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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 45 59
Rank change year-on-year -15 +14 +8
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 18 9 20
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 1.49% 1.65% 1.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.28% 5.11% 8.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 9
10th Percentile £345 £319 £375
25th Percentile £413 £409 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £570 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +8.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile - £678 £538
90th Percentile £525 £728 £545
South West median daily rate £490 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -16.24% -2.50% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile - - £50.23
25th Percentile £19.25 - £56.00
Median hourly rate £19.50 £82.96 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -76.49% +11.45% -3.95%
75th Percentile £51.38 - -
90th Percentile £70.35 - £76.28
South West median hourly rate £68.91 £82.96 £40.00
% change year-on-year -16.94% +107.40% -31.70%

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 341 176 246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 28.14% 32.23% 23.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 99 136
10th Percentile £350 £338 £300
25th Percentile £400 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £445
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -1.60% -6.40%
75th Percentile £538 £531 £538
90th Percentile £588 £625 £644
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 45 69
10th Percentile £60.00 £61.25 £52.50
25th Percentile - £65.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% -1.48% +3.05%
75th Percentile £67.25 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% +3.08% -

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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 25 April 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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Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PowerShell in Bristol over the 6 months to 25 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for PowerShell in Bristol

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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 5 (27.78%) Confluence
2 3 (16.67%) Apache
3 2 (11.11%) IIS
3 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) InfoPath
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) GCP
1 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (11.11%) Apigee
2 2 (11.11%) Azure AKS
2 2 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) PaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
3 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (11.11%) Power BI
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) JIRA
2 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 3 (16.67%) Artifactory
3 3 (16.67%) Git
3 3 (16.67%) GitLab
4 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Military
3 2 (11.11%) Aerospace
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (22.22%) Integration Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) SOC Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Systems Integration Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) 1st Line Support
3 1 (5.56%) Automation Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Developer
3 1 (5.56%) GCP DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (5.56%) Senior
3 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Service Desk Specialist
3 1 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (5.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 11 (61.11%) Windows
2 5 (27.78%) Linux
3 4 (22.22%) Android
3 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 6 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) Agile
4 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) Workflow
5 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (16.67%) Change Management
5 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (16.67%) ITIL
5 3 (16.67%) Observability
5 3 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) Unit Testing
5 3 (16.67%) User Experience
5 3 (16.67%) Validation
5 3 (16.67%) Verification and Validation
6 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Service-Level Objective
6 2 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) Bash
3 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.11%) Groovy
5 1 (5.56%) SQL
5 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (16.67%) Degree
3 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 2 (11.11%) CEH
4 2 (11.11%) CISM
4 2 (11.11%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Terraform
2 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
3 4 (22.22%) Ansible
4 2 (11.11%) QRadar
5 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Google
1 3 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (11.11%) Dynatrace
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Splunk
2 2 (11.11%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) Remedy