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

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 82 72
Rank change year-on-year +36 -10 +41
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 41 41 59
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 3.33% 1.98% 3.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.87% 7.14% 8.39%
Number of salaries quoted 39 20 55
10th Percentile £36,250 £29,875 £43,800
25th Percentile £36,750 £30,000 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £30,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +57.72% -50.80% +25.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £53,750 £81,274
90th Percentile £90,000 £62,750 £96,539
South West median annual salary £50,000 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +11.11%

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 243 574 703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 19.74% 27.73% 42.84%
Number of salaries quoted 190 368 629
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,250 £40,700
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,188 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,625 £87,500 £86,250
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 28 October 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 (56.10%) IIS
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (41.46%) Azure
2 8 (19.51%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (17.07%) AWS
3 7 (17.07%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (14.63%) GitHub
4 6 (14.63%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (7.32%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (7.32%) Serverless
6 2 (4.88%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.88%) PaaS
6 2 (4.88%) Power Automate
6 2 (4.88%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.44%) Azure AI
7 1 (2.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.44%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.44%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.44%) IaaS
7 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (63.41%) Firewall
2 25 (60.98%) DNS
3 23 (56.10%) DHCP
4 18 (43.90%) WAN
5 17 (41.46%) Internet
5 17 (41.46%) Kerberos
5 17 (41.46%) LAN
6 7 (17.07%) VPN
7 6 (14.63%) Cisco IOS
7 6 (14.63%) IPsec
7 6 (14.63%) VLAN
7 6 (14.63%) VoIP
7 6 (14.63%) Wireless
8 1 (2.44%) SAN
8 1 (2.44%) SD-WAN
8 1 (2.44%) TCP/IP
8 1 (2.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.51%) SQL Server
2 7 (17.07%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.44%) DB2
3 1 (2.44%) MySQL
3 1 (2.44%) Power BI
3 1 (2.44%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.32%) Git
3 1 (2.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (2.44%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 28 (68.29%) Social Skills
2 19 (46.34%) Law
3 14 (34.15%) Finance
4 6 (14.63%) Public Sector
5 5 (12.20%) Electronics
5 5 (12.20%) Manufacturing
5 5 (12.20%) Marketing
5 5 (12.20%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Legal
7 1 (2.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 18 (43.90%) Analyst
2 16 (39.02%) 3rd Line Support
2 16 (39.02%) Support Analyst
3 11 (26.83%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
4 10 (24.39%) 2nd Line Support
5 8 (19.51%) Support Engineer
6 7 (17.07%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 6 (14.63%) IT Engineer
7 6 (14.63%) IT Support
7 6 (14.63%) IT Support Engineer
7 6 (14.63%) Senior
7 6 (14.63%) Senior IT Engineer
7 6 (14.63%) Senior IT Support
7 6 (14.63%) Senior Support Engineer
8 5 (12.20%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 5 (12.20%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (12.20%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
8 5 (12.20%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (12.20%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (12.20%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (41.46%) LDAP
2 2 (4.88%) .NET
2 2 (4.88%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.44%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 17 (41.46%) PKI
2 6 (14.63%) Clustering
3 2 (4.88%) Client/Server
3 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.88%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.44%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.44%) NHS
4 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 29 (70.73%) Windows
2 26 (63.41%) Windows Server
3 17 (41.46%) Windows 10
3 17 (41.46%) Windows Server 2016
3 17 (41.46%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (17.07%) Linux
4 7 (17.07%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (48.78%) Continuous Improvement
2 18 (43.90%) Data Loss Prevention
3 13 (31.71%) Migration
4 10 (24.39%) Containerisation
4 10 (24.39%) DevOps
4 10 (24.39%) ITIL
5 8 (19.51%) Collaborative Culture
5 8 (19.51%) Mentoring
6 7 (17.07%) CI/CD
6 7 (17.07%) Coaching
6 7 (17.07%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (14.63%) IT Strategy
7 6 (14.63%) Remote Monitoring and Management
7 6 (14.63%) Server Building
7 6 (14.63%) Server Management
8 5 (12.20%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (12.20%) Digital Marketing
8 5 (12.20%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (41.46%) VB
2 11 (26.83%) Python
3 7 (17.07%) Bash
4 5 (12.20%) Bicep
5 4 (9.76%) SQL
6 1 (2.44%) C#
6 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (14.63%) ACMT
1 6 (14.63%) Azure Certification
1 6 (14.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (9.76%) Degree
3 3 (7.32%) CISSP
3 3 (7.32%) CREST Certified
3 3 (7.32%) SANS
4 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.44%) CEH
5 1 (2.44%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.44%) GIAC
5 1 (2.44%) GREM
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.44%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (43.90%) SLA
2 6 (14.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (7.32%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 17 (41.46%) Active Directory
2 10 (24.39%) Docker
3 7 (17.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (14.63%) Hyper-V
4 6 (14.63%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (41.46%) WSUS
2 10 (24.39%) Kubernetes
3 7 (17.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (14.63%) Autotask
4 6 (14.63%) Terraform
4 6 (14.63%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.44%) Ansible
5 1 (2.44%) Computer Incident Response Team
5 1 (2.44%) Puppet
5 1 (2.44%) QRadar
5 1 (2.44%) SCCM
5 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (65.85%) Microsoft
2 8 (19.51%) Cisco
2 8 (19.51%) Oracle
2 8 (19.51%) Veeam
3 7 (17.07%) VMware
4 6 (14.63%) Apple
4 6 (14.63%) Datto
4 6 (14.63%) Sophos
5 5 (12.20%) SAP
6 2 (4.88%) arcserve
7 1 (2.44%) Cognos
7 1 (2.44%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.44%) Databricks
7 1 (2.44%) iManage
7 1 (2.44%) Meraki
7 1 (2.44%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.44%) Splunk