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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 76 73
Rank change year-on-year +26 -3 +22
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 45 42 59
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 2.69% 2.21% 3.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.58% 7.28% 8.37%
Number of salaries quoted 44 23 56
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £45,625
25th Percentile £36,750 £30,375 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -19.23% +36.84%
75th Percentile £65,938 £63,750 £78,923
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,750 £96,539
South West median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £51,750
% change year-on-year - +1.45% +6.70%

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 256 577 705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 15.31% 30.37% 44.12%
Number of salaries quoted 205 363 630
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,900 £40,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,250 £87,500 £87,625
South West median annual salary £52,500 £55,625 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.62% +1.14% +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 November 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 (51.11%) IIS
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (40.00%) Azure
2 10 (22.22%) GitHub
2 10 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
3 8 (17.78%) AWS
3 8 (17.78%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (15.56%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (8.89%) Serverless
6 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.44%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.22%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (2.22%) PaaS
7 1 (2.22%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.22%) SaaS
7 1 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (55.56%) Firewall
2 24 (53.33%) DNS
3 23 (51.11%) DHCP
4 17 (37.78%) Internet
4 17 (37.78%) Kerberos
4 17 (37.78%) LAN
4 17 (37.78%) WAN
5 6 (13.33%) Cisco IOS
5 6 (13.33%) IPsec
5 6 (13.33%) VLAN
5 6 (13.33%) VoIP
5 6 (13.33%) VPN
5 6 (13.33%) Wireless
6 1 (2.22%) SAN
6 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.78%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (17.78%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (2.22%) DB2
2 1 (2.22%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.44%) Git
3 1 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (2.22%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 28 (62.22%) Social Skills
2 19 (42.22%) Law
3 18 (40.00%) Finance
4 6 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 5 (11.11%) Electronics
5 5 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 5 (11.11%) Marketing
5 5 (11.11%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Billing
7 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Legal
7 1 (2.22%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 18 (40.00%) Analyst
2 16 (35.56%) 3rd Line Support
2 16 (35.56%) Support Analyst
3 11 (24.44%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
4 10 (22.22%) 2nd Line Support
5 8 (17.78%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 8 (17.78%) Support Engineer
6 7 (15.56%) Applications Engineer
7 6 (13.33%) IT Engineer
7 6 (13.33%) IT Support
7 6 (13.33%) IT Support Engineer
7 6 (13.33%) Security Engineer
7 6 (13.33%) Senior
7 6 (13.33%) Senior IT Engineer
7 6 (13.33%) Senior IT Support
7 6 (13.33%) Senior Support Engineer
8 5 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 5 (11.11%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
8 5 (11.11%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (37.78%) LDAP
2 2 (4.44%) .NET
2 2 (4.44%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.22%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 17 (37.78%) PKI
2 6 (13.33%) Clustering
3 3 (6.67%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.44%) Client/Server
4 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.22%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 29 (64.44%) Windows
2 26 (57.78%) Windows Server
3 17 (37.78%) Windows 10
3 17 (37.78%) Windows Server 2016
3 17 (37.78%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (15.56%) Linux
4 7 (15.56%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
2 18 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 12 (26.67%) Migration
4 11 (24.44%) DevOps
5 10 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 10 (22.22%) ITIL
6 8 (17.78%) Collaborative Culture
6 8 (17.78%) Mentoring
6 8 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (15.56%) CI/CD
7 7 (15.56%) Coaching
7 7 (15.56%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (15.56%) Roadmaps
7 7 (15.56%) Threat Modelling
8 6 (13.33%) Application Security
8 6 (13.33%) Penetration Testing
8 6 (13.33%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 6 (13.33%) Security Testing
8 6 (13.33%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 17 (37.78%) VB
2 15 (33.33%) Python
3 11 (24.44%) Bash
4 4 (8.89%) Bicep
5 3 (6.67%) SQL
6 1 (2.22%) C#
6 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) ACMT
1 6 (13.33%) CISSP
1 6 (13.33%) CREST Certified
1 6 (13.33%) SANS
1 6 (13.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 5 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 5 (11.11%) Degree
3 3 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (4.44%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.22%) CEH
5 1 (2.22%) GIAC
5 1 (2.22%) GREM
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.22%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (40.00%) SLA
2 6 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 6 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 17 (37.78%) Active Directory
2 10 (22.22%) Docker
3 7 (15.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (13.33%) Hyper-V
4 6 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (37.78%) WSUS
2 10 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 7 (15.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (15.56%) Terraform
4 6 (13.33%) Autotask
4 6 (13.33%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.22%) Ansible
5 1 (2.22%) Computer Incident Response Team
5 1 (2.22%) Puppet
5 1 (2.22%) QRadar
5 1 (2.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 27 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.00%) Cisco
2 9 (20.00%) Veeam
3 8 (17.78%) Oracle
4 7 (15.56%) VMware
5 6 (13.33%) Apple
5 6 (13.33%) Datto
5 6 (13.33%) Sophos
6 5 (11.11%) SAP
7 3 (6.67%) arcserve
8 1 (2.22%) Cognos
8 1 (2.22%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (2.22%) iManage
8 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.22%) Splunk