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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 110 116
Rank change year-on-year +19 +6 -65
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 103 90 131
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.69% 2.54% 1.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.38% 12.13% 6.98%
Number of salaries quoted 88 43 95
10th Percentile £35,625 - £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £47,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £43,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% -19.44% +2.86%
75th Percentile £62,500 £50,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £67,875 £85,000 £62,500
South East median annual salary £53,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.83% +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 992 742 1,878
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.28% 20.96% 27.81%
Number of salaries quoted 746 459 1,495
10th Percentile £36,875 £37,150 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £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 £71,250 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -6.78%

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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 8 July 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 8 July 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 -5 49 £60,000 +60.00% 9
Berkshire +14 28 £47,500 +3.26% 13
Oxfordshire -6 26 £36,250 -16.67% 9
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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 24 (23.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (18.45%) SharePoint
3 6 (5.83%) Confluence
4 2 (1.94%) Apache
5 1 (0.97%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.97%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.85%) NetSuite
1 5 (4.85%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 63 (61.17%) Azure
2 53 (51.46%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (30.10%) AWS
4 28 (27.18%) Entra ID
5 18 (17.48%) Azure Sentinel
6 15 (14.56%) IaaS
7 13 (12.62%) Cloudflare
8 12 (11.65%) Azure Key Vault
9 11 (10.68%) Azure AKS
9 11 (10.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 11 (10.68%) Azure Storage
10 10 (9.71%) Power Automate
11 5 (4.85%) Power Platform
12 4 (3.88%) Datadog
13 3 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (2.91%) SaaS
13 3 (2.91%) Sumo Logic
14 2 (1.94%) Azure Logic Apps
14 2 (1.94%) GCP
14 2 (1.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (47.57%) DNS
2 46 (44.66%) Firewall
3 28 (27.18%) VPN
4 20 (19.42%) DHCP
5 13 (12.62%) TCP/IP
6 11 (10.68%) Wireless
7 10 (9.71%) VLAN
8 9 (8.74%) SSL
9 8 (7.77%) iSCSI
9 8 (7.77%) Remote Desktop
9 8 (7.77%) SAN
9 8 (7.77%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (4.85%) HTTP
10 5 (4.85%) WAN
11 4 (3.88%) LAN
11 4 (3.88%) Network Security
12 2 (1.94%) PBX
13 1 (0.97%) DNSSEC
13 1 (0.97%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.97%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.65%) SQL Server
2 9 (8.74%) MySQL
3 8 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.85%) Power BI
5 2 (1.94%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.97%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.97%) GIS
6 1 (0.97%) QGIS
6 1 (0.97%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.97%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 11 (10.68%) JIRA
2 1 (0.97%) Git
2 1 (0.97%) GitLab
General
1 34 (33.01%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.62%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (11.65%) Organisational Skills
4 11 (10.68%) Law
5 8 (7.77%) Finance
6 7 (6.80%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.91%) Retail
8 2 (1.94%) Legal
9 1 (0.97%) Aviation
9 1 (0.97%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 21 (20.39%) Analyst
2 20 (19.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 19 (18.45%) Azure Engineer
4 16 (15.53%) IT Engineer
5 15 (14.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (13.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 14 (13.59%) SOC Analyst
7 13 (12.62%) Network Engineer
8 12 (11.65%) IT Support
8 12 (11.65%) Senior
8 12 (11.65%) Support Engineer
9 9 (8.74%) IT Support Engineer
10 8 (7.77%) Linux Engineer
10 8 (7.77%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (7.77%) Security Analyst
10 8 (7.77%) Security Engineer
10 8 (7.77%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 7 (6.80%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 6 (5.83%) Incident Analyst
12 6 (5.83%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.91%) HTML
1 3 (2.91%) ODBC
2 1 (0.97%) JSON
2 1 (0.97%) Kafka
2 1 (0.97%) OpenID
2 1 (0.97%) RESTful
2 1 (0.97%) SAML
2 1 (0.97%) XML
2 1 (0.97%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.65%) Security Operations Centre
1 12 (11.65%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (10.68%) Driving Licence
3 10 (9.71%) Management Information System
4 9 (8.74%) PKI
5 7 (6.80%) Cloud Native
6 6 (5.83%) Cyber Defence
6 6 (5.83%) Onboarding
6 6 (5.83%) Security Posture
7 5 (4.85%) CCTV
8 4 (3.88%) Life Science
8 4 (3.88%) Public Cloud
8 4 (3.88%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (2.91%) CSOC
9 3 (2.91%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (2.91%) Data Centre
9 3 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (2.91%) Private Cloud
9 3 (2.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (2.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (47.57%) Linux
2 47 (45.63%) Windows
3 11 (10.68%) Windows Server
4 9 (8.74%) Mac OS
5 8 (7.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.91%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.94%) CentOS
8 1 (0.97%) Android
8 1 (0.97%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.97%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.97%) OpenBSD
8 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (39.81%) ITIL
2 37 (35.92%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (26.21%) Continuous Improvement
4 26 (25.24%) SIEM
5 25 (24.27%) Cybersecurity
6 22 (21.36%) High Availability
6 22 (21.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 16 (15.53%) Incident Response
7 16 (15.53%) Security Operations
7 16 (15.53%) Vulnerability Management
8 15 (14.56%) Agile
9 14 (13.59%) Containerisation
9 14 (13.59%) Process Improvement
9 14 (13.59%) Time Management
10 12 (11.65%) Load Balancing
10 12 (11.65%) Root Cause Analysis
11 11 (10.68%) Disaster Recovery
11 11 (10.68%) Service Management
12 10 (9.71%) Zero Trust
13 9 (8.74%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 36 (34.95%) Python
2 25 (24.27%) Bash
3 7 (6.80%) Kusto Query Language
3 7 (6.80%) SQL
4 6 (5.83%) Korn
5 2 (1.94%) Bicep
5 2 (1.94%) C
5 2 (1.94%) C#
5 2 (1.94%) Go
6 1 (0.97%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (14.56%) CompTIA Security+
2 14 (13.59%) Azure Certification
2 14 (13.59%) Degree
3 12 (11.65%) Security Cleared
4 11 (10.68%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (4.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (3.88%) CompTIA CySA+
7 4 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.91%) CCNA
8 3 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.91%) GCIA
8 3 (2.91%) GIAC
9 2 (1.94%) CCNA CyberOps
9 2 (1.94%) CEH
9 2 (1.94%) CISSP
9 2 (1.94%) RHCE
9 2 (1.94%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.97%) CCIE
10 1 (0.97%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.65%) Cyber Essentials
2 10 (9.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (5.83%) GDPR
4 5 (4.85%) SLA
4 5 (4.85%) SOC 2
5 3 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (2.91%) QA
6 2 (1.94%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.94%) ISO 22301
6 2 (1.94%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.97%) NCSC
7 1 (0.97%) NIST
System Software
1 44 (42.72%) Active Directory
2 27 (26.21%) Hyper-V
3 23 (22.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (11.65%) Docker
5 9 (8.74%) KVM
6 8 (7.77%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 5 (4.85%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (4.85%) vSphere
8 2 (1.94%) Samba
9 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.97%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (21.36%) Kubernetes
2 17 (16.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (13.59%) Graylog
4 9 (8.74%) Proxmox
5 8 (7.77%) ZABBIX
6 6 (5.83%) Terraform
7 4 (3.88%) Ansible
8 3 (2.91%) Grafana
8 3 (2.91%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.94%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.97%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.97%) Kibana
10 1 (0.97%) QRadar
Vendors
1 78 (75.73%) Microsoft
2 23 (22.33%) VMware
3 9 (8.74%) Veeam
4 8 (7.77%) Dell
4 8 (7.77%) Red Hat
5 6 (5.83%) Cisco
5 6 (5.83%) CrowdStrike
5 6 (5.83%) Okta
6 5 (4.85%) Sage
7 4 (3.88%) IBM
8 3 (2.91%) Splunk
9 2 (1.94%) D-Link
9 2 (1.94%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.94%) Meraki
9 2 (1.94%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.97%) Apple
10 1 (0.97%) Carbon Black
10 1 (0.97%) Google
10 1 (0.97%) HP
10 1 (0.97%) LogicMonitor