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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 120 66
Rank change year-on-year +29 -54 +29
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 84 131 214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.41% 1.75% 4.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.65% 6.72% 11.73%
Number of salaries quoted 73 64 140
10th Percentile £31,600 £30,000 £34,010
25th Percentile £36,750 £34,688 £43,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -6.05% +14.97%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £64,750 £62,125 £82,548
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 721 1,948 1,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 20.72% 25.96% 37.98%
Number of salaries quoted 485 1,225 1,472
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,300 £34,094
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £63,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.60% -3.85% +1.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +36 32 £48,500 +45.86% 16
Dorset +38 15 £40,000 -5.88% 4
Devon +11 11 £52,500 -9.48% 12
Gloucestershire -8 10 £60,000 +17.07% 20
Wiltshire +26 8 £36,000 -28.71% 5
Somerset +5 7 £40,000 -27.27% 9
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 27 (32.14%) IIS
2 11 (13.10%) SharePoint
3 9 (10.71%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (47.62%) Azure
2 38 (45.24%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (15.48%) AWS
4 8 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (7.14%) Power Automate
5 6 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 6 (7.14%) SaaS
5 6 (7.14%) Serverless
6 5 (5.95%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (5.95%) Entra ID
7 4 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.57%) Azure AKS
8 3 (3.57%) GitHub
8 3 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.57%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.38%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.38%) GCP
9 2 (2.38%) IaaS
9 2 (2.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (45.24%) Firewall
2 34 (40.48%) DNS
3 30 (35.71%) DHCP
4 21 (25.00%) VPN
5 20 (23.81%) WAN
6 19 (22.62%) LAN
7 17 (20.24%) Internet
7 17 (20.24%) Kerberos
7 17 (20.24%) VLAN
8 10 (11.90%) VoIP
9 7 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
9 7 (8.33%) SAN
9 7 (8.33%) Wireless
10 6 (7.14%) IPsec
10 6 (7.14%) NAS
10 6 (7.14%) TCP/IP
11 5 (5.95%) Network Security
12 4 (4.76%) ADSL
13 3 (3.57%) HTTP
14 2 (2.38%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.24%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (17.86%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.95%) Power BI
3 5 (5.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (5.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (4.76%) FileMaker
5 1 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.19%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.19%) DB2
5 1 (1.19%) MySQL
5 1 (1.19%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Git
2 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.38%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.19%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.19%) Robot Framework
General
1 42 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (22.62%) Law
3 14 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 11 (13.10%) Public Sector
5 9 (10.71%) Finance
6 6 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (7.14%) Electronics
6 6 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 6 (7.14%) Marketing
7 5 (5.95%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.57%) Local Government
9 2 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.19%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (29.76%) Analyst
2 24 (28.57%) Support Analyst
3 21 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 20 (23.81%) IT Support
5 15 (17.86%) 2nd Line Support
5 15 (17.86%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
6 14 (16.67%) Senior
7 12 (14.29%) Administrator
8 9 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (10.71%) Support Engineer
9 8 (9.52%) IT Analyst
9 8 (9.52%) IT Engineer
9 8 (9.52%) IT Support Analyst
10 7 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
10 7 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 6 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 6 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 6 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (7.14%) Senior IT Engineer
11 6 (7.14%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.24%) LDAP
2 4 (4.76%) .NET
3 3 (3.57%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.19%) ModSecurity
4 1 (1.19%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.24%) PKI
2 6 (7.14%) Clustering
3 3 (3.57%) e-Learning
3 3 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.57%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.38%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.19%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.19%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.19%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.19%) NHS
5 1 (1.19%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.19%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 61 (72.62%) Windows
2 47 (55.95%) Windows Server
3 27 (32.14%) Windows Server 2019
4 23 (27.38%) Linux
5 21 (25.00%) Windows 10
6 19 (22.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (7.14%) Mac OS
8 2 (2.38%) CentOS
8 2 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.19%) Android
9 1 (1.19%) CoreOS
9 1 (1.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (27.38%) Continuous Improvement
2 21 (25.00%) ITIL
3 19 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (21.43%) Data Loss Prevention
5 17 (20.24%) DevOps
6 14 (16.67%) Containerisation
7 13 (15.48%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (14.29%) Migration
9 11 (13.10%) Disaster Recovery
9 11 (13.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (11.90%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence
11 9 (10.71%) CI/CD
11 9 (10.71%) Mentoring
12 8 (9.52%) Coaching
12 8 (9.52%) Collaborative Culture
13 6 (7.14%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 6 (7.14%) Server Building
13 6 (7.14%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (23.81%) Python
2 17 (20.24%) Bash
2 17 (20.24%) VB
3 12 (14.29%) SQL
4 7 (8.33%) C#
5 5 (5.95%) Bicep
5 5 (5.95%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.38%) R
7 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.19%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 14 (16.67%) Degree
2 12 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 9 (10.71%) Azure Certification
4 8 (9.52%) SC Cleared
5 7 (8.33%) CCNA
5 7 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 6 (7.14%) ACMT
6 6 (7.14%) CCNP
6 6 (7.14%) DV Cleared
7 5 (5.95%) AWS Certification
7 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (4.76%) DBS Check
9 2 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.38%) CISSP
10 1 (1.19%) A+ Certification
10 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (1.19%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (20.24%) SLA
2 6 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (5.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.76%) GDPR
5 2 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 37 (44.05%) Active Directory
2 25 (29.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (19.05%) Docker
4 12 (14.29%) Hyper-V
5 9 (10.71%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (4.76%) vSphere
8 1 (1.19%) iptables
8 1 (1.19%) KVM
8 1 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (36.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (20.24%) WSUS
3 13 (15.48%) Terraform
4 12 (14.29%) Ansible
4 12 (14.29%) Kubernetes
5 7 (8.33%) vCenter Server
6 6 (7.14%) Autotask
7 5 (5.95%) PaperCut
8 3 (3.57%) Puppet
8 3 (3.57%) SmoothWall
9 2 (2.38%) McAfee ePO
9 2 (2.38%) SCCM
9 2 (2.38%) SCVMM
10 1 (1.19%) Grafana
10 1 (1.19%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
10 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (72.62%) Microsoft
2 26 (30.95%) VMware
3 22 (26.19%) Cisco
4 11 (13.10%) Datto
5 8 (9.52%) Veeam
6 7 (8.33%) Oracle
7 6 (7.14%) Apple
7 6 (7.14%) SAP
7 6 (7.14%) Sophos
8 4 (4.76%) SolarWinds
9 3 (3.57%) EMC
9 3 (3.57%) Fortinet
9 3 (3.57%) HP
9 3 (3.57%) Palo Alto
10 2 (2.38%) Google
10 2 (2.38%) McAfee
10 2 (2.38%) Meraki
10 2 (2.38%) Red Hat
11 1 (1.19%) Databricks
11 1 (1.19%) iManage