PowerShell Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Windows PowerShell
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring PowerShell skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 79 57
Rank change year-on-year +46 -22 +8
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 48 16 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 5.79% 1.04% 3.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.67% 5.78% 13.40%
Number of salaries quoted 45 13 16
10th Percentile £39,250 £41,500 -
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,213 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.03% +11.76% -22.73%
75th Percentile £55,000 £70,000 £48,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £53,750
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £47,750
% change year-on-year -9.52% +9.95% -9.05%

All Programming Languages
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 244 277 209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 29.43% 18.05% 24.11%
Number of salaries quoted 192 170 140
10th Percentile £28,950 £41,238 £40,000
25th Percentile £33,438 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.54% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £60,000 £75,000 £65,313
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,500 £75,075
East of England median annual salary £50,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.83% +4.35% +4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Hertfordshire

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Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in Hertfordshire

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Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Stevenage - 18 £43,085 - 3
Watford +8 15 £43,000 +72.00% 6
Hemel Hempstead +10 6 £57,500 +21.05% 11
Hertford - 3 £70,000 -
Hatfield -5 1 £55,000 - 4
St Albans - 1 £62,500 -
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East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 11 (22.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (14.58%) IIS
2 7 (14.58%) SharePoint
2 7 (14.58%) Skype for Business
3 4 (8.33%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (8.33%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 26 (54.17%) Microsoft 365
2 24 (50.00%) Azure
3 13 (27.08%) Entra ID
4 10 (20.83%) AWS
5 8 (16.67%) Power Platform
6 7 (14.58%) IaaS
7 4 (8.33%) PaaS
8 3 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (6.25%) Cohesity
8 3 (6.25%) Google Workspace
8 3 (6.25%) SaaS
9 1 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (2.08%) GCP
9 1 (2.08%) Nutanix
9 1 (2.08%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 19 (39.58%) Firewall
2 10 (20.83%) VPN
3 8 (16.67%) FTP
4 7 (14.58%) IP Telephony
4 7 (14.58%) Skype
5 5 (10.42%) DNS
5 5 (10.42%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (8.33%) DHCP
6 4 (8.33%) SAN
6 4 (8.33%) WAN
7 3 (6.25%) SD-WAN
7 3 (6.25%) TCP/IP
7 3 (6.25%) VSAN
8 2 (4.17%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (2.08%) HTTP
9 1 (2.08%) iSCSI
9 1 (2.08%) Kerberos
9 1 (2.08%) Network Security
9 1 (2.08%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (2.08%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (39.58%) SQL Server
2 7 (14.58%) Power BI
3 4 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (8.33%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (8.33%) MS Access
3 4 (8.33%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 7 (14.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (8.33%) Toad
3 3 (6.25%) GitLab
3 3 (6.25%) JIRA
4 2 (4.17%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.17%) Robot Framework
General
1 24 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.92%) Local Government
3 4 (8.33%) Aerospace
3 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.33%) Retail
4 3 (6.25%) Legal
5 2 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.17%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.08%) Advertising
6 1 (2.08%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (33.33%) Senior
2 12 (25.00%) Senior Support Engineer
2 12 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 11 (22.92%) Applications Engineer
3 11 (22.92%) Applications Support
3 11 (22.92%) Applications Support Engineer
3 11 (22.92%) Senior Applications Engineer
3 11 (22.92%) Senior Applications Support
4 10 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (14.58%) IT Engineer
6 6 (12.50%) Administrator
6 6 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (10.42%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 5 (10.42%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (10.42%) Wintel Engineer
8 4 (8.33%) Analyst
8 4 (8.33%) IT Analyst
8 4 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
9 3 (6.25%) Core Network Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.25%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.33%) iPad
2 4 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 4 (8.33%) PKI
3 3 (6.25%) Blackberry
3 3 (6.25%) Clustering
3 3 (6.25%) RSA SecurID
4 2 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.08%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.08%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.08%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 45 (93.75%) Windows
2 26 (54.17%) Windows Server
3 16 (33.33%) Linux
4 13 (27.08%) Windows 10
5 8 (16.67%) Mac OS
6 6 (12.50%) Android
7 4 (8.33%) Unix
8 3 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (4.17%) VMS
10 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
10 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (35.42%) ITIL
2 14 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (27.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (27.08%) ITSM
4 12 (25.00%) DevOps
5 10 (20.83%) High Availability
6 9 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (14.58%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (12.50%) Change Control
8 6 (12.50%) Decision-Making
8 6 (12.50%) Migration
9 5 (10.42%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (10.42%) Task Automation
10 4 (8.33%) Agile
10 4 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
10 4 (8.33%) Computer Science
10 4 (8.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 4 (8.33%) Digital Strategy
10 4 (8.33%) Workflow
11 3 (6.25%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (25.00%) SQL
2 11 (22.92%) Python
3 10 (20.83%) Bash
4 7 (14.58%) T-SQL
5 4 (8.33%) Shell Script
5 4 (8.33%) VB
6 2 (4.17%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.08%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 22 (45.83%) Degree
2 10 (20.83%) Security Cleared
3 8 (16.67%) CCNA
3 8 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 6 (12.50%) DBS Check
5 4 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (8.33%) DV Cleared
6 3 (6.25%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.08%) CREST Certified
7 1 (2.08%) GCIA
7 1 (2.08%) GCIH
7 1 (2.08%) HNC
7 1 (2.08%) HND
7 1 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (2.08%) MCSA
7 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) PCI DSS
1 3 (6.25%) SLA
2 2 (4.17%) QA
3 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (56.25%) Active Directory
2 6 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 3 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.25%) vSphere
4 1 (2.08%) Docker
4 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (35.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (25.00%) SCCM
3 7 (14.58%) SCOM
3 7 (14.58%) WSUS
4 3 (6.25%) Ansible
4 3 (6.25%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (6.25%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (4.17%) Terraform
6 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.08%) NetBackup
6 1 (2.08%) QRadar
6 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (18.75%) ServiceNow
3 7 (14.58%) Cisco
3 7 (14.58%) VMware
4 6 (12.50%) Apple
4 6 (12.50%) Remedy
5 4 (8.33%) HP
5 4 (8.33%) NEC
5 4 (8.33%) Oracle
5 4 (8.33%) SAP
6 3 (6.25%) Google
6 3 (6.25%) Nimble Storage
6 3 (6.25%) Okta
6 3 (6.25%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.08%) Dell
7 1 (2.08%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.08%) Splunk
7 1 (2.08%) Veeam
7 1 (2.08%) Zerto
7 1 (2.08%) Zscaler