PowerShell Job Trends in the South West

Windows PowerShell
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 103 55
Rank change year-on-year +23 -48 +33
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 97 124 234
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.70% 1.91% 5.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.66% 6.97% 12.67%
Number of salaries quoted 88 54 152
10th Percentile £31,100 £30,000 £34,094
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.96% -8.18% +20.22%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,344 £72,500
90th Percentile £71,625 £66,750 £84,755
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -

All Programming Languages
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 710 1,779 1,847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 19.73% 27.42% 39.53%
Number of salaries quoted 506 991 1,455
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £33,888
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,375 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the South West over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the South West region over the 6 months to 18 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
Bristol +33 39 £48,500 +53.97% 11
Somerset +12 14 £33,500 -39.09% 7
Wiltshire +28 12 £36,000 -28.71% 24
Dorset +26 12 £39,000 -8.24% 2
Devon +10 12 £55,000 +46.67% 3
Gloucestershire -9 7 £60,000 +14.29% 18
Avon - 1 £52,500 - 5
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 23 (23.71%) IIS
2 20 (20.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (17.53%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.03%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 11 (11.34%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (61.86%) Azure
2 44 (45.36%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (23.71%) AWS
4 20 (20.62%) Entra ID
5 10 (10.31%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.19%) GitHub
6 6 (6.19%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (6.19%) SaaS
7 5 (5.15%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (5.15%) OneDrive
7 5 (5.15%) Power Platform
7 5 (5.15%) Serverless
8 4 (4.12%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (4.12%) OpenShift
9 3 (3.09%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.09%) GCP
9 3 (3.09%) PaaS
9 3 (3.09%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.06%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.06%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 45 (46.39%) Firewall
2 40 (41.24%) DNS
3 32 (32.99%) DHCP
4 20 (20.62%) WAN
5 19 (19.59%) LAN
6 17 (17.53%) Internet
6 17 (17.53%) Kerberos
6 17 (17.53%) VPN
7 14 (14.43%) VLAN
8 11 (11.34%) TCP/IP
9 8 (8.25%) DKIM
9 8 (8.25%) DMARC
9 8 (8.25%) SAN
9 8 (8.25%) Wireless
10 7 (7.22%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (6.19%) IPsec
11 6 (6.19%) NAS
11 6 (6.19%) VoIP
12 5 (5.15%) Network Security
13 3 (3.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.40%) Amazon RDS
1 13 (13.40%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.09%) Power BI
3 2 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (2.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.03%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.03%) DB2
4 1 (1.03%) FileMaker
4 1 (1.03%) MySQL
4 1 (1.03%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (7.22%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.15%) Git
3 2 (2.06%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.03%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.03%) GitLab
General
1 50 (51.55%) Social Skills
2 22 (22.68%) Law
3 16 (16.49%) Finance
4 11 (11.34%) Public Sector
4 11 (11.34%) Telecoms
5 6 (6.19%) Electronics
5 6 (6.19%) Manufacturing
5 6 (6.19%) Marketing
6 4 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.12%) Local Government
7 2 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Legal
Job Titles
1 24 (24.74%) Analyst
2 22 (22.68%) Support Analyst
3 18 (18.56%) 2nd Line Support
4 17 (17.53%) 3rd Line Support
5 16 (16.49%) IT Support
6 14 (14.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 14 (14.43%) Support Engineer
7 13 (13.40%) Senior
8 12 (12.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (12.37%) IT Engineer
9 11 (11.34%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
10 10 (10.31%) IT Support Engineer
11 9 (9.28%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 9 (9.28%) Administrator
11 9 (9.28%) Technical Support
12 8 (8.25%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 7 (7.22%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (7.22%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
14 6 (6.19%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
14 6 (6.19%) Senior IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (17.53%) LDAP
2 4 (4.12%) .NET
3 3 (3.09%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.03%) ModSecurity
4 1 (1.03%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.53%) PKI
2 6 (6.19%) Clustering
3 3 (3.09%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.09%) e-Learning
3 3 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.06%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.06%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.06%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.06%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.03%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.03%) NHS
5 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.03%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.03%) Replication
5 1 (1.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 71 (73.20%) Windows
2 57 (58.76%) Windows Server
3 27 (27.84%) Windows Server 2019
4 21 (21.65%) Windows 10
5 19 (19.59%) Windows Server 2016
6 15 (15.46%) Linux
7 7 (7.22%) Mac OS
8 3 (3.09%) CentOS
8 3 (3.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.03%) Android
9 1 (1.03%) CoreOS
9 1 (1.03%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.11%) ITIL
2 30 (30.93%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (25.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (18.56%) Data Loss Prevention
4 18 (18.56%) DevOps
5 16 (16.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 16 (16.49%) Migration
6 14 (14.43%) Containerisation
6 14 (14.43%) Mentoring
7 12 (12.37%) CI/CD
8 11 (11.34%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (11.34%) Server Management
9 9 (9.28%) Coaching
9 9 (9.28%) Incident Management
9 9 (9.28%) Project Delivery
10 8 (8.25%) Collaborative Culture
10 8 (8.25%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (8.25%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (8.25%) Roadmaps
11 7 (7.22%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 19 (19.59%) Python
2 17 (17.53%) VB
3 14 (14.43%) Bash
4 6 (6.19%) Bicep
4 6 (6.19%) SQL
5 4 (4.12%) C#
6 2 (2.06%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.03%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.03%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (17.53%) Degree
2 16 (16.49%) Security Cleared
3 13 (13.40%) Azure Certification
4 10 (10.31%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (10.31%) SC Cleared
5 8 (8.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (7.22%) CCNA
6 7 (7.22%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (6.19%) ACMT
7 6 (6.19%) CCNP
7 6 (6.19%) DV Cleared
8 5 (5.15%) AWS Certification
8 5 (5.15%) CISSP
8 5 (5.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (4.12%) DBS Check
9 4 (4.12%) SANS
10 3 (3.09%) CREST Certified
11 2 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (22.68%) SLA
2 6 (6.19%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (5.15%) GDPR
3 5 (5.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.09%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.03%) QA
System Software
1 50 (51.55%) Active Directory
2 29 (29.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (16.49%) Hyper-V
4 15 (15.46%) Docker
5 8 (8.25%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (8.25%) vSphere
6 7 (7.22%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (2.06%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (2.06%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.03%) iptables
8 1 (1.03%) KVM
Systems Management
1 39 (40.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (17.53%) WSUS
3 16 (16.49%) Terraform
4 15 (15.46%) Kubernetes
5 10 (10.31%) Ansible
6 8 (8.25%) vCenter Server
7 6 (6.19%) Autotask
8 5 (5.15%) PaperCut
9 4 (4.12%) SCCM
10 3 (3.09%) SmoothWall
11 2 (2.06%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (2.06%) Puppet
11 2 (2.06%) SCVMM
12 1 (1.03%) Grafana
12 1 (1.03%) Progress Chef
12 1 (1.03%) Prometheus
12 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 71 (73.20%) Microsoft
2 30 (30.93%) VMware
3 27 (27.84%) Cisco
4 13 (13.40%) Veeam
5 11 (11.34%) Datto
6 8 (8.25%) Oracle
7 6 (6.19%) Apple
7 6 (6.19%) SAP
7 6 (6.19%) Sophos
8 4 (4.12%) arcserve
8 4 (4.12%) Fortinet
8 4 (4.12%) HP
8 4 (4.12%) Palo Alto
8 4 (4.12%) SolarWinds
9 3 (3.09%) EMC
9 3 (3.09%) Google
9 3 (3.09%) Red Hat
10 2 (2.06%) McAfee
10 2 (2.06%) Meraki
10 2 (2.06%) SonicWALL