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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 128 79
Rank change year-on-year +74 -49 +26
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 318 127 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.17% 1.63% 3.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.47% 6.09% 9.78%
Number of salaries quoted 55 79 136
10th Percentile £31,300 £40,944 £36,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,238 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +21.05%
75th Percentile £59,000 £62,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £96,539
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 1,820 2,084 1,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 35.28% 26.79% 38.23%
Number of salaries quoted 703 1,294 1,388
10th Percentile £33,125 £35,000 £36,925
25th Percentile £41,500 £43,710 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -3.93% +4.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £79,083 £82,623
England median annual salary £62,617 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.19% -3.85% +1.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025. 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
Lancashire +48 170 £23,250 -53.50% 22
Manchester +47 89 £50,000 -13.04% 25
Cheshire -3 43 £45,000 -10.00% 10
Merseyside -2 10 £47,500 +48.44% 6
Cumbria +12 6 £53,750 +7.50%
PowerShell
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (5.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (4.72%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.31%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.31%) CMS
3 1 (0.31%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 28 (8.81%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (8.49%) Azure
3 19 (5.97%) Entra ID
4 14 (4.40%) Power Automate
5 13 (4.09%) Microsoft Copilot
6 12 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (3.46%) AWS
8 10 (3.14%) Microsoft Purview
8 10 (3.14%) Power Platform
9 8 (2.52%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.26%) OneDrive
11 3 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (0.94%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (0.94%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (0.94%) PaaS
12 2 (0.63%) Azure AI
12 2 (0.63%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 259 (81.45%) VPN
2 250 (78.62%) Cisco IOS
3 13 (4.09%) Firewall
4 9 (2.83%) DNS
5 7 (2.20%) WAN
6 6 (1.89%) DHCP
7 5 (1.57%) LAN
7 5 (1.57%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.94%) Network Security
9 2 (0.63%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.63%) VLAN
10 1 (0.31%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.83%) MySQL
2 6 (1.89%) Power BI
2 6 (1.89%) RDBMS
2 6 (1.89%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.63%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.63%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.31%) Big Data
4 1 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (1.57%) Git
2 4 (1.26%) Cucumber
2 4 (1.26%) Robot Framework
3 2 (0.63%) GitLab
3 2 (0.63%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.63%) JIRA
4 1 (0.31%) git-flow
General
1 261 (82.08%) Analytical Skills
2 254 (79.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (7.55%) Social Skills
4 5 (1.57%) Aerospace
4 5 (1.57%) Digital Healthcare
4 5 (1.57%) Military
4 5 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (1.26%) Banking
5 4 (1.26%) Finance
5 4 (1.26%) Legal
5 4 (1.26%) Telecoms
6 3 (0.94%) Marketing
7 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.31%) Automotive
8 1 (0.31%) Law
Job Titles
1 260 (81.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (5.03%) Support Engineer
3 10 (3.14%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 10 (3.14%) Microsoft Engineer
4 8 (2.52%) Applications Engineer
5 6 (1.89%) Analyst
5 6 (1.89%) Digital Analyst
5 6 (1.89%) Infrastructure Support
5 6 (1.89%) Integration Analyst
6 5 (1.57%) Applications Support
6 5 (1.57%) Applications Support Engineer
6 5 (1.57%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (1.57%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 5 (1.57%) Systems Engineer
6 5 (1.57%) Systems Support
6 5 (1.57%) Systems Support Engineer
7 4 (1.26%) 1st Line Support
7 4 (1.26%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (1.26%) Test Automation Engineer
7 4 (1.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (79.25%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (1.89%) FHIR
2 6 (1.89%) JSON
3 2 (0.63%) .NET
4 1 (0.31%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.31%) Node.js
4 1 (0.31%) React
4 1 (0.31%) REST
4 1 (0.31%) SAML
4 1 (0.31%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 250 (78.62%) Cyberattack
2 10 (3.14%) Onboarding
3 5 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (1.57%) LIMS
4 4 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (0.94%) AI Agents
5 3 (0.94%) Cloud Native
5 3 (0.94%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.63%) NHS
7 1 (0.31%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.31%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.31%) PKI
7 1 (0.31%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.31%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.31%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 270 (84.91%) Windows
2 266 (83.65%) Linux
3 250 (78.62%) Android
4 7 (2.20%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.57%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.26%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.63%) CentOS
7 2 (0.63%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.63%) VMS
8 1 (0.31%) Debian
8 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (84.91%) DevOps
2 269 (84.59%) Problem-Solving
3 265 (83.33%) Task Automation
4 261 (82.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 255 (80.19%) Storage Management
6 251 (78.93%) Platform Engineering
7 250 (78.62%) Line Management
7 250 (78.62%) Mathematics
7 250 (78.62%) Risk Management
8 15 (4.72%) Disaster Recovery
9 14 (4.40%) Migration
10 13 (4.09%) Agile
10 13 (4.09%) CI/CD
10 13 (4.09%) Mentoring
11 10 (3.14%) Client Onboarding
11 10 (3.14%) Knowledge Management
12 9 (2.83%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (2.83%) ITIL
13 8 (2.52%) Customer Service
13 8 (2.52%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 263 (82.70%) Bash
1 263 (82.70%) Python
2 14 (4.40%) SQL
3 11 (3.46%) JavaScript
4 3 (0.94%) Bicep
5 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.31%) C#
6 1 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 14 (4.40%) Degree
2 9 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (1.89%) CCNA
4 6 (1.89%) Network+ Certification
5 5 (1.57%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (0.63%) CEH
6 2 (0.63%) CISSP
6 2 (0.63%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.63%) MCSE
6 2 (0.63%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.63%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.31%) CCSP
7 1 (0.31%) CISM
7 1 (0.31%) GCIA
7 1 (0.31%) GCIH
7 1 (0.31%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.31%) MCSA
7 1 (0.31%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.89%) HL7
1 6 (1.89%) QA
2 3 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.63%) GDPR
3 2 (0.63%) NIST
4 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 257 (80.82%) Docker
2 255 (80.19%) vSphere
3 253 (79.56%) Hyper-V
4 250 (78.62%) VMware NSX
5 13 (4.09%) Active Directory
6 8 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
8 5 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.31%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.31%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 257 (80.82%) Terraform
2 252 (79.25%) Ansible
3 11 (3.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (2.20%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.57%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.26%) Kubernetes
6 4 (1.26%) SCCM
6 4 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.94%) Grafana
8 1 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.31%) Argo
8 1 (0.31%) Nessus
8 1 (0.31%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 256 (80.50%) Cisco
2 251 (78.93%) Splunk
3 250 (78.62%) 3PAR
3 250 (78.62%) Juniper
4 46 (14.47%) Microsoft
5 7 (2.20%) VMware
6 3 (0.94%) Foundry
6 3 (0.94%) LexisNexis
6 3 (0.94%) Meraki
6 3 (0.94%) Sitecore
7 2 (0.63%) Databricks
7 2 (0.63%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.31%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.31%) Google
8 1 (0.31%) Okta
8 1 (0.31%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.31%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.31%) SonicWALL
8 1 (0.31%) Tenable
8 1 (0.31%) WatchGuard