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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 104 107
Rank change year-on-year +23 +3 -59
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 108 89 132
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.76% 2.46% 2.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.91% 11.63% 7.17%
Number of salaries quoted 92 42 94
10th Percentile £35,625 - £37,650
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £47,144
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 £67,500 £85,000 £63,944
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 990 765 1,842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.11% 21.12% 27.98%
Number of salaries quoted 747 460 1,451
10th Percentile £37,000 £37,200 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,688 £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 £55,565 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.98% +1.03% -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 13 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 13 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 -8 50 £60,000 +60.00% 9
Berkshire +30 31 £47,500 +3.26% 14
Oxfordshire +1 27 £36,250 -16.67% 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 26 (24.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (19.44%) SharePoint
3 6 (5.56%) Confluence
4 2 (1.85%) Apache
5 1 (0.93%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.93%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (6.48%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (5.56%) NetSuite
1 6 (5.56%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 64 (59.26%) Azure
2 55 (50.93%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (28.70%) AWS
3 31 (28.70%) Entra ID
4 18 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 15 (13.89%) IaaS
6 13 (12.04%) Cloudflare
7 12 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
8 11 (10.19%) Azure AKS
8 11 (10.19%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 11 (10.19%) Azure Storage
8 11 (10.19%) Power Automate
9 6 (5.56%) Power Platform
10 4 (3.70%) Datadog
11 3 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.78%) SaaS
11 3 (2.78%) Sumo Logic
12 2 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.85%) GCP
12 2 (1.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (47.22%) DNS
2 48 (44.44%) Firewall
3 30 (27.78%) VPN
4 22 (20.37%) DHCP
5 14 (12.96%) TCP/IP
6 13 (12.04%) Wireless
7 12 (11.11%) VLAN
8 9 (8.33%) SSL
8 9 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (7.41%) iSCSI
9 8 (7.41%) Remote Desktop
9 8 (7.41%) SAN
10 5 (4.63%) HTTP
10 5 (4.63%) WAN
11 4 (3.70%) LAN
11 4 (3.70%) Network Security
12 2 (1.85%) PBX
13 1 (0.93%) DNSSEC
13 1 (0.93%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.93%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 9 (8.33%) MySQL
3 8 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (5.56%) Power BI
5 2 (1.85%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.93%) GIS
6 1 (0.93%) QGIS
6 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.93%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 11 (10.19%) JIRA
2 1 (0.93%) Git
2 1 (0.93%) GitLab
General
1 37 (34.26%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (12.04%) Organisational Skills
3 11 (10.19%) Law
4 9 (8.33%) Finance
5 7 (6.48%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.78%) Retail
7 2 (1.85%) Legal
8 1 (0.93%) Aviation
8 1 (0.93%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 23 (21.30%) Analyst
2 20 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 19 (17.59%) Azure Engineer
4 18 (16.67%) IT Engineer
5 15 (13.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 15 (13.89%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (12.96%) IT Support
6 14 (12.96%) Network Engineer
6 14 (12.96%) SOC Analyst
7 13 (12.04%) Senior
7 13 (12.04%) Support Engineer
8 10 (9.26%) IT Support Engineer
9 9 (8.33%) Security Analyst
10 8 (7.41%) Linux Engineer
10 8 (7.41%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (7.41%) Security Engineer
10 8 (7.41%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 7 (6.48%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 6 (5.56%) Incident Analyst
12 6 (5.56%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.70%) HTML
1 4 (3.70%) ODBC
2 1 (0.93%) JSON
2 1 (0.93%) Kafka
2 1 (0.93%) OpenID
2 1 (0.93%) RESTful
2 1 (0.93%) SAML
2 1 (0.93%) XML
2 1 (0.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.04%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (11.11%) Driving Licence
2 12 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
3 10 (9.26%) Management Information System
4 9 (8.33%) PKI
5 7 (6.48%) Cloud Native
6 6 (5.56%) CCTV
6 6 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
6 6 (5.56%) Onboarding
6 6 (5.56%) Security Posture
7 4 (3.70%) Life Science
7 4 (3.70%) Public Cloud
7 4 (3.70%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (3.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (2.78%) CSOC
8 3 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.78%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.78%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (46.30%) Linux
2 49 (45.37%) Windows
3 12 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 9 (8.33%) Mac OS
5 8 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.78%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.85%) CentOS
8 1 (0.93%) Android
8 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.93%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.93%) OpenBSD
8 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (39.81%) ITIL
2 40 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (25.93%) Continuous Improvement
4 27 (25.00%) SIEM
5 25 (23.15%) Cybersecurity
6 23 (21.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 22 (20.37%) High Availability
8 17 (15.74%) Incident Response
9 16 (14.81%) Security Operations
9 16 (14.81%) Vulnerability Management
10 15 (13.89%) Agile
10 15 (13.89%) Process Improvement
10 15 (13.89%) Time Management
11 14 (12.96%) Containerisation
12 12 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (11.11%) Load Balancing
12 12 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
13 11 (10.19%) Service Management
14 10 (9.26%) ERP
14 10 (9.26%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 37 (34.26%) Python
2 25 (23.15%) Bash
3 8 (7.41%) Kusto Query Language
3 8 (7.41%) SQL
4 6 (5.56%) Korn
5 2 (1.85%) Bicep
5 2 (1.85%) C
5 2 (1.85%) C#
5 2 (1.85%) Go
6 1 (0.93%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (14.81%) CompTIA Security+
2 15 (13.89%) Degree
3 14 (12.96%) Azure Certification
4 12 (11.11%) Security Cleared
5 11 (10.19%) SC Cleared
6 7 (6.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (4.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (3.70%) CCNA
8 4 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (3.70%) CompTIA CySA+
8 4 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.78%) GCIA
9 3 (2.78%) GIAC
10 2 (1.85%) CCNA CyberOps
10 2 (1.85%) CEH
10 2 (1.85%) CISSP
10 2 (1.85%) RHCE
10 2 (1.85%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.93%) CCIE
11 1 (0.93%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.04%) Cyber Essentials
2 10 (9.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (6.48%) GDPR
4 5 (4.63%) SLA
4 5 (4.63%) SOC 2
5 3 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (2.78%) QA
6 2 (1.85%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.85%) ISO 22301
6 2 (1.85%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.93%) NCSC
7 1 (0.93%) NIST
System Software
1 47 (43.52%) Active Directory
2 28 (25.93%) Hyper-V
3 24 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (11.11%) Docker
5 9 (8.33%) KVM
6 8 (7.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 6 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (5.56%) vSphere
8 2 (1.85%) Samba
9 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.93%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (20.37%) Kubernetes
2 18 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (12.96%) Graylog
4 9 (8.33%) Proxmox
5 8 (7.41%) ZABBIX
6 6 (5.56%) Terraform
7 4 (3.70%) Ansible
8 3 (2.78%) Grafana
8 3 (2.78%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.85%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.93%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.93%) Kibana
10 1 (0.93%) QRadar
Vendors
1 82 (75.93%) Microsoft
2 24 (22.22%) VMware
3 9 (8.33%) Veeam
4 8 (7.41%) Dell
4 8 (7.41%) Red Hat
5 6 (5.56%) Cisco
5 6 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
5 6 (5.56%) Okta
5 6 (5.56%) Sage
6 4 (3.70%) IBM
7 3 (2.78%) Splunk
8 2 (1.85%) D-Link
8 2 (1.85%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.85%) Meraki
8 2 (1.85%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.93%) Apple
9 1 (0.93%) Carbon Black
9 1 (0.93%) Google
9 1 (0.93%) HP
9 1 (0.93%) LogicMonitor