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 28 (31.11%) VMware
3 4 (4.44%) Cisco
4 3 (3.33%) Fortinet
4 3 (3.33%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (2.22%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (2.22%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.22%) Netskope
5 2 (2.22%) Oracle
5 2 (2.22%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.22%) Veeam
6 1 (1.11%) Apple
6 1 (1.11%) Dell
6 1 (1.11%) F5
6 1 (1.11%) Freshdesk
6 1 (1.11%) HP
6 1 (1.11%) McAfee
6 1 (1.11%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.11%) SYSPRO