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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 34 80
Rank change year-on-year -36 +46 -24
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 39 48 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 1.69% 5.81% 1.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.72% 19.59% 5.86%
Number of salaries quoted 33 45 13
10th Percentile £39,200 £39,250 £41,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £42,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £43,213 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +38.85% -9.03% +11.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £70,000
90th Percentile - £67,500 £80,000
East of England median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £53,250
% change year-on-year +21.05% -10.80% +11.52%

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 265 245 273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 11.48% 29.66% 17.89%
Number of salaries quoted 213 193 169
10th Percentile £45,000 £29,150 £41,225
25th Percentile £51,250 £33,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% -22.31% +13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £60,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,500 £90,000
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £50,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +19.40% -16.25% +4.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend 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 16 September 2026.

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 16 September 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
Hatfield +3 7 £60,000 +9.09% 3
Hemel Hempstead -12 7 £50,000 -13.04% 3
Watford -13 6 £26,500 -38.37% 5
Stevenage -24 4 - - 17
Borehamwood - 3 £57,500 -
St Albans -13 1 £40,000 -36.00% 4
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East of England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 9 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (15.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (61.54%) Azure
2 17 (43.59%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (30.77%) Entra ID
4 11 (28.21%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 11 (28.21%) Azure Storage
5 7 (17.95%) Azure AKS
5 7 (17.95%) Azure Key Vault
5 7 (17.95%) IaaS
6 6 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (15.38%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (12.82%) OneDrive
8 4 (10.26%) Power Platform
8 4 (10.26%) ShareGate
9 3 (7.69%) Google Workspace
10 2 (5.13%) Azure API Management
10 2 (5.13%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (2.56%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (35.90%) Firewall
2 12 (30.77%) DNS
3 11 (28.21%) VPN
4 10 (25.64%) TCP/IP
5 6 (15.38%) FTP
5 6 (15.38%) HTTP
5 6 (15.38%) LAN
5 6 (15.38%) SMTP
5 6 (15.38%) WAN
6 5 (12.82%) DHCP
7 4 (10.26%) SAN
7 4 (10.26%) Wireless
8 1 (2.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) Power BI
2 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
General
1 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Aerospace
2 7 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Law
3 5 (12.82%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 14 (35.90%) Azure Engineer
2 9 (23.08%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (20.51%) Consultant
3 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (20.51%) IT Engineer
4 7 (17.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 6 (15.38%) Analyst
5 6 (15.38%) SOC Analyst
6 5 (12.82%) Automation Engineer
6 5 (12.82%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Azure Consultant
7 4 (10.26%) Backup Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) IT Support
7 4 (10.26%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
7 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) NetApp Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Storage and Backup Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Support Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.51%) Terraform
2 7 (17.95%) LDAP
3 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.56%) JSON
4 1 (2.56%) REST
4 1 (2.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Client/Server
1 6 (15.38%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (10.26%) Driving Licence
2 4 (10.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (10.26%) Mobile App
2 4 (10.26%) Replication
3 2 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.56%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (46.15%) Windows
1 18 (46.15%) Windows Server
2 7 (17.95%) Windows 10
3 5 (12.82%) Linux
4 4 (10.26%) CentOS
4 4 (10.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (10.26%) Rocky
5 3 (7.69%) Apple iOS
5 3 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (28.21%) Cloud Security
3 11 (28.21%) High Availability
4 8 (20.51%) Identity Access Management
4 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (17.95%) Agile
5 7 (17.95%) Analytical Thinking
5 7 (17.95%) Analytics
5 7 (17.95%) Containerisation
5 7 (17.95%) Load Balancing
5 7 (17.95%) Migration
5 7 (17.95%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (17.95%) Security Operations
5 7 (17.95%) SIEM
6 6 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (15.38%) Log Analytics
6 6 (15.38%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 6 (15.38%) Use Case
7 5 (12.82%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.51%) Python
2 7 (17.95%) Bash
3 6 (15.38%) C++
3 6 (15.38%) Perl
4 5 (12.82%) Bicep
5 3 (7.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (30.77%) Azure Certification
2 11 (28.21%) Security Cleared
3 10 (25.64%) SC Cleared
4 7 (17.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (15.38%) CEH
5 6 (15.38%) CompTIA Security+
5 6 (15.38%) CREST Certified
6 4 (10.26%) Degree
7 3 (7.69%) DBS Check
8 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 17 (43.59%) Active Directory
2 8 (20.51%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (15.38%) Hyper-V
3 6 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (12.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (17.95%) Kubernetes
3 6 (15.38%) QRadar
4 5 (12.82%) Ansible
5 4 (10.26%) NetBackup
5 4 (10.26%) SCCM
6 1 (2.56%) Kibana
6 1 (2.56%) logstash
Vendors
1 24 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.38%) Splunk
2 6 (15.38%) VMware
3 4 (10.26%) Draytek
3 4 (10.26%) NetApp
3 4 (10.26%) SonicWALL
3 4 (10.26%) Veeam
4 3 (7.69%) Apple
4 3 (7.69%) Fortinet
4 3 (7.69%) Google
5 1 (2.56%) Acronis
5 1 (2.56%) Aruba
5 1 (2.56%) ConnectWise
5 1 (2.56%) Datto
5 1 (2.56%) Meraki
5 1 (2.56%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.56%) WatchGuard