PowerShell Job Trends in Preston

Windows PowerShell
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Preston requiring PowerShell skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 30 29
Rank change year-on-year +18 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 3 1 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Preston 5.26% 0.60% 2.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.67% 2.70% 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22,625 - £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £23,250 £47,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -50.53% -1.05% +58.33%
75th Percentile £23,875 - £48,750
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median annual salary £23,250 £48,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year -52.31% +2.63% +58.33%

All Programming Languages
Preston

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 Preston.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 18 37 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Preston 31.58% 22.29% 23.47%
Number of salaries quoted 7 32 34
10th Percentile £36,800 £35,375 £37,775
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,375 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,250 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +6.91% +11.65%
75th Percentile £56,868 £61,875 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,366 £78,250 £63,500
Lancashire median annual salary £47,683 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.30% +10.00% -

PowerShell
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Preston.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Preston

PowerShell
Salary Trend in Preston

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing PowerShell

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Preston 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Android
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Line Management
1 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
1 2 (66.67%) Storage Management
1 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) 3PAR
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Juniper
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft