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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 70 71
Rank change year-on-year +19 +1 +11
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 45 39 61
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 2.21% 2.69% 3.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.36% 8.19% 8.41%
Number of salaries quoted 45 23 57
10th Percentile £36,250 £29,000 £41,800
25th Percentile £36,750 £30,375 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -19.66% +24.48%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,250 £96,539
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +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 275 476 725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 13.52% 32.85% 43.65%
Number of salaries quoted 225 315 643
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.80% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,875 £75,625
90th Percentile £86,000 £87,500 £91,934
South West median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +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 27 December 2025.

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 20 (44.44%) IIS
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (46.67%) Azure
2 12 (26.67%) GitHub
2 12 (26.67%) GitHub Actions
3 10 (22.22%) AWS
4 8 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (15.56%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 3 (6.67%) Serverless
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.44%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.44%) Datadog
7 2 (4.44%) dbt
7 2 (4.44%) GCP
7 2 (4.44%) SaaS
7 2 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (2.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (51.11%) Firewall
2 21 (46.67%) DNS
3 20 (44.44%) DHCP
4 14 (31.11%) Internet
4 14 (31.11%) Kerberos
4 14 (31.11%) LAN
4 14 (31.11%) WAN
5 6 (13.33%) Cisco IOS
5 6 (13.33%) IPsec
5 6 (13.33%) VLAN
5 6 (13.33%) VoIP
5 6 (13.33%) VPN
5 6 (13.33%) Wireless
6 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.78%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (15.56%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.44%) Power BI
3 2 (4.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (24.44%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.44%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (2.22%) Git
General
1 26 (57.78%) Social Skills
2 20 (44.44%) Finance
3 14 (31.11%) Law
4 6 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (11.11%) Electronics
5 5 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 5 (11.11%) Marketing
5 5 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 5 (11.11%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.44%) Billing
6 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.22%) Legal
7 1 (2.22%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 16 (35.56%) Analyst
2 13 (28.89%) 3rd Line Support
2 13 (28.89%) Support Analyst
3 10 (22.22%) 2nd Line Support
4 8 (17.78%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 8 (17.78%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
4 8 (17.78%) Senior
5 7 (15.56%) Support Engineer
6 6 (13.33%) Applications Engineer
6 6 (13.33%) IT Engineer
6 6 (13.33%) IT Support
6 6 (13.33%) IT Support Engineer
6 6 (13.33%) Security Engineer
6 6 (13.33%) Senior IT Engineer
6 6 (13.33%) Senior IT Support
6 6 (13.33%) Senior Support Engineer
7 5 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (11.11%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
7 5 (11.11%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (31.11%) LDAP
2 2 (4.44%) PySpark
3 1 (2.22%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.11%) PKI
2 6 (13.33%) Clustering
3 5 (11.11%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.22%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (53.33%) Windows
2 22 (48.89%) Windows Server
3 14 (31.11%) Windows 10
3 14 (31.11%) Windows Server 2016
3 14 (31.11%) Windows Server 2019
4 9 (20.00%) Linux
5 7 (15.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (42.22%) Continuous Improvement
2 16 (35.56%) Data Loss Prevention
3 14 (31.11%) DevOps
4 12 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (24.44%) Containerisation
6 10 (22.22%) ITIL
6 10 (22.22%) Migration
7 8 (17.78%) CI/CD
7 8 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (17.78%) Mentoring
7 8 (17.78%) Roadmaps
7 8 (17.78%) Security Testing
8 7 (15.56%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (15.56%) Coaching
8 7 (15.56%) Collaborative Culture
8 7 (15.56%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (15.56%) Incident Response
8 7 (15.56%) Threat Modelling
9 6 (13.33%) Penetration Testing
9 6 (13.33%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 19 (42.22%) Python
2 14 (31.11%) VB
3 12 (26.67%) Bash
4 3 (6.67%) Bicep
4 3 (6.67%) SQL
5 1 (2.22%) C#
5 1 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) ACMT
1 6 (13.33%) CISSP
1 6 (13.33%) CREST Certified
1 6 (13.33%) SANS
1 6 (13.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 5 (11.11%) Degree
3 3 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (4.44%) CEH
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.22%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.22%) GIAC
5 1 (2.22%) GREM
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.22%) OSCP
5 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (33.33%) SLA
2 7 (15.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (13.33%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.22%) COBIT
4 1 (2.22%) GDPR
4 1 (2.22%) NIST
4 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (31.11%) Active Directory
2 11 (24.44%) Docker
3 7 (15.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (13.33%) Hyper-V
4 6 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (31.11%) WSUS
2 11 (24.44%) Kubernetes
3 8 (17.78%) Terraform
4 6 (13.33%) Autotask
4 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (13.33%) vCenter Server
5 3 (6.67%) Ansible
6 2 (4.44%) Grafana
7 1 (2.22%) CASB
7 1 (2.22%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (2.22%) Puppet
7 1 (2.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 25 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.00%) Cisco
2 9 (20.00%) Veeam
3 7 (15.56%) Oracle
3 7 (15.56%) VMware
4 6 (13.33%) Apple
4 6 (13.33%) Datto
4 6 (13.33%) Sophos
5 5 (11.11%) SAP
6 3 (6.67%) arcserve
7 2 (4.44%) Databricks
8 1 (2.22%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.22%) Splunk
8 1 (2.22%) Tenable