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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 46 42
Rank change year-on-year -21 -4 +14
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 18 12 100
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 1.34% 2.87% 6.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.50% 7.89% 14.35%
Number of salaries quoted 12 2 67
10th Percentile - £33,375 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,563 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £43,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +34.29% -16.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £65,313 £51,563 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,500 £55,125 £79,250
South West median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 240 152 697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 17.92% 36.36% 42.19%
Number of salaries quoted 140 72 579
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,497 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% +4.76% -7.89%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,313 £64,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -13 8 £60,000 +84.62% 2
Cheltenham -29 6 £55,000 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) OpenShift
3 3 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) DHCP
1 8 (44.44%) DNS
2 7 (38.89%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.56%) IPv4
3 1 (5.56%) LAN
3 1 (5.56%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (5.56%) VPN
3 1 (5.56%) VSAN
3 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) InfluxDB
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (5.56%) Big Data
2 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (55.56%) Git
2 7 (38.89%) GitLab
3 6 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 5 (27.78%) Robot Framework
4 5 (27.78%) TestRail
5 4 (22.22%) Cypress.io
5 4 (22.22%) JIRA
5 4 (22.22%) Selenium
6 3 (16.67%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (22.22%) Aerospace
2 2 (11.11%) Electronics
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 2 (11.11%) Marketing
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Software Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Test Automation Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Test Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Lead
3 3 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Automation Tester
4 1 (5.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Support
4 1 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Tester
4 1 (5.56%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (22.22%) Playwright
2 4 (22.22%) pytest
3 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.56%) boto
3 1 (5.56%) React
3 1 (5.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 3 (16.67%) Fat Client
2 3 (16.67%) Thin Client
3 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (88.89%) Linux
2 12 (66.67%) Windows
3 6 (33.33%) CentOS
4 5 (27.78%) Windows Server
5 1 (5.56%) CoreOS
5 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.56%) VMS
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (61.11%) Agile
3 10 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 8 (44.44%) Software Testing
4 8 (44.44%) Test Automation
5 7 (38.89%) Containerisation
6 5 (27.78%) Collaborative Culture
6 5 (27.78%) Test Management
7 4 (22.22%) Dashboard Development
7 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 4 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
8 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
8 3 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
8 3 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (16.67%) Programme Management
8 3 (16.67%) Risk Analysis
8 3 (16.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (88.89%) Python
2 14 (77.78%) Bash
3 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.11%) Java
5 1 (5.56%) C++
5 1 (5.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 15 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 5 (27.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
4 2 (11.11%) Degree
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (5.56%) CCNA
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.56%) ISTQB
5 1 (5.56%) OSCP
5 1 (5.56%) RHCE
5 1 (5.56%) RHCSA
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (38.89%) Docker
3 4 (22.22%) Hyper-V
3 4 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
5 1 (5.56%) Squid
5 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
5 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (77.78%) Ansible
2 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
3 5 (27.78%) Grafana
3 5 (27.78%) Terraform
4 4 (22.22%) Kibana
4 4 (22.22%) logstash
4 4 (22.22%) vCenter Server
5 3 (16.67%) NetBackup
5 3 (16.67%) SCCM
5 3 (16.67%) SCOM
5 3 (16.67%) SCOrch
6 1 (5.56%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (5.56%) Packer
6 1 (5.56%) Podman
6 1 (5.56%) SCVMM
6 1 (5.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (44.44%) VMware
3 7 (38.89%) Red Hat
4 6 (33.33%) Splunk
5 4 (22.22%) Atlassian
6 3 (16.67%) Cisco
6 3 (16.67%) Dell
6 3 (16.67%) HP
6 3 (16.67%) Juniper
6 3 (16.67%) Veeam
7 2 (11.11%) SAP
8 1 (5.56%) McAfee
8 1 (5.56%) Oracle