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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 43 28
Rank change year-on-year -6 -15 +9
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 12 52 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 2.18% 4.70% 9.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.32% 14.05% 20.59%
Number of salaries quoted 5 16 29
10th Percentile £50,250 - £46,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £33,750 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.25% +20.43%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile - £80,750 £80,000
South West median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.94% -8.18% +17.65%

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 164 370 408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 29.82% 33.45% 44.40%
Number of salaries quoted 92 221 250
10th Percentile £27,500 £35,000 £38,625
25th Percentile £39,821 £45,000 £45,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £59,778
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -3.81% +19.56%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £82,500
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

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 6 £56,250 +25.00% 9
Tewkesbury +4 2 £70,000 -
Cirencester - 1 £55,000 -
PowerShell
South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
3 4 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (33.33%) Serverless
4 3 (25.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) Google Workspace
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (8.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) IPv4
2 2 (16.67%) DHCP
2 2 (16.67%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) LAN
2 2 (16.67%) OSPF
2 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (16.67%) VLAN
2 2 (16.67%) VPN
2 2 (16.67%) VSAN
2 2 (16.67%) WAN
3 1 (8.33%) NAS
3 1 (8.33%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
General
1 4 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 2 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Administrator
3 3 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (25.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 3 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 2 (16.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Presales Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Virtualisation Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (41.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Linux
1 10 (83.33%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (16.67%) CentOS
3 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (8.33%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 4 (33.33%) Cost Reduction
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 4 (33.33%) Re-Platforming
2 4 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 3 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) ITIL
4 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) Time Management
5 1 (8.33%) Critical Thinking
5 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (8.33%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Python
2 10 (83.33%) Bash
3 4 (33.33%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (41.67%) AWS Certification
4 4 (33.33%) Degree
4 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (8.33%) CCNA
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (33.33%) Docker
3 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (16.67%) vSphere
5 1 (8.33%) KVM
5 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Ansible
2 4 (33.33%) Puppet
2 4 (33.33%) Terraform
3 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (16.67%) McAfee ePO
3 2 (16.67%) SCVMM
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) VMware
2 2 (16.67%) Google
2 2 (16.67%) McAfee
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Veeam