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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 51 120
Rank change year-on-year -84 +69 -45
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 140 314 125
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.09% 6.16% 1.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.81% 18.68% 6.42%
Number of salaries quoted 98 57 85
10th Percentile £33,375 £24,800 £41,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £81,079 £72,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -8.00% +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 1,792 1,681 1,948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.90% 32.95% 27.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,367 683 1,112
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,825 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £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 14 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 14 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 -35 95 £53,250 +4.41% 57
Cheshire -18 13 £40,000 -11.11% 9
Lancashire -44 12 £38,000 +63.44% 5
Merseyside -7 11 £50,101 +2.77% 7
Cumbria -2 8 £35,500 -33.95% 1
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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 38 (27.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (10.71%) SharePoint
3 12 (8.57%) IIS
4 4 (2.86%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.71%) Confluence
5 1 (0.71%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.71%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.86%) NetSuite
2 3 (2.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 70 (50.00%) Azure
2 47 (33.57%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (30.71%) Entra ID
4 30 (21.43%) AWS
5 16 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (11.43%) GitHub
6 14 (10.00%) SaaS
7 13 (9.29%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (8.57%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (8.57%) IaaS
9 11 (7.86%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (5.71%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (5.71%) Power Platform
11 7 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (5.00%) OneDrive
12 6 (4.29%) PaaS
13 5 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (3.57%) Azure AKS
13 5 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 48 (34.29%) DNS
2 37 (26.43%) DHCP
3 31 (22.14%) Firewall
4 24 (17.14%) VPN
5 23 (16.43%) TCP/IP
6 10 (7.14%) VLAN
7 7 (5.00%) NGFW
8 6 (4.29%) SAN
8 6 (4.29%) VSAN
8 6 (4.29%) WAN
9 5 (3.57%) Internet
9 5 (3.57%) Network Security
9 5 (3.57%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (2.86%) LAN
10 4 (2.86%) Skype
10 4 (2.86%) SSL
10 4 (2.86%) Unified Communications
10 4 (2.86%) VoIP
10 4 (2.86%) Wireless
11 3 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.57%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.57%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.43%) MySQL
5 1 (0.71%) Power BI
5 1 (0.71%) Power Query
5 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (8.57%) GitLab
2 6 (4.29%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.57%) JIRA
4 4 (2.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (2.86%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.86%) Git
5 2 (1.43%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.71%) Artifactory
General
1 50 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.57%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (13.57%) Finance
4 11 (7.86%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.29%) Legal
6 5 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.86%) Law
8 3 (2.14%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.43%) Billing
9 2 (1.43%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.43%) Games
9 2 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.43%) Retail
10 1 (0.71%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.71%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.71%) Police
10 1 (0.71%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 25 (17.86%) Cloud Engineer
3 23 (16.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (12.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (10.71%) Analyst
6 14 (10.00%) IT Support
6 14 (10.00%) Senior
7 11 (7.86%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (6.43%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (6.43%) Desktop Engineer
8 9 (6.43%) IT Engineer
8 9 (6.43%) IT Support Engineer
9 8 (5.71%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 8 (5.71%) Microsoft Engineer
10 7 (5.00%) Applications Support
10 7 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.00%) Security Engineer
11 6 (4.29%) 2nd Line Support
11 6 (4.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 6 (4.29%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (27.14%) Terraform
2 11 (7.86%) Microsoft Graph
3 9 (6.43%) Middleware
4 7 (5.00%) SAML
5 5 (3.57%) Kafka
6 4 (2.86%) ARM Templates
6 4 (2.86%) Pulumi
7 2 (1.43%) .NET
7 2 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.43%) OAuth
7 2 (1.43%) OpenID
7 2 (1.43%) Software Packaging
8 1 (0.71%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.71%) Regular Expression
8 1 (0.71%) SailPoint
8 1 (0.71%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.86%) Onboarding
2 14 (10.00%) Driving Licence
2 14 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 12 (8.57%) Cloud Native
4 9 (6.43%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.57%) Replication
6 5 (3.57%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.86%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.14%) Clustering
8 3 (2.14%) PKI
8 3 (2.14%) Social Media
8 3 (2.14%) SystemC
9 2 (1.43%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.43%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.71%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 76 (54.29%) Windows
2 36 (25.71%) Windows Server
3 27 (19.29%) Linux
4 11 (7.86%) Windows 10
5 8 (5.71%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (5.71%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.57%) macOS
6 5 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (2.86%) Windows 7
8 3 (2.14%) CentOS
8 3 (2.14%) CoreOS
9 2 (1.43%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.43%) Unix
10 1 (0.71%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.71%) SUSE
10 1 (0.71%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (33.57%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 41 (29.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (25.71%) DevOps
5 35 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 35 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 29 (20.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 28 (20.00%) ITIL
8 26 (18.57%) Cybersecurity
9 21 (15.00%) High Availability
10 20 (14.29%) AI
10 20 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
11 19 (13.57%) Business Continuity
12 18 (12.86%) Cloud Security
13 17 (12.14%) Mentoring
13 17 (12.14%) Observability
13 17 (12.14%) Platform Engineering
14 16 (11.43%) RBAC
15 15 (10.71%) Customer Service
15 15 (10.71%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (32.14%) Python
2 37 (26.43%) Bash
3 22 (15.71%) SQL
4 21 (15.00%) Bicep
5 10 (7.14%) VBScript
6 6 (4.29%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.86%) Java
7 4 (2.86%) VB
8 2 (1.43%) C#
9 1 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (18.57%) Security Cleared
2 21 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.43%) Degree
3 16 (11.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (10.71%) Azure Certification
5 10 (7.14%) DV Cleared
6 7 (5.00%) DBS Check
7 5 (3.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (2.14%) MCSE
9 2 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.43%) CCNA
9 2 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.71%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.71%) GCFA
10 1 (0.71%) GCIH
10 1 (0.71%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.00%) NIST
3 6 (4.29%) SLA
4 4 (2.86%) GDPR
5 3 (2.14%) ISAE 3402
5 3 (2.14%) QA
6 2 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 49 (35.00%) Active Directory
2 33 (23.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (12.86%) Hyper-V
4 15 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (9.29%) Docker
6 9 (6.43%) VMware NSX
7 8 (5.71%) BitLocker
8 7 (5.00%) vSphere
9 5 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (2.14%) DFS Replication
10 3 (2.14%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.71%) Ceph
11 1 (0.71%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.71%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.71%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (15.71%) Kubernetes
3 13 (9.29%) Ansible
4 12 (8.57%) SCCM
5 10 (7.14%) Grafana
6 9 (6.43%) Argo
7 8 (5.71%) FortiGate
8 6 (4.29%) Prometheus
8 6 (4.29%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (2.86%) Puppet
9 4 (2.86%) vCenter Server
10 3 (2.14%) Autotask
10 3 (2.14%) McAfee ePO
10 3 (2.14%) SCVMM
11 2 (1.43%) QRadar
12 1 (0.71%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.71%) linkerd
12 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Clustering
12 1 (0.71%) VxRail
Vendors
1 95 (67.86%) Microsoft
2 38 (27.14%) VMware
3 11 (7.86%) ServiceNow
4 10 (7.14%) Cisco
5 7 (5.00%) SAP
6 5 (3.57%) Aruba
6 5 (3.57%) Fortinet
6 5 (3.57%) Red Hat
6 5 (3.57%) Splunk
6 5 (3.57%) Zscaler
7 4 (2.86%) CyberArk
7 4 (2.86%) Datto
7 4 (2.86%) Sage
8 3 (2.14%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (2.14%) Dell
8 3 (2.14%) McAfee
8 3 (2.14%) Okta
8 3 (2.14%) Remedy
8 3 (2.14%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.14%) WatchGuard