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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 51 105
Rank change year-on-year -29 +54 -27
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 37 32 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.27% 2.89% 1.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.62% 13.11% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 20 30 20
10th Percentile £41,225 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £47,500 £36,750 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,500 £37,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% +31.08% -40.80%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,750 £55,625
90th Percentile £75,000 £62,875 £61,375
South West median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -9.09%

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 429 244 747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 14.74% 22.04% 28.90%
Number of salaries quoted 342 185 578
10th Percentile £36,500 £38,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% -3.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,250 £90,750 £87,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -

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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 25 August 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 3 (8.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.41%) Confluence
3 2 (5.41%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 24 (64.86%) Azure
2 17 (45.95%) Azure DevOps
2 17 (45.95%) IaaS
3 16 (43.24%) PaaS
4 15 (40.54%) GitHub
4 15 (40.54%) Serverless
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
7 4 (10.81%) Entra ID
7 4 (10.81%) SaaS
8 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (5.41%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (5.41%) Power Automate
9 2 (5.41%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 15 (40.54%) VPN
2 7 (18.92%) Firewall
3 5 (13.51%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.41%) DNS
4 2 (5.41%) Network Security
4 2 (5.41%) SNMP
5 1 (2.70%) DHCP
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
2 3 (8.11%) JIRA
3 2 (5.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (5.41%) Bitbucket
3 2 (5.41%) git-flow
4 1 (2.70%) Balsamiq
4 1 (2.70%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 18 (48.65%) Social Skills
2 14 (37.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 14 (37.84%) Law
3 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Military
4 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (32.43%) Analyst
1 12 (32.43%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 10 (27.03%) Senior
3 6 (16.22%) Senior Analyst
3 6 (16.22%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Consultant
5 3 (8.11%) Administrator
5 3 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Network Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Support Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (48.65%) Terraform
2 2 (5.41%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 13 (35.14%) Public Cloud
1 13 (35.14%) Security Posture
2 12 (32.43%) Podcast
3 6 (16.22%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.41%) Educational Technology
5 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (59.46%) Windows
2 15 (40.54%) VMS
3 8 (21.62%) Linux
4 5 (13.51%) Windows Server
5 2 (5.41%) Debian
5 2 (5.41%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (62.16%) DevOps
2 19 (51.35%) Observability
3 18 (48.65%) Agile
3 18 (48.65%) CI/CD
3 18 (48.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (40.54%) DevSecOps
5 14 (37.84%) AI
5 14 (37.84%) Cloud Security
5 14 (37.84%) Generative AI
5 14 (37.84%) Scrum
6 13 (35.14%) Analytics
6 13 (35.14%) Performance Tuning
6 13 (35.14%) Root Cause Analysis
6 13 (35.14%) Task Automation
7 12 (32.43%) API Management
7 12 (32.43%) Computer Science
7 12 (32.43%) Log Analytics
7 12 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (24.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (21.62%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 23 (62.16%) Bash
2 15 (40.54%) Python
3 14 (37.84%) SQL
4 12 (32.43%) Bicep
4 12 (32.43%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (10.81%) JavaScript
6 3 (8.11%) Go
7 2 (5.41%) Java
7 2 (5.41%) PHP
7 2 (5.41%) Ruby
8 1 (2.70%) C#
8 1 (2.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (37.84%) Azure Certification
2 12 (32.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (16.22%) Security Cleared
4 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared
5 4 (10.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) GDPR
1 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.41%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (56.76%) Active Directory
2 14 (37.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (32.43%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (32.43%) vSphere
4 2 (5.41%) Docker
4 2 (5.41%) 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%) Grafana
4 1 (2.70%) Packer
4 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (51.35%) Microsoft
2 14 (37.84%) VMware
3 12 (32.43%) ScienceLogic
4 7 (18.92%) Cisco
5 3 (8.11%) Meraki
5 3 (8.11%) Red Hat
6 2 (5.41%) arcserve
6 2 (5.41%) Atlassian
6 2 (5.41%) BMC
6 2 (5.41%) Fortinet
6 2 (5.41%) Sage
6 2 (5.41%) SAP
6 2 (5.41%) SolarWinds
6 2 (5.41%) Sophos
6 2 (5.41%) Veeam
7 1 (2.70%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.70%) Google