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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 51 53
Rank change year-on-year -19 +2 +10
Contract jobs citing PowerShell 17 17 22
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 1.26% 2.45% 2.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.01% 8.95% 8.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 11
10th Percentile £386 £194 £425
25th Percentile £459 £342 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -14.89%
75th Percentile £578 £584 £538
90th Percentile £588 £606 £575
South West median daily rate £490 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -14.78% +0.88% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile - - £65.90
25th Percentile £19.25 - £73.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £82.96 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -76.49% +12.11% -
75th Percentile £19.75 - £74.44
90th Percentile - - £75.66
South West median hourly rate £90.00 £73.98 £74.00
% change year-on-year +21.65% -0.03% +60.87%

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 339 190 255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 25.22% 27.42% 27.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 110 128
10th Percentile £350 £320 £339
25th Percentile £413 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £494
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -13.92% +9.72%
75th Percentile £584 £500 £575
90th Percentile £638 £589 £650
South West median daily rate £525 £475 £533
% change year-on-year +10.53% -10.88% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 37 80
10th Percentile £56.75 £64.00 £65.00
25th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £68.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% -2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £74.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.40 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £66.50 £68.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -2.21% -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 19 August 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 3 (17.65%) IIS
2 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) InfoPath
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
1 4 (23.53%) GCP
1 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
2 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
3 2 (11.76%) Apigee
3 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
3 2 (11.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (11.76%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
4 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle BI EE
1 3 (17.65%) Power BI
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 4 (23.53%) JIRA
3 3 (17.65%) Git
4 1 (5.88%) AdminStudio
4 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.88%) InstallShield
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (11.76%) 1st Line Support
1 2 (11.76%) Developer
1 2 (11.76%) GCP Engineer
1 2 (11.76%) SailPoint Engineer
1 2 (11.76%) SOC Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) Applications Developer
2 1 (5.88%) Automation Developer
2 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365 Developer
2 1 (5.88%) GCP DevOps
2 1 (5.88%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Developer
2 1 (5.88%) Service Desk Specialist
2 1 (5.88%) Site Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) LDAP
1 2 (11.76%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
2 2 (11.76%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Windows
1 5 (29.41%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Change Management
2 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
2 4 (23.53%) DevOps
2 4 (23.53%) Incident Management
2 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (23.53%) ITIL
2 4 (23.53%) Observability
2 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (17.65%) AI
3 3 (17.65%) Analytics
3 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security
3 3 (17.65%) Data Governance
3 3 (17.65%) Generative AI
3 3 (17.65%) Service Management
3 3 (17.65%) Service-Level Objective
3 3 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (11.76%) SIEM
4 2 (11.76%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) Bash
3 3 (17.65%) Groovy
4 2 (11.76%) BeanShell
4 2 (11.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) CEH
3 2 (11.76%) CISM
3 2 (11.76%) CISSP
3 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Terraform
2 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.76%) QRadar
4 1 (5.88%) Ansible
4 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.88%) Puppet
4 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) Dynatrace
2 3 (17.65%) Google
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle
2 3 (17.65%) VMware
3 2 (11.76%) CyberArk
3 2 (11.76%) Splunk
4 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds