PowerShell Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Windows PowerShell
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 51 45
Rank change year-on-year -37 -6 -20
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 33 5 51
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 1.31% 0.96% 4.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.98% 3.42% 12.38%
Number of salaries quoted 15 5 13
10th Percentile - £50,250 -
25th Percentile £47,750 £52,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +14.29% -6.25%
75th Percentile £78,063 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 - £81,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year +13.40% -3.96% -8.18%

All Programming Languages
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 473 146 412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.81% 28.02% 39.50%
Number of salaries quoted 329 85 159
10th Percentile £47,050 £28,100 £36,850
25th Percentile £60,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -8.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £70,625
90th Percentile £93,000 £87,000 £81,700
South West median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

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Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in Gloucestershire

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Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 11 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
Gloucester - 13 £67,875 - 11
Cheltenham -36 9 £72,500 +28.89% 10
Filton - 2 - -
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South West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 6 (18.18%) SharePoint
2 4 (12.12%) Confluence
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (45.45%) AWS
2 10 (30.30%) OpenShift
3 7 (21.21%) Azure
4 6 (18.18%) Entra ID
4 6 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (12.12%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (12.12%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (12.12%) Amazon S3
6 4 (12.12%) AWS CloudTrail
6 4 (12.12%) AWS Fargate
6 4 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (12.12%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (12.12%) OneDrive
6 4 (12.12%) Serverless
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.15%) TCP/IP
2 4 (12.12%) DHCP
2 4 (12.12%) DNS
2 4 (12.12%) IPv4
2 4 (12.12%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (6.06%) Firewall
3 2 (6.06%) LAN
3 2 (6.06%) VSAN
3 2 (6.06%) WAN
4 1 (3.03%) VLAN
4 1 (3.03%) VoIP
4 1 (3.03%) VPN
4 1 (3.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (24.24%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 13 (39.39%) Git
1 13 (39.39%) GitLab
1 13 (39.39%) Jenkins
2 8 (24.24%) Robot Framework
2 8 (24.24%) TestRail
3 6 (18.18%) Cypress.io
3 6 (18.18%) Selenium
4 5 (15.15%) JIRA
5 4 (12.12%) Bitbucket
General
1 7 (21.21%) Aerospace
2 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Finance
4 2 (6.06%) Military
4 2 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (42.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Test Automation Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Test Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Lead
4 3 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
4 3 (9.09%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Senior
4 3 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Automation Tester
5 2 (6.06%) Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
5 2 (6.06%) Tester
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (57.58%) Terraform
2 8 (24.24%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (18.18%) Playwright
3 6 (18.18%) pytest
4 4 (12.12%) boto
5 1 (3.03%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 5 (15.15%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) Fat Client
3 2 (6.06%) Thin Client
4 1 (3.03%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.03%) Smartphone
4 1 (3.03%) Social Media
4 1 (3.03%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 26 (78.79%) Windows
2 24 (72.73%) Linux
3 10 (30.30%) CentOS
4 7 (21.21%) Windows Server
5 2 (6.06%) Android
5 2 (6.06%) Apple iOS
5 2 (6.06%) CoreOS
5 2 (6.06%) macOS
5 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (75.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (57.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 14 (42.42%) Agile
5 12 (36.36%) Containerisation
6 10 (30.30%) Technical Leadership
7 9 (27.27%) Software Testing
7 9 (27.27%) Test Automation
8 8 (24.24%) Collaborative Culture
8 8 (24.24%) Test Management
9 6 (18.18%) Dashboard Development
9 6 (18.18%) Systems Engineering
10 5 (15.15%) DevSecOps
10 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (15.15%) Migration
10 5 (15.15%) Zero Trust
11 4 (12.12%) ITIL
11 4 (12.12%) Programme Management
11 4 (12.12%) Scrum
11 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (69.70%) Bash
2 22 (66.67%) Python
3 8 (24.24%) Java
3 8 (24.24%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.03%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 18 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 11 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 8 (24.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (12.12%) AWS Certification
5 4 (12.12%) CCNA
5 4 (12.12%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (12.12%) ISTQB
5 4 (12.12%) OSCP
5 4 (12.12%) RHCE
5 4 (12.12%) RHCSA
6 3 (9.09%) Azure Certification
7 2 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (6.06%) Degree
7 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
8 1 (3.03%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 17 (51.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (39.39%) Docker
3 11 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 8 (24.24%) VMware NSX
5 7 (21.21%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (12.12%) Squid
6 4 (12.12%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (12.12%) vSphere
7 3 (9.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (60.61%) Ansible
2 17 (51.52%) Kubernetes
3 10 (30.30%) vCenter Server
4 8 (24.24%) Grafana
5 6 (18.18%) Kibana
5 6 (18.18%) logstash
6 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (12.12%) Packer
6 4 (12.12%) Puppet
6 4 (12.12%) ZABBIX
7 2 (6.06%) McAfee ePO
7 2 (6.06%) SCCM
7 2 (6.06%) SCVMM
8 1 (3.03%) NetBackup
8 1 (3.03%) SCOM
8 1 (3.03%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 19 (57.58%) Microsoft
2 17 (51.52%) VMware
3 14 (42.42%) Red Hat
4 12 (36.36%) Splunk
5 6 (18.18%) Atlassian
6 4 (12.12%) Oracle
7 2 (6.06%) HP
7 2 (6.06%) McAfee
8 1 (3.03%) Apple
8 1 (3.03%) Cisco
8 1 (3.03%) Dell
8 1 (3.03%) Juniper
8 1 (3.03%) Veeam