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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 86 103
Rank change year-on-year -71 +17 -45
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 86 85 132
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.82% 2.41% 1.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.42% 11.87% 7.19%
Number of salaries quoted 42 76 59
10th Percentile £38,975 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £47,031 £36,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.94% -8.18%
75th Percentile £73,250 £57,813 £57,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £66,213 £63,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £57,500 £60,918
% change year-on-year +2.61% -5.61% +1.53%

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 1,588 716 1,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.21% 20.31% 26.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,158 491 1,094
10th Percentile £35,749 £29,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £74,869 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 30 September 2026.

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 30 September 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
Bristol -42 37 £55,000 +13.40% 7
Gloucestershire -42 31 £60,500 +0.83% 24
Wiltshire -27 6 £47,500 +31.94% 15
Dorset -12 5 - - 6
Somerset -39 5 £40,000 - 14
Devon -37 1 £48,750 -9.30% 4
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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 20 (23.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (12.79%) SharePoint
3 6 (6.98%) Confluence
4 2 (2.33%) IIS
4 2 (2.33%) nginx
Business Applications
1 4 (4.65%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.33%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 38 (44.19%) Azure
2 24 (27.91%) AWS
3 19 (22.09%) IaaS
3 19 (22.09%) Serverless
4 18 (20.93%) PaaS
5 16 (18.60%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (17.44%) GitHub
7 13 (15.12%) Entra ID
8 12 (13.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 12 (13.95%) Azure Functions
8 12 (13.95%) Azure Key Vault
8 12 (13.95%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (13.95%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (11.63%) OpenShift
10 9 (10.47%) Microsoft Purview
11 8 (9.30%) SaaS
12 6 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (4.65%) AWS CloudTrail
13 4 (4.65%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (20.93%) VPN
2 10 (11.63%) Firewall
2 10 (11.63%) TCP/IP
3 9 (10.47%) DNS
4 6 (6.98%) DHCP
5 4 (4.65%) IPv4
5 4 (4.65%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (2.33%) LAN
6 2 (2.33%) Network Security
6 2 (2.33%) SNMP
6 2 (2.33%) VSAN
6 2 (2.33%) WAN
7 1 (1.16%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.12%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (9.30%) InfluxDB
3 4 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.49%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.33%) Power Query
6 1 (1.16%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.16%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 31 (36.05%) Git
2 16 (18.60%) Jenkins
3 14 (16.28%) GitLab
4 10 (11.63%) JIRA
5 8 (9.30%) Robot Framework
5 8 (9.30%) TestRail
6 6 (6.98%) Bitbucket
6 6 (6.98%) Cypress.io
6 6 (6.98%) Selenium
7 2 (2.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (2.33%) git-flow
8 1 (1.16%) AdminStudio
8 1 (1.16%) Balsamiq
8 1 (1.16%) InstallShield
8 1 (1.16%) MSI
8 1 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 34 (39.53%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (16.28%) Law
4 10 (11.63%) Aerospace
5 9 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.47%) Finance
6 3 (3.49%) Military
6 3 (3.49%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.33%) Retail
8 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (19.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (17.44%) Senior
3 14 (16.28%) Analyst
4 12 (13.95%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 7 (8.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (8.14%) Lead
6 6 (6.98%) Administrator
6 6 (6.98%) Consultant
6 6 (6.98%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (6.98%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
6 6 (6.98%) Support Engineer
6 6 (6.98%) Test Automation Engineer
6 6 (6.98%) Test Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) Systems Administrator
8 4 (4.65%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Implementation Consultant
8 4 (4.65%) IT Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) IT Support
8 4 (4.65%) IT Support Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (38.37%) Terraform
2 8 (9.30%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (6.98%) Playwright
3 6 (6.98%) pytest
4 4 (4.65%) boto
5 3 (3.49%) OAuth
5 3 (3.49%) OAuth2
5 3 (3.49%) OpenID
5 3 (3.49%) SAML
6 2 (2.33%) AWS CDK
6 2 (2.33%) JSON
6 2 (2.33%) Node.js
6 2 (2.33%) REST
6 2 (2.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.12%) Public Cloud
1 13 (15.12%) Security Posture
2 12 (13.95%) Podcast
3 7 (8.14%) Product Ownership
3 7 (8.14%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.65%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.49%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.49%) Fat Client
5 3 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.49%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.49%) Thin Client
6 2 (2.33%) Cyberattack
6 2 (2.33%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.16%) PKI
7 1 (1.16%) Replication
7 1 (1.16%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 56 (65.12%) Windows
2 32 (37.21%) Linux
3 19 (22.09%) Windows Server
4 15 (17.44%) VMS
5 10 (11.63%) CentOS
6 4 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (4.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.33%) Android
7 2 (2.33%) Apple iOS
7 2 (2.33%) CoreOS
7 2 (2.33%) Debian
7 2 (2.33%) Mac OS
7 2 (2.33%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (40.70%) Agile
1 35 (40.70%) CI/CD
2 34 (39.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (32.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 27 (31.40%) DevOps
5 26 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (23.26%) DevSecOps
7 19 (22.09%) Scrum
8 18 (20.93%) Cloud Security
8 18 (20.93%) Observability
9 17 (19.77%) Task Automation
10 16 (18.60%) Performance Tuning
11 15 (17.44%) AI
11 15 (17.44%) Analytics
11 15 (17.44%) Containerisation
11 15 (17.44%) Root Cause Analysis
12 14 (16.28%) Generative AI
12 14 (16.28%) Mentoring
12 14 (16.28%) Software Testing
12 14 (16.28%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 44 (51.16%) Bash
2 39 (45.35%) Python
3 27 (31.40%) SQL
4 13 (15.12%) JavaScript
5 12 (13.95%) Bicep
5 12 (13.95%) Kusto Query Language
6 8 (9.30%) Java
7 3 (3.49%) Go
7 3 (3.49%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.33%) PHP
8 2 (2.33%) Ruby
8 2 (2.33%) VBScript
9 1 (1.16%) C#
9 1 (1.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 30 (34.88%) Security Cleared
2 21 (24.42%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (18.60%) Azure Certification
3 16 (18.60%) DV Cleared
4 10 (11.63%) SC Cleared
5 8 (9.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 8 (9.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (6.98%) AWS Certification
7 4 (4.65%) CCNA
7 4 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (4.65%) Degree
7 4 (4.65%) ISTQB
7 4 (4.65%) OSCP
7 4 (4.65%) RHCE
7 4 (4.65%) RHCSA
8 2 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.16%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.14%) GDPR
2 3 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.33%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.16%) NIST
4 1 (1.16%) QA
System Software
1 40 (46.51%) Active Directory
2 32 (37.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (19.77%) vSphere
4 16 (18.60%) Docker
5 15 (17.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (11.63%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (8.14%) Hyper-V
8 6 (6.98%) VMware NSX
9 4 (4.65%) Squid
10 3 (3.49%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (1.16%) Firmware
11 1 (1.16%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 24 (27.91%) Ansible
2 16 (18.60%) Kubernetes
3 11 (12.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (9.30%) Grafana
4 8 (9.30%) vCenter Server
5 6 (6.98%) Kibana
5 6 (6.98%) logstash
5 6 (6.98%) ZABBIX
6 5 (5.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (5.81%) Packer
6 5 (5.81%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (4.65%) Puppet
7 4 (4.65%) SCCM
8 3 (3.49%) SCOM
8 3 (3.49%) SCOrch
9 2 (2.33%) McAfee ePO
9 2 (2.33%) Nagios
9 2 (2.33%) Netcool
9 2 (2.33%) SCVMM
9 2 (2.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 46 (53.49%) Microsoft
2 32 (37.21%) VMware
3 17 (19.77%) Red Hat
4 12 (13.95%) ScienceLogic
4 12 (13.95%) Splunk
5 8 (9.30%) Atlassian
5 8 (9.30%) Cisco
6 6 (6.98%) Oracle
6 6 (6.98%) SAP
7 4 (4.65%) Sage
8 3 (3.49%) Meraki
8 3 (3.49%) Veeam
9 2 (2.33%) arcserve
9 2 (2.33%) BMC
9 2 (2.33%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.33%) McAfee
9 2 (2.33%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.16%) Dell
10 1 (1.16%) HP
10 1 (1.16%) Juniper