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 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 75 111
Rank change year-on-year -48 +36 -32
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 48 95 140
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.87% 3.26% 2.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.58% 11.96% 7.36%
Number of salaries quoted 43 44 107
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,475 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,250 £47,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +9.26%
75th Percentile £62,829 £59,063 £59,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £60,000 £67,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 860 794 1,901
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.59% 27.21% 29.07%
Number of salaries quoted 623 540 1,613
10th Percentile £38,800 £37,250 £36,600
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -50 21 £58,000 +22.11% 13
Berkshire +4 18 £43,500 -0.57% 8
Oxfordshire -12 9 £42,500 - 15
PowerShell
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 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.17%) Apache
3 2 (4.17%) CMS
3 2 (4.17%) WordPress
4 1 (2.08%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 30 (62.50%) Azure
2 26 (54.17%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (31.25%) AWS
4 12 (25.00%) Entra ID
5 7 (14.58%) IaaS
6 6 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (10.42%) Azure AKS
7 5 (10.42%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (10.42%) Azure Key Vault
7 5 (10.42%) Azure Storage
8 3 (6.25%) Cloudflare
9 2 (4.17%) Datadog
9 2 (4.17%) PaaS
9 2 (4.17%) Sumo Logic
10 1 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (2.08%) GCP
10 1 (2.08%) Mimecast
10 1 (2.08%) Nutanix
10 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (45.83%) DNS
2 21 (43.75%) Firewall
3 9 (18.75%) VPN
4 8 (16.67%) SSL
4 8 (16.67%) Wireless
5 7 (14.58%) iSCSI
5 7 (14.58%) Remote Desktop
5 7 (14.58%) SAN
5 7 (14.58%) TCP/IP
6 6 (12.50%) DHCP
7 5 (10.42%) VLAN
8 4 (8.33%) HTTP
8 4 (8.33%) WAN
9 3 (6.25%) LAN
9 3 (6.25%) Network Security
10 2 (4.17%) Ethernet
10 2 (4.17%) PBX
11 1 (2.08%) HTTPS
11 1 (2.08%) Intranet
11 1 (2.08%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 7 (14.58%) MySQL
2 7 (14.58%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.08%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.08%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Browser DevTools
1 1 (2.08%) Git
General
1 16 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 12 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (10.42%) Law
5 4 (8.33%) Retail
6 3 (6.25%) Finance
6 3 (6.25%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.08%) Aviation
7 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 9 (18.75%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 9 (18.75%) Analyst
2 9 (18.75%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 9 (18.75%) Project Engineer
2 9 (18.75%) Senior
3 8 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (16.67%) SOC Analyst
4 7 (14.58%) Linux Engineer
4 7 (14.58%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 6 (12.50%) Support Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 5 (10.42%) Incident Analyst
6 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Security Analyst
6 5 (10.42%) Security Incident Analyst
7 3 (6.25%) Active Directory Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Active Directory Support
7 3 (6.25%) Exchange Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) Web Services
2 1 (2.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.83%) Management Information System
2 9 (18.75%) Onboarding
3 6 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (10.42%) Cloud Native
4 5 (10.42%) Security Posture
5 4 (8.33%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (6.25%) Driving Licence
7 2 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
7 2 (4.17%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (4.17%) Public Cloud
7 2 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (2.08%) Clustering
8 1 (2.08%) Life Science
8 1 (2.08%) PKI
8 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
8 1 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (2.08%) Replication
8 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (47.92%) Linux
2 18 (37.50%) Windows
3 9 (18.75%) Windows Server
4 7 (14.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (6.25%) Mac OS
6 2 (4.17%) Android
6 2 (4.17%) Apple iOS
6 2 (4.17%) CentOS
7 1 (2.08%) FreeBSD
7 1 (2.08%) OpenBSD
7 1 (2.08%) Windows 10
7 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (37.50%) ITIL
3 14 (29.17%) Cybersecurity
3 14 (29.17%) High Availability
4 11 (22.92%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (20.83%) Security Operations
6 8 (16.67%) SIEM
7 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (14.58%) Time Management
8 6 (12.50%) Agile
8 6 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 6 (12.50%) Incident Response
8 6 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (12.50%) Task Automation
9 5 (10.42%) Analytics
9 5 (10.42%) Load Balancing
9 5 (10.42%) Service Management
9 5 (10.42%) Threat Detection
9 5 (10.42%) Vulnerability Management
10 4 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 13 (27.08%) Python
2 9 (18.75%) Bash
3 5 (10.42%) Korn
4 3 (6.25%) SQL
5 2 (4.17%) C
5 2 (4.17%) C#
5 2 (4.17%) Go
5 2 (4.17%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.08%) Bicep
6 1 (2.08%) Java
6 1 (2.08%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 12 (25.00%) Degree
2 7 (14.58%) CompTIA Security+
2 7 (14.58%) SC Cleared
2 7 (14.58%) Security Cleared
3 6 (12.50%) Azure Certification
4 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (4.17%) CompTIA CySA+
5 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.17%) RHCE
5 2 (4.17%) RHCSA
6 1 (2.08%) CCIE
6 1 (2.08%) CCNA
6 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.08%) GCIA
6 1 (2.08%) GIAC
6 1 (2.08%) MCSE
6 1 (2.08%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (2.08%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (8.33%) SLA
3 2 (4.17%) ISO 22301
3 2 (4.17%) ISO 9001
4 1 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (2.08%) GDPR
4 1 (2.08%) NIST
4 1 (2.08%) QA
4 1 (2.08%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (52.08%) Active Directory
2 12 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 9 (18.75%) Docker
3 9 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (14.58%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (4.17%) Samba
6 1 (2.08%) KVM
6 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.08%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (27.08%) Kubernetes
2 8 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (10.42%) Terraform
4 4 (8.33%) Ansible
5 3 (6.25%) Graylog
6 2 (4.17%) Kibana
7 1 (2.08%) Control-M
7 1 (2.08%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (2.08%) Grafana
7 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.08%) Proxmox
7 1 (2.08%) QRadar
7 1 (2.08%) SCCM
7 1 (2.08%) SCOM
7 1 (2.08%) SCSM
Vendors
1 35 (72.92%) Microsoft
2 9 (18.75%) VMware
3 7 (14.58%) Dell
3 7 (14.58%) Red Hat
4 4 (8.33%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (4.17%) Cisco
5 2 (4.17%) D-Link
5 2 (4.17%) Splunk
5 2 (4.17%) Veeam
6 1 (2.08%) 3PAR
6 1 (2.08%) Carbon Black
6 1 (2.08%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.08%) HP
6 1 (2.08%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.08%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.08%) Trend Micro