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

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 55 59
Rank change year-on-year +9 +4 -16
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 26 20 20
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 3.40% 2.31% 1.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.00% 7.72% 6.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 14
10th Percentile £428 £425 £438
25th Percentile £506 £463 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% +15.56%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £725
90th Percentile £584 £675 £781
South West median daily rate £520 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -3.70% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £74.00 -
South West median hourly rate £64.00 £74.00 £69.62
% change year-on-year -13.51% +6.29% +40.08%

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 200 259 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 26.14% 29.87% 29.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 113 213
10th Percentile £313 £365 £325
25th Percentile £400 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £468
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +6.95% -6.50%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £619
90th Percentile £623 £638 £688
South West median daily rate £513 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -5.09% +2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 70 37
10th Percentile £61.55 £62.00 £60.00
25th Percentile - £65.31 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -0.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.50 -
South West median hourly rate £65.75 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -6.07% +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 17 October 2025.

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 5 (19.23%) Apache
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (19.23%) SharePoint
1 5 (19.23%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) AWS
3 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (11.54%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.85%) Boomi
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) DHCP
1 5 (19.23%) DNS
1 5 (19.23%) Skype
1 5 (19.23%) Unified Communications
2 4 (15.38%) NetScaler
3 1 (3.85%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Artifactory
1 5 (19.23%) GitLab
General
1 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (34.62%) Public Sector
3 8 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (30.77%) Finance
4 3 (11.54%) Electronics
4 3 (11.54%) Manufacturing
4 3 (11.54%) Marketing
4 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
5 2 (7.69%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Developer
2 6 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Senior
3 5 (19.23%) Wintel Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Lead
4 4 (15.38%) Lead Developer
5 3 (11.54%) .NET Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Azure Developer
5 3 (11.54%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (11.54%) C# Developer
5 3 (11.54%) ForgeRock Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Lead .NET Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Lead C# Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior .NET Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior C# .NET Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior C# Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) SOC Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) Apache NiFi
1 5 (19.23%) REST
2 3 (11.54%) .NET
2 3 (11.54%) .NET Core
2 3 (11.54%) OAuth
2 3 (11.54%) OAuth2
2 3 (11.54%) OpenID
2 3 (11.54%) RESTful
2 3 (11.54%) SAML
3 1 (3.85%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) PKI
2 3 (11.54%) Onboarding
2 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (7.69%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 14 (53.85%) Windows
2 8 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (7.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) DevOps
2 8 (30.77%) Agile
3 7 (26.92%) Computer Science
4 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 6 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (23.08%) User Experience
5 5 (19.23%) Critical Thinking
5 5 (19.23%) ITIL
5 5 (19.23%) Service Management
5 5 (19.23%) System Testing
5 5 (19.23%) Workflow
6 4 (15.38%) Project Delivery
6 4 (15.38%) RBAC
6 4 (15.38%) Roadmaps
6 4 (15.38%) Scrum
7 3 (11.54%) Digital Identity
7 3 (11.54%) Programme Management
7 3 (11.54%) Service-Level Objective
7 3 (11.54%) TDD
7 3 (11.54%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) Python
2 8 (30.77%) SQL
3 3 (11.54%) C#
4 2 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (3.85%) Bash
5 1 (3.85%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (42.31%) Security Cleared
2 7 (26.92%) Degree
3 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared
4 5 (19.23%) CCNA
4 5 (19.23%) CCNP
4 5 (19.23%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (19.23%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (19.23%) Master's Degree
4 5 (19.23%) MCSE
4 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (15.38%) DV Cleared
6 2 (7.69%) CEH
6 2 (7.69%) CISSP
6 2 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) QA
2 3 (11.54%) GDPR
2 3 (11.54%) PSD2
2 3 (11.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (7.69%) SLA
4 1 (3.85%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 7 (26.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 5 (19.23%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (15.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (15.38%) XenDesktop
5 3 (11.54%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (34.62%) SCCM
1 9 (34.62%) Terraform
2 5 (19.23%) Ansible
2 5 (19.23%) WSUS
3 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (11.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 7 (26.92%) VMware
3 5 (19.23%) Cisco
3 5 (19.23%) Red Hat
3 5 (19.23%) SolarWinds
3 5 (19.23%) Splunk
3 5 (19.23%) Veeam
4 4 (15.38%) Citrix
5 3 (11.54%) ForgeRock
5 3 (11.54%) Ivanti
5 3 (11.54%) Ping Identity
5 3 (11.54%) SAP
6 1 (3.85%) Dell
6 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle