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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 99 45
Rank change year-on-year +21 -54 +45
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 107 91 287
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.07% 2.22% 5.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.65% 6.62% 14.36%
Number of salaries quoted 90 48 227
10th Percentile £32,375 £30,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £36,563 £40,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,294 £74,063 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,500 £81,250 £77,706
England median annual salary £58,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.20% +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 784 1,375 1,998
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.14% 33.54% 39.12%
Number of salaries quoted 559 738 1,635
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,281 £43,650 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.29%
75th Percentile £68,575 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,450
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 18 January 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 18 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
Bristol +8 39 £55,000 +4.27% 14
Gloucestershire +12 22 £55,000 -19.12% 14
Wiltshire +24 16 £55,000 +23.60% 11
Devon +5 11 £55,000 -26.67% 10
Somerset -10 11 £33,000 -40.00% 9
Dorset +6 7 £35,000 -22.22% 9
Avon - 1 £52,500 - 6
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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 16 (14.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (13.08%) SharePoint
3 11 (10.28%) IIS
4 1 (0.93%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (7.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 72 (67.29%) Azure
2 36 (33.64%) AWS
3 28 (26.17%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (25.23%) Entra ID
5 15 (14.02%) GitHub
5 15 (14.02%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (12.15%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (9.35%) OpenShift
8 8 (7.48%) OneDrive
9 7 (6.54%) Serverless
10 6 (5.61%) GCP
10 6 (5.61%) Power Platform
11 5 (4.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (4.67%) Amazon S3
11 5 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (4.67%) SaaS
11 5 (4.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (2.80%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 42 (39.25%) DNS
2 31 (28.97%) Firewall
3 27 (25.23%) DHCP
4 17 (15.89%) TCP/IP
5 13 (12.15%) LAN
5 13 (12.15%) WAN
6 12 (11.21%) VPN
7 8 (7.48%) DKIM
7 8 (7.48%) DMARC
7 8 (7.48%) Internet
7 8 (7.48%) Kerberos
7 8 (7.48%) VLAN
7 8 (7.48%) VoIP
8 5 (4.67%) VSAN
8 5 (4.67%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (4.67%) Wireless
9 3 (2.80%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (2.80%) IPsec
9 3 (2.80%) LTE
9 3 (2.80%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.35%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.74%) Power BI
2 4 (3.74%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.80%) InfluxDB
3 3 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (18.69%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.61%) Git
3 4 (3.74%) Bitbucket
3 4 (3.74%) GitLab
4 3 (2.80%) Balsamiq
4 3 (2.80%) CircleCI
4 3 (2.80%) Robot Framework
4 3 (2.80%) TestRail
5 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.93%) Selenium
General
1 49 (45.79%) Social Skills
2 30 (28.04%) Finance
3 12 (11.21%) Law
4 7 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.54%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (6.54%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.54%) Telecoms
5 5 (4.67%) Advertising
5 5 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.67%) Electronics
5 5 (4.67%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.67%) Marketing
6 3 (2.80%) Billing
6 3 (2.80%) Military
7 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.93%) Legal
7 1 (0.93%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 18 (16.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (15.89%) Analyst
3 14 (13.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 14 (13.08%) Support Analyst
4 13 (12.15%) 2nd Line Support
5 12 (11.21%) Senior
6 11 (10.28%) IT Support
7 10 (9.35%) IT Engineer
7 10 (9.35%) Support Engineer
8 8 (7.48%) Applications Engineer
9 7 (6.54%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 7 (6.54%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (6.54%) IT Support Engineer
9 7 (6.54%) Security Engineer
10 6 (5.61%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
11 5 (4.67%) 3rd Line Support
11 5 (4.67%) ICT Technician
11 5 (4.67%) Support Technician
11 5 (4.67%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.35%) LDAP
2 6 (5.61%) OAuth
2 6 (5.61%) OpenID
2 6 (5.61%) SAML
3 4 (3.74%) OAuth2
4 3 (2.80%) ARM Templates
4 3 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.80%) PySpark
5 2 (1.87%) .NET
5 2 (1.87%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.87%) REST
5 2 (1.87%) SOAP
6 1 (0.93%) Playwright
6 1 (0.93%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.48%) PKI
2 6 (5.61%) Security Posture
3 5 (4.67%) Driving Licence
3 5 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.74%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.80%) Clustering
5 3 (2.80%) e-Learning
5 3 (2.80%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.87%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.87%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.87%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.93%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.93%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 66 (61.68%) Windows
2 45 (42.06%) Windows Server
3 22 (20.56%) Linux
4 17 (15.89%) Windows 10
5 14 (13.08%) Windows Server 2016
5 14 (13.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (9.35%) Mac OS
7 7 (6.54%) CentOS
8 5 (4.67%) Android
8 5 (4.67%) Apple iOS
9 4 (3.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.93%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.93%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.93%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (39.25%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (33.64%) ITIL
3 28 (26.17%) DevOps
4 27 (25.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (19.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 20 (18.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (17.76%) Cloud Security
8 18 (16.82%) CI/CD
8 18 (16.82%) Containerisation
9 15 (14.02%) Mentoring
10 12 (11.21%) Agile
10 12 (11.21%) Root Cause Analysis
11 11 (10.28%) Project Delivery
12 10 (9.35%) Disaster Recovery
12 10 (9.35%) Incident Response
12 10 (9.35%) Migration
12 10 (9.35%) Roadmaps
12 10 (9.35%) Security Testing
13 9 (8.41%) Cybersecurity
13 9 (8.41%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 41 (38.32%) Python
2 36 (33.64%) Bash
3 8 (7.48%) VB
4 6 (5.61%) SQL
5 5 (4.67%) Bicep
5 5 (4.67%) C#
6 3 (2.80%) Go
6 3 (2.80%) VBScript
7 2 (1.87%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 31 (28.97%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.95%) Degree
3 13 (12.15%) DV Cleared
4 12 (11.21%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (11.21%) SC Cleared
5 11 (10.28%) Azure Certification
6 10 (9.35%) CREST Certified
7 7 (6.54%) CISSP
7 7 (6.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 7 (6.54%) SANS
8 6 (5.61%) MCP
9 5 (4.67%) AWS Certification
10 4 (3.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (2.80%) ACMT
11 3 (2.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (2.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.80%) CITP
12 2 (1.87%) A+ Certification
12 2 (1.87%) CEH
12 2 (1.87%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.08%) SLA
2 10 (9.35%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.61%) GDPR
4 5 (4.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.80%) NIST
6 2 (1.87%) NCSC
7 1 (0.93%) COBIT
7 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.93%) SOC 2
System Software
1 51 (47.66%) Active Directory
2 23 (21.50%) Hyper-V
2 23 (21.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (15.89%) Docker
4 6 (5.61%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (5.61%) vSphere
5 4 (3.74%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.87%) iptables
6 2 (1.87%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.93%) KVM
7 1 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.93%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (25.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (20.56%) Terraform
3 19 (17.76%) Kubernetes
4 15 (14.02%) Ansible
5 8 (7.48%) Grafana
5 8 (7.48%) WSUS
6 6 (5.61%) SCCM
7 5 (4.67%) SCVMM
7 5 (4.67%) vCenter Server
8 4 (3.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (3.74%) McAfee ePO
8 4 (3.74%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.80%) Autotask
9 3 (2.80%) Puppet
10 2 (1.87%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.87%) PaperCut
10 2 (1.87%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.87%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.93%) Kibana
11 1 (0.93%) logstash
Vendors
1 60 (56.07%) Microsoft
2 23 (21.50%) VMware
3 15 (14.02%) Cisco
4 13 (12.15%) Veeam
5 9 (8.41%) Red Hat
6 6 (5.61%) arcserve
7 5 (4.67%) Datto
7 5 (4.67%) SAP
8 4 (3.74%) McAfee
8 4 (3.74%) Oracle
8 4 (3.74%) Splunk
9 3 (2.80%) Apple
9 3 (2.80%) Databricks
9 3 (2.80%) Google
9 3 (2.80%) HP
9 3 (2.80%) Sophos
10 2 (1.87%) Dell
10 2 (1.87%) Juniper
10 2 (1.87%) SonicWALL
10 2 (1.87%) Thales