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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 77 105
Rank change year-on-year 0 +28 -12
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 29 12 48
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.07% 1.33% 1.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.43% 3.64% 4.54%
Number of salaries quoted 26 11 40
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £39,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +20.00% -13.51%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £61,563
90th Percentile £87,500 £98,474 £76,693
South West median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

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 344 330 1,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 12.65% 36.50% 33.60%
Number of salaries quoted 283 251 914
10th Percentile £34,000 £41,250 £37,150
25th Percentile £45,375 £47,365 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £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 2 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 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (10.34%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (51.72%) Azure
2 12 (41.38%) GitHub
2 12 (41.38%) GitHub Actions
3 8 (27.59%) AWS
4 6 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (20.69%) Datadog
4 6 (20.69%) GCP
5 3 (10.34%) dbt
5 3 (10.34%) IaaS
5 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.90%) PaaS
6 2 (6.90%) SaaS
6 2 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) Firewall
2 3 (10.34%) TCP/IP
3 2 (6.90%) DNS
3 2 (6.90%) SNMP
3 2 (6.90%) VPN
4 1 (3.45%) DHCP
4 1 (3.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Power BI
1 3 (10.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 12 (41.38%) Jenkins
2 5 (17.24%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.45%) Balsamiq
3 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 8 (27.59%) Finance
2 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Billing
3 2 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.90%) Law
3 2 (6.90%) Military
3 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Senior
2 5 (17.24%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Security Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Consultant
5 2 (6.90%) Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Project Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Support Consultant
5 2 (6.90%) Systems Support
6 1 (3.45%) Administrator
6 1 (3.45%) Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Customer Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Systems Administrator
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%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (37.93%) Linux
2 8 (27.59%) Windows
3 5 (17.24%) Windows Server
4 3 (10.34%) VMS
5 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) DevOps
2 11 (37.93%) Incident Response
3 10 (34.48%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
4 9 (31.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (31.03%) Security Testing
5 8 (27.59%) Cloud Security
5 8 (27.59%) DevSecOps
6 7 (24.14%) SIEM
7 6 (20.69%) Agile
7 6 (20.69%) Roadmaps
7 6 (20.69%) Security Operations
7 6 (20.69%) Threat Detection
8 5 (17.24%) Containerisation
8 5 (17.24%) Strategic Roadmap
8 5 (17.24%) Test Automation
9 4 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (13.79%) Data Architecture
9 4 (13.79%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 23 (79.31%) Python
2 16 (55.17%) 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 4 (13.79%) CISSP
1 4 (13.79%) CREST Certified
1 4 (13.79%) SANS
2 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.45%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Active Directory
1 5 (17.24%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (34.48%) Terraform
2 6 (20.69%) Grafana
3 5 (17.24%) Ansible
3 5 (17.24%) Kubernetes
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (6.90%) Nagios
5 2 (6.90%) Netcool
5 2 (6.90%) Tivoli
5 2 (6.90%) ZABBIX
6 1 (3.45%) Packer
6 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) Cisco
3 3 (10.34%) Databricks
3 3 (10.34%) Meraki
4 2 (6.90%) BMC
4 2 (6.90%) Fortinet
4 2 (6.90%) SolarWinds
4 2 (6.90%) VMware
5 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.45%) Google
5 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.45%) Sophos