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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 98 37
Rank change year-on-year -23 -61 +89
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 88 109 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.28% 2.24% 6.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.10% 8.04% 14.36%
Number of salaries quoted 42 65 155
10th Percentile - £38,878 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,911 £40,315
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £51,350 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% -5.78% -0.91%
75th Percentile £77,500 £59,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £67,500 £79,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.86% -8.18% -

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 672 1,355 1,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 17.41% 27.86% 42.52%
Number of salaries quoted 394 847 1,133
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,563 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £74,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £92,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

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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

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +21 51 £45,000 -10.89% 20
Berkshire -50 19 £50,000 -11.11% 37
Oxfordshire +25 18 £43,500 -3.29% 11
PowerShell
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 11 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.27%) Confluence
4 1 (1.14%) IIS
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 42 (47.73%) Azure
2 22 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 17 (19.32%) AWS
4 15 (17.05%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (17.05%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (13.64%) GitHub
6 9 (10.23%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (9.09%) GCP
8 7 (7.95%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (5.68%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (5.68%) Amazon S3
9 5 (5.68%) Power Platform
9 5 (5.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (3.41%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (3.41%) SaaS
10 3 (3.41%) Serverless
11 2 (2.27%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 40 (45.45%) VPN
2 38 (43.18%) TCP/IP
3 24 (27.27%) Firewall
4 21 (23.86%) DNS
5 11 (12.50%) DHCP
5 11 (12.50%) IP Telephony
6 8 (9.09%) SMTP
7 3 (3.41%) Wireless
8 2 (2.27%) FTP
8 2 (2.27%) HTTP
8 2 (2.27%) SAN
8 2 (2.27%) SD-WAN
8 2 (2.27%) SSH
8 2 (2.27%) WAN
9 1 (1.14%) Network Security
9 1 (1.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.55%) MySQL
3 4 (4.55%) Power BI
4 2 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.27%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.27%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (38.64%) Cucumber
1 34 (38.64%) Robot Framework
2 12 (13.64%) Git
3 8 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.41%) Burp Suite
4 3 (3.41%) Metasploit
5 2 (2.27%) JIRA
5 2 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.27%) Vagrant
6 1 (1.14%) Maven
6 1 (1.14%) MSBuild
General
1 46 (52.27%) Social Skills
2 37 (42.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (38.64%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.41%) Law
5 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (38.64%) Test Automation Engineer
1 34 (38.64%) Test Engineer
2 19 (21.59%) Platform Engineer
3 11 (12.50%) Support Technician
3 11 (12.50%) Technical Support
4 10 (11.36%) Lead
5 6 (6.82%) Systems Engineer
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%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) IT Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) Penetration Tester
7 3 (3.41%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) SOC Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) Tester
8 2 (2.27%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.68%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.27%) .NET
3 1 (1.14%) JSON
3 1 (1.14%) REST
3 1 (1.14%) SOAP
3 1 (1.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (44.32%) Linux Command Line
2 21 (23.86%) Onboarding
3 9 (10.23%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.55%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.41%) Replication
5 3 (3.41%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.27%) NHS
7 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.14%) Clustering
7 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.14%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 55 (62.50%) Windows
2 44 (50.00%) Linux
3 16 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 11 (12.50%) Mac OS
5 7 (7.95%) VMS
6 3 (3.41%) Kali Linux
7 2 (2.27%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (60.23%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (57.95%) DevOps
3 41 (46.59%) Mentoring
4 34 (38.64%) Coaching
4 34 (38.64%) System Testing
4 34 (38.64%) Test Automation
4 34 (38.64%) Test Management
5 17 (19.32%) CI/CD
6 16 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
7 12 (13.64%) Observability
8 11 (12.50%) Server Management
9 9 (10.23%) Containerisation
9 9 (10.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (10.23%) Resource Management
10 8 (9.09%) Agile
10 8 (9.09%) RBAC
10 8 (9.09%) Task Automation
10 8 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (7.95%) Infrastructure Automation
11 7 (7.95%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 54 (61.36%) Bash
2 51 (57.95%) Python
3 36 (40.91%) JavaScript
4 7 (7.95%) SQL
5 3 (3.41%) Java
6 2 (2.27%) Bicep
6 2 (2.27%) C#
6 2 (2.27%) Groovy
6 2 (2.27%) Perl
6 2 (2.27%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 45 (51.14%) Degree
2 5 (5.68%) SC Cleared
2 5 (5.68%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.41%) OSCP
5 2 (2.27%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.27%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.14%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.14%) GPEN
6 1 (1.14%) MCSE
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.14%) RHCE
6 1 (1.14%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (38.64%) QA
2 3 (3.41%) NIST
3 2 (2.27%) GDPR
4 1 (1.14%) HIPAA
System Software
1 30 (34.09%) Active Directory
2 13 (14.77%) Docker
3 11 (12.50%) Terminal Services
4 9 (10.23%) Hyper-V
5 5 (5.68%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (3.41%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (2.27%) DFS Replication
7 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (21.59%) Terraform
2 15 (17.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (14.77%) Kubernetes
4 8 (9.09%) Ansible
5 7 (7.95%) WSUS
6 3 (3.41%) Nmap
6 3 (3.41%) Puppet
7 2 (2.27%) Grafana
7 2 (2.27%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.27%) SCCM
7 2 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.14%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 32 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.50%) Apple
2 11 (12.50%) VMware
3 8 (9.09%) Citrix
4 3 (3.41%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.27%) Databricks
5 2 (2.27%) Meraki
5 2 (2.27%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.14%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (1.14%) Blue Prism
6 1 (1.14%) Cisco
6 1 (1.14%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.14%) Oracle
6 1 (1.14%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.14%) UiPath