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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 93 54
Rank change year-on-year +3 -39 +32
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 103 92 301
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.80% 2.53% 4.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.98% 7.25% 11.64%
Number of salaries quoted 85 50 237
10th Percentile £32,600 £30,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,188 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -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 860 1,269 2,587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.99% 34.96% 39.31%
Number of salaries quoted 598 688 2,173
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,050
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

PowerShell
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

PowerShell
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

PowerShell
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in the South West over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in the South West

PowerShell
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 12 February 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 -8 34 £73,750 +22.92% 6
Gloucestershire +7 23 £52,500 -12.50% 9
Wiltshire +10 13 £55,000 +29.41% 3
Devon -2 13 £52,500 -30.00% 4
Somerset -18 12 £33,500 -33.00% 7
Dorset -1 7 £35,000 -26.32% 8
Avon - 1 £52,500 - 3
PowerShell
England

PowerShell
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 16 (15.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (13.59%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.91%) IIS
4 1 (0.97%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (7.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 67 (65.05%) Azure
2 42 (40.78%) AWS
3 28 (27.18%) Entra ID
4 22 (21.36%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (17.48%) GitHub
5 18 (17.48%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (10.68%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (8.74%) GCP
7 9 (8.74%) OpenShift
8 8 (7.77%) OneDrive
8 8 (7.77%) Serverless
9 6 (5.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (5.83%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (5.83%) Amazon S3
9 6 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (5.83%) Datadog
9 6 (5.83%) Power Platform
9 6 (5.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (4.85%) SaaS
11 4 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 33 (32.04%) DNS
2 22 (21.36%) Firewall
3 21 (20.39%) DHCP
4 16 (15.53%) TCP/IP
5 9 (8.74%) LAN
5 9 (8.74%) WAN
6 8 (7.77%) DKIM
6 8 (7.77%) DMARC
7 7 (6.80%) VPN
8 6 (5.83%) VSAN
9 5 (4.85%) VoIP
9 5 (4.85%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (2.91%) Broadband
10 3 (2.91%) Internet
10 3 (2.91%) Kerberos
10 3 (2.91%) LTE
10 3 (2.91%) Network Security
10 3 (2.91%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (2.91%) SAN
10 3 (2.91%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.83%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.88%) Power BI
3 3 (2.91%) InfluxDB
3 3 (2.91%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.97%) Big Data
4 1 (0.97%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.97%) MySQL
4 1 (0.97%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (25.24%) Jenkins
2 7 (6.80%) Git
3 6 (5.83%) CircleCI
4 5 (4.85%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.88%) GitLab
6 3 (2.91%) Balsamiq
6 3 (2.91%) Robot Framework
6 3 (2.91%) TestRail
7 1 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.97%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.97%) Selenium
General
1 39 (37.86%) Social Skills
2 27 (26.21%) Finance
3 9 (8.74%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.80%) Law
6 6 (5.83%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.85%) Advertising
7 5 (4.85%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.91%) Billing
8 3 (2.91%) Military
9 2 (1.94%) Electronics
9 2 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.94%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.94%) Marketing
9 2 (1.94%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.97%) Legal
10 1 (0.97%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 18 (17.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (12.62%) Senior
3 12 (11.65%) Analyst
4 11 (10.68%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 10 (9.71%) Applications Engineer
5 10 (9.71%) Support Analyst
6 9 (8.74%) Security Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) IT Support
8 7 (6.80%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) IT Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Support Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) 2nd Line Support
9 6 (5.83%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Consultant
10 5 (4.85%) ICT Support
10 5 (4.85%) ICT Support Technician
10 5 (4.85%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Technical Support
10 5 (4.85%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.80%) OAuth
1 7 (6.80%) OpenID
1 7 (6.80%) SAML
2 6 (5.83%) LDAP
3 4 (3.88%) OAuth2
4 3 (2.91%) ARM Templates
4 3 (2.91%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.91%) GraphQL
4 3 (2.91%) PySpark
4 3 (2.91%) REST
4 3 (2.91%) SOAP
5 2 (1.94%) .NET
6 1 (0.97%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.97%) Playwright
6 1 (0.97%) pytest
6 1 (0.97%) React
6 1 (0.97%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.83%) Security Posture
2 5 (4.85%) Driving Licence
2 5 (4.85%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.88%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.91%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (2.91%) Cyberattack
4 3 (2.91%) PKI
5 2 (1.94%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.94%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.94%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.97%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.97%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.97%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 54 (52.43%) Windows
2 35 (33.98%) Windows Server
3 26 (25.24%) Linux
4 10 (9.71%) CentOS
4 10 (9.71%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (8.74%) Windows 10
6 8 (7.77%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (6.80%) Mac OS
8 5 (4.85%) Android
8 5 (4.85%) Apple iOS
8 5 (4.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.94%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.97%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.97%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (42.72%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (30.10%) DevOps
2 31 (30.10%) ITIL
3 23 (22.33%) Cloud Security
3 23 (22.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (21.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (20.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 20 (19.42%) CI/CD
7 18 (17.48%) Containerisation
8 16 (15.53%) Agile
9 15 (14.56%) Mentoring
9 15 (14.56%) Security Testing
10 14 (13.59%) Incident Response
10 14 (13.59%) Roadmaps
11 13 (12.62%) Root Cause Analysis
12 12 (11.65%) Project Delivery
13 10 (9.71%) Application Security
13 10 (9.71%) RBAC
13 10 (9.71%) SIEM
13 10 (9.71%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 47 (45.63%) Bash
2 46 (44.66%) Python
3 7 (6.80%) SQL
4 5 (4.85%) C#
5 4 (3.88%) Go
6 3 (2.91%) Bicep
6 3 (2.91%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.91%) VB
6 3 (2.91%) VBScript
7 2 (1.94%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.97%) C++
8 1 (0.97%) Java
8 1 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 31 (30.10%) Security Cleared
2 16 (15.53%) Degree
3 12 (11.65%) CREST Certified
3 12 (11.65%) DV Cleared
3 12 (11.65%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (11.65%) SC Cleared
4 9 (8.74%) CISSP
4 9 (8.74%) SANS
5 7 (6.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 6 (5.83%) Azure Certification
6 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 5 (4.85%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (2.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.91%) CEH
8 3 (2.91%) CITP
9 2 (1.94%) A+ Certification
9 2 (1.94%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (1.94%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.65%) Accessibility
2 9 (8.74%) SLA
3 5 (4.85%) NIST
4 4 (3.88%) GDPR
4 4 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.91%) NCSC
6 2 (1.94%) COBIT
6 2 (1.94%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (43.69%) Active Directory
2 20 (19.42%) Hyper-V
3 17 (16.50%) Docker
3 17 (16.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (4.85%) vSphere
5 4 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.91%) iptables
7 2 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.97%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (22.33%) Terraform
2 19 (18.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (17.48%) Ansible
4 17 (16.50%) Kubernetes
5 12 (11.65%) Grafana
6 6 (5.83%) SCCM
6 6 (5.83%) SCVMM
7 5 (4.85%) McAfee ePO
8 4 (3.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (3.88%) Puppet
8 4 (3.88%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.91%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.91%) Prometheus
9 3 (2.91%) WSUS
10 2 (1.94%) CASB
10 2 (1.94%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.94%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.97%) Kibana
11 1 (0.97%) logstash
11 1 (0.97%) Podman
Vendors
1 50 (48.54%) Microsoft
2 17 (16.50%) VMware
3 12 (11.65%) Red Hat
4 10 (9.71%) Veeam
5 9 (8.74%) Cisco
6 6 (5.83%) arcserve
7 5 (4.85%) McAfee
8 4 (3.88%) Splunk
9 3 (2.91%) Databricks
9 3 (2.91%) HP
10 2 (1.94%) Dell
10 2 (1.94%) Google
10 2 (1.94%) Juniper
10 2 (1.94%) SAP
10 2 (1.94%) SonicWALL
10 2 (1.94%) Tenable
10 2 (1.94%) Thales
11 1 (0.97%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.97%) Palo Alto