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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 102 42
Rank change year-on-year +18 -60 +44
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 107 89 278
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.12% 2.12% 5.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.15% 6.42% 14.94%
Number of salaries quoted 93 46 215
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% -0.95%
75th Percentile £65,000 £74,688 £67,070
90th Percentile £81,500 £81,250 £78,186
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 756 1,386 1,861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.97% 33.04% 39.41%
Number of salaries quoted 558 753 1,507
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,290 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,625
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 10 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 10 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 +4.76% 11
Gloucestershire +16 20 £52,500 -22.79% 12
Wiltshire +19 14 £55,000 +18.28% 9
Dorset +16 12 £35,000 -17.65% 6
Somerset -6 11 £33,000 -40.00% 5
Devon +6 10 £55,000 -26.67% 7
Avon - 1 £52,500 - 5
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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 17 (15.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (13.08%) IIS
2 14 (13.08%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.93%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (7.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 73 (68.22%) Azure
2 33 (30.84%) AWS
3 31 (28.97%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (25.23%) Entra ID
5 13 (12.15%) GitHub
5 13 (12.15%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (11.21%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (8.41%) OpenShift
8 8 (7.48%) OneDrive
9 6 (5.61%) Serverless
10 5 (4.67%) GCP
10 5 (4.67%) Power Platform
10 5 (4.67%) SaaS
11 4 (3.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (3.74%) Amazon S3
11 4 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.74%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (3.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 44 (41.12%) DNS
2 35 (32.71%) Firewall
3 30 (28.04%) DHCP
4 16 (14.95%) TCP/IP
5 15 (14.02%) LAN
5 15 (14.02%) VPN
5 15 (14.02%) WAN
6 10 (9.35%) Internet
6 10 (9.35%) Kerberos
6 10 (9.35%) VLAN
7 9 (8.41%) VoIP
8 8 (7.48%) DKIM
8 8 (7.48%) DMARC
9 6 (5.61%) Wireless
10 5 (4.67%) VSAN
10 5 (4.67%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (3.74%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (3.74%) IPsec
11 4 (3.74%) NAS
11 4 (3.74%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.28%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (5.61%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.80%) Power BI
4 2 (1.87%) InfluxDB
4 2 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (14.95%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.67%) Git
3 3 (2.80%) Balsamiq
4 2 (1.87%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.87%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.87%) GitLab
4 2 (1.87%) Robot Framework
4 2 (1.87%) TestRail
5 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 50 (46.73%) Social Skills
2 27 (25.23%) Finance
3 14 (13.08%) Law
4 9 (8.41%) Telecoms
5 7 (6.54%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (6.54%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.61%) Electronics
6 6 (5.61%) Manufacturing
6 6 (5.61%) Marketing
7 5 (4.67%) Advertising
7 5 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.80%) Billing
8 3 (2.80%) Military
9 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.93%) Legal
9 1 (0.93%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 19 (17.76%) Analyst
2 16 (14.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 16 (14.95%) Support Analyst
3 15 (14.02%) 2nd Line Support
3 15 (14.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (12.15%) IT Support
4 13 (12.15%) Senior
5 12 (11.21%) Support Engineer
6 11 (10.28%) IT Engineer
7 9 (8.41%) 3rd Line Support
8 8 (7.48%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 8 (7.48%) IT Support Engineer
9 7 (6.54%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 7 (6.54%) Applications Engineer
10 6 (5.61%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (5.61%) Security Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) Administrator
11 5 (4.67%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) ICT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.21%) LDAP
2 4 (3.74%) OAuth
2 4 (3.74%) OpenID
2 4 (3.74%) SAML
3 3 (2.80%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.87%) .NET
4 2 (1.87%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.87%) GraphQL
4 2 (1.87%) OAuth2
4 2 (1.87%) PySpark
4 2 (1.87%) REST
4 2 (1.87%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.35%) PKI
2 6 (5.61%) Security Posture
3 5 (4.67%) Driving Licence
3 5 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.74%) 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%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.87%) Management Information System
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%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 67 (62.62%) Windows
2 48 (44.86%) Windows Server
3 19 (17.76%) Linux
3 19 (17.76%) Windows 10
4 17 (15.89%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (14.95%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (10.28%) Mac OS
7 6 (5.61%) 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 41 (38.32%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (34.58%) ITIL
3 27 (25.23%) Continuous Improvement
4 25 (23.36%) DevOps
5 19 (17.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 18 (16.82%) Cloud Security
7 16 (14.95%) Containerisation
7 16 (14.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (14.02%) CI/CD
9 14 (13.08%) Mentoring
10 12 (11.21%) Root Cause Analysis
11 11 (10.28%) Data Loss Prevention
11 11 (10.28%) Disaster Recovery
11 11 (10.28%) Migration
11 11 (10.28%) Project Delivery
11 11 (10.28%) Roadmaps
12 10 (9.35%) Agile
12 10 (9.35%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (9.35%) Server Management
13 9 (8.41%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 35 (32.71%) Python
2 31 (28.97%) Bash
3 10 (9.35%) VB
4 5 (4.67%) Bicep
4 5 (4.67%) C#
4 5 (4.67%) SQL
5 3 (2.80%) Go
5 3 (2.80%) VBScript
6 2 (1.87%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 28 (26.17%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.95%) Degree
3 13 (12.15%) SC Cleared
4 12 (11.21%) DV Cleared
5 11 (10.28%) Azure Certification
6 10 (9.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (8.41%) CREST Certified
8 7 (6.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 6 (5.61%) CISSP
9 6 (5.61%) MCP
9 6 (5.61%) SANS
10 5 (4.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (3.74%) ACMT
11 4 (3.74%) AWS Certification
11 4 (3.74%) CCNA
11 4 (3.74%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (2.80%) CCNP
12 3 (2.80%) CITP
13 2 (1.87%) A+ Certification
13 2 (1.87%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.95%) SLA
2 8 (7.48%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.61%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (5.61%) GDPR
3 6 (5.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.80%) NIST
5 2 (1.87%) NCSC
6 1 (0.93%) COBIT
6 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.93%) SOC 2
System Software
1 53 (49.53%) Active Directory
2 26 (24.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (22.43%) Hyper-V
4 15 (14.02%) Docker
5 7 (6.54%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (5.61%) vSphere
7 5 (4.67%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.87%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.93%) iptables
9 1 (0.93%) KVM
9 1 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.93%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (27.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (17.76%) Terraform
3 18 (16.82%) Kubernetes
4 11 (10.28%) Ansible
5 10 (9.35%) WSUS
6 6 (5.61%) SCCM
7 5 (4.67%) Grafana
7 5 (4.67%) SCVMM
7 5 (4.67%) vCenter Server
8 4 (3.74%) Autotask
8 4 (3.74%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (2.80%) PaperCut
10 2 (1.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.87%) Puppet
10 2 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.93%) CASB
11 1 (0.93%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 1 (0.93%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.93%) QRadar
Vendors
1 62 (57.94%) Microsoft
2 26 (24.30%) VMware
3 19 (17.76%) Cisco
4 13 (12.15%) Veeam
5 8 (7.48%) Red Hat
6 7 (6.54%) Datto
7 6 (5.61%) arcserve
7 6 (5.61%) SAP
8 5 (4.67%) Oracle
9 4 (3.74%) Apple
9 4 (3.74%) McAfee
9 4 (3.74%) SolarWinds
9 4 (3.74%) Sophos
10 3 (2.80%) Google
10 3 (2.80%) HP
10 3 (2.80%) Splunk
11 2 (1.87%) Databricks
11 2 (1.87%) Fortinet
11 2 (1.87%) SonicWALL
11 2 (1.87%) Thales