PowerShell Jobs in the Thames Valley

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South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 120 45
Rank change year-on-year +12 -75 +93
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 88 136 312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.47% 1.86% 5.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.91% 6.91% 14.00%
Number of salaries quoted 41 98 151
10th Percentile - £37,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £47,144 £34,324
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.30% +2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £50,000 £59,000 £74,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £62,500 £105,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 739 1,967 2,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 20.73% 26.96% 41.42%
Number of salaries quoted 457 1,542 1,351
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -14.06% +8.02%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for PowerShell in the Thames Valley

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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 3 July 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 3 July 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
Buckinghamshire +67 46 £37,500 -37.50% 23
Berkshire -39 23 £45,500 -18.02% 23
Oxfordshire +55 19 £43,500 +20.83% 11
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 18 (20.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (13.64%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.55%) Apache
3 4 (4.55%) IIS
4 2 (2.27%) Confluence
5 1 (1.14%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 37 (42.05%) Azure
2 17 (19.32%) AWS
3 16 (18.18%) Entra ID
4 15 (17.05%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (9.09%) GCP
6 8 (9.09%) GitHub
7 5 (5.68%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (5.68%) Amazon S3
7 5 (5.68%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (5.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (4.55%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.41%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.41%) IaaS
9 3 (3.41%) PaaS
9 3 (3.41%) SaaS
9 3 (3.41%) Serverless
10 2 (2.27%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 39 (44.32%) TCP/IP
1 39 (44.32%) VPN
2 24 (27.27%) Firewall
3 23 (26.14%) DNS
4 11 (12.50%) IP Telephony
5 10 (11.36%) DHCP
6 8 (9.09%) SMTP
7 2 (2.27%) FTP
7 2 (2.27%) HTTP
7 2 (2.27%) Network Security
7 2 (2.27%) SD-WAN
7 2 (2.27%) SSH
7 2 (2.27%) VLAN
7 2 (2.27%) WAN
8 1 (1.14%) Internet
8 1 (1.14%) iSCSI
8 1 (1.14%) SAN
8 1 (1.14%) VoIP
8 1 (1.14%) VSAN
8 1 (1.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.55%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.41%) Power BI
5 2 (2.27%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.27%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 34 (38.64%) Cucumber
1 34 (38.64%) Robot Framework
2 5 (5.68%) Git
3 4 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.27%) JIRA
4 2 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.27%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.14%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.14%) Maven
5 1 (1.14%) Metasploit
5 1 (1.14%) MSBuild
5 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 53 (60.23%) Social Skills
2 36 (40.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (38.64%) Telecoms
4 5 (5.68%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.55%) Back Office
5 4 (4.55%) Local Government
6 3 (3.41%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.41%) Law
7 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (38.64%) Test Automation Engineer
1 34 (38.64%) Test Engineer
2 15 (17.05%) Platform Engineer
3 11 (12.50%) Support Technician
3 11 (12.50%) Technical Support
4 6 (6.82%) Systems Engineer
5 5 (5.68%) Analyst
6 4 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (4.55%) IT Engineer
6 4 (4.55%) Lead
6 4 (4.55%) Senior
7 3 (3.41%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) Developer
7 3 (3.41%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 2 (2.27%) Architect
8 2 (2.27%) Integration Developer
8 2 (2.27%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.55%) .NET
2 2 (2.27%) JSON
2 2 (2.27%) Middleware
3 1 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.14%) REST
3 1 (1.14%) SOAP
3 1 (1.14%) XML
3 1 (1.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (38.64%) Linux Command Line
2 19 (21.59%) Onboarding
3 12 (13.64%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.68%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.55%) Client/Server
5 4 (4.55%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.41%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.27%) NHS
7 2 (2.27%) Replication
8 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.14%) Life Science
8 1 (1.14%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 58 (65.91%) Windows
2 39 (44.32%) Linux
3 19 (21.59%) Windows Server
4 11 (12.50%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.27%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (2.27%) VMS
6 1 (1.14%) Kali Linux
6 1 (1.14%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.14%) Unix
6 1 (1.14%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (68.18%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (56.82%) DevOps
3 41 (46.59%) Mentoring
4 36 (40.91%) Test Automation
5 34 (38.64%) Coaching
5 34 (38.64%) System Testing
5 34 (38.64%) Test Management
6 13 (14.77%) CI/CD
6 13 (14.77%) Platform Engineering
7 11 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (12.50%) Server Management
8 10 (11.36%) Analytics
9 9 (10.23%) Infrastructure Automation
9 9 (10.23%) ITIL
10 8 (9.09%) Agile
10 8 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (7.95%) Change Management
11 7 (7.95%) ITSM
11 7 (7.95%) Observability
11 7 (7.95%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (61.36%) Python
2 46 (52.27%) Bash
3 38 (43.18%) JavaScript
4 9 (10.23%) SQL
5 5 (5.68%) C#
6 3 (3.41%) Java
7 2 (2.27%) Bicep
7 2 (2.27%) Groovy
7 2 (2.27%) Perl
8 1 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.14%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 46 (52.27%) Degree
2 6 (6.82%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.55%) Azure Certification
3 4 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.27%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.27%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.27%) MCSE
5 2 (2.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.14%) MCSA
6 1 (1.14%) OSCP
6 1 (1.14%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (38.64%) QA
2 3 (3.41%) GDPR
3 2 (2.27%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.14%) NIST
4 1 (1.14%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (31.82%) Active Directory
2 12 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (12.50%) Terminal Services
4 10 (11.36%) Hyper-V
5 8 (9.09%) Docker
6 3 (3.41%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (2.27%) DFS Replication
7 2 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (2.27%) vSphere
8 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (1.14%) NFS
8 1 (1.14%) vCloud
8 1 (1.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (19.32%) Terraform
2 13 (14.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 9 (10.23%) Ansible
5 6 (6.82%) WSUS
6 4 (4.55%) ZABBIX
7 3 (3.41%) Grafana
7 3 (3.41%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.41%) Puppet
7 3 (3.41%) SCCM
7 3 (3.41%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (2.27%) PowerCLI
8 2 (2.27%) vRealize
9 1 (1.14%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.14%) Nmap
9 1 (1.14%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 34 (38.64%) Microsoft
2 18 (20.45%) VMware
3 12 (13.64%) Apple
4 9 (10.23%) Citrix
5 5 (5.68%) Oracle
6 3 (3.41%) Meraki
6 3 (3.41%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.41%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.27%) Cisco
7 2 (2.27%) Databricks
8 1 (1.14%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (1.14%) Blue Prism
8 1 (1.14%) Dell
8 1 (1.14%) Draytek
8 1 (1.14%) Freshdesk
8 1 (1.14%) HP
8 1 (1.14%) HubSpot
8 1 (1.14%) Juniper
8 1 (1.14%) Sophos
8 1 (1.14%) UiPath