PowerShell Job Trends in the Thames Valley

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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 19 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	88	136	106
Rank change year-on-year	+48	-30	-72
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell	134	57	99
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley	1.75%	1.49%	2.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category	12.47%	9.69%	7.61%
Number of salaries quoted	113	47	54
10^th Percentile	£37,500	£36,250	£38,691
25^th Percentile	£41,250	£41,125	£41,732
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£50,000	£46,000	£50,250
Median % change year-on-year	+8.70%	-8.46%	-7.80%
75^th Percentile	£60,000	£77,500	£58,569
90^th Percentile	£63,750	£85,000	£64,869
South East median annual salary	£52,500	£57,500	£56,252
% change year-on-year	-8.70%	+2.22%	+2.28%

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.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills	1,075	588	1,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley	14.01%	15.42%	29.56%
Number of salaries quoted	841	377	733
10^th Percentile	£37,500	£33,250	£37,500
25^th Percentile	£47,500	£41,250	£46,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£60,000	£57,500	£60,000
Median % change year-on-year	+4.35%	-4.17%	+4.35%
75^th Percentile	£75,000	£72,500	£75,000
90^th Percentile	£92,750	£83,750	£85,000
South East median annual salary	£60,000	£55,000	£56,525
% change year-on-year	+9.09%	-2.70%	-1.27%

PowerShell 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 Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing PowerShell.

PowerShell Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 October 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in the Thames Valley

PowerShell 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 19 October 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	+25	49	£50,500	+1.00%	25
Buckinghamshire	+16	49	£57,500	+27.78%	16
Oxfordshire	-9	36	£47,166	+8.43%	21
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PowerShell Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 19 October 2026, job vacancies citing PowerShell also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Thames Valley region with a requirement for PowerShell.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Microsoft	81.3%	109
2	Azure	64.2%	86
3	Microsoft 365	57.5%	77
4	Windows	48.5%	65
5	DNS	46.3%	62
6	Entra ID	44.8%	60
7	Linux	42.5%	57
8	Active Directory	41.0%	55
8	Problem-Solving	41.0%	55
10	Firewall	38.8%	52
11	ITIL	35.1%	47
12	Infrastructure Engineering	33.6%	45
13	Python	32.1%	43
14	Continuous Improvement	31.3%	42
15	VPN	30.6%	41
16	DHCP	28.4%	38
16	Microsoft Intune	28.4%	38
18	SharePoint	25.4%	34
19	VMware	23.9%	32
20	AWS	22.4%	30
20	SIEM	22.4%	30
22	Azure Sentinel	21.6%	29
22	Cybersecurity	21.6%	29
24	Microsoft Exchange	20.1%	27
24	TCP/IP	20.1%	27
26	VLAN	17.9%	24
26	VMware Infrastructure	17.9%	24
28	Bash	16.4%	22
28	CompTIA Security+	16.4%	22
28	Cyber Essentials	16.4%	22

PowerShell Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Python	32.1%	43
2	Bash	16.4%	22
3	Kusto Query Language	14.2%	19
3	SQL	14.2%	19
5	Bicep	3.7%	5
5	JavaScript	3.7%	5
7	C#	2.2%	3
8	Go	1.5%	2
8	Java	1.5%	2
8	Korn	1.5%	2
11	TypeScript	0.7%	1