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

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 43 27
Rank change year-on-year -7 -16 +2
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 6 51 95
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 1.17% 5.06% 10.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.38% 12.69% 22.25%
Number of salaries quoted 6 13 34
10th Percentile £50,625 - £41,675
25th Percentile £54,375 £33,750 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £52,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -6.25% +20.43%
75th Percentile £74,063 £70,000 £78,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,500 £83,500
South West median annual salary £48,500 £50,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.96% -8.18% +22.22%

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 137 402 427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 26.65% 39.92% 48.58%
Number of salaries quoted 85 150 253
10th Percentile £29,000 £37,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,000 £82,500 £80,600
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +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 October 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 October 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 +3 3 £60,000 +60.00% 2
Tewkesbury +2 2 £70,000 - 1
Cirencester - 1 £55,000 -
PowerShell
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Google Workspace
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) VSAN
2 2 (33.33%) DHCP
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) NAS
3 1 (16.67%) SAN
3 1 (16.67%) VLAN
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Presales Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Virtualisation Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 3 (50.00%) CentOS
2 3 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (16.67%) CoreOS
4 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Time Management
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Control
3 1 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) RBAC
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (16.67%) CCNA
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (50.00%) vSphere
3 2 (33.33%) Docker
4 1 (16.67%) KVM
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (33.33%) McAfee ePO
3 2 (33.33%) SCVMM
3 2 (33.33%) Terraform
3 2 (33.33%) vCenter Server
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) McAfee
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (16.67%) Veeam