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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 30 65
Rank change year-on-year -39 +35 -2
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 35 51 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 1.62% 6.02% 1.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.36% 20.90% 8.99%
Number of salaries quoted 32 46 18
10th Percentile £38,350 £39,500 £37,461
25th Percentile £46,000 £42,000 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% +53.33%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £80,000
East of England median annual salary £57,500 £50,500 £56,750
% change year-on-year +13.86% -11.01% +22.70%

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 262 244 267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 12.16% 28.81% 17.05%
Number of salaries quoted 207 204 214
10th Percentile £44,000 £28,750 £39,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £33,750 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £64,063 £70,938
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £84,625
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -

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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 20 August 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 20 August 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 - 9 £60,000 - 4
Hemel Hempstead -14 6 £50,000 -13.04% 2
Watford -13 4 £40,750 -5.23% 5
Borehamwood - 3 £57,500 -
St Albans -13 2 £40,000 -36.00%
Stevenage -20 2 - - 3
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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 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (11.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (68.57%) Azure
2 15 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (37.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 13 (37.14%) Azure Storage
4 10 (28.57%) Entra ID
5 9 (25.71%) Azure AKS
5 9 (25.71%) Azure Key Vault
5 9 (25.71%) IaaS
6 6 (17.14%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (8.57%) Power Platform
9 2 (5.71%) Azure API Management
9 2 (5.71%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (5.71%) Google Workspace
9 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (5.71%) OneDrive
9 2 (5.71%) ShareGate
10 1 (2.86%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (40.00%) DNS
1 14 (40.00%) Firewall
2 11 (31.43%) VPN
3 10 (28.57%) TCP/IP
4 6 (17.14%) FTP
4 6 (17.14%) HTTP
4 6 (17.14%) LAN
4 6 (17.14%) SMTP
4 6 (17.14%) WAN
5 5 (14.29%) DHCP
6 3 (8.57%) Wireless
7 2 (5.71%) SAN
8 1 (2.86%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (5.71%) Power BI
General
1 9 (25.71%) Law
2 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 7 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (17.14%) Aerospace
5 3 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (42.86%) Azure Engineer
2 11 (31.43%) Cloud Engineer
3 9 (25.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 8 (22.86%) IT Engineer
5 6 (17.14%) Analyst
5 6 (17.14%) Consultant
5 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (17.14%) SOC Analyst
6 4 (11.43%) Azure Consultant
6 4 (11.43%) IT Support
6 4 (11.43%) IT Support Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) Support Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) Technical Consultant
6 4 (11.43%) Technical Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) NetApp Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Storage and Backup Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.00%) Terraform
2 6 (17.14%) LDAP
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Client/Server
1 6 (17.14%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (11.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (8.57%) Driving Licence
4 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.71%) Mobile App
4 2 (5.71%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (37.14%) Windows
1 13 (37.14%) Windows Server
2 4 (11.43%) Windows 10
3 2 (5.71%) Apple iOS
3 2 (5.71%) CentOS
3 2 (5.71%) Linux
3 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.71%) Rocky
3 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (37.14%) High Availability
2 13 (37.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (25.71%) Agile
3 9 (25.71%) Containerisation
3 9 (25.71%) Load Balancing
3 9 (25.71%) Root Cause Analysis
4 8 (22.86%) Cloud Security
5 7 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
5 7 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (17.14%) Analytics
6 6 (17.14%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (17.14%) Log Analytics
6 6 (17.14%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 6 (17.14%) Security Operations
6 6 (17.14%) SIEM
6 6 (17.14%) Use Case
7 5 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 4 (11.43%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.00%) Bash
1 7 (20.00%) Python
2 6 (17.14%) C++
2 6 (17.14%) Perl
3 4 (11.43%) Bicep
4 2 (5.71%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (37.14%) Azure Certification
2 8 (22.86%) SC Cleared
2 8 (22.86%) Security Cleared
3 6 (17.14%) CEH
3 6 (17.14%) CompTIA Security+
3 6 (17.14%) CREST Certified
4 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (5.71%) DBS Check
5 2 (5.71%) Degree
System Software
1 14 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 6 (17.14%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (25.71%) Kubernetes
1 9 (25.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (17.14%) QRadar
3 3 (8.57%) Ansible
4 2 (5.71%) NetBackup
4 2 (5.71%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (62.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.14%) Splunk
3 5 (14.29%) VMware
4 4 (11.43%) Draytek
4 4 (11.43%) SonicWALL
5 3 (8.57%) Fortinet
6 2 (5.71%) Apple
6 2 (5.71%) ConnectWise
6 2 (5.71%) Google
6 2 (5.71%) NetApp
6 2 (5.71%) Veeam
7 1 (2.86%) Acronis
7 1 (2.86%) Aruba
7 1 (2.86%) Datto
7 1 (2.86%) Meraki
7 1 (2.86%) WatchGuard