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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 101 128
Rank change year-on-year +1 +27 -62
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 78 91 138
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.34% 2.69% 1.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.38% 12.67% 7.16%
Number of salaries quoted 67 36 104
10th Percentile £35,625 - £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £47,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £41,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.72% -24.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £50,625 £59,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £61,975
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 931 718 1,927
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.01% 21.25% 26.42%
Number of salaries quoted 697 429 1,562
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,150 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,250 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -10 45 £60,000 +60.00% 17
Berkshire +14 17 £52,500 +16.67% 21
Oxfordshire -5 16 £36,250 -14.71% 13
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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 18 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (12.82%) SharePoint
3 6 (7.69%) Confluence
4 2 (2.56%) Apache
5 1 (1.28%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 55 (70.51%) Azure
2 42 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (35.90%) AWS
4 18 (23.08%) Entra ID
5 17 (21.79%) Azure Sentinel
6 15 (19.23%) IaaS
7 13 (16.67%) Cloudflare
8 12 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
9 11 (14.10%) Azure AKS
9 11 (14.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 11 (14.10%) Azure Storage
10 4 (5.13%) Datadog
10 4 (5.13%) Power Automate
11 3 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (3.85%) Sumo Logic
12 2 (2.56%) PaaS
12 2 (2.56%) SaaS
13 1 (1.28%) GCP
13 1 (1.28%) Mimecast
13 1 (1.28%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 38 (48.72%) DNS
2 35 (44.87%) Firewall
3 19 (24.36%) VPN
4 10 (12.82%) DHCP
5 9 (11.54%) SSL
5 9 (11.54%) TCP/IP
6 8 (10.26%) iSCSI
6 8 (10.26%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (10.26%) SAN
7 5 (6.41%) HTTP
7 5 (6.41%) WAN
8 4 (5.13%) LAN
8 4 (5.13%) Network Security
8 4 (5.13%) Wireless
9 3 (3.85%) VLAN
10 2 (2.56%) PBX
11 1 (1.28%) DKIM
11 1 (1.28%) HTTPS
11 1 (1.28%) SMTP
11 1 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 9 (11.54%) MySQL
3 8 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.28%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (11.54%) JIRA
2 1 (1.28%) Git
General
1 22 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.10%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (14.10%) Law
3 9 (11.54%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.85%) Finance
5 3 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.85%) Retail
6 1 (1.28%) Aviation
6 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.28%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.28%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (24.36%) Azure Engineer
1 19 (24.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (19.23%) Cloud Engineer
3 13 (16.67%) Analyst
4 12 (15.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 12 (15.38%) SOC Analyst
5 11 (14.10%) Senior
6 8 (10.26%) Linux Engineer
6 8 (10.26%) Network Engineer
6 8 (10.26%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (10.26%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 8 (10.26%) Support Engineer
7 7 (8.97%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 7 (8.97%) Security Analyst
7 7 (8.97%) Security Engineer
8 6 (7.69%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (7.69%) Incident Analyst
8 6 (7.69%) IT Engineer
8 6 (7.69%) Security Incident Analyst
9 5 (6.41%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.28%) HTML
1 1 (1.28%) ODBC
1 1 (1.28%) OpenID
1 1 (1.28%) SAML
1 1 (1.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.10%) Security Operations Centre
2 10 (12.82%) Management Information System
3 9 (11.54%) PKI
4 6 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 6 (7.69%) Cyber Defence
4 6 (7.69%) Security Posture
5 5 (6.41%) Driving Licence
5 5 (6.41%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (5.13%) Onboarding
6 4 (5.13%) Public Cloud
7 3 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (3.85%) Data Centre
7 3 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (3.85%) Life Science
7 3 (3.85%) Private Cloud
7 3 (3.85%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (3.85%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.56%) CSOC
9 1 (1.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 41 (52.56%) Linux
2 36 (46.15%) Windows
3 8 (10.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (8.97%) Mac OS
4 7 (8.97%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.56%) CentOS
6 1 (1.28%) Android
6 1 (1.28%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.28%) FreeBSD
6 1 (1.28%) OpenBSD
6 1 (1.28%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (41.03%) ITIL
2 23 (29.49%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (29.49%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (28.21%) High Availability
3 22 (28.21%) SIEM
4 19 (24.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (24.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 15 (19.23%) Security Operations
5 15 (19.23%) Vulnerability Management
6 14 (17.95%) Agile
6 14 (17.95%) Containerisation
7 12 (15.38%) Incident Response
7 12 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
8 11 (14.10%) Load Balancing
9 10 (12.82%) Zero Trust
10 9 (11.54%) Service Management
10 9 (11.54%) Time Management
10 9 (11.54%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 7 (8.97%) Analytics
11 7 (8.97%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (35.90%) Python
2 23 (29.49%) Bash
3 6 (7.69%) Korn
4 3 (3.85%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (2.56%) Bicep
5 2 (2.56%) C
5 2 (2.56%) C#
5 2 (2.56%) Go
6 1 (1.28%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (17.95%) Azure Certification
2 12 (15.38%) Degree
3 11 (14.10%) CompTIA Security+
4 10 (12.82%) SC Cleared
4 10 (12.82%) Security Cleared
5 5 (6.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.85%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (2.56%) GCIA
8 2 (2.56%) GIAC
8 2 (2.56%) RHCE
8 2 (2.56%) RHCSA
9 1 (1.28%) CCIE
9 1 (1.28%) CCNA
9 1 (1.28%) CEH
9 1 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.28%) CISSP
9 1 (1.28%) CREST Certified
9 1 (1.28%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (8.97%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (6.41%) SLA
4 4 (5.13%) SOC 2
5 3 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (3.85%) QA
6 2 (2.56%) ISO 22301
6 2 (2.56%) ISO 9001
7 1 (1.28%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.28%) GDPR
7 1 (1.28%) NCSC
7 1 (1.28%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (41.03%) Active Directory
2 22 (28.21%) Hyper-V
3 18 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (15.38%) Docker
5 9 (11.54%) KVM
6 8 (10.26%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (2.56%) Samba
9 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (1.28%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (1.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (28.21%) Kubernetes
2 14 (17.95%) Graylog
3 12 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (11.54%) Proxmox
5 8 (10.26%) ZABBIX
6 5 (6.41%) Terraform
7 4 (5.13%) Ansible
8 3 (3.85%) Grafana
8 3 (3.85%) Prometheus
9 2 (2.56%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.28%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (1.28%) Kibana
10 1 (1.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 57 (73.08%) Microsoft
2 18 (23.08%) VMware
3 9 (11.54%) Veeam
4 8 (10.26%) Dell
4 8 (10.26%) Red Hat
5 6 (7.69%) CrowdStrike
6 5 (6.41%) Cisco
7 4 (5.13%) IBM
7 4 (5.13%) Okta
8 3 (3.85%) Splunk
9 2 (2.56%) D-Link
9 2 (2.56%) Meraki
9 2 (2.56%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.28%) 3PAR
10 1 (1.28%) Apple
10 1 (1.28%) Fortinet
10 1 (1.28%) HP
10 1 (1.28%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (1.28%) Nimble Storage
10 1 (1.28%) Palo Alto