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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 111 103
Rank change year-on-year +21 -8 -70
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 133 93 100
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.76% 2.43% 2.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.21% 14.74% 7.47%
Number of salaries quoted 115 47 54
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £38,691
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,875 £42,277
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,000 £50,925
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -9.67% -6.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £77,500 £60,069
90th Percentile £63,750 £85,000 £66,750
South East median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 1,089 631 1,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.44% 16.50% 28.97%
Number of salaries quoted 853 379 763
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £36,350
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -1 50 £55,000 +22.22% 22
Berkshire +35 49 £50,500 +5.21% 18
Oxfordshire -17 34 £47,166 +8.43% 19
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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 34 (25.56%) SharePoint
2 27 (20.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (4.51%) Confluence
4 2 (1.50%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 12 (9.02%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (8.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 14 (10.53%) NetSuite
2 6 (4.51%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 83 (62.41%) Azure
2 75 (56.39%) Microsoft 365
3 57 (42.86%) Entra ID
4 30 (22.56%) AWS
5 28 (21.05%) Azure Sentinel
6 16 (12.03%) IaaS
7 15 (11.28%) Power Automate
8 14 (10.53%) Cloudflare
9 12 (9.02%) Power Platform
10 10 (7.52%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (6.02%) Azure AKS
12 7 (5.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 7 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (5.26%) Azure Storage
12 7 (5.26%) SaaS
13 6 (4.51%) Google Workspace
14 4 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (2.26%) Datadog
15 3 (2.26%) Sumo Logic
16 2 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 62 (46.62%) DNS
2 51 (38.35%) Firewall
3 38 (28.57%) VPN
4 35 (26.32%) DHCP
5 26 (19.55%) TCP/IP
6 21 (15.79%) VLAN
7 12 (9.02%) SSL
7 12 (9.02%) Wireless
8 11 (8.27%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (3.76%) LAN
9 5 (3.76%) WAN
10 4 (3.01%) HTTP
10 4 (3.01%) Network Security
11 2 (1.50%) iSCSI
11 2 (1.50%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (1.50%) SAN
11 2 (1.50%) SSH
12 1 (0.75%) DKIM
12 1 (0.75%) DMARC
12 1 (0.75%) DNSSEC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.02%) Power BI
2 4 (3.01%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.26%) MySQL
3 3 (2.26%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.50%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (1.50%) GIS
4 2 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.50%) QGIS
4 2 (1.50%) Spotfire
5 1 (0.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (8.27%) JIRA
2 2 (1.50%) GitLab
General
1 55 (41.35%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.78%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (9.77%) Finance
4 8 (6.02%) Manufacturing
5 7 (5.26%) Law
5 7 (5.26%) Retail
6 6 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (4.51%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.50%) Legal
9 1 (0.75%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 38 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 37 (27.82%) Analyst
3 25 (18.80%) IT Engineer
4 23 (17.29%) IT Support
5 20 (15.04%) Azure Engineer
5 20 (15.04%) Support Engineer
6 17 (12.78%) IT Support Engineer
6 17 (12.78%) SOC Analyst
7 16 (12.03%) Security Analyst
8 14 (10.53%) Network Engineer
9 12 (9.02%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (8.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 11 (8.27%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (8.27%) Support Analyst
11 9 (6.77%) Infrastructure Support
11 9 (6.77%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 8 (6.02%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 8 (6.02%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (6.02%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (6.02%) Senior
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%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.75%) OpenID
4 1 (0.75%) React
4 1 (0.75%) SAML
4 1 (0.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.53%) Security Operations Centre
2 17 (12.78%) Driving Licence
3 12 (9.02%) Onboarding
3 12 (9.02%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (6.02%) PKI
5 7 (5.26%) Cyber Defence
5 7 (5.26%) Management Information System
6 6 (4.51%) CCTV
6 6 (4.51%) CSOC
6 6 (4.51%) Replication
7 5 (3.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 4 (3.01%) Cloud Native
8 4 (3.01%) Life Science
8 4 (3.01%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (2.26%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (2.26%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 2 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 62 (46.62%) Windows
2 55 (41.35%) Linux
3 13 (9.77%) Windows Server
4 8 (6.02%) Mac OS
5 6 (4.51%) Rocky
5 6 (4.51%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.26%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.75%) Android
8 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (39.10%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (35.34%) ITIL
3 42 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
3 42 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 33 (24.81%) SIEM
5 30 (22.56%) Cybersecurity
6 25 (18.80%) Security Operations
7 23 (17.29%) Incident Response
8 20 (15.04%) Process Improvement
9 19 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
9 19 (14.29%) ERP
9 19 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 18 (13.53%) High Availability
11 17 (12.78%) Zero Trust
12 16 (12.03%) Runbook
12 16 (12.03%) Vulnerability Management
13 15 (11.28%) Identity Access Management
13 15 (11.28%) Mentoring
13 15 (11.28%) Root Cause Analysis
14 14 (10.53%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 46 (34.59%) Python
2 21 (15.79%) Bash
3 19 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
3 19 (14.29%) SQL
4 5 (3.76%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.01%) Bicep
6 3 (2.26%) C#
7 2 (1.50%) Go
7 2 (1.50%) Java
7 2 (1.50%) Korn
8 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (17.29%) CompTIA Security+
2 18 (13.53%) Security Cleared
3 17 (12.78%) Azure Certification
4 16 (12.03%) SC Cleared
5 15 (11.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (7.52%) CISSP
6 10 (7.52%) 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%) SANS
10 4 (3.01%) CCNA
10 4 (3.01%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.75%) CREST Certified
12 1 (0.75%) GCIH
12 1 (0.75%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (16.54%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (6.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (4.51%) GDPR
4 5 (3.76%) NIST
4 5 (3.76%) SOC 2
5 4 (3.01%) Data Quality
5 4 (3.01%) NCSC
6 2 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.50%) ISO 22301
6 2 (1.50%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.50%) QA
7 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (39.10%) Active Directory
2 23 (17.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (15.04%) Hyper-V
4 8 (6.02%) KVM
5 6 (4.51%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (4.51%) vSphere
6 4 (3.01%) Docker
7 2 (1.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 37 (27.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (11.28%) Graylog
3 12 (9.02%) Kubernetes
4 8 (6.02%) Proxmox
4 8 (6.02%) ZABBIX
5 3 (2.26%) Ansible
6 2 (1.50%) Grafana
6 2 (1.50%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (1.50%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.75%) Kibana
7 1 (0.75%) QRadar
7 1 (0.75%) SCCM
7 1 (0.75%) WMI
Vendors
1 108 (81.20%) Microsoft
2 29 (21.80%) VMware
3 14 (10.53%) Sage
3 14 (10.53%) Veeam
4 12 (9.02%) CrowdStrike
5 8 (6.02%) Dell
6 7 (5.26%) Cisco
6 7 (5.26%) Google
7 6 (4.51%) Okta
8 5 (3.76%) Darktrace
8 5 (3.76%) Fortinet
9 4 (3.01%) IBM
10 3 (2.26%) SAP
10 3 (2.26%) Splunk
11 2 (1.50%) Meraki
11 2 (1.50%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.75%) Apple
12 1 (0.75%) BMC
12 1 (0.75%) Nimble Storage
12 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow