PowerShell Jobs in the Thames Valley

Windows PowerShell
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring PowerShell skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PowerShell over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 114 72
Rank change year-on-year +19 -42 +53
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 93 134 245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.81% 2.00% 4.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.82% 6.92% 10.06%
Number of salaries quoted 41 102 130
10th Percentile £32,000 £36,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,250 £47,025 £34,324
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £59,000 £68,438
90th Percentile £60,000 £63,625 £105,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 787 1,936 2,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 23.74% 28.91% 39.82%
Number of salaries quoted 524 1,584 1,423
10th Percentile £37,250 £36,250 £34,875
25th Percentile £47,375 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £76,000 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £93,750
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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for PowerShell in the Thames Valley

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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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +70 59 £47,500 -20.83% 16
Berkshire -32 20 £43,750 -20.45% 23
Oxfordshire +34 14 £42,500 +32.81% 7
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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 15 (16.13%) SharePoint
2 10 (10.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (7.53%) IIS
4 4 (4.30%) Apache
5 1 (1.08%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (9.68%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 35 (37.63%) Azure
2 20 (21.51%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (16.13%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (12.90%) AWS
5 9 (9.68%) Power Platform
6 8 (8.60%) Entra ID
6 8 (8.60%) Power Automate
6 8 (8.60%) PowerApps
7 7 (7.53%) GCP
8 4 (4.30%) GitHub
8 4 (4.30%) SaaS
9 3 (3.23%) PaaS
10 2 (2.15%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (2.15%) Cloudflare
10 2 (2.15%) IaaS
10 2 (2.15%) OneDrive
11 1 (1.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (1.08%) Azure Pipelines
11 1 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.08%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 44 (47.31%) TCP/IP
2 39 (41.94%) VPN
3 15 (16.13%) DNS
4 11 (11.83%) Firewall
5 9 (9.68%) 5G
5 9 (9.68%) Bluetooth
5 9 (9.68%) LTE
5 9 (9.68%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (7.53%) DHCP
7 5 (5.38%) Internet
8 3 (3.23%) IP Telephony
8 3 (3.23%) Network Security
9 2 (2.15%) SMTP
9 2 (2.15%) SSL
9 2 (2.15%) VLAN
9 2 (2.15%) VoIP
9 2 (2.15%) Wireless
10 1 (1.08%) Broadband
10 1 (1.08%) iSCSI
10 1 (1.08%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.35%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.30%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.15%) Power BI
5 1 (1.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (36.56%) Cucumber
1 34 (36.56%) Robot Framework
2 2 (2.15%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.08%) Git
3 1 (1.08%) gulp
3 1 (1.08%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.08%) Yeoman
General
1 60 (64.52%) Social Skills
2 43 (46.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 36 (38.71%) Telecoms
4 9 (9.68%) Electronics
5 5 (5.38%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.30%) Back Office
6 4 (4.30%) Local Government
7 3 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.23%) Law
8 2 (2.15%) Retail
9 1 (1.08%) Finance
9 1 (1.08%) Legal
Job Titles
1 34 (36.56%) Test Automation Engineer
1 34 (36.56%) Test Engineer
2 12 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (10.75%) Developer
3 10 (10.75%) Lead
4 9 (9.68%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (8.60%) Analyst
6 7 (7.53%) SharePoint Developer
7 6 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Support Technician
8 4 (4.30%) Technical Support
9 3 (3.23%) Infrastructure Manager
10 2 (2.15%) Azure Engineer
10 2 (2.15%) Integration Developer
10 2 (2.15%) IT Analyst
10 2 (2.15%) IT Manager
10 2 (2.15%) IT Support
10 2 (2.15%) SOC Analyst
10 2 (2.15%) Support Engineer
10 2 (2.15%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.75%) .NET
2 8 (8.60%) ASP.NET
2 8 (8.60%) CSS
2 8 (8.60%) HTML
2 8 (8.60%) HTML5
2 8 (8.60%) React
2 8 (8.60%) SPFx
2 8 (8.60%) XML
3 2 (2.15%) jQuery
3 2 (2.15%) Middleware
4 1 (1.08%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.08%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.08%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (1.08%) Bootstrap
4 1 (1.08%) CSS3
4 1 (1.08%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.08%) JSON
4 1 (1.08%) KnockoutJS
4 1 (1.08%) Node.js
4 1 (1.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (36.56%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (9.68%) Data Centre
2 9 (9.68%) IoT
2 9 (9.68%) NB-IoT
3 7 (7.53%) Onboarding
4 6 (6.45%) Client/Server
5 5 (5.38%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.23%) Clustering
6 3 (3.23%) Replication
7 2 (2.15%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.08%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.08%) IVR
8 1 (1.08%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 73 (78.49%) Windows
2 48 (51.61%) Linux
3 28 (30.11%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.38%) Mac OS
5 3 (3.23%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.08%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.08%) Unix
6 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (55.91%) DevOps
2 51 (54.84%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (38.71%) Test Automation
4 34 (36.56%) Coaching
4 34 (36.56%) Mentoring
4 34 (36.56%) System Testing
4 34 (36.56%) Test Management
5 13 (13.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (13.98%) Strategic Thinking
6 12 (12.90%) Customer Service
6 12 (12.90%) Project Management
7 11 (11.83%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (10.75%) Penetration Testing
9 9 (9.68%) Analytics
9 9 (9.68%) Asset Management
9 9 (9.68%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (9.68%) ITIL
9 9 (9.68%) Project Planning
9 9 (9.68%) Software Testing
10 7 (7.53%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 60 (64.52%) Python
2 47 (50.54%) Bash
3 46 (49.46%) JavaScript
4 14 (15.05%) SQL
5 13 (13.98%) C#
6 8 (8.60%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.23%) VBScript
8 2 (2.15%) Go
9 1 (1.08%) VB
Qualifications
1 50 (53.76%) Degree
2 11 (11.83%) CompTIA Security+
3 9 (9.68%) Network+ Certification
4 5 (5.38%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.23%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.15%) MCSE
6 2 (2.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.08%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.08%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.08%) MCSA
7 1 (1.08%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (36.56%) QA
2 3 (3.23%) SLA
3 1 (1.08%) GDPR
3 1 (1.08%) HIPAA
System Software
1 21 (22.58%) Active Directory
2 19 (20.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (11.83%) vSphere
4 10 (10.75%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.23%) Terminal Services
5 3 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.15%) Docker
7 1 (1.08%) NFS
7 1 (1.08%) vCloud
7 1 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (18.28%) Terraform
2 15 (16.13%) Ansible
3 12 (12.90%) Puppet
4 6 (6.45%) Kubernetes
5 4 (4.30%) ZABBIX
6 3 (3.23%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (3.23%) SCCM
7 2 (2.15%) Graylog
7 2 (2.15%) PowerCLI
7 2 (2.15%) vRealize
7 2 (2.15%) WSUS
8 1 (1.08%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.08%) Grafana
8 1 (1.08%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.08%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.08%) VxRail
Vendors
1 45 (48.39%) Microsoft
2 21 (22.58%) VMware
3 8 (8.60%) Cisco
4 6 (6.45%) Apple
5 5 (5.38%) Citrix
6 4 (4.30%) Oracle
7 3 (3.23%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.15%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.15%) Freshdesk
8 2 (2.15%) Meraki
8 2 (2.15%) Sophos
9 1 (1.08%) Datto
9 1 (1.08%) Dell
9 1 (1.08%) Draytek
9 1 (1.08%) HP
9 1 (1.08%) Intapp
9 1 (1.08%) Juniper
9 1 (1.08%) Veeam
9 1 (1.08%) Xerox