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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 51 119
Rank change year-on-year -80 +68 -42
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 123 330 149
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.05% 6.42% 1.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.01% 17.18% 6.59%
Number of salaries quoted 84 64 106
10th Percentile £34,200 - £37,125
25th Percentile £36,500 £32,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.13% -8.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £62,813 £57,500 £62,188
90th Percentile £74,675 £65,000 £74,375
England median annual salary £58,250 £57,500 £58,350
% change year-on-year +1.30% -1.46% -2.75%

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 1,755 1,921 2,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.92% 37.34% 27.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,365 803 1,670
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,125 £35,722
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -3.08%
75th Percentile £75,250 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year +1.56% +4.56% -5.84%

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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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -46 70 £55,000 +18.28% 30
Cheshire -20 19 £42,500 -5.56% 15
Lancashire -42 13 £38,000 - 7
Merseyside -22 11 £50,101 +8.92% 6
Cumbria -11 8 £35,500 -33.95% 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 27 (21.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (11.38%) SharePoint
3 12 (9.76%) IIS
4 4 (3.25%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.81%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.81%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (12.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 74 (60.16%) Azure
2 41 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (26.83%) AWS
4 26 (21.14%) Entra ID
5 16 (13.01%) GitHub
6 14 (11.38%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (10.57%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (6.50%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (6.50%) SaaS
9 6 (4.88%) OneDrive
10 5 (4.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (4.07%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (4.07%) IaaS
10 5 (4.07%) PaaS
10 5 (4.07%) Power Platform
11 4 (3.25%) Nutanix
11 4 (3.25%) OpenShift
12 3 (2.44%) Azure AKS
12 3 (2.44%) Datadog
12 3 (2.44%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 36 (29.27%) DNS
2 32 (26.02%) Firewall
3 27 (21.95%) DHCP
4 21 (17.07%) TCP/IP
5 13 (10.57%) VPN
6 10 (8.13%) SAN
7 7 (5.69%) NGFW
8 5 (4.07%) Network Security
8 5 (4.07%) VLAN
8 5 (4.07%) VSAN
8 5 (4.07%) WAN
9 4 (3.25%) Skype
10 3 (2.44%) Internet
10 3 (2.44%) LAN
11 2 (1.63%) SD-WAN
11 2 (1.63%) Unified Communications
11 2 (1.63%) VoIP
11 2 (1.63%) Wireless
11 2 (1.63%) Wireshark
11 2 (1.63%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.76%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.07%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.63%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.63%) MySQL
5 1 (0.81%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (5.69%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.07%) Git
2 5 (4.07%) GitLab
3 4 (3.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 4 (3.25%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.63%) JIRA
4 2 (1.63%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 33 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.45%) Finance
3 11 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (8.94%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (8.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.69%) Law
6 6 (4.88%) Police
6 6 (4.88%) Retail
7 4 (3.25%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.63%) Billing
8 2 (1.63%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.63%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.63%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.81%) Games
9 1 (0.81%) Legal
9 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (19.51%) Cloud Engineer
1 24 (19.51%) Support Engineer
2 17 (13.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (11.38%) Senior
4 12 (9.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (9.76%) Security Engineer
5 10 (8.13%) Analyst
6 9 (7.32%) Desktop Engineer
7 8 (6.50%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (6.50%) IT Support
7 8 (6.50%) Lead
8 7 (5.69%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (5.69%) IT Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) Applications Support
9 6 (4.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) IT Support Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) Security Analyst
10 5 (4.07%) Desktop Support
10 5 (4.07%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.82%) Microsoft Graph
2 9 (7.32%) Middleware
3 7 (5.69%) ARM Templates
4 6 (4.88%) Regular Expression
5 5 (4.07%) Kafka
6 3 (2.44%) OAuth
6 3 (2.44%) OpenID
7 2 (1.63%) SAML
8 1 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.81%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.81%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.38%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.76%) Onboarding
3 11 (8.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (8.94%) Management Information System
4 7 (5.69%) Security Operations Centre
5 6 (4.88%) Cyberattack
5 6 (4.88%) Driving Licence
5 6 (4.88%) Low-Code
6 4 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.25%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.44%) PACS
7 3 (2.44%) Replication
7 3 (2.44%) Social Media
7 3 (2.44%) SystemC
8 2 (1.63%) Clustering
8 2 (1.63%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 59 (47.97%) Windows
2 31 (25.20%) Windows Server
3 14 (11.38%) Linux
4 9 (7.32%) Windows 10
5 4 (3.25%) Mac OS
5 4 (3.25%) Windows 7
5 4 (3.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (2.44%) CentOS
6 3 (2.44%) CoreOS
6 3 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.81%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.81%) SUSE
7 1 (0.81%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (30.08%) Infrastructure as Code
2 34 (27.64%) CI/CD
3 32 (26.02%) DevOps
3 32 (26.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 29 (23.58%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (21.14%) Cybersecurity
6 25 (20.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 20 (16.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (15.45%) ITIL
9 18 (14.63%) AI
10 17 (13.82%) Observability
11 16 (13.01%) High Availability
12 15 (12.20%) Mentoring
13 13 (10.57%) Containerisation
13 13 (10.57%) RBAC
14 12 (9.76%) Business Continuity
14 12 (9.76%) Deployment Automation
14 12 (9.76%) ITSM
15 11 (8.94%) Incident Response
15 11 (8.94%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 43 (34.96%) Python
2 27 (21.95%) Bash
3 22 (17.89%) Bicep
4 19 (15.45%) SQL
5 9 (7.32%) VBScript
6 4 (3.25%) VB
7 1 (0.81%) C#
7 1 (0.81%) Java
7 1 (0.81%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.26%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.57%) Azure Certification
4 9 (7.32%) Degree
4 9 (7.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.25%) DBS Check
5 4 (3.25%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.63%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.81%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.81%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.81%) GCFA
7 1 (0.81%) GCIH
7 1 (0.81%) GIAC
7 1 (0.81%) HND
7 1 (0.81%) HP ASE
7 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.81%) VCAP
7 1 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.69%) NIST
3 4 (3.25%) GDPR
4 3 (2.44%) DICOM
4 3 (2.44%) ISAE 3402
5 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 42 (34.15%) Active Directory
2 31 (25.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (13.82%) Hyper-V
4 12 (9.76%) Docker
5 10 (8.13%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (6.50%) BitLocker
7 5 (4.07%) VMware NSX
8 4 (3.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (3.25%) vSphere
9 1 (0.81%) Ceph
9 1 (0.81%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.81%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.81%) Firmware
9 1 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 41 (33.33%) Terraform
2 20 (16.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (13.82%) Kubernetes
4 14 (11.38%) Ansible
5 11 (8.94%) Grafana
6 8 (6.50%) Argo
6 8 (6.50%) SCCM
7 7 (5.69%) Prometheus
8 3 (2.44%) FortiGate
8 3 (2.44%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (2.44%) SCVMM
9 2 (1.63%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.63%) QRadar
9 2 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.81%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.81%) Istio
10 1 (0.81%) linkerd
10 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.81%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.81%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 82 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 38 (30.89%) VMware
3 11 (8.94%) ServiceNow
4 9 (7.32%) Cisco
5 5 (4.07%) Splunk
6 3 (2.44%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (2.44%) McAfee
6 3 (2.44%) Oracle
6 3 (2.44%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.44%) Remedy
6 3 (2.44%) SAP
7 2 (1.63%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (1.63%) Dell
7 2 (1.63%) Netskope
7 2 (1.63%) Okta
7 2 (1.63%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.63%) Veeam
8 1 (0.81%) F5
8 1 (0.81%) Riverbed
8 1 (0.81%) WatchGuard