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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 70 86
Rank change year-on-year +12 +16 -14
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 38 37 61
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.74% 2.73% 2.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.23% 7.68% 6.63%
Number of salaries quoted 38 21 58
10th Percentile £36,750 £30,000 £47,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -4.00% +21.95%
75th Percentile £84,375 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £96,539
South West median annual salary £53,750 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.27% +10.00% -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 267 482 920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 12.23% 35.57% 42.26%
Number of salaries quoted 226 310 816
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £43,125 £47,231 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +3.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,125 £88,875 £90,967
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,443 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.25% +4.44% +3.29%

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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 26 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 9 (23.68%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (52.63%) Azure
2 16 (42.11%) GitHub
2 16 (42.11%) GitHub Actions
3 13 (34.21%) AWS
4 9 (23.68%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (10.53%) Datadog
5 4 (10.53%) GCP
5 4 (10.53%) Power Platform
5 4 (10.53%) Serverless
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon S3
6 3 (7.89%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (7.89%) dbt
6 3 (7.89%) SaaS
6 3 (7.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.63%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (31.58%) Firewall
2 10 (26.32%) DNS
3 9 (23.68%) DHCP
4 7 (18.42%) Internet
4 7 (18.42%) Kerberos
4 7 (18.42%) LAN
4 7 (18.42%) WAN
5 2 (5.26%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (5.26%) IPsec
5 2 (5.26%) VLAN
5 2 (5.26%) VoIP
5 2 (5.26%) VPN
5 2 (5.26%) Wireless
6 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.63%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (7.89%) Power BI
2 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (42.11%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.53%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (2.63%) Git
General
1 19 (50.00%) Finance
2 16 (42.11%) Social Skills
3 7 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (18.42%) Law
4 3 (7.89%) Billing
5 2 (5.26%) Electronics
5 2 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.26%) Marketing
5 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.26%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.63%) Legal
6 1 (2.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) Analyst
2 8 (21.05%) Applications Engineer
2 8 (21.05%) Security Engineer
3 7 (18.42%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (15.79%) Senior
4 6 (15.79%) Support Analyst
5 5 (13.16%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 5 (13.16%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (7.89%) Data Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Support Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) IT Support
8 2 (5.26%) IT Support Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Senior IT Support
8 2 (5.26%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.42%) LDAP
2 3 (7.89%) PySpark
3 1 (2.63%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) PKI
2 6 (15.79%) Security Posture
3 2 (5.26%) Clustering
4 1 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.63%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (34.21%) Windows
2 11 (28.95%) Windows Server
3 7 (18.42%) Linux
3 7 (18.42%) Windows 10
3 7 (18.42%) Windows Server 2016
3 7 (18.42%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (7.89%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) DevOps
2 14 (36.84%) Continuous Improvement
2 14 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (31.58%) Security Testing
4 10 (26.32%) CI/CD
4 10 (26.32%) Incident Response
4 10 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (23.68%) Roadmaps
5 9 (23.68%) Threat Modelling
6 8 (21.05%) Application Security
6 8 (21.05%) Cloud Security
6 8 (21.05%) Containerisation
6 8 (21.05%) Data Loss Prevention
6 8 (21.05%) Penetration Testing
6 8 (21.05%) Strategic Roadmap
6 8 (21.05%) Technology Transformation
7 7 (18.42%) Security Operations
7 7 (18.42%) SIEM
8 6 (15.79%) ITIL
9 5 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 24 (63.16%) Python
2 17 (44.74%) Bash
3 7 (18.42%) VB
4 4 (10.53%) SQL
5 2 (5.26%) Bicep
6 1 (2.63%) C#
6 1 (2.63%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) CISSP
1 8 (21.05%) CREST Certified
1 8 (21.05%) SANS
2 4 (10.53%) Degree
3 3 (7.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (5.26%) ACMT
4 2 (5.26%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.26%) CEH
4 2 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.63%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (2.63%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.63%) GIAC
5 1 (2.63%) GREM
5 1 (2.63%) OSCP
5 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.05%) Accessibility
1 8 (21.05%) SLA
2 3 (7.89%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.63%) COBIT
3 1 (2.63%) GDPR
3 1 (2.63%) NIST
3 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (21.05%) Docker
2 7 (18.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.26%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (26.32%) Terraform
2 8 (21.05%) Kubernetes
3 7 (18.42%) WSUS
4 5 (13.16%) Ansible
5 4 (10.53%) Grafana
6 2 (5.26%) Autotask
6 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (5.26%) vCenter Server
7 1 (2.63%) CASB
7 1 (2.63%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (2.63%) Puppet
7 1 (2.63%) QRadar
Vendors
1 14 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.16%) Cisco
2 5 (13.16%) Veeam
3 3 (7.89%) arcserve
3 3 (7.89%) Databricks
3 3 (7.89%) Oracle
3 3 (7.89%) VMware
4 2 (5.26%) Apple
4 2 (5.26%) Datto
4 2 (5.26%) SAP
4 2 (5.26%) Sophos
5 1 (2.63%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.63%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.63%) Splunk
5 1 (2.63%) Tenable