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 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 63 112
Rank change year-on-year -8 +49 -22
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 39 23 44
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.45% 2.19% 1.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.05% 7.72% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 24 21 35
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £49,688 £46,250 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £77,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £88,500 £77,500 £62,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +2.56%

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 388 298 1,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 14.42% 28.41% 31.98%
Number of salaries quoted 313 230 863
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £33,800
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -2.59%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,886 £73,750
90th Percentile £79,750 £94,150 £85,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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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 7 July 2026.

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 15 (38.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (61.54%) Azure
2 23 (58.97%) GitHub
3 17 (43.59%) IaaS
4 16 (41.03%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (41.03%) PaaS
5 13 (33.33%) Serverless
6 12 (30.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 12 (30.77%) Azure Functions
6 12 (30.77%) Azure Key Vault
6 12 (30.77%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (12.82%) AWS
8 5 (12.82%) Datadog
8 5 (12.82%) GCP
9 3 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (5.13%) Entra ID
10 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (5.13%) Power Automate
10 2 (5.13%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 14 (35.90%) VPN
2 6 (15.38%) Firewall
3 5 (12.82%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.13%) DNS
4 2 (5.13%) SNMP
5 1 (2.56%) DHCP
5 1 (2.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.77%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.56%) Power BI
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (35.90%) Git
2 9 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.26%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.56%) Balsamiq
4 1 (2.56%) JIRA
4 1 (2.56%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 18 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 14 (35.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 14 (35.90%) Law
3 5 (12.82%) Finance
4 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Military
5 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (33.33%) Senior
2 12 (30.77%) Analyst
2 12 (30.77%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 6 (15.38%) Senior Analyst
3 6 (15.38%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
4 5 (12.82%) Security Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Administrator
6 3 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (5.13%) Consultant
7 2 (5.13%) Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Linux Administrator
7 2 (5.13%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 2 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Project Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Support Consultant
7 2 (5.13%) Systems Support
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (33.33%) Public Cloud
1 13 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 12 (30.77%) Podcast
3 6 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.13%) Educational Technology
5 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (51.28%) Windows
2 15 (38.46%) VMS
3 12 (30.77%) Linux
4 5 (12.82%) Windows Server
5 2 (5.13%) Debian
5 2 (5.13%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (61.54%) DevOps
2 20 (51.28%) Agile
2 20 (51.28%) CI/CD
2 20 (51.28%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (48.72%) DevSecOps
4 18 (46.15%) Cloud Security
5 17 (43.59%) Observability
6 14 (35.90%) AI
6 14 (35.90%) Generative AI
7 13 (33.33%) Analytics
7 13 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
7 13 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
7 13 (33.33%) Task Automation
8 12 (30.77%) API Management
8 12 (30.77%) Computer Science
8 12 (30.77%) Log Analytics
8 12 (30.77%) Roadmaps
8 12 (30.77%) Scrum
9 9 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 29 (74.36%) Bash
2 21 (53.85%) Python
3 13 (33.33%) SQL
4 12 (30.77%) Bicep
4 12 (30.77%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (7.69%) Go
6 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.13%) PHP
6 2 (5.13%) Ruby
7 1 (2.56%) C#
7 1 (2.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (35.90%) Azure Certification
2 12 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (10.26%) CISSP
3 4 (10.26%) CREST Certified
3 4 (10.26%) SANS
3 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
4 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.56%) GDPR
2 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.56%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (43.59%) Active Directory
2 14 (35.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (30.77%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (30.77%) vSphere
4 4 (10.26%) Docker
5 2 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (48.72%) Terraform
2 6 (15.38%) Ansible
3 5 (12.82%) Grafana
4 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
5 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (5.13%) Nagios
6 2 (5.13%) Netcool
6 2 (5.13%) Tivoli
6 2 (5.13%) ZABBIX
7 1 (2.56%) Packer
7 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 14 (35.90%) VMware
3 12 (30.77%) ScienceLogic
4 5 (12.82%) Cisco
5 3 (7.69%) Meraki
6 2 (5.13%) BMC
6 2 (5.13%) Fortinet
6 2 (5.13%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.56%) Databricks
7 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.56%) Google
7 1 (2.56%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.56%) Sophos