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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 105 81
Rank change year-on-year -10 -24 +22
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 67 110 107
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.11% 2.07% 3.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.95% 7.01% 7.72%
Number of salaries quoted 66 85 98
10th Percentile £28,625 £39,150 £36,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,750 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -9.09% +16.71%
75th Percentile £64,375 £63,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £76,875 £70,750 £95,000
England median annual salary £58,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.20% +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 843 1,569 1,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.98% 29.49% 39.77%
Number of salaries quoted 701 882 1,104
10th Percentile £31,000 £33,775 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £71,000 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,375 £82,548
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 +23 45 £55,000 -8.33% 31
Cumbria +13 6 £58,375 +16.75% 1
Merseyside -5 6 £50,000 +25.00% 8
Lancashire -6 6 £23,250 -47.49% 10
Cheshire -33 4 £45,000 -10.00% 23
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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 20 (29.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (23.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.49%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (52.24%) Azure
2 32 (47.76%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (28.36%) Entra ID
4 17 (25.37%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (20.90%) Microsoft Copilot
6 13 (19.40%) Power Platform
7 12 (17.91%) AWS
8 10 (14.93%) GitHub
8 10 (14.93%) Microsoft Purview
9 9 (13.43%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (13.43%) Power Automate
10 6 (8.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (8.96%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (7.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (7.46%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (7.46%) OneDrive
11 5 (7.46%) Snowflake
12 4 (5.97%) Copilot Studio
13 3 (4.48%) IaaS
13 3 (4.48%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.43%) Firewall
2 7 (10.45%) DHCP
2 7 (10.45%) DNS
2 7 (10.45%) WAN
3 6 (8.96%) LAN
4 3 (4.48%) SAN
4 3 (4.48%) VPN
5 2 (2.99%) Network Security
6 1 (1.49%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.49%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.49%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.43%) Power BI
2 6 (8.96%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.48%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (4.48%) MySQL
3 3 (4.48%) RDBMS
3 3 (4.48%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Git
1 3 (4.48%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (2.99%) JIRA
3 1 (1.49%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.49%) git-flow
3 1 (1.49%) GitLab
3 1 (1.49%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (35.82%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.90%) Finance
3 13 (19.40%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.97%) Legal
5 3 (4.48%) Aerospace
5 3 (4.48%) Banking
5 3 (4.48%) Marketing
5 3 (4.48%) Military
6 2 (2.99%) Retail
7 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (23.88%) Support Engineer
2 11 (16.42%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 10 (14.93%) Microsoft Engineer
4 9 (13.43%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (11.94%) Applications Engineer
6 6 (8.96%) 1st Line Support
7 5 (7.46%) Applications Support
7 5 (7.46%) Applications Support Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Senior
7 5 (7.46%) Systems Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Systems Support
7 5 (7.46%) Systems Support Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Architect
8 4 (5.97%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Analyst
9 3 (4.48%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.48%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.96%) REST
2 4 (5.97%) JSON
3 3 (4.48%) ARM Templates
3 3 (4.48%) FHIR
3 3 (4.48%) Node.js
4 2 (2.99%) .NET
4 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.49%) React
5 1 (1.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.93%) Onboarding
2 6 (8.96%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.97%) AI Agents
3 4 (5.97%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.99%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.99%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.49%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.49%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.49%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.49%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (23.88%) Windows
2 8 (11.94%) Windows Server
3 7 (10.45%) Linux
4 6 (8.96%) Mac OS
5 3 (4.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (4.48%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.49%) CentOS
6 1 (1.49%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (32.84%) DevOps
2 17 (25.37%) Disaster Recovery
3 15 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (20.90%) CI/CD
5 13 (19.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (19.40%) Task Automation
6 10 (14.93%) Client Onboarding
6 10 (14.93%) Knowledge Management
7 9 (13.43%) Agile
7 9 (13.43%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (13.43%) Mentoring
7 9 (13.43%) Migration
8 8 (11.94%) Containerisation
8 8 (11.94%) Identity Access Management
8 8 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (10.45%) Customer Service
9 7 (10.45%) Identity Management
9 7 (10.45%) Incident Response
9 7 (10.45%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 15 (22.39%) Bash
2 12 (17.91%) SQL
3 11 (16.42%) Python
4 7 (10.45%) Bicep
5 3 (4.48%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.99%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.49%) C#
7 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (14.93%) Azure Certification
2 9 (13.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (10.45%) Degree
4 6 (8.96%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (5.97%) Network+ Certification
5 4 (5.97%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.97%) Security Cleared
6 3 (4.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (4.48%) CCNA
6 3 (4.48%) CISSP
6 3 (4.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (2.99%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.49%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.49%) CCSP
8 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.49%) CREST Certified
8 1 (1.49%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (1.49%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.48%) HL7
2 3 (4.48%) NIST
3 2 (2.99%) GDPR
4 1 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.49%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.49%) QA
System Software
1 11 (16.42%) Active Directory
2 9 (13.43%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (10.45%) Docker
3 7 (10.45%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (8.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (4.48%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.48%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (4.48%) vSphere
6 1 (1.49%) Dovecot
6 1 (1.49%) Firmware
6 1 (1.49%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 10 (14.93%) Terraform
2 9 (13.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (10.45%) Prometheus
4 5 (7.46%) Kubernetes
5 3 (4.48%) vCenter Server
6 2 (2.99%) Ansible
6 2 (2.99%) BMC PATROL
6 2 (2.99%) FortiGate
6 2 (2.99%) Grafana
6 2 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.49%) Argo
Vendors
1 49 (73.13%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.43%) VMware
3 4 (5.97%) Foundry
4 3 (4.48%) Cisco
4 3 (4.48%) Fortinet
4 3 (4.48%) LexisNexis
4 3 (4.48%) Sitecore
5 2 (2.99%) Freshdesk
5 2 (2.99%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.99%) Splunk
6 1 (1.49%) Okta
6 1 (1.49%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.49%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.49%) Spotify
6 1 (1.49%) Veeam