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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 76 77
Rank change year-on-year -39 +1 +41
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 91 79 282
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.23% 2.97% 3.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.21% 9.26% 9.54%
Number of salaries quoted 71 62 233
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,275 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £60,938 £57,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -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 1,108 853 2,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.02% 32.08% 33.96%
Number of salaries quoted 690 629 2,459
10th Percentile £33,975 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -1.82%
75th Percentile £65,938 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,950 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 20 April 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 20 April 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 -10 30 £75,000 +25.00% 9
Gloucestershire -4 29 £55,000 +69.23% 11
Dorset -12 12 £35,000 -26.32% 5
Devon -25 9 £52,500 +10.53% 3
Wiltshire -17 8 £56,250 +26.40% 4
Somerset -44 3 £48,000 +20.00% 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 10 (10.99%) SharePoint
2 8 (8.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.20%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 44 (48.35%) Azure
2 38 (41.76%) AWS
3 18 (19.78%) GitHub
3 18 (19.78%) GitHub Actions
4 14 (15.38%) Entra ID
5 12 (13.19%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (10.99%) OpenShift
7 9 (9.89%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (9.89%) GCP
8 7 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (7.69%) Amazon S3
8 7 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (7.69%) Datadog
8 7 (7.69%) Serverless
8 7 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (6.59%) OneDrive
10 4 (4.40%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (4.40%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (4.40%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 21 (23.08%) DNS
2 13 (14.29%) DHCP
2 13 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 9 (9.89%) Firewall
4 8 (8.79%) VPN
5 6 (6.59%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (5.49%) LAN
6 5 (5.49%) Network Security
6 5 (5.49%) VoIP
7 4 (4.40%) WAN
8 3 (3.30%) Broadband
8 3 (3.30%) LTE
8 3 (3.30%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (3.30%) VSAN
9 1 (1.10%) DKIM
9 1 (1.10%) DMARC
9 1 (1.10%) NAS
9 1 (1.10%) SAN
9 1 (1.10%) Telnet
9 1 (1.10%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.89%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (7.69%) InfluxDB
3 4 (4.40%) Power BI
3 4 (4.40%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.10%) Big Data
6 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.10%) MySQL
6 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (31.87%) Jenkins
2 10 (10.99%) Git
3 7 (7.69%) GitLab
3 7 (7.69%) Robot Framework
3 7 (7.69%) TestRail
4 6 (6.59%) Bitbucket
4 6 (6.59%) CircleCI
5 4 (4.40%) Balsamiq
5 4 (4.40%) Cypress.io
5 4 (4.40%) JIRA
5 4 (4.40%) Selenium
General
1 29 (31.87%) Social Skills
2 21 (23.08%) Finance
3 12 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (6.59%) Advertising
5 6 (6.59%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (6.59%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.49%) Military
7 3 (3.30%) Aerospace
7 3 (3.30%) Billing
7 3 (3.30%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.20%) Electronics
8 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.20%) Marketing
8 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.10%) Law
9 1 (1.10%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (19.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (17.58%) Senior
3 9 (9.89%) IT Support
4 8 (8.79%) Applications Engineer
4 8 (8.79%) Security Engineer
5 7 (7.69%) Support Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) Consultant
6 6 (6.59%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) ICT Support
7 5 (5.49%) ICT Support Technician
7 5 (5.49%) ICT Technician
7 5 (5.49%) IT Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Support Technician
8 4 (4.40%) Analyst
8 4 (4.40%) IT Support Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Test Automation Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
1 7 (7.69%) OAuth
1 7 (7.69%) OpenID
1 7 (7.69%) SAML
2 4 (4.40%) OAuth2
2 4 (4.40%) Playwright
2 4 (4.40%) pytest
3 3 (3.30%) GraphQL
3 3 (3.30%) LDAP
3 3 (3.30%) PySpark
3 3 (3.30%) REST
3 3 (3.30%) SOAP
4 2 (2.20%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.10%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.10%) React
5 1 (1.10%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.49%) Cyberattack
1 5 (5.49%) Product Ownership
1 5 (5.49%) Security Posture
2 4 (4.40%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.30%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (3.30%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.30%) Fat Client
3 3 (3.30%) Thin Client
4 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.10%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.10%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 42 (46.15%) Windows
2 36 (39.56%) Linux
3 17 (18.68%) Windows Server
4 12 (13.19%) CentOS
5 7 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (6.59%) Mac OS
6 6 (6.59%) Windows 10
7 5 (5.49%) Android
7 5 (5.49%) Apple iOS
8 3 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (3.30%) VMS
8 3 (3.30%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.10%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (34.07%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (30.77%) DevOps
3 27 (29.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 24 (26.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 23 (25.27%) Agile
7 20 (21.98%) Containerisation
8 19 (20.88%) Cloud Security
9 18 (19.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (18.68%) Test Automation
11 14 (15.38%) Incident Response
11 14 (15.38%) Roadmaps
11 14 (15.38%) Software Testing
12 13 (14.29%) Security Testing
13 11 (12.09%) Cybersecurity
13 11 (12.09%) DevSecOps
13 11 (12.09%) ITIL
13 11 (12.09%) SIEM
14 10 (10.99%) Mentoring
14 10 (10.99%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 51 (56.04%) Bash
1 51 (56.04%) Python
2 9 (9.89%) SQL
3 7 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.49%) Go
5 4 (4.40%) C#
5 4 (4.40%) T-SQL
6 3 (3.30%) VBScript
7 2 (2.20%) Bicep
8 1 (1.10%) C++
8 1 (1.10%) Java
8 1 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.10%) VB
Qualifications
1 33 (36.26%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 13 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.99%) CREST Certified
4 9 (9.89%) Degree
5 8 (8.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (7.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (7.69%) CISSP
6 7 (7.69%) SANS
7 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 4 (4.40%) AWS Certification
8 4 (4.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.30%) Azure Certification
9 3 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (3.30%) CEH
9 3 (3.30%) CITP
10 2 (2.20%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (2.20%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (2.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (1.10%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.99%) Accessibility
2 7 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (6.59%) NIST
4 5 (5.49%) GDPR
5 4 (4.40%) SOC 2
6 3 (3.30%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (3.30%) NCSC
7 2 (2.20%) COBIT
7 2 (2.20%) PCI DSS
7 2 (2.20%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 19 (20.88%) Docker
3 15 (16.48%) Hyper-V
3 15 (16.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (8.79%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (4.40%) iptables
6 1 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (27.47%) Ansible
2 24 (26.37%) Terraform
3 18 (19.78%) Grafana
4 17 (18.68%) Kubernetes
5 7 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (6.59%) SCCM
7 5 (5.49%) Prometheus
8 4 (4.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (4.40%) Kibana
8 4 (4.40%) logstash
8 4 (4.40%) Progress Chef
8 4 (4.40%) Puppet
8 4 (4.40%) SCVMM
8 4 (4.40%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (4.40%) vCenter Server
9 3 (3.30%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (3.30%) NetBackup
9 3 (3.30%) SCOM
9 3 (3.30%) SCOrch
10 2 (2.20%) CASB
Vendors
1 38 (41.76%) Microsoft
2 15 (16.48%) Red Hat
2 15 (16.48%) VMware
3 8 (8.79%) Splunk
4 5 (5.49%) Cisco
4 5 (5.49%) Veeam
5 4 (4.40%) Atlassian
5 4 (4.40%) Databricks
6 3 (3.30%) Dell
6 3 (3.30%) HP
6 3 (3.30%) Juniper
6 3 (3.30%) McAfee
7 2 (2.20%) arcserve
7 2 (2.20%) Google
7 2 (2.20%) SAP
7 2 (2.20%) Tenable
8 1 (1.10%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.10%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.10%) Zoho