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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 66 79
Rank change year-on-year +8 +13 -2
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 39 39 58
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.82% 2.88% 2.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.34% 8.23% 6.75%
Number of salaries quoted 39 23 55
10th Percentile £36,650 £30,000 £46,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,250 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -18.46% +23.81%
75th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £76,357
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,250 £96,539
South West median annual salary £52,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% -5.66%

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 272 474 859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 12.71% 35.03% 42.15%
Number of salaries quoted 229 305 765
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,500 £87,500 £91,934
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 21 January 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 11 (28.21%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (53.85%) Azure
2 15 (38.46%) GitHub
2 15 (38.46%) GitHub Actions
3 12 (30.77%) AWS
4 10 (25.64%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (10.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (10.26%) Power Platform
5 4 (10.26%) Serverless
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 3 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (7.69%) Datadog
6 3 (7.69%) dbt
6 3 (7.69%) GCP
6 3 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (7.69%) SaaS
6 3 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (35.90%) Firewall
2 12 (30.77%) DNS
3 11 (28.21%) DHCP
4 8 (20.51%) Internet
4 8 (20.51%) Kerberos
4 8 (20.51%) LAN
4 8 (20.51%) WAN
5 3 (7.69%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (7.69%) IPsec
5 3 (7.69%) VLAN
5 3 (7.69%) VoIP
5 3 (7.69%) VPN
5 3 (7.69%) Wireless
6 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (10.26%) SQL Server
3 3 (7.69%) Power BI
3 3 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (35.90%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.69%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (2.56%) Git
General
1 20 (51.28%) Finance
2 17 (43.59%) Social Skills
3 8 (20.51%) Law
4 7 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Billing
5 3 (7.69%) Electronics
5 3 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 3 (7.69%) Marketing
5 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.69%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.56%) Legal
6 1 (2.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Analyst
2 8 (20.51%) 2nd Line Support
3 7 (17.95%) Applications Engineer
3 7 (17.95%) Security Engineer
3 7 (17.95%) Support Analyst
4 6 (15.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 6 (15.38%) Senior
5 5 (12.82%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 5 (12.82%) 3rd Line Support
6 4 (10.26%) Support Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Data Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) IT Support
7 3 (7.69%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Senior IT Support
7 3 (7.69%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.51%) LDAP
2 3 (7.69%) PySpark
3 1 (2.56%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) PKI
2 6 (15.38%) Security Posture
3 3 (7.69%) Clustering
4 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.56%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (38.46%) Windows
2 13 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 8 (20.51%) Windows 10
3 8 (20.51%) Windows Server 2016
3 8 (20.51%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (17.95%) Linux
5 4 (10.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) DevOps
2 14 (35.90%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (25.64%) CI/CD
4 10 (25.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (25.64%) Security Testing
5 9 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 9 (23.08%) Data Loss Prevention
5 9 (23.08%) Incident Response
6 8 (20.51%) Roadmaps
6 8 (20.51%) Threat Modelling
7 7 (17.95%) Application Security
7 7 (17.95%) Cloud Security
7 7 (17.95%) ITIL
7 7 (17.95%) Penetration Testing
7 7 (17.95%) Strategic Roadmap
7 7 (17.95%) Technology Transformation
8 6 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (15.38%) Migration
8 6 (15.38%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 23 (58.97%) Python
2 15 (38.46%) Bash
3 8 (20.51%) VB
4 4 (10.26%) SQL
5 3 (7.69%) Bicep
6 1 (2.56%) C#
6 1 (2.56%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) CISSP
1 7 (17.95%) CREST Certified
1 7 (17.95%) SANS
2 4 (10.26%) Degree
3 3 (7.69%) ACMT
3 3 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 3 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (5.13%) CEH
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.56%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (2.56%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.56%) GIAC
5 1 (2.56%) GREM
5 1 (2.56%) OSCP
5 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.08%) SLA
2 7 (17.95%) Accessibility
3 4 (10.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.56%) COBIT
4 1 (2.56%) GDPR
4 1 (2.56%) NIST
4 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) Docker
2 8 (20.51%) Active Directory
3 4 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (7.69%) Hyper-V
4 3 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (25.64%) Terraform
2 9 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 8 (20.51%) WSUS
4 4 (10.26%) Ansible
5 3 (7.69%) Autotask
5 3 (7.69%) Grafana
5 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (7.69%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.56%) CASB
6 1 (2.56%) Computer Incident Response Team
6 1 (2.56%) Puppet
6 1 (2.56%) QRadar
Vendors
1 16 (41.03%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.38%) Cisco
2 6 (15.38%) Veeam
3 4 (10.26%) Oracle
3 4 (10.26%) VMware
4 3 (7.69%) Apple
4 3 (7.69%) arcserve
4 3 (7.69%) Databricks
4 3 (7.69%) Datto
4 3 (7.69%) SAP
4 3 (7.69%) Sophos
5 1 (2.56%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.56%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.56%) Splunk
5 1 (2.56%) Tenable