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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 53 117
Rank change year-on-year -72 +64 -42
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 147 314 123
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.14% 6.04% 1.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.09% 17.35% 6.01%
Number of salaries quoted 97 51 78
10th Percentile £33,250 £26,250 £39,129
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £41,684
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £59,000 £63,438
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £59,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.61% -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 1,816 1,810 2,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.04% 34.83% 26.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,401 695 1,234
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,125 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £42,500 £43,710
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £76,250 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,850 £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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -38 100 £55,000 +10.00% 82
Cheshire -24 15 £40,000 -11.11% 11
Lancashire -46 14 £38,000 +63.44% 14
Cumbria -5 8 £35,500 -33.95% 2
Merseyside -16 8 £60,000 +26.32% 5
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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 33 (22.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (11.56%) SharePoint
3 12 (8.16%) IIS
4 4 (2.72%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.68%) Confluence
5 1 (0.68%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.68%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (10.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.72%) NetSuite
2 3 (2.04%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 80 (54.42%) Azure
2 42 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (24.49%) Entra ID
4 35 (23.81%) AWS
5 22 (14.97%) GitHub
6 20 (13.61%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (11.56%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (8.84%) SaaS
9 11 (7.48%) Azure Monitor
10 10 (6.80%) Azure Sentinel
10 10 (6.80%) Microsoft Purview
11 8 (5.44%) OneDrive
12 7 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (4.76%) IaaS
12 7 (4.76%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (4.08%) Azure AKS
13 6 (4.08%) PaaS
13 6 (4.08%) Power Platform
14 5 (3.40%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (3.40%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 44 (29.93%) DNS
2 33 (22.45%) DHCP
2 33 (22.45%) Firewall
3 23 (15.65%) TCP/IP
4 20 (13.61%) VPN
5 8 (5.44%) SAN
6 7 (4.76%) NGFW
6 7 (4.76%) VLAN
7 6 (4.08%) WAN
8 5 (3.40%) Internet
8 5 (3.40%) Network Security
8 5 (3.40%) VSAN
9 4 (2.72%) LAN
9 4 (2.72%) Skype
9 4 (2.72%) Unified Communications
9 4 (2.72%) VoIP
9 4 (2.72%) Wireless
10 3 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.36%) Wireshark
11 2 (1.36%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.16%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.40%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.36%) MySQL
5 1 (0.68%) Power BI
5 1 (0.68%) Power Query
5 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (8.16%) GitLab
2 9 (6.12%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.40%) Git
3 5 (3.40%) JIRA
4 4 (2.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (2.72%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.36%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
General
1 49 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.97%) Finance
3 20 (13.61%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.48%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (6.12%) Law
6 7 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.76%) Retail
7 6 (4.08%) Police
8 3 (2.04%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.36%) Billing
9 2 (1.36%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.36%) Games
9 2 (1.36%) Legal
9 2 (1.36%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.68%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (19.05%) Cloud Engineer
1 28 (19.05%) Support Engineer
2 21 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 18 (12.24%) Senior
4 17 (11.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (8.16%) Analyst
5 12 (8.16%) Security Engineer
6 11 (7.48%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (7.48%) IT Support
7 10 (6.80%) Lead
8 9 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (6.12%) Desktop Engineer
8 9 (6.12%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 8 (5.44%) Microsoft Engineer
10 7 (4.76%) Applications Support
10 7 (4.76%) IT Engineer
10 7 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.08%) 2nd Line Support
11 6 (4.08%) IT Support Engineer
11 6 (4.08%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (30.61%) Terraform
2 12 (8.16%) Microsoft Graph
3 9 (6.12%) Middleware
4 8 (5.44%) ARM Templates
5 6 (4.08%) Regular Expression
6 5 (3.40%) Kafka
7 4 (2.72%) Pulumi
8 3 (2.04%) OAuth
8 3 (2.04%) OpenID
9 2 (1.36%) .NET
9 2 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.36%) SAML
9 2 (1.36%) Software Packaging
10 1 (0.68%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.68%) SailPoint
10 1 (0.68%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.65%) Onboarding
2 16 (10.88%) Management Information System
3 15 (10.20%) Cloud Native
4 11 (7.48%) Driving Licence
4 11 (7.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (4.08%) Cyberattack
6 6 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (4.08%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.04%) Clustering
8 3 (2.04%) PKI
8 3 (2.04%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.04%) Replication
8 3 (2.04%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.04%) Social Media
8 3 (2.04%) SystemC
9 2 (1.36%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 70 (47.62%) Windows
2 32 (21.77%) Windows Server
3 22 (14.97%) Linux
4 11 (7.48%) Windows 10
5 6 (4.08%) Mac OS
6 5 (3.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (2.72%) Windows 7
7 4 (2.72%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (2.72%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (2.04%) CentOS
8 3 (2.04%) CoreOS
9 2 (1.36%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.36%) Unix
10 1 (0.68%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.68%) SUSE
10 1 (0.68%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (34.01%) Infrastructure as Code
2 48 (32.65%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (29.25%) DevOps
4 42 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 38 (25.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 29 (19.73%) Cybersecurity
7 28 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 28 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
8 26 (17.69%) ITIL
9 21 (14.29%) Observability
10 19 (12.93%) Mentoring
11 18 (12.24%) AI
12 17 (11.56%) Containerisation
12 17 (11.56%) High Availability
13 16 (10.88%) Cloud Security
13 16 (10.88%) Customer Service
13 16 (10.88%) RBAC
14 15 (10.20%) Business Continuity
14 15 (10.20%) Platform Engineering
15 14 (9.52%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 55 (37.41%) Python
2 38 (25.85%) Bash
3 26 (17.69%) Bicep
3 26 (17.69%) SQL
4 10 (6.80%) VBScript
5 6 (4.08%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.72%) VB
7 2 (1.36%) C#
7 2 (1.36%) Java
8 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 25 (17.01%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (8.84%) Degree
5 12 (8.16%) Azure Certification
6 8 (5.44%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.72%) DBS Check
7 4 (2.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.36%) CCNA
8 2 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.36%) MCSE
9 1 (0.68%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.68%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.68%) GCFA
9 1 (0.68%) GCIH
9 1 (0.68%) GIAC
9 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (4.76%) NIST
3 4 (2.72%) GDPR
4 3 (2.04%) ISAE 3402
4 3 (2.04%) QA
5 2 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.36%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (31.97%) Active Directory
2 32 (21.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (11.56%) Docker
4 15 (10.20%) Hyper-V
5 14 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (5.44%) BitLocker
7 7 (4.76%) vSphere
8 6 (4.08%) VMware NSX
9 4 (2.72%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.68%) Ceph
11 1 (0.68%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.68%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.68%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (16.33%) Kubernetes
2 23 (15.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (10.20%) Ansible
4 13 (8.84%) Grafana
5 12 (8.16%) SCCM
6 9 (6.12%) Argo
6 9 (6.12%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.72%) FortiGate
8 3 (2.04%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (2.04%) SCVMM
9 2 (1.36%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.36%) Puppet
9 2 (1.36%) QRadar
9 2 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.36%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.68%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.68%) Istio
10 1 (0.68%) linkerd
10 1 (0.68%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.68%) VxRail
Vendors
1 98 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 37 (25.17%) VMware
3 11 (7.48%) ServiceNow
4 10 (6.80%) Cisco
5 7 (4.76%) SAP
6 5 (3.40%) Splunk
7 4 (2.72%) CyberArk
7 4 (2.72%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.72%) Sage
8 3 (2.04%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (2.04%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.04%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (2.04%) McAfee
8 3 (2.04%) Okta
8 3 (2.04%) Remedy
9 2 (1.36%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (1.36%) FIS
9 2 (1.36%) Netskope
9 2 (1.36%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.36%) Veeam