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

	6 months to 21 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	96	47	81
Rank change year-on-year	-49	+34	-16
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell	37	39	42
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol	1.08%	3.32%	1.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category	8.08%	16.46%	7.09%
Number of salaries quoted	18	37	21
10^th Percentile	£41,175	£36,250	-
25^th Percentile	£41,500	£36,750	£30,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£53,750	£48,500	£31,500
Median % change year-on-year	+10.82%	+53.97%	-49.60%
75^th Percentile	£58,438	£58,750	£53,750
90^th Percentile	£69,750	£90,000	£62,500
South West median annual salary	£53,600	£48,500	£50,500
% change year-on-year	+10.52%	-3.96%	-6.48%

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.

	6 months to 21 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills	458	237	592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol	13.40%	20.15%	27.98%
Number of salaries quoted	361	184	384
10^th Percentile	£40,000	£35,000	£26,800
25^th Percentile	£52,500	£42,500	£42,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£62,500	£55,000	£60,000
Median % change year-on-year	+13.64%	-8.33%	-
75^th Percentile	£70,000	£67,500	£77,500
90^th Percentile	£83,750	£88,750	£87,500
South West median annual salary	£60,000	£50,750	£55,000
% change year-on-year	+18.23%	-7.73%	-

PowerShell 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 Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing PowerShell.

PowerShell Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Bristol over the 6 months to 21 October 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in Bristol

PowerShell Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 21 October 2026, job vacancies citing PowerShell also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Bristol region with a requirement for PowerShell.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	67.6%	25
2	Active Directory	62.2%	23
2	Windows	62.2%	23
4	Microsoft	59.5%	22
5	Bash	56.8%	21
5	DevOps	56.8%	21
7	Agile	45.9%	17
7	CI/CD	45.9%	17
7	Infrastructure as Code	45.9%	17
7	Observability	45.9%	17
11	Azure DevOps	43.2%	16
11	Git	43.2%	16
11	IaaS	43.2%	16
11	PaaS	43.2%	16
11	SQL	43.2%	16
11	Terraform	43.2%	16
11	VPN	43.2%	16
18	Microsoft Exchange	40.5%	15
18	Serverless	40.5%	15
20	AI	37.8%	14
20	Azure Certification	37.8%	14
20	Cloud Security	37.8%	14
20	DevSecOps	37.8%	14
20	Generative AI	37.8%	14
20	GitHub	37.8%	14
20	Problem-Solving	37.8%	14
20	Scrum	37.8%	14
20	VMS	37.8%	14
20	VMware	37.8%	14
20	VMware Infrastructure	37.8%	14

PowerShell Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Bash	56.8%	21
2	SQL	43.2%	16
3	Bicep	32.4%	12
3	Kusto Query Language	32.4%	12
3	Python	32.4%	12
6	JavaScript	10.8%	4
7	Go	5.4%	2
7	Java	5.4%	2
7	PHP	5.4%	2
7	Ruby	5.4%	2