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 19 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 124 97
Rank change year-on-year -35 -27 -22
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 82 170 305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.15% 1.98% 3.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.07% 6.20% 8.55%
Number of salaries quoted 74 152 232
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,075 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,306 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.99% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,563 £61,650
90th Percentile £71,250 £78,625 £77,715
England median annual salary £62,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.73% -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 1,617 2,741 3,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 22.71% 31.91% 41.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,205 2,241 1,924
10th Percentile £35,802 £34,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -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 19 March 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 March 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
Manchester +13 37 £58,750 +12.98% 32
Lancashire -25 16 £42,500 -32.00% 17
Cheshire +25 15 £50,403 +6.11% 14
Merseyside +16 13 £46,000 -16.36% 1
Cumbria -84 1 £52,500 - 1
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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 22 (26.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (18.29%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.66%) Confluence
4 2 (2.44%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (2.44%) Sage 50
2 1 (1.22%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 44 (53.66%) Azure
2 29 (35.37%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (24.39%) AWS
4 16 (19.51%) Entra ID
5 12 (14.63%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (8.54%) GCP
7 6 (7.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (7.32%) PaaS
8 5 (6.10%) Power Automate
8 5 (6.10%) Power Platform
9 4 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (4.88%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (4.88%) OneDrive
10 3 (3.66%) GitHub
10 3 (3.66%) PowerApps
11 2 (2.44%) Azure AKS
11 2 (2.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (2.44%) Azure Functions
11 2 (2.44%) Azure Storage
11 2 (2.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (24.39%) Firewall
2 17 (20.73%) DNS
3 14 (17.07%) DHCP
4 13 (15.85%) VLAN
5 12 (14.63%) LAN
6 9 (10.98%) IPv4
7 7 (8.54%) VPN
7 7 (8.54%) WAN
8 5 (6.10%) TCP/IP
9 4 (4.88%) Network Security
9 4 (4.88%) VoIP
10 2 (2.44%) BGP
10 2 (2.44%) Cisco Firepower
10 2 (2.44%) EIGRP
10 2 (2.44%) OSPF
10 2 (2.44%) SAN
10 2 (2.44%) Skype
11 1 (1.22%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (1.22%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.10%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (7.32%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.88%) JIRA
3 2 (2.44%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle Forms
General
1 27 (32.93%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.51%) Finance
3 14 (17.07%) Retail
4 10 (12.20%) Legal
5 8 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (7.32%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.88%) Automotive
7 4 (4.88%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.44%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.44%) Banking
9 1 (1.22%) Games
9 1 (1.22%) Law
9 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Publishing
9 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (19.51%) Analyst
2 15 (18.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (10.98%) IT Engineer
3 9 (10.98%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (9.76%) Senior
5 7 (8.54%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (8.54%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (7.32%) Consultant
7 5 (6.10%) Cloud Consultant
7 5 (6.10%) DevOps Consultant
7 5 (6.10%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Lead
8 4 (4.88%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Architect
9 3 (3.66%) Azure Architect
9 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.98%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.44%) .NET
2 2 (2.44%) Azure Blueprints
2 2 (2.44%) Regular Expression
2 2 (2.44%) REST
3 1 (1.22%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.22%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.22%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.22%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.22%) JSON
3 1 (1.22%) NancyFx
3 1 (1.22%) React
3 1 (1.22%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.76%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.10%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (6.10%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.66%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.44%) Life Science
4 2 (2.44%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.44%) PKI
4 2 (2.44%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.44%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (2.44%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.22%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.22%) CMDB
5 1 (1.22%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.22%) IVR
5 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 44 (53.66%) Windows
2 27 (32.93%) Linux
3 23 (28.05%) Windows Server
4 10 (12.20%) Mac OS
4 10 (12.20%) Unix
4 10 (12.20%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (7.32%) Windows 10
5 6 (7.32%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (3.66%) CentOS
6 3 (3.66%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.66%) VMS
6 3 (3.66%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.22%) Android
7 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (37.80%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (26.83%) DevOps
3 19 (23.17%) CI/CD
3 19 (23.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (21.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 16 (19.51%) Agile
5 16 (19.51%) Incident Management
5 16 (19.51%) Migration
6 14 (17.07%) Containerisation
6 14 (17.07%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (12.20%) Application Packaging
7 10 (12.20%) Deployment Automation
7 10 (12.20%) Task Automation
8 9 (10.98%) Business Continuity
8 9 (10.98%) ITSM
8 9 (10.98%) Microservices
9 8 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (9.76%) ITIL
10 7 (8.54%) Mentoring
11 6 (7.32%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 24 (29.27%) Python
2 14 (17.07%) Bash
3 12 (14.63%) SQL
4 9 (10.98%) Bicep
5 2 (2.44%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (2.44%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.22%) C#
6 1 (1.22%) Go
6 1 (1.22%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.22%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.22%) VB
6 1 (1.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (17.07%) Degree
2 12 (14.63%) Security Cleared
3 10 (12.20%) Azure Certification
4 8 (9.76%) DV Cleared
5 7 (8.54%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (7.32%) SC Cleared
7 4 (4.88%) AWS Certification
7 4 (4.88%) CCNA
7 4 (4.88%) CCNP
7 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (3.66%) CISSP
8 3 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.66%) Linux+ Certification
8 3 (3.66%) MCSE
8 3 (3.66%) RHCE
9 2 (2.44%) CISA
9 2 (2.44%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (2.44%) GIAC
9 2 (2.44%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (2.44%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.41%) GDPR
2 7 (8.54%) HIPAA
3 4 (4.88%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.44%) NIST
5 1 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.22%) NCSC
5 1 (1.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (47.56%) Active Directory
2 18 (21.95%) Hyper-V
3 16 (19.51%) Docker
4 10 (12.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (10.98%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (9.76%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (3.66%) Dovecot
7 3 (3.66%) Postfix
8 2 (2.44%) Firmware
8 2 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (2.44%) VMware NSX
9 1 (1.22%) BitLocker
9 1 (1.22%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (1.22%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 20 (24.39%) Terraform
2 17 (20.73%) Kubernetes
3 10 (12.20%) SCCM
4 7 (8.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (7.32%) Ansible
6 5 (6.10%) Puppet
6 5 (6.10%) SCOM
7 4 (4.88%) SCOrch
8 2 (2.44%) vCenter Server
8 2 (2.44%) WSUS
9 1 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.22%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 24 (29.27%) Microsoft
2 16 (19.51%) Veeam
3 13 (15.85%) VMware
4 9 (10.98%) iManage
5 6 (7.32%) Cisco
6 3 (3.66%) Atlassian
6 3 (3.66%) Okta
6 3 (3.66%) Ping Identity
6 3 (3.66%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.66%) Symantec
7 2 (2.44%) Acronis
7 2 (2.44%) BMC
7 2 (2.44%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.44%) Kaseya
7 2 (2.44%) Meraki
7 2 (2.44%) Remedy
7 2 (2.44%) Sage
7 2 (2.44%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.44%) SonicWALL
7 2 (2.44%) WatchGuard