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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 41 25
Rank change year-on-year 0 -16 +7
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 16 49 100
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 2.91% 5.17% 11.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.35% 12.93% 22.27%
Number of salaries quoted 14 13 39
10th Percentile £34,175 - £40,200
25th Percentile £40,625 £33,750 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,500 £81,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £50,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.48% -3.33% +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 141 379 449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 25.68% 40.02% 50.91%
Number of salaries quoted 92 141 254
10th Percentile £29,350 £37,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,375 £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 £76,563 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,375 £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 7 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 7 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 +4 4 £56,250 +50.00% 8
Gloucester +2 3 £33,500 -40.44% 10
Tewkesbury +1 2 £70,000 -
Stroud - 2 £42,500 - 2
Cirencester - 1 £55,000 -
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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 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) AWS
2 11 (68.75%) Azure
3 6 (37.50%) OpenShift
4 2 (12.50%) GCP
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Google Workspace
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (6.25%) Nutanix
5 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) DHCP
1 5 (31.25%) DNS
1 5 (31.25%) LAN
1 5 (31.25%) TCP/IP
1 5 (31.25%) WAN
2 4 (25.00%) VSAN
3 3 (18.75%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (18.75%) VPN
4 2 (12.50%) Firewall
5 1 (6.25%) NAS
5 1 (6.25%) SAN
5 1 (6.25%) Telnet
5 1 (6.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Balsamiq
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) Robot Framework
3 1 (6.25%) TestRail
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Military
4 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Applications Support
2 3 (18.75%) Consultant
2 3 (18.75%) DevSecOps Consultant
2 3 (18.75%) IT Support
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
2 3 (18.75%) Senior Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Applications Support Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) IT Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) IT Support Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Support Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Virtualisation Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Applications Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Driving Licence
1 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) Windows
2 7 (43.75%) Linux
2 7 (43.75%) Windows Server
3 5 (31.25%) CentOS
4 4 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (6.25%) CoreOS
6 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (31.25%) ITIL
3 4 (25.00%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 3 (18.75%) Data Architecture
4 3 (18.75%) DevSecOps
4 3 (18.75%) Integration Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Systems Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Time Management
4 3 (18.75%) User Experience
4 3 (18.75%) UX Design
4 3 (18.75%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Python
2 9 (56.25%) Bash
3 3 (18.75%) C#
3 3 (18.75%) Go
3 3 (18.75%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (43.75%) DV Cleared
2 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
3 5 (31.25%) Degree
4 3 (18.75%) CITP
4 3 (18.75%) CREST Certified
5 2 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (6.25%) A+ Certification
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
6 1 (6.25%) CCNA
6 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (6.25%) MCP
6 1 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Active Directory
2 6 (37.50%) Hyper-V
3 3 (18.75%) Docker
3 3 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (18.75%) vSphere
4 1 (6.25%) KVM
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (6.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Ansible
1 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 3 (18.75%) McAfee ePO
2 3 (18.75%) SCVMM
2 3 (18.75%) Terraform
3 2 (12.50%) SCCM
3 2 (12.50%) vCenter Server
4 1 (6.25%) Grafana
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (18.75%) Google
3 3 (18.75%) McAfee
3 3 (18.75%) VMware
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco
5 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
5 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
5 1 (6.25%) Splunk
5 1 (6.25%) Veeam