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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 47 81
Rank change year-on-year -42 +34 -14
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 37 37 41
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.10% 3.22% 1.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.13% 15.95% 6.77%
Number of salaries quoted 18 35 21
10th Percentile £41,175 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,750 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £48,500 £31,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.82% +53.97% -49.60%
75th Percentile £58,438 £58,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £69,750 £85,000 £62,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year +13.40% -3.96% -8.18%

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 455 232 606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 13.59% 20.19% 27.95%
Number of salaries quoted 365 181 398
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £51,875 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £84,500 £85,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -

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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 14 October 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 (40.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (10.81%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.41%) Confluence
3 2 (5.41%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (10.81%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 25 (67.57%) Azure
2 16 (43.24%) Azure DevOps
2 16 (43.24%) IaaS
2 16 (43.24%) PaaS
3 15 (40.54%) Serverless
4 14 (37.84%) GitHub
5 12 (32.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 12 (32.43%) Azure Functions
5 12 (32.43%) Azure Key Vault
5 12 (32.43%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (16.22%) AWS
6 6 (16.22%) Entra ID
6 6 (16.22%) SaaS
7 5 (13.51%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (5.41%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (43.24%) VPN
2 6 (16.22%) Firewall
3 4 (10.81%) DNS
4 3 (8.11%) DHCP
4 3 (8.11%) TCP/IP
5 2 (5.41%) SNMP
5 2 (5.41%) Wireless
6 1 (2.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (32.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 16 (43.24%) Git
2 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (5.41%) Bitbucket
3 2 (5.41%) git-flow
3 2 (5.41%) JIRA
4 1 (2.70%) GitLab
4 1 (2.70%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 22 (59.46%) Social Skills
2 16 (43.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (37.84%) Law
4 3 (8.11%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (32.43%) Analyst
1 12 (32.43%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 9 (24.32%) Senior
3 6 (16.22%) Consultant
3 6 (16.22%) Senior Analyst
3 6 (16.22%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Implementation Consultant
4 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Administrator
5 3 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (5.41%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.41%) Project Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Support Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (43.24%) Terraform
2 2 (5.41%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 13 (35.14%) Security Posture
2 12 (32.43%) Podcast
2 12 (32.43%) Public Cloud
3 8 (21.62%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.41%) Driving Licence
5 2 (5.41%) Educational Technology
5 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 23 (62.16%) Windows
2 14 (37.84%) VMS
3 6 (16.22%) Linux
4 5 (13.51%) Windows Server
5 2 (5.41%) Android
5 2 (5.41%) Debian
5 2 (5.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (56.76%) DevOps
2 17 (45.95%) Agile
2 17 (45.95%) CI/CD
2 17 (45.95%) Infrastructure as Code
2 17 (45.95%) Observability
3 14 (37.84%) AI
3 14 (37.84%) Cloud Security
3 14 (37.84%) DevSecOps
3 14 (37.84%) Generative AI
3 14 (37.84%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (37.84%) Scrum
4 13 (35.14%) Analytics
4 13 (35.14%) Root Cause Analysis
4 13 (35.14%) Task Automation
5 12 (32.43%) API Management
5 12 (32.43%) Computer Science
5 12 (32.43%) Log Analytics
5 12 (32.43%) Performance Tuning
6 9 (24.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (18.92%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (56.76%) Bash
2 16 (43.24%) SQL
3 12 (32.43%) Bicep
3 12 (32.43%) Kusto Query Language
3 12 (32.43%) Python
4 4 (10.81%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.41%) Go
5 2 (5.41%) Java
5 2 (5.41%) PHP
5 2 (5.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (37.84%) Azure Certification
2 12 (32.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (18.92%) Security Cleared
4 6 (16.22%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (5.41%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) GDPR
1 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.70%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (62.16%) Active Directory
2 14 (37.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (32.43%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (32.43%) vSphere
4 3 (8.11%) Docker
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) Ansible
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (5.41%) Nagios
3 2 (5.41%) Netcool
3 2 (5.41%) Puppet
3 2 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (5.41%) Tivoli
3 2 (5.41%) ZABBIX
4 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (59.46%) Microsoft
2 14 (37.84%) VMware
3 12 (32.43%) ScienceLogic
4 7 (18.92%) Cisco
5 4 (10.81%) Sage
5 4 (10.81%) SAP
6 3 (8.11%) Meraki
7 2 (5.41%) arcserve
7 2 (5.41%) Atlassian
7 2 (5.41%) BMC
7 2 (5.41%) Fortinet
7 2 (5.41%) Red Hat
7 2 (5.41%) SolarWinds
7 2 (5.41%) Veeam
8 1 (2.70%) Remedy
8 1 (2.70%) Sophos