PowerShell Job Trends in South Wales

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Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 57 43
Rank change year-on-year +4 -14 +27
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 14 9 24
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 1.72% 1.36% 4.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.14% 4.09% 11.65%
Number of salaries quoted 14 5 17
10th Percentile - £46,050 £36,910
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -9.57% +4.55%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,698 £67,500
90th Percentile £58,375 £56,779 £74,750
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £52,833
% change year-on-year +5.77% -1.58% -2.61%

All Programming Languages
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 138 220 206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 16.95% 33.33% 37.73%
Number of salaries quoted 113 136 149
10th Percentile £35,450 £26,875 £37,130
25th Percentile £48,250 £31,250 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,750 £51,528
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -5.39% +3.06%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,000 £74,572 £72,750
Wales median annual salary £56,631 £49,104 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.33% -1.79% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in South Wales

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Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing PowerShell

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Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Bridgend +6 13 £55,000 -
Cardiff +13 1 £55,000 +2.72% 10
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Wales

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (85.71%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Azure API Management
3 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (85.71%) SQL Server
2 11 (78.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 11 (78.57%) Octopus Deploy
1 11 (78.57%) TeamCity
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) git-flow
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 11 (78.57%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (78.57%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 11 (78.57%) Hybrid Cloud
1 11 (78.57%) Legacy Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Virtual Team
2 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
1 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) CI/CD
1 13 (92.86%) DevOps
1 13 (92.86%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (78.57%) AI
2 11 (78.57%) Software Delivery
3 2 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Security
4 1 (7.14%) Containerisation
4 1 (7.14%) Data Strategy
4 1 (7.14%) Event-Driven
4 1 (7.14%) FinOps
4 1 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (7.14%) Incident Response
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (7.14%) RBAC
4 1 (7.14%) Runbook
4 1 (7.14%) Task Automation
4 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (85.71%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft