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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 52 40
Rank change year-on-year -4 -12 +21
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 29 11 111
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 2.40% 2.67% 6.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.93% 7.53% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 19 1 77
10th Percentile £35,750 - £39,150
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £32,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% -38.10% -16.00%
75th Percentile £65,625 £33,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 - £78,120
South West median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 243 146 720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 20.15% 35.44% 43.30%
Number of salaries quoted 141 74 588
10th Percentile £40,000 £30,900 £31,500
25th Percentile £43,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +11.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,500 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -1.82%

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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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -4 12 £60,000 +84.62% 3
Cheltenham -27 7 £53,750 - 4
Stroud - 2 £42,500 -
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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 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (58.62%) AWS
2 9 (31.03%) Azure
3 8 (27.59%) OpenShift
4 2 (6.90%) GCP
5 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (37.93%) DHCP
1 11 (37.93%) DNS
2 10 (34.48%) TCP/IP
3 4 (13.79%) LAN
3 4 (13.79%) WAN
4 3 (10.34%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (10.34%) VPN
4 3 (10.34%) VSAN
5 1 (3.45%) Firewall
5 1 (3.45%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) InfluxDB
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (3.45%) Big Data
2 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.45%) MySQL
2 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (34.48%) Git
2 7 (24.14%) Jenkins
2 7 (24.14%) Robot Framework
2 7 (24.14%) TestRail
3 6 (20.69%) GitLab
4 4 (13.79%) Cypress.io
4 4 (13.79%) Selenium
5 3 (10.34%) Balsamiq
5 3 (10.34%) JIRA
6 2 (6.90%) Bitbucket
General
1 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Aerospace
3 3 (10.34%) Finance
3 3 (10.34%) Military
4 2 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Electronics
4 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.90%) Marketing
4 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) IT Support
2 4 (13.79%) Senior
2 4 (13.79%) Software Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Test Automation Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Test Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Applications Support
3 3 (10.34%) Automation Tester
3 3 (10.34%) Consultant
3 3 (10.34%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 3 (10.34%) Lead
3 3 (10.34%) Lead Software Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Senior Consultant
3 3 (10.34%) Support Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Tester
4 2 (6.90%) Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Applications Support Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) IT Support Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (13.79%) Playwright
2 4 (13.79%) pytest
3 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.45%) React
3 1 (3.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.34%) Fat Client
2 3 (10.34%) Thin Client
3 2 (6.90%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (65.52%) Linux
1 19 (65.52%) Windows
2 9 (31.03%) CentOS
3 8 (27.59%) Windows Server
4 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.45%) CoreOS
6 1 (3.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) Agile
2 14 (48.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (44.83%) Software Testing
4 10 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (34.48%) Test Automation
5 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
5 9 (31.03%) Containerisation
5 9 (31.03%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (24.14%) Collaborative Culture
6 7 (24.14%) Software Engineering
6 7 (24.14%) Test Management
7 5 (17.24%) DevOps
8 4 (13.79%) Dashboard Development
8 4 (13.79%) ITIL
8 4 (13.79%) Vulnerability Management
9 3 (10.34%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (10.34%) Knowledge Transfer
9 3 (10.34%) RBAC
9 3 (10.34%) User Experience
9 3 (10.34%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 20 (68.97%) Python
2 19 (65.52%) Bash
3 5 (17.24%) JavaScript
4 4 (13.79%) Go
5 3 (10.34%) C#
5 3 (10.34%) VBScript
6 1 (3.45%) C++
6 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 25 (86.21%) Security Cleared
2 10 (34.48%) DV Cleared
2 10 (34.48%) SC Cleared
3 7 (24.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 5 (17.24%) Degree
5 3 (10.34%) CITP
5 3 (10.34%) CREST Certified
6 1 (3.45%) A+ Certification
6 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (3.45%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) Docker
1 8 (27.59%) Hyper-V
2 7 (24.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (20.69%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (17.24%) Active Directory
5 1 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (48.28%) Ansible
2 9 (31.03%) Kubernetes
3 7 (24.14%) Grafana
4 5 (17.24%) SCCM
4 5 (17.24%) Terraform
5 4 (13.79%) Kibana
5 4 (13.79%) logstash
5 4 (13.79%) vCenter Server
6 3 (10.34%) McAfee ePO
6 3 (10.34%) NetBackup
6 3 (10.34%) SCOM
6 3 (10.34%) SCOrch
6 3 (10.34%) SCVMM
7 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (3.45%) Podman
Vendors
1 12 (41.38%) Microsoft
2 10 (34.48%) Red Hat
3 7 (24.14%) Splunk
3 7 (24.14%) VMware
4 4 (13.79%) Atlassian
5 3 (10.34%) Cisco
5 3 (10.34%) Dell
5 3 (10.34%) HP
5 3 (10.34%) Juniper
5 3 (10.34%) McAfee
5 3 (10.34%) Veeam
6 2 (6.90%) SAP
7 1 (3.45%) Google