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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 54 132
Rank change year-on-year -81 +78 -42
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 105 326 188
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.96% 6.90% 1.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.43% 17.20% 5.87%
Number of salaries quoted 80 59 145
10th Percentile £35,250 £32,500 £32,800
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £74,750 £62,000 £68,437
England median annual salary £57,500 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.71% +6.36% -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 1,634 1,895 3,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.97% 40.10% 28.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,302 782 2,586
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,788 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,250 £73,852 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -35 58 £55,000 +10.00% 31
Cheshire -26 16 £42,000 -13.05% 9
Lancashire -38 13 £37,500 -11.76% 10
Merseyside -28 10 £40,000 -13.04% 5
Cumbria -17 6 £35,500 -33.18% 2
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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 (21.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (13.33%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.76%) IIS
4 2 (1.90%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.95%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 13 (12.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.95%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 64 (60.95%) Azure
2 37 (35.24%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (27.62%) AWS
4 26 (24.76%) Entra ID
5 15 (14.29%) GitHub
6 12 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (10.48%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (5.71%) OneDrive
9 6 (5.71%) SaaS
10 5 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (3.81%) Nutanix
12 3 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.86%) Azure AKS
12 3 (2.86%) Datadog
12 3 (2.86%) Power Platform
12 3 (2.86%) Pulumi
13 2 (1.90%) iPaaS
13 2 (1.90%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 28 (26.67%) Firewall
2 26 (24.76%) DNS
3 17 (16.19%) DHCP
4 12 (11.43%) TCP/IP
5 8 (7.62%) SAN
6 7 (6.67%) NGFW
6 7 (6.67%) VPN
7 5 (4.76%) Network Security
8 3 (2.86%) WAN
9 2 (1.90%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.90%) Skype
9 2 (1.90%) VLAN
9 2 (1.90%) Wireshark
9 2 (1.90%) WPA
10 1 (0.95%) BIG-IP
10 1 (0.95%) Intranet
10 1 (0.95%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.95%) SSL
10 1 (0.95%) VSAN
10 1 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.76%) Electronic Patient Records
2 5 (4.76%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.76%) GitLab
3 4 (3.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 4 (3.81%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.86%) Git
5 2 (1.90%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.90%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.95%) JIRA
General
1 22 (20.95%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.29%) Finance
3 10 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (7.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (5.71%) Law
5 6 (5.71%) Police
5 6 (5.71%) Retail
6 5 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (4.76%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.90%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.95%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 21 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 19 (18.10%) Cloud Engineer
3 12 (11.43%) Security Engineer
3 12 (11.43%) Senior
4 10 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (9.52%) IT Engineer
5 7 (6.67%) Analyst
5 7 (6.67%) Applications Support
5 7 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (6.67%) Desktop Engineer
5 7 (6.67%) IT Support
5 7 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
5 7 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (5.71%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 6 (5.71%) Lead
7 5 (4.76%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.24%) Microsoft Graph
2 7 (6.67%) ARM Templates
3 6 (5.71%) Middleware
3 6 (5.71%) Regular Expression
4 5 (4.76%) Kafka
5 2 (1.90%) OAuth
5 2 (1.90%) OpenID
6 1 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.95%) SAML
6 1 (0.95%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.43%) Onboarding
3 11 (10.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (7.62%) Management Information System
5 7 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (5.71%) Cyberattack
6 6 (5.71%) Low-Code
6 6 (5.71%) PACS
7 4 (3.81%) Driving Licence
7 4 (3.81%) Public Cloud
7 4 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.90%) Replication
10 1 (0.95%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.95%) Clustering
10 1 (0.95%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (0.95%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.95%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 46 (43.81%) Windows
2 22 (20.95%) Windows Server
3 8 (7.62%) Linux
4 7 (6.67%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.90%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.90%) Windows 7
5 2 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.95%) CentOS
6 1 (0.95%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 34 (32.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 29 (27.62%) DevOps
4 28 (26.67%) CI/CD
5 26 (24.76%) Cybersecurity
6 23 (21.90%) Disaster Recovery
7 22 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (15.24%) AI
9 15 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (13.33%) Mentoring
11 13 (12.38%) Containerisation
12 12 (11.43%) Deployment Automation
13 11 (10.48%) Observability
13 11 (10.48%) RBAC
14 10 (9.52%) Agile
14 10 (9.52%) Business Continuity
14 10 (9.52%) High Availability
14 10 (9.52%) Migration
14 10 (9.52%) Roadmaps
15 9 (8.57%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 38 (36.19%) Python
2 23 (21.90%) Bash
3 14 (13.33%) Bicep
4 11 (10.48%) SQL
5 6 (5.71%) VBScript
6 2 (1.90%) VB
7 1 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 16 (15.24%) SC Cleared
1 16 (15.24%) Security Cleared
2 14 (13.33%) Azure Certification
3 10 (9.52%) Degree
4 7 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (4.76%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.86%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.90%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.95%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.95%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.95%) GCFA
8 1 (0.95%) GCIH
8 1 (0.95%) GIAC
8 1 (0.95%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (6.67%) NIST
3 6 (5.71%) DICOM
4 3 (2.86%) GDPR
5 2 (1.90%) ISAE 3402
System Software
1 38 (36.19%) Active Directory
2 22 (20.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (10.48%) Docker
4 10 (9.52%) Hyper-V
5 8 (7.62%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (5.71%) BitLocker
7 4 (3.81%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (2.86%) VMware NSX
8 3 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (33.33%) Terraform
2 20 (19.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (15.24%) Kubernetes
4 9 (8.57%) Ansible
5 8 (7.62%) Argo
6 7 (6.67%) Grafana
6 7 (6.67%) Prometheus
7 6 (5.71%) SCCM
8 4 (3.81%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.86%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.90%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.95%) Istio
11 1 (0.95%) linkerd
11 1 (0.95%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.95%) QRadar
11 1 (0.95%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 67 (63.81%) Microsoft
2 33 (31.43%) VMware
3 7 (6.67%) Cisco
4 6 (5.71%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.86%) LogicMonitor
5 3 (2.86%) Remedy
6 2 (1.90%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (1.90%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.90%) Netskope
6 2 (1.90%) Oracle
6 2 (1.90%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.90%) SAP
7 1 (0.95%) Apple
7 1 (0.95%) Dell
7 1 (0.95%) Freshdesk
7 1 (0.95%) HP
7 1 (0.95%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.95%) Veeam
7 1 (0.95%) WatchGuard
7 1 (0.95%) Yealink