PowerShell Job Trends in the Thames Valley

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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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 90 30
Rank change year-on-year -31 -60 +59
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 54 109 236
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.45% 2.56% 7.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.15% 7.73% 17.18%
Number of salaries quoted 49 67 147
10th Percentile £38,850 £36,550 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,750 £41,732 £39,380
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £65,000 £59,375 £56,525
90th Percentile £79,000 £68,750 £74,250
South East median annual salary £58,000 £56,389 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.86% +7.41% -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 590 1,411 1,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.88% 33.18% 41.85%
Number of salaries quoted 425 814 955
10th Percentile £33,250 £38,536 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +6.15% -5.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £88,250
South East median annual salary £56,687 £59,125 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.12% +7.50% -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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 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
Berkshire -32 26 £46,000 -18.23% 25
Buckinghamshire +4 21 £70,000 +47.37% 8
Oxfordshire +25 7 £43,500 -1.33% 3
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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 19 (35.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (18.52%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.70%) CMS
3 2 (3.70%) Confluence
3 2 (3.70%) IIS
3 2 (3.70%) WordPress
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 43 (79.63%) Azure
2 23 (42.59%) Entra ID
3 20 (37.04%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (20.37%) AWS
4 11 (20.37%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (18.52%) GitHub
5 10 (18.52%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (7.41%) GCP
8 3 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (5.56%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.70%) Amazon ELB
9 2 (3.70%) Amazon Glacier
9 2 (3.70%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.70%) AWS KMS
9 2 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (1.85%) iPaaS
10 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (33.33%) Firewall
2 16 (29.63%) DNS
3 11 (20.37%) DHCP
4 7 (12.96%) TCP/IP
4 7 (12.96%) Wireless
5 4 (7.41%) IP Telephony
5 4 (7.41%) SMTP
5 4 (7.41%) VPN
6 3 (5.56%) VLAN
6 3 (5.56%) WAN
7 2 (3.70%) Ethernet
7 2 (3.70%) FTP
7 2 (3.70%) HTTP
7 2 (3.70%) LAN
7 2 (3.70%) SAN
7 2 (3.70%) SSH
7 2 (3.70%) SSL
8 1 (1.85%) Intranet
8 1 (1.85%) Network Security
8 1 (1.85%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.81%) SQL Server
2 6 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (5.56%) Data Mining
4 2 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.70%) MySQL
4 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.70%) Power BI
4 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.85%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 11 (20.37%) Git
2 9 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.56%) Burp Suite
3 3 (5.56%) Metasploit
4 2 (3.70%) JIRA
4 2 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (3.70%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.85%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (1.85%) Maven
5 1 (1.85%) MSBuild
General
1 11 (20.37%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (24.07%) Platform Engineer
2 12 (22.22%) Lead
3 10 (18.52%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (18.52%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 9 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 8 (14.81%) Project Engineer
5 8 (14.81%) Support Engineer
6 7 (12.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
7 6 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 6 (11.11%) Microsoft Engineer
8 5 (9.26%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure Manager
9 4 (7.41%) Support Technician
9 4 (7.41%) Technical Support
10 3 (5.56%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
10 3 (5.56%) Developer
10 3 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (5.56%) Penetration Tester
10 3 (5.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.11%) ARM Templates
2 2 (3.70%) .NET
2 2 (3.70%) REST
2 2 (3.70%) Web Services
3 1 (1.85%) JSON
3 1 (1.85%) SOAP
3 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (44.44%) Onboarding
2 6 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.41%) Data Centre
3 4 (7.41%) Replication
4 2 (3.70%) Clustering
4 2 (3.70%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.85%) CMDB
5 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.85%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 22 (40.74%) Windows
2 16 (29.63%) Linux
3 15 (27.78%) Windows Server
4 8 (14.81%) VMS
5 6 (11.11%) Mac OS
6 3 (5.56%) Kali Linux
6 3 (5.56%) Windows 10
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (3.70%) Android
7 2 (3.70%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (40.74%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (24.07%) CI/CD
2 13 (24.07%) DevOps
3 10 (18.52%) Containerisation
3 10 (18.52%) Observability
3 10 (18.52%) Platform Engineering
3 10 (18.52%) Resource Management
3 10 (18.52%) Task Automation
4 9 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (14.81%) ITIL
5 8 (14.81%) Servant Leadership
6 7 (12.96%) RBAC
7 6 (11.11%) Cloud Security
7 6 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (11.11%) Matrix Management
7 6 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
7 6 (11.11%) Server Management
7 6 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 17 (31.48%) Bash
2 14 (25.93%) Python
3 9 (16.67%) SQL
4 4 (7.41%) Java
4 4 (7.41%) T-SQL
5 2 (3.70%) C#
5 2 (3.70%) Groovy
5 2 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.70%) Perl
6 1 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.85%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (14.81%) Degree
2 5 (9.26%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.56%) OSCP
5 2 (3.70%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.70%) MCSE
5 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.85%) CCNA
6 1 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.85%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.85%) GPEN
6 1 (1.85%) HND
6 1 (1.85%) MCP
6 1 (1.85%) MCSA
6 1 (1.85%) RHCE
6 1 (1.85%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) NIST
2 2 (3.70%) GDPR
3 1 (1.85%) HIPAA
System Software
1 28 (51.85%) Active Directory
2 15 (27.78%) Docker
3 11 (20.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (14.81%) Hyper-V
5 4 (7.41%) Terminal Services
5 4 (7.41%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (5.56%) vSphere
7 2 (3.70%) DFS Replication
7 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (29.63%) Terraform
3 11 (20.37%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.56%) Ansible
4 3 (5.56%) Nmap
4 3 (5.56%) SCCM
4 3 (5.56%) WSUS
5 2 (3.70%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (3.70%) Grafana
5 2 (3.70%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.70%) SCOM
5 2 (3.70%) SCSM
6 1 (1.85%) Control-M
6 1 (1.85%) Kibana
6 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 38 (70.37%) Microsoft
2 13 (24.07%) VMware
3 4 (7.41%) Apple
4 3 (5.56%) Citrix
4 3 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.56%) Trend Micro
4 3 (5.56%) Veeam
5 2 (3.70%) Cisco
6 1 (1.85%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (1.85%) Blue Prism
6 1 (1.85%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.85%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.85%) Oracle
6 1 (1.85%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.85%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.85%) UiPath