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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 72 116
Rank change year-on-year -58 +44 -40
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 44 96 141
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.81% 3.36% 2.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.18% 12.08% 7.37%
Number of salaries quoted 39 46 108
10th Percentile £37,250 £31,625 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,250 £47,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £46,250 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% -15.14% +11.57%
75th Percentile £65,329 £59,688 £59,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £67,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -2.78%

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 849 795 1,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.63% 27.79% 29.24%
Number of salaries quoted 610 543 1,621
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £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 24 April 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 24 April 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
Berkshire -1 18 £43,500 -3.33% 5
Buckinghamshire -57 17 £60,000 +26.32% 14
Oxfordshire -9 9 £42,500 - 11
PowerShell
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 18 (40.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (13.64%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.55%) Apache
3 2 (4.55%) CMS
3 2 (4.55%) WordPress
4 1 (2.27%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (59.09%) Azure
2 25 (56.82%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (34.09%) AWS
4 10 (22.73%) Entra ID
5 6 (13.64%) IaaS
6 4 (9.09%) Azure AKS
6 4 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (9.09%) Azure Storage
7 3 (6.82%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (4.55%) Datadog
8 2 (4.55%) PaaS
8 2 (4.55%) Sumo Logic
9 1 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.27%) Cloudflare
9 1 (2.27%) GCP
9 1 (2.27%) Mimecast
9 1 (2.27%) Nutanix
9 1 (2.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (47.73%) Firewall
2 18 (40.91%) DNS
3 9 (20.45%) VPN
4 8 (18.18%) Wireless
5 7 (15.91%) iSCSI
5 7 (15.91%) Remote Desktop
5 7 (15.91%) SAN
5 7 (15.91%) TCP/IP
6 6 (13.64%) DHCP
7 5 (11.36%) SSL
7 5 (11.36%) VLAN
8 4 (9.09%) HTTP
8 4 (9.09%) WAN
9 3 (6.82%) LAN
9 3 (6.82%) Network Security
10 2 (4.55%) Ethernet
10 2 (4.55%) PBX
11 1 (2.27%) HTTPS
11 1 (2.27%) Intranet
11 1 (2.27%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.45%) SQL Server
2 7 (15.91%) MySQL
2 7 (15.91%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.27%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.27%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Browser DevTools
1 1 (2.27%) Git
General
1 15 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (9.09%) Law
5 3 (6.82%) Retail
6 2 (4.55%) Finance
6 2 (4.55%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.27%) Aviation
7 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 9 (20.45%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 9 (20.45%) Project Engineer
2 9 (20.45%) Senior
3 8 (18.18%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Linux Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 6 (13.64%) Analyst
5 6 (13.64%) Support Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) Microsoft Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) SOC Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) Active Directory Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Active Directory Support
7 3 (6.82%) Active Directory Support Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Exchange Support
7 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (6.82%) Server Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) Web Services
2 1 (2.27%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.45%) Management Information System
1 9 (20.45%) Onboarding
2 5 (11.36%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.36%) Security Posture
3 4 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (6.82%) Driving Licence
5 2 (4.55%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (4.55%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.55%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.27%) Clustering
6 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.27%) Life Science
6 1 (2.27%) PKI
6 1 (2.27%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (2.27%) Replication
6 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (45.45%) Linux
2 15 (34.09%) Windows
3 9 (20.45%) Windows Server
4 7 (15.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (6.82%) Mac OS
6 2 (4.55%) Android
6 2 (4.55%) Apple iOS
6 2 (4.55%) CentOS
7 1 (2.27%) FreeBSD
7 1 (2.27%) OpenBSD
7 1 (2.27%) Windows 10
7 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (43.18%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (34.09%) ITIL
3 13 (29.55%) High Availability
4 11 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (15.91%) Security Operations
6 7 (15.91%) Time Management
7 6 (13.64%) Incident Response
7 6 (13.64%) SIEM
7 6 (13.64%) Task Automation
8 5 (11.36%) Agile
8 5 (11.36%) Containerisation
8 5 (11.36%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (11.36%) Threat Detection
8 5 (11.36%) Vulnerability Management
9 4 (9.09%) Cloud Security
9 4 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (9.09%) Load Balancing
10 3 (6.82%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 10 (22.73%) Python
2 9 (20.45%) Bash
3 5 (11.36%) Korn
4 3 (6.82%) SQL
5 2 (4.55%) C
5 2 (4.55%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.27%) Bicep
6 1 (2.27%) C#
6 1 (2.27%) Go
6 1 (2.27%) Java
6 1 (2.27%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 12 (27.27%) Degree
2 5 (11.36%) Azure Certification
3 4 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
3 4 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 3 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.55%) CompTIA CySA+
5 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.55%) RHCE
5 2 (4.55%) RHCSA
6 1 (2.27%) CCIE
6 1 (2.27%) CCNA
6 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.27%) CREST Certified
6 1 (2.27%) GCIA
6 1 (2.27%) GCIH
6 1 (2.27%) GIAC
6 1 (2.27%) MCSE
6 1 (2.27%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (2.27%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (9.09%) SLA
2 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (2.27%) GDPR
2 1 (2.27%) ISO 22301
2 1 (2.27%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.27%) NIST
2 1 (2.27%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (52.27%) Active Directory
2 12 (27.27%) Hyper-V
3 9 (20.45%) Docker
3 9 (20.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (15.91%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (4.55%) Samba
6 1 (2.27%) KVM
6 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.27%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 8 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (11.36%) Terraform
4 4 (9.09%) Ansible
5 2 (4.55%) Kibana
6 1 (2.27%) Control-M
6 1 (2.27%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (2.27%) Grafana
6 1 (2.27%) Graylog
6 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.27%) Proxmox
6 1 (2.27%) QRadar
6 1 (2.27%) SCCM
6 1 (2.27%) SCOM
6 1 (2.27%) SCSM
Vendors
1 32 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.45%) VMware
3 7 (15.91%) Dell
3 7 (15.91%) Red Hat
4 4 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (4.55%) Cisco
5 2 (4.55%) D-Link
5 2 (4.55%) Splunk
5 2 (4.55%) Veeam
6 1 (2.27%) 3PAR
6 1 (2.27%) Carbon Black
6 1 (2.27%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.27%) HP
6 1 (2.27%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.27%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.27%) Trend Micro