PowerShell Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Windows PowerShell
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 77 95
Rank change year-on-year +20 +18 +12
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 61 38 48
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 3.69% 2.27% 2.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.77% 7.65% 6.02%
Number of salaries quoted 39 32 47
10th Percentile £39,750 £34,775 £38,600
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% +0.45% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £85,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £77,500 - £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -9.09%

All Programming Languages
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 443 497 798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 26.83% 29.65% 39.68%
Number of salaries quoted 344 310 638
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £38,339
25th Percentile £40,844 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £55,000 £59,763
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% -7.97% +8.66%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,675 £85,000 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

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Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in West Yorkshire

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Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 December 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
Leeds -7 25 £65,000 +20.37% 10
Batley - 12 £47,500 -
Bradford -2 11 £41,500 -28.14% 5
Huddersfield - 7 - -
Halifax +12 2 - -
Wakefield - 2 - - 4
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Yorkshire

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 12 (19.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (9.84%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.28%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 25 (40.98%) Azure
2 21 (34.43%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (29.51%) SaaS
4 15 (24.59%) IaaS
5 14 (22.95%) AWS
6 13 (21.31%) PaaS
7 7 (11.48%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (8.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.64%) Amazon MSK
9 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.64%) Datadog
9 1 (1.64%) GCP
9 1 (1.64%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (39.34%) DNS
2 23 (37.70%) DHCP
3 12 (19.67%) TCP/IP
4 8 (13.11%) Firewall
4 8 (13.11%) VLAN
5 6 (9.84%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (32.79%) JIRA
2 8 (13.11%) GitLab
2 8 (13.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.64%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.64%) Metasploit
General
1 32 (52.46%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.67%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (9.84%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (32.79%) Developer
1 20 (32.79%) JIRA Developer
2 9 (14.75%) Senior
3 8 (13.11%) 3rd Line Support
3 8 (13.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) Support Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) IT Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) IT Support
5 6 (9.84%) IT Support Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) Systems Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) Systems Support Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Infrastructure Support
7 4 (6.56%) 3rd Line Technical Support
7 4 (6.56%) CloudOps Manager
7 4 (6.56%) Lead
7 4 (6.56%) Operations Manager
7 4 (6.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Technical Support
8 3 (4.92%) Site Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.64%) .NET
1 1 (1.64%) ARM Templates
1 1 (1.64%) LDAP
1 1 (1.64%) RESTful
1 1 (1.64%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.84%) FMCG
1 6 (9.84%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.92%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.28%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.64%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 31 (50.82%) Windows
2 26 (42.62%) Windows Server
3 11 (18.03%) Linux
4 5 (8.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (59.02%) Incident Management
2 31 (50.82%) Continuous Improvement
3 23 (37.70%) ITIL
4 22 (36.07%) Computer Science
4 22 (36.07%) ITSM
4 22 (36.07%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (32.79%) Asset Management
5 20 (32.79%) Change Management
5 20 (32.79%) Service Management
6 12 (19.67%) Virtual Environments
7 10 (16.39%) DevOps
8 9 (14.75%) CI/CD
8 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (14.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (9.84%) Patch Management
10 6 (9.84%) Process Improvement
10 6 (9.84%) Project Delivery
10 6 (9.84%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (9.84%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (32.79%) JavaScript
2 19 (31.15%) Python
3 12 (19.67%) Bash
4 8 (13.11%) Java
5 7 (11.48%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.64%) C#
6 1 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.64%) SQL
6 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (36.07%) Degree
2 20 (32.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 13 (21.31%) AWS Certification
4 12 (19.67%) SC Cleared
4 12 (19.67%) Security Cleared
5 3 (4.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (4.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.92%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.64%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.64%) MCITP
6 1 (1.64%) MCSE
6 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.64%) OSCE
6 1 (1.64%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.28%) NIST
2 1 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.64%) GDPR
2 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 24 (39.34%) Active Directory
2 19 (31.15%) Hyper-V
3 16 (26.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.64%) Docker
4 1 (1.64%) Squid
4 1 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (21.31%) Ansible
2 12 (19.67%) Kubernetes
3 7 (11.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 5 (8.20%) SCCM
4 5 (8.20%) SCOM
4 5 (8.20%) WSUS
5 4 (6.56%) Terraform
6 1 (1.64%) Argo
6 1 (1.64%) Kibana
6 1 (1.64%) Nmap
6 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.64%) QRadar
6 1 (1.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (47.54%) Microsoft
2 20 (32.79%) Atlassian
3 16 (26.23%) VMware
4 6 (9.84%) Sophos
5 5 (8.20%) Oracle
5 5 (8.20%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.28%) Nexthink
6 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.64%) New Relic
7 1 (1.64%) Splunk