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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 105 101
Rank change year-on-year -24 -4 -10
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 63 102 111
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.97% 2.01% 2.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.11% 7.13% 6.46%
Number of salaries quoted 62 82 102
10th Percentile £26,925 £37,525 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,313 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £50,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -8.26% +15.65%
75th Percentile £69,727 £66,563 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £71,250 £82,500
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 886 1,431 1,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.60% 28.20% 35.50%
Number of salaries quoted 737 829 1,416
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £71,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,000 £84,400 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 18 January 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 18 January 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 +20 43 £55,000 -8.33% 28
Merseyside 0 7 £50,000 +25.00% 5
Lancashire -7 6 £23,250 -45.29% 19
Cheshire -29 4 £45,000 -8.45% 5
Cumbria +12 3 £65,500 +27.80% 7
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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 18 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (20.63%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.59%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (55.56%) Azure
2 30 (47.62%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (26.98%) Entra ID
4 14 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (20.63%) Power Platform
6 12 (19.05%) AWS
6 12 (19.05%) GitHub
7 9 (14.29%) Microsoft Copilot
7 9 (14.29%) Power Automate
8 6 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (9.52%) OneDrive
9 5 (7.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (7.94%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (7.94%) SaaS
9 5 (7.94%) Snowflake
10 4 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (4.76%) IaaS
11 3 (4.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (17.46%) Firewall
2 9 (14.29%) DHCP
2 9 (14.29%) DNS
3 7 (11.11%) WAN
4 6 (9.52%) LAN
5 4 (6.35%) SAN
6 3 (4.76%) VPN
7 2 (3.17%) Network Security
8 1 (1.59%) Intranet
8 1 (1.59%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.59%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.59%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.59%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.29%) Power BI
2 6 (9.52%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.76%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (4.76%) MySQL
3 3 (4.76%) RDBMS
3 3 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.59%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 5 (7.94%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (4.76%) Git
3 1 (1.59%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.59%) git-flow
3 1 (1.59%) GitLab
3 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.22%) Finance
3 9 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.76%) Banking
4 3 (4.76%) Legal
4 3 (4.76%) Marketing
4 3 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (15.87%) Cloud Engineer
1 10 (15.87%) Support Engineer
2 7 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
2 7 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 7 (11.11%) Senior
3 6 (9.52%) 1st Line Support
3 6 (9.52%) Architect
3 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Engineer
4 5 (7.94%) Applications Support
4 5 (7.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Applications Support Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.76%) Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Security Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Senior Applications Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Support Technician
6 3 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Systems Support
6 3 (4.76%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.52%) REST
2 4 (6.35%) JSON
3 3 (4.76%) ARM Templates
3 3 (4.76%) FHIR
3 3 (4.76%) Node.js
4 2 (3.17%) .NET
4 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (3.17%) Middleware
5 1 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.59%) React
5 1 (1.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.35%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (6.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.76%) AI Agents
3 3 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.17%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.17%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.59%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.59%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.59%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.59%) PACS
5 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.59%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (25.40%) Windows
2 7 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 6 (9.52%) Mac OS
4 3 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (30.16%) DevOps
2 17 (26.98%) Disaster Recovery
3 14 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (17.46%) CI/CD
6 10 (15.87%) Task Automation
7 9 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (12.70%) Mentoring
8 8 (12.70%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (11.11%) Agile
9 7 (11.11%) Customer Service
9 7 (11.11%) ITSM
10 6 (9.52%) Client Onboarding
10 6 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (9.52%) Identity Access Management
10 6 (9.52%) ITIL
10 6 (9.52%) Knowledge Management
10 6 (9.52%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.05%) Bash
1 12 (19.05%) SQL
2 11 (17.46%) Python
3 9 (14.29%) Bicep
4 3 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.17%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.59%) C#
6 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (17.46%) Azure Certification
2 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (6.35%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.35%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (4.76%) CISSP
4 3 (4.76%) Degree
4 3 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.59%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.59%) CCSP
6 1 (1.59%) CISM
6 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.59%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.59%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.76%) HL7
2 3 (4.76%) NIST
3 1 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.59%) DICOM
3 1 (1.59%) GDPR
3 1 (1.59%) QA
System Software
1 10 (15.87%) Active Directory
2 8 (12.70%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (9.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (6.35%) Docker
5 2 (3.17%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.59%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (15.87%) Microsoft Intune
1 10 (15.87%) Terraform
2 6 (9.52%) Prometheus
3 4 (6.35%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.17%) Ansible
4 2 (3.17%) BMC PATROL
4 2 (3.17%) FortiGate
4 2 (3.17%) Grafana
5 1 (1.59%) Argo
5 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (68.25%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.29%) VMware
3 3 (4.76%) Fortinet
3 3 (4.76%) Foundry
3 3 (4.76%) LexisNexis
3 3 (4.76%) Sitecore
4 2 (3.17%) Freshdesk
4 2 (3.17%) MuleSoft
4 2 (3.17%) Splunk
5 1 (1.59%) Spotify
5 1 (1.59%) Veeam