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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 55 106
Rank change year-on-year -25 +51 -22
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 36 31 35
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.27% 2.82% 1.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.43% 12.50% 4.58%
Number of salaries quoted 19 29 26
10th Percentile £41,200 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £49,375 £37,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% +14.12% -32.00%
75th Percentile £70,625 £58,750 £53,438
90th Percentile £76,500 £81,250 £58,125
South West median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%

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 427 248 764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 15.12% 22.52% 29.62%
Number of salaries quoted 341 183 608
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,976 £33,925
25th Percentile £49,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,443 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.45% -0.10% -4.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,625 £73,886
90th Percentile £80,000 £94,250 £87,500
South West median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -

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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 11 August 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 15 (41.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (8.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.56%) Confluence
3 2 (5.56%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 24 (66.67%) Azure
2 17 (47.22%) Azure DevOps
2 17 (47.22%) IaaS
3 16 (44.44%) GitHub
3 16 (44.44%) PaaS
4 15 (41.67%) Serverless
5 12 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 12 (33.33%) Azure Functions
5 12 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 12 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (16.67%) AWS
7 4 (11.11%) Entra ID
8 3 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (5.56%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (5.56%) Route 53
9 2 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (41.67%) VPN
2 7 (19.44%) Firewall
3 5 (13.89%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.56%) DNS
4 2 (5.56%) Network Security
4 2 (5.56%) SNMP
5 1 (2.78%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 16 (44.44%) Git
2 4 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.33%) JIRA
4 2 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (5.56%) Bitbucket
4 2 (5.56%) git-flow
5 1 (2.78%) Balsamiq
5 1 (2.78%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 16 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 14 (38.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 14 (38.89%) Law
3 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Military
4 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.78%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Analyst
1 12 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 10 (27.78%) Senior
3 6 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
3 6 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Administrator
4 3 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (5.56%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (5.56%) Network Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Project Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Network Security Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Security Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Support Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 13 (36.11%) Public Cloud
1 13 (36.11%) Security Posture
2 12 (33.33%) Podcast
3 6 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.56%) Educational Technology
5 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (61.11%) Windows
2 15 (41.67%) VMS
3 8 (22.22%) Linux
4 5 (13.89%) Windows Server
5 2 (5.56%) Debian
5 2 (5.56%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (63.89%) DevOps
2 19 (52.78%) Observability
3 18 (50.00%) Agile
3 18 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 18 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (41.67%) DevSecOps
5 14 (38.89%) AI
5 14 (38.89%) Cloud Security
5 14 (38.89%) Generative AI
5 14 (38.89%) Scrum
6 13 (36.11%) Analytics
6 13 (36.11%) Performance Tuning
6 13 (36.11%) Root Cause Analysis
6 13 (36.11%) Task Automation
7 12 (33.33%) API Management
7 12 (33.33%) Computer Science
7 12 (33.33%) Log Analytics
8 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (25.00%) Roadmaps
10 8 (22.22%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 24 (66.67%) Bash
2 16 (44.44%) Python
3 12 (33.33%) Bicep
3 12 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
3 12 (33.33%) SQL
4 3 (8.33%) Go
5 2 (5.56%) Java
5 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.56%) PHP
5 2 (5.56%) Ruby
6 1 (2.78%) C#
6 1 (2.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (38.89%) Azure Certification
2 12 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
5 4 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Certification
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (2.78%) CISSP
7 1 (2.78%) CREST Certified
7 1 (2.78%) Degree
7 1 (2.78%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) GDPR
1 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.56%) NIST
2 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 14 (38.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (33.33%) vSphere
4 2 (5.56%) Docker
4 2 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (11.11%) Ansible
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (5.56%) Nagios
4 2 (5.56%) Netcool
4 2 (5.56%) Puppet
4 2 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (5.56%) Tivoli
4 2 (5.56%) ZABBIX
5 1 (2.78%) Grafana
5 1 (2.78%) Packer
5 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (52.78%) Microsoft
2 14 (38.89%) VMware
3 12 (33.33%) ScienceLogic
4 7 (19.44%) Cisco
5 3 (8.33%) Meraki
5 3 (8.33%) Red Hat
6 2 (5.56%) arcserve
6 2 (5.56%) Atlassian
6 2 (5.56%) BMC
6 2 (5.56%) Fortinet
6 2 (5.56%) SolarWinds
6 2 (5.56%) Sophos
6 2 (5.56%) Veeam
7 1 (2.78%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.78%) Google