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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 54 132
Rank change year-on-year -105 +78 -45
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 79 329 164
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.75% 7.01% 1.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.51% 17.22% 5.78%
Number of salaries quoted 61 62 136
10th Percentile £35,750 £32,500 £30,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,563 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -12.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £58,000 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,750 £64,625 £67,734
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 1,434 1,911 2,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.57% 40.73% 29.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,128 814 2,381
10th Percentile £35,341 £33,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
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 18 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 18 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 -44 46 £55,000 +4.76% 22
Cheshire -35 12 £42,000 -13.05% 8
Lancashire -49 10 £37,500 -11.76% 8
Merseyside -23 6 £40,000 -13.04% 4
Cumbria -17 3 £31,000 -40.95% 12
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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 21 (26.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (17.72%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.53%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.27%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (10.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.27%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 55 (69.62%) Azure
2 38 (48.10%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (29.11%) Entra ID
4 21 (26.58%) AWS
5 12 (15.19%) GitHub
6 8 (10.13%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (8.86%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (7.59%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (7.59%) OneDrive
8 6 (7.59%) SaaS
9 4 (5.06%) Nutanix
10 3 (3.80%) Datadog
11 2 (2.53%) Azure AKS
11 2 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (2.53%) IaaS
11 2 (2.53%) iPaaS
11 2 (2.53%) Mimecast
11 2 (2.53%) PaaS
11 2 (2.53%) Power Automate
11 2 (2.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (27.85%) Firewall
2 17 (21.52%) DNS
3 13 (16.46%) DHCP
4 8 (10.13%) TCP/IP
5 7 (8.86%) SAN
6 5 (6.33%) NGFW
7 4 (5.06%) Network Security
7 4 (5.06%) VPN
7 4 (5.06%) WAN
8 3 (3.80%) SD-WAN
9 2 (2.53%) Skype
9 2 (2.53%) VLAN
9 2 (2.53%) Wireshark
9 2 (2.53%) WPA
10 1 (1.27%) BIG-IP
10 1 (1.27%) Intranet
10 1 (1.27%) LAN
10 1 (1.27%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.33%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (2.53%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.27%) MySQL
3 1 (1.27%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Jenkins
1 3 (3.80%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (2.53%) Git
2 2 (2.53%) GitLab
General
1 17 (21.52%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.46%) Finance
3 7 (8.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (7.59%) Law
4 6 (7.59%) Police
4 6 (7.59%) Retail
5 4 (5.06%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (5.06%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.53%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 21 (26.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (15.19%) Cloud Engineer
2 12 (15.19%) Senior
2 12 (15.19%) Support Engineer
3 10 (12.66%) Security Engineer
4 8 (10.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (8.86%) Applications Support
6 6 (7.59%) Analyst
6 6 (7.59%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Developer
7 5 (6.33%) IT Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Lead
7 5 (6.33%) SharePoint Developer
8 4 (5.06%) Desktop Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) CloudOps Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Infrastructure Support
9 3 (3.80%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.46%) Microsoft Graph
2 6 (7.59%) Regular Expression
3 4 (5.06%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.53%) Middleware
4 2 (2.53%) OAuth
4 2 (2.53%) OpenID
5 1 (1.27%) FHIR
5 1 (1.27%) JSON
5 1 (1.27%) REST
5 1 (1.27%) SAML
5 1 (1.27%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.66%) Hybrid Cloud
1 10 (12.66%) Onboarding
2 7 (8.86%) Cyberattack
3 6 (7.59%) Low-Code
3 6 (7.59%) Management Information System
3 6 (7.59%) PACS
3 6 (7.59%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (6.33%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.06%) Public Cloud
5 4 (5.06%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.27%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.27%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.27%) Replication
8 1 (1.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 31 (39.24%) Windows
2 17 (21.52%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.80%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.53%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.53%) Windows 7
4 2 (2.53%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.27%) CentOS
5 1 (1.27%) CoreOS
5 1 (1.27%) Linux
5 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (36.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 26 (32.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 25 (31.65%) Cybersecurity
4 17 (21.52%) DevOps
5 16 (20.25%) CI/CD
6 15 (18.99%) Disaster Recovery
7 14 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (16.46%) Mentoring
9 12 (15.19%) AI
10 10 (12.66%) Roadmaps
11 9 (11.39%) Deployment Automation
12 8 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (8.86%) Containerisation
13 7 (8.86%) ITIL
13 7 (8.86%) Workflow
14 6 (7.59%) Cyber Resilience
14 6 (7.59%) Migration
14 6 (7.59%) Security Operations
14 6 (7.59%) SIEM
14 6 (7.59%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 30 (37.97%) Python
2 13 (16.46%) Bash
2 13 (16.46%) Bicep
3 9 (11.39%) SQL
4 3 (3.80%) VBScript
5 2 (2.53%) VB
6 1 (1.27%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (16.46%) Azure Certification
2 9 (11.39%) Degree
3 8 (10.13%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.13%) Security Cleared
4 6 (7.59%) AWS Certification
5 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.53%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.27%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (7.59%) DICOM
3 5 (6.33%) NIST
4 1 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.27%) GDPR
4 1 (1.27%) HL7
System Software
1 31 (39.24%) Active Directory
2 17 (21.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (10.13%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (8.86%) Docker
4 7 (8.86%) Hyper-V
5 6 (7.59%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (3.80%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (32.91%) Terraform
2 18 (22.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (8.86%) Ansible
3 7 (8.86%) Kubernetes
4 5 (6.33%) FortiGate
5 4 (5.06%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (3.80%) Grafana
6 3 (3.80%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.80%) SCCM
7 2 (2.53%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.27%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (1.27%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 53 (67.09%) Microsoft
2 26 (32.91%) VMware
3 4 (5.06%) Cisco
4 3 (3.80%) Fortinet
4 3 (3.80%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (2.53%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (2.53%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.53%) Netskope
5 2 (2.53%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.53%) Veeam
6 1 (1.27%) Apple
6 1 (1.27%) Dell
6 1 (1.27%) HP
6 1 (1.27%) McAfee
6 1 (1.27%) Oracle
6 1 (1.27%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.27%) Spotify
6 1 (1.27%) Starlink
6 1 (1.27%) WatchGuard