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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 110 108
Rank change year-on-year +39 -2 -64
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 133 90 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.94% 2.37% 2.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.65% 12.38% 7.85%
Number of salaries quoted 112 44 69
10th Percentile £36,375 - £39,626
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,250 £44,250 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.30% -20.27% +1.83%
75th Percentile £61,563 £53,750 £59,000
90th Percentile £64,475 £85,000 £67,500
South East median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -9.09%

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 1,051 727 1,350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.35% 19.18% 26.17%
Number of salaries quoted 813 424 961
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,400 £38,130
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.60% +0.45% -4.35%

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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 22 August 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 22 August 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 56 £60,000 +33.33% 7
Berkshire +35 42 £50,500 +9.78% 15
Oxfordshire -4 35 £40,000 -8.05% 5
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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 33 (24.81%) Microsoft Exchange
1 33 (24.81%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.51%) Confluence
3 2 (1.50%) Apache
3 2 (1.50%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.75%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (6.77%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (6.02%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (6.77%) NetSuite
2 6 (4.51%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 80 (60.15%) Azure
2 73 (54.89%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (35.34%) Entra ID
4 33 (24.81%) AWS
5 22 (16.54%) Azure Sentinel
6 21 (15.79%) IaaS
7 14 (10.53%) Azure Key Vault
7 14 (10.53%) Cloudflare
8 13 (9.77%) Power Automate
9 12 (9.02%) Azure AKS
10 11 (8.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 11 (8.27%) Azure Storage
11 9 (6.77%) Power Platform
12 5 (3.76%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (3.76%) SaaS
13 4 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (3.01%) Datadog
14 3 (2.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (2.26%) PaaS
14 3 (2.26%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 63 (47.37%) DNS
2 57 (42.86%) Firewall
3 36 (27.07%) VPN
4 32 (24.06%) DHCP
5 21 (15.79%) TCP/IP
6 17 (12.78%) VLAN
7 12 (9.02%) SSL
8 11 (8.27%) Wireless
9 10 (7.52%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (5.26%) iSCSI
10 7 (5.26%) Remote Desktop
10 7 (5.26%) SAN
11 5 (3.76%) LAN
11 5 (3.76%) Network Security
11 5 (3.76%) WAN
12 4 (3.01%) HTTP
13 2 (1.50%) PBX
14 1 (0.75%) DKIM
14 1 (0.75%) DMARC
14 1 (0.75%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.27%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.77%) Power BI
3 8 (6.02%) MySQL
4 7 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.26%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.50%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.50%) GIS
6 2 (1.50%) QGIS
6 2 (1.50%) Spotfire
7 1 (0.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (8.27%) JIRA
2 2 (1.50%) GitLab
General
1 53 (39.85%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (8.27%) Law
3 11 (8.27%) Organisational Skills
4 10 (7.52%) Finance
5 9 (6.77%) Manufacturing
6 7 (5.26%) Retail
7 6 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.50%) Legal
10 1 (0.75%) Aviation
10 1 (0.75%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 34 (25.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 29 (21.80%) Analyst
3 25 (18.80%) Azure Engineer
4 21 (15.79%) IT Engineer
5 19 (14.29%) IT Support
6 18 (13.53%) Support Engineer
7 17 (12.78%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (12.78%) SOC Analyst
8 16 (12.03%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 14 (10.53%) Network Engineer
10 13 (9.77%) IT Support Engineer
10 13 (9.77%) Senior
11 12 (9.02%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (8.27%) Security Analyst
13 8 (6.02%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 8 (6.02%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (6.02%) Support Analyst
14 7 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
14 7 (5.26%) Security Engineer
14 7 (5.26%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.51%) Terraform
2 5 (3.76%) HTML
2 5 (3.76%) ODBC
3 2 (1.50%) JSON
3 2 (1.50%) Kafka
3 2 (1.50%) RESTful
3 2 (1.50%) XML
4 1 (0.75%) .NET
4 1 (0.75%) OpenID
4 1 (0.75%) React
4 1 (0.75%) SAML
4 1 (0.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.03%) Security Operations Centre
2 14 (10.53%) Driving Licence
3 13 (9.77%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (6.77%) Management Information System
5 8 (6.02%) PKI
6 7 (5.26%) Cloud Native
6 7 (5.26%) Cyber Defence
7 6 (4.51%) CCTV
7 6 (4.51%) CSOC
8 5 (3.76%) Life Science
8 5 (3.76%) Onboarding
8 5 (3.76%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (3.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 4 (3.01%) Security Posture
10 3 (2.26%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (2.26%) Private Cloud
10 3 (2.26%) Public Cloud
10 3 (2.26%) Replication
10 3 (2.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 59 (44.36%) Windows
2 55 (41.35%) Linux
3 13 (9.77%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.77%) Mac OS
5 7 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.26%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.50%) CentOS
7 2 (1.50%) Rocky
7 2 (1.50%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.75%) Android
8 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (36.84%) ITIL
2 44 (33.08%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 34 (25.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 34 (25.56%) SIEM
5 28 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
5 28 (21.05%) High Availability
6 20 (15.04%) Incident Response
7 19 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
7 19 (14.29%) Security Operations
7 19 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
8 17 (12.78%) Process Improvement
8 17 (12.78%) Zero Trust
9 16 (12.03%) Agile
9 16 (12.03%) Root Cause Analysis
10 15 (11.28%) Identity Access Management
11 14 (10.53%) ERP
11 14 (10.53%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 14 (10.53%) Runbook
11 14 (10.53%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (32.33%) Python
2 26 (19.55%) Bash
3 14 (10.53%) Kusto Query Language
3 14 (10.53%) SQL
4 5 (3.76%) Korn
5 3 (2.26%) Bicep
5 3 (2.26%) C#
5 3 (2.26%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.50%) C
6 2 (1.50%) Go
6 2 (1.50%) Java
7 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (17.29%) CompTIA Security+
2 21 (15.79%) Azure Certification
3 17 (12.78%) Security Cleared
4 16 (12.03%) SC Cleared
5 15 (11.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (10.53%) Degree
7 7 (5.26%) CompTIA CySA+
8 6 (4.51%) GCIA
8 6 (4.51%) GIAC
8 6 (4.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 5 (3.76%) CCNA CyberOps
9 5 (3.76%) CEH
9 5 (3.76%) CISSP
10 4 (3.01%) CCNA
10 4 (3.01%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.50%) RHCE
11 2 (1.50%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.75%) CREST Certified
12 1 (0.75%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (15.79%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (6.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (5.26%) GDPR
4 6 (4.51%) SOC 2
5 4 (3.01%) Data Quality
5 4 (3.01%) NCSC
5 4 (3.01%) SLA
6 3 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (2.26%) QA
7 2 (1.50%) ISO 22301
7 2 (1.50%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 56 (42.11%) Active Directory
2 24 (18.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (17.29%) Hyper-V
4 11 (8.27%) Docker
5 8 (6.02%) KVM
6 7 (5.26%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 7 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (4.51%) vSphere
8 2 (1.50%) Samba
9 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 31 (23.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (16.54%) Kubernetes
3 15 (11.28%) Graylog
4 8 (6.02%) Proxmox
4 8 (6.02%) ZABBIX
5 3 (2.26%) Ansible
5 3 (2.26%) Grafana
5 3 (2.26%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.50%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.75%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.75%) Kibana
7 1 (0.75%) QRadar
7 1 (0.75%) WMI
Vendors
1 103 (77.44%) Microsoft
2 26 (19.55%) VMware
3 10 (7.52%) Veeam
4 9 (6.77%) Dell
4 9 (6.77%) Sage
5 8 (6.02%) Cisco
6 7 (5.26%) Red Hat
7 6 (4.51%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (4.51%) Okta
8 5 (3.76%) Fortinet
9 4 (3.01%) IBM
10 3 (2.26%) Google
10 3 (2.26%) Splunk
11 2 (1.50%) D-Link
11 2 (1.50%) Meraki
12 1 (0.75%) Carbon Black
12 1 (0.75%) LogicMonitor
12 1 (0.75%) Nimble Storage
12 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.75%) SolarWinds