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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 78 108
Rank change year-on-year -4 +30 -15
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 30 12 48
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.11% 1.31% 1.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.55% 3.73% 4.47%
Number of salaries quoted 25 10 41
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,350 £30,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,125 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +20.00% -13.28%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,625 £61,250
90th Percentile £88,000 £98,474 £75,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -

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 351 322 1,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 12.96% 35.27% 32.67%
Number of salaries quoted 288 245 914
10th Percentile £34,625 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £46,125 £47,231 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,763
Median % change year-on-year - +0.40% -0.40%
75th Percentile £65,313 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £93,778 £87,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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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 June 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 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (53.33%) Azure
2 13 (43.33%) GitHub
3 11 (36.67%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (23.33%) AWS
6 5 (16.67%) Datadog
6 5 (16.67%) GCP
6 5 (16.67%) IaaS
7 4 (13.33%) PaaS
7 4 (13.33%) Serverless
8 3 (10.00%) dbt
8 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (10.00%) Power Platform
9 2 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
9 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (6.67%) Entra ID
9 2 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (23.33%) Firewall
2 4 (13.33%) VPN
3 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (6.67%) DNS
4 2 (6.67%) SNMP
5 1 (3.33%) DHCP
5 1 (3.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Power BI
1 3 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 11 (36.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (13.33%) CircleCI
3 2 (6.67%) Git
4 1 (3.33%) Balsamiq
4 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 8 (26.67%) Finance
1 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (13.33%) Law
4 2 (6.67%) Billing
4 2 (6.67%) Military
4 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Senior
2 5 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Project Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Support Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Systems Support
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) GCP DevOps
6 1 (3.33%) Lead
6 1 (3.33%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.67%) Podcast
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (33.33%) Linux
1 10 (33.33%) Windows
2 5 (16.67%) VMS
2 5 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) DevOps
2 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 10 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 10 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (30.00%) Cloud Security
3 9 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (30.00%) DevSecOps
4 8 (26.67%) Security Testing
5 7 (23.33%) Agile
5 7 (23.33%) Roadmaps
6 6 (20.00%) Observability
6 6 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 6 (20.00%) SIEM
7 5 (16.67%) Security Operations
7 5 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
7 5 (16.67%) Threat Detection
8 4 (13.33%) Containerisation
8 4 (13.33%) Data Loss Prevention
8 4 (13.33%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 22 (73.33%) Python
2 17 (56.67%) Bash
3 5 (16.67%) SQL
4 3 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (6.67%) Bicep
5 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.33%) C#
6 1 (3.33%) Go
6 1 (3.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) CISSP
1 4 (13.33%) CREST Certified
1 4 (13.33%) SANS
2 3 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.33%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.33%) Docker
2 4 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (36.67%) Terraform
2 5 (16.67%) Grafana
3 4 (13.33%) Ansible
3 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
4 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (6.67%) Nagios
5 2 (6.67%) Netcool
5 2 (6.67%) Tivoli
5 2 (6.67%) ZABBIX
6 1 (3.33%) Packer
6 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) Cisco
3 4 (13.33%) VMware
4 3 (10.00%) Databricks
4 3 (10.00%) Meraki
5 2 (6.67%) BMC
5 2 (6.67%) Fortinet
5 2 (6.67%) ScienceLogic
5 2 (6.67%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.33%) Dynatrace
6 1 (3.33%) Google
6 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.33%) Sophos