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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 104 48
Rank change year-on-year +24 -56 +39
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 111 117 254
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.54% 1.99% 5.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.40% 6.97% 14.21%
Number of salaries quoted 100 51 181
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £59,063 £58,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £57,500 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.73% +5.00% -

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 771 1,678 1,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 17.65% 28.56% 40.39%
Number of salaries quoted 571 922 1,418
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,404 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £44,192
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

PowerShell
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 November 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 20 November 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 +26 44 £50,000 -0.99% 17
Gloucestershire -1 18 £56,250 +7.14% 21
Wiltshire +31 15 £45,500 -13.33% 12
Somerset -4 12 £33,500 -39.09% 8
Devon +10 11 £55,000 -26.67% 2
Dorset +10 10 £35,000 -17.65% 4
Avon - 1 £52,500 - 7
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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 23 (20.72%) IIS
2 18 (16.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (14.41%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.90%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (11.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 66 (59.46%) Azure
2 38 (34.23%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (26.13%) AWS
4 20 (18.02%) Entra ID
5 10 (9.01%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (8.11%) GitHub
6 9 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (7.21%) OpenShift
8 5 (4.50%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (4.50%) OneDrive
8 5 (4.50%) Serverless
9 4 (3.60%) Azure AKS
9 4 (3.60%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.60%) GCP
9 4 (3.60%) SaaS
10 3 (2.70%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.80%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.80%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.80%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (40.54%) DNS
2 44 (39.64%) Firewall
3 37 (33.33%) DHCP
4 22 (19.82%) LAN
4 22 (19.82%) WAN
5 18 (16.22%) VPN
6 17 (15.32%) Internet
6 17 (15.32%) Kerberos
7 14 (12.61%) TCP/IP
7 14 (12.61%) VLAN
8 8 (7.21%) DKIM
8 8 (7.21%) DMARC
8 8 (7.21%) Wireless
9 6 (5.41%) Cisco IOS
9 6 (5.41%) IPsec
9 6 (5.41%) NAS
9 6 (5.41%) VoIP
10 5 (4.50%) Network Security
10 5 (4.50%) SAN
10 5 (4.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.71%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (9.01%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.80%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.90%) DB2
4 1 (0.90%) Power BI
4 1 (0.90%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.90%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (10.81%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.50%) Git
3 3 (2.70%) Balsamiq
4 2 (1.80%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.80%) Robot Framework
4 2 (1.80%) TestRail
5 1 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.90%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.90%) GitLab
General
1 59 (53.15%) Social Skills
2 23 (20.72%) Law
3 22 (19.82%) Finance
4 10 (9.01%) Telecoms
5 8 (7.21%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.50%) Electronics
6 5 (4.50%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.50%) Marketing
6 5 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.70%) Military
8 2 (1.80%) Local Government
9 1 (0.90%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (22.52%) Analyst
2 23 (20.72%) Support Analyst
3 18 (16.22%) 2nd Line Support
4 17 (15.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 17 (15.32%) 3rd Line Support
4 17 (15.32%) IT Support
5 15 (13.51%) Support Engineer
6 14 (12.61%) Senior
7 12 (10.81%) IT Engineer
8 11 (9.91%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
8 11 (9.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (9.01%) Administrator
9 10 (9.01%) IT Support Engineer
10 9 (8.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 9 (8.11%) Technical Support
11 8 (7.21%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 8 (7.21%) Applications Engineer
11 8 (7.21%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (5.41%) Security Engineer
12 6 (5.41%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (15.32%) LDAP
2 5 (4.50%) ARM Templates
3 4 (3.60%) .NET
4 2 (1.80%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.90%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.32%) PKI
2 6 (5.41%) Clustering
3 5 (4.50%) Driving Licence
3 5 (4.50%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.70%) e-Learning
4 3 (2.70%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.80%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.80%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.80%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.80%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 77 (69.37%) Windows
2 59 (53.15%) Windows Server
3 27 (24.32%) Windows Server 2019
4 22 (19.82%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (18.92%) Windows 10
6 17 (15.32%) Linux
7 8 (7.21%) Mac OS
8 6 (5.41%) CentOS
9 4 (3.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (1.80%) VMS
11 1 (0.90%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.90%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (36.94%) ITIL
2 38 (34.23%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (27.03%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (18.92%) DevOps
5 18 (16.22%) Data Loss Prevention
6 17 (15.32%) Containerisation
7 16 (14.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 16 (14.41%) Migration
8 14 (12.61%) Mentoring
9 12 (10.81%) CI/CD
9 12 (10.81%) Server Management
10 11 (9.91%) Collaborative Culture
10 11 (9.91%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (9.91%) User Experience
11 10 (9.01%) Incident Management
11 10 (9.01%) Project Delivery
11 10 (9.01%) Roadmaps
12 9 (8.11%) Agile
12 9 (8.11%) Coaching
12 9 (8.11%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 27 (24.32%) Python
2 23 (20.72%) Bash
3 17 (15.32%) VB
4 6 (5.41%) Bicep
4 6 (5.41%) C#
5 4 (3.60%) SQL
6 3 (2.70%) Go
6 3 (2.70%) VBScript
7 1 (0.90%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.90%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 25 (22.52%) Security Cleared
2 19 (17.12%) Degree
3 13 (11.71%) SC Cleared
4 12 (10.81%) Azure Certification
5 10 (9.01%) DV Cleared
6 9 (8.11%) CREST Certified
6 9 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (6.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 7 (6.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (5.41%) ACMT
8 6 (5.41%) CISSP
8 6 (5.41%) SANS
9 5 (4.50%) AWS Certification
9 5 (4.50%) CCNA
9 5 (4.50%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (3.60%) CCNP
11 3 (2.70%) CITP
12 2 (1.80%) A+ Certification
12 2 (1.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (20.72%) SLA
2 7 (6.31%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (5.41%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.50%) GDPR
5 1 (0.90%) QA
System Software
1 55 (49.55%) Active Directory
2 26 (23.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (18.92%) Hyper-V
4 16 (14.41%) Docker
5 8 (7.21%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (6.31%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (5.41%) vSphere
8 2 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.90%) iptables
9 1 (0.90%) KVM
9 1 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.90%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (30.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (16.22%) Kubernetes
3 17 (15.32%) WSUS
4 16 (14.41%) Terraform
5 7 (6.31%) Ansible
5 7 (6.31%) SCCM
5 7 (6.31%) vCenter Server
6 6 (5.41%) Autotask
7 5 (4.50%) PaperCut
7 5 (4.50%) SCVMM
8 4 (3.60%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (2.70%) Grafana
10 2 (1.80%) Puppet
11 1 (0.90%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 1 (0.90%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.90%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.90%) QRadar
11 1 (0.90%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 72 (64.86%) Microsoft
2 26 (23.42%) VMware
3 24 (21.62%) Cisco
4 14 (12.61%) Veeam
5 11 (9.91%) Datto
6 8 (7.21%) Oracle
7 7 (6.31%) Red Hat
8 6 (5.41%) Apple
8 6 (5.41%) arcserve
8 6 (5.41%) Sophos
9 5 (4.50%) SAP
9 5 (4.50%) SolarWinds
10 4 (3.60%) McAfee
11 3 (2.70%) Google
11 3 (2.70%) Splunk
12 2 (1.80%) Fortinet
12 2 (1.80%) HP
12 2 (1.80%) Palo Alto
12 2 (1.80%) SonicWALL
12 2 (1.80%) Thales