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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 120 107
Rank change year-on-year +50 -13 -67
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 133 89 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.92% 2.28% 2.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.57% 12.50% 7.81%
Number of salaries quoted 115 43 66
10th Percentile £37,500 - £39,065
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £55,250
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.55% +1.38%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £64,400 £85,000 £67,500
South East median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -9.09%

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 1,058 712 1,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.30% 18.25% 26.84%
Number of salaries quoted 825 418 922
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,563 £44,121
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,565 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.98% +1.03% -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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +2 54 £60,000 +33.33% 6
Berkshire +47 43 £48,000 +4.35% 26
Oxfordshire -7 36 £43,750 +0.57% 9
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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 34 (25.56%) SharePoint
2 31 (23.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (4.51%) Confluence
4 2 (1.50%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.75%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (7.52%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (6.77%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (8.27%) NetSuite
2 6 (4.51%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 82 (61.65%) Azure
2 73 (54.89%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (37.59%) Entra ID
4 31 (23.31%) AWS
5 22 (16.54%) Azure Sentinel
6 20 (15.04%) IaaS
7 14 (10.53%) Cloudflare
8 13 (9.77%) Azure Key Vault
8 13 (9.77%) Power Automate
9 11 (8.27%) Azure AKS
10 10 (7.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 10 (7.52%) Azure Storage
10 10 (7.52%) Power Platform
11 6 (4.51%) SaaS
12 5 (3.76%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (3.01%) Datadog
13 4 (3.01%) Google Workspace
14 3 (2.26%) PaaS
14 3 (2.26%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 65 (48.87%) DNS
2 56 (42.11%) Firewall
3 37 (27.82%) VPN
4 35 (26.32%) DHCP
5 24 (18.05%) TCP/IP
6 20 (15.04%) VLAN
7 12 (9.02%) SSL
7 12 (9.02%) Wireless
8 11 (8.27%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (4.51%) LAN
9 6 (4.51%) WAN
10 5 (3.76%) iSCSI
10 5 (3.76%) Remote Desktop
10 5 (3.76%) SAN
11 4 (3.01%) HTTP
11 4 (3.01%) Network Security
12 1 (0.75%) DKIM
12 1 (0.75%) DMARC
12 1 (0.75%) DNSSEC
12 1 (0.75%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.52%) Power BI
2 9 (6.77%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.51%) MySQL
4 5 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.26%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.50%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.50%) GIS
6 2 (1.50%) QGIS
6 2 (1.50%) Spotfire
7 1 (0.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (8.27%) JIRA
2 2 (1.50%) GitLab
General
1 53 (39.85%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (8.27%) Finance
4 10 (7.52%) Law
5 9 (6.77%) Manufacturing
5 9 (6.77%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (5.26%) Retail
7 6 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.50%) Legal
10 1 (0.75%) Aviation
10 1 (0.75%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 37 (27.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 30 (22.56%) Analyst
3 24 (18.05%) Azure Engineer
4 23 (17.29%) IT Engineer
5 21 (15.79%) IT Support
6 19 (14.29%) Support Engineer
7 17 (12.78%) SOC Analyst
8 16 (12.03%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (11.28%) IT Support Engineer
10 14 (10.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 14 (10.53%) Network Engineer
11 12 (9.02%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (8.27%) Security Analyst
12 11 (8.27%) Senior
13 9 (6.77%) Support Analyst
14 8 (6.02%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 8 (6.02%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
15 7 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support
15 7 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
16 6 (4.51%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.51%) Terraform
2 5 (3.76%) HTML
2 5 (3.76%) ODBC
3 2 (1.50%) JSON
3 2 (1.50%) Kafka
3 2 (1.50%) RESTful
3 2 (1.50%) XML
4 1 (0.75%) .NET
4 1 (0.75%) OpenID
4 1 (0.75%) React
4 1 (0.75%) SAML
4 1 (0.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.03%) Security Operations Centre
2 15 (11.28%) Driving Licence
3 13 (9.77%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (6.02%) PKI
5 7 (5.26%) Cloud Native
5 7 (5.26%) Cyber Defence
5 7 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 7 (5.26%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.51%) CCTV
6 6 (4.51%) CSOC
7 5 (3.76%) Life Science
7 5 (3.76%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (3.76%) Replication
7 5 (3.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (2.26%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.26%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.26%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.26%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 61 (45.86%) Windows
2 55 (41.35%) Linux
3 14 (10.53%) Windows Server
4 8 (6.02%) Mac OS
5 5 (3.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.01%) Rocky
6 4 (3.01%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.26%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.75%) Android
8 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (36.09%) ITIL
3 41 (30.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 36 (27.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 33 (24.81%) SIEM
6 28 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
7 25 (18.80%) High Availability
8 20 (15.04%) Disaster Recovery
9 19 (14.29%) Incident Response
9 19 (14.29%) Security Operations
10 18 (13.53%) Process Improvement
11 17 (12.78%) Zero Trust
12 16 (12.03%) ERP
12 16 (12.03%) Root Cause Analysis
12 16 (12.03%) Vulnerability Management
13 15 (11.28%) Agile
13 15 (11.28%) Identity Access Management
14 14 (10.53%) Migration
14 14 (10.53%) MITRE ATT&CK
14 14 (10.53%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 42 (31.58%) Python
2 24 (18.05%) Bash
3 16 (12.03%) SQL
4 14 (10.53%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (3.76%) Korn
6 4 (3.01%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.26%) Bicep
7 3 (2.26%) C#
8 2 (1.50%) Go
8 2 (1.50%) Java
9 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (17.29%) CompTIA Security+
2 21 (15.79%) Azure Certification
3 17 (12.78%) Security Cleared
4 16 (12.03%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (12.03%) SC Cleared
5 14 (10.53%) Degree
6 7 (5.26%) CompTIA CySA+
7 6 (4.51%) GCIA
7 6 (4.51%) GIAC
7 6 (4.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 5 (3.76%) CCNA CyberOps
8 5 (3.76%) CEH
8 5 (3.76%) CISSP
9 4 (3.01%) CCNA
9 4 (3.01%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.75%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.75%) MCSE
10 1 (0.75%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.75%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (15.79%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (6.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (5.26%) GDPR
4 6 (4.51%) SOC 2
5 4 (3.01%) Data Quality
5 4 (3.01%) NCSC
6 3 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (2.26%) QA
7 2 (1.50%) ISO 22301
7 2 (1.50%) ISO 9001
7 2 (1.50%) SLA
System Software
1 56 (42.11%) Active Directory
2 25 (18.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (17.29%) Hyper-V
4 9 (6.77%) Docker
5 8 (6.02%) KVM
6 7 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (4.51%) vSphere
8 5 (3.76%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 32 (24.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 15 (11.28%) Graylog
4 8 (6.02%) Proxmox
4 8 (6.02%) ZABBIX
5 3 (2.26%) Ansible
5 3 (2.26%) Grafana
5 3 (2.26%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.50%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.75%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.75%) Kibana
7 1 (0.75%) QRadar
7 1 (0.75%) WMI
Vendors
1 104 (78.20%) Microsoft
2 29 (21.80%) VMware
3 12 (9.02%) Veeam
4 11 (8.27%) Sage
5 9 (6.77%) Dell
6 8 (6.02%) Cisco
7 6 (4.51%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (4.51%) Okta
8 5 (3.76%) Fortinet
8 5 (3.76%) Google
8 5 (3.76%) Red Hat
9 4 (3.01%) IBM
10 3 (2.26%) Splunk
11 2 (1.50%) Meraki
11 2 (1.50%) SAP
12 1 (0.75%) Apple
12 1 (0.75%) BMC
12 1 (0.75%) Carbon Black
12 1 (0.75%) LogicMonitor
12 1 (0.75%) Nimble Storage