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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 97 126
Rank change year-on-year -15 +29 -51
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 62 89 121
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.08% 2.66% 1.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.67% 12.73% 6.59%
Number of salaries quoted 53 36 99
10th Percentile £37,500 - £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £47,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £62,500
South East median annual salary £56,750 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.30% +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 929 699 1,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.25% 20.92% 27.73%
Number of salaries quoted 695 422 1,548
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,275 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,790 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.55% +1.44% -5.98%

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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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -15 38 £60,000 +33.33% 12
Berkshire +3 13 £48,500 +7.78% 11
Oxfordshire -14 11 £38,750 -11.43% 8
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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 13 (20.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (9.68%) Confluence
2 6 (9.68%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.23%) Apache
4 1 (1.61%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 44 (70.97%) Azure
2 30 (48.39%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (40.32%) AWS
4 15 (24.19%) Azure Sentinel
5 12 (19.35%) Cloudflare
5 12 (19.35%) IaaS
6 11 (17.74%) Azure Key Vault
7 10 (16.13%) Azure AKS
7 10 (16.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 10 (16.13%) Azure Storage
8 9 (14.52%) Entra ID
9 3 (4.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (4.84%) Datadog
9 3 (4.84%) Sumo Logic
10 2 (3.23%) PaaS
10 2 (3.23%) SaaS
11 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.61%) GCP
11 1 (1.61%) Mimecast
11 1 (1.61%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 32 (51.61%) DNS
2 31 (50.00%) Firewall
3 18 (29.03%) VPN
4 8 (12.90%) iSCSI
4 8 (12.90%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (12.90%) SAN
4 8 (12.90%) TCP/IP
5 7 (11.29%) DHCP
5 7 (11.29%) SSL
6 5 (8.06%) HTTP
7 4 (6.45%) WAN
7 4 (6.45%) Wireless
8 3 (4.84%) LAN
8 3 (4.84%) Network Security
8 3 (4.84%) VLAN
9 2 (3.23%) PBX
10 1 (1.61%) DKIM
10 1 (1.61%) DMARC
10 1 (1.61%) HTTPS
10 1 (1.61%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.35%) SQL Server
2 9 (14.52%) MySQL
3 8 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.61%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (9.68%) JIRA
2 1 (1.61%) Git
General
1 14 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.13%) Law
3 9 (14.52%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.06%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.84%) Finance
7 2 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.23%) Retail
8 1 (1.61%) Aviation
8 1 (1.61%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 15 (24.19%) Azure Engineer
1 15 (24.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (20.97%) Cloud Engineer
3 11 (17.74%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 11 (17.74%) Analyst
3 11 (17.74%) Senior
4 10 (16.13%) SOC Analyst
5 8 (12.90%) Linux Engineer
5 8 (12.90%) Network Engineer
5 8 (12.90%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (12.90%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 6 (9.68%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 6 (9.68%) Incident Analyst
6 6 (9.68%) Security Analyst
6 6 (9.68%) Security Engineer
6 6 (9.68%) Security Incident Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Network Security Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.61%) OpenID
1 1 (1.61%) SAML
1 1 (1.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) Management Information System
2 9 (14.52%) PKI
2 9 (14.52%) Security Operations Centre
3 6 (9.68%) Cloud Native
3 6 (9.68%) Security Posture
4 5 (8.06%) Cyber Defence
5 4 (6.45%) Driving Licence
5 4 (6.45%) Public Cloud
5 4 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (4.84%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (4.84%) Life Science
6 3 (4.84%) Onboarding
6 3 (4.84%) Private Cloud
6 3 (4.84%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (4.84%) Virtual Team
7 2 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (3.23%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.61%) Clustering
8 1 (1.61%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 34 (54.84%) Linux
2 27 (43.55%) Windows
3 8 (12.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (9.68%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.84%) Mac OS
6 2 (3.23%) CentOS
7 1 (1.61%) Android
7 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.61%) FreeBSD
7 1 (1.61%) OpenBSD
7 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (40.32%) ITIL
2 19 (30.65%) High Availability
2 19 (30.65%) SIEM
3 18 (29.03%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (24.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (22.58%) Vulnerability Management
6 13 (20.97%) Agile
6 13 (20.97%) Containerisation
6 13 (20.97%) Security Operations
7 11 (17.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (17.74%) Root Cause Analysis
8 10 (16.13%) Incident Response
8 10 (16.13%) Load Balancing
9 9 (14.52%) Time Management
9 9 (14.52%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 8 (12.90%) Zero Trust
11 7 (11.29%) Task Automation
12 6 (9.68%) Cloud Security
12 6 (9.68%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 26 (41.94%) Python
2 22 (35.48%) Bash
3 6 (9.68%) Korn
4 2 (3.23%) Bicep
4 2 (3.23%) C
4 2 (3.23%) C#
4 2 (3.23%) Go
5 1 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.61%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (19.35%) Azure Certification
1 12 (19.35%) Degree
2 8 (12.90%) CompTIA Security+
2 8 (12.90%) SC Cleared
2 8 (12.90%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (3.23%) CompTIA CySA+
4 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.23%) RHCE
4 2 (3.23%) RHCSA
5 1 (1.61%) CCIE
5 1 (1.61%) CCNA
5 1 (1.61%) CREST Certified
5 1 (1.61%) GCIA
5 1 (1.61%) GCIH
5 1 (1.61%) GIAC
5 1 (1.61%) MCSE
5 1 (1.61%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.61%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.45%) SLA
2 4 (6.45%) SOC 2
3 3 (4.84%) QA
4 2 (3.23%) ISO 22301
4 2 (3.23%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.61%) GDPR
5 1 (1.61%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (40.32%) Active Directory
2 20 (32.26%) Hyper-V
3 15 (24.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (19.35%) Docker
5 9 (14.52%) KVM
6 8 (12.90%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (4.84%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (3.23%) Samba
9 1 (1.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (33.87%) Kubernetes
2 13 (20.97%) Graylog
3 9 (14.52%) Proxmox
4 8 (12.90%) ZABBIX
5 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (8.06%) Terraform
6 4 (6.45%) Ansible
7 3 (4.84%) Grafana
7 3 (4.84%) Prometheus
8 2 (3.23%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.61%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (1.61%) Kibana
9 1 (1.61%) QRadar
Vendors
1 43 (69.35%) Microsoft
2 15 (24.19%) VMware
3 9 (14.52%) Veeam
4 8 (12.90%) Dell
4 8 (12.90%) Red Hat
5 6 (9.68%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (6.45%) IBM
7 3 (4.84%) Splunk
8 2 (3.23%) Cisco
8 2 (3.23%) D-Link
9 1 (1.61%) 3PAR
9 1 (1.61%) Apple
9 1 (1.61%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.61%) Carbon Black
9 1 (1.61%) HP
9 1 (1.61%) Okta
9 1 (1.61%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.61%) SolarWinds