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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 87 64
Rank change year-on-year -16 -23 +36
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 96 81 303
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.48% 2.86% 3.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.08% 8.09% 10.70%
Number of salaries quoted 79 62 244
10th Percentile £32,700 £31,850 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,550 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -0.90% -9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £66,875 £57,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £58,000 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +12.73% -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 952 1,001 2,831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.67% 35.40% 36.71%
Number of salaries quoted 637 645 2,370
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.00% -4.09%
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -7.69%

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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 21 March 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 21 March 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 +3 31 £75,000 +25.00% 10
Gloucestershire +12 24 £55,000 -8.33% 9
Wiltshire -2 13 £55,000 +23.60% 9
Devon -5 10 £52,500 -12.50% 4
Dorset -12 9 £35,000 -30.00% 6
Somerset -26 8 £33,000 -17.50% 5
Avon - 1 £52,500 - 7
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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 13 (13.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.04%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 56 (58.33%) Azure
2 41 (42.71%) AWS
3 23 (23.96%) Entra ID
4 19 (19.79%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (18.75%) GitHub
5 18 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (9.38%) GCP
7 8 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (8.33%) OneDrive
7 8 (8.33%) OpenShift
7 8 (8.33%) Serverless
8 7 (7.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (7.29%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (7.29%) Amazon S3
8 7 (7.29%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (7.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (6.25%) Datadog
10 4 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (4.17%) CloudFront
10 4 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (30.21%) DNS
2 18 (18.75%) DHCP
3 16 (16.67%) Firewall
3 16 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 7 (7.29%) VPN
5 6 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (5.21%) DKIM
6 5 (5.21%) DMARC
6 5 (5.21%) LAN
6 5 (5.21%) Network Security
6 5 (5.21%) VoIP
7 4 (4.17%) VSAN
7 4 (4.17%) WAN
8 3 (3.13%) Broadband
8 3 (3.13%) LTE
8 3 (3.13%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (2.08%) SAN
9 2 (2.08%) VLAN
10 1 (1.04%) Telnet
10 1 (1.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.29%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.17%) InfluxDB
2 4 (4.17%) Power BI
2 4 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.04%) Big Data
4 1 (1.04%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.04%) MySQL
4 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (28.13%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.25%) Bitbucket
2 6 (6.25%) CircleCI
2 6 (6.25%) Git
3 5 (5.21%) GitLab
4 4 (4.17%) Robot Framework
4 4 (4.17%) TestRail
5 3 (3.13%) Balsamiq
6 2 (2.08%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.08%) Selenium
General
1 34 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 26 (27.08%) Finance
3 9 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.29%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.21%) Advertising
7 4 (4.17%) Law
7 4 (4.17%) Military
8 3 (3.13%) Billing
8 3 (3.13%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.08%) Electronics
9 2 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.08%) Marketing
9 2 (2.08%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.04%) Legal
10 1 (1.04%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 20 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (16.67%) Senior
3 10 (10.42%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 10 (10.42%) Applications Engineer
3 10 (10.42%) Security Engineer
4 9 (9.38%) IT Support
5 7 (7.29%) Analyst
5 7 (7.29%) Support Engineer
6 6 (6.25%) Consultant
6 6 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (6.25%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 6 (6.25%) IT Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) ICT Support
7 5 (5.21%) ICT Support Technician
7 5 (5.21%) ICT Technician
7 5 (5.21%) Support Analyst
7 5 (5.21%) Support Technician
8 4 (4.17%) IT Support Engineer
8 4 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.29%) OAuth
1 7 (7.29%) OpenID
1 7 (7.29%) SAML
2 4 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (4.17%) OAuth2
3 3 (3.13%) GraphQL
3 3 (3.13%) LDAP
3 3 (3.13%) PySpark
3 3 (3.13%) REST
3 3 (3.13%) SOAP
4 2 (2.08%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.08%) Playwright
4 2 (2.08%) pytest
5 1 (1.04%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.04%) React
5 1 (1.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.25%) Security Posture
2 5 (5.21%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.17%) Driving Licence
3 4 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (3.13%) Cyberattack
5 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.08%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.04%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 46 (47.92%) Windows
2 29 (30.21%) Linux
3 26 (27.08%) Windows Server
4 10 (10.42%) CentOS
5 7 (7.29%) Mac OS
6 6 (6.25%) Windows 10
7 5 (5.21%) Android
7 5 (5.21%) Apple iOS
7 5 (5.21%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.04%) CoreOS
9 1 (1.04%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.04%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (29.17%) DevOps
3 25 (26.04%) ITIL
4 24 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (22.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 21 (21.88%) Cloud Security
7 20 (20.83%) CI/CD
8 19 (19.79%) Containerisation
9 18 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (15.63%) Agile
10 15 (15.63%) Incident Response
10 15 (15.63%) Security Testing
11 14 (14.58%) Roadmaps
12 13 (13.54%) Mentoring
13 11 (11.46%) Project Delivery
13 11 (11.46%) Root Cause Analysis
13 11 (11.46%) SIEM
14 10 (10.42%) Application Security
14 10 (10.42%) Security Operations
14 10 (10.42%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 48 (50.00%) Bash
1 48 (50.00%) Python
2 7 (7.29%) SQL
3 4 (4.17%) Go
3 4 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.13%) C#
4 3 (3.13%) T-SQL
4 3 (3.13%) VBScript
5 2 (2.08%) Bicep
6 1 (1.04%) C++
6 1 (1.04%) Java
6 1 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 31 (32.29%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.58%) Degree
3 12 (12.50%) CREST Certified
3 12 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 11 (11.46%) DV Cleared
5 9 (9.38%) CISSP
5 9 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (9.38%) SANS
6 6 (6.25%) AWS Certification
6 6 (6.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 6 (6.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 5 (5.21%) Azure Certification
8 4 (4.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.13%) CEH
9 3 (3.13%) CITP
10 2 (2.08%) A+ Certification
10 2 (2.08%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (2.08%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 6 (6.25%) NIST
2 6 (6.25%) SLA
3 5 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.17%) GDPR
5 3 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (3.13%) NCSC
6 2 (2.08%) COBIT
6 2 (2.08%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.08%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (36.46%) Active Directory
2 19 (19.79%) Hyper-V
3 18 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (17.71%) Docker
5 5 (5.21%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (5.21%) vSphere
6 4 (4.17%) iptables
7 1 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.04%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (23.96%) Terraform
2 21 (21.88%) Ansible
3 16 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 14 (14.58%) Grafana
5 13 (13.54%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (4.17%) Progress Chef
6 4 (4.17%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.17%) Puppet
6 4 (4.17%) SCCM
6 4 (4.17%) SCVMM
6 4 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (3.13%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (3.13%) NetBackup
7 3 (3.13%) vCenter Server
8 2 (2.08%) CASB
8 2 (2.08%) Kibana
8 2 (2.08%) logstash
9 1 (1.04%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 1 (1.04%) Podman
Vendors
1 43 (44.79%) Microsoft
2 18 (18.75%) VMware
3 11 (11.46%) Red Hat
4 9 (9.38%) Cisco
4 9 (9.38%) Veeam
5 5 (5.21%) arcserve
5 5 (5.21%) Splunk
6 4 (4.17%) HP
7 3 (3.13%) Databricks
7 3 (3.13%) Dell
7 3 (3.13%) Juniper
7 3 (3.13%) McAfee
8 2 (2.08%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.08%) Google
8 2 (2.08%) SAP
8 2 (2.08%) Tenable
8 2 (2.08%) Thales
9 1 (1.04%) Oracle
9 1 (1.04%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.04%) SonicWALL