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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 65 97
Rank change year-on-year +8 +32 -17
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 35 39 56
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.52% 3.07% 2.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.77% 8.25% 5.58%
Number of salaries quoted 35 23 53
10th Percentile £36,750 £33,850 £46,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £87,500 £73,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,250 £96,539
South West median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% +8.00% -4.76%

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 274 473 1,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 11.92% 37.21% 41.23%
Number of salaries quoted 231 310 893
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £43,125 £48,938 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +1.53%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £91,375 £90,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -2.78%

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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 9 February 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 4 (11.43%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (57.14%) Azure
2 18 (51.43%) GitHub
2 18 (51.43%) GitHub Actions
3 15 (42.86%) AWS
4 8 (22.86%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (17.14%) Datadog
5 6 (17.14%) GCP
6 4 (11.43%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
6 4 (11.43%) Serverless
7 3 (8.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (8.57%) Amazon S3
7 3 (8.57%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (8.57%) dbt
7 3 (8.57%) SaaS
7 3 (8.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.00%) Firewall
2 5 (14.29%) DNS
3 4 (11.43%) DHCP
4 3 (8.57%) Internet
4 3 (8.57%) Kerberos
4 3 (8.57%) LAN
4 3 (8.57%) WAN
5 1 (2.86%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (2.86%) IPsec
5 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.86%) VLAN
5 1 (2.86%) VoIP
5 1 (2.86%) VPN
5 1 (2.86%) Wireless
5 1 (2.86%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (8.57%) Power BI
2 3 (8.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (54.29%) Jenkins
2 6 (17.14%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (2.86%) Git
General
1 18 (51.43%) Finance
2 13 (37.14%) Social Skills
3 7 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Billing
4 3 (8.57%) Law
5 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Electronics
5 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.86%) Legal
5 1 (2.86%) Local Government
5 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.86%) Marketing
5 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Applications Engineer
1 9 (25.71%) Security Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Senior
3 6 (17.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Analyst
5 4 (11.43%) 2nd Line Support
5 4 (11.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 3 (8.57%) Data Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Support Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Support Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 1 (2.86%) IT Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) LDAP
1 3 (8.57%) PySpark
2 1 (2.86%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Security Posture
2 3 (8.57%) PKI
3 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.86%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Clustering
3 1 (2.86%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.86%) Linux
1 8 (22.86%) Windows
2 6 (17.14%) Windows Server
3 3 (8.57%) Windows 10
3 3 (8.57%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (8.57%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (5.71%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (51.43%) DevOps
2 16 (45.71%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (42.86%) Security Testing
4 12 (34.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (34.29%) Incident Response
5 11 (31.43%) CI/CD
5 11 (31.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (28.57%) Cloud Security
6 10 (28.57%) Roadmaps
6 10 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
7 9 (25.71%) Application Security
7 9 (25.71%) Penetration Testing
7 9 (25.71%) Security Operations
7 9 (25.71%) SIEM
7 9 (25.71%) Strategic Roadmap
7 9 (25.71%) Technology Transformation
8 8 (22.86%) Containerisation
9 7 (20.00%) Agile
9 7 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 7 (20.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 26 (74.29%) Python
2 20 (57.14%) Bash
3 4 (11.43%) SQL
4 3 (8.57%) VB
5 1 (2.86%) Bicep
5 1 (2.86%) C#
5 1 (2.86%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (25.71%) CISSP
1 9 (25.71%) CREST Certified
1 9 (25.71%) SANS
2 4 (11.43%) Degree
3 3 (8.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (5.71%) CEH
5 1 (2.86%) ACMT
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.86%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.86%) GIAC
5 1 (2.86%) GREM
5 1 (2.86%) OSCP
5 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.71%) Accessibility
2 4 (11.43%) SLA
3 2 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.86%) COBIT
4 1 (2.86%) GDPR
4 1 (2.86%) NIST
4 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (22.86%) Docker
2 3 (8.57%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (31.43%) Terraform
2 8 (22.86%) Kubernetes
3 7 (20.00%) Ansible
4 6 (17.14%) Grafana
5 3 (8.57%) WSUS
6 1 (2.86%) Autotask
6 1 (2.86%) CASB
6 1 (2.86%) Computer Incident Response Team
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.86%) Puppet
6 1 (2.86%) QRadar
6 1 (2.86%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) Cisco
2 4 (11.43%) Veeam
3 3 (8.57%) arcserve
3 3 (8.57%) Databricks
4 2 (5.71%) Oracle
4 2 (5.71%) VMware
5 1 (2.86%) Apple
5 1 (2.86%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.86%) Datto
5 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.86%) SAP
5 1 (2.86%) Sophos
5 1 (2.86%) Splunk
5 1 (2.86%) Tenable