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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 118 102
Rank change year-on-year -7 -16 0
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 58 92 142
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.84% 1.88% 2.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.52% 6.57% 6.46%
Number of salaries quoted 57 72 131
10th Percentile £24,950 £37,525 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £69,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,500 £71,125 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +5.93% -1.67%

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 890 1,401 2,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.91% 28.68% 35.76%
Number of salaries quoted 737 795 1,863
10th Percentile £33,125 £35,802 £34,800
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 1 February 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 1 February 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 +4 35 £55,000 -8.33% 34
Merseyside -1 9 £47,500 +19.50% 2
Lancashire -9 9 £23,250 -45.29% 30
Cumbria +7 3 £65,500 +24.76% 3
Cheshire -34 2 £28,000 -42.04% 11
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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 10 (17.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (8.62%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.72%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (65.52%) Azure
2 25 (43.10%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (29.31%) AWS
4 15 (25.86%) Entra ID
5 13 (22.41%) Power Platform
6 12 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (20.69%) GitHub
7 8 (13.79%) Power Automate
8 6 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (8.62%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (8.62%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (8.62%) SaaS
9 5 (8.62%) Snowflake
10 4 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (6.90%) OneDrive
11 3 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (5.17%) IaaS
11 3 (5.17%) PaaS
12 2 (3.45%) Azure Functions
12 2 (3.45%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (18.97%) Firewall
2 10 (17.24%) DHCP
2 10 (17.24%) DNS
3 8 (13.79%) WAN
4 7 (12.07%) LAN
5 4 (6.90%) SAN
6 3 (5.17%) VPN
7 2 (3.45%) Network Security
7 2 (3.45%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.72%) Intranet
8 1 (1.72%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.72%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.72%) VLAN
8 1 (1.72%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.52%) Power BI
2 6 (10.34%) SQL Server
3 3 (5.17%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (5.17%) Electronic Patient Records
3 3 (5.17%) MySQL
3 3 (5.17%) RDBMS
3 3 (5.17%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (6.90%) Git
3 1 (1.72%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.72%) git-flow
3 1 (1.72%) GitLab
3 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (22.41%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.69%) Finance
3 5 (8.62%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (5.17%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.45%) Retail
6 1 (1.72%) Banking
6 1 (1.72%) Legal
6 1 (1.72%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (15.52%) Cloud Engineer
2 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (10.34%) 1st Line Support
3 6 (10.34%) Architect
4 5 (8.62%) Senior
4 5 (8.62%) Support Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Applications Support
5 4 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.17%) Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Data Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Digital Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Integration Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) IT Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Lead
6 3 (5.17%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Security Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Support Technician
7 2 (3.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.34%) REST
2 4 (6.90%) JSON
3 3 (5.17%) ARM Templates
3 3 (5.17%) FHIR
3 3 (5.17%) Node.js
4 2 (3.45%) .NET
4 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (3.45%) Middleware
5 1 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.72%) React
5 1 (1.72%) Software Packaging
5 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (6.90%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.17%) PACS
3 2 (3.45%) AI Agents
3 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.45%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.45%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.72%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.72%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.72%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (29.31%) Windows
2 8 (13.79%) Windows Server
3 6 (10.34%) Mac OS
4 4 (6.90%) Linux
5 1 (1.72%) CentOS
5 1 (1.72%) CoreOS
5 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (29.31%) DevOps
1 17 (29.31%) Disaster Recovery
2 15 (25.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (18.97%) Mentoring
5 10 (17.24%) CI/CD
5 10 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (15.52%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (12.07%) Customer Service
9 6 (10.34%) Agile
9 6 (10.34%) ITIL
9 6 (10.34%) ITSM
9 6 (10.34%) Service Delivery
10 5 (8.62%) AI
10 5 (8.62%) Business Continuity
10 5 (8.62%) Containerisation
10 5 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (8.62%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 15 (25.86%) Bash
2 14 (24.14%) Python
3 10 (17.24%) SQL
4 9 (15.52%) Bicep
5 3 (5.17%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.45%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.72%) C#
7 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (20.69%) Azure Certification
2 6 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (8.62%) Degree
4 4 (6.90%) AWS Certification
5 3 (5.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (5.17%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (5.17%) CISSP
5 3 (5.17%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.72%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.72%) CCSP
7 1 (1.72%) CISM
7 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.72%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.72%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.17%) DICOM
2 3 (5.17%) HL7
2 3 (5.17%) NIST
3 1 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.72%) GDPR
3 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 13 (22.41%) Active Directory
2 8 (13.79%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (8.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (6.90%) Docker
5 3 (5.17%) Hyper-V
6 2 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (1.72%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (18.97%) Terraform
2 10 (17.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (8.62%) Prometheus
4 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
5 3 (5.17%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (3.45%) Ansible
6 2 (3.45%) BMC PATROL
6 2 (3.45%) FortiGate
6 2 (3.45%) Grafana
7 1 (1.72%) Argo
7 1 (1.72%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (1.72%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 33 (56.90%) Microsoft
2 10 (17.24%) VMware
3 3 (5.17%) Fortinet
4 2 (3.45%) CyberArk
4 2 (3.45%) Foundry
4 2 (3.45%) Freshdesk
4 2 (3.45%) MuleSoft
4 2 (3.45%) Splunk
5 1 (1.72%) LexisNexis
5 1 (1.72%) McAfee
5 1 (1.72%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.72%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.72%) Spotify
5 1 (1.72%) SYSPRO
5 1 (1.72%) Veeam