PowerShell Job Trends in the South East

Windows PowerShell
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 60 103
Rank change year-on-year -79 +43 -12
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 175 296 436
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.23% 4.31% 2.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.56% 14.42% 9.04%
Number of salaries quoted 163 206 375
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,750 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% +9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £77,900 £87,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -8.33%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,315 2,053 4,825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 16.30% 29.91% 29.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,714 1,454 4,015
10th Percentile £36,575 £31,400 £34,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the South East over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
Hampshire -54 59 £70,000 -3.45% 24
Surrey -41 42 £42,500 -29.17% 3
Thames Valley -54 41 £53,750 +13.16% 32
Berkshire -2 17 £43,750 -12.50% 3
West Sussex -4 16 £60,000 - 4
Buckinghamshire -57 15 £60,000 +26.32% 16
Oxfordshire -9 9 £42,500 - 13
Sussex - 8 £31,500 -
Kent -36 5 £60,875 +5.87% 3
East Sussex -21 3 £45,000 -9.05%
Middlesex +33 1 £37,500 -
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 42 (24.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (7.43%) Exchange Server 2003
3 9 (5.14%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.71%) Confluence
4 3 (1.71%) IIS
5 2 (1.14%) Apache
5 2 (1.14%) CMS
5 2 (1.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.71%) CATIA
1 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.71%) Siemens NX
1 3 (1.71%) SOLIDWORKS
1 3 (1.71%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 3 (1.71%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (1.71%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 100 (57.14%) Azure
2 69 (39.43%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (20.57%) Entra ID
4 28 (16.00%) AWS
5 19 (10.86%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (8.00%) Mimecast
7 13 (7.43%) Datadog
7 13 (7.43%) Power Platform
8 12 (6.86%) IaaS
9 11 (6.29%) OpenShift
9 11 (6.29%) SaaS
10 10 (5.71%) PaaS
11 8 (4.57%) GitHub
11 8 (4.57%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 7 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
12 7 (4.00%) GCP
13 5 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
14 4 (2.29%) Azure AKS
14 4 (2.29%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 47 (26.86%) DNS
2 43 (24.57%) Firewall
3 37 (21.14%) DHCP
4 28 (16.00%) VPN
5 13 (7.43%) Wireless
6 10 (5.71%) TCP/IP
6 10 (5.71%) WAN
7 9 (5.14%) SAN
8 8 (4.57%) LAN
8 8 (4.57%) VoIP
9 7 (4.00%) iSCSI
9 7 (4.00%) Remote Desktop
9 7 (4.00%) VLAN
10 4 (2.29%) BGP
10 4 (2.29%) SSL
11 3 (1.71%) HTTP
11 3 (1.71%) Network Security
12 2 (1.14%) Broadband
12 2 (1.14%) Ethernet
12 2 (1.14%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (14.86%) SQL Server
2 17 (9.71%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (8.57%) MySQL
3 15 (8.57%) Oracle Database
3 15 (8.57%) Oracle Database 10g
4 9 (5.14%) Power BI
5 8 (4.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.71%) Metadata
7 2 (1.14%) Oracle Database 11g
7 2 (1.14%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (1.14%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.57%) Big Data
8 1 (0.57%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 20 (11.43%) Git
2 11 (6.29%) GitLab
3 6 (3.43%) JIRA
4 3 (1.71%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.57%) Browser DevTools
General
1 47 (26.86%) Social Skills
2 38 (21.71%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (10.86%) Finance
4 17 (9.71%) Retail
5 10 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.43%) Law
7 5 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.29%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.71%) Legal
9 3 (1.71%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.14%) Banking
10 2 (1.14%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.57%) Aviation
11 1 (0.57%) Military
11 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 27 (15.43%) Senior
2 20 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 19 (10.86%) Azure Engineer
4 16 (9.14%) 3rd Line Support
4 16 (9.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 14 (8.00%) Analyst
5 14 (8.00%) Systems Support
6 13 (7.43%) Help Desk Technician
6 13 (7.43%) Support Engineer
7 11 (6.29%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (6.29%) Security Engineer
8 10 (5.71%) 2nd Line Support
8 10 (5.71%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 9 (5.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 9 (5.14%) IT Engineer
9 9 (5.14%) IT Support
9 9 (5.14%) Linux Engineer
9 9 (5.14%) Project Engineer
9 9 (5.14%) Systems Engineer
10 8 (4.57%) SSRS Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.86%) OAuth
2 11 (6.29%) ARM Templates
2 11 (6.29%) JSON
3 10 (5.71%) SAML
4 8 (4.57%) RabbitMQ
4 8 (4.57%) XML
5 7 (4.00%) REST
6 5 (2.86%) Web Services
7 4 (2.29%) .NET
7 4 (2.29%) ASP.NET
7 4 (2.29%) OpenID
7 4 (2.29%) SOAP
8 3 (1.71%) Loki
8 3 (1.71%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.71%) YAML
9 2 (1.14%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (1.14%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.14%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.14%) React
9 2 (1.14%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.14%) Onboarding
2 13 (7.43%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (6.86%) Management Information System
4 11 (6.29%) Cloud Native
4 11 (6.29%) Driving Licence
5 9 (5.14%) Security Operations Centre
6 8 (4.57%) Data Structures
6 8 (4.57%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (4.00%) Security Posture
8 6 (3.43%) Clustering
9 4 (2.29%) ARM Cortex
9 4 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (2.29%) Public Cloud
9 4 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.71%) Replication
11 2 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.14%) Fibre Optics
11 2 (1.14%) Low-Code
11 2 (1.14%) PKI
11 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 69 (39.43%) Windows
2 45 (25.71%) Windows Server
3 38 (21.71%) Linux
4 13 (7.43%) HPUX
4 13 (7.43%) Solaris
4 13 (7.43%) Unix
4 13 (7.43%) Windows 7
4 13 (7.43%) Windows Server 2003
4 13 (7.43%) Windows Server 2008
5 11 (6.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (5.71%) Ubuntu
7 9 (5.14%) CentOS
8 6 (3.43%) Mac OS
9 5 (2.86%) Windows 10
9 5 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (1.71%) Android
11 2 (1.14%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.57%) AIX
12 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (40.57%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 34 (19.43%) DevOps
4 32 (18.29%) CI/CD
5 28 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 28 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 25 (14.29%) ITIL
7 24 (13.71%) Agile
7 24 (13.71%) Containerisation
8 22 (12.57%) Cybersecurity
9 19 (10.86%) Mentoring
10 18 (10.29%) High Availability
10 18 (10.29%) Observability
10 18 (10.29%) Task Automation
11 17 (9.71%) Disaster Recovery
12 15 (8.57%) Incident Management
12 15 (8.57%) Security Operations
12 15 (8.57%) SIEM
13 14 (8.00%) Cloud Security
13 14 (8.00%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 70 (40.00%) Python
2 37 (21.14%) Bash
3 33 (18.86%) SQL
4 14 (8.00%) Bicep
5 13 (7.43%) Perl
6 12 (6.86%) T-SQL
7 8 (4.57%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.86%) Korn
9 4 (2.29%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.71%) C#
11 2 (1.14%) C
11 2 (1.14%) Delphi
11 2 (1.14%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.14%) VB
11 2 (1.14%) VB6
12 1 (0.57%) Java
12 1 (0.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (14.86%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.14%) Degree
3 18 (10.29%) SC Cleared
4 17 (9.71%) DV Cleared
5 10 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.43%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.29%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.71%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (1.71%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.14%) CCNA
9 2 (1.14%) CEH
9 2 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.14%) GCIH
9 2 (1.14%) MCSE
9 2 (1.14%) RHCE
9 2 (1.14%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.57%) CCIE
10 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (15.43%) SLA
2 20 (11.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (10.86%) GDPR
4 11 (6.29%) NIST
5 8 (4.57%) Data Quality
6 7 (4.00%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.14%) NCSC
7 2 (1.14%) QA
7 2 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.14%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
System Software
1 74 (42.29%) Active Directory
2 32 (18.29%) Docker
3 27 (15.43%) Hyper-V
4 18 (10.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (4.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 4 (2.29%) vSphere
7 3 (1.71%) VMware NSX
8 2 (1.14%) Samba
8 2 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.57%) KVM
9 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (23.43%) Terraform
2 37 (21.14%) Kubernetes
3 16 (9.14%) Ansible
4 13 (7.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (6.86%) Grafana
5 12 (6.86%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.43%) Nagios
7 5 (2.86%) vCenter Server
8 4 (2.29%) Nessus
9 3 (1.71%) Scalr
10 2 (1.14%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (1.14%) VxRail
11 1 (0.57%) CASB
11 1 (0.57%) Kibana
11 1 (0.57%) Podman
11 1 (0.57%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.57%) QRadar
11 1 (0.57%) SCCM
11 1 (0.57%) SCOM
11 1 (0.57%) SCSM
Vendors
1 94 (53.71%) Microsoft
2 33 (18.86%) VMware
3 19 (10.86%) Red Hat
4 18 (10.29%) Veeam
5 17 (9.71%) Oracle
6 14 (8.00%) Dynatrace
7 13 (7.43%) Splunk
8 9 (5.14%) Dell
9 8 (4.57%) ServiceNow
10 7 (4.00%) Cisco
10 7 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (3.43%) Palo Alto
12 3 (1.71%) BMC
12 3 (1.71%) CheckPoint
12 3 (1.71%) Fortinet
12 3 (1.71%) Remedy
12 3 (1.71%) SAP
13 2 (1.14%) Citrix
13 2 (1.14%) HP
13 2 (1.14%) NetApp