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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 50 50
Rank change year-on-year -34 0 -18
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 31 12 53
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 1.42% 2.14% 4.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.49% 7.14% 12.59%
Number of salaries quoted 15 3 23
10th Percentile £47,750 £55,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £49,500 £58,750 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £70,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +33.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £74,750 £75,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,250 - £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -9.09%

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 414 168 421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 19.00% 29.89% 33.65%
Number of salaries quoted 289 95 287
10th Percentile £42,500 £27,350 £33,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £81,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -

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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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -31 14 £60,000 - 8
Cheltenham -38 7 £62,500 - 4
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 (19.35%) SharePoint
2 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (12.90%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (45.16%) AWS
2 10 (32.26%) OpenShift
3 7 (22.58%) Azure
4 6 (19.35%) Entra ID
4 6 (19.35%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (12.90%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (12.90%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (12.90%) Amazon S3
5 4 (12.90%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (12.90%) AWS Fargate
5 4 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (12.90%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (12.90%) OneDrive
5 4 (12.90%) Serverless
6 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) TCP/IP
2 5 (16.13%) DHCP
2 5 (16.13%) DNS
3 4 (12.90%) IPv4
3 4 (12.90%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (6.45%) LAN
4 2 (6.45%) VSAN
4 2 (6.45%) WAN
5 1 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 15 (48.39%) Git
2 13 (41.94%) GitLab
3 12 (38.71%) Jenkins
4 8 (25.81%) Robot Framework
4 8 (25.81%) TestRail
5 7 (22.58%) JIRA
6 6 (19.35%) Cypress.io
6 6 (19.35%) Selenium
7 4 (12.90%) Bitbucket
General
1 9 (29.03%) Aerospace
2 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Military
5 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Lead
2 6 (19.35%) Test Automation Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Test Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Senior
3 4 (12.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Lead DevOps
4 3 (9.68%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Lead Software Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Automation Tester
5 2 (6.45%) Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
5 2 (6.45%) Tester
6 1 (3.23%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (45.16%) Terraform
2 8 (25.81%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (19.35%) Playwright
3 6 (19.35%) pytest
4 4 (12.90%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Product Ownership
2 4 (12.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (9.68%) Fat Client
3 3 (9.68%) Thin Client
4 1 (3.23%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 24 (77.42%) Windows
2 23 (74.19%) Linux
3 10 (32.26%) CentOS
4 9 (29.03%) Windows Server
5 2 (6.45%) Android
5 2 (6.45%) Apple iOS
5 2 (6.45%) CoreOS
5 2 (6.45%) Mac OS
5 2 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (3.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (70.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (51.61%) CI/CD
3 15 (48.39%) Agile
4 14 (45.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (38.71%) Containerisation
6 11 (35.48%) Software Testing
6 11 (35.48%) Test Automation
7 8 (25.81%) Collaborative Culture
7 8 (25.81%) Test Management
8 7 (22.58%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (19.35%) Dashboard Development
9 6 (19.35%) Systems Engineering
10 5 (16.13%) Zero Trust
11 4 (12.90%) DevOps
11 4 (12.90%) DevSecOps
11 4 (12.90%) Mentoring
11 4 (12.90%) Performance Monitoring
11 4 (12.90%) Performance Optimisation
11 4 (12.90%) Project Delivery
11 4 (12.90%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (67.74%) Python
2 20 (64.52%) Bash
3 8 (25.81%) JavaScript
4 5 (16.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (54.84%) Security Cleared
2 9 (29.03%) DV Cleared
3 8 (25.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (12.90%) AWS Certification
5 4 (12.90%) CCNA
5 4 (12.90%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (12.90%) ISTQB
5 4 (12.90%) OSCP
5 4 (12.90%) RHCE
5 4 (12.90%) RHCSA
6 3 (9.68%) Degree
6 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
7 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
7 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (45.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (38.71%) Docker
3 10 (32.26%) Active Directory
4 7 (22.58%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (16.13%) VMware NSX
6 4 (12.90%) Hyper-V
6 4 (12.90%) Squid
6 4 (12.90%) vSphere
7 1 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (61.29%) Ansible
2 13 (41.94%) Kubernetes
3 8 (25.81%) Grafana
4 7 (22.58%) vCenter Server
5 6 (19.35%) Kibana
5 6 (19.35%) logstash
6 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (12.90%) Packer
7 4 (12.90%) ZABBIX
8 3 (9.68%) SCCM
8 3 (9.68%) SCOM
8 3 (9.68%) SCOrch
9 2 (6.45%) McAfee ePO
9 2 (6.45%) NetBackup
9 2 (6.45%) SCVMM
10 1 (3.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (54.84%) Microsoft
2 14 (45.16%) Red Hat
2 14 (45.16%) VMware
3 12 (38.71%) Splunk
4 6 (19.35%) Atlassian
5 4 (12.90%) Oracle
6 2 (6.45%) Cisco
6 2 (6.45%) Dell
6 2 (6.45%) HP
6 2 (6.45%) Juniper
6 2 (6.45%) McAfee
6 2 (6.45%) Veeam