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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 142 108
Rank change year-on-year +54 -34 -72
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 135 56 99
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.79% 1.48% 2.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.48% 9.46% 7.60%
Number of salaries quoted 115 47 53
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £38,504
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,875 £41,732
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.91% -7.34%
75th Percentile £58,750 £77,500 £60,750
90th Percentile £63,750 £85,000 £67,000
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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,082 592 1,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.33% 15.62% 28.79%
Number of salaries quoted 849 380 736
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £83,875 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -2.61%

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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 13 October 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 13 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
Buckinghamshire +18 51 £55,000 +22.22% 19
Berkshire +35 49 £50,500 +5.21% 20
Oxfordshire -12 35 £47,166 +8.43% 22
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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 34 (25.19%) SharePoint
2 27 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (4.44%) Confluence
4 2 (1.48%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.74%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 12 (8.89%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (8.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 14 (10.37%) NetSuite
2 6 (4.44%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 85 (62.96%) Azure
2 76 (56.30%) Microsoft 365
3 59 (43.70%) Entra ID
4 30 (22.22%) AWS
5 29 (21.48%) Azure Sentinel
6 16 (11.85%) IaaS
7 15 (11.11%) Power Automate
8 14 (10.37%) Cloudflare
9 12 (8.89%) Power Platform
10 10 (7.41%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (5.93%) Azure AKS
12 7 (5.19%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 7 (5.19%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (5.19%) Azure Storage
12 7 (5.19%) Google Workspace
12 7 (5.19%) SaaS
13 4 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (2.22%) Datadog
15 2 (1.48%) GCP
15 2 (1.48%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 63 (46.67%) DNS
2 53 (39.26%) Firewall
3 40 (29.63%) VPN
4 37 (27.41%) DHCP
5 28 (20.74%) TCP/IP
6 23 (17.04%) VLAN
7 12 (8.89%) SSL
7 12 (8.89%) Wireless
8 11 (8.15%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (3.70%) LAN
9 5 (3.70%) WAN
10 4 (2.96%) Network Security
11 3 (2.22%) HTTP
12 2 (1.48%) iSCSI
12 2 (1.48%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (1.48%) SAN
12 2 (1.48%) SSH
13 1 (0.74%) DKIM
13 1 (0.74%) DMARC
13 1 (0.74%) DNSSEC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.89%) Power BI
2 4 (2.96%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.22%) MySQL
3 3 (2.22%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.48%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (1.48%) GIS
4 2 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.48%) QGIS
4 2 (1.48%) Spotfire
5 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (8.15%) JIRA
2 2 (1.48%) GitLab
General
1 54 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (9.63%) Finance
4 9 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 7 (5.19%) Law
5 7 (5.19%) Retail
6 6 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.48%) Legal
9 1 (0.74%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.74%) Military
9 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.74%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 40 (29.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 36 (26.67%) Analyst
3 26 (19.26%) IT Engineer
4 24 (17.78%) IT Support
5 21 (15.56%) Support Engineer
6 20 (14.81%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (13.33%) IT Support Engineer
8 16 (11.85%) Security Analyst
8 16 (11.85%) SOC Analyst
9 14 (10.37%) Network Engineer
10 12 (8.89%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (8.15%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 11 (8.15%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (8.15%) Support Analyst
12 10 (7.41%) Infrastructure Support
12 10 (7.41%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 9 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (6.67%) Senior
14 8 (5.93%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 8 (5.93%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.19%) Terraform
2 5 (3.70%) HTML
2 5 (3.70%) ODBC
3 2 (1.48%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.48%) JSON
3 2 (1.48%) Kafka
3 2 (1.48%) RESTful
3 2 (1.48%) XML
4 1 (0.74%) .NET
4 1 (0.74%) OpenID
4 1 (0.74%) React
4 1 (0.74%) SAML
4 1 (0.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.59%) Driving Licence
1 17 (12.59%) Security Operations Centre
2 14 (10.37%) Onboarding
3 12 (8.89%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (5.93%) PKI
5 7 (5.19%) Cyber Defence
5 7 (5.19%) Management Information System
5 7 (5.19%) Replication
6 6 (4.44%) CCTV
6 6 (4.44%) CSOC
7 5 (3.70%) Life Science
7 5 (3.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 4 (2.96%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.96%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.48%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 2 (1.48%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.48%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 65 (48.15%) Windows
2 57 (42.22%) Linux
3 15 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 8 (5.93%) macOS
5 7 (5.19%) Rocky
5 7 (5.19%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.22%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.74%) Android
8 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (34.81%) ITIL
3 44 (32.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 42 (31.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 32 (23.70%) SIEM
6 31 (22.96%) Cybersecurity
7 24 (17.78%) Security Operations
8 22 (16.30%) Incident Response
9 19 (14.07%) Disaster Recovery
9 19 (14.07%) ERP
9 19 (14.07%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 19 (14.07%) Process Improvement
10 18 (13.33%) High Availability
11 17 (12.59%) Zero Trust
12 16 (11.85%) Runbook
13 15 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
13 15 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
13 15 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
14 14 (10.37%) Mentoring
14 14 (10.37%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 45 (33.33%) Python
2 22 (16.30%) Bash
3 19 (14.07%) Kusto Query Language
3 19 (14.07%) SQL
4 5 (3.70%) Bicep
4 5 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.22%) C#
6 2 (1.48%) Go
6 2 (1.48%) Java
6 2 (1.48%) Korn
7 1 (0.74%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (17.04%) CompTIA Security+
2 19 (14.07%) Security Cleared
3 17 (12.59%) Azure Certification
4 16 (11.85%) SC Cleared
5 15 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (8.15%) Degree
7 10 (7.41%) CISSP
8 7 (5.19%) CompTIA CySA+
9 6 (4.44%) GCIA
9 6 (4.44%) GIAC
9 6 (4.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 5 (3.70%) CCNA CyberOps
10 5 (3.70%) CEH
10 5 (3.70%) SANS
11 4 (2.96%) CCNA
11 4 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.48%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.74%) CREST Certified
13 1 (0.74%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (16.30%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (4.44%) GDPR
4 5 (3.70%) NIST
4 5 (3.70%) SOC 2
5 4 (2.96%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.96%) NCSC
6 2 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.48%) ISO 22301
6 2 (1.48%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.48%) QA
7 1 (0.74%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (0.74%) GxP
7 1 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 54 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 24 (17.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (14.81%) Hyper-V
4 8 (5.93%) KVM
5 6 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (4.44%) vSphere
6 4 (2.96%) Docker
7 2 (1.48%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 38 (28.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (11.11%) Graylog
3 12 (8.89%) Kubernetes
4 8 (5.93%) Proxmox
4 8 (5.93%) ZABBIX
5 4 (2.96%) Ansible
6 2 (1.48%) Grafana
6 2 (1.48%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (1.48%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.48%) SCCM
6 2 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.74%) Kibana
7 1 (0.74%) QRadar
7 1 (0.74%) WMI
Vendors
1 109 (80.74%) Microsoft
2 31 (22.96%) VMware
3 15 (11.11%) Veeam
4 14 (10.37%) Sage
5 12 (8.89%) CrowdStrike
6 9 (6.67%) Dell
7 8 (5.93%) Google
8 7 (5.19%) Cisco
9 6 (4.44%) Okta
10 5 (3.70%) Darktrace
10 5 (3.70%) Fortinet
11 4 (2.96%) IBM
12 3 (2.22%) SAP
12 3 (2.22%) Splunk
13 2 (1.48%) Meraki
13 2 (1.48%) Red Hat
14 1 (0.74%) Carbon Black
14 1 (0.74%) LogicMonitor
14 1 (0.74%) Nimble Storage
14 1 (0.74%) Rockwell