PowerShell Jobs in the South East

Windows PowerShell
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring PowerShell skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PowerShell over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 110 80
Rank change year-on-year +15 -30 +31
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 281 420 507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.97% 2.42% 3.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.46% 8.36% 8.92%
Number of salaries quoted 185 339 308
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £72,500 £91,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +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 2,453 5,022 5,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.92% 28.99% 40.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,686 4,033 3,729
10th Percentile £34,000 £34,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -6.78% +7.27%
75th Percentile £68,000 £68,750 £74,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £87,600
England median annual salary £61,182 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.97% -7.69% +4.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the South East.

Salary trend for PowerShell in the South East

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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 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 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
Hampshire +28 107 £70,000 +47.37% 60
Thames Valley +30 89 £45,000 -18.18% 63
Surrey +22 60 £57,500 -4.17% 21
Buckinghamshire +71 53 £45,000 -25.00% 24
Middlesex -4 21 - - 1
Berkshire -31 20 £45,000 -18.18% 31
Oxfordshire +51 16 £43,750 +36.72% 15
East Sussex -4 3 £48,412 -20.31% 4
Kent +32 1 - - 11
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 56 (19.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (7.83%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.56%) IIS
4 9 (3.20%) Apache
5 6 (2.14%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (2.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 106 (37.72%) Azure
2 46 (16.37%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (13.88%) AWS
4 36 (12.81%) Microsoft 365
5 35 (12.46%) IaaS
6 32 (11.39%) Entra ID
7 26 (9.25%) Power Platform
8 25 (8.90%) PaaS
9 17 (6.05%) GCP
9 17 (6.05%) GitHub
10 12 (4.27%) Azure Key Vault
10 12 (4.27%) Azure Monitor
10 12 (4.27%) Power Automate
10 12 (4.27%) SaaS
11 11 (3.91%) PowerApps
12 8 (2.85%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (2.49%) Azure Sentinel
13 7 (2.49%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (2.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 6 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 57 (20.28%) VPN
2 46 (16.37%) DNS
3 44 (15.66%) Firewall
4 41 (14.59%) TCP/IP
5 33 (11.74%) VSAN
6 27 (9.61%) NAS
6 27 (9.61%) SAN
7 22 (7.83%) DHCP
8 15 (5.34%) SMTP
9 11 (3.91%) IP Telephony
9 11 (3.91%) Network Security
10 9 (3.20%) 5G
10 9 (3.20%) Bluetooth
10 9 (3.20%) LTE
10 9 (3.20%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (2.14%) Remote Desktop
12 4 (1.42%) SD-WAN
12 4 (1.42%) SNMP
12 4 (1.42%) WAN
13 3 (1.07%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.61%) SQL Server
2 21 (7.47%) Power BI
3 16 (5.69%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (5.34%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (3.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 10 (3.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (2.14%) Big Data
7 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 5 (1.78%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.42%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.42%) MySQL
10 1 (0.36%) Airbyte
10 1 (0.36%) Metadata
10 1 (0.36%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 34 (12.10%) Cucumber
1 34 (12.10%) Robot Framework
2 15 (5.34%) MSI
3 5 (1.78%) Git
4 2 (0.71%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.71%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.36%) Postman
5 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 105 (37.37%) Social Skills
2 59 (21.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 40 (14.23%) Telecoms
4 21 (7.47%) Finance
5 9 (3.20%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.20%) Electronics
6 6 (2.14%) Advertising
6 6 (2.14%) Automotive
6 6 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.14%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.78%) Back Office
7 5 (1.78%) Games
7 5 (1.78%) Local Government
8 4 (1.42%) German Language
9 3 (1.07%) Law
10 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.71%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (17.08%) Support Engineer
2 47 (16.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 34 (12.10%) Test Automation Engineer
3 34 (12.10%) Test Engineer
4 31 (11.03%) Infrastructure Support
4 31 (11.03%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 31 (11.03%) VMware Specialist
5 26 (9.25%) IT Engineer
5 26 (9.25%) Lead
6 25 (8.90%) IT Support
7 23 (8.19%) Analyst
7 23 (8.19%) Architect
7 23 (8.19%) IT Support Engineer
8 22 (7.83%) Security Engineer
8 22 (7.83%) Senior
9 19 (6.76%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (5.34%) Applications Support
11 12 (4.27%) Infrastructure Architect
12 11 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (3.91%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.90%) YAML
2 7 (2.49%) Pandas
3 6 (2.14%) .NET
4 5 (1.78%) XML
5 4 (1.42%) ASP.NET
5 4 (1.42%) CSS
5 4 (1.42%) HTML
5 4 (1.42%) HTML5
5 4 (1.42%) React
5 4 (1.42%) SailPoint
5 4 (1.42%) SPFx
6 3 (1.07%) EDI
7 2 (0.71%) JSON
7 2 (0.71%) Middleware
8 1 (0.36%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.36%) jQuery
8 1 (0.36%) NumPy
8 1 (0.36%) REST
8 1 (0.36%) SOAP
8 1 (0.36%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.10%) Linux Command Line
2 27 (9.61%) Clustering
3 22 (7.83%) Security Posture
4 15 (5.34%) Data Centre
5 13 (4.63%) Management Information System
6 12 (4.27%) Onboarding
7 11 (3.91%) PKI
8 9 (3.20%) IoT
8 9 (3.20%) NB-IoT
9 8 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.49%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.49%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.78%) NHS
12 4 (1.42%) Blackberry
12 4 (1.42%) Client/Server
13 3 (1.07%) Cloud Native
13 3 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (1.07%) Private Cloud
13 3 (1.07%) Security Operations Centre
14 2 (0.71%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 151 (53.74%) Windows
2 85 (30.25%) Linux
3 48 (17.08%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.49%) Mac OS
4 7 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.14%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.07%) VMS
6 3 (1.07%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.07%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.71%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.36%) CentOS
8 1 (0.36%) Unix
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (32.38%) DevOps
2 89 (31.67%) Problem-Solving
3 73 (25.98%) Mentoring
4 59 (21.00%) Agile
5 58 (20.64%) Test Automation
6 57 (20.28%) Coaching
7 55 (19.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 43 (15.30%) High Availability
9 42 (14.95%) CI/CD
10 41 (14.59%) Cybersecurity
11 37 (13.17%) Computer Science
12 34 (12.10%) System Testing
12 34 (12.10%) Test Management
13 33 (11.74%) Analytics
13 33 (11.74%) Disaster Recovery
13 33 (11.74%) ITIL
14 30 (10.68%) Infrastructure as Code
15 25 (8.90%) Virtual Environments
16 24 (8.54%) Incident Management
17 21 (7.47%) Backlog Management
Programming Languages
1 143 (50.89%) Python
2 73 (25.98%) Bash
3 59 (21.00%) SQL
4 43 (15.30%) JavaScript
5 13 (4.63%) C#
5 13 (4.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 12 (4.27%) Java
7 10 (3.56%) Bicep
8 4 (1.42%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (1.42%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.07%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.71%) VBScript
11 1 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 103 (36.65%) Degree
2 96 (34.16%) Security Cleared
3 85 (30.25%) DV Cleared
4 22 (7.83%) Azure Certification
4 22 (7.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (7.47%) SC Cleared
6 16 (5.69%) CompTIA Security+
7 15 (5.34%) Master's Degree
8 14 (4.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (3.91%) HND
10 9 (3.20%) CEH
10 9 (3.20%) Network+ Certification
11 8 (2.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 6 (2.14%) CISSP
13 4 (1.42%) CISM
13 4 (1.42%) DBS Check
13 4 (1.42%) OSCP
14 3 (1.07%) CompTIA CySA+
14 3 (1.07%) GCIH
15 2 (0.71%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.10%) QA
2 29 (10.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (8.19%) GDPR
3 23 (8.19%) NIST
4 15 (5.34%) NCSC
5 8 (2.85%) HIPAA
6 6 (2.14%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.07%) SLA
8 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 83 (29.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 80 (28.47%) Active Directory
3 48 (17.08%) vSphere
4 26 (9.25%) VMware NSX
5 24 (8.54%) Hyper-V
6 19 (6.76%) Docker
7 18 (6.41%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (6.05%) Virtual Machines
9 15 (5.34%) Terminal Services
10 9 (3.20%) Virtual Desktop
11 8 (2.85%) BitLocker
11 8 (2.85%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.36%) NFS
12 1 (0.36%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 37 (13.17%) Ansible
2 29 (10.32%) Terraform
3 24 (8.54%) Puppet
4 20 (7.12%) Kubernetes
5 17 (6.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (6.05%) WMI
6 15 (5.34%) vCenter Server
7 14 (4.98%) vMotion
8 8 (2.85%) PowerCLI
8 8 (2.85%) vRealize
9 6 (2.14%) Nagios
10 5 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.42%) QRadar
11 4 (1.42%) WSUS
11 4 (1.42%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.07%) SCCM
13 2 (0.71%) Failover Clustering
14 1 (0.36%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.36%) Grafana
14 1 (0.36%) VxRail
Vendors
1 143 (50.89%) Microsoft
2 96 (34.16%) VMware
3 27 (9.61%) Citrix
4 16 (5.69%) Databricks
5 14 (4.98%) Apple
6 13 (4.63%) HP
7 11 (3.91%) SAP
7 11 (3.91%) Veeam
8 8 (2.85%) Cisco
9 7 (2.49%) Red Hat
10 6 (2.14%) Atlassian
10 6 (2.14%) Google
10 6 (2.14%) Symantec
11 5 (1.78%) Meraki
11 5 (1.78%) Oracle
12 4 (1.42%) McAfee
12 4 (1.42%) Okta
12 4 (1.42%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.42%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.42%) Splunk