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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 102 44
Rank change year-on-year +27 -58 +41
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 116 93 263
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.33% 2.10% 6.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.08% 6.50% 15.35%
Number of salaries quoted 104 50 203
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £39,800
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +1.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,813 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £79,750
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 769 1,430 1,713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.44% 32.21% 41.50%
Number of salaries quoted 573 794 1,378
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,000 £35,249
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,644 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,188 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 21 December 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 21 December 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 +24 47 £50,000 -4.76% 11
Gloucestershire +19 20 £52,500 -12.50% 9
Wiltshire +28 16 £55,000 +4.76% 4
Dorset +18 13 £35,000 -17.65% 2
Somerset -9 11 £33,000 -40.00% 8
Devon -2 8 £55,000 -26.67% 2
Avon - 1 £52,500 - 8
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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 21 (18.10%) IIS
2 19 (16.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (13.79%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.86%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (8.62%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 74 (63.79%) Azure
2 38 (32.76%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (27.59%) AWS
4 24 (20.69%) Entra ID
5 12 (10.34%) GitHub
5 12 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (9.48%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (7.76%) OpenShift
8 7 (6.03%) OneDrive
9 6 (5.17%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (5.17%) GCP
10 5 (4.31%) Power Platform
10 5 (4.31%) Serverless
11 4 (3.45%) Azure AKS
12 3 (2.59%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (2.59%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (2.59%) Datadog
12 3 (2.59%) SaaS
13 2 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (1.72%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 50 (43.10%) DNS
2 45 (38.79%) Firewall
3 37 (31.90%) DHCP
4 20 (17.24%) LAN
4 20 (17.24%) WAN
5 19 (16.38%) VPN
6 16 (13.79%) TCP/IP
7 15 (12.93%) Internet
7 15 (12.93%) Kerberos
8 14 (12.07%) VLAN
9 10 (8.62%) VoIP
10 8 (6.90%) DKIM
10 8 (6.90%) DMARC
10 8 (6.90%) Wireless
11 6 (5.17%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (5.17%) IPsec
11 6 (5.17%) NAS
12 5 (4.31%) VSAN
13 4 (3.45%) Network Security
13 4 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.21%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (6.90%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.59%) Power BI
4 2 (1.72%) InfluxDB
4 2 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (12.93%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.31%) Git
3 3 (2.59%) Balsamiq
4 2 (1.72%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.72%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.72%) GitLab
4 2 (1.72%) Robot Framework
4 2 (1.72%) TestRail
5 1 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 60 (51.72%) Social Skills
2 29 (25.00%) Finance
3 20 (17.24%) Law
4 12 (10.34%) Telecoms
5 8 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.03%) Electronics
6 7 (6.03%) Manufacturing
6 7 (6.03%) Marketing
7 6 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (5.17%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (3.45%) Advertising
10 3 (2.59%) Military
11 2 (1.72%) Legal
12 1 (0.86%) Billing
12 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.86%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 24 (20.69%) Analyst
2 21 (18.10%) Support Analyst
3 18 (15.52%) 2nd Line Support
4 17 (14.66%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 17 (14.66%) IT Support
5 15 (12.93%) 3rd Line Support
5 15 (12.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (12.93%) Support Engineer
6 14 (12.07%) Senior
7 13 (11.21%) IT Engineer
8 10 (8.62%) IT Support Engineer
9 9 (7.76%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 9 (7.76%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
10 8 (6.90%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 8 (6.90%) Administrator
10 8 (6.90%) Applications Engineer
11 7 (6.03%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (6.03%) Technical Support
12 6 (5.17%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 6 (5.17%) Senior IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.93%) LDAP
2 4 (3.45%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.59%) .NET
4 2 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.72%) OAuth
4 2 (1.72%) OAuth2
4 2 (1.72%) OpenID
4 2 (1.72%) PySpark
4 2 (1.72%) SAML
5 1 (0.86%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.93%) PKI
2 6 (5.17%) Clustering
3 5 (4.31%) Driving Licence
3 5 (4.31%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.45%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.59%) e-Learning
5 3 (2.59%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.72%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.86%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.86%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.86%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 78 (67.24%) Windows
2 58 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 24 (20.69%) Windows Server 2019
4 23 (19.83%) Windows 10
5 21 (18.10%) Linux
5 21 (18.10%) Windows Server 2016
6 12 (10.34%) Mac OS
7 6 (5.17%) CentOS
8 4 (3.45%) Android
8 4 (3.45%) Apple iOS
8 4 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.72%) VMS
10 1 (0.86%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.86%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (33.62%) ITIL
3 33 (28.45%) Continuous Improvement
4 24 (20.69%) DevOps
5 19 (16.38%) Containerisation
5 19 (16.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 17 (14.66%) Data Loss Prevention
7 16 (13.79%) Cloud Security
8 15 (12.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (12.93%) Migration
9 14 (12.07%) CI/CD
9 14 (12.07%) Mentoring
10 12 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
10 12 (10.34%) Server Management
11 11 (9.48%) Agile
11 11 (9.48%) Project Delivery
11 11 (9.48%) Root Cause Analysis
12 10 (8.62%) Collaborative Culture
12 10 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (8.62%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 34 (29.31%) Python
2 28 (24.14%) Bash
3 15 (12.93%) VB
4 5 (4.31%) Bicep
4 5 (4.31%) C#
5 4 (3.45%) SQL
6 3 (2.59%) Go
6 3 (2.59%) VBScript
7 1 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 28 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 17 (14.66%) Degree
3 13 (11.21%) SC Cleared
4 12 (10.34%) Azure Certification
4 12 (10.34%) DV Cleared
5 11 (9.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (7.76%) CREST Certified
7 7 (6.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 7 (6.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (5.17%) ACMT
8 6 (5.17%) CISSP
8 6 (5.17%) SANS
9 5 (4.31%) MCP
10 4 (3.45%) AWS Certification
10 4 (3.45%) CCNA
10 4 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (2.59%) CCNP
11 3 (2.59%) CITP
12 2 (1.72%) A+ Certification
12 2 (1.72%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (18.10%) SLA
2 8 (6.90%) Accessibility
2 8 (6.90%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (5.17%) GDPR
3 6 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.86%) COBIT
4 1 (0.86%) NIST
4 1 (0.86%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 57 (49.14%) Active Directory
2 29 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (21.55%) Hyper-V
4 18 (15.52%) Docker
5 9 (7.76%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (6.03%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (5.17%) vSphere
8 2 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.86%) iptables
9 1 (0.86%) KVM
9 1 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 35 (30.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (18.10%) Kubernetes
3 18 (15.52%) Terraform
4 15 (12.93%) WSUS
5 11 (9.48%) Ansible
6 7 (6.03%) SCCM
6 7 (6.03%) vCenter Server
7 6 (5.17%) Autotask
8 5 (4.31%) Grafana
8 5 (4.31%) PaperCut
8 5 (4.31%) SCVMM
9 4 (3.45%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (1.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.72%) Puppet
10 2 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.86%) CASB
11 1 (0.86%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 1 (0.86%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.86%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.86%) QRadar
Vendors
1 75 (64.66%) Microsoft
2 29 (25.00%) VMware
3 23 (19.83%) Cisco
4 15 (12.93%) Veeam
5 11 (9.48%) Datto
6 8 (6.90%) Red Hat
7 7 (6.03%) Oracle
7 7 (6.03%) SAP
8 6 (5.17%) Apple
8 6 (5.17%) arcserve
8 6 (5.17%) Sophos
9 4 (3.45%) McAfee
9 4 (3.45%) SolarWinds
10 3 (2.59%) Google
10 3 (2.59%) HP
10 3 (2.59%) Splunk
11 2 (1.72%) Databricks
11 2 (1.72%) Fortinet
11 2 (1.72%) SonicWALL
11 2 (1.72%) Thales