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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 55 124
Rank change year-on-year -77 +69 -54
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 138 315 126
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.07% 6.01% 1.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.71% 17.54% 6.21%
Number of salaries quoted 95 53 84
10th Percentile £33,000 £23,350 £41,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £42,053
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £62,813
90th Percentile £80,000 £67,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £59,000 £57,500 £61,425
% change year-on-year +2.61% -6.39% +2.38%

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 1,791 1,796 2,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.84% 34.25% 27.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,377 687 1,188
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,975 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £41,750 £43,740
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -0.08%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -32 94 £54,000 +8.00% 80
Cheshire -19 13 £40,000 -11.11% 11
Lancashire -34 13 £38,000 +63.44% 13
Merseyside -15 9 £55,051 +15.90% 8
Cumbria -5 8 £35,500 -33.95% 3
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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 (24.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (11.59%) SharePoint
3 12 (8.70%) IIS
4 4 (2.90%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.72%) Confluence
5 1 (0.72%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.72%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (10.87%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.72%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.90%) NetSuite
2 3 (2.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 72 (52.17%) Azure
2 41 (29.71%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (27.54%) Entra ID
4 32 (23.19%) AWS
5 19 (13.77%) GitHub
6 18 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (10.87%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (9.42%) Azure Monitor
9 12 (8.70%) SaaS
10 10 (7.25%) Microsoft Purview
11 8 (5.80%) IaaS
11 8 (5.80%) OneDrive
12 7 (5.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (5.07%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (4.35%) Azure AKS
13 6 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
13 6 (4.35%) PaaS
13 6 (4.35%) Power Platform
14 5 (3.62%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (3.62%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 45 (32.61%) DNS
2 33 (23.91%) DHCP
3 30 (21.74%) Firewall
4 23 (16.67%) VPN
5 22 (15.94%) TCP/IP
6 8 (5.80%) VLAN
7 7 (5.07%) NGFW
7 7 (5.07%) SAN
7 7 (5.07%) WAN
8 5 (3.62%) Internet
8 5 (3.62%) Network Security
8 5 (3.62%) VSAN
9 4 (2.90%) LAN
9 4 (2.90%) Skype
9 4 (2.90%) Unified Communications
9 4 (2.90%) VoIP
9 4 (2.90%) Wireless
10 3 (2.17%) SD-WAN
10 3 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.45%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.62%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.45%) MySQL
5 1 (0.72%) Power BI
5 1 (0.72%) Power Query
5 1 (0.72%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (8.70%) GitLab
2 7 (5.07%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.62%) Git
3 5 (3.62%) JIRA
4 4 (2.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (2.90%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.45%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.72%) Artifactory
General
1 48 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (15.22%) Finance
3 11 (7.97%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (4.35%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.62%) Law
6 3 (2.17%) Legal
6 3 (2.17%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.17%) Retail
7 2 (1.45%) Billing
7 2 (1.45%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.45%) Games
7 2 (1.45%) Police
7 2 (1.45%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.72%) Legal Technology
8 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (19.57%) Cloud Engineer
1 27 (19.57%) Support Engineer
2 19 (13.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 17 (12.32%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (10.87%) Senior
5 14 (10.14%) Analyst
6 12 (8.70%) IT Support
7 11 (7.97%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (6.52%) Desktop Engineer
9 8 (5.80%) Lead
9 8 (5.80%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 8 (5.80%) Microsoft Engineer
9 8 (5.80%) Security Engineer
10 7 (5.07%) Applications Support
10 7 (5.07%) IT Engineer
10 7 (5.07%) IT Support Engineer
10 7 (5.07%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support
11 6 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (28.99%) Terraform
2 11 (7.97%) Microsoft Graph
3 9 (6.52%) Middleware
4 6 (4.35%) ARM Templates
5 5 (3.62%) Kafka
6 4 (2.90%) Pulumi
7 3 (2.17%) SAML
8 2 (1.45%) .NET
8 2 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.45%) OAuth
8 2 (1.45%) OpenID
8 2 (1.45%) Regular Expression
8 2 (1.45%) Software Packaging
9 1 (0.72%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.72%) SailPoint
9 1 (0.72%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.77%) Onboarding
2 13 (9.42%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.42%) Management Information System
3 12 (8.70%) Driving Licence
4 9 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (5.07%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.62%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.17%) Clustering
7 3 (2.17%) PKI
7 3 (2.17%) Replication
7 3 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (2.17%) Social Media
7 3 (2.17%) SystemC
8 2 (1.45%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.45%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.45%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.45%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 70 (50.72%) Windows
2 31 (22.46%) Windows Server
3 24 (17.39%) Linux
4 11 (7.97%) Windows 10
5 6 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.62%) Mac OS
6 5 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (2.90%) Windows 7
8 3 (2.17%) CentOS
8 3 (2.17%) CoreOS
9 2 (1.45%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.45%) Unix
10 1 (0.72%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.72%) SUSE
10 1 (0.72%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (32.61%) Infrastructure as Code
3 40 (28.99%) DevOps
4 39 (28.26%) CI/CD
5 37 (26.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 31 (22.46%) Disaster Recovery
7 27 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (18.84%) ITIL
9 24 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
10 19 (13.77%) Observability
11 18 (13.04%) Business Continuity
11 18 (13.04%) Cloud Security
11 18 (13.04%) High Availability
11 18 (13.04%) Mentoring
12 17 (12.32%) AI
12 17 (12.32%) Platform Engineering
13 16 (11.59%) Identity Access Management
13 16 (11.59%) RBAC
14 15 (10.87%) Containerisation
14 15 (10.87%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 48 (34.78%) Python
2 37 (26.81%) Bash
3 24 (17.39%) SQL
4 23 (16.67%) Bicep
5 10 (7.25%) VBScript
6 6 (4.35%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.90%) VB
8 2 (1.45%) C#
8 2 (1.45%) Java
9 1 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.72%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 21 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.87%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (10.14%) Degree
5 12 (8.70%) Azure Certification
6 8 (5.80%) DV Cleared
7 5 (3.62%) DBS Check
8 4 (2.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.45%) CCNA
9 2 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.45%) MCSE
10 1 (0.72%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.72%) GCFA
10 1 (0.72%) GCIH
10 1 (0.72%) GIAC
10 1 (0.72%) HND
10 1 (0.72%) HP ASE
10 1 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.07%) NIST
3 4 (2.90%) GDPR
4 3 (2.17%) ISAE 3402
4 3 (2.17%) QA
4 3 (2.17%) SLA
5 2 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 47 (34.06%) Active Directory
2 29 (21.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (10.87%) Docker
3 15 (10.87%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (10.14%) Hyper-V
5 8 (5.80%) BitLocker
6 7 (5.07%) vSphere
7 6 (4.35%) VMware NSX
8 4 (2.90%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.72%) Ceph
10 1 (0.72%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.72%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.72%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.72%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (18.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (15.94%) Kubernetes
3 13 (9.42%) Ansible
4 12 (8.70%) SCCM
5 11 (7.97%) Grafana
6 9 (6.52%) Argo
7 7 (5.07%) Prometheus
8 5 (3.62%) FortiGate
9 3 (2.17%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (2.17%) SCVMM
10 2 (1.45%) Puppet
10 2 (1.45%) QRadar
10 2 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.45%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.72%) Autotask
11 1 (0.72%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.72%) Istio
11 1 (0.72%) linkerd
11 1 (0.72%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.72%) VxRail
Vendors
1 92 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 34 (24.64%) VMware
3 11 (7.97%) ServiceNow
4 9 (6.52%) Cisco
5 7 (5.07%) SAP
6 5 (3.62%) Fortinet
6 5 (3.62%) Splunk
7 4 (2.90%) CyberArk
7 4 (2.90%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.90%) Sage
8 3 (2.17%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (2.17%) McAfee
8 3 (2.17%) Okta
8 3 (2.17%) Remedy
9 2 (1.45%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (1.45%) Dell
9 2 (1.45%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (1.45%) Netskope
9 2 (1.45%) Oracle
9 2 (1.45%) Veeam