PowerShell Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Windows PowerShell
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 93 123
Rank change year-on-year -21 +30 -45
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 55 93 120
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.98% 2.77% 1.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.09% 11.83% 6.51%
Number of salaries quoted 46 39 99
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,850 £37,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £47,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £45,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.56% -16.67% +8.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £60,000 £62,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.55%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 903 786 1,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.05% 23.39% 28.25%
Number of salaries quoted 667 509 1,562
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £49,584 £47,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
South East 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 the Thames Valley

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 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
Buckinghamshire -31 30 £60,000 +26.32% 16
Berkshire -3 15 £46,000 +8.24% 17
Oxfordshire +1 10 £35,000 -17.65% 14
PowerShell
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 15 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (7.27%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.45%) Confluence
4 2 (3.64%) Apache
5 1 (1.82%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 39 (70.91%) Azure
2 27 (49.09%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (40.00%) AWS
4 11 (20.00%) IaaS
5 10 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
6 9 (16.36%) Azure AKS
6 9 (16.36%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 9 (16.36%) Azure Key Vault
6 9 (16.36%) Azure Storage
6 9 (16.36%) Entra ID
7 7 (12.73%) Cloudflare
8 3 (5.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (5.45%) Datadog
8 3 (5.45%) Sumo Logic
9 2 (3.64%) PaaS
9 2 (3.64%) SaaS
10 1 (1.82%) GCP
10 1 (1.82%) Mimecast
10 1 (1.82%) Nutanix
10 1 (1.82%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 28 (50.91%) DNS
2 27 (49.09%) Firewall
3 14 (25.45%) VPN
4 8 (14.55%) iSCSI
4 8 (14.55%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (14.55%) SAN
5 6 (10.91%) DHCP
5 6 (10.91%) SSL
5 6 (10.91%) TCP/IP
6 5 (9.09%) HTTP
6 5 (9.09%) WAN
6 5 (9.09%) Wireless
7 4 (7.27%) LAN
8 3 (5.45%) Network Security
8 3 (5.45%) VLAN
9 2 (3.64%) PBX
10 1 (1.82%) DKIM
10 1 (1.82%) DMARC
10 1 (1.82%) HTTPS
10 1 (1.82%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 8 (14.55%) MySQL
2 8 (14.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.45%) JIRA
2 1 (1.82%) Git
General
1 15 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.36%) Law
2 9 (16.36%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.45%) Finance
5 3 (5.45%) Retail
6 1 (1.82%) Aviation
6 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (27.27%) Azure Engineer
2 12 (21.82%) Cloud Engineer
3 11 (20.00%) Senior
4 10 (18.18%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 10 (18.18%) Analyst
4 10 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (16.36%) SOC Analyst
6 8 (14.55%) Linux Engineer
6 8 (14.55%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 5 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 5 (9.09%) Incident Analyst
7 5 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 5 (9.09%) Project Engineer
7 5 (9.09%) Security Analyst
7 5 (9.09%) Security Incident Analyst
8 4 (7.27%) Network Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Security Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Exchange Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.82%) OpenID
1 1 (1.82%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 7 (12.73%) Security Operations Centre
3 6 (10.91%) Cloud Native
3 6 (10.91%) Security Posture
4 5 (9.09%) Onboarding
4 5 (9.09%) PKI
5 4 (7.27%) Cyber Defence
5 4 (7.27%) Public Cloud
5 4 (7.27%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (5.45%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (5.45%) Driving Licence
6 3 (5.45%) Life Science
6 3 (5.45%) Private Cloud
6 3 (5.45%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (5.45%) Virtual Team
7 2 (3.64%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (3.64%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.82%) Clustering
8 1 (1.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (50.91%) Linux
2 20 (36.36%) Windows
3 8 (14.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (10.91%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.64%) CentOS
5 2 (3.64%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.82%) FreeBSD
6 1 (1.82%) OpenBSD
6 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (36.36%) ITIL
1 20 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (32.73%) High Availability
3 16 (29.09%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (23.64%) SIEM
5 12 (21.82%) Agile
5 12 (21.82%) Containerisation
6 11 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (20.00%) Security Operations
7 10 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
7 10 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
8 9 (16.36%) Incident Response
8 9 (16.36%) Load Balancing
9 8 (14.55%) Time Management
10 7 (12.73%) Task Automation
11 6 (10.91%) Cloud Security
11 6 (10.91%) Threat Detection
12 5 (9.09%) Analytics
12 5 (9.09%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 19 (34.55%) Python
2 17 (30.91%) Bash
3 6 (10.91%) Korn
4 2 (3.64%) C
4 2 (3.64%) C#
4 2 (3.64%) Go
5 1 (1.82%) Bicep
5 1 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 12 (21.82%) Degree
2 10 (18.18%) Azure Certification
3 7 (12.73%) CompTIA Security+
4 6 (10.91%) SC Cleared
4 6 (10.91%) Security Cleared
5 4 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (5.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (3.64%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (3.64%) RHCE
7 2 (3.64%) RHCSA
8 1 (1.82%) CCIE
8 1 (1.82%) CCNA
8 1 (1.82%) CREST Certified
8 1 (1.82%) GCIA
8 1 (1.82%) GCIH
8 1 (1.82%) GIAC
8 1 (1.82%) MCSE
8 1 (1.82%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.82%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (7.27%) SLA
2 4 (7.27%) SOC 2
3 3 (5.45%) QA
4 2 (3.64%) ISO 22301
4 2 (3.64%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.82%) GDPR
5 1 (1.82%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 17 (30.91%) Hyper-V
3 12 (21.82%) Docker
3 12 (21.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (14.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 5 (9.09%) KVM
6 3 (5.45%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (3.64%) Samba
8 1 (1.82%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.73%) Graylog
3 6 (10.91%) Terraform
4 5 (9.09%) Ansible
4 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (9.09%) Proxmox
5 4 (7.27%) ZABBIX
6 3 (5.45%) Grafana
6 3 (5.45%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.82%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.82%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.82%) Kibana
7 1 (1.82%) QRadar
7 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (70.91%) Microsoft
2 12 (21.82%) VMware
3 8 (14.55%) Dell
3 8 (14.55%) Red Hat
4 6 (10.91%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (9.09%) Veeam
6 2 (3.64%) Cisco
6 2 (3.64%) D-Link
6 2 (3.64%) IBM
6 2 (3.64%) Splunk
7 1 (1.82%) 3PAR
7 1 (1.82%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.82%) Carbon Black
7 1 (1.82%) HP
7 1 (1.82%) Okta
7 1 (1.82%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.82%) SolarWinds