PowerShell Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Windows PowerShell
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring PowerShell skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 48 60
Rank change year-on-year -25 +12 +6
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 14 19 18
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 1.03% 2.70% 1.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.40% 10.16% 6.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 10
10th Percentile £400 £344 £423
25th Percentile £475 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +12.82% -22.00%
75th Percentile £584 £575 £534
90th Percentile £588 £595 £585
South West median daily rate £531 £525 £530
% change year-on-year +1.19% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile - - £63.20
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £82.96 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -76.49% +12.11% -
75th Percentile £19.75 - -
90th Percentile - - £74.26
South West median hourly rate £80.00 £73.98 £74.00
% change year-on-year +8.14% -0.03% +27.81%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

PowerShell falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 318 187 271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 23.47% 26.52% 29.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 109 132
10th Percentile £353 £335 £351
25th Percentile £420 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £435 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.52% -13.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £582
90th Percentile £641 £590 £650
South West median daily rate £525 £475 £533
% change year-on-year +10.53% -10.88% +2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 40 76
10th Percentile £61.50 - £65.00
25th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
Median hourly rate £68.00 £68.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £73.75
90th Percentile - £79.13 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £67.75 £68.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -0.37% -2.86% +7.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Bristol

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Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing PowerShell.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing PowerShell

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Bristol over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PowerShell in Bristol

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Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing PowerShell.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing PowerShell

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 2 (14.29%) IIS
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
1 4 (28.57%) GCP
2 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
3 2 (14.29%) Apigee
3 2 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 2 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 2 (14.29%) SaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle BI EE
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) AdminStudio
3 1 (7.14%) InstallShield
General
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (14.29%) 1st Line Support
1 2 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
1 2 (14.29%) SailPoint Engineer
1 2 (14.29%) SOC Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Applications Developer
2 1 (7.14%) Developer
2 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365 Developer
2 1 (7.14%) GCP DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Developer
2 1 (7.14%) Site Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) LDAP
2 2 (14.29%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 2 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
1 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Change Management
2 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 4 (28.57%) DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) Incident Management
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (28.57%) Observability
3 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security
3 3 (21.43%) ITIL
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Service-Level Objective
3 3 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (14.29%) Data Governance
4 2 (14.29%) Security Operations
4 2 (14.29%) Service Management
4 2 (14.29%) SIEM
4 2 (14.29%) Threat Detection
4 2 (14.29%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) Bash
3 3 (21.43%) Groovy
4 2 (14.29%) BeanShell
4 2 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) CEH
3 2 (14.29%) CISM
3 2 (14.29%) CISSP
3 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) QRadar
3 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Dynatrace
1 3 (21.43%) Google
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) CyberArk
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) Splunk
2 2 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds