PowerShell Jobs in the South West

Windows PowerShell
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring PowerShell skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PowerShell over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 98 84
Rank change year-on-year -4 -14 +17
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 86 255 232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.22% 2.48% 3.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.30% 8.51% 9.55%
Number of salaries quoted 70 148 110
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £34,723
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £56,188 £57,500 £68,438
90th Percentile £61,375 £63,250 £80,255
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -

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 1,036 2,998 2,429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 26.71% 29.15% 37.62%
Number of salaries quoted 714 2,282 1,656
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PowerShell in the South West.

Salary trend for PowerShell in the South West

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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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +48 23 £57,500 +15.00% 27
Somerset +26 16 £40,000 -5.88% 9
Dorset +46 14 £47,500 -5.00% 4
Gloucestershire -25 12 £43,750 -16.67% 30
Wiltshire +19 10 £36,000 -28.71% 14
Devon +12 10 £47,500 +18.75% 10
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 19 (22.09%) IIS
2 14 (16.28%) SharePoint
3 12 (13.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.16%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 13 (15.12%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 47 (54.65%) Azure
2 46 (53.49%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (20.93%) AWS
4 15 (17.44%) Entra ID
5 10 (11.63%) SaaS
6 7 (8.14%) IaaS
6 7 (8.14%) Power Automate
6 7 (8.14%) Power Platform
7 6 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (6.98%) Serverless
8 4 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (4.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (4.65%) GCP
8 4 (4.65%) PaaS
9 3 (3.49%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.49%) OneDrive
10 2 (2.33%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (2.33%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.33%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 40 (46.51%) Firewall
2 30 (34.88%) DNS
3 28 (32.56%) DHCP
3 28 (32.56%) VPN
4 17 (19.77%) VLAN
4 17 (19.77%) VoIP
5 15 (17.44%) WAN
6 11 (12.79%) LAN
7 10 (11.63%) ADSL
8 8 (9.30%) Internet
8 8 (9.30%) MPLS
8 8 (9.30%) Network Security
9 7 (8.14%) Kerberos
9 7 (8.14%) SD-WAN
10 6 (6.98%) SAN
10 6 (6.98%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (5.81%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (5.81%) VPLS
12 4 (4.65%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (4.65%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.44%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (16.28%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.81%) Power BI
3 5 (5.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (5.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (4.65%) FileMaker
5 3 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.33%) MySQL
6 2 (2.33%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.16%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.16%) DB2
7 1 (1.16%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.49%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.33%) Git
2 2 (2.33%) JIRA
2 2 (2.33%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.16%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.16%) Robot Framework
General
1 30 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (10.47%) Law
2 9 (10.47%) Telecoms
3 7 (8.14%) Finance
3 7 (8.14%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.98%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (5.81%) Electronics
5 5 (5.81%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.49%) Aerospace
6 3 (3.49%) Automotive
6 3 (3.49%) Local Government
7 2 (2.33%) Banking
7 2 (2.33%) Marketing
8 1 (1.16%) Legal
8 1 (1.16%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (27.91%) Analyst
2 23 (26.74%) Support Analyst
3 22 (25.58%) 3rd Line Support
4 21 (24.42%) IT Support
5 17 (19.77%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
6 16 (18.60%) IT Analyst
6 16 (18.60%) IT Support Analyst
7 11 (12.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (11.63%) Senior
9 8 (9.30%) Administrator
10 7 (8.14%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (8.14%) IT Engineer
10 7 (8.14%) Support Specialist
10 7 (8.14%) Technical Specialist
10 7 (8.14%) Technical Support
10 7 (8.14%) Technical Support Specialist
11 6 (6.98%) Developer
11 6 (6.98%) Network Engineer
11 6 (6.98%) Support Engineer
12 5 (5.81%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.14%) LDAP
2 3 (3.49%) .NET
3 2 (2.33%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.16%) ModSecurity
4 1 (1.16%) OLE
4 1 (1.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.30%) Hybrid Cloud
1 8 (9.30%) PKI
2 6 (6.98%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.49%) FMCG
3 3 (3.49%) IoT
3 3 (3.49%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.49%) Operational Technology
3 3 (3.49%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (3.49%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (2.33%) Clustering
4 2 (2.33%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.33%) Replication
4 2 (2.33%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.16%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.16%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 58 (67.44%) Windows
2 37 (43.02%) Windows Server
3 29 (33.72%) Linux
4 17 (19.77%) Windows Server 2019
5 12 (13.95%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (12.79%) Windows 10
7 3 (3.49%) Android
7 3 (3.49%) Mac OS
8 2 (2.33%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (29.07%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (25.58%) ITIL
3 17 (19.77%) Cybersecurity
3 17 (19.77%) DevOps
4 15 (17.44%) Disaster Recovery
5 14 (16.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (16.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (12.79%) Collaborative Working
7 10 (11.63%) Artificial Intelligence
7 10 (11.63%) Data Loss Prevention
7 10 (11.63%) Migration
8 8 (9.30%) CI/CD
8 8 (9.30%) Containerisation
8 8 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (8.14%) Project Delivery
9 7 (8.14%) Service Management
9 7 (8.14%) Task Automation
10 6 (6.98%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (6.98%) Computer Science
10 6 (6.98%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 24 (27.91%) SQL
2 20 (23.26%) Python
3 18 (20.93%) Bash
4 8 (9.30%) VB
5 5 (5.81%) C#
5 5 (5.81%) T-SQL
6 4 (4.65%) R
7 2 (2.33%) Bicep
7 2 (2.33%) Go
7 2 (2.33%) Java
8 1 (1.16%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.16%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.16%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.28%) Degree
3 13 (15.12%) SC Cleared
4 9 (10.47%) CCNA
4 9 (10.47%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (9.30%) CCNP
5 8 (9.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (5.81%) A+ Certification
6 5 (5.81%) AWS Certification
6 5 (5.81%) DV Cleared
6 5 (5.81%) Network+ Certification
7 4 (4.65%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (4.65%) DBS Check
7 4 (4.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (2.33%) ACMT
8 2 (2.33%) CISSP
8 2 (2.33%) MCSA
9 1 (1.16%) MCP
9 1 (1.16%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.30%) SLA
2 4 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (2.33%) NIST
3 2 (2.33%) QA
4 1 (1.16%) GDPR
4 1 (1.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 37 (43.02%) Active Directory
2 22 (25.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (10.47%) Docker
3 9 (10.47%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (6.98%) vSphere
5 5 (5.81%) Hyper-V
6 4 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (3.49%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (2.33%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (1.16%) BitLocker
9 1 (1.16%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (1.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 33 (38.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (17.44%) Terraform
3 13 (15.12%) Ansible
4 7 (8.14%) SCCM
4 7 (8.14%) WSUS
5 6 (6.98%) Kubernetes
6 5 (5.81%) Puppet
7 3 (3.49%) SmoothWall
7 3 (3.49%) vCenter Server
8 2 (2.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (2.33%) Autotask
8 2 (2.33%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (2.33%) PaperCut
8 2 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.16%) Grafana
9 1 (1.16%) Nagios
9 1 (1.16%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 61 (70.93%) Microsoft
2 26 (30.23%) VMware
3 20 (23.26%) Cisco
4 9 (10.47%) Fortinet
4 9 (10.47%) SolarWinds
5 7 (8.14%) HP
6 5 (5.81%) Meraki
7 4 (4.65%) Citrix
7 4 (4.65%) Datto
7 4 (4.65%) Google
8 3 (3.49%) Aruba
8 3 (3.49%) CheckPoint
8 3 (3.49%) EMC
8 3 (3.49%) Extreme Networks
8 3 (3.49%) Okta
8 3 (3.49%) Oracle
8 3 (3.49%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.49%) Veeam
8 3 (3.49%) Zscaler
9 2 (2.33%) SAP