PowerShell Jobs in the North West

Windows PowerShell
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring PowerShell skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PowerShell over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 129 88
Rank change year-on-year +57 -41 +18
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 331 190 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.20% 1.72% 3.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.60% 6.00% 10.04%
Number of salaries quoted 64 144 165
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,225 £32,600
25th Percentile £37,750 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,903 £52,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.76% +2.94% +7.37%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £64,250 £71,375 £100,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% 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 2,267 3,165 2,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 28.79% 28.70% 35.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,057 2,434 1,691
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

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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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the North West.

Salary trend for PowerShell in the North West

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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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +28 169 £42,500 -26.09% 27
Manchester +36 89 £52,500 - 64
Cheshire +19 50 £48,306 -3.39% 14
Merseyside +18 17 £46,000 -12.38% 6
Cumbria -59 6 £53,750 +2.38% 2
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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 15 (4.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (3.93%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.30%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.30%) CMS
3 1 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 39 (11.78%) Azure
2 30 (9.06%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (5.44%) Entra ID
4 17 (5.14%) AWS
5 13 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (3.32%) Power Automate
7 9 (2.72%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (1.51%) OneDrive
8 5 (1.51%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.21%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (1.21%) PaaS
10 2 (0.60%) Azure AI
10 2 (0.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (0.60%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (0.60%) Azure Stack
10 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.60%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 258 (77.95%) VPN
2 251 (75.83%) Cisco IOS
3 14 (4.23%) Firewall
4 11 (3.32%) DNS
5 8 (2.42%) WAN
6 7 (2.11%) DHCP
7 6 (1.81%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.21%) LAN
8 4 (1.21%) VLAN
9 3 (0.91%) Network Security
9 3 (0.91%) VoIP
10 2 (0.60%) IPv4
10 2 (0.60%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.42%) MySQL
2 5 (1.51%) RDBMS
2 5 (1.51%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.60%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.60%) Power BI
3 2 (0.60%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.30%) Big Data
4 1 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (2.11%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.21%) Cucumber
2 4 (1.21%) Git
2 4 (1.21%) Robot Framework
3 3 (0.91%) JIRA
4 2 (0.60%) GitLab
General
1 257 (77.64%) Analytical Skills
2 254 (76.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 33 (9.97%) Social Skills
4 10 (3.02%) Finance
4 10 (3.02%) Legal
5 5 (1.51%) Aerospace
5 5 (1.51%) Digital Healthcare
5 5 (1.51%) Manufacturing
5 5 (1.51%) Military
5 5 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (1.21%) Automotive
6 4 (1.21%) Telecoms
7 3 (0.91%) Retail
8 2 (0.60%) Law
9 1 (0.30%) Banking
9 1 (0.30%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 265 (80.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (4.83%) Analyst
3 9 (2.72%) Cloud Engineer
3 9 (2.72%) Support Engineer
4 8 (2.42%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (2.42%) Infrastructure Support
5 6 (1.81%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (1.51%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (1.51%) Digital Analyst
6 5 (1.51%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 5 (1.51%) Integration Analyst
6 5 (1.51%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (1.21%) Administrator
7 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Engineer
7 4 (1.21%) Security Engineer
7 4 (1.21%) Senior
7 4 (1.21%) Test Automation Engineer
7 4 (1.21%) Test Engineer
8 3 (0.91%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (76.13%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (1.81%) JSON
3 5 (1.51%) ARM Templates
3 5 (1.51%) FHIR
4 1 (0.30%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (0.30%) SAML
4 1 (0.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 250 (75.53%) Cyberattack
2 7 (2.11%) Data Centre
3 5 (1.51%) LIMS
4 4 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (1.21%) Management Information System
5 3 (0.91%) Onboarding
5 3 (0.91%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (0.91%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.60%) NHS
7 1 (0.30%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.30%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.30%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.30%) CMDB
7 1 (0.30%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.30%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.30%) Life Science
7 1 (0.30%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.30%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 288 (87.01%) Windows
2 273 (82.48%) Linux
3 251 (75.83%) Android
4 17 (5.14%) Windows Server
5 10 (3.02%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.81%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.51%) CentOS
7 5 (1.51%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.51%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.60%) Unix
8 2 (0.60%) VMS
9 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.30%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (86.40%) Problem-Solving
2 274 (82.78%) DevOps
3 269 (81.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 261 (78.85%) Task Automation
5 255 (77.04%) Storage Management
6 252 (76.13%) Line Management
6 252 (76.13%) Platform Engineering
6 252 (76.13%) Risk Management
7 250 (75.53%) Mathematics
8 19 (5.74%) CI/CD
9 16 (4.83%) Agile
10 15 (4.53%) Disaster Recovery
11 14 (4.23%) Application Packaging
11 14 (4.23%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (4.23%) Migration
12 13 (3.93%) Containerisation
12 13 (3.93%) ITIL
12 13 (3.93%) Mentoring
13 9 (2.72%) Cybersecurity
13 9 (2.72%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 269 (81.27%) Python
2 268 (80.97%) Bash
3 11 (3.32%) SQL
4 10 (3.02%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.81%) Bicep
6 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.30%) VB
7 1 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 25 (7.55%) Degree
2 13 (3.93%) Azure Certification
3 12 (3.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (2.72%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (2.42%) CCNA
5 8 (2.42%) Network+ Certification
6 5 (1.51%) MCSE
6 5 (1.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (1.21%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.21%) CEH
7 4 (1.21%) CISSP
7 4 (1.21%) Linux+ Certification
7 4 (1.21%) RHCE
8 3 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (0.91%) GCIH
9 2 (0.60%) CISA
9 2 (0.60%) CISM
9 2 (0.60%) GIAC
9 2 (0.60%) GISF
9 2 (0.60%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.63%) GDPR
2 8 (2.42%) HIPAA
3 6 (1.81%) QA
4 5 (1.51%) HL7
5 4 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.21%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.91%) NIST
7 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.30%) NCSC
7 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 263 (79.46%) Docker
2 261 (78.85%) Hyper-V
3 255 (77.04%) vSphere
4 250 (75.53%) VMware NSX
5 36 (10.88%) Active Directory
6 13 (3.93%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (3.93%) VMware Infrastructure
7 10 (3.02%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (1.51%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (1.21%) Dovecot
9 4 (1.21%) Postfix
10 1 (0.30%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.30%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 261 (78.85%) Terraform
2 251 (75.83%) Ansible
3 13 (3.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (3.63%) SCCM
5 10 (3.02%) Kubernetes
6 5 (1.51%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.91%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.91%) SCOM
8 3 (0.91%) SCOrch
9 2 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.60%) Grafana
10 1 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.30%) Nessus
10 1 (0.30%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 259 (78.25%) Cisco
2 251 (75.83%) Splunk
3 250 (75.53%) 3PAR
3 250 (75.53%) Juniper
4 41 (12.39%) Microsoft
5 14 (4.23%) VMware
6 9 (2.72%) iManage
7 7 (2.11%) Veeam
8 5 (1.51%) Meraki
9 4 (1.21%) Okta
9 4 (1.21%) Ping Identity
9 4 (1.21%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.91%) Acronis
10 3 (0.91%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.91%) Kaseya
10 3 (0.91%) Sage
10 3 (0.91%) SonicWALL
10 3 (0.91%) WatchGuard
11 2 (0.60%) Databricks
12 1 (0.30%) Palo Alto