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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 58 104
Rank change year-on-year -24 +46 -20
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 35 29 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.28% 2.67% 1.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.47% 10.94% 4.40%
Number of salaries quoted 20 27 28
10th Percentile £41,225 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £49,688 £46,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £48,500 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year +15.98% +10.86% -23.91%
75th Percentile £75,625 £58,750 £54,063
90th Percentile £83,250 £85,000 £59,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

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 413 265 840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 15.07% 24.42% 30.38%
Number of salaries quoted 334 199 685
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,625 £73,886
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,695 £87,500
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 28 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 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (8.57%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (62.86%) Azure
2 19 (54.29%) GitHub
3 17 (48.57%) IaaS
4 16 (45.71%) PaaS
5 15 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (37.14%) Serverless
7 12 (34.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 12 (34.29%) Azure Functions
7 12 (34.29%) Azure Key Vault
7 12 (34.29%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (11.43%) AWS
10 3 (8.57%) Datadog
10 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
10 3 (8.57%) GCP
10 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (5.71%) Power Automate
11 2 (5.71%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 14 (40.00%) VPN
2 6 (17.14%) Firewall
3 5 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.71%) DNS
4 2 (5.71%) SNMP
5 1 (2.86%) DHCP
5 1 (2.86%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (34.29%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 14 (40.00%) Git
2 5 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.71%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.86%) Balsamiq
4 1 (2.86%) JIRA
4 1 (2.86%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 17 (48.57%) Social Skills
2 14 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 14 (40.00%) Law
3 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Finance
4 2 (5.71%) Military
4 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Analyst
1 12 (34.29%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 11 (31.43%) Senior
3 6 (17.14%) Senior Analyst
3 6 (17.14%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Administrator
4 3 (8.57%) Security Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (5.71%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) Developer
5 2 (5.71%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (5.71%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Project Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Support Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) Systems Support
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) GCP DevOps
Miscellaneous
1 13 (37.14%) Public Cloud
1 13 (37.14%) Security Posture
2 12 (34.29%) Podcast
3 6 (17.14%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.71%) Educational Technology
5 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (57.14%) Windows
2 15 (42.86%) VMS
3 10 (28.57%) Linux
4 5 (14.29%) Windows Server
5 2 (5.71%) Debian
5 2 (5.71%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (62.86%) DevOps
2 18 (51.43%) Agile
2 18 (51.43%) CI/CD
2 18 (51.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (48.57%) DevSecOps
3 17 (48.57%) Observability
4 16 (45.71%) Cloud Security
5 14 (40.00%) AI
5 14 (40.00%) Generative AI
6 13 (37.14%) Analytics
6 13 (37.14%) Performance Tuning
6 13 (37.14%) Root Cause Analysis
6 13 (37.14%) Task Automation
7 12 (34.29%) API Management
7 12 (34.29%) Computer Science
7 12 (34.29%) Log Analytics
7 12 (34.29%) Scrum
8 10 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (28.57%) Roadmaps
9 7 (20.00%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 25 (71.43%) Bash
2 16 (45.71%) Python
3 12 (34.29%) Bicep
3 12 (34.29%) Kusto Query Language
3 12 (34.29%) SQL
4 3 (8.57%) Go
5 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.71%) PHP
5 2 (5.71%) Ruby
6 1 (2.86%) C#
6 1 (2.86%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 12 (34.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
4 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (5.71%) CISSP
5 2 (5.71%) CREST Certified
5 2 (5.71%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.71%) SANS
6 1 (2.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (51.43%) Active Directory
2 14 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (34.29%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (34.29%) vSphere
4 2 (5.71%) Docker
4 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (48.57%) Terraform
2 4 (11.43%) Ansible
3 3 (8.57%) Grafana
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.71%) Nagios
4 2 (5.71%) Netcool
4 2 (5.71%) Tivoli
4 2 (5.71%) ZABBIX
5 1 (2.86%) Packer
5 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (51.43%) Microsoft
2 14 (40.00%) VMware
3 12 (34.29%) ScienceLogic
4 6 (17.14%) Cisco
5 3 (8.57%) Meraki
6 2 (5.71%) BMC
6 2 (5.71%) Fortinet
6 2 (5.71%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.86%) arcserve
7 1 (2.86%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.86%) Google
7 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.86%) Sophos
7 1 (2.86%) Veeam