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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 94 62
Rank change year-on-year -7 -32 +40
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 102 78 310
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.60% 2.66% 4.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.73% 7.47% 11.06%
Number of salaries quoted 84 58 247
10th Percentile £32,575 £30,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,938 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -5.44%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,813 £57,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,750 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.85% +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 951 1,044 2,803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.92% 35.62% 36.99%
Number of salaries quoted 642 649 2,350
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 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.34%
75th Percentile £67,481 £73,750 £66,438
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 14 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 14 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 -6 33 £75,000 +25.00% 10
Gloucestershire +21 24 £55,000 -8.33% 12
Wiltshire +4 13 £55,000 +23.60% 12
Somerset -24 12 £33,500 -16.25% 4
Devon -2 11 £52,500 -22.22% 5
Dorset -8 8 £35,000 -30.00% 3
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 (15.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (13.73%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.98%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (7.84%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 62 (60.78%) Azure
2 44 (43.14%) AWS
3 27 (26.47%) Entra ID
4 22 (21.57%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (18.63%) GitHub
5 19 (18.63%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (8.82%) GCP
7 8 (7.84%) OneDrive
7 8 (7.84%) OpenShift
7 8 (7.84%) Serverless
8 7 (6.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (6.86%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (6.86%) Amazon S3
8 7 (6.86%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (6.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (5.88%) Datadog
10 5 (4.90%) Power Platform
11 4 (3.92%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (29.41%) DNS
2 19 (18.63%) Firewall
3 18 (17.65%) DHCP
4 17 (16.67%) TCP/IP
5 8 (7.84%) DKIM
5 8 (7.84%) DMARC
6 7 (6.86%) VPN
7 5 (4.90%) Network Security
7 5 (4.90%) VoIP
7 5 (4.90%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (3.92%) LAN
8 4 (3.92%) VSAN
8 4 (3.92%) WAN
9 3 (2.94%) Broadband
9 3 (2.94%) LTE
9 3 (2.94%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (1.96%) SAN
10 2 (1.96%) VLAN
11 1 (0.98%) Telnet
11 1 (0.98%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.86%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.92%) InfluxDB
2 4 (3.92%) Power BI
2 4 (3.92%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.98%) Big Data
4 1 (0.98%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.98%) MySQL
4 1 (0.98%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (28.43%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.88%) Bitbucket
2 6 (5.88%) CircleCI
2 6 (5.88%) Git
3 5 (4.90%) GitLab
4 4 (3.92%) Robot Framework
4 4 (3.92%) TestRail
5 3 (2.94%) Balsamiq
6 2 (1.96%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.96%) Selenium
7 1 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 35 (34.31%) Social Skills
2 28 (27.45%) Finance
3 9 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.86%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.90%) Advertising
7 4 (3.92%) Law
7 4 (3.92%) Military
8 3 (2.94%) Billing
9 2 (1.96%) Electronics
9 2 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.96%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.96%) Marketing
9 2 (1.96%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.98%) Legal
10 1 (0.98%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 20 (19.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (15.69%) Senior
3 11 (10.78%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 11 (10.78%) Applications Engineer
3 11 (10.78%) Security Engineer
4 9 (8.82%) Analyst
4 9 (8.82%) IT Support
5 7 (6.86%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (6.86%) Support Analyst
5 7 (6.86%) Support Engineer
6 6 (5.88%) Consultant
6 6 (5.88%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 6 (5.88%) IT Engineer
7 5 (4.90%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.90%) ICT Support
7 5 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (4.90%) Support Technician
7 5 (4.90%) Technical Analyst
7 5 (4.90%) Technical Support
7 5 (4.90%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.86%) OAuth
1 7 (6.86%) OpenID
1 7 (6.86%) SAML
2 4 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (3.92%) OAuth2
3 3 (2.94%) GraphQL
3 3 (2.94%) LDAP
3 3 (2.94%) PySpark
3 3 (2.94%) REST
3 3 (2.94%) SOAP
4 2 (1.96%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.96%) Playwright
4 2 (1.96%) pytest
5 1 (0.98%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.98%) React
5 1 (0.98%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.88%) Security Posture
2 5 (4.90%) Driving Licence
2 5 (4.90%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (2.94%) Cyberattack
5 2 (1.96%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.96%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.96%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.98%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.98%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.98%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.98%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 50 (49.02%) Windows
2 29 (28.43%) Linux
2 29 (28.43%) Windows Server
3 10 (9.80%) CentOS
4 7 (6.86%) Mac OS
5 5 (4.90%) Android
5 5 (4.90%) Apple iOS
5 5 (4.90%) Windows 10
5 5 (4.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.98%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.98%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.98%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (43.14%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (29.41%) DevOps
3 29 (28.43%) ITIL
4 25 (24.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (22.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 22 (21.57%) Cloud Security
7 21 (20.59%) CI/CD
8 20 (19.61%) Containerisation
9 17 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (15.69%) Security Testing
11 15 (14.71%) Agile
11 15 (14.71%) Incident Response
11 15 (14.71%) Mentoring
11 15 (14.71%) Roadmaps
12 13 (12.75%) Project Delivery
13 11 (10.78%) Application Security
13 11 (10.78%) Root Cause Analysis
13 11 (10.78%) SIEM
13 11 (10.78%) Threat Modelling
14 10 (9.80%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 50 (49.02%) Bash
1 50 (49.02%) Python
2 7 (6.86%) SQL
3 4 (3.92%) Go
3 4 (3.92%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.94%) C#
4 3 (2.94%) T-SQL
4 3 (2.94%) VBScript
5 2 (1.96%) Bicep
6 1 (0.98%) C++
6 1 (0.98%) Java
6 1 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 32 (31.37%) Security Cleared
2 16 (15.69%) Degree
3 13 (12.75%) CREST Certified
3 13 (12.75%) SC Cleared
4 11 (10.78%) DV Cleared
4 11 (10.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (9.80%) CISSP
5 10 (9.80%) SANS
6 7 (6.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 6 (5.88%) AWS Certification
7 6 (5.88%) Azure Certification
7 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 4 (3.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.94%) CEH
9 3 (2.94%) CITP
10 2 (1.96%) A+ Certification
10 2 (1.96%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (1.96%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.75%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.88%) NIST
2 6 (5.88%) SLA
3 5 (4.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.92%) GDPR
5 3 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.94%) NCSC
6 2 (1.96%) COBIT
6 2 (1.96%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (37.25%) Active Directory
2 19 (18.63%) Hyper-V
3 18 (17.65%) Docker
3 18 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (4.90%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (4.90%) vSphere
5 4 (3.92%) iptables
6 1 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.98%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (24.51%) Terraform
2 22 (21.57%) Ansible
3 17 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 17 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (13.73%) Grafana
5 5 (4.90%) Puppet
5 5 (4.90%) SCCM
6 4 (3.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (3.92%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.92%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.92%) SCVMM
6 4 (3.92%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.94%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (2.94%) NetBackup
7 3 (2.94%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.96%) CASB
8 2 (1.96%) Kibana
8 2 (1.96%) logstash
9 1 (0.98%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 1 (0.98%) QRadar
Vendors
1 46 (45.10%) Microsoft
2 18 (17.65%) VMware
3 12 (11.76%) Red Hat
4 10 (9.80%) Cisco
4 10 (9.80%) Veeam
5 6 (5.88%) arcserve
6 5 (4.90%) Splunk
7 4 (3.92%) HP
8 3 (2.94%) Databricks
8 3 (2.94%) Dell
8 3 (2.94%) Juniper
8 3 (2.94%) McAfee
9 2 (1.96%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.96%) Google
9 2 (1.96%) SAP
9 2 (1.96%) Tenable
9 2 (1.96%) Thales
10 1 (0.98%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.98%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.98%) SonicWALL