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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 68 117
Rank change year-on-year -13 +49 -23
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 29 20 45
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.01% 2.13% 1.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.53% 5.26% 4.25%
Number of salaries quoted 27 17 43
10th Percentile £44,000 £42,650 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +35.00% -13.51%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,139 £75,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -2.44%

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 340 380 1,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 11.81% 40.47% 36.06%
Number of salaries quoted 277 290 928
10th Percentile £33,750 £39,765 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,250 £73,886
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 12 May 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 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (58.62%) Azure
2 15 (51.72%) GitHub
2 15 (51.72%) GitHub Actions
3 11 (37.93%) AWS
4 7 (24.14%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (24.14%) Datadog
4 7 (24.14%) GCP
5 3 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
5 3 (10.34%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (10.34%) AWS CodePipeline
5 3 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (10.34%) dbt
5 3 (10.34%) IaaS
5 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
5 3 (10.34%) SaaS
5 3 (10.34%) Serverless
5 3 (10.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) Firewall
2 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.45%) Network Security
3 1 (3.45%) SNMP
3 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (10.34%) Power BI
1 3 (10.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (51.72%) Jenkins
2 6 (20.69%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.45%) Balsamiq
3 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 9 (31.03%) Finance
2 8 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Billing
3 3 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.90%) Military
5 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Law
5 1 (3.45%) Legal
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Senior
2 6 (20.69%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Security Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Project Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) Consultant
7 1 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Network Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Network Security Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Network Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Support Consultant
7 1 (3.45%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (34.48%) Linux
2 5 (17.24%) Windows
3 3 (10.34%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.90%) VMS
5 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) DevOps
2 13 (44.83%) Incident Response
3 12 (41.38%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (37.93%) CI/CD
4 11 (37.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (37.93%) Security Testing
5 10 (34.48%) Cloud Security
6 9 (31.03%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (31.03%) SIEM
7 8 (27.59%) DevSecOps
7 8 (27.59%) Security Operations
8 7 (24.14%) Agile
8 7 (24.14%) Roadmaps
8 7 (24.14%) Threat Detection
9 6 (20.69%) Containerisation
9 6 (20.69%) Test Automation
10 5 (17.24%) Application Security
10 5 (17.24%) Strategic Roadmap
10 5 (17.24%) Technology Transformation
10 5 (17.24%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 24 (82.76%) Python
2 18 (62.07%) Bash
3 3 (10.34%) SQL
4 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.45%) C#
5 1 (3.45%) Go
5 1 (3.45%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (3.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) CISSP
1 5 (17.24%) CREST Certified
1 5 (17.24%) SANS
2 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.45%) CEH
3 1 (3.45%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.90%) GDPR
2 2 (6.90%) NIST
3 1 (3.45%) COBIT
3 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Docker
2 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (41.38%) Terraform
2 7 (24.14%) Grafana
3 6 (20.69%) Ansible
3 6 (20.69%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.45%) CASB
5 1 (3.45%) Nagios
5 1 (3.45%) Netcool
5 1 (3.45%) Packer
5 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.45%) Tivoli
5 1 (3.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Cisco
2 3 (10.34%) Databricks
3 2 (6.90%) Fortinet
3 2 (6.90%) Meraki
4 1 (3.45%) BMC
4 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.45%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.45%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.45%) Sophos
4 1 (3.45%) Tenable
4 1 (3.45%) VMware