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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 48 22
Rank change year-on-year +8 -26 +29
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 24 24 132
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 3.25% 4.36% 9.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.04% 8.86% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 18 5 75
10th Percentile £35,375 £31,750 £40,100
25th Percentile £40,625 £32,500 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,000 £77,620
South West median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% +8.00% -4.76%

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 171 271 660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 23.17% 49.18% 49.29%
Number of salaries quoted 107 98 480
10th Percentile £35,250 £40,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £40,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,938 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,750 £79,125 £78,875
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -1.90%

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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 8 February 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 8 February 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
Cheltenham +2 8 £52,500 -41.67% 3
Gloucester -3 5 £33,500 -29.47% 2
Stroud - 2 £42,500 -
Tewkesbury - 1 £70,000 -
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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 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (70.83%) AWS
2 13 (54.17%) Azure
3 8 (33.33%) OpenShift
4 3 (12.50%) GCP
5 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (41.67%) DHCP
1 10 (41.67%) DNS
1 10 (41.67%) TCP/IP
2 6 (25.00%) LAN
2 6 (25.00%) VSAN
2 6 (25.00%) WAN
3 3 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (12.50%) VPN
4 2 (8.33%) Firewall
5 1 (4.17%) Telnet
5 1 (4.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) InfluxDB
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (4.17%) Big Data
2 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.17%) MySQL
2 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Git
2 4 (16.67%) GitLab
2 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (12.50%) Balsamiq
3 3 (12.50%) Robot Framework
3 3 (12.50%) TestRail
4 2 (8.33%) Bitbucket
5 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
5 1 (4.17%) Selenium
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Military
4 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Electronics
4 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.33%) Marketing
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Applications Support
3 3 (12.50%) Consultant
3 3 (12.50%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 3 (12.50%) IT Support
3 3 (12.50%) Senior
3 3 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Applications Support Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Automation Tester
4 2 (8.33%) IT Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) IT Support Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Support Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Tester
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Support
5 1 (4.17%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Virtualisation Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.17%) Playwright
2 1 (4.17%) pytest
2 1 (4.17%) React
2 1 (4.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Driving Licence
1 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (62.50%) Linux
1 15 (62.50%) Windows
2 9 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 8 (33.33%) CentOS
4 5 (20.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (20.83%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (20.83%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (8.33%) CoreOS
6 1 (4.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (33.33%) Agile
3 7 (29.17%) Containerisation
4 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (25.00%) ITIL
4 6 (25.00%) Software Testing
5 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (20.83%) DevOps
6 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 4 (16.67%) RBAC
6 4 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 4 (16.67%) Time Management
7 3 (12.50%) DevSecOps
7 3 (12.50%) Integration Testing
7 3 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
7 3 (12.50%) Test Management
7 3 (12.50%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 17 (70.83%) Bash
1 17 (70.83%) Python
2 4 (16.67%) Go
3 3 (12.50%) C#
3 3 (12.50%) VBScript
4 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.17%) C++
5 1 (4.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 20 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (41.67%) DV Cleared
3 9 (37.50%) SC Cleared
4 4 (16.67%) Degree
5 3 (12.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (12.50%) CITP
5 3 (12.50%) CREST Certified
6 1 (4.17%) A+ Certification
6 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (4.17%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) Hyper-V
2 8 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 5 (20.83%) Docker
4 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
6 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Ansible
2 8 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (20.83%) McAfee ePO
3 5 (20.83%) SCVMM
4 4 (16.67%) Terraform
5 3 (12.50%) Grafana
6 2 (8.33%) NetBackup
6 2 (8.33%) SCCM
6 2 (8.33%) vCenter Server
7 1 (4.17%) Kibana
7 1 (4.17%) logstash
7 1 (4.17%) Podman
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
3 5 (20.83%) McAfee
4 4 (16.67%) VMware
5 3 (12.50%) Cisco
5 3 (12.50%) Splunk
6 2 (8.33%) Dell
6 2 (8.33%) Google
6 2 (8.33%) HP
6 2 (8.33%) Juniper
6 2 (8.33%) SAP
6 2 (8.33%) Veeam
7 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
7 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
7 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto