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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 133 133
Rank change year-on-year -27 0 -48
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 72 83 164
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.70% 1.91% 1.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.35% 5.25% 5.86%
Number of salaries quoted 55 67 136
10th Percentile £36,750 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £46,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.96% -12.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £58,125 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £72,700 £72,304 £67,734
England median annual salary £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.67% +9.09% -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 1,345 1,582 2,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.02% 36.41% 30.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,044 828 2,360
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,258 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -13 44 £55,000 - 13
Cheshire -10 11 £48,500 +0.40% 6
Lancashire +1 8 £42,972 +1.11% 2
Merseyside -24 7 £40,000 -13.04% 3
Cumbria -14 1 £31,000 -40.95% 9
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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 18 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (19.44%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.39%) IIS
3 1 (1.39%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.39%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 53 (73.61%) Azure
2 32 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (30.56%) Entra ID
4 21 (29.17%) AWS
5 11 (15.28%) GitHub
6 7 (9.72%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (8.33%) OneDrive
7 6 (8.33%) SaaS
8 4 (5.56%) Nutanix
9 3 (4.17%) Datadog
10 2 (2.78%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.78%) iPaaS
10 2 (2.78%) Mimecast
10 2 (2.78%) OCI
10 2 (2.78%) PaaS
10 2 (2.78%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (25.00%) Firewall
2 16 (22.22%) DNS
3 12 (16.67%) DHCP
4 8 (11.11%) TCP/IP
5 6 (8.33%) SAN
6 4 (5.56%) VPN
6 4 (5.56%) WAN
7 3 (4.17%) SD-WAN
8 2 (2.78%) Network Security
8 2 (2.78%) NGFW
8 2 (2.78%) VLAN
8 2 (2.78%) Wireshark
8 2 (2.78%) WPA
9 1 (1.39%) BIG-IP
9 1 (1.39%) Intranet
9 1 (1.39%) LAN
9 1 (1.39%) Skype
9 1 (1.39%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.94%) Electronic Patient Records
2 3 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.39%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.39%) MySQL
3 1 (1.39%) Power BI
3 1 (1.39%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Jenkins
1 3 (4.17%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (2.78%) Git
2 2 (2.78%) GitLab
General
1 16 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.89%) Finance
3 7 (9.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (8.33%) Law
4 6 (8.33%) Police
4 6 (8.33%) Retail
5 4 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.78%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 19 (26.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (15.28%) Cloud Engineer
2 11 (15.28%) Support Engineer
3 10 (13.89%) Senior
4 9 (12.50%) Security Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Applications Support
5 7 (9.72%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Developer
7 5 (6.94%) Lead
7 5 (6.94%) SharePoint Developer
8 4 (5.56%) Analyst
8 4 (5.56%) IT Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) CloudOps Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Infrastructure Support
9 3 (4.17%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Site Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.89%) Microsoft Graph
2 6 (8.33%) Regular Expression
3 4 (5.56%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.78%) Middleware
4 2 (2.78%) REST
5 1 (1.39%) FHIR
5 1 (1.39%) JSON
5 1 (1.39%) OAuth
5 1 (1.39%) OpenID
5 1 (1.39%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.89%) Hybrid Cloud
1 10 (13.89%) Onboarding
2 7 (9.72%) Cyberattack
3 6 (8.33%) Low-Code
3 6 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 6 (8.33%) PACS
3 6 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (6.94%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.56%) Public Cloud
5 4 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.39%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.39%) Replication
8 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (34.72%) Windows
2 17 (23.61%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.78%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.39%) CentOS
4 1 (1.39%) CoreOS
4 1 (1.39%) Linux
4 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.39%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.39%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
2 22 (30.56%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (30.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 16 (22.22%) DevOps
4 15 (20.83%) CI/CD
5 14 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 11 (15.28%) AI
8 9 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
8 9 (12.50%) Roadmaps
9 8 (11.11%) ITIL
10 7 (9.72%) Containerisation
10 7 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (8.33%) Security Operations
11 6 (8.33%) SIEM
11 6 (8.33%) Threat Detection
12 5 (6.94%) Computer Science
12 5 (6.94%) Migration
12 5 (6.94%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 29 (40.28%) Python
2 14 (19.44%) Bash
3 12 (16.67%) Bicep
4 9 (12.50%) SQL
5 1 (1.39%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.39%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.39%) VB
5 1 (1.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (18.06%) Azure Certification
2 9 (12.50%) Degree
3 7 (9.72%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.72%) Security Cleared
4 6 (8.33%) AWS Certification
5 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.39%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.33%) DICOM
2 5 (6.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.78%) NIST
4 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.39%) GDPR
4 1 (1.39%) HL7
System Software
1 26 (36.11%) Active Directory
2 16 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (9.72%) Docker
4 7 (9.72%) Hyper-V
5 5 (6.94%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.39%) BitLocker
6 1 (1.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (34.72%) Terraform
2 14 (19.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (9.72%) Ansible
3 7 (9.72%) Kubernetes
4 5 (6.94%) FortiGate
5 3 (4.17%) Grafana
5 3 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.78%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.39%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (1.39%) SCCM
7 1 (1.39%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 46 (63.89%) Microsoft
2 24 (33.33%) VMware
3 4 (5.56%) Cisco
4 3 (4.17%) Fortinet
4 3 (4.17%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (2.78%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (2.78%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.78%) Netskope
5 2 (2.78%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.78%) Veeam
6 1 (1.39%) Dell
6 1 (1.39%) F5
6 1 (1.39%) HP
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle
6 1 (1.39%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.39%) Spotify
6 1 (1.39%) Starlink
6 1 (1.39%) SYSPRO
6 1 (1.39%) WatchGuard
6 1 (1.39%) Yealink