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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 43 23
Rank change year-on-year +4 -20 +14
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 18 46 106
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 3.11% 4.91% 11.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.59% 12.23% 23.30%
Number of salaries quoted 14 13 40
10th Percentile £34,175 - £40,225
25th Percentile £40,625 £33,750 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,500 £80,500
South West median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +10.53%

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 143 376 455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 24.74% 40.17% 50.22%
Number of salaries quoted 93 142 254
10th Percentile £29,700 £37,175 £34,125
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,938 £72,433
90th Percentile £88,500 £82,500 £81,975
South West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%

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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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025. 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
Cheltenham +1 5 £52,500 +40.00% 7
Gloucester +6 4 £33,500 -40.44% 3
Tewkesbury +1 2 £70,000 -
Stroud - 2 £42,500 - 1
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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:

Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) AWS
2 12 (66.67%) Azure
3 7 (38.89%) OpenShift
4 3 (16.67%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) DHCP
1 5 (27.78%) DNS
1 5 (27.78%) LAN
1 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
1 5 (27.78%) VSAN
1 5 (27.78%) WAN
2 3 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (16.67%) VPN
3 2 (11.11%) Firewall
4 1 (5.56%) Telnet
4 1 (5.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Balsamiq
1 3 (16.67%) Git
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.11%) Robot Framework
2 2 (11.11%) TestRail
3 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Military
4 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Applications Support
1 3 (16.67%) Consultant
1 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps Consultant
1 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (16.67%) IT Support
1 3 (16.67%) Senior
1 3 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
1 3 (16.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Administrator
2 2 (11.11%) Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Applications Support Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Automation Tester
2 2 (11.11%) IT Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) IT Support Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Support Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Tester
2 2 (11.11%) Virtualisation Administrator
3 1 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 12 (66.67%) Windows
2 9 (50.00%) Linux
3 8 (44.44%) Windows Server
4 6 (33.33%) CentOS
5 4 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (5.56%) CoreOS
6 1 (5.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (27.78%) Agile
2 5 (27.78%) Containerisation
2 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (27.78%) ITIL
2 5 (27.78%) Software Testing
3 4 (22.22%) DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (16.67%) Data Architecture
4 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 3 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 3 (16.67%) RBAC
4 3 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Time Management
4 3 (16.67%) User Experience
4 3 (16.67%) UX Design
4 3 (16.67%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Python
2 10 (55.56%) Bash
3 3 (16.67%) C#
3 3 (16.67%) Go
3 3 (16.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 15 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
4 4 (22.22%) Degree
5 3 (16.67%) CITP
5 3 (16.67%) CREST Certified
6 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (5.56%) A+ Certification
7 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
7 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (5.56%) CCNA
7 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (5.56%) MCP
7 1 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 7 (38.89%) Hyper-V
3 3 (16.67%) Docker
4 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (11.11%) vSphere
5 1 (5.56%) KVM
5 1 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (27.78%) Ansible
3 4 (22.22%) McAfee ePO
3 4 (22.22%) SCVMM
3 4 (22.22%) Terraform
4 2 (11.11%) Grafana
4 2 (11.11%) SCCM
5 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 4 (22.22%) McAfee
4 3 (16.67%) Google
5 2 (11.11%) Cisco
5 2 (11.11%) Splunk
5 2 (11.11%) VMware
6 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
6 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto