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 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 49 116
Rank change year-on-year -93 +67 -30
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 111 332 189
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.99% 6.45% 1.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.62% 17.18% 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 81 65 142
10th Percentile £35,250 £32,500 £31,075
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +2.94%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £74,500 £64,000 £68,672
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -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 1,678 1,932 2,962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.90% 37.53% 28.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,317 818 2,302
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,125 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £75,250 £72,777 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £80,000
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 12 July 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 12 July 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 -36 60 £55,000 +10.00% 30
Cheshire -21 18 £42,250 -12.54% 3
Lancashire -38 15 £38,000 -10.59% 6
Merseyside -24 10 £40,000 -13.04% 1
Cumbria -18 6 £35,500 -33.95%
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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 23 (20.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (10.81%) SharePoint
3 9 (8.11%) IIS
4 2 (1.80%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.90%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 13 (11.71%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 69 (62.16%) Azure
2 37 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (31.53%) AWS
4 25 (22.52%) Entra ID
5 17 (15.32%) GitHub
6 14 (12.61%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (11.71%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (6.31%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (4.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (4.50%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (4.50%) Power Platform
9 5 (4.50%) SaaS
10 4 (3.60%) Nutanix
10 4 (3.60%) OneDrive
11 3 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.70%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.70%) Datadog
11 3 (2.70%) Pulumi
12 2 (1.80%) Mimecast
12 2 (1.80%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 32 (28.83%) Firewall
2 28 (25.23%) DNS
3 19 (17.12%) DHCP
4 16 (14.41%) TCP/IP
5 11 (9.91%) VPN
6 10 (9.01%) SAN
7 7 (6.31%) NGFW
8 5 (4.50%) Network Security
9 3 (2.70%) WAN
10 2 (1.80%) SD-WAN
10 2 (1.80%) Skype
10 2 (1.80%) VLAN
10 2 (1.80%) Wireshark
10 2 (1.80%) WPA
11 1 (0.90%) BIG-IP
11 1 (0.90%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.90%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.90%) SSL
11 1 (0.90%) VSAN
11 1 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.01%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.50%) Electronic Patient Records
3 5 (4.50%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.90%) MySQL
4 1 (0.90%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (6.31%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.50%) GitLab
3 4 (3.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 4 (3.60%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.70%) Git
5 2 (1.80%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.80%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.90%) JIRA
General
1 30 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.41%) Finance
3 12 (10.81%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (7.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (6.31%) Law
6 6 (5.41%) Police
6 6 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.41%) Retail
7 3 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.80%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.80%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.90%) Billing
9 1 (0.90%) Legal
9 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (22.52%) Support Engineer
2 18 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 17 (15.32%) Cloud Engineer
4 13 (11.71%) Senior
5 12 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (10.81%) Security Engineer
6 10 (9.01%) IT Engineer
7 9 (8.11%) Analyst
8 8 (7.21%) Applications Support
9 7 (6.31%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (6.31%) Desktop Engineer
9 7 (6.31%) IT Support
9 7 (6.31%) IT Support Engineer
9 7 (6.31%) Lead
10 6 (5.41%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 6 (5.41%) Security Analyst
11 5 (4.50%) 2nd Line Support
11 5 (4.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) Developer
11 5 (4.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.41%) Microsoft Graph
2 8 (7.21%) Middleware
3 7 (6.31%) ARM Templates
4 6 (5.41%) Regular Expression
5 5 (4.50%) Kafka
6 3 (2.70%) OAuth
6 3 (2.70%) OpenID
7 2 (1.80%) SAML
8 1 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.90%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.90%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.61%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.91%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (9.91%) Onboarding
3 8 (7.21%) Management Information System
4 7 (6.31%) Security Operations Centre
5 6 (5.41%) Cyberattack
5 6 (5.41%) Low-Code
5 6 (5.41%) PACS
6 4 (3.60%) Driving Licence
6 4 (3.60%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.80%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.80%) Replication
9 1 (0.90%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.90%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.90%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (43.24%) Windows
2 24 (21.62%) Windows Server
3 8 (7.21%) Linux
4 7 (6.31%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.80%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.80%) Windows 7
5 2 (1.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.90%) CentOS
6 1 (0.90%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (32.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 32 (28.83%) DevOps
2 32 (28.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 30 (27.03%) CI/CD
4 27 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (22.52%) Cybersecurity
6 23 (20.72%) Disaster Recovery
7 18 (16.22%) AI
7 18 (16.22%) Mentoring
8 16 (14.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (12.61%) High Availability
10 13 (11.71%) Containerisation
11 12 (10.81%) Business Continuity
11 12 (10.81%) Deployment Automation
11 12 (10.81%) RBAC
12 11 (9.91%) Observability
12 11 (9.91%) Server Building
13 10 (9.01%) Cloud Security
13 10 (9.01%) Platform Engineering
13 10 (9.01%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 42 (37.84%) Python
2 24 (21.62%) Bash
3 16 (14.41%) Bicep
3 16 (14.41%) SQL
4 6 (5.41%) VBScript
5 2 (1.80%) VB
6 1 (0.90%) C#
6 1 (0.90%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.90%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (14.41%) SC Cleared
1 16 (14.41%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.61%) Azure Certification
3 10 (9.01%) Degree
4 7 (6.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (4.50%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.70%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.80%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.90%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.90%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.90%) GCFA
8 1 (0.90%) GCIH
8 1 (0.90%) GIAC
8 1 (0.90%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (6.31%) NIST
3 6 (5.41%) DICOM
4 3 (2.70%) GDPR
5 2 (1.80%) ISAE 3402
6 1 (0.90%) QA
System Software
1 35 (31.53%) Active Directory
2 28 (25.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (12.61%) Hyper-V
4 11 (9.91%) Docker
5 6 (5.41%) BitLocker
5 6 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (3.60%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (2.70%) VMware NSX
7 3 (2.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (33.33%) Terraform
2 18 (16.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (14.41%) Kubernetes
4 9 (8.11%) Ansible
5 8 (7.21%) Argo
5 8 (7.21%) Grafana
6 7 (6.31%) Prometheus
7 6 (5.41%) SCCM
8 4 (3.60%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.70%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.80%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (1.80%) QRadar
11 1 (0.90%) Istio
11 1 (0.90%) linkerd
11 1 (0.90%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.90%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 70 (63.06%) Microsoft
2 37 (33.33%) VMware
3 7 (6.31%) Cisco
4 6 (5.41%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.70%) CyberArk
5 3 (2.70%) LogicMonitor
5 3 (2.70%) Remedy
6 2 (1.80%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (1.80%) Netskope
6 2 (1.80%) Oracle
6 2 (1.80%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.80%) SAP
6 2 (1.80%) Splunk
7 1 (0.90%) F5
7 1 (0.90%) McAfee
7 1 (0.90%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.90%) Riverbed
7 1 (0.90%) SYSPRO
7 1 (0.90%) Veeam
7 1 (0.90%) WatchGuard