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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 105 123
Rank change year-on-year -43 +18 -31
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 61 80 169
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.68% 2.23% 1.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.40% 7.58% 6.23%
Number of salaries quoted 55 72 145
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £32,800
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,903 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.82% -8.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £66,000 £58,875 £61,250
90th Percentile £74,300 £71,250 £67,968
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

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 1,130 1,055 2,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.62% 29.40% 31.39%
Number of salaries quoted 902 841 2,296
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -24 33 £55,000 -4.35% 19
Cheshire -36 11 £55,000 +13.86% 8
Merseyside -23 9 £40,000 -13.04% 2
Lancashire -23 5 £48,445 +13.99% 13
Cumbria -9 3 £65,500 +24.76% 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 14 (22.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (18.03%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.64%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 44 (72.13%) Azure
2 29 (47.54%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (32.79%) AWS
4 19 (31.15%) Entra ID
5 13 (21.31%) GitHub
6 8 (13.11%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (11.48%) SaaS
8 6 (9.84%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (6.56%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (6.56%) OneDrive
9 4 (6.56%) PaaS
10 3 (4.92%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (4.92%) IaaS
10 3 (4.92%) Power Platform
10 3 (4.92%) Snowflake
11 2 (3.28%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (3.28%) Azure Storage
11 2 (3.28%) iPaaS
11 2 (3.28%) Nutanix
11 2 (3.28%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.39%) Firewall
2 9 (14.75%) DNS
3 7 (11.48%) DHCP
4 6 (9.84%) SAN
4 6 (9.84%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.28%) VLAN
5 2 (3.28%) VPN
5 2 (3.28%) WAN
6 1 (1.64%) BIG-IP
6 1 (1.64%) Intranet
6 1 (1.64%) LAN
6 1 (1.64%) Network Security
6 1 (1.64%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.64%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.48%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.20%) Electronic Patient Records
3 3 (4.92%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (4.92%) Power BI
4 2 (3.28%) MySQL
4 2 (3.28%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.28%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (9.84%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (4.92%) Git
3 2 (3.28%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.64%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.64%) GitLab
General
1 16 (26.23%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.39%) Finance
3 5 (8.20%) Retail
4 4 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (6.56%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.92%) Law
5 3 (4.92%) Police
6 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (22.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (16.39%) Support Engineer
3 9 (14.75%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) Applications Support
4 7 (11.48%) Architect
5 5 (8.20%) Developer
5 5 (8.20%) Senior
5 5 (8.20%) SharePoint Developer
5 5 (8.20%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) IT Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Security Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Infrastructure Support
7 3 (4.92%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Lead
7 3 (4.92%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.48%) Microsoft Graph
2 5 (8.20%) REST
3 4 (6.56%) ARM Templates
4 3 (4.92%) JSON
4 3 (4.92%) Regular Expression
5 2 (3.28%) FHIR
5 2 (3.28%) Middleware
5 2 (3.28%) Node.js
6 1 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.64%) OAuth
6 1 (1.64%) OpenID
6 1 (1.64%) Software Packaging
6 1 (1.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.48%) Hybrid Cloud
1 7 (11.48%) Onboarding
2 6 (9.84%) PACS
3 5 (8.20%) Low-Code
4 4 (6.56%) Cyberattack
5 3 (4.92%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.92%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (3.28%) Driving Licence
6 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (3.28%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.64%) Replication
7 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 18 (29.51%) Windows
2 15 (24.59%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.28%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.64%) CentOS
4 1 (1.64%) CoreOS
4 1 (1.64%) Linux
4 1 (1.64%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (29.51%) Infrastructure as Code
1 18 (29.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (24.59%) Cybersecurity
3 14 (22.95%) DevOps
4 11 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (16.39%) CI/CD
5 10 (16.39%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (16.39%) Mentoring
6 9 (14.75%) Roadmaps
7 8 (13.11%) ITIL
8 7 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (9.84%) AI
9 6 (9.84%) Root Cause Analysis
9 6 (9.84%) Security Operations
10 5 (8.20%) Architecture Roadmap
10 5 (8.20%) Containerisation
10 5 (8.20%) Incident Response
10 5 (8.20%) Project Delivery
10 5 (8.20%) Task Automation
10 5 (8.20%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 21 (34.43%) Python
2 13 (21.31%) Bash
3 11 (18.03%) Bicep
4 10 (16.39%) SQL
5 2 (3.28%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (26.23%) Azure Certification
2 7 (11.48%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (9.84%) AWS Certification
3 6 (9.84%) Degree
4 5 (8.20%) SC Cleared
4 5 (8.20%) Security Cleared
5 4 (6.56%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (3.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.28%) CISSP
7 1 (1.64%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.64%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.64%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) DICOM
2 5 (8.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.28%) HL7
3 2 (3.28%) NIST
4 1 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.64%) GDPR
4 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 17 (27.87%) Active Directory
2 8 (13.11%) Hyper-V
2 8 (13.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (11.48%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (6.56%) Docker
5 2 (3.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.64%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (24.59%) Terraform
2 8 (13.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (6.56%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.92%) Ansible
4 3 (4.92%) FortiGate
4 3 (4.92%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.28%) BMC PATROL
5 2 (3.28%) Grafana
5 2 (3.28%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.64%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.64%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (1.64%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 35 (57.38%) Microsoft
2 19 (31.15%) VMware
3 3 (4.92%) Fortinet
4 2 (3.28%) Cisco
4 2 (3.28%) CyberArk
4 2 (3.28%) Freshdesk
4 2 (3.28%) Veeam
5 1 (1.64%) F5
5 1 (1.64%) HP
5 1 (1.64%) McAfee
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle
5 1 (1.64%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.64%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.64%) Splunk
5 1 (1.64%) Spotify
5 1 (1.64%) SYSPRO
5 1 (1.64%) WatchGuard