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

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 92 29
Rank change year-on-year -32 -63 +59
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 58 105 250
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.63% 2.44% 7.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.90% 7.96% 17.18%
Number of salaries quoted 53 61 159
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £39,380
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -7.34% +4.81%
75th Percentile £77,500 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £70,625 £74,250
South East median annual salary £58,000 £56,252 £54,500
% change year-on-year +3.11% +3.21% -0.91%

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 586 1,319 1,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.51% 30.71% 42.59%
Number of salaries quoted 401 738 1,003
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £88,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £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 11 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 11 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 -35 25 £46,000 -18.42% 32
Buckinghamshire +3 24 £65,000 +36.84% 16
Oxfordshire +24 9 £43,500 -3.29% 12
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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 21 (36.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (22.41%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.45%) CMS
3 2 (3.45%) Confluence
3 2 (3.45%) IIS
3 2 (3.45%) WordPress
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 43 (74.14%) Azure
2 24 (41.38%) Entra ID
3 20 (34.48%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (22.41%) AWS
5 11 (18.97%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (17.24%) GitHub
6 10 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (10.34%) Azure Key Vault
8 5 (8.62%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (8.62%) Amazon S3
8 5 (8.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (6.90%) GCP
10 3 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (5.17%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
10 3 (5.17%) Serverless
11 2 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (3.45%) Amazon Glacier
11 2 (3.45%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (39.66%) Firewall
2 20 (34.48%) DNS
3 12 (20.69%) DHCP
4 7 (12.07%) IP Telephony
4 7 (12.07%) TCP/IP
5 6 (10.34%) VPN
5 6 (10.34%) Wireless
6 5 (8.62%) SMTP
7 3 (5.17%) VLAN
8 2 (3.45%) Ethernet
8 2 (3.45%) FTP
8 2 (3.45%) HTTP
8 2 (3.45%) SAN
8 2 (3.45%) SSH
8 2 (3.45%) SSL
8 2 (3.45%) WAN
9 1 (1.72%) Intranet
9 1 (1.72%) LAN
9 1 (1.72%) Network Security
9 1 (1.72%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.69%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (15.52%) SQL Server
3 3 (5.17%) Data Mining
4 2 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.45%) MySQL
4 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.45%) Power BI
4 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.72%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 11 (18.97%) Git
2 9 (15.52%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.17%) Burp Suite
3 3 (5.17%) Metasploit
4 2 (3.45%) JIRA
4 2 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (3.45%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.72%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (1.72%) Maven
5 1 (1.72%) MSBuild
General
1 13 (22.41%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (27.59%) Platform Engineer
2 12 (20.69%) Lead
3 9 (15.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 8 (13.79%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (13.79%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 8 (13.79%) Support Engineer
5 7 (12.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (12.07%) Support Technician
5 7 (12.07%) Technical Support
6 6 (10.34%) 3rd Line Support
6 6 (10.34%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 6 (10.34%) Microsoft Engineer
6 6 (10.34%) Project Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Senior
9 3 (5.17%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Cloud Network Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.34%) ARM Templates
2 2 (3.45%) .NET
2 2 (3.45%) REST
2 2 (3.45%) Web Services
3 1 (1.72%) JSON
3 1 (1.72%) SOAP
3 1 (1.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (43.10%) Onboarding
2 6 (10.34%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (8.62%) Data Centre
4 4 (6.90%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.90%) Replication
5 3 (5.17%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.45%) Clustering
6 2 (3.45%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.72%) CMDB
7 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.72%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 25 (43.10%) Windows
2 18 (31.03%) Windows Server
3 16 (27.59%) Linux
4 9 (15.52%) Mac OS
5 8 (13.79%) VMS
6 3 (5.17%) Kali Linux
6 3 (5.17%) Windows 10
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (3.45%) Android
7 2 (3.45%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.10%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (22.41%) CI/CD
2 13 (22.41%) DevOps
2 13 (22.41%) Platform Engineering
3 10 (17.24%) Containerisation
3 10 (17.24%) Observability
3 10 (17.24%) Resource Management
3 10 (17.24%) Task Automation
4 9 (15.52%) Server Management
4 9 (15.52%) Technical Leadership
5 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (13.79%) Servant Leadership
6 7 (12.07%) ITIL
6 7 (12.07%) Mentoring
6 7 (12.07%) RBAC
7 6 (10.34%) Cloud Security
7 6 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (10.34%) Matrix Management
7 6 (10.34%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (34.48%) Bash
2 17 (29.31%) Python
3 9 (15.52%) SQL
4 4 (6.90%) Java
4 4 (6.90%) T-SQL
5 2 (3.45%) C#
5 2 (3.45%) Groovy
5 2 (3.45%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.45%) Perl
6 1 (1.72%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.72%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (15.52%) Degree
2 8 (13.79%) Security Cleared
3 7 (12.07%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.17%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.17%) OSCP
5 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.45%) MCSE
5 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.72%) CCNA
6 1 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.72%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.72%) GPEN
6 1 (1.72%) HND
6 1 (1.72%) MCP
6 1 (1.72%) MCSA
6 1 (1.72%) RHCE
6 1 (1.72%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.17%) NIST
2 2 (3.45%) GDPR
3 1 (1.72%) HIPAA
System Software
1 31 (53.45%) Active Directory
2 15 (25.86%) Docker
3 10 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (13.79%) Hyper-V
5 7 (12.07%) Terminal Services
6 4 (6.90%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (5.17%) vSphere
8 2 (3.45%) DFS Replication
8 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (32.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (31.03%) Terraform
3 11 (18.97%) Kubernetes
4 5 (8.62%) Ansible
5 4 (6.90%) WSUS
6 3 (5.17%) Nmap
6 3 (5.17%) SCCM
7 2 (3.45%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (3.45%) Grafana
7 2 (3.45%) Prometheus
7 2 (3.45%) SCOM
7 2 (3.45%) SCSM
8 1 (1.72%) Control-M
8 1 (1.72%) Kibana
8 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 39 (67.24%) Microsoft
2 13 (22.41%) VMware
3 7 (12.07%) Apple
4 4 (6.90%) Citrix
5 3 (5.17%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.17%) Trend Micro
5 3 (5.17%) Veeam
6 2 (3.45%) Cisco
7 1 (1.72%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (1.72%) Blue Prism
7 1 (1.72%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.72%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.72%) Oracle
7 1 (1.72%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.72%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.72%) UiPath