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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 39 58
Rank change year-on-year -42 +19 +27
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 27 46 62
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 1.20% 6.13% 3.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.21% 22.55% 11.70%
Number of salaries quoted 24 36 51
10th Percentile £25,250 £38,000 £22,250
25th Percentile £40,875 £42,000 £24,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +23.68% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £66,250
90th Percentile - £75,000 £68,750
East of England median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +21.05% - -17.39%

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 190 204 530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 8.47% 27.20% 26.62%
Number of salaries quoted 140 170 461
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £39,813 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,063 £68,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £76,000
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 21 May 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 21 May 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 - 1
Watford -4 7 £26,500 -44.21% 2
Hemel Hempstead -14 5 £50,000 -19.35%
Hoddesdon - 2 - -
St Albans -15 1 £40,000 -36.00% 1
Borehamwood - 1 £57,500 -
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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 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (55.56%) Azure
2 12 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (37.04%) IaaS
4 9 (33.33%) Azure AKS
4 9 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 9 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
4 9 (33.33%) Azure Storage
5 5 (18.52%) Google Workspace
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.70%) Azure API Management
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (3.70%) OneDrive
7 1 (3.70%) PaaS
7 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (37.04%) DNS
2 7 (25.93%) Firewall
3 6 (22.22%) LAN
3 6 (22.22%) VPN
3 6 (22.22%) WAN
4 5 (18.52%) FTP
4 5 (18.52%) HTTP
4 5 (18.52%) SMTP
4 5 (18.52%) TCP/IP
4 5 (18.52%) Wireless
5 1 (3.70%) DHCP
5 1 (3.70%) IPv4
5 1 (3.70%) IPv6
5 1 (3.70%) MPLS
5 1 (3.70%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.70%) Power BI
General
1 9 (33.33%) Law
2 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Aerospace
3 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Azure Engineer
1 10 (37.04%) Cloud Engineer
2 9 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) IT Engineer
4 6 (22.22%) Analyst
4 6 (22.22%) IT Support
4 6 (22.22%) IT Support Engineer
4 6 (22.22%) Support Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) SOC Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Administrator
6 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
6 2 (7.41%) Senior
7 1 (3.70%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) IT Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) IT Operations Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Operations Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Client/Server
1 5 (18.52%) Driving Licence
1 5 (18.52%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (3.70%) Clustering
2 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (29.63%) Windows
1 8 (29.63%) Windows Server
2 5 (18.52%) Apple iOS
2 5 (18.52%) Windows 10
2 5 (18.52%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) High Availability
2 9 (33.33%) Agile
2 9 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 9 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 9 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (18.52%) Analytical Thinking
3 5 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (18.52%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 5 (18.52%) Security Operations
3 5 (18.52%) SIEM
3 5 (18.52%) Time Management
3 5 (18.52%) Use Case
4 3 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (11.11%) ITIL
5 2 (7.41%) Analytics
5 2 (7.41%) Log Analytics
5 2 (7.41%) Mentoring
5 2 (7.41%) Service Delivery
5 2 (7.41%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) Bash
1 6 (22.22%) Python
2 5 (18.52%) C++
2 5 (18.52%) Perl
2 5 (18.52%) VB
3 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 6 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 5 (18.52%) CEH
3 5 (18.52%) CompTIA Security+
3 5 (18.52%) CREST Certified
3 5 (18.52%) DBS Check
3 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 9 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.41%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (18.52%) QRadar
3 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (7.41%) Terraform
5 1 (3.70%) Ansible
5 1 (3.70%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 13 (48.15%) Microsoft
2 5 (18.52%) Apple
2 5 (18.52%) Google
2 5 (18.52%) Splunk
3 1 (3.70%) ConnectWise
3 1 (3.70%) Draytek
3 1 (3.70%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.70%) SAP
3 1 (3.70%) SonicWALL