PowerShell Job Trends in Hampshire

Windows PowerShell
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 39 53
Rank change year-on-year -4 +14 +48
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 87 160 73
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 3.51% 5.91% 3.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.81% 20.36% 10.34%
Number of salaries quoted 83 132 72
10th Percentile £46,150 £41,750 -
25th Percentile £56,500 £42,500 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +33.33% +3.64%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,813 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,250 £87,500 £63,975
South East median annual salary £58,000 £59,125 £52,750
% change year-on-year -1.90% +12.09% -4.09%

All Programming Languages
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 418 786 706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 16.85% 29.01% 38.06%
Number of salaries quoted 352 532 577
10th Percentile £29,750 £38,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £58,500 £54,145
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +8.04% -1.55%
75th Percentile £67,625 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,400 £85,000 £81,000
South East median annual salary £57,125 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.79% +9.09% -4.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Hampshire

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Salary Trend in Hampshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Hampshire over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in Hampshire

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Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 4 January 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
Basingstoke -4 40 £58,000 -22.67% 9
Southampton +18 24 £60,000 -7.69% 5
Portsmouth -5 7 £78,500 +42.73% 4
Gosport - 3 £33,750 -
Fleet - 2 £48,000 -
Winchester +4 1 £27,500 -50.00%
Farnborough 0 1 - - 6
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South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 24 (27.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (25.29%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (1.15%) IIS
3 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 47 (54.02%) Azure
2 25 (28.74%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (18.39%) Entra ID
4 13 (14.94%) AWS
5 10 (11.49%) GCP
6 9 (10.34%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (6.90%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.15%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.15%) IaaS
9 1 (1.15%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 37 (42.53%) DNS
2 35 (40.23%) DHCP
3 7 (8.05%) Firewall
4 4 (4.60%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.60%) VLAN
4 4 (4.60%) VPN
5 1 (1.15%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.15%) NAS
5 1 (1.15%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.15%) PBX
5 1 (1.15%) SAN
5 1 (1.15%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 26 (29.89%) Oracle Database 10g
3 6 (6.90%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.60%) Oracle Database 11g
4 4 (4.60%) Oracle Database 12c
4 4 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.15%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Git
1 5 (5.75%) MSI
2 1 (1.15%) JIRA
General
1 29 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.64%) Finance
3 3 (3.45%) Advertising
4 1 (1.15%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.15%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.15%) Law
4 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (28.74%) Senior
2 22 (25.29%) 3rd Line Support
2 22 (25.29%) Systems Support
3 19 (21.84%) Support Engineer
4 17 (19.54%) Applications Engineer
4 17 (19.54%) Applications Support
4 17 (19.54%) Applications Support Engineer
4 17 (19.54%) Senior Applications Engineer
4 17 (19.54%) Senior Applications Support
4 17 (19.54%) Senior Support Engineer
5 6 (6.90%) 2nd Line Support
5 6 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Architect
6 5 (5.75%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Infrastructure Architect
6 5 (5.75%) Lead
6 5 (5.75%) Security Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Senior Security Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (20.69%) REST
2 17 (19.54%) SOAP
3 4 (4.60%) ARM Templates
4 3 (3.45%) Middleware
5 1 (1.15%) Kafka
5 1 (1.15%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.90%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (5.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.60%) ARM Cortex
3 4 (4.60%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.60%) Replication
4 3 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.30%) PKI
5 2 (2.30%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.15%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.15%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 45 (51.72%) Windows
2 26 (29.89%) Unix
3 22 (25.29%) HPUX
3 22 (25.29%) Solaris
3 22 (25.29%) Windows 7
3 22 (25.29%) Windows Server 2003
3 22 (25.29%) Windows Server 2008
4 17 (19.54%) Windows Server
5 16 (18.39%) Linux
6 3 (3.45%) AIX
6 3 (3.45%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.15%) Android
7 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.15%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (35.63%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (25.29%) Incident Management
3 17 (19.54%) Cloud Operations
3 17 (19.54%) Data Analysis
3 17 (19.54%) Root Cause Analysis
3 17 (19.54%) SOA
3 17 (19.54%) Task Automation
4 14 (16.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (14.94%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (11.49%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (10.34%) Build Automation
7 9 (10.34%) Business Continuity
7 9 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (10.34%) Identity Management
8 8 (9.20%) High Availability
8 8 (9.20%) ITSM
8 8 (9.20%) SIEM
9 7 (8.05%) Process Improvement
9 7 (8.05%) Security Operations
10 6 (6.90%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 26 (29.89%) SQL
2 22 (25.29%) Perl
3 18 (20.69%) C#
4 16 (18.39%) Python
5 4 (4.60%) Bash
5 4 (4.60%) Bicep
5 4 (4.60%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 49 (56.32%) Security Cleared
2 28 (32.18%) DV Cleared
2 28 (32.18%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.75%) Degree
4 4 (4.60%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.45%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.30%) CEH
6 2 (2.30%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (2.30%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (2.30%) GCIH
6 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.15%) CCNA
7 1 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.15%) MCP
7 1 (1.15%) MCSE
7 1 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.15%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (25.29%) SLA
2 10 (11.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.75%) GDPR
4 4 (4.60%) NIST
5 1 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 43 (49.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.45%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.30%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 5 (5.75%) WMI
2 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (4.60%) Terraform
3 3 (3.45%) Netcool
4 1 (1.15%) AirWatch
4 1 (1.15%) Ansible
4 1 (1.15%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.15%) SCCM
4 1 (1.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 63 (72.41%) Microsoft
2 29 (33.33%) Oracle
3 25 (28.74%) VMware
4 9 (10.34%) Dynatrace
5 7 (8.05%) ServiceNow
6 5 (5.75%) SAP
7 4 (4.60%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (4.60%) SolarWinds
7 4 (4.60%) Splunk
8 3 (3.45%) HP
8 3 (3.45%) IBM
8 3 (3.45%) Snow
8 3 (3.45%) Veeam
9 2 (2.30%) Cisco
9 2 (2.30%) Fujitsu
9 2 (2.30%) Mitel
10 1 (1.15%) Citrix
10 1 (1.15%) Commvault
10 1 (1.15%) Fortinet
10 1 (1.15%) Juniper