PowerShell Job Trends in Bristol

Windows PowerShell
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 74 73
Rank change year-on-year +23 -1 +18
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 44 42 59
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 2.81% 2.11% 3.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.05% 7.27% 8.36%
Number of salaries quoted 43 22 56
10th Percentile £36,250 - £45,625
25th Percentile £36,750 £30,000 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -19.22% +34.21%
75th Percentile £61,250 £56,750 £78,923
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,625 £96,539
South West median annual salary £51,250 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +10.53%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 258 578 706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 16.50% 29.07% 43.91%
Number of salaries quoted 208 368 629
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,425 £40,000
25th Percentile £40,938 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,875 £87,500 £87,500
South West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Bristol

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Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Bristol over the 6 months to 21 November 2025.

Salary 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 23 (52.27%) IIS
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (38.64%) Azure
2 9 (20.45%) GitHub
2 9 (20.45%) GitHub Actions
3 8 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (15.91%) AWS
5 6 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.82%) Serverless
7 2 (4.55%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.27%) Datadog
8 1 (2.27%) GCP
8 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (2.27%) PaaS
8 1 (2.27%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 25 (56.82%) Firewall
2 24 (54.55%) DNS
3 23 (52.27%) DHCP
4 17 (38.64%) Internet
4 17 (38.64%) Kerberos
4 17 (38.64%) LAN
4 17 (38.64%) WAN
5 6 (13.64%) Cisco IOS
5 6 (13.64%) IPsec
5 6 (13.64%) VLAN
5 6 (13.64%) VoIP
5 6 (13.64%) VPN
5 6 (13.64%) Wireless
6 1 (2.27%) SAN
6 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 7 (15.91%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.27%) DB2
3 1 (2.27%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.55%) Git
3 1 (2.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (2.27%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 28 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 19 (43.18%) Law
3 18 (40.91%) Finance
4 6 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 5 (11.36%) Electronics
5 5 (11.36%) Manufacturing
5 5 (11.36%) Marketing
5 5 (11.36%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Legal
7 1 (2.27%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 18 (40.91%) Analyst
2 16 (36.36%) 3rd Line Support
2 16 (36.36%) Support Analyst
3 11 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
4 10 (22.73%) 2nd Line Support
5 8 (18.18%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 8 (18.18%) Support Engineer
6 7 (15.91%) Applications Engineer
7 6 (13.64%) IT Engineer
7 6 (13.64%) IT Support
7 6 (13.64%) IT Support Engineer
7 6 (13.64%) Security Engineer
7 6 (13.64%) Senior
7 6 (13.64%) Senior IT Engineer
7 6 (13.64%) Senior IT Support
7 6 (13.64%) Senior Support Engineer
8 5 (11.36%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 5 (11.36%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
8 5 (11.36%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (11.36%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (38.64%) LDAP
2 2 (4.55%) .NET
2 2 (4.55%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.27%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 17 (38.64%) PKI
2 6 (13.64%) Clustering
3 2 (4.55%) Client/Server
3 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.55%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 29 (65.91%) Windows
2 26 (59.09%) Windows Server
3 17 (38.64%) Windows 10
3 17 (38.64%) Windows Server 2016
3 17 (38.64%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (15.91%) Linux
4 7 (15.91%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
2 18 (40.91%) Data Loss Prevention
3 12 (27.27%) Migration
4 10 (22.73%) Containerisation
4 10 (22.73%) DevOps
4 10 (22.73%) ITIL
5 8 (18.18%) Collaborative Culture
5 8 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 8 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (15.91%) Coaching
6 7 (15.91%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (15.91%) Roadmaps
6 7 (15.91%) Threat Modelling
7 6 (13.64%) Application Security
7 6 (13.64%) CI/CD
7 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (13.64%) Penetration Testing
7 6 (13.64%) Remote Monitoring and Management
7 6 (13.64%) Security Testing
7 6 (13.64%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 17 (38.64%) VB
2 14 (31.82%) Python
3 10 (22.73%) Bash
4 4 (9.09%) Bicep
5 3 (6.82%) SQL
6 1 (2.27%) C#
6 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) ACMT
1 6 (13.64%) CISSP
1 6 (13.64%) CREST Certified
1 6 (13.64%) SANS
1 6 (13.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 5 (11.36%) Azure Certification
2 5 (11.36%) Degree
3 3 (6.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.27%) CEH
5 1 (2.27%) GIAC
5 1 (2.27%) GREM
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.27%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (40.91%) SLA
2 6 (13.64%) Accessibility
2 6 (13.64%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 17 (38.64%) Active Directory
2 10 (22.73%) Docker
3 7 (15.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (13.64%) Hyper-V
4 6 (13.64%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (38.64%) WSUS
2 10 (22.73%) Kubernetes
3 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (13.64%) Autotask
4 6 (13.64%) Terraform
4 6 (13.64%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.27%) Ansible
5 1 (2.27%) Computer Incident Response Team
5 1 (2.27%) Puppet
5 1 (2.27%) QRadar
5 1 (2.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 27 (61.36%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.45%) Cisco
2 9 (20.45%) Veeam
3 8 (18.18%) Oracle
4 7 (15.91%) VMware
5 6 (13.64%) Apple
5 6 (13.64%) Datto
5 6 (13.64%) Sophos
6 5 (11.36%) SAP
7 3 (6.82%) arcserve
8 1 (2.27%) Cognos
8 1 (2.27%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (2.27%) iManage
8 1 (2.27%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.27%) Splunk